WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:12.359 Five O five U k r C the talk station. 2 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:26.239 Seriously Happy Monday. 3 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:28.239 Will a vacation. 4 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:31.960 Literally everything, and I'll use a vacation next week. I 5 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.280 am taking next week off. Brian Thomas here, Glad to 6 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.759 be Sean McMahon in there where a just trekker normally 7 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.520 is in the executive producer booth. Good to see you, 8 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:41.759 Sean Man. I'm always appreciative. And when you show up 9 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:44.359 and cover for Joe, he does a great job. So 10 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:46.520 Joe will be out for a couple of weeks, uh 11 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:50.079 and taking care of matters in his world, and I 12 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:50.759 wish him all. 13 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:51.600 The best in that regard. 14 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:54.399 I'd love to hear from you if you feel free 15 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:56.560 to call. Maybe something on your mind, maybe you participated 16 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.000 in a protest over the week, and kind of laughing 17 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.840 at the the interviews of the folks, I don't even 18 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.480 know that they know why they're out there, and when 19 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.799 they say why they're out there, they don't really make 20 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.560 a whole lot of sense. Five went three seven D 21 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.439 eight two three taco at pound five fifty on at 22 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:15.200 and T Funds coming up on the fifty five KRCSEY 23 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.599 Morning Show. Scott Warman from the Inquiry. He's taking over 24 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.519 for Sharon cool and she's now working for the Hamilton 25 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:28.560 County Prosecutor's Office in her role as I guess spokes 26 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:33.400 person or whatever. She's not with the inquire anymore anyway. 27 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.400 So Scott Warmon's gonna be doing the local reporting. I'll 28 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.319 be following since I city council mayor, I have to 29 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.840 have Purvaal, I'll be following I suppose the County Commissioners, 30 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:44.879 which he did do a lot of reporting on. So 31 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.439 looking forward to have Scott covering U for local politics. 32 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:53.560 Someone's got to do it. Smither event seven twenty Every 33 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:55.480 Monday at seven twenty, we here from the former Vice 34 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:58.040 mayor of the City of Cincinnati today no different than 35 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:05.439 norm Christopher Smith, and I feel absolutely horrific. I was 36 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:09.800 supposed to have lunch with Christopher on Friday, and as 37 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.080 I've said so many times before, my brain gets the 38 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.479 shut down. When the mic turns off at nine o'clock 39 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:16.680 in the morning on Friday, I don't have to fire 40 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.240 my brain up until Sunday morning, when I wake up 41 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:20.840 and start worrying about what I'm going to be talking 42 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.639 about in the morning show. Well, my brain shut down 43 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.199 on Friday, like it normally did. And I just pretty 44 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:31.159 much slept right through my lunch with Christopher. Felt terrible. Christopher, 45 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.439 if you're out there, brother, I told you a million 46 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:35.599 times how sorry I was, and I'm saying it out 47 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:39.360 loud on the radio. Boy, it's just so embarrassing. Money 48 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.000 money with Brian James. I don't even know what we're 49 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.719 talking about with Brian this morning eight o five. Didn't 50 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.879 get a list of topics. Maybe Sean can call him 51 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.240 up earlier so it can do a rundown on that. 52 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.520 I'm sure we can do it on the fly. Not 53 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.960 a problem with that. Brian James. Monday, Monday, all word 54 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.400 financial and Todd Sledgeman since AFA returns. I got some 55 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.680 stuff to talk about with him at eight forty. So 56 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:03.840 helping out the American veteran. Todd's doing it each and 57 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.879 every day. So sign up for your VA benefits. And 58 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:10.759 uh we did the care starts now Gallas Saturday night. 59 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.400 And props to everybody who was involved in that. What 60 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:19.280 a fantastic event it was. I'm still feeling a little 61 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:23.360 bit sluggish from the festivities. Didn't get home till real late. 62 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.639 Maybe had one extra cocktail that shouldn't have firing on 63 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.360 a couple extra a couple less cylinders. This morning, I 64 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.000 am five three seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty 65 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.840 two three talk go with pound five point fifty on 66 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:40.159 eighteen and T phones. If you've got something to say, 67 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.000 I would love to hear from you. So there's our 68 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:49.000 lineup this morning. And uh, I thought there was something 69 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:49.840 else I wanted to mention. 70 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:51.319 Maybe it don't come to me. 71 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:58.159 Anyhow, Elon must refer to them as puppet masters. Whoever 72 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:02.400 is behind the anti Trum demonstrations over the weekend, handing 73 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.159 out all these pre written materials, handing out all these 74 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:11.240 pre printed the fascist Trump Ze must Go posters and placards, 75 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:17.439 And I'm not quite sure what they're hoping to accomplish. 76 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.879 And I always giving perspective that you know, it's twelve 77 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.600 thousand or twelve hundred rallies cities across the United States 78 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.959 and across the world and everything again, well, you know, 79 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.600 there are a lot of useful idiots in the world, 80 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.720 and you got social media, and you have a well 81 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.639 organized campaign with a lot of really big moneyed interests. 82 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.600 Speaking of oligarchs and these evil billionaires, who in the 83 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:44.079 health do you think actually funded all of this. I mean, 84 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.879 you know, say what you want about the Trump administration 85 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.839 and Elon Munk. I'm sorry, billionaire Elon Musk. You're supposed 86 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.040 to put that word in there before you mentioned Elon 87 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.639 musk name, So don't forget it's always billionaire Elon Musk, 88 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:58.240 like billionaire George Soros. 89 00:04:58.759 --> 00:04:59.120 Hmmm. 90 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:03.680 Yeah, they're on the other side as well. And maybe 91 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.959 the billionaires on the right side of the political ledger 92 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.839 should probably fund some campaigns and get people organized on 93 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.199 social media and show up in twelve hundred cities around 94 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.319 the United States and show that well, there are people 95 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.160 out there that really are appreciative of the fact that 96 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.600 Donald Trump is doing but he can, and Elon Musk 97 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.360 is doing what he can to get rid of fraud, waste, 98 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:25.519 and abuse, and I think that is at the core 99 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:31.279 of these protests. The funding is drying up. You think 100 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.240 about all the money that went through usaight and the 101 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.800 paper trail is being established, and they are freaking out 102 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.680 over it. They want this work to stop because what's 103 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.319 going to happen is the American taxpayer dollars are no 104 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.319 longer going to be going out into the world to 105 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.439 secuitously come back to Washington, DC to fund lobbying efforts 106 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.519 and non governmental organizations and everything else that just props 107 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.600 up all of these left wing causes. And I think 108 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:59.759 that's at the genesis of all of this. Who could 109 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:04.000 be against getting people off of the Social Security ranks 110 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:08.439 who are either taking money illegally or just outright dead. 111 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.680 Why is that a bad thing? They're taking away social Security? No, 112 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:28.360 they're not, No, they're not. What they're trying to do 113 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.560 is get rid of the opportunity for people to rip 114 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:38.079 you off. Why are there so many dead people with 115 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.279 active Social Security numbers? And how could anybody actually get 116 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:44.560 up off of their butt and want to run out 117 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.639 to a rally to stop that kind of work from happening. 118 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.279 And I love the interviews of these folks. When you 119 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.600 see them, they just like it's like deer in the headlines. 120 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:55.800 When you press them on why they're there and what 121 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.680 exactly it is that they say they're angry about. 122 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.800 They really they struggle to come up with something. 123 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.480 Musk point is that the problem is the puppet masters, 124 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:13.319 not the puppets, as the lotter, have no idea why 125 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.000 they are even there exactly. Elon Musk that was proven 126 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.560 time and time again with the interviews of these folks. 127 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.040 He just does everything he wants. He's a convicted felon. 128 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.759 You know, that's all I know. One proster and protesters 129 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.759 said again, that's his videos of all these kind of 130 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:41.560 people all over the place. This after being asked why 131 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.279 he believes Trump is a fascist while holding a sign 132 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.519 to fascist Trump Magine must go, and his response, he 133 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.480 just does everything he wants. He's a convicted felon. You know, 134 00:07:52.040 --> 00:08:00.759 that's all I know. There's his explanation. You know what, 135 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.920 I've put it out many many times. If you get 136 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:08.000 the definition of fascist, it doesn't fall into the definition 137 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:13.279 of fascist. They just love that word. One of the 138 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.639 things he's trying to control the media, one protester in 139 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.519 this video said, when asked for evidence Trump is allegedly 140 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.160 a fascist. Quote, one of the things he's is he's 141 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:27.040 trying to control the media. Well, isn't that a comical statement? 142 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:33.279 After all these years of left dominated media, the mainstream media, 143 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:38.679 the legacy media, covering up Biden's infirmities, lying to us, 144 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.159 manipulating things, not reporting the truth, over and over and 145 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.399 over again. Trump, You're angry with Trump? In response to 146 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:49.799 why do you think Trump is a fascist because he's 147 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:56.279 trying to control the media. That might be a bit 148 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.399 of Sissifian challenge considering you know, he is from the 149 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.799 conservative side of the ledger well at least somewhat. He's 150 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:06.840 not a leftist. I think we can all agree on. 151 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:10.600 But he may try all day long to control the media, 152 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.240 but I suppose the media itself will have a decision 153 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:17.799 in that regard, and they probably you know, we'll capitulate 154 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.960 what protesters. They try to control their own narrative. But 155 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.159 one of the things that Trump has done, for example, 156 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:32.799 is the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and then 157 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.440 not allowing the Associated press to come into the White House. 158 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.600 All right, Well, you know, the Biden administration didn't ever 159 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.919 call on the more conservative media outlets. They were left 160 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.720 out in the wilderness. So you know, okay, whatever, their 161 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:52.480 associated press is still out there, still reporting. Maybe they 162 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.480 don't get a chance to ask a question for a change, 163 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.960 but after all, you know, under the Biden administration, how 164 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.120 many media outlets out there weren't given an opportunity to 165 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:09.720 ask a question. You know, elections have consequences. But Trump 166 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.799 fascist because he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the 167 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:19.679 Gulf of America. Of America, Sean, I know that impacted 168 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.519 your world, didn't it. Well, you struggled with that every day. 169 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.799 You lost sleep over that, didn't you. I know you did. 170 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.200 Should see the bags under his eyes. Ever since Trump 171 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:38.399 declared it Gulf of America, Poor Sean bro one protester 172 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.759 had been given a sign describing Trump as a fascist. 173 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:45.320 They were everywhere, and also a printed one sheeter declaring 174 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:50.159 we are facing fascism. The time to act is now. 175 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.080 This is one of those you know, pre printed. We 176 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.360 got truckloads of these, hand them out to everybody, kind 177 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.600 of like the mainstream media when they get talking points 178 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.519 and you hear the same words uttered over and over 179 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.759 and over again. You flip the channels from CNN to ABC, 180 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.679 to NBC to CBS, MSNBC, and they all sound like 181 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:12.639 they're reading from the same sheet exactly. Well, here's the sheet. 182 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:22.919 We're facing fascism. The time to act is now. One 183 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.600 protester speaking with Fox from a demonstration in New York. 184 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:30.720 I'm protesting how horrible things have become in our country. 185 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:32.799 I mean, we've been taken over by a bunch of 186 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.960 robber barons, who are trying to take away all of 187 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.600 our rights, benefits and liberty. 188 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:46.279 Really in what way? There? 189 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.320 You all are, at twelve hundred different locations exercising your 190 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.720 freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. No one came 191 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:57.960 in rounded you up, no one's standing in your way. 192 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.440 You're free to open your mouth and sound like idiot 193 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.799 and not have a single articulable syllable as to exactly 194 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:12.200 what you're angry and upset about another protester and protesting. 195 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:16.559 What's happening with this blessed country, the democracy that was 196 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:21.759 advanced democracy now in transition to a dictatorship, and we 197 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.720 are almost in a fascist state right now, only because 198 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.279 the rule of law is bending right now and it 199 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.720 may break. Well, that sounds like something would have come 200 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.679 out of Kamala Harris's mouth word salad full of nothing, 201 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.120 saying nothing and actually meaning nothing. 202 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:46.720 How is democracy under threat? What? 203 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:50.120 What has the work of the Department of Government Efficiency 204 00:12:50.279 --> 00:13:02.279 done to impact your ability to go out and vote? Well, 205 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:04.039 you go over to Judicial Watch and you see that 206 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.960 the work they're doing getting rid of millions of names 207 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:10.279 from voter rolls, that well, of people who are not 208 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:15.600 legally eligible to vote. And I suppose the protesters may 209 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:22.799 be angry about that. We can't cheat anymore. Five eighteen 210 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.000 fifty five KCD Talk station. Feel free to give me 211 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:26.679 a holler if you want love to hear from you. 212 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.679 Maybe you got a different take on it, or maybe 213 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:30.320 you can explain to me what the hell it is 214 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.039 that they were angry about. I'm struggling on that. 215 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:41.320 I'll be right back fifty five KRC five two five 216 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:42.480 KRICT talks Station. 217 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:50.159 Markets are reeling as a consequence of the tariffs. A 218 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.320 lot of countries are reaching out to negotiate with Trump. 219 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.559 It's gonna be a it's going to be a tough 220 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.279 row to ho here for a while. 221 00:13:58.320 --> 00:13:58.960 Let it go. 222 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.600 Don't look at your market performance, don't pull out of 223 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.879 the stock market. We go up, we go down. It's 224 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.919 not as bad as other times, other crashes that we've 225 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.720 not crashes. I don't want to say that word, but 226 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.720 we have been through these struggles in the past, and 227 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.080 I suspect, you know, he could pull the plug on 228 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.240 any of these tariffs a the time he wants. But apparently, 229 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.200 like fifty countries so far have reached out to discuss 230 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.120 and negotiate with Donald Trump over the tariffs, which you know, 231 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.279 I think that's what the point of the whole thing was. 232 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:34.399 So we're just gonna have to go through a bumpy period. 233 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.120 But I don't think the twelve hundred rallies that were 234 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.480 taking place over the weekend had anything to do with 235 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.919 the market crash the other day, because this is all 236 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.240 planned in advance, so maybe they might want to complain 237 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:52.240 about it. But how does a tumbling market help the 238 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:57.559 evil oligarchs and robber barons of the world. Apparently it doesn't. 239 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.240 And let us see here. 240 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.440 Uh oh, it was something. 241 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:13.200 Yeah, I see New South Wales as banned a conversion. 242 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.200 New South Wales conversion practices makes it a criminal offense 243 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.279 punishably up to five years in prison for anyone who 244 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.679 delivers or performs conversion practices that cause serious mental or 245 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.679 physical harm. That of course, is trying to convert someone 246 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.679 from being biologically male into female or biologically female into male. 247 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.600 And there's you know, I thought that was kind of comical. 248 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:44.960 We had there was a pool match. A pair of 249 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:50.840 biologically male pool players who identifies females ended up facing 250 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.679 off against each other in the championship match in the 251 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.960 United Kingdom. And this is like the game of pool, 252 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.679 as in, get a pool table and racks and balls 253 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.639 and play a game of pool. Now, you know, initially 254 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.039 my reaction when I saw this, I was kind of laughing, 255 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.399 because you know this, the pool is probably one sport 256 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:11.960 where I would think that women could compete on an 257 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.879 equal playing field as men. I mean, you're good at 258 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:20.279 the game and you're not. It doesn't require strength. But nonetheless, 259 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.879 as is report of both trans players tore through their 260 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:32.200 female opponents this season. Lucy Smith and Harriet Haynes, those 261 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.279 are the two that ended up on top. Smith won 262 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.679 eighty five of his slash her one hundred and thirteen matches, 263 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.360 sixty two percent of the eight hundred and forty eight 264 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:46.759 frames since twenty twenty one. Hayes similar winning record two 265 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.240 hundred and forty one matches one sixty one percent of 266 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.679 the frames before entering the tournament, beating all of the 267 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:59.639 women that they competed against. So there you go, two 268 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.680 logical men, both claiming to be women, advancing in the tournament. 269 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.440 Now we got a transgender athlete reportedly having first place 270 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:10.440 during a girl's high school track meet. Happened last Wednesday 271 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.319 in Portland, Oregon. The boy who goes by Leah Rose 272 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.279 previously competed under the name Zachary Fox up until a 273 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.960 year ago. The outlet City won competing in the high 274 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:25.000 jump at the Portland Interslastic League Varsity Relays, beating the 275 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:33.079 second place finisher by a couple of inches, according Tothathletic 276 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.480 dot Net. While competing against JV boys in May of 277 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.799 twenty twenty three, Zachary Rose, before he decided he was 278 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:47.920 a woman, finished eleventh out of eleven, and then once 279 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.559 deciding he was a girl, ends up in first place. 280 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.759 Just saying five twenty sixty five care City Talk Station, 281 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:58.640 local stories coming up, lots of water into local stories. 282 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.720 Nothing else happened over the week again apparently anyway, we'll 283 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.119 be right back. Feel free to call five thirty one 284 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.960 Happy song Day, trying to make it so. Anyway, you 285 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.720 didn't get a chance to listen. We've got Congressman David 286 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:12.839 Taylor was on the program last week. You showed up 287 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:14.440 in studio, got to talk with him for about a 288 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.279 half hour. Youvik Rama swami for Ohio Governor Vivick joined 289 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:20.799 the program the podcast at five Caresey dot com. And 290 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.039 I think there's one more day for the Bourbon raffle 291 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:26.359 for the Cure Starts Now, which I mentioned earlier. That's 292 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:28.319 the one where you have the option. They'll get two 293 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:33.200 different options. Option one the Pappy van Winkle collection of 294 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.680 six bottles. And thank you to all the listeners in 295 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:38.880 a very short period of time. And I'm sure more 296 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.240 people bought after the show. But I got a text 297 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.640 from Keith Estrich from the Cure Starts Now one thousand 298 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:47.720 dollars in just like fifteen minutes for the talking to him. 299 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:50.920 So God bless my listeners for supporting the wealthy effort 300 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.680 to cure cancer. And hopefully one of my listeners will 301 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.720 win that wonderful one of the. 302 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:58.640 Drawings for the bourbons. 