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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: ARC the talk station five o five. I think you
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  Speaker 1: have KRC the talk station. End of my vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Some well, a vacation, I'm the.
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  Speaker 1: Dude man comment about I could sure use a vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked me, hey, did you enjoy your time? I
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  Speaker 1: was that I really enjoyed it longest you know, longest
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  Speaker 1: vacation I've taken since I've been here. If you have
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  Speaker 1: KESA coming up on twenty years in December, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: ready for another couple of weeks off. Good morning, Happy
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  Speaker 1: Monday to you. Brian Thomas back here in a special
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  Speaker 1: shout out appreciation to the fill in folks, Uh, Dan Carrol,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Gary, Jeff Walker and Kevin Gordon apparently did a
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  Speaker 1: fine job. I slept. It's wonderful sleeping. Eddie. How Always
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  Speaker 1: open to discuss whatever's going on in the world with
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  Speaker 1: you five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty eight two
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  Speaker 1: to three Taco with Ton five fifty on AT and
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  Speaker 1: a shout coming up with a fifty five cassy morning show.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday that it means Christopher Smithman at seven twenty,
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  Speaker 1: As is always the case, no idea what he wants
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. But I love talking with the former
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  Speaker 1: vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. Maybe he'll comment
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  Speaker 1: on the floodgates not opening, in the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: technology is what the hell happened with those floods, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that there was an engineering report from many,
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  Speaker 1: many years ago saying, you know that bridge is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: We just need to do a bigger, wider bridge and
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  Speaker 1: you won't have the flooding there and you won't need
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  Speaker 1: a floodgate that apparently doesn't open when it's supposed to. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't do that anyway. Apparently people who have struggled
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  Speaker 1: with the damage from that flooding from a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago can get reimbursed. Don't know how that's going
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  Speaker 1: to work, and don't know how quickly. The City of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: who is saying it is on their it is their fault,
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  Speaker 1: basically is going to take care of well compensating those
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  Speaker 1: that struggled mightily with their basements being flooded. I got
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  Speaker 1: zips got closed and that's a real tragedy right there.
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  Speaker 1: Love those burgers. Anyway, After Christopher Smithman, we'll have money
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  Speaker 1: Monday with Brian James, A typical Monday. Here it's the
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  Speaker 1: second quarter company earnings report time. What is jumping out?
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  Speaker 1: Brian James will tell us what's jumping out? Price of gasoline? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's going on. Plus the Fed's meeting tomorrow. Will there
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  Speaker 1: be a rate hike a rate cut or will things
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  Speaker 1: remain status quo? And of course the situation between US
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  Speaker 1: and the Iranians obviously having an impact on your gasoline prices.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the fallout from the war, which is of
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  Speaker 1: course showing up when you go and pull in and
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  Speaker 1: have to pay four dollars in nine cents a gallon
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  Speaker 1: fifteen cents from a week ago, and of course a
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  Speaker 1: lot more than it was maybe a year ago national
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  Speaker 1: average one year ago three dollars and fifteen cents per
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  Speaker 1: gallon straight of horror moose. And we all learned about
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  Speaker 1: the straight of horror moves, didn't we? Anyhow? Good luck
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  Speaker 1: filling the tank up, and the price of oil apparently
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  Speaker 1: did drop over the weekend, or the rice of a
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  Speaker 1: barrel of oil. Joe Strecker, executive producer, Internet research guru,
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  Speaker 1: all around, great guy. Glad to see you look rested
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  Speaker 1: after your vacation. How long if you had to guess,
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  Speaker 1: will it be before the lower price of oil? Assuming
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  Speaker 1: the barrel of oil remains down as it currently is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, how long will it take us to
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  Speaker 1: get the benefit of a cheaper barrel of oil? Never,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much. Joe Strecker saw the softball slowly
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  Speaker 1: moving in his direction and just knocked it out of
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  Speaker 1: the park. Okay, there you have it. I'm sure the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat Socialists of America will be more than happy to
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  Speaker 1: fix the problem. Where are they on banning fossil fuels anyway?
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  Speaker 1: I know they want to eliminate the Senate and they're crazy,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy, And you know, I may as well do
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  Speaker 1: this because I had this wonderful ob ed be from
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  Speaker 1: Carl Rove that talked about the Democrat Socialists of America platform,
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  Speaker 1: which I also found an independent analysis, is not a
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  Speaker 1: popular platform among blacks and Hispanics. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: an interesting analysis. You can find it for yourself. Harrison
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  Speaker 1: Fields wrote the op ed piece over at Fox News
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  Speaker 1: about Democrats are in big trouble because black and brown
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  Speaker 1: voters don't want socialism and did a breakdown in New
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  Speaker 1: York City's election where he had these socialists win, including
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  Speaker 1: the mayor Mondami. But if you look in the areas
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  Speaker 1: where they won, blacks and Hispanics, which dominated a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the districts, didn't vote for the candidates that ultimately
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  Speaker 1: won hm hm Who is the Democrats, Socialists the DSA.
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  Speaker 1: This is hilarious. The dssay's own internal membership from a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago found the organization is are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Eighty five percent white, four percent black HM median age
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  Speaker 1: for the DSA thirty three years old. Here's even more interesting,
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  Speaker 1: more than eighty percent of the members of the DSA
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  Speaker 1: hold a college degree. One third at least more than
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  Speaker 1: one third hold a graduate or professional degree. That is
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  Speaker 1: more than double the national rape. Parenthetically, nearly a third
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  Speaker 1: clearing six figure incomes. Described as not exactly a working
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  Speaker 1: class movement, rather an upper middle class ideological project. Wearing
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  Speaker 1: working class language is a costume, and black and brown
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  Speaker 1: voters are not fooled by the costume because if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the voting analysis, they did not vote for
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  Speaker 1: these far left socialist candidates. And here's the backcrap insanity
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  Speaker 1: broken down by Karl Rove. I thought he did a
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  Speaker 1: good job. It's a seductive tail nasty villains with evil
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  Speaker 1: plans to make us miserable. But they can be beaten,
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  Speaker 1: and when they are life will be fuller and more rewarding,
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  Speaker 1: with peace and harmony forever. All you have to do
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  Speaker 1: is elect us. Of course, he's referred to the desa
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  Speaker 1: iond rate movie script. It's the platform of the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Socialists of America. Quote, workers deserve more. There's the slogan
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  Speaker 1: for you, folks. Once a friends group, the ESA apparently
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  Speaker 1: filled with white college educated people with degrees and stupid,
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  Speaker 1: stupid things, rising faction with the Democratic Party. The essay
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  Speaker 1: platform calls food, education, energy, medicine, transportation, common goods and
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  Speaker 1: utilities to be run by the government through in their words,
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  Speaker 1: their words, public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Karl Marx, The government takeover the economy would bring about
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  Speaker 1: the end of capitalism. Their words, that's paradise. No more
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  Speaker 1: worrying about costs, no more dreading, going back to work
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  Speaker 1: as we labor for our common good instead of private profit. Again,
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  Speaker 1: those are all quote. It's chosen from the dsay's own platform.
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  Speaker 1: What the platform emits is that when government is in
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  Speaker 1: charge of food, education, energy, medicine and transportation. You'll have
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  Speaker 1: to take what the government gives at the price it
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  Speaker 1: sets and relinquish the ability to make core decisions about
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  Speaker 1: your daily life. Today. If you don't like your job,
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  Speaker 1: your grocery, shore, restaurant, doctor, hospital, car or airline, pick
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  Speaker 1: another one, knock yourself out. It's free market. Free markets
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  Speaker 1: empower you as a consumer of technology, services and goods
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  Speaker 1: that in the past would have been available only to
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  Speaker 1: the very wealthy, if at all, or in your socialist
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  Speaker 1: slash communist system of government, which always turns out this way.
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  Speaker 1: Let me interject car all over your words. The party
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  Speaker 1: elites will have all the good stuff, live in lavish
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  Speaker 1: quarters and have people personal security drivers of their large
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  Speaker 1: well I suppose a fleet of SUVs. Armed they will
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  Speaker 1: be and bulletproof. You get the idea. They allays live
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  Speaker 1: far far better than the people that they lord over.
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  Speaker 1: If the DSA has its way, those free market blessings
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  Speaker 1: will evaporate, it promises quote new publicly owned social housing
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  Speaker 1: close quote which he states the Aube's In practice, it
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  Speaker 1: would look something like the giant blocks of Soviet Ara
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  Speaker 1: apartments in Moscow or the Crosley Tower that they just
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  Speaker 1: got done knocking down over at University of Cincinnati. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you live in one of those, wouldn't you. When government
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  Speaker 1: is the landlord, you live where you're assigned, you may
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  Speaker 1: not like where that is. And let's just look at
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  Speaker 1: that one sentence for those people on public housing assistance.
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  Speaker 1: The government is your landlord. They're paying your rent. You
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  Speaker 1: live where the let's just say Section eight housing is.
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  Speaker 1: How's that working out for you? The DSA platform is
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  Speaker 1: also economically impossible to achieve. It calls for a thirty
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  Speaker 1: two hour work week with full pay and benefits. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: that sound nice, especially coming off of vacation. But for
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  Speaker 1: businesses to keep operating at current levels, they'd have to
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  Speaker 1: hire twenty percent more people. How many businesses have that
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  Speaker 1: kind of cash to spare? For that matter, where will
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  Speaker 1: they find twenty percent more workers? I'm guessing open borders,
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  Speaker 1: which the dssay also advocates. The essay makes expansive promises
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  Speaker 1: that would bankrupt the country. Quote universal healthcare is at
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  Speaker 1: no cost to individuals, one of the many quote unquote
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  Speaker 1: free things the government will dispense. Also on the lists
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  Speaker 1: all medical education and training, paid family leave, education from
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  Speaker 1: pre k to college, and Every time I read that
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  Speaker 1: as a party platform, it just churns my stomach and
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  Speaker 1: brings bile up in the back of my throat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, have children and hand them over to the
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  Speaker 1: state for everything, literally reparations and a green future. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: that answers my question earlier about why the dssay is
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  Speaker 1: on fossil fuels. That means you get a windmill and
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  Speaker 1: no power with quote massive investment in sustainable, publicly owned energy.
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  Speaker 1: The group will also cancel all student debt, adding nearly
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  Speaker 1: two to almost two trillion dollars to the national debt.
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  Speaker 1: Workers deserve more. The slogan chock full of fantastical promises.
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  Speaker 1: Quote speaking of bills, you really don't have them anymore?
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  Speaker 1: How would that work? Quote you have no debt close quote,
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  Speaker 1: and quote you don't pay a mortgage or have a
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  Speaker 1: landlord close quote. For those who remember the Steve bart
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  Speaker 1: and Steve Martin back in the old days when you
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  Speaker 1: would buy a comedy album, remember Steve Martin's bit you
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  Speaker 1: can be a millionaire and never pay taxes. How first
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  Speaker 1: get a million dollars. The DSA would also demilitize police
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  Speaker 1: departments and redirect funding as steps toward fully a polishing
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  Speaker 1: police and prison systems. Borders would be completely open. Every
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  Speaker 1: migrant would be eligible for citizenship and could vote before naturalizing.
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  Speaker 1: These are actually what they are advocating for. DSA would
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  Speaker 1: defund the Department of War and close overseas military bases.
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  Speaker 1: The DSA would end all military and economic aid to
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  Speaker 1: Israel and possibly end Israel. Palestinians would have the right
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  Speaker 1: to self determination in a free Palestine with Jerusalem as
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  Speaker 1: the capital. And when the quote unquote billionaire class loses power,
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  Speaker 1: the DSA imagines the world would become peaceful. Those bosses
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  Speaker 1: deliberately brought about wars in Beirut, Gaza, and Tehran. The
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  Speaker 1: platform doesn't mention terror regimes or anti American dictators. You'll
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  Speaker 1: search in vain to read who's slaughtered eleven hundred people
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  Speaker 1: in Israel in October seventh, twenty twenty three, or who
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  Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine February twenty fourth at twenty twenty two. The
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  Speaker 1: Constitution is also on the chopping block. Building a new
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  Speaker 1: society from the ground up is what the DSA says,
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  Speaker 1: and he interjects, Karl Rove, does that consider France in
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  Speaker 1: seventeen ninety two in Russia in nineteen seventeen. That entails
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  Speaker 1: making the District of Columbia a state, expanding the size
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  Speaker 1: of the House, and instituting ranked choice voting, abolishing the
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  Speaker 1: Senate and the Electoral College, though the latter would give
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  Speaker 1: way to the popular vote instead. The platform calls to
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  Speaker 1: replace the president and the Supreme Court with an executive
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  Speaker 1: and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. Congress is
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  Speaker 1: so efficient and wonderful at getting stuff done. Let's hand
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  Speaker 1: over the keys of the presidency and everything else to
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  Speaker 1: just the Congress. How's that going to work out for you?
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  Speaker 1: The DSA platform is a huge gift for Republicans, and
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  Speaker 1: this is where Carl I think makes a good point,
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  Speaker 1: going back to the other study which points out the
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  Speaker 1: black and Hispanic voters reject this out of hand, at
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  Speaker 1: least in the analysis. If the Republicans focus on this substance.
