Speaker 1: This is May twenty twenty two, and so I think
Speaker 1: one of his final acts may be pardoning his son.
Speaker 2: Clay Travis, said Buck Sexton today at noon on fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 3: Five O five.
Speaker 2: A fifty five k r C the talk station, Happy Monday.
Speaker 2: Serious and of my vacation away, some says say, will
Speaker 2: it is a vacation.
Speaker 4: This winter is coming.
Speaker 2: It's here. Thank you to Kevin Gordon and Dan Carroll
Speaker 2: for covering for me while I was on vacation. Boy
Speaker 2: at that time just goes by like instantaneously. Anyway, Brian
Speaker 2: Thomas is glad to be back here at work and
Speaker 2: of course very very very happy to pull in the
Speaker 2: garage this morning after a treacherous drive onto the work
Speaker 2: and see Joe Strecker's vehicle there. He had the foresight
Speaker 2: to stay at a hotel close by. I need to
Speaker 2: go into the the the the oil that the machine
Speaker 2: here needs to be properly running. But I presume Joe
Speaker 2: will ultimately get reimbursed for something that he was told
Speaker 2: he was allowed to do. Anyway, fingers crossed on that
Speaker 2: Joe Strecker. Good to see him, man, I hope you
Speaker 2: had enjoyed the time off or whatever time you had off,
Speaker 2: if any, and then you enjoy the peace and quiet
Speaker 2: of an empty building. Apparently that's pretty much what was
Speaker 2: going on around here for the past at least a
Speaker 2: week or so. Anyway, if you care to call, I
Speaker 2: would love to hear from you, which is always the case.
Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven, nine fifty eight hundred and eight
Speaker 2: two to three talker with tund fight fifty on at
Speaker 2: and t funds. Go back to the roads. Yeah, my
Speaker 2: commute is not that long normally, you know, less than
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes from my driveway to pull in here to
Speaker 2: eighty forty four Montgomery Road. But it is not a
Speaker 2: good place to be on the road today. So many
Speaker 2: of them look like they've been shoveled once, although the
Speaker 2: accumulation built up after the first shoveling, so you know,
Speaker 2: I'm driving through like three four inches of snow. Sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know, when people are shoveling their respective businesses, they
Speaker 2: push the snow out into the middle of Montgomery Road.
Speaker 2: So you got some giant piles and the night to
Speaker 2: drive right through those. But fortunately my wife's car is
Speaker 2: all wheel drive, so I drove that one this morning
Speaker 2: because I think I'd be in a ditch somewhere if
Speaker 2: I had to take my car because it's three wheel drive. Anyhow,
Speaker 2: the best thing to do is just not go out.
Speaker 2: That's easy for some to say. If you have the option, though,
Speaker 2: please give them some time to get the roads taken
Speaker 2: care of, at least better than they are right now.
Speaker 2: Not a great place to be anyway. So they got
Speaker 2: a storm warning remains ineffected until midnight tonight, heavy mixed precipitation,
Speaker 2: additional snow and sleep accumulation. They're saying between two and
Speaker 2: four inches ice accumulations up to one tenth of an inch.
Speaker 2: That'll suck. They're saying it's covering portions of southeast Indiana,
Speaker 2: northern Kentucky, south central and southwest Ohio. So you know,
Speaker 2: basically the circle around greater Cincinnati area, and it lasts
Speaker 2: until midnight tonight. So plan on the slippery road conditions,
Speaker 2: has its conditions, and it will certainly impact the commute
Speaker 2: this morning and as well as evening commutes, so be prepared.
Speaker 2: And one of the warnings was saying keep an extra
Speaker 2: flash light. How many flashlights you have in your car, Joe,
Speaker 2: do you have to? Really? We'll get one more, it
Speaker 2: says keep an extra flashlight in there. I never even
Speaker 2: considered a flashlight. Maybe that's something I should consider. And
Speaker 2: we also consider putting some food and water in your
Speaker 2: vehicle just in case of emergency. That of course makes sense. Yes,
Speaker 2: bread and milk, and it's cold enough out there. As
Speaker 2: long as your heater's not onto the car'll it'll maintain
Speaker 2: the freshness of the milk anyway, So you know, and
Speaker 2: I guess there's probably no schools open. You can get
Speaker 2: a five ks dot com get the school closure list.
Speaker 2: Although with modern technology, I'm sure if you have a
Speaker 2: school age child, you probably already got a text saying
Speaker 2: don't come in today, schools closed. At least, you know,
Speaker 2: in this particular case, I can at least justify the
Speaker 2: schools being closed, having just experienced pretty terrible road conditions
Speaker 2: on roads that are pretty much maintained, you know, first order,
Speaker 2: like Montgomery Road, for example. I did not get on
Speaker 2: the expressway I normally do. So I have no idea
Speaker 2: what seventy one is like. And again, to the extent
Speaker 2: you can avoid it, don't go out and find out
Speaker 2: on your own. And as this messive storm inundates most
Speaker 2: of the Midwest. They're still going to swear in Donald
Speaker 2: Trump today, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson. Least he
Speaker 2: said that yesterday. The Electoral count Act requires this on
Speaker 2: January sixth on on PMS. Whether we're in a blizzard
Speaker 2: or not, we're going to be in that chamber making
Speaker 2: sure this is done. So saith speaker, and he's confirmed.
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson, do you only hold out Congressman Thomas Massey?
Speaker 2: What do you think about that? You know? And and
Speaker 2: to that end, I had a lot of people were
Speaker 2: asking you about that, and honestly, say what you want
Speaker 2: about Johnson. It's probably best for the Republicans generally speaking
Speaker 2: to have accepted Johnson, keep them in position so they
Speaker 2: can move forward with a smooth transition into actually getting
Speaker 2: something done on behalf of the American people, like cutting
Speaker 2: the size and the scope of government. Again, I'm excited
Speaker 2: about Doge and you know, Joe Strecker putting out the
Speaker 2: entire Rand Paul Festivus report, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: you have every right, every right and I don't know
Speaker 2: how this this is beyond political perspective. To be frankly,
Speaker 2: I can say at the five o'clock are pissed off
Speaker 2: when you read what you have worked for that our
Speaker 2: elected officials have paid your your labor. And I always
Speaker 2: expressed it in terms of labor. You went to work,
Speaker 2: they taxed your earnings. They literally you're a slave to
Speaker 2: the federal government to whatever extent they want. And when
Speaker 2: you read about what they spend your labor on, I'm
Speaker 2: surprised we haven't had like I mean, I remember the
Speaker 2: tea party days, and boy, weren't we all excited about that.
Speaker 2: A new tea party springing from the original one. About taxes,
Speaker 2: I mean, no, dump a MT into the ocean. A
Speaker 2: revolt is almost in order on this kind of thing.
Speaker 2: When you read what they've spent your money on, it
Speaker 2: should be in order. I can only pray and hope
Speaker 2: that this new administration actually can do something about this.
Speaker 2: We are drowning in debt. Congressional Budget Office predicts we
Speaker 2: will add an average of two point one trillion dollars
Speaker 2: in debt annually for the next decade. Now that's a
Speaker 2: quote from the summary of the Happy Festivus Report from
Speaker 2: Rand Paul. But think about that. The Congressional Budget Office
Speaker 2: predicts only ten years out. That's where they stop This
Speaker 2: doesn't mean after ten years we're gonna stop spending an
Speaker 2: additional two point one trillion dollars average. It's going to
Speaker 2: continue on into the foreseeable future, even the unforseeable future.
Speaker 2: That's just where the CBO decides to stop looking. But
Speaker 2: isn't that bad enough. Acquard to a July House Budget
Speaker 2: Committee for the United States government will add over get
Speaker 2: a load of this six point four billion dollars of
Speaker 2: debt every single day for the next ten years, again
Speaker 2: stopping at ten years, because they don't look further than that,
Speaker 2: borrowing two hundred and sixty eight million dollars every hour,
Speaker 2: which translates to four point five million dollars every minute
Speaker 2: and seventy four four hundred and one dollars every single second.
Speaker 2: When the mic came on at five oh five, it's
Speaker 2: five thirteen right now. I could do the math on that.
Speaker 2: That is just an just an amazing amount of money
Speaker 2: that we have added to our debt. That's beyond what
Speaker 2: they take from in taxes. This is excess so that
Speaker 2: we can spend it on what nailing cats spinning dishes
Speaker 2: to see what happens to them, so that we can
Speaker 2: promote circuses in city parks so that we can pay
Speaker 2: the Royal Film Commission almost nine hundred thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: movies in Jordan. That's a Department of State expenditure. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just when you read it, you're like, no way,
Speaker 2: there's this, This can't happen. How does someone get a
Speaker 2: grant for this kind of crap? We spend twenty million.
Speaker 2: You you went to work or driving in treacherous road
Speaker 2: conditions a day to get to work so they can
Speaker 2: take a chunk of your salary out to spend twenty
Speaker 2: million dollars on Allan Simson, which is a new sesame
Speaker 2: street in Iraq, Iraq. I mean, I laugh, It's just
Speaker 2: it's the absurdity of this. National Science Foundations spend almost
Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars to ensure bird watching groups have
Speaker 2: safe spaces, i e. Affinity groups. I strongly encourage you
Speaker 2: to get a copy of the report. I mean, Rand
Speaker 2: Paul does it every single year, and these many years
Speaker 2: as he's been doing it, has it changed or has
Speaker 2: it gotten worse? I think it's gotten worse. And no,
Speaker 2: this is not affiliated with one party or another, it's both.
Speaker 2: This is what you get when you get you continuing
Speaker 2: resolutions rather than doing appropriations bills. This is what you
Speaker 2: get when you finish matters up at the eleventh hour,
Speaker 2: so you can go back and celebrate whatever holiday you're
Speaker 2: celebrating as an elected official, rather than get the job
Speaker 2: done that you were hired to do via an election.
Speaker 2: Which job you knew about when you took an oath
Speaker 2: of office. Oh yeah, that's right. Look, job number one,
Speaker 2: twelve appropriations bills. I got a full year to do it.
Speaker 2: Now we're just going to shove it on to continued
Speaker 2: resolution so we can continue to fund I don't know,
Speaker 2: transgender ice skating events that's actually on here. The National
Speaker 2: Endowment for the Arts awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars grant to support a cabaret show on
Speaker 2: ice skates that's focused on climate change. Does that not
Speaker 2: make your head hurt? And does that not make you angry? Oh,
Speaker 2: it's only ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand dollars. They spill
Speaker 2: more than that in five minutes. No, in five minutes,
Speaker 2: they spill what's the number on that, four point five
Speaker 2: million every minute? No, that attributed to these seventy four thousand,
Speaker 2: four hundred and one thousand dollars every second, ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars of it went to bearded transvestites on ice singing
Speaker 2: or dancing or skating while focusing on climate change. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you what and that's just the tip of
Speaker 2: the batcrap and saying iceberg we're dealing with this morning
Speaker 2: five three seven four fifty eight two three talk. Mark
Speaker 2: is on the phone. Mark, you'll be first out of
Speaker 2: the gate, and happy new Year to everybody, first out
Speaker 2: of the gate calendar year twenty twenty five. I'll be
Speaker 2: right back after these brief fortestation is five twenty on
Speaker 2: the Monday. Brian Thomas enjoyed my vacation, but I am
Speaker 2: glad to be back to work. Always enjoy talking to you.
Speaker 2: Two five one three seven four fifty two to three
Speaker 2: talk count five fifty on at and T fun Mark,
Speaker 2: Thanks for holding over the brake and happy new Year
Speaker 2: to you. Welcome to the show, Hey Brian, good to
Speaker 2: have you back, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: I'm driving into work now. I live up in Union County, Indiana.
Speaker 5: Now you were talking three to four inches and uh
Speaker 5: on our roads up here, they don't plow them or
Speaker 5: if they did. They blow back. They blew back over
Speaker 5: on our road leading out to twenty seven, I went
Speaker 5: through snow drifts three to four foot high.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what kind of gre are you in
Speaker 2: a four wheel drive vehicle or something like a jeep?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm in a I'm in a little four granger
Speaker 6: with four wheel drive. Okay, Yeah, it's it's uh, it's
Speaker 6: I mean, if you have front wheel drive or two
Speaker 6: wheel drive this morning twenty seven down through Oxford, it
Speaker 6: maybe the roads or snow covered, they're plowing them, but
Speaker 6: where the wind is and drifting, that's that's the issue right.
Speaker 5: Now, at least up in Indiana northern Ohio there. But
Speaker 5: but yeah, it's uh, I mean, the roads are covered,
Speaker 5: but if you have the right kind of tires. And
Speaker 5: I've done a lot of driving in this kind of weather,
Speaker 5: so it doesn't really bother me. But one of the
Speaker 5: things I wanted to bring up, and everything you're saying
Speaker 5: about the government and what they spend. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: waste any time repeating what you've already said, but you're
Speaker 5: one hundred percent correct that does need to be changed,
Speaker 5: and uh that that stuff has got to stop. One
Speaker 5: I called for it is bugged me all weekend. I
Speaker 5: had heard something about ESPN had cut the feed on
Speaker 5: the Sugar Bowl when they were doing the national anthem
Speaker 5: and a moment of silence for the victims in New Orleans. Yeah,
Speaker 5: then when we sat down to watch the Bengals game,
Speaker 5: as soon as they amnnounced what they were getting ready
Speaker 5: to do the TV pros and so my wife texted
Speaker 5: one of our friends and said, hey, did your TV
Speaker 5: you know, did your programming stop? And he said, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's frozen. And as soon as the girl was finishing
Speaker 5: up the national anthem, it came back on. So ESPN
Speaker 5: was part of that broadcast and did it again. And
Speaker 5: I'll tell you, I don't know what their problem is,
Speaker 5: but I've never liked ESPN from the day they were invented.
Speaker 5: I don't know, just never really like the station. But
Speaker 5: I will never turn on ESPN again because I know
Speaker 5: some radio talk show hosts were talking about it late
Speaker 5: last week and maybe Saturday morning. But yeah, if you
Speaker 5: look into that, or has somebody look into that, you'll
Speaker 5: see that they did that again during the Bengals game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did watch the game. I don't recall
Speaker 2: that happening though I can't say that I had my
Speaker 2: eyes glued to the screen from the very beginning of
Speaker 2: the game to the end. But I did hear a
Speaker 2: lot because it was widely reported about ESPN cutting away
Speaker 2: from the national anthem and the moment of silence for
Speaker 2: the New Orleans folks don't understand why they would do that,
Speaker 2: It really don't. I don't know whose interest they think
Speaker 2: they're serving, you know. It's it's like, for example, if
Speaker 2: a corporation takes a political stand, you sort of scratch
Speaker 2: your head and you wait, wait a second, why. I mean,
Speaker 2: you have customers across the political spectrum. Doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: me and be in your best interest to take a,
Speaker 2: you know, an out loud political stand, regardless of which
Speaker 2: side of the ledger you happen to be on. So unless,
Speaker 2: of course, you just want to serve a particular political
Speaker 2: biased audience. But sports sports doesn't have a political stripe,
Speaker 2: does it? Mark at least it shouldn't. I mean, of
Speaker 2: all the organizations, ESPN should be least likely to take
Speaker 2: a political stand about anything like that.
Speaker 5: So and well, I'll tell you when Colin. When Colin
Speaker 5: Kaepernick did what he did, I stopped watching the NFL
Speaker 5: for probably five to seven years.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: And that's no joke. I would not turn it on
Speaker 5: for nothing. And I just recently started watching it again.
Speaker 5: But if the NFL goes down that path again, and
Speaker 5: believe me, some of their little messaging and the crap
Speaker 5: that they want to sit there and promote that, you know,
Speaker 5: just I forget the violence and the one love and
Speaker 5: all this crap. You know, I don't even want to
Speaker 5: see any of that. And so if they go down
Speaker 5: that road again, I have no problem turning it off.
Speaker 5: But I did not watch NFL, like I said, it
Speaker 5: had to be at least seven years.
Speaker 2: My wife my boat.
Speaker 5: Actually and understand.
Speaker 2: I understand that.
Speaker 5: Ain't It's not imperative in my life that I have
Speaker 5: to watch it.
Speaker 2: I get it all day long. And that's one of
Speaker 2: the reasons I get really really angry about your dollars,
Speaker 2: my dollars, or anybody's taxpayer dollars being used to build giant, epic,
Speaker 2: multi billion dollars stadiums for individuals who own the football
Speaker 2: teams who probably could well afford to do it themselves. Anyhow,
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Mark, I appreciate it. Yeah, do
Speaker 2: you really need it? In your life, Phil, Hang on, buddy,
Speaker 2: i'mount a time in this segment, but I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear what you have to say. I got local stories
Speaker 2: as well. But Phil, fe don't mind holding for a moment,
Speaker 2: take quick break, be right back. This is what's happening.
Speaker 4: This was an act of terrorists.
Speaker 7: Stay current, they will not much as attacker the attackers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't go out on the roads. There's your nine
Speaker 2: warning forecast anyway. Winter storm morning in effect on midnight today.
