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55KRC Monday Show - Signal 99, Ken Kober, Keith Faber, Smitherman, Money Monday, Eric Conroy · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The 55KRC, the talk station.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Happy Monday.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: End of your wait for an election day. Election Day.
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  Speaker 3: Eve. I'm the dude, man.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I am Brian Thomas, host of the 55KRC Morning Show.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday. Try to make it so anyway. At least
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: the Bengals won.
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  Speaker 2: Barely.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Nice offensive line and defense. Anyway, it was a win.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: I'll take it. Let us see here. Coming up at
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  Speaker 1: the 55 KRC Morning Show, Keith Haber for Ohio Attorney General,
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: our last politician before the election. Actually, not last. We've
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  Speaker 1: got Eric Conroy. He'll be in studio at 840. Rounding
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  Speaker 1: out the political season here on the 55 KRC Morning Show,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope everybody gets up and goes to vote tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you can't vote today. Hamilton County Board of
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Elections closed today. Opportunity to vote tomorrow. Understand that the
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  Speaker 1: numbers of people nationally voting early just exceeding everybody's expectations
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  Speaker 1: and a pretty amazing thing. At least enthusiasm exists out there,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope to God that enthusiasm is coming from
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans because the more I look at the landscape
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: of Democrat socialism in this country, this creeping socialism, the
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: more I weep for the future of America. Anyway, key favor, 7.05.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Christopher Smitherman, which is always the case
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday. That's coming up at 7.20 with the
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  Speaker 1: former vice mayor of the city of Cincinnati. It is Monday.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: We do Money Monday with Brian James every Monday, 8.05.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about the stock market and AI companies. Question mark,
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  Speaker 1: is it a good investment? Is it still a good investment?
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  Speaker 1: I guess it was up until recently. Where's the direction
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  Speaker 1: of AI going now? Fed and potential for more rate hikes.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, the economy's outlook post-election. Maybe a little tea
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  Speaker 1: leaf reading there from Money Monday's Brian James. Then again,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy, he'll be in studio at 840.
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  Speaker 3: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 1: Pound 550 on AT & T phones. Regular listeners know
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: that our friend Bobby calls in and does an over
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  Speaker 1: and under on violence in the city of downtown Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Violent crimes, he always thinks it's going to be like
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  Speaker 1: last week, three and a half. So over three and
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  Speaker 1: a half, will we see more than that or will
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  Speaker 1: it be under? Now, Joe Strucker seems to recall that
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  Speaker 1: Bobby always goes with the over. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he had expressed optimism on prior occasions. He always
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: goes with the over? Okay. See, I thought there were
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  Speaker 1: times when he has expressed some measure of optimism and
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  Speaker 1: gone under. Anyway, since he sets it, it's random, it's arbitrary,
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  Speaker 1: it's Sphincter-inspired, and it's over. This is a violent weekend
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Cincinnati, and my ask out loud is, why
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  Speaker 1: do we have to rely on, and I'm glad we've
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  Speaker 1: got her or the collective that is Signal 99, why
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  Speaker 1: do we have to look to Signal 99 on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: to find out about just outright street takeovers and violence,
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  Speaker 1: including Cincinnati police officers getting the crap kicked out of
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  Speaker 1: them by violent people in the streets of downtown Cincinnati?
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  Speaker 1: I bet you didn't read about that in the paper,
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  Speaker 1: did you? Joe and I both checked the sites 5, 9,
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  Speaker 1: 12 since I inquired this morning. Local news outlets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was a massive street takeover. Halloween night into Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Short Vine.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder where the reporting is on that. She wrote about it.
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  Speaker 1: And the video. She always brings the receipts. Signal 99
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  Speaker 1: got the video. And I wanted to double-check with Joe Strecker.
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  Speaker 1: Was this overnight, Saturday into Sunday morning? And how come
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  Speaker 1: there's nobody reporting on this other than Signal 99? He said, well,
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  Speaker 1: she was able to report on it just within the
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: last six hours of this program coming on because she
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  Speaker 1: got the video. Last night, crowds went short, destroyed property,
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  Speaker 1: set fires, vandalized vehicles, started fights, and assaulted CPD officers
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  Speaker 1: who were just trying to keep everyone safe. And with
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  Speaker 1: the video playing, and it's tough. In fact, Facebook flagged it, like, warning,
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  Speaker 1: what you're about to see may be disturbing. And it is.
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  Speaker 1: Shows a Sensei police officer being beaten and kicked repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: And according to the info she got, or the spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: for Signal 99, again, Signal 99's a collective, the officer
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  Speaker 1: required stitches and medical attention. And the video that she shows,
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  Speaker 1: she even points it out, it's only the end of
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  Speaker 1: the video, which doesn't show the beginning where the officer
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  Speaker 1: got jumped, nor does it show the duration of the assault.
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  Speaker 1: But if you see the tail end of the assault,
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  Speaker 1: it's bad enough. Poor officers on the ground getting the
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  Speaker 1: crap kicked out of them. And she even asked if
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  Speaker 1: you recognize the A.H.
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  Speaker 3: 's.
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  Speaker 1: Standing and taking pictures of the cop, or if you
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  Speaker 1: recognize the guy beating the crap out of the police officer,
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  Speaker 1: please call Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040. Yeah, that would be
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  Speaker 1: a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: 352-3040.
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  Speaker 1: And it was only about a handful of hours, 10
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  Speaker 1: or so, that she had previously reported on the multitude
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  Speaker 1: of violent crimes going on in downtown Cincinnati. And ultimately
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  Speaker 1: asking the question, where was or is Mayor Aftab Perlval
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  Speaker 1: while all this is going on? And wait till you
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  Speaker 1: see the photographs of the street takeover. There's a BP station.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the cops showed up and told them to disperse.
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  Speaker 1: And so they dispersed from the Short Vine area that
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  Speaker 1: the police had to shut down over to, yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: BP station. And they basically shut down the BP station.
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  Speaker 1: And these are just, the photographs are just awful to see.
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  Speaker 1: This is who we are as a people.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Many people commenting about the people climbing on the gas
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  Speaker 1: pumps and twerking apparently on the gas pumps. You know,
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  Speaker 1: mom and dad must be so proud. She wrote, over
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  Speaker 1: the last few days, we've had four separate shootings resulting
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  Speaker 1: in two murders. One victim shot and killed in Avenel.
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  Speaker 1: The other at Memories Nightclub. Also had four people stabbed. One,
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  Speaker 1: a store employee who was shoplifter, stabbed for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: Two different drive-by shootings, one targeting a UC student housing building,
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  Speaker 1: another a residence in Westwood. Don't even get me started,
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  Speaker 1: she writes, about how many people have been jumped, robbed,
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  Speaker 1: and assaulted at various Kroger stores and parking lots. Kroger,
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  Speaker 1: you need to bring back actual police officers to work
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  Speaker 1: your details because the security companies you have are not
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  Speaker 1: a deterrent. That's her opinion. She's entitled to it. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot more violent incidents, she points out, that occurred
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  Speaker 1: over the past several days in the city. Well, Keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind, many of the victims of violent crime do
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  Speaker 1: not call 911 or come forward out of fear of retaliation.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting side observation. Now, unless they knew their attacker personally,
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  Speaker 1: why should they worry about strangers retaliating? Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: So glad we don't have a gang problem. And that's
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  Speaker 1: her suggestion, that people don't notify the police about these
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  Speaker 1: violent acts because they do know the attackers who happen
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  Speaker 1: to be members of the opposing gang. Yeah, that might
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  Speaker 1: fly under everybody's radar. Not being reported.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I also wonder, she says, about how many of the
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  Speaker 1: suspects over the past few days were juveniles. Just how many,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Carrie Bloom's little angels were out committing violent crimes
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  Speaker 1: over the past few days. But while first responders spent
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  Speaker 1: the last few days and nights responding from one violent
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  Speaker 1: and bloody run to the next, where was our mayor?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Did Aftab Perval respond to the UC Medical Center to
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: comfort the families of the two violent victims who were
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: shot and killed? Rhetorical question. Did he address the drive-by
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  Speaker 1: shootings and how the city will stop gang and gun
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: violence in the city of Cincinnati? The answer, no. She
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: said he was in Michigan playing for politics and stumping
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  Speaker 1: for liberal Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed. That's right. She says
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  Speaker 1: the same idiot that campaigned with Assange Piker, who has
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: publicly declared that America deserved a 9-1-1. That's who Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Aftab Perloval's hanging out with. Abdul El-Sayed himself tweeted and
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  Speaker 1: mocked the deaths of 9-11 while comparing our response to COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Since deleted the tweet like a cowardly, what is a POS, Joe?
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  Speaker 1: She wrote that here. Oh, yeah, that's right. It is,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? This is the guy our mayor was kicking
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  Speaker 1: with in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. And there's a new development
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  Speaker 1: in the Abdul El-Sayed race. Yeah, not going well for him,
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: at least optically speaking. The Democrats in a state of disarray,
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: their own party divided between DSAs and, well, normal, run-of-the-mill
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  Speaker 1: regular Democrats. Sorry, that was my interjection, just making an observation.
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  Speaker 1: So who paid for the mayor to go play politics
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: in Michigan, she asked? Who paid for the airfare, the
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  Speaker 1: hotel rooms, the dining and entertainment? Did the taxpayers pay
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  Speaker 1: for that? Inquiring minds want to know. It's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: If we had local media, they might ask the mayor
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  Speaker 1: about that. Local media who don't even realize that a
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati police officer got the crap beat out of them
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend and could have at least let the
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  Speaker 1: public know about that street takeover. Yeah, it's interesting information.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the conclusion, which I will embrace her recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: you want to put an end to all this nonsense
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  Speaker 1: and violence, we have to come together to vote for
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  Speaker 1: judges who will actually put violent criminals away. Let's all
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  Speaker 1: put our political differences aside and help stop the violence
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  Speaker 1: in our city, in our county, by electing these pro-law
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  Speaker 1: and order judges who will hold violent criminals accountable. You
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: can't get rid of the current administration, no. You can't
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  Speaker 1: change the prosecutor's office, not that election year. But one
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  Speaker 1: thing you can do, Vote for the Republican-endorsed slate of judges,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're a Democrat, hold your nose, because do
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  Speaker 1: you want your neighborhood safe? Do you want these insane, murderous, well,
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  Speaker 1: at least randomly violent thugs running amok in the streets
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  Speaker 1: without any accountability? If your neighborhood isn't safe, or you
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  Speaker 1: perceive it to be unsafe, those who are causing the
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  Speaker 1: perception or the reality that your neighborhood is safe, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want done with them if they're in front
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  Speaker 1: of a judge accused of committing criminal acts? Do you
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: want a soft-on crime judge? Do you want a hard-on
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  Speaker 1: crime judge? Or at least someone who's going to, well,
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  Speaker 1: apply the law as it should be applied and also
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  Speaker 1: consider the victims and the neighborhoods and society writ large
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  Speaker 1: and the danger that this particular person in front of
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: the judge represents to them. Now, the woke judges we
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: have in Hamilton County right now don't bother doing that. Oh,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: this person can't be held responsible. This person's a victim
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: of fill in whatever blank you want to throw at
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  Speaker 1: the end of that sentence. No, they should be held
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  Speaker 1: accountable for their own conduct. No one forced that guy
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  Speaker 1: to beat the crap out of a police officer. 516-55KRC,
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• 11:07
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• 11:17
  Speaker 1: number one Christmas... Try to make it so. Got a
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: little disappointed. Halloween. How many door... How many doorbells did
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: I get? How many rings? You want to guess, Joe?
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: One is Joe's guess. That is one too many. You
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: got 20? You know, 20 is a comfortable number. I
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: would have liked that. I get a kick out of
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: seeing little kids with their costumes on and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: We had a couple of neighbors who were friends over
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: that just showed up before Halloween just to hang out
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  Speaker 1: with us, have a cocktail before they went out to
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  Speaker 1: whatever neighborhood they were going. But beyond that, zero doorbells.
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  Speaker 1: Had some good candy, too. You missed out. Anyway, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the phone and see what Jeff's got. Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for taking my call.
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  Speaker 1: Happy to.
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  Speaker 2: Three words for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Don't vote demon crat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: God bless.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. And thank you for covering for Tom
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Variation on a theme. Yeah. We are in
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  Speaker 1: trouble as a society here, folks. Big time. What else
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: is going on? Oh, you know what? How about something nonpolitical? And,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: you know, a study's a study. I think studies are
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: probably better than polls, but I didn't review the study.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: We were going for the South Korean researchers. South Korea,
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: it's a government-funded study. If you trust the South Korean government,
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: all they were trying to figure out is if paper
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: straws are better for the environment than plastic ones. I mean,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: in a world where we ban plastic straws because of, well,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: you know, the climate? Apparently, no. Paper straws are not better.
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  Speaker 1: Stick with the plastic straws. Ultimately, the government recommends just
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: saying no to any single-use item, period, end of story.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: But if you're going to use a straw, use a
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  Speaker 1: plastic one. Daily Wire reported on this team of researchers
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  Speaker 1: from South Korea. They tested four different types of straws.
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  Speaker 1: You got your paper, your plastic, your biodegradable plastic, and sugarcane-based,
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: bio-based polyethylene is what they caused. And I guess they
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  Speaker 1: looked at 16 different categories of environmental impact. Conventional plastic straws.
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  Speaker 1: outperformed all the other alternatives, getting the lowest environmental impact
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  Speaker 1: in 10 out of 16 categories, including climate change indicators
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  Speaker 1: and greenhouse gas emissions. You know, this is how blank
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  Speaker 1: and crazy, you know, I almost broke the FCC rules
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: there a moment. Researching the environmental carbon output for a straw. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the Findings fly in the face of the widespread assumption
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  Speaker 1: that single-use plastics are bad for the environment and paper
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  Speaker 1: is automatically better, more beneficial to the planet. Studies said
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  Speaker 1: it was done by the Ministry of Climate, Energy, and Environment.
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  Speaker 1: They've got one of those. Paper straws scored more than
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  Speaker 1: six times higher than their plastic rivals on the study
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  Speaker 1: of carcinogenic impact. Paper straws had more than two times
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  Speaker 1: the impact on environmental acidity. which suggests they may be
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: contributing to pollution by making soil and water more acidic,
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  Speaker 1: harming plants, animals, and ecosystems. Paper. Conventional plastic straws outperformed
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  Speaker 1: all the alternatives in achieving the lowest environmental impact of
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  Speaker 1: 10 out of 16, as I mentioned before. Despite being
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: made of paper, single-use paper straws are not recyclable. Small
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  Speaker 1: size allows them to fall through the sorting machinery of
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: a plus size. They're always contaminated with some kind of
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: liquid and the chemical adhesives, the synthetic coatings that they
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: use to prevent them from coming immediately soggy. All that
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: stuff apparently is bad for you. Anybody bother bringing this
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: up before they started jamming paper straws down our throats
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  Speaker 1: with the assumption that they were going to be better
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  Speaker 1: than evil plastic? Evil plastic, it's made with petroleum. We
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: can't have that. So let's foist upon the population something
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: that's more dangerous and worse for the environment because it
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't have petroleum in it. There's a reason. And oddly enough,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I found this is interesting, sugar cane-based straws, the worst results.