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  Speaker 1: For Democrats, Rove says, it's a real threat but also
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity. Wise, Democrats would define themselves by what they're against,
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  Speaker 1: not only mister Trump, but also the hardcore socialists in
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  Speaker 1: their midst Democrats need to find the courage to say
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  Speaker 1: that the DSA is a wrecking ball that threatens to
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  Speaker 1: destroy both the Party and America. Well, they can do that,
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  Speaker 1: and they would probably be wise to do that to
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  Speaker 1: salvage themselves. And I can only pray to God, and
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  Speaker 1: I do often do that, that this movement is a
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  Speaker 1: flash in the pan, not going anywhere flight of fancy,
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  Speaker 1: because the Democrats don't have anything to run on. Free
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  Speaker 1: is what they have been offering for years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years, and free comes at a massive cost. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe that, check out what our national
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  Speaker 1: debt is. In spite of the fact that our government
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  Speaker 1: takes in literally trillions and trillions of our labor in
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  Speaker 1: the form of taxpayer dollars every year. It's never quite enough, now,
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  Speaker 1: is it. So where is all the free stuff gonna
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  Speaker 1: come from? Most notably when people are only working thirty
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  Speaker 1: two hours a week and for a lot less money
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  Speaker 1: than you are right now? Five on three seven eight
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  Speaker 1: five D eight had eight two to three Talk New Hampshire. Gary,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the morning. She It's good to hear from you,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, and miss talking to my regular callers and
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  Speaker 1: you are one of them. Good to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: Good to hear from you, Brian. Your fill uns did great,
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  Speaker 3: but I really missed you well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Just welcome you and Joe back. Actually it's really good. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: let me give you a New Hampshire feel. But let
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  Speaker 3: me put this southern New Hampshire. We're only sixty miles
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  Speaker 3: away from Boston U where they have Lu Mu who
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  Speaker 3: is the mayor of Boston from China. Yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: working out well. Instead of the American flag for the
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  Speaker 3: fourth of July, they raised the Somali flag. When the
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  Speaker 3: guy tried to tear it down, he was arrested. I
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  Speaker 3: also know the people that I work with. They're all engineers.
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  Speaker 3: They're all making triple visits. They're all in their late twenties,
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  Speaker 3: early thirties, most of them are single. They're all in favor.
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  Speaker 3: They're engineers, they're from what would be good schools. They're
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  Speaker 3: you know, all in favor of the DSN and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them. They don't celebrate Christmas. They want to
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  Speaker 3: do away with Christmas. They want to do away with
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  Speaker 3: Thanks thank the evils of the Pilgrims. They won't even celebrated.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't even tell that with all the dude. And
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  Speaker 3: they are openly not Antifa, but they they they really
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  Speaker 3: hate Tesla and they were in favor of the burning
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  Speaker 3: of the Tesla's when that happened. They were openly talking.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got to be really careful when you're around
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  Speaker 3: it because they they do have a tendency to gather
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  Speaker 3: around it and like get people fired. That's happened.
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  Speaker 1: I mean intimidation with veiled threats of violence or actual
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  Speaker 1: threats of violence.
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  Speaker 3: Gary, it's all and it's uh, it's not actual threats
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  Speaker 3: of violence. It's it's like gangs, little groups. Intimidation would
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  Speaker 3: be a good way of calling it, right, find your
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  Speaker 3: p's and choose, because they.
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  Speaker 1: Will go to hr hr Well that that is a
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  Speaker 1: less so acceptable version of name calling. And I've always
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  Speaker 1: said when you start calling people names when you in
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  Speaker 1: middle of a debate about some some point, then you've
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  Speaker 1: won the art. Because name calling is not debate. Name
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  Speaker 1: calling or threaten violence right. You're not advocating and winning
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  Speaker 1: over the hearts and minds with your wonderful advocacy about
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  Speaker 1: how great your position is relative to the more conservative
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  Speaker 1: or constitutional based theories capitalism. You are threatening violence. And
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  Speaker 1: go look at all of the efforts throughout the ages
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  Speaker 1: of countries who've engaged in the socialist slash communist experiment.
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  Speaker 1: What do they do. They purge all of the people
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  Speaker 1: who disagree with their ideology. They kill them. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: look at the millions and millions and millions of people
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  Speaker 1: you know with Cameo Rouge and Stalin and malt Zeitung,
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  Speaker 1: and you could go on and on. People, there are
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  Speaker 1: so fewer people on this earth thanks to communists and
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  Speaker 1: socialists purging the disbelievers. If their theories were so sound
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  Speaker 1: and valid, you wouldn't have to go around killing everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You just say, hey, we've got a better way of
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  Speaker 1: doing something here. But it isn't you get what they
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  Speaker 1: dole out to you in these systems of government. And
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  Speaker 1: trust me, if you're not on the right side of politics,
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  Speaker 1: you're either gonna die. As illustrated and demonstrated by many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many historical realities, you're gonna get the crumbs. Oh, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: this food has been reserved for the party elite. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you're not a member. And look now, thanks to artificial intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: social media and intelligent or in computers generally speaking, gathering
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  Speaker 1: up and scooping up data, they've got a dossier on you.
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  Speaker 1: They knew exactly who you are. And trust me, you'll
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  Speaker 1: have some sort of credit score closely affiliated with how
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  Speaker 1: loyal you are to your political lords and masters. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: dystopian much. This is what they are running on five
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven and fifty five cars de talk station calls
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  Speaker 1: or local stories. Either way, we go, we'll go, We'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back. This is fifty five KARC and iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 1: station Money mon Dyde Brian p. Received by Christopher Smith. Aman,
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  Speaker 1: he's awake and he's listening. Good morning, Christopher. He texted
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  Speaker 1: me this morning welcoming me back, and I am well
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  Speaker 1: happy to be back. I did have a wrestle vacation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful thing to be able to return to
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  Speaker 1: a job and see Joe Strecker over there and see
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  Speaker 1: Tom Is on the phone. Apparently all is right with
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  Speaker 1: the world. As the calls come in this morning, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back, my friend, it's good to hear your voice.
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  Speaker 4: It is great to hear your voice, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: to hear you had a RESTful time, So that's good.
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  Speaker 4: It's always nice to disconnect. I just learned something recently
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  Speaker 4: about my company slice side note before I get into
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  Speaker 4: what I wanted to talk about my company. Apparently, if
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  Speaker 4: you're up one of the big shots, you're running a branch.
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  Speaker 4: We've got sixty some branches around the country. Yeah, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: like if you're one of the top people in the branch,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: you get a sabbatical. You actually get thirty days. Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: and they tell you to go disconnect, do not answer
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: the phone, don't look at emails, go do something, get away. Yeah,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: that's that's pretty damn nice.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And you know that's interesting because I have not heard
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that concept. It still exists. But when I first the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: law firm that I was hired right out of law
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: school in Chicago, they had that for their partners, mandatory
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: senior partner sabbatical. Same rules apply. You cannot engage in
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: legal work, you cannot answer phones, and they didn't have
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: email really back then. But you know, this is like
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety or something, but that did exist as a concept,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and apparently it still does. You don't get that though,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you top?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know and that this just brings me. Actually,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I just thought it breaksby right into what I want
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: to talk about. You know why that's even possible because
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: of capitalism. Yeah, because the companies are able to make
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: enough money to pay their top people.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: To go away for a month and to keep them.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: It's not like they're going away for free. They're paying them, yep.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And that helps keep the top people, makes the top
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: people happy. You've been forced into taken a break. Oh darn,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you mean I'm not allowed.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: And you understand some people that are so driven. That's
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: why they're top people, because they're up there driving the
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: bush because they want to make this They want this
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: company to succeed. They want the company to do well,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: and they want to push the people or pull the people,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: or drag the people behind them, whatever they got to do.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Come on, let's go, let's get this done. That's why
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: they're in those positions. And so they're being forced to
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: take that break because those people are of the mindset,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: if I'm not here, this isn't gonna happen. You know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: there's a there's some uh there's some what do you
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: what do you call it narcissism there? I understand that,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: but it takes that to succeed. Sometimes you've got to
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: you've got to be driven yourself to be able to
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: drive people. And and all the socialists want to do
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: is get rid of that. We all, all of us
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: lazy people. We don't want anyone to push us. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: see it every day here or every day. There are
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: people that walk around and feel like they're entitled to
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: just show up and collect the paycheck. That's the only
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: that's the only thing I had to do. I just
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I just got here on top, and I'm just gonna
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: stand around and buss and don't you dare trying to
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: make me work? That attitude is what they're trying to push.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: And what's that What's at the core of all this
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: is the hatred of the success this country has. We
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: got to do something about it. We got to get
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: rid of this success.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: We can't have this.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: No, we want people, we want people to be lazy.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: You're going to ruin everything everything that's good about this country. Yes,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: it takes some hard work, absolutely, but look at what
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: you get for it. The workers deserve more. There are
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: people here that don't deserve half of what they're getting,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: but they're getting it because other people have busted their
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: rear ends to make whatever company they have or whatever
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: industry they had to make it work. I'm standing here
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: looking at a plant. This this is this is a
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: big pharmaceutical company. This didn't happen through government intervention. This
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: happened through people having initiative and drive to make something happen.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Ye I mean, and you're.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Ruiness initiative and also a personal incentive. The people who
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: don't want to be there and work and don't work
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to their fullest ability, they're not going to become corporate
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: executives and people who might be eligible for sabbatica because
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: they do so much good for the company. Because there
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: are people out there who are spurred on by the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: opportunity to earn more and make their own lives, at
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: least in their minds better, that's how you end up.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: That's how capitalism works. And that's why when you take
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that incentive away and you tell people that, well, regardless
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of how much you're gonna work, you're not gonna earn
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: any more than the lazy soob who shows up and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just muddles around all day. Then you take the wind
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: out of the sales, and the country ultimately collapses economically
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: because there's no incentive work hard.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Right, and anybody listening out there, or if you have
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: people that the friends that that thing or family that
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: think this stuff is good, this is what you need
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: to remind them, remind them of it. As you went
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: through that list earlier, and we go through this list regularly,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: and we name people that are associated with these movements,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: the Marxes, the Lenins, the Hugo Chavez, the whatever mouse
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: sate tongue and all. Who's gonna who what name is
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: going to go on this next movement? What you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: if there's a future after this one, what's the name
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: that's gonna go on? Is if this succeeds in this
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: country and and they're able to pull this off and
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: drag this country down like they did in the Soviet Union,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: like they did in Venezuela, what's the name? Who is
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: the person is going to be listed as the name
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: as the person that spearheaded this whole thing. That's kind
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: of what I'm curious.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Leading Zorhan Mandami, leading candidate.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Something like that is.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: But what's going to be tom Also also let us
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: not overlook it wasn't a popular election that overthrew the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: czar in Russia. It was a revolution. And the way
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the DSA works, they want to eliminate the constitution because
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you're either gonna have to have a constitutional convention following
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the rules in the very document that they hate to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: get rid of the Senate and yeah blah blah blah,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: or you're gonna have to have a revolution to throw
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the constitution out and then have them they'll have their
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: own DSA constitutional convention and their own version of the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: DSA federalist papers or something, and they'll come out with
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a system of government that they think is going to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: be preferable to this one. We all know what's gonna
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: happen with.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: That, right, Oh, Holy Toledo. I mean the crap that
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: has to go down. Yeah, And the sad part is
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: there's so many people out there that are letting it happen.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: They're just gonna let it happen. They want to tell
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: you know, they're even gonna vote for it. It's insanity,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: It is absolute insanity. And it's all brought on because
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: people are just too damn lazy to get out there
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: and earn their own way. That's that's what it's all
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: boiled down to. Don't vote democrats. Don't vote democrats, socialists
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: but whatever, and even that has the work democrat in it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Don't vote democrats. Have a great day.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Thanks Tom. Good to hear from you, brother, Glad you're
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: alive and well and kicking five point thirty eight right now.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Stack is stupid or calls either way, It's okay with
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  Speaker 1: me right back. This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 1: five Kercity Talk Station Monday, and a happy one to you.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman coming up at seven twenty first guest on
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the morning show. You can be a guest just by
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: calling me up. Fifty two three talk on. Jumping over
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to the stack is stupid. This is like a Friday.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Stack is stupid. Joe, thank you. You accumulated all the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: naked crazy people in the world for this Monday. It's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: welcome for me. Let's start in Colorado, where we start
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: with a naked Arizona man who was arrested because he
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: allegedly broke into a locomotive rode on top of the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: moving train and flashed unsuspecting onlookers, all while blasting the horn.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I presume they were referring to a train's horn. Thank you,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Joe Daniel Ray Bounce taking into custody. I've at the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Sedgwicks County Shero's office. After the trained sequence of events
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: along the Union Pacific Railroad line. Thorty said he boarded
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the train by smashing one of the locomotives windows to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: gain entry, then climbed under the roof. Deputy's lord of
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the situation after multiple witnesses reported seeing a completely nude
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: guy surfing on top of the moving train while riding
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the locomotive through the county, Balance reportedly blew the train's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: horn to attract attention and exposed himself to residents watching
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the high speed spectacle. Following the rest, deputies noted that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: he openly expressed his fondness for quote vodka, beer and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: playing the banjo close quote hmmm, all at the same
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: time booked in the local jail accommodation of felony and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: misdemeanor charges related to the train break in public exposure.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He remained in custody awaiting his initial court appearance, which
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he had already. Woman was arrested