Speaker 2: We got snow continuing until the afternoon, one to five
Speaker 2: additional inches of accumulation. Additional that is twenty eight degrees
Speaker 2: for the high down to eleven overnight to be breezy.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's high twenty six partly cloudy and breezy overnight down
Speaker 2: to six singular degrees and a high a twenty four
Speaker 2: on Wednesday with mostly clotty skies. Right now is twenty
Speaker 2: three degrees. Please tempty about here, CD Talk Station Wednesday
Speaker 2: listener lunch High Green Breweries, Brentwood brewpob Lope to see
Speaker 2: you there. It's gonna be a good time. And to
Speaker 2: the phones we go. Fight Wing three seven four two
Speaker 2: three talk. Promise Phil he'd be first, Phil, thanks for
Speaker 2: holding over the break there. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 8: Happy New Year, Yay, Happy New Year to you too,
Speaker 8: Brian and everyone around.
Speaker 5: And the thing, I'm uh.
Speaker 8: What color you see it? Every year? Every year, you
Speaker 8: can go back twenty years whatever.
Speaker 5: They all like, this is winter time and they.
Speaker 8: And the roads man here, they ain't PLoud them, they
Speaker 8: won't do nothing. I live on mary Ingram Highway. I'm
Speaker 8: up here on twenty seven too. They they knew this
Speaker 8: was coming. They haven't touched anything. And I don't understand.
Speaker 8: I mean, he you pay for it. I mean I
Speaker 8: can get on one of them dag on things and drive.
Speaker 5: It and clear the road.
Speaker 8: I mean they're going up and down the road here, Ryan,
Speaker 8: what their their plow up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I passed one of those on the way into
Speaker 2: work this morning, the plow up. And I you know,
Speaker 2: just because the vehicle's got a plow on, it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean it's a municipal vehicle. Just because the vehicle is
Speaker 2: a plow on, even it's a municipal vehicle, doesn't mean
Speaker 2: it's a sign to that particular road. It's like the
Speaker 2: peace of God, my brother. I don't have any idea
Speaker 2: how they allocate plow responsibilities. What I do know that
Speaker 2: is is just and I'll give them credit. Because the
Speaker 2: road I came down, Montgomery Road, it had obviously been
Speaker 2: plowed at some point, but with the snow continuing to fall,
Speaker 2: and it's coming down pretty good, you're gonna get additional
Speaker 2: a few inches of accumulation virtually no time. So that's
Speaker 2: what I was experiencing. I was experiencing the three to
Speaker 2: four inches of snow that had come down after they
Speaker 2: sent the plow on Montgomery Road. So you know, I
Speaker 2: and Phil, we all just got a roll with it, right,
Speaker 2: And I feel sorry for people have to go. You
Speaker 2: have to get out and go to work.
Speaker 8: Get summertime again. Everybody's wine and man, Brian, everybody's wine
Speaker 8: and in wine? Am I get real?
Speaker 5: Wake up?
Speaker 8: This is what is called Ohio, Kentucky. This happens every year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, and today it's actually, you know it's well today,
Speaker 9: at least today we can say without hesitation that they
Speaker 9: appropriately called school off because the roads are in fact treacherous.
Speaker 9: You know, last time they called school off, it was
Speaker 9: because it was twenty five degrees out, Like, wait a second,
Speaker 9: you called school off because it's cold out. Going back
Speaker 9: to your point, Phil, it's winter time in the greater
Speaker 9: Cincinnati area. Guess what, It's gonna be cold at some point, Lord.
Speaker 5: Grade school. I was in grade school.
Speaker 8: I locked up the heel both ways up hell in
Speaker 8: snow up to my knees. Now, moll the little whimps.
Speaker 8: They making little whims out of our little kids.
Speaker 2: Man, Oh yeah, well that's certainly certainly true. Well wait
Speaker 2: till the power goes off. I'll get to the article later.
Speaker 2: But it sounds to me like we've got really really,
Speaker 2: really really treacherous and concerning news about the Chinese Communist
Speaker 2: Party and their ability to completely shut down our ports
Speaker 2: and our power grid. I'll get to that in a
Speaker 2: six o'clock hour. So maybe we have to deal with
Speaker 2: life without electricity. Anyhow, Hang in there, Phil, be careful
Speaker 2: out there, and if you know, if I'm used, I
Speaker 2: don't mind driving in the snow. I mean it can
Speaker 2: be manageable. You just have to know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: If you're a decent, good driver, you're accomplished and you understand,
Speaker 2: then it is possible to get out there. I just
Speaker 2: don't recommend it if you can avoid it, and it
Speaker 2: helps to have a vehicle with four wheel or all
Speaker 2: wheel drive, and there's no question about it. And as
Speaker 2: I pointed out when I opened the show this, I'm
Speaker 2: not quite sure I would be able to make it
Speaker 2: navigating the roads I had to drive down if I
Speaker 2: had to drive my car rear wheel drive. So fortunately
Speaker 2: my wife has an all wheel drive car. Anyhow, hang
Speaker 2: in there and be real careful. Five point three seven
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Speaker 2: to local story. Special prosecutor found that allegations made my
Speaker 2: Democratic Ohio Representative Cecil Thomas before the November election against
Speaker 2: Hamilton County prosecuting Melissa Powers were entirely quote baseless, close
Speaker 2: quote shocking.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 2: One thirteen page report filed late Monday by Klemon County
Speaker 2: Prosecutor Mark to Culvey who was appointed last month a
Speaker 2: special prosecutor. He found that Thomas has sworn Avid David
Speaker 2: in support of his claims quote was filed in bad
Speaker 2: faith closse quote vote. In a statement from Powers said
Speaker 2: it was shameful that these allegations were taken seriously by
Speaker 2: anyone from the start, saying this was nothing more than
Speaker 2: a politically motivated hit designed to influence the outcome of
Speaker 2: Novembers election, and it has been dismissed correctly for the
Speaker 2: sham that it is. Thomas's allegations filed November fourth, four
Speaker 2: days before the election, Powers ended up losing to Connie
Speaker 2: Pillage thanks a lot Hamilton County voters, first Democrat the
Speaker 2: whole prosecutor's office in nearly a century. She won fifty
Speaker 2: one point three to forty eight point seven. Notably, until recently,
Speaker 2: wasn't even licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2: We lost a good one most of Powers losing that election.
Speaker 2: Powers also said she's evaluating legal options in her words,
Speaker 2: to remedy the damage this act has caused. Thomas alleged
Speaker 2: that Power, as a former juvenile court judge back day
Speaker 2: a court entry in a case in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Powers said she simply had corrected a clerical error in
Speaker 2: order to preserve juvenile's right to appeal one of her
Speaker 2: decisions to call. His investigation found that Heaven Kind of
Speaker 2: Juvenile Courts computer system does not allow users to backdate entries.
Speaker 2: If Powers had wanted information on the doc had change,
Speaker 2: you have had to first request it in writing. There
Speaker 2: was no such request in the case, according to the
Speaker 2: now closed report. Assistant City Manager and Tasha Hampton came
Speaker 2: to the job amid questions about her past job performance.
Speaker 2: She resigned This story from December thirty First, we're dealing
Speaker 2: with some older news here, said she Announcement Department on
Speaker 2: social media site linked In, submitted a resignation to city
Speaker 2: manager share a long quote, I have decided to pursue
Speaker 2: new professional opportunities in align with my long term career
Speaker 2: goals and personal aspirations. Well, in an unrelated article, we
Speaker 2: have a list of the highest pay jobs in Hamilton County.
Speaker 2: Maybe she's going to be pursuing an assistant County Corners job,
Speaker 2: which we find out that the County Corners assistant the
Speaker 2: deputy Corners the top one, two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 2: The top six highest paid Hamilton County salaries for countar
Speaker 2: year twenty twenty four all our deputy corners. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 2: the actual corner makes about half what the deputy corners make.
Speaker 2: You figure that one out. Doctor Leuximi Somarco makes one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty three nine and eighty four dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Deputy corners make between two hundred and forty one and
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year. Does that
Speaker 2: sound right? Five thirty five coming to five thirty six
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Speaker 2: talk about. Oh look, stack is stupid and a pretty
Speaker 2: sizeable one at that. I'll be right back, run a business.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 2: Winter storm warning in effect till midnight. What they're saying
Speaker 2: is in another one to five inches more snow. Snow
Speaker 2: will continue until the afternoon high twenty eight, overnight lowville
Speaker 2: welling degrees going to be breezy as well and have
Speaker 2: partly cloudy sky's. It'll be breezy tomorrow high of twenty six,
Speaker 2: overnight low of six. It can be cold just thinking
Speaker 2: about it. Twenty four to the high on ones they
Speaker 2: with mostly cloudy skuys is twenty three right now in
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Speaker 11: out to drive only one lane available in most cases
Speaker 11: that's clear on the highways. Even with that northbound seventy five,
Speaker 11: there's an accident in the cut in the hill that
Speaker 11: has the right two lanes blocked off. Left lane is
Speaker 11: open into downtown. Chuck Kingbram Month fifty five KRE seen
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Speaker 2: Forty at five KRC Decalk Station. A very happy Monday
Speaker 2: to you, Ryan Thomas Cloud to be back, wishing everybody
Speaker 2: a very happy New Year. Thanks again to Kevin Gordon,
Speaker 2: Dan Carroll for company. While I was staring at the
Speaker 2: back of my eyelids, left in late every single day
Speaker 2: and it was so awesome, nothing like vacation in sleeping
Speaker 2: in late. So starting nineteenth year radio this year, I'm
Speaker 2: still not used to get up a two thirty in
Speaker 2: the morning, but I love hearing from you. Going to
Speaker 2: go straight to the phones right now five one three,
Speaker 2: seven fifty two three Talk New Hampshire, Gary, Happy New
Speaker 2: Year to you. Good to hear from you this morning.
Speaker 10: Welcome back, Brian, Thanks man from you.
Speaker 7: Dan.
Speaker 10: Carl did a pretty good job too while you were gone.
Speaker 10: I'm miss both you and Joe. You guys are a
Speaker 10: great team.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, well, it's well deserved. On your case, I'll
Speaker 10: just talk a little bit about the snow of being
Speaker 10: from New Hampshire living up here for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 10: You know, uh, they do a really good job clearing
Speaker 10: theadways up here. The only time you'll really get any
Speaker 10: clog is if you're getting more than two or three
Speaker 10: inches an hour. You know, you get three inches. They
Speaker 10: do something called gang gang club. They do gang plowing
Speaker 10: up here, which.
Speaker 2: That phrasing again, sorry man, roll with Strucker's o.
Speaker 10: I'm with it. But it's it's very common to see
Speaker 10: four and five trucks plowing the snow all together, and
Speaker 10: you'll see several gangs. And on the secondary you know,
Speaker 10: for the main highways and Class A roads and then
Speaker 10: for the secondary roads still contract out to small contractors
Speaker 10: only for the day at snow's and they'll be doing
Speaker 10: the side streets and salting and it is it's just
Speaker 10: like they do like uh, the runways on uh you
Speaker 10: know at airport you see five of them and make
Speaker 10: cleaning off the roads. I mean, look at the split
Speaker 10: and they've got it down to a science up here
Speaker 10: to where you guys just don't get that kind of snow.
Speaker 2: See there, that's the nail on the head right there.
Speaker 2: We hardly I mean we get snow, of course, but
Speaker 2: you know, the number of days we get really serious
Speaker 2: snow like this are few and far between. So to
Speaker 2: have you know, all of the equipment that would require
Speaker 2: that so called gang plowing, and all the resources and
Speaker 2: and and you know, and humanity responsible for operating everything,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a I mean, for a state
Speaker 2: like New Hampshire, you get a lot of snow all
Speaker 2: the time. I can see certainly the justification for the
Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars. But if it only happens like once or
Speaker 2: twice a winter season, obviously you're not going to have
Speaker 2: as well oiled a machine. And that's I think what
Speaker 2: we're facing right here this morning. Uh, and we and
Speaker 2: keeping up with the snow as you point out, man.
Speaker 2: I mean it's still coming down. We're going to get
Speaker 2: one to five additional inches today on top of what
Speaker 2: they've already plowed over. So I just you know, they
Speaker 2: get overwhelmed. I think that's where we are right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go pointing fingers or casting blame
Speaker 2: on anyone, but uh what what more can you do
Speaker 2: except just roll with it? Right? So you got a
Speaker 2: lot of snow in New Hampshire, Gary.
Speaker 5: Oh boy.
Speaker 10: The first year we moved up here, me and my
Speaker 10: wife is after I retired from the military in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 10: We bought a three hundred year old house and it
Speaker 10: has the original roof, so there was a little bit
Speaker 10: of concern with that that I went out and you know,
Speaker 10: we got fourteen inches and I cleared the you know,
Speaker 10: we got the snow blower and the equipment, and I
Speaker 10: cleared off all the you know, the driveway, the sidewalk
Speaker 10: and everything, and then I thought I was done. I
Speaker 10: was heading my way into the house and then we
Speaker 10: got another sixteen inches of snow. I literally got a
Speaker 10: little panic because that's a lot of weight on the roof. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and you know, we actually.
Speaker 2: You live in New Hampshire. You bought a couple of
Speaker 2: hundred year old house that has been in New Hampture
Speaker 2: for that many hundreds of years, and the roof has
Speaker 2: held up after years and years and years and years
Speaker 2: of that kind of snowfall. I think you're probably pretty
Speaker 2: good shape. It's withstood the test of time.
Speaker 10: I literally got a picture of me because all the
Speaker 10: snow comes off the roof and the snow is higher
Speaker 10: than the roof. I was like, you know, I'm a young,
Speaker 10: strong guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'll tell you what. I'm gonna look outside
Speaker 2: now and go, man, no big deal. Yeah, I'm sure Gary.
Speaker 2: God bless you, sir. Thanks for calling in this morning
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Speaker 2: effect until midnight tonight, expecting an additional one two five
Speaker 2: inches more snow than what we have out there already.
Speaker 2: I have twenty eight today down to eleven overnight breezy.
Speaker 2: It'll be partly cloudy tomorrow breezy as well, at a
Speaker 2: high twenty six down to six singular degrees Tuesday night
Speaker 2: and on Wednesday mostly cloud's in a high twenty four
Speaker 2: twenty three. Right now, time for traffick from the uc
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Speaker 11: two sixty three. It is not a good day for travel.
Speaker 11: If you can stay at home, do that. If you
Speaker 11: have to go out, you're going to need plenty of
Speaker 11: extra time. Right now, Cruis are working with an acient
Speaker 11: in northbound seventy five in the cut. The right two
Speaker 11: lanes are blocked up single file to get by on
Speaker 11: the left, Chuck Ingram N fifty five KRCV talk station.
Speaker 2: By forty nine. Ifif you about KRCD talk station, Happy Monday,
Speaker 2: just don't go outside if you can avoid it. That
Speaker 2: sound advice to Chuck Ingram there. Seriously, there's no reason
Speaker 2: to go out if you don't absolutely have to go
Speaker 2: out to stay the heck off the roads. So even
Speaker 2: if you have a four wheel drive vehicle and are
Speaker 2: capable of driving in, if you don't have to go out,
Speaker 2: don't add to the potential problems. Over to the stack
Speaker 2: of stupid got A pizza delivery driver allegedly stabbed a
Speaker 2: pregnant woman multiple times at a Florida motel after a
Speaker 2: dispute over a tip. Twenty two old Brienna Alvella charge
Speaker 2: was stabbing the woman in a motel room in the
Speaker 2: Kissimi City south of Orlando, Florida, corner of the Oskolis
Speaker 2: County Sheriff's I was attack happened after the victim ordered
Speaker 2: a pizza from a local restaurant. Sheriff's respond to the
Speaker 2: reports of a home invasion and a stabbing at the
Speaker 2: Riviera Motel. They got to the scene, they discovered a
Speaker 2: victim with multiple stab wounds. After the investigation, they revealed
Speaker 2: that Alvello attacked the woman shortly after she delivered the pizza.
Speaker 2: Quote became upset about the tip that she had received.
Speaker 2: Close quote that's the cord of the report from the
Speaker 2: Sheriff's office, what the hell. She returned to the victim's
Speaker 2: motel room armed with a knife, accompanied by an unknown
Speaker 2: male suspect who was packing a firearm. They forced their
Speaker 2: way in a motel room and began attacking the victim
Speaker 2: corner of the sheriff's department. The victims stabbed multiple times
Speaker 2: and some items were also taken from the room. Victim
Speaker 2: taken to local hospital, currently in stable condition at least
Speaker 2: as of the reporting on this one. Originally, the victim,
Speaker 2: along with a boyfriend and her five year old daughter,
Speaker 2: were at the motel saying there celebrating a birthday. Corner
Speaker 2: to the court documents, when Alvella delivered the pizza cost
Speaker 2: thirty three dollars, the victim gave a fifty dollars bill
Speaker 2: and asked for change. Court document said Alvello told victim
Speaker 2: that she did not have changed, so the victim searched
Speaker 2: her wallet for smaller bills. The victim then allegedly gave
Speaker 2: Alvello a two dollars tipped, prompting Alvella to roll her
Speaker 2: eyes and walk away. Then she returned later with the man,
Speaker 2: both wearing face masks, forcing themselves into the room again
Speaker 2: with a gun too, told the victim's boyfriend to go
Speaker 2: into the bathroom before they rummaged through the victim's belongings.