303 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:00.640 But fifty five Cassey dot com link still there, and 304 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:02.880 I think the content are the availability of the tickets 305 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:05.839 is through tomorrow and if your incident helping ont Corey 306 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:08.440 Bowman for mayor City of Cincinnati, he's kind of ended 307 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:13.279 price sal chili tomorrow evening getting at five pm. So anyhow, 308 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:15.960 get your iHeart Media. Appy're over there too, help you out. 309 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:20.480 Listen to the content from all the iHeartMedia stations. 310 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:21.519 Over the local stories. 311 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.079 Multiple emergency agencies responded to a spill of diesel fuel 312 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:29.119 and used motor oil went into the Willow Creek outside 313 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:31.799 of Butler County late last night. Spill happened on State 314 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:34.720 Route one seventy seven, Just Path Northern Elementary School and 315 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:39.920 Lock Road, Pendleton County. EMA Public Information I was a 316 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.920 Rob Braun, said, Deputy chief on the scene, described the 317 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:47.519 incident as a large spill. Information on how the spill 318 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:50.200 happened on the exact scale of it not immediately available. 319 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:52.839 There is a trucking company located in the sinity, but 320 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:55.480 I'm not sure if there's connection though. Same portion of 321 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:58.960 the road where the cruise responded already submerged underwater and 322 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.720 closed the vehicle traffic. Licking River crested at thirty eight 323 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.759 point five feet overnight Sunday after severe flooding, and that 324 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:11.440 is going on all over the place. Kentucky's Emergency Operations 325 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.319 Center has been alerted and a response team preparing for 326 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.440 efforts this morning. According to Braun, local teams determined there 327 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.319 was no action they were able to take safely overnight, 328 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:25.680 so hopefully they get that under control. Go to A 329 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.519 man rescued from the floodwaters. Happens yesterday afternoon at the 330 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.559 former location of Coney Island, according to Cincinnati Police, who 331 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.039 said a man somehow got into the area where Coney 332 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.359 Island resided to pass that it's currently flooded due to 333 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:43.160 Ohiohio River levels. He got roughly thirty feet into the 334 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:46.319 now defunct park before he needed to be rescued. The 335 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.720 The CPO, reporting on this thank you, Molly Shram said 336 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.400 cruise bringing the man back to dry land on a raft. 337 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:55.440 An suv could also be seen almost fully submerged in 338 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:59.640 the water near Coney Island's front gates. Earlier Sunday, Fire 339 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.119 Cruise in downtown Cincinnati had to rescue a woman who 340 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:06.720 had taken shelter at a stage in Sawyer Point, similar 341 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:09.039 to the Rescue your Coney Island. Cruise put a life 342 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:11.799 vest on the woman and inflated a raft retriever from 343 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.319 the stage. Flooding from the Ohio River has impacted several 344 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.839 neighborhoods and roadways, closing many streets throughout Cincinnati and other areas. 345 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:21.200 There's a full list of road closures. You can check 346 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:24.079 wcpo's website for that, and I think that's still going on. 347 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:27.720 Great Miami Little Miami Licking Rivers also had flooding in 348 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:30.599 their respective areas. Two cities along the Licking River under 349 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.400 mandatory evacuation owners. Some Covington residents along the Licking River 350 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:38.480 also were encouraged to leave due to the high water level. 351 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.680 So hopefully we'll get a reprieve from that with the 352 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:46.000 well it not raining anymore. Three men from Kentucky arrested 353 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:47.759 in charge in connection with the shooting of a man 354 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:50.279 in Brown County. Corner to the Sheriff's office announcement last 355 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:52.880 week WTCA, they responded to two to fifty seven Hickory 356 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.920 Street in Aberdeen after receiving a call from a man 357 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.240 stating that he had been shot of State Highway Patrol 358 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:02.160 troopers and county deputies both arrived at the scene, where 359 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:04.319 they said they found fifty one year old Kelly Applegate 360 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.119 shot in the chest. Corner of the Sheriff's office. Suspect 361 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.640 had fired multiple rounds at Applegate. He was then taken 362 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:15.640 to the hospital. Last Wednesday, Brown Unty deputies, with the 363 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.000 assistants of the Mason County Sheriff's Office and the Mayswelle 364 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.480 Police Department arrested fifty six year old Michael Fight and 365 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:22.759 forty seven year old Jerry Cooper, both from Dover in 366 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:25.359 connection with the shooting. Next day, deputies with assistants of 367 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:29.759 the police and MPD arrested sixty two year old George 368 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:34.400 Kendall from Maysville on additional charges. All three suspects charged 369 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:37.119 with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder, both 370 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:39.240 first degree felony. He's being held to the Mason Kunty 371 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:44.920 Detention Center awaiting extradition five point thirty five right now 372 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:47.839 fifty five KR seeing the talk station stack. 373 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.599 Is stupid coming up? Why not? 374 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:53.200 You can feel free to call, though I'd rather talk 375 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:54.880 with you than do the stack of stupid, although I 376 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:56.359 do have fun to win the stack of stupid as 377 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:58.599 I try to wake up during the five o'clock hour. 378 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:03.680 Hey's by forty one for the five karc DE talk station. 379 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:09.799 Happy Monday fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two three 380 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:12.039 Talk of pound Fay fifty one eighteen tvent. 381 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:17.920 Uh into the stacker stupid Uh. 382 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:20.920 In sents after being denied a free refilled a lemonade 383 00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:27.240 stand run by children, Florida man aggressively grabbed a female victim, 384 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:31.119 adopted a fighting stands and warmed that he would beat 385 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:35.759 her up, corning the police. Investigators say Stephen Cusamano, forty 386 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:38.240 five years old, walking in clear out our neighborhood around 387 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.240 seven thirty pm on Tuesday, when he observed a lemonade 388 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.079 stand being run by several juveniles and the victim purchased 389 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:47.319 one glass of lemonade and became angry when he was 390 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:52.799 not allowed to refill his cup. Gusumana then allegedly grabbed 391 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.680 the victim by the wrist aggressively while standing in a 392 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:57.720 fighting stance, telling the victim he would beat her up. 393 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:00.960 Kausamana left the residential area on foot, but was quickly 394 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:04.759 apprehended by the police officer. During questioning, Kuzumano reportedly admitted 395 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.880 to the entire sequence of events, but claimed to grab 396 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:11.759 the victim due to her talking s word to me, 397 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:21.559 she's a little girl, mister Kuzumano. Forty five. Cops described 398 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.319 him as a transient. He was charged with fellowing me 399 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.240 about her and hands count due to his extensive rap sheet, 400 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.359 including multiple prior convictions for battery, as well as convictions 401 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:34.200 for trespassing, narcotics possession, disorderly intoxication, assaulted the deadly weapon, theft, 402 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.559 and disorderly conduct, locked up in lieu of five thousand 403 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:43.240 dollars bond. He has pleaded not guilty. Oh yes, you 404 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:49.200 are well played, Sean, well played. Let's see what Larry's 405 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:51.400 God for. We're getting other stupid stories. Larry, thanks for 406 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:53.680 calling this morning. Welcome to the fifty five Carcy Morning Show. 407 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:55.559 Good morning. 408 00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:58.920 I just wanted us make a point. 409 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.599 You know, how back in twenty twenty across all of 410 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.960 our major networks, at the height of the pandemic, how 411 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.279 they were running a little ticker from by state and 412 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:13.319 the COVID amount of COVID deaths and things like that, 413 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:18.119 really pushing the narrative and making everybody aware of it 414 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:21.839 and the importance. I kind of wish they would do 415 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:26.839 the same thing with the Department the Dough's Department of 416 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:30.880 Government Efficiency on the and run a ticker on all 417 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:36.039 these major networks at the top, on where the waste 418 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:41.480 was found, what it was about, and start to hold 419 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:43.799 some of these people accountable. But I think that they would. 420 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.960 It would also start to really convince the minds of 421 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:54.279 even the liberals and so on. But the brad Winstrop, 422 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:57.319 if you're listening, maybe there's something you can do to 423 00:25:57.359 --> 00:25:59.880 push that, maybe get Congress to write something to where 424 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:04.680 the start making these networks to make people more aware 425 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:10.440 and take the Department of Government efficiency more serious. Well, 426 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.319 maybe the people that don't pay attention to politics at 427 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:14.799 all could start to really see that. 428 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:15.839 Wow. 429 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:20.279 Yeah, I'm kind of studies. 430 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:25.720 Of boys reading trans books and it. 431 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:30.000 Just goes on part of freedom, mistaque Larry, is the 432 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.240 freedom not to speak. And we all know the networks 433 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:34.079 are biased. I mean, we've all lived through that. We 434 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:37.000 understand that reality. And I'm chuckling because that's one of 435 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:38.920 the criticisms that one of the people that was interviewed, 436 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:42.559 Why are you here protesting on Saturday? Why because Donald 437 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:45.200 Trump is trying to control the media. I suppose if 438 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.160 Donald Trump actually could control the media, you'd get reporting 439 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:52.359 along netline on a regular basis. Sadly you don't. But 440 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:56.279 Doose does report and has posted online through its sight 441 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:58.880 all the work that they are doing. So if you want, 442 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.240 you can go look at it yourself, but don't expect 443 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:05.880 the likes of MSNBC or CNN, CBS, NBC, you know, 444 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:09.240 the entire lineup and litany of letters to actually do 445 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:11.960 this and bring this to more people's attention. This is 446 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.200 why it's so funny. When people are interviewed as to 447 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.599 why they think Trump is a fascist and why they 448 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:20.200 show up at a rally anti Trump rally, anti Doese rally, 449 00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:22.319 they all get the deer in the headlights look and 450 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:24.519 come up with words salid answers. It don't make any 451 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:28.160 damn sense. They paid a little bit closer attention, and 452 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:31.480 they got better educated on the topic. They probably like, no, 453 00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:34.799 that's a good thing. No, they're not killing SOCIS security 454 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.480 or Medicaid. They're actually taking steps and efforts that might 455 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:42.359 make it last a little bit longer than it's scheduled 456 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:46.160 to last under the current situation. And it's not gonna 457 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.960 last very long. This has been widely reported now for decades. 458 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.200 They keep doing a TikTok TikTok countdown. This is when 459 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.079 it's all going to hit the fan, and we're getting 460 00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:56.240 closer and closer. 461 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:56.400 To that day. 462 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.400 Six five cares of the dog's as. Meanwhile, both parties, Republicans, 463 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:06.559 Democrats and anybody in there who can call themselves an 464 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:13.400 independent do literally nothing. Talk station Happy Monday, try to 465 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.680 make it so anyway. I'm not happy right now, Thank you, Eric. 466 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:23.359 Eric just sent me the link to US Debt clock 467 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.200 dot org, and the numbers fly at you so fast, 468 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.119 and you look at the debt we're racking up and 469 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:30.680 just goes up tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of 470 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.720 dollars almost instantaneously. There is, though a doge clock, which 471 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:36.480 and I don't know where this data comes from. I'm 472 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.279 just trusted for what it says. So far, two hundred 473 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.200 and eighty nine billion dollars Dose has found and saved 474 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:47.319 savings per taxpayer two thousand, five hundred and seventy seven. However, 475 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:51.880 given the US national debt debt per citizen one hundred 476 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.960 and seven thousand dollars, debt per taxpayer three hundred and 477 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:59.960 twenty three thousand dollars, that's heartbreaking. 478 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.319 Let's see here. Uh bump bump, bumpom. Drug detection dog 479 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.480 alerted to the odor of narcotics emitting from the buttocks 480 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:13.640 of a Texas man trying to cross back into the 481 00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:18.519 United States from Mexico last Monday. Best goator, say George Vargas, 482 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:21.279 twenty six year old questioned by border patrol agents after 483 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:23.960 passing into the United States via pedestrian lane and an 484 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:26.960 El Paso port of entry. He claimed to be returning 485 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:29.759 to his from his grandmother's house in Mexico and was 486 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:31.960 on his way to work, and agents discovered that Vargas 487 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.000 had two hours earlier entered the US through a different 488 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:37.759 l Passo port of entry. He was subjected to his 489 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:42.400 secondary screening, which included a pat down for weapons. Vargas 490 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:46.000 was clenching his thighs that's in the report during an 491 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:51.319 inclusive frisk, according to the criminal complaint. At that point, 492 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:54.960 a concealed human narcotics detector dog was called in for 493 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.519 a sniff. The animal reportedly alerted to the trained odor 494 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:06.960 of narcot emanating from Vargas's buttocks through his pants. After 495 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:10.759 Vargas was instructed to sit down, agents noticed a bulge 496 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.960 protruding from his buttocks through his pants. Subsequently, they removed 497 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.480 two black taped bundles from between his buttocks. The packages 498 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.359 contained a total of five point twenty five ounces of 499 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:27.400 meth amphetamine bum being read as rights, Vargus reportedly agreed 500 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:30.079 to speak with agents. He claimed to have been threatened 501 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:32.599 and said he was going to be paid with two 502 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:36.039 ounces of meth when when the remaining three ounces would 503 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:39.759 be picked up by an unknown individual. Vargas told the 504 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:46.119 agents he needed the money. Charged with drug smuggling, facing 505 00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.359 more than tenures in prisons, convicted of the fellow account 506 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.720 now walked up in the county jail schedule for US 507 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.599 district or detentioneering. He does have Spanish word for straight 508 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:07.079 check five fifty five at the five KC Talk station. Uh, 509 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:08.880 feel free to call. I got plenty to talk about 510 00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:10.960 coming up next hour. Love to hear from you though, 511 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:13.160 and we got Scott Wharton from the Inquire taking her 512 00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:15.200 for Sharon Koleich will join the program at seven oh five. 513 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.599 Christopher Smith minu at seven twenty for the Smith event 514 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:20.240 Monday Monday, Brian James at eight oh five, and then 515 00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:22.519 Todd Sledge and the Since Anniva has got some things 516 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.960 to talk about to my veteran friends, he'll be out 517 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.279 at eight forty. I'll be right back after the news 518 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.079 lay six oh five if the five cars Talk station. 519 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:32.880 Bon Thomas right here. Wish and embody and a happy Monday. 520 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:34.880 Trying to make it happy anyway, unless you're paying attention 521 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:38.000 to the markets which are while futures are done pretty 522 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.440 uh significantly after they'll wipeout from last week. As a 523 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.559 consequence of the tariff's going into effects. Say what you 524 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.240 want about the tariffs. I mean, this actually comes as 525 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:51.480 no surprise to me. The globe has to react and 526 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:54.319 markets are going to react, and we'll find out what's 527 00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:56.079 going to happen. I got a lot of countries lining 528 00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.480 up to contact the administration to talk about negotiating the tariffs, 529 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:03.240 and fifty countries. Actually, it's widely reported. I've already done that. 530 00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.279 So insofar as what's coming up in the Morning Show, 531 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.799 before we get into more details on that, fans forward 532 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.279 one hour Scott Wharton from the Cincinnia Enquirer. He's taken 533 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.000 over for Sharon Coolidge, so he'll be doing all the 534 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.559 reporting for CINCINNY City Council and the mayor and of 535 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.160 course the mayoral race and the county commissioners as well. 536 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.200 So we'll get forward to hearing from Scott in an hour. 537 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.599 Christopher Smith Aman every Monday at seven twenty, former Vice 538 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.279 mayor of the City of Cincinnati, are offering what we 539 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.319 call the Smither Vent. Don't know what he's going to 540 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.240 be talking about, but you know he's a financial planner, 541 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:36.519 so he may have something to say about the tariffs 542 00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:40.079 and the impact there. I think best advice, which we'll 543 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:44.319 get from Money Monday's Brian James at eighth five, don't 544 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.759 look at your portfolio. If you've got a four oh 545 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.680 one K planet, maybe best to just not take a 546 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.759 look at that. Let things settle down, because when the 547 00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:57.759 markets go down, history has demonstrated they do go back up. 548 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:02.680 But I'm sure he'll offer advice about that. He often 549 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.000 refers to himself as more of a counselor in managing 550 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:11.759 people's emotions as opposed to picking and choosing which stocks 551 00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:14.759 to invest in. Since Ava todd Sledge returns of the 552 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:16.880 Morning Show at eight forty, we got some topics to 553 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:19.640 talk about about what's going on at the VA. Supporting 554 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.720 my veteran friends, feel free to call Joe Strecker's out. 555 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.799 Sean McMahon's in always appreciate when Shawn covers for Joe 556 00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:28.559 five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight 557 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:30.480 hundred and eighty two to three top pound five fifty 558 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:32.920 on at and T phones speaking a cory of Homan 559 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.200 running from Mayor. He's got an event tomorrow night five pm. 560 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:37.160 Price still chill. You can help him out. You can 561 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:39.599 get a chance to listen to. Congressman David Taylor joined 562 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:41.920 the Morning show last week and podcast at fifty five 563 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.759 KRC dot com. He's the man who was elected to 564 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.160 take over for brad winstrip vek Rama Swami. He was 565 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.079 on the program last week as well. He is an 566 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.559 enthusiastic guy. I really do support him, and he has 567 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:59.160 lined up I think literally every endorsement. I think probably 568 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.319 trying to put the point a primary to rest, like geez, 569 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:05.599 you can't get anybody to endorse you. Vivek's got pretty 570 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:08.679 much all of them. And another opportunity. The opportunity remains. 571 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:10.840 I believe it's still until tomorrow for the Bourbon raffle. 572 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.719 The cure starts now. Fantastic event. Thanks everybody was able 573 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:17.559 to make that on Saturday night. Awesome time and giving 574 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:19.239 me hope that we will come up with a cure 575 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.079 for cancer. And that's all what that is about. So 576 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:26.039 maybe win some bourbon and point being you'll cure cancer. 