Speaker 1: Five o five if you have darc De talk station,
Speaker 1: Happy Monday unless your Bengals stand a vacation and happy
Speaker 1: month trying to make it happy Mondy anyway, Yeah, Bangles suck.
Speaker 1: I know, watch the game. Myself sucks to be us.
Speaker 1: Maybe next time. Uh, let us see what's coming up
Speaker 1: this morning. And I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 1: I got to see Wheezer on Saturday night. I put
Speaker 1: it on a great show. I've seen them a few times.
Speaker 1: Went to Columbus for that. It was fun. And a
Speaker 1: whole day of canning yesterday at the Thomas household. If
Speaker 1: you care anyway, does anybody want any amazing hot pepper jelly.
Speaker 1: We've got like nine gallons of this stuff. We had
Speaker 1: so many peppers. My daughters just had this bumper crop
Speaker 1: at her place, and so yesterday was pepper jelly day. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Moving away from the light nature of the weekend onto
Speaker 1: the morning, Well, interesting topics we have in the morning
Speaker 1: show this morning.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 1: You have quite a few guests. Thank you to Joe Strecker,
Speaker 1: who is on his last day of vacation. Sean McMahon
Speaker 1: covering for the vacationing Joe Strecker, who was supposed to
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow, although Sean, I'm kind of worried you
Speaker 1: might want to clear your schedule off for the week,
Speaker 1: as Joe threatened he liked Florida so much he was
Speaker 1: can see if iHeart had the openings in the Florida
Speaker 1: in the state of Florida. So a couple of pictures
Speaker 1: from the beach. So Joe really apparently enjoyed his time off,
Speaker 1: so I'm worried that he may not return. Fingers crossed
Speaker 1: on that one coming up though Nick nol ledook Our
Speaker 1: God Given Freedom who Nick Rode along with Kay Carl Smith,
Speaker 1: who's been on the program quite a few times, say
Speaker 1: the country's facing a crisis which we could lose. Well,
Speaker 1: the country could lose its ability to secure our God
Speaker 1: given freedom. The book is about the political efforts to
Speaker 1: deny and destroy what God has given us, our god
Speaker 1: and given freedom. Again. That's coming up at seven oh five,
Speaker 1: This Smith event. It is Monday. Christopher Smithman joins the
Speaker 1: program every Monday, or if he's not available, I'm not
Speaker 1: available on a Monday. He's doing on a Tuesday anyway.
Speaker 1: The Smith event at seven point thirty. Always enjoy hearing
Speaker 1: from the former Vice mayor of the city. And it
Speaker 1: is Monday, so the return of Brian James. Money Monday,
Speaker 1: Brian James, how regular families could be affected if the
Speaker 1: tax cuts expire. Taking one thousand dollars from your four
Speaker 1: to one k for emergencies easier than ever, but you
Speaker 1: should consider some other options first, and what history tells
Speaker 1: us about presidential elections and the stock market as will
Speaker 1: be the topics of our conversation's moorn than Brian James
Speaker 1: beginning again today too. A five to fall by Melkay,
Speaker 1: host of The Melkay Show, her book Americans Anonymous, and
Speaker 1: maybe a shout out from Todd Sledgeman the sins antava
Speaker 1: kind of that wasn't on the original rundown. We we heard
Speaker 1: from Todd Sledge saym looking forward to the Monday segment.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to talk about. So we'll try
Speaker 1: to iron out the details on that as we move
Speaker 1: forward this morning. So we'll either hear from them or
Speaker 1: we won't, as the case may be. Love hearing from
Speaker 1: you five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred,
Speaker 1: eight hundred eighty two three talk go with pound five
Speaker 1: fifty on the at and t phones and where to
Speaker 1: start here, Well, let's start. You heard the top of
Speaker 1: the air news They did mention that New York Times
Speaker 1: College poll pointing out that Trump was ahead slightly over
Speaker 1: Harris forty eight forty seven. But on the two conservative
Speaker 1: or not conservative enough, they looked at Donald Trump asked
Speaker 1: the question is he too conservative? Eleven percent say he's
Speaker 1: not conservative enough, fifty percent not too far either way,
Speaker 1: right down the center, and then eight percent say they
Speaker 1: weren't sure or well refused answer, So thirty two percent
Speaker 1: actually say think that Trump is too conservative. Contrast that
Speaker 1: with Kamala Harris. Forty four percent said she's too liberal
Speaker 1: or progressive. Nine percent seem to think she's not liberal
Speaker 1: or progressive enough. Well, forty two think, well, she's neither
Speaker 1: too far either way, five not sure or didn't answer.
Speaker 1: So there you go. And I thought this figure was
Speaker 1: interesting in spite of the fact that Kamala has has
Speaker 1: not done any one on one press interviews substantively asked
Speaker 1: her answering questions, putting direct questions to her, and us
Speaker 1: really not knowing about where she stands. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders on that one in a minute. But twenty
Speaker 1: eight percent say they feel they should know more about
Speaker 1: Harris in order to support her, only twenty eight percent.
Speaker 1: Only nine felt the same way about Trump anyway. I
Speaker 1: guess you have to have your head in the sand
Speaker 1: and not know where Trump is on the issues. But
Speaker 1: as far as Kamala Harris, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: could know where she is on the issues. One of
Speaker 1: the issues apparently increasing and extending and expanding social security.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second here. Bernie Sanders, though,
Speaker 1: saying the quiet part out lot. Maybe when I asked
Speaker 1: about Kamala Harris's flip flopping on quite a few of
Speaker 1: her previously expressed progressive policy position quote NBC anchor Christen
Speaker 1: Welker asking Sanders un meet the press. She previously supported
Speaker 1: medicare for all, now she does not. She previously supported
Speaker 1: a ban on fracking, now she does not. The Senator,
Speaker 1: our idea is that you have campaigned on. Do you
Speaker 1: think she is abandoning her progressive ideals? Bernie Sanders, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think she's amanding her ideals. I think she's
Speaker 1: trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is
Speaker 1: right in order to win the election. So I read that,
Speaker 1: and you can interpret it any way you want. She's
Speaker 1: still inside her head a progressive, a far left liberal.
Speaker 1: She has not abandoned those positions. What she's doing is
Speaker 1: she's telling you that she has in order to should
Speaker 1: get elected. Then what happens after she gets elected? Does
Speaker 1: anybody believe everything that politicians say? Did you expect everything
Speaker 1: they campaign on to be enacted into law? We still
Speaker 1: have a legislative branch that's going to have to embrace
Speaker 1: these and come up with some sort of agreement that's
Speaker 1: able to make it through both chambers of the executive branch,
Speaker 1: going on the legislative branch. So what you say you're
Speaker 1: going to do and what you ultimately do when you're
Speaker 1: a politician or complete two completely different things. Inspact I.
Speaker 1: When asked to defend her shifting policy positions during our
Speaker 1: first sit down interview, you heard you remember that one.
Speaker 1: It was a sort of a sit down. CNN did
Speaker 1: this one, Dana bash right, you saw it. I think
Speaker 1: the most important and most significant aspect of my policy
Speaker 1: perspective and decisions is my values have not changed, Kamala
Speaker 1: said out loud. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I've
Speaker 1: always believed, and I have worked on it, but the
Speaker 1: climate crisis is real that this is an urgent matter
Speaker 1: to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves
Speaker 1: to deadlines. Around time. We did that with the Inflation
Speaker 1: Reduction Act. So she's still embracing that in spite of
Speaker 1: the fact the power's going off in California because they
Speaker 1: have fully embraced it. On NBC, Bernie Sanders said his
Speaker 1: views were slightly different than hers, but still considered her
Speaker 1: a progressive. She has another approach toward moving to universal healthcare,
Speaker 1: so not Medicare for all, but some other approach which
Speaker 1: is basically the same thing as how I read that.
Speaker 1: But then again, but again, he said, I think on
Speaker 1: issues like expanding Medicare, like expanding social Security and lifting
Speaker 1: the cap on taxle income that the rich puts so
Speaker 1: we can raise social security benefits, they need to raise
Speaker 1: the minimum wage. I think if a campaign on those issues,
Speaker 1: raising questions on billionaires, you know what she's gonna win.
Speaker 1: I think she can win. Bit so I expanding social security.
Speaker 1: Where did I read that we had a real problem
Speaker 1: with the funding of social security? Oh? Right there. Over
Speaker 1: the weekend, one of the multitude of articles pointing out
Speaker 1: how terrible the finances are in the Social Security program.
Speaker 1: According to the Old Age Survivor's Disability Insurance Trustee Report,
Speaker 1: social Security currently facing a sixty three trillion dollar long
Speaker 1: term unfunded liabilities sixty three trillion. Can you even get
Speaker 1: your head around that figure? They say? The report looked
Speaker 1: at two things. How much money would be missing indefinitely
Speaker 1: how much money would be missing in the next seventy
Speaker 1: five years. Report determine that there will be a permanent
Speaker 1: sixty two point eight trillion dollar deficit in about a
Speaker 1: twenty three trillion dollars shortage for the next seventy five years.
Speaker 1: H trustees of do OASDI did. The report noted that
Speaker 1: the shortfall could be eliminated if the combined payroll tax
Speaker 1: was raised to about seventeen percent, or if there was
Speaker 1: a permanent reduction in benefits for all current and future
Speaker 1: beneficiaries by about twenty six and a half percent. Now,
Speaker 1: can you swallow or stomach a twenty six and a
Speaker 1: half percent reduction in your Social Security benefit? Have you
Speaker 1: planned for that financially? Is the current benefit you're expecting,
Speaker 1: the one that you read on the Social Security form
Speaker 1: that you get from time to time, which says on
Speaker 1: the cover, this is not a guarantee of what you're
Speaker 1: going to get. It's a calculation based upon the current
Speaker 1: status of things. But is it enough to get you buy?
Speaker 1: Especially noting inflation and the cost of living adjustments apparently
Speaker 1: for Social Security have not kept up with inflation. And
Speaker 1: it's a report of the record of the Employee Benefits
Speaker 1: Research Institute. I don't know who they are, but they
Speaker 1: did a reward was released back in April. Eighty eight
Speaker 1: percent of workers anticipate so SI's security to be the
Speaker 1: top source of actual or expected income in retirement. Kama
Speaker 1: Harris wants to expand it, and that's just one of
Speaker 1: the things. She wants to expand Medicare as well. That
Speaker 1: program also, and I'm being generous with this description shaky ground.
Speaker 1: And can you handle a seventy percent increase in your
Speaker 1: taxes if you want to go the opposite direction? No
Speaker 1: cut in SO Security benefits, but a big cut in
Speaker 1: your salary. You know, I feel like I'm banging my
Speaker 1: head against the wall on these ridiculous I mean, the
Speaker 1: financial realities of where we are now, and brought to
Speaker 1: you by both members of our both parties over the years.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are obviously set to double down, triple down,
Speaker 1: call it whatever down you want to mean. They're going
Speaker 1: to increase the amount of government spending and we're already
Speaker 1: facing a massive, massive, massive whole before any expansions to
Speaker 1: any programs. It's bat crap in sanity five sixteen fifty
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Speaker 1: Are they really eating neighbors cats in Springfield, Ohio? We've
Speaker 1: got any listeners in Springfield. That's all the reports about
Speaker 1: the Haitian immigration influx there. I'm just wildly curious to
Speaker 1: know if that's actually going on. Today's nine first one
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Speaker 1: Anybody in Springfield, Springfield, Ohio, population sixty thousand. It has
Speaker 1: been reported on multiple news sites that they have received,
Speaker 1: or welcomed, or otherwise had land in their collective laps
Speaker 1: twenty thousand Haitian ill legal migrants, just Haitian, apparently exacerbating
Speaker 1: what was already described as a significant housing crisis. City
Speaker 1: officials have been hearing reports that the Haitian community has
Speaker 1: been eating pets and wildlife I know. August twenty seventh
Speaker 1: City Commission meeting, one local residence said the Haitians were
Speaker 1: in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off and
Speaker 1: eating them the local wildlife population. More disturbing the report
Speaker 1: of a woman who had her cat missing. She put
Speaker 1: pictures of her cat, wanted to ask the neighbors where
Speaker 1: the cat was, etc. Et cetera, and was at one point,
Speaker 1: I guess it was their neighbor's house where Haitian migrants
Speaker 1: were living. She saw the cat hung up in a
Speaker 1: tree like deer slaughter style, like field dressing, cutting the
Speaker 1: cat up hanging from a branch like you do a
Speaker 1: deer for butchering, and they the Haitians were carving it
Speaker 1: up to eat. That's a quote from the local resident
Speaker 1: facebook post. And you know, I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is true or not. I just have seen it in
Speaker 1: quite a few different places, and this is how things
Speaker 1: get started. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's actually happening.
Speaker 1: But that's why I'm wondering, is this type of thing
Speaker 1: really truly happening? If people are reporting it at public
Speaker 1: meetings and commission meetings, one would think that there's some
Speaker 1: measure of accuracy to what's going on there. Some have
Speaker 1: refuted the claim as racist fear maggering. Others have provided
Speaker 1: a receipt showing that cats are indeed part of the
Speaker 1: Haitian cuisine. Different strokes for different folks. All I know
Speaker 1: is that somebody's family pet. One local resident told the
Speaker 1: city during the meeting, I can't take it anymore, referring
Speaker 1: to the Haitian migrants littering on her yard and harassing
Speaker 1: her and her husband. Resident Glenda Bailey told the city
Speaker 1: during the meeting, they have become the occupiers. What they've
Speaker 1: done is they've replaced the population in Springfield. Back in July,
Speaker 1: city Manager Brian Hack wrote through the leaders of the
Speaker 1: Senate Banking Committee asking for more federal funding. Of course
Speaker 1: there's your answer, right, don't vote Democrat, Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: Springfield has seen a surgeon population through immigration that has
Speaker 1: significantly impacted our ability as a community to produce enough
Speaker 1: housing opportunities for all, said Brian Hacked, the city manager,
Speaker 1: asking and begging and pleading for more federal money to
Speaker 1: deal with this problem that the federal government created through
Speaker 1: their lacks of immigration policies and refusal to enforce laws
Speaker 1: on the books. Elections have consequences, folks. And if you're
Speaker 1: about law and order and you're about trying to secure
Speaker 1: the border before it's too late, is it too late?
Speaker 1: By twenty five fifty five car City Talk Stations forty
Speaker 1: Monday Monday Smith Event Monday Are God Given Freedom by
Speaker 1: Nick Noel Monday and Lka, hosts of The Malka Show
Speaker 1: with her book Americans Anonymous. There's your lineup this morning
Speaker 1: five one three, seven fifty two to three talk over
Speaker 1: the local story. State regulators going to have a hearing
Speaker 1: I guess this week since a city hall where residents
Speaker 1: can comment on Duke Energy's plans to what do you
Speaker 1: think raise or lower your rates? Right? Raise raise your
Speaker 1: rates by eight percent nearly eight percent of or three years.