Speaker 2: So victim tried to shield her daughter from the suspects
Speaker 2: when Alvello allegedly stabbed her. She was stabbed fourteen times,
Speaker 2: later discovered she was pregnant. While receiving treatment from her
Speaker 2: roounds at the hospital, a Vella arrested. The Sheriff's office
Speaker 2: said man was ledgedly with her during the attack. Has
Speaker 2: yet to be identified, at least as a reporting from
Speaker 2: a week or two ago, facing charge of attempted murder,
Speaker 2: home invasion with the firearm, kidnapping, aggravated assault. Online inmate
Speaker 2: records show that she's being held at the Ossicola County
Speaker 2: Jail on a fifty five thousand dollars bond, does not
Speaker 2: have an attorney. That's a premeditated there they left and
Speaker 2: then came back armed with the intent to perpetrate a crime.
Speaker 2: Jeez Wheeze Over, a tip man, was arrested for allegedly
Speaker 2: engaging in what they described as discordly conduct at two
Speaker 2: churches in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, including pouring whiskey into
Speaker 2: the holy water. Court to police report, Thomas Campbell Bowling
Speaker 2: von Getz, fifty six, broke in the Holy Angels Catholic
Speaker 2: Church during Christmas Eve mass. Man allegedly reproached the altar
Speaker 2: and dropped an onion in the aisle as a tradition,
Speaker 2: which is one of the counts of disturbing the peace. Later,
Speaker 2: when a citizen followed Van Getz to make sure he
Speaker 2: left the church, he assaulted him by throwing tangerines.
Speaker 5: At him as a tradition.
Speaker 2: Report from Saint Mary's County Sheriff's Office also revealed that
Speaker 2: later that night, Von Getz interrupted the midnight mass services
Speaker 2: at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, where he poured whiskey
Speaker 2: into the holy water and threatened to harm parishioners as
Speaker 2: a tradition. Dan and his church goers escorted him out
Speaker 2: of the building. He unsuccessfully attempted He hit several people
Speaker 2: with a whiskey bottle. As a tradition, parishioners detained vanguettes
Speaker 2: until the officers arrive. He was taken to MedStar Saint
Speaker 2: Mary's Hospital for a medical evaluation, finally arrested, now facing
Speaker 2: charges of second degree assault, obstruction of a religious exercise,
Speaker 2: and religious offense against a group, among others.
Speaker 4: The Arithtocrats.
Speaker 2: All right, I don't know if anybody listening audience believes
Speaker 2: that Bigfoot actually exists. Wake Up Headline. Two men found
Speaker 2: dead from exposure after looking for a sasquatch. Both men
Speaker 2: from Portland, reported missing by a family member on Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: set to return for I'm searching for the legendary grease
Speaker 2: or eachure in eastern Scamania County on Christmas Eve. Idiots
Speaker 2: doing idiot things because they're idiots. Hey, what are you
Speaker 2: going to do for Christmas? Search party in the woods
Speaker 2: looking for sasquatch. Search launch and vehicle associated with the
Speaker 2: two men was found on a road near Willard, Washington,
Speaker 2: a Willard Wash whatever. After a three day search involving
Speaker 2: more than sixty people, the bodies of both men, thirty
Speaker 2: seven and fifty nine years old, were found in Grifford
Speaker 2: Pinshawn National Forest located in the southwestern part of Washington State,
Speaker 2: described as a heavily wooded area. Cause of death appears
Speaker 2: to be exposure based on weather conditions and ill preparedness
Speaker 2: and general stupidity. Apparently they had a bunch of snow
Speaker 2: and rain temperatures in the thirties across cascades in days
Speaker 2: leading up to the men being reported missing. The search
Speaker 2: of the men also took place in in difficult terrain,
Speaker 2: harsh weather conditions is cruise face conditions such as freezing temperature, snow,
Speaker 2: and high water levels. Bigfoot, go ahead, Ron, thank you, Joe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: once you're out there looking for big Foot, on, don't
Speaker 2: you search for the lizard people that you think run
Speaker 2: society or something. Five fifty five coming up with five
Speaker 2: fifty six fifty five cares to detalk station plenty to
Speaker 2: talk about in the six o'clock iur love to hear
Speaker 2: from you. Remember High Grain Breweries, brent Wood Brewpub. That's
Speaker 2: what we're going to be for listening to lunch this
Speaker 2: coming Wednesday, High Green Breweries, brent Wood Brewpup. My understanding
Speaker 2: is that was the former Brentwood Bowl. Anyone written road
Speaker 2: right off of Reagan, so it should be pretty easy
Speaker 2: to get to, and I hear good things about it.
Speaker 2: The menu seems pretty comprehensive. So let's kick the year
Speaker 2: off right. Hope to see a listener to lunch on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back, man be peg.
Speaker 1: There's no shortage of stuff to talk about in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. I'm so excited at the conversation is happening
Speaker 1: here on fifty five KRC the talkstation.
Speaker 2: New Year, New Year, six O six I fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the talk Station. Brian Thomas wishing here. We're not very
Speaker 2: happy New Year. Wonderful time off thanks to my family.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed sleeping in and really enjoyed the festivities over
Speaker 2: the time off, and I feel like my batteries have
Speaker 2: been recharged with a certain degree. And kicking off my
Speaker 2: nineteenth year in radio, time just flies by, does it not?
Speaker 2: Enjoy the time with loved ones while you've got it
Speaker 2: five one, three, seven, four nine fifty D eight two
Speaker 2: three talk with Time five fifty on eight and T phones,
Speaker 2: and thank you cribbage Mike, who will be at listener
Speaker 2: lunch or We're gonna reline folks all day long and
Speaker 2: hopefully again tomorrow High Grain Breweries Brentwood brew Pub is
Speaker 2: where we're going to be for listener to lunch on
Speaker 2: Wednesday about eleven thirty ish. You can show up when
Speaker 2: you want. It's good beer and the rather comprehensive menu.
Speaker 2: Took a look at it. You can check them out
Speaker 2: online if you want to check it out for yourself
Speaker 2: with High Grainbrewing dot com. Anyhow, Mike Wilber, who is cribbage.
Speaker 2: Mike played cribbage with them every Listener lunch. He probably
Speaker 2: served his country on a submarine. He also now works
Speaker 2: at hard Rock Cafe as a dealer. There'll be a
Speaker 2: card dealer, not a drug dealer anyway. He want a
Speaker 2: little but to know if you're looking for a place
Speaker 2: to wait out the remainder of the storm with free coffee,
Speaker 2: the hard Rock Cafe our Rock Casino is open. So
Speaker 2: and you know, doubling down on what Chuck Ingram said.
Speaker 2: If you don't have to get out today, don't. It
Speaker 2: is not worth your time. The roads are really, really
Speaker 2: terrible and they're having a difficult time keeping up on
Speaker 2: my case side of Montgomery Road as a prime illustration,
Speaker 2: because that's the one I drove down rather than hitting
Speaker 2: the Expressway had already been plowed once and there was
Speaker 2: a good three inches of snow on top of the
Speaker 2: road after they had plowed once. And it's only going
Speaker 2: to accumulate more. They're still saying like one to five
Speaker 2: additional inches today as we look forward into the afternoon
Speaker 2: with snow continue. So anyhow, uh face remember to stop
Speaker 2: by fifty five cares you dot Com get your heart
Speaker 2: media app. So, not knowing which direction I want to go,
Speaker 2: I'll start with this one, which just scares the living
Speaker 2: hell at I mean, I started on a rant this
Speaker 2: morning because I was looking at Rando Paul's annual Festivus
Speaker 2: list and just getting just beside myself with anger over
Speaker 2: all of the millions in no, sorry trillions of dollars
Speaker 2: that our federal government blows through, and it's rapacious taxation
Speaker 2: that doesn't even satisfy the demands of these idiots that
Speaker 2: we elect, and all of the things that they pay
Speaker 2: for with our labor. Again, it is your earnings and
Speaker 2: just one item after another you can be angry about
Speaker 2: as opposed to I mean, reminds me of Cincinni City
Speaker 2: Council chasing shiny objects and stuff and things when they
Speaker 2: leave roads completely unwell. Today's case, perhaps not plowed or treated,
Speaker 2: but they let the roads and the infrastructure deteriorate, neighborhoods
Speaker 2: falling apart. Whatever the case may be, it's mismanagement of
Speaker 2: government because they always want to throw something shiny and
Speaker 2: new at you, which is basically this entire Festivus Report.
Speaker 2: Although I think our elected officials don't really even want
Speaker 2: you to know the type of spending they engage in
Speaker 2: that rand Paul reveals every single year in his Festivus Report,
Speaker 2: what of important matters? Going back to the analogy I
Speaker 2: drew with, since a city council and infrastructure Jake Sullivan,
Speaker 2: National Security Advisor, This was originally report of the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal I found out a Newsmax Doesn't Matter though,
Speaker 2: made what they describe as stunning admission that Chiny these
Speaker 2: hackers aka the Chinese Communist Party have the ability to
Speaker 2: cripple the American power grid and ports, and apparently not
Speaker 2: just run of the middle intrusions, but via sophisticated actors
Speaker 2: with unparalleled skills. Apparently Jake Sullivan, again national Security Advisor,
Speaker 2: had known about the Chinese hackers' ability to knock out
Speaker 2: critical infrastructure for more than a year, according to sources
Speaker 2: speaking with a Wall Street Journal fall of twenty three,
Speaker 2: he warned telecommunications and technology executives in a secret White
Speaker 2: House meeting, seeking big Tech's help and protecting the American
Speaker 2: lives and infrastructure from hacks. Huh, Considering this has been
Speaker 2: going on for well probably the last decade plus, ever
Speaker 2: since the world got hooked up to the Internet, you'd
Speaker 2: think they might have gotten ahead of this a little bit,
Speaker 2: considering the number of enemies we have in the world,
Speaker 2: and considering that we're probably doing the same thing to them.
Speaker 2: If we're doing it, they're doing it, and vice versa.
Speaker 2: But since the fall of twenty twenty three secret White
Speaker 2: House meeting with the telecommunications technology executives, there have been
Speaker 2: at least nine US telecom companies hacked. That according to
Speaker 2: the Wunational Security Advisor for cybersecurity and Nuiberger, who speaking
Speaker 2: with the journal said, we will never know regarding the
Speaker 2: scope and scale of this. They were very careful about
Speaker 2: their techniques, and they say this sort of his morph
Speaker 2: They initially maybe like a some I don't know, teenager
Speaker 2: and abatement basement, they said. Keyboard warriors, described as once
Speaker 2: seen as the cyber equivalent of noisy, drunken burglars, which
Speaker 2: are now considered soldiers with again in the Journal's words,
Speaker 2: astonishing skill level and stealth. FARI sexpert Gordon Chang, speaking
Speaker 2: with Newsback, said, you know, they're going to take down
Speaker 2: our grid. They're going to take down everything we have.
Speaker 2: We're going to be like an eighteen fifties country with
Speaker 2: the things that we've been accustomed to that operate our country,
Speaker 2: like electricity, running water. Former Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity
Speaker 2: expert Brandon Wales warned that the hacks are the key
Speaker 2: battlefield in any future conflict. Well, that goes without saying, now,
Speaker 2: doesn't it. And considering they're engaging this activity twenty four
Speaker 2: hours a day, seven days a week, I mean, this
Speaker 2: is government controlled hacking. They are at it all the time.
Speaker 2: We are literally at war with these clowns. Corner Jake Sullivan,
Speaker 2: speaking with Journal, cyberspace is a fiercely contested battlefield. We
Speaker 2: have made concent s progress, but and you knew that
Speaker 2: word was in there, serious vulnerabilities remain in sectors where
Speaker 2: we don't have mandatory cybersecurity requirements. M Is that suggesting
Speaker 2: that we need to make things mandatory in order for
Speaker 2: us to get ahead of these problems. This is the
Speaker 2: Dave Hatter warns about this stuff every single day. You
Speaker 2: have it within your power and control to make sure
Speaker 2: your systems are reasonably secure, and we choose not to
Speaker 2: do it. Businesses regularly fail to engage in just even
Speaker 2: rudimentary security practices. Senator Dan Sullivan from Alaska Republicans said
Speaker 2: the US vulnerability in his word breath taking, adding its
Speaker 2: shocking how exposed we are and still are now of
Speaker 2: all the things our government and pays for and all
Speaker 2: the things that your taxpayer dollars are used for, including
Speaker 2: bearded transgender groups preaching climate change in an ice skating event. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you paid for that. See Senator Ran Paul's Festivus report.
Speaker 2: Do you think it'd be a little bit better if
Speaker 2: they allocated, well, perhaps unlimited resources to dealing with the
Speaker 2: security of our country the idea that we have We
Speaker 2: are told upfront national Security advisor letting us know that
Speaker 2: they literally have the ability to knock out our critical
Speaker 2: infrastructure right now by simply flipping a switch. In essence,
Speaker 2: all the billions and billions and billions of dollars we
Speaker 2: spent on preventing you from exhaling. I see Joe Biden
Speaker 2: wants to ban natural gas non condensing water heaters. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know the flash water heaters, right, They just you know,
Speaker 2: instantly create a water in your home. Very popular for
Speaker 2: people who have very little space. They're really hugely, wildly
Speaker 2: popular in Europe. I spend their time just preventing because
Speaker 2: of CO two exhalation. Actually it's trillions of dollars on that.
Speaker 2: The whole Green New Deal thing, the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 2: that had nothing to do with inflation reduction actually increase inflation,
Speaker 2: all about stopping exhalation. And according to the reports on
Speaker 2: these tankless water heaters, the ones that he wants to
Speaker 2: ban are more energy efficient and produce less carbon dioxide
Speaker 2: than your standard tank water heater which are not banned.
Speaker 2: It's going to push people back into the tank water heater.
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Speaker 2: three talk. It is Monday, so fast forward one hour
Speaker 2: from now. Former Vice Mayor of the City since any
Speaker 2: Christopher Smithling returns first smith event of the year. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to having it back on the program this year.
Speaker 2: Love that man and you love his commentary, so join
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Speaker 2: go to fifty five KRC dot com. It is Monday.
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Speaker 2: some helpful information for my veteran friends and listening audience.
Speaker 2: And I may, obviously we live in a crazy world
Speaker 2: to mention that a moment ago you can find nine
Speaker 2: thousand gajillion illustrations of it today. Is anyone as offended
Speaker 2: as me? Or do you share my offense that Joe
Speaker 2: Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to, among other people,
Speaker 2: George Soros. George Soros, I just I'm beside myself in
Speaker 2: disbelief on this. According to the statement from the White House,
Speaker 2: the nation's highest civilian honor is given to individuals who
Speaker 2: have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, value, use, or
Speaker 2: security of the United States. Now, if you put a
Speaker 2: period there, you couldn't call up with a single reason
Speaker 2: why George Soros would be even worthy of consideration for this.
Speaker 2: But it's also it's not just the United States, it's
Speaker 2: world peace or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.
Speaker 2: George Soros, he has done more to undermine capitalism and
Speaker 2: our freedoms and liberties. I think they're a human being
Speaker 2: with money is woke society whatever the hell they call
Speaker 2: that Open Society Foundation. So far, Sourus has given thirty
Speaker 2: two billion dollars to Open Society Foundation since nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 2: spending his capitalist earned dollars to undermine capitalism and also
Speaker 2: make your city a terrible crime filled cesspool of humanity,
Speaker 2: funding all of these left wing das who refused to
Speaker 2: prosecute crime. In fact, Elon must pointed that out, also
Speaker 2: noting that Elon Musk's position on George Soros is that
Speaker 2: he fundamentally hates humanity his words, saying he also said
Speaker 2: he's doing things that erode the fabric of civilization and
Speaker 2: pointing out what I just pointed out, you know, getting
Speaker 2: DA's elected who refused to prosecute crime. True, I'm sure
Speaker 2: Joe Biden didn't even realize whose neck he was hanging
Speaker 2: that medal around. That's the world we live in, folks.
Speaker 2: George Soros has given the nation's highest civilian honor, Hillary
Speaker 2: Clinton as well. But you know what, I could almost
Speaker 2: even make a plausible argument for Hillary Clinton. Almost not really, though,
Speaker 2: considering all the crimes she's been involved with and all
Speaker 2: of the well, you know, the bleach bidding her server,
Speaker 2: using private email server for government business. Even James Comey,
Speaker 2: FBI director said publicly that she had handled classified information.
Speaker 2: But they'll take Donald Trump and run him through the
Speaker 2: ringer for something like that, won't they Not Hillary Clinton?
Speaker 2: She got a free pass, you know. And those are
Speaker 2: the things that we know about Hillary Clinton. But of
Speaker 2: all the people in the entire plane at George Soros
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Speaker 2: Let us see here. Going over to local stories, I
Speaker 2: thought this was a rather I I vacillated on how
Speaker 2: I felt about this one. My initial reaction was no way,
Speaker 2: and then I kind of thought, well, there are some
Speaker 2: good arguments for it regardless. Last week how Governor Mike
Speaker 2: DeWine signed into law House Bill three point fifteen that
Speaker 2: is now legal for police departments to charge for certain
Speaker 2: public records requests. That bill contains a provision giving the
Speaker 2: police authority to charge a person or an entity for
Speaker 2: video requests. Fox nineteen reported on these this. They mentioned
Speaker 2: themselves on this, like those that Fox nineteen now into
Speaker 2: the media audience agencies. Using reporting, Fox nineteen interviewed a
Speaker 2: legal analyst named Mark Crumbine. He says that this provision
Speaker 2: applies to police video like dash camera or body camera footage.
