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Speaker 2: You may be. I am Brian Thomas and a happy
Speaker 2: money to you, trying to make it happy anyway. I'm
Speaker 2: just trying to make some sense out of the craziness
Speaker 2: going on in the world, which is a true struggle.
Speaker 2: Although I have some interesting uh well I think interesting
Speaker 2: thoughts and comments. Is I try to step back from
Speaker 2: the fog of the craziness going on in the world,
Speaker 2: not the situation, the devolving situation between US and Ukraine
Speaker 2: and our NATO friends and really kind of wondering whether
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Speaker 2: stuck in the I think I'm stuck in the decades
Speaker 2: past Internet reality still hasn't sunk in for me. And
Speaker 2: that's okay. Anyway, again, stepping back from the reality is
Speaker 2: what's going on. I know everybody's all upset about this
Speaker 2: blow up that happened with Ukrainian President Zelensky and President
Speaker 2: Trump and JD. Vance this past what was it Friday.
Speaker 2: It's I think it's a lot of faux anger or reaction.
Speaker 2: I got a friend in France who you know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: Europe thinks. So it was just kind of an interesting exchange.
Speaker 2: And my perception, you know, just putting aside that politicians
Speaker 2: are narcissistic clowns. Generally speaking, I think we need to
Speaker 2: appreciate the fact that Ukraine on its own can't win
Speaker 2: that war. Russia's might is tremendous compared to what Ukraine's
Speaker 2: got left. I mean, they're going around and rounding up people,
Speaker 2: and I mean this has been going on for a
Speaker 2: long time. It's three years in a war, but they're
Speaker 2: going around rounding up people in bars and sending them
Speaker 2: front line people who don't necessarily want to fight. You
Speaker 2: got a lot of regions Ukraine that are ethnically Russian.
Speaker 2: They believe in align with Russia. And I suppose if
Speaker 2: you ask them, they'd rather be affiliated or be part
Speaker 2: of Russia than in independent Ukraine. Ukraine's not an ATO member.
Speaker 2: And is it worth going into World War or three
Speaker 2: over Ukraine? I mean, and recognizing the power and might
Speaker 2: of Russia relative to Ukraine. You know, negotiating a peace
Speaker 2: still is going to require some concessions on the part
Speaker 2: of the Ukraine, of the Ukrainian people. They're going to
Speaker 2: have to give up something because Russia right now has
Speaker 2: the upper hand. Looking at NATO alone, they don't have
Speaker 2: the military resources. They rely entirely on the United States,
Speaker 2: Which is really my fundamental point on all my observations.
Speaker 2: Everything seems to require our engagement and involvement. Why NATO's
Speaker 2: the one that's got most at stake here, They're the
Speaker 2: ones most at risk. They believe that Russia is an
Speaker 2: existential threat to their existence or their own independence, then
Speaker 2: man up. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday you'repe
Speaker 2: prepared to take the lead in defense of Ukraine, fine,
Speaker 2: including troops and planes. But here's the big giant butt
Speaker 2: in the room needs the strong backing of the United States.
Speaker 2: After a summer with eighteen European leaders, Starmar said a
Speaker 2: coalition of the willing would defend a peace deal in
Speaker 2: Ukraine and said a number of countries have signaled that
Speaker 2: they want to be a part of a plan to
Speaker 2: bring durable peace to the country. Pasterte, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: A peace deal? That's what Trump was trying to negotiate,
Speaker 2: a resolution of the conflict. Now, if you substitute the
Speaker 2: United States in these negotiations, are they going to be
Speaker 2: come up with a able to come up with a
Speaker 2: better deal, then maybe Trump might help negotiate. Don't you
Speaker 2: think they are going to have to concee that Russia
Speaker 2: has the upper hand, has already taken over giant, well
Speaker 2: not giant chunks, but substantial chunks of Ukraine and is
Speaker 2: now holding them those chunks that really are ethnically Russian people.
Speaker 2: That there's gonna have to be some concessions to Russia
Speaker 2: and giving up pieces of Ukraine. Do you think the
Speaker 2: European Union can negotiate a quote unquote peace deal that
Speaker 2: results in Russia completely pulling out and restoring Ukraine's borders
Speaker 2: to where they were before Russia invaded them. And I'm
Speaker 2: not defending Russia's invasion. The side chatter on of this
Speaker 2: who's at fault, Who's at fault? Well, of course Russia
Speaker 2: is at fault. They're the ones that invaded. But a
Speaker 2: welcome invasion at least in so far as the ethnic
Speaker 2: Russians are concerned, that's the side they want to be on.
Speaker 2: It's like all those Illinois counties that want to be
Speaker 2: part of Indiana who are being held hostage here.
Speaker 5: Star war.
Speaker 2: Not every nation will to feel able to contribute, but
Speaker 2: that can't mean that we sit back. Instead, those will
Speaker 2: will intensify planning now with real urgency word word word
Speaker 2: word word word. The UK is prepared to back this
Speaker 2: with boots on the ground and planes in the air.
Speaker 2: Europe must do the heavy lifting. Well, fine, Europe, you
Speaker 2: should have been doing the heavy lifting. Can you do
Speaker 2: the heavy lifting though you've depleted your military, you haven't
Speaker 2: invested in military because we've been funding the whole ooh
Speaker 2: almost oh, I caught myself from an sec violation. I'm
Speaker 2: a little heated about this this morning. There wouldn't be
Speaker 2: a it wouldn't be a NATO if it wasn't for
Speaker 2: the United States funding it. To be clear, Starmer said,
Speaker 2: we agree with mister Trump on the urgent need for
Speaker 2: a durable peace. There's those words again, peace. What does
Speaker 2: that specifically mean? Prime Minister Starmer? What do you mean
Speaker 2: when you want to negotiate peace? What kind of deal
Speaker 2: are you going to create? You're gonna sit down with Putin?
Speaker 2: What's Putin gonna demand? Putin's gonna demand some land? Are
Speaker 2: you willing to negotiate that? And then the aftermath because
Speaker 2: everbody said, wha, what's gonna keep Putin from reinvading Ukraine?
Speaker 2: We need troops and military hardware enter the United States again,
Speaker 2: That's why they keep pivoting back to the United States.
Speaker 2: Now this Friday devolvement, the discussion grew so heat to
Speaker 2: the White House scrapped the signing ceremony for an agreement
Speaker 2: that would have grown to the United States access to
Speaker 2: Ukraine's rare earth mentals in exchange for continued support. In
Speaker 2: exchange for continued support, we finally get something back in
Speaker 2: return for the billions of dollars that we're throwing at
Speaker 2: this pointless war. I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: Rather than US unilaterally giving up and were broke. By
Speaker 2: the way, I'm sorry, I have to throw the reality
Speaker 2: into the room. Thirty six trillion dollars in the whole
Speaker 2: debt service now at a trillion dollars annually. We're blank
Speaker 2: and broke man. And yet we're expected to continue to
Speaker 2: throw billions and billions and billions of dollars in aid
Speaker 2: to NATO. Generally speaking, and of this specific conflict in Ukraine,
Speaker 2: everybody turns to us. Everybody turns to us. Trump said
Speaker 2: he determined that Zelunsky is not ready for peace if
Speaker 2: America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him
Speaker 2: a big advantage in negotiations. Well, no kidding, because apparently
Speaker 2: without our involvement in our military hardware and the billions
Speaker 2: of dollars of aid, they'd have lost the war already.
Speaker 2: Starmar said yesterday Prime Prime Minister, nobody wanted to see
Speaker 2: what happened last Friday, But I do not accept that
Speaker 2: the US is an unreliable ally. The US has been
Speaker 2: a reliable ally of the UK for many many decades
Speaker 2: and continues to be. There are no two countries as
Speaker 2: closely along as ours. Our defense AHA, our security HA,
Speaker 2: and our intelligence is intertwined in a way. No two
Speaker 2: other countries are. Well, that's probably all accurate. How big
Speaker 2: is the United Kingdom's military now that we have been
Speaker 2: sort of the police force of the entire Natal Alliance
Speaker 2: since the end of World War two? Starmer, for his part,
Speaker 2: said he announced a two billion dollar export financing toe
Speaker 2: of the Ukraine to purchase five thousand air defense missiles
Speaker 2: manufactured in Belfast. Ah, the military industrial complex exists outside
Speaker 2: of the United States. You didn't know there were weapon
Speaker 2: manufacturers in Belfast, did you? He signed a two point
Speaker 2: seven billion dollar loan for additional military Ukraine. Note that
Speaker 2: that's alone, not a gift. We haven't been loaning. We've
Speaker 2: just been giving away. And Trump was trying to negotiate
Speaker 2: some measure of protection for the United States and mechanism
Speaker 2: to maybe benefit us in return for military hardware by
Speaker 2: way of the minerals deal. That was the point of that. Sorry,
Speaker 2: no more free lunch man. You better give us something
Speaker 2: in return for what we are taking from us. You're
Speaker 2: not entitled to our money, our weapons, and our support.
Speaker 2: British Ambassador of the United States Peter Mandelssohn called for
Speaker 2: a reset between the US and Ukraine, encouraging Zelunsi to
Speaker 2: sign the minerals deal. He said, what helping sure the
Speaker 2: United States has a stake in Ukraine's future? He said,
Speaker 2: the United States must have a role in any peace deal. Now, pauls,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask yourself, why is that? Why do we
Speaker 2: have to be involved at all? Listen, I understand ice
Speaker 2: Relationianism isn't a practical foreign policy, to quote Casablanca, But
Speaker 2: how is it that we are the crutch upon which
Speaker 2: the world relies in in negotiating peace deals. What if
Speaker 2: you just sort of, you know, magically took us out
Speaker 2: of the equation? What the hell would they do without us?
Speaker 2: Apparently nothing? Mandelssion this British Ambassador of the United States
Speaker 2: said on ABC's This Week, we would also like to
Speaker 2: see the United States giving us cover for this. We
Speaker 2: want to know the US is covering our backs in
Speaker 2: what we are putting into Ukraine on the ground that
Speaker 2: there is some sort of ultimate backstop if things get
Speaker 2: really nasty. He said, the Russians need to know they
Speaker 2: are going to answer to the United States as well
Speaker 2: as to the Europeans on the It sound like world
Speaker 2: War three to you. It seems to me to be
Speaker 2: the desire of these leaders. It's like, you know, we're
Speaker 2: just gonna go headlong into World War three. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe for those folks out there that are interested in
Speaker 2: population control, there's your answer. The Malthusians will love it.
Speaker 2: Boy will wipe out half the world with nuclear weapons,
Speaker 2: and we won't have all these cockroaches that the globalists
Speaker 2: and the Greens call well killers of the planet if
Speaker 2: we eradicate a whole bunch of them. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I hate to go down that road and make those
Speaker 2: things assertions out loud, but what in the hell is
Speaker 2: going on here? But it really does give you a
Speaker 2: sense of perspective, doesn't it. Everyone keeps turning to us,
Speaker 2: Everyone keeps turning to us. They have been relying upon
Speaker 2: us now for decades and decades, and I'm sorry, going
Speaker 2: back to the fundamental point here, we're broke. Five eighteen
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Speaker 2: I've love to hear what you think about this. I'm baffled.
Speaker 2: I am completely perplexed. I'll be right back. Surprize of
Speaker 2: how cold it is. Didn't seem that way when I
Speaker 2: walked out to my car this morning, about twenty two
Speaker 2: on a Monday. Let's go to the Phone's got several
Speaker 2: callers online and we'll start with Mississippi James, and we'll
Speaker 2: get to New Hampshire, Gary, my out of state friends, James.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, my friend. Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, doctor Brian. Now I did a little dive.
Speaker 5: I didn't do.
Speaker 6: A deep dive until Ukraine. But they say this go
Speaker 6: back to the nineties when Ukraine surrenders is nuclear arms
Speaker 6: capability in exchange for the United States and the European
Speaker 6: nation protected them against all foreign affairs. So this stuff
Speaker 6: had been brought forward to today. Now we know the
Speaker 6: war been going on for three years. We don't see
Speaker 6: where Joe track to negotiate in it. I mean, we
Speaker 6: don't know to underline it. But yeah, they did supply
Speaker 6: to the money and the ammunition. Because Ukraine supposed to
Speaker 6: gave up their capability in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Well, we didn't provide them with a defense obligation. There's
Speaker 2: no written treaty that said the European Union or the
Speaker 2: United States would send military troops or boots on the
Speaker 2: ground to defend them militarily. Now, we've got this relationship
Speaker 2: with NATO countries, so if one of the NATO countries
Speaker 2: is invader, the United States has a defense obligation. But
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anywhere where it's written that we have
Speaker 2: to defend Ukraine against the foreign invader.
Speaker 6: Well, not by sinning, not by senning military, which we
Speaker 6: have not done that. We just send money and they quit. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's a proxy war, so if they you know, like
Speaker 6: I said, I didn't do a deep dive into it
Speaker 6: and still got to do my research, but that's what
Speaker 6: I came up with. This goes back to the nineties.
Speaker 6: So you may have a much smarter call of more
Speaker 6: informed callers than I am that may be able to
Speaker 6: shine some more light on this.
Speaker 5: All right, have a good day here YouTube.
Speaker 2: James. Always good to hear from you, my friend. We
Speaker 2: have time for another one, Joe. Yes, we do a
Speaker 2: new Hampshire. Gary. Welcome back to the Morning Show.
Speaker 6: Gary.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess Gary's not going to be speaking with
Speaker 2: us this morning, so anyhow we're at the time. In
Speaker 2: this segment, Pat You'll be first out of the gate
Speaker 2: when I get back. Hang on, got a brief few
Speaker 2: brief words here, and we'll resume the conversation. Is Monday
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Speaker 2: thanks for holding over the break there. Welcome to the
Speaker 2: Morning Show.
Speaker 7: Oh thank you, Brian. I'm about as up that as
Speaker 7: you are. One thing that I wanted to know, Uh
Speaker 7: Lizinsky had breakfast with some Democrats and some Republicans before
Speaker 7: he went to meet with uh Donald Trump. The thing is,
Speaker 7: I want to know who the Democrats and the repair
Speaker 7: Well we know some of the dumbs because she was
Speaker 7: one yesterday. But anyway, it seems to me like they
Speaker 7: might have pumped him up the you know, to go
Speaker 7: after uh Donald Trump, because Trump is trying to get
Speaker 7: the peace and the war, and I think uh Lizinsky,
Speaker 7: with all the billions that he's got, he doesn't even
Speaker 7: know where half of it is. I just want to
Speaker 7: know what they said to him that got him to
Speaker 7: do what he did at the White House. So but anyway, Brian,
Speaker 7: if there's a person out there that digs into the stuff,
Speaker 7: I like to know who they.
Speaker 8: All were at the breakfast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, anyway, sweetheart, you have a try to stay call them.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to calm down, have a good day, and
Speaker 7: keep praying for the country.
Speaker 2: Thanks Pat, Yes, absolutely pray for the country that we're
Speaker 2: because we're broke. Going back to that fundamental promise, we
Speaker 2: are going to spend ourselves into our oblivion. Therein lies
Speaker 2: the challenge. I mean, Lord Almighty, the world has its
Speaker 2: hand in our pocket. That's my observation. I was like,
Speaker 2: what prompted this rant this morning? You know, peace beasp spaces,
Speaker 2: United States, Peace beast pa species. But we need the
Speaker 2: United States and just really try to be you know,
Speaker 2: step a ten thousand foot level. And he's so, wait
Speaker 2: a second, why does the rest of the world think
Speaker 2: it needs our approval or that we need to blessed
Speaker 2: lay our hands upon whatever negotiation they want to enter
Speaker 2: in to. It's because we keep funding every blanket project
Speaker 2: in the world. We keep throwing all of our the
Speaker 2: money that doesn't exist out into the world. They are
Speaker 2: hooked up with like an umbilical court to the United
Speaker 2: States pocketbook. I think that's what needs to stop. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: that will lower our power and influence in the world.
Speaker 2: But you know, in the grand scheme of things, So
Speaker 2: what do you want to be hooked at? That was
Speaker 2: kind of the point I made to my friend in France.
Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't want to be dependent upon us. Well,
Speaker 2: it's ruining your relationship with the NATO countries. Well well,
Speaker 2: you know, okay, let's pause some run and let's take
Speaker 2: again a ten thousand foot look at what NATO has become.
Speaker 2: Stiflers of free speech, pursuers of zero carbon and green energy,
Speaker 2: and they can't even afford to run their own plants
Speaker 2: because they've put themselves in that position Greta Thunberg dominating
Speaker 2: their energy policy. We pick and choose in the world
Speaker 2: who we want relationships with autocracies, you know, help We've
Speaker 2: got significant trade with China, who's our biggest genuine existential
Speaker 2: threat in the world. We don't see eye to eye
Speaker 2: with most of the NATO countries in terms of how
Speaker 2: they're run. Again, going back to free speech, for example,
Speaker 2: they don't allow it. Isn't that a human rights abuse?
Speaker 2: Stifling individual thought? Yes? We have historic relationship with NATO.
Speaker 2: How we rebuilt most of those countries in the aftermath
Speaker 2: of World War Two. We trade with them. If it
Speaker 2: wasn't for US, I don't think that they would be
Speaker 2: as economically successful as they are. Same thing with China
Speaker 2: are imbalance with China is overwhelming? Why because with the
Speaker 2: wealthiest country in the world sort of kind of ignoring
Speaker 2: our massive debt. See what Charlie's got this morning, Charlie,
Speaker 2: Welcome in the Morning Show. Sorry for my rent there.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to your call. Welcome.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I love your program, Brian.
Speaker 9: I try to listen to it as often as I
Speaker 9: can too. Comments. I think that is it the Dunbar region.
Speaker 9: I think they're mostly epic Russians? Yes, why not just
Speaker 9: give that to the Russians. That's an exchange for Russia
Speaker 9: leaving and then Russia allowing a huge buffer zone between
Speaker 9: Russia and Ukraine following this, and that way we'll have
Speaker 9: at least a tenuous piece. That's my first comment.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean and that that goes to my point
Speaker 2: about ethnic Russians there, that the Dunbass region or Dunbar
Speaker 2: region is mostly oh with Russia because they are ethnically Russian,
Speaker 2: and they relate to Russia and not Ukraine as an
Speaker 2: independent country. I mean, it doesn't it's not an affront
Speaker 2: to them to be a part of Russia. That's the point.
Speaker 2: And to negotiate a peace because Russia's got the upper
Speaker 2: hand militarily, it's going to require some land concessions. Anybody
Speaker 2: practically reals life realize. That's why Puttin is like, hey,
Speaker 2: screw you guys. You know we're winning, and do we
Speaker 2: want to risk World War three by putting a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of troops in there in order to sustain the
Speaker 2: Russia or the Ukrainian front from further incursions by Russia?
Speaker 2: Is it worth global devastation for that. I'm of the
Speaker 2: mind to say, no, it's not. So everybody's talking about peace,
Speaker 2: what does peace mean? Vladimir Putin's gonna say peace requires
Speaker 2: land concessions. We're winning the war. I've got no reason
Speaker 2: to give up on the advances we've made. Besides, go
Speaker 2: ahead and do a poll of the people in the
Speaker 2: areas that we've taken over, and they'll probably say they're
Speaker 2: okay with being part of Russia. That's I mean, that's
Speaker 2: kind of where I'm going here. They talk piece piece
Speaker 2: piece piece piece, but they never articulate out loud they
Speaker 2: mean the NATO countries who are now I guess, taking
Speaker 2: the front on negotiating a piece. They never say out
Speaker 2: loud what that means.
Speaker 5: Glad to me.
Speaker 2: Puttin's going to have a say in that, isn't he right?
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Speaker 2: from the headier conflicts and my rant this morning and
Speaker 2: dive into the stack is stupid. Oh parenthetically, PG sitting
Speaker 2: Feld is going to try to take his case to
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Just getting in a little headlining there
Speaker 2: from the local stories that I didn't get to anybody
Speaker 2: placing bets on whether he's going. They're going to accept it.
Speaker 2: Stick around, be right back after these brief words.
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Speaker 2: got Dwayne on the line. Dwayne, thanks for calling this
Speaker 2: morning in a very happy Monday to you, sir.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Brian, Happy Monday.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 10: Hey.
Speaker 12: I think I think Trump advanced just out at Zelensky
Speaker 12: for what he is. Can basically put our corrupt politicians
Speaker 12: on notice who were lining their pockets from this money
Speaker 12: laundry operation. The big thing to remember is our country,
Speaker 12: through USAID funded a CIA news organization. Remember the whistleblower,
Speaker 12: Lieutenant Colonel Vinman, who uh out at Trump on the
Speaker 12: perfect phone call, and Zelensky through Trump under the bus,
Speaker 12: and that's why he got impeached. So Trump did not
Speaker 12: forget that, let me tell you. So he embarrassed Zelenski.
Speaker 12: And now, of course Finman is a Democrat congressman, so
Speaker 12: they rewarded him by testifying to impeach Trump. And now
Speaker 12: he's a Democratic congressman for using our tax dollars through USAID.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that's another important fundamental point. Ukraine
Speaker 2: does not have clean hands. It has notably been a
Speaker 2: very corrupt country. It's as if you know, we were
Speaker 2: when people he said, oh we need to defend Ukraine,
Speaker 2: need to defend Ukraine. And that's why I mentioned about
Speaker 2: picking and choosing the countries that we are willing to
Speaker 2: have relationships with and those we are not. You know,
Speaker 2: there are countries we work with all the time that
Speaker 2: are terrible with human rights abuses, and there are countries
Speaker 2: that we refuse to work with because well, you know,
Speaker 2: they're autocracies, or they're you know, they're communists, or I mean,
Speaker 2: fill in the blank. You just sort of pick and
Speaker 2: chew is what sins are going to justify or not
Speaker 2: justify a relationship with, or you're willing to overlook them.
Speaker 2: But Ukraine does not have clean hands at all. And
Speaker 2: you go back to the Biden administration. You think about
Speaker 2: you know, Hunter Biden's relationship Barissmal Holdings. You know, there's
Speaker 2: corruption all day long. So yeah, it just there's so
Speaker 2: much to take into account here. And this isn't a
Speaker 2: black and white situation. It is as gray and as
Speaker 2: obtuse and and foggy as anything could possibly be. Appreciate
Speaker 2: the call, Dwayne, I really do. This whole thing's got
Speaker 2: me really down over to the stack of stupid. But
Speaker 2: you can feel free to call anyway interrupt the stacker stupid,
Speaker 2: I don't mind. I thought this was hilarious. City Group
Speaker 2: accidentally credited a client's account with are you ready eighty
Speaker 2: one trillion dollars last April? Can you imagine waking up
Speaker 2: and you got eighty one billion dollars in a year account?
Speaker 2: Financial Times report of the incident that went unreported until now.
Speaker 2: It happened last April. They mistakenly entered an internal transfer
Speaker 2: of eighty one trillion dollars into a client account when
Speaker 2: the intended amount was two hundred and eighty dollars. Actually
Speaker 2: it was April of twenty twenty two, so that it
Speaker 2: managed to slip through the banks in initial checks and balances.
Speaker 2: Accord to the internal account of the event seen by
Speaker 2: Financial Times as well as two people familiar with the matter,
Speaker 2: eighty one trillion dollar error missed by both the payment
Speaker 2: employee responsible for the transaction and a second official task
Speaker 2: with verifying it before being approved or processing the following
Speaker 2: business day wasn't until ninety minutes after the payment posted
Speaker 2: that a third employee caught the discrepancye while reviewing the
Speaker 2: bank's account balances. Payment then reversed several hours later. No
Speaker 2: client funds actually left City Group. The bank was did
Speaker 2: the disclosure the quote near miss close quote to the
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.
Speaker 2: The bank has been under regulatory scrutiny since mistakenly wiring
Speaker 2: nine hundred million dollars to Revlon creditors back in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: an era that led to the departure of then CEO
Speaker 2: Michael Corbett, as well as hefty fines. Wow, we got
Speaker 2: to Saint Louis where a forty one year old man's
Speaker 2: been charged with attacking his parents after an argument about
Speaker 2: the Internet going down at their home. Just away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just unplug the router and then plug it back in again.
Speaker 2: It's called a reboot. Saint Louis Metropolitan Police arrested Martice
Speaker 2: Fulton Sunday, charging with two counts a third degree domestic assault.
Speaker 2: Forty save Police showed up at the home after multiple
Speaker 2: calls about a disturbance and met with Fulton's parents, who
Speaker 2: are seventy four and seventy three years old. Office has
Speaker 2: learned that after an argument about the Internet being down
Speaker 2: at the residence, Fulton allegedly attacked both of his parents,
Speaker 2: striking his father and mother and trying to strangle his
Speaker 2: father with a power cord. Do what also accused of
Speaker 2: throwing his mother to the ground. Not in front of
Speaker 2: Judge Silverio. Yes, the biggest douche of the universe, in
Speaker 2: all the galaxies.
Speaker 5: There's no bigger.
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Speaker 2: Five fifty on a Monday fifty five KCV talk station
Speaker 2: A try to make it a good one five one three,
Speaker 2: seven fifty and two three talk. Lets jump out to
Speaker 2: the phone for I return to the stackers too, but
Speaker 2: I got Pete on the line. Pete, thanks for calling
Speaker 2: this morning. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 13: Thanks Brian heys Linsky. I listen to Tucker. He said
Speaker 13: that the Lensky has been black markets selling our ammunition
Speaker 13: and equipment all over the black market around the world,
Speaker 13: and that even cartels in Mexico have some of our
Speaker 13: our equipment and ammunition to use against US as well
Speaker 13: as terrorist groups and usually Tucker's pretty spot off.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's exactly what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: I have no idea whether or not Tucker Carlson is right,
Speaker 2: but he usually is a very well informed guy, So
Speaker 2: I doubt he would go out on a ledge and
Speaker 2: make things up and say it out loud. So and
Speaker 2: it wouldn't wouldn't shock me a bit, Pete, honestly wouldn't
Speaker 2: trying to.
Speaker 13: Find out if the Linsey got a Swiss Bank account.
Speaker 2: Somewhere plural accounts, plural. Yeah, I'm sure he's taken well,
Speaker 2: taking care of himself financially for whatever future he has
Speaker 2: in store for him. Plus, you know he suspended elections.
Speaker 2: You know, talk about people need defending democracy. We need
Speaker 2: to defend democracy. We needed Well, you know why don't
Speaker 2: have an election? Well it's a war torn region. We
Speaker 2: can't have an election in a war torn region. Okay,
Speaker 2: just another fun factor throw into the mix when you're
Speaker 2: contemplating these things. And nobody's got clean hands in this,
Speaker 2: no one except I think we can all agree the
Speaker 2: biggest beneficiaries of an ongoing conflict the military industrial complex. Uh,
Speaker 2: let us return to the stack of stupid. We're you
Speaker 2: go to North Carolina. A woman is wonder for attempted
Speaker 2: murder after allegedly locking her boyfriend in a storage unit
Speaker 2: where he was stuck for some several days with no
Speaker 2: food or water before finally being rescued. Rob A fifty
Speaker 2: two year old Robin Deaton of Matthews, North Carolina, being
Speaker 2: sought on an attempted murder and kidnapping charges of an
Speaker 2: Roe Police Department said she remains at large. Fifty one
Speaker 2: year old boyfriend had been locked in the unit on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Beating allegedly convened to crawl to the back of the
Speaker 2: unit to get her something, and that's when she slammed
Speaker 2: the door shut, saying what the hell, this is what
Speaker 2: you get just he had no food, water, or power source.
Speaker 2: There were two locks on the storage unit. He said
Speaker 2: he was in that unit and his phone was about
Speaker 2: to die when he asked if he needed emergency services.
Speaker 2: I need to get out of here. I just can't breathe.
Speaker 2: I haven't had anything to drink or eat. Officers respond
Speaker 2: to the facility about a quarter after one on Monday afternoon.
Speaker 2: According to the incident report, Man taken to the area
Speaker 2: hospital since and has since been released. Into the report
Speaker 2: lists to the crime as false imprisonment, though the detectives
Speaker 2: sought higher charges for Deton's arrest want because based on
Speaker 2: the investigation Saint Louis County, Missouri, Webster Groves woman pointed
Speaker 2: a firearm at a Duncan Donuts drive through a tendant
Speaker 2: in spite of get after if she got a re
Speaker 2: fund for her order. In Saint Louis A gott County
Speaker 2: Friday Court investment Amen Joe Court, an investigator with the
Speaker 2: rock Hill Police Department, Ebony Gaither, thirty five, argued with
Speaker 2: the attendant about her order and ultimately got a refund.
Speaker 2: Investigator wrote, quote, defendant, apparently unsatisfied, takes the ceramic tip
Speaker 2: container from the counter and throws it, causing it to break.
Speaker 2: She then throws the food at the victim. The attendant
Speaker 2: followed Gaither out, began recording video and tried to get
Speaker 2: a photo of her license plate. Investigator wrote, defendant points
Speaker 2: a semi automatic pistol of victim. The victim states that
Speaker 2: law enforcement will get involved. According to court records, that's
Speaker 2: when Gayther got out of her car and approached the
Speaker 2: victim before trying to hit them in the face. Do
Speaker 2: what the hell everything captured on the victim's cell phone.
Speaker 2: Of course, Gaither are now facing charge of unlawful use
Speaker 2: of a weapon fourth degree the assault and property damage
Speaker 2: for pulling out a weapon during the argument, swinging her
Speaker 2: fist at the victim's head and breaking the tip jar
Speaker 2: bond fifty thousand dollars cash only ten percent not authorized
Speaker 2: obviously again not in front of Hamilton County Judge. Silverstein.
Speaker 2: Arrested Sunday. Gaylor said to appear in court Monday. The
Speaker 2: hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday because she wanted her attorney
Speaker 2: to be present. Yeah, that might help. Five fifty five
Speaker 2: five care see the talk station. You know, if the
Speaker 2: world would just learn your sound bite, Joe, just walk away,
Speaker 2: we would be in a much, much, much better place.
Speaker 2: Take a deep breath. Count to ten, and remember someone
Speaker 2: has a cell phone camera out and is recording your actions.
Speaker 2: Scary and o'relegan as that may be. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: caught from doing stupid things. Plenty to talk about in
Speaker 2: the six o'clock hour. Man, I got a stack of
Speaker 2: trainny Joe, you hit like eight articles, got a roll
Speaker 2: this morning. Prep for the show. Hang on, folks, be
Speaker 2: back after the news.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five care see the talk station, Get any.
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Speaker 2: We're happy, Happy Monday to you and Thomas. Looking for
Speaker 2: phone call if you'd like to call, and you direct
Speaker 2: the topic of conversation. I thoroughly enjoyed that five with
Speaker 2: three seven, four, nine, fifty five, eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: two to three Talk Town five fifty on AT and
Speaker 2: T phone, kind of move away from my rant on Ukraine. Boy,
Speaker 2: that had me going this morning in the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: If you're just tuning in, you feel free to find
Speaker 2: the podcast to that hour on fifty five car Ze
Speaker 2: dot com. Anyhow, just just the ultimate point. It's like
Speaker 2: the entire world keeps looking to us, keeps looking to us.
Speaker 2: They want to negotiate a peace. What does that mean? What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 2: When? When France and in the UK want to take
Speaker 2: over the peace negotiation they talk about we need a piece,
Speaker 2: need a piece that the United States can buy into.
Speaker 2: Why why us? I think the point ultimately is I
Speaker 2: made it. Not going into more glorious rants. They've all
Speaker 2: got their hand in our pocket and we're broke, painfully,
Speaker 2: painfully broke. Anyway, I put a post on the idea
Speaker 2: on Facebook, and I's surprised that many people responded to it.
Speaker 2: Have you been seeing these demands for boycotts and don't
Speaker 2: buy anything? I guess in the name of I don't know,
Speaker 2: some sort of diversity equity inclusions, so sort of left
Speaker 2: wing ideologically driven concept that no, do not shop at
Speaker 2: fill in the blank store or do not buy anything
Speaker 2: on some given day. Let's stop the onomy from functioning
Speaker 2: and show them the power of the people. And then
Speaker 2: the next day comes and then you go out and
Speaker 2: buy the stuff that you didn't buy the prior day.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of the reality of that. In
Speaker 2: my parallel was it's like a snow day. You know,
Speaker 2: the roads are closed, so you can't make it out
Speaker 2: to Kroger to buy your milk. You missed the opportunity
Speaker 2: to get ahead of the storm, so you're stuck at home.