Speaker 1: Public Utility Commission of Ohio is going to be hosted
Speaker 1: hearing six pm tomorrow, eight oh one Plum Street City
Speaker 1: Council Chambers. Duke disclosed the rate hikes in an application
Speaker 1: filed back in April with Utilities Commission. Land out plans
Speaker 1: increase electric rates and charges in Ohio from June first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five through May thirty, first of twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Rating police will not include northern Kentucky, where Duke also
Speaker 1: provides service. Proposal raise electric service rates about one point
Speaker 1: seven percent in the first year, six point two in
Speaker 1: the second, and seven point nine by the end of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight a quarter to the High Consumer Council,
Speaker 1: which is a WATCHCOB group watchdog group that opposes the
Speaker 1: rate increases. Duke disputes the numbers, claiming the rates would
Speaker 1: go up six and a half percent cumulatively over three years.
Speaker 1: Duke said the rate increase is needed to cover the
Speaker 1: cost of procurement and delivery. Spokesman John Joysch, speaking with
Speaker 1: the Cincinni Inquirer, thank you Randy Tucker for reporting. We
Speaker 1: really just charge what we pay for supply and distribution, okay.
Speaker 1: RAID hikes would affected about eight hundred thousand utility customers
Speaker 1: here in Southwest to hire result an increase of eleven
Speaker 1: dollars and twenty seven cents a month in the third year,
Speaker 1: or annually one hundred and thirty five for the typical
Speaker 1: residential compute consumer with one thousand kilowatts of power per
Speaker 1: month use see typically residential electric u is. Now we're
Speaker 1: paying one hundred and seventy three forty a month when
Speaker 1: Duke fought its application, Morning Willis Consumer Council director said
Speaker 1: Duke's latest asked for three years of increased rates is
Speaker 1: too much on top of its recent increases to consumers.
Speaker 1: All right, Duke said in a statement the rates higher
Speaker 1: rates would enable constructive customer focused benefits. I'll leave it
Speaker 1: to you decide. Hemilin County judge temporarily shuttered it downtown
Speaker 1: bar after persistent allegations of violence, underage drinking, and crowds
Speaker 1: that exceed the fire code. Friday, Judge Megan Shanahan found
Speaker 1: Rusconi's Bar and Kitchen and contempt for violent in our
Speaker 1: court order that the business adheres to the city's fire code.
Speaker 1: Court records say that the early morning hours of August nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Please showed up for a noils complaint and found two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine people inside. Maximum number of patrons
Speaker 1: posted fifty. Yeah, I'd say they exceeded it, just as scoche.
Speaker 1: Judge Shanahan or to the bar, located at one twenty
Speaker 1: six to sixth Street, padlocked shut. Cincinnati Inquirer and Fox
Speaker 1: nineteen reporting city has an ongoing nuisance complaining against the bar.
Speaker 1: Full hearing on that matter. Of September twenty seventh. The
Speaker 1: order posted on Rasconi's door padlocked in place four pm
Speaker 1: on Friday. The order says the Court for the finds
Speaker 1: the appropriate and necessary remedy to prevent defendants from further
Speaker 1: violations of the Ishio fire coat is temporary closure of
Speaker 1: the property. HMMM two hundred and twenty six people in
Speaker 1: a building a room designed for fifty six ay moving.
Speaker 1: Over four people have been displaced after an apartment fire
Speaker 1: happened on Sunday evening. Corner of the press release by
Speaker 1: the Sininni Fire Department, crews were dispatched to the fire
Speaker 1: structure fire at eight hundred Vienna Woods had at seven
Speaker 1: pm last night. When Cruz showed up, they discovered a
Speaker 1: three story apartment building with smoke visible from the second floor.
Speaker 1: Apartment's residents had already evacuated, which is good. Cruse mainly
Speaker 1: managed to extinguish the fire within thirty minutes. Estimated damage
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars. No reported injuries until the forty four
Speaker 1: firefighters showed up at the scene. Cause of the fire
Speaker 1: determined to be food left unattended on a stove. Don't
Speaker 1: do that. Let's see and finally, authorities in Kentucky continued
Speaker 1: searching for a suspected gunman after seven people were injured
Speaker 1: and as shooting incident on I seventy five in Laurel County,
Speaker 1: the south election in about eighty miles. The Sheriff's office
Speaker 1: there says that it's attempting to locate thirty two year
Speaker 1: old Joseph Couch. They think his armed is Dangerousthority said
Speaker 1: they believe Couch was shooting from a nearby hillside. Believe
Speaker 1: him still in the area. They're asking people to avoid
Speaker 1: that area to prevent him from getting in, to prevent
Speaker 1: him from getting into a vehicle, but this is still
Speaker 1: an active thing. The shooting may have been pre planned.
Speaker 1: Sheriff's office said they were called I seventy five year
Speaker 1: Exit forty nine five thirty pm on Saturday for reports
Speaker 1: of a gunshot victim. They found nine vehicles with bullet
Speaker 1: holes nearby London, Kentucky. Mayer Sat in a Facebook that
Speaker 1: they were at least seven people injured and five of
Speaker 1: those people were shot. The other two victims injured in
Speaker 1: a crash related to the shooting. Victims hospitalized in stable
Speaker 1: condition early yesterday, but some had serious injuries, according to
Speaker 1: authorities in the release. Search for Couch continued yesterday, Sheriff's
Speaker 1: office said, and an update that had located a vehicle
Speaker 1: registered him registered to him near the shooting scene. Investigators
Speaker 1: discovered in an ar rifle near the side of the car.
Speaker 1: I seventy five shut down for about two hours following
Speaker 1: the shooting. It has since been reopened. Five thirty five
Speaker 1: five k see the talk station Great five KRCD talk station,
Speaker 1: Happy Monday. Maybe I was asking out loud whether these
Speaker 1: reports from the Springfield have been measure of actoracy. You know,
Speaker 1: I know that Mike Wilson had the same question the
Speaker 1: other day on Facebook. Since I live in South was High,
Speaker 1: about an hour from Springfield, many people have been talking
Speaker 1: online about Haitian migrants everywhere, overwhelming the city and doing
Speaker 1: things like eating at cats. Somebody have any firsthand knowledge
Speaker 1: one where the other. I don't trust the randas online
Speaker 1: nor the mainstream media. That's see. That's my point. That's
Speaker 1: why I asked out loud. So Corey's on the phone
Speaker 1: with a comment about it. Hey, Corey, thanks for calling
Speaker 1: this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show.
Speaker 3: Hey morning, Brian. Yeah, I'm on my way to Springfield
Speaker 3: now for work, obviously, but uh, Springfield looks like a
Speaker 3: third world country. All these Haitians that are brought in there,
Speaker 3: they know, none have jobs. They're all homeless. They're checking
Speaker 3: up in anywhere they can in that park at the reference.
Speaker 3: It's a big park on the northwest side of town,
Speaker 3: and it's homeless camps up and down at people sleeping
Speaker 3: in their cars, and the trash everywhere. And I haven't
Speaker 3: seen them kill a Goo three thing yet, but there
Speaker 3: is a more normal carcassons laying around.
Speaker 1: Okay, so at least in terms of the numbers and
Speaker 1: the volume, you're at least witnessing something along the lines
Speaker 1: of what's being reported, although you don't have any first
Speaker 1: tend knowledge. If they're eating neighbors pets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't seen that yet. But they have overran
Speaker 3: the city. Like I said, it looks like a third
Speaker 3: world country from what it used to. And they've been
Speaker 3: there for a while. They just didn't get sent there
Speaker 3: last week or nothing. They've been there for about three months,
Speaker 3: and yees, any of the residents around there they can't
Speaker 3: take it. And I'm heading there today and I'll be
Speaker 3: going up and down the railroad track, which is along
Speaker 3: the rail tracks is countless homeless camps. Yeah down, that's
Speaker 3: actually a bunch of pictures to send you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do that, And your statement to that effect is
Speaker 1: one of the responses that Mike Wilson got like this,
Speaker 1: I see them all up and down the railroad tracks,
Speaker 1: these homeless encamp and so you're just basically verifying by
Speaker 1: what at least one other person who spends time or
Speaker 1: lives there has confirmed. So I appreciate Corey you've called
Speaker 1: in and he'd been listening to the program a long time.
Speaker 1: I trust you at your words. So yeah, Firemount Firemouf
Speaker 1: some pictures and we can post them up on the
Speaker 1: Morning show page. Careful out there, brother, have a good day,
Speaker 1: and thanks for calling in. Five one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 1: the stack is stupid. We go to Arizona where Arizona
Speaker 1: Police estimate thirty people were injured when they say a
Speaker 1: seventy three year old man drove into the building of
Speaker 1: the lodge that they were trying to leave. That's seventy
Speaker 1: three year old Thomas Edwin Kine arrested after the vehicle
Speaker 1: drove into the Elks Lodge building at Apache Junction on
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Alcohol, according to police, was a contributing factor.
Speaker 1: Patchy Junction Police said in a statement, the accident shows
Speaker 1: just how danger can you commut a drink and drive.
Speaker 1: Alcohol impairs your ability to drive safely by reducing your
Speaker 1: reaction time and decision making skills. Thankfully, no death reported.
Speaker 1: Police reported a number of injuries, though of airing in severity.
Speaker 1: At least ten people had to be taking a local hospital,
Speaker 1: one person in critical but stable condition, fifteen people treated
Speaker 1: at the scene for minor injuries, five others took themselves
Speaker 1: to the hospital and jail record. Jail records show this
Speaker 1: seventy three year old Kine was in custody in Penal County.
Speaker 1: Did not immediately return a phone caller court records that
Speaker 1: were not available. Regarding court records, but they which weren't
Speaker 1: available online yesterday, City said we just want everyone to
Speaker 1: remember the drunk driving and have serious consequences, not just
Speaker 1: for the driver but for everybody around them. Court of
Speaker 1: the Alexs Lodge fa Facebook posts they said that was
Speaker 1: thinking every thinking of everybody injured in their families. They
Speaker 1: also shared a number of crisis support highlines for those
Speaker 1: in need. Okay five come on to five, forty five
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Speaker 1: two three talk other wives back to stacker stupid got
Speaker 1: A twenty four year old woman discovered she was on
Speaker 1: the no fly list for American Airlines No idea why.
Speaker 1: Aaron Wright traveling from Albuquerque in New Orleans June twenty seventh
Speaker 1: this year, she noticed that she couldn't check in for
Speaker 1: her flight. After trying to get through, she spoke to
Speaker 1: somebody an American Airlines kiosk who said she eventually who
Speaker 1: eventually told her that she was banned from flying on
Speaker 1: American airlines. She was talking to Newsweek on this one.
Speaker 1: I said she came me very confused and frustrated at
Speaker 1: the time because she couldn't recall doing anything to justify
Speaker 1: being banned from the airline. She apparently lives in New Mexico.
Speaker 1: She's standing in the airport and being told in front
Speaker 1: of people that you've been banned as a very embarrassing experience,
Speaker 1: especially when you have no clue why the time, she
Speaker 1: has staff at the kiosk for the explanation they couldn't
Speaker 1: provide her One Newsweek looked to American Airlines for comment
Speaker 1: multiple times. Apparently I didn't get one. She felt she
Speaker 1: was getting nowhere, so she spent one thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: procure another flight, on top of the four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: she spent on the ticket that she originally purchased and
Speaker 1: was denied access to. She said, I eventually had to
Speaker 1: just accept it because they were incapable of reversing anything
Speaker 1: without getting corporate security involved. I couldn't miss my sister's
Speaker 1: bachelorette party as or made of honor, so I had
Speaker 1: to book another flight eight hour wait for that flight.
Speaker 1: She was allowed to get on it, though, so during
Speaker 1: that time she contacted customer relations department in American Airlines
Speaker 1: for answer. She received a response twelve days later from
Speaker 1: corporate security telling her that she'd had been banned for
Speaker 1: having sexual relations with a man on a flight while intoxicated,
Speaker 1: and apparently that came as a bit of a surprise
Speaker 1: to her. She is apparently a lesbian, says, so it's
Speaker 1: obviously not something that I would do, said, you could
Speaker 1: see the funded this misunderstanding. Shelsea felt embarrassed and that
Speaker 1: all the people she had spoken to thought that she
Speaker 1: was having sexual relations on board of flights. She goes,
Speaker 1: it's just so unlike me. I feel pretty helpless in
Speaker 1: advocating for myself because I had such a lack of information.
Speaker 1: Sent appeal to the corporate security team, explaining that she
Speaker 1: hadn't done what they thought she had. After three months
Speaker 1: of waiting, she finally got a call. Talking to News,
Speaker 1: she said, after months of communication, they decided to take
Speaker 1: me off the no fly list until further notice since
Speaker 1: they can't figure out what exactly happened. They thought that
Speaker 1: I'd been diligent enough to show that it most likely
Speaker 1: wasn't me because I was reimbursed from my American Airlines flight,
Speaker 1: but was never compensated for the extra flight I had
Speaker 1: to book, or the massive inconvenience embarrassment I experienced. Wow,
Speaker 1: no mile high clove or her barely and well, it's
Speaker 1: like Jay rattliveday here almost recently. Traveling on a flight,
Speaker 1: she had a bit of a time while getting comfortable
Speaker 1: because the man next to her was invading her leg
Speaker 1: room space. Now viral video of course, twenty one year
Speaker 1: old Aaron Rymple took an hour and a half flight
Speaker 1: from Winnipeg to Edmonton to visit her family. After she
Speaker 1: sat down, was in the middle seat on the Flare
Speaker 1: Airlines flight. Never even heard of Flare Airlines. Man in
Speaker 1: the window seats in the window seats spread his knees
Speaker 1: out wide, crossing into her personal space and what she
Speaker 1: described as man spreading. She said, kept trying to push
Speaker 1: his legs lightly back to his side and hopefully they
Speaker 1: hadn't give him a tant for him to catch my hands.
Speaker 1: He didn't, since she finally reached down to grab something
Speaker 1: and pushed his knee toward him more aggressively. Said the
Speaker 1: passenger might or might not have been sleeping, but that
Speaker 1: he was awake enough to react. When she pushed his
Speaker 1: legs back, she said, he moved and shifted himself into
Speaker 1: a different position. Older man shorter than her didn't need
Speaker 1: to burn her space, she said, she's six feet two
Speaker 1: inches tall, and since she was able to sit in
Speaker 1: her space, the shorter man obviously should have been able
Speaker 1: to do it himself. No man spreading phrasing. Let's see
Speaker 1: in the remaining moments of time don't do this. Don't
Speaker 1: be this kid. Teenagers been accused of bringing a bb
Speaker 1: gun manufactured to look like a glock firearm into a Waltham,
Speaker 1: Massachusetts school. What happened last Thursday. Seventeen year old allegedly
Speaker 1: brought the gun into the Waltham High School team was
Speaker 1: removed from school and placed under arrest. Police released a
Speaker 1: comparison photo of the replica gun with a real one,
Speaker 1: and they look really identical. At least that We believe
Speaker 1: the underlying incident, which was brought to our attention, to
Speaker 1: be an isolated event, and have received no information regarding
Speaker 1: further threats. Thankfully, the student's name was not released, being
Speaker 1: a seventeen year old. But yeah, they do make some
Speaker 1: airsoft guns down there that look dead on accurate to
Speaker 1: a real firearm. It could easily be confused as a
Speaker 1: real firearm. So minu p's and q's and obviously don't
Speaker 1: bring them to school. Five afty five ifty five KR
Speaker 1: City TALX Station plenty more coming up at six o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you if you've got a
Speaker 1: comment about something going on, and most notably if I
Speaker 1: get friends up there in Springfield. I want to see
Speaker 1: if this immigration crisis is real. Corey in the last
Speaker 1: phone call said yes, it absolutely is a problem. Reports
Speaker 1: of twenty thousand Haitian immigrants landing in the sixty thousand
Speaker 1: population Springfield, Ohio. How could anyone get their arms around
Speaker 1: that problem? Let me know if you have any personal
Speaker 1: information on that. Trying to get to the bottom of it,
Speaker 1: be right back after the news six, I say if
Speaker 1: at five Kara City Talk Station, Happy Monday till you
Speaker 1: and Mary Thomas Oola again. Joe Strecker back. We're very
Speaker 1: happy that John McMahon's covering for the vacation in Joe's Treker.