577 00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:27.880 And thanks to all my listeners who bought tickets when 578 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.480 we did the interview with Keith Keith desertch last week. 579 00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:34.079 One thousand dollars worth of tickets sold in a very 580 00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:37.440 short period of time. So back over to the Wall 581 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:42.880 Street Journal and the Dow Futures DAL currently down three 582 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:46.360 point twenty five s and P down three point three eight, 583 00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:51.079 NASDAK down three point six nine, so another down day 584 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:54.119 on trading, calling it turmoil. The global market snowballed in 585 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:56.599 one of the worst routes in recent memories after Trump 586 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:59.320 said he would stay the course with the with the 587 00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.840 tariffs yesterday, Trump Quota is saying, what's going to happen 588 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:03.480 to the markets? 589 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:04.440 I can't tell you. 590 00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:07.280 I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you 591 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:11.119 have to take medicine to fix something. So stock features 592 00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:14.920 down this morning. Contracts tied to major UX induses down 593 00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:19.239 more than three percent. Pullback, they say, suggested broad s 594 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.000 and P five hundred index at risk of following the 595 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:26.119 tech heavy NASDAK composite into bear market, which is defined 596 00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:31.639 as following a twenty percent plus decline. They have something 597 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:35.400 called the Wall Street Fear Gauge, apparently jump to levels 598 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:38.920 that roll, sort of reminiscent of COVID nineteen and the 599 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:41.800 drop in markets back then, although the drop hasn't been 600 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:45.840 as large as the COVID nineteen drop over in Asia, 601 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.920 also of course, relying on trade, their stocks plunged. Hong 602 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:55.159 Kong's main equity benchmark drop thirteen percent, described as the 603 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.559 worst day since the Asian financial crisis, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, 604 00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:02.599 Those in the CEES fell between seven and ten percent. 605 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:06.719 Over to Europe, these stocks Europe six hundred drop five percent. 606 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:11.480 Bitcoin and oil prices fell sharply. Well, maybe there's a 607 00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:14.599 glimmer of hope and oil prices dropping because we have 608 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.880 experience of dropping gasoline prices. So if global oil surprise 609 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:20.880 drop because they expect some sort of recession, I suppose 610 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.559 not as much oil being consumed, perhaps we might get 611 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:26.480 some break at the pump. I'm just looking for a 612 00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:27.239 glimmer of hope. 613 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:27.800 And all this. 614 00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:33.119 Treasury's rallied apparently pushing down yields. Investors bet the Federal 615 00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:36.920 Reserve will need to slash interest rates. Futures prices, how likewise, 616 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:40.960 showed traders now seeing more than a fifty percent likelihood 617 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:43.800 of the equivalent of a five or more quarter point 618 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:45.599 rate cuts this year. 619 00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:48.920 That would be nice. 620 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:57.079 Sadly, though, US stocks lost six point six trillion dollars 621 00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.880 in value in the last two days of last week 622 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:07.199 after the announcement of the tariffs, So you got to 623 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.159 take the good with the bad. I suppose you know 624 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:11.480 I'd said out loud a multitude of times, no. 625 00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:12.519 Big fan of tariffs. 626 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.280 And you know the only reason I took a step 627 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:17.559 back from being against the idea because I know, you 628 00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:19.119 knew this was going to happen. It's going to have 629 00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:23.519 an inflationary effect and all that. But how is it 630 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:25.639 that we've gone on all this time when all these 631 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:28.719 other countries were tariffing us? And that was kind of 632 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.760 the eye opening revelation to have this discussion when you 633 00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:35.480 see the charts and the tariffs that Donald Trump placed 634 00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.440 on these other countries are tariffs on them right now, 635 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:40.679 or at least the ones that kick in Wednesday. The 636 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:43.199 rest of them aren't as bad as the ones that 637 00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.320 currently exist and have existed now for a while on 638 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:50.159 US imports into their countries. I mean, if you're looking 639 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:53.880 for fairness in this, that doesn't seem quite fair, does it. 640 00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:58.559 I mean, they're depriving their citizens of the opportunity to 641 00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:03.400 purchase US goods at a reasonable price. Some countries had 642 00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:06.239 like ninety five percent tariffs on US goods coming in. 643 00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:07.719 What makes that right? 644 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:10.719 I don't know. 645 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.880 Anyway, According to White House advisors speaking yesterday, more than, 646 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:18.360 as I mentioned before, fifty countries already got in touch 647 00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:22.239 with the Trump administration to start talking about negotiating these tariffs. 648 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:25.679 Kevin Hasset, who's the head of the White House National 649 00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:29.199 Economic Council, talking with ABC yesterday, said there are more 650 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.559 than fifty countries reaching out and trying to negotiate this 651 00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:35.519 new status with the president. They're doing that because they 652 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:40.880 understand that they bear a lot of the tariff. Hassi 653 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:43.719 didn't say which countries have started talks with the administration. 654 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.239 Trump wrote on truth social media a couple of days 655 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:48.679 ago that Vietnam's top leaders said that the country is 656 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.360 going to reduce its tariffs on the United States to zero. Well, 657 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.800 you'll call that one to win. So we got last 658 00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:59.239 week announcing ten percent tariffs on all trading partners, as 659 00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:01.920 well as higher level on about sixty nations, and those 660 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.079 are the ones that really have some outrageous tariffs on 661 00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:07.840 US goods. The balance of these tariffs the higher ones 662 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.559 kicking in on the ninth so Wednesday. Exempt from the 663 00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.800 latest tariffs Canada and Mexico because Trump had already slapped 664 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:18.159 the twenty five percent tariff on them because he wanted 665 00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:22.239 the trafficking, infentinal and illegal immigration to stop. Looking for 666 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:24.719 greater support and trying to apply pressure on Mexico and 667 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.280 Canada for that. You know, certainly those could disappear, Prime 668 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:37.440 Minister or Thai Prime Minister Shinwarta so that Thailand is 669 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:39.480 also willing to enter into talks to the United States 670 00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:42.719 on tariff, saying Thailand is signaling it's according to him, 671 00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.760 Thailand has signaling that's readiness to discuss with the United 672 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:49.679 States government at the first opportunity to adjust the trade 673 00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:54.079 balance to be fair to both parties. Little signal of 674 00:39:54.159 --> 00:40:01.360 optimism on that one. UK Prime Minister Keres Starmer told 675 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:04.079 reporters last week his country would respond in a cool 676 00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:08.639 and calm manner, pointing out the United States only placed 677 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.320 a ten percent levy, put in the United Kingdom, in 678 00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:14.320 his words, in a better position than a lot of 679 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:19.599 other countries from what was announced. Well fair enough. Taiwan's 680 00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:25.159 president on Sunday offered zero tariffs. How about that, pledging 681 00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:27.920 to remove trade barriers rather than imposing reciprocal measures and 682 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:30.599 saying Taiwan, these companies will raise their US investments if 683 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:32.920 I recall correctly, Taiwan had like a sixty five percent 684 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:40.679 tariff on US uh Further, in that Sunday interview with Hassid, 685 00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:43.920 he said, the US economic data has showed that we 686 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:46.320 just had one of the strongest jobs reports we've seen 687 00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:48.519 in a long time. It was like the addition of 688 00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:53.000 two hundred and fifty five thousand jobs, And he suggested, 689 00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.400 and you have to wait and find out that tariffs 690 00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:58.159 could be leading to more American job because if there 691 00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:00.280 is more investment in the United States and the build 692 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:02.000 more factories here, of course that's going to lead to 693 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.840 more jobs. But see, this isn't going to be instantaneous. 694 00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:06.719 And I think that's the frustrating thing that we all 695 00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:08.880 feel out here. We see our stocks job we see 696 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.360 our four to one k shrink, and we think the 697 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:12.960 world's going to come to an end. But if this 698 00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.880 does result in some additional investing in the United States, 699 00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:18.719 then it'd be good for all of us over the 700 00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:22.360 long haul. That just does not happen in a moment's time. 701 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.760 It's not like flipping a light switch. They said. The 702 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:27.679 jobs did it was about fifty percent better than the 703 00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:33.920 markets expected. In the second one in a row, Hassett said, 704 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:36.800 we've created like ten thousand auto jobs when trust just 705 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:44.320 since Trump took office, more automobiles being manufactured in this country. 706 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:45.880 And I thought it was rather interesting. I think it 707 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:50.760 was Jaguar and land Rover. They said they're going to 708 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:56.000 stop exports into the United States for a period of time, 709 00:41:56.480 --> 00:42:00.400 and I don't know how this ultimately helps them. Reported 710 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.480 over the weekend, as we work to address the new 711 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:05.920 trading terms with our business partners, we're talking taking some 712 00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:09.559 short term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as 713 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.760 we develop our mid to longer term plans again. Manufacturer 714 00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:21.880 of Jaguar and land Rower, the United States is the 715 00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:27.840 second biggest importer of British made cars after the EU. 716 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:32.239 Jaguar land Rover, one of Britain's biggest products by volume, 717 00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:34.480 set in its statement that the US was an important 718 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.559 market for its luxury band because it sells four hundred 719 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:44.199 thousand range Rovers and other models annually and exports the 720 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:46.719 United States account for almost a quarter of their sales. 721 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.800 So I don't understand the connection you pause exports to 722 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:55.719 your second biggest consumer of your automobiles. Oh well, someone 723 00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.000 can we can explain that to me? Feel free? Five, one, three, seven, four, nine, 724 00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:00.960 fifty five hundred eight at eight two to three talk. 725 00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:05.679 Maybe they'll pause them because they'll come to the negotiating 726 00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:11.039 table and negotiate in eradication of the tariffs, and we'll 727 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:13.880 all be better off for it, which I think is 728 00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:14.920 the point of the exercise. 729 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:19.360 Twenty two fifty five krc DE Talk Station. 730 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.960 BOYA marshall Over town hallowed interesting off ed responding to 731 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.039 this insanity over the weekend with the twelve thousand cities 732 00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:29.519 and people in all the world screaming their head off 733 00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:32.960 over to evil Trump and Musk, the Right say is 734 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.519 apparently cord to their handy website, Trump Musk and they're 735 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:38.960 billionaire cronies orchestrating and all out assault on our government 736 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:42.079 and our economy and our basic rights. Website goes on 737 00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:44.400 to say President Trump, Elon Musk and others want to 738 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:48.960 strip Americas for parts, shuttering social Security offices, firing essential workers, 739 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:53.920 eliminating consumer protections, gotting medicaid, all to bankroll their billionaire 740 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.679 tax scam. They're handing over our tax dollars, our public services, 741 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.039 and our democracy to the ultra rich. Their words at 742 00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:04.480 the website, not mine. You're right that's brilliant. Let's look 743 00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:06.639 at two of the programs that these leftists claim are 744 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:09.800 being decimated by Trump and Doge Socials Security and Medicaid. 745 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:11.880 How many times have we heard Democrats talk about how 746 00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:15.159 Republicans want to take away Social Security benefits from older Americans? 747 00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:18.559 So there was such a tired trobe that stories of 748 00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:22.039 evil Republicans wanted to swipe Grandma's Social Security tracks seem 749 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:24.039 to be like as much of a staple of campaign 750 00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:27.920 season as robo calls, campaign radio commercials and vote for 751 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:32.960 me signs. Go back to twenty twelve presidential campaign, Democrats 752 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:36.519 even depicted then Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan pushing 753 00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:39.199 an old woman in a wheelchair of a clique of 754 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.519 a cliff, and you had Democrats that are crying Elon 755 00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.880 Musk and his Doge team front covering massive fraud in 756 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:48.480 the Social Security system, which is seeing billions of dollars 757 00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:51.679 scam from the system by millions of foreigners ineligible for 758 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:55.800 benefits yet taking them. They exposed massive theft of socials 759 00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:58.440 security numbers as well as foreign citizens being assigned to 760 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:02.320 Social Security numbers who then I legally vote in American elections. 761 00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:07.800 There's a short interview Fox News Steve Doocey of a 762 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:12.519 DOGE volunteer guy named Antonio Grassius. He calls it a 763 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.960 much watch by every sane American video. Grassia's very wealthy 764 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.199 businessman who's a founder and CEO of a company called 765 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:23.599 Valor Equity Partners, which has apparently sixteen billion dollars in 766 00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:27.280 assets under management. He points out mister Garcia's, like all 767 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.239 DOGE teams, starting with Elon Musk himself, had too much 768 00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.639 to lose and nothing to gain personally by agreeing to 769 00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:35.360 audit the federal government in Trump's effort to restore it 770 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:40.599 to sound footing and continuing financial viability, Unlike the arguments, 771 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:43.960 they want to crash it anyway. During this this this 772 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:47.840 this Doocey segment, Grassi has seen given a presentation on 773 00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:51.119 STAVE showing a graph that in twenty twenty four a 774 00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:55.719 loan two point one million illegal aliens receive Social Security numbers, 775 00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:58.119 as opposed to the twenty twenty one figure of only 776 00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:00.639 two hundred and seventy thousand, which is twound seventy thousand 777 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:03.679 too many. Total number of people came to the United 778 00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:08.360 States illegally, but possessed Social Security numbers now exceeds five million. 779 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:14.199 He explains, data obtained through an automatic system. He also 780 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:17.920 discloses that a Socias Security employee sent himself via email 781 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:22.159 over four hundred thousand SOSIAS security numbers and that's being investigated. 782 00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:27.000 He called it clearly nefarious. Also pointed out illegals. We're 783 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.320 tapping into virtually all the federal benefit programs. One point 784 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:33.800 three million of these illegal aliens with socia's security numbers 785 00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:34.960 are now on Medicaid. 786 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:37.079 He says. 787 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.280 Thousands of these people, as Dose discovered, are also on 788 00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:43.760 the voter rolls. In many are in fact voting not legal. 789 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:48.400 Key to these discoveries is that Trump signed an executive 790 00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:52.039 order allowing DOSE to employ technology enabling these different government 791 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.480 computer systems to actually talk to each other, and they 792 00:46:54.519 --> 00:47:00.000 couldn't do that before. Gracius estimates that DOGE has already 793 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.000 save the government north of ten billion dollars from its 794 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.960 discoveries at socis Security alone. Who's trying to kill Social 795 00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:10.519 Security and who's trying to save it? That's the people 796 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:14.719 over the weekend. This is going to extend the life 797 00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:19.760 of the program. Grosse's is playing the findings to his team, 798 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.079 refuting arguments that these illegal aliens are paying into the 799 00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:26.559 system through taxes and noting that many are on unemployment, 800 00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:29.039 many are criminals in summer, even in the on the 801 00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:36.159 US terror watch list. And yet you think over the 802 00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:41.079 weekend that Trump was undermining social security, that did the 803 00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:43.360 Elon mussel, and I wanted to destroy it. All of 804 00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:50.239 these efforts are to better this system, stop the fraud. 805 00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:53.360 You wouldn't know it talking to the protests over the 806 00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:55.719 protesters over the weekend, and most of whom had no 807 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:59.960 idea why they were there. The concept of useful idiot 808 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:01.480 on full display. 809 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:02.480 New Hampshire. 810 00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:04.760 Gary's online get your call right after the break, Gary, 811 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:05.519 I hope you don't mind. 812 00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:06.679 I got to take a quick break though. 813 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:09.440 In highly seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred 814 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:11.320 and eighty two three talk at pound five fifty if 815 00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:13.280 you have an AT and T phone. Love to hear 816 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.000 from you, and welcome back to the Morning Show New Hampshire. Gary, 817 00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:17.079 Good hear from me this morning. 818 00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:21.280 Hey brother, I forget what it's like to live in Cincinnati. 819 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:24.400 Sometimes you're going to have a high of sixty six 820 00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:27.639 right now. I'm looking out my window. It's snowing, cats. 821 00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:30.079 And dog snowing. Oh what? 822 00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:33.000 Oh yeah, all of. 823 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:35.920 Our rivers are bursting at the scenes. People are flooded 824 00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:40.079 at neighborhoods are soaked, and that actually probably makes some 825 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:41.639 people at least feel a little bit better about the 826 00:48:41.679 --> 00:48:43.440 current weather conditions here in Cincinnati. 827 00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:47.000 At least it's not snowing. Right, that's there. 828 00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:48.440 You go, well, give it a minute. 829 00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:51.400 It's night, but it's a valid point. We got a 830 00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:52.360 freeze morning tonight. 831 00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:57.559 That's right. Hey, I was I watch I listened to 832 00:48:57.679 --> 00:48:59.880 a couple of people on X and one of the 833 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:05.440 stave Harris Junior and on there. Excuse me, I don't 834 00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:10.519 have a cough, but he he was talking about there's 835 00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:16.039 a professor who's a black professor h from Columbia University 836 00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:21.639 who's been picked up for having African slaves in her 837 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:25.800 house that she was keeping illegally ago. 838 00:49:26.199 --> 00:49:29.000 That article came out and I'd say, several weeks ago 839 00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:29.880 I read about that. 840 00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:32.519 Yeah, well this one is she just been convicted, so 841 00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:38.480 really yeah, And so this one was another one was 842 00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:44.519 that protesters. If you look, I watched the protests this weekend, 843 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.440 so sometimes you know, I flipped it on what's going on. 844 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:55.519 And he's also claiming that that the NGOs were paid 845 00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:00.960 not to have black protesters show up at the T dealerships, 846 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.039 which I thought was interesting because now that I look back, 847 00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:09.679 I didn't see any black protesters, even though Washington, DC 848 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:13.360 is made up of at least fifty percent black, And 849 00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:15.039 I was like, wow, that's interesting. 850 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.679 You know why, Well, I mean, isn't the idea to 851 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:21.440 make your numbers look substantial? 852 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:23.519 Why wouldn't they want black protesters? 853 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.920 From what I understand, the George Soros NGOs were told 854 00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:35.400 specifically not to have black protesters. Don't know, other than racism, 855 00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:38.440 I don't know why, you know, I don't know. 856 00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:44.000 It does sound incredibly racist. Blacks need not apply. I mean, 857 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.039 that's horrifically racist. 