Speaker 2: Quote that Governor's saying that police municipality can charge up
Speaker 2: to seventy five dollars an hour from ten hours worth
Speaker 2: of work. Max on providing videotapes to the public. Now
Speaker 2: Ken covert the FOP president chimed in on this. He
Speaker 2: was interviewed by Fox nineteen. He said it was necessary
Speaker 2: because public records requests for videos continue to increase, and
Speaker 2: of course it takes manpower or people power to keep
Speaker 2: up with these requests. He goes, you get records requests
Speaker 2: for hundreds and hundreds of hours of video from some
Speaker 2: YouTuber in California, it's going to turn you around your district,
Speaker 2: and it's going to turn around, dissect it and make money.
Speaker 2: According to him, police records contain a lot of sensitive
Speaker 2: information that needs to be protected, including like victim's name
Speaker 2: and faces. Victims do have rights that must be protected,
Speaker 2: he pointed out. He says bodycam footage often shows private
Speaker 2: databases from other computers. That redacting or blurring out all
Speaker 2: of this is a huge undertaking. That's where your expense
Speaker 2: comes in. He said, that takes time, it takes money
Speaker 2: to do it. It also costs money to do it. It's
Speaker 2: just a way instead of having taxpayers do it, it's
Speaker 2: a way to make the person who's requesting it pay
Speaker 2: for it. According to Governor Wine, in a statement, no
Speaker 2: law enforcement agencies should ever have to choose between diverting
Speaker 2: resource for officers on the street to move them to
Speaker 2: administrative tasks like lengthy video redaction reviews, for which agencies
Speaker 2: receive no compensation. And this is especially so for when
Speaker 2: the requester of the video is a private company seeking
Speaker 2: to make money off these videos. Dwine says he supports
Speaker 2: the publics and the news media's right to access public records,
Speaker 2: and he says it doesn't the bill doesn't change that right.
Speaker 2: It just shifts over the burden on who's got to
Speaker 2: pay for it, So it's now a long the state
Speaker 2: like it or not. Special prosecutor has found that allegations
Speaker 2: made by of Democrat Ohio Representative Cecil Thomas against Hamilton
Speaker 2: County Prosecutor Melissa Power days before the election were entirely baseless.
Speaker 2: Tim My County Prosecutor Mark to Call he filed the
Speaker 2: thirteen page report last week. He was appointed to be
Speaker 2: special prosecutor to look into this. To Call he found
Speaker 2: Thomas's sworn affidavit and support of his claims was filed
Speaker 2: in bad faith. That's a quote from the report. And
Speaker 2: for her part, Melissa Powers said it was shameful that
Speaker 2: these allegations were taken seriously by anyone from the start,
Speaker 2: because this was nothing more than a politically motivated hit
Speaker 2: design to influence the outcome of November's election, and it's
Speaker 2: been dismissed correctly for the sham that it is. Thomas
Speaker 2: filed the allegations November first, and we all know what
Speaker 2: happened to Melissa Powers, the far superior candidate. She lost
Speaker 2: to college Connie Pillage by a few points. Powers also
Speaker 2: said she's evaluating her legal options to remedy the damage
Speaker 2: that this act has caused. Now, for his part, Thomas
Speaker 2: alleges the Powers, who was a former juvenile court judge,
Speaker 2: backdated a court entry in a case back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. Powers said she had simply corrected a clerical
Speaker 2: error in order to preserve a juvenile's right to appeal
Speaker 2: one of her decisions. Now a special prosecutor to cull.
Speaker 2: They found that Hamilton County Juvenile Court computer system does
Speaker 2: not allow users to backdate entries, and the Powers that
Speaker 2: wanted information on the DACA change, she would have had
Speaker 2: to first put at the request in writing, and there
Speaker 2: was no such request in the case, so period, end
Speaker 2: of story. Surprised you didn't give him out the award
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Speaker 2: Six thirty nine, I fifty five KCD talk station, Happy Monday.
Speaker 2: Thanks again to U have Gordon Dan Carrell for covering
Speaker 2: for me while I stared at the back of my eyelids,
Speaker 2: enjoyed my sleeping in time on vacation. And thanks again
Speaker 2: to my family for well the enjoyable time that I
Speaker 2: had while while I was off. So hitting the ground,
Speaker 2: running here and counting your twenty twenty five, nineteen years
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Speaker 2: Hanks on the phone. Let's take Hank's call. Hank, Welcome
Speaker 2: to the show. Happy new Year to you, Same to you.
Speaker 7: Brian, at least in regards to us. Anyway, I'm not
Speaker 7: so sure about the rest of the country with Joe
Speaker 7: Biden running it still, or it is on paper.
Speaker 2: Well, give it a few minutes. It's one o'clo. We'll
Speaker 2: have a new commander in chief. And I suspect that
Speaker 2: Donald Trump has a stack of executive orders and he'll
Speaker 2: spend the rest of the day signing them. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Try to be optimistic.
Speaker 7: In any case, I was kind of fired up about
Speaker 7: hearing about George Soro to Soros getting the Presidential Metal
Speaker 7: Honor of Freedom or.
Speaker 5: Whatever, and before that even I was.
Speaker 7: Kind of irritated with all the money that he's freed
Speaker 7: up for Iran. I'm wondering if maybe we can't have
Speaker 7: the Democrat Party declared a terrorist supporting organization and freeze
Speaker 7: their assets. I know Judge and Apolitano would probably have
Speaker 7: a hissy fit over that, but seriously, these people have
Speaker 7: done so much damage to our national security at this point,
Speaker 7: it almost doesn't seem fair that we have to tolerate.
Speaker 4: Having them on our continent anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, I get the passion, and I understand where your
Speaker 2: words and your suggestions are coming from, even if you
Speaker 2: sort of got your tongue in your cheek or not.
Speaker 2: But see, look what happened in spite of their best efforts.
Speaker 2: And they have been hard at work for the past
Speaker 2: eight plus years shoving this nonsense down our throat, that
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was the devil incarnate, that he was going
Speaker 2: to end democracy, that he was a fascist, that he
Speaker 2: was a Nazi, I mean, go on the whole list, evil,
Speaker 2: orange man, rapist, pedophile, whatever, they called him everything. All
Speaker 2: of the mainstream media ganged up on him and Republicans,
Speaker 2: and they have been for years and years. What happened,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump won. He won the popular vote to the
Speaker 2: extent there was any shenanigans going on in terms of
Speaker 2: tinkering or interfering with ballots or people casting ballots, etc.
Speaker 2: Guess what, it wasn't enough We collectively beat them. I
Speaker 2: guess we're smarter than they took us for that. We
Speaker 2: could see through this much in the same way you're
Speaker 2: seeing through it. As well their policies. The Democrat policies
Speaker 2: have literally ruined cities financially and otherwise, Sanctuary cities with
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of illegal immigrants soaking and using up
Speaker 2: every available dollar and then creating massive deficits, so much
Speaker 2: so that the actual citizenry and population of those cities
Speaker 2: aren't even getting the services that they think they're entitled to.
Speaker 2: It ruined America what they have done, and the American
Speaker 2: people woke up. Donald Trump won the popular vote, for
Speaker 2: God's sake, and that of course took the wind out
Speaker 2: of the left sails, because you know, damn well, if
Speaker 2: he hadn't won the popular vote, we'd be listening to unending,
Speaker 2: never ending, perpetual screams about how the electoral colleges, Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know, racist or something. So maybe we're smarter
Speaker 2: than they take us for it, and I think collectively
Speaker 2: we are. It doesn't take a rocket science to realize.
Speaker 2: Scientists to realize that this, for example, spending that I've
Speaker 2: been talking about this morning, with the Festivus Report among
Speaker 2: other topics, cannot continue. People who are looking forward to
Speaker 2: relying on a Social Security check, you can't. That's a promise. Ok,
Speaker 2: into the American people who funded that program, that our
Speaker 2: elected officials over the years do anything, directify the situation,
Speaker 2: otherwise make it solvent. No, nothing. We spent money on
Speaker 2: bearded trans men ice skating events for God's sake, So
Speaker 2: we're smarter than that. As so far as the Democrat
Speaker 2: Party's concerned, well, elections have consequences, and we don't need
Speaker 2: to label them as a terrorist organization or otherwise consider
Speaker 2: outlawing them or deporting them. They did it to themselves.
Speaker 2: Their policies did not work. See George Soros. Yeah, Presidential
Speaker 2: Medal of Freedom recipient, George Soros, who's one of the
Speaker 2: people responsible for the failure of all these Democrat cities
Speaker 2: and for getting elected prosecutors who don't want to do
Speaker 2: their job and put people in jail who are deserving
Speaker 2: of jail time, Judges getting judges elected who don't think
Speaker 2: that sentencing people is fair or right. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Because little Johnny had a tough upbringing or something, maybe
Speaker 2: part of his upbringing or something, and the reason he
Speaker 2: committed crimes is because he no one brought into the
Speaker 2: into his life the concept of discipline, the concept of
Speaker 2: working with each other, as opposed to doing harm to
Speaker 2: another human being. I don't know. I just know that
Speaker 2: George Soros funds people who don't want to do their
Speaker 2: job to the detriment of our entire country. And look,
Speaker 2: it's a wake up call. All these Democrat cities are
Speaker 2: just undoing, trying to unring the bell that they themselves
Speaker 2: chose to ring, getting rid of the prosecutors that don't
Speaker 2: do their job recriminalizing drugs, for example. And I used
Speaker 2: to be an all in on you know, I don't
Speaker 2: believe in criminalizing self abuse. But the one thing that
Speaker 2: decriminalizing drugs has done is taking that element out where
Speaker 2: you can get someone hooked up to the concept of treatment.
Speaker 2: If they're not going to be held accountable for using
Speaker 2: illegal substance or well formerly illegal substances, then they're going
Speaker 2: to be a well a leech on society. Form homeless camps,
Speaker 2: let's have open drug use. Look look look at look
Speaker 2: how much good it did all these cities getting decriminalizing shoplifting.
Speaker 2: How'd that work out for you in California?
Speaker 10: Not?
Speaker 2: Well, that's why they tried to un or that's why
Speaker 2: they just recently unrung that bell. The experiment didn't work.
Speaker 2: The left wing experiment didn't work. They lost a lot
Speaker 2: of political powers or consequence of it, they lost the president,
Speaker 2: they lost the House. Well, we had the House barely,
Speaker 2: and of course they lost the Senate. Now let's hit
Speaker 2: the ground running. Swearing ends it one. Executive orders begin
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Speaker 2: shocker Joe. That's typically in the traffic report every morning,
Speaker 2: whether it got snow or not, isn't it. It just
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Speaker 2: it's probably true if you can stay away, if the
Speaker 2: roads please do. I know that's kind of goes without saying,
Speaker 2: and I've been mentioned it all morning, but having made
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Speaker 2: and my wife has a four wheel drive car, so
Speaker 2: I was able to drive her car. Thank you, honey,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Three hundred two three talk. Let's dumb down
Speaker 2: children even more than they're already dumb down. And this
Speaker 2: is not the first time this has happened. But when
Speaker 2: now teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required
Speaker 2: to pass a Bay Basic reading, writing, and mathematics test
Speaker 2: to be eligible for public schools. I just find this
Speaker 2: so hard to believe. It was signed in a law
Speaker 2: by Governor Phil Murphy, Democrat. Of course, it's called Act
Speaker 2: sixteen sixty nine went to effect last Wednesday. Court of
Speaker 2: Fox News report of the law aims to tackle teachers'
Speaker 2: shortages in the state by removing what the New Jersey
Speaker 2: Department of Education and Teachers' Union called a barrier to
Speaker 2: certification reading, writing, and arithmetic. Yes, that's a barrier to certification, Joe.
Speaker 2: We can't have that, Court of the text of the law,
Speaker 2: the State Board of Education shall not require a candidate
Speaker 2: seeking a certificate of eligibility, a certificate of eligibility with
Speaker 2: advanced standing, a provisional certificate, or standard instructional certificate to
Speaker 2: complete a Commissioner of Education approved test of basic. Notice
Speaker 2: the emphasis I put on that word basic, reading, writing,
Speaker 2: and mathematic skills, including but not limited to, the practice
Speaker 2: Core Academic Skills for Educators tests in order to obtain
Speaker 2: a certificate of eligibility. So you can be an idiot
Speaker 2: and yet still teach a class that practices Core Academic
Speaker 2: Skills for Educators tests, which I didn't wasn't necessarily familiar with,
Speaker 2: but it's used in over forty states and territories in
Speaker 2: the United States. Includes questions on English and mathematics, as
Speaker 2: well as basic questions on specific subjects. According to Democratic
Speaker 2: State Senator Jim b To, who are his point? Obviously
Speaker 2: he is in favor of this. We need more teachers.
Speaker 2: This is the best way to get them. So not
Speaker 2: only are we advancing children who do not have the
Speaker 2: requisite skills in testing for reading, writing, and arithmetic, yet
Speaker 2: we'll move them on to the next grade. Now we're
Speaker 2: dumbing down the teachers, so probably less education going on
Speaker 2: in the room. H I'm sorry, that's just that's just
Speaker 2: is that an admission of defeat. Let's go to the phone,
Speaker 2: sit Wes Saie, Jim west Side, Jim, good to hear
Speaker 2: from your happy New year, My friend.
Speaker 14: In you too, Brian.
Speaker 15: Welcome back, buddy, Thank you, miss I appreciate you're dearly missed.
Speaker 15: But I'll give you a couple of positive things. Uh,
Speaker 15: with all this snow, our favorite street to pick on, Sunset,
Speaker 15: probably looks pretty good this morning. You can't you can't
Speaker 15: see the the big rude gibbots that are looks like
Speaker 15: a bomb hit that thing.
Speaker 2: Because it's probably it's probably a better road to be
Speaker 2: on because at least those those dibbots and the ruts
Speaker 2: and the giant poddles probably provide some measure of traction,
Speaker 2: which I.
Speaker 15: Guess if you don't get stuck in one of them
Speaker 15: eight foot deep holes.
Speaker 2: But true, yeah, there is that.
Speaker 15: By the way, a couple of things I watched, and
Speaker 15: I know it's stupid to watch, but Lincoln where he
Speaker 15: has that TV show that it comes on he films
Speaker 15: on Thursdays and shows on Sundays. And guess who the
Speaker 15: the person was that was on there for a half
Speaker 15: an hour the other day, our buddy Cecil Thomas.
Speaker 2: I knew you were going to say that.
Speaker 15: Surprisingly there was nothing mentioned about powers.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, that's just that's sad that he
Speaker 2: would he would filew that that allegation against her without aid,
Speaker 2: without any factual basis to do so, someone should, you know, assume.
Speaker 15: I hope she does, and I hope this for some
Speaker 15: reason that this guy can.
Speaker 14: I don't know what they do.
Speaker 15: It's always a slap on the wrist in a matter
Speaker 15: of Democrat, Republic and independent no matter what. But I
Speaker 15: wish that they could recall this guy. He's such a clown.
Speaker 15: But I'll give you the best one, and I know
Speaker 15: you're gonna let me go. But our good friend and
Speaker 15: probably one of the best people we know besides Christopher Smitherman,
Speaker 15: Orlando Sonza, looks like he might be in line for
Speaker 15: the I don't know if it was the second District
Speaker 15: or the Southwest Ohio.
Speaker 8: You know what it is.
Speaker 15: I got a brain freeze this morning. Brian the attorney
Speaker 15: for Southwest.
Speaker 2: Ohio oh District attorney. The official title is district attorney.
Speaker 10: That's it.
Speaker 2: That'll be great.
Speaker 15: Is it that second District or whatever the heck? Like
Speaker 15: I said, I'll look it up. If I should have
Speaker 15: lift it up before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't seen anything about that. I did get
Speaker 2: word that Houston was the guy that was going to
Speaker 2: be selected to fill JD. Vans's seat. But that I
Speaker 2: suppose word has gotten out around that one already, but
Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything about it. Orlando Sons. I so
Speaker 2: appreciate you bringing to my attention. I got big hopes
Speaker 2: for that guy, big hopes for that guy.
Speaker 15: Well, we were texting back and forth a little bit
Speaker 15: the other day, and that's what it came out.
Speaker 4: That it's a good.
Speaker 15: Possibility he's gon and get that job, and it's not
Speaker 15: one of those jobs that it's next manned up, and
Speaker 15: he deserves it because he's been there longer or something
Speaker 15: like that. He deserves it because of.
Speaker 12: Who he is and what he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so former prosecutor going to give me.
Speaker 15: He deserves anything he can get, to be quite honest,
Speaker 15: and I know you'll agree with that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a terrific, terrific guy. And again he's just starting.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think down the road we're going to
Speaker 2: look back and you know, all of our predictions about
Speaker 2: Orlando Sons's success in the future will come true someday
Speaker 2: because again, he's demonstrably worthy of it, very competent, very intelligent,
Speaker 2: He's got an excellent background. It looks awesome on paper,
Speaker 2: and he's even better in person when you get a
Speaker 2: chance to talk to him. So I'll keep my fingers
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 15: I will see Wednesday as long as we don't get
Speaker 15: about fourteen more feet of us snow. But the old
Speaker 15: Bronco can make it up to hill now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you are going to give me some
Speaker 2: lame excuse about not being able to manage the roads
Speaker 2: and that ruckster of yours, I was going to give
Speaker 2: you a ton lashing glad to hear it. Do come
Speaker 2: and meet west Side Jim at High Green Breweries, Brentwood
Speaker 2: brew pob. That's where're going to be on Wednesday for
Speaker 2: a listener to lunch. I love really looking forward to
Speaker 2: seeing you there, Jim. Thanks for calling my brother. Happy
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Speaker 2: back and mission. Everbody a happy New Year. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much to Dan Carroll Kevin Gordon for covering for
Speaker 2: me while I was gone. And I appreciate the time
Speaker 2: with my family. Just such a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to
Speaker 2: sleep in and spent time with my family. I hope
Speaker 2: he had a wonderful Christmas or whatever holiday year is celebrating.