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: for drug traffering trafficking had fentanyl stashed well. According to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the headline, woman had drugs hidden everywhere. Here's a breakdown.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Where do they find the fentanyl? Her buttocks, her and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: right breast area as this tradition. Cops in Saint Petersburg,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Florida pulled over the vehicle on Saturday for a window
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: tent violation. Is that a pretext stop? Subsequently arrested the drugs.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Subsequently arrested the driver, Kurtel McCrae, forty six, unresisting charges.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: After the police directed the passenger, Yo Nashi Smith, twenty six,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to step out of the car, they spotted plastic baggies
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: containing a white rock like substance near the passenger seat
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and on the ground where Smith exited. Refern to the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: drugs on the passenger side, McCrae, cops say, spontaneously declared, quote,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: she needs to take responsibility for her stuff. Nice friend,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you got there. While being escorted to the police, fan
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a baggy with rock like substance dropped from Smith's person.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: The word and the report frazy. Yeah, We'll figure out
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: which direction that came from She reportedly admitted that the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: baggie fell from her buttocks area as she was being
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: booked into the custody. Corrections officers recovered a baggie containing
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: numerous multi colored pills from the defendants huh word that
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: isn't the word any reporting parenthetically, additional drugs back drug
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: bags were retrieved from Smith's right breast area. The confiscated
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: items tested positive for synthetic OpenAL opioid fatanyl. That resulted
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: in Smith's jailing on a paraphelon accounts drug trafficking and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: possession of controlled substance in a detention facility, also facing
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: a probation violation charge, since at the time of her arrest,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: she'd just begun serving a two year probation sentence in
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: connection with her conviction earlier in the year for grand
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: theft and dealing with stolen property. Can't even manage a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: day or two on probation without having it yanked away
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: from you. Congratulations, drugs are bad, Yes, Joe Perfect timing
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  Speaker 1: The talk station five fifty one fifty five krc DE
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: talk station, Happy Monday, try to make it so anyway, boy,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: time is flying. It's twenty seventh of July already. Let's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: return to the stack of stupid, where as is tradition,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: we go to Florida, where a Florida tattoo artist is
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: now behind bars after allegedly being spotted outside of an
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: apartment building at two thirty in the morning. Are you ready?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Hold on real quick, I gotta get a reading from Justrecker.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Let's let's reword that is that. Okay, I got guidance
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: from Justracker on this one. I don't think it's FCC
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: non compliant, but we're going to exercise a degree of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: delicacy considering what this guy was doing at two thirty
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in the morning in front of apartment building with his
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: pants down, inserting a sex toy. And you can use
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: your imagination where it was going. How's that?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: No one knows? The man, Jonathan Nemeth, forty four, arrested
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: for indecent exposure booked into the County jail on a
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: what is described as a misdemeanor charge. Cops say that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the victim took a photo of Nesmuth exposing himself, exposing
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: himself in a vulgar manner that sums it up nicely.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: When confronted by the Saint Petersburg police, he reportedly admitted
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to exposing himself outside of the Essex Court Complex where
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: he actually lives.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Charged with exposure earlier for lived right Joe Fastens. You
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: think they had a board meeting about getting this guy
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: out of the building anyway, Charged earlier in the year
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: for exposure of sexual organs. That case was still pending
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: when he was found doing this aka Nemo nedmth. Social
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: media pages showcases tattoos that he has inked on numerous clients.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Father of two young boys, he was sued last year
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: for divorced by his wife, shocking no One court to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the Florida Department of Corrections records, he served more than
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a decade in state prison for narcotics possession, armed robbery,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and fraud condictions. When confronted about messages threatening death to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a matlacquentance, a Florida woman, Gape gave a rather interesting
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: explanation for the three o'clock in the morning text quote
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that's just what girls do. Those words from the arrested
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Tammy Baldino. Man, I'm telling you this woman has crazy
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: written all over her face. If you see her photo
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: which I'm looking at, please charge it. She texted fifty
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: one year old victim quote I will kill you close
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: quote quote I have a gun and a bullet with
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: your name on it. Please recover the text from Baldino's phone,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: which she reportedly said nobody else using which she had
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the sole possession of. Addition to those July second texts,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the last the prior month sent a different guy describes
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: as an ex boyfriend a series of threatening mess warning
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: quote I have friends who will end your existence as
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: well as who I know who you are, and I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: will take a shotgun to your loser ass face. Do
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: what heut Man told police that he was concerned that
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: if she doesn't do this, that she will get one
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of her drug dealer boyfriends to do it. Arrested on
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a paraphelon accounts, fifty one year old Baldini booked into
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the Penels County Jail, locked up in little bit twenty
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond. At the time she was arrested, of course,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: she was already free on bond from an earlier case.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Charging her with DUI and unlawful possession of nitrous oxide
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: fifty five hundred dollars bond. And finally Asheville, North Carolina,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: where we have a guy arrested after reports of a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: naked guy trying to break into houses. Officer said that
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: shortly after midnight they responded to the one hundred block
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: at Deer Leg Drive to investigate a report of indecent exposure.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: They got there and found and arrested sixty eight year
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: old Raymond Stephen Young, who they said was walking around
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: naked in the area. Why are you doing? I don't
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: know that we'll ever find out, deputy said. The investigation
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: determined that Young was the person responsible for the pre
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: by private reports of the naked guy trying to break
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: into homes in the dear Lake Drive area. Charge with
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: two felony counts of attempted first degree burglary, secret peeping
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that's a new one on me, indecent exposure, and second
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: degree trespassing. Taken to the kind of detention center where
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: he will, at least at the time of the reporter,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: remains held without bond. Clearly not in front of Hamilton
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: County Court Judge Silverstein, who would have let him out
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: un recognisance. Don't do it again. You're free to go
• 34:45
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• 34:48
  Speaker 1: elections do have consequences. Uh, coming up, got plenty to
• 34:51
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• 34:53
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• 34:55
  Speaker 1: money Money with Brian James coming up in eight oh
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  Speaker 1: from vacation and you certainly enjoy being on vacation. And
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Walker and of course Kevin Gordon. And thanks to
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• 35:38
  Speaker 1: in the program if you can't listen to them live
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: at seven twenty money Me Day with Brian James, come
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: up an eighth five earnings report? Time for a second quarter?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: What is gonna jump out? Brian James going to identify
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: those issues? Price of gasoline is going up, and of
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: course the FEDS are meeting tomorrow. Will there be a
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: rate height, a rate cut or will things remain status quo?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: So anyway, five three, seven, fifty five hundred. Anyhow, a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: topic that I brought up before, and there was a
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: couple of corel unrelated yet I deemed them corollary articles
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: because they all dwell on the same subject matter, this
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: whole idea that you know, some kids do well and
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: other kids don't. And a lot of statiticians will say, well,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: we've done these analysis and we've determined that it has
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: to be and must be racism. Well, the Education Department
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: is says we're not going to do this disparate impact
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: analysis anymore. So let's walk through what that meant. There's
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a Washington Post article on it, and they weren't really
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: thrilled about this. But the Education Department recently killed the
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: rules that have allowed statistical disparities to be used as
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: proof of racial discrimination. Now, there have been a lot
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: of years of complaints about this so called disparate impact analysis.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: We used data to show discrimination, at least they say
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: it reveals actual discrimination. Supporters say discrimination isn't always explicit,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and so this data and analysis is needed to uncover it.
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  Speaker 1: Others argue that proving discrimination should require proof that somebody
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: intended to treat people differently. And I argue that when
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: people are being judged by the data, they feel the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: pressure and make decisions based on racial quotas, because how
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: else do you correct a problem nless you really truly
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: identify why it is that different racial groups do better
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: than others. So the idea behind this disparate impact analysis
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: is that if there are differences in outcomes by race,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: racism is the reason. Period. The problem is that all
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: disparate impact is showing is that one group is doing
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: better than another. The reason why is just being assumed. Well,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: obviously this must be a consequence of some racism, inherent racism.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only reason statistics are so widely variable. Supporters
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of this analysis say it's a critical tool because finding
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a quote unquote smoking gun proves somebody intended to discriminate
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  Speaker 1: is difficult. And even if the intent was not to discriminate,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: advocates say the institution should be held accountable for the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: discriminatory effects. But the Washington Post authors assuming that the
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  Speaker 1: thing that needs to be proved, they are assuming it
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  Speaker 1: is period racism. That's why this group, the Asians, are
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: doing so much better in school than say, blacks or
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Hispanics or even white people. If you want to draw comparisons,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: how do you know, absent other evidence, if those differences
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: are based on discrimination or maybe something else. And as
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the analysis of the Post analysis, John Sexton was writing,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: for instance, if more Asian kids get a's in math
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: than black kids, is that discrimination? Well, they do a
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: further analysis on this, and the answer, of course, from
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: his perspective, is no, it doesn't prove anything other than
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: there are differences. And whoa here. Let me latch onto
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: something that I've been talking about for years and years
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: and literally every single in a position of power, law enforcement,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: policy planning, or whatever. When I ask, why is it
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: that so many of these juveniles are unruly or in
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: need of curfews, are committing violent acts and everything? It's
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the deterioration of the family. The answer to the problem
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: may be that simple and pivoting over to Ian Row
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and Brad Wilcox and their point on this, the federal
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: government can shed light on why some children fail to
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  Speaker 1: thrive in school. The hidden factor in student success family structure.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: They're right. Every summer New Yorkers ask why so many
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Asian students and so few Black students are admitted to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the city's elite public schools. Only three of seven hundred
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and seventy seven students at this apparently high falutint Stuyvesant
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: High School are black. This has led to complaints about
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the entrance exam, demands that it'd be scrapped, and articles
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: on how the system is rigged against students of color.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: See that the statistic three of seven one hundred and
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: seventy seven are black, airgo there must be something built
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: into the system to discriminate against blacks. Queensborough President Donovan
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Richards went so far as to say black students are
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: being are being locked out. This is segregation. Here we go.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Missing from the debate is any discussion of family structure,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: two numbers that seldom service, and discussions about race in
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: American schools. Eighty percent of Asian children nationwide live with
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: married birth parents versus thirty percent of Black children a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: cord to the Census Bureau American Community Survey, this factor
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: whether a child has two married parents at home predicts
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: success in school or admission to a school like this
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: steuyvessant as well as or even better than race. None
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: of this excuses a school system that has failed black,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Hispanic and low income families, or denies the need for
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: broader test preparation and access to better schools. But these
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: debates often miss a fundamental reality. A student's success can
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: rise or fall on the structure and stability of his
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: family more than by his skin color or his family's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: bank account. Our forthcoming report from the American Enterprise Institute
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and that's where these guys are from and the Institute
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: for Family Studies, shows that how thoroughly Washington has neglected
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: this critical point. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, described
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: as the gold standard federal exam known as the Nation's
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: report Card, has asked students about their family structure since
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, but it does not break down math and
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: reading scores by that measure, instead reports results by sex race, ethnicity,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: socioeconomic status, disability, and English learner status. That's the categories
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: that Washington requires. Note there's no information in their requiring
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: information about their home life at all. They say the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: reporting is valuable, but it has unintended consequence of training
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a generation of educators, researchers, and journalists to treat those
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: categories as the only ones worth can considering. Our analysis
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: of the National Survey of Children's Health shows that what
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: shows what this approach leaves out. We found that children
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: in intact families in which a biological or adoptive parents
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: are married and living together, are significantly more likely to
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: thrive in school than peers from step families, cohabitating households,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: single parent homes, or grandparent led households. Children in these
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: non intact families are thirteen percent less likely to earn
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: mostly a's and b's and about double as likely to
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: be depressed. Also, forty seven percent more likely their parents
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: will be contacted about a problem involving them at school.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Family structure is a powerful predictor of these outcomes, as
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: race and poverty, sometimes even more so. Yet more data
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: is needed to understand the importance of family and detail
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and to correct misinterpretations that appear to be supported by
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: the absence of such data. Going back to my point earlier,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you automatically pre zoom it must be racism if there's
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: a disparate or there's a disparate result between people of
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: different classes or colors of skin. Maybe it's not disgracial discrimination.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just having an intact family at home. Leaving
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: family structure out of reporting creates a vacuum that gets
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: filled by theories that treat any gap between demographic groups,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: such as proof of discrimination as self styled anti racist.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Ibram x Kendy has declared, quote, when I see racial disparities,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I see racism. That is a casual fallacy, dropped up
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and dressed up in moral clarity, focusing only on race, ethnicity,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: or income, missing the family dynamics that can shape a
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: child's trajectory almost as much or more than any of
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: those other factors. They point out at least one federal
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: agency's gotten this right. Twenty ten report Family Structure and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Children's Health in the United States, The National Center for
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Statistics argue that new categories of families, such as unmarried
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: families or unmarried step families, need to be studied so
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: that the health characteristics of children in non traditional families
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: can be identified. Huh is there a difference between intact
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: families and those that aren't. I think that's a worthy
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: thing to look into. As long as we're searching for
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: answers to society's apparent problems, maybe we've hit the nail
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: on the head. Why don't we ask more questions about it?