Speaker 1: Joey's do back tomorrow, though odds are kind of slim
Speaker 1: that he's ever going to go back to work. Did
Speaker 1: he come back from sew Do we even know if
Speaker 1: he came back from Florida? You haven't heard yet either,
Speaker 1: all right, Kiss Tomorrow's gonna tell the tale coming up
Speaker 1: in one hour. Nick Knowle with the book Our God
Speaker 1: Given Freedom, co written with Kay Carl Smith. K Carl's
Speaker 1: been on the program and you get k Carr going.
Speaker 1: He is just out just amazing guy, can really get
Speaker 1: on a roll. So Nick Nole is going to talk
Speaker 1: us all about our God given freedoms and how they're disappearing.
Speaker 1: If you haven't noticed, Christopher Smith, Aman, it is Monday.
Speaker 1: We get the Smith Vent every Monday at seven thirty
Speaker 1: from the former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So today no different than that norm Monday Monday with
Speaker 1: Brian James, Return of Brian James got multiple topics, including
Speaker 1: how regular families could be affected if the tax cuts expire,
Speaker 1: which Kamala Harris wants to expire. Actually taking one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars from your four to one k for emergencies easier
Speaker 1: to do than ever, but consider some other options first,
Speaker 1: and also the other topic with Brian James, trying to
Speaker 1: find my article here what history tells us about presidential
Speaker 1: elections in the stock market. Then we'll hear from Malkay,
Speaker 1: host of The Malka Show, Americans anonymous and name of
Speaker 1: her book, Restoring Power to the People, One Citizen at
Speaker 1: a Time, and maybe a report from Todd Sledgeman. Since
Speaker 1: an Eva, we're still trying to figure out whether that's
Speaker 1: scheduled for today or not. That's your lineup and I
Speaker 1: always enjoy hearing from you, so feel free to call
Speaker 1: five one, three, seven nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred
Speaker 1: eighty two to three talk time five fifty on ET
Speaker 1: and T phones. Just a general request out there to
Speaker 1: my resident friends in Springfield, Ohio? Is any of this true?
Speaker 1: I am not the only one asking out loud. When
Speaker 1: you start reading internet reports of Haitian immigrants eating people's
Speaker 1: pets and eating the ducks from local parks, it sounds
Speaker 1: like it could be one of those viral lies you
Speaker 1: can rely on your online fact checkers. Everybody's kind of
Speaker 1: asking the question out loud, is there any truth to this?
Speaker 1: It's widely reported that that town of sixty thousand people,
Speaker 1: sixty thousand residents of Springfield now has twenty thousand additional
Speaker 1: Haitian residents. Illegal immigrants from Haiti being shipped, bust or
Speaker 1: otherwise making their way to Springfield, Ohio, Little Old Springfield,
Speaker 1: So that obviously creates a housing problem. We have called
Speaker 1: the Last Hour. Corey says he works there all the time,
Speaker 1: He was heading up there right now and he sees
Speaker 1: the homeless camps all over the place and said the
Speaker 1: garbage is overwhelming. So one report from one of my
Speaker 1: regular listeners who I trust, and give me the right information,
Speaker 1: but has no idea whether they're eating the ducks from
Speaker 1: the local parks or the cats, which one person described
Speaker 1: online as having happened. They had the cat hung up
Speaker 1: in a tree. Was their pet cat been missing for
Speaker 1: quite a few days and they were slaughtering it like
Speaker 1: a field dressing a deer. Fog of the internet, this
Speaker 1: is a great illustration everyone. I mean, just type in Springfield,
Speaker 1: Ohio Haitian, then you'll come up with all kinds of
Speaker 1: people asking the same question, is there any truth to this?
Speaker 1: So if you're a resident of Springfield and you could
Speaker 1: shed some light, and I'd love to hear from you,
Speaker 1: But any other calls welcome as well. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talks. Now,
Speaker 1: endorsements can really impact an election. I got a big
Speaker 1: kick out of this one. President Donald Trump got secured
Speaker 1: the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Fraternal Order of
Speaker 1: Police that is America's largest and oldest police union. He
Speaker 1: got their endorsement just last week. Court of Release. FOP
Speaker 1: president Patrick Yoh said the groups meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: in September sixth that Donald Trump actually attended secured him
Speaker 1: the nominator or the support during his time in the
Speaker 1: White House. We had a partner and a leader. Today,
Speaker 1: mister President, we stand with you, he said in the announcement.
Speaker 1: We have your back and we're committed to working tirelessly
Speaker 1: for your election. Find the fopn doorsement Republican Party branding
Speaker 1: now Donald Trump and JD Vance the pro police ticket,
Speaker 1: which is a good label, I think in these modern
Speaker 1: times where most people are missing the old days of
Speaker 1: strict law enforcement locking people up for committing crimes rather
Speaker 1: than while working with the bad guys and helping them
Speaker 1: get out of jail or otherwise avoid being picked up
Speaker 1: by immigrations and customs enforcement. Not going over real well
Speaker 1: as a strategy for the Democrats, at least that's my
Speaker 1: perception out in the world, I guess as the people
Speaker 1: of Springfield. And that's the FOP national FOP endorsement again,
Speaker 1: the largest police union endorsement goes along with the International
Speaker 1: Union Police Associations, the National Association of Police Organizations, as
Speaker 1: well as countless local state and police advocacy groves all
Speaker 1: backing Donald Trump. And I mentioned Trump met with the
Speaker 1: FOP committed the national one no similar meeting granted by
Speaker 1: the Harris campaign. Accord to the FOP in the news release,
Speaker 1: he was at least decent enough to show up explain himself.
Speaker 1: FOP president commented commended Trump for championing historic criminal justice
Speaker 1: reform policy, encountering efforts to defund the police. America's cities
Speaker 1: are under siege, he said, noting that a Trio police
Speaker 1: officer suffered gunshot wounds in Milwaukee on the eve of
Speaker 1: the FOP meeting. Not a good look. Trump of corporating
Speaker 1: policies that allow illuginal immigration, decrease funding for police, prosecution
Speaker 1: of police officers for doing their jobs, and misplaced enforcement
Speaker 1: of prosecutorial efforts. He said, people like him are targeted
Speaker 1: for alleging election improprieties, while violent criminal suspects are allowed
Speaker 1: to release with low or no bond and avoid meaningful prosecution.
Speaker 1: He's always got to work that election interference in there doesn't,
Speaker 1: he said. This creates a climate where the law abiding citizen,
Speaker 1: his words, is forced to live in fear and danger.
Speaker 1: We don't have to live this way. When I'm President
Speaker 1: of the United States. We are not gonna take it anymore,
Speaker 1: he said. Pivoting over. Tell me what do you think
Speaker 1: which is a better endorsement. Kamala Harris just secured the
Speaker 1: Socialist International, described as a worldwide organization of social democratic,
Speaker 1: socialist and labor parties. They have out loud express report
Speaker 1: for Kamala Harris President of the United States from the
Speaker 1: Socialist International. That's an initial cap on that. That's the
Speaker 1: name of the organization. If you want to find their website,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's something like Socialist International dot com whatever.
Speaker 1: From the Socialist International. We probably support at Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: in her candidacy for the upcoming election of No. Number fifth.
Speaker 1: We are confident that she will make history as the
Speaker 1: first female president of the United States of America. And
Speaker 1: of course along with that is there unstated support for
Speaker 1: her socialist leanings. I mentioned at the outset of the
Speaker 1: program this morning when including as Bernie Sanders pointed out,
Speaker 1: expanding the already what I come to realize now sixty
Speaker 1: three trillion dollar underfunded or unfunded liabilities in the Social
Speaker 1: Security program or plan alone doesn't talk about Medicare, Medicaid,
Speaker 1: the social Security funding facing a sixty three trillion dollar
Speaker 1: unfunded liability and socialist Kamala Harris wants to expand that program.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Medicare, she wants admit, well, now she's backing
Speaker 1: away from it, but since her principles and her leanings
Speaker 1: have not changed, that her principles remain the same, even
Speaker 1: though she is no longer out loud advocating Medicare for all.
Speaker 1: That program also woefully underfunded and in the hole. How
Speaker 1: do you expanded programs already can't manage what it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to handle right now. In terms of
Speaker 1: the Social Security plan, they're talking about either get your
Speaker 1: taxes increased seventeen percent or you are willing down the
Speaker 1: road to take a twenty five percent cut in what
Speaker 1: you're expecting as a monthly payment from the Social Security Administration.
Speaker 1: And the report also said that eighty eight percent of
Speaker 1: retirees where we're going to be relying exclusively on social Security,
Speaker 1: a train wreck going to happen. Maybe huh, Perhaps Harris
Speaker 1: wants to expand it, expand it? How I'm puzzled. If
Speaker 1: you can answer the question, please call me let me know.
Speaker 1: I just co collection say nineteen fifty five KRCD talk station.
Speaker 1: Have you Monday welcoming phone calls five one, three, seven,
Speaker 1: four nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two three
Speaker 1: TEK five by fifty on EIGHTE and T found one
Speaker 1: thing that seems to be certain. While I keep asking
Speaker 1: out loud whether Springfield, of how really has been overwhelmed
Speaker 1: with Haitian immigrants, it has been reported randomly around the
Speaker 1: internet and people. Some people are disputing in some people
Speaker 1: are saying, no, that's just racists making things up. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, what seems to be very clear is
Speaker 1: the Trey the Aragua or Trendy Aragua gang taking over. Actually,
Speaker 1: it turns out more than one of these immigrant shelters.
Speaker 1: We'd go to Aurora, Colorado, who's getting the brunt of Denver,
Speaker 1: Colorado's sanctuary sanctuary city status declaration. It has been for
Speaker 1: quite some time Aurora wanted no part of that is
Speaker 1: not a sanctuary city. And yet because the overwhelming number
Speaker 1: of immigrants coming into Denver, they've filtered over into Aurora,
Speaker 1: Colorado and have taken over at least a couple of
Speaker 1: different apartment buildings I guess that have been used to
Speaker 1: shelter migrants. As early as November of last year, armed
Speaker 1: Venezuelan gang members started terrorizing residents in an Aurora apartment building.
Speaker 1: A courd to the Denver law firm hired to investigate
Speaker 1: that law firm, Perkins Coy, a nationwide well known firm.
Speaker 1: Ten page issued is the officials talking about this trendy
Speaker 1: Iragua gang taking over the Whispering Pines apartments, not to
Speaker 1: be confused with the other apartment complex, but that has
Speaker 1: been taken over by the same gang, the Aspen Grove
Speaker 1: apartment complex in Aurora, apparently using threat court to the
Speaker 1: law firm using threats of murder in termination and beatings.
Speaker 1: Evidence also indicates the gang makers and gang members have
Speaker 1: engaged in quote flagrant trespass violations including human trafficking. According
Speaker 1: to the attorney who wrote the letter, Marcus Bunk, crimes
Speaker 1: also alleged extortion, unlawful firearms possession, sexual abuse of miners, quote,
Speaker 1: often targeting vulnerable Venezuela and other immigrant immigrant populations. He
Speaker 1: went on, the gang's motive appears to be to unlawfully
Speaker 1: move gang members as well as vulnerable immigrant families into
Speaker 1: vacant units. The gang also forces rent paying rent residents
Speaker 1: out to create more open units and use the apartments
Speaker 1: for purposes. Of illegal activities like prostitution. So the legitimate
Speaker 1: dwellers are well, I imagine they get a nice, unpleasant conversation.
Speaker 1: Somebody from the gang knocks on the door and says,
Speaker 1: you're leaving today. We're making room for one of our friends,
Speaker 1: with a veiled or actual, outloud threat of violence. If
Speaker 1: you don't know capitulate to what their demands are, we're
Speaker 1: going to move one of our own people in. Then
Speaker 1: we're going to engage in illegal activity in your former space.
Speaker 1: So have a nice day. According to the law firm,
Speaker 1: the gang, which operates in the open and uses firearms
Speaker 1: to patrol their their property, has intimidated staffed, stabbed at
Speaker 1: least one vulnerable immigrant in the apartment because of the
Speaker 1: alleged non payment, and otherwise terrorized the community. The lawyer
Speaker 1: said that the trend di Arragua has The gang has
Speaker 1: threatened and attempted to kill management staff since they began
Speaker 1: and infiltrating the building back in November of last year.
Speaker 1: In one case, he said, an apartment manager was so
Speaker 1: badly beaten that he had to go to the hospital,
Speaker 1: after which he left the state for fear for his
Speaker 1: own safety. Gang activity apparently has escalated this year. According
Speaker 1: to the attorney and the law firm and their letter
Speaker 1: to the officials, one gang member reportedly told a housekeeper,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't like it, we'll fill him with bullets.
Speaker 1: Funk wrote. The housekeeper understood the reference to be the
Speaker 1: gang's business plan of extortion. Video now out showing members
Speaker 1: of the gang moving around the building in large numbers,
Speaker 1: kicking indoors and armed to the teeth. Funk wrote, this
Speaker 1: conducts brazen and public nature. Further exhibits the suspected gang
Speaker 1: member's sense of comfort and control, consistent with their taking
Speaker 1: over the property and not fearing the law enforcement or
Speaker 1: the property management. Bunk wants to meet with the city
Speaker 1: officials to discuss returning the building to management control and
Speaker 1: the helpless Whispering Pine residents and the Aurora community. The
Speaker 1: officials in Aurora suggests that the gang violence was isolated,
Speaker 1: which is typically what they say, right, It's just an
Speaker 1: isolated incident, just an isolated incident. Anyway, it goes on, obviously,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned the other apartment complex there and problems
Speaker 1: with the Aspirn Grove apartment. And let's see here, let
Speaker 1: me get Robert's call in before we go to the break. Robert,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning in a very happy Monday
Speaker 1: to you, sir.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian. How you doing, buddy.