Speaker 2: I certainly did, and got to go over to the
Speaker 2: rifle range a few times with my new forty five
Speaker 2: seventy Marlin lover Action rifle and that thing is a
Speaker 2: blast to shoot. No pun intended anyhow, speaking of guns,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to because I got a big kick
Speaker 2: out of this article from the New York Post. It
Speaker 2: was New York Post, New York, Yeah, New York Post,
Speaker 2: and it serves it starts to prove my point over
Speaker 2: and over again that I've made many times. I know
Speaker 2: there's that more guns Less crime book that was written
Speaker 2: so long ago, still proves to be true. And if
Speaker 2: you personally feel threatened in some way, you believe that
Speaker 2: your life is in peril, or maybe in peril, it
Speaker 2: may be a good thing for you. On a firearm
Speaker 2: and jumping on board. The traditionally left leaning folks of
Speaker 2: America are now waking up to this reality as well,
Speaker 2: including gay and transgender liberals. Huh headline from Chris NSI
Speaker 2: LGBTQ liberals start arming themselves over baseless fear and it
Speaker 2: is baseless of being placed in concentration camps. Now, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you are so dumb you believe you
Speaker 2: might be placed in a concentration camp. Fine, We've been
Speaker 2: down that road before in this country, so I suppose
Speaker 2: history is a precedent for it. Apologies to the Japanese
Speaker 2: who are rounded up in spite of the fact that
Speaker 2: the American citizen placed in internment camps of World War two.
Speaker 2: That will be fd R and you can blame that
Speaker 2: leftist ignoring the conclusions of the two or three people
Speaker 2: that they interviewed for This was the Philadelphia Inquirer, as
Speaker 2: re reported by the New York Post. So the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Inquirer on Sunday profiled several members of the emerging gun
Speaker 2: toting left who belonged to groups with names like Liberal
Speaker 2: Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association, and Pink Pistols. They
Speaker 2: point out the obvious precise figures regarding LGBTQ gun ownership
Speaker 2: are tough to ascertain given the small number of people
Speaker 2: they represent in terms of the collective population in society.
Speaker 2: The Liberal Gun Club, that's one of the organizations that
Speaker 2: spoke with the Philly Inquirer, said that it's received thousands
Speaker 2: of firearms training requests since the election, more than all
Speaker 2: of last year. Oh well, sorry, twenty twenty three combined
Speaker 2: two years ago, and about a quarter of them were
Speaker 2: from those in the lgbt community, So thousands reduced down
Speaker 2: to one quarter of the so called thousands. So you
Speaker 2: do the math on that and try to figure out
Speaker 2: how many people that actually means. But the reason I
Speaker 2: bring this up they spoke with a twenty four year
Speaker 2: old what they describe as trans woman who recently decided
Speaker 2: to purchase a gun, identified by the news outlet only
Speaker 2: as the letter A. This twenty four year old trans
Speaker 2: woman said three months before the election, that's when the
Speaker 2: alarm bells started to ring. Minorities that are armed are
Speaker 2: more difficult to legally oppress, expressing relief that she will
Speaker 2: be ready to fight back in her words, in the
Speaker 2: event of hate crimes or terrorist attacks. Well, isn't that
Speaker 2: the point? If you live in a terrible neighborhood, if
Speaker 2: it's crime late and then you should be more likely
Speaker 2: to own a farm than someone who lives in a
Speaker 2: more stable environment. If you're part of a group that
Speaker 2: might be under legitimate hate crime or terrorist attack, it
Speaker 2: could be that that firearm could save your life. If
Speaker 2: you're in a situation where you're under grievous threat, under
Speaker 2: threat of grievous bodily harm or death, you have the
Speaker 2: right to use deadly force to defend yourself. Doesn't matter
Speaker 2: whether you're gay or straight, or member of minority community
Speaker 2: or member of a majority community. If you believe you
Speaker 2: are facing that threat, then yes, it's maybe the appropriate
Speaker 2: thing to do is arm yourself. The Philadelphia chapter of
Speaker 2: the Socialist Rifle Association told the Philly Inquirer that it's
Speaker 2: seen a surge of paid membership and its gun safety
Speaker 2: class has been filling up so fast it had to
Speaker 2: add more fine. The Delaware Valley chapter of gay gun
Speaker 2: group Pink Pistols, which goes by the slow Hogan Armed
Speaker 2: Gays Don't get bashed, made a similar comment to the paper.
Speaker 2: They've been inundated with inquiries from people seeking firearms training.
Speaker 2: Group founded in the year two thousand after an article
Speaker 2: was published in Salon by someone named Jonathan Rausch in
Speaker 2: which he said homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to
Speaker 2: become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely, and
Speaker 2: carry them. Well amen to that. Wake Forest University sociology
Speaker 2: professor David Yamain, quoted in the article author of Gun Curious,
Speaker 2: told the Filly Inquired that a cultural shift in gun
Speaker 2: ownership is underway in America and that minority groups, including
Speaker 2: gay people, have led the way among the neophied gun
Speaker 2: owners since twenty twenty. Quote. It was a period of
Speaker 2: tremendous social unrest and social uncertainty, and a large number
Speaker 2: of people in the United States, under those conditions took
Speaker 2: to firearms to re established some sense of safety and security. Well,
Speaker 2: welcome to the club. That's the point of it for anyone.
Speaker 2: We live in a very diverse country. We have freedoms
Speaker 2: and liberties, and nobody else enjoys, so you're gonna have
Speaker 2: a very diverse community. We've got one any member that
Speaker 2: any part of society that is under greater threat than
Speaker 2: another has a much greater argument for getting out and
Speaker 2: learning how to use a firearm and getting the skill
Speaker 2: sets necessary to operate a confidently and accurately. Some guy
Speaker 2: named Matthew Thompson from Oakland told the Philly inquire he
Speaker 2: was inspired by his first gun after the twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: mass shooting at Pulse, which is a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2: You remember that one forty nine people killed, the worst
Speaker 2: mass shooting in US history, carried out by a homegrown
Speaker 2: Islamic terrorist sympathizer named Omar a Teen. Interestingly enough, at
Speaker 2: the time, then President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Donald
Speaker 2: Trump denounced the horrific slaughters a direct attack on the
Speaker 2: LGBT community. However, you wait till the evidence comes out,
Speaker 2: you find out things aren't necessarily as they see. Apparently,
Speaker 2: evidence unearthed in the years after the murders indicate that
Speaker 2: this Omar Mateen guy had no idea that Paulse was
Speaker 2: even a gay nightclub when he went in and started
Speaker 2: opening fire. Joe, can you help me out on this one?
Speaker 2: That Thompson guy that I mentioned, Matthew Thompson of Oakland,
Speaker 2: he told the Philly Choir that he writes, he writes,
Speaker 2: travels and writes, and travels around the country to attend
Speaker 2: quote leather and bear events close quote you no idea
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, man, darn it. I was really
Speaker 2: hoping he might be able to help me out on
Speaker 2: that one. And he said, the people I've been seeing
Speaker 2: on the left and the gay people who are out
Speaker 2: purchasing guns for the first time, it's all about self
Speaker 2: defense and fear. We're not looking to arm up and
Speaker 2: storm the capitol. We just don't want to be put
Speaker 2: in concentration camps. That's where that one random musing from
Speaker 2: this leather and bear event following guy came from. So
Speaker 2: he's the one guy that was quoted in the article
Speaker 2: that I actually believed that might happen. But it's nice
Speaker 2: to see the left wake up to the reality it
Speaker 2: is for your own personal defense and safety in situations
Speaker 2: that might justify your using it. They're not out forming militias,
Speaker 2: they're not planning on attacking the capitol. Fine, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: expect it anyway. They're not planning on doing anything other
Speaker 2: than getting the skill sets and the hardware necessary to
Speaker 2: defend themselves in the event their fears legitimate or not
Speaker 2: manifest themselves in real life. So welcome to the club.
Speaker 4: That way.
Speaker 2: If there's some gay bashing, fill in the blank with
Speaker 2: your favorite FCC non compliant descriptive word, and I could
Speaker 2: come up with a bunch of them, because I don't
Speaker 2: have anything any problem with anyone being gay at all.
Speaker 2: It's your life, you live it, but you too, if
Speaker 2: you live under a legitimate threat or even a illegitimate
Speaker 2: threat or concern, it may give you peace of mind
Speaker 2: and comfort. That's why I'm an advocate for firearms ownership,
Speaker 2: even though the main reason the Second Amendment is there
Speaker 2: is because our founding fathers had to defend themselves and
Speaker 2: against an oppressive government that was well a bit rapacious
Speaker 2: with taxation and did not allow any representation in return
Speaker 2: for stealing from the colonies. And look how that turned out.
Speaker 2: Christopher Smithman is up next with the smith vent allqueued
Speaker 2: up looking forward to having him back on every Monday
Speaker 2: this year. Oh and look, perfect opportunity for me to
Speaker 2: recommend my friends at twenty two three on Route forty
Speaker 2: two between Mason eleven. It's amazing how that lined up
Speaker 2: with that article I just read, Great Firearms Shop. I
Speaker 2: tell you what. The owners, Wendy and Jeff are the
Speaker 2: cream of the crop human beings. They're wonderful people. They're knowledgeable,
Speaker 2: they know everything there is to know. And that's obviously
Speaker 2: where I got my UH forty five to seventy lever
Speaker 2: action Barlin for my Christmas present. Of course I bought
Speaker 2: it there. I called up Wenday. They didn't have one
Speaker 2: in stock. Guess what. A day later, guess what, we
Speaker 2: got one in stock. Brian. You want to come out
Speaker 2: and pick it up, of course I do. So head
Speaker 2: on over to Route forty two between Mason and eleven
Speaker 2: and and enjoy my Christmas present a lot. But whatever
Speaker 2: you're looking for, they probably have it, whether it's ammunition
Speaker 2: or any kind of firearms, handguns, long guns. They have
Speaker 2: the best indoor range possible. It's as clean as it
Speaker 2: can be and safe. Absolutely. Range safety officer's always ensuring
Speaker 2: that everyone is mining the safety rules so you can
Speaker 2: shoot comfortably if you don't have to shoot. Maybe you
Speaker 2: were one of these groups there's concerned now ready to
Speaker 2: buy a firearm, get a basic safety class, a basic
Speaker 2: firearms class, or if you already know how to shoot,
Speaker 2: you want to hone your skills more. Take one of
Speaker 2: the more advanced classes. They offer a whole whole host
Speaker 2: of classes, membership options. They have everything you can hope for.
Speaker 2: It's the best gun shot store and indoor range. Around
Speaker 2: twenty two three again Route forty two between Mason eleven
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Speaker 2: word three spelled out twenty two to three dot com.
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Speaker 2: It's a happy new year, maybe even more special and
Speaker 2: more happy with return of the former Vice Mayor of
Speaker 2: the City of Cincinnati for his smither vent, Christopher Smithman.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, my friend. I'm so happy to have you
Speaker 2: back on the show.
Speaker 14: Happy new year, Brian, and I'm glad to hear your voice.
Speaker 14: And I hope you had a wonderful holiday, arrestful holiday.
Speaker 2: And RESTful that hit your family.
Speaker 15: Brother.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. RESTful is a great word.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it was so awesome sleeping in. There's
Speaker 2: just nothing like sleeping in, because I again in my comment,
Speaker 2: all the time I've been at this my nineteenth year
Speaker 2: on radio, and I still haven't gotten used to the
Speaker 2: two thirty alarm, So sleeping until eight thirty, I've stuffed
Speaker 2: at the nine thirty one couple of mornings. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: it was in heaven, absolute heaven.
Speaker 14: So you did you did not? You didn't know what
Speaker 14: to do?
Speaker 2: No, No, I didn't. I laid around a lot, you
Speaker 2: asked my wife, I didn't.
Speaker 14: I deserved it.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciated Christopher. It's nice that you feel that way.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure that she would argue with it.
Speaker 2: She did have a very very short honeydoo list, and
Speaker 2: I did manage to accomplish what was on the list,
Speaker 2: and so beyond that, it was great. How did you
Speaker 2: have a nice Christmas holiday season there, Christopher?
Speaker 10: I really did?
Speaker 14: I think that the big news was meeting my grandson.
Speaker 14: You did, my f young Christopher and his lovely wife,
Speaker 14: My bill uh came home and uh, you know, brought
Speaker 14: brought Christopher. The third it was bittersweet. You know, I
Speaker 14: want to be honest about that, because they're they're widows
Speaker 14: and widowers who are listening like your mom, and all
Speaker 14: of us are on this continuum. But you know, the
Speaker 14: first grandchild and meeting him and uh, you know, not
Speaker 14: having my wife there was it was definitely a challenge.
Speaker 14: It was a challenge for my for my oldest son
Speaker 14: and for all my kids. But having said that, it
Speaker 14: was a wonderful gift. It was the best Christmas gift
Speaker 14: ever to meet my to meet my grandson, Christopher the third.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to send me a picture of that
Speaker 2: little guy because I want to see that. I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's just a beautiful, beautiful baby.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I will send you a picture. Let me first
Speaker 14: just just pivot and just say everybody stay safe. You
Speaker 14: know they're listening to your show. You know, having been
Speaker 14: the vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, it's critical
Speaker 14: that people stay off the roads so that our crews
Speaker 14: out there can do their job. You know, they have families,
Speaker 14: they're trying to, you know, get home safe. They've been
Speaker 14: out there working all night, and you just want to
Speaker 14: make sure that you you heed those warnings and be
Speaker 14: very respectful as the men and women across this county,
Speaker 14: across our state, across our jurisdiction, whether it's Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio.
Speaker 14: You get the picture that you know, we are respecting
Speaker 14: those warnings so that you don't get stranded out there
Speaker 14: and then you become now a part of the problem
Speaker 14: and not a part of the solution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's slick out there, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: And someone called this morning was being a little critical,
Speaker 2: not overly critical, but I know we all have our
Speaker 2: beefs with the road cruise and things from time to time.
Speaker 2: But you know, we live in a region that doesn't
Speaker 2: often get inundated like this, and there's only so much
Speaker 2: resources you can spend and pay for and have parked,
Speaker 2: you know, in some lots somewhere that aren't used that
Speaker 2: often to keep up with and deal with a perpetual
Speaker 2: snow fall. I mean, they're took another one to five
Speaker 2: inches during the day. So roads that they went over,
Speaker 2: which Montgomery Road as I came in this morning, had
Speaker 2: already been plowed once, but a good three plus more
Speaker 2: inches had fallen on it since the first time they
Speaker 2: plowed it. Now I don't know how often they're going
Speaker 2: to go up and down that road, but there's only
Speaker 2: so much you can do. When the snow continues to fall,
Speaker 2: there's no way they can keep up with everything that quickly.
Speaker 2: So you know, I got a couple a little slack
Speaker 2: it was. Did you ever deal with that when you
Speaker 2: were vice mayor did you ever have to deal specifically
Speaker 2: with snow plowing issues. Was that something you're even involved
Speaker 2: with at all, Christopher, because I know people are lack
Speaker 2: familiarity with the logistics behind it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely was involved with it. And you're right. I mean, look,
Speaker 14: a snow like this for so of our areas we
Speaker 14: haven't seen for some parts of the country since the
Speaker 14: nineteen hundreds, So this is a very unusual snowfall for
Speaker 14: our area, and it's difficult to prepare for that, sometimes
Speaker 14: meaning the number of trucks out there. But what happens
Speaker 14: here is we kind of send out a request for
Speaker 14: you know, MSD workers, anybody out there who can operate
Speaker 14: a truck to get them out there, paying a lot
Speaker 14: of overtime to get those roads salted and get them plowed.
Speaker 14: It is a difficult dance because of the inconsistent city.
Speaker 14: We're not like Buffalo, where you know, Buffalo City there
Speaker 14: with an army of trucks of salt, you know what,
Speaker 14: they know it's coming. That's not true for Cincinnati. Where
Speaker 14: where I think it's fair to be very critical of
Speaker 14: the City of Cincinnati are the potholes in the condition
Speaker 14: of our roads and making sure that those things are fixed. Right,
Speaker 14: So it's not you know, you can't say we're throwing
Speaker 14: salt in and tearing up the roads when we didn't
Speaker 14: have a snow. But then we have potholes and roads
Speaker 14: that have and streets that have not been fixed, you know,
Speaker 14: for fifty years while we're building street cars. Right, we're
Speaker 14: just distracted on kind of the basics of what the
Speaker 14: city is there to do, or debating on the floor
Speaker 14: of council what you know, the merits of Israel and Hamas, right.