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Education Apartment and other federal agencies track child well being
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: should follow this and look into it. Family structures should
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: be a standard reporting category alongside race, poverty, and disability,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: not an afterthought. We can't rewrite the family circumstances students
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: were born into, but we can be honest about how
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: family shapes students outcomes. We owe it to the rising
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: generation to study family structure thoroughly and use that information
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: to influence how young people think about family forma and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the choices they make for themselves and eventually their own children. Right,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and who wants to destroy the family structure? Marxist? Going
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: back to the original point, the DSA. They're filled with Marxist, leftist,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: communist They're the ones that want to raise your child
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: from womb through college. They want to take over the
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: role of family. How well has that worked out? With
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: looking within the black community, will only thirty percent come
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: from intact families? Look the way it used to be?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Walter E. Williams did analysis about this in the past.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I actually was able to talk to the man about it.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: He turned the clock back about seventy years or so
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: before the Great Society Program started paying women more money
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: if they didn't have a man around. What do you
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: think the net result of that's going to be? Right?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: You don't need a guy around, and you'll have a
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: non intact family, and apparently it's going to have a
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: profound impact statistically documented on the child's education and ultimately
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: ability to succeed. Makes perfect sense to me. It's a
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: good question of why they don't look into that more.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe we need to pay closer attention to it. Your
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: thoughts are welcome, But first I would recommend family owned
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and operated since next see deep Talk station. It is
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: twenty one. If any five cares he you talk station,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Very happy Monday to you. Speaking of racism, Christopher Smithment
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: chimes in a Mickey mouse is being called racist. Last week.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I read that and I directly responded to Christophers as
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: a black man. Did you ever think Mickey Mouse reminds
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: me of a minstrel show his response, No, sir brother,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah I didn't think so. There it is. Just call
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: it racist and it'll fuel the fire that racism is
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: a real problem in this country. Okay, okay, here's a
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: thought question for you. How many years did they work
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: on developing over the Rhine? Now, it was, of course
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: south of Liberty where all of the or the gentry
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: vacation work. They displaced a lot of impoverished folks formerly
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: could afford to live there. They built up brand new houses, rehabbed, rehabilitated,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: put up brand new, shiny new objects, Washington Park redevelopment,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: along all the other efforts they put into over the Rhine,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: and it got a little costly to live there. What
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: about north the Liberty, I know they've been struggling with
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and trying to change the dynamic north of Liberty. What's
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: going on north Liberty? I know the Crimarry Hire there. Well,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: they haven't had the nearly the investment that they've had
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: south of Liberty. Well wait a second, we have a
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: new development north of Liberty, right across the street from
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Finley Market eighteen eleven Vine Street, over the Rhine, the
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Findlay Community Hub accord to the Hilkwitz over the Cincinne Choir,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: located steps from Finley Market. The two story structure will
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: include it's sixty thousand square feet. Parenthetically, that's the community center.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Also a separate eight thousand square foot childcare center since
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: they're taking over the pre k education for all those
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: folks who don't want to educate their own children or
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: nurture them at home before sending them off to an institution.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: You know that troubles me anyway. Total cost the forty
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: seven million dollars at least they say that's going to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: call what it's going to cost. And it's set to
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: open in January. Described as the latest development in a
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: larger effort to transform the northern part of Over the Rhine. Hey,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: let's get the rents up there. Let's get some taxpayer
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: people living in north of over the Rhine. After we
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: put in the rec center, what's in it? A roller
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: rink along with an indoor pool, a gym with basketball courts,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: rooms with cardio and weight equipment, indoor track overlooking the gym,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: and an outdoor terrace with workout space. Hmm. And of
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: course the finn Community Couble also a Hubbill also feature
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: an early childcare center and some multipurpose rooms for your
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: local groups to reserve, probably NGOs. And I scratched my head,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and I don't know the answer to this question. Does
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: anybody roller skate anymore? I remember going to the Western
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: roll a ram as a little kid. That's I think
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: that's been closed forever. So I did a quick search
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: for roller rinks and basically the general Tri State area.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I think there's a total of four or five couple
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: of them public ones downtown already anyway, Apparently, at least
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: according to the folks behind this project, they met with
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: over one hundred community They had over one hundred community
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: engagement sessions and heard from more than eight hundred people
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: over the course of developing this concept. The community engagement
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: is why three CDC decided to add a roller rink
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: to this Findley Community Hub. Accord to the one the
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: person respond behind this, we work with our consultants to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: thoroughly engage with the community to make sure that what
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: we were creating was something that the community needed and
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: would respond well to. Is that all that we needed,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: you know? I'm quick to observe that there are sidewalks
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: literally everywhere. Is it against the law something to roller
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: skate outside on a sidewalk? And we've got all these
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: bike paths. I know you're allowed to roller skate on
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: a bike path. They're all over the place now. They
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: didn't exist when I was a child, but these are,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: you know, developments. Over time, there's been a lot more
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: infrastructure developments for outdoor activity and things of that nature.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: But I mean, if you want to build this, fine,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: But of all things, taxpayer dollars are behind this forty
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: seven million and probably a lot more than that. A
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: roller rink is that a thing? Six twenty six five
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: garre see dunstays. I don't know the talk station. It's
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: six point thirty one fifty five car se the talk station.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: My submariner friend Mike Curbbage. Mike said, we got a
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Beachmont Royal rink on the east side off to seventy five. However,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: if it weren't for school outings during the school year,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: no way it stays open. Yeah, I guess that maybe
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: one of the western roller around my closed so many
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: years ago. Anyway, moving to other local stories, be happy
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: to dive into those, and I always hate when I
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: read about motorcycle crashes, although I hardly ride mine anymore.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: We have another man, Dad. His motorcycle crash happened in
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Boone County last evening about the quarter after our quarter
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: till seven eleven thousand block at Dixie Highway, cord of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the Boone County Sheriff's Office. Robert Schultz, forty seven, of Williamstown, Kentucky,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: going southbound on Dixie Highway, failed to make it around
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: a left hand curve. He went off of the road,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: hit a culvert, collided with a metal gate. He was
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: thrown from the motorcycle. He was not wearing a helmet
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: at the time of the crash and was pronounced dead
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: at the scene. Boone County Sheriff's Office is the best
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: gaining the crash, but say they suspect speed and alcohol
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: as contributing factors. Okay, I got all kinds of things
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: piled up on this one. I was thinking the guy
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: probably just had target fixation, which is definitely a thing
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: you need to look through the curve, but also put
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: a damn helmet on. I know we live in a
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: free society now, Yes, gonna do the rant again, but
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: you got a ten dollars head, put it in a
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: ten dollars bucket at least. And please, people out in
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: cars keep your eyes peeled from motorcyclist even if they
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: are not always doing the right thing on the road.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Eighteen year old arrested early yesterday accused of firing shots
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: on I seventy one North in Silverton. According to deputies,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning called ICE seventy one North
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: near a Red Bank Road exit for the report of
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: a man with a rifle outside of his vehicle. Recover
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: to the scene a rifle and shellcasings. Deputy said they
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: arrested eighteen year old Aaron Falin. Thankful no injuries were
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: reported and no indication that anyone or vehicles were targeted.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Family facing charges of aggravated menacing and discharging a firearm
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: on a prohibited premises. They say it's not clear if
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. I'm
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: sure they'll probably rectified that lack of clarity that currently exists.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: One person taking him to the hospital after his shooting
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and over the r line happened Saturday morning. Since a
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: police said they were called to Clifton Avenue and Lang
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Street six o'clock in the morning. No report on the
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: extent of the injuries. Police haven't stated if they have
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: a suspect. Of course, a couple of day old reporting.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: There may be developments beyond that at this point in time,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: and it looks like I got time with one more
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Kay, and thank you for the welcome back.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that you miss me, and I'm glad to
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: be back here. And since I plase searching for a
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: man in connection with the shooting happened Friday in Winton Hills,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: leaving a juvenile injured. Since the police said the officers
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: respond to the two hundred block of Craft Street eight
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: thirty pm Friday for reports of his shooting. They got there,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: I found a person with a gunshot wound. Victim taking
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the Cincinni Children's Hospital with thankfully non life threatening injuries.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: On Saturday, police charged Quincy Thomas with felonious assault in
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: connection with the shooting. Court documents say Thomas shot the
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: juvenile quote, causing serious physical harm quotes quote. Thomas also
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: allegedly fired his weapon at two other people, who fortunately
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: were not injured. You have to be arrested by Cincinnati police.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: They're currently a Warren out for his rest at least
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: as the reporting on Friday. But if you have any
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: information about the shooting or his whereabouts, crime Stoppers the
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: number to call five one three three five two thirty
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: forty five one three three five two thirty forty. You
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: will remain anonymous. If you're a tip least to an
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: address should be getting this extraordinarily dangerous person off these streets,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: making the city a better place to live. And of
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: course you're eligible for a cash reward. Not that sixty
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: station at six forty if fifty five CARC Detalk station
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Monday and a happy one to you. You can feel
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: free to give me a call if you like, love
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: to hear from you. Five one three seven four nine
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: to fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two to three
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: talk on fifty one eight T and T phone's got
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: to beg kick out of the Anderson Township trustee. Former
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Drew Pappus, struggling with his uh with his weight issues,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: just said, I can't decide if I'm trans skinny or
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: trans fat. I get so confused. I'm fat, but I
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: identify as thin. That is his Facebook post. I got
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: a big kick out of it, so I responded as
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I would to anyone who's struggling with sort of gendernice.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: For you, hm hmm, struggling with your own subjective opinion
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: of yourself, I'll tell you what you make up your
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: own mind. Then we at least those who give a crap,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: can all independently decide for ourselves and we'll all live happily. Ever, Apper, however,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: if you try to force us to side with your
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: subjective decision, we're going to run into a problem. Doesn't
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: that really boil down this whole gender thing that's the
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: problem with the left in this gender ideology crap. I'm
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: happy to live in a world where someone believes are
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: the opposite sex. I don't care. You can't make me
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: believe something that is not genetically true. Period. Doesn't mean
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I hate you for it. Might suggest you read the
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: DSM five and maybe get some counseling or whatever, But
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: that existed. It has existed for a long time. When
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: did this crazy notion that we must concede and relent
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: to what some might call delusional concepts about oneself. I'm
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: entitled to call it delusional. That is my personal subjective opinion,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: and you can't change my mind. You can't legislate my
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: mind to think differently. As I note that Minnesota is
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: now using taxpayer dollars on trans dolls for classrooms that
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: four year olds are in. Hmm, there's a New York
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Post article about that one. And then going back to
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: the problem that we always face societal problems and gosh
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: darn it, there's got to be a government solution for it,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: right Usually it's throw money at it. This has become
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: a growing phenomenon in the world that you haven't noticed. NGOs.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: They're out there in the world. They identify a problem,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: they hold their hand out and say all we need
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  Speaker 1: is money, and we will fix the problem, the problem
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: that exists here and everywhere else. City of Cincinnati's got
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: a huge problem on their hands with NGOs. There's no accountability.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Where's the progress report? Where do they show what the
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: money has done, who it's been paid to, and to
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: what purpose, and what the return on the taxpayer dollar
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: investment has been. They get two corollary articles on both
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: sides of the pond. We got New York, when we
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: got Los Angeles, they got homeless problems that keep getting worse,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: and what do they do. Originally they start throwing money
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: at NGOs. They're going to fix the problem. No, the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: problem keeps getting worse while people flee the state of
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: California generally speaking, and the Los Angeles area generally specifically.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe why they're fling is because currently there are forty
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: five thousand plus homeless in the City of Los Angeles alone,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: and that figure has jumped ten thousand since twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: And all the while they've been throwing money at programs
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: to solve the homeless problem. Have they solved anything, No,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: they've exacerbated it. Apparently, hundreds of millions of dollars have
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: been spent on these so called homeless programs that have
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: had literally no effect. Under Mayor Bas's signature program, are
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: you ready for this?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: I know this is Los Angeles. You can say, well,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: it's Los Angeles taxpayer dollars, but something tells me some
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: slice of your paycheck went to the federal government, and
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the federal government then handed over money to the State
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: of California the City of Los Angeles to fund these
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: programs that don't work. Eighty two thousand, four hundred and
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars a year for each homeless person that it
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: has sheltered in motels eighty two thousand and four. Joe,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: do you spend eighty four hundred and twenty dollars annually
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  Speaker 1: for shelter? Right? I know the answer to that question.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: And apparently in spite of the fact that some of
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: these people have been sheltered, forty percent of those who've
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: been given shelter under this program have left and returned
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: to the streets. Why what's the problem here? What do
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: you think? Drugs? Drugs and probably mental health, which goes
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: right quite nicely along with the drug addition, and a
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: third party audit of Los Angeles Homeless agency last year
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: found the city wasn't even tracking how much was being spent,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: the number of beds or other services being provided, or
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: the outcomes for the computitive beneficiaries. There's a federal judge
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: who presided over lawsuit against the city said, nobody is
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: asking our providers what they did or what services they performed.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: We may have providers who committed fraud and we may
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: never know. Right. This is remnt and of the leering
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: centers in Minnesota. I think it's probably reminiscent of literally
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: any non governmental organization who at least does not have
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: built in oversight. Why is the money going out? What
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: are the salaries for the people that are on these
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: NGOs that receive the money, and what good are they
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: providing to society? If the point is we need to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: end homelessness and find some place for these people to go,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe mental health mental institutions. Drugs seem
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: to be a massive problem in that. And I used
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: to be a person who didn't want to criminalize the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: use of the illegal subverb, you know, controlled substances, because
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: why criminalize self abuse? Well, the reason you want to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: criminalize self abuse is at least you get an opportunity
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: to get them into rehab. Drugs aren't going away. Interestingly enough,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: New York has almost an identical problem and almost an
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: identical expenditure of funds, taxpayer dollars going out into the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: world to probably fund multi hundred thousand dollars positions at
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: NGOs who are not being held accountable for the money
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: expent or whether they have an outcome that actually worked.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: The figures alone reflect that they don't work. And yet
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: what will happen? Does anybody think this is going to stop. No,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I suspect what they're going to do is, well, we
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: just need more money. The problem is eighty two thousand
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: dollars a year per homeless person just isn't enough. Six
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: forty seven right now, if you five care see the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: talks data the talk station, it is six fifty two
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: coming up with a six fifty three. But if you
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: have CARECD talk station. Yeah, I mentioned the whole problem
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: that we saw in Los Angeles, the massive increase in
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: the homeless population, despite of the fact that they're spending
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: about eighty two thousand dollars per person, keep throwing money
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: out into the world and getting zero result. It's the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: definition of stupidity, doing the same thing over and over
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: again and expecting a different result. They never get a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: different result. But the NGOs are really happy about this
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: out New York Attorney General Leticia James now getting well
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: an earful because there's a candidate who's running against her,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: woman named Saitha Comet Tiretti, who's accused James of not
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: holding homeless shelters in New York accountable for the literally
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: billions of taxpayer dollar money that has gone to the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: nonprofit organizations. Get a load of this one sounds very
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: similar to Los Angeles. The New York State Comptroller showed