Speaker 1: I'm doing as well as can be expected.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I live in the White Oak area in Green Township. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I'm really close to the North Kate Mall and
Speaker 4: i was sold and I don't know if the groomor
Speaker 4: or if it's back, but the old Macy's building has
Speaker 4: been an a campman for migrants. And I've been noticing
Speaker 4: here lately because my wife works at the little White
Speaker 4: Strip Strip Mall center there and she's been seeing a
Speaker 4: lot of you know, illegals obviously, and I just didn't
Speaker 4: know you might have heard anything about that, if that's true.
Speaker 1: No, I have not. This This is kind of why
Speaker 1: I'm asking out loud. I think I'm expressing the frustration
Speaker 1: that so many people feel when they're read things on
Speaker 1: the internet and they get reports. There are some very reasonable,
Speaker 1: legitimate sources out there, like I typically refer to my favorite,
Speaker 1: most reliable, most accurate source of information as the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. Yes it has a conservative lean to it,
Speaker 1: but they have high ethical standards for the reporting they
Speaker 1: do fact checking, so I trust them. I didn't read
Speaker 1: this kind of thing on the Wall Street Journal where
Speaker 1: I'm reading it. Epoch Times has articles about these gang takeovers,
Speaker 1: so does Fox News, both what I consider fairly legitimate sources.
Speaker 1: But in so far as the Venas or the Haitian
Speaker 1: immigrants taking over Springfield, they are varied and wide accounts
Speaker 1: of it literally everywhere YouTube. Thank you Maureen for sending
Speaker 1: the one the video there. I can't watch video here
Speaker 1: at work, but there are reports on social media posts.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I can go on social media
Speaker 1: and make a post. I can say anything at mL
Speaker 1: One you never know is Macy's. Does anybody know if
Speaker 1: Macy's the old Macy's in Northgate Mall is being used
Speaker 1: as an immigrant center that I haven't read. If you've noticed,
Speaker 1: there's very little local reporting on anything related to illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants in the greater Cincinnati area. Are we struggling, do
Speaker 1: we have financial problems? Are we having housing problems? Or
Speaker 1: is there crime related to it? And the other thing
Speaker 1: about this is people say, yeah, I see all these
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, And when you say something like that, it
Speaker 1: kind of raises a question mark in my mind. If
Speaker 1: I'm walking down the street I can't tell who's a
Speaker 1: legal person, a citizen, resident, a legal you know, a
Speaker 1: Green card holder, or someone who's entered the country illegally.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they look like. We get illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants from like one hundred and fifty different countries around
Speaker 1: the world. Some come in white color, some come in
Speaker 1: black colors, some come in brown colors. You know what
Speaker 1: it is. You have no idea. Oh and like the
Speaker 1: US population of legal citizens, they come in a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of different color, shape, shapes, religions, and stripes as well.
Speaker 1: You can't pick one out of a lineup just by
Speaker 1: based on how they look. That's where all this racism
Speaker 1: comments come from. You know what I'm worried about, I'm
Speaker 1: worried about not the Chinese people. I'm worried about the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party. I'm not worried about people from the
Speaker 1: Middle East generally speaking. I'm worried about Middle East terrorists,
Speaker 1: ices types and Hamas types. Right six twenty seven, iify
Speaker 1: you byt KIRCD talk station. Feel free to call offer
Speaker 1: your comments. I would love to hear from you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do some local stories coming up. Back after I
Speaker 1: met six thirty three here if you have KIRC detalk station,
Speaker 1: Happy month, trying to make them happy anyway, considering the
Speaker 1: subject matter of the news this morning, like most days,
Speaker 1: it's difficult thing to do, but trying to remember that
Speaker 1: you don't really have control over a lot of this,
Speaker 1: talking about it, reminding yourself that you can't control many things,
Speaker 1: but you can vote for people who are well will
Speaker 1: be then in a position to control it. That's called
Speaker 1: a representative form of government, which is what we've got.
Speaker 1: We don't live in a democracy. Democrats quit saying that
Speaker 1: it's a republic. It's got to photo. See what marine's
Speaker 1: got this morning, Marene, Welcome to the program. Good to
Speaker 1: hear from you. Happy Monday.
Speaker 5: Oh thanks, Brian. Yeah, I just wanted to kind of
Speaker 5: elaborate on the Haitians and the duck eating and that
Speaker 5: sort of thing. The article that I pulled up, as
Speaker 5: I said, she was on Gateway PA.
Speaker 1: I saw that when that was one of the places
Speaker 1: where I first found it. Yeah, but you know, I
Speaker 1: know you're a fan of Gayway Pundit. But I'll be
Speaker 1: the first person to say I don't have the level
Speaker 1: of re liability or respect for the Gateway pointed because
Speaker 1: they are so unbelievably biased for the conservative message. I
Speaker 1: have read erroneous things on Gateway Pointed, so unlike the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, I can read it there, and they're
Speaker 1: just we're just quoting what people at these public meetings
Speaker 1: have said or reposting what they found on social media.
Speaker 1: Now is that a reliable source of information. I'm really
Speaker 1: trying to get to the bottom of it because I'm
Speaker 1: so close in proximity to Springfield. I figure maybe some
Speaker 1: of my Springfield resident friends would call up and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true, or no, it's been overstated.
Speaker 5: Well, at the bottom, if you go scroll to the
Speaker 5: very bottom of the article, which is their lead articles,
Speaker 5: go to Gateway Punted dot com scroll the bottom of
Speaker 5: the article. There's a video of the city council meeting
Speaker 5: and the guy's name is Anthony Harris, and he's being
Speaker 5: interviewed while they're videotaping him at this city council meeting.
Speaker 5: And I don't think somebody who says their resident is
Speaker 5: going to go to a city council meeting and make
Speaker 5: this stuff up because it's easily provable. But he's as
Speaker 5: a resident of Springfield, Ohio, and he's talking about how
Speaker 5: they drop off this bus load of pation immigrants at
Speaker 5: the gas station. They go and they run into buildings,
Speaker 5: they flip cars. They are going to the duck ponds
Speaker 5: and grabbing ducks and biting off their heads and eating
Speaker 5: them as they walk away. They're being very bold, and
Speaker 5: they're very in your face. And I tell you what
Speaker 5: else is going on, your fellow. Your caller talked about
Speaker 5: Macy's being a housing area.
Speaker 1: Young Yes, I had never heard that before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hadn't either till I heard that. But in
Speaker 5: Mount Airy Forest they I had a friend had an
Speaker 5: incident recently where And the reason I knew the name
Speaker 5: of this is because of you several years ago talking
Speaker 5: about a friend of yours that this happened to. And
Speaker 5: I remembered that you called it railroading. They lay down
Speaker 5: in the middle of the road. Oh and then yeah,
Speaker 5: in the evening, and then when people go driving up,
Speaker 5: they stop because they see a bunch of people laying
Speaker 5: in the middle of the road like a railroad track.
Speaker 5: And this happened to someone very close to me. And
Speaker 5: they were speeding because they needed to get home for
Speaker 5: curfew with a youngster. Anyway, they were speeding and that
Speaker 5: by the time they came upon this group of kids
Speaker 5: laying or people laying in the road, they couldn't slow down,
Speaker 5: so the people jumped up and scattered. So if you
Speaker 5: come across an incident where people are railroading in the
Speaker 5: evening and laying in the middle of the road, I'm
Speaker 5: sorry to say this, but don't stop. Because you stop
Speaker 5: and you don't have a weapon on you, they will
Speaker 5: come and overtake your car.
Speaker 1: And they're also Yeah, buddy, he was surround He had
Speaker 1: his young daughter in the car and his wife. There
Speaker 1: were in a movie. Uh, this was over a believe
Speaker 1: in Sailor Park. They railroaded and as soon as he stopped,
Speaker 1: as he was in a back road he kind of
Speaker 1: was taking a shortcut home, stopped, they surrounded his car
Speaker 1: and demanded and threatened him. Well, he pulled out his
Speaker 1: block nineteen. This guy is a concealed carry holder and
Speaker 1: he is a hell of a shot aimed it at
Speaker 1: him and they ran like you know, rats out of
Speaker 1: an aqueduct or rats out of a sewer and dispersed
Speaker 1: because well, he had a gun to protect himself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and my friend was speeding and that's the only
Speaker 5: reason it saved her life. They would have overtaken her
Speaker 5: in a second.
Speaker 1: And you know what, if he hit him, he probably
Speaker 1: would have been prosecuted for hitting someone laying down on
Speaker 1: the street. That's the concern people have. I know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's really a frightening thing. Well, I appreciate the call. Marine.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough. Out of time got to run.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Six thirty seven fifty five KCD talk station.
Speaker 1: They went about six fifty three fifty five KRCD talk station.
Speaker 1: But he happen Monday two the top of the Iron News,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from Nick Noel book Our God Given Freedoms,
Speaker 1: co wrote, co written with Kay Carl Smith. He's been
Speaker 1: on the program quite a few times over the years.
Speaker 1: Kay Carl Man, I'm telling you that guy, like I
Speaker 1: said before, he just let him goes Hi, k Carl,
Speaker 1: how's it going today? Boom? That's all you need to do,
Speaker 1: just kick back and let him invent. Anyway. We'll here
Speaker 1: with what Nick has to say off the top of
Speaker 1: the Iro News, follow by Christopher Smithman with a Smither
Speaker 1: event seven thirty Every Monday, Money Monday with Brian James
Speaker 1: eight to five and host of The Melk Show, Malkay
Speaker 1: with her book Americans Anonymous. That'll be at eight forty
Speaker 1: assuming everything works out as planned and thanks Aginn. Sean
Speaker 1: McMahon covering for Joe Strecker on his last day a vacation.
Speaker 1: We hope it's his last day anyway. I think he's
Speaker 1: making plans to live in Florida permanently. Anyway, A short
Speaker 1: one here before we head on under the break and
Speaker 1: speak with Nick after the top of the Iron News
Speaker 1: Shared Brown. It's a small number, but it can happen,
Speaker 1: and you can see Secretary of State Frank LeRose is actually
Speaker 1: out there doing his job. Senator Shared Brown accepted a
Speaker 1: campaign donation, or rather a couple of campaign donations, from
Speaker 1: a woman who died prior to the campaign donations being made.
Speaker 1: New York Post actually reported on this when Carol Ann
Speaker 1: Baker Elmore died at the age of seventy seven December
Speaker 1: of last year, December tenth, out of Toledo Medical Center.
Speaker 1: We were obituary and in spite of passing away, she
Speaker 1: somehow is on record of making at least two donations
Speaker 1: to Shared Brown's campaign five months after her death. Now
Speaker 1: the contributions amounted to a total of three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks, so not a whole lot of money, but
Speaker 1: it is illegal. Case referred to the Federal Elections Committee
Speaker 1: by ohiuse Secretary of State Frank LeRose after conducting a
Speaker 1: preliminary investigation during which Baker's husband confirmed that yes, in fact,
Speaker 1: she did die. Spokesman for Lrose, our office received a
Speaker 1: complaint identifying the Friends of Shared Brown committee reported receiving
Speaker 1: two contributions from an individual that was confirmed to be deceased.
Speaker 1: But as that committee is a federal entity and not
Speaker 1: a filer with our officers, we referred the complaint to
Speaker 1: our findings to the Federal Elections Commission for further action.
Speaker 1: So Franklero's office, Head of Investigations Huan Lee, speaking with
Speaker 1: the Post, our Ohioans deserve absolute confidents in their elections.
Speaker 1: Purpose this letter to for your office of potential violations
Speaker 1: of federal law for your investigations as appropriate. Jared Brown
Speaker 1: probably accepting some votes from dead people too, I imagine
Speaker 1: accept money from dead people. Nick Nole book Our God
Speaker 1: Given Freedoms after the top of their news plus Christopher
Speaker 1: Smithman coming up at seven thirty I hoof. You can
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Speaker 1: wishing everyone a happy Monday. I'm happy to walk into
Speaker 1: fifty five k the Morning Show. Nick Nole, author of
Speaker 1: Our God Given Freedom. Our founding father's established the United
Speaker 1: States to secure our God given freedom. Our country is
Speaker 1: in urgent danger today. We must do our part. Written
Speaker 1: along with a friend of the show. He's been on
Speaker 1: many times, Kate Carl Smith. Welcome to the program. Nick.
Speaker 1: It's a real pleasure to have you on today.
Speaker 7: Well, thanks Brian, it's good to talk with you again too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the last time you were on, didn't we
Speaker 1: talk about the war against Black Americans in Freedom that
Speaker 1: you also with Kay Carl?
Speaker 7: Well, that was a time before last. But last time
Speaker 7: I was on was a few months ago when I
Speaker 7: spoke about this book, and I've kind of let it
Speaker 7: go too long. But you know, we you and I
Speaker 7: are are a little different, but a lot the same.
Speaker 7: You call yourself a libertarian, and I yes, and I
Speaker 7: call myself a Frederick Douglas Republican. Republican, and both of
Speaker 7: us want to live in a country that secures our
Speaker 7: God given freedom exactly.
Speaker 1: And I speak, you know, God given freedom. You know,
Speaker 1: I always try to mean religiously neutral. I'm a believer
Speaker 1: in God, my friend, and I'm not going to deny that.
Speaker 1: But what I try to do is spring from the
Speaker 1: logical and reason, which will parallel people who I have
Speaker 1: an actual belief and higher power in a doctrine and dogma.
Speaker 1: Because the state of nature, you know what I know it, Nick,
Speaker 1: If you are plopped down in the middle of nowhere
Speaker 1: before the formation of any government, what do you have?
Speaker 1: You literally have all the freedoms that God put you there,
Speaker 1: with the right to defend yourself, the right to forage
Speaker 1: and cook and you know, gather and hunt or whatever
Speaker 1: at literally everything. You're as free as anybody can be.
Speaker 1: And it's the result of us having to collectively live
Speaker 1: together that we can start sacrificing some of these freedoms,
Speaker 1: but usually it's in the name of getting along. You
Speaker 1: can't hurt me, I'm not allowed to hurt you, but
Speaker 1: we can both coexist and live our lives freely as
Speaker 1: we choose in this land, not anyplace else in the world.
Speaker 7: Nick, that's absolutely correct. And both of us push back
Speaker 7: against the rich elites who control everything, yes, and and
Speaker 7: try to control everything we do. And those are the Democrats,
Speaker 7: actually the laites who control the Democratic Party. And we
Speaker 7: you know, they've a lot of people say, well, the
Speaker 7: Democratic Party has changed, and that's true, but it's but
Speaker 7: it's always been the party of the rich elites who
Speaker 7: pick people against each other, classes of people against each
Speaker 7: other to control us and to control everybody. And you know,
Speaker 7: that's been going on since the very beginning of our country.