Speaker 14: I mean, city councils sometimes get so distracted. And I
Speaker 14: think that's what frustrates the caller when you look at
Speaker 14: city Hall, they said, what are they talking about? Whether
Speaker 14: it doesn't sound like they were talking about the preparedness
Speaker 14: of the snow that was coming in. And that really
Speaker 14: ties me into and I know, we'll go to break
Speaker 14: what happened in Louisiana with this terracet attack, And the
Speaker 14: question is our city needs to be prepared for these
Speaker 14: kinds of things, and what are they doing? What are
Speaker 14: they talking about? You know, because this is the time
Speaker 14: to get ready. We've got doras all over the city.
Speaker 14: People are going to be out, going to be drinking
Speaker 14: beers in very public places. Are we going to be
Speaker 14: ready for what we just saw there? And I think
Speaker 14: these are important conversations. They're not sexy, but they're critically important.
Speaker 14: Are we going to have barricades up that are still
Speaker 14: that are concrete, making sure that the citizens of Cincinnati
Speaker 14: when they come downtown and participate, or they're in some
Speaker 14: of our neighborhoods that have doors, that those aren't soft targets.
Speaker 14: Brion Thomas, That's what worries me more about what's happening
Speaker 14: at city Hall. They're distractions from the things that they
Speaker 14: really should be talking about.
Speaker 2: And isn't it a sad thing that we even have
Speaker 2: to talk about something like that? But look, it's happened
Speaker 2: all over the world, I mean Europe, it's happened a
Speaker 2: bunch of times. Is obviously happen here now The carnage
Speaker 2: is devastating and part of the basic preparedness of any
Speaker 2: city is to be able to manage functions like that
Speaker 2: and keep the citizens safe. We will continue on this
Speaker 2: topic with Christopher Smithman doing the Smither vent and first
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Speaker 2: Seven thirty one, fifty five KCD talk station, Very happy
Speaker 2: Monday if you try to make it so anyway and
Speaker 2: try to stay off the road. But it's a great
Speaker 2: day to you. Listened to fifty five Case Morning to
Speaker 2: Show at this time because we're talking to Christopher Smithland
Speaker 2: getting the smither vent. Christopher, you have the floor, my friend.
Speaker 14: Look Brian, we've got the certification of the presidential election today,
Speaker 14: which is going to be historic. And I'm so glad
Speaker 14: that the Republicans got it together last week. I know
Speaker 14: you are, and most of America is, and we and
Speaker 14: have this big fight over who the speaker of the House,
Speaker 14: so that then today they wouldn't be able to certify
Speaker 14: the election. Now. But as we march into Friday, right,
Speaker 14: and you see what Judge Merchant is doing in New York,
Speaker 14: meaning as a former politician, look just calling ball's ball.
Speaker 14: Strike strikes that this judge continues to try to inject
Speaker 14: himself in the federal presidential election. We talked about law fair.
Speaker 14: This is another example of that, and I want the
Speaker 14: public to understand that this is just a sham and
Speaker 14: the goal of the judge is to embarrass the president
Speaker 14: by defining him as a felon as he goes into
Speaker 14: his inauguration on the twentieth. And so what you'll see
Speaker 14: the liberal papers doing, Brian Thomas hit signs are Trump
Speaker 14: is a felon because he now has been sentenced, and
Speaker 14: they won't discuss about the merits of the case or
Speaker 14: whether he absolutely will win this case on appill. The
Speaker 14: objective here is at the time of his swearing in
Speaker 14: on the twentieth, for the liberal media to have the
Speaker 14: talking point that this Manhattan DA prosecutor brags who then
Speaker 14: worked with this judge in New York in Manhattan, with
Speaker 14: this very liberal jury, has convicted Trump on things that
Speaker 14: most people said should never have been brought. But now
Speaker 14: on this coming Friday, he's going to sentence him by
Speaker 14: video conference, and he's going to say, no sentence, no
Speaker 14: jail time, public It has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 14: This is a judge that is injecting himself in a
Speaker 14: presidential election, attempting to embarrass the president those who voted
Speaker 14: for him, seventy six million people, winning the popular vote,
Speaker 14: the electoral vote. And now they want to say, for
Speaker 14: the first time in the history of the United States
Speaker 14: of America, on January twentieth, we are now swearing in
Speaker 14: for president someone who is a convicted feller. Yes, mat
Speaker 14: is the objective of what that judge is doing on Friday.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: And if people actually paid attention to what we will
Speaker 2: talk as the merits of or lack thereof, of the prosecution,
Speaker 2: they would realize that the only person who is going
Speaker 2: to be embarrassed by this or should be embarrassed by
Speaker 2: this is the judge himself and the prosecutors who brought
Speaker 2: the damn charges against them. This was not a crime
Speaker 2: to start with, is nothing. There was no criminal activity, nothing.
Speaker 2: This was an arms length real estate transaction. Trump wants
Speaker 2: to borrow money, he uses his real estate as collateral.
Speaker 2: Made this point so many times it makes me blue
Speaker 2: in the face. I mean, come on, how much is
Speaker 2: your houseworth. It's worth what someone is willing to buy
Speaker 2: it for at the moment of sale, nothing more, nothing less.
Speaker 2: That's an arms length transaction negotiated between the seller of
Speaker 2: the home and whoever bought it. This was using real
Speaker 2: estate as collateral to secure loans from professional lenders, namely
Speaker 2: very large banks who have their own real estate departments
Speaker 2: that are capable of determining the accuracy of the value
Speaker 2: that Trump said. Trump could say, oh, my real estate's
Speaker 2: worth two trillion dollars in the bank would have laughed
Speaker 2: and said, oh no, it's not how much money you
Speaker 2: looking to borrow? And well, I want to borrow eight
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million dollars. All right, let me check
Speaker 2: out your profile, let me look at your real estate portfolio. No, no,
Speaker 2: we value it closer to I don't know whatever, and
Speaker 2: they give him the loan and he paid it off.
Speaker 2: The banks testified at trial they were not harmed by anything.
Speaker 2: They were not out money. Donald Trump didn't builk them
Speaker 2: out of anything. They're capable, sophisticated lenders. It's a sham.
Speaker 2: It's the worst possible illustration of the lawfare that was
Speaker 2: waged against Donald Trump is that specific set of cases
Speaker 2: and the trumped up number of charges. I mean it.
Speaker 2: I'll just stop right now. Hold on, I'll bring it
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Speaker 14: the time.
Speaker 2: Shaft O Kasee the talk station, Brient Tims, Christopher Smith
Speaker 2: got to correct the record and they want to give
Speaker 2: props to Marcia. Thank you, Marcia. I did get the
Speaker 2: cases mixed up. The thirty four phony counts relate to
Speaker 2: falsifying business records to cover up an alleged hush money
Speaker 2: payment to porn star Stormy Daniel, So I got my
Speaker 2: law fair cases mixed up regardless though it is a nonsensical,
Speaker 2: ridiculous case in the first place. So but we've seen
Speaker 2: a lot of that when it comes to lawfair against
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Anyway, Appreciate again Marcia clearing up the record.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm wrong.
Speaker 14: Go ahead, Christopher, Hey, Brian, listen, there's so many there's
Speaker 14: so many cases out there, and it's one of the
Speaker 14: reasons why President elect Trump wong because so many Americans
Speaker 14: were saying that if they can do this to him,
Speaker 14: they can do it to you, to me, to anybody.
Speaker 14: And so this notion that again the judge is interjecting
Speaker 14: himself on Friday, because the goal is on the twentieth
Speaker 14: of January for them to say here history is this
Speaker 14: is mainstream media. We now are swearing in a president
Speaker 14: for the first time who's a convicted felon, when we
Speaker 14: know that on appeal, this entire case will be thrown out.
Speaker 14: And what's so bizarre about it is the crime in
Speaker 14: New York is so out of control where you have
Speaker 14: them going after Penny three or four weeks ago, who
Speaker 14: now is free but was facing fifteen years, and then
Speaker 14: two weeks later you have a twenty three year old
Speaker 14: nurse on the train set on fire by an a
Speaker 14: legal immigrant, fanning the woman while she's on fire Brian Thomas.
Speaker 14: And you would think that this city would have enough
Speaker 14: to deal with, but now what they want to continue
Speaker 14: to do with crime raging out of control, they want
Speaker 14: to do this kind of craziness on Friday, where they're
Speaker 14: going to say, we're going to zoom in the president
Speaker 14: and we're going to sentence him so that he can
Speaker 14: be officially a fellow. It's so outrageous, Brian, to see
Speaker 14: what's happening in New York. It's not a city that
Speaker 14: I even want to visit because of the crime, because
Speaker 14: of the outrageous behavior of the politicians there. They have
Speaker 14: so many other things to work on, and this is
Speaker 14: where they're spending their time.
Speaker 2: Sir, Well, it's a new County year, and now congestion
Speaker 2: taxes have kicked in in New York, so if you
Speaker 2: drive your car into certain areas in New York, you're
Speaker 2: going to get charged an arm and a leg. One
Speaker 2: of the goals of that not only to raise money
Speaker 2: because they're out of money and they always are, to
Speaker 2: try to get more people to use public transportation, subjecting
Speaker 2: more people to the evils that exist in the New
Speaker 2: York subway system. That makes a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 2: If people don't want to ride it already, go Lee.
Speaker 14: And then we have to deal with this President Biden.
Speaker 14: As I go out to say he has put all
Speaker 14: these partons out. I don't want to hear anybody in
Speaker 14: mainStreet media talk about any parton that the new incoming
Speaker 14: president makes. After this guy is issuing partons for people
Speaker 14: who have murdered people, people who were paid pay to
Speaker 14: put them into private kids into private prisons. No one
Speaker 14: understands rhyme or reason of what President Biden is doing
Speaker 14: right now with these partons. And it's quite scary because
Speaker 14: it's that example of who is running the country, who's
Speaker 14: making these decisions. They just aren't making any sense to me,
Speaker 14: Brian Thomas, I understand trying to figure out what this
Speaker 14: president is doing as he says, he's issuing executive orders
Speaker 14: making it more difficult for the incoming president, which he
Speaker 14: knows is agenda is drill, meaning he's wanting to explore oil,
Speaker 14: and Biden right now is issuing executive orders to make
Speaker 14: it more difficult for the incoming president. I just don't
Speaker 14: understand what they're doing. Why they think that the average
Speaker 14: man and woman American in this country can't see what
Speaker 14: they're doing. And my last point is this reading and
Speaker 14: writing stuff in New Jersey and the school teachers and
Speaker 14: lowering the standards. Let me tell you, Brian Thomas, we
Speaker 14: need more teachers we need higher level teachers, we need
Speaker 14: better teachers, whatever the word is. Lowering the standards of
Speaker 14: reading and writing as a standard for a teacher is
Speaker 14: so over the top and so absurd for me to
Speaker 14: read that, having been married to a school teacher, having
Speaker 14: my mother being a retired school teacher, I don't get
Speaker 14: this one at all.
Speaker 2: I don't either, And how can that possibly benefit our
Speaker 2: children who are already suffering under the current standards, not
Speaker 2: just in New Jersey but other states as well. They
Speaker 2: can't pass simple basic eighth grade you know, reading accomplishment levels,
Speaker 2: and yet they'll still advance them onto ninth grade without
Speaker 2: the requisite skills to even pass eighth grade. It's just
Speaker 2: mind boggling. But real quick, I got two follow ups
Speaker 2: insofar as the pardons are concerned, and there wasn't actually
Speaker 2: a rather critical Wall Street Journal op ed piece. But
Speaker 2: don't be so quick to endorse Donald Trump pardoning these
Speaker 2: January six ers. And there were some you know, vile
Speaker 2: actions done by some people. I don't abide by beating
Speaker 2: a police officer over the head with a poll for example,
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of you know, rather innocuous
Speaker 2: behavior that's still been prosecuted But hasn't Joe Biden, in
Speaker 2: pardoning or commuting these death sentences for all these vile,
Speaker 2: I mean horrifically vile people, didn't he kind of clear
Speaker 2: the path for Donald Trump to get away with it
Speaker 2: to the extent you want to put a pejorative term
Speaker 2: on it. If Donald Trump's you know, partnering from Jay sixers.
Speaker 2: Last time I checked, the only person who got murdered
Speaker 2: there was Ashley Babbitt when she was gunned down by
Speaker 2: a Capitol official with a firearm, even though she didn't
Speaker 2: represent any threat to the man or anybody in the room.
Speaker 2: Now beyond that, you know, when you compare some of
Speaker 2: these the worst of the Jay sixers that they've gotten incarcerated,
Speaker 2: they pale in comparison to vast majority of the people
Speaker 2: Joe Biden led off the hook.
Speaker 14: Well, let me say the short answer to your question
Speaker 14: is yes. And the reality of it is that cherry
Speaker 14: on top for this president was the parton of his
Speaker 14: own son, you know, for a ten year window of
Speaker 14: time with no clear what specific crime he was being
Speaker 14: partned for. And by the way, President Biden isn't done
Speaker 14: with his pardons, look for him to parton people like Fouci.
Speaker 14: Look for him to parton people like Lindsey Graham's dar
Speaker 14: Look for him to partn maybe Nancy Pelosi. There are
Speaker 14: going to be other partons as he leaves, going onto
Speaker 14: the twentieth his last kiss to.
Speaker 2: All of America.
Speaker 14: Are going to be more partons for people that are
Speaker 14: going to make all of us pucker in a way
Speaker 14: that we can't even imagine. So he's not done with
Speaker 14: the parton.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 5: He's probably in.
Speaker 10: The middle of it.
Speaker 14: Brother, He's probably right in.
Speaker 10: The middle of it.
Speaker 2: Be You're right, you know. But the thing is, you know, I,
Speaker 2: at least in so far as Hunter Biden is concerned,
Speaker 2: he had charges hanging over his head. Right in so
Speaker 2: far as some of these other people that were partoned,
Speaker 2: they had already been convicted, so they've been through the
Speaker 2: whole new process thing. What a Fauci You mentioned Faucin,
Speaker 2: And I keep hearing his name being brought up as
Speaker 2: you know, a subject or likely to perhaps get a
Speaker 2: presidential pardon along the lines of what they gave to
Speaker 2: what he gave to his son Hunter. But doesn't that
Speaker 2: suggest that Fauci is then guilty of crimes? Why would
Speaker 2: you parton someone nobody. No charges have been brought against
Speaker 2: Fauci yet, so why would you what possible reason would
Speaker 2: you have to pardon them? Doesn't that sound guilty?
Speaker 14: Yeah? I think the concern is that he lied to
Speaker 14: the American people about COVID, about what was happening in China,
Speaker 14: about research that's happening in China. I know you've had
Speaker 14: on Congressman brad Winstrop to discuss that. So I think
Speaker 14: that they're things that we might not know about, that
Speaker 14: the incoming administration not only will find out about it,
Speaker 14: but will post it on social media for everybody to see.
Speaker 14: That he might have some broad parting on things that
Speaker 14: you and I are not privy to. At this point,
Speaker 14: it's pretty scary to have an outgoing president issue these
Speaker 14: kinds of broad partners if he does this for crimes
Speaker 14: that you and I don't even know about.
Speaker 2: I know some have accused of mass murder in connection
Speaker 2: with the COVID nineteen vaccine, for example, and of course
Speaker 2: being involved in gain of function research and funding the
Speaker 2: WUHUN instead of of virology or technico virology. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew the answer to the question before
Speaker 2: I asked it out loud.
Speaker 10: But you did.
Speaker 2: It's just of course you.
Speaker 14: Hey, Ryan, Hey, look, we're sitting here just stracting our heads,
Speaker 14: and the reality of it is the down heel of
Speaker 14: partons are not over. There's no way that he's not
Speaker 14: going to if he's part in his son. There's no
Speaker 14: way that other people are knocking on the door saying, hey,
Speaker 14: I need a couple of partons before you get out
Speaker 14: of here, President Biden. And then they're looking at him
Speaker 14: going by the way you and I have worked, have
Speaker 14: spoken to, have dealt with, and I say this in
Speaker 14: love with people who have suffered from dementia are Alzheimer's. Clearly,
Speaker 14: this president is impaired by some type of mental condition
Speaker 14: and we will find out about this in the years
Speaker 14: to come. It is the greatest cover up of a
Speaker 14: president's office. I'm talking about Schumer, I'm talking about Vice
Speaker 14: President Harris. Anybody that has been interacting with this president
Speaker 14: has been telling the American people, don't believe your eyes,
Speaker 14: don't believe your ears. The best microphones in the world
Speaker 14: are in front of President Biden, and no one can
Speaker 14: understand what he's saying.
Speaker 2: That's true. I'll leave you with this rhetorical question. Christopher
Speaker 2: do you think Diddy will get pardoned before Biden went No,
Speaker 2: fair enough.
Speaker 14: I'm concerned that he doesn't, that he ends up like
Speaker 14: f Ste. He has so much information on so many
Speaker 14: people on the West Coast that people are incredibly concerned
Speaker 14: about him testifying.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well you know Epstein. We all know
Speaker 2: what happened to Epstein. Chris Smithman, God bless you, sir.
Speaker 2: Very happy New Year. I'm looking forward to next Monday already,
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Speaker 4: Happy new year, and happy first snow day of the year.
Speaker 4: And all the kids and some workers out.
Speaker 2: It's a hell of a snow day too, isn't it,
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Speaker 4: This is a whopper. Have you seen this in a
Speaker 4: very long time?
Speaker 2: We really long time. I knew we got a couple
Speaker 2: of topics you provided, and we're going to get to those.