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: that the City of New York spent about eighty one thousand,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars in fiscal year twenty twenty five on
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: homeless people who were not in shelters. Fox News report
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: said the New York Attorney General candidate Saritha com Tiretti
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: is accusing James of failing to hold New York's nonprofit
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: homeless shelter providers accountable in spite of years of audits, investigations,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: and scandals involving all of these billions of taxpayer dollars.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: This after New York State Comptroller report in March for
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: New York City City spent almost eighty two thousand that
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: was per unsheltered person. Meanwhile, and that is triple the
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: spending that was going on in twenty nineteen. What happened
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: to the homeless population It climbed seventy eight percent, and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: her during discussion in her criticism of her opponent, Letitia James,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: who's currently in the role of Attorney general, who could
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: look into this and actually prosecute people, she revealed that
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: there were years of investigation by federal prosecutors as well
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: as the New York State Controller the New York City
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Department of Investigation revealing kickbacks fraud. And here's the key
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: little financial oversight. Oh and here's the tell. And I
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: told my wife after reading this yesterday, we need to
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: open an NGO. Joe, you want to form one. Pick
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: a societal problem that you and I are going to solve.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: We're going to form an NGO, and we're going to
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: pay ourselves one million dollars a year. That's right. Back
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, the New York City Department of
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Investigation found fifty one of the New York City funded
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: homeless shelters lacked competitive bidding, paid the executives unusually high salaries,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: for example, being paid around one million dollars. Huh. Just
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: because they claim to be non for profit doesn't mean
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: that the people running the show aren't making a lot
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: of profit for themselves. New York Attorney General does has
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the power to have the power to investigate nonprofits and
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: ask about these questionable transactions and insist on some oversights.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Since these are taxpayer dollars and they are stewards, or
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: at least supposed to be Steward's at taxpayer dollars. Uh, well,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I guess they didn't. Maybe you need somebody else in charge.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: And much like LA, I don't think the answer from
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: the the elected officials is going to be we need
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: to rethink this and come up with a different idea.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: We need to quit funding these ridiculous NGOs, and we
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: need to stop paying the executives at the NGO's millions
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: of taxpayer dollars and force them to prove to us
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: that actually what they're doing is bringing about some positive result.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Clearly it is in in New York where the homeless
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: populations tripled six point fifty six fifty five Ker City
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Talk station. We had a little time between the top
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: of the air news and Christopher Smithman, who's come a
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: talk station? It's seven oh five. I forgive my Paria
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: City Talk Station. I am Brian Thomas. I am back
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: to vacation, glad to be thanks for less folks chiming
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: in and thanking me for being back and saying they
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: miss me. I miss being here to a certain degree,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: but it was very nice taking some time off and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: trying to clear my head a little bit.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Very successful that in the first week kind of went
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: downhill in the second week, though, drawn back to the news,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: drawn back to the stories, printing stories out that I
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: didn't even need for the next day to do a
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: morning show because I was on vacation anyway. Can't break
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: that mode. But that's okay. Stay in touch with what's
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: going on in the world, and you're gonna be better
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: off for it. Call me up and be happy to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: hear from you. I would be five and three seven
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two three
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Christopher
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Smithan coming up in the next segment. Talk to him
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: for a few segments, as we do with the former
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: vice mayor. Every Monday, Money Money with Brian James in
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: one hour, we'll talk about the second quarter company earnings
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: reporting coming out. What's jumped out in Brian james mind.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: The price of gas is going up. Uh yeah, And
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: finally the Fed's meeting tomorrow. Is there gonna be a
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: rate height, a rate cut or will things remain status quo.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about with Brian James. In the meantime,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I wanted to chime in on this because much like
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: people saying I'm glad you're back and we missed you.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: I cannot thank you all for the support and people
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: know for years and years and years I've been dealing
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: with lymphoma and I just had to go through another
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: battery of treatments. I got my pet scan report a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. From the report, I got quote
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: no evidence of recurrent lymphoma clothes quote. And I thank
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: everybody on Facebook for the prayers, and I got hundreds
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: of responses, and I want to thank each and every
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: person out there who's prayed for me or at least
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: wish me well and my struggle with cancer, and my
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: reciprocal prayers and thoughts and well wishes to everybody else
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: who's similarly plagued, least at this juncture. Apparently I'm okay.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I meet with my doctor tomorrow, so thanks again. Sorry
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: to chime in on personal matters, but I have brought
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: it up, and in the effort to just raise awareness,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: you take good care of yourself, look out for unusual
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: signs in your health and see your doctor about it.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Get ahead of things and maybe you'll have a good result.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: And it appears that I have, and I'll know for
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: certain tomorrow. I also am kind of curious obviously unrelated,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: and I saw Congressman Massey is preparing a bill to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: take away all federal cash from cities and police departments
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: who are using flock cameras. He's just announced over the weekend.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I guess it was on Saturday, a bill to withhold
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy flock
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: style cameras to surveil law abiding citizen. Of course, he's
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: a big civil libertarian and I agree with him wholeheartedly
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: on so many things, and of course very controversial figure
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: he's always been. And the anger about Thomas Massey online
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: and the vile and evil comments he's never done anything. Yeah,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: what he has done. I'll defend Thomas Massey all day
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: long for what he has done. He's defended the constitution
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: of the United States of America. I mean, there are
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: people on both sides of the political ledger. Not that
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the political ledger is not evenly divided. It's kind of
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: a gray area. Say you're a Republican, what does that mean?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Say you're a Democrat, what the hell does that mean anymore?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: But no one seriously take or takes the Constitution very seriously.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: If there's one thing he's been a champion of is
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: reminding people what this supreme law of the land says
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: and stands for now. In so far as his idea
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: about withholding federal dollars if you do not comply with
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: what we here in the federal government tell you to do,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I hate that concept. And that's the reason, you know,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: we raised our drinking age in the state about out
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: to twenty one. Just one of a multitude and seemingly
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: endless list of federal government coercion, taking money from you
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: and refusing to give it to you if you don't
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: fall in line with what they want. I think whether
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: or not a city chooses to buy flock cameras and
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: use them or not, that's up to the city. That's
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: up to the residents, up to the voters. So I
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: understand where mass is coming from from a privacy standpoint,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: but I disagree with the mechanism that he's proposing, although
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: it is a off to use mechanism, So think about
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: that in broader terms. But what of your feeling about
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: the flock cameras getting even more pervasive and now flying
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: around that's the most recent development day Flock is rolling
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: out Flock Alpha, which is described as a highly advanced
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: autonomous police drone design to track vehicles and suspects from
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: the air. These things fly around and can read license
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: plates and also have thermal imaging and of course aren't
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: just recording the bad guy. That resulted in the camera
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: being deployed in the sky. Think about drones all over
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: the place, video cameraing, videotaping you wherever you happen to be.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: But the Flock They fly at about two thousand feet.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: Described as autonomous. They can launch from weather proof docking station.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: In response to say nine to one one calls gunshot
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: detection alerts and other hits. So spot are shot spotter
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: or spot shotter which I screwed up a couple of
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. Is laughing to myself about that. So they
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: detect a gunshot, the drone automatically deploys, goes flying around
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and looks in the area where the gunshots started from,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: and they're up there. They go up to sixty miles
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: an hour. An hour, they can often show up before
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: the patrol vehicles. Thermal imaging, as I mentioned, high definition cameras,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: optical zoom, streaming, live video. It also can be dispatched
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: by a police officer as well. First responders can use
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: a cell phone to make these things launch. Now part
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: of me, you know, law enforcement Brian Thomas and someone
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: who likes to prosecute and put people in jail who
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: break the law, so they can demonstrate to the rest
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: of the world what happens if you break the law.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: That's all good, This is law enforcement. I also appreciate
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: the fact that you really don't have any expectation, legitimate
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: expectation of privacy when you're walking around or driving around,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: you're in public. I could be standing there with a
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: cell phone watching your car drive by and recording your
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: license plate. But it's just an illustration of the advancement
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: of this technology and how orewelling our world has become.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of sitting on the fence and just
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: sort of wondering how you perceive this, because it's only
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: going to get worse and worse, or fear of the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: opposite mindset better and better. But I feel like we're
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: living in an orwell or in all this Huxley novel
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: or maybe Fahrenheit four fifty one or something, and it's
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: only going to get worse let's see what Jay's got
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: this morning. Jay, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: to you, sir.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: Hey, Happy Monday, man. And first of all, that is
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: fantastic news you just shared with us on day Pat
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: stand we I'm sure I'm not the only one that
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: was praying for you and your family. That is something
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: that nobody should have to go through. Is that is
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 6: fantastic it happened for you. Happy for your family, Ken,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 6: I'm sure I'm not the only one that's thinking that
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Well, the other reason I bring this up, Jay now,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: not because I'm asking for, you know, support or help.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: You know how good it makes a person feel when
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: there are other people in the world that actually care
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: for you that you know, you don't know people and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: you find out that a stranger who only knows you
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: by virtue of the radio is actually praying for you
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: and wishing you well. I mean, that is just it
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: makes you feel good. And maybe that that's where the
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: power of prayer actually works. If you uplift the person
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: struggling with whatever struggle they're going through, it might help
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: them overcome their struggle. So I say it out loud
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: to encourage others to feel the same. It's good for
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: you and it's good for the recipient of those well
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: wishes on level on ways that you are really truly indescribable.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 6: Jay, Well, amen to that. Hey, So, I was thinking
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 6: about you over the over your break when I saw
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: the news the headline that that Trump was going to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: lower the bar and make it easier for a nation
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: to get nuke power. Unfortunately it wasn't.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Our Thank you, Jay.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: So so I'm like raising my hand in the audience
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 6: out there with the press corps and say, mister President,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: if we're going to start nuke power in a country,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 6: can we start here first?
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: Perhaps spread it?
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: We are we are our own worst enemy, you know.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, nobody stands in front of in a new
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: faith of development progress moving forward more than we. Oh,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: there's a rag for that. There's a rule now, you
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: can't do that until fifteen years down the road after
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: all the litigation. Maybe those are all keep the law
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: firms in business points. I don't know, but you're right.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: I laughed my butt off on the exact same line
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: when I read that article with Saudi Arabia, right.
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  Speaker 3: It was Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, And because you know they're lacking energy reach. I
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 7: you're banking over there. They don't have enough and money,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 7: you know, I think they're impoverished. They don't have any
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 7: energy can they're only treating event leaves, you know. I
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 7: just I looked at that scratch my head, thinking, how
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 7: about we take care of the United States. If you're
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 7: president of the United States and we don't like try
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 7: to figure out how to fix other people's problems with.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Let's fix ours.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 6: When we get all of ours fixed, great, then we
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 6: can start maybe fixing the rest.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: Of the world.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: But anyways, I thought of you, Glad you're back, brother,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: and don't vote Rhino and don't vote Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: Have a good day.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: Thanks Jay, I truly appreciate the thoughts, And yeah, that
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: exact same thing went through my mind when I saw that.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: And another headline you can check out for yourself Jennifer
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: Hiller's article America's demand for power is soaring, and so
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: the costs of building out the grid. Equipment backlogs, permitting delays, tariffs,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: and years long waits to connect to the grid are
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: pushing up the expense. Deep dive into a lot of
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: the things Jay just touched upon there in his short
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: comments about us helping other countries go nuclear while we
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: stand in the way of our own development of nuclear energy.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Met the enemy they are us. Don't go away, Christopher
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: Smitheman coming up next, saving me from I'm KRC the
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: talk station seven twenty one on a Monday, one of
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: my favorite times a week at least when he's on
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: the line ready to talk, and he is he, of course,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: is the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: my friend and our friend, generally speaking, Christopher Smitheman, with
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: always wonderful thoughts, comments and insights. While come back, man,
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  Speaker 1: it is wonderful talking with you this morning. Christopher.
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  Speaker 5: Right, it's so good to hear your voice, and you
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 5: sound strong and energetic and rested. So I'm so glad
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: to have you back. Brother.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome, Thank you very much. And on that note, I
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: will thank my family for allowing me to at least
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: sound rested, because I do feel quite rested after a
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks off, and I appreciate people just tuning
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: back into the show and for listening to the folks
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: filling in for me while I was gone. It's nice
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: to be back, though, Christopher, Brother, I.
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  Speaker 5: Just want to jump in on a story that just
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 5: caught my attention every once in a while kept my attention.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 5: And this was the story about calling Mickey Mouse at
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 5: some level races. Yeah, and I was trying to get
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 5: my head wrapped around it. And probably your listening audience
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: might not have heard that story, but somebody at.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 8: The Smithsonium was giving testimony.
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  Speaker 5: And being asked about this. I grew up on Mickey Mouse.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: I grew up on Scooby Doo. You know, you know,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: I grew up on the Jetsons, I grew up on Popeye.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: I don't understand the Footstones.
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  Speaker 8: I don't understand where we're.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: Going, Brian Thomas, as a society where we can say
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: Mickey Mouse has on the color black and in some
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 5: way that's blackface. Now we're gonna we're gonna command that
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: lecky Mouse when we're black face.
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  Speaker 1: Dude.
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  Speaker 5: This is how far gone people in our society are now,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 5: where Mickey Mouse now is.
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  Speaker 8: A target right for some of these groups out here, which.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 5: Was basically a kid's program that is so.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 8: Wholesome, like it's like Little House on the Prairie.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: Like, dude. It just shocked my conscious when I heard
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 5: that lady talking about Mickey Mouse.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, maybe this is another opportunity for the leftist
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: to rewrite history. Christopher Weather. Is no racism built into
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: the character Mickey Mouse. And god knows what Walt Disney's
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: personal feelings were one way or another, it certainly didn't
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: manifest itself in overt racism coming out. It's a damn mouse, right,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 5: And what blows me away, Brian Thomas in my common sense?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: All right, and I'm gonna try to genuinely talk about
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 5: this so Joe doesn't have to dump me. But I
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 5: think they. I think that the D word is a
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: horrible word that is thrown around right between Black Americans
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: like nothing. I think it is absolutely horrendous. And so
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 5: it's in our music, it's in our common talk, it's
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 5: in movies, it's in poetry, right, And if somebody outside
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: of that group were to use that word, they would
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 5: be absolutely villainized, would lose their job, lose their career.
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  Speaker 8: This is the confusion.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: But then you come and say Mickey Mouse is a
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: racist or Mickey Mouse in itself is racist, but you
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: don't address the proliferation of the in word where it
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 5: is used in such commonplace and it's thrown around in
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: such a ridiculous way. Right our Baptist Minister's Conference, Reverend
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 5: Doc Foster, when I was the president of the Cincinnati NAACP,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: he buried the inWORD, and I thought that was an
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 5: awesome act of the Baptist Minister's Conference. But my point
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 5: to you is, how do we talk about these really
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 5: silly things right and then not address something like the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 5: proliferation of the in word within Black America that it
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: is so commonplace that people think it's okay, And it's
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: not okay. It's never been okay, it's not okay now,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 5: it won't be okay one hundred years from now. So
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 5: and there is no derivative of the in word that
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 5: makes it okay. Why does it make it okay if
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 5: a light due uses it, a black dude, a Latino.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 5: I'm just blown away.