Speaker 2: You're not out participating in economic activity because well, the
Speaker 2: roads are closed, or you're afraid of crashing your car
Speaker 2: because the roads are slick. Then what do you do?
Speaker 2: As soon as the roads are clear, you get in
Speaker 2: your car and you go out and you buy something.
Speaker 2: There's no overall economic impact. The only way to have
Speaker 2: an economic economic impact along the lines of what they
Speaker 2: suggest is going to happen is if you just commit
Speaker 2: to quit buying period. Done over with. I'm not buying
Speaker 2: anything anymore. And how would that serve society? Your friends
Speaker 2: and neighbors who are in the you know, are getting
Speaker 2: a paycheck related to an economic activity, which we all do.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just there's some idiots out there, truly, truly,
Speaker 2: and so I turn to Maine because Joe had a
Speaker 2: stack of training. Is what I'm calling it this morning.
Speaker 2: It's all these transgender athletes winning and competing against women
Speaker 2: and in the name of defending women's rights. It is
Speaker 2: indeed madness. Madness, Main's transgender madness. According to the editorial
Speaker 2: board of the Wall Street Journals, pretty much summing up
Speaker 2: everything I feel about this. Democrats want to know how
Speaker 2: so many voters abandoned them in November. They could take a
Speaker 2: gander at the progressive melt down in Maine, and I
Speaker 2: honestly am appalled at what they did in Maine. Last Tuesday,
Speaker 2: Maine House Representative voted to censure Republican representative Laurel Libby
Speaker 2: for posting photos of a transgender high school athlete on Facebook.
Speaker 2: The transgender athlete competed in boys track and field, then
Speaker 2: switched over to competing the girls pole art vault this
Speaker 2: year and won the Class B state championship. So Libby,
Speaker 2: in defensive women out there in the world, said this
Speaker 2: is outrageous and unfair to the many female athletes who
Speaker 2: work every day to succeed in the respective sports. So
Speaker 2: the progressives have a meltdown. They voted seventy five to
Speaker 2: seventy to formally reprimand this elected official for speaking her
Speaker 2: mind and exercising her right to free speech, which is
Speaker 2: guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and I'm
Speaker 2: willing to bet also embodied in Maine's own constitution, although
Speaker 2: I don't know that for a fact, I think every
Speaker 2: state has that. The censor mean. This is what it means.
Speaker 2: She isn't allowed to either speak or vote. She's not
Speaker 2: allowed to represent her constituents unless she issues an apology,
Speaker 2: and she said she's not going to do that. Under
Speaker 2: the main constitution, expelling a member requires two thirds majority,
Speaker 2: but state lawmakers have used the center as a backdoor
Speaker 2: to silence Miss Libby by a simple majority vote. Trying
Speaker 2: to speak in her own defense during the main House
Speaker 2: resolution to censor her representative, Libby repeatedly interrupted by other
Speaker 2: members challenging her remarks. My understanding also is that her
Speaker 2: microphone was turned off regularly during her efforts to defend
Speaker 2: herself in her position, so she posted her remarks on Facebook.
Speaker 2: The progressive left claims she was doxing a minor by
Speaker 2: posting the photo, stating the obvious, the state champions athlete
Speaker 2: has no reasonable expectation of privacy after winning a high
Speaker 2: profile championship. Taking pictures of those victories and distributing them
Speaker 2: in the press or internet is routine. Happens all the time,
Speaker 2: and there is no law prohibiting what Misslibby did, which
Speaker 2: is free political speech. Her posts did not attack the
Speaker 2: athlete that simply reposted the champion's picture and noted that
Speaker 2: the same athlete had placed fifth in the men's competition
Speaker 2: in a previous year. Those are statements of fact. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: run through your liberal fact checking site. Is the above true? Absolutely,
Speaker 2: the above is true. The legislature's censure of Miss libty
Speaker 2: also deprives her of the right to vote on legislation,
Speaker 2: which ultimately disenfranchises her constituents by denying them representation. Good
Speaker 2: point they make. What's to stop the majority party from
Speaker 2: centering any problematic lawmaker to make sure legislation passes. Democrats
Speaker 2: should be considering whether they really want to go down
Speaker 2: the road of regulating posts on social media. Now. For
Speaker 2: his part, Trump's executive order on transgender athletes says schools
Speaker 2: or education institutions that received Title nine funding cannot deny
Speaker 2: women an equal opportunity to participate in sports, noting that
Speaker 2: allowing transgender athletes to compete in women in sports is demeaning, unfair,
Speaker 2: and dangerous to women and girls. Most recently, Trump confronted
Speaker 2: me and Governor Janet Mills at a White House event
Speaker 2: over the state's refusal to abide by the executive order.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi warrant officials in California, Maine,
Speaker 2: and Minnesota in a letter that they're going to face
Speaker 2: consequences they don't comply with federal law. Notably, I guess
Speaker 2: the funding is going to be pulled. How about that?
Speaker 2: And that happens all the time. And I use as
Speaker 2: an illustration what happened to Ohio back when I was
Speaker 2: in college. You know, if you don't raise the drinking
Speaker 2: age to twenty one, you are not going to get
Speaker 2: federal highway dollars. And we capitulated federal money always with
Speaker 2: strings attached. Administrations have a change of plans. They want
Speaker 2: to they reinterpret Title nine. Title nine protects women, not
Speaker 2: transgender men. And if you don't capitulate and follow what
Speaker 2: we believe Title nine to say and stand for, then
Speaker 2: you're not going to get your at your dollars. Fine,
Speaker 2: you can live without them. You can continue your transgender policies.
Speaker 2: You just don't. It just doesn't come along with federal funding.
Speaker 2: How firmly do you stand on those policies? Can you
Speaker 2: live without the funding? Then, the journal concludes the Republicans
Speaker 2: prospered politically in twenty twenty four by campaigning on the
Speaker 2: unfairness of forcing girls to compete against testosterone loaded transgender athletes.
Speaker 2: Now to dodge a debate over the policy, main Democrats
Speaker 2: who abuse their power by silencing a duly elected dissenter.
Speaker 2: They've learned nothing from the defeat. Amen to that, and
Speaker 2: this is so overwhelmingly rejected the idea of allowing men
Speaker 2: to compete against women merely because they say, one day,
Speaker 2: wake up and say I'm a gal. We need to
Speaker 2: just concede to that. We need to just say, Okay,
Speaker 2: you're a girl, and that means you're allowed to compete
Speaker 2: against these other girls, biological women, even though you're six
Speaker 2: too and weigh two hundred plus pounds. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Is it fair? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: And the vast majority of people are overwhelmingly against it.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure the citizen remain feels the same way.
Speaker 2: And if you're one of her constituents, you don't have
Speaker 2: a representation anymore. They've just unplugged the First Amendment. This
Speaker 2: is the crazy world we live in, folks, and it
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Speaker 2: At the same time, I love when we have more
Speaker 2: and more backlash to the climate agenda. This woke religion
Speaker 2: that is the climate agenda. Steep increases Washington Time's reporting
Speaker 2: on this. Thank you, Susan Friccio. Apparently, high energy bills
Speaker 2: leading customers in underscore the word democratic led states where
Speaker 2: they are pursuing zero carbon emissions and harming their own
Speaker 2: economies are now leading the citizenry to question renewable energy
Speaker 2: policies that have failed to deliver more reliable, less expensive electricity.
Speaker 2: Price hikes in New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, among other states
Speaker 2: of left consumers fuming. She writes, government leaders scrambling to
Speaker 2: provide relief as voters threatened to turn against them at
Speaker 2: the polls for implementing policies primarily blamed for the spike.
Speaker 2: And it is only the policies that are causing this.
Speaker 2: They've done this to themselves intentionally, Executive director of Massachusetts
Speaker 2: Fiscal Alliance. It feels like all of a sudden people
Speaker 2: woke up. I think over time, yes, the blame will
Speaker 2: be squarely on a elected leaders, and who else would
Speaker 2: it lie?
Speaker 6: In?
Speaker 2: Democrats seeking to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: by twenty fifty. A program encouraging residents to convert from
Speaker 2: natural gas to electric heat has significantly increased most monthly
Speaker 2: energy bills, in many cases by double or more, whittling
Speaker 2: away your spending power. And I think that's one of
Speaker 2: the farious elements behind all this. One resident Scott O'Donnell's
Speaker 2: electric bill for his eleven hundred square foot ranch home
Speaker 2: has nearly doubled over the last year. Six hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty five dollars bill for February for eleven hundred square
Speaker 2: feet two hundred and ninety bucks for heat, and get
Speaker 2: a load of this three hundred and ninety five dollars
Speaker 2: for what they call delivery charge, which includes a recently
Speaker 2: raised feed of funded program called Mass Save, which gives
Speaker 2: rebates to residents who convert to electric powered heat. The
Speaker 2: cost passed along to rate payers who I guess converted
Speaker 2: electric heat. Work the math out on that one. Governor
Speaker 2: of Mara, Healey, of course Democrat, recently approved a twenty
Speaker 2: five percent budget increase for the Mass Saved program, prioritizing
Speaker 2: the elimination of all fossil fuel heating in the state.
Speaker 2: Electric companies increased the fee to pay for the expanded program,
Speaker 2: adding that the electricity prices that were already among the
Speaker 2: highest in the nation. The state has it rejected installing
Speaker 2: natural gas pipelines and new fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.
Speaker 2: Get a load of this, rather than rely on their
Speaker 2: own pipelines and their own source of fossil fuel, which
Speaker 2: apparently they have because someone tried to get the power
Speaker 2: of the pipelines installed that was rejected. It imports most
Speaker 2: of its energy, including liquefied natural gas, at a much
Speaker 2: higher cost, from Canada, Norway and other countries. Massachusetts is
Speaker 2: buying natural gas from Canada, Norway and other countries, which
Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense to me from a logic and
Speaker 2: reason standpoint, because that means they're producing carbon, which they
Speaker 2: want to be carbon neutral. Go ahead, working out in
Speaker 2: your mind. They say a third of the state's energy
Speaker 2: comes from renewable sources, mostly solar. Major natural gas power
Speaker 2: plant shuddered in May, and the only state energy projects
Speaker 2: planned involve renewables, which of course don't produce a lot
Speaker 2: of electricity and don't work like solar when it's a
Speaker 2: cloudy outside. Kind of harsh Winners in New England as well,
Speaker 2: local television news interview the governor. She did not respond
Speaker 2: to an inquiry parenthetically from the Washington Times, but she
Speaker 2: did speak with local news that her administration is not
Speaker 2: to blame for the higher costs. Really, just because she
Speaker 2: says it doesn't mean people aren't smart enough to figure
Speaker 2: it out, is exactly her and the Democrats fault for
Speaker 2: implementing the policies which will cause their electricity bills to double.
Speaker 2: So she asked the Department of Public Utilities to take
Speaker 2: a look at the rates and do anything and everything
Speaker 2: we can as a state to lower heating bills. That's
Speaker 2: a quote from her. Well, look inwardly, get rid of
Speaker 2: your stupid policies which are directly related to causing the
Speaker 2: energy prices to go through the roof. She ordered energy
Speaker 2: companies to cut rates by at least five percent in March,
Speaker 2: saving consumers and average about fifteen bucks a month. Talk
Speaker 2: to the guy with the eleven hundred square foot ranch
Speaker 2: and see if that makes a difference in his world.
Speaker 2: Governor and other state officials say eliminating fossil fuel in
Speaker 2: the electric grid will provide cleaner air and reduce the
Speaker 2: impact of climate change, which they say is causing adverse
Speaker 2: weather events. Okay, you're on your own, Massachusetts. What are
Speaker 2: the surrounding states doing? Don't we all breathe the same air?
Speaker 2: Isn't the wind blowing from the west across our country,
Speaker 2: notably coming from China where they're belching out carbon and
Speaker 2: pollution every single day with their every day going online,
Speaker 2: new coal fired plants. That's yes, is the answer rhetorical question.
Speaker 2: According to Ray Kander, Deputy government affairs officer for the
Speaker 2: New Jersey Business and Industry Association, we have continuously warned
Speaker 2: the creating policies that set artificial deadlines for actions and
Speaker 2: discouraging new generation from sources that include natural gas, nuclear,
Speaker 2: as well as other renewables will result in much higher
Speaker 2: energy prices for New Jersey residents and businesses. That's over
Speaker 2: in New Jersey where they're bracing for a twenty percent
Speaker 2: increase this summer based on decarbonization policies that have led
Speaker 2: to reduce power supply economics, folks, laws of supply and
Speaker 2: demand less electricity more expensive. Big increase caused in part
Speaker 2: by the state's ambitious plans removed fossil fuels from the
Speaker 2: electric grid by shutting down coal and oiled fire plants,
Speaker 2: as well as state approved rising charges in utility customers
Speaker 2: bills to fund Maryland's energy efficient upgrades. They're whittling away
Speaker 2: you're spending power, folks. It's all artificial and it's all
Speaker 2: chasing your tail. Again, going back to the fact that
Speaker 2: we live on a globe where the air is circulated globally.
Speaker 2: See what India's doing, See what Turkey's doing, see what
Speaker 2: Rush is doing, see what China's doing, and look at
Speaker 2: us acting like idiots thinking that one action by one
Speaker 2: single state is going to have an impact on the climate.
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Speaker 2: I went and made the mistake of doing that myself
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Speaker 8: Yeah, happy Monday, good morning.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 8: The lady in Maine that they centered. If I was her,
Speaker 8: I absolutely would apologize. I'm so sorry that the truth
Speaker 8: hurts your feelings.
Speaker 2: That's one way to do it.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm appalled at it that they would do that.
Speaker 2: Democrats are and they want to fall on the sword.
Speaker 2: I guess it's a good thing. I mean, word gets out.
Speaker 2: This is something that most people overwhelmingly reject, and they're
Speaker 2: such a tiny, tiny segment of the population that even
Speaker 2: qualifies as transgender, and this is the hill they want
Speaker 2: to die on. Okay, watch commit suicide.
Speaker 6: Right exactly on corn subsidies.
Speaker 2: You're trying to get me all agitated again, Brian, Go ahead.
Speaker 8: Well, this one's going to fire you up. So my
Speaker 8: family's farm's been in my name for seven or eight
Speaker 8: years and there's not been a stitch of corn grown
Speaker 8: on it that whole time, and probably for four or
Speaker 8: five years before that, there wasn't a stitch of corn
Speaker 8: grown on that. But there is a ten acre corn base.
Speaker 8: So every year the prices are low, they send me
Speaker 8: a form. If I fill it out, then they send
Speaker 8: me a check because corn prices were down. Oh jeez,
Speaker 8: I don't fill it out anymore because it's just wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't prill corn. Well, you're a man of principle then, Brian.
Speaker 2: You know it's you got that dangling cared of incenter
Speaker 2: to fill the format. You could take the money, but
Speaker 2: because you have higher character than that, you say no.
Speaker 2: And I have to applaud you for that. Most people
Speaker 2: would take advantage of it. And therein lies the problem
Speaker 2: with subsidies like that. You know, I have to ask you, Brian,
Speaker 2: the reason there's so much corn being grown is because
Speaker 2: of subsidies. Don't you think that farmers would grow a
Speaker 2: crop that is in demand in lieu of corn if
Speaker 2: there weren't corn subsidies, couldn't they grow something that people
Speaker 2: out in the world really truly genuinely want and need.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just have to ask out loud, because
Speaker 2: I'm not a farmer ahead, how we're.
Speaker 8: Gonna fill our gas tanks if they don't grow extra corn?
Speaker 2: Go back to just using plain old gasoline, which is
Speaker 2: better for your internal combustion engine. Lord Almighty, what did
Speaker 2: we do before ethanol? Appreciate it?
Speaker 10: We just raised trees timber.