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  Speaker 1: They concluded 16.18 times the human carcinogenic impact, 5.9 times
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  Speaker 1: the acidification impact, and the largest impact in 10 out
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: of the categories looked at. So, ready, fire, aim. Maybe
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: the study will get around to the folks out in California. 525,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: 55 KRC, the talk station. Yeah, a weekend's worth of
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  Speaker 1: crime in local stories. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Pound 550 on AT &
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  Speaker 1: T funds, 55KRC. ireheart. com. If you want to hear Vivek Ramaswamy
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: one more time, he's on the program on Friday. One
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: last stand here on the 55KRC Morning Show. I please
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: implore you to get out and vote for Vivek Ramaswamy.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Did you see Amy Acton wandering around on that stage
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: up in Toledo? I mean, that video went everywhere. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Rogan even talked about it. We've got a wildly popular podcast.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. Did you see the Titans coach, Joe?
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize Joe Rogan also coached the Tennessee Titans. Renaissance, man. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something to the effect of, like, I
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: worked in bars my whole life or a parent's dad
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: owned a bar or something like that. Anyways, I've been
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: around drunk people my entire life, and you can believe
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: she was drunk or not. But, you know, objectively, if
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you know what a drunk person looks like and sounds like,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you can't come to any other conclusion other than at
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: least maybe she's drunk. So which led to asking out
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: loud the question, well, if she isn't, is it worse
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  Speaker 1: that she isn't drunk, that she has no excuse for
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: coming across like she's drunk? And is this what the representative,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the leader of the state of Ohio, the governor of
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio is going to sound like every
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: time we roll her out? This is one of the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: reasons why I put my Facebook post up over on Friday.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I stay out of this thing typically on Facebook. Some people,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: of course, misunderstood what I meant. All I said was, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: laughingstock of the world. Read the headlines November 4th. Let's
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: not let that happen. There's still time to vote. Now,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty obvious what I meant, but some
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: people think that for whatever reason I was siding with
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton on that.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, Rogan says, like, this is how she
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  Speaker 1: comes across if she's sober. Go ahead. Stay on the
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: campus says she wasn't drunk. But then if she had
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: been drinking, which would excuse her rambling, you know, not
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: exactly polished speech. Then you've got to look at her
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  Speaker 1: decision making, like who in the right mind speaking to
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  Speaker 1: a huge crowd of people in advance of the election
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  Speaker 1: with only a few days left would show up drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. One person dead after a shooting. It happened
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  Speaker 1: at Memories Lounge downtown on Sunday. Officers were there. It's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: East 7th Street, 1.30 in the morning. When they got there,
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  Speaker 1: they found Camero Blair Martin, 20, suffering from a gunshot wound.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Blair Martin taken to UC Medical Center. He died. Police
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: don't know what led to the shooting. They say the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: lounge was cleared out, and they've not let anybody back in.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: That was at the time. Fox 19 reporting. Don't have
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: an update since this initial reporting. Not clear when it's
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: going to be open. Police have not stated that they
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: have a suspect, and it remains under investigation. 352-3040, Crimestopper
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: is the number to call if you have any information
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: on that one. There's a lot of other ones you
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: need to call them on if you know information, like
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: two people got shot in Whitewater Township, hospitalized early Sunday
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: morning after a shootout, According to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Kyla Woods, Woods said deputies called around 1230 in the morning.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: The 5100 block of State Route 128, a.k.a. Hamilton-Colise Road,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: received reports of people shot. Deputies found a 19-year-old woman
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and a 21-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. Woods said
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: they're taking to UC Medical Center non-life-threatening injuries. Sheriff's Office
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Criminal Investigation Section responded to the scene and was actively
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: investigating the shooting. Again, if you have any information, Sheriff's
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Office or Crime Stoppers are the numbers to call. Back
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: at my alma mater, yeah, University of Cincinnati. Police are
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: investigating shots fired at an apartment building. Happened early Saturday.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: 100 block of East McMillan Avenue, about 4.30 in the morning.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Apartment building is only blocks from UC campus. Housing students,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the University of Cincinnati. But non-students also live there, according
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to the spokesperson.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: UC Public Safety sent an emergency alert to students 20
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: minutes after 4 in the morning, roughly, and all clear
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was given about an hour later. No one was found shot.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: People were just running around, squeezing off rounds. It could
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: be worse, though, Joe, right? You could be stabbed. One
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: person's hurt and another one arrested after, oh, look, a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: stabbing inside a Cincinnati Kroger store happened on Saturday morning.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Fun-filled weekend over the weekend, huh? 20 minutes to 11
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: in the morning. The Glenway Avenue store in Westwood. According
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to the police spokesperson, Brad Underwood, I can confirm that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: officers did respond to the Kroger for a stabbing. It
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: began as a fight and led to the stabbing. One
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: person was arrested and taken to jail. One person was
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Arrested? Mamadou... Neon Ghani.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Mamadou is 32 years old. Arrested for felonious assault charge
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: at Cincinnati Police District 3 on Ferguson Avenue about an
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: hour after the stabbing. Yeah, he's Irish, Joe. You're right.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Nice Irish name. Police wrote that he slashed, slashed, stabbed,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that's in the report, the victim in both legs, potentially
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: causing serious physical injury. Or actually, if you kind of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: want to be objective about it. Anyway, they charged him
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: based on statements from the victim and witnesses, according to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the criminal complaint filed in the Hamilton County Municipal Court.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Neonge being held without bond at the county jail. He's
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: scheduled to appear in court this morning at 9 a.m.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: If you're not doing anything, show up with your popcorn out.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And see what the judge does. Juvenile accidentally shot himself
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in the West End Saturday night. Is that where he
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: got hit, in the West End, Joe? Or he was
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: physically present in the West End area of town? Cincinnati
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: police and fire crews responded when gunfire erupted outside of
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Richie's Chicken on Lynn Street, 7 p.m. Juvenile taken to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Children's Medical with non-life-threatening injuries, court of the fire department.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Later Saturday night, police spokesperson said the shooting was accidental.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Gunfire erupted when a guy shot himself by accident.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And finally. Although, you know, as Signal 99 points out,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and you can observe based upon her post, I say finally.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: There could have been like 15 or 20 more incidents
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: exactly like this going on in and around downtown Cincinnati
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: over the past several days. We wouldn't even know about it. Since,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of course, a beat down of a Cincinnati police officer
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: is apparently not newsworthy in this town.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Grr.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Norwood police investigating a shooting that left the victim
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: with critical injuries happened yesterday, 1900 block of Maple Avenue,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I'm sorry, morning. Police
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: got there. They said they located a female victim with
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: gunshot wound to the scene. She was taken to the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: hospital where injuries described as being potentially life-threatening. Incident believed
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to be isolated. No longer a threat to the public. Well,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it's only isolated if you just step back and move
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: away from all of the other gun violence that's been
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: going on in the area, huh? This one's obviously being
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: under investigation by the Norwood Police Department. No additional information
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: available right now, at least as of the time of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the final reporting. And props to, well, WLW5 for at
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: least reporting on that one. 535 right now, 55KRC, the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: talk station. We'll get to the stack of stupid, although
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't it feel like we've been hanging out there now
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: for the past 5, 10 minutes? First, though, QC Kinetics,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it's a great place to go if you're having pain.
• 24:01
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• 24:03
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• 24:05
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• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to be. Jeez, and listen to Citizen Watchdog, Todd Zinser.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Of course, we've got a violent crime problem in downtown Cincinnati.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We also have a corruption problem. Full hour of it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I'll call it corrupt. Todd's too nice a person to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: just label it corrupt. He just identified all the ways
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it is perceived to be corrupt, and it happens to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: be a whole bunch of topics. So do yourself a favor,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: if you're interested in Cincinnati politics and the way the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: government is run there, listen to that podcast. Also, you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: can listen to Jack Windsor from.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Iopressnetwork.com. And again, Vivek Ramaswamy, all on Friday's program. Over
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to the phones. Bobby's back on. Bobby, I brought your
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: name up in terms of over and under. You were
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: three and a half last Thursday. And of course, they
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: delivered on a violent message over the weekend. I was
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: north of that by pretty far. And you went over
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the over and under, so you win again. Bobby, welcome back.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Well, it's faith, like family, my friend, and I don't
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: think we're ever a winner when we're over.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: No.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And we just take what we think is going to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: be realistic. You know what I'm saying?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I do. I understand it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: It's an unfortunate situation that we have to deal with
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that violence and crime and everything. It's just rampant in Cincinnati.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: It's not getting any better, and people don't want to
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: discuss it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Well— You look at the violent beatdown, and obviously everyone's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: been held accountable to the justice system to the extent
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that they were found guilty or pleaded guilty. We had
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the last guy plead guilty, the one who violently beat
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Holly down. And you look at that, it's just absolute
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: outright violence against other people for no particular reason. There
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: was no predicate for that. They just were randomly targeted
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and beaten up. I mean, I think about that police officer.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: All they're trying to do is bring about some sense
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of order And there are people in a crowd that
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: think it's okay to just unleash a violent attack on
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a police officer. I mean, where did that come from?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: How did that enter into our mindset? How is it
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that anybody could, under any circumstance, think it's okay to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: just go after a police officer doing their job?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Nihilistic violent extremism. Yeah. V.E. That's what the Justice Department
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: calls it. But you know one thing I was wondering?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: How's the mayor doing up in Michigan?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Is he stomping for another communist progressive or whatever else
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: you want to call these crazy-ass people?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Well, according to Signal 99, that's exactly where he was.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: He was up there campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Well, just like I keep saying all the time. It's coming.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Better be prepared.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, apparently word's gotten out on that. After
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Glenn Beck came out and told everybody to do it
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: like he did back in 2008, I even got a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: call from a dear loved one. I don't pay too
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: much attention to politics, but I hear all this concern
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: in the news now about us having to be prepared
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: for some act, something out there. What is going to happen, Brian?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Will you pay closer attention to this? I'm like, Lord Almighty,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: pick an avenue of possibility. You know?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: You could have a note tablet for different scenarios.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: You could.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, one scenario, the Iranians who just threatened over
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the weekend to have an unlimited battlefield against the United
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: States if we start dropping bombs. And, of course, Trump
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: over the weekend met with Netanyahu talking about maybe even
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: as early as Wednesday dropping bombs. Well, there's one isolated
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: area where it could come from. Chaos unleashed at a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: random attack by some sleeper cell here in the United States. Now,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of course, the possibility that exists, maybe it's remote. I
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: don't know, but it's one area. Hell, there are foreign
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: adversaries who could turn the electricity off in a moment's time.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: We have to presume that could happen. Of course, in
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: a world with AI, making attacks like that a little
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: more easy because it can teach an idiot like Brian
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Thomas how to bring down the Internet, basically. That's the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: kind of warnings we keep hearing, isn't it, Bobby? You know,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: AI can teach you how to make a highly contagious
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: virus that'll wipe out humanity. Okay, great.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Faith, flag, family, and firearms, my friend. If you keep those,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you'll keep your freedom.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's after that 72-hour period. You better be
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: darn glad you have firearms and ammo, right, Bobby?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: That's exactly correct, my friend, because they will.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah. But how accurate will they be?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: 545.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend. I just keep bringing it up, Bobby,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: bringing it up. You got one? Go to the range. 545,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: 55K or CD Talk Station. Maybe you feel differently.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Ding!