858 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:50.239 I think if we look at the Democratic Party, nothing's changed. 859 00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:53.519 Well, yeah, you can make that argument, I suppose, but 860 00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:54.800 that's that's just bizarre. 861 00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:55.639 I guess I would. 862 00:50:56.679 --> 00:50:59.320 I'll assume for the sake of this discussion that that 863 00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:03.199 actually is a recommendation for the non government organizations. I 864 00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:07.679 guess I'm just puzzling over why. I mean, if the 865 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:09.639 idea is to get a bunch of people out there 866 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:12.599 and make their numbers look like they actually represent a 867 00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:15.480 sizeable amount of the American population, which I still say 868 00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:19.639 they're not. Then you would want every living human being 869 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:23.360 that could make it to the protest to show up black, Asian, white, 870 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:28.280 doesn't matter. That's crazy anyway, But I appreciate the call 871 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:31.920 gear I always do six point thirty five. If you 872 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:33.719 five kar City Talk Station, maybe you have an answer 873 00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:35.559 to that question. Five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty 874 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.039 five eighty two to three talk won't get rid of 875 00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:41.239 the stench of politics, but it will or Jerry Neddler apparently, 876 00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:43.360 although it might work on Jerry Needdler. I have an 877 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:49.000 interesting article about Jerry Nadler is the Capital's worst smelling man. 878 00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:51.320 I kid you not. That's the headline from the Washington 879 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:53.440 Free Beacon. How embarrassing is that? 880 00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:58.400 Anyway? Odoric at six forty. 881 00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:08.079 Here fifty five ker City Talk Station, it's times like this, 882 00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:09.760 and I wish they'd call it us to the direction 883 00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:11.800 of the conversation because you may not like where I'm 884 00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:14.360 gonna go. Since I mentioned Jerry Nadler and connects with 885 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:17.039 the other exit ad, I just couldn't believe what I 886 00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:19.119 was reading yesterday. I was preparing for the show and 887 00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:23.920 I'm checking out the Washington Free Beacons website where it 888 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.000 is there it is the headline. Members of Congress agree 889 00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:31.239 Jerry Nadler is the Capital's worst smelling man, and at 890 00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:32.840 some level I kind of feel sorry for the guy, 891 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.960 but maybe not. They say, long time you are. Congressman 892 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.960 Jerry Neddler has become famous as the champion of progressive 893 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.039 policies in the House of Representatives, but among his colleagues 894 00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:47.079 in the chamber also earned what they describe as the 895 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:53.280 dubious distinction of being its smelliest member. Anthony di Esposito, 896 00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:57.480 former GP Congressman from Long Island, who was just recently 897 00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.280 named Inspector General of the Apartment of Labor, had this say, 898 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.360 and I will quote him. He Jerry Nadlers the kind 899 00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.800 of guy who when he makes his way onto the floor, 900 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.920 he barrels through everyone, and sometimes he doesn't really need 901 00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:13.199 to barrow through because his stench kind of clears the way, 902 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:18.199 and it equates to his personality, which is nasty and 903 00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:23.760 most people want to keep away from close quote. Half 904 00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:26.639 a dozen of Natler's current and former colleagues, apparently from 905 00:53:26.679 --> 00:53:30.079 both sides of the aisle, were well. They again Freebeacon 906 00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:35.440 reportedly more savage behind the scenes. One House Democrats said 907 00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:40.320 he wasn't just rancid, but also frequently out of it. 908 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.480 Quote. Members of Congress don't want to sit next. 909 00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:44.519 To him because of it, the Democrats said, speaking with 910 00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:46.960 the Washington Free Dition. And I guess on a condition 911 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:50.760 of anonymity, Yeah, he smells. I don't know what he does. 912 00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:52.519 Maybe he doesn't take a bath. I don't know what 913 00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:58.639 it is. Close quote also said this. They removed him 914 00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:01.360 from his chairmanship because it did distrust his ability to 915 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:04.519 handle the job. He's constantly falling asleep on the floor 916 00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:08.880 and constantly falling asleep everywhere. Seventy seven year old Nadler owls. 917 00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:11.480 That is the top Democrats on the Judiciary Committee back 918 00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:14.280 in December because of concerns that he was no longer. 919 00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:14.639 Up to the job. 920 00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:20.719 Sort of very Joe Biden esque. Twenty nineteen, the House 921 00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:24.480 Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sidelinemen during President Donald Trump's first impeachment 922 00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:28.239 hearing over similar cognitive concerns. Videos and Nadler falling asleep 923 00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:33.239 during hearings have become commonplace online, many members speculating that 924 00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:38.920 the congressman's odor emanated from an underlying health issue, which 925 00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:43.239 they say of dog Nadler for his entire career. They 926 00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:45.519 say in twenty nineteen, he nearly collaps during a Manhattan 927 00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:47.719 press conference, had to be rushed to the hospital, underwent 928 00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:50.559 gastric bypass surgery in two thousand and two to remedy 929 00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:54.079 his morbid obesity, and he was at one point so 930 00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:56.880 enormous he could not ride a subway. That account on 931 00:54:57.039 --> 00:55:03.079 his own website. Another New York congress member said, he reeks, 932 00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:06.559 it's not just like a guy didn't take a shower. 933 00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:09.800 I don't know if it's surgery or a colosity bag. 934 00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:20.719 But it's bad, he said. 935 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.000 When former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was sworn in, he 936 00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:25.840 had a bipartisan briefing with the Congressional Budget Office, and 937 00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:28.639 I sat in the Capitol Visitor Center or theater rather 938 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:30.599 and Nadler sat in front of me. 939 00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:35.360 I had to get up and move. Its overpowering. 940 00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:42.639 Fox News Greg Gottphild talking with McCarthy during an appearance 941 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:47.360 on Godfield back in twenty twenty two, he asked this question, Congressman, 942 00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:49.079 I don't know how to ask you this in a 943 00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:55.920 respectable manner, but do off smelling people offend you. McCarthy's response, 944 00:55:55.960 --> 00:55:57.400 are we talking about Jerry Nadler? 945 00:55:58.280 --> 00:55:58.719 Wow? 946 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:04.239 Again, you know that's some of I guess feel sorry 947 00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:09.719 for the guy, but wow, I just can't imagine how 948 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:12.320 I would feel as someone wrote that article about me. 949 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:15.920 You think you take steps to maybe remedy the problem. 950 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:20.960 But showering up that's one thing. That his cognitive decline 951 00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:24.000 that's another. And I find it really comical and interesting 952 00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:26.280 that all of these left wing media outlets, with all 953 00:56:26.280 --> 00:56:28.559 the new books that are coming out about Biden's cognitive 954 00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:32.280 decline that they're now also piling on. We were lied to. 955 00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:35.159 We were lied to. You were the ones perpetuating the lie. 956 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:36.039 You saw it. 957 00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:40.119 We out here in the world saw his cognitive decline. 958 00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:43.000 We watched it in unfold in front of our very eyes, 959 00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:46.320 probably in many cases based upon the actual video that 960 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:50.039 you mainstream media showed us, allowing us to easily draw 961 00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:52.440 our conclusions that the guy just isn't one hundred percent 962 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:54.800 there anymore, maybe not even fifty percent there, and as 963 00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:56.280 we ultimately find out, maybe not. 964 00:56:56.199 --> 00:56:57.280 Twenty percent there. 965 00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:01.559 And we were made fun of for calling that into 966 00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:08.119 question over and over and over again, and now they're 967 00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:18.119 all admitting it. Fool me once, fool me twice, six. 968 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.880 Fifty two fifty five three r C talk station. 969 00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:29.199 Five one two three to pound five fifty on AT 970 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:29.920 and T phones. 971 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:30.960 I don't know. 972 00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:32.760 I think it's gonna be most puzzled this morning of 973 00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:35.039 those protests over the weekend, you know, the the the 974 00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.519 the AstroTurf as many are calling of them. I think 975 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:41.840 Elon must refer to them as useful idiots, which is 976 00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:43.679 one way of putting it. When you hear and you 977 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.880 hear the interviews of those folks, they just have no 978 00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:49.559 idea why they are there. They scream catchphrases and yet 979 00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:52.559 can't articulate a syllable as to what they're screaming about. 980 00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:58.639 I just and it doesn't take much effort or energy 981 00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:02.440 at all when you look at what Elon Musk and 982 00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:04.400 the folks that doge are doing to realize that, no, 983 00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:07.760 they're not dismantling Social Security or Medicaid, which is part 984 00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:10.119 of the thing that was repeated over and over and 985 00:58:10.159 --> 00:58:13.360 over again the issue talking sheets to have people say 986 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:17.320 exactly that, repeatingly parroting something that doesn't make a witsworth 987 00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:21.400 of sense, and it's so troubling to me that many 988 00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:25.960 people can be duped, if they are even being duped. 989 00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:29.920 And I think more of this really boils down to 990 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:33.280 it's you know, they're talking about oligarchs and robber barons, 991 00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:36.119 you knowing, oh my god, you know, evil billionaire Elon Musk. 992 00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:40.079 This is about the efforts that the Trump administration and 993 00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:44.000 others like the European Union for example, taking a more 994 00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:48.679 populous move thinking about protecting their own country's interests, re 995 00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:59.239 establishing border control, obviously going away from globalism, from this 996 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:02.320 new world order or sort of one appearance of what 997 00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:05.400 they want. They the evil veys out in the world, 998 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:09.039 the manipulators and puppet masters of all these useful idiots 999 00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:11.280 out in the world. They don't want borders. They want 1000 00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:14.960 control over everything, one uniform, size fits all. And we 1001 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.000 know how poorly that works out here in the United 1002 00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:19.079 States when they try to throw one size fits all 1003 00:59:19.159 --> 00:59:21.920 rules at us from Washington, d C. And it ultimately 1004 00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:29.039 harms us locally on some level. But I think that's 1005 00:59:29.079 --> 00:59:31.280 the fear, and that's why they're out in the streets, 1006 00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:33.360 and that's why all these money, the interests are out 1007 00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:37.360 there funding these protesters, like oh, my god, somebody's caught on. 1008 00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:46.280 Conservative parties are making inroads into our leftist agenda. People 1009 00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:50.280 are electing conservative people, people with an interest in their 1010 00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:53.880 own turf, in their own countries. People interested in lowering 1011 00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:56.400 taxes and giving us a little bit more freedom of movement. 1012 00:59:56.639 --> 01:00:02.320 People getting away from this whole cult of climate. And 1013 01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:04.159 as I said many times over the years, you know 1014 01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:07.559 that right there has set everybody up for this globalism, 1015 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:10.239 that climate change argument. It used to be global warming, 1016 01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:14.000 and then whoops, that didn't happen. Sea levels whoops, haven't risen. 1017 01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:17.519 Al Gore was way wrong. We'd all be underwater now 1018 01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:19.760 if his predictions back in the day had come true. 1019 01:00:19.800 --> 01:00:23.519 It just didn't happen. And we've spent trillions of dollars 1020 01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:26.719 globally throwing all of our energy in our efforts at 1021 01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:33.639 this non existent problem, drying up our reliable energy supplies, 1022 01:00:33.719 --> 01:00:36.599 which of course is designed. I have concluded, and I 1023 01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:39.519 have no I'm not wavering at all on this. It's 1024 01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:46.280 to reduce consumption. It's to reduce America's might. And we 1025 01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:50.760 are the most consumptive and bostht productive and monetary generating 1026 01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:56.280 country on earth. We're the bad people in the hearts 1027 01:00:56.320 --> 01:00:58.400 and minds of the globalists. We're the outlier. We're the 1028 01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:02.760 one that needs to be dealt with. So, yeah, the 1029 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:05.480 markets are down. Trump's trying to level that playing field 1030 01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:07.599 so we can all trade together fairly and we can 1031 01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:12.440 well afford each other's products. Bad for their desires, their 1032 01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:16.239 globalist desires to minimize well not just the population, but 1033 01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:21.239 minimize consumption. It's insane that people buy into it. Those 1034 01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:24.239 what's problematic, and I always just kind of questioned why 1035 01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:27.280 they buy into it. Coming up, Scott Wharton from the 1036 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:28.880 since ANI acquired joints the program at the top of 1037 01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:30.800 the our News. He's covered now for taking over for 1038 01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:33.880 Sharon Coolidge doing local reporting. Christopher Smith Aman at seven 1039 01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:36.079 twenty with a Smith Amen, Brian James and Monday Monday 1040 01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:38.199 at eight oh five and Todd Sledgeman of Cincinnta, VA 1041 01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:40.079 with some information he wants to pass along to my 1042 01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:42.440 veteran friends. He'll join the program at eight forty. I 1043 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:45.320 hope you can stick around. His friend Thomas happy to 1044 01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:48.000 welcome to the pick About Tasty Morning showing congratulations. So 1045 01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:52.159 the CINNI inquires Scott Whartman taking over the rad Your 1046 01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:54.559 big shoes of Sharon Coolidge and Scott. That's not to 1047 01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:57.599 suggest Sharon has big feet, but she's been around covering 1048 01:01:57.639 --> 01:02:01.599 since a local politics council and the Shenanigans that goes 1049 01:02:01.639 --> 01:02:03.559 on with the county commissioners for a lot of time, 1050 01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:05.960 and she's been on the morning show, you know, passing 1051 01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:08.039 along what she's learned and what she stayed on top of. 1052 01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:11.360 So it's an important position and one that we all 1053 01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:14.920 value very much, Scott, because we really truly need to 1054 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:17.920 know what's going on with city and county politics, and 1055 01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:20.960 there's so very little reporting on it. So Cincinnati dot 1056 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:22.920 Com ishere, youre going to read what Scott writes about 1057 01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:25.800 local politics. So you're excited about the job, Scott. 1058 01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:27.840 Oh, I'm very excited. 1059 01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:30.800 It is daunting, though, because she did set a high 1060 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:35.519 bar and everybody knows her and if anything was happening 1061 01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.760 in the city, I mean, that's you've heard it first 1062 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:42.239 from her, and that's what I hope to provide that 1063 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:45.559 level of deep coverage. But I also, you know, I 1064 01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:47.280 want to get into a lot of the I grew 1065 01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:50.000 up here in the Cincinnati area on the West Side, 1066 01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:52.280 went to Elder and I want to be able to 1067 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.840 tell a lot of the neighborhood stories. A city has 1068 01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:58.840 a great, interesting history, and I'm really excited about, you know, 1069 01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:01.519 taking on this beat. But it is it's going to 1070 01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:02.280 be a challenge. 1071 01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:05.719 Well it is, and responsible reporting is a challenge, and 1072 01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:08.079 I know we can expect responsible reporting from you. But 1073 01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:10.199 I like the idea that it's not just going to 1074 01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:14.440 be all you know, heady, gloom and doom topic politics. 1075 01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:16.239 If you're going to get out into the world and 1076 01:03:16.519 --> 01:03:18.760 talk about some of the finer aspects of this city, 1077 01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:21.599 I think we could all use a really healthy injection 1078 01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:21.920 of that. 1079 01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:25.719 Oh, I agree, And there are a lot of great 1080 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:29.199 stories to tell in the neighborhoods. I've been covering the 1081 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:33.199 county Commission and like local congressional politics for the last 1082 01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:36.960 seven or eight years, and before that I was covering 1083 01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:40.440 the river cities in northern Kentucky. So I'm kind of 1084 01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:44.679 excited to get back to more like local city reporting 1085 01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:49.280 and what's going on here back at home, rather than 1086 01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:54.039 the national scene, which is like NonStop news. 1087 01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:57.519 I don't know if you've Yeah, I'm aware of that. Scott, 1088 01:03:57.679 --> 01:03:59.880 painfully aware of it. That every single day of my 1089 01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:02.960 life it's covering those stories and you know, it becomes 1090 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:07.159 overwhelming for me. But moving back, this is an exciting 1091 01:04:07.239 --> 01:04:10.840 year to be playing this role, Scott Warman, because we've 1092 01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:14.039 got a mayoral race and Corey Bowman looks like he 1093 01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:16.559 may get some traction in a city that's voted all 1094 01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:19.519 Democrats for such a long time, a lot of people 1095 01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:21.960 a little dissatisfied with the direction of the city's going, 1096 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.599 and connected community's got the folks in Hyde Park rubbing 1097 01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:27.199 the wrong way. Corey Bowman may end up getting some 1098 01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:32.039 support from some otherwise pretty die hard Blue voters. You're 1099 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.280 looking forward to covering that race and what's your perception 1100 01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:35.719 of it? 1101 01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:39.840 Yeah, it's interesting because I mean, Cincinnati hasn't had a 1102 01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:44.039 Republican candidate since two thousand and nine when Brad Weinst 1103 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:45.559 ran for mayor. 1104 01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:47.679 I don't know. 1105 01:04:48.119 --> 01:04:51.440 At this point, I can't handicap his chances. I don't know, 1106 01:04:52.679 --> 01:04:56.119 because I mean every office in the city is held 1107 01:04:56.119 --> 01:04:58.880 by a Democrat, so I mean it is an uphill battle. 1108 01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:05.199 It is ostensibly a nonpartisan race, so the party doesn't 1109 01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:08.440 appear on the ballot, So it'll be interesting to see 1110 01:05:09.559 --> 01:05:11.880 how much how much Noisy can make. 1111 01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:15.360 Well, of course, with Sharon covering since since I politics 1112 01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:17.360 for such a long time, I know she had established 1113 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:19.000 I don't know whether they were good or bad, but 1114 01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:21.760 she at least had access to and had good established 1115 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:25.000 relationships with the elected officials. Have you got your foot 1116 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:26.519 in the door on that element of it, Scott? 1117 01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:30.519 Yeah, I mean I know the people that are in office, 1118 01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:35.960 dealt with them before, and definitely from a county perspective, 1119 01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:42.679 I have good contacts there and I think that I 1120 01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:44.559 don't think that should be too much of an issue. 1121 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:46.760 I'm not going into this completely blind. 1122 01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:49.719 No, And you're going to go into it having to 1123 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.119 attend a lot of city council meetings, aren't you. 1124 01:05:54.199 --> 01:06:00.760 That's that is the one the one downside. Because I've 1125 01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:03.719 been with covering the congressional. 1126 01:06:03.159 --> 01:06:05.199 Politics and the County Commission, I haven't had to. 1127 01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:09.199 Necessarily go to a lot of municipal meetings. But that's 1128 01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:11.199 kind of how I cut my teeth in the business, 1129 01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:17.559 going to late nights and at least they're at reasonably timed, 1130 01:06:17.559 --> 01:06:19.320 you know, there in the afternoon, so I won't be 1131 01:06:19.360 --> 01:06:21.239 there till midnight or something like that. 1132 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:24.280 True that now, in terms of the County Commission, you're 1133 01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:26.239 still going to have some you can be doing coverage 1134 01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:28.639 for the commissioners because you know, this is an exciting 1135 01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:30.400 time for that one. Because we of course have this 1136 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:33.559 stadium negotiation thing going. 1137 01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:37.800 On, and that was something with Sherry we kind of 1138 01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:41.239 tag teamed, because that is going to. 1139 01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:44.239 Be the big story in the next year. 1140 01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:47.599 Or two years if a deal gets done and what 1141 01:06:47.679 --> 01:06:51.480 that will look like. At this point, the progress is 1142 01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:53.920 very slow, but there is a deadline in June. 1143 01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:55.840 The Bengals have. 1144 01:06:55.800 --> 01:06:58.280 To decide whether they're going to extend the least. 1145 01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:01.280 For another two years. And they can do that by themselves. 