Speaker 2: Good for you and in demand last time. I Good luck, Brian,
Speaker 2: God bless the American farmer, just please quit growing corn
Speaker 2: and turning it into corn syrup that ends up in
Speaker 2: literally everything we eat. It's bad for us. Stick around.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take George's call. George, if we don't mind
Speaker 2: holding on, I'll be happy to take your call for
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Speaker 2: very happy Monday too. You looking forward to Christopher Smith
Speaker 2: minut at seven twenty as I always look forward to
Speaker 2: on a Monday, and I love talking to you. Got
Speaker 2: a couple of callers online, so let's start with George
Speaker 2: has been on hold longest. George, thanks for calling this morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Morning Show.
Speaker 4: And Brian, I was just thinking, uh, with that green
Speaker 4: energy they got all them bird swaters out there tucking
Speaker 4: up care wat's the power out of the wind? I
Speaker 4: wonder what effect that has on the wind patterns. It
Speaker 4: may be contributed to the catch you whether they keep.
Speaker 2: Talking about I don't know. I don't know, but you
Speaker 2: do point out something I'm fundamentally opposed to. Listen, they
Speaker 2: do slaughter birds and bats. And if an oil company
Speaker 2: was responsible for killing any form of wildlife, and they
Speaker 2: have been prosecuted for it by I don't know which
Speaker 2: governmental entity, the EPA, whoever's responsible for such things? Oil companies,
Speaker 2: evil oil companies. Oh my god, there's a bird that
Speaker 2: is covered in oil. You are going to be prosecuted.
Speaker 2: What about the millions and millions of birds and bats
Speaker 2: that are slaughtered every year by the windmills? Aren't the
Speaker 2: power companies responsible for that. We've got a bad enough
Speaker 2: problem with bird flew out there killing millions and millions
Speaker 2: of wild birds. We don't need the help of windmills
Speaker 2: slaughtering more of them. You think the environmentalists would actually
Speaker 2: have a concern about that. And isn't it interesting the
Speaker 2: environmentalists steping up to the plate when it comes to
Speaker 2: whales because the offshore wind developments apparently impact the whales.
Speaker 2: Save the whales. The green and movement was kind of
Speaker 2: built in part on that. Oh no, we don't care
Speaker 2: about the whales because as we're generating electricity with offshore windmills,
Speaker 2: it's the humming and the noise that's created by the
Speaker 2: windmills offshore that drives the whales apparently crazy. So yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't reconcile the two positions at all at all.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the college, George, and see what New Hampshire Gary's got.
Speaker 2: We'll give it another shot, New Hampshire Garry. Let's try again.
Speaker 10: Yeah, sorry about that. Brian had my mute on. Hey,
Speaker 10: just tell you a little bit of history. I like
Speaker 10: to read history. One of the terms that they used
Speaker 10: back in World War One amongst the elites for starting
Speaker 10: World War One was called societal hygiene. It was a
Speaker 10: way that they could make money by the military industrial
Speaker 10: complex while they believed that they could get rid of
Speaker 10: the lower class or the unwanted or the unproductive in
Speaker 10: their societies. You want to talk about really six stuff.
Speaker 10: The more things change, the more they remained. The Europe's
Speaker 10: that war. They're going to start World War three. We're
Speaker 10: going to have to bear them out, you know, same old,
Speaker 10: same old stuff. As far as the Green Agenda, I
Speaker 10: can tell you. Did you see that story up here
Speaker 10: about Vermont where actually Vance in his family had to
Speaker 10: go into hiding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're on a skiing trip and I guess you
Speaker 2: got attacked by protesters.
Speaker 10: Do you want to see the Uh, there's a big line.
Speaker 10: It shows how many of them over there. It's like
Speaker 10: the nineteen sixties. Vermont's actually a beautiful, wealthy state, but
Speaker 10: they live on a different plane, a different planet, even
Speaker 10: more so than New Hampshire. And they're they're they're violent.
Speaker 10: You know. Of course love means love has no hate here.
Speaker 10: All the signs say right. But if you get in
Speaker 10: their way, buddy, just they'll show you what height is.
Speaker 10: And if you see it, they're just going down the road.
Speaker 10: And everybody had the Ukrainian flag, the gay Pride flag
Speaker 10: and the Green Agenda, and I can't help. But the thing,
Speaker 10: none of these people would be willing to go fight
Speaker 10: for Ukraine, but they want to throw them. No. No,
Speaker 10: same thing with the Green Agenda. They're making just as
Speaker 10: much money off the Green Agenda with their loans and
Speaker 10: allocations through their buddies and all the grants, just like
Speaker 10: that twelve billion dollar grant for the solar farm down
Speaker 10: in Texas.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 10: I think it was Obama put in And then they
Speaker 10: had a hailstorm. Yeah, that didn't work out, you know,
Speaker 10: twelve billion dollars later, right in a hailstorm, which nobody
Speaker 10: even did it. How about an environmental impact all that land?
Speaker 10: Now they're all busted glass, right, and it's not like,
Speaker 10: you know, if you live down in Texas, you know
Speaker 10: you're going to have hailstorm. But they did it anyhow.
Speaker 10: But now the company's bankcruff felt they're going to twelve
Speaker 10: billion billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well, you have sort of linked two different things.
Speaker 2: One on one hand, you got the military industrial complex,
Speaker 2: which is the one that benefits mostly from the ongoing
Speaker 2: conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which, as you heard Sean
Speaker 2: Hannity say along the lines of what I was ranting
Speaker 2: about in the five o'clock hour, Russia without US using
Speaker 2: it as a proxy war would have kicked Ukraine's butt.
Speaker 2: By now, We're to run over the entire country. So
Speaker 2: the only thing that's keeping them alive is dollars from
Speaker 2: the United States, and that's why I was ranting this morning,
Speaker 2: what in the hell do we have to do with it?
Speaker 2: I love this post by Ken Blackwell. It's a picture
Speaker 2: of Zelensky with the caption, Remember when I'd come to
Speaker 2: the US and remind the president of all the dirt
Speaker 2: I had on his son and leave with a bundle
Speaker 2: of money. I missed those days. That seems to be
Speaker 2: the chickens that have come home to rust. Trump was saying,
Speaker 2: you know, we need to negotiate a piece here, and
Speaker 2: that's going to have to involve concessions by Ukraine and
Speaker 2: when and it pisses everybody off. This this this con or,
Speaker 2: this this this problem that developed on Friday with the
Speaker 2: Russian president and JD. Vance and Donald Trump and all
Speaker 2: by screaming and whaling and national teeth. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: how undiplomatic and blah blah blah blah blah. So what
Speaker 2: does he do is Selunski gets on a plane, goes
Speaker 2: to the UK, where the French President Marcone and the
Speaker 2: UK's Prime minister now say they're going to take over
Speaker 2: the discussion of peace. What does that mean in their mind?
Speaker 2: What does a peace resolution involve? Does it mean concessions
Speaker 2: to Russia. Russia's got the upper hand on this for
Speaker 2: the reasons that Hannity pointed out and I pointed out
Speaker 2: as well, superior resources, superior army. Ukraine's running out of
Speaker 2: live human bodies that are capable of defending whatever territory
Speaker 2: they've got, and without the help of Western countries they
Speaker 2: would have been dealt a fatal blow by now. And
Speaker 2: you got the green industrial complex was the further point
Speaker 2: to that it's just a fake economy that's been created
Speaker 2: under this green crap, a fake economy without government dollars,
Speaker 2: that entire system does not exist. There isn't a windmill manufacturer,
Speaker 2: notably China. There aren't solar panel manufacturers unless there's a
Speaker 2: demand formed by society a product that can compete and
Speaker 2: provides some measure of efficiency or reliability. For individuals to
Speaker 2: decide on their own if they want to go down
Speaker 2: that road, that's okay. Thomas Massey did it. He chose
Speaker 2: to use an old Tesla battery and solar panels and
Speaker 2: maybe even some wind I can't recall if he's got
Speaker 2: a windmill on his farm, but on his farm, he
Speaker 2: chose to go down that road. Individual choice it worked
Speaker 2: for him, and it works for him, it doesn't work
Speaker 2: for everybody, especially on a mass scale. When you've got
Speaker 2: millions of people living in a city, they can't afford
Speaker 2: to have their own solar panel up. So it's got
Speaker 2: to be done on a huge industrial level, funded by government.
Speaker 2: And when the power goes out, well, you have unhappy people.
Speaker 2: Going back to the backlash on green energy that was
Speaker 2: revealed by the Washington Times that I spoke of earlier
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Speaker 2: So love helping out the American veteran anyway I can,
Speaker 2: as most of my listening audience knows, and I was
Speaker 2: talking about the you know, the backlash to the green
Speaker 2: agenda is well becoming very significant New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts
Speaker 2: the subject of the Washington Times article that you know,
Speaker 2: this is just It is legislatively created. It is a
Speaker 2: high cost of energy brought about by efforts to get
Speaker 2: rid of carbon and ultimately with unreliable energy sources and
Speaker 2: the odd goofy reality. I believe Massachusetts just like European
Speaker 2: Union countries, they don't want to drill in their own backyard.
Speaker 2: They don't want to build their own nuclear plants. To
Speaker 2: what do they do They buy gas from someplace else,
Speaker 2: as if that makes it clean or green. This is
Speaker 2: just backcrap, insanity. Absolutely, electricity bills doubling, especially when these
Speaker 2: inflationary pressures were all under grocery prices going through the roof,
Speaker 2: you don't have enough money to spend, and much like
Speaker 2: your real estate taxes, your energy bill goes through the roof.
Speaker 2: This is doing some significant damages to people's financial stability.
Speaker 2: If we didn't pursue this nonsense, then your energy bill
Speaker 2: wouldn't go through the roof, and you'd have a more
Speaker 2: reliable form of energy in the form of natural gas
Speaker 2: or maybe even nuclear power. And I embrace that, and
Speaker 2: thank god we have a president Now that's an all
Speaker 2: the above strategy kind of guy. Before I get on
Speaker 2: to something else here, let's see what CJ's got this morning. CJ,
Speaker 2: thanks for calling the Morning Show and a happy Monday
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 17: Happy Monday to you as well. And I was actually
Speaker 17: gonna fall just piggyback right onto what you're saying. My
Speaker 17: mom owns a farm in Illinois, and she gets a
Speaker 17: phone call all the time from Hansen's, a mineral company,
Speaker 17: in order to dredge and take all the rare earth
Speaker 17: minerals out of her farm and basically take her farm
Speaker 17: out of production of food. Then you have in California
Speaker 17: all these solar farms that have literally destroyed the cattle
Speaker 17: industry out there because there's no room for the grazing,
Speaker 17: and these ranchers are being given loads and loads of
Speaker 17: money to basically stop producing food.
Speaker 3: And so now we have the.
Speaker 17: Law supply and demand will always outrun whatever we think
Speaker 17: is a good idea, because if you reduce apply and
Speaker 17: continue with the same demand, the price is going to
Speaker 17: go up in order to bring balance to the economy.
Speaker 17: And we have totally forgotten about economics when it comes
Speaker 17: to these stupid and insane environmental policies.
Speaker 2: Well, it also invites looking to maybe a more nefarious
Speaker 2: component to it. You know, when I think of the
Speaker 2: availability of abundant, inexpensive food in our country, some may
Speaker 2: argue that's what led to the modern obesity problem we
Speaker 2: face because you know, you can go to your local
Speaker 2: fast food place for less than five bucks, get you know,
Speaker 2: three thousand galeries worth of food. You know, maybe it's
Speaker 2: by design. Maybe they want the supply to go down
Speaker 2: and ergo the price to go up so we ultimately
Speaker 2: consume less. That would fit into the socialist agenda reduced consumption,
Speaker 2: more heartache and pain less stuff and things for us
Speaker 2: to consume, you know. I mean, there's whole bit, and
Speaker 2: there's environmental reasons for that as well. We apparently have
Speaker 2: a garbage problem in the planet, too many plastics in
Speaker 2: the in the globe, We got plastics float around the ocean,
Speaker 2: particulates in everybody's bodies. You know, there's a multitude of
Speaker 2: layers on this you could point to, and it all
Speaker 2: seems to sort of lend itself to maybe, well, maybe
Speaker 2: this is a broader conspiracy theory looming behind the scenes here.
Speaker 2: Lower abundant energy means less consumption, less production. Look at Germany,
Speaker 2: they're not producing as much as they used to because
Speaker 2: it can't afford the electricity. It's four times higher than
Speaker 2: here in the United States. That's a recipe for business reduction.
Speaker 2: I think that's actually part of it. I hate to
Speaker 2: say it out loud for fear being labeled some kind
Speaker 2: of kook, But we're living the reality of this, and again,
Speaker 2: all in the name of reducing carbon dioxide, which is
Speaker 2: plant food. It's such a small fraction of the Earth's
Speaker 2: atmosphere too. And the climate does change, it always has changed.
Speaker 2: I mean, how do you separate, you know, pre industrial
Speaker 2: revolution climate change from what's going on now. You know,
Speaker 2: the talking heads and networks and the left wing green
Speaker 2: agenda folks want to blame every single climate event on us.
Speaker 2: We're the cockroaches, We're the problem. The wildfires, Oh, that's
Speaker 2: climate change. Oh really, Like, there weren't wildfires pre industrial Revolution.
Speaker 2: I mean we know there are or were. I mean,
Speaker 2: trees reflected. You cut a tree down that's more than
Speaker 2: several hundred years old, you can see when a wildfire
Speaker 2: went through. It's shown in the rings of the tree. Oh,
Speaker 2: but that wasn't us back then. No, that was just
Speaker 2: a naturally occurring event. The glacier that once covered the
Speaker 2: state of Ohio ten thousand or so years ago, that's gone.
Speaker 2: Thank god, right, thank god it's gone, so we can
Speaker 2: pay farmers to grow corn. Well, not allowed me the
Speaker 2: last remaining moments of this segment to pivot over to
Speaker 2: this pretty much relatable modern feminism makes women miserable? How
Speaker 2: does that connect? Institute for Family Studies recently analyzed findings
Speaker 2: from the annual American Family Survey, finding thirty seven percent
Speaker 2: of conservative women between the age of eighteen and forty
Speaker 2: say they were completely satisfied with life. Get only twelve
Speaker 2: percent of liberal women feel that way. Backed up by
Speaker 2: prior studies, twenty twenty one, Columby University professors put out
Speaker 2: us study on depression among twelfth graders, taking a look
Speaker 2: at data between twenty five and twenty eighteen, finding female
Speaker 2: liberals reported worse internalizing symptoms scores over the study period
Speaker 2: than all other groups. Penn State University study from twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen noted politically conservative participants were significantly more optimistic and
Speaker 2: satisfied with life than their liberal counterparts counterparts. A study
Speaker 2: in Psychological Science two thousand and eight quote, why are
Speaker 2: conservatives happier than liberals? Citing a two thousand and six
Speaker 2: Pew Research survey showing forty seven percent of conservative Republicans
Speaker 2: called themselves very happy, while only twenty eight percent of
Speaker 2: liberal Democrats did the same, Researchers from Columbia speculated the
Speaker 2: political events might have contributed to liberal depression. Republicans made
Speaker 2: political gains in the twenty tens, including Trump' selection. The
Speaker 2: researchers claimed issues like here you are, global warming, structural racism,
Speaker 2: and pervasive sexism quote became unavoidable features of political discourse.
Speaker 2: Implication is that liberals are depressed because they care so
Speaker 2: much about the world problems. Article points out, Well, that
Speaker 2: may sound noble, stressing out about something you can't control
Speaker 2: isn't a virtue. It can lead to quote learned helplessness
Speaker 2: close quote. If people believe their choices won't improve things,
Speaker 2: they often give up or make worse choices. Little one
Speaker 2: to Researchers off and connect learned helplessness to depression. While
Speaker 2: this is a factor, they say it's a deeper explanation.