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Talk Station. 550-855-KRCD. Talk Station. Monday, Monday, Brian James, Christopher
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Smithman on 720. We've got Keith Faber running for Ohio
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: AG at 705. And Eric Conroy will be in the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: studio at 840 to round out the political events, political
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: guests on this program before tomorrow. I hope you're getting
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: up and voting tomorrow, planning on it anyway. Over to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Stack is Stupid. And why not? 69-year-old man arrested in Florida,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of all places, after he shot and killed two roommates
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: over an argument about ice cream. Just walk away. Well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: if it was Grater's, that would be justifiable, Joe. I
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: acknowledge that. Grater's is, yeah, worthy of homicide. Four of
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the daily shooting officers showed up at the man's house
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to resolve the argument. Seemed as though, well, they had
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: solved the argument problem. I guess they left. About an
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: hour later, though, they got a call about shots being
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: fired at the same location and went back to the scene.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: October 28th is when the incident happened. Officers arrested Mark Robinson,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Mark Lynn Robinson, after he fatally shot two tenants, 78-year-old
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Michael Menkes and 69-year-old Charles Ethies. Right there in Ocala, Florida,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Ocala Police Chief Mike Balkan in a statement said the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: officers responded to the call at Robinson's home over a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: verbal altercation earlier in the day. He said Robinson is
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the owner of the home and rented out the rooms
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to the late Menkes and Elfies. Chief Balkan said after
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: interviewing the three men, officers determined that the dispute really
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: had something to do with someone eating someone else's ice cream,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: if you can believe that. He said the officers resolved
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the situation and that Menkes and Ethes had walked out
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: of the house before they left the scene. But after
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: receiving calls of shots fired about an hour later, they
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: showed up and found one of the gunshot victims laying
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: in the front yard. After they approached Robinson, he admitted
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that he had shot both roommates and surrendered. Officers cleared
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the home and found the second gunshot victim. Both Menkes
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and Ethes unfortunately passed away due to their injuries. Robinson
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: told police officers that after they left the home from
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: their initial visit, he feared that something was going to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: happen when Menkes and Ethys returned. The arrest affidavit said
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: he acknowledged that he had been drinking prior to the incident,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: advising that he consumed approximately a bottle and a half
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of white wine. Robinson retrieved the 12-gauge shotgun from his bedroom,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: placed it on the couch in the living room. Both
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: roommates came back. Robinson said his second altercation occurred and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that Ethes armed himself with a knife before both individuals
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: rushed toward him. He claimed he felt threatened, so he
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: fired the shotgun at Ethes multiple times, making his attempt
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to flee from the house, but as he crossed the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: front yard, he got shot in the back.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Officers confirmed Menke was trying to flee, so along with
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: witness testimony and Robinson's own statements, they found probable cause
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to arrest him for one kind of second-degree murder. Yes,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: no kidding. They continued their investigation into the double homicide.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: They say additional charges are possible, probable. Melkin confirmed the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: officers found a knife at the scene. Robinson is arguing
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: self-defense for the shooting. He said police just received a
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: call from the home of the past year to describe
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the residence as dysfunctional living arrangements.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Booked in the Marion County Sheriff's Jail. First appearance was
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: on October 30th. Judge denied bail for Robinson. Obviously, he
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: was not having his hearing in Hamilton County Courts. Who
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: is watching your kids? This is a frightening one. Joe,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: roll out the award this morning. We've got to give
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: it to a whole bunch of people. An ex-Disney World
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse impersonator along with 12 men. Disney World co-workers
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: were among almost 300 accused perverts busted in Florida sexting
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: that netted four universal employees, a football coach, and a
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Navy sailor. 24-year-old Colin Clacko, local sheriff noted, had his
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse character's high spooky voice, too, by the way,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: was into diapers. and brought two backpacks full of diapers
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he planned to wear and also put on the young
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: boy he believed was talking to online. That person, actually, yes,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: an undercover agent. One of the other busted fiends, Adam Snyder,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: worked at the Roundup Rodeo restaurant in Disney's Toy Story Land.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Didn't even change out of his Disney uniform when he
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: was caught trying to have sex with a little boy,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: according to police. But the, quote, worst of the worst,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: close quote, Rashido Creighton, 31-year-old local youth football coach, whose
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: messages to a person he believed to be 14-year-old were, quote,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: so graphic that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judge said he
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: couldn't even share the details. It's a week-long operation. It
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: was called Polk Around and Find Out 2. They'd done
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: this before in Polk County. Undercover agents busted 281 people,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: including child predators and human traffickers, rescued 11 people who
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: were being trafficked. Majority of the arrests involved prostitution. 32
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of those arrested were in the country illegally from nine
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: different countries, including Italy, India, Peru, Ecuador, and Haiti, 22
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: of which were illegally collecting public assistance, totaling more than
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: $ 100, 000 a year. Oh, isn't that great? That's what you're
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: paying for. Oh, yeah, you're right, Joe, probably voted, too,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: or will be voting. Judge described this Colin Clacko guy as, quote,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the nastiest person we have ever arrested. Judge Edith Creighton
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: told the person he thought was a 14-year-old girl, quote,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: among other things, well, I can pick you up at school,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and then we can have sex in the car, close quote.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Authorities nabbed a U.S. Navy machinist, Dang Tai, who lied
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: about being 17, was actually 24, Judd said, after he
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: was arrested. He tried to have sex with a minor.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: He protested and said that he had top-secret clearance. Right.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: 117 caught by undercover agents in charge of soliciting prostitution.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Another 122 arrested for committing prostitution. Law enforcement determined that
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: 11 of them were victims of human trafficking. All were
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: offered services. There you have it. 5.57 at 55KRC, the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: talk station. Plenty of time in the 6 o'clock hour
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to hear from you. I'd love to. And then we'll
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: hear from Keith Faber at 7.05, Christopher Smith at 7.20.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Like the current slate of judges we're dealing with here.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Someone who knows all about that and the person about
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: whom I started the 55KRC Morning Show today, Signal 99.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show. It is always
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: a pleasure to hear from you. And I want to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: thank you personally for doing something our local media doesn't do,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: which is report on police officers. Getting the crap beat
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: out of him over the weekend. How come I don't
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: find any articles on local news site Signal 99 describing
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: in gross detail what you described over the weekend? You
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: need a video of a police officer being beat up.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: There's not even a report on the takeover of the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: BP station up there near Shortvine. Welcome back. Please help
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: me and my listening audience with this.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Brian. It's nice to be back. I don't
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: think the media knew.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: About it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: So there's two problems with that. One, um, something should have,
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: a statement should have been put out by the city,
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: by the interim chief that one of, one of their
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: officers was injured. I mean, he wasn't majorly injured. He,
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: he required some stitches. He's bruised up. Of course, you know,
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: he's angry, I'm sure. And, and, um, I'm sure he
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: has a whole plethora of emotions going on about it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: But the city didn't put anything out. The night chiefs
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: obviously didn't tell the media or they would have done
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: a story on it. So I've had several of them
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: reach out to me this morning and, you know, they're
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: looking at it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, then I'll back off some of my very
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: harsh criticism on them because I figured, look, If you've
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: got this and you've got the video from it, you'd
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: at least think that someone would have reported it in
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: one of the local media outlets. I mean, we did
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: get reporting on the multiple violent crimes that were committed
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. And this just societal breakdown that a
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: member of the public would just brutally attack a police
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: officer like that, it just shocks my conscience. Someone actually
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: thinks it's normal or okay to do that. It breaks
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: my heart.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: Well, he's about to learn a very important lesson. So
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to that, hopefully today.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Well, the video you showed pretty clearly captured who did this,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and I can only imagine with the multitude of people
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: standing around with cell phones taking videos that there are
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of video of this beatdown and the violence
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: that the crowd was engaged in around that BP station.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, and I think that the guys standing around taking
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: pictures of the officer and videos instead of helping him,
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: I think they're just as culpable as the guy that
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: beat him. So, you know, in some states, they would
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: get charged for that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Crime of inaction.
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's basically, essentially, it's, you know.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: What is the actual phrase? I'm trying to think, Brian.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: But it's, yeah, it's essentially it's inaction and not having
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: compassion for a human being, basically.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, depraved indifference. That's what it is. It's called depraved indifference.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Depraved indifference.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: Depraved indifference for human life, yes.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't imagine anybody getting charged in this town
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: on that or whether there is even a charge that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: goes along with that. But the street takeovers keep getting
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: worse and worse. And I don't know how police are
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: expected to respond to it. The numbers are just overwhelming.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: It's like in France. I mean, look at France. The
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: police have to back off because they're outnumbered 10 to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: 1 with violent protesters in the street.
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you what, Brian, if.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: You know, if CPD and the sheriff's office and every
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: other law enforcement agency in this county were arresting these people, it.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Wouldn't matter unless the judges started holding them accountable. So
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: until the judges start actually, you know what? Sit your
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: butt in jail for a couple of days and see
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: how you like that. Let's take your car. You know,
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: in Kentucky, they take their cars when they do street
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: takeover cars, and they sell them, and they keep the money.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, forfeiture. If your car was used in the commission
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: of a crime, then yeah, the state can take it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so why aren't we doing that? Why aren't we
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: citing parents and arresting parents for not controlling their juveniles?
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: And when we do catch their juveniles, we're sticking them
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: in and, you know, give them a weekend in 2020.
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: See how they like that. Now, granted, I know there's,
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: you know, PlayStation at 2020 right now.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: Maybe they would like that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently there's also high school education going on over
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: there as well.
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: Well, there should be high school education going on over there.
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: I mean, high school education goes on in every other
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: juvenile detention facility in the United States. Why wouldn't it
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: happen here?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And you can lead a horse to water.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: Well, they act like they invented the wheel here. We're
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: doing high school education.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Because you should have been doing that all along.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Indeed.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Well, and you commented on the... The judges we should
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: be voting on is one of your points in your
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: post on this violence and the need to have these
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: violent individuals held accountable in the judicial system. You also,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: and you just kind of threw a shot at Interim
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Police Chief Henney for not making an announcement about this,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: and you think he would. You talked about Mayor Aftab Parval.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Where's Mayor Aftab Parval when his city is burning, in essence?
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: Well, he was in Michigan stumping for El-Sayed.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed.
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: That was way more important than apparently something for his
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: own local politicians here.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: That is unusual, isn't it?
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: I found it kind of funny because, you know, he's
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: been trying to get the hell out of Cincinnati for
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: a while. He, you know, thought he was going to
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: get appointed to Biden's cabinet. And then when Biden wasn't
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: going to run again, he thought, you know, he rushed
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: to Chicago to kiss up to Kamala to try to
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: get appointed to her cabinet. And then, of course, she
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: lost horribly. And then he was just stuck here. So,
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: you know, he's still trying to get out of here.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: He does not want to be.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Do you think he wants to work for Senator Syed,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Syed, if he gets elected?
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I think he.
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: Just wants to get out of here and get a
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: chance to another foot up into politics somewhere else. I mean,
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: he really... You know what I think is funny, though,
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: and I haven't posted it yet, but his wife put
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: out a thing on her Facebook about no car, question mark,
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: you know, how you could get rides to the polling places.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: And I thought, boy, isn't that rich for putting out,
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: you know, no car, question mark, and it brought me
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: back to the fact that they've had two of their
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: vehicles repossessed.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Yeah.
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: So I just found it. I found that humor.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: It is. Yeah.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: And I made a meme of him and his wife
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: in Michigan with, with the lays around their neck. So,
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: and I put SpongeBob music on it. I put a little, little,
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: little meme that said, live, love, lay.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Well, more reasons to follow the antics of Signal 99,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: the collective that is over on Facebook. You get all
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: these great memes that are developed. But also, you get, well,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: first reporting. You get props for being the first out
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: of the gate to report on what's going on in downtown.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: So maybe the mayor should follow your site so he
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: at least has some concept of what's going on in
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: his own town.
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: Don't be silly, Brian. Of course he follows Signal 99.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: They watch my page like a hawk.
• 44:23
  Speaker 9: They know about stuff before you do.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: Because they're on my page.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: As soon as they get the notification, they're like, oh,
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: my God.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Well, considering the revelation from Todd Zinser on the program
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: last Friday, maybe Mayor Aftab Pervil is trying to get
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: out of town before the bill comes due for all
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: of these shenanigans that are going on.
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: Well, as long as he takes Iris and Cheryl, that's
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: such a great start. That would be such a great start.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Well, fire, former fire chief Washington may very well be
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the one responsible for relieving us from city manager, Cheryl
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: long when the tab comes due on that one.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm, I'm finding it. It's quizzical to me
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: why they haven't cut her loose already. I mean, I
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: guess because they gave her a perfect review, uh, at
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: the beginning of the year. Um, it'd be kind of
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: hard to fire her now and say, well, it's just
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: not working out because you know, you're stupid and you're
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: costing us millions of dollars in lawsuits. But, um, but anyways, yeah.
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: I mean, what are they going to, what are they
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: going to do? Say your performance is tanked since January.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really? I'll tell you what, we've got more to
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: talk about signal 99. Can you hang over for another segment?
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: And you stick around, bring you back. We'll talk about, well, maybe,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: do we have a gang problem in downtown? I welcome
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: surprise guests during the morning show. Today's surprise, which I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: started off the morning show reading what she and the
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: collective is. Signal 99 on Facebook wrote about the violence
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Before I pivot over and ask you
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: about gangs, here's one of your posts. You start out, listen,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: over the last few days, we've had four separate shootings
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: resulting in two murders. Victim shot and killed in Amadou,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: another in at Memories Nightclub. Four people stabbed. One a
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: store employee, a shoplifter for no other reason stabbed. We've
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: had two drive-by shootings, one at UC targeting a student
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: housing building, another at a residence in Westwood. And you continue.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Don't even get me started on how many people have
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: been jumped, robbed, assaulted at various Kroger stores, parking lots.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: You recommend Kroger bring back real police and not the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: security officers they have, which you suggest don't work. There
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: are so many more violent incidents that occurred over the
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: past few days in our city. Keep in mind that
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: many of the victims of violent crime do not call
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: 911 or come forward out of fear of retaliation. And
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: you point out, rhetorical question, wait a second, who would you,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: if it's a total stranger that attacks you, why would
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: you fear retaliation? Uh-oh, do we have a gang problem?
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Are you suggesting that these other crimes are out there
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: and not reported because they involve rival gangs fighting between
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: each other? We have a gang problem, Signal 99?
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: Well, the mayor says we don't.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: No, I know that.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: We shouldn't, Ben.
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: Because, you know, the city's safe and we don't have
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: a gang problem. You know, it's funny. I try not
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: to go on TikTok hardly ever because I'll fall down
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: this deep, dark hole and I'll be looking at a
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: video and then it'll be six hours later. But I
• 47:28
  Speaker 7: was on TikTok earlier and they had the Down the
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: Way gang. had their own video on TikTok. And I
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: was like, you know what? I need to share this
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: on my page. And then something happened, and then something
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: else happened, and then I couldn't find it anymore. So
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: now I have to go on that hunt again later.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: What was the name of the gang?
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: Down the Way Gang.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Down the Way Gang. They are real.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: The Down the Way Gang. DTW. Yep.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: And do they have rival gangs here in the city?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Signal 99?
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: They do, Brian. Last month, I did an article. I
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: published an article on the page that I've been working
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: on for the last year and a half with several
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: members of the CPD, a couple of Colerain people, some deputies,
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: departments within Hamilton County, departments outside of Hamilton County, 18 months,
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: at least, ish. About 18 months, yeah, took me to
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: put that piece together with all of the gangs. So
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: if you go back to last month, it was probably
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: middle of the month I published it. It's a very
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: long read, but it pretty much details all the gangs
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: in Cincinnati.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Gangs don't fight each other simply because they're in different gangs.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: They're usually fighting over a turf dispute involving, well, drug
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: activity or other criminal activity they want to exclusively control.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Each gang wants, of course, control over what's going to
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: generate them money. Is that the situation we have going
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: on in Cincinnati, Signal 99?
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: That's partially true, Brian, but gangs do fight each other
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: over just the simple fact. Now, it's not like the
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: Crips versus the Bloods, like it used to be in
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: the movies. It's not like that, because a lot of the...
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: There's a lot more Bloods here than there are Crips,
• 49:36
  Speaker 7: and most of them get along. So they trade alliances,
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: but they also write diss tracks about each other and
• 49:48
  Speaker 7: that causes them to shoot each other and kill each other.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Is this all about respect? You don't respect me, this nonsense?
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: This is about putting videos on TikTok and disrespecting somebody
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: and then expecting them to come back at you. And yeah,
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: it's stupid. And we have a lot of wannabe gangs
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: in Cincinnati. And they're actually more dangerous than the older
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: established gangs that we have in Cincinnati because they're trying
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: to make a name for themselves. So, yeah, we have
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: a gang problem. We have a huge gang problem. And
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: here's the thing. We've always had a gang problem. So
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: this isn't new. They just have not been, CPD has
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: not been allowed to, to call them gangs for a
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: very long time, and they haven't been able to address them.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: What do we call them, clubs? Social groups? I mean,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: this is all about Orwellian semantics, Signal 99. Call it
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: what it is, a gang's a gang. It's an organized
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: group of punks and thugs that beat the crap out
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: of each other, if that's a minimum, or they're involved
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: in organized crime or some sort of criminal activity. I mean,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that is what it is. I mean, this isn't... And
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Police Chief Henney, does he have no authority to just
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: come out and call it what it is? Folks in Cincinnati,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: we've got a problem with gangs. We need all the
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: help in the world we can get from you to
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: help us ferret them out and identify where they are
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: and arrest them. I mean, that's a thought.