Speaker 7: And that's what a lot of my book is about,
Speaker 7: is because people have been doing that since they've been
Speaker 7: doing that since the beginning of our country. They were
Speaker 7: the originally they were originally the slave plantation owners who
Speaker 7: were stood against them most of the people in the
Speaker 7: country who were farmers and merchants who worked for themselves,
Speaker 7: and they were slave plantation owners who used black people
Speaker 7: who were slaves and white people who were subjects against
Speaker 7: each other to do their bidding and to make them
Speaker 7: richer and richer and more powerful. They were the ones
Speaker 7: who created white supremacy and the belief that white people
Speaker 7: are superior to black people, which is not true. But
Speaker 7: they created that belief and that still goes in this
Speaker 7: still has something to do with the way our country
Speaker 7: is run. They were the ones who removed the Indians
Speaker 7: from the southeastern United States and sent them on the
Speaker 7: trail of tiers to Oklahoma to get them out of
Speaker 7: their way and to take their land. And they were
Speaker 7: the ones who who tried to install slavery in Kansas
Speaker 7: and Nebraska. They bred hatred all along. They bred hatred,
Speaker 7: and they when they finally looked, they finally decided that
Speaker 7: the slavery was going to be eliminated, abolish. Then they
Speaker 7: fought the Civil War against our country. And you know
Speaker 7: what they the first when when the Civil War was over,
Speaker 7: the first black House and Senate members, we were all
Speaker 7: Republicans because they the Democratic Party was against them, and
Speaker 7: the Democratic Party used mass murders to keep black people
Speaker 7: from voting, and and and eventually used used the trick
Speaker 7: of accusing black men of being natural predators and rapists
Speaker 7: of white women, and the murdered them through lynching without
Speaker 7: any trials to breed hatred against black people. They took
Speaker 7: their war against Black Americans directly, and since then they've
Speaker 7: they've run a war against women, they run a war
Speaker 7: against rich versus poor. They make people hate old versus young.
Speaker 7: They divide us in every way they come against each other.
Speaker 7: And starting in the Industrial Revolution, they started using Marxism
Speaker 7: to uh to divide us. And you know, they've they've
Speaker 7: done everything they can to try to divide us, to
Speaker 7: keep us separate, to control us. And you know this
Speaker 7: and the Depression, what they did in the Great Depression,
Speaker 7: they used Marxism, installed Marxism into our government to increase
Speaker 7: the taxes beyond belief and to keep people segregated. And
Speaker 7: during World War two, finally World War two ended some
Speaker 7: of that, but it couldn't end at all. And after
Speaker 7: World War Two we had Eisenhower who came in and said, well,
Speaker 7: we're going to do something about segregation, and you know,
Speaker 7: and he tried to do everything he could, and when
Speaker 7: the Supreme Court made the ruling that separate but equal
Speaker 7: is not separate but equal, Eisenhower enforced that. He was
Speaker 7: the guy that said, Okay, I'm going to send the
Speaker 7: troops down to enforce that. To allow black people to
Speaker 7: go to college same as white people. And you know,
Speaker 7: and when it JFK came into power. JFK was a
Speaker 7: follower of Eisenhower. People don't understand that because he had
Speaker 7: the labeled democrat and his family was one of the
Speaker 7: richest elite families in the entire country. The JFK stood
Speaker 7: up against his own family and against his own party,
Speaker 7: which is why they shot and killed him. You know
Speaker 7: that he came in and he said we're going to do.
Speaker 7: First of all, there are three things I believe that
Speaker 7: got him shot and killed. One of them was he
Speaker 7: issued an executive order saying, we're going to start printing
Speaker 7: our own money instead this red federal government, to start
Speaker 7: printing our own money instead of the Federal Reserve doing that.
Speaker 7: The second thing he did was he said, we're going
Speaker 7: to bring down some of the taxes and the DR
Speaker 7: put into power. You know that FDR raised, We're going
Speaker 7: to bring those down, some of those huge taxes for
Speaker 7: business ninety five percent in some cases. And the other thing,
Speaker 7: the thing that really got him killed, the most important thing,
Speaker 7: was he said, we're going to start treating black people
Speaker 7: the same as white people. And you know, people democrats
Speaker 7: didn't want that. The rich elites who controlled the Democratic
Speaker 7: Party did not want that, and they wanted LBJ to
Speaker 7: be president because he would do what they want.
Speaker 1: And well, Nick, isn't ell. I was getting ready for
Speaker 1: to mention LBJ as you were going through this history
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party and its obvious racist nature, the
Speaker 1: Klan support of the Democrats, the Southern Democrats were all
Speaker 1: pro slavery, anti black or pro Jim crow Law. All that.
Speaker 1: Johnson is the one that tried to transform history and
Speaker 1: change the history of the Democratic Party into something it
Speaker 1: never was. He was rather successful.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was successful, people believed, but that's not true.
Speaker 1: It isn't that's not true.
Speaker 7: People believe that, but it's not true because what Johnson
Speaker 7: did was he came into power. The only way that
Speaker 7: he could possibly be be elected as president would be
Speaker 7: if he passed the civil rights law. And in order
Speaker 7: to pass the civil rights law, there were some conservative
Speaker 7: Democrats who wouldn't have even gone along with that, no
Speaker 7: matter what if he had not reduced the taxes. So
Speaker 7: he took Kennedy's tax bill, reduced the taxes, and he
Speaker 7: took Kennedy's civil rights law. And he knew that he
Speaker 7: had to pass both of those to be elected president.
Speaker 7: And so he did that, but immediately he turned it
Speaker 7: around and created a new type of slavery, a new
Speaker 7: type of political slavery with welfare, food stamps, and dependence
Speaker 7: on government for black people primarily. And and so he
Speaker 7: turned us around. He didn't he did those things, you know,
Speaker 7: because he had to do him to stay to get elected,
Speaker 7: and he thought he was going to get elected and
Speaker 7: then get elected again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Great Society Program and how that was going
Speaker 1: to that was supposed to solve poverty, wasn't it, Nick?
Speaker 1: And I don't think after trillions and trillions of dollars spent,
Speaker 1: it has done anything but make poverty worse because it's
Speaker 1: created well, generations of dependance.
Speaker 7: That's exactly right. And and and the first person that
Speaker 7: spoke up against him who was assassinated was Malcolm X.
Speaker 7: Malcolm X came out and said, we we have a
Speaker 7: president who's who's nothing but a Southern segist. And Malcolm
Speaker 7: X got shot and killed very shortly after that. And
Speaker 7: of course it was nobody that had anything to do
Speaker 7: with LBJ. But but then you know, then all these
Speaker 7: other people that got murdered, you know, after after Kennedy
Speaker 7: was murdered, all these people that the other people that
Speaker 7: got murdered, Malcolm X and uh and and MLK and
Speaker 7: r f K, all of those people were inconvenient to
Speaker 7: LBJ and to what he was trying to do. They
Speaker 7: were all inconvenient to his his ability to people pitted
Speaker 7: against each other, and and the way that he was
Speaker 7: trying to do that and create a new type of
Speaker 7: slavery basically.
Speaker 1: Well, and in terms of the Marxist reality, and I
Speaker 1: think that you know, built into Marxism is this inherent
Speaker 1: understanding of human nature. And I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that the commandment thou shalt not cove it.
Speaker 1: We covet a lot. We want our neighbor's stuff and
Speaker 1: things they've got more than us, and we feel like
Speaker 1: we've been somehow neglected or otherwise deprived of something we
Speaker 1: deserve simply because somebody else has more. And when you
Speaker 1: start fostering and encouraging and fomenting that envy and that
Speaker 1: greed and that covetousness and promise people that you're going
Speaker 1: to make things equal, this whole equity thing, you're literally
Speaker 1: justifying what I call simple slavery through the taxation system.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to take we are taking from
Speaker 1: you what you work for, what you labored from, in
Speaker 1: the name of because some guy over there doesn't have
Speaker 1: as much. I mean, it doesn't factor into account. Reality, effort,
Speaker 1: hard work, merit, some of the things that are really
Speaker 1: responsible drivers of economic success in this country. Ignores all that.
Speaker 1: That throws it out the window, which.
Speaker 7: March says, because you're the ones who work for it
Speaker 7: and don't have it, you're the ones who have a
Speaker 7: right to it. And he makes people believe that you
Speaker 7: have a right to that to take it away, and
Speaker 7: you don't have that right. In not any reasonable way
Speaker 7: do you have that right. And at this point, what
Speaker 7: they've done is they've even come to the point of
Speaker 7: trying to assassinate Trump. And I think it was a
Speaker 7: miracle that he survived that assassination attempt. That that's what
Speaker 7: they've been, that they're willing to do anything to take
Speaker 7: control of this country and keep control of it in
Speaker 7: any way possible. And the globalists, they worked with, the
Speaker 7: globalists who all believe in Marx. The funny thing about
Speaker 7: Marx that people don't understand he was born the same
Speaker 7: year as Frederick Douglas. They were both born in eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 7: Frederick Douglas was born a slave, and he lived all
Speaker 7: his life as a slave. For the first twenty years
Speaker 7: he lived as a slave and actually taught himself how
Speaker 7: to read and write, and then he escaped slavery finally,
Speaker 7: and he became the greatest speaker, thinker, and writer about
Speaker 7: freedom and human rights in this country's history. Whereas Carl Marx,
Speaker 7: born the same year, was the son of a lawyer.
Speaker 7: He wasn't born a slave like Frederick Douglas. He was
Speaker 7: born a son of a lawyer, and he never had
Speaker 7: his freedom taken away from him, and he wrote his
Speaker 7: theories about freedom. But those are the things that are
Speaker 7: being followed now by the Democratic Party, the Marxists, and
Speaker 7: the globalists.
Speaker 1: And I understand in the name of making money. But
Speaker 1: what always, Maybe maybe I don't have a psychological component.
Speaker 1: I have no desire to control people, have no desire
Speaker 1: to dictate an edict or. It just seems so foreign
Speaker 1: a concept to me. Because I'm such a firm believer
Speaker 1: in our individual rights and liberties. I have no right
Speaker 1: to try to tell you how to live your life.
Speaker 1: It's just that just is contrary to my philosophy. But
Speaker 1: the people in power, I know they want to leverage
Speaker 1: it to give themselves money, but just simply the idea
Speaker 1: that they want to control us and take away these freedoms.
Speaker 1: I find that to be maybe like a DSM five
Speaker 1: diagnosable psychological disorder.
Speaker 7: And that's where the old saying comes around and says,
Speaker 7: you might not be interested in politics, The politics is
Speaker 7: interested in you because they want to control you. Politicians
Speaker 7: want to control you for their own power and their
Speaker 7: own wealth, because that's what keeps them rich. And they
Speaker 7: are the rich elads who control the country. And I
Speaker 7: think we've seen that proven through Trump's administration and through
Speaker 7: his time being kicked out of power and all the
Speaker 7: time he's trying to get back in at which we
Speaker 7: need to do. We need to get We need to
Speaker 7: take control again from the Democratic leads.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can. If we don't do it now in November,
Speaker 1: maybe too late for our country, our god given freedom,
Speaker 1: our founderstablish the United States. This is care, our god
Speaker 1: given freedom. Our country is an urgent danger today. We
Speaker 1: must do our part. Nick No along with Kay Carl Smith,
Speaker 1: just two wonderful guys, Nick, I can't thank you enough
Speaker 1: for documenting it, putting in on paper. We're going to
Speaker 1: have it all my blog page forty five Casey dot com,
Speaker 1: so my folks can easily get a copy of your
Speaker 1: book and pass along my regards to Kay Carl. It's
Speaker 1: been a while since he's been on the show, but
Speaker 1: I think he's a fantastic man. Thanks very much, Brian,
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Nick. It's always good having you on the program.
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Speaker 1: Seven twenty nine Here fifty five KRCD talk station. By
Speaker 1: the time, I was wishing a happy, happy Mundane always
Speaker 1: happy to welcome to the five KC Morning Show. Former
Speaker 1: Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati for the smither
Speaker 1: Van Christopher Smithman, Welcome back, my friend. Who if you
Speaker 1: had a wonderful weekend for the Bengals.
Speaker 2: I did, Man, I did, I did, And I hope
Speaker 2: you had one too. Look, brother, I really just want
Speaker 2: to start off and just jump in and talk about
Speaker 2: this this school violence that we're seeing across our country.
Speaker 2: We obviously know in North College Hill there was shooting
Speaker 2: outside of the stadium that had players diving on the field.
Speaker 2: It had the entire stadium evacuated. We know that there
Speaker 2: was a shooting on I seventy five, you know, in
Speaker 2: our community. But I want to really focus in a
Speaker 2: little bit on schools here to emphasize the importance of
Speaker 2: our resource officers that are in these schools. Because during
Speaker 2: the George Floyd discussion on the floor of council we
Speaker 2: have members of council at the time, that was council
Speaker 2: member Greg Lansman who was talking about we need to
Speaker 2: reimagine or rethink or pull out resource officers out of
Speaker 2: our schools. And I thought that that was not just
Speaker 2: an overreaction, but that it would put our students in
Speaker 2: our faculty at risk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and real quick, here wasn't the argument because school
Speaker 1: resource officers, they're police officers who spend their time in
Speaker 1: schools to keep order and you know, provide defense if
Speaker 1: necessary and that kind of thing, but also is an
Speaker 1: opportunity to engage and create better relations between police and
Speaker 1: the students who might be misguided in thinking police are
Speaker 1: all evil. But the argument against for pulling them out
Speaker 1: of the schools was, well, it could be triggering and
Speaker 1: there are people that live in certain communities that fear police,
Speaker 1: and if you've got a police officer in a school,
Speaker 1: that person may struggle. When I'm thinking ourselves, you know
Speaker 1: that person needs to be sat down and talked to
Speaker 1: and that reassured that no, you don't need to be
Speaker 1: fearful this person. This person's here for your benefit.
Speaker 2: Correct, Correct, And I'm saying my understanding is in that shooting,
Speaker 2: there was a resource officer there in Georgia where those
Speaker 2: two faculty members, two students, two fourteen year old students,
Speaker 2: and nine other students who are could be still in
Speaker 2: the hospital, some of them could be who are also injured.
Speaker 2: So nine injured, four killed. Two of the four killed
Speaker 2: were students and two were faculty. And so the reality
Speaker 2: of making sure that we have resource officers in these
Speaker 2: schools is critical. And I just want to remind the
Speaker 2: public right that there was a vibrant public discussion about
Speaker 2: changing that public policy here in Cincinnati, and some of
Speaker 2: that was led by Greg Lansman, who's now a congressional member,
Speaker 2: and I thought that his direction was not just misplaced,
Speaker 2: but would have made our school it was more dangerous
Speaker 2: at the time. And it was all during the context
Speaker 2: of the George Floyd discussion. And I'm saying to you,
Speaker 2: look what happened at the stadium at Elver and North
Speaker 2: College Hill, because many people who are listening to this
Speaker 2: have kids that are going to games, and we're parents
Speaker 2: and we're concerned about keeping our children safe, and the
Speaker 2: key people that are keeping our children safe our law enforcement.
Speaker 2: It is the front line. And so when you start
Speaker 2: having discussions about reimagining police departments, you have discussions about
Speaker 2: defunding the police. This is where I'm connecting the dots.
Speaker 2: When people are deciding who they want to vote for,
Speaker 2: what kind of public policy do they want from their
Speaker 2: elected officials, you have to remember these types of positions
Speaker 2: that ultimately put our children and put our society at risk.