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  Speaker 8: That is all in our music.
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  Speaker 5: And I can't hear anything from the Smithsonium saying anything
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 5: about that. But she wants to address Mickey Mouse, Well,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: let me ask.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: You a thought question here. As we're going to break
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: Christopher the banning and effectively banning the use of that word,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: and I don't have any problem eradicating it from the lexicon,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of words out there that I
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: refuse to use generally speaking, because I find them offensive.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: So that's one of them. But when you out, when
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: you specifically say and that you can't use the N
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: word with the exception of black folks using it, it
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: becomes the exclusive purview a word that only black people
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: can use and get away with or otherwise, you know,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: embrace it as a as a word that has some
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: sort of particular meaning given the context of which it's
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: being used. So wouldn't that in crea if you have
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: ownership of a word, at least from a societal perspective
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: where only black people can get away with using that word,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: does that increase the use of that word within the community? Christopher?
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: Perhaps I think it does, but I.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 5: Think it's absolutely wrong.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 6: No, it is.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the historical point of it is horrific.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 8: And all I'm saying is that that if we're going
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 8: to talk about.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 5: Things in our society like a Mickey Mouse, right, if
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 5: that's where we want to go, And Mickey Mouse's has
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 5: part of the costume of Mickey Mouse's black meaning. By
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 5: the way, Mickey Mouse when it when it rolled out,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 5: was only in black and white. So, but the notion
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: that we're going to spend time talking.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 8: About Mickey Mouse, but we're not going to get.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: At this culture of throwing around the inWORD right like
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: it's nothing. And I'm saying, whether it's white, black, Latino, Asian,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 5: whether it's whether it's straight not straight, the use of
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: the in word is un acceptable. That has to be
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 5: the position. And I'm curious why the woman doesn't address
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 5: these issues like this head on.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 8: I'm tired of hearing it in music.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: I'm tired of hearing it in poetry. I'm tired of
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 5: hearing it in movies and common talk. And I'm saying
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: we have to get to a point where Brian is
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: not okay for you to use it, and it's not
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 5: okay for me to use it in any context. That
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: should be the position. That is my common sense.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: It's a perfect common sense position. I embrace it and
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: agree with you wholeheartedly. Let's continue with Christopher Smithvan with
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: the Smith Avent It's ears the talk station seven thirty
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: two on a Monday, in the middle of a conversation
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: with the former baron the City of Cincinnati. Call up me,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smith, Aman, Christopher, you under the weather day sounds
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: like your voice is cracking up a bit. I just
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: want to make sure you're you're doing okay, my friend.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, brother, I'm in a little outder the weather, but
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: I'm pushing through and thank you for caring. But but Brian,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: this part really frustrates me because it's mired in hypocrisy,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 5: meaning comedians and movies. What we see coming out of
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: the West Coast in the East Coast, right, the craziness
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 5: that they're putting out here as far as music and
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: putting out here as movies. They're acting like they're operating
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: at the highest level of culture, right.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 8: And they're going to tell us in the Midwest.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: How we're going to live our life. An example of that,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 5: and this is not far fest is a discussion that
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: they have about should there be a popular vote or
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 5: the electoral process? Yes, you and I know that I
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 5: don't want California or cities like La or cities like
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 5: New York who have higher populations to pick who the
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: president of the United States is, right, and I'm saying
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 5: that they're parts of our country where culturally they are demonic.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 5: There's things coming out of the West and the East
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: Coast that are absolutely insane, that you and I are
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 5: trying to keep out of our households, away from grandchildren,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: away from our children. These are the same people that
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: show up and condemn you and I and tell us
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 5: that we don't know anything about politics or about how
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: the world operates. And I'm saying, I've refuse to listen
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: to this woman from the Smithsonium lecture me about Mickey Mouse.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: If you're going to tell me about Mickey Mouse being
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 5: a racist, why don't you address the garbage that's coming
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: out of the West Coast and the East Coast as
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: far as music and culture that is absolutely destroying our families. Well,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 5: the interesting is what frustrates me.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: I understand your frustration, and I think some of that
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: frustration is born by the fact that you and I
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: are paying taxpayer dollars to keep this some sony institution alive,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: and the exhibits that they display are coming at your
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: and my expense. We don't have a choice in the matter,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: and we cannot buy the music that you and I find.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: I we don't have to watch the crap that Hollywood
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: puts out. We can pick and choose and make the
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: decisions on our own and therefore we won't be subjected
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: to it. But when your taxpayer dollars are funding this nonsense,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: and you expect to go to the Smithsonian Institute and
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: see all these wonderful exhibits and displays, they have only
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: to be indoctrinated to some nonsensical left wing philosophy. That's
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: when they've crossed the line.
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  Speaker 5: I agree, I agree, I agree completely. And I'll give
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 5: one other point. And I don't remember where the exhibit was,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: but this was many, many, many years ago, but.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 8: They did an exhibit.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: Where it was blasphemy around.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 8: Jesus Christ and they had taken they had taken.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: Jesus Christ and flipped Jesus Christ on the.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: Cross upside down.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: It was something. It was some abomination. All I'm saying
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: here is that I don't know why when we get
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 5: to elections that Hollywood believe I should listen to them
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: about who I should be voting for when I'm concerned
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: about their garbage, their proliferation of things that are destroying
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 5: our families every single day, and whether it is the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 5: in word or the proliferation of it, whether it's the
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: over sexualization of our women, whether it's calling women out.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 8: Of their names in these music things.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: And the Smithsonian director or whoever she is, the best
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 5: that she could bring us last week was that Mickey
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 5: Mouse in itself is racist. Is insane, and I just
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: wanted to spend time discussing this with my brother, saying, listen,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 5: we can do better. We've got to push back. We've
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 5: got to make sure that we call these clowns out
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 5: when they come out with this kind of craziness, because
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 5: if we don't, right, there are people out there that think,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 5: oh man, well, maybe Mickey Mouse is racist. Maybe the
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 5: Flintstones are racist, Maybe the Jetsons are racist. Maybe Popeye
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: is racist. You know, I don't understand it, but I
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 5: can just tell you, dude, I am set up with
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: it now. I'm not gonna say whether it's coming from
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 5: the left or the right or wherever's coming from. I'm
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 5: just saying Mickey.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 8: Mouse is way too far.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: It's the concept of saying, Brian Thomas, We're going to
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: take an iconic cartoon right and say that was created
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 5: in black and white that many of generations watched, and
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: just say e that Mickey Mouse in itself is racist.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: I'm with it, brother.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: The other component here is going back to my idea
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: about choice. This is why I believe in school choice,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: because if your kids are stuck in an institution that
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: is peddling this nonsense in the curriculum, your kids get
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: brainwashed and thinking Mickey Mouse is somehow racist. That's what
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: they maybe are very well be teaching to your children
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: who are stuck in the one size fits all left
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: wing curriculum that they offer. Give my kid a choice
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: that way. I like my choice in music and movies
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: and everything else. I have a choice over I can
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: pick myself. Period. Don't go away. We got more with
• 1:27:58
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  Speaker 1: Avan continuing the Smith event. Christopher, keep going, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: love what we're talking about this morning.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it because there are very few places, Brian,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 5: where we can kind of have these very candid conversations
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: that are incredibly important and I think play a role
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: in you know, how people are engaging politics and culture
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 5: and all of those kinds of things. I want to
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 5: do one quick commercial. People should be very safe, I mean,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: be very careful tonight with this rain. It's it's not
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 5: the rain as much as it is the standing water
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 5: because of the infrastructure brain people.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: Like I mean, like the Duck Creek floodgate that didn't work.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like that, man, Like tonight when when you start
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: I start thinking about our highways and communities where you
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 5: could be driving down the road man and hit almost
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: a lake, and you just have to be very very careful.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: People have to be very careful tonight as they're going
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: home from work, knowing that our infrastructure is failing and
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: that we could have overruns of water standing in places.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 8: And I don't think the city does the best.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 5: Job of coning that off, meaning putting cones up and
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 5: notifying people like, hey, dude, you're coming off this ramp
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: and there is literally a lot of water.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 8: Here, so it's very very dangerous. So just just just
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 8: to set that up.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: And I feel bad for those businesses that got hitting
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 5: places like Madisonville and Hyde Park and you know, pleasant Ridge.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: People are still like getting over that, Brian Thomason, They're
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: gonna hit it.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: They're gonna get hit again tonight.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 5: I doubt that the city and the mayor and the
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 5: manager whoever have put taking any real proactive steps to
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 5: prepare us for more rain tonight. I mean, so I
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 5: think we're going to see more of more of the same.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 5: But I want to end I want to end our
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 5: segment man by saying to everybody listening, is that there
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 5: is really hope because the common person out there understands
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 5: our conversations, Brian.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 8: They do not get the craziness most people.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 5: Are in the middle. They understand that Mickey Mouse is
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: not racist, and that the senator who asked the physician
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 5: some six months ago, I believe can a man have
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: a baby? And she wouldn't answer the question like that
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: was so so he was intrigued. He said, oh the world, whoa, whoa, woah.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 8: We said, are we going to follow a science here?
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 8: Are just gotta ask you now?
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 5: Come on now.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 8: He didn't realize this was going to be a tough question.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 5: Can a man have a baby?
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 8: A man can't have a baby, Brian Thomas, I.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: Mean, we're in this We're in this world right now,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 5: brou where we can't even answer the simplest questions like
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: Mickey Mouse isn't a racist? And a man cannot and
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 5: will not ever be able to have a baby.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Well, this goes back to this Orwellian concept. Got to
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: keep going back to Orals nineteen eighty four, the ministry
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: of truth. You know, war is peace pieces war. By
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: changing the definition of something, you kick people back on
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: their heels, and they don't know how to react. The
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: reason someone might suggest, although batcrap and seen as it
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: may be, that a guy can have a baby. He
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: has no womb, he has no ovaries, he has no
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: place to jest state the fiebis whatever. It's because no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: the word man might mean a woman who identifies as
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: a man, and therefore we must agree that she now
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: he is in fact a man. No, even if we
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  Speaker 1: agree with that notion, Oh that person is a man,
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  Speaker 1: that does not mean that person gonna have a baby. Nonetheless,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: So it's it's just it. But it causes people to
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: well quit engaging in obvious you know. Even we can
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: call this laughter because let's roll back the clock five
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  Speaker 1: years or more, or just even a little less. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: if you said a guy could have a baby, you
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: would be laughed out of the room. You might be
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: center for counseling or maybe you have to take biology
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: over again. But no, no, no, we've changed what it
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: means to be a man or woman, and now we
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: have to agree with someone else's subjective opinion about who
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: they think they are. That does not override science or
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: definitional reality. But that's what they're trying to do.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: Man, and they and.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 5: Literally these were questions that were asked and answered, and
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 5: the and the scientists or the doctor or the obj
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 5: obgy in whatever her title was, refuse to answer the
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: senator's question, and that was simply, can a man have
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: a baby? And the answer is no. If she had
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 5: just said no, it moved on. We would be talking
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 5: about it was she refused to answer the question. And Brian,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: that's where the world is. If this is why I
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: support Vi vek Ramaswami, the vek Ramaswami as our next governor.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 5: I am not gonna wake up, dude, where we have
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 5: a governor that's entertaining these kinds of things that you
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 5: and I are talking about, because that's gonna be our reality.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 5: If we do, we're gonna look like Virginia. And so
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 5: people have to understand, dude, we have got to vote
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 5: for the veik and make sure that he wins. And
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 5: I don't want it to be like, oh, one or
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 5: two percent or three percent. I want a domination that
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: we're sending a message that we want an adult at
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 5: the state level that will prioritize education, that will make
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 5: sure that we're dealing with crime in our urban cores
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 5: right that won't that will that will focus or recruiting
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 5: businesses so that we'll talk about lowering our property taxes,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: which my property taxes are crazy, so I want my
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 5: property taxes to go down, and really putting an emphasis
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: on how do we how do we turn out better
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 5: educated children from preschool to the twelfth grade. Whatever the
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: conversation is, the Veik is absolutely the number one cho
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 5: is coming out, whether you're a Democrat or whether you're
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 5: a Republican or independent. And all of the things that
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: I started with, meaning Mickey Mouse, the conversations about the
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 5: N word, about where our culture is going in music, right,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: where our taxes are all come down to On November,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 5: we have an election and.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 8: We've got to choose, and I choose Vivek.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 5: And I'm going to continue to push him. And it's
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: not because I'm on his team or he's paying me
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 5: or anything is I want the very best for Ohio.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 5: I'm at the end of my life, not the beginning
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: of my life, and I want to make sure that
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: Ohio is intact. I don't want us to look like California.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 5: I don't want to look like New York, right, I
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 5: want to look like Ohio. And the reality of it is,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 5: we are that bastion where we make presidents here, Dude,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: we set the tone for the rest of the world.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know why California in New York continues to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: try to act like they're going to run us and
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 5: tell us how to live our lives. They're not. I
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 5: don't care what those movies stars are out there promoting.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 5: It's not how I want to live my life, Brian Thomas,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 5: and that's why I'm supporting Vivek. I look forward to
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 5: his next interview with you when he comes on your show,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 5: I listen. I want to hear his points.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 8: Because I really do believe that he's going to win.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 5: But it's going to be a tough race because Democrats
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 5: are coming with this agenda of identity politics, and they
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 5: want us distracted on things that make no sense, like
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: Mickey Mouse. Right, I don't want to talk about Mickey mouse,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 5: du I'm want to talk about how do we educate
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: our children and make sure that they are competitive so
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: when they come out of college, dude, they can get
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 5: a job and they can produce and feed their families.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 5: I want to have conversations about how do.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 8: We keep our families in tax how.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 5: Do we keep more people married with children raising their families,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 5: how do we keep our taxes lower? Brian Thomas, I'm
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: getting crushed out here like you are, whether it's property
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 5: or income tax, or whether it's sales tax. I am
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 5: taxed to the help, and I want a governor in
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 5: there that's.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 8: At least going to take those things under consideration.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 5: So you've given me enough time. Thank you for that
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 5: commercial for a favec and I look forward to coming
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 5: back and talk to you. People can follow me Brian
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 5: Thomas on social media at vote Smithman, and by the
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 5: time I get to you next Monday, my voice will
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 5: be back.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best, my friend. Prayers to
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: you on and your recovery from your illness, and thank
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: you for your time Every Monday here in the fifty
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  Speaker 1: five station eight o five on a Monday typical a
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: little fifty five CAREC morning show. It is that time
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: a week we do a thing we call Money Monday
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: with Brian James from All with Financially. He's a financial planner.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: He deals with financial planning and it's a good thing
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: to have one because well sometimes you need some sound
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: advice and somebody to keep you from doing the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Brian James. Always love having you on the show, sir,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you love being here.