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: Well, he's got to be able to... You know, part
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: of the problem is.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: That, that charter five crap. So the, you know, the
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: police chief can only be the police chief that the
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: mayor will allow the police chief to be. So, or
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: the city manager. So, I mean, I don't care who
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: you put in there as police chief until we take
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: that back from the mayor who has no business telling
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: a police chief what to do. Okay. Until we take
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: that piece out of government, Here in Cincinnati, nothing's going
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: to change. Nothing is going to change.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Which leaves us with the only thing we're in a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: position to change tomorrow, which is the bench, the judicial
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: lineup in Hamilton County, which I implore everyone to consider
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the Republican slate. You're not going to get it with
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the current slate. It's the only thing we can do
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: right now. You have to wait for the council elections
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: and the mayoral election to maybe right the ship, although
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: we've been waiting decades for that to happen, Signal 99,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: and it hasn't, so maybe we are at a point
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: of impact, a point of realization that we've been on
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: the wrong track for a long, long time. Start with
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the bench, please, dear God. Signal 99, thank you so
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: much for bringing our attention to what happened over the weekend.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Since we can't find it anyplace else, you brought the receipts,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: as you always do. It's right there on the Facebook page.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I'll implore my listeners to check it out and see
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: what's going on in their town. And wait around. Maybe
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: local news will finally pick it up. The Talk Station. 632-55-KRC,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: The Talk Station. Last-minute guests are great. Signal 99 first,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and on the heels of that, the return of Cincinnati
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Police Department President of the Union, FOP President Ken Kober. Ken,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: good to have you back on the show today to
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: respond to the violence over the weekend. I was blown
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: away by the beatdown that Signal 99 had a video
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: of on her site this morning, and nobody else reporting
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: on it yet anyway. But I'd like to know if
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: you have any information on the officer. Is the officer
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: or officers that were injured over the weekend in this brawl,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: are they okay?
• 53:20
  Speaker 10: Yeah, good morning, Brian.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're both okay.
• 53:22
  Speaker 10: I've talked to one of them, and one of them's
• 53:24
  Speaker 10: actually a pretty good friend of mine.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: It's just one of those.
• 53:29
  Speaker 10: Things where you show up to work, try to restore order,
• 53:31
  Speaker 10: keep the city safe, and you have people that are
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: doing everything they possibly can to make Cincinnati the biggest
• 53:37
  Speaker 10: toilet they can, and this weekend they succeeded.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: They sure did. Well, my understanding, it all started on
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: short vine. Things got a little bit out of control
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: with thousands of Halloween party girlers, so cops had to
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: show up since I police, uh, ended up closing down
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: short vine, but the entire crew just moved on over
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: the BP station at Jefferson and Corey and well got
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: involved in some property damage. And that's apparently where the
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: police officers were hit. I were beaten up. I just,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just still reeling over the fact
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: that we live in a society where people think it's
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: just okay to start wailing on a police officer. Again,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: someone's there to try to control the situation and keep
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: people safe.
• 54:16
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, it's certainly, uh, It doesn't happen everywhere.
• 54:21
  Speaker 10: It doesn't happen in counties where you have law and
• 54:24
  Speaker 10: order judges, where you have consequences for your actions. I mean,
• 54:28
  Speaker 10: you don't see something like this regularly happening in Butler, Warren, Claremont,
• 54:33
  Speaker 10: Dearborn County. Things like this just don't happen there because
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: people actually respect the rule of law for the most
• 54:39
  Speaker 10: part in those counties, but not here in Hamilton County.
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: We just allow people to do what they want, and
• 54:45
  Speaker 10: I'm sure the assailant will be out of jail here shortly.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, without question. And let's not overlook our friends in
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. Don't see those things going
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: on in the counties that are in those areas either.
• 54:55
  Speaker 10: No, absolutely.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 54:57
  Speaker 10: It's because they have elected officials that are for law
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: and order. And unfortunately, it's just something we are certainly
• 55:04
  Speaker 10: lacking in Hamilton County.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Certainly. Let's pause. We'll bring Ken Cobra back. FOP President
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Ken Cobra. God bless the Cincinnati Police Department. This is
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: what they have to do. 6.38, 55KRC Talk Station, Old
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Cops Show theme song music. We have FOP President Ken
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Cobra representing the Cincinnati Police Department Union. Of course, you
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: made a comment about the judges, the judicial race. Of course,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Signal 99 did the same thing. It's so important we
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: get judges that are willing to be tough on crime.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Signal 99 speculated that a lot of people in that
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: terrible street takeover that took over the weekend where the
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: police officers got beat up, A lot of them maybe
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: have been juveniles. Maybe a lot of them have been
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: processed through the very lenient juvenile court system. Judge Bloom
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: has been a real problem. Juveniles are not treated with,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, anything but kid gloves. I always like to
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: joke on it. It's like they give them a glass
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: of juice and a cookie and send them back on
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: their way. Juveniles turn into adults, and you might think
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: that that might provide some relief and that, well, the
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: big boy court would result in big boy prosecutions and
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: big boy sentences, but that doesn't happen either, Ken. A
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: little bit frustrating out there, is it not, for the
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: police officers who have to go through this?
• 56:16
  Speaker 10: Well, sure it is.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: It's a revolving door.
• 56:19
  Speaker 10: Juveniles that grow up to rob and shoot each other
• 56:22
  Speaker 10: are going to do the same thing when they're adults.
• 56:24
  Speaker 10: I mean, that's just the reality of it. Once you
• 56:27
  Speaker 10: get to adult court, right now in Hamilton County, you've
• 56:30
  Speaker 10: got maybe a 40% chance of there actually being some
• 56:34
  Speaker 10: resemblance of law and order in a courtroom. But that
• 56:37
  Speaker 10: can change here tomorrow. People decide that they want to
• 56:40
  Speaker 10: take Hamilton County back and they want to have a
• 56:42
  Speaker 10: safer county. Well, they should probably vote for judges that
• 56:45
  Speaker 10: support law and order. There's plenty of them on the ballot.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: There are.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: That will be Chris McDowell, Leah Dankelacher, Betsy Sunderman, Katie Cash,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Roger Bouchard, Dennis Mahoney, Robert Gehring, Ralph Winkler for probate court,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: and yes, Susan Lukin for juvenile court. That would be
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: a great start right there. Now, we have a gang problem.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Signal 99 suggests we have a gang problem, but no
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: one ever talks about it. And the instructions that she
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: said are that the mayor's office, Cheryl Long, the city manager,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: do not want anyone to acknowledge or talk about the
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: gangs that we actually do have in the city of Cincinnati.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: And I asked about Chief Henney, Interim Police Chief Henney.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't he come out and let us know about it?
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Should he not have come out over the weekend and
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: talked about the street takeover? Silence seems deafening, and Signal
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: 99 suggests that, well, he's been instructed— not to use
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the word gang. We can't say we have gangs. And
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: that just ignores reality and it deprives the citizens of,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: I think, information we all need to know about. What's
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: your take on that, Ken Kober?
• 57:42
  Speaker 10: Well, let's talk about how she ended up getting fired
• 57:47
  Speaker 10: because she went out and she started publicly talking about
• 57:49
  Speaker 10: things that either she was instructed not to or she
• 57:54
  Speaker 10: wasn't given permission to talk about. So I understand if
• 57:57
  Speaker 10: the interim chief's not saying something, typically because he's been
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: told by his boss not to. And that does not
• 58:04
  Speaker 10: surprise me. I've seen it time after time again.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Well, and the boss in this case would either be
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: mayor after Burwell or the city manager.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: Cheryl Wong.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Cheryl Wong.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt.
• 58:15
  Speaker 10: I mean, we've seen emails from Cheryl Wong to TG
• 58:18
  Speaker 10: when she was still there saying, you need to tell
• 58:21
  Speaker 10: me before you talk about X, Y, or Z. We
• 58:24
  Speaker 10: used to have a gang unit.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: We actually had a unit called the gang unit in
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati police.
• 58:30
  Speaker 10: Now, understand that those task force, they change names very,
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: very frequently, normally every couple of years. Their mission typically
• 58:40
  Speaker 10: stays the same. And it's, of course, to go find
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: violent criminals and get them off the streets. Whether it's
• 58:47
  Speaker 10: gang-related activity, whether it's random violence, but there certainly is
• 58:53
  Speaker 10: an organized effort to of gangs in Cincinnati, regardless if
• 58:58
  Speaker 10: politicians want to admit it or not.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Well, and just by changing the name, you know, a
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: rose by any other name would smell as sweet. You know,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: we got that old adage. And this just seems to
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: be some Orwellian exercise, you know, if it looks like it,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: it smells like it, it sounds like it, it tastes
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: like it, it is. You can call it whatever you want.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: It's a gang, for God's sake. We all know what
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the definition of gang is. So calling it something sort
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: of more politically correct doesn't change the underlying nature. Our
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: city's got a crime problem on its hands, driven in
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: large part by gangs.
• 59:28
  Speaker 10: No, of course not. I mean, we now have what
• 59:30
  Speaker 10: used to be the gang units now called CGIC, the
• 59:33
  Speaker 10: Crime Gun Intelligence Center. I mean, I guess we should
• 59:36
  Speaker 10: rename that and we'll just say we don't have a
• 59:37
  Speaker 10: problem with gun violence.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, food stamps used to be called food
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: stamps and then they called it SNAP. Welfare didn't used
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: to be or used to be called welfare. And then
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: they changed the name of it because I guess it
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: had a bad ring to it. But it's all the
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: exact same system with a different name. Nothing's changed. You
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: haven't fooled anybody.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 59:55
  Speaker 10: You're absolutely right. The people that are intelligent enough to
• 59:58
  Speaker 10: see through this stuff, they see through it pretty darn easily.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 10: When you have people standing on the street corner, there's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 10: drive-by shootings going on. That's not because they're a Bearcat
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 10: fan and.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: They got beat by Utah this weekend.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 10: It's because they're fighting over drug trade and things like that.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Well, and a lot of talk's been made about sanctuary cities,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: and I know Vivek Ramaswamy promises that he will end
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: sanctuary cities in this state should he get elected governor.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Do we have a problem with illegal immigrant criminals in
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati? Are there any figures out there?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Do the police take an inventory about who they pick
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: up on, whether they're in this country legally or not?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Not completely, because....
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 10: These people that are here illegally that are victims of crime,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 10: they don't report it.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: They just don't.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 10: They refuse to report when they're victimized because they're afraid
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 10: of being deported. They're afraid to be discovered that they're
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 10: here illegally. It's been a problem forever. But I would
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 10: argue that we don't have the problem with illegals and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 10: violent crime that maybe other cities are experiencing, but it
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 10: certainly is there.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Well, Ann, I think one of the things is it's like,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: you know, if you have a drug or alcohol problem,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: first step is maybe acknowledging the problem, and then we
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: can take steps to resolve the conflict and problem. That's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: what we need to do. We need to have the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: city manager. We need to get Mayor Aftab Perval back
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: from his Al-Sayed campaign, have him address the public and
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: talk about what happened over the weekend and be honest
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: about crime, admit that it exists, and admit that he
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: will start working with and supporting the Cincinnati police officers
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: going forward. Hell, the morale's bad enough, Ken Cobra. I
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: understand that. It's a lot worse because the mayor just
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: keeps his mouth shut insofar as supporting the police is concerned?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 10: It's pretty simple. You just have to tackle these things
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 10: head on and not just bury your head in the sand.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 10: And unfortunately, that's what we see time and time again.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 10: I mean, this weekend event on Jefferson Avenue very quickly
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 10: could have turned into 4th and Elm Brawl last year.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 10: I mean, it certainly had all the makings for it.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 10: There were probably 10 times the amount of people fighting.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 10: Thank God no one was seriously hurt. That could have
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 10: turned bad very, very quickly.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Without question, this is something the police have to face
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: all the time, that they are outnumbered. They are outnumbered.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Numbers are down anyway with a contingent of police officers.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: And then when you've got a full contingent of police officers,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: how can they possibly deal with thousands and thousands of
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: people at one time? I feel for you, Ken Cobra.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: I feel for all the police officers. And my listening
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: audience has your back as well as all the Cincinnati
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: police officers and all law enforcement. Who among us can
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: do that tough job? You guys are the best. Keep
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: up the great work, and we'll hope for a change.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: And I hope my listening audience heeds your warnings and
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: gets in and votes for the judges I just rattled off.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Get the Republican Party pink sheet if you have any doubts. Ken,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: thanks again for the late time and air coming on
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the program. It's always a pleasure having you on.
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  Speaker 10: Yep, thanks, Brian, to you and your listeners. We appreciate
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 10: your support, and make sure you vote for law and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: order tomorrow.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Amen, brother. 646-55-KRC, the talk station. It's 7.06 on a Monday.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow's election day, if you haven't gotten the word, and
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: I encourage my listeners to get out and vote. And,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: of course, one of the races you've got to vote
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: for is Ohio Attorney General. Currently, Ohio Auditor of State
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: Keith Faber running for that position. He is demonstrably better
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: qualified for the role. Welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Keith Faber, it's a pleasure to have you on today, sir.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: Happy to be here.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: How's the race going for you? You've been out there
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: shaking hands, talking to people, and getting the word out.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: What is your reaction among the crowds and the folks?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: What are you hearing, sir?