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, Yeah, with that question, and you know, honestly, Christopher,
Speaker 1: I remember these arguments being made. I mean, the whole
Speaker 1: idea of defunding the police just is mind boggling to me.
Speaker 1: Meaning there are bad people in the world. There are
Speaker 1: bad people in any given group, always so small subset,
Speaker 1: and that the same thing with police. The idea is
Speaker 1: you ferret out the bad ones and you maintain a
Speaker 1: really great police force that people have respect for and
Speaker 1: are appreciative of, for keeping peace in the community or
Speaker 1: at least seeing that bad guys are brought to justice.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how this ever became. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it's a winning argument defunding police, because you
Speaker 1: and I both know, Christopher. In the neighborhoods and cities
Speaker 1: where they did defund the police, things went to hell
Speaker 1: in a handbasket.
Speaker 2: And we're still paying for it. Now. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: problem because it's so hard to recruit police officers across
Speaker 2: the country because of the rhetoric, right, and because of
Speaker 2: the Tuesday Morning quarterbacking. Right, These split split decisions that
Speaker 2: officers have to make, right when someone is pointing a
Speaker 2: gun at them or someone has a nice So the
Speaker 2: reality of it is we have to make sure that
Speaker 2: at the ballot box. So as we're deciding who we're
Speaker 2: going to vote for. Now, you and I aren't saying
Speaker 2: that what happened to George Floyd was right. It was outrageous,
Speaker 2: it was wrong. We're not saying that there aren't officers
Speaker 2: out here who need more training. We're not saying that
Speaker 2: there aren't officers who make mistakes. That's not the discussion.
Speaker 2: The problem with it is they went so extreme that
Speaker 2: we want to defund, reimagine, take police out of our schools,
Speaker 2: that they put society at risk, and now we have
Speaker 2: a much more difficult time recruiting people to become officers.
Speaker 2: And then the way we treated officers in those split
Speaker 2: second decisions where their life is on the line, someone's
Speaker 2: pointing a gun at them, and we say, hey, you
Speaker 2: probably should have used your taser. No, you should have
Speaker 2: used your gun. Somebody had a rifle. They just were inside.
Speaker 2: Now the officers, this is real. When I was the
Speaker 2: vice mayor, this gentleman in walnot Hills had killed his mother,
Speaker 2: came out with a rifle that Now, of course they
Speaker 2: didn't know we had just killed his mother. All they
Speaker 2: see is a guy out there with a rifle and
Speaker 2: they had to take his life. But you know, what
Speaker 2: are we going to do Tuesday morning? Quarterback and Rose
Speaker 2: officers who decided to shoot that person. They didn't know
Speaker 2: whether the gun was loaded or not. They didn't know
Speaker 2: as mom was inside did They just knew somebody pointed
Speaker 2: a gun at them. We have to do better with
Speaker 2: as a society of backing up our police officers as
Speaker 2: they're making these split second decisions. And so what happened
Speaker 2: here in our city, Because people listening to your show
Speaker 2: all across the United States of America, they're dealing with
Speaker 2: the same issues that we're dealing with. I'm saying to
Speaker 2: the public, it's not normal to go to a football
Speaker 2: game and for the football players to be diving on
Speaker 2: the field, and for the entire stadium to be evacuated.
Speaker 2: And I just want to say, that's not the society
Speaker 2: that we have to live in. It is the society
Speaker 2: we are choosing to live in because of some of
Speaker 2: the behavior of some of our public policy makers.
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Swift, former Vice mayor of the City of
Speaker 1: since saying, Christopher Smith Mindling, will be like to call
Speaker 1: this smither event taking over in honor of my father's
Speaker 1: segment the Monday Morning Spleen Vent from way back in
Speaker 1: the days when Dad was around but I always enjoy
Speaker 1: having you on as a sub for my dad. Christopher.
Speaker 1: You do a great job.
Speaker 2: Thank you, brother, I appreciate it. Man, And I just
Speaker 2: want to say I'm gonna touch on this just briefly.
Speaker 2: I'll talk more about it with more information. But we
Speaker 2: know about the golfer, you know, Scottie Scheffler. I think
Speaker 2: that's how you pronounce his name. You know, I'm not
Speaker 2: a big sports person, but he was stopped by the police,
Speaker 2: arrested this year prior to you know, right before playing
Speaker 2: a golf game. And we have Truery Hill down in
Speaker 2: Miami that experienced something very similar to that yesterday. We
Speaker 2: don't know the details around it. We know it was
Speaker 2: a traffic stop. You know, there's video of him on
Speaker 2: the ground being handcuffed, and we know that at least
Speaker 2: one officer has been put on administrative lead. But let's
Speaker 2: wait and see, all right, let's see the body cam.
Speaker 2: He says he was very respectful. The bottom line here is, man,
Speaker 2: is that all of this is going to come back
Speaker 2: to training, how our officers are responding in these situations.
Speaker 2: And again, I don't know the circumstances behind this particular
Speaker 2: why he was being detained. But I can tell you
Speaker 2: that there's going to be a lot of chatter about
Speaker 2: it over the next forty eight hours. And usually, you know,
Speaker 2: we have an officer involved shooting, it's protocol to put
Speaker 2: somebody on administrative lead. It's not necessarily protocol from my experience,
Speaker 2: to do it during a traffic stop. So it could
Speaker 2: be that the chief has already viewed this the cam
Speaker 2: the body can and said, hey, there were some issues
Speaker 2: here that we need to deal with, more training, whatever.
Speaker 2: But I hope, I hope some good comes from it.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I want to just
Speaker 2: pivot because I know we got you know, my time
Speaker 2: is really short. We've got we've got a big debate tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's huge. It probably in my lifetime since I've been
Speaker 2: following politics since I was about, you know, fifteen, this
Speaker 2: is probably the biggest debate, consequential debate for both candidates
Speaker 2: coming up, you know. And what I will say to
Speaker 2: you is that this is an opportunity for the first time,
Speaker 2: which is unusual in my lifetime, for us to actually
Speaker 2: hear what the new candidate, meaning the candidate that it
Speaker 2: was replaced for Biden, which is Vice President Harris what
Speaker 2: her public policy positions are. That is incredibly unusual because
Speaker 2: early voting in some states start in about a week
Speaker 2: ye and so you know this is going to be
Speaker 2: the only opportunity that the public is going to have.
Speaker 2: So I encourage people to watch this very closely and
Speaker 2: listen for public policy, not insults, to try to figure
Speaker 2: out what these two candidates have to offer our country
Speaker 2: and what their vision is, and if it's more of
Speaker 2: inflationary things like you know, we want to raise taxes
Speaker 2: to twenty eight percent. We want to tax unrealized capital gains.
Speaker 2: That's very scary to me. We want to raise the
Speaker 2: death tax to fifty percent. Listen to that. Believe people
Speaker 2: when they're telling you something. When I hear things like
Speaker 2: we want to give twenty five thousand dollars to everybody
Speaker 2: wants to buy out, I go, why not just work
Speaker 2: two jobs like I had to do to save the
Speaker 2: money in order for me to get my first down payment.
Speaker 2: My parents didn't give me my first down payment. I
Speaker 2: was out cutting grass. I was doing every thing I could,
Speaker 2: working several jobs in order for my wife, Pam and
Speaker 2: I to say for our first down payment for a house.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this mindset is that somebody has
Speaker 2: to give you something that you haven't earned. You know,
Speaker 2: these these these participation trophies, you know that everybody has
Speaker 2: to get. And so this is my frustration with this
Speaker 2: administration is I've got a kid that just came back.
Speaker 2: I've been very proud of him and speaking served four
Speaker 2: years in the military and just signed back up for
Speaker 2: the Air National Guard. And he's trying to enroll in
Speaker 2: the University of Cincinnati to go to school. He did
Speaker 2: his first month of training this weekend in Blue ash
Speaker 2: But what's my point. My point is that he's not
Speaker 2: in student loan debt. He graduated from high school and
Speaker 2: went to the military. Why do I have to pay
Speaker 2: off the debt of somebody who decided to go to
Speaker 2: Harvard or go to Yale, or go to Columbia University,
Speaker 2: or go to Ohio State. Why am I paying off
Speaker 2: their student loan debt. Whyn't the person who went and
Speaker 2: got a trade, who's an iron worker, who's a carpenter,
Speaker 2: who's an electrician, who's a plumber. Why are they paying
Speaker 2: off the student loans for somebody who went to Harvard
Speaker 2: or Ohio State or ou or Howard University or Tuskegee University.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it, Brian Todgas And it burns my
Speaker 2: butt that this socialism conversation, I want to hear that
Speaker 2: vetted out. Why are we making decisions to pay off
Speaker 2: people's student loans when my wife and I saved money,
Speaker 2: struggled to save our pities in order to try to
Speaker 2: provide some financial resources for our kids to go to
Speaker 2: college so they wouldn't have as much student loan debt
Speaker 2: or no student loan debt. Those are the things I
Speaker 2: want to hear these candidates talk about. I don't agree
Speaker 2: with it, and I think that everybody should be thinking
Speaker 2: about it's not free. So every time Biden President Biden
Speaker 2: says I've paid off a student loan debt, he didn't.
Speaker 2: He added debt to our debt that you and I
Speaker 2: then are, our children, are our great great grandchildren are
Speaker 2: going to have to pay off. Nothing is free in America.
Speaker 2: And I'm tired of hearing the word free. Nothing. The
Speaker 2: street car in Cincinnati isn't free. We told him it
Speaker 2: wasn't going to be free. We're paying and underwriting the
Speaker 2: street car every time somebody gets on it. Student loans
Speaker 2: aren't free. Nothing is free.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Rim you managed to get the street car
Speaker 1: in there after all that. We went from Guns and
Speaker 1: Believes Safety office.
Speaker 2: Because people keep walking up to me saying the street
Speaker 2: car is successful. The street car is not successful. We're
Speaker 2: underwriting the street car while they're talking about building the
Speaker 2: second phase of it. It's something we can't afford. We
Speaker 2: couldn't afford it when I was down there. We can't
Speaker 2: afford it now. We can't afford to pay off everybody's
Speaker 2: student loans. Go get a second job day for your
Speaker 2: down payment, deferred gratification. Where is the work ethic for
Speaker 2: Americans are? Where are our parents telling our young people?
Speaker 2: Get out here, work your butts off. That's how you're
Speaker 2: going to get a hit. Nobody cares about your race, buddy,
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about your gender, nobody cares about your sexual orientation.
Speaker 2: What we care about is you coming to work and working.
Speaker 2: What's going on with our kids who think they show
Speaker 2: up for a job, don't have to work, and I
Speaker 2: still pay you? This is what This is what my
Speaker 2: clients as a financial brander are telling me. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to hire these young people and they've got their
Speaker 2: head down, or they're telling me they need to take
Speaker 2: a break. What are you talking about? You just got here.
Speaker 2: We need to get this work ethic back in our
Speaker 2: society Brian Thomas. And it's not coming from the White House.
Speaker 2: What they're telling people is I will give you everything
Speaker 2: for free. It's all yours.
Speaker 1: That's a problem, and that's how they end up controlling
Speaker 1: you and hooking you up to the umbilical corta government
Speaker 1: over which you have no control over your future. You
Speaker 1: are stuck relying on them to provide for what you
Speaker 1: should be able to provide for yourself. Scary, isn't it, Christopher,
Speaker 1: It's scary. And you're hearing this saying. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hear anecdotally from business owners the same thing about the
Speaker 1: work ethic of the youngest in the working class. They
Speaker 1: do not like to come to work, they do not
Speaker 1: like to show up, and they quite often will just
Speaker 1: quit out of nowhere with no mourning ahead of times,
Speaker 1: like I'm not going in period indus story. How do
Speaker 1: you run a business with people who just won't show up?
Speaker 2: Crazy? Brian Thomas. And I'm saying to you, if we
Speaker 2: continue on this track of these discussions, of socialism and communism.
Speaker 2: We're gonna this is going to get worse. Our grandparents
Speaker 2: and great grandparents never thought we would be in the
Speaker 2: place that we are in now. And that's why the
Speaker 2: debate tomorrow night at nine o'clock is so important for
Speaker 2: everybody to listen to. What are we talking about. Our
Speaker 2: government is not in the business of just giving away money,
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. That's not what the government is put in
Speaker 2: place for its government should be much smaller, and we
Speaker 2: should not now. I believe in safety net services. People
Speaker 2: we hear hard times, we provide them a period of
Speaker 2: time to get back on their feet. But that's not
Speaker 2: a lifetime of benefits of thirty years that I'm providing
Speaker 2: you some type of social benefit for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life. We've got able body people in this country
Speaker 2: who will not work. That is a problem, Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: And that's a part of my sweepment this morning, just
Speaker 2: to say I am tired of governments that are wanting
Speaker 2: to give everything away. And they use the word free.
Speaker 2: It's not free. They're taking money from my check, from
Speaker 2: my hard earned work, giving it to somebody else who's
Speaker 2: choosing not to work, whether it's for them to pay
Speaker 2: off their student loans or whether it's for them decide.
Speaker 2: I don't want to work. I don't want to get
Speaker 2: up and put air ten hours in on a job.
Speaker 2: And I had to work my butt off for what
Speaker 2: the little things that I have in this world right now.
Speaker 2: Nobody gave it to me. I had to work my
Speaker 2: butt off. That's how I got it. And I hope
Speaker 2: some people are listening to me. If you want to
Speaker 2: get ahead in this world, if you really want to
Speaker 2: make a difference in this world, learn about work. Education
Speaker 2: is great, but if you don't know how to work
Speaker 2: every single day, nobody wants you. You can't get ahead.
Speaker 2: You can have an eighth grade education and end up
Speaker 2: being a multi multi millionaire in this country. That's just
Speaker 2: how we have it laid out. The problem here is
Speaker 2: that our children are lazy brothers and they're being given
Speaker 2: everything for free, and they're being coddled. And that's the problem.
Speaker 2: I don't want a government that coddles me. Thank you
Speaker 2: very men.
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman on Fire today as usual. Get his podcast
Speaker 1: at the five Caarsee dot com later in the day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Christopher. We'll talk next Monday. Best of health,
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Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you, Brian Thomas. Always looking forward to
Speaker 1: this time every week. Talk to Brian James to call
Speaker 1: it money Monday or we're financials Brian James, diving into
Speaker 1: some money related topics and getting ourselves hopefully prepared for retirement.
Speaker 1: And you know, good financial planner who's got your interest
Speaker 1: in mind as a fiduciary obligation is what you need
Speaker 1: in the world of preparing yourself for the future, isn't
Speaker 1: that right, Brian James. Welcome back, my friend. Thank you sir,
Speaker 1: who days I'd not here, just waiting to see if
Speaker 1: you brought it up because they figured you would. I
Speaker 1: have to wallow in it, you know. It's just not
Speaker 1: football season without little wallowing, I know. And it's just
Speaker 1: not football season without Bengals losing the first game of
Speaker 1: the season either. So anyway, we'll remain optimistic at least
Speaker 1: for the balance of the season. Thankfully, I am not
Speaker 1: a betting man, all right, got three topics we talk
Speaker 1: about today. I actually do not know which order you
Speaker 1: want to dive on into them. We have presidential elections,
Speaker 1: we have taking money out of four to one k,
Speaker 1: and also well tax cut expirations and how that might
Speaker 1: impact us. What do you want to start with.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I think the tax cut things coming up
Speaker 9: here are going to catch people off guard.