Speaker 2: Feminists originally argued for equal opportunity in voting, education, in
Speaker 2: the workplace that happened. Second wave feminists went further. They
Speaker 2: disparaged marriage and religion as tools of the patriarchy. They
Speaker 2: didn't view children as a source of deep, meaningful fulfillment,
Speaker 2: but rather as an obstacle to career success. Third and
Speaker 2: fourth wave feminists went beyond that. Many contend to different
Speaker 2: outcomes between men and women are solely the result of
Speaker 2: societal expectations. These ideas have gone so far that leftists
Speaker 2: now claim men can become women. Why some men would
Speaker 2: willingly give up the power of the patriarchy has never
Speaker 2: quite explained. These ideas of gain tremendous cultural power, especially
Speaker 2: on the left. As a result, liberals are less likely
Speaker 2: to be married, go to church, or have kids. These
Speaker 2: haven't brought joyous liberation, but rather the opposite. In a
Speaker 2: book called Get Married, author Brad wilcox's married men and
Speaker 2: women are around twice as likely to be very happy
Speaker 2: as their single counterparts. An obvious factor is that loneliness.
Speaker 2: Single childless adults more than twice as likely as married
Speaker 2: individuals to say there always are almost always lonely. He noted, Historically,
Speaker 2: single individuals found community and connection in a church or synagogue,
Speaker 2: but liberals are less likely to attend religious services. If
Speaker 2: women want to be happy, they should embrace what modern
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Speaker 2: Seven twenty one Here at fifty five KRCD Talks Days
Speaker 2: A great time to be tuning into the fifty five
Speaker 2: Faressey Morning Show. This is the time of week we
Speaker 2: get the former vice mayor of the city since Saint
Speaker 2: Christopher Smith and on the program event his Fleen Smither event.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Christopher, my dear friend. It's always a pleasure
Speaker 2: to have you on the show.
Speaker 3: Oh brother, it's so good to hear your voice, and
Speaker 3: I'm always honored to be on. Every week there's something
Speaker 3: to talk about. Yeah, it just gets everybody fired up.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: I want to start with something that's you know, a
Speaker 3: little abstract, and I want to I want to just
Speaker 3: deal and I'm gonna start talking about this subject matter
Speaker 3: of racism.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 3: What I want to be what I want to share
Speaker 3: with you, Brian, is that the word racism, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: is being watered down. See, racism is real and there
Speaker 3: are people out there that have issues. They make decisions,
Speaker 3: but we're in this world like if somebody says I
Speaker 3: support the LGBTQ plus community. But I say, I don't
Speaker 3: want boys to compete against girls. All all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I don't like the gay community. That's crazy, right. There's
Speaker 3: notion that you know if I'm saying, well, I want
Speaker 3: reforms in public education, knowing that, Let's say where I live,
Speaker 3: which is true. Let's say they're thirty seven thousand kids
Speaker 3: and seventy percent of them are African American, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, I'm against African American kids. I happen to
Speaker 3: be African American. So we've got to get ourselves. We've
Speaker 3: gone into the gooney crazy world where people can't have
Speaker 3: honest conversations about important subject matters without being called a
Speaker 3: racist or saying that they're homophobic, or saying they have
Speaker 3: some other kind of issue, and it makes it difficult
Speaker 3: to have very tough conversations. I think sometimes the Democratic
Speaker 3: Party knows that, and they're pushing these agendas in order
Speaker 3: for people not to tackle the major issues that are
Speaker 3: facing our country. For the last point I'll give you
Speaker 3: is just because someone says, as a parent, listen, I
Speaker 3: want to make this decisions about what's happening in my house.
Speaker 3: I don't want my child to be able to change
Speaker 3: their gender without me the parent, having something to say
Speaker 3: about that. That doesn't make me homophobic, No, No, that
Speaker 3: makes me somebody that wants to be involved in my
Speaker 3: child's life. And what's happening right now they push so
Speaker 3: far that it to the left that they're having these
Speaker 3: conversations that basic Americans out here who are getting up
Speaker 3: every day trying to raise a family are being called
Speaker 3: all kinds of crazy dangs. And the reality of it
Speaker 3: is they're just wanting common sense. If you're a mom
Speaker 3: and you're a dad, and you're in your house and
Speaker 3: you're raising your family, you want to be able to
Speaker 3: make decisions about your child and their life, not the institution,
Speaker 3: not the educational system, me the parent.
Speaker 2: Well. And the problem is, you know, it boils down
Speaker 2: to its name calling. When you don't have a legitimate argument,
Speaker 2: then you just start labeling people and name calling. But
Speaker 2: the problem with this is LG that is sexuality, lesbian, gay, bisexual.
Speaker 2: That is what you prefer by way of sexual relationships
Speaker 2: with your partner. That I have no problem with, none whatsoever.
Speaker 2: But the minute you throw tea in there, just because
Speaker 2: you're transgender doesn't mean you're a particular sexuality. It means
Speaker 2: that suddenly you can change your chromosomal biological reality and
Speaker 2: call yourself something that you are not. There is no
Speaker 2: connection with the to the T to the LGB part.
Speaker 2: There are guys walking around in dresses that say they're women,
Speaker 2: but they might be attracted to men, they might be
Speaker 2: attracted to women, they might be attracted to both men
Speaker 2: and women. That is their sexuality, it's not their gender.
Speaker 2: Gender has nothing to do with sexuality. I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 2: And that's that was the point of Dave Chappelle's comedy
Speaker 2: routine that got him so, you know, in so much
Speaker 2: trouble is because he made the point that I'm making
Speaker 2: right now. It's like, fine, you're gay, find your lesbian,
Speaker 2: Fine you're bisexual. But then the transit it was like
Speaker 2: it was be set up as they're all driving in
Speaker 2: the car together and then the trans transgender person gets
Speaker 2: in the car and kind of ruined it for everybody
Speaker 2: because it complicates an otherwise straightforward discussion about one sexuality.
Speaker 3: And all I'm saying, Brian, is that their parents out
Speaker 3: there that are facing are you know, are facing very
Speaker 3: complicated things already being a parent is the hardest job
Speaker 3: in the world. We wake up every day, we're trying
Speaker 3: to make the right decisions for our kids. What we
Speaker 3: don't need our institutions trying to intervene and tell us
Speaker 3: how to raise our children. And that doesn't make somebody
Speaker 3: anti anything because they have a vision or a dream
Speaker 3: for their kids. I'm a girl dad, I don't want
Speaker 3: dudes in the locker room with my daughter. That doesn't
Speaker 3: mean it doesn't mean that I don't support the gay community.
Speaker 3: That's the point. And we've got to be able to
Speaker 3: have these conversations without all the name calling. And that's
Speaker 3: what's been frustrating for me. If these people that are
Speaker 3: so far on the left, who don't love our country,
Speaker 3: who believe that if I put an American flag on
Speaker 3: my house on July fourth, that means I'm a racist,
Speaker 3: that is absolutely true. There are people out there that
Speaker 3: confront people because they have the flag. They're holding the
Speaker 3: flag and all of a sudden, okay, I see the flag,
Speaker 3: that person's a racist. But you're holding a Ukrainian flag
Speaker 3: or you're holding a Hamas flag, and you say that
Speaker 3: there's something wrong with me because I'm in my country
Speaker 3: with an American flag on my house. I'm saying we
Speaker 3: have gone so far, the left has gone so far
Speaker 3: that it's so difficult to have these basic common sense conversations.
Speaker 3: And this is why Democrats are saying, the Democratic Party
Speaker 3: didn't leave me. Mean I didn't leave the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, the Democratic Party left me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the squeaky will gets the grease. And in the
Speaker 2: world where we have the Internet and opinions can be
Speaker 2: offered and collected and thrown at people, makes it sound
Speaker 2: like their voice is a majority voice when it isn't.
Speaker 2: There are a very small segment of society, these left
Speaker 2: wing loons that make these arguments and do this name calling.
Speaker 2: They want themselves to be perceived as powerful and large
Speaker 2: and strong. When we look at the polling across America
Speaker 2: on this very issue, this transgender issue, the vast overwhelming
Speaker 2: majority reject the idea that you can change your gender.
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Speaker 2: Seven thirty one on Monday, Brian Thomas with Christopher Smithman
Speaker 2: doing that Smither event Christopher take it Away? What else
Speaker 2: is on your mind or further to that prior discussion.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna tie a little bit of this together
Speaker 3: and kind of stay with the same theme. And I
Speaker 3: know this might be a little complicated and convoluted, but
Speaker 3: you know, I'm going to try to tackle this conversation
Speaker 3: that's been happening on immigration. Look, because people are saying
Speaker 3: they want you to come in this country legally, I
Speaker 3: don't want you to jump the line. That there's a process.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make you anti immigration, it doesn't make you
Speaker 3: against any particular race. What it says here is there's
Speaker 3: a process. People who have come here legally, who are
Speaker 3: working every day, who are listening to this show, do
Speaker 3: not want people jumping the line and coming into our
Speaker 3: country illegally. And so this notion that you know, people
Speaker 3: are trying to say, well, man, you're a racist or
Speaker 3: or you don't like immigrants, and da da da dah,
Speaker 3: that's not the conversation we're having. The conversation we're having
Speaker 3: is we want you to come to our country with
Speaker 3: a process, not jumping across a fence and running somewhere
Speaker 3: and we don't know where you are in our country,
Speaker 3: and no other country in the world allows people to
Speaker 3: just run in jump ups and and say hey man,
Speaker 3: I'm here, have a baby, and now the baby says,
Speaker 3: I'm an American. No other country does this people, and
Speaker 3: so we've got to get back so we can have
Speaker 3: some sensible conversation. And this is what is tied in
Speaker 3: to the apes that people have with the Ukrainian president
Speaker 3: and the conversation that took place in the White House.
Speaker 3: People are tired of Americans walking around with Ukrainian flag.
Speaker 3: You live in the United States of America. I feel
Speaker 3: really bad for Ukraine. I don't think Putin should have
Speaker 3: invaded Ukraine. But I live in the United States of
Speaker 3: America and I see veterans that don't have a place
Speaker 3: to live. Think billions of dollars to people who have
Speaker 3: jumped the line. You put them in a hotel, you
Speaker 3: feed them, you give them health care. But the veteran
Speaker 3: is sitting out there in a tent and has nothing.
Speaker 3: That's the problem. And so what these left people don't
Speaker 3: understand is that basically Americans are saying, I want to
Speaker 3: take care of us, I want to take care of
Speaker 3: our community.
Speaker 2: I hear you screaming out loud, brother, I can't argue
Speaker 2: a bit. I mean, it's just part of the national security.
Speaker 2: You know, we need to be able to control the
Speaker 2: influx of humanity through an orderly legal process so our
Speaker 2: cities aren't overwhelmed and the resources aren't all soaked up.
Speaker 2: As you pointed out, you know, these you know, these
Speaker 2: left wing sanctuary cities have you know, really kind of
Speaker 2: strangled themselves and ruined it, ruined life for their own populace,
Speaker 2: for their own electorate. You know, resources are going over
Speaker 2: to illegal immigrants that shouldn't have been in the country.
Speaker 2: If we had a legal, orderly process that was followed,
Speaker 2: the cities wouldn't be overwhelmed. New York City spent billions
Speaker 2: of dollars on the illegal immigrant population they have. Where
Speaker 2: do you think that money might have gone had they
Speaker 2: not been overwhelmed through their sanctuary policies with illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: shown over the doorstep. I mean, it's just a recipe
Speaker 2: for disaster. It's the point of having a legal orderly system.
Speaker 2: And anybody say says this, you're racist, that's just that
Speaker 2: is the dumbest argument. This is so dumb because people
Speaker 2: from the four corners of the globe have come across
Speaker 2: the border they're of all different races, ethnicities, creeds. There's
Speaker 2: no one size fits all. I mean, if it was
Speaker 2: a bunch of white people showing up from some white
Speaker 2: country invading our country and causing the same problem, and
Speaker 2: you and I were complaining about it, will we be
Speaker 2: called racist? I guess you'd have to take that one
Speaker 2: out of the equation. I'm sorry, you're a black man, Christopher.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, God, go back to your earlier part
Speaker 2: about racism.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's my point that they're undercurrent of what the
Speaker 3: left is saying is that if you want an orderly process,
Speaker 3: if you're saying come to our country legally in some way,
Speaker 3: that makes you a racist. It makes you a bad person.
Speaker 3: Immigrants who are here legally, who get up at every
Speaker 3: day and go to work, are frustrated that people are
Speaker 3: jumping the line because it's not what they.
Speaker 6: Had to do.
Speaker 3: They had to go through all kinds of processes in order,
Speaker 3: and it takes years to do. They're also frustrated. But
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, as an American, I am not a
Speaker 3: racist because I say I want orders, I want an
Speaker 3: orderly process to become an American citizen. I want people
Speaker 3: to come here work hard, build a great life for themselves.
Speaker 3: But I want them to do it legally. There's nothing
Speaker 3: wrong with that paragraph. And I'm saying, as we're dealing
Speaker 3: with these issues with the Ukrainian president, what a lot
Speaker 3: of people don't understand is that Americans who are getting
Speaker 3: up every day are connecting the dot and they're saying,
Speaker 3: I'm tired of taking care of everybody else. And at
Speaker 3: the same time, I'm driving through potholes, My infrastructure is
Speaker 3: falling apart. You can't even take care of the people
Speaker 3: that are here every day. That's what they don't get.
Speaker 3: It's not that America isn't generous, It's not that we
Speaker 3: don't care about what's happening in Ukraine, but we wanted
Speaker 3: somebody to come here and have a conversation with us
Speaker 3: with respect. Make sure that you understand the sacrifices that
Speaker 3: the tax payers are making. And we don't want any
Speaker 3: boots on the ground. We don't want I don't want
Speaker 3: my son who's in the military, to be on the
Speaker 3: front lines in Ukraine and die for that. That's not
Speaker 3: what I want for my son. And so what you're
Speaker 3: hearing is a country that is saying it's okay to
Speaker 3: put us first. That doesn't make us racist. It says, listen,
Speaker 3: we're gonna look out for ourselves. And I want people
Speaker 3: that are driving to work today and going in and saying, listen, man,
Speaker 3: I got to get up every day and I have
Speaker 3: to go to work. Guess what, Federal workers, You're gonna
Speaker 3: have to get up and go to work like everybody
Speaker 3: else has to get up and go to work, whether
Speaker 3: you're an immigrant who came here legally through the process
Speaker 3: or not. All we're saying is we want you to
Speaker 3: get paid for doing eight hours of work. And there's
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with that. And it doesn't make anybody your racist,
Speaker 3: It doesn't make anybody anti anything.
Speaker 2: Bryan Thomas, Well, I think they just use that race
Speaker 2: argument because it's it's what's preposterous, and people are afraid
Speaker 2: to stand up for themselves and assert the logic and
Speaker 2: reason that you're you're you're offering here in the fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC Morning Show, Christopher, people are afraid to do that.
Speaker 2: They're afraid to be labeled as something in spite of
Speaker 2: the fact that the label is a preposterous, stupid, illogical conclusion.
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Speaker 2: Seven two the fifty five per CD talk station enjoying
Speaker 2: Christopher Smitheman's ramp this morning. He's on a tear, Christopher,
Speaker 2: anything else on your mind? You mentioned potholes in the
Speaker 2: last Segmentum briefly, Apparently the city of Cincinnati fixed six
Speaker 2: and twenty four potholes over the past couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and there's thousands and thousands more that need to be
Speaker 2: need to be your.
Speaker 3: Dressed, I mean, I mean, Brian, we sold the railroad
Speaker 3: for one point six billion dollars. We don't know what's
Speaker 3: going on with that pot of money. They promised us
Speaker 3: that infrastructure would be would be you know, fixed, whether
Speaker 3: it's the Western Hills Viaduct which is crumbling, or whether
Speaker 3: it's the potholes that were driving around in the city
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati. It's horrible out here. I mean, the streets
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati are just horrible. But the election will happen
Speaker 3: and people will elect the same nine people and the
Speaker 3: same mayor, and they really don't want change, right. This
Speaker 3: is about leadership, right. The lack of snow removal on
Speaker 3: our side. Streets in our communities were horrible in this
Speaker 3: this past winter. I meaning, even if they got some
Speaker 3: of the main streets, there were schools that could not
Speaker 3: operate because they just weren't dug out. They didn't have
Speaker 3: a plan and it was a mess. And they really
Speaker 3: just don't have a plan for our infrastructure in our region.
Speaker 3: And this is what's happening all across the country. And
Speaker 3: that's one of the points that Americans are saying, you
Speaker 3: gotta take care of us. We live here, we're paying taxes.