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: We're seeing energy and excitement. We just are wrapping up
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: today the last day of an 11-day bus tour where
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: we've gotten in front of probably close to 15,000 people
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: on the bus tour. And energy has been growing and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: been electric. Last night we ended with a rally in Youngstown.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: and the crowd tore the roof off the place. It's
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: been really good. I think Ohioans want to see people
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: who know how to do the jobs that they're running for.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: And as Attorney General, it's a complex state organization, 1,600 employees.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: You do a lot of things for Ohio, like back
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: the police and support law enforcement and prosecutors. You need
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: somebody who's actually done that job and a state auditor.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: Even my opponents had to concede that I've done a
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: good job as state auditor. We've helped to convict more
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: than 172 public officials and politicians who were stealing tax dollars.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: We've identified $ 12 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse and
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: found hundreds of millions of dollars of efficiency savings.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad your opposition concedes you're a better candidate.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: I said that on the way in, demonstrably better in
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: terms of what qualifies you to be attorney general. You've
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: actually engaged in these cases. And I know we've got
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: a huge fraud problem in the state of Ohio, and
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: you have been on that and appreciate your efforts in
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: that regard. And you promise as AG for the state
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: of Ohio you will continue those efforts. This is our
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: money being stolen, wasted, or otherwise abused. And I'm sorry,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: this sounds like a very bipartisan issue to get on
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: top of.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be. It should be. You know, my
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: opponent went out and said, and again, I'm not necessarily
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: running against my opponent. I'm running for the job as
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: attorney general. But he goes out and says, well, if
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: there's fraud, it's not that big a deal, and we'll
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: certainly deal with it. Look, anybody who's been awake can
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: certainly determine that there's been fraud out there. We've identified
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: fraud in almost every single government program, and there are
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: 172 guys sitting in prison or who have been in
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: prison since I've been auditor that understand we take this
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff very seriously.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Glad someone does. We've got a real problem with crime
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: here in the greater Cincinnati area, even though our current
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: mayor and city manager don't want to acknowledge it. Had
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: some real serious issues over the weekend in downtown Cincinnati.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: What is your strategy for addressing violent crime and repeat
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: offenders in Ohio?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: Well, the first thing you got to do is get
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: the legislature to increase these penalties and stop this slap
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: on the hands. You remember I helped lead with Joe
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: Dieters at the time, the effort around Ohio to require
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: judges to consider public safety when they're considering bail. The
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: courts and the judges had basically said they don't have
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: to consider and shouldn't consider public safety when considering bail.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: The voters in Ohio said that's crazy. And we passed
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: a constitutional amendment that now says they have to. The
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: second part of that is, candidly, as attorney general, you
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: run the Organized Crime Task Force. You run a number
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: of other operations to support prosecutors and police. And a
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: lot of this is becoming a multi-jurisdictional thing. I mean,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: certainly you've got cities like Cincinnati and Hamilton County. that
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: are soft on crime, but Warren County isn't. And where
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: you've got multiple jurisdiction violations, you need to frankly put
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: the people in trial in the counties where they're going
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: to be held responsible. I wish as Attorney General I
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: had the jurisdiction that some states have to sack prosecutors
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: who won't do their job. But in Ohio, the attorney
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: general doesn't have that authority, but the legislature does. And
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: that's a conversation for our legislators that I'm happy to
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: lead the bully pulpit on.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Well, and I've been pleading with my listeners to ignore
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: partisan politics and vote for the conservative jurists who are
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: running for election here in the city of Cincinnati because
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Hamilton County is not tough on crime. I guess it
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: was Marcy's law you referenced there about taking the victim's
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: and the public safety into account when determining bond and sentencing,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: the judges just ignore the law, apparently. They really do
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: not seem to care, most notably in the juvenile court, sir.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: And I'm not quite sure there's anything that we, as
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: the public, can do except vote for different judges. As
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Attorney General, do you have any control over this obligation
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: to take the public and the victims' rights into consideration, sir?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: Well, certainly you can file actions on behalf of the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: victims and help with that. But no, I mean the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: short answer is, as attorney general, I wish I had
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: that kind of power over judges. But ultimately the judge's
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: answer to the Supreme Court and the answer to the voters,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: and that's one of those issues that even the Supreme
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: Court has some limited authority on. They can overrule them,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: and then they can sanction judges who aren't doing their job.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: But it's one of those things that you really do
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: have to be careful who you vote for. And actually,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: the reference I was making is the bond law, not
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: Marcy's law. Marcy's law is great. We passed that as
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: well when I was in the legislature. It's the constitutional amendment.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, it passes voters voted on it and put
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: it in the constitution 70 30. And so it's pretty
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: clear voters, voters think that judges ought to consider public
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: safety when they're granting bond. And, and so that's a
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: big part of the discussion. And that's why, you know, look,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: look who's endorsed who in this case, I am honored
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: to be endorsed by 87% of Ohio County prosecutors. I'm
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: honored to have all of the law enforcement endorsements for
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: the people who endorsed in this, race, including for the
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: first time in 20 years, the state FOP endorsed a Republican.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: I've been endorsed by all of the police groups and
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: over half of the county prosecutors. That's because they know,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: especially in counties where law and order matters, they know
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: you need an attorney general who's actually prosecuted criminal cases.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: and understands the difference between a civil case and a
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: criminal case.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Well, we have a gubernatorial race we're keeping track of
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: here as well, and Vivek Ramaswamy has promised to end
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: sanctuary cities in the state of Ohio. Obviously, we have
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: some illegal immigration problem. You've expressed support and cooperation between
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities in the past.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: What specific policies would you as Attorney General pursue, Keith Faber?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: Well, the first thing to know is to recognize that
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: we're a border state. Yes, other than Canada, we're really
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: not on the southern border, but we are a border state.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: When Biden opened the floodgates and allowed 15 to 20
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: million people to come into this without vetting, without backgrounds,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: we know that they're in our communities and we know
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: that they're causing problems, heck, in a nine-day span. Three
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: Ohioans were killed by illegal aliens just on our roadways
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: in Ohio.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: And so we know this is a problem.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: I took a group of prosecutors and sheriffs down to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: the border where I saw the human trafficking problem firsthand,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: and we saw the fentanyl problem.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: And so those are the kind of things you do.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: You operate the Human Trafficking Task Force, you operate the
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: Organized Crime Task Force, and you operate the ability to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: go out and support prosecutors and law enforcement, heck, even
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: a state auditor. I am backing up local law enforcement
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: on forensic audits and financial crime issues where they're trying
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: to run to ground some of this cartel issue. Make
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: no mistake, this illegal alien problem that you have is
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 4: also a cartel problem. The Mexican cartels owned the border,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: and anybody who crossed that border had a tie to
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: the cartels. They either had to pay them or they
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: were affiliated with them. And that has brought extra crime
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: into Ohio, whether it's auto theft, whether it's organized retail crime,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: or whether it's just the organized looting of our social
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: service programs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and finally, and I'm going to recommend my listeners,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: KeithFaber.org is the website for your campaign, KeithFaber.org. One of
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: the things you have some say over apparently in connection
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: with health care denials, and it's one thing that there
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: is a problem out there. People get a denial, and
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: you're interested in helping those folks resolve health insurance denials.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: So how would you go about doing that, and why
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: is it a good thing?
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: Great question.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for asking it. What we see right now, unfortunately,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: is big health insurance companies have adopted in far too
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: many cases a practice where they're denying otherwise valid health
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: insurance claims. And they're using excuses like unnecessary and other
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: things that are ambiguous. I'm hearing from doctors and hospitals
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: that upwards of 25% of all valid claims are are
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: now being initially denied. And what that does is it
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: puts the.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: Consumer, Bob and Betty Buckeye, through insurance claims hell.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: And to go through those processes, if you go all
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: the way through their process, through the first level appeal,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: which they almost always deny, the second level appeal, which
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: they still deny, and then the third level appeal, they
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: usually grant, over 90% of those people who stay vigilant
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: and keep active on their claims are ultimately get their
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: claim paid. And that's not my number. That's from the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: providers in Ohio. And so this is a problem. So
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: if big insurance companies are trying to manipulate people by
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: putting them through this unnecessary process, the attorney general's office
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: has the ability to crack down on them under your
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: consumer protection standards. So what we're going to do is
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: go after the carriers who are doing that as a
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: business practice. But more importantly, we're going to have a
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: unit that helps Ohioans through that claim process. Most Ohioans
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: don't even know how to go through the campaign process,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: and that's something the Attorney General's Office can educate and
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: help them do. My opponent laughs and says, oh, that's unnecessary.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: The insurance department does that already. Well, I was in
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: the legislature for 18 years, and if the insurance department
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: could have done that effectively, they certainly would have done it,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: and we wouldn't be having the problems we're having now.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: But we handled far too many insurance constituent cases. And
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: it was amazing, and almost every constituent case my office
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: handled where we'd get somebody saying, hey, they pre-approved my
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: hip replacement only to deny me after the surgery, and.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: Now I've got a $ 138, 000 bill.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: What gives? And when we would call the insurance company,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: invariably we would hear back after a constituent inquiry. They
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: would come back and say, oh, well, we don't know
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: why that was denied. That should have been paid. I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: don't think they were doing it just because you called
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: your state senator. I think they were doing it because
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: that's their business practice. And when somebody pushes back, they
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: don't have a leg to stand on. They ultimately pay it.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: But that's something consumers shouldn't have to put up with.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: And when I'm attorney general, hopefully they won't.
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  Speaker 1: Two words come to mind when you say that, Mr. Faber.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad faith. Maybe it's a policy driven around bad faith.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Just having practiced law in the medical
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: insurance area, I know that's an issue.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I practice insurance law as well for a while,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 4: and it's difficult to prove a bad faith, but the
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: attorney general has extra tools.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: And we don't necessarily have to use bad faith.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure we can get the legislature to give
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 4: us some extra consumer protection and let us go file
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: the lawsuits in federal court and do them as class
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: actions or do them as groups. And let us pay
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: for that. Let the taxpayers say, you're not going to
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 4: rip Ohioans off.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: Well, and the looming threat of potential prosecution does cause
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: corrective behavior, if I might observe. KeithFaber.org. Vote for him
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio Attorney General. That means Christopher Smitherman, former vice
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: mayor of the city of Cincinnati with the Smitherman. Gee, Christopher,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you'll have anything to say about the
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: violence in and around downtown Cincinnati over the weekend. Welcome back,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, man, you continue to see the city leadership. Brian Thomas,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: you and I have been talking about this, you know,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: on and off. for the last two years. And you
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: and I have seen the petty crime and now the
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: serious violence continue to increase. Let me thank Signal 99
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: for releasing the video that no local news station released
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: over the weekend. That is one of our finest Cincinnati
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: police officers in uniform, in uniform by a BP officer
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: Jefferson and Corey getting his head kicked in by youth.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: This is insane. And you have our mayor out of
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: town campaigning for somebody in Michigan. You see no press conferences,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. And here's why. Here's why. There's an election
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: on Tuesday. This is the ugly truth. These news stations,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: many of them are in the can for liberal candidates.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: This is really sad. If Signal 99 doesn't release that video,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: you and I don't know anything about it. And because
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: of that election, there could be a 1% move in
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: the electorate across the state of Ohio if they wake
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: up and see a white male youth, I mean, white
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: male police officer in uniform getting kicked in the head
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: by black youth at a Halloween takeover for juveniles, because
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: this is what we've been saying. The reality of it,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: the Democrats talk about identity politics. If the white police
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: officer had pulled his gun and shot one of those
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: black youth, we'd be discussing it a little differently. He
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: used too much force. That was, that wasn't that he should,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: he should have waited to be kicked in the head
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: or punched in the face just a little longer. The
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: Holly situation that happened downtown, look how they handled that.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: Let's go out. This is City Hall, and we must
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: arrest somebody white. Where is City Hall today? They're the
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: ones bathing in identity politics. But the news stations across
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: this doggone region, shame on you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go away.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: I get to call you out.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: You did. I did this morning, too. Signal 99 was
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: a little easier on them saying, you know, the video
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: hadn't come out.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: Christopher says no. Hold the thought. And the emotion. We'll
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: bring you right back at 725. KRC, the talk station. 729,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: 55 KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas with Christopher Smitherman
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: and Dwayne Smitherman. All about crime this morning, Christopher. Just terrible.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: The video, there's more video that's rolling out about that
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: street takeover there in Short Vine. It was awful. There
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: were lots and lots of people running amok in the street.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, police officers just get the crap
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: beat out of them, which I just still can't believe. Christopher,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: go ahead. Continue the rant.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: Look, Brian, here's the bottom line. Cincinnati voters, people in
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: our state understand what I'm about to say because we
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: were young at some point. We respected cops. Cops showed up.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: They told us to do something.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: We did it.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: So we swung completely in the opposite direction culturally for
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: a reason, right? You know that if they're going to
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: beat up a cop in uniform with a gun, what
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: they're going to do to you. You and I understand that, okay?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: That's the seriousness of what we're watching. And that officer
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: is not just showing restraint. It's a culture that they
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: understand that if they pull their gun and use force
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: and take a life, they understand that people in this
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: community will turn on them, that city hall will turn
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: on them, that their whole press conference is saying there's
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: going to be a full investigation, Brian, and they'll try
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: to destroy that cop's life. That's why that cop, it
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: wasn't that the cop was just showing restraint, that cop
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: was worried about what would happen to their life if they,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: if they pulled their weapon. There's no way you're a
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: cop on the ground getting stomped and kicked in the
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: head like that. And you don't pull your revolver. You
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: don't pull, you don't pull your weapon. No way, Brian Thomas,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: that happens. And I'm going to say there's an election tomorrow. Right.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: I'm an independent. This is the stuff that gets independence
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: blood boiling. Right. And these are the kinds of videos
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: that move elections because low propensity voters are out there
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: are going to see this video and they're going to say,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: not in my town, not in my state. And so
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: people have to look at the rain. It's going to
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: be raining tomorrow. It's going to be cold. They've got
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: to show up, Brian. They've got to hold the line
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: here for the state of Ohio. They've got to elect
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: people like Vizek Ramaswamy or Keith Faber or Husted. I
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: go down the list. Or Aaliyah Dinkinlocker. They've got to
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: show up and vote for judges and vote for our
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: safety in our community like their life matters. really depends
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: on it, because it really does, Brian Thomas. That's the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: message right now today. We've got a candidate by head
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: and shoulders... is more competent. This race shouldn't even be close.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: They shouldn't be polling three or four percent anyway. I
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: believe Vivek Ramaswamy is going.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: To win tomorrow.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: But independents and Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats, and we're
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: seeing it in Michigan. We saw a switch over the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: weekend in Michigan. Blue Dog Democrats who put their flag out,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: who love our country, who say July 4th is okay,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: Juneteenth is okay. Those things both come together and can work.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: that black voters who understand that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: they are coming out tomorrow in a way, Brian Thomas,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: that this state has never seen before.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate your really strong optimism on that, Christopher.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: I have no way of knowing or believing that. I
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: haven't seen that widely reported necessarily. You getting a sense
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: of that from people you talk to in your neighborhood
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: and around the city of Cincinnati, Christopher?
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: I am. What's happening is I'm talking about what they
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: call themselves patriots. They don't believe in early voting, right?
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: This is kind of like a protest. I'm not going
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: to participate in a month in voting. I'm going to
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: show up on election day with my wife and my
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: children and my grandchildren and my friends and my friends
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: and family, and we're going to rock the vote.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: And they're going to do it on.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: Election day, right? Now I'm saying you've seen what's happening
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: in early voting, meaning the interest in the elections. Why
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: wouldn't we believe that interest is not going to follow
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: through on Election Day? It is. And the more people
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: that are voting tomorrow are going to be voters who
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: are most likely conservative, most likely independent and conservative, most
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: likely blue dog Democrats who listen to your show and
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: think about military, think about Honor Day, think about flags.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: They're tired of seeing their flag being burned. stumping on
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: the flag. They're tired of these social conversations about men
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: in locker rooms with women in the state of Ohio.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: They don't want to hear any of it. They're worried
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: about communism and socialism that is being permeated through our
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: culture and in our school systems. and young people on
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: these college campuses like Michigan, like the University of Michigan,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: where you saw the young lady, if you didn't see that,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: attack this conservative young lady on campus over the weekend.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: I'm sharing with you, Brian, when this video hits local news,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: and because you're talking about it, Brian Thomas, I want
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: everybody to hear this. Brian Thomas and Signal 99 broke
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: this story on this radio show. You're now going to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: see local news have to pick it up.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I would hope so.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: They weren't playing it before.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: They're going to have to pick it up, Brian Thomas.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: I would hope so.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: Because you talked about it.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not going to give myself any credit if
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for Signal 99 getting a hold of the video.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I'm happy to have
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: brought it to people's attention to the extent they hadn't
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: seen it themselves. I was appalled by it when I
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: got here, and I'll give Joe Strecker credit for being
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: a good friend with Signal 99 and having the printouts
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: from her webpage. And I mean, I do go around
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: all these different news sites. I don't often necessarily default
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: to starting at Signal 99 and find out what happened
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: over the weekend because I kind of expected to show
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: up in local news. But I guess I was wrong
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: this morning. But I do have other people upon which
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: I rely, and I'm happy to take at least part
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: of their credit for letting people know about it. Now
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: the people need to act on it. And you know
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: what concerns me most about this entire election, Christopher? Everything
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: you say is right. Everything that you and I know
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: about to be true. In other words, holding your nose, Democrats,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: and voting for the Republican-endorsed judges because it's good for
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: your own neighborhood, this swirling anti-Trump evil orange man sentiment. No,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: nobody's happy about the gas prices. Yes, you can blame
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: Trump in part for that. Nobody likes the broken promises.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: So you can hate evil orange men all day long,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: but don't look aside from your own neighborhood and the
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: fact that Trump has nothing to do with any of
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: the problems that Christopher and I are talking about this morning.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: No, no, and you're going to see somebody arrested today
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: for attacking that Cincinnati police officer in uniform at what
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 3: they call a Halloween takeover, you're going to see that arrest.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: The problem is, what's so crazy is, because they weren't
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: even talking about it, it's going to be out of context.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: These news stories, because Brian Thomas is breaking it, people
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: don't understand that Brian Thomas is breaking it. A big
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: story on his radio show this morning that a Cincinnati
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: police officer was attacked at a Halloween takeover by juveniles
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: right in our city. And our local news stations have
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: been ignoring the story. Now, I'm going to prove this
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: to you. I called a friend. This is breaking news.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: I called a friend in a news station in another state.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: They this morning called one of our local news stations
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: and said, hey, I just got this video. Are you
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: guys going to run the video? Here's what the news
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: station told them. We were told not to.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: By who?