Speaker 1: So what we're talking about here.
Speaker 9: In twenty seventeen, the Trump administration and acted the Tax
Speaker 9: Cuts and Jobs Act, or commonly known as the TCGA
Speaker 9: GCJ A rather and this involved a slight tax cut.
Speaker 1: For me and you.
Speaker 9: If you compare your taxes between those years, if you
Speaker 9: look at your ten forty and literally do the math
Speaker 9: of dividing total tax due by your agi, compare those
Speaker 9: two years and you'll see about a two percent decrease
Speaker 9: in your taxes. So, yes, the masses did get a
Speaker 9: tax cut at that time. Corporations, however, got a tax
Speaker 9: cut from the top corporate bracket was thirty five percent
Speaker 9: that it is currently twenty one percent. So corporation's got
Speaker 9: a massive tax cut. This isn't news. We've known about
Speaker 9: this since this act went into place. But here's the thing.
Speaker 9: That tax cut is going to sunset at the end
Speaker 9: of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: But not all of it.
Speaker 9: Your and my taxes are going back up. Some of
Speaker 9: the other things that are going to happen when when
Speaker 9: the sunset kicks in is that state and local deductions
Speaker 9: are going to be removed, and income tax brackets will
Speaker 9: will change a little bit. The standard deduction is going
Speaker 9: to drop from its current twenty four to eight back
Speaker 9: down to twelve seven. So we might be back to
Speaker 9: a time where it makes more sense to hang on to.
Speaker 1: Your itemizing again.
Speaker 9: We could be itemizing again and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 9: Toile tax credit going from two thousand down to one thousand.
Speaker 9: Here's a big one.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 1: This will catch some off guard.
Speaker 9: This sounds like monopoly money to some people, but other
Speaker 9: people will should be paying attention to this. But the
Speaker 9: estate tax exemption is going to go from its current
Speaker 9: eleven point seven million per human being, so twenty three
Speaker 9: million or so for a married couple, that's going to
Speaker 9: drop to five and a half million. Now, again, that's
Speaker 9: a lot of money, and most people aren't worried at
Speaker 9: that level. However, when you add up to the value
Speaker 9: of homes and perhaps business assets and rental properties, you
Speaker 9: know some people are in this situation where you're sitting
Speaker 9: here right now today, you may not have an estate
Speaker 9: tax issue. Come twenty six, you suddenly will. Now that's
Speaker 9: the changes that are coming. The changes that are not coming, Brian.
Speaker 9: That corporate tax rate that is not going to sunset,
Speaker 9: So that tells you.
Speaker 1: Who this was all for.
Speaker 9: The reason we got this through and we put sunsets
Speaker 9: on everything else, is that so we could pay for
Speaker 9: corporate tax cuts and keep them in place.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm the type of person believes in sound
Speaker 1: economic principles. If I'm a business and I have an
Speaker 1: additional cost in my business, whether it's the price of electricity, gasoline,
Speaker 1: or my income tax bill, that's going to impact my
Speaker 1: bottom line, and I'm going to do my best to
Speaker 1: pass along that cost to the consumer of my products.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a pass through. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: if the corporate tax rate went back to thirty five,
Speaker 1: would would be the highest rate on the planet like
Speaker 1: it was before twenty one. At least is in line
Speaker 1: with the balance of the world, allowing us to have
Speaker 1: some measure of competitive you know, our business being competitive
Speaker 1: with global businesses. But if it goes up, I just
Speaker 1: kind of view it as the price of whatever I'm
Speaker 1: buying from them is going to go up.
Speaker 9: Sure, and I like that sentiment. That's heartwarming. However, we
Speaker 9: put these tax cuts in place for corporations in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 9: You tell me what the headlines have been on price
Speaker 9: inflation ever since. So have they passed that through? You're right,
Speaker 9: they passed the increases through to the consumer. Of course
Speaker 9: that's to be expected as just like it works. But
Speaker 9: do they pass the decreases through. The answer to that
Speaker 9: is a big fat no. So the way you get
Speaker 9: to deal with this, though, is if you are if
Speaker 9: you have your portfolio set up properly well, then you're
Speaker 9: benefiting from this. You own shares of the very companies
Speaker 9: who are who are pocketing the savings they are getting
Speaker 9: from the tax cuts that were put in place from
Speaker 9: twenty seventeen. You're not going to get them in the play.
Speaker 9: You will not get benefit in the form of reduced prices.
Speaker 9: They are not going to pass that through. But that's
Speaker 9: why you need to make sure you have a balanced portfolio.
Speaker 9: The reason I've said this before, the reason we haven't
Speaker 9: had a revolution in this country in two hundred and
Speaker 9: close to two hundred and fifty years is because we
Speaker 9: get to own parts of the estate via the stock market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you participate, that's one of the means that
Speaker 1: keeps floating around online. You know, you're better off today
Speaker 1: than you were four years ago. And they point to
Speaker 1: the stock market and yeah, the stock market's going crazy,
Speaker 1: and thankfully I'm invested in it. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people out there in the country
Speaker 1: that are going to rely exclusively on social security and retirement.
Speaker 1: And I saw this article. They did some numbers crunching.
Speaker 1: It's sixty sixty three trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. Uh,
Speaker 1: And the article pointed out that like eighty eight percent
Speaker 1: of people are going to rely primarily on social Security
Speaker 1: to even survive, and that something's going to have to change.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is out talking about increasing and expanding social
Speaker 1: Security as well as other social welfare programs which are
Speaker 1: on similarly unstable ground. So you got to be invested.
Speaker 1: So are you better off now than you were four
Speaker 1: years ago? Yeah, if you're in the market and you're invested.
Speaker 1: But if you're not, you're still paying a high price
Speaker 1: for eggs and bread and milk and everything else. Exactly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you have to find a way. So my
Speaker 9: daughter just moved out. She's got her first big, big
Speaker 9: kid adult job.
Speaker 1: Congnsulation. Man, Well, thank you, thank you. It's exciting, it is,
Speaker 1: I know, it's great.
Speaker 9: So I told her, you know, the very first thing
Speaker 9: we're going to do, and this is this is it
Speaker 9: is just the old pay yourself first.
Speaker 1: But we've walked all through this.
Speaker 9: You know, we've supported her a lot of course through
Speaker 9: you know, student loans, and we got that all covered.
Speaker 9: And I told her, you don't owe us anything, but
Speaker 9: the payment quote unquote you're gonna make me is I
Speaker 9: want ten percent of your income going into your four
Speaker 9: oh one K for the rest of your life. That's
Speaker 9: the bare minimum, because that's the only way young people
Speaker 9: are going to survive because of what you just brought up.
Speaker 9: You just mentioned a term, Brian, that I think I
Speaker 9: think that gets lost unfunded liability.
Speaker 1: That is a.
Speaker 9: Fancy accounting word that a lot of people just kind
Speaker 9: of let slip by them. Most people know that we
Speaker 9: have a huge amount of debt in this country, thirty trillion.
Speaker 1: Dollars or whatever it is.
Speaker 9: That's the calculated debt, right, that's what we know about.
Speaker 9: That does not include social Security and medicare calculations. We
Speaker 9: don't bother to put those in the debt numbers because
Speaker 9: that just makes it it's already scary. That just makes
Speaker 9: it even worse. So let's just ignore those. That's what
Speaker 9: we mean when we say unfunded liabilities. We don't have
Speaker 9: a plan to pay for it. So you're right, you
Speaker 9: have to plan for yourself. You have got to invest,
Speaker 9: and you have got to realize that the stock market's
Speaker 9: going to bounce up and down and you're going to
Speaker 9: need to ride along with it.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing that's going to save you over time.
Speaker 1: And you know that. And your philosophy is the philosophy
Speaker 1: I guess I got it from my parents about being
Speaker 1: frugal and saving and planning ahead, because you know your
Speaker 1: I always viewed life as I am not going to
Speaker 1: be able to I'm not going to be able to
Speaker 1: rely on any body or any government to feed me,
Speaker 1: and I better damn well be in a position to
Speaker 1: take care of myself. So if you just go ahead
Speaker 1: on that strategy that you mentioned, you take ten percent
Speaker 1: out and you invest it, it's still your money. You
Speaker 1: can see it and watch it grow. You just can't
Speaker 1: spend it right now. But if you're not used to
Speaker 1: having it in your pocket and you have been putting
Speaker 1: in a way, you get used to the idea that
Speaker 1: you're got ten percent less to work with during the week,
Speaker 1: and it works out great. Again, that money is it's
Speaker 1: not like you're not going to get that money. It's
Speaker 1: it's going to grow. Yeah, And I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: it breathes.
Speaker 9: That that that frugality, that sense of of you know,
Speaker 9: kind of being responsible, all that it is. It's extremely important.
Speaker 9: But first of all, you can overdo it too.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 9: If you're gonna be frugal to the hilt, then your
Speaker 9: marriage is probably gonna suffer and you're not gonna have
Speaker 9: a happy life.
Speaker 1: So reasonableness is definite and lead key here.
Speaker 9: But the thing all throughout there, Brian is so having
Speaker 9: done this for close to thirty years now, the hardest
Speaker 9: hump for people who do this, who do just what
Speaker 9: we describe save responsibly, don't make a mess of your credit,
Speaker 9: don't panic when the market wobbles. Do those three things
Speaker 9: for thirty years, and you will have the fantastic problem
Speaker 9: of not being willing to spend your own savings. Brian
Speaker 9: Most of what I do is convincing people that it's
Speaker 9: okay to take advantage of the resources they have built
Speaker 9: for themselves. Because people get this idea, they get panicky
Speaker 9: at retirement. They may have a couple million dollars put
Speaker 9: away in their four to one case. They convince themselves
Speaker 9: that their their expenses must must fit inside of their
Speaker 9: Social Security checks. They completely ignore that sum of money
Speaker 9: out there. You know, a half million dollars can generate
Speaker 9: thirty forty thousand dollars worth of distributions a year that
Speaker 9: can be used to pay bills. Two million dollars can
Speaker 9: generate close to one hundred thousand, so all of it helps.
Speaker 9: You are building a resource that you have never tapped into,
Speaker 9: and it's hard to get people to shift years. It's
Speaker 9: the most fun part of my job, honestly, hard to
Speaker 9: get people to shift gears to being able to tap
Speaker 9: into those resources and take advantage of them. You built
Speaker 9: it for you, so take advantage of it because your
Speaker 9: kids certainly will.
Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, it's it's the money you put
Speaker 1: away for yourself. I mean, I didn't spend my life
Speaker 1: putting money into a four to one K program to
Speaker 1: leave it to my children do their own. Damn four
Speaker 1: o one k planning pause for we'll bring Brian back
Speaker 1: at a couple more topics talk about before we get
Speaker 1: to melk loan and loaning them out for us. All right,
Speaker 1: pivoting over, do you want to talk about taking money
Speaker 1: out of four oh one k or presidential elections and
Speaker 1: their impact on the stock market? Brian? Yeah, Let's let's
Speaker 1: tap into this four oh one k thing here. So,
Speaker 1: uh So.
Speaker 9: Four one K loans are commonly known as a people
Speaker 9: treat them as as kind of a resource. It is
Speaker 9: possible to borrow money against your four oh one k,
Speaker 9: and and there there are there are reasons to do it.
Speaker 9: There are, to my mind, there are more reasons not to.
Speaker 9: So let's hit some of the key points here. Sure,
Speaker 9: so Secure Act two point zero is where this came from. Right, so,
Speaker 9: there's an update to this. You can take penalty free
Speaker 9: withdrawals up to one thousand dollars for emergencies.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: This is not actually alone, it's just plain a withdrawal.
Speaker 9: You can do it once per year, and if it's
Speaker 9: repaid within three years, then you avoid taxes and penalties.
Speaker 9: It can be a better You know, there are better
Speaker 9: options out there, though, because the thing that scares me
Speaker 9: the most about this, Brian, is when people rely on
Speaker 9: their four O one K. I think, I think you
Speaker 9: have to have a clear definition of what an emergency is.
Speaker 9: An emergency is not when the ends just don't meet
Speaker 9: for the month, right if you, because that's going to
Speaker 9: happen more often than not. An emergency is truly there
Speaker 9: is just no other way, absolutely no other way. Our
Speaker 9: backs against the wall, and we have got to fix
Speaker 9: this problem, you know, and the only alternative is this
Speaker 9: pile of money that is otherwise untouchable. I think it's
Speaker 9: really really, really really risky to take out that quote
Speaker 9: unquote one time just to catch me up, you know, distribution,
Speaker 9: because then it becomes an option in your mind. And
Speaker 9: if you add up the amount of money that you'll
Speaker 9: sacrifice by pulling those dollars out in twenty twenty, for
Speaker 9: what could those dollars be worth in twenty forty four,
Speaker 9: that is an enormous amount of money. So just because
Speaker 9: the Secure Act two point zero has made it easier
Speaker 9: does not mean it's become a good idea.
Speaker 1: Didn't you used to have to understand the rules. I
Speaker 1: don't recall ever having to take money out of the
Speaker 1: four oh one k. But my understanding is that you did,
Speaker 1: you had to pay it back with interest.
Speaker 9: Correct, Yeah, And so a lot of people think, well,
Speaker 9: that's my own money, and I'm paying it back with interest,
Speaker 9: so therefore I'm just paying myself back. And that's kind
Speaker 9: of true, except you're not getting a deduction right when
Speaker 9: you when you pay those and you make those interest payments,
Speaker 9: you're putting your you paid you know, you're not getting
Speaker 9: the benefit of the tax deferral on those interest dollars.
Speaker 9: Interest payments you're making that flow into your four oh
Speaker 9: one k out of your checking account are not deductible.
Speaker 1: It's not like a contribution. You're just paying that loan back.
Speaker 9: The scariest thing, though, Brian, is people will pull out
Speaker 9: because if you're going to do this, it's generally, you know,
Speaker 9: a somewhat sizeable sum of money for whatever thing you
Speaker 9: need to accomplish. And then what happens is life tends
Speaker 9: to intervene. Your company lay you off, or you decide
Speaker 9: you've got this dream job or something out there. When
Speaker 9: you separate from service, Now that distribution, that loan that
Speaker 9: you're going to pay off over time becomes taxable and
Speaker 9: penalizable pretty darn quick. So you have to have a plan. B.
Speaker 9: I've got a client dealing with this right now that
Speaker 9: it took the dream job and kind of is getting
Speaker 9: broadsided by the idea that that loan he took a
Speaker 9: while ago is going to be tax and penalized.
Speaker 1: All right, now, Is there a difference between a wroth
Speaker 1: four oh one K and a regular four O one
Speaker 1: K when it comes to pulling money out?