Speaker 3: And so when you wake up and you say, man,
Speaker 3: you spent fifty million here, you threw eighty million here,
Speaker 3: you spent thirty five million here, and then Americans are
Speaker 3: driving around dodging potholes in their community. It absolutely makes
Speaker 3: no sense. Brian Thomas, That's what's going on right now,
Speaker 3: and people are pushing back. I am tired. Even me
Speaker 3: as an African American, people will say, well, smitheman, you're
Speaker 3: an uncle Tom. What makes me an Uncle Tom? Because
Speaker 3: I love my country? What makes me an Uncle Tom?
Speaker 3: Because I want to make sure that my children speak
Speaker 3: proper English. They pull their pants up, feel respectful. Yes, sir, no, ma'am.
Speaker 3: I mean people have lost their minds when they say
Speaker 3: excellence has anything to do with race. I want the
Speaker 3: best for my five kids. I work hard for that
Speaker 3: every single day. I don't ask anybody for anything, right,
Speaker 3: But the reality of it is, if you're standing up
Speaker 3: for your country, if you say you love the flag,
Speaker 3: if you say you want better for your kids, whether
Speaker 3: you're black or white, you're something other than just wanting
Speaker 3: to be a great American.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: I just want everybody to know in this segment, I
Speaker 3: love this country. And if you don't like this country
Speaker 3: and you want to take a Ukrainian black and fly
Speaker 3: it somewhere, go live in Ukraine. If you say you
Speaker 3: love what's going on and you love Harmama, go to Gaza.
Speaker 3: If you say, hey, man, I don't like this country
Speaker 3: and I want to go to go to that country,
Speaker 3: We'll start a fund to fly anybody with a one
Speaker 3: way ticket out of the United States of America. I
Speaker 3: don't know if they saw what happened in Congo, but
Speaker 3: there were about seventy Christians that were beheaded about a
Speaker 3: month ago and found their bodies. So if they want
Speaker 3: to go somewhere I'm watching people in the LGBTQ plus
Speaker 3: community carrying home my flag news alert. They will cut
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Speaker 2: It's seven point fifty two fifty five kr CG talk
Speaker 2: station Money Monday of Brian James, got several bunch of
Speaker 2: topics talk about with him. First quarter GDP crow for
Speaker 2: food prices, inflation, restaurant bankruptcies, and our four to one
Speaker 2: K balance is trending higher. We'll find out. Plus kr
Speaker 2: SEA cares with it. Sincinniva coming up at eighty forty.
Speaker 2: God bless the American veteran anyways. Springing from the local
Speaker 2: story which I just couldn't believe, the city apparently has
Speaker 2: fixed six three and twenty four count them since Friday,
Speaker 2: February twenty first. There are thousands left over, they say
Speaker 2: Fox nineteen reporting on this one. They got over one
Speaker 2: and ninety seven requests to repair potholes since Monday, and
Speaker 2: you can report potholes by calling three one one or
Speaker 2: go to Sincy with y three one one dot com.
Speaker 2: Apparently I'm encouraging people to do that. I'm sorry. Three
Speaker 2: to one one Cincy, I got that backward three one
Speaker 2: one sincey with ay dot com. But on the break
Speaker 2: after I reported there, I just read about this story.
Speaker 2: Just clearly we have a pothole problem. Of course, winter
Speaker 2: weather does exacerbate it, but I keep going back to
Speaker 2: all the roads out there that have been crumbling for
Speaker 2: years and not repaired. Generally speaking, Joe called three one one,
Speaker 2: and what did you learn when you called three one
Speaker 2: other than the fact that you can't dial three to
Speaker 2: one one from our phone system here in the office.
Speaker 2: You have to use your cell phone. He got a
Speaker 2: little concern in case, like we needed nine to one one.
Speaker 2: So there's that looming concern in the back of our minds.
Speaker 2: But Joe, what what what did you hear when you
Speaker 2: called it?
Speaker 18: The service you're attempting to use have been restricted or
Speaker 18: is unavailable. Please contact Customer Care for assistance message SD
Speaker 18: four zero four sixty five.
Speaker 2: And then it hangs up. So apparently dialing three one
Speaker 2: one you can't leave a message, and how do you
Speaker 2: reach customer service? They didn't give you a number for
Speaker 2: that either. Huh. Yes, I'm sorry that I'm just laughing,
Speaker 2: and I feel badly for the residents of the City
Speaker 2: of Cincinnati having to contend with this. But this is
Speaker 2: what the administration has brought you. They promised the solution
Speaker 2: of the problem. They promised to make it easy for
Speaker 2: you to report the potholes. I think it even came
Speaker 2: along with a promise to fix your car if your
Speaker 2: car has been damaged by a pothole. And I was
Speaker 2: joking about that last week, like, yeah, right, I'm sure
Speaker 2: that the burden of proof for you to prove that
Speaker 2: whatever damage to your car that came from the pothole
Speaker 2: actually came from the pothole and not something else is
Speaker 2: pretty high that they're not going to go around randomly
Speaker 2: issuing checks to pay for your automobile repairs because of
Speaker 2: the pothole. You hit. Sorry, bit jaded and cynical and
Speaker 2: skeptical about that, but that they tell you to call
Speaker 2: three one one to report the potholes, and that is
Speaker 2: the voice message that you get at least as of
Speaker 2: this morning. Okay, okay, I wish people would remember this
Speaker 2: kind of thing when they ended they can go to
Speaker 2: the voting polls in whenever the elections are, you get
Speaker 2: the government you vote for, not the government you deserve.
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Speaker 1: Talk Station. Very Happy Monday to you. I always enjoy
Speaker 1: this time of the hour eight o'clock on Mondays because
Speaker 1: we get to hear from all our financials Brian James
Speaker 1: and deal with money Monday. Brian James, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the morning show and happy Monday to you, sir. Hope
Speaker 1: you had a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 19: Good morning, Brian Thomas, back at you and Hope you're
Speaker 19: doing well as well.
Speaker 2: I am doing great, other than the general frustrations of
Speaker 2: the political landscape and all the other topics got to
Speaker 2: deal with every day, most of which I have no
Speaker 2: control over.
Speaker 5: But before we.
Speaker 2: Get into the topics you have, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: know because I remember Nathan Backrack and I think, I
Speaker 2: know you know, they created what they called, I believe,
Speaker 2: the greased Palm Index, and they tracked the lobbying dollars
Speaker 2: the more the lobbying money was spent, and they put
Speaker 2: it into a particular fund. So the big contributors to
Speaker 2: political campaigns, ones with the most lobbying dollars were putting
Speaker 2: funds to track them to see if they grew at
Speaker 2: a faster rate than say, other index funds, which I
Speaker 2: thought was kind of a brilliant thing. I don't know
Speaker 2: how I ended up working out, but I wanted to
Speaker 2: know along those same lines, is there a Military industrial
Speaker 2: complex index, like where you got all the defense contractors
Speaker 2: put in one single fund, because it seems to me
Speaker 2: those guys are probably doing pretty well.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's a great observation, and yeah, I'm sure there is.
Speaker 19: That's not something I pay attention to directly, but I
Speaker 19: can guarantee you that there is somebody out there that
Speaker 19: has built a pile of investments around any idea that
Speaker 19: anyone might might assume is getting a lot of money
Speaker 19: thrown at it. So there are all kinds of investment
Speaker 19: products that focus on industries and things like that. And
Speaker 19: as you mentioned, yeah, I'm not sure whatever happen to
Speaker 19: it either. Maybe they don't pay attention as much anymore
Speaker 19: now that they're retired. Yes, I do recall the idea
Speaker 19: behind let's go follow who gets money thrown at them
Speaker 19: and invest in those different areas. And yeah, of course,
Speaker 19: anytime there is spending, there's going to be an equal
Speaker 19: and opposite reaction in the investment underlying value.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. All right, let us move over
Speaker 2: to the topics you actually present it to me. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you indulging me on that. Though first quarter GDP growth
Speaker 2: looks like, according to CNBC, on track for negative growth.
Speaker 20: Well go figure.
Speaker 19: When you add a bunch of costs in things in
Speaker 19: terms of tariffs and we start to get the talking
Speaker 19: heads and the projections coming out, we're starting to see
Speaker 19: the possibility of negative growth predictions. So Atlanta FED is
Speaker 19: now predicting that we're going to see the GDP shrink
Speaker 19: by about one and a half percent here in the
Speaker 19: first quarter of twenty twenty five. They're kind of known
Speaker 19: for this. This particular tracker is always leans toward the
Speaker 19: volatility side, and it usually becomes a little clearer later
Speaker 19: in the quarter. But still, this is just kind of
Speaker 19: a warning of what shouldn't be too shocking. Even the
Speaker 19: President himself came out and said there could be some
Speaker 19: pain here on the front end as they implement the
Speaker 19: things that they want to do.
Speaker 20: So where this is coming from.
Speaker 19: Consumers spent a little less than expected in January and
Speaker 19: that led to a downgrade and growth predictions in the GDP.
Speaker 19: Exports dropped a bit too, and some other places as well.
Speaker 20: We've all heard about the.
Speaker 19: Egg prices and inflation popping up in certain places too.
Speaker 19: But yeah, this is all coming together to make it
Speaker 19: look like it could be a bumpy first Quarterbran.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I have to observe. When people's extra money,
Speaker 2: to the extent they have any disposable income, is being
Speaker 2: sucked up by increased property taxes and increased energy bills,
Speaker 2: you're not going to be participating in the economy and
Speaker 2: keeping our consumption economy going.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's true. It all plays together. All the puzzle
Speaker 19: pieces got to fit one way or another. So there's
Speaker 19: a lot of impacts here coming from a bunch of
Speaker 19: different directions, just all the data we have now, and
Speaker 19: we have a new administration that is shaping data and
Speaker 19: looking at it differently. They even saw a reference to
Speaker 19: the possible ability that they may split out government spending
Speaker 19: from the GDP calculation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, purportedly to.
Speaker 19: Get shine a little a brighter light on where the
Speaker 19: money comes from and where it all goes. But that's
Speaker 19: going to be yet another indicator we all have to
Speaker 19: pay attention to when people are still struggling to understand
Speaker 19: the ones that come out every day.
Speaker 2: Now, I would love to know that figure. I'm surprised
Speaker 2: that hasn't been done yet.
Speaker 19: I think it gets done, it just doesn't get broadcast.
Speaker 19: We talk about GDP every quarter. I mean there are
Speaker 19: websites out there. All this stuff is freely available to
Speaker 19: anybody who wants to dig it up, but the media
Speaker 19: doesn't pick up on that. We like our simple bullet
Speaker 19: points and our soundbites and things, and that's always been
Speaker 19: what is the GDP as opposed to all the different
Speaker 19: derivatives of the GDP.
Speaker 20: So, yeah, those numbers are out there.
Speaker 19: It would be good to see how much of our
Speaker 19: GDP purportedly is grown by actual little government spending, so
Speaker 19: that we know what the impact is going to be
Speaker 19: when we choose not to spend that way anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, but I mean you think about like
Speaker 2: the green industrial complex as I called it earlier, that
Speaker 2: is basically fully supported by the government and government spending.
Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of these companies woudn't even exist
Speaker 2: but for the government and fusion of our taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 19: Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of that
Speaker 19: out there. Matter of fact, some of your largest companies,
Speaker 19: your your sexiest stories of the last decade have come
Speaker 19: with a lot of government investment, and our you know,
Speaker 19: our President in chief, Elon Musk, is no stranger to that.
Speaker 19: A lot of the dollars that went into Tesla came
Speaker 19: from the same came from those same green budgets as
Speaker 19: well as heaven those that SpaceX has taken a lot
Speaker 19: of dollars from the federal government because they do a
Speaker 19: lot of things that.
Speaker 2: NASA used to do. Yeah, but more efficiently.
Speaker 20: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 19: So there is a negative thing, but it's something we've
Speaker 19: never paid attention to before.
Speaker 2: To your point earlier, Yeah, those astronauts are still stranded
Speaker 2: up in space too. I must observe on that or not.
Speaker 2: Not a comical note. I feel sorry for those folks,
Speaker 2: But if you can't do it yourself, you've got to
Speaker 2: rely on outsourced companies and maybe do it more efficiently. Anyhow, Now,
Speaker 2: in terms of the first quarter being on track for
Speaker 2: negative GDP growth, is that an indication that the FED
Speaker 2: might lower interest rates?
Speaker 19: Could be, But the other thing the FED has to
Speaker 19: worry about is we want to keep the economy running,
Speaker 19: but we also have to worry about inflation.
Speaker 20: That's really the Fed's job, those two things.
Speaker 19: Let's make sure everybody has a job, and let's make
Speaker 19: sure inflation's under control when you really boil it down,
Speaker 19: that's the goal. So when we're talking about inflation being
Speaker 19: a factor in all this in the slowdown, that does
Speaker 19: not indicate that we're going to see further rate cuts
Speaker 19: anytime soon, And I would say we're I don't think
Speaker 19: that has changed in the past several weeks, because inflation
Speaker 19: really is.
Speaker 20: It's very sensitive right.
Speaker 19: Now, It's not going to take much of an impact
Speaker 19: of anything, as we've already seen to drive prices back
Speaker 19: up where we were a few years ago. So I
Speaker 19: don't think we're at a point yet where we're on
Speaker 19: the brink of that happening. But we're also definitely not
Speaker 19: an environment where we're going to see a rate cut tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Well other than the real estate market, because if you
Speaker 2: lower the interest rates and it has an impact on
Speaker 2: the current real estate interest rate, how else is the
Speaker 2: interest straight from the Fed? How does that impact inflation?
Speaker 19: Generally speaking, Well, any cost of anything has to do
Speaker 19: with what is it cost to produce that good or
Speaker 19: service it and to begin with, So if there's a
Speaker 19: company out there that has borrowed money to pay its employees,
Speaker 19: to build its factories, to do whatever it needs to do,
Speaker 19: then that is a factor that's that will ultimately trickle through.
Speaker 19: Everything trickles down to the consumers. So you have the
Speaker 19: producers and the consumers. The consumer's got to pay the bills,
Speaker 19: including all the taxes. No different than if your property
Speaker 19: taxes go up and you're renting an apartment, you won't
Speaker 19: think that, hey, I got to pay a bigger.
Speaker 20: Property tax bill.
Speaker 19: No, you don't have a property tax bill, but your
Speaker 19: rent's going to go up because your landlord's going to
Speaker 19: take it from you. That's the same thing that happens
Speaker 19: to every consumer in every corner of the world everywhere,
Speaker 19: because all those costs get passed down. So that's where
Speaker 19: the impact will be seen, and you have to look
Speaker 19: closely to see it sometimes.
Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, Well, I take an early break
Speaker 2: here because we want to talk about food prices and inflation,
Speaker 2: which I think has to tie in with the next
Speaker 2: topic we'll do in the next segment, which is expect
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Speaker 21: and sadly something I'm painfully aware of. I do go
Speaker 21: grocery shopping every week with my wife, and food prices
Speaker 21: have gone up precipitously, and most notably I just look
Speaker 21: at the price of beef quite often. I'll just pick
Speaker 21: up a package just to see where it is in
Speaker 21: terms of how much price per pound, and then put
Speaker 21: it back down to the beat section, just because it's
Speaker 21: just like it's mind blowing. And eggs, of course we
Speaker 21: can blame bird flu for that. I mean there's no
Speaker 21: I don't think there's a relationship with the price of
Speaker 21: eggs and inflation more so than they've just been slaughtering
Speaker 21: all the chickens because of bird flu. But what's the
Speaker 21: story from Walmart's CEO on food prices.
Speaker 19: Doug mc millan's not in a good mood this morning,
Speaker 19: so he's the CEO of Walmart, and he's highlighting that
Speaker 19: strain that's coming up on American consumers due to this.
Speaker 19: So yeah, we're not shocked at this. I even paying
Speaker 19: attention to the headlines at all. It's been hard to
Speaker 19: avoid whichever side of it you're on. It's been hard
Speaker 19: to avoid the discussion about egg prices. But Doug, who
Speaker 19: is paying attention of course to how much money his
Speaker 19: company is making, as that is his job, is seeing
Speaker 19: he's a good predictor of what people are doing.