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: We were told not to. We were told not to.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: Listen to this one. It gets better. The person in
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: the other state who has the video is going to
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: release it. They're going to release it on their news.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: And guess what? The person who they were talking to said, oh,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: that was their reaction. They don't want to release it.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: People do not understand the conspiracies that are going on.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: They don't want the public to be informed, Brian Thomas.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not just on your radio station exaggerating. These blackouts
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: that you're hearing of a story of an officer on
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: the ground being beat up, being kicked in the head,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: being punched in the face at a juvenile takeover. By
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: the time we get to tomorrow, guess what, news stations?
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: It's going to be national news. It's going to be
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: all over the place. What you thought you were going
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: to hide, what you thought was not going to be
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: a part of the electorate for the state of Ohio.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 3: is going to be there, and independent voters are going
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 3: to be walking there tomorrow, those who might even be undecided.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: There are undecided voters. They're going to walk in there,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas, and they're going to vote for Vivek, and
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: they're going to say, I'm voting all red. I'm voting
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: for my safety. I'm voting for making sure that my
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: community supports the flag and supports the United States of America,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: and I don't want communism and socialism.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: That's what the vote is.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: Going to look like tomorrow.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Also, one that supports free press. I guess that journalist
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: didn't appreciate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: Don't go away. We'll have another segment here with former
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman. After I mentioned, well, getting your
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  Speaker 1: roof and... Talk station.
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  Speaker 3: 742.
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  Speaker 1: 55 KRC Talk Station. Brent Thomas with Christopher Smitherman, former
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, to win the
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: Smith event. Christopher, what else is pent up you need
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: to get out of your system this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I've been watching this video again. I'm, I'm an independent,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: as you've known, I've run as an independent and, you know,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: I've been watching this video. I don't know whether, um,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: the VEC Ramaswamy's, uh, uh, opponent was under the influence
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: in Youngstown, but it is a really crazy, uh, video.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know if people have watched it, but
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: she's there talking. Her words seem slurred. Her words, words
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: seem unclear. and it's troubling to me. And this is
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  Speaker 3: not me exaggerating to the public. This is not just
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: a hit piece. I don't want people to think, because
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: I tend not to get down into these spaces, but
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  Speaker 3: I've watched the video enough that there seems to be
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  Speaker 3: something going on that I can't explain, other than maybe
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: she's completely exhausted, which maybe that's possible, or she's under
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: the influence of something. It just didn't make sense to me, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not exaggerating. Anybody watch the video, watch the
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: video yourself, and see if you come to the same conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and Joe Rogan took a look at it. I
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. I made national news, and Joe Rogan,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: obviously a wildly popular podcast, He said, listen, I've been
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: around drunk people my whole life. I think he said
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: his dad owned a bar or he, anyway, he said,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: I've been around drunk people my whole life. He said,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one thing you look at it. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if she's drunk. I know what drunk
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: people look and sound like. And that's looks and sounds
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: like people that I've interacted with, interacted with, who've been
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: under the influence, but I wouldn't know. So here's your
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: two questions. She either is such a poor decision maker,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: exerciser of judgment that she drank before she went on
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: stage at a large campaign event or she This is
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to get as the representative of the
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  Speaker 1: state of Ohio. If she wasn't drunk, that almost makes
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  Speaker 1: it worse. This is the way she comes off completely sober.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a good look, is it?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not. And again, I keep emphasizing, I don't
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: want people to believe that I'm just putting out a
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: hit piece because I stay out of people's families and
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: their relationships. And, you know, I don't get into any
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: of that. But this was so alarming. Yeah, yeah. Nothing
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: to do with it. This is so alarming when you
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: watch the video. And I just think people should, I
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: think it happened Thursday of last week. I think people
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: prior to voting, to take a look at that video,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: whether they're a Democrat or an independent or a Republican
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: and take a look at it. You know, we're about
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: to close out, Brian, and we're one day before the election.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: We know the polls are going to open tomorrow. We
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: know there's most likely it's going to be raining. It's
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: going to be cold. There might be some lines tomorrow
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: because of some higher voter turnout. People have to give
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: themselves time. Please, please take the time to, to exercise
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: your most important right in this country, which is voting.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: And early voting has been happening. We see over almost,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: let's say, 2 million people have voted, let's say. Maybe
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: it's 1.8 million. I don't know. Across Ohio. There are
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: 12 million people in the state of Ohio. And all
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 3: I'm saying is we need a high voter turnout. Our state,
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  Speaker 3: our country depends on it. I don't want to look
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: like Virginia. I don't want to wake up and look
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: like New York. I don't want to look like California.
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  Speaker 3: This is Ohio. And if we don't show up and
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: vote on Wednesday morning, we cannot complain about the results. Right.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: Elections have consequences. You, Brian Thomas and I, we talk
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: about this all the time. So there's one person that says, well,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to vote at all. Well, then you
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: did vote. You voted not to participate. That's a vote. Right.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: You went in and you said, I'm not going to
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: vote for either person. Right. That's a vote, too. You're
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: saying I'm not I'm voting for other things, but I'm
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: not going to participate. The thing that we need people
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: to do tomorrow is vote down the entire ballot. So
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 3: Leah Dinkenlacher wins her election. You can't start up at
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: the top and say, I'm just here to vote for
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: Vivek Ramaswamy. That's great. Or I'm here just to vote
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: for Faber. Or I'm here just to vote for Houston.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: You've got to look at the whole ballot and go
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  Speaker 3: all the way down to the end and vote for
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  Speaker 3: all of those elections. Number two, take some time to
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: do your homework. prior to showing up so you don't
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: have to rely on a sample ballot. Don't be that
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: person that walks in looking for a sample ballot. Go prepare,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 3: get your ballot, know what you're going to do, and
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: rock that vote tomorrow. Show us in the state of Ohio,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: show the whole country that we are not going to
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: allow communism and socialism, because what I'm trying to say,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: people have been attacking me, Brian, saying, what are you
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: talking about? I know if the opposition wins, that the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: AOC will be at the governor's mansion, that this guy
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: out of Michigan, right, who obviously has been attached to
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 3: this brotherhood stuff, that this guy could end up being
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: a senator getting national security updates on what is happening
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: in the United States of America. These are very serious races.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: What we see happening in Alaska, where you go and
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: find a fisherman isolated with the last name Sullivan because
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: you want to cheat. This was actually, Brian, a coup.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: Because the Senate is in the balance of one vote,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: one senator, If they win Alaska, they could win control
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: of the Senate. Don't get caught up in just the election.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: The election by the Democrats was power and control of
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: the United States Senate. So I don't want to hear
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: Democrats running around talking about what Republicans are trying to
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: do when they don't denounce, Brian, this kind of behavior
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: that's happening all over the country. As we close out,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 3: there's an election tomorrow. Anybody turning on their radio station,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: they should hear my voice. I'm in panic mode. I
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: am in panic mode because I'm concerned about the state
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: of Ohio. I'm concerned about what you're concerned about, Brian,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: that people are not going to get off their couches
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: and show up and participate in the election. I happen
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: to be an independent. Independents are going to make this election.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: We need them to break more conservative in this election
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: so we can hold the wall and hold off this
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: craziness that's happening across the state of Ohio. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people out there aren't going to vote
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: for Vivek Ramaswamy because he's a person of color. I've
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: actually heard people say that. or because he's Hindu. I mean,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: if you're going to take that kind of petty, ridiculous
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: racism into the ballot, into the voting booth, and then
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: vote on all the other races but not vote for
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: governor because of that, I just don't know what to say, Christopher.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: I just am appalled that people have that attitude.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's a great man. He's going to win. He
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: has a beautiful wife, a beautiful family. We should be
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: honored that he is interested. He was interested in putting
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 3: his name on the ballot. And understand that Ohio makes presidents.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 3: When you go out and vote, whoever wins in Ohio,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: you put them one step closer to being the president
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: of the United States of America. That is what is
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: really scary. Ohio makes presidents in the Midwest, whether it's Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: That's often where they come from in the Midwest because
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: we're this kind of like collage of so many different people.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 3: We're more centered on where we have conservatives and liberals
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 3: living side by side. Where California and New York, they
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: have high populations, but a lot of group think happening
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: out there. What I'm sharing with you is that Vivek
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: Ramaswamy should be our pick for governor. He's working hard
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: all day. When he gets elected, look for him to
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: come in and work hard to make citizens in Ohio
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: our life better. And I took everything I could on
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: the line to support Vivek because I thought it was
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: so important. I don't have anything in this. There's nothing
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 3: I'm gaining from supporting Vivek Ramaswamy. I'm almost 60 years old,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: and I just... care about the state of Ohio. I'm
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: a Black American that's lived here my whole life. I'm
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: not a well-traveled guy. I haven't traveled all around the world,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: and I haven't traveled all over the country, United States.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 3: I'm an Ohio guy, and I just don't want to
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: die thinking that Ohio just took a step towards socialism
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: and communism because they're focused on race and identity politics
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: and things that don't make any sense. And I'm going
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: to be mad on Wednesday if I hear anybody complaining
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: about that election and they didn't even show up and
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: take the time to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher, I sure appreciate your enthusiasm and your passion each
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  Speaker 1: and every Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: And more so even today. You are always welcome on
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: my program. We'll do this again next Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we have something.
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  Speaker 3: Add vote Smitherman. Add vote Smitherman, brother. Thanks, brother. Take care.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.
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  Speaker 1: That's 751-55-KRC, the talk station. Hey, your trees in your yard.
• 1:35:03
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• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: that time of week. Regular listeners know Money Monday with
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Brian James from Allworth Financial. He's a financial planner, and
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: he's trying to keep us on the right direction. He's
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: got all kinds of information about what we need to do,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: what we need to think about when we're thinking about
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: our future, our retirement. I'll echo what Brian James will
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: tell you all day long. It's a good thing to
• 1:35:25
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• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: make proper decisions like, wait a second, should I invest
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: in artificial intelligence companies? Welcome back, Brian James. Appreciate you
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: being on the program every Monday. Good morning, Brian Thomas.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 6: I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you and your
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 6: listeners every Monday.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I keep reading about this inevitable bubble that's going
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: to burst, and if you look at all the billions
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: and billions of dollars that these tech giants are throwing
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: into artificial intelligence, and yet widely reported that, hmm, wait
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: a second, where are the earnings? Alphabet got a record
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: day drop of $ 500 billion in market value. Is that
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: directly related to AI? I kind of wonder, maybe you
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: can explain to me and my listening audience, How AI
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: generates a profit other than just hoovering up individual information
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: and selling it off to people who might want to
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: know who we are.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good question to ask these days, isn't it? So, yeah,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 6: we do appear to be in what we would commonly
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 6: refer to as a bubble. The investing public is in
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 6: general excited about a thing. And we're all kind of
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 6: used to this now. Most people who are paying attention
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 6: and have significant wealth probably were invested 30 years ago
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 6: when we first started talking about the Internet Wave 1,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: which was just a bunch of cool websites, and we
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 6: learned how to buy stuff online.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 9: Obviously, we're a few generations.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 6: Past that now. So AI is obviously a very powerful tool.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 6: Not going away, this is not a fad, right?
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 6: There's a lot of opportunity to make things more efficient.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: create things that didn't exist before. So it is a
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 6: thing and it can transform the economy. That also means
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 6: it becomes something that can disappoint investors who pay too much. So,
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 6: you know, today's evidence supports owning these profitable businesses. If
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 6: you're going to do it through a diversified portfolio and
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 6: being selective about adding more of them. The questions are,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: does AI become more useful than it currently is? Do
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 6: companies make money off of it? And will somebody buying
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 6: these stocks today, you know, are they going to earn
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: an attractive return from the levels we're currently sitting at?
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 6: You know, I think right now we can answer yes
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 6: to the first two and then still get that third
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 6: one wrong, unfortunately.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously it's going to be transformative in ways
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: that you and I probably can't even think of yet.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: But I guess... The clamoring for government regulation springs from
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: all these gloom and doom and dire predictions. Some, I suppose,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: are accurate or legitimate to at least think about. But
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: how can you predict, and no one can in any industry,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: where this is going to go in terms of governmental intervention?
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: Because if you're invested in AI and the government comes
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: in and then says, no, this is too dangerous for
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: us to play with, and then it disappears or it
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist in its least current form investment-wise.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's absolutely true. And that remains to be seen, right?
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 6: Because we have the powers that be are generally in
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: the pockets of our leaders who decide the rules and
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 6: regulations around how this operates. And we don't, as a country,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 6: we don't tend to put too many reins on business. We,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 6: you know, and I say this gets perceived as a
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 6: bad thing sometimes, but I always say we are not
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 6: the United States of profit margin, meaning we make our
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 6: decisions based off what will make our decisions most successful.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 6: And we tend to sacrifice things Good, bad, or indifferent, right?