Speaker 9: What given the circumstance, Yeah, that doesn't really factor as
Speaker 9: much as what we were talking about. Yeah, there is
Speaker 9: a difference in how all of that works. But the
Speaker 9: end result is you are you're you're exposing yourself to
Speaker 9: the risk of not having things go the way you planned,
Speaker 9: meaning you don't have the time to pay that loan off.
Speaker 9: So even though they've made it easier, is not the
Speaker 9: best idea. But the really big, the scary thing hiding
Speaker 9: in the shadows is how much money you've sacrificed over
Speaker 9: time by pulling the those dollars out, preventing them from growing.
Speaker 9: And again, the super scary thing is that that that
Speaker 9: becomes a sort of an acceptable alternative when everythings get tight,
Speaker 9: we'll just hit the four oh one k again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you cannot understate the loss of the time
Speaker 1: value of money invested in the market. That's important. What
Speaker 1: is it on average? Your money doubles every what eight
Speaker 1: years or something like that.
Speaker 9: There's a yeah, dependent if you're going to invest in
Speaker 9: the stock market, stocks should have. Stocks play a role
Speaker 9: for everybody, right what percentage of stocks, that's up to
Speaker 9: the individual.
Speaker 1: But I would.
Speaker 9: Propose that even the lowliest widows and orphans need to
Speaker 9: have a certain percentage in the stock market because nothing
Speaker 9: else is going to grow. If you have it one
Speaker 9: hundred percent in the stock market, you can count on
Speaker 9: that doubling every eight or nine years or so, based
Speaker 9: on about something.
Speaker 1: Called the rule of seventy two. Yeah, you can google
Speaker 1: that and figure out how the math works.
Speaker 9: But the overall average on the stock market is somewhere
Speaker 9: in the nine to ten percent range. That means some
Speaker 9: years we're up twenty, some years we're down fifteen. There's
Speaker 9: your ten percent average.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Brian James, We've got one more with them.
Speaker 1: Does the presidential election impact the stock market and your
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Speaker 1: Hey forty fifi five karsd talk station. A very happy
Speaker 1: Monday team, maybe even extra special get to Welcome to
Speaker 1: the fifty five CARC Morning show. Conservative journalist, filmmaker and
Speaker 1: podcaster Melkay. She has a host of The Melkay Show,
Speaker 1: launched in March twenty twenties, become an amazing platform for
Speaker 1: intellectually rigorous discussions and analysis of pressing issues, and she
Speaker 1: has more than five hundred thousand subscribers who can document
Speaker 1: and vouch for that summary. Welcome to the program, Melkay,
Speaker 1: author of Americans Anonymous, Restoring Power to the People won
Speaker 1: Citizens at a time.
Speaker 8: Thank you for having me. Happy to be.
Speaker 1: Here, I'm glad you are, Melkay. I appreciate what you're
Speaker 1: doing every day. And let's dive into this. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's justn't a common theme anymore. I had a book
Speaker 1: author on a couple of them last week, and the
Speaker 1: erosions of our freedoms and our liberties, the almost willing
Speaker 1: giving up. It was almost when we look at COVID,
Speaker 1: we willingly gave up all of our constitutionally guaranteed God
Speaker 1: given right, freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and religion,
Speaker 1: all that thrown out the window in the name of COVID.
Speaker 1: But we were so we capitulated, we allowed ourselves to
Speaker 1: be ruled by lawlessness. It's a theme going on these days.
Speaker 8: Mel Yeah, it is. I mean it's very sad because
Speaker 8: the youth fear and panic and the media to really
Speaker 8: rile us up to a point that it's endless chaos
Speaker 8: and conflict. And you got the news and the social media,
Speaker 8: and at this point, the American people have been completely
Speaker 8: left out of all decisions being made. We aren't even
Speaker 8: a part of the mix going on right now in DC.
Speaker 8: And you know, people just have to start to take
Speaker 8: back their own power locally, get involved and realize that
Speaker 8: this country is their responsibility. That's why I say it's
Speaker 8: our responsibility to get out there and take the country back.
Speaker 8: I mean, most people never even read the Constitution, the
Speaker 8: Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence. If you just
Speaker 8: go and take the time, you'll realize we're pretty much
Speaker 8: at the twenty seven grievances point of the Declaration of
Speaker 8: Independence at this time, and it's up to people to
Speaker 8: take back this country, just like it was up to
Speaker 8: them just to fight the revolution, because you know, we
Speaker 8: the people need to It's supposed to be by the
Speaker 8: people for the people. But if the people aren't involved.
Speaker 8: It's not going to be that, and it's getting farther
Speaker 8: and farther away.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like that song, freedom of choice is what
Speaker 1: you've got, freedom from choice is what you want. That
Speaker 1: seems to be the the no. I don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with it. Let somebody else make the decisions for me.
Speaker 1: I'll be okay, which is not true. One of the problems.
Speaker 1: And I key, I've pointed this out for years and years. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: how to break what is this? This division? If there
Speaker 1: is something that we can be divided on. It used
Speaker 1: to be a period of time during our history it
Speaker 1: was a party division. You're in favor of this, and
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of that, and you could have our
Speaker 1: intellectual arguments over what's good principle, what's good policies. Now
Speaker 1: it's a global stirring the pot of division. Because of
Speaker 1: social media. You can't agree on anything, pick a cause
Speaker 1: somebody's out there stirring to the pot of division, which
Speaker 1: means the American flag is no longer this great symbol
Speaker 1: of freedom, where you Melka can pursue the interest in
Speaker 1: your world and I can pursue my interest free to
Speaker 1: do so. Now it's everything. You're evil, you're bad because
Speaker 1: fill in the black.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. But this is by design, because we are
Speaker 8: fighting a bigger battle. A lot of people don't realize.
Speaker 8: I think probably there is a global public private partnership
Speaker 8: that consider themselves stakeholders over not just our country, but
Speaker 8: frankly the world, and they have plans agenda twenty thirty.
Speaker 8: Obama signed us on in twenty fifteen that Biden Harris
Speaker 8: have a commitment to it, and the American people didn't
Speaker 8: consent to that. So right now we're actually, you know,
Speaker 8: the choice in this election isn't about right and left
Speaker 8: at all. They don't even exist at this point. It
Speaker 8: is truly about are we going forward as the sovereign
Speaker 8: nation of America and going to reinvest in our country,
Speaker 8: protect our borders, protect our nation, and take back a
Speaker 8: lot of the money that's being wasted all around the
Speaker 8: world trying to intervene in other countries. Or we're going
Speaker 8: to become global citizens in a global world that has
Speaker 8: a global agenda, which is what Kamala Harris and all
Speaker 8: of them are invested in. It's a corporatetocracy to a
Speaker 8: certain extent, and there's a parent company basically running our country,
Speaker 8: and the lobbyists and the think tanks and all of
Speaker 8: them keep us so far away from being for the people,
Speaker 8: by the people that we the people have to start
Speaker 8: locally and statewise getting the federal government in control and
Speaker 8: out of our lives the way.
Speaker 2: That it is.
Speaker 8: It was never meant to be this overreaching.
Speaker 1: And so your conclusion, Melka, author of American's Anonymous, is
Speaker 1: it's not too late, and you offer thoughts and solutions
Speaker 1: on how we get out of the direction we're going
Speaker 1: and back to a nation of freedom and liberty under
Speaker 1: the flag.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's up to us. We the people of the
Speaker 8: United States, have gotten here because we took our eyes
Speaker 8: off the ball. We were distracted. We allowed the conflict
Speaker 8: and chaos coming from the media to divide us. It's
Speaker 8: time for us to unite and stand for America, because
Speaker 8: you know what, we're the last stand. Trump says, They're
Speaker 8: not after me, they're after you. I'm in the way.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you. They're not after America. They're after the world.
Speaker 8: And America is in the way, and we better start
Speaker 8: acting like it is.
Speaker 2: My thing.
Speaker 1: Amn Melky, host of The Melka Show. You find on podcasts.
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Speaker 1: the information and the knowledge, because if we don't take
Speaker 1: care of ourselves, it's going to be all over. Melka,
Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you for what you do every day.
Speaker 8: Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: My pleasure, absolutely forty five stick around. The VA's coming
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Speaker 1: Fifty eighthy about Kersee talks Station. Returning from the Cincinnio
Speaker 1: via Todd Sledge friend of all veterans. Remind folks, it
Speaker 1: is Todd welcome back to the Morning Show. It is
Speaker 1: suicide Awareness month, is it not? Yeah, absolutely, Brian.
Speaker 10: The month of September is a month nationwide that the
Speaker 10: VA focuses on suicide prevention, which it's every day, but
Speaker 10: more focus on it during the month of September.
Speaker 1: Well, last time I talked to this with the guest
Speaker 1: on the Morning Show. Fortunately the numbers have ticked down
Speaker 1: in terms of the numbers of veterans committing suicide on
Speaker 1: a statistical basis, but it's still too damn high. And
Speaker 1: that's why you're here to remind my veteran friends about
Speaker 1: the VA Compact Act. Yeah, absolutely, Brian, the Compact Act.
Speaker 10: We're almost run about a year now of that Act
Speaker 10: being available for veterans to take advantage of crisis intermittent
Speaker 10: care and any facility you know in the Tristate area,
Speaker 10: any non VA facility. So traditionally back the way things
Speaker 10: used to be. If you know, if you're in crisis,
Speaker 10: the veteran was in crisis, needed help, mental health issues,
Speaker 10: feeling suicidal, having you know, concerning thoughts, they had to
Speaker 10: get to the VA. Well that's not the case anymore.
Speaker 10: They can go to any facility, get the treatment, the
Speaker 10: emergent treatment that they need to get stabilized and healthy
Speaker 10: in the right direction in that facility will help the
Speaker 10: VA connect the veteran.
Speaker 1: With the right resources.
Speaker 10: The key piece is, Brian, it's for all veterans, whether
Speaker 10: you're enrolled, honorably discharged or other than honorable discharge.
Speaker 1: That's great. And you know, I've read descriptions of folks
Speaker 1: in suicidal crisis. Thankfully you've never been there, but it's this,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're overwhelmed. I mean you cannot cope. And
Speaker 1: the hospital or the locust the nearest medical providers the
Speaker 1: place where you need to be. And so I'm happy
Speaker 1: that this Compact Act has expanded the number of facilities
Speaker 1: anybody in crisis can get to. And I know y'all also,
Speaker 1: and let's remind folks also the Veterans Crisis Line nine
Speaker 1: eight eight and when it picks up, press the number one,
Speaker 1: and you are connected immediately with someone who can assist
Speaker 1: of any veteran in crisis. Nine eight eight and then
Speaker 1: hit one remind me of veteran friends about the Pacdact.
Speaker 10: Well again, you know, the Packed Act is now two
Speaker 10: years old, Brian, I can't believe that it.
Speaker 2: It feels like.
Speaker 1: It's been It feels like it us six months ago.
Speaker 10: Yes, with the Packed Act to promise to address comprehensive toxics.
Speaker 10: This has changed veterans lives. I've run into so many
Speaker 10: different veterans who under this Act got en rolled in
Speaker 10: VA Healthcare, but more importantly, filed acclaim for all kinds
Speaker 10: of different presumptive conditions that VA did not recognize before
Speaker 10: as related to their military service and made it just
Speaker 10: a significant difference.
Speaker 1: We have done close now to thirty.
Speaker 10: Five thousand toxic our veterans that you get to use
Speaker 10: our facility.
Speaker 1: So that's that's increasing.
Speaker 10: Our numbers of enrollment for veterans are increasing, But it's
Speaker 10: more importantly get ing rolled c a certified service officer
Speaker 10: to file acclaim and you know, again, Garner, all those
Speaker 10: benefits that you're entitled.
Speaker 1: To, wonderful, wonderful opportunity, for folks get the care they need.
Speaker 1: Veterans under fifty, it's important to get enrolled. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: this is just my theory here, though.
Speaker 10: You know, what I've noticed in my thirty plus years
Speaker 10: of being with the VA is that if you're not,
Speaker 10: if the veteran's not usually enrolled by the age of fifty,
Speaker 10: they don't do it until later on in life when
Speaker 10: things are a little out of control, or the family
Speaker 10: as are surrounding the veteran loved one to care for
Speaker 10: them and be like, why is dad at a private
Speaker 10: hospital or a private facility when he's a veteran and
Speaker 10: hear it all the time, and it just seems like
Speaker 10: that age of fifty after that it's like, well, I'll
Speaker 10: use it when I needed just getting rolled, Just getting
Speaker 10: rolled and make sure that this connected at the time
Speaker 10: that you need it, and you know, doing it before
Speaker 10: the age of fifty seems to be the personal marker
Speaker 10: I've seen that you want to make sure that you've
Speaker 10: got yourself enrolled.
Speaker 1: Well, as you point out regularly, you know, todd Sledge,
Speaker 1: it's healthcare. You are getting the advantage of all these
Speaker 1: tailored health care so and maybe that by getting all
Speaker 1: this the tailored care from the VA. You know, before
Speaker 1: the age of fifteen, I keep you out of a
Speaker 1: crisis as you get older.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, well that and also you know, hearing aids, eyeglasses,
Speaker 10: you know, the things that we do predominantly better and
Speaker 10: cheaper than others in the industry when it comes to veterans.
Speaker 1: And you know, I say all the time about that.
Speaker 10: People say, well, what's the difference time, and I'm like,
Speaker 10: the difference is you have professional healthcare people who know
Speaker 10: veterans better than any other healthcare facility.
Speaker 1: Exactly right, all right, now, plain and simple. How does
Speaker 1: the veteran get enrolled to be a healthcare Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: very simple. You call our eligibility office at five one
Speaker 1: three four seven five six four nine. That's five one
Speaker 1: three four seven, five six four nine nine. Talk to
Speaker 1: one of our healthcare specialists about your benefits, ask all
Speaker 1: the questions that you need. We're getting ready to launch,
Speaker 1: hopefully next month Brown, I'll be able to tell you
Speaker 1: a new enrollment mobile enrollment clinic. We're going to be
Speaker 1: working with our county Veteran Service Commissions about as well,
Speaker 1: so they'll make a little bit easier for veterans to
Speaker 1: see us Bundy in person. Fantastic it live instead of
Speaker 1: over the phone. Great and you know I'm around to
Speaker 1: help you spread the word on that anytime you care
Speaker 1: to do so. Todd Sledge, thank you from the bottom
Speaker 1: of my heart on behalf of all my veterans in
Speaker 1: the listening audience. Thanks for what you do each and
Speaker 1: every day of the CINCINNTI VA, taking great care of
Speaker 1: our veterans and take advantage of these these programs you
Speaker 1: earned them, fellas ladies both Todd. We'll talk again soon,
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think yeah, Brian, and again thanks for all
Speaker 10: the your years of partnership and then love a caden
Speaker 10: and supporting our veterans out there. They listen to you
Speaker 10: because they stay. Told me that all the time, they
Speaker 10: said Brian told me to call us over here.
Speaker 1: That warms my heart to no end because I know
Speaker 1: I'm steering him in the right direction, because I'm sending
Speaker 1: them your way. Todd's Ledge. Until we talk again, Best
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