Speaker 2: And I don't think I'm throwing you much of a
Speaker 2: carved ball, since you are a financial planner. But I
Speaker 2: had a couple of things I just wanted to bring up,
Speaker 2: and I was inspired by my own personal experience. I
Speaker 2: get my credit score, you know, I know what it is.
Speaker 2: And there was an article on the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: I believe it was from yesterday, one man's attempt to
Speaker 2: get a perfect eight to fifty credit score and rather
Speaker 2: interesting article. And I not bragging or anything, but there
Speaker 2: was a period of time where I did enjoy a
Speaker 2: perfect credit score for a while and lo and behold.
Speaker 2: I launched the app to find my credit score, and
Speaker 2: it dropped down by like, I don't know, twelve points
Speaker 2: or something. Nothing in my life had changed, nothing. All
Speaker 2: my bills are paid, you know, I got all these
Speaker 2: per everything's perfect, everything's perfect. Then they suggestion on the
Speaker 2: I don't know if his equifacts or whatever it was,
Speaker 2: I don't have enough credit card accounts. In other words,
Speaker 2: they want me to have more available credit in spite
Speaker 2: of the fact that all my bills are paid and
Speaker 2: I've got enough available credit to cover my family's basic
Speaker 2: needs and probably another family down the streets basic needs.
Speaker 2: What the hell is with credit scores? And why don't
Speaker 2: they let people know? And they don't, as the article
Speaker 2: points out, they keep all this quiet. It's they said,
Speaker 2: the algorithms they assign people are proprietary, so you don't
Speaker 2: even know. And so the article goes over all these
Speaker 2: different you know, you know, the contortions this one guy
Speaker 2: went through in an effort to get an eight to
Speaker 2: fifty credit score, and it's just it was out. It
Speaker 2: was insane what he went through to try to do it,
Speaker 2: and he ultimately was able to do it just by
Speaker 2: maintaining a certain like teeny weeny percentage of some kind
Speaker 2: of balance on his various credit cards. Does it really
Speaker 2: matter once you get over and you're in that higher level?
Speaker 2: Does it matter? Should concern anybody? And do you know
Speaker 2: anything about credit scores and how they come up with them? Brian,
Speaker 2: I hate to put you on the spot, but this
Speaker 2: kind of irks me.
Speaker 4: No, not at all.
Speaker 16: And I've got clients who bring up these questions as well.
Speaker 16: Matter of fact, I have clients and there are frequent listeners.
Speaker 16: They may hear me say this who had the same
Speaker 16: experience that you did and had that eight fifty for
Speaker 16: that one brief shining moment, printed it out, brought it
Speaker 16: into me so we could celebrate, and then they framed it,
Speaker 16: hung it on the wall.
Speaker 4: So I think it shortly after that went back down.
Speaker 16: But to answer your question that these are great questions,
Speaker 16: but at the same time, once you're over really seven fifty,
Speaker 16: you're not going to get anything more special than you know,
Speaker 16: for being over eight hundred or or you know, even
Speaker 16: up with that eight to fifty range, there really aren't
Speaker 16: There isn't a you know, a special green room for.
Speaker 4: People with those super high credit scores.
Speaker 16: So it doesn't matter that much once you're Once you're
Speaker 16: at that range, you can kind of get what you need.
Speaker 16: But yeah, so question for you though, did did they
Speaker 16: did you did they specify that they thought you should
Speaker 16: have more actual credit card accounts or do they think
Speaker 16: you should have more credit available meaning higher limits and
Speaker 16: lower balances?
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't see anything but the limits. They gave
Speaker 2: me a specific number. I think I have I guess,
Speaker 2: ten specific accounts that they were able to identify within
Speaker 2: this list of whatever is an approved account, credit or otherwise,
Speaker 2: and then I should have more like fifteen to twenty
Speaker 2: or something. It's just I'm like, this seems vast awkwards,
Speaker 2: if you know what I mean.
Speaker 16: Yes, and the algorithm, that algorithm, like all algorithms, changes
Speaker 16: all the time because they're after whatever it is that
Speaker 16: they're after. But at the same time, the really the
Speaker 16: important things. You know, if you wanted that last marginal
Speaker 16: few points to get you to the eight fifty, then yeah,
Speaker 16: that's probably what you would need. And that algorithm that
Speaker 16: you're asking to tell you to give you advice on
Speaker 16: what else do I need is really reaching to the
Speaker 16: bottom of the barrel for the ideas, And that last
Speaker 16: bit is the number of accounts.
Speaker 2: It sounds like yeah apparently, so it just seems just
Speaker 2: so so stupid. If you don't need the additional credit,
Speaker 2: then why would you want it available? So I don't
Speaker 2: know anyhow, And along those lines, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: bring this up because in case people aren't aware in
Speaker 2: terms of credit, my wife just got I don't know,
Speaker 2: a Cole's statement or something. We don't even shop there anymore,
Speaker 2: but it was an announcement that their interest rate is
Speaker 2: now north of thirty percent. Thirty and it was one
Speaker 2: of several cards. You know, it was some other small
Speaker 2: retailer that we don't ever use, but I mean your
Speaker 2: thirty percent interest rate, Brian, that's insane.
Speaker 16: This is insane, and it tells you exactly who they're
Speaker 16: shooting for. They are truly, truly hoping that you will
Speaker 16: forget about it. Because remember the way a credit card works,
Speaker 16: it has a grace period too. So as soon as
Speaker 16: you swipe that card and you rack up a month's
Speaker 16: worth of expenses, you're going to get your statement, and
Speaker 16: then you've got usually twenty five maybe twenty eight days.
Speaker 16: It can waiver around there somewhere, but that's how much
Speaker 16: time you've got to get that paid off. What they're after,
Speaker 16: they're after the small percentage of people who are going
Speaker 16: to forget to make that payment and pay that statement off.
Speaker 16: Most people do. Most people get their rewards and run away.
Speaker 16: And I know you and I both play that game. Yeah,
Speaker 16: but there are a handful of people out there who
Speaker 16: will not make that payment, and they'll go, I'll get
Speaker 16: it next year. And if you annualize the interest that
Speaker 16: you're paying those on those accounts, you are simply paying
Speaker 16: an enormous amount of money for the privilege to owe
Speaker 16: a bank money.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and again, I only bring it up in
Speaker 2: case people are not paying attention because apparently, I guess
Speaker 2: they can adjust these interest rates to any damn well
Speaker 2: time they please, or maybe they have to do at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the calendar year. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the rules are that apply to these credit card comp
Speaker 2: are credit cards, But man't pay close attention because I mean,
Speaker 2: let's face it, if you could find a credit card
Speaker 2: that only charges twenty percent versus one that charges thirty,
Speaker 2: you know which one you should be using if you're
Speaker 2: not if you're going to carry a balance. But it's
Speaker 2: still it's like the word usery comes to mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and well, i'd also add based on that thought process.
Speaker 16: I know you don't really think this way, but if
Speaker 16: you're really looking at the interest rate, if you're comparing
Speaker 16: the interest rate across credit cards, then you're probably using
Speaker 16: credit cards incorrectly. If you've got a situation where you've
Speaker 16: got a balance on one of them, then you need
Speaker 16: to be looking for a balance transfer opportunity. Sometimes those
Speaker 16: are zero percent for twelve to eighteen months, something like that.
Speaker 16: But if you've got a significant balance, I would say
Speaker 16: that twenty percent is truly no better than thirty percent.
Speaker 4: It's all way too high.
Speaker 2: It is way too high. All right, Well, let's I'm
Speaker 2: tempted to take an early break, Joe. Can we take
Speaker 2: an early break because we can go to the two
Speaker 2: topics afterwards, or you want to just dive into part
Speaker 2: of the first one, or how do you want to
Speaker 2: work it? Okay, Brian, We're gonna take an early break
Speaker 2: a couple minutes early because I don't want to start
Speaker 2: either one of the topics we have remaining, because I'm
Speaker 2: afraid we'll not have enough time in the segment to
Speaker 2: do it. So let's pause it We'll bring Brian James
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Speaker 2: being supposed to understand how much money they can contribute
Speaker 2: to a four to one K given all the different
Speaker 2: breakdowns and subcategories and categories we have here in terms
Speaker 2: of you know, annual four oh one K savings and
Speaker 2: catch up contributions. I mean, this is baffling. But the
Speaker 2: number I'm reading here, can someone in any of these
Speaker 2: age groups that apply save up to thirty four thousand,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty dollars for retirement next year in
Speaker 2: a four oh one K think what that would be
Speaker 2: this year. The answer is yes, yes.
Speaker 4: Apparently right.
Speaker 16: So honestly, this is all all the confusion, Bryan, is
Speaker 16: job security for me? If the Irs ever made things simple,
Speaker 16: or if Congress ever, you know, kind of tried to
Speaker 16: work a little harder to make things put things in English,
Speaker 16: then I don't have a job. So let's go over
Speaker 16: where we were so we can talk about what the
Speaker 16: changes are in twenty twenty four. If you had a
Speaker 16: four oh one K, then you were Everybody under the
Speaker 16: sun who had a four oh one K could put
Speaker 16: in twenty three thousand dollars. Whether that's wroth or traditional
Speaker 16: four oh one K didn't matter. It didn't matter what
Speaker 16: your age is. The limit for everybody was twenty three thousand.
Speaker 16: If you were over fifty, we've had something called the ketchup,
Speaker 16: but that's been around for a long time.
Speaker 4: That was an additional seventy five hundred.
Speaker 16: So in twenty twenty four, somebody fifty plus could put
Speaker 16: away thirty thousand.
Speaker 4: Five hundred dollars.
Speaker 16: New for this year is a super catchup contribution. Another
Speaker 16: flavor for everybody to remember. If you are age sixty
Speaker 16: to sixty three instead of seventy five hundred, you get
Speaker 16: to put in the thirty four thousand and seven to fifty,
Speaker 16: So now you're at the twenty three for everybody twenty
Speaker 16: three and a half. That is actually the standard limit
Speaker 16: went up by five hundred bucks to twenty three five hundred.
Speaker 16: Those over sixty but under sixty three are under sixty
Speaker 16: four rather are allowed an additional eleven two point fifty.
Speaker 16: That's a total of thirty four to seven fifty. If
Speaker 16: you're sixty four or turning sixty four this year, you
Speaker 16: don't get it.
Speaker 4: So this is the other confusing part. What the old
Speaker 4: ketchup job security again, Brian? Job security for me? Right,
Speaker 4: let's talk about what's important here. So but what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, the older you get, the more likely it is
Speaker 2: you should be able to get it. I mean, usually
Speaker 2: your highest income earning years are older. So why would
Speaker 2: someone who's sixty five and still gainfully employed and not
Speaker 2: be able to chuck board a four oh one k
Speaker 2: if that's what they want.
Speaker 16: To do, you would have to ask your friendly neighborhood
Speaker 16: actuary as to why this was a good idea. So
Speaker 16: what you've just pointed out is the ketchup contribution applies
Speaker 16: two different times in your life. Currently, it applies from
Speaker 16: ages fifty to fifty nine, and then from sixty to
Speaker 16: sixty three you have the super catchup. And then currently,
Speaker 16: from when you become sixty four and older you go
Speaker 16: back to the old catch up super Ketchup.
Speaker 4: Does that understand? Does that help you understand?
Speaker 2: I mean I do have an understanding of it. It
Speaker 2: just doesn't make any sense when you practically talk about
Speaker 2: it in real life. You know, terms like wait a second,
Speaker 2: how come it's you know, up to sixty four and
Speaker 2: that shuts off after age sixty four. Someone explained that
Speaker 2: to me, and I know you're not going to be
Speaker 2: capable of or in a position to do that. But
Speaker 2: super Ketchup. That sounds like the thing you buy at Costco,
Speaker 2: the giant size ketchup as opposed to the regular.
Speaker 4: The generic version of the ketchup.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 2: Well, and the other thing is, now this will apply
Speaker 2: to me since I am fifty nine. I turned sixty
Speaker 2: in September, I still qualify for this age sixty through
Speaker 2: sixty three super Ketchup because I turned sixty in the
Speaker 2: calendar year.
Speaker 4: That is correct.
Speaker 16: But you will, you will be sixty by twelve thirty one. Therefore,
Speaker 16: this is a super ketchup year, not the regular ketchup
Speaker 16: for you the good kind.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I know there's a WROTH provision in here too,
Speaker 2: but roths are only available to people within certain income levels.
Speaker 16: Correct, that's correct. Yeah, so that's kind of correct. Here's
Speaker 16: another fun thing too. So, yes, there is an income
Speaker 16: limitation on WROTH contributions, and that's in the range for
Speaker 16: the perry depending on how you know, whether you're married,
Speaker 16: whether you're single, so forth, it's in the range of
Speaker 16: say two hundred thousand dollars something like that. But the
Speaker 16: fun thing there is that you can do what's called
Speaker 16: a backdoor WROTH conversion because there are no income limitations
Speaker 16: on converting traditional or pre tax assets from a pretax
Speaker 16: IRA to a WROTH. So the trick there is you
Speaker 16: make a non deductible traditional IRA contribution.
Speaker 4: This is not new, this is an old thing, been
Speaker 4: around for a while.
Speaker 16: Make a non deductible traditional IRA contribution and then immediately
Speaker 16: convert that and then you wind up with the exact
Speaker 16: same result. So if you may, if you're married, you
Speaker 16: make over two hundred one thousand dollars, then you are
Speaker 16: not able to make a ROTH IRA contribution. However, you
Speaker 16: can make a pretax non deductible contribution and then convert
Speaker 16: that and get the exact same outcome. And what's really
Speaker 16: crazy about this, Brian, this was this started off as
Speaker 16: a loophole, but eventually the IRS said, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 16: you guys, this is fine, go ahead and keep doing it.
Speaker 16: So rather than just removing the income limitation on a
Speaker 16: ROTH contribution, they've simply said that if you file a
Speaker 16: couple more pieces of paper on your IRA, you can
Speaker 16: get the same end result.
Speaker 2: God, that is so insane. And I you know, you
Speaker 2: call it a loophole. If it's written that way, I
Speaker 2: don't consider it a loophole. I mean I consider that
Speaker 2: the intended consequence of any legislation that comes down the pike,
Speaker 2: because they wrote it that way, to the extent they
Speaker 2: didn't consider something one way or another. It's not it's
Speaker 2: not illegal or anything, but it's just something that's built
Speaker 2: into the tax provisions or in this particular case, the
Speaker 2: IRA provisions. Ryan. Just anyway, this is.
Speaker 4: Why we talk on Monday morning. It is all of
Speaker 4: this out for the listening public.
Speaker 2: It is well, talk to your financial planner. To the
Speaker 2: extent you don't have one, I recommend getting one anyhow,
Speaker 2: Trump's proposed tariffs. I have heard and read so much
Speaker 2: about Trump's proposed tariffs. I mean, he every other day
Speaker 2: he comes out with another tariff he's proposing. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, it seems to be getting some traction in
Speaker 2: terms of global affairs. I know the Mexico's president now
Speaker 2: plans on working with the Trump administration in terms of
Speaker 2: taking back some of the illegal immigrants he wants to
Speaker 2: send over, certainly in part because of threats of tariffs.
Speaker 2: And I see Trudeau's getting ready to resign in Canada,
Speaker 2: and one of the concerns they have in Canada is
Speaker 2: tariffs on Canadian goods. But this transcends that, and we're
Speaker 2: talking Chinese goods primarily. China is obviously a difficult competitor globally.
Speaker 2: They don't have any OSHA rules, they have slave labor,
Speaker 2: they don't have minimum wage, so it's a lot more
Speaker 2: difficult to compete with the Chinese companies. So, at least conceptually,
Speaker 2: I understand wanting to perhaps teariff Chinese products, which we've
Speaker 2: all gotten used to because they are so inexpensive compared
Speaker 2: to anything that we make here. What's your take on this,
Speaker 2: because some people are all in favor of this for
Speaker 2: some of the reasons I mentioned, and some people think
Speaker 2: it's going to ruin the economy. Do you have any
Speaker 2: personal thoughts on this or anything.
Speaker 16: Well, I mean, in terms of the impact here, it's
Speaker 16: really kind of the same discussion as when I'm doing
Speaker 16: a financial plan for somebody. What are your priorities, right,
Speaker 16: what's the most important thing to you? And what I
Speaker 16: mean by that is, if you are someone who says,
Speaker 16: you know what, the United States has just got to
Speaker 16: get more competitive because twenty thirty years from now we're
Speaker 16: not going to be able to be at the same
Speaker 16: level that we currently are, then you might say that
Speaker 16: it's worth laying tariffs against especially China, for the reasons
Speaker 16: you just mentioned. It's a lot easier for China to
Speaker 16: produce goods more cheaply than it is here because of
Speaker 16: all the rules we have. However, if you're somebody who says,
Speaker 16: you know what, inflation is the thing that's the thing
Speaker 16: we've got to focus on, not going to be in
Speaker 16: favor of these things, because there's no way to have
Speaker 16: our cake and eat it too.
Speaker 4: We can't reduce it.
Speaker 16: We can't attack China with tariffs without having any kind
Speaker 16: of inflationary impact, and heaven knows, we've seen plenty of
Speaker 16: it in the last few years. So it really just
Speaker 16: depends on what you feel is the most important, what's
Speaker 16: the best for your situation. If you are a small
Speaker 16: business owner who imports goods, who imports natural resources and
Speaker 16: things from China that you need, you're probably not real
Speaker 16: excited about these tariffs.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 16: On the other hand, you know, you might you might
Speaker 16: be if you're a company that competes directly with China,
Speaker 16: then you might feel a little bit differently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just the whole idea. It's an artificial tinkering
Speaker 2: with the market. But it's brought about because we have, well,
Speaker 2: I guess, pretty healthy trade relations with China, for example.