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 6: There are good reasons and bad reasons to do that.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 6: Sacrifice things that stand in the way of that. So yeah,
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 6: regulation is definitely a problem. So you're kind of making
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: an assumption about technology and profits and what the government's
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 6: going to allow that company to do. Currently, Washington seems
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 6: to favor expansion with some safeguards in place. So back
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 6: in March of 2026, there was a legislative framework that
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: kind of accelerated the permitting process and just kind of
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 6: a consistent national approach in protection against stuff like child exploitation, fraud,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff. That's a proposal that happened
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 6: last spring, not an inactive AI law. And then there
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 6: was a June executive order that put a voluntary process
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 6: for government evaluation of some of these things in place
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 9: States themselves are moving aggressively.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 6: There's been over 1,500 AI-related bills in 2026, but only
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 6: 280 of those have crossed the finish line as.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: Of early October.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 6: So early stages of what the government is going to
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 6: do in response to the AI boom.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: Well, and my suspicions is if the federal government does
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: decide to act in some way, it's going to be
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: sort of an interstate commerce-driven directive that federal law supersedes
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: and trumps local state laws, which is typically the case
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: in a heavily regulated area. I'm guessing it's going to
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: end up being heavily regulated.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 9: I can't imagine it won't be.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 6: How many scary headlines are there about how it escaped
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 6: its box? These things sound like 80s movies. It got
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 6: out of its box and it's here to haunt us
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 6: and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, that wouldn't
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 6: be shocking at all. And I have a feeling, my
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 6: gut says we're probably going to over-regulate and then back off.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 6: That is what we normally do, overreact to things and
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 6: then settle into what the actual reality is going to be.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: It just takes time. And I agree with your assessment
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: on that. The question is, this has always been placed
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: in terms of, well, If we don't dominate it, control it,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: get ahead of it, America, and be more successful than
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: our rivals, and I think the only rival on the
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: level that we've got is China, they're of course working
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: on AI, that allows China to move forward with it.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: So in a heavily regulated, let's say confiscatorily so, regulated
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: environment here in the United States, China then could advance
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: as it sees fit, might be frightening, but Does that
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: create an investment opportunity for Americans to invest in Chinese
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: companies who maybe will go on and dominate the industry?
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 9: For sure.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 6: Setting aside the geopolitical concerns of investing, that's a whole
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 6: different thing. You could make up a fake name of
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 6: a country and make the same argument. Somebody is going
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 6: to take the lead and be the most productive. Over
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 6: the last century, it's usually been the United States because
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 6: we are, like I said, that's the positive thing about
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 6: being the United States of profit margin. We are the
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 6: best place in the universe to have an idea, set
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 6: up a business, and squeeze a bunch of profit out
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 6: of it.
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  Speaker 9: Historically, we have led the charge.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 6: But right now we're spending a lot more energy than
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 6: we have in the past fighting politically, trying to push
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 6: the pendulum from one extreme to the other every single election.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 6: And we are we sometimes, I think, lose sight of
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 6: those original things that the country was founded on that
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 6: make it such a great place to make a profit.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 6: So China, on the other hand, doesn't really care about
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 6: its constituents and the people that are there. They get
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 6: abused and that's that's where they find their profit margin
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 6: in the people themselves.
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  Speaker 1: It's something you follow in terms of whether artificial intelligence
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: is a decent investment or not, regardless of the geopolitical ramifications.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to be having a difficult time getting adequate
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: supplies in the form of the computer chips that they
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: need to develop these facilities, whether or not they get developed.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: Do you see that supply chain issues ironing themselves out,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: or is that going to be a constant driver of
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: increased cost in building these facilities?
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think in a short run, we're
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 6: sprinting so fast to get these things off the ground.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, did anybody really think of a data center
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 6: four or five years ago? All of a sudden, we
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 6: have to have them everywhere, and they're in everybody's backyard.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 9: Look at Amazon.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 6: Amazon had approximately $ 220 billion in 2026 cash expenditures. Trailing
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 6: 12-month cash flow shifted from positive $ 14. 8 billion to negative
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 6: $ 42. 4 billion. That's a rough year. If you do that
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 6: in a household, the ship probably isn't floating very well anymore.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 6: And that's mostly because of what they're spending on property
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 6: and equipment. with regard to the AI goals. So all
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 6: of that, that's cash after capital spending. That's not the
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 6: same measure as an accounting profit. So Microsoft's got a
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 6: similar story. Yeah, we're in a period now where it's
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 6: basically push all your chips on the table. Somebody's going
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 6: to come out a leader and somebody's not. And there's
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 6: an awful lot of corporate boardrooms out there that are
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 6: with little beads of sweat on their foreheads trying to
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 6: figure out what is the exact right move for us
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 6: to make right now.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Well, and the market's Overall, if you just look at
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: this year, numbers are doing really well. But I've read
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: that the vast majority of the market improvement is AI driven.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: Without that component in there, without AI right now, what
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: would the economy look like or what would the growth
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: look like here?
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, it would certainly be a lot less. So, you know,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 6: the recent headlines, of course, are scary. Friday, the S &
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 6: P 500 fell 1.8 percent overall. You already mentioned that
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 6: Google went over the cliff a little bit. I think
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 6: they're going to be fine. But there's a lot of
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 6: grumpy Googlers out there, Google employees, not thrilled with what
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 6: the 401K just did.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 9: NASDAQ was down 3%. That was a scary day.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 6: However, the S & P is still up over 10%
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 6: for the year. We're still on our third or fourth
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 6: double-digit year in a row. NASDAQ up almost double digits.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 6: Painful days followed by inside of a year that is
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 6: still pretty strongly positive. Yes, that is mostly AI-driven because
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 6: the market does perceive that companies out there who are
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 6: already profitable can become more so with the opportunities that
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 6: AI brings. But there's still a little bit of froth
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 6: in the market because we are not yet demanding that
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 6: these companies show actual profits.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 9: We're in that phase of the bubble.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: We are.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Well, and you've always talked about cool heads ultimately prevail
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: for the best. Don't get crazy and do crazy things
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: in anticipation of perhaps an expectation of the bubble burst. Now,
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: what would you advise your clients that are worried about
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: the impending, inevitable, perhaps AI burst?
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what I completely agree with is the word inevitable.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 6: What I don't agree with is impending because that implies
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 6: that it's going to happen soon.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 9: We don't know.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 6: And you could have made similar arguments really over the
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: last four years from just the market in general because
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 6: we've just done nothing but go to the moon ever
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: since the 2022 panic. So the thing to be looking
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 6: at is the spending. Look at the expenses that these
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 6: companies have, like we just talked about a little bit,
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 6: and then look for the results, which won't be tomorrow.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 6: At some point, the market is going to render a
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 6: full opinion on this right now. Everything is positive because
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 6: there's nothing bad. Nothing bad can ever happen again. But
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 6: you can look through history and find all the places
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 6: where we got excited about something and ran it a
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 6: little bit too far. And then the bubble burst. That's
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 6: when the panic happens. And I'll also throw out there,
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 6: this is an election week. Obviously, there are folks out
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 6: there with their finger on the rebalance button in their
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 6: 401k based on which team wins. And I want to
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 6: tell you this, to put your mouse down and back
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 6: slowly away, there is no headline coming this week with
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 6: regard to the election or AI that should cause you
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 6: to make a major pivot in your own financial plan
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 6: as long as it was constructed correctly.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: To begin with. Unlike Brazil, huh?
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, other countries out there don't weather these types
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 6: of things quite as well as we do.
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  Speaker 9: So that's why, yes, if.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 6: I'm in Brazil, I'm probably having a different conversation, but
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 6: I would have been having a different.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: Career as well. See, that is absolutely true. Don't go away.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: Brian James will continue. We're going to talk about the Fed.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: They held tight on the interest rates. What are they
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: going to do next, and what does that mean for
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: us out here in the unwashed masses? 816 right now, 55KRC,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: the talk station.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 3: 55KRC.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: Election Night Station. It is 820 on a Monday. We're
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: doing that Money Monday thing with Brian James from All
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: In Financial. Of course, the Federal Open Market Committee, which
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: Ed Finke used to call the Federal Open Mouth Committee,
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: met in late October and voted 10-2 to keep the
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: benchmark rate steady at 3.75-4. What are they going to
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: do next, Brian? Because apparently rumor has it we're looking
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: for at least a. 25 increase. And where are you
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: on this one, Brian James?
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So, yeah, as expected last week, like I said, the
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 6: Federal Reserve left rates at 375 to 4 percent last week.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 6: But there were two members that dissented in favor of
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 6: a hike. So there is some division among the committee
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 6: about how much tightening we actually need to bring down inflation.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 6: You know, obviously, we have an election this week and
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 6: we tend to prefer to keep things super quiet around elections,
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 6: the politicians that be. And so there's an understandable suspicion there.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 6: So maybe the Fed is sitting on its hands until
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 6: the voting is over. Then we get the rate hikes.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 6: But history says it's a little more complicated than that.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 6: So historically speaking, the Fed has raised them before elections,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 6: raised them right after, cut them on both sides of
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 6: election day. And most recently in 2022, where we had
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 6: a significant hike within about.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 9: A week of the actual election.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 6: Now, that was obviously a pretty crazy period with regard
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 6: to inflation and all that. And there just was no choice.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 6: the inflationary pressures that we were suffering through as a
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 6: result of the COVID pandemic forced the hand and made
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 6: the election a little bit less impossible.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: Well, that was all the money that got thrown into
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: the economy through the various paycheck protection loans and the
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act money and all that. I mean, that's
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: what caused the inflation.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, over liquidity, for sure. But that forced the– think
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 6: of it this way. The powers that be, whoever is
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 6: in office– generally don't want the headline that, hey, we
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 6: have to hike by three quarters of a point.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 9: That was a big one too.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 6: Normally we like to tap the brakes and tap the gas,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 6: but that was a really big one right before the election.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 6: Now that was such a chaotic year. I don't think
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 6: it had the loud impact that the concern was because
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 6: by this point the market was down.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 9: Matter of fact, the market bottomed right before the election, right.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 6: Around Halloween of 22 was the market bottom. And so
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 6: people were grumpy and And it kind of that headline
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 6: kind of just faded into the woodwork of everything else
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 6: we had to be to be grumpy about. But the
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 6: incumbents never want to hear a rate hike right before
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 6: people about to go hit the ballot box.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Without question. But where is inflation now that would justify
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: an increase after the election, which is what's expected?
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so corporate earnings are looking good, ultimately following the economy.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 6: And inflation is still a problem. It has kind of
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 6: basically held steady. So the status quo is probably that
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 6: we need to be prepared for more rate hikes because
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 6: that is simply the only way to slow things down.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 6: Chair Warsh spent a bunch of his press conference recently
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 6: discussing the overall financial conditions in saying that things have
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 6: indeed tightened since the last meeting. And these weren't one
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 6: sided comments either.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 6: So he also reiterated inflation is too high. The Fed
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 6: is focused on bringing it down to its two percent target,
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 6: which that's that's we hear that all the time. That
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 6: is basically the primary role of the Fed. We want
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 6: two percent and we want it yesterday. And how are
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 6: we going to get there? So as for how the
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 6: markets reacted to it, pretty much neutral. The odds of
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 6: December hike are around 85 to 90 percent. before and
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 6: after the meeting. So in other words, to answer your question, yeah,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 6: we're probably looking at more rate hikes sooner rather than later.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 6: And the likelihood of that did not change because of
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 6: the Fed meeting.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: Well, what needs specifically to be slowed down? If you
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: listen to the gloom and doom reporting that's out there
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: all over the place, oh my God, price of gas,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: oh my God, this is too expensive, oh my God.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: I would think that people are already in belt tightening mode.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: So where's this driver coming from? What needs to be
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: slowed down?
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 6: Well, just the overall– that's the hard part, Brian, isn't it?
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, because it is fairly widespread. It's not located
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 6: in just one or two areas. When it comes out
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 6: of the energy sector, that affects everything because it costs
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 6: energy to move stuff across the country. Therefore, you can
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 6: apply that to absolutely every industry out there as opposed
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 6: to we can't have situations where, for example, housing runs
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 6: amok and there's nothing we can do about that.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 9: We had that.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: In 2006, 2007, inflation was largely under control with the
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 6: exception of housing prices. And then there have been other
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 6: bubbles since then where it's localized. But this time when
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 6: it's focused on energy, then it is fairly widespread and
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 6: we need everything to cool down a bit.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 9: And that starts with the oil industry.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: Well, real quick here for you, Park Company, on this
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: topic and then move over to the post-election economy and
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: general ideas about that. How would a rate hike impact
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: in terms of mortgages, credit cards, and perhaps savings accounts?
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: It's going to be notched up, aren't they?
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 6: So the silver lining to this, if there is one,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 6: I'll start with the last thing you said there, which
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 6: is you finally can get a respectable amount of interest
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 6: off of your your depository accounts, and treasury bonds. And
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 6: I bonds, remember the ones that are based off inflation,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 6: they're not the 9% that we fell in love with
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 6: four or five years ago, but they're sneaking up around 5.5%.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 6: So if that's something that floats your boat, then.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 9: There are good opportunities there.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 6: On the other side, if you are somebody who bought
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 6: a house with an adjustable rate mortgage four years ago
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 6: or so, then you better be watching that calendar because
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 6: you're going to, and starting to budget for an increase
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 6: in your mortgage payment. So that can be a tough
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 6: challenge if you wound up staying put. But make sure
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 6: you can see what's coming. I wouldn't worry so much
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 6: if you have a credit card balance.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't worry so much about the interest rate. You're
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 9: already paying a.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: Ridiculous amount of interest.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 9: If it goes to 32, the problem is still the same.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and at some point, somebody's going to declare it's usurious.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: Don't go away. We're going to get his tea leaf reading,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: key economic scenarios and forecasts post-election. Talk Stations. It's 8.30
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: here at 55KRCD Talk Station. Monday, Monday is Brian James
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: on the line, as he is every Monday, for a
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: few segments here talking about things. And now, forecasting the future.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Brian James, I joked around about Brazil earlier. Obviously, not
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: a great market day after that election. And one might say, well, listen,
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: the Libs won in Brazil, and therefore, if they win here,
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: the market will crash. It's a little bit more complicated
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: than that, isn't it, Brian James? What do you expect?
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, just a little bit.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 6: Let's go for some big long-term historical perspective here. The
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 6: market does not care who's sitting on the throne, whether
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 6: that's the top throne in the president's office or Congress
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 6: or so forth. The market really just cares about whether
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 6: companies can make money or not. And you can go
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 6: all the way back through history and compare Democratic versus
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 6: Republican regimes, and all of them are generally positive throughout
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 6: the terms of presidential elections and congressional because the market
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 6: goes up, not down. I do have people who occasionally say,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 6: I lost so much money when Obama was elected, and
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 6: I have to look at what they're invested in because
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 6: the market went up for that entire eight-year period as
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 6: it did for the most part of the prior eight
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 6: years and so forth.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 9: So, you know, there just there is no knee jerk reaction.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 9: That makes any sense.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 6: So the Americans are going to wake up Wednesday with
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 6: the same mortgage payment, same grocery prices, same interest rate
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 6: in your credit cards.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 9: Nothing is really going to change. And so the question
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 9: is really, can the.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 6: Economy keep expanding while inflation comes down or does bringing
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 6: inflation under control require another squeeze on borrowers and businesses?