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  Speaker 9: It's always a good time talking about whatever is we're
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 9: going to talk about today. Well, first economy, earnings and
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 9: so on that's on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Well before we get to the second quarter company earnings
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: reports that are going to be coming out. I guess
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: around this time I got to ask you a question.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: Since I did a two week staycation and you're a
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: financial planner, do you ever talk to your clients about
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: what they're going to do in retirement? Is that ever
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: a subject that comes up? I mean every one thing, okay,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: but I mean this one thing to plan financially and
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: hope that you are going to be financially set for retirement,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: and that's your primary role. But there's something that transcends
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: the money and that is what do you do with
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: your time in retirement? And I kind of found it
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: out over the last couple of weeks. I better get
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: a damn hobby man.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that calendar looks pretty long when there's nothing on it.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 9: So yeah, No, that's an extremely important topic. It's one
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 9: thing and most people tend to kind of fixate on
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 9: the money. Am I going to be able to pay
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 9: my bills? Am I gonna run out of money? What
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 9: if the market does this? What if interest rates do that?
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 9: Or gas prices a.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 9: What they don't do is talk about what is it
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 9: going to feel like when it's Tuesday morning, ten o'clock
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 9: and my spouse and I are both on our fourth
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 9: cup of coffee staring at each other from either end
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 9: of the couch. So that is not when we tend
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 9: to have time. When we have a vacuum of time,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 9: we tend to fill that space with money, with spending.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 9: And there's nothing wrong with that, but it should be
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 9: part of your financial plan. There may be things that
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 9: you're going to do that you absolutely love doing, but
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 9: you don't do them very often because you simply don't
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 9: have time. You've been raising kids, you've been creating a
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 9: career and all those different things. Eventually some of those
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 9: things take care of themselves and move on and move up,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 9: up and out of the house, and then all of
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 9: a sudden you have the time. So, for example, if
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 9: travel is your thing, I always tell people, you know,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 9: think about what you spend. Is it beach trips once
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 9: a year? Well, how many more times will you do that?
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 9: When you can do it whenever you want and it's
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 9: no longer limited to just the summer. Maybe that's once
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 9: a quarter, so maybe need to multiply your travel budget
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 9: by four or maybe you've been dying to get out
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 9: and go see the world. Well that's a much bigger
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 9: you know. Now we're talking twenty twenty five thirty thousand
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 9: dollars per trip based on what you want to do.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 9: And it doesn't mean you can't do it, but you
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 9: absolutely have to budget and make sure it's going to
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 9: fit along with paying the electric bill and buying groceries.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, and personally speaking, and I travel is something
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  Speaker 1: that immediately jumps to my mind because I'm not like
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: what anybody would consider a world travel or by any respect,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: and don't really have a whole lot of designs to
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: do that, but I think maybe one of the more
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: critical elements is that when you do have the time
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: that is something you might want to start doing. Air Go,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: You're going to need to plan financially for that. Just
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: like I said, I just was reflecting on my idol
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: two weeks and really looking forward to a rather boring retirement.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm off to the races in order to find
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: out something that will fill my time and put a
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: smile on my face at the same time.
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  Speaker 9: On I'm that mini baby retirement is a great way
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 9: to experiment with what is your brain going to do
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 9: when you have more time?
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great important thing people do. Yeah, one of the
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: reasons I kind of did it that way. Anyway, over
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: to the second quarter company earnings. It's that time of year.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: Do they all come out and moss or is this
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: going to be a trickle out? How does this and
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: what if anything in the earnings reports is jumping out
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: in your direction? Brian James.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 9: Well, so it's always somewhere between a trickle and a
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 9: fire hose. So we have five hundred companies in the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 9: S and P five hundred, and of course there's more
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 9: than that on the face of the earth.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: But those are the ones we focus on.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 9: They tend to come out over a several week period
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 9: as they all have their their earnings reports. Some of
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 9: you may know people who work for major corporations. There's
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 9: a lot of great companies based here in Cincinnati, and
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 9: if you have some friends who work in the investment
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 9: communications division or the fire finance division, they get real
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 9: stressed right around this time of year because they're the
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: ones who need to put those numbers together and get
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 9: them moditor and all that kind of stuff. So we
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 9: are well underway here, surprisingly strong message coming out of
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 9: coming out of the corporate America, which is still making
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 9: a lot of money. Underneath those numbers, we're seeing a
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 9: pretty complicated economy though, so affluent customer consumers are pretty comfortable.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 9: Lower in middle class, middle income households are becoming a
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 9: little more selective.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: Obviously, AI rules the roost.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 9: And that's increasingly determining which companies and which sectors are
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 9: going to drive that market. So so far, through last Friday,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 9: about twenty seven percent of the S and P five
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 9: hundred companies had reported eighty six percent of them have
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 9: beaten analyst estimates. Remember Brian That's all we care about,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 9: not what did they earn where the analysts right or wrong?
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 9: That's all we ever talked about. So the analysts thought
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 9: they were going to do one thing, eighty six percent
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 9: of them top that. That's a five year that compares
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 9: with a five year average of seventy eight percent. So
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 9: in other words, we're trending positively. And revenue results also
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 9: have been strong. It's just about keeping expenses below eighty percent.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 9: Have exceeded expectations, meaning what that really means is that
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 9: the businesses is the design, the plans that they put
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 9: in place over the last couple of years have paid
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 9: off and have been success eighty percent of the time.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: That's great, isn't it? Absolutely? And I know that sounds
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: like I'm stating the obvious or asking you a rhetorical question,
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm sorry. I am inundated with news
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: articles about gloom and doom and broad and and die
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: and the economy sucks and oh my god, inflation's out
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: of control and Donald Trump, evil orange man, this that
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: whatever that this is. Overall, it sounds like really great
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: positive nudes mid in the middle of a world that
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: seems rather unstable right now.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: The report card is.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 9: Positive right now, and there's no there's nothing to say
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 9: that we're standing on the edge of the precipice or
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 9: anything like that going over. However, it's not wonderful everywhere.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 9: Here's why you're hearing what you're hearing. There are two
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 9: American consumers out there right So I just made a
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 9: comment about that the consumers are based on income level.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 9: Consumers are behaving differently. So, for example, American Express profits
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 9: they were up eight percent. Average spending per cardholder increased
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 9: sixty three hundred dollars to see from sixty three hundred
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 9: to sixty seven hundred, and they added three million more cardholders.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 9: So those are people that at some point American Express
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 9: saw fit to stuff their mailboxes full of credit card
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 9: applications because they're apparently in good shape. And those people,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 9: three million of them, got new cards and began to
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 9: spend on them. That's one thing. A fluid consumers are
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 9: out there still traveling, dining out, paying for these premium services.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 9: On the other hand, PEPSI, their claim is that there's
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 9: growing pressure in household budgets. Their overall revenue rose by
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 9: six point four percent, but that came from international growth.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 9: North American beverages fell about four percent. Snack volume was flat.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: Company was placing more emphasis on smaller packages, right, So
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: we're seeing this out of you notice the grocery store,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 9: they've all got those little tiny baby cans of coke
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 9: and pepsi and all those different things. That's a different
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 9: consumer buying that, and those consumers are behaving differently.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: But are they not perhaps the welcome recipients of bad
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: news lower profit because we're all waking up to the
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: fact that pepsi is bad for you. I mean, it's
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: like a great awakening nutritionally speaking going on in this country.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe RFK Junior has a lot to do with it,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: but people are waking up and saying, you know what,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: we've got a processed sugar and corn syrup in everything.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: It has no nutritional value, and in fact, it's cancer
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: food quite literally. So maybe we should stop drinking more
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: of that crap and start choosing something better for us,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: maybe like a water.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 9: So and yeah, and that's a great point, But you're
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 9: thinking of Pepsi the brand, and you're associating it only
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 9: with that one product. Pepsi owns a lot of different things.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 9: They're smart people there and they saw this coming decades ago.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 9: So Pepsi owns a lot of other things than just
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 9: the sugar and the chemical based stuff like those kinds
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 9: of thing.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, exactly, they safe thing.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 9: But they well they also own tropicana and there are there,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 9: there are a number of other things that are just
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 9: a lot better for you. But the point is pepsi
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 9: is something that applies to everybody. Basically across the board
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 9: of economic situations, people will partake with those products. They're
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 9: still seeing a decline, but whereas the American Express, the
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 9: companies that that that's that cater more to the wealthier set,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 9: they're going They're they're seeing actual growth during this time period.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 9: So yeah, you're right. I think there's definitely something. All
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 9: of those companies are all those snack food and soda
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 9: pop companies and all that are are taking a step back,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 9: but they're also invested. If so Poppy, I don't know
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 9: if you know what poppy is, but Poppy is a
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 9: healthier soda stream.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: Well that's Pepsi.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 9: They also own Quaker, They owned sun Chips, Gatorade, Propel,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 9: muscle milk, those kinds of things. So they started diversifying
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 9: to those brands years ago.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: Just like the tobacco companies had to do when we
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: found out that cancer based on the nineteen sixty four
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: Surgeon General report causes or a smoke cigarettes caused cancer.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: Our product kills people. We may as well diversify our
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: business while we are still flush with cash. They did,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: and they've been able able to maintain profitability exactly. And
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: that's the that's the American way.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 9: If it's profitable, it's going to find a place some
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 9: it's going to find a market somewhere in this country right.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: Now, real quick here before we part company, take a
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: break and come back and talk about the price of gas.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: Brian James, What is the benefit of having an American
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: Express card versus pick any of the other credit card
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: options out there, because you have to pay an annual
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: fee and you must pay off the balance on a
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: monthly basis. Is there any benefit that's derived from having
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: that versus just say you're running a mill Visa or
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: master Card.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm a big fan of It depends on what
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 9: you use. I'm a big fan of cheap I'm a
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 9: huge fan of credit card rewards. You got to pay
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 9: your bills somehow, you're going to do it anyway, run
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 9: it through a credit card, get your rewards.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: And then run away.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 9: Credit cards can be expensive if you have the premium
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 9: models and all that. It depends on whether you completely
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 9: understand if they provide benefits, all those extra perks and things.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 9: If you actually know how they work, you spend time
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 9: reading the offering and you benefit from them. Absolutely, those
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 9: are great. But most of the time, yeah, those absolute
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 9: premium cards where you're paying seven hundred and fifty eight
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 9: hundred bucks a year for the privilege of having that
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 9: in your wallet, No, not worth it.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: But the benefits can be if if your lifestyle does
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: support it.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 9: However, I find that most people don't read the manual
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 9: for their DVD player, let alone be a critic.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, so you just walk around and say, I've
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: got the Black or the Platinum or whatever AMEX card,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: which just means that you can apport a a four
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: to PI seve hundred fifty bucks a year, just so
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: he can show everybody else that you've paid seven hundred
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: and fifty fifty bucks a year for a card that
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't necessarily have to pay a fee on if
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: you chose something else. There is a slice of the populace. Yeah,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: there is exactly that. I love making fun of those people. Go,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Brian had to do it. Eight fifteen or
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: eight sixteen. We're going to talk about the price of
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: gas as well as the upcoming FED meeting rate hike
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: or not more with Brian James. Please don't go away
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: America pussy detalk station doing that money thing Monday Monday
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: with all were financials. Brian James, Hey, real quick, not
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: to stick on the AMX subject. But my buddy Eric,
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: who literally flies twenty four hours a day, seven days
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: a week for his job, sent me a picture of
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: his card. He's got an AMX Delta Skymiles card. And
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the only reason I bring it up, Brian James, Miles
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: flown sixty six million. It's on his card. That's a
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: lot of points. That's a good use of a credit card.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 9: There by the way, that's not the premium card's and
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 9: he's a Delta man obviously.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. But his He also acknowledged that
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: his employer does pay the annual fee, which is fine
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: if the employer's going to cover the nut on that
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: one of there's other reasons to have it. But that's
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of miles, Eric, and I do not envy
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: you at all. That is a job. I'm not jealous
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: of that. No, No, that's a suck job.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 9: I hope one day you get to enjoy those miles.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 9: But I have a feeling when your vacation is not
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 9: flying anywhere, right right, that's it. There's your staycation right there.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 9: He's going to be able to fly for free forever,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 9: I think anyway, and never want to again. And of
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 9: course the price of him flying from pointing to point
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 9: B is obviously gone up because of the airline. Fuel
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 9: has gone up, but so is diesel, and so is
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 9: regular gasoline, which National averagely says, of yesterday a cord
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 9: of the triple A four dollars and nine cents, fifteen
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 9: cents more than a week ago and a little bit
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 9: off the last year average of three dollars and fifteen
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 9: cents per gallon. Obviously, we have a straight of horror
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 9: moves Iraq war problem on our hands. Is this thing
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 9: going to resolve itself soon? I know the price of
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 9: oil just dropped over the last two days because of
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 9: Donald Trump saying he's going to stop bombing at least
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 9: for the time being, prospects for peace seem very slim,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 9: and that seems to be the whole problem there. If
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 9: we don't find some measure of stability and the straight
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 9: of horror moves, that doesn't look like the price of
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 9: gas is going to go down. But where are we
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 9: on this one, Brian James. Yeah, so we're, like you said,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 9: we're about a dollar high than we were, higher than
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 9: we were a year ago, and we're in one more
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 9: year than war than we were a year ago. So
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 9: the last couple of days we've had a little bit
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 9: of a pullback as you As you mentioned, so oil