1146 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:07.519 They don't need a county or taxpayer approval. So we 1147 01:07:07.559 --> 01:07:10.159 should be hearing something in the next couple months. And yes, 1148 01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:14.639 I will be monitoring that. We will have a county 1149 01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:17.960 reporter coming on board sometime in the next month month 1150 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.480 and a half. But yeah, that is also that's going 1151 01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:26.079 to be other than the mayor's race, maybe even more so. Yeah, 1152 01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.280 that's going to be the big story locally. What happens 1153 01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:31.559 with that stadium. Well, at point, no one knows. 1154 01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.760 No one knows, and I'm hoping we find out that 1155 01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:36.519 there is someone on the opposite side of the table 1156 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:38.119 of the Brown family as opposed to being on the 1157 01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:41.159 same side of the table as the original agreement was negotiated, 1158 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:43.440 because I don't think there's a human out there. And 1159 01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.880 I mean, we even made national attention on how terrible 1160 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.079 that stadium deal was for the taxpayers here in Hamilton County. 1161 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:51.000 I think we're looking for a little bit more love 1162 01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:52.800 from the Brown family this time around. 1163 01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:57.119 Yeah, and they're playing their cards close to the vest. 1164 01:07:57.199 --> 01:07:59.639 But I mean I can say the county and the 1165 01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:06.000 elected officials they're not really making friends with the Bengals 1166 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:09.280 are and it's been very adversarial so far, a lot 1167 01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:13.960 of brinksmanship. I don't know how much of that is 1168 01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:18.840 also playing out behind the scenes, but it does seem actually, 1169 01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:20.800 I mean a lot of the emails that I've gotten 1170 01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:25.119 between county officials and the team, it's been pretty acrimonious. 1171 01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:31.439 So there is a lot of pushback from elected officials 1172 01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:34.760 on what they want from this lease. 1173 01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:37.840 Well, Scott Ortman will find you at Cincinnati dot com. 1174 01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:40.039 I reckon make my listeners. I go ahead and bookmark 1175 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:42.640 that and get yourself a subscription so you can get 1176 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:44.800 your popcorn out and read what Scott's going to be 1177 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.920 writing about lots of interesting topics for you to cover 1178 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:49.600 this year, Scott, and I wish you all the best 1179 01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:51.319 of luck in the new role. And I appreciate you 1180 01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:52.960 coming on the program and sharing your time with my 1181 01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:55.359 listeners and me. And you have an open invitation here 1182 01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:57.199 in the fifty five KRC Morning Show to give us 1183 01:08:57.199 --> 01:08:59.239 an update on the exciting stuff that you're covering. 1184 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:00.760 Brian. 1185 01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.720 I appreciate it and I look forward to it, and 1186 01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:04.119 I hope I don't fiss the point. 1187 01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:06.319 I'm sure you won't. Good luck, Scott, and thanks for 1188 01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:08.720 again for coming on. And of course I always look 1189 01:09:08.760 --> 01:09:10.760 forward to Christopher Smithvan coming on the program, which he's 1190 01:09:10.760 --> 01:09:12.640 going to be doing next. We get the Monday Morning 1191 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:18.640 Smith Event every Monday at seven twenty ish and I'm 1192 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:20.279 not sure what he wants to talk about today, but 1193 01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:22.239 then again I don't know what he wants talk about 1194 01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:24.920 any day, but I love having him on. He's insightful, 1195 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:28.000 of course, logical and reasonable. So looking forward to Christopher 1196 01:09:28.039 --> 01:09:29.439 Smith and how you can stick around for that. And 1197 01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:31.039 I'm trying to encourage you a get in touch with 1198 01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:35.239 foreign exchange. Everything's going up. Tariff's are not the price 1199 01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:39.039 of repairing autombiles going up. I just like everything, inflationary 1200 01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:41.560 pressures are hitting you. But you can save money by 1201 01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:45.800 going to Foreign Exchange traditionally imported manufactured cars from either 1202 01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:48.880 Asia or Europe. You're well served at Foreign Exchange. They 1203 01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:50.880 will take great care of you with an ASE certified 1204 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:54.359 Master technician working on your car, fix it to your satisfaction, 1205 01:09:54.439 --> 01:09:57.319 with a full warranty on parts and service, and that 1206 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.000 family friendly environment I know you get at the west 1207 01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.560 Chester location, which is one I always recommend, where Austin 1208 01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:06.079 is amazing team. We'll take certainly great care of you. 1209 01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:09.920 So save money is the bottom line. Though it's less 1210 01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:12.560 expensive to have your car repaired at Foreign Exchange than 1211 01:10:12.560 --> 01:10:15.760 the dealer, and I know this from personal experience. Lots 1212 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:19.119 of money has been saved over the years with our 1213 01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:22.159 imported cars getting well serviced by Austin and the crew. 1214 01:10:22.439 --> 01:10:25.399 West Chester location. That's the Tylersville exit off of I 1215 01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:29.600 seventy five east on Tylersville, a really short jog. It's 1216 01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:31.760 just two streets hanging right on Kingland Drive. You run 1217 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:33.880 right into it online, you'll run into it at Foreign X. 1218 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:36.600 That's for in THELETTERAX dot com. The number our five 1219 01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:38.960 one three six four four twenty six, twenty six. That's 1220 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:41.199 sixty four four twenty six, twenty six. 1221 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:46.960 This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station seven. 1222 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:49.279 Nineteen fifty five kr C, the talk station. It is 1223 01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:51.119 that time of week. I always look forward to it. 1224 01:10:52.039 --> 01:10:54.319 Former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman, 1225 01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:56.680 joins the program every Monday at this time to do 1226 01:10:56.720 --> 01:10:59.039 what we call the Smith Event. Christopher, Welcome back to 1227 01:10:59.079 --> 01:11:01.800 the fifty five care Morning Show. Carosey Morning Show. My friend, 1228 01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:03.079 it's always a pleasure having you on. 1229 01:11:04.239 --> 01:11:06.319 Oh brother, thank you so much for having me on. 1230 01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:08.840 And I tell you I'm praying for all the people 1231 01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:11.600 across our our countries who are being who are being 1232 01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:15.760 impacted by the flooding. Oh yes, all that's all children 1233 01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:19.880 who lost their lives, you know, older people, people that 1234 01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:22.760 are that are devastated. They're losing their property. And the 1235 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:25.439 only thing I'll say out loud, and I know you 1236 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:27.680 know you you your heart goes out too, is people 1237 01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:30.560 have to just drive carefully, like think about what you're 1238 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:32.920 doing out there. There's a lot of water on our highways. 1239 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:36.520 Hydro Planing is real. And that's kind of the message 1240 01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:39.439 that I sent out there to to to my family, 1241 01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:42.479 just be careful and take your time, and this water 1242 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:44.680 is not going to receive probably all week, we're going 1243 01:11:44.720 --> 01:11:46.680 to get more rain, so we just have to be 1244 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:49.119 careful and and and waited out. But my heart goes 1245 01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:52.319 out to all the people across the Midwest and across 1246 01:11:52.359 --> 01:11:55.439 the country down in the south who who've lost a lot, 1247 01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:58.439 you know, by the rainfall that we've had. 1248 01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:00.520 Yeah, I saw that one of the you that there 1249 01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:03.359 was a house floating down a river, or somebody's entire 1250 01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:06.239 house got washed away, you know, And that kind of 1251 01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:08.279 thing does happen in flooding. But you know, as you 1252 01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:11.520 point out, there are steps you can take to protect yourselves. 1253 01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:15.319 And don't take any chances driving through flooded roads. I 1254 01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:17.439 mean sometimes it can be a lot deeper than you think. 1255 01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:20.640 Your car could get washed away. You're certainly having a 1256 01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:23.239 possibility of the engine stalling out. I mean, there's not 1257 01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:24.600 a whole lot of cars out there in the world 1258 01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:26.800 that have snorkels on them to allow the intake to 1259 01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.119 continue to consume air. So you know, don't don't be 1260 01:12:30.279 --> 01:12:32.880 stupid about the water on the roads. 1261 01:12:32.920 --> 01:12:33.159 Man. 1262 01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:37.079 No, and six inches of water, I mean you don't 1263 01:12:37.079 --> 01:12:38.680 know what you don't know. If you if you have 1264 01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:43.039 some type of major pothole, you know, due to that, 1265 01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:46.720 you're dealing with water that's contaminated. You step on a 1266 01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:50.319 nail or something, and and and now you're impacted that way. 1267 01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:52.319 So you just have to be you just have to 1268 01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:55.000 be very very careful. Yeah, sure, what I would say. 1269 01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:58.119 And this is the first time we waited real quick here, 1270 01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:01.199 Since this is the first time we've talked, I cannot 1271 01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:04.640 tell you how how upset, sorry, and frustrated I was 1272 01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:07.560 for having missed our our lunch appointment on Friday. Man, 1273 01:13:07.640 --> 01:13:10.960 it just I felt so badly for I just kind 1274 01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:14.640 of went into my typical Friday zone out mode after 1275 01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:17.520 the show's over, and I zoned out completely. And I 1276 01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:18.800 feel like I really let you down. 1277 01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:19.000 Man. 1278 01:13:19.039 --> 01:13:20.359 I was looking forward to that too. 1279 01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:24.520 Brother. We will get together and and it will it will, 1280 01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:27.239 It will come together. It is no problem. You know. 1281 01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:29.439 What I want to do is just shout out to you. 1282 01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:35.479 I had a great conversation with Corey Bowman's running for mayor, 1283 01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:37.840 and I just want to say it was a great, 1284 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:40.880 great meeting, great conversation. It was. It was very nice 1285 01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:46.279 meeting his wife who is expecting their fourth child. And 1286 01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:49.560 I would encourage other people who who you know, when 1287 01:13:49.680 --> 01:13:53.720 when candidate Bowman is out there running, that they take 1288 01:13:53.760 --> 01:13:57.560 the time, no matter what their political persuasion is, to 1289 01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:00.359 take the time to get to know them. So I 1290 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.359 just want to share with you there's a primary coming up, 1291 01:14:03.960 --> 01:14:07.960 obviously there's a general election. I was very excited, enjoyed 1292 01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:10.359 my conversation with him, and I'm going to endorse him. 1293 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:13.960 So I'm asking other people to look at him very 1294 01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:17.520 very closely, you know. You know, we're as an independent 1295 01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:19.319 and as a person who's been out in politics. I 1296 01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:21.640 don't tell anybody how to vote. I can just tell 1297 01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:24.680 them this is what I'm thinking as I look at 1298 01:14:24.720 --> 01:14:27.600 what's happening in the city of Cincinnati as it relates 1299 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:33.600 to infrastructure, crime. Our CRS pension obviously is getting banged 1300 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.720 up real bad, you know, over the past a week. 1301 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:40.000 But that matters when you're sending out ten million dollars 1302 01:14:40.079 --> 01:14:43.560 a month to retirees. So we've got to make sure 1303 01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:46.960 that we are electing people that are very interested in 1304 01:14:47.039 --> 01:14:50.199 dealing with the financial situation that the city is under. 1305 01:14:50.199 --> 01:14:53.239 So I want to publicly say a great conversation with him, 1306 01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:56.000 and I definitely will endorse him in the primary and 1307 01:14:56.119 --> 01:14:59.760 in the general election against against our. 1308 01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:02.359 Current Well, I'm glad to hear that. You know, obviously, 1309 01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:06.239 I think it's I expected that in a way, Christopher, 1310 01:15:06.319 --> 01:15:08.680 because I know you, and I know you're all about logic, 1311 01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:11.600 common sense, and reason, and you've got your issues with 1312 01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:14.199 the current administration. And I think Corey does represent a 1313 01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:18.039 refreshing alternative to what has become the norm in the 1314 01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:20.279 city of Cincinnati. He's going to have an uphill challenge 1315 01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:22.439 that you got to admit with. And I don't think 1316 01:15:22.439 --> 01:15:24.880 that the makeup of council is going to change. I mean, 1317 01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:27.399 individuals may be different, but it's still gonna be a 1318 01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:29.720 bunch of Democrats. Knowing how blue the city is. 1319 01:15:31.520 --> 01:15:33.520 Well, what I can say is that, you know, there's 1320 01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:35.760 some big things that are going on, and we're following 1321 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:38.560 what's happening in High Park. As an example, there's a 1322 01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:42.640 major hotel that they're trying to put up where many 1323 01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:45.840 people in High Park are saying they're not following the law, 1324 01:15:45.880 --> 01:15:48.760 which is another way of saying they're not following the code, 1325 01:15:49.039 --> 01:15:51.520 and they're trying to put something up that's really really 1326 01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:54.840 big and tall, and they feel like it's going to 1327 01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:59.159 impact the High Park Square area. Yeah, and I'm sharing 1328 01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:02.640 with you High Park residents are waking up, and I 1329 01:16:02.760 --> 01:16:05.560 think as they organize, they're going to be looking at 1330 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:07.960 people like a Corey Bowman, or they're going to be 1331 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:11.479 looking at different council members. And what I will share 1332 01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:14.920 with you is their moments in Cincinnati history where there 1333 01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:18.600 are things that happen that change elections. This could be 1334 01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:21.039 one of those based on what's happening in Highe Park 1335 01:16:21.079 --> 01:16:23.079 because right now they don't feel like people at city 1336 01:16:23.119 --> 01:16:27.119 Hall are listening at the fifty one neighborhoods. Yes, right, 1337 01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:30.079 the other fifty one neighborhoods are waking up, going hold 1338 01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:33.079 on city Council and the mayor aren't listening to us. 1339 01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:36.800 We're saying we don't we're not against development. We just 1340 01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:39.800 don't want this thing that's too big, too tall. We 1341 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:42.039 wanted to fit in with our square. And they just 1342 01:16:42.119 --> 01:16:45.279 are not getting the kind of support that they thought 1343 01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:47.840 they should get. So look for Hide Park and places 1344 01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:51.560 like Mount Lookout to be waking up and that could 1345 01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:53.079 be a big opening for Corey Bowman. 1346 01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:55.399 They really could. And we all know Hyde Park is 1347 01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:57.880 a rather wealthy community and that could result in some 1348 01:16:57.920 --> 01:17:01.680 campaign contributions going into Corey's offers, which he could certainly use. 1349 01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:04.039 And in fact, since we mentioned Corey, He's got an 1350 01:17:04.039 --> 01:17:06.800 event in priceal Chilli beginning at five pm tomorrow evening. 1351 01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:09.880 If you want to meet him. He's really approachable, He's 1352 01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:13.520 a very friendly guy, and he just absolutely loves this city. 1353 01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:16.039 I mean, he has expressed just a profound love for 1354 01:17:16.079 --> 01:17:18.359 the city of Cincinnati, and it comes through loud and clear, 1355 01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:21.479 not just in his you know, his positive attitude about 1356 01:17:21.479 --> 01:17:24.000 the city, but I think in what his platform is. 1357 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:25.960 You can go to Corey Bowman dot com and check 1358 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:28.760 that out. We'll pauseible bring Christopher back more topics to 1359 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:29.560 talk about with him. 1360 01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:30.079 But first. 1361 01:17:31.600 --> 01:17:33.680 H seven thirty here, fifty out there, so he talks dation. 1362 01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:37.640 Brian Thomas engage in a conversation with Christopher smitheman this 1363 01:17:37.720 --> 01:17:38.359 Smither event. 1364 01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:41.439 Christopher, what else is on your mind today? 1365 01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:47.640 Well, Stephanie Turner, who is a United States of America fencer, 1366 01:17:48.520 --> 01:17:52.279 took a knee. Yeah, in the last four or five 1367 01:17:52.399 --> 01:17:56.239 days and it just continues to blow me away. Brian 1368 01:17:56.359 --> 01:18:03.960 Thomas that we're still having these now discussions about female sports. 1369 01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:09.399 I want to again make it clear that men should 1370 01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:14.199 not be competing against women in their sports. It is 1371 01:18:14.239 --> 01:18:17.520 a safe place for women. How can you how can 1372 01:18:17.560 --> 01:18:20.279 you be in Women's History Month that we just finished, 1373 01:18:20.880 --> 01:18:25.640 or say that you're you're a dad, you got a daughter. 1374 01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:28.279 You know you're a dad, or you're a mom and 1375 01:18:28.359 --> 01:18:32.640 you have a daughter and you think it's okay for 1376 01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:36.439 a dude to compete against your daughter in any sport. 1377 01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:41.920 I mean, it's we're just we're swinging so far to 1378 01:18:41.960 --> 01:18:45.359 the left on some of these common sense discussions. But 1379 01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:49.199 to have this woman be so courageous to say I'm 1380 01:18:49.239 --> 01:18:51.920 taking a knee. I am not going to fence a man. 1381 01:18:52.119 --> 01:18:55.520 I'm not and I guarantee you as a fencer, she 1382 01:18:55.680 --> 01:19:00.239 has been practicing and competing her whole life, and for 1383 01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:04.119 her to take a knee like that right probably disqualified 1384 01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:07.359 her and put her in a very bad position as 1385 01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:09.960 she's trying to advance in her sport. And I'm just 1386 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:12.840 saying I want to commend her for having the courage, 1387 01:19:12.920 --> 01:19:16.399 but again, it it gives me another moment to say 1388 01:19:16.680 --> 01:19:20.520 she's right, and I am tired of the Democratic Party 1389 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:24.439 continuing to push this agenda. You know that men should 1390 01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:28.680 be competing against women and boys should be competing against 1391 01:19:28.680 --> 01:19:32.720 girls in their sports. Brian Thomas, I think it's outrageous 1392 01:19:32.840 --> 01:19:34.680 and I think that we have to continue to be 1393 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:39.119 outspoken about it so girls and women understand that there 1394 01:19:39.159 --> 01:19:43.359 are men that are standing in solidarity with them, saying 1395 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:45.640 that this is a safe place. And I'm a person 1396 01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:50.359 that supports the LGBTQ plus community. I'm not this anti 1397 01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:54.239 gay person. I'm saying this is too far. It has 1398 01:19:54.399 --> 01:19:59.239 nothing to do with LGBTQ plus issues. Keep men out 1399 01:19:59.279 --> 01:20:00.000 of women's face. 1400 01:20:01.079 --> 01:20:03.079 Yeah, and you know I'm on record is agreeing with 1401 01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:05.319 you completely on that one. And you know I've always 1402 01:20:05.399 --> 01:20:08.600 used the illustration just look at the world records. Look 1403 01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:11.319 at the world records in any given sport. You know, 1404 01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:14.319 I'd like your daughter's a swimmer. I mean the fifty 1405 01:20:14.359 --> 01:20:18.000 free fifty meters freestyle, the male record is I think 1406 01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:21.800 two or three seconds faster than the world record for 1407 01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:25.159 the females. Why because men have a physical advantage over 1408 01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:26.159 women and there's no. 1409 01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:27.520 Arguing against that. 1410 01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:31.439 And you know, when you think about transgender individuals, I'm 1411 01:20:31.479 --> 01:20:33.880 not even going to argue about it. Listen, I believe 1412 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:36.720 you believe you're the opposite sex. I'm not arguing with 1413 01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:38.840 you over that. You're entitled to your beliefs. Maybe you 1414 01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:42.319 need psychological help, maybe you think you don't whatever. I 1415 01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:45.199 can live into the same banner of freedom as that person. 1416 01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:48.720 But when it comes to actual fairness in competition, just 1417 01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:51.840 because you say you're a woman, you shouldn't be allowed 1418 01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:55.560 to compete against women because of that unfair natural physical 1419 01:20:55.600 --> 01:20:57.399 advantage you have done. 1420 01:20:57.560 --> 01:21:01.119 End of story. I don't know. 1421 01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:03.960 I mean we're supposed to. It is common sense. We're 1422 01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:06.560 supposed to, and and and the other. The other component 1423 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:09.800 of this that always bothers me, Christopher, is that you 1424 01:21:09.920 --> 01:21:15.439 and I are supposed to change our belief system to 1425 01:21:15.640 --> 01:21:19.520 cater to their belief Now, I know for a fact, 1426 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:24.479 even if you do transgender surgery, you lop parts off 1427 01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:27.520 or you sew them on, your chromosomal reality is not 1428 01:21:27.880 --> 01:21:32.079 altered by that. That's a scientific fact. And I'm supposed 1429 01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:35.720 to just accept that. No, you're a woman, now what. No, 1430 01:21:35.800 --> 01:21:37.840 I'm not going to do that. I'll let you live 1431 01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:39.920 your life that way. Fine, I'll you know you. I'm 1432 01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:41.920 brace I could be friends with you, but don't expect 1433 01:21:41.960 --> 01:21:44.359 me to change my mindset when mine is based on 1434 01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:46.279 scientific reality. 1435 01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:52.039 This is why so many Democrats continue to say that 1436 01:21:52.119 --> 01:21:55.439 they did not leave the Democratic Party, but the Democratic 1437 01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:59.199 Party left them. Yeah, and they keep moving in this direction, 1438 01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:04.720 put our girls and our women in these unsafe environments. 1439 01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:06.760 There was a there was a story out of a 1440 01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:12.359 field hockey game where there was a man competing against 1441 01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:15.880 a This is a college game, it's my understanding. But 1442 01:22:16.079 --> 01:22:20.319 he threw that puck so hard that it knocked her 1443 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:23.319 teeth out in the front, like some of her front teeth. 