Speaker 20: There at the cash register there.
Speaker 19: So we're seeing impact on things like beef and eggs,
Speaker 19: non alcoholic beverages, sugar and sweets. Sugar is up almost
Speaker 19: six and a half percent. We're seeing non alcoholic beverages
Speaker 19: up to four percent, of beef and veal we're looking
Speaker 19: at to be of about three percent.
Speaker 20: Now, these are all facts.
Speaker 19: And when we can find these anywhere, I think it's
Speaker 19: more impactful at least worth talking about.
Speaker 20: Brian to what should somebody do about this?
Speaker 19: This question comes up all the time in the course
Speaker 19: of my day as a financial planner. People want to
Speaker 19: know them is it time for me to worry about this?
Speaker 19: What should I be doing about this? Inflation I keep
Speaker 19: hearing about. My question is always Okay, what were you
Speaker 19: spending on all of these items before? Then we can
Speaker 19: figure out what the impact is going to be. And
Speaker 19: most of the time, and this is a necessarily bad thing.
Speaker 19: Most of the time, people have no idea because we've
Speaker 19: not kept budgets.
Speaker 20: We don't know where we are.
Speaker 19: So that's a great first step is to understand where
Speaker 19: your money's going in the first place, so that you
Speaker 19: can model out some impact and figure out whether you
Speaker 19: really need to worry about this or just be mad
Speaker 19: at the cash register.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess part of me I want to react
Speaker 2: by saying, Okay, I'm glad sugary beverages are more expensive,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad people are buying fewer of them because
Speaker 2: that's a discretionary item. You don't need mountain dew in
Speaker 2: your life, right, I mean, I'm kind of been on
Speaker 2: a sugar tear of late. But in the final analysis,
Speaker 2: if you need nutrition to stay alive, you need certain calories.
Speaker 2: Hopefully your calories are coming from something that's good for you.
Speaker 2: But rather than buying mountain dew, maybe you just drink
Speaker 2: a glass of water. Is your life going to be
Speaker 2: really impacted to the negative for that, No, I would
Speaker 2: say it's going to be a positive result. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's baked into this cake, if that's by
Speaker 2: design or intention, but you know, maybe it'll force people
Speaker 2: to make more responsible choices because your dollar is not
Speaker 2: going as far at the grocery store.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and we will see that impact. We've seen that
Speaker 19: happen before when we've had price bikes. People do tend
Speaker 19: to change their behavior, and I, personally, I don't believe
Speaker 19: this is part of any engineered change of behavior by
Speaker 19: any administration. It's just I think we've got an administration
Speaker 19: that truly just cares about let's make this country as
Speaker 19: successful from a commercial and business standpoint as it possibly can,
Speaker 19: and they're making decisions to move us in that direction.
Speaker 19: These are again not designed results, but it's it's just
Speaker 19: simply what's happening.
Speaker 20: I agree with you.
Speaker 19: If people bought less sugar and less and less stuff
Speaker 19: like that, we're probably in a better spot. But the
Speaker 19: fact that we're seeing inflation increasing on those indicates that
Speaker 19: demand may be rising the companies. Companies may be buying more.
Speaker 19: It's not necessarily people buying bags of sugar. It could
Speaker 19: be companies buying it more at a commodity level and
Speaker 19: because they feel like that's where they can make their
Speaker 19: profits fair enough.
Speaker 2: On that, I got a kick out of his observation
Speaker 2: that you see people are buying smaller pack sizes than
Speaker 2: they used to, but with shrinkflation, they were doing that anyway,
Speaker 2: even if they wanted the family sized bag. The family
Speaker 2: size bag now on contains twelve ounces where it used
Speaker 2: to contain eighteen ounces or something along those lines. I
Speaker 2: just thought that was an interesting comment, given that we
Speaker 2: all lived through shrinkflation.
Speaker 20: Right, Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 19: That's another cycle that we see too, when it's harder
Speaker 19: for companies to make money off of off of the
Speaker 19: original sizes and things that they were making. One way
Speaker 19: and they know they can't push the button and sell more,
Speaker 19: another way can be to make it cheaper to sell
Speaker 19: the same amount by putting smaller projects inside smaller products,
Speaker 19: inside little packages that they won't notice.
Speaker 2: I remember a commercial about that the guy that saved
Speaker 2: the company one hundred million dollars a year by taking
Speaker 2: like one olive out of the olive jar.
Speaker 19: You know, y and airlines make their take the tomatoes
Speaker 19: off of their off of their rubber chicken sandwiches and
Speaker 19: saved billions of dollars.
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, it does add up.
Speaker 2: It does does make sense in the long run, every
Speaker 2: little bit counts, all right. Pivoting over to restaurants, and
Speaker 2: I've observed this also. Carry out has gotten really expensive
Speaker 2: compared to the not that long ago. Even we it's
Speaker 2: an Asian restaurant, and I don't think there was a
Speaker 2: single entree that was less than like twenty two dollars.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about just standard, you know, Chinese food
Speaker 2: kind of orders and that that is just like mind
Speaker 2: blowing to me. But that's the direction that's gone. But
Speaker 2: more and more are going bankrupt too.
Speaker 19: Yeah, we're seeing that bankruptcy is coming out of but
Speaker 19: a lot of these are older names, so it's not
Speaker 19: I don't think we're yet at a point where all
Speaker 19: of it is a totally their fault of inflation and
Speaker 19: so forth. These are things that have kind of run
Speaker 19: their course. So the big one, big ones we've seen recently,
Speaker 19: TGI Fridays, Denny's, Ruby Tuesday, Red Lobster, all of them
Speaker 19: have filed for bankruptcy protection. Hooters hit the headlines as
Speaker 19: of this morning. Their food sucked though exactly. You know
Speaker 19: the only thing that I ever liked about Hooters their
Speaker 19: mild sauce with it was a jar of death, but
Speaker 19: it was really good. Oh, I think you're got a
Speaker 19: good buffalo sauce with butter in it, which is, you know,
Speaker 19: good in the long run, but not so much of.
Speaker 2: The schwartz had nothing to do with the wait staff.
Speaker 10: Now this is.
Speaker 20: Off the shelf at Kruger. Still get it.
Speaker 2: With Yes, they out of trouble, ran James. Well, you
Speaker 2: know this this could be I mean, I understand the COVID.
Speaker 2: They required to borrow money to stay open, and they
Speaker 2: got you know, debt service on that. I mean, I
Speaker 2: note the article says this meant companies accumulated debt they
Speaker 2: had to pay back over time plus interest. Someone wrote
Speaker 2: us government right next to that. Oh right, that was me.
Speaker 2: But there's more competition out there, and there are better
Speaker 2: products going back to Hooters. If you can go someplace
Speaker 2: down the street that has superior chicken wings, then you're
Speaker 2: gonna go there, right, And that's what.
Speaker 19: I was hinting at before with these these are older chains.
Speaker 19: Restaurants do run their courses and there are some icons
Speaker 19: that never go away. But if you just look over time,
Speaker 19: there aren't any restaurants that have been aside from these,
Speaker 19: you know, ridiculously long family owned type stories that have
Speaker 19: been in existence for one hundred hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 19: It generally doesn't work that way. They last a few
Speaker 19: decades at most. That's a huge success story, but eventually
Speaker 19: people's taste change some if things feel dated, TGI Fridays
Speaker 19: and Applebee's, which doesn't exist anymore, I don't think. But anyway,
Speaker 19: they've all kind of run the course and become the
Speaker 19: butt of jokes after ten years. It's very easy for
Speaker 19: consumers to change their minds and go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the quality can go down as well, frishes
Speaker 2: and we end up losing our frishes locally. All right,
Speaker 2: let's pause. We'll bring Brien James back for one more.
Speaker 2: Talk about four oh one k balances. Which direction are
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Speaker 2: Eight twenty eight come to an eight twenty nine I
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, with one more segment with money Monday's Brian
Speaker 2: James moving over to four oh one K balance is
Speaker 2: something he knows all about since he's an ancial planner.
Speaker 2: That's what it is all about. Hopefully everybody's investments are
Speaker 2: going well. Which direction are we going in four oh
Speaker 2: one K balances because the market seems to have been
Speaker 2: doing pretty well late now, they've.
Speaker 19: Been going up and yeah, that's it shouldn't be too
Speaker 19: big of a shock the market is the market usually
Speaker 19: goes up and not down. And we've seen, you know,
Speaker 19: the market hit an all time high in December and
Speaker 19: it's touched that twice, once in January, once in February.
Speaker 19: So the average balance for a four toh one K
Speaker 19: retirement accounts about one hundred and thirty one thousand dollars.
Speaker 19: That's the second highest average we've had on Revered on record.
Speaker 19: So that's a good thing. But that does happen when
Speaker 19: the economy is going okay. There's a lot of scary
Speaker 19: headlines out there, but underneath that are a lot of
Speaker 19: people who are doing okay and making it through. And
Speaker 19: actually contributions are up too, so we've seen a we've
Speaker 19: seen large amount of people putting more and more for
Speaker 19: one K dollars in and that's represented in the fact
Speaker 19: that we're seeing these balances go up. So when the
Speaker 19: economy is doing okay, people will put more money in.
Speaker 19: When people start to slow down on their contributions, that
Speaker 19: can be an indicator as well, because they're needing to
Speaker 19: kind of pinch pennies a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well, and I don't know how you reckon saw more
Speaker 2: people putting away more money in a four one K
Speaker 2: plan when we talked about the other topics, which is
Speaker 2: inflation is soaking up a lot more dollars at least
Speaker 2: in terms of the grocery prices.
Speaker 19: Yeah, fair point, But that's what I was hinting at before.
Speaker 20: There are a lot of people out there who were
Speaker 20: doing just fine.
Speaker 19: We're in an economy, Brian, where we were in a
Speaker 19: country where we worry about the profit margin of our
Speaker 19: public traded companies. There are a lot of people who
Speaker 19: get hurt by that. There are a lot of people
Speaker 19: who make a lot of money off of it. I'm
Speaker 19: not here to weigh in on whether that's good or bad.
Speaker 19: But if you're somebody who's got the ability to put
Speaker 19: away more money than you spend every month, then you've
Speaker 19: been in a great environment really for the last several years,
Speaker 19: and I would say even prior to that, we had
Speaker 19: twenty twenty two, which was one of the five worst
Speaker 19: years we've ever had in the stock market. But there's
Speaker 19: been a lot of years where it's been a lot
Speaker 19: better than that, And so that's why we're seeing these balances,
Speaker 19: the highest average balances we've ever seen, meaning people are
Speaker 19: putting it in and.
Speaker 20: Allowing it to grow and not relying on it.
Speaker 19: The average contribution nowadays is about fourteen percent, which really
Speaker 19: that's an eye popping number, and I want to read
Speaker 19: a little more into that to see where that came from.
Speaker 20: But that's what's being highlighted here in the article.
Speaker 2: Well, as every good financial planner, I'll tell you should
Speaker 2: at least put something in it for no other reason
Speaker 2: then to make sure you get if you have one,
Speaker 2: the employer match. I mean, that's just sound financial planning
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 19: Yeah, absolutely, that's free money that's sitting there on the
Speaker 19: table waiting for you to take it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 19: Of course, you have to make sure that you can
Speaker 19: pay your bills. None of this matters if you can't
Speaker 19: pay your bills, If you're running up credit card bills
Speaker 19: for the sake of building up.
Speaker 20: Your four O one K.
Speaker 19: In the end, that's going to balance out and kind
Speaker 19: of work against you. So it all comes down to budgeting.
Speaker 19: And as I've been teaching my kids and their friends
Speaker 19: as it has come up, you have go to find
Speaker 19: your way to get yourself in a situation where you
Speaker 19: can spend less than you make. Do that for thirty
Speaker 19: five forty years and you'll be just fine, regardless of
Speaker 19: what the headlines are.
Speaker 20: And that's true for everybody as of right now as well.
Speaker 2: My wife and I've been trying to do that since
Speaker 2: when we first met. I think it's in my West
Speaker 2: Side genetics to spend less than we make. Just searching
Speaker 2: everywhere whenever you can save some money, even if it's
Speaker 2: just a small amount, All that adds up over the
Speaker 2: long haul. I mean, it really is. I remember just
Speaker 2: struggling with the reality when we were living in Chicago.
Speaker 2: You know, we had a budget for our house, and
Speaker 2: I've talked about the interest rates and you know, the
Speaker 2: balloon mortgage we had to get. But we bought a
Speaker 2: comparatively modest home compared to what my peers at the
Speaker 2: law firm were buying. And I was just sort of
Speaker 2: just in amazement at you know, they felt the need
Speaker 2: to buy this huge monstrosity of a home, and I
Speaker 2: just like, I'm thinking to myself, why all the resources
Speaker 2: you got are going into your home. You become house poor,
Speaker 2: and that to me is the ultimate, you know, a
Speaker 2: financial sin from my perspective. Anyway, Yeah, I've got.
Speaker 20: A similar story there too, related to housing.
Speaker 19: So we moved into a house in the early two thousands,
Speaker 19: and it would have been, you know, normally probably your
Speaker 19: second home, and you know, then you kind of graduated
Speaker 19: one little more space, want a bigger house or whatever.
Speaker 19: But we got lucky and landed in a neighborhood with
Speaker 19: a bunch of absolutely fun, wonderful people, and.
Speaker 20: None of us have ever left.
Speaker 19: So that occurred to me as I've done financial plans
Speaker 19: for my clients a lot of times, I'm seeing mortgages
Speaker 19: where they bought a house in their late forties early fifties,
Speaker 19: presumably for that reason, got bored one of different change
Speaker 19: of scenery.
Speaker 20: I didn't do that.
Speaker 19: And I'm realizing now that our house is almost paid
Speaker 19: off and I'm not going to have that mortgage hanging
Speaker 19: over my head. And that's the reason. It had nothing
Speaker 19: to do with a conscious decision. It just worked out,
Speaker 19: But it had to do with the fact that we
Speaker 19: simply didn't have the desire to move because of the
Speaker 19: people that were around us. That not everybody has that
Speaker 19: fortunate situation. But there is a very very mathematical impact
Speaker 19: to not having a mortgage for the rest of your retirement.
Speaker 2: Amen into that. Nacktol I pointed out earlier in my
Speaker 2: psychologically speaking, not having a mortgage was always just critical
Speaker 2: to me because I can't stand the concept of owing money.
Speaker 2: I just can't stand it. I mean, there have been
Speaker 2: periods in my time my life, well you had to
Speaker 2: have a credit card balance. It was just required, you know,
Speaker 2: you had necessities and you didn't have the money in
Speaker 2: the bank, and it just loomed over me like this monster.
Speaker 2: So I'm just uncomfortable with debt, knowing people money, and
Speaker 2: so that's that's kind of driven my financial planning throughout
Speaker 2: my entire life.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and that's when we do financial plans at all Worth,
Speaker 19: we'll build into the plan a quote unquote spending goal
Speaker 19: of getting that debt paid down. Mortgages aren't necessarily the
Speaker 19: scariest thing, it's not the worst, not the end of
Speaker 19: the world if you have one. But if you're about
Speaker 19: to retire with thirty thousand dollars in credit card debt,
Speaker 19: then we need to sit down and have a and
Speaker 19: have a little bit of a come to Jesus conversation,
Speaker 19: because that kind of thing is going to blow up
Speaker 19: in your face. But it's understanding the situation that you're in,
Speaker 19: figuring out the resources you have with which to address,
Speaker 19: and then implementing a plan.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the beauty of having a financial planner. It's
Speaker 2: like having a responsible adult telling you what to do
Speaker 2: not to do right. It's your You're the job is
Speaker 2: to be like a surrogate parent. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 19: As a financial I'm a human too. As a financial planner,
Speaker 19: I make the same mistakes. I just know exactly the
Speaker 19: impact of the bad choice I'm about to make sometimes.
Speaker 2: Brian James, appreciate your assistance every week with these issues
Speaker 2: and bringing things to our attention and providing some sound
Speaker 2: financial advice. I'll look forward to another edition of Monday
Speaker 2: Monday next Monday. Have a great week, my friend.