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 9: dropped sharply after about a two day pause in fighting
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 9: with a rant, but the Brent crud still is above
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 9: ninety bucks. And so these pump prices, they usually react
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 9: with some kind.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: Of a lag. Yeah really the the client, Yeah, just
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so the client and creude isn't going to be
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 9: seen at the pump right now, obviously. And as the
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 9: thing you got to remember is the gas you're pumping
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 9: out of the pumping into your car is not the
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 9: gas that was pulled out of the ground this morning.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 9: It's been months since that has been moving through the
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 9: system as it was first pulled out of the ground.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 9: So the things that are happening with oil prices today
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 9: will surface over the next weeks and months in either direction,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 9: so that the outlook that we're seeing now is we're
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 9: looking for an average of maybe three dollars and eighty
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 9: cents during the third quarter and three dollars and forty
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 9: cents in the fourth quarter. So there are organizations that
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 9: comes from the EIA, our organizations out that are looking
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 9: for a bit of a pullback. Now we'll see they
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 9: they of course change their opinions with as the breeze
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 9: tends to change direction as well.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: So we'll see if that holds.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 9: But hopefully we'll get a little bit of a reprieve
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 9: as we move out of travel season, and maybe if
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 9: the Iran war calms down just a little bit, it
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 9: would be nice to make some progress there so we
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 9: can all move on with our.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: Lives certainly well, and I know that you know, much
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: like infrastructure, it all takes a long time to build.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: Under the Saudi's er looking to try to figure out
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: some to pipeline mechanism that they can continue to get
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: their product out of the area with that and rely
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: on of the strait, But depending on the future and
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: who ends up controlling the strait, whether it's going to
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: be a toll booth or reopened as international waters, we
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: won't know for a long time. But there are options
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: down the road to avoid the strait of horm moves.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: Everything doesn't have to necessarily go in one of those
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: giant shipping containers. So do you see any progress or
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: maybe some stability down the road if we do pursue
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: other options that avoid that traffic.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 9: Well, I think the bigger concern for the United States
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 9: is the fact that the US is a net exporter.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 9: We talk about this all the time. We're not talking
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 9: about the oil.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: That we need.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 9: We are a net exporter of oil at this point
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 9: due to the technological advances that have come from fracking
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 9: over the last twenty years. We're digging all our oil
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 9: out of shale now, and North America has the greatest
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 9: deposits of shale on the face of the earth.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: So this is not a USA problem. However, it is
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: a problem for the consumers of the products that the
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: USA purchases. So that's why we care.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 9: Any everybody would love to get for the straight Ohorror
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 9: moves to be out of the mix, and I don't
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 9: think it was in the mix nearly as much as
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 9: we thought it was. I think Iran surprised itself several
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 9: months ago when they realized that this was a surprise
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 9: to me too, when they realized how much control they
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 9: actually had when they simply threatened in response to the
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 9: US attacks, they simply threatened to close the straight ohornor
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 9: moves and that rattled oil prices. I think that's surprised
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 9: even them. So that has now become a bargaining chip for.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: That group over there.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 9: So, yeah, there's lots of talk about how do we
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 9: get You know, if you look at a map, it
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 9: seems easy, Well, why don't we just build a pipeline
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 9: right across that little peninsula there. Well it's not quite
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 9: that simple, because there's mountains and there's people that live there,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 9: and there's all kinds of things that need to happen first.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 9: But more focus on that than there has ever been.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and for obvious reasons. Well, and you know the
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: other thing I read, and at least in terms of
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: development and available resources, you know, we do have the
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: Venezuela and oil, and I understand it isn't the greatest
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: oil in the world. But that is a massive, massive
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: deposit there. They just figured out and advanced technology allows
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: them to drill like twenty thousand feet deep. You know,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: the pressure is so amazing. They've never been able to
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: come the technological challenges. But according to the report I read,
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: I think it was a Wall Street Journal article there,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: the amount of oil and deposits of a gas, et
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: cetera that are now reachable are mind boggling. I mean,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: they dwarf like every other large known deposit of oil,
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: and now that you can get it and access it,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: it just seems to me that, you know, there is
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: no such thing as peak oil. It's just simply a
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: question of technological advancements and there's plenty out there in
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: the world and maybe we can just maybe perhaps just
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: ignore them at least down the road.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's and that's the big that's one of
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 9: the biggest components of the pricing there. So you know,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 9: when when we look at the pump, the price at
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 9: the pump, the EIA estimates it comes about fifty seven
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 9: percent comes out of crude oil, twenty one percent comes
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 9: out of the of refining it about eight percent from
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 9: getting it distributed where it needs to go, and then
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 9: fourteen percent in taxes. You know, somewhat of an unforced
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 9: error there in terms of how we tax it. But
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 9: but you're right, it's not all about just the price
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 9: of oil. It's about getting it out of the ground
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 9: from wherever it is. Technology, and that's what we just said.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 9: Technology is what has put the US in the enviable
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 9: position of not having to import oil anymore. So it
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 9: doesn't matter to us so much directly as immediately what
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 9: Opek does. Right, They used to be a big thing
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 9: twenty years ago.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: That was a huge thing.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 9: We kind of had to hang on every word that
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 9: Opek said. Not so much anymore, except now they're making
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 9: our customer base mad and that trickles through our entire economy.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: It does well. And the other thing, we could probably
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: use a couple three more of a refineries, which nobody
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: wants anywhere in their state or neighborhood. Oh and really quick,
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: correct the record. Eric did not fly himself sixty six
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: million miles. It's a commemorative Delta sky miles cards. It's
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: the Boeing seven forty seven that is shown on the card.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: That's how many miles the Boeing seven forty seven flows.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: So people out there going there's no way Eric flew
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: that many miles. You know what, You're right, he didn't. Anyhow,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: we're going to find out about the FED meeting. Is
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: there a poly market bet on the rate going up? Updown?
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: Our status quo? Brian James will answer that question in
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: a moment. Don't go away. Thomas Settison's photograph recording the
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: talk station AY thirty one, fifty five KERCD talk station.
• 1:55:14
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• 1:55:17
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• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Get a few topics to go over Brian James with
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: and finally the Fed's going to being there. I guess tomorrow.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: Big question of course, whether the rate's going to go up,
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: there's going to be a rate cut, or thing's going
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: to remain the same. If I guess, Brian, if I
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: had a guess, not knowing whether it's going to go
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: up down and remain the same. If it does go
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: up or down, it's not going to be any more
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: than a quarter point. But where's the poly market on
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: this one? What what are folks betting on out there
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: in the world, and what does Brian James think about
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen now, Folks out there are betting
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: on nothing.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 9: No change is really what's expected tomorrow, and that that
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 9: is including our chief investment officer here, Andy Stout. So
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 9: Polly Market's got a sixty two percent probability though of
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 9: a hike by October, and call Shee for it part,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 9: they this is a little bit of a dissenting opinion,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 9: but they have an eighty one percent probability of zero
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 9: rate cuts for all of twenty twenty six. But they
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 9: also a call she and poly Market both agree that
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 9: there's basically no chance of a rate of any change tomorrow.
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: We're kind of holding steady.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 9: Wall Street for its part, that's the other place we
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 9: look for interest rate expectations. Wall Street is looking for
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 9: the Fed to hold rates right in the three and
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 9: a half to three point seventy five percent range as well,
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 9: but of course paying particular attention to what's going on
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 9: in the Middle East and how that's going to drive
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 9: inflation as well, as we you know, talked about earlier
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 9: this morning. So no no signs of panic and no
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 9: signs of you know, any drastic moves this week, but
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 9: at this time, remember there's there's no dot plot this
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 9: time around. It'll be a little quieter in terms of
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 9: the overall just that we're just looking for an announcement
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 9: of whether rates are going up or down, and the
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 9: gut says that there's going to be no change.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: Well, and here we are in at the end of
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: January and our July row. I can't I personally can't
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: recall what the Fed has done up until this point
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: in time this calendar year. But inflation has run a
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: little bit hotter than I think we desired. I think
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: we kind of typically are hoping for around two percent.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: Isn't that the default sort of norm or desired inflation rate. Yeah,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: so a federal reserve established decades ago, and it was
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: a it was a secret for a long time that
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: that's what they were shooting for. Two percent is the
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: happy medium for the Federal Reserve. But we haven't been
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: anywhere near that in a while.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 9: You know, Remember we were at eight nine percent crazy
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 9: time three four years ago, and now we've at best,
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 9: we've gotten down into the low threes. We might have
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 9: dipped below three once or twice, but we just couldn't
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 9: get below. And then of course, with the decisions that
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 9: we've made in terms of our foreign policy and the
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 9: different ways we interact with countries like Ron, that we've
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 9: seen a little bit of a tick up there, just.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: A little so. But if you're you know, look at
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: historical you know, rate hikes or cuts, judging by the
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: current annual inflation rate where we happen to be right now,
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: which is north of two, doesn't that sugg just a
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: rate hike is more likely?
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, if there's going to be a change right now, Yes,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 9: it looks like it would be up because we seem
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 9: to have lost the momentum that was driving into driving
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 9: inflation down since that crazy COVID related spike to eight
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 9: or nine percent. We've lost that momentum and we are
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 9: going the other direction the things that we're doing, and
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 9: a lot of this, I think that the scarier thing
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 9: is the concept that these that a lot of this
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 9: is driven by human decisions. It's driven by the leadership
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 9: decisions we've had we have coming out of Washington, d C.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 9: Some of it is just the normal business cycle, but
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 9: a lot of it is, you know, if you're going
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 9: to start a war somewhere and disrupt the flow of oil. Well,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 9: that's going to cause inflation to creep up around the world.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 9: And we are with our with our inflation where it
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 9: is currently in the high threes of all the developed countries.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 9: That is the highest inflation rate that we've had out there.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 9: And again it's it's it's currently by choice. We are
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 9: the ones who started that war. That's why it looks
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 9: a little different for the United States versus other countries
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 9: out there.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: Well, and everybody who yells at Donald Trump about tariffs
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: always screams about how it's going to jack price of
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: goods up, goods coming from foreign lands. I suppose obviously,
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, I know you've read about it. Brian James
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  Speaker 1: has just decided he's going to tack some additional tariffs
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  Speaker 1: on somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen percent
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  Speaker 1: countries that I guess do business with slave labor, which
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  Speaker 1: somehow includes Canada. I didn't realize Canada had slaves whatever,
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  Speaker 1: But that I'm not sure that's entirely accurable. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just boil it down with simplest terms, as inaccurate as
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  Speaker 1: I may be, or inaccurate as he may be. But
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  Speaker 1: if that if tariffs do have an impact on the
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  Speaker 1: price of our goods and it pushes them up. Is
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  Speaker 1: that not just doesn't that qualify as inflationary? Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely, I think pushes prices up as inflation. And again,
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  Speaker 9: and that's a decision we're trying to affect. You know,
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  Speaker 9: the administration makes decisions, will sacrifice this over here because
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  Speaker 9: we want that over there, and it remains to be
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  Speaker 9: seen whether it's going to work out that way. But absolutely,
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  Speaker 9: that was a big headline over the weekend. Now, interestingly,
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  Speaker 9: this is the same headline that caused a panic last April,
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  Speaker 9: So I'm sorry two aprils ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when we first started talking about tariffs.
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  Speaker 9: Today, with this big announcement that came out over the weekend,
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  Speaker 9: futures are not even paying attention to it all. So
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  Speaker 9: the markets don't really care. It's just kind of accepted
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  Speaker 9: that this. I guess this is the way we're doing business.
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  Speaker 9: Right now, Futures are up, depending on the index, anywhere
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  Speaker 9: around one percent right as we're talking right now, So
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  Speaker 9: at least we're beyond the panic reaction that we've had
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  Speaker 9: in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe they factored in the prior court case which
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  Speaker 1: said that the tariffs that Trump originally levied under that
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  Speaker 1: particular provision were not lawfully enacted. Maybe they anticipate the
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  Speaker 1: same results under the secondary or separate provision that he
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  Speaker 1: announced he was using relying upon for these current tariffs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to try this a different way and see
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  Speaker 1: how it goes this time. But yeah, that's a great point.
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  Speaker 9: That that, you know, perhaps the powers that be out
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  Speaker 9: there who were pulling the levers on the market are
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  Speaker 9: anticipating that the exact same thing is going to happen again,
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  Speaker 9: and these are going to get shot out of the
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  Speaker 9: sky and it's going to be a round trip for
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  Speaker 9: a gigantic pile of dollars. I have friends with businesses
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  Speaker 9: that were directly impact and a lot of people do
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  Speaker 9: directly impacted by these by these tariffs. And during that
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  Speaker 9: time a couple of years ago, they were literally feast
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  Speaker 9: or famine months to month.
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  Speaker 1: We could be out of money.
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  Speaker 9: By October, or we could be in the greatest situation
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  Speaker 9: this company has ever seen. And it was extremely stressful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: anybody buying products that were subject to those tariffs, whatever
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  Speaker 9: they budgeted for in Q four for this year, all
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  Speaker 9: of a sudden, throw the budgets out the window because
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  Speaker 9: everything just costs that much more.
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  Speaker 1: Can we pay our bills this way?
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  Speaker 9: And so yeah, there were literal conversations that I was
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  Speaker 9: involved in of are we going to make it, can
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  Speaker 9: we get to the end of the year, or or
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  Speaker 9: on the flip side, if this just goes away, we
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  Speaker 9: could have the greatest year we've ever had.
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  Speaker 1: There's just no way to see right now. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: to those who really cares to watch what the Fed does,
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  Speaker 1: keep your popcorn out. It's coming quickly and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: Brian James to talk about it next Monday. Money Money
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  Speaker 1: with Brian James every Monday here on the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: KRSEE Morning Show at eight oh five. Brian, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: our time together and your insight and what you're doing.