1444 01:22:24.000 --> 01:22:28.039 This is this is unsafe, Brian Thomas, and I'm gonna 1445 01:22:28.039 --> 01:22:32.000 continue to stand with them. And again, Stephanie Turner had 1446 01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:35.159 a lot of courage to take a knee because she's 1447 01:22:35.199 --> 01:22:38.399 gonna pay a price. He's not like, oh, she's not 1448 01:22:38.479 --> 01:22:41.119 gonna pay a price. To anybody that's listening. This is 1449 01:22:41.159 --> 01:22:44.439 a woman who took who took a knee and said 1450 01:22:44.520 --> 01:22:47.119 I'm not doing this, and and the and the bottom 1451 01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:49.920 line is we need more women out there saying this 1452 01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:52.960 is too far, and I just want to verbally stand 1453 01:22:53.039 --> 01:22:56.319 in solidarity with her. I had the opportunity to speak 1454 01:22:56.359 --> 01:22:59.119 at Oak Hills last week. Uh there's a there's a 1455 01:22:59.159 --> 01:23:04.119 great coach out there, Coach Price, their superintendent, Jeff Brandt, 1456 01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:08.680 and Pastor Kirk, who actually is the pastor for the Reds. 1457 01:23:08.720 --> 01:23:11.720 He's there, he's there, he's their pastor for the for 1458 01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:14.840 the Cincinnati Reads. And a friend of mine, Eric Keaton, 1459 01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:17.119 got me out there to talk to them. And again 1460 01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:20.720 this was to their athletes, right and so when in 1461 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:23.800 that room, right as I'm sitting there thinking I would 1462 01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:28.399 not want men competing against our boys, competing against the 1463 01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:31.079 girls that I was speaking to, and I wouldn't want 1464 01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:36.399 a man competing against a woman. And so they are 1465 01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:38.560 all in agreement and the cord that we've got to 1466 01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:41.359 keep these safe places. But it was a great time. 1467 01:23:41.479 --> 01:23:45.000 I enjoyed meeting all of the staff and faculty out 1468 01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:47.439 at Oak Hills, and I look forward to going back 1469 01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:50.720 and talking to them again. Brian Thomas, I want to 1470 01:23:50.760 --> 01:23:53.399 share with you Corey Bowman sent me a text message. 1471 01:23:53.439 --> 01:23:57.439 Early voting starts tomorrow for the mayor's race for the primary. 1472 01:23:57.600 --> 01:23:59.920 So at the end of the day, you know, people 1473 01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:02.920 I don't even know, probably that that primary kicks off tomorrow. 1474 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:05.000 This is the last day to register the voter to 1475 01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:08.760 update your address, and so yet again I want to 1476 01:24:08.840 --> 01:24:12.680 encourage he can't run. He can't run for mayor if 1477 01:24:12.720 --> 01:24:15.520 he doesn't win the primary. So this is the first step. 1478 01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:17.960 So people shouldn't sit it out, they should show up 1479 01:24:18.159 --> 01:24:19.520 and vote for Corey Bowman. 1480 01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:22.239 Appreciate their minder on that one. Let's bring Christopher back 1481 01:24:22.239 --> 01:24:29.720 for a few more minutes. If it's about Garrosed. He 1482 01:24:29.760 --> 01:24:31.600 talked dation Ryan Thomas with the former vice mayor of 1483 01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:34.439 the City of Since Christopher Smith. Aman at vote Smith, 1484 01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:37.119 Amen on your ex accounts, how you reach Christopher? 1485 01:24:37.520 --> 01:24:40.479 What else did your mind to Dave Christopher Brother. 1486 01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:44.079 We've got some federal courts that are just going wild 1487 01:24:44.159 --> 01:24:47.159 out here, and it's my understanding there about six one 1488 01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:51.880 hundred of them, these judges that keep trying to control 1489 01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:55.680 the executive branch of the United States of America. And 1490 01:24:55.800 --> 01:24:59.199 for me, it doesn't matter with the libertarian parts of 1491 01:24:59.800 --> 01:25:04.359 my politics, or the independent part of my politics, or 1492 01:25:04.399 --> 01:25:08.600 the Republican parts of my politics. You know, the reality 1493 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:11.600 of it is we have a separation of power for 1494 01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:17.439 a reason, and so it's really important for citizens to understand, 1495 01:25:17.560 --> 01:25:20.479 no matter what their politics are, that separation is there 1496 01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:25.439 for a reason. And these courts are going crazy. It 1497 01:25:25.560 --> 01:25:29.760 is so unacceptable, and I am shocked that the Supreme Court, 1498 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:33.319 we may have had the opportunity, haven't clarified the power 1499 01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:36.319 of these courts. So the reality of it is, I 1500 01:25:36.479 --> 01:25:42.479 pray that these deportations of gang members, of who are 1501 01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:46.399 called MS thirteen gang members, no matter what the gang 1502 01:25:46.439 --> 01:25:49.760 they're involved in. And my understanding is they're arresting some 1503 01:25:49.840 --> 01:25:53.159 of these people Brian Thomas, right out of suburban homes. 1504 01:25:53.439 --> 01:25:56.319 You know, they've got their kids out there. I'm a dad, whatever, 1505 01:25:56.399 --> 01:25:59.399 boom boom bam. But they're living next to somebody who's 1506 01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:01.920 a gang member, and maybe the people in the community 1507 01:26:01.960 --> 01:26:05.560 didn't even know it. But you're living here illegally. You 1508 01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:09.000 came illegally, you're living here illegally. And these courts are 1509 01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:12.960 trying to intervene and give people who have jumped the fence, 1510 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:17.079 broken the prompt the process. Other people that came here 1511 01:26:17.239 --> 01:26:20.960 legally and followed the process. They're trying to reward them 1512 01:26:21.079 --> 01:26:23.399 in some kind of way. So this is a very 1513 01:26:23.439 --> 01:26:26.359 interesting fight that I'm watching very closely, and I really 1514 01:26:26.399 --> 01:26:30.000 hope the executive branch wins here for all of us. 1515 01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:35.079 I don't want to see courts undermining elections when you 1516 01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:37.840 have a person who was elected, no matter who they are, 1517 01:26:38.800 --> 01:26:40.880 by the United States of America, to have a court 1518 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:42.720 trying to tell them what they can and can'tnot do 1519 01:26:42.760 --> 01:26:43.960 with their executive power. 1520 01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:47.680 Yeah, and of course I firmly believe that we need 1521 01:26:47.720 --> 01:26:51.359 to reform our immigration laws to provide some extra clarity 1522 01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:53.760 on who we can kick out. And you know, the 1523 01:26:55.039 --> 01:26:57.439 idea of being able to throw someone out without going 1524 01:26:57.479 --> 01:27:00.159 through this long and arduous process. I mean, we're so 1525 01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:03.239 backed up in these immigration hearings. What aither like seven 1526 01:27:03.359 --> 01:27:06.960 or eight years of backups. You you come into the country, 1527 01:27:06.960 --> 01:27:08.600 you get a free pass to come into the Biden 1528 01:27:08.600 --> 01:27:11.840 administration's policies, and then you wait around for a hearing. 1529 01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:14.359 And meanwhile these people just sort of disappear into the 1530 01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:17.199 ether because the process is so slow, and they don't 1531 01:27:17.239 --> 01:27:19.159 bother showing up to the hearings when the hearing date 1532 01:27:19.199 --> 01:27:20.199 actually comes around. 1533 01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:21.239 I don't know. 1534 01:27:21.359 --> 01:27:24.560 I'm just I'm torn on this and the other component 1535 01:27:24.560 --> 01:27:26.279 of this. And we talk about this with the Politanum 1536 01:27:26.319 --> 01:27:28.880 and people get all outrage and upset about it. But 1537 01:27:28.920 --> 01:27:32.479 we do have a due process clause in the Constitution now, 1538 01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:35.920 to declare someone is a gang member, that's one thing, 1539 01:27:35.960 --> 01:27:38.439 and they may very well be. But you know, if 1540 01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:40.640 someone showed up at your door and said you're a 1541 01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:42.800 gang member, we're kicking you out of the country, you 1542 01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.680 might want to argue that, no, I'm not a member 1543 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:47.600 of a gang, and you better you got to prove 1544 01:27:47.640 --> 01:27:49.039 it in the court of law than I'm actually a 1545 01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:50.600 member of a gang if I'm going to fall into 1546 01:27:50.640 --> 01:27:53.199 some you know, process that allows you to throw me 1547 01:27:53.199 --> 01:27:56.319 out of the country. So I'm torn and mixed in 1548 01:27:56.359 --> 01:28:00.279 my emotions being a you know, a constitutionally based person. 1549 01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:08.439 I think in this particular case, that different agencies had 1550 01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:11.439 defined this guy as a gang member, that he had 1551 01:28:11.479 --> 01:28:14.119 been involved, you know, in one of the things that's 1552 01:28:14.159 --> 01:28:17.279 been driving me crazy with some of these college students 1553 01:28:17.680 --> 01:28:21.279 right who are here. It's a privilege, But then you 1554 01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:24.960 come here saying you support hermas. You're demonstrating we're not 1555 01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:28.119 talking about your free speech, we're talking about your behavior. 1556 01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:31.039 You're throwing bricks through windows, you're setting things on fire. 1557 01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:35.279 That doesn't give you the right to stay in this country. 1558 01:28:35.319 --> 01:28:38.760 So when people argue and they say, well, this person 1559 01:28:38.840 --> 01:28:42.039 has their freedom of speech, they're not being thrown out 1560 01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:44.560 because of what they said. They're being thrown out because 1561 01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:48.680 of what they did their actions. So they're things that 1562 01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:50.479 you cannot do. And the other thing is you can't 1563 01:28:50.520 --> 01:28:52.640 go into any other country and act like this and 1564 01:28:52.720 --> 01:28:55.560 not find yourself in a prison and then they might 1565 01:28:55.560 --> 01:28:57.600 not let you out for five or ten years. Right, 1566 01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:01.079 We're very gracious in the United States about allowing some 1567 01:29:01.159 --> 01:29:04.239 of the things that we have seen happen over the 1568 01:29:04.319 --> 01:29:07.600 last four years. Look, brother, I want to close by 1569 01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:10.560 saying our markets are going crazy. You know what I 1570 01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:13.479 do for a living as a financial planner, and I'm 1571 01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:15.560 going to be very cautious about what I can and 1572 01:29:15.600 --> 01:29:18.680 cannot say. But I want to explain to your listening 1573 01:29:18.720 --> 01:29:23.439 audience that margin calls are real. That people have gone out, 1574 01:29:23.560 --> 01:29:27.039 they borrowed money for security that they own in their 1575 01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:30.960 brokerage accounts, and some of this selling that we're seeing 1576 01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:34.359 are what are called margin calls, where people are being 1577 01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:37.439 called up being in said you've got to make your 1578 01:29:37.600 --> 01:29:40.800 accounts hold. I've never done it. I don't buy things 1579 01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:43.479 on margin. I don't buy things with loans when I'm 1580 01:29:43.479 --> 01:29:46.039 buying securities. But you're going to see some of that 1581 01:29:46.119 --> 01:29:48.399 most likely that action and you don't know why that 1582 01:29:48.479 --> 01:29:51.439 person next to you is having to sell. But some 1583 01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:55.279 of this has to be because of some margin calls, 1584 01:29:55.319 --> 01:29:58.640 because people were not anticipating this kind of a decline, 1585 01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:02.600 and so as we go lower, those bargin calls accelerate. Yeah, 1586 01:30:02.800 --> 01:30:05.479 client had to either put the money in or they 1587 01:30:05.520 --> 01:30:07.800 have to or the broker's firm will have to sell 1588 01:30:07.880 --> 01:30:10.920 that security. So it looks it's still orderly, is what 1589 01:30:10.960 --> 01:30:13.520 I'm seeing. I'm seeing something that's orderly, and I'm not 1590 01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:16.720 in this kind of panic mode. Listen to your financial 1591 01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:20.319 advisors and those financial professionals who are working with you. 1592 01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:24.800 Do not get emotionally charged by some of the things 1593 01:30:24.840 --> 01:30:27.439 that you're happening in the market action. I still see 1594 01:30:27.479 --> 01:30:30.479 an orderly market out here. And some of this I 1595 01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:33.640 think is absolutely based on people who have taken loans 1596 01:30:33.680 --> 01:30:35.399 out and are getting margin calls. 1597 01:30:35.760 --> 01:30:37.880 Yeah, I understand that completely. 1598 01:30:38.039 --> 01:30:41.239 And you know, I'm I never checked my four oh 1599 01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:44.439 one K plan, Christopher, because especially when markets go down 1600 01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:46.920 like this, I don't want to get anxiety. They always 1601 01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:48.680 end up going back at some point. I mean, look 1602 01:30:48.680 --> 01:30:51.439 at how bad the markets got routed during COVID. I mean, 1603 01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:54.079 people lost, you know, one third of their entire retirement account. 1604 01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:55.600 But if you didn't touch it, you left it there, 1605 01:30:55.680 --> 01:30:58.159 you gained it all back and then some. So you've 1606 01:30:58.479 --> 01:31:00.359 seen these cycles before, Christopher. 1607 01:31:01.479 --> 01:31:03.159 I have, and I just say that you know there 1608 01:31:03.159 --> 01:31:05.840 are people out there that that are working with a 1609 01:31:05.880 --> 01:31:09.039 lot of people and and and seek that advice and 1610 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:12.680 and work with those financial professionals to make sure you're 1611 01:31:12.680 --> 01:31:15.520 not making an emotional decision. It's a it's a it's 1612 01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:18.039 a it's a logical decision. And I just want to 1613 01:31:18.039 --> 01:31:21.119 close out by again just where I started, you know, 1614 01:31:21.199 --> 01:31:24.840 because the election starts tomorrow and Corey Bowman is on 1615 01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:28.000 the ballot in a primary, and they typically the primaries 1616 01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:31.439 are very thin. A lot of people don't participate in primaries. 1617 01:31:31.800 --> 01:31:35.319 So people should know that the election for mayor has started. 1618 01:31:35.399 --> 01:31:37.920 It starts tomorrow, and people should get out there and 1619 01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:40.520 vote for for Corey Bowman. I want to see a 1620 01:31:40.600 --> 01:31:44.079 change in city Hall. You know. The pothole situation is 1621 01:31:44.199 --> 01:31:50.119 steel ridiculous. The snow removal when we had it was ridiculous. 1622 01:31:50.840 --> 01:31:55.239 Our Cincinnati retirement system is still in trouble. This the 1623 01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:57.560 market action that we're seeing right now is not making 1624 01:31:57.600 --> 01:32:00.920 that any better brain. And so we need to elect 1625 01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:05.000 furious people right who are interested in solving some of 1626 01:32:05.039 --> 01:32:07.840 the bigger problems that Cincinnati has before it's too late. 1627 01:32:08.079 --> 01:32:11.199 I don't want somebody playing this radio interview that you 1628 01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:13.760 and I are having saying Smitherman's been talking about the 1629 01:32:13.800 --> 01:32:17.279 Cincinnati retirement system. We're the only city in the state 1630 01:32:17.319 --> 01:32:20.880 of Ohio that has a retirement system. And when the 1631 01:32:20.880 --> 01:32:24.199 retirement system goes under, so does the city of Cincinnati. 1632 01:32:24.600 --> 01:32:28.600 Every taxpayer in the City of Cincinnati is responsible for 1633 01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:32.039 bailing out the Cincinnati retirement system. And when I left, 1634 01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:36.039 it still had an eight hundred million dollar unfunded liability. 1635 01:32:36.439 --> 01:32:39.279 That liability is going to continue to expand over time. 1636 01:32:39.560 --> 01:32:42.039 There was about two point one billion two point two 1637 01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:44.960 billion in assets, and we needed to have three billion. 1638 01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:48.760 And so as long as we continue to elect people 1639 01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:50.720 that take their eye off the ball and they're down 1640 01:32:50.760 --> 01:32:54.000 there talking about what's happening in Israel and Hamak, I'm 1641 01:32:54.000 --> 01:32:57.760 talking about on the floor of city councils passing resolutions 1642 01:32:57.800 --> 01:33:03.079 about what's going on in Israel and Hamas though they 1643 01:33:03.119 --> 01:33:07.560 are not serious about solving the big problems that Cincinnati has. 1644 01:33:07.600 --> 01:33:10.800 And I just say sometimes the smaller things are the 1645 01:33:10.840 --> 01:33:13.119 things that they should be focused on that are most 1646 01:33:13.159 --> 01:33:16.800 important to the citizens, like potholes. I'm tired of driving 1647 01:33:16.840 --> 01:33:19.600 over them my tires and I know they're citizens that 1648 01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:22.840 are listening that their tires were blown out. And then 1649 01:33:22.880 --> 01:33:26.319 you don't get a response. The city won't reimburse the citizens. 1650 01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:28.720 They tell you that there's a process, but when you 1651 01:33:28.760 --> 01:33:30.840 try to get into the process, you can't get in 1652 01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:34.479 the process. And so please go out there again. Vote 1653 01:33:34.479 --> 01:33:38.439 for Corey Bowman for mayor in this primary, and vote 1654 01:33:38.439 --> 01:33:42.479 for him in the general election. Brian Thomas, I appreciate 1655 01:33:42.520 --> 01:33:44.520 you so much giving me the time and the voice 1656 01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:47.279 on your show on Mondays from seven to twenty until 1657 01:33:47.319 --> 01:33:49.439 about a quarter tail of ten minutes to eight. I 1658 01:33:49.479 --> 01:33:51.000 appreciate you, thank you. 1659 01:33:51.000 --> 01:33:53.720 And I appreciate you brother. Take the weight off my shoulders, 1660 01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:55.239 and I always love what you have to say. We'll 1661 01:33:55.279 --> 01:33:58.000 talk again next Monday. Have a wonderful week. A friend, 1662 01:33:58.439 --> 01:34:00.359 just shout us seven fifteen fifty five cares the talk 1663 01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:03.359 station you want those fifty three I think about KRCD 1664 01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:05.279 talk station. A very happy Monday if you try to 1665 01:34:05.279 --> 01:34:08.199 make it so anyway. Money Monday with Brian James talking 1666 01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:11.000 about financial planners. We're talking about the markets and the 1667 01:34:11.079 --> 01:34:13.399 sink of the markets and everything else. We have Brian James, 1668 01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.520 and let's talk about since at VA's todd Sledge returns 1669 01:34:16.880 --> 01:34:19.720 at eight forty with some valuable information for my veteran friends. 1670 01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:21.600 We've got time for a quick call. Here, got Bobby 1671 01:34:21.640 --> 01:34:24.079 on the phone. Bobby, welcome on the program. 1672 01:34:24.399 --> 01:34:25.760 Happy Monday, my brother. 1673 01:34:25.840 --> 01:34:27.760 It may not be that happy, but you know, you 1674 01:34:27.840 --> 01:34:30.359 got to speak the truth and speaking the truth and 1675 01:34:30.399 --> 01:34:31.359 the public square. 1676 01:34:31.640 --> 01:34:35.600 That's the way it is. That's the way it is. Amen, brother. Hey. 1677 01:34:35.640 --> 01:34:38.600 As for the stock market, people have to understand I 1678 01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:40.680 was on there six weeks ago and said we were 1679 01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:44.399 going to have a forty percent drop. These institutions and 1680 01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:48.600 the foreign markets invest in our stock market, not individuals, 1681 01:34:48.720 --> 01:34:51.920 very few, and we're already at twenty percent, So expect 1682 01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:54.560 another twenty percent drop within the next three weeks. 1683 01:34:54.960 --> 01:34:56.760 Well, wish you call, wish you could call with them 1684 01:34:56.800 --> 01:35:01.319 better predictions there, Bobby. People are already really really from 1685 01:35:01.319 --> 01:35:03.159 the twenty percent drop we felt so far. 1686 01:35:04.359 --> 01:35:07.960 They're just facts, my friend. And also all these circuit 1687 01:35:07.960 --> 01:35:11.000 court judges and everything, everybody keeps talking about like the 1688 01:35:11.079 --> 01:35:13.880 chief judges in DC that you got fifteen of them, 1689 01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:17.560 five of them were born out of this country. And 1690 01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:20.359 people need to look at the facts and everything. It's 1691 01:35:20.399 --> 01:35:23.119 no different than Epoch that had a nice picture the 1692 01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:26.920 National Mall Saturday. You look at the people there, Not 1693 01:35:27.079 --> 01:35:31.359 one person out of hundreds of people we reviewed, nobody 1694 01:35:31.359 --> 01:35:32.800 had on anything patriotic. 1695 01:35:33.600 --> 01:35:36.279 There wasn't a wow, it wasn't the shirt. Nothing. 1696 01:35:36.560 --> 01:35:40.479 Well, those organized, those organized rallies had nothing at all 1697 01:35:40.520 --> 01:35:43.520 to do with patriotism. It's just batcrap insanity from a 1698 01:35:43.520 --> 01:35:46.439 bunch of useful idiots being directed by you know, multi 1699 01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:50.760 millionaires like Sorows to attack our country. I mean, they 1700 01:35:50.800 --> 01:35:53.119 don't make any sense. I mean, you know, I just 1701 01:35:53.199 --> 01:35:55.680 keep saying, why don't you look up the definition of fascism? 1702 01:35:55.760 --> 01:35:58.479 When you free start calling Donald Trump with fascists, why 1703 01:35:58.479 --> 01:36:00.680 don't you look at what the reality is of what 1704 01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:05.039 DOGE has done to help save Social Security and Medicare 1705 01:36:05.079 --> 01:36:07.159 by getting rid of or medicaid, by really getting rid 1706 01:36:07.199 --> 01:36:09.319 of the fraud, waste and abuse that's going on in there, 1707 01:36:09.399 --> 01:36:11.800 rather than accusing them of getting rid of it and 1708 01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:17.439 cutting people off. It's insanity, absolute insanity. Anyway, we will 1709 01:36:17.479 --> 01:36:18.119 deal with the markets. 1710 01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:18.399 Money. 1711 01:36:18.399 --> 01:36:19.920 Money is Brian James coming up out for the top 1712 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:21.319 of our news. Hope you can stick around. 1713 01:36:22.479 --> 01:36:25.560 What's doge digging out doing ill of a job? Check 1714 01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:26.840 can often for the latest. 1715 01:36:27.039 --> 01:36:28.880 I call it the Force of super Geniuses. 1716 01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:32.079 Fifty five krs the talk station. 1717 01:36:34.960 --> 01:36:37.119 At four coming up in aighth five A fifty five 1718 01:36:37.199 --> 01:36:39.439 kr CV talk station at a very happy Monday tea 1719 01:36:39.439 --> 01:36:41.319 always made extra happy because we get to talk to 1720 01:36:41.319 --> 01:36:45.439 Brian James and its financial planner is with all words 1721 01:36:45.479 --> 01:36:47.680 financial Brian, welcome back to the program. 1722 01:36:47.960 --> 01:36:50.439 Timing is everything. It's good to have you on this morning. 1723 01:36:51.560 --> 01:36:54.520 Good morning, good morning, and hey let's talk about those reds. 1724 01:36:54.560 --> 01:36:56.760 Let's start with happy news and how that doesn't work either. 1725 01:36:56.840 --> 01:36:57.239 Yeah that does. 1726 01:36:57.439 --> 01:36:59.800 I know that doesn't work either. I hope you live 1727 01:36:59.840 --> 01:37:02.720 on high ground. I had my Facebook a kind of 1728 01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:05.680 open and just everybody's posting pictures of how these rivers 1729 01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:08.520 are just busting at the seams, and somebody emailed me 1730 01:37:08.840 --> 01:37:12.880 posting like Route fifty is underwater and it's just insane, 1731 01:37:13.000 --> 01:37:15.039 and then of rain that's gone on out there. 1732 01:37:15.800 --> 01:37:15.960 Oh. 1733 01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:18.920 Yes, we have some friends and family who were visiting Ohio. University, 1734 01:37:18.920 --> 01:37:21.239 for it was Mom's weekend, and there were texts and 1735 01:37:21.279 --> 01:37:24.039 messages flying around over exactly how you could get out 1736 01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:28.000 of Athens and get back here to Cincinnati. So lots 1737 01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:30.279 of that going on, and unfortunately we seem to be 1738 01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:32.600 the toilet of our neighborhood. All of the water runs 1739 01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:35.239 downhill to us, so we're okay, but my sump is 1740 01:37:35.279 --> 01:37:36.520 going to run for a month straight. 1741 01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:39.199 Oh jeez, I'm sorry to hear that. Fortunately we happen 1742 01:37:39.239 --> 01:37:40.960 to be on high ground on top of the hill 1743 01:37:41.399 --> 01:37:43.319 in Simms Township as opposed to the bottom of the 1744 01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:45.800 hill where the Little Miami River is in Loveland is 1745 01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:48.880 also flowing over the bank. So God blood prayers to 1746 01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:50.920 everybody out there who's having a cope with that. Hopefully 1747 01:37:50.960 --> 01:37:53.880 it'll dry out real soon. Anyhow, we got to get 1748 01:37:53.880 --> 01:37:55.960 to it. Bad news in the market. How many trillions 1749 01:37:55.960 --> 01:37:58.119 of dollars were wiped out last week in the market, 1750 01:37:58.119 --> 01:37:59.319 Brian James. 1751 01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:02.680 Well, just more than a couple. 1752 01:38:02.760 --> 01:38:06.199 So we've seen obviously a lot of volatility. And if 1753 01:38:06.279 --> 01:38:07.960 you haven't looked at your four oh when k goes 1754 01:38:07.960 --> 01:38:11.119 ahead and don't, there's no need. 1755 01:38:11.319 --> 01:38:14.479 If you were, we will be fairly predictable on this. 1756 01:38:14.560 --> 01:38:17.079 But if you were properly diversified in the first place, 1757 01:38:17.119 --> 01:38:18.720 then this is just eating your vegetables. 1758 01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:20.079 It's no fun. Nobody wants to do it. 1759 01:38:20.239 --> 01:38:22.359 But yes, of course, when the markets are getting hammered 1760 01:38:22.359 --> 01:38:24.760 across the board, your investments are going to come down to. 1761 01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:29.079 So what happened, of course, was we had we've got 1762 01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:31.960 some tariffs now that we haven't dealt with the big 1763 01:38:31.960 --> 01:38:34.319 news from last week. And what really triggered is after 1764 01:38:34.479 --> 01:38:38.039 President Trump unveiled his sweeping plan across all of our 1765 01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:40.680 US partners. This was a ten percent minimum tear iff 1766 01:38:40.720 --> 01:38:44.159 on all imports in Canada and Mexico are exempt from 1767 01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:47.479 that because they're stuck with twenty five percent. But the 1768 01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:50.239 big thing that happened was China came back and said 1769 01:38:50.239 --> 01:38:52.880 this is kind of the first response. China came back 1770 01:38:53.159 --> 01:38:54.840 and just said, okay, we're going to put thirty four 1771 01:38:54.880 --> 01:38:58.600 percent on products coming from the United States into China. 1772 01:38:58.960 --> 01:39:01.680 So basically it's a bit of a tennis match now 1773 01:39:01.760 --> 01:39:04.479 as as we fire shots, you know, kind of back 1774 01:39:04.479 --> 01:39:07.359 and forth. But I think the market may have been 1775 01:39:07.359 --> 01:39:09.680 sort of hoping, and I'm sure President Trump was definitely 1776 01:39:09.680 --> 01:39:12.359 hoping that we're going to levy these big, scary tariffs, 1777 01:39:12.359 --> 01:39:13.880 but we're going to swing such a big stick that 1778 01:39:13.880 --> 01:39:15.880 everybody's just gonna buckle and it'll all go away over 1779 01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:19.039 the weekend. Maybe a little naive, that's definitely not happening. 1780 01:39:19.079 --> 01:39:22.000 But China's response is what triggered the massive sell off 1781 01:39:22.640 --> 01:39:24.760 on Friday, and it's going to continue today. 1782 01:39:24.800 --> 01:39:26.439 So prepare for a bumpy ride. 1783 01:39:26.560 --> 01:39:30.279 Yeah, indeed, And I guess given the trade imbalance with China, know, 1784 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:34.159 Trump keeps talking about that they don't buy nearly as 1785 01:39:34.239 --> 01:39:37.960 much stuff from US as we buy from them. 1786 01:39:38.319 --> 01:39:41.960 Correct, there's a massive imbalance there. The twenty twenty fourth 1787 01:39:41.960 --> 01:39:45.079 deficit with China was almost three hundred billion, and our 1788 01:39:45.159 --> 01:39:47.920 imported goods were about four hundred and thirty eight billion. 