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 6: But that said, nothing is going to change the day
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 6: after you get out of bed from the ballot book.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: Well, and if you look legislatively, nothing's going to change
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: for the next couple of years legislatively because I don't
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: care if the Dems get the House and the Senate
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: while they can mess around with the filibuster in the Senate.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: President Trump is going to continue to be President Trump,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: and he's already promised to wield his veto pen liberally.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: So that means the laws aren't going to change, presumably,
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: with the exception of maybe executive orders.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 6: So so gridlock gridlock can be actually good because a
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 6: lot of times the market gets worried about what potentially
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 6: the government could do to mess up a good thing.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 6: And yes, as when he said he was going to
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 6: become Mr. Vito, some out there breathe a sigh of
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 6: relief just to say that, OK, that means for good,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 6: bad or indifferent, at least nothing major is going to change.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 6: And maybe we just go get back to some good
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 6: old fashioned gridlock. And I don't think that's a bad thing, right?
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 6: There's been an enormous amount of change for the last
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 6: two years. Maybe we should take a break, let the
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 6: dust settle on some things, and let things kind of
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 6: get back to whatever normal is.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 9: I don't even like that I said that. I'm not
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 9: sure what normal is anymore.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: Because you know it's going to say, we have a
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: spending problem in this country, and with gridlock, it's going
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: to continue spending at the rate we currently are at.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: I think we can pretty much expect that because that's
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: the way it's been now for decades and decades. Absolutely.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 9: It's funny you mention that. We're making it worse. And
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 9: that's coming from all corners. That even comes from the consumers.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 6: So September consumer spending was up a half percent, while
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 6: personal income rose 0.2 percent. One number is bigger than
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 6: the other. We're spending more, at least for the month
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 6: of September, we were in a phase where we're spending
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 6: more than we're bringing in. So that is, overspending is
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 6: not just a governmental problem. It is a societal problem
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 6: that rears its ugly head every now and then.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a societal problem that our government has taught us
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: is okay, which is crazy because household don't have printing
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: presses and that's the huge difference between government and the
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: household incomes.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they do in a sense of we stuff our,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 6: we stuff their mailboxes full of credit card applications. That's
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 6: not unlike a printing press, just creating money that didn't
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 6: exist yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Brian James, always financial. Appreciate your sound advice. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we'll do this again next Monday. We'll see
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: how the market actually reacted, and hopefully things will remain calm.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: That's all we can hope for, Brian James, is something calm.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: Financial planner is a great idea to help you navigate
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: these challenges and keep you out of hot water and
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: keep you from doing stupid things. Right, Brian James?
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 6: That is very well put, and I look forward to
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 6: picking up the post-election pieces with you next Monday.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: And voting, if you haven't done so already. It's all
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: about the numbers. Everybody's saying it. I think it's an
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: obvious thing. It doesn't take much to realize our country
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: is on the brink of maybe going on full socialist.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: And part of the help will come from Greg Lansman
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: if he's elected. And we have a better choice here
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: in Eric Conroy, who is not woke and DSA member.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy for Congress, his website, ericconroy.com. Welcome back, Eric.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: It's really good to have you on.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Brian, good morning. Thanks for having me. And as
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 5: you mentioned, tomorrow is a huge day. It's Election Day
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 5: here in the tri-state. And here in Ohio, we've got
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: several big races on the ballot. We, of course, have
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 5: the governor and the Senate races and my congressional race
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 5: as well. So Ohioans and particularly Cincinnatians really have an
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 5: opportunity here to put Ohio on the right track for
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 5: hopefully the next decade or so.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean, it is Election Day tomorrow, and
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: let's talk about the integrity of the election. I think
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: Greg Lansman already came out against the SAVE Act. He
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: also apparently opposed requirements involving proof of citizens for federal elections,
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: even though that's the law. And I don't believe you
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: follow that. You're a fan of the SAVE Act. You're
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: a fan of the integrity of the elections. Getting a
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: photo ID is not that much of an ask, and
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: I think everyone agrees with that.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And this is increasingly becoming a bipartisan issue. It's actually
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 5: over 80 percent of Americans believe you should show ID
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 5: or proof of citizenship to vote. And we're going to
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 5: make sure that our systems are secure and they're coming
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 5: up with the right results based on who should be voting.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 5: And I think this year will be a big year.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 5: And what we've seen really with turnout so far across
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 5: at least the first congressional district is this is a
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 5: very high turnout from both sides this year. Hopefully, we
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 5: get a few more Republican votes. But in general, it's
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 5: a very high turnout from both sides that we've seen
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 5: so far.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure you probably got the news over the weekend.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: We had a terrific amount of violence in downtown. People shot,
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: people killed. We had a riot on Short Vine that
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: spilled out. Police officers were beaten up.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 3: Up.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: It's on video. It's just hard to believe, although it
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't reported by local media. Had Signal 99 on earlier
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: talking about that. But putting aside, I know Greg Lansman,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: not really tough on crime. I know he, at least
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: I recall him supporting efforts to defund the police while
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: he was on Cincinnati Council as a member of the
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: Gang of Five, I'll interject. Plus, supported ending cash bail.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: Those are problems we have in Hamilton County. Your take
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: on that, Eric Conroy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, these are huge problems. And look, I'm a proud
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 5: downtown resident myself. I live actually right around the corner
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 5: from where the brawl happened. down here last summer. And
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 5: we have a crime problem. And I saw the horrific
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 5: clip this morning of the police officers assaulted up on
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 5: Short Vine.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: And this is a problem.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 5: And we need to get a handle on this. And
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 5: as you mentioned, my opponent, Greg Lansman, was a part
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 5: of the defund the police crowds, crowding his younger days
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 5: in city council, and also voted no on DHS funding.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 5: And I really want a Cincinnati where people feel comfortable
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 5: walking from Finley Market to Great American Ballpark at 11
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 5: o'clock at night. And until we achieve that, we simply
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 5: aren't doing it right. So it's time to get back
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 5: to the basics. We need to staff CPD appropriately. We
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 5: need to get them the resources and the training they
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 5: need and make our city safer.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't understand his voting against the Department of
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: Homeland Security funding. Was he hoping to completely end ICE?
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: As an entity, someone has got to enforce federal law. Now,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: he can advocate for changing federal law, but these are
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: the laws on the book, and this administration is at
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: least working to uphold the laws. So he's no interest
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: in enforcing the laws, apparently.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 5: Well, I think you're seeing a Democratic Party, including Greg Lansman,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: who's moving further and further to the left. I saw
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 5: a poll yesterday. Earlier this summer, that's 60% of Democrats
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 5: now view socialism favorably. So even if your quote unquote
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 5: favorite Democrat is a moderate or you consider them a moderate,
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 5: they're now a vote for the far left because a
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 5: whole party is going to vote together and a vote
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 5: for Greg Lansman. is a vote for a Hakeem Jeffries-led
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 5: House of Representatives. Brian, can you imagine Hakeem Jeffries as
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: Speaker of the House with now a radical left element
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 5: of that party? It would be absolutely insane for the
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 5: next two years and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree with you more on that. But then again,
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: you have my vote, Eric. I sure hope so.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: Well, in terms of, again, dwelling on Greg, gang of
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: five landsmen, I mean, he did violate the laws when
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: he was council member. I wish people would keep that
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: in the forefront of their mind. It's demonstrative of the
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: man's character, I would argue. But what about the stock transactions?
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of swirling concerns, them engaging in perhaps some
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: questionable stock trading, maybe unethical. What's your take on that,
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy?
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  Speaker 5: There's more than a few, Brian. As you mentioned, not
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 5: only did he have the Gang of Five incident during
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 5: his time on city council, but those unethical ways have
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 5: followed him to D.C. He broke the Stock Act in 2025,
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 5: which is a federal law against insider trading, and then
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 5: went back and tried to cover it up. He went
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 5: back and rewrote three years' worth of financial disclosures. covering
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 5: up dozens of trades, totaling over a million dollars. His
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 5: net worth has literally tripled, tripled in less than.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: Four years in DC.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 5: And now I saw last week, there's even another report
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 5: out there that some of that money that he earned
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 5: in the markets was through Chinese military companies. So this
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 5: is simply a guy who doesn't only not share our
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 5: values here in Southwest Ohio, but is there for the
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 5: wrong reasons. And we need to get people there for
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 5: the right reasons who actually want to serve this community.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: Well, another issue that is bizarre from my perspective, that
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: we even have a conversation in this nation, but I
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: know you and Greg Lansman are on different sides of
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: the equation of protecting women's sports. Um, there's quite a few, uh,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: States voting on transgender questions. I know Washington state, Colorado, Arizona, Nebraska,
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: all are, have all have ballot initiatives on to prevent
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: this type of mutilation, transgender surgeries, et cetera. Um, I
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: guess Greg Lansman's on the left side of that argument
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: as well, Eric Conroy.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 5: He is, and he's voted in favor of those initiatives
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 5: as well. And we need to get back to common
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 5: sense values, common sense conservative values here in Southwest Ohio.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 5: And Greg Lansman is a guy who supports men and
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 5: women's sports and sex changes for kids. And this is
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 5: just not what we need right now. We need to
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 5: get back to the basics of focusing on people's pocketbooks
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 5: and what matters to them on a day-to-day basis. and
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 5: not focusing on some of these issues that affect less
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 5: than one half of 1% of the population. And I
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 5: really want to focus on some of these bigger picture
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 5: issues like the economy, like crime, and like education. And unfortunately,
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 5: the Democrats keep pushing these other agenda issues because they
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 5: have no real ideas of their own on the real issues.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: You mentioned education, one of my favorite topics to talk about.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: I can't let it go by without doubling down on it.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: I believe in the idea of choice in education. It
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: seems to be one of the few things that Democrats
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: don't like. They like choice when it comes to whether
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: your baby dies or not. But in terms of whether
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: your own live children go to a school that you
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: want them to go to versus the one they want
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: to force you to go to, there's no choice in that.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: They're wed to the teachers' union, which are entities that
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: are designed to protect the teachers, not the children. So
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: you on education.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 5: A couple of things. One, I think the Department of
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 5: Education is too big and we need to consider downsizing it.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 5: I think it's a sad day. when we have a
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 5: large federal bureaucracy and bureaucrats in D.C. who are making $ 160, 000,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 5: $ 170, 000 a year, and our teachers back here in the
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 5: tri-state are making $ 30, 000 and $ 40, 000 a year. I'm a
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 5: big fan of putting a lot of these resources back
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 5: at the local level in the hands of parents and
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 5: teachers who, frankly, know how to use it a lot
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 5: more efficiently than the federal government. Secondly, I've I've talked
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 5: quite a bit about trade schools here on the campaign
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 5: trail and advocating to them to high schoolers. And we
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 5: all have a lot of friends who maybe we went
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 5: to high school with. I know I did on the
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 5: West side. Instead of going through the typical four-year college program,
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 5: they went into the trades and they got educated in
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 5: the trades. They learned a skill set. Maybe they started
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 5: their own practice. And by the time they were 30,
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 5: they were millionaires because they've took the electrician's trade or
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 5: the plumbing trade and.
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 2: Just ran with it.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 5: And I even got to tour a defense company here
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 5: on the east side this week, and they make specialized
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: gears for Navy ships. And I was talking to some
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 5: of their workers and their leadership, and they can't get
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 5: enough qualified machinists to make these very specialized gears for
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 5: Navy ships. I'm thinking, wow, this is a great opportunity
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 5: for young people to have a skill, to have a trade,
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 5: and have very successful careers and happy lives. A lot
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 5: of these trade positions are not going to get automated
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 5: by AI anytime soon, like some of these entry-level white-collar
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 5: jobs as well. I'm a huge advocate for trade schools
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 5: in the region.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy, we'll take a quick break. Bringing back is
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: one of the most prominent issues swirling around right now, AI.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: It looks like it will be regulated on a federal level.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: The question is to what degree, but that's a lot
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: of where these trade jobs are coming from. We'll let
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: you comment on AI as we... KRC, the talk station. K52, KRC,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: the talk station. I'm Thomas with Eric Conroy. You got
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: a choice, Conroy or Lansman. And you mentioned the Department
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: of Education salaries. You mentioned $ 175, 000.
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 3: Chris.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: Eric, I've got to tell you, Joe just reminded me,
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: I have an entire list here. Cincinnati Public Schools is
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: looking for a levy. They have 12 employees, 12, that
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: make more than $ 175, 000, one of which actually makes $ 272, 000,
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: almost $ 273, 000. So I had to get that out just
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: so my listeners know. But over to artificial intelligence, I
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: think everyone can agree there's going to be some sort
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: of federal regulation, probably if for no other reason than
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: to rein in the disparate state regulations that are going in.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: I think by federalizing and claiming Commerce Clause, they'll be
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: able to trump whatever state laws exist. If you are
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: a part of AI regulation process, Eric Conroy, where are
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: you on this? Are you a stop dead in its
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: tracks Bernie Sanders position, or are you a let a
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: complete market force kind of thing go out there? What
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: do you think, Eric?
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 5: Well, firstly, I think a lot of folks will agree
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 5: that AI in itself is extremely impressive. And to me,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 5: this debate kind of reminds me of the debate for
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 5: the Internet and regulation for the Internet 20 and 30
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 5: years ago. If you're going to have regulations for a
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 5: technology that clearly goes across state lines, then you're probably
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 5: going to need some kind of federal guidance. When we
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 5: have the internet, there's nothing stopping it from going from
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 5: Ohio to California. So AI, I think it would be
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 5: a similar concept if we're talking about regulation. I don't
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 5: like to use the term regulation. What I like to
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 5: use is the term guardrails because I think what we
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 5: have is terrific and the amount of opportunities for advances
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 5: in things like medicine is terrific. At the same time, though,
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 5: we need to make sure we're protecting people's privacy, protecting
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 5: our kids. And hopefully limiting the disruption in jobs and
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 5: the economy in the near term as well. So I
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 5: am a fan of looking at industry by industry and
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 5: just seeing in general if there's some guardrails that might
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 5: be appropriate as we adapt this new technology.
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: EricConroy.com. Check out where he is on all the issues.
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm certainly satisfied myself, Eric, and demonstrably better candidate
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: for a multitude of reasons than Greg Lansman. I really,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: truly hope you win tomorrow. We'll keep our fingers crossed
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: and prayers going your direction and Remind my listeners, get
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: out and vote.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 3: Eric?
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Brian, thank you again for having me. This race
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 5: is going to come down to the wire tomorrow, probably
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 5: late into the night. We're in a margin of error.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 5: race in the polls, and we need everyone to get
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 5: out there and vote. The early vote has been looking
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 5: pretty good for Republicans in this district, but we need
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 5: to push it through the finish line tomorrow. So everyone,
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 5: please get out there and vote.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 2: We had the.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 5: Speaker of the House in town last week promoting the
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 5: race as well. So this is still a top 10
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 5: race in the country this year, but It's your decision.
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 5: So everyone get out and vote. Take your friends, take
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 5: five of their friends, and let's get this thing done.