Speaker 20: Thank you sir.
Speaker 2: Have a good week. All right, let's help out the
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Speaker 2: Always look forward to having my dear friend Todd Sledge
Speaker 2: from the CINCINNTIVA helping veterans out with their health care.
Speaker 2: And that's what it's all about, healthcare. Welcome back, Todd.
Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to have you on the program. Yeah, Brian, good,
Speaker 2: Good Monday morning. Te you.
Speaker 16: It's always, like you said, great to talk about veterans
Speaker 16: and what we're doing here at the Cincinnati VIA to
Speaker 16: get get those folks who put.
Speaker 5: Their name on the dot line on all the hope
Speaker 5: they can.
Speaker 2: And as we ultimately conclude every time we talk, there's
Speaker 2: there's like no downside signing up for your VA benefits.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, nobody's forcing you to use them,
Speaker 2: but they're right there waiting for you. So anyway, I
Speaker 2: understand you get a lot of compliments of late you
Speaker 2: want to pass along some of those to the listeners.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I just wanted to mention a few Brian with
Speaker 16: with the given affairs that are that were you know,
Speaker 16: dealing with as federal employees. It's been pretty uh pretty
Speaker 16: overwhelming emotionally positively to see how many veterans have stepped
Speaker 16: out and wanted to talk about their experiences with us.
Speaker 16: And I know how you like to hear the positivity
Speaker 16: that's going on. Absolutely, and so I've got too quick
Speaker 16: an excerpts here. I won't mention any names obviously for
Speaker 16: for privacy reasons, but uh got one. Got this last
Speaker 16: week gentleman sent me an email and he said, I
Speaker 16: would just like to self report that the folks at
Speaker 16: the Hamilton Community based out patient Clinic, which is out
Speaker 16: there in Butler County, said he went in for treatment
Speaker 16: of depression and suicide ideation, and through the process of
Speaker 16: that and his coordination folks and the annual physicals, he
Speaker 16: began immediately receiving glasses and seeing twice a year to
Speaker 16: ensure that his cataracts are not getting any worse. So
Speaker 16: he's very happy to be able with that. Also went
Speaker 16: to audiology, received new here in age two. Things you
Speaker 16: and I both talk about all the time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 16: with our veterans. Then he goes on to say, my
Speaker 16: wife and I attended marriage counseling recently successfully completed counseling,
Speaker 16: and while won a difference. He goes, I routinely meet
Speaker 16: with my whole health coach at this clinic. I'm an
Speaker 16: active participant. I've been in the sixteen week Move program,
Speaker 16: which is a weight loss program, and he goes, I've
Speaker 16: lost forty five pounds.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 16: He goes on to say, I've been counseled by a
Speaker 16: VA dietician to eat better, how to cook better. I'm
Speaker 16: participating in driver's training programs to regain my Ohio operators
Speaker 16: permit because of the cataracts. And I plan to participate
Speaker 16: in the upcoming sixth Service Challenge thing that we have
Speaker 16: going on here.
Speaker 5: He goes on to say.
Speaker 16: He goes, I began to ride a recumbent bike through
Speaker 16: the VA to help me treat my depression, my loss
Speaker 16: of socialization, prove my physical, physical ability and mental fitness,
Speaker 16: and prolong my life.
Speaker 2: I get online on a.
Speaker 16: TV that the system and different things that the VA
Speaker 16: provided me so I could not ride alone, but I
Speaker 16: just wanted to share these few things that the Cincinnati
Speaker 16: va what they've done for me, and they've improved my life, and.
Speaker 2: Going honest, really tell a story. Yes, I thought you'd
Speaker 2: appreciate that. I truly do. And I've been on my
Speaker 2: own personal quest to try to improve my health through
Speaker 2: my diet, and I and my listeners known as I
Speaker 2: probably stick of hearing you say, you know, did my
Speaker 2: best to really pretty much eradicate any added sugars in
Speaker 2: my diet. I don't drink sodas, I never really did anyhow,
Speaker 2: but you know, just looking out for where the added
Speaker 2: sugars are and trying to get rid of them, and
Speaker 2: that alone has improved my mood. I can't imagine that guy.
Speaker 2: He he's got hearing problems, he's overweight, he doesn't exercise,
Speaker 2: and just correcting those three things that would dramatically impact,
Speaker 2: you know, something like depression and perhaps suicidal ideation, I'd imagine.
Speaker 2: I'm not a psychiatrist a psychologist, and don't play one
Speaker 2: on radio, but I mean, given my personal experience with
Speaker 2: diet and its relationship to mood boy, that that that
Speaker 2: has to help tremendously.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Absolutely, And the reason why I wanted to talk about
Speaker 16: that excerpt expert from that particular veteran. It's you know,
Speaker 16: he talked about eyeglasses, hearing aids, mental health, food, all
Speaker 16: the whole health stuff. So this is really a good
Speaker 16: description of what the VA does. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 16: we're we you know, I don't say this a lot,
Speaker 16: and I should more so is that you know, we're
Speaker 16: more than healthcare. We do offer a lot of the
Speaker 16: health and welfare type support systems with things. I just
Speaker 16: thought I diduld share that this morning because it's just
Speaker 16: an outstanding really a snapshot of all the different things.
Speaker 5: And he's getting all this under one roof.
Speaker 16: Yeah he's not driving multiple places and just just fantastic.
Speaker 16: I can't wait to personally meet him in person.
Speaker 2: Oh I have that.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Do you offer a mental telehealth for mental services?
Speaker 20: Absolutely?
Speaker 16: We do so that you know, veterans are given an option,
Speaker 16: you know, if they like to be seen in person
Speaker 16: or if they like to be seen through telehealth. And
Speaker 16: you know that's a big advantage for many of our
Speaker 16: veterans that are working, uh you don't you know, don't
Speaker 16: have the flexibility and the liberties to get away from work,
Speaker 16: so you know, they can schedule to be seen before
Speaker 16: work on a break lunchtime, you know, different times to
Speaker 16: do that so they can be coordinated.
Speaker 2: And it's is it easy to get an appointment? I
Speaker 2: know out in the world of non veterans, you know,
Speaker 2: finding a mental health provider is a struggle in and
Speaker 2: of itself. Sometimes yeah, yeah, so you know, once again,
Speaker 2: you know, we're regulated in mandate to get appointments within
Speaker 2: thirty days or thirty five days, and this is heavily,
Speaker 2: heavily scrutinized and followed as a performance measure.
Speaker 16: So like my boss who's the director of the hospital,
Speaker 16: you know, this is one of the things that she's
Speaker 16: evaluated on to make sure we're within this parameters, not
Speaker 16: only with mental health, with all of those services. And
Speaker 16: so sometimes when we can't meet that because of maybe
Speaker 16: a medical condition that the doctor considers, or maybe travel
Speaker 16: time or distance, this is where the community care aspect
Speaker 16: comes into place, where veterans get approved for community care
Speaker 16: away from us.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, Well, I guess I have to you know, going
Speaker 2: along with the availability of the care that you offer
Speaker 2: along those lines, you haven't suffered from cutbacks from the
Speaker 2: current administration, that you aren't struggling to meet the needs
Speaker 2: of the of the of the veterans in our community.
Speaker 16: No, Brian, we you know where there's been no cutbacks
Speaker 16: to us. We're going to work continuing our mission here
Speaker 16: to Cincinnati VA. As I think I might have mentioned
Speaker 16: on our last show together last year in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 16: we set an all time record for the number of
Speaker 16: veterans we served in that given year, and we continue
Speaker 16: to keep growing with veterans looking at the healthcare options,
Speaker 16: and we continue to maintain a ninety two percent or
Speaker 16: above trust score with our veterans when when they're asked
Speaker 16: and surveyed about the services and customer service and care
Speaker 16: that they receive.
Speaker 2: That speaks volumes right there, because I know we went
Speaker 2: through some troubled times of the VA going back a
Speaker 2: decade or so, and I think you said, I know
Speaker 2: locally anyway, you've got those problems ironed out, and I
Speaker 2: know things keep getting better every year. So we'll pause,
Speaker 2: we're being Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTIVA back and we'll
Speaker 2: talk about why those veterans out there who haven't signed
Speaker 2: up should, even especially those under the age of fifty,
Speaker 2: among other things, be right back.
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Speaker 2: See the talk station. Brian Thomas with Todd Sledge from
Speaker 2: the CINCINNTI VA. Boy, Todd, I don't think you could
Speaker 2: have had a better commercial for the reason to get
Speaker 2: your VA benefits in the story you just told in
Speaker 2: the last segment. But it illustrates the profound benefit of
Speaker 2: signing up for the VA. But you want to make
Speaker 2: an appeal to those veterans under the age of fifty.
Speaker 2: So's explained why. That's why it's so important.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Brian, you know, thanks for that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 16: for for myself doing this for so long. What I
Speaker 16: continue to just see with our veterans who were past
Speaker 16: the age of fifty, especially when they get in their
Speaker 16: sixties in early seventies, is they've they never took advantage
Speaker 16: of getting enrolled into the VA healthcare system. And so,
Speaker 16: you know, as life goes on, and you know, in
Speaker 16: these these temples of our bodies we think we take
Speaker 16: care of, they do break down.
Speaker 2: Like a good old car, Yes they do. Our warranties
Speaker 2: expired at some point some earlier day.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, no matter how much he changed the oil
Speaker 16: or the tires. You know, things do they wear it down.
Speaker 16: And so you know what I've seen so many different times.
Speaker 16: Is you know, I'll get get a lot of calls
Speaker 16: like you do from friends, acquaintances, different connections, and they'll say,
Speaker 16: you know, hey, my dad or my grandfather, my uncle,
Speaker 16: you know, they're in a private facility or there are
Speaker 16: over a christ or a different hospital and not that
Speaker 16: they don't do good services, and they're like, you know,
Speaker 16: dad's a va. Why are we having to take care
Speaker 16: of this stuff? And so never enrolled. So you know
Speaker 16: the encouragement of just getting enrolled and making sure that
Speaker 16: you're in our system, finding out the type of different things,
Speaker 16: the portfolio of care that we can provide you that
Speaker 16: can go along with private health insurance or if you
Speaker 16: lose your health coverage because of a spouse retires, or
Speaker 16: different costs of stuff. You know, that portfolio I talk
Speaker 16: about as eyeglasses and hearing aids and mental health services,
Speaker 16: but it's just more than that too, the long term
Speaker 16: care benefits, you know, the the oncology stuff, the different
Speaker 16: things that we have where you know, as someone who
Speaker 16: served their country, they're not having their personal assets attacked
Speaker 16: through private health care costs that we all face as
Speaker 16: being a veteran because as you've said many times this
Speaker 16: is one of the things that you get when you
Speaker 16: signed up to serve the country.
Speaker 2: So you do offer long term care solutions?
Speaker 5: Yes, we do.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 16: We have a full service what we call our community
Speaker 16: Community Living Center here, which is a very robust nursing home,
Speaker 16: hospice care. We do this stuff in home. We have
Speaker 16: contracts in the out in the Tri State where veterans
Speaker 16: can go. So, oh, it's a gamut of it's a
Speaker 16: gamut of services that we have here. You know, there's
Speaker 16: nothing we do not do here, except for we don't
Speaker 16: do transplants, and we do not have a spinal cord
Speaker 16: injury program. However, we can send you to v any
Speaker 16: Va in our area to do that or in the
Speaker 16: private sector.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's an amazing benefit. As long as you and
Speaker 2: I have been talking, I never realized you offered long
Speaker 2: term care solution because I mean that that'll talk about
Speaker 2: eating up one's savings and later in life. That is
Speaker 2: I mean for whole families. You know, we got to
Speaker 2: take care of Dad, and it's costing us X thousands
Speaker 2: of dollars a month in this long term care facility,
Speaker 2: and we're struggling already. This I mean you're in a
Speaker 2: huge bind.
Speaker 16: Yeah, absolutely well, and that's you know, part of the
Speaker 16: different things not only enrolling in our system, but also
Speaker 16: talking to a local service officer at your county office
Speaker 16: in Hamilton County or Butler County or Claremont County or
Speaker 16: in house here about the different disability benefits related to
Speaker 16: your services that you're eligible for. Because here's the other factor,
Speaker 16: Brian is as veterans, if they get it, if they
Speaker 16: are able to get a minimum of seventy percent service connected,
Speaker 16: that's not just for one condition. It could be a
Speaker 16: combination of different percentages that add to seventy, then their
Speaker 16: long term care is free. So there's all kinds of
Speaker 16: these different advantages of different things, and which is why
Speaker 16: I encourage every veteran to come and talk to a
Speaker 16: expert about all the benefits that are able well in
Speaker 16: terms of long term care facility.
Speaker 2: I know from so many conversations with veterans and veterans
Speaker 2: group veterans like hanging out with fellow veterans. There's a
Speaker 2: relationship element there that's already built in. So if you
Speaker 2: were going to a retirement facility where you don't know
Speaker 2: anybody but versus a veterans facility where at least you
Speaker 2: have a tie that binds. I imagine that's got to
Speaker 2: be very I mean at least psychologically benefit of beneficial. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it doesn't matter the age too, you know.
Speaker 16: I chuckle of times when I get a chance to
Speaker 16: go over to our community living center and I you know,
Speaker 16: here about about two months ago, we had a veteran
Speaker 16: who was here who's turned one hundred years old, and
Speaker 16: we had a beautiful birthday for him. And even at
Speaker 16: one hundred, he was still rasm guy that was in
Speaker 16: the army because he was a marine, you know, because
Speaker 16: because I think the gentleman that was younger said asking
Speaker 16: for a piece of cake, and he is nat, I
Speaker 16: don't feed army.
Speaker 2: That's great, bust that even late in life, it never stops.
Speaker 2: That's great. Well, remind my listeners about where the sites
Speaker 2: are available for us since a vacare. Yeah.
Speaker 16: So you can find all of our locations on online
Speaker 16: at Cincinnati, VA dot gov. If you google that, it
Speaker 16: show you all that there's a location, stab show you
Speaker 16: all that we're located. But real quick I can mention
Speaker 16: those We have two facilities in Kentucky, so Brian and
Speaker 16: we serve three states, three bordering states. Here in the
Speaker 16: tri state area fifteen counties. We have two clinics in Kentucky,
Speaker 16: one in Florence, one in Bellevue. Also over in Dearborn,
Speaker 16: Indiana beautiful State of the Ark clinic over there in
Speaker 16: the Lausburg community. You go north, as I mentioned our
Speaker 16: Hamilton community based out patient clinic which is in Butler.
Speaker 16: Then you go out east you have the Claremont Seaboch
Speaker 16: out there as well, and then also out in Georgetown,
Speaker 16: we also have a full eye center down here on
Speaker 16: Highland Avenue, and also in Norwood we have our Health
Speaker 16: and Behavior Wellness Center for that. So you know those
Speaker 16: where all of our facilities are. And I know we're
Speaker 16: getting close to the end of time. I do want
Speaker 16: to mention Brian as we talk about communication. My office
Speaker 16: is now started a podcast. Oh cool, Yes, now out
Speaker 16: on Spotify and the different platforms. We're doing these about
Speaker 16: once every four to five weeks, and I love the.
Speaker 2: Name of it.
Speaker 16: A gentleman in my office who's a combat veteran, he
Speaker 16: came up with the name for our podcast, and it's
Speaker 16: called Beyond the Boots. So the theme is, you know,
Speaker 16: after you wear those boots, so we're still going to
Speaker 16: take care of you later on. So folks and who
Speaker 16: are podcast listeners, go on there and check that out.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. What a great opportunity for folks to stay in
Speaker 2: touch and get involved and learn more about the VA.
Speaker 2: Todd Sledge on behalf of all my veteran friends out
Speaker 2: there and their families. Thanks for everything you and the
Speaker 2: Cincinni VA do for them. And I'll encourage my veteran
Speaker 2: friends out there. If you not signed up for your
Speaker 2: VA benefits, there's no downside to doing it. Todd. We'll
Speaker 2: talk again real soon. Thanks again.
Speaker 16: Yeah, my pleasure, Brian, and thank you for what you
Speaker 16: do and we really appreciate all your support all the time.
Speaker 2: My distinct pleasure from the bottom of my heart. We'll
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