1789 01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:51.920 So and ironically, that's how the tariff calculation was. They're 1790 01:39:51.920 --> 01:39:55.199 simply taking half of that deficit and applying it against 1791 01:39:55.199 --> 01:39:59.359 the against the import numbers, and so basically every country 1792 01:39:59.399 --> 01:40:02.479 gets kind of different calculation there. But the whole point 1793 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:05.800 is just to reduce the deficit. We want to make 1794 01:40:05.840 --> 01:40:08.720 it more profitable for the United States to be in 1795 01:40:08.760 --> 01:40:11.680 these situations in the first place, to be trading, and 1796 01:40:12.439 --> 01:40:14.520 we have given up a lot. Of course, as President 1797 01:40:14.520 --> 01:40:17.720 Trump says, that's very true. What has driven the stock 1798 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:21.159 market a lot, even American companies, is the idea that 1799 01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:24.239 other countries are willing to trade with our country, but 1800 01:40:24.479 --> 01:40:28.279 over decades we've allowed them to grab a little more here, 1801 01:40:28.319 --> 01:40:30.560 grab a little more there by levying tariffs against us. 1802 01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:32.000 Trump wants to tear the band. 1803 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:34.960 Aid off and set us back to a little more 1804 01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:37.800 level playing field. No way to get there without somebody 1805 01:40:37.800 --> 01:40:41.159 taking a significant hit. Obviously, these countries don't want to 1806 01:40:41.159 --> 01:40:43.479 take that hit, so they're going to swing back, and 1807 01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:45.159 it's just going to be a couple of rounds of 1808 01:40:45.159 --> 01:40:47.600 haymakers back and forth until everybody settles down. 1809 01:40:47.840 --> 01:40:50.399 Well, I guess what would the landscape look like if 1810 01:40:50.439 --> 01:40:53.520 it was an equal playing field. If let's say they 1811 01:40:53.520 --> 01:40:56.720 eradicated tariffs and nobody charged anybody for stuff coming in 1812 01:40:56.800 --> 01:41:00.680 or going out? Would that be economically devastating countries? Are 1813 01:41:00.680 --> 01:41:03.800 they reliant upon these terraffs to keep their uh uh, 1814 01:41:03.880 --> 01:41:06.720 to to keep the process going, to keep their governments open, 1815 01:41:06.840 --> 01:41:08.479 to keep them from a financial collapse? 1816 01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:09.840 I mean? Is that? Is that the point of this? 1817 01:41:11.279 --> 01:41:11.479 Yeah? 1818 01:41:11.479 --> 01:41:13.520 I think that in the short run, in the very 1819 01:41:13.520 --> 01:41:15.399 short run. If everybody just agreed, you know what, we're 1820 01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:17.720 going to take all the tariffs off the table completely, 1821 01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:21.039 then countries that were relying on that obviously are going 1822 01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:23.119 to see a reduction in the income that they're getting. 1823 01:41:23.279 --> 01:41:25.720 Because the United States never objected, we were we were 1824 01:41:25.760 --> 01:41:28.760 cool with it for for decades, and so that would 1825 01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:32.000 effectively be like a price reduction in the amount of 1826 01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:35.199 revenue that they're bringing in, and therefore that's going to 1827 01:41:35.239 --> 01:41:37.600 be a hit to their economies. They can't afford to 1828 01:41:37.640 --> 01:41:40.960 simply let it all go away. Uh, you know, no 1829 01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:43.640 country can can is going to be able to simply 1830 01:41:43.680 --> 01:41:45.800 reduce the revenue they've got coming in and still get 1831 01:41:45.840 --> 01:41:48.479 all of their bills paid. So that's why they're they're 1832 01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:50.920 trying to fight back and just make sure that they 1833 01:41:51.039 --> 01:41:54.359 retained some some level of that income they had coming 1834 01:41:54.359 --> 01:41:55.560 in because they just can't afford it. 1835 01:41:55.960 --> 01:41:57.079 Well, I guess you know. 1836 01:41:57.079 --> 01:41:59.960 Their component of this is it would allow their people 1837 01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:03.199 to at least afford American products as presently, with some 1838 01:42:03.239 --> 01:42:05.399 of the terraces as high as they are, they're just 1839 01:42:05.479 --> 01:42:07.680 not buying them. I mean, there's a reason we have 1840 01:42:07.720 --> 01:42:11.279 a trade imbalance because they cannot afford to purchase American products. 1841 01:42:12.680 --> 01:42:14.960 Yes, yeah, that has a lot to do with it. 1842 01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:17.000 And then we doubled down on that by making it 1843 01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:19.199 political too, so now it's a statement to not buy 1844 01:42:19.239 --> 01:42:24.199 American products. I saw a picture online of a Canadian 1845 01:42:24.239 --> 01:42:28.199 supermarket where Canadian strawberries were listed at six dollars a 1846 01:42:28.239 --> 01:42:29.359 little box of them. 1847 01:42:29.479 --> 01:42:31.000 And those were pretty much sold out. 1848 01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:33.560 The American ones right next door to them were four 1849 01:42:33.560 --> 01:42:37.000 bucks a box and plenty to go around. So there's 1850 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:40.159 there's more than just the economics happening at this point. 1851 01:42:40.279 --> 01:42:43.079 Yeah, and I know they can make their own choices 1852 01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:45.159 along those lines. You choose not to buy something, you 1853 01:42:45.239 --> 01:42:47.199 choose not to buy some gets why nobody buys bud 1854 01:42:47.239 --> 01:42:49.840 Light beer anymore. And whether or not that'll ever come 1855 01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:52.760 back is I suppose it depends upon whether we iron 1856 01:42:52.800 --> 01:42:55.279 out our differences and get this away from politics and 1857 01:42:55.439 --> 01:42:58.399 just start talking about, you know, plain simple economic realities. 1858 01:42:59.640 --> 01:43:00.439 Yeah, that's true. 1859 01:43:00.520 --> 01:43:04.640 This this isn't unprecedented though we've had tariffs before. Remember 1860 01:43:04.680 --> 01:43:07.520 when the Holly Smoot Act was nothing more than a 1861 01:43:07.520 --> 01:43:08.840 funny line from Ferris Bueller. 1862 01:43:08.920 --> 01:43:12.920 Dale, all of. 1863 01:43:12.920 --> 01:43:15.239 A sudden, it shows up all the time, because this 1864 01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:18.359 is the that was the last time we saw tariffs 1865 01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:20.319 raised in to this extent. 1866 01:43:20.359 --> 01:43:22.279 Matter of fact, we're a little we're a little past that. Now. 1867 01:43:22.319 --> 01:43:24.880 This is historic in scope. It didn't work during the 1868 01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:28.199 Great Depression. So the goal then, though, was a little 1869 01:43:28.199 --> 01:43:30.920 bit different. The goal was to hopefully prop up the 1870 01:43:31.279 --> 01:43:34.800 US market front the US economy from a very very 1871 01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:37.720 very extremely weak position. It was dead on the table. 1872 01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:40.039 This is a little bit different where this is a 1873 01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:44.439 negotiating tactic. I don't think President Trump would would would 1874 01:43:44.439 --> 01:43:46.720 mind at all if all these tariffs went away pretty quickly, 1875 01:43:46.760 --> 01:43:49.199 if he got what he wanted in terms of, uh, 1876 01:43:49.239 --> 01:43:53.479 you know, of the concessions from our customers. Basically that's 1877 01:43:53.520 --> 01:43:55.640 the goal. I think this is a negotiation tactic. The 1878 01:43:55.680 --> 01:43:58.159 man is a He wrote The Art of the Deal 1879 01:43:58.319 --> 01:44:00.319 was his big book back in the eighties. That's what 1880 01:44:00.359 --> 01:44:02.840 he's all about. So this is simply a way to say, hey, 1881 01:44:02.840 --> 01:44:05.319 this is what America is willing to do and what 1882 01:44:05.359 --> 01:44:07.319 it is no longer willing to do. Some of it 1883 01:44:07.359 --> 01:44:08.920 is going to be a little bit of a sleight 1884 01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:12.199 of hand, smoking mirrors, because I don't think anybody believes 1885 01:44:12.199 --> 01:44:15.319 we're truly going to maintain fifty percent tariffs on some 1886 01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:17.720 of these countries forever and ever, because they'll simply never 1887 01:44:17.760 --> 01:44:18.680 buy from US again. 1888 01:44:18.840 --> 01:44:20.319 That makes it a negotiating tactic. 1889 01:44:20.720 --> 01:44:23.359 Well, and I know we learned from COVID that we 1890 01:44:23.680 --> 01:44:26.319 and I know it's a broad statement, maybe too large 1891 01:44:26.319 --> 01:44:29.039 a brush. We don't make anything anymore here, but you know, 1892 01:44:29.119 --> 01:44:31.920 it is a fact that China does manufacture the vast 1893 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:34.439 majority of the component parts that go into pharmaceuticals, if 1894 01:44:34.479 --> 01:44:38.439 not manufacture them, generally speaking, that's a dangerous position to 1895 01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:40.479 be in considering, you know, we could end up in 1896 01:44:40.520 --> 01:44:42.880 some sort of shooting war with China and we can't 1897 01:44:42.880 --> 01:44:46.399 get pharmaceuticals. So this may bring back some of those 1898 01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:50.880 some of those manufacturing facilities here in the United States, 1899 01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:54.039 which would provide some measure of security. I think that'd 1900 01:44:54.079 --> 01:44:55.600 be a positive benefit from. 1901 01:44:55.520 --> 01:44:59.000 It, absolutely, and if that actually happens now. The one 1902 01:44:59.000 --> 01:45:01.159 scary thing that I can't I quite get my head around, 1903 01:45:01.199 --> 01:45:03.800 as we had the same situation with semiconductors. We were 1904 01:45:03.800 --> 01:45:06.960 buying so much of them, virtually all of them from Asia, 1905 01:45:07.720 --> 01:45:09.279 a lot of them from Taiwan, with whom we have 1906 01:45:09.319 --> 01:45:11.279 a good relationship. But it does seem like any day 1907 01:45:11.319 --> 01:45:14.520 now that could become China. So the answer to that 1908 01:45:14.760 --> 01:45:16.960 was to build a couple of plants a little southeast 1909 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:21.359 of Columbus. Intel was building plants to produce these things 1910 01:45:21.640 --> 01:45:22.119 on shore. 1911 01:45:22.399 --> 01:45:22.520 Right. 1912 01:45:22.680 --> 01:45:26.479 I don't understand why that has come in the crosshairs, 1913 01:45:26.840 --> 01:45:29.439 but for some reason there is there are concerns that 1914 01:45:29.439 --> 01:45:30.800 that's not going to be happen anymore. 1915 01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:32.720 So some of these puzzle pieces don't quite fit. 1916 01:45:33.399 --> 01:45:35.079 Okay, and real quick here before we take a break 1917 01:45:35.079 --> 01:45:39.399 and come back, Brian James. When the Smooth Holly Terrraffact 1918 01:45:39.439 --> 01:45:41.720 went in, and obviously it was a disaster for us. 1919 01:45:41.760 --> 01:45:44.159 It exacerbated the Great Depression, and it has always gone 1920 01:45:44.159 --> 01:45:46.800 down in history. Is a really terrible policy position by Hoover. 1921 01:45:46.920 --> 01:45:50.359 But what were the what was the terraff situation like 1922 01:45:50.439 --> 01:45:53.560 relative to American exports? Was it the same? Were there 1923 01:45:54.039 --> 01:45:59.800 other countries tariff American imports or or was the landscape 1924 01:46:00.279 --> 01:46:03.119 I mean, in other words, is it a comparable comparison? 1925 01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:04.800 It is? 1926 01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:07.039 So yeah, So a lot of countries did respond with 1927 01:46:07.079 --> 01:46:09.840 their own tariffs, and that just reduced the overall trade. 1928 01:46:09.560 --> 01:46:11.279 Activity with the United States. 1929 01:46:11.279 --> 01:46:15.399 Became very protective and isolationist, and other countries responded in kind, 1930 01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:17.800 and that led to a sixty five percent decrease in 1931 01:46:17.880 --> 01:46:20.720 international trade between nineteen twenty nine and nineteen thirty four. 1932 01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:23.640 So that's why ben Stein says they did not work 1933 01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:26.039 and the United States sank further into the Great Depression. 1934 01:46:26.119 --> 01:46:26.279 Yeah. 1935 01:46:26.319 --> 01:46:28.600 Boy, the Wall Street journals really got its hire up 1936 01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:31.600 against the Trump administration for this. Normally they're, you know, 1937 01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:35.279 kind of side with you, conservative leaning at least to a 1938 01:46:35.359 --> 01:46:38.000 certain degree. I know they're they're rather politically neutral, but 1939 01:46:38.319 --> 01:46:43.560 leaning toward you know, pro business, pro capitalism. Man, you 1940 01:46:43.600 --> 01:46:45.399 can't find a positive word to be said in the 1941 01:46:45.439 --> 01:46:47.399 Wall Street Journal of late. 1942 01:46:47.800 --> 01:46:48.439 Not a lot. 1943 01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:52.319 Yeah, Automotive CEOs Jim Farley, Ford, Mary Barrow, General Motors 1944 01:46:52.319 --> 01:46:56.399 are expressing really strong concerns. The technology industry has never 1945 01:46:56.439 --> 01:46:58.600 been a huge fan of Trump other than magically showing 1946 01:46:58.720 --> 01:47:02.399 up on the dais this egnauguration overnight, but they've been 1947 01:47:02.399 --> 01:47:06.439 absolutely crushed. Steel is one of the places where that 1948 01:47:06.760 --> 01:47:09.439 actually possibly could benefit from all of this. So some 1949 01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:12.000 of those CEOs have been a little more supportive than 1950 01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:15.600 the rest. But in general, generally speaking, things that slam 1951 01:47:15.600 --> 01:47:18.079 on the brakes in the economy are generally not good. 1952 01:47:18.119 --> 01:47:20.880 For any publicly traded company, and CEOs are starting to 1953 01:47:20.880 --> 01:47:21.640 pipe up about it. 1954 01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:23.800 All right, we'll bring Brian James back to talk more 1955 01:47:23.840 --> 01:47:26.560 about these and other topics. Ouctation Brian Thomas, the Money 1956 01:47:26.560 --> 01:47:30.439 mondays Brian James. I just but I tried to put 1957 01:47:30.479 --> 01:47:34.279 a positive spin on this disaster disaster several days, and 1958 01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:35.640 looks like it's going to drop again today. 1959 01:47:35.640 --> 01:47:35.960 I guess. 1960 01:47:36.119 --> 01:47:38.359 Futures when I got up this morning were about three 1961 01:47:38.359 --> 01:47:40.960 and a half four percent down, but they backed off 1962 01:47:41.000 --> 01:47:44.560 a little bit to about two percent. But we're dealing 1963 01:47:44.600 --> 01:47:47.359 with do we call this a bear market? I mean, 1964 01:47:47.520 --> 01:47:49.800 at what point is there a declaration like, hey, we're 1965 01:47:49.840 --> 01:47:52.079 in a bear market. I mean, there's a thing called 1966 01:47:52.079 --> 01:47:54.279 a correction, and we've been hearing about that coming for 1967 01:47:54.319 --> 01:47:57.279 a long time. Is this perhaps related to a market 1968 01:47:57.319 --> 01:48:01.279 correction that was expected? Is this the beginning of the 1969 01:48:01.319 --> 01:48:04.399 recession that you joked about last week, Brian, that's been 1970 01:48:04.439 --> 01:48:06.359 coming now what for three and a half four years? 1971 01:48:06.479 --> 01:48:08.760 Oh my god. Recessions right around the corner. Recessions right 1972 01:48:08.800 --> 01:48:11.800 around the corner. So put this in perspective and maybe 1973 01:48:11.880 --> 01:48:15.279 try to spend this positively, because as you know, and 1974 01:48:15.359 --> 01:48:17.239 I know, and you and I both lived through a 1975 01:48:17.279 --> 01:48:20.119 lot of these market downward trajectories. They always end up 1976 01:48:20.159 --> 01:48:22.399 popping back up and ended up end up making more 1977 01:48:22.399 --> 01:48:23.439 money over the long haul. 1978 01:48:23.600 --> 01:48:24.439 So it's the story. 1979 01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:28.680 Yeah, they absolutely so, Yeah, we're we in a bear market. Yeah, 1980 01:48:29.159 --> 01:48:31.520 it's looking that way. Depends on your definition of bear market. 1981 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:33.039 But let's just say we're not in a good one. 1982 01:48:33.600 --> 01:48:36.359 So still, as you hinted that though stocks are cyclical, 1983 01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:40.079 we've had twelve bull markets and twelve bear markets since 1984 01:48:40.159 --> 01:48:42.800 nineteen forty nine, and that might think that might make 1985 01:48:42.800 --> 01:48:44.680 you go, well, we got a one out of two chance, right. 1986 01:48:44.600 --> 01:48:45.600 It's either good or it's bad. 1987 01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:50.039 The difference is that bull markets are much longer and 1988 01:48:50.119 --> 01:48:53.760 they rise much further than bear markets, so bear markets 1989 01:48:53.760 --> 01:48:56.439 are relatively short. The average length of a bear market 1990 01:48:56.479 --> 01:48:59.000 is one point one year. At one point one years, 1991 01:48:59.039 --> 01:49:02.039 and it averages the a thirty five percent decline, so 1992 01:49:02.239 --> 01:49:04.960 that that's basically on average, we take that hit and 1993 01:49:04.960 --> 01:49:06.479 we lose about a third and then we move on. 1994 01:49:07.039 --> 01:49:09.960 A bull market, on the other hand, last five years 1995 01:49:10.199 --> 01:49:13.560 and the average return over that time period cumulatively is 1996 01:49:14.039 --> 01:49:17.560 two hundred and seventy percent, so we grow a lot further. 1997 01:49:17.600 --> 01:49:19.840 We go think of the long term chart of a market. 1998 01:49:19.880 --> 01:49:21.920 They go up, not down, and a lot of people 1999 01:49:21.960 --> 01:49:26.359 get panicked. We are at when we're at a market peak, 2000 01:49:26.359 --> 01:49:28.239 which we were in mid February. The market was at 2001 01:49:28.239 --> 01:49:31.239 an all time high. As recently as mid February, news 2002 01:49:31.279 --> 01:49:33.399 came out, headlines came out the market didn't like, and 2003 01:49:33.439 --> 01:49:36.039 it's taken back some of that value. But people get 2004 01:49:36.079 --> 01:49:38.239 worried when they hear we're at an all time high. Well, 2005 01:49:38.239 --> 01:49:39.960 the next step is down, right, it has to be down. 2006 01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:42.199 We're at an all time high. The market is usually 2007 01:49:42.239 --> 01:49:43.920 at an all time high. That's what it does. It 2008 01:49:43.960 --> 01:49:47.640 goes up, not down. Therefore, we're almost always at a 2009 01:49:47.680 --> 01:49:50.840 long time high. So the thing to share about this 2010 01:49:50.880 --> 01:49:52.359 And I actually just got an email a little bit 2011 01:49:52.359 --> 01:49:54.319 from a little bit ago from a client saying, am 2012 01:49:54.359 --> 01:49:56.479 I looking at this right? Am I only down seven percent? 2013 01:49:56.479 --> 01:49:58.399 When I know the market's down fifteen or twenty percent 2014 01:49:58.439 --> 01:50:00.880 based on whatever index you're looking at? And answers, yeah, 2015 01:50:00.920 --> 01:50:02.560 all work is good at what we do. But this 2016 01:50:02.640 --> 01:50:06.199 is the whole point of diversification for this gentleman. He's 2017 01:50:06.239 --> 01:50:09.720 got a diversified portfolio. He's also got international stocks he's 2018 01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:12.079 got fixed income in there. These are two things that 2019 01:50:12.119 --> 01:50:14.239 nobody has cared about for a couple of decades, but 2020 01:50:14.399 --> 01:50:16.960 those are propping up the market. If you have a 2021 01:50:17.000 --> 01:50:19.680 diversified portfolio, then that's kind of holding you up. You 2022 01:50:19.760 --> 01:50:21.960 might actually be making money in some of those positions, 2023 01:50:21.960 --> 01:50:24.039 believe it or not. And again, that is the point 2024 01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:26.560 of a diversified portfolio. That's why we don't go all 2025 01:50:26.600 --> 01:50:28.840 in on the S and P five hundred just because 2026 01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:30.880 it seems like you don't need to own anything else. 2027 01:50:31.039 --> 01:50:33.239 Yeah, and you've made that point many times, and it's 2028 01:50:33.279 --> 01:50:35.359 just it is sound, sound advice, and it's one of 2029 01:50:35.399 --> 01:50:38.039 the reasons why you have a financial planner. Now, in 2030 01:50:38.119 --> 01:50:41.359 terms of the FED and interest rates, what impact might 2031 01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:43.920 this downward trending market have on that? 2032 01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:47.279 Yeah, So these tariffs are going to act like a 2033 01:50:47.600 --> 01:50:50.279 pretty good tax increase on imported goods. So that's going 2034 01:50:50.319 --> 01:50:52.039 to slow the economy, there's no doubt about it. 2035 01:50:52.079 --> 01:50:53.960 The debate is what will the degree be. 2036 01:50:54.439 --> 01:50:56.319 So what we're thinking right now, and this kind of 2037 01:50:56.319 --> 01:50:58.720 echoes a lot of what you hear from other economists. 2038 01:50:58.800 --> 01:51:01.720 If all these announced of stick, GDP growth is going 2039 01:51:01.760 --> 01:51:03.840 to be cut by a couple percentage points over the 2040 01:51:03.880 --> 01:51:06.359 next year or two, so that that will take us 2041 01:51:06.359 --> 01:51:08.479 from what we did. We did have a modest growth 2042 01:51:08.479 --> 01:51:11.039 outlook and could push it toward recession. Not going to 2043 01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:13.199 be overnight recessions never are. We're not going to wake 2044 01:51:13.279 --> 01:51:15.359 up one day and say that, hey, we just started 2045 01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:17.039 a recession this morning. It's going to be Yeah, the 2046 01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:20.000 recession started a few months ago. If this happens, and 2047 01:51:20.159 --> 01:51:22.239 the same way on the way out as we exit 2048 01:51:22.279 --> 01:51:24.640 a recession. And we've been through this before, don't forget 2049 01:51:24.680 --> 01:51:27.199 we had a recession. We had a COVID related recession 2050 01:51:27.720 --> 01:51:30.279 that was over and done with pretty quickly. But it 2051 01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:32.840 won't be announced that. Everybody back in the pool, you 2052 01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:35.159 know this morning, everything's wonderful, It'll be okay. A couple 2053 01:51:35.199 --> 01:51:37.640 months ago things turned positive and we've confirmed that the 2054 01:51:37.720 --> 01:51:40.479 numbers are and we're now out of a recessionary environment. 2055 01:51:41.000 --> 01:51:42.920 This one is self inflicted. 2056 01:51:43.159 --> 01:51:47.199 We chose to put in the catalysts that are causing it. 2057 01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:49.920 That is, I sort of compare that to COVID a 2058 01:51:49.960 --> 01:51:54.000 little bit, because COVID had nothing to do with the 2059 01:51:54.079 --> 01:51:56.640 overall economy and how it was progressing on its own. 2060 01:51:56.920 --> 01:51:58.960 It was something that came out of left field, of course, 2061 01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:02.119 and it was how we reacted to it. Underneath it 2062 01:52:02.159 --> 01:52:05.279 all the economy before that was acting. Okay, it was 2063 01:52:05.279 --> 01:52:07.439 in pretty good shape. That's the same situation we have 2064 01:52:07.560 --> 01:52:09.760 right now. We chose to put these tarifs in place, 2065 01:52:10.000 --> 01:52:12.279 countries chose to react the way they have, and the 2066 01:52:12.319 --> 01:52:15.479 market is reacting accordingly versus a two thousand and eight 2067 01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:18.119 where the underlying structures were at risk. 2068 01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:19.319 Okay. 2069 01:52:19.479 --> 01:52:22.880 Well, and like you said, the market would have continued 2070 01:52:22.880 --> 01:52:26.079 and percolated along fine until we decided to shut everything 2071 01:52:26.119 --> 01:52:28.439 down and lock everything down and stop the economy from 2072 01:52:28.439 --> 01:52:29.079 moving forward. 2073 01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:32.079 Correct. We pushed a button. This is not just the 2074 01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:34.319 weather turning bad. We pushed a button to make it happen. 2075 01:52:34.800 --> 01:52:37.920 All right, Well, don't panic, is what you're saying. The 2076 01:52:38.199 --> 01:52:40.439 financial planner in here, which is more of a counselor, 2077 01:52:40.560 --> 01:52:44.479 it's talking people off the ledge and just let it 2078 01:52:44.560 --> 01:52:46.840 ride out. We too will come out the other side 2079 01:52:46.840 --> 01:52:48.600 at some juncture. Just got to have to wait and 2080 01:52:48.600 --> 01:52:51.840 see approach to it. So it is, well, learn your history. 2081 01:52:51.920 --> 01:52:54.520 We've been through these things before. We'll go through them again. 2082 01:52:54.840 --> 01:52:56.720 Go back in time and see what the market has 2083 01:52:56.720 --> 01:52:59.159 done there. Have been five years that are attention getters 2084 01:52:59.159 --> 01:53:02.479 where we're down more than that's including your great depression 2085 01:53:02.560 --> 01:53:05.079 the seventies, the tech bubble bursting nine to eleven, two 2086 01:53:05.079 --> 01:53:07.359 thousand and eight, and so forth. Each and every one 2087 01:53:07.399 --> 01:53:09.960 of those five years, Brian Thomas, was followed by a 2088 01:53:10.520 --> 01:53:11.880 year that had a huge upswing. 2089 01:53:12.159 --> 01:53:13.359 The pendulum swings back. 2090 01:53:13.279 --> 01:53:16.520 And forth, it does, Brian James, appreciate your sound advice 2091 01:53:16.600 --> 01:53:19.159 and little dose of optimism there toward the end, with 2092 01:53:20.000 --> 01:53:22.319 obviously a concern for expressed by a lot of people 2093 01:53:22.319 --> 01:53:24.319 where the markets are going. Brian, we'll talk again next month. 2094 01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:26.119 I hope you have a wonderful week and good luck 2095 01:53:26.159 --> 01:53:27.760 talking people off the ledge this week. 2096 01:53:29.239 --> 01:53:31.279 All right, I appreciate you have good week day drive. 2097 01:53:31.239 --> 01:53:33.560 Thanks man, you too, take twenty five fifty five carries 2098 01:53:33.600 --> 01:53:36.600 the talk station. Feel free to call Sean can open 2099 01:53:36.680 --> 01:53:38.239 up the phone lines. We got a little time before 2100 01:53:38.279 --> 01:53:41.159 we get to Todd Sledge from the since Anava, maybe 2101 01:53:41.239 --> 01:53:43.079 get a comment up beyond that, I got local stories 2102 01:53:43.119 --> 01:53:43.880 to dive on into. 2103 01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:48.560 The first A word for the weather Channel nine says 2104 01:53:48.600 --> 01:53:50.600 we have a partly cloudy day to day. Enjoy the warmth. 2105 01:53:50.600 --> 01:53:52.800 It's going to go up there fifty six because we 2106 01:53:52.880 --> 01:53:55.399 got a freeze warning kicking in at one a m. 2107 01:53:55.760 --> 01:53:58.520 Night and frost is very likely. Skis will be clear 2108 01:53:58.880 --> 01:54:01.720 going down to twenty five degree tomorrow mostly Sunday day 2109 01:54:01.720 --> 01:54:02.920 with the Hives forty. 2110 01:54:02.600 --> 01:54:03.720 Five few clouds every night. 2111 01:54:03.760 --> 01:54:07.640 Dina dropped to twenty nine and again more frost Wednesday. 2112 01:54:07.680 --> 01:54:10.159 Clouds will increase as the next chance rain is over 2113 01:54:10.199 --> 01:54:14.239 Wednesday night fifty four to the high on Wednesday thirty 2114 01:54:14.279 --> 01:54:16.279 seven degrees right now on time for traffic. 2115 01:54:16.560 --> 01:54:19.439 From the UCL Traffic Center. April is Donate five month. 2116 01:54:19.560 --> 01:54:22.960 Register to become an organ donor or explore living donation 2117 01:54:23.079 --> 01:54:23.319 at u. 2118 01:54:23.359 --> 01:54:24.279 See health dot com. 2119 01:54:24.319 --> 01:54:28.279 Slash Transplant southbound seventy five continues to be a slow 2120 01:54:28.319 --> 01:54:31.319 go into Middletown thanks to an accident blocking the right 2121 01:54:31.399 --> 01:54:34.840 two lane since an extra half hour from Franklin Better 2122 01:54:34.920 --> 01:54:38.079 news closer to downtown both Wrecks and the Western Hills 2123 01:54:38.119 --> 01:54:42.840 via up and at Freeman Clear northbound fourth seventy one 2124 01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:45.520 is backing up through Southgate. That's folks looking for an 2125 01:54:45.560 --> 01:54:49.279 alternative from the closed roads due to floody chuck Ingram 2126 01:54:49.319 --> 01:54:51.640 on fifty five krs the talk station. 2127 01:54:53.880 --> 01:54:57.000 Ay thirty two th five KRCP Talk station together decent Monday, 2128 01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:00.199 get to hear from the Sincinnada's Tod Sledge. Come to 2129 01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:02.119 the next segment, get a couple of segments with them. 2130 01:55:02.239 --> 01:55:05.479 Plenty to talk about too. Where should veterans go and 2131 01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:10.399 what online platform should they useing the Tristain when tracking 2132 01:55:10.479 --> 01:55:14.079 their well stay information to their information metsin s at Va, among. 2133 01:55:13.840 --> 01:55:16.479 Other topics with Todd Sledge. 2134 01:55:16.520 --> 01:55:19.199 In the meantime, we got three river gauges that the 2135 01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:21.600 well the weather folks are watching. We're all kind of 2136 01:55:21.680 --> 01:55:25.920 keeping their eyes on the Ohio River. They say is 2137 01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:30.239 going to crest today at sixty point five three point 2138 01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:32.279 five feet, nowhere close at a record levels. Going to 2139 01:55:32.319 --> 01:55:34.920 learn a lot of impacts your communities along the river. 2140 01:55:35.000 --> 01:55:38.920 Levels also remain steady or at least in modern flood 2141 01:55:38.920 --> 01:55:41.640 stage for the next several days. Turning over to the Kentucky 2142 01:55:41.680 --> 01:55:45.600 River at Lockport, Kentucky. Forecast is to crest tomorrow at 2143 01:55:45.640 --> 01:55:49.159 fifty six feet, which apparently is near the all time 2144 01:55:49.199 --> 01:55:52.359 record at fifty six point nine feet that was set 2145 01:55:52.399 --> 01:55:55.520 back in January of nineteen thirty seven. Then you go 2146 01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:59.600 over to the Licking River in Falmouth, Kentucky, cities of 2147 01:55:59.600 --> 01:56:02.399 a Butler and Falmouth. I've been ordered to a mandatory evacuations 2148 01:56:02.439 --> 01:56:04.920 due to flooding. I presume that's still the case. This 2149 01:56:05.000 --> 01:56:10.039 is according to reporting really late yesterday afternoon by WXIX 2150 01:56:10.600 --> 01:56:14.279 at the Licking River at Falmouth is exposed to crest 2151 01:56:14.520 --> 01:56:18.239 well at nine pm yesterday height thirty eight point six, 2152 01:56:19.079 --> 01:56:21.520 so several roads have been closed. My friend Eric sent 2153 01:56:21.560 --> 01:56:24.600 me a text this morning saying Route fifty was closed. 2154 01:56:24.600 --> 01:56:30.039 So please, as Christopher Smithan said, please be careful if 2155 01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:32.800 you're in your car crossing some flooded roads. You gotta 2156 01:56:32.840 --> 01:56:37.960 be really careful about that. See here speaking of being 2157 01:56:37.960 --> 01:56:41.760 careful with A man rescued from floodwaters happened Sunday afternoon 2158 01:56:42.199 --> 01:56:45.039 at the former location of Coney Island since I police 2159 01:56:45.039 --> 01:56:47.039 said a man somehow got into the area where Cony 2160 01:56:47.319 --> 01:56:50.520 used to be, currently flooded because of the Ohio River levels. 2161 01:56:50.560 --> 01:56:53.840 Man got roughly thirty feet into the now defunct park 2162 01:56:53.920 --> 01:56:58.279 before well needing to be rescued. Local news WCPO saw 2163 01:56:58.279 --> 01:57:00.439 a cruise bringing the man back to dry land on 2164 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:03.760 our raft. They also reported an suv was seen almost 2165 01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:07.159 fully submerged in the water near Coney Island's front gates. 2166 01:57:07.680 --> 01:57:10.439 Early on Sunday, fire crews in downtown Cincinnati had a 2167 01:57:10.439 --> 01:57:12.600 rescue a woman who had taken shelter at the stage 2168 01:57:12.600 --> 01:57:15.840 in Sawyer Port. Sawyer points similar to the rescue your 2169 01:57:15.920 --> 01:57:18.920 Coney cruise, put a life vest on the woman and 2170 01:57:18.920 --> 01:57:22.039 then inflated a raft a retriever from the stage. So 2171 01:57:22.199 --> 01:57:25.279 obviously many neighborhoods have been impacted by this. Ready roads 2172 01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:27.560 have been closed, and we can only hope and pray 2173 01:57:28.079 --> 01:57:33.199 that things dry out quickly. And finally you got three 2174 01:57:33.199 --> 01:57:35.279 men from Kentucky had been arrested in charge of connections 2175 01:57:35.279 --> 01:57:37.000 with the shooting of a man having a Brown County 2176 01:57:37.000 --> 01:57:39.720 corner of the sheriffs announcement. This past week, deputies responded 2177 01:57:39.760 --> 01:57:43.399 to two fifty seven Hickory Street in Aberdeen almost seven 2178 01:57:43.439 --> 01:57:45.560 o'clock in the morning after receiving a call about a 2179 01:57:45.600 --> 01:57:49.640 man stating that he had been shot. High State Highway 2180 01:57:49.640 --> 01:57:52.199 with Patrol troopers and Brown County deputies both arrived at 2181 01:57:52.199 --> 01:57:54.880 the scene. They found fifty one year old Kelly Applegate 2182 01:57:54.960 --> 01:57:58.319 shot in the chest corner of the Sheriff's office. The 2183 01:57:58.359 --> 01:58:00.840 suspect had fired multiple rounds at Applegate and he was 2184 01:58:00.840 --> 01:58:05.039 then taken to the hospital. Wednesday, April second, Brown County Deputies, 2185 01:58:05.079 --> 01:58:07.359 with help from Mason County Sheriff's Office in the Mayswell 2186 01:58:07.399 --> 01:58:09.680 Police Department, arrested fifty six year old Michael Fight and 2187 01:58:09.680 --> 01:58:11.920 forty seven year old Jerry Cooper, both from Dover in 2188 01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:15.319 connection with the shooting. Next day, deputies with help from 2189 01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:17.920 some other agencies, arrested sixty ten year old George Kendall 2190 01:58:17.960 --> 01:58:21.920 from Maysville on what they call additional charges. All three 2191 01:58:21.960 --> 01:58:25.880 suspects charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder, 2192 01:58:25.920 --> 01:58:28.359 which our first degree felon. He's being held with the 2193 01:58:28.399 --> 01:58:32.079 Mason County Detention Center Center and awaiting extradition to Brown County. 2194 01:58:32.840 --> 01:58:34.079 Todd Sledge coming up next. 2195 01:58:34.279 --> 01:58:36.640 Stick around for that information from my veteran friends and 2196 01:58:36.640 --> 01:58:38.720 a listening audience, and God bless each and every one 2197 01:58:38.760 --> 01:58:38.960 of you. 2198 01:58:39.079 --> 01:58:39.840 I'll be right back. 2199 01:58:40.119 --> 01:58:43.439 This is fifty five karc an iHeartRadio Station. 2200 01:58:46.479 --> 01:58:49.800 Hey, thirty eight fifty five carric Detalk station. If you're 2201 01:58:49.840 --> 01:58:52.720 having a decent Monday. Ryan Thomas always pleased to see, 2202 01:58:52.800 --> 01:58:55.560 especially in studio, Todd Sledge and the since NAVA taking 2203 01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:57.520 great care of our veterans each and every day. They 2204 01:58:57.560 --> 01:59:00.720 are appreciate all of the cincinnt VA does for my 2205 01:59:00.800 --> 01:59:02.800 veteran friends and the listening audience. And you know me, 2206 01:59:02.880 --> 01:59:04.960 I love to help out veterans and veterans causes, and 2207 01:59:05.000 --> 01:59:07.319 I know Todd Sledge does too. Todd, welcome back to 2208 01:59:07.359 --> 01:59:09.079 the Morning Show. Thanks for making the trip in. Yeah, 2209 01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:11.079 it's great to see in person for a change instead 2210 01:59:11.079 --> 01:59:11.760 of over the phone. 2211 01:59:12.600 --> 01:59:13.239 Yeah I am. 2212 01:59:13.319 --> 01:59:15.680 I always mention that because you know, it's so much 2213 01:59:15.720 --> 01:59:17.880 easier to have a conversation with somebody when you're staring 2214 01:59:17.960 --> 01:59:20.920 at the face in the face Yeah right, jeez, Louise. 2215 01:59:21.079 --> 01:59:23.279 So what is going on at the VA we need 2216 01:59:23.319 --> 01:59:25.840 to talk about today? Well, there's a lot going on, Brian, 2217 01:59:26.199 --> 01:59:27.840 you know a lot of different things. Today I wanted 2218 01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:32.479 to focus on all the different tracking and communication mechanisms 2219 01:59:32.520 --> 01:59:34.439 that veterans should be plugged into to see all the 2220 01:59:34.479 --> 01:59:37.119 information that we have going on and how they can 2221 01:59:37.159 --> 01:59:39.760 see what's happening with with their VA healthcare system. But 2222 01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:43.199 before we do that, I have a I have something 2223 01:59:43.279 --> 01:59:46.520 I like to do personally with you. I have a 2224 01:59:46.640 --> 01:59:49.159 challenge coin. Oh yeah, from the VA. 2225 01:59:49.039 --> 01:59:51.319 And I just wanted to recognize on behalf of all 2226 01:59:51.359 --> 01:59:54.039 of our veterans and all of our folks there that 2227 01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:57.199 you're outstanding dedication and service and recognition my friends. 2228 01:59:57.199 --> 02:00:00.159 So my brother, thank you very much for that. So 2229 02:00:00.359 --> 02:00:01.279 we couldn't do it without you. 2230 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:05.159 Oh, this is a true, true honor I have over 2231 02:00:05.199 --> 02:00:07.640 the years, you know, because you know me, I love 2232 02:00:07.680 --> 02:00:11.479 helping out veterans of veterans' causes, so I have accumulated 2233 02:00:12.439 --> 02:00:13.720 quite a few of these over there. 2234 02:00:13.800 --> 02:00:15.399 I knew you didn't need an explanation on one. 2235 02:00:15.520 --> 02:00:17.600 No, no, no, I tell you how to shake your hand 2236 02:00:17.600 --> 02:00:19.319 and grab a hold of it. So the only problem 2237 02:00:19.399 --> 02:00:22.800 is is the challenge component of it by a couple 2238 02:00:22.880 --> 02:00:26.119 of beers over the years, you know what I mean. Anyhow, 2239 02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:28.880 thank you. I've cherished this. Thank you for what you do. 2240 02:00:28.920 --> 02:00:31.119 I mean, the relationship we've had all these years and 2241 02:00:31.159 --> 02:00:33.279 with your listeners, it's been fantastic. 2242 02:00:33.359 --> 02:00:35.800 Well it's the least I can do. Again, I always 2243 02:00:35.800 --> 02:00:37.640 like to point it I never enlisted, and I have 2244 02:00:37.720 --> 02:00:39.800 so much respect for the men and women who actually 2245 02:00:39.920 --> 02:00:42.039 went and went down that road, not knowing what their 2246 02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:44.880 future head in store for them. That's a that's just 2247 02:00:44.880 --> 02:00:47.479 an amazing accomplished an amazing thing to do. And you 2248 02:00:47.840 --> 02:00:50.319 guys are all wonderful people, So thank you very much 2249 02:00:50.359 --> 02:00:56.399 for so much pleasure. And I just something you point 2250 02:00:56.399 --> 02:00:57.720 out all the time. I want to make sure I 2251 02:00:57.760 --> 02:01:00.840 get it in now before or we move on to 2252 02:01:00.880 --> 02:01:03.800 the topics that we have to talk about today. If 2253 02:01:03.840 --> 02:01:06.720 you get care from the VA, and I'm pretty confident 2254 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:09.560 you're gonna get really good care. But someone had complained 2255 02:01:09.600 --> 02:01:13.319 to me a couple of weeks ago about something and 2256 02:01:13.359 --> 02:01:15.359 I said to him, I go, did you say something 2257 02:01:15.359 --> 02:01:17.239 to the folks that have since any VA about it? 2258 02:01:17.279 --> 02:01:18.319 Did you put you know, I don't know if there's 2259 02:01:18.359 --> 02:01:20.560 a form to fill out, but I said, they're really 2260 02:01:20.640 --> 02:01:24.079 good at, you know, addressing concerns because they want to 2261 02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:28.159 make the process as smooth and painless and as effective 2262 02:01:28.159 --> 02:01:32.159 as efficient as possible. So don't you know, speak your mind. 2263 02:01:32.159 --> 02:01:33.399 You don't have to be a jerk about it, but 2264 02:01:33.840 --> 02:01:35.479 be sure and go ahead and let them know about 2265 02:01:35.520 --> 02:01:36.000 your concerns. 2266 02:01:36.319 --> 02:01:36.479 Yeah. 2267 02:01:36.479 --> 02:01:37.640 Absolutely, I say it all the time. 2268 02:01:37.720 --> 02:01:40.520 We have a full service patient advocate office, you know, 2269 02:01:40.560 --> 02:01:43.039 I call it our concierge office. You know, if you've 2270 02:01:43.039 --> 02:01:45.319 got to complaint, you got a concern, or you just 2271 02:01:45.359 --> 02:01:48.640 don't understand something, something doesn't make sense. These advocates are 2272 02:01:48.640 --> 02:01:52.359 there to be your your personal liaison between that department 2273 02:01:52.399 --> 02:01:54.880 or that service to help resolve the problem. It goes 2274 02:01:54.920 --> 02:01:58.199 directly to that administrator, who then works with that staff. 2275 02:01:58.239 --> 02:02:00.680 And I kind of take something from from what my 2276 02:02:00.680 --> 02:02:03.199 grandfather told me many many years ago. He said, Todd, 2277 02:02:03.239 --> 02:02:05.079 if you have a problem, it's like having a rock 2278 02:02:05.119 --> 02:02:07.239 in your shoe. If you don't take the rock out 2279 02:02:07.279 --> 02:02:09.239 of the shoe and keep walking on it, you can't 2280 02:02:09.279 --> 02:02:11.359 say anything because it's your fault for not taking the 2281 02:02:11.439 --> 02:02:12.000 rock out of the. 2282 02:02:12.000 --> 02:02:14.680 Shoe exact exactly. And to the extent you have a 2283 02:02:14.760 --> 02:02:17.239 problem or a complaint, it's possible that one of your 2284 02:02:17.239 --> 02:02:19.279 fellow veterans does too and they haven't set any so, 2285 02:02:19.520 --> 02:02:21.800 so bring it to their intention and don't don't hesitate 2286 02:02:21.840 --> 02:02:22.880 to do so. 2287 02:02:22.880 --> 02:02:22.960 So. 2288 02:02:23.159 --> 02:02:25.439 In terms of tracking, you know, there's a lot of 2289 02:02:25.479 --> 02:02:27.479 online stuff, there's a lot of apps out in the world. 2290 02:02:27.640 --> 02:02:30.840 I suppose one of the larger challenges is you've got 2291 02:02:30.880 --> 02:02:33.880 a lot of senior veterans, and quite often they are 2292 02:02:33.920 --> 02:02:37.039 and this is no insult to them, they're technologically challenged 2293 02:02:37.560 --> 02:02:39.119 and they need a little bit of help. You know, 2294 02:02:39.239 --> 02:02:41.640 navigating how the house and the whys and the warforce. 2295 02:02:41.880 --> 02:02:43.880 Yeah, so what we you know, we use a lot 2296 02:02:43.920 --> 02:02:46.319 of different things like everybody else. Our Facebook page is 2297 02:02:46.399 --> 02:02:48.720 very robust, and I really encourage people to be plugged 2298 02:02:48.760 --> 02:02:51.520 into that or to make sure that caregiver or that 2299 02:02:51.680 --> 02:02:55.399 spouse or someone who's helping you know, grandpa or grandma 2300 02:02:55.600 --> 02:02:57.920 or aunt and uncle follow what's going on, because we 2301 02:02:58.039 --> 02:03:00.600 use that a lot as not national information on what 2302 02:03:00.640 --> 02:03:03.319 we have going on locally. There's also something on our 2303 02:03:03.399 --> 02:03:06.640 website called gov Delivery where you actually can subscribe to 2304 02:03:06.760 --> 02:03:10.319 receive information we pushed directly out, okay from that mechic 2305 02:03:10.560 --> 02:03:12.359 newsletter kind of thing. Yeah, it's like a kind of 2306 02:03:12.399 --> 02:03:15.720 like an online newsletter like email mechanism and lets you know, like, hey, 2307 02:03:15.800 --> 02:03:18.479 here's this announcement. Whether it's about the parking issues that 2308 02:03:18.600 --> 02:03:22.079 you know keep going on at the hospital, or medication recalls, 2309 02:03:22.760 --> 02:03:24.159 different changes with clinics. 2310 02:03:24.159 --> 02:03:25.359 There's the variety of things. 2311 02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:28.439 So you know, we have, like everybody else, our websites 2312 02:03:28.479 --> 02:03:30.840 are our Facebook pages in this gov Delivery and these 2313 02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:33.000 are all three things you definitely want to be tracked into, 2314 02:03:33.600 --> 02:03:35.399 and some other things we'll talk about in a few minutes. 2315 02:03:35.479 --> 02:03:35.880 Yo, okay. 2316 02:03:35.960 --> 02:03:38.079 And you know, in addition to the assistance you can 2317 02:03:38.079 --> 02:03:40.600 get directly at this in same VA. I got to 2318 02:03:40.600 --> 02:03:43.000 put a shout out to all the Veteran Services commissions 2319 02:03:43.000 --> 02:03:46.000 out there because they can help you navigate this process. 2320 02:03:46.119 --> 02:03:46.319 Yeah. 2321 02:03:46.479 --> 02:03:48.560 Really, well, I know Clarmont County Veteran Services comes on 2322 02:03:48.600 --> 02:03:50.760 all the time and we're happy to help you hook 2323 02:03:50.840 --> 02:03:52.760 up to the app. We're happy to help you get 2324 02:03:52.760 --> 02:03:57.199 your VA benefits and everything. So yep, same way, same way, great, great, 2325 02:03:57.279 --> 02:04:00.079 multiple multiple ways of doing that. And the website again. 2326 02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:03.399 Cincinnati dot VA dot gov, our Facebook page of Cincinnati 2327 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:05.800 Via and get a chance to talk with you here 2328 02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:07.479 in a few minutes about our podcast that we got 2329 02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:07.800 going on. 2330 02:04:08.119 --> 02:04:11.560 Podcast. Yeah, well, let's just dive on into that right now. 2331 02:04:11.560 --> 02:04:13.800 You're the one that brought it up. You're doing a podcast. 2332 02:04:14.039 --> 02:04:16.439 Yeah, we started a podcast about two months ago and 2333 02:04:16.680 --> 02:04:19.000 thanks to my colleague Chris Klug, who's on with me, 2334 02:04:19.760 --> 02:04:21.840 he came up. He said his wife had a big 2335 02:04:21.840 --> 02:04:24.079 influence on the name. But the podcast is called Beyond 2336 02:04:24.119 --> 02:04:25.399 the Boots and I. 2337 02:04:25.319 --> 02:04:27.479 Love that name. Oh that's great. I love the name. Yeah. 2338 02:04:27.479 --> 02:04:29.880 It's on Spotify, it's on Apple Go check it out. 2339 02:04:29.920 --> 02:04:32.439 It's about a nineteen twenty minute podcast where we talk 2340 02:04:32.920 --> 02:04:36.119 very candidly about the VA healthcare benefits. The veterans can 2341 02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:39.119 get why they should use VA. We've had some veterans 2342 02:04:39.159 --> 02:04:41.680 on there. Is want to talk about their their stories 2343 02:04:41.680 --> 02:04:43.960 and journeys, and so that's a great mechanism be plugged 2344 02:04:43.960 --> 02:04:44.560 into anytime. 2345 02:04:44.640 --> 02:04:46.000 Well, and signing up for. 2346 02:04:46.000 --> 02:04:49.720 Your VA benefits is critically important because it is healthcare. 2347 02:04:49.880 --> 02:04:52.000 You know, you can have your own medical insurance or 2348 02:04:52.000 --> 02:04:54.600 your employer, but this, you know, these are benefits. As 2349 02:04:54.640 --> 02:04:56.119 always like to point out that you earned as a 2350 02:04:56.119 --> 02:04:58.680 consequence of your service. And you know what you want it. 2351 02:04:58.760 --> 02:05:01.680 You want to get hearing age, you need glasses. There's 2352 02:05:01.680 --> 02:05:03.920 a lot of things that you'll provide that insurance companies 2353 02:05:04.000 --> 02:05:05.119 just aren't going to have a part of. 2354 02:05:05.239 --> 02:05:09.920 Yeah, exactly, you know, hearing aids, eyeglasses, mental health care, prosthetics, 2355 02:05:09.920 --> 02:05:12.439 there's some of those big, those big elements that do 2356 02:05:12.560 --> 02:05:14.479 cost a private in the private sector a lot of 2357 02:05:14.520 --> 02:05:17.079 bit of money to do. Yeah, and uh, you know, 2358 02:05:17.119 --> 02:05:19.720 I run across veterans all the time who are spending 2359 02:05:20.239 --> 02:05:22.840 thousands and thousands of dollars on these hearing aids and 2360 02:05:22.840 --> 02:05:25.640 we can give you the same once, you know, for free. 2361 02:05:26.039 --> 02:05:28.199 Uh and uh, you know, come and get them. I 2362 02:05:28.199 --> 02:05:29.359 mean it's just amazing to me. 2363 02:05:29.479 --> 02:05:31.439 All right, Save forty five will bring Todd Sledge back 2364 02:05:31.479 --> 02:05:33.920 to talking about some other elements of the cincinne Via 2365 02:05:34.039 --> 02:05:36.840 healthcare system and how they benefit you. Don't go away, be. 2366 02:05:36.840 --> 02:05:38.960 Right back fifty five KRC. 2367 02:05:39.520 --> 02:05:42.199 Get ready for spring and have your root eight forty 2368 02:05:42.239 --> 02:05:46.279 eight fifty five care see de talk station. Happy Monday 2369 02:05:46.319 --> 02:05:48.960 to you, Todd Sledge, since a VA in studio. God 2370 02:05:49.000 --> 02:05:52.279 bless you, Todd Sledge. I truly truly appreciate the gesture 2371 02:05:52.319 --> 02:05:54.680 getting that challenge coin from the sinsin VA. That means 2372 02:05:54.720 --> 02:05:58.359 a world to me. And uh and one more time, 2373 02:05:59.039 --> 02:06:02.000 because you mentioned the podcast. You mentioned the name of 2374 02:06:02.039 --> 02:06:06.159 the podcast, but off air you said, I mean it 2375 02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:09.399 took off right away. You got great numbers. There's a 2376 02:06:09.399 --> 02:06:11.319 lot of veterans you're listening to it. So I just 2377 02:06:11.359 --> 02:06:14.039 wanted to emphasize that because if a veteran's out there, 2378 02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:17.439 I didn't even know there's a podcast, we'll apparently join 2379 02:06:17.640 --> 02:06:18.680 in the fun. 2380 02:06:18.960 --> 02:06:20.000 Right, Yeah, exactly. 2381 02:06:20.079 --> 02:06:22.640 It's marketed and stated on our Facebook page as well 2382 02:06:22.680 --> 02:06:23.520 as our website. 2383 02:06:23.960 --> 02:06:24.880 Called Beyond the Boots. 2384 02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:27.560 You can find it if you know, if you're on Spotify, Apple, 2385 02:06:28.159 --> 02:06:31.880 different YouTube as well. And it just took off as 2386 02:06:31.920 --> 02:06:34.079 soon as we started doing it, and a lot of 2387 02:06:34.079 --> 02:06:36.840 good feedback from veterans. They like the shortness, the candidness 2388 02:06:36.840 --> 02:06:39.479 of it. And I'm very fortunate to have my colleague 2389 02:06:39.520 --> 02:06:42.359 Chris from my office, who is a veteran combat veteran 2390 02:06:42.399 --> 02:06:45.159 as well, proude of a perspective that you know that 2391 02:06:45.239 --> 02:06:47.680 I can't from from non military service, but from the 2392 02:06:47.760 --> 02:06:48.239 VA side. 2393 02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:50.680 It's a good combination. That's great. I'm glad you're doing 2394 02:06:50.720 --> 02:06:51.960 that now. I understand you. 2395 02:06:52.000 --> 02:06:55.960 Also, the since AVA hosts virtual town hall meetings, how 2396 02:06:56.000 --> 02:06:58.119 often is this done and what kind of topics you 2397 02:06:58.159 --> 02:06:58.640 talk about? 2398 02:06:58.840 --> 02:07:02.319 Yeah, So what we do is the virtual platform allows 2399 02:07:02.399 --> 02:07:05.479 us that we have to call out to target it veterans. 2400 02:07:05.560 --> 02:07:07.279 And the amount that we're able to do that is 2401 02:07:07.319 --> 02:07:10.600 about we can reach twenty thousand veterans through this telecommunication 2402 02:07:10.680 --> 02:07:13.560 approach that we have, So we might, for example, and 2403 02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:16.039 we do it quarterly, so it's every three months. We 2404 02:07:16.159 --> 02:07:19.279 might target a population that says, okay, who's been newly 2405 02:07:19.359 --> 02:07:22.520 enrolled within the last three years to the Cincinnativa and 2406 02:07:22.600 --> 02:07:25.520 we can specifically reach out to that group. They get 2407 02:07:25.560 --> 02:07:28.000 a robo call that tells them that this town hall 2408 02:07:28.079 --> 02:07:30.520 is going to happen the day before. Then they get 2409 02:07:30.560 --> 02:07:34.359 another call about two minutes before the actual town hall happens. 2410 02:07:34.680 --> 02:07:37.720 Then they're brought on into you know, like a teleconferencing 2411 02:07:37.760 --> 02:07:41.439 system where my boss, the director, other subject matter experts 2412 02:07:41.479 --> 02:07:44.319 are their. Plus, there are screeners on the back end 2413 02:07:44.319 --> 02:07:47.760 that allows veterans to ask questions that we can scroll 2414 02:07:47.760 --> 02:07:49.600 and go through and see, you know, if there's a 2415 02:07:49.640 --> 02:07:52.079 general question we can we can take live to the 2416 02:07:52.239 --> 02:07:54.359 entire group. We do that, but we don't take personal 2417 02:07:54.399 --> 02:07:57.720 health information, and we average out of that twenty thousand, 2418 02:07:57.800 --> 02:08:00.399 we average over about three thousand that state on for 2419 02:08:00.439 --> 02:08:01.760 that twenty five minute town hall. 2420 02:08:01.880 --> 02:08:04.479 Oh that's great. He's been an amazing reach and good feedback. 2421 02:08:04.520 --> 02:08:07.399 And those that have questions that we don't get to 2422 02:08:07.680 --> 02:08:10.800 our patient advocate office, who I mentioned earlier, they follow 2423 02:08:10.880 --> 02:08:13.079 up with these folks. If it's about I couldn't get 2424 02:08:13.119 --> 02:08:16.199 a dermatology appointment, or I'm lost about what happens with this, 2425 02:08:16.520 --> 02:08:19.920 or my claim I'm having trouble getting a response on 2426 02:08:19.920 --> 02:08:22.319 my claim. We follow up with those approaches and make 2427 02:08:22.319 --> 02:08:23.840 sure everybody gets an answer back. 2428 02:08:24.000 --> 02:08:25.880 Oh that's wonderful. I'm glad to hear that's been so 2429 02:08:26.000 --> 02:08:29.760 successful as well. Now, you mentioned that one of the 2430 02:08:30.279 --> 02:08:33.199 great things you do provide in because veterans are sort 2431 02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:36.119 of cut from a different chunk of fabric as the 2432 02:08:36.159 --> 02:08:39.399 rest of the society did not serve in terms of 2433 02:08:39.399 --> 02:08:42.520 mental health benefits. I know, most insurance plans, at least 2434 02:08:42.720 --> 02:08:44.800 as i've come to understand, have a very limited like 2435 02:08:44.880 --> 02:08:47.760 you get ten yep, and that's it. Is there any 2436 02:08:47.760 --> 02:08:51.039 limitation on mental health services at the VA for the veterans? 2437 02:08:51.119 --> 02:08:51.760 Yeah, there is not. 2438 02:08:52.119 --> 02:08:54.319 Excuse me, there is not any limitation on the mental 2439 02:08:54.359 --> 02:08:57.039 health services. I mean, whether it's a bounce back and 2440 02:08:57.079 --> 02:09:03.319 forth between residential impatient outpatient one on one medications groups, 2441 02:09:03.359 --> 02:09:06.039 whatever you might need, there's no cap on. You know, Hey, 2442 02:09:06.079 --> 02:09:08.880 you've gone through this program twice and you can't do 2443 02:09:08.920 --> 02:09:11.680 it any further sometimes, you know, given the challenges with 2444 02:09:11.720 --> 02:09:13.600 what our veterans deal with, they may need to go 2445 02:09:13.720 --> 02:09:17.079 through some of our processes multiple times and that's okay, 2446 02:09:17.119 --> 02:09:20.680 and it's no detriment or negativity to them. This what 2447 02:09:20.720 --> 02:09:22.239 have we got to do to get you where you 2448 02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:23.600 need to get to exactly. 2449 02:09:23.920 --> 02:09:26.000 You know, at least you're not doing Freudian therapy that 2450 02:09:26.039 --> 02:09:28.600 takes like ten years on the couch and talking about 2451 02:09:28.600 --> 02:09:32.239 your childhood and right, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Now is there 2452 02:09:32.239 --> 02:09:34.159 any telehealth through that since AVA. 2453 02:09:34.079 --> 02:09:36.119 Yeah, there is. We do all kinds of telehealth. We 2454 02:09:36.159 --> 02:09:39.479 do telehealth mental health as well. Oh that's great, Yeah, 2455 02:09:39.560 --> 02:09:44.239 mental health, dermatology, nutrition and food service, weight loss management, 2456 02:09:44.359 --> 02:09:47.159 whole health. So the veterans have a whole gamut of 2457 02:09:47.560 --> 02:09:49.439 especially a lot of our younger veterans love it where 2458 02:09:49.439 --> 02:09:50.960 they're like, you know, hey, I can go out to 2459 02:09:51.039 --> 02:09:53.479 my car or a private area at lunch or on 2460 02:09:53.520 --> 02:09:56.079 a break and I can see my therapist, or I 2461 02:09:56.119 --> 02:09:57.960 can see my doc, or I can see who I 2462 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:00.840 need to to get that exposer. She you don't have 2463 02:10:00.920 --> 02:10:02.960 to come to the VA and do that. We have 2464 02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:05.319 a lot of veterans that like to Brian. They like 2465 02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:06.880 to come down there and they like to get the 2466 02:10:06.920 --> 02:10:09.560 hospitality that goes on and the camaraderie. 2467 02:10:09.640 --> 02:10:11.359 But we do offer a lot of telehealth. Yeah. 2468 02:10:11.399 --> 02:10:13.720 Camaraderie is a critical thing for the veterans especially, I 2469 02:10:13.920 --> 02:10:16.560 think as I've come to learn from from some some 2470 02:10:16.760 --> 02:10:20.479 other organizations Patriots Landing for example, in northern Kentucky. Yeah, 2471 02:10:20.880 --> 02:10:24.000 those guys, you know, need each other and they really 2472 02:10:24.199 --> 02:10:28.920 benefit from being together. Absolutely, So I understand that component well. 2473 02:10:29.000 --> 02:10:32.239 But I also understand the ease and convenience of telehealth 2474 02:10:32.319 --> 02:10:34.720 and the idea that you can just sort of leave 2475 02:10:34.760 --> 02:10:36.760 the room and sit in your car with a zoom 2476 02:10:36.760 --> 02:10:39.439 screen and you know, talk with your therapist. You mentioned 2477 02:10:39.439 --> 02:10:42.479 dermatology telehealth, like you just show a picture of your 2478 02:10:42.520 --> 02:10:44.560 own pretty much arm with the with the whatever is 2479 02:10:44.600 --> 02:10:46.159 going on there? Can you tell me what this is? 2480 02:10:46.199 --> 02:10:46.479 Doctor? 2481 02:10:46.560 --> 02:10:47.279 Yeah? Pretty much. 2482 02:10:47.319 --> 02:10:49.039 You know some things that they can do, you know, 2483 02:10:49.079 --> 02:10:51.119 through a screen without having to do some type of 2484 02:10:51.119 --> 02:10:54.119 physical exam that you know, usually that's usually a follow up. 2485 02:10:54.159 --> 02:10:56.960 You know, somebody came in saw a specialist and you know, 2486 02:10:57.000 --> 02:10:59.520 it's follow up to how things are going. So that way, 2487 02:10:59.600 --> 02:11:03.600 you know, I'm inconvenience of that person. That veterans time 2488 02:11:03.640 --> 02:11:05.600 to be able to get seen in a timely manner 2489 02:11:05.600 --> 02:11:06.840 really does help with telehealth. 2490 02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:09.880 All right, So it's easy to get your VA benefits 2491 02:11:09.960 --> 02:11:11.720 d D two fourteen discharge papers. 2492 02:11:11.840 --> 02:11:13.520 Yeah, d well, it's it's helpful. 2493 02:11:13.840 --> 02:11:16.359 You know, that validates everything It's not a necessity because 2494 02:11:16.359 --> 02:11:18.960 we do have systems in place where we can check, 2495 02:11:18.960 --> 02:11:20.760 you know, as the different records and different things that 2496 02:11:20.840 --> 02:11:23.640 go on and validate stuff the way things are integrated. 2497 02:11:23.680 --> 02:11:24.680 But it is helpful to have. 2498 02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:29.760 It makes the eligibility process go go quick and as 2499 02:11:29.800 --> 02:11:31.800 as you help me many times as well as I do, 2500 02:11:31.960 --> 02:11:35.279 it's it's an easy call. Five one, three, four seven, five, six, 2501 02:11:35.359 --> 02:11:38.920 four nine nine is that eligibility number. And our eligibility 2502 02:11:38.920 --> 02:11:42.159 specialists are there to walk you through the process, help 2503 02:11:42.199 --> 02:11:43.439 you understand what we need to do. 2504 02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:46.880 Five one, three, four seven, five, six, four nine nine. 2505 02:11:47.399 --> 02:11:49.680 You got the benefits, take a hold of them and 2506 02:11:49.840 --> 02:11:53.840 enjoy all the the wonderful services the Cincinnati is VA 2507 02:11:53.880 --> 02:11:55.880 is offering, and it just keeps getting better. 2508 02:11:56.199 --> 02:11:56.640 It's usome. 2509 02:11:56.760 --> 02:11:59.039 You and I have been talking for years and you 2510 02:11:59.079 --> 02:12:02.159 have you have accomplish so many goals, and you have 2511 02:12:02.239 --> 02:12:04.520 made things so much better for the American veteran over 2512 02:12:04.520 --> 02:12:06.560 the years. You're always in a process of trying to 2513 02:12:06.600 --> 02:12:09.319 make things better, and I truly appreciate it. On behalf 2514 02:12:09.319 --> 02:12:11.960 of my veteran listeners, Well, thank you. Buy we couldn't 2515 02:12:11.960 --> 02:12:13.760 do it without you. It's a good partnership. It's just 2516 02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:16.239 wonderful being a position to be able to do this. 2517 02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:18.640 You're going to have this conversation Todd s Ledge, God 2518 02:12:18.640 --> 02:12:21.159 bless you and thanks again for the challenge. Coin Man, 2519 02:12:21.439 --> 02:12:24.000 I certainly will cherish it. Scott Warman from The Enquirre 2520 02:12:24.119 --> 02:12:25.840 was on earlier seven oh five. He took over for 2521 02:12:25.880 --> 02:12:28.680 Sharon Coolidge, talked about what he's going to be reporting 2522 02:12:28.720 --> 02:12:30.600 on in some of the more significant topics that are 2523 02:12:30.600 --> 02:12:33.039 going on right here in the city Sincinnati. Christopher Smithman 2524 02:12:33.039 --> 02:12:35.520 with a smith Event Money Monday with Brian James, and 2525 02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:37.800 of course this conversation all on the podcast page A 2526 02:12:37.800 --> 02:12:40.119 fifty five care se dot Com. Thank you Sean McMahon 2527 02:12:40.199 --> 02:12:43.680 for covering four. Joe Strecker, I'll see you tomorrow, folks. 2528 02:12:43.680 --> 02:12:45.920 Tune in tomorrow the Bright Bart Insight Scoop, the Daniel 2529 02:12:46.000 --> 02:12:48.880 Davis Deep Dive, among other things. Got some great guests 2530 02:12:48.880 --> 02:12:51.079 lined up, so that'll be tomorrow, folks. I hope you 2531 02:12:51.079 --> 02:12:53.199 have a wonderful day. 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