Speaker 2: We've gotten used to it. I mean I always just
Speaker 2: kind of wonder. I mean, had we treated China the
Speaker 2: way we treated the Soviet Union, we wouldn't even be
Speaker 2: having this discussion because we wouldn't be trading with them, period,
Speaker 2: end of story. Yeah. I re read this article this morning,
Speaker 2: our national security advisor telling us that China couldased just
Speaker 2: flip the switch and shut down our entire electric grid,
Speaker 2: given how much it's infected our our infrastructure with software
Speaker 2: and things like that, that is an enemy of ours.
Speaker 2: So if we just quit trading with them, period, And
Speaker 2: I understand the practical effect of just shutting off that
Speaker 2: light swhich is impossibility, but I mean, we have to
Speaker 2: contend with them on some way. But we've just gotten
Speaker 2: I think, fat and happy on cheap Chinese made stuff.
Speaker 2: I think you're.
Speaker 16: Exactly right, and I use the term on these airwaves
Speaker 16: pretty frequently, that we are the United States of profit margin.
Speaker 16: The one thing for how whether we've actively decided this
Speaker 16: or just passively by not objecting to it, the one
Speaker 16: thing we will not touch is the ability of our
Speaker 16: publicly traded companies to make money, because that's how we
Speaker 16: all get richer. I'm not saying that's good, bad, or indifferent.
Speaker 16: I'm just saying that's the decision that we've made. That's
Speaker 16: why it was not hard at all to cut off
Speaker 16: Russia because they were never a huge trading partner, and
Speaker 16: Russia never made the moves that China has to become
Speaker 16: a major player on the on the kind of overall
Speaker 16: world economics. They don't make plastic garbage that they can
Speaker 16: sell for nothing and undercut everybody else China does.
Speaker 4: So therefore, you know, look at the things you're buying
Speaker 4: on Amazon.
Speaker 16: If you're looking for a phone charger, how many of
Speaker 16: those you think you're actually made in the United States.
Speaker 16: The ones that are made the United States are probably
Speaker 16: four or five times more expensive, probably maybe a little
Speaker 16: better quality. That's a different topic. But if you're simply
Speaker 16: going for cheap, cheap, cheap, that's China. That's what they've
Speaker 16: been doing for one hundred years when they figured out
Speaker 16: that that's a way to get under the skin of
Speaker 16: the United States, and we're addicted to it. You know,
Speaker 16: if you've been bringing in cheap products and cheap components
Speaker 16: for whatever it is that you build, then it's going
Speaker 16: to be real hard to give that up.
Speaker 2: Well, it certainly is. And I'm just wondering, are these
Speaker 2: tariffs going to apply to all the like, for example,
Speaker 2: rare earth minerals that are brought into this country through
Speaker 2: China to build electric vehicles or to wherever that happen
Speaker 2: to the electric vehicles have to be built. We don't
Speaker 2: have our own because our own environmental laws won't allow
Speaker 2: us to extract them even though it's right there in
Speaker 2: front of our faces. So I don't know, I'm just
Speaker 2: confused by the whole thing. But did you apolitical? The
Speaker 2: realities of the world have changed dramatically since Nixon normalized
Speaker 2: trade relations with China. They weren't a sworn enemy back then.
Speaker 2: They were you know, a second world at best country.
Speaker 2: And clearly they've moved ahead in advance significantly and seek
Speaker 2: to compete with America on a globe on you know,
Speaker 2: directly on a global scale, and pretty successful at doing
Speaker 2: it because they don't have any regulations.
Speaker 4: Hmm, yeah, go figure.
Speaker 16: So if you think about it, it's almost a kind
Speaker 16: of a perfect capitalist story. They found a need that
Speaker 16: that that is out there, and people were willing to
Speaker 16: throw money at it. Happens to be here in this country,
Speaker 16: which where where our goal is is profit margin.
Speaker 4: That's our number one goal.
Speaker 16: So if they're they're the cheapest offering of whatever resources
Speaker 16: we need, it's going to be real hard to go
Speaker 16: against that number one goal and say that, you know,
Speaker 16: we're going to sacrifice these other things. Well, we always
Speaker 16: care about morality and how how how people are treated
Speaker 16: and you know, suffering and of course the Chinese people
Speaker 16: suffer mightily for lack of a lot of the regulatory
Speaker 16: struct infrastructure we have here, so maybe there's a moral
Speaker 16: argument that can be made for us paying more for
Speaker 16: Chinese products.
Speaker 2: Don't know, Brian James. Always a distinct pleasure to have
Speaker 2: you on the program on Mondays. I appreciate this segment.
Speaker 2: I'll look forward to next Monday for another edition of
Speaker 2: Money Monday, and be careful out there, my friend.
Speaker 4: Happy New Year and who day anyway, right, that's the.
Speaker 2: First time that came up this morning. Thanks Brian, eight
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Speaker 2: See the talk station. It's a thirty two to fifty
Speaker 2: five kr CD talk station about happy Monday to you,
Speaker 2: still dust in some of the cob webs of vacation
Speaker 2: out of my head. And mentioned earlier the weather will
Speaker 2: not impact the certification of the election. And I said
Speaker 2: something about Donald Trump going quickly to work after some
Speaker 2: time at one after one pm and the election certified,
Speaker 2: signing executive orders. No, it's swearing in has to happen first, Brian.
Speaker 2: So just twice I screwed up this morning. For those
Speaker 2: I'm keeping track, I myself am keeping track this morning.
Speaker 2: I may have screwed up more than that. Feel free
Speaker 2: to call me and let me know if I've screwed up.
Speaker 2: Five went three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five fifty
Speaker 2: on AT and T funds. Beyond that, we've got local
Speaker 2: stories here and westside. Jim pointed out the Democratic High
Speaker 2: Representative Cecil Thomas was on the on a program over
Speaker 2: the weekend. Didn't come up his allegations or the complaint
Speaker 2: he fought against Hamilton County prosecuted Melissa Powers days before
Speaker 2: the November election, obviously in an effort to well sabotage
Speaker 2: or campaign. Whether it had any impact on the outcome,
Speaker 2: we know Connie Pillach won first Democrat to hold the
Speaker 2: prosecutor's office in nearly a century. Sad day for Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: but you the voters decided anyway. Special prosecutor assigned to
Speaker 2: the allegations file by Cecil Thomas, determined that they are
Speaker 2: entirely baseless. Thirteen page report filed last week by Claremont
Speaker 2: County Prosecutor Mark Deculvey, appointed last month as special prosecutor
Speaker 2: in this issue, also found Thomas's sworn affidavit in support
Speaker 2: of his claims was filed in bad faith. Powers released
Speaker 2: the statement after this report came out. She said, it
Speaker 2: was shameful that these allegations were taken seriously by anyone
Speaker 2: from the start. This was nothing more than a politically
Speaker 2: motivated hit designed to influence the outcome this November's elections,
Speaker 2: and it has been dismissed correctly for the sham that
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 2: Specifically, Thomas filed the allegations on November one. He alleged
Speaker 2: without facts, the Powers, who was a former juvenile court
Speaker 2: judge as well as prosecutor, backdated a court entry in
Speaker 2: a case back in twenty twenty one. Powers, for her parts,
Speaker 2: she simply corrected a clerical error so that the juvenile
Speaker 2: had the right to appeal one of her decisions. Sounds
Speaker 2: to me like it would benefit of the juvenile anyway.
Speaker 2: Special Prosecutor to Coffee's investigation found that the Hamilton County
Speaker 2: Juvenile Courts computer system does not allow users to backdate entries,
Speaker 2: and if Powers had wanted information on the docket change,
Speaker 2: she would have had to first request it in writing,
Speaker 2: and there was no such request in the case, according
Speaker 2: to the conclusions in the report, So she didn't do
Speaker 2: anything wrong. I guess Cecil Thomas made it up. Another
Speaker 2: fun fact I've done. To go to all the details.
Speaker 2: Scott Wortman from the Inquire listed all the salaries the
Speaker 2: twenty highest paid county employee salaries one through six. Numbers
Speaker 2: one through six deputy corners. They make between two hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty plus grand down to two hundred and forty
Speaker 2: one plus grand, followed by the president's last CEO of
Speaker 2: Mental Health and Recovery Services, Leonora Godfrey, who makes two
Speaker 2: to twenty five. They go down from there, but I
Speaker 2: thought was really interesting the actual corner doctor, Lakite Lakshimi Somarco.
Speaker 2: She's making about one hundred grand less than the deputy
Speaker 2: corner sharing's one hundred and fifty three nine and eighty
Speaker 2: four dollars a year. Apparently because she's an elected official,
Speaker 2: her salary is set by state law and is based
Speaker 2: on the county's population side. So just a little fun fact.
Speaker 2: I kind of feel sorry for her on some level,
Speaker 2: or maybe the deputy corners are making too much. I'll
Speaker 2: let you draw your own conclusions and conclusions we will
Speaker 2: draw on the Cincinntiva. Todd Sledge returns to talk about
Speaker 2: some information we had to impart to our veteran friends
Speaker 2: out in the audience. Hope you can stick around for that.
Speaker 2: That'll be next.
Speaker 13: This is fifty five KARC, an iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 2: At U Line.
Speaker 4: They know first handway.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show in
Speaker 2: a very happy new year to you, Todd Sledge from
Speaker 2: the Cincinntiva and everyone at the VA who's helping out
Speaker 2: my veteran friends in the audience. Good to have you
Speaker 2: back on this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, happy new year to you as well, and
Speaker 3: glad to be back on here at twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: and make sure that we're getting all the information out
Speaker 3: through our veterans that are needed. As we are, we're
Speaker 3: constantly changing, seems like over the last twelve to eighteen months.
Speaker 2: That is for certain, constant changes and hopefully all for
Speaker 2: the better for the American veterans that you serve, and
Speaker 2: I trust that you guys had the snowplows and the
Speaker 2: shovels out around your VA facilities for this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're I've been working hard this morning to get
Speaker 3: make sure we get information out. We just we just
Speaker 3: had a report about everything. Where all of our sites
Speaker 3: are open and operational. Hospitals, got operations going on, and yeah,
Speaker 3: they're diligently working to get things clean.
Speaker 2: And actually we had kudos to our veterans. They're diligent.
Speaker 3: We had folks that were scheduled for surgeries today and
Speaker 3: they were there. It's six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: That's great. That's great. I'd be that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got our staff in there. We made some
Speaker 3: turned our auditorium into a respite location. First staff to
Speaker 3: stay overnight, to have food.
Speaker 15: And all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh no, kidding. Yeah, Joe Dreger had to run a
Speaker 2: hotel room last night so he could make it to
Speaker 2: work this morning. And I drove in Ato a quarter
Speaker 2: to three this morning, and he made the right decision.
Speaker 2: The roads were absolutely horrific as I was coming in
Speaker 2: at least the route I took, so and he had
Speaker 2: absol moving away from the snow issues. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: the five benefits that every veteran should be aware of
Speaker 2: and ask about what are these five essential VA benefits?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, so you know, I'm always trying to find
Speaker 3: creative ways to uh to motivate veterans to take a
Speaker 3: look at all of their available benefits and resources to them.
Speaker 3: And really what I've come down to is there's five
Speaker 3: essential benefits that veterans should be aware of an acquiring of.
Speaker 2: And typically what I.
Speaker 3: Find is this is that amongst these five veterans take
Speaker 3: full advantage of using the home their their home loan
Speaker 3: to buy a home.
Speaker 2: That's a benefit.
Speaker 3: Oh, you take advantage of the take advantage of the
Speaker 3: GI bill to get educational vocational opportunities in that regard.
Speaker 3: But then when it comes to healthcare, when it comes
Speaker 3: to filing a claim, a compensation claim for whatever conditions ailments,
Speaker 3: mental health, combination of physical and burial benefits, these three
Speaker 3: boxes they just sometimes go unchecked. And these are these
Speaker 3: are in my opinion, every these other three boxes. The healthcare,
Speaker 3: the possible compensation and benefits that are not only for
Speaker 3: the veteran but also for their family as well. And
Speaker 3: then the burial benefits. These are things that just go
Speaker 3: look on that all veterans should be inquiring about at
Speaker 3: least see where do I get, what do I get?
Speaker 3: How do I use them? And then particularly for those
Speaker 3: veterans that are you know, fifty years of age or younger,
Speaker 3: don't wait till later on, you know, get enrolled, have
Speaker 3: access to the care that you need when you need it,
Speaker 3: because you never know when your circumstances change. And what
Speaker 3: we see more and more is our veterans that are
Speaker 3: in their mid to mid seventies to late seventies even
Speaker 3: eighties never needed VA healthcare for other reasons, life changes.
Speaker 3: We're the only healthcare option that they have. They could
Speaker 3: have been using US for a very long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is it correct to say that the senior veterans
Speaker 2: and that you know, the's age groups over sixty five,
Speaker 2: they're not eligible for Medicare and because they get VA benefits.
Speaker 3: Yes, there there that is. It's well, they can still
Speaker 3: have Medicare. They can still have Medicare. The VA just
Speaker 3: won't build Medicare as part of their billing process as
Speaker 3: they do it.
Speaker 2: They won't.
Speaker 3: It's it's like a you know, a federal double dipping
Speaker 3: in that process, but they can still have Medicare and
Speaker 3: use VA, they just don't build it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I see. Well, in terms of the healthcare
Speaker 2: the there's a lot of little extra perks, and we've
Speaker 2: talked about these a lot over the years, todd Sledge.
Speaker 2: A lot of extra perks that you know, kind of
Speaker 2: fly under the radar for some folks, like you know,
Speaker 2: when you're in employment aids, like you pointed out, you know,
Speaker 2: don't wait till you know when veterans under fifty you
Speaker 2: should go ahead and enroll because you know, there's all
Speaker 2: these little perks out there, like hearing aids, for example,
Speaker 2: you can get those paid for compliments of the VA
Speaker 2: and not have to dip into your pocket under your
Speaker 2: health insurance plan.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 2: I mean that's just one illustration of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The three main ones that I focus on all the time, Brian,
Speaker 3: and thanks for pointing that out is hearing aids, eyeglasses,
Speaker 3: and then any type of prosthetics. You know, you know,
Speaker 3: things can Prosthetics can range from a foot a boot
Speaker 3: that goes on your foot, to crutches, two different kinds
Speaker 3: of things there. These are very costly areas of things
Speaker 3: that you know, veterans shouldn't be spending a lot of
Speaker 3: money on I've ran into numerous veterans who have spent
Speaker 3: thousands and thousands of dollars on eyeglasses and prescriptions and
Speaker 3: hearing aids when we can make these things available to
Speaker 3: them at either no cost or a very minimum cost
Speaker 3: to the private sector.
Speaker 2: And that's the other benefit.
Speaker 3: You know, there's many miss and misconceptions out there that
Speaker 3: you know, veterans cannot have private health insurance and use
Speaker 3: the VA. You can. It's a huge benefit to have
Speaker 3: our mental health services. There's no restriction on the number
Speaker 3: of times you can have sessions or receive treatment, whether
Speaker 3: that's inpatient or outpatient. And then of course you know
Speaker 3: the pharmacy. You know, our prescription rates for certain medications
Speaker 3: that may be very very costly to veterans in the
Speaker 3: private sector. We can help them save some money in that.
Speaker 3: So there's there's a lot of ancillary benefits.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the things I think other too, Brian, is
Speaker 3: that some veterans feel like, well, if I start using
Speaker 3: the VA, I need to turn all of my health
Speaker 3: care over to VA.
Speaker 4: That's not the case.
Speaker 3: The big thing to remember, these are benefits We're not
Speaker 3: an insurance based healthcare provider. These are benefits to veterans.
Speaker 2: All right, let's pause. We'll bring Todd Sledge from the
Speaker 2: SINCINNTIVA back and a few more questions for you about
Speaker 2: these benefits. I know you have some additional information to
Speaker 2: pass along, so we'll pause for a moment and be
Speaker 2: right back. Stick around Beugh KR CD Talk station. You know,
Speaker 2: I love the American veterans. Thank God for each and
Speaker 2: every one of you in your service to our country.
Speaker 2: And Todd Sledge from the SINCINNIVA helping out veterans every
Speaker 2: single day making sure they understand that they are have
Speaker 2: they have VA benefits available to them, regularly reminding the
Speaker 2: veterans out there with the DD two to fourteen honorable
Speaker 2: Discharge to sign up for those benefits and take advantage
Speaker 2: of them. And Todd, I've gotten in trouble many times
Speaker 2: before by saying come on, as it was part of
Speaker 2: your salary. You know there's a lot of Obviously financially,
Speaker 2: it's going to take the edge off of so many
Speaker 2: things you mentioned. The hearing aids, the eyeglasses, the prosthetics, prescriptions,
Speaker 2: all of those are available to you. They're just you
Speaker 2: don't need to break it down specifically, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put you on the spot, Todd, but there are some
Speaker 2: financial cutoffs, like for wealthy veterans out there, that they
Speaker 2: don't necessarily get the benefits. I always want to clear
Speaker 2: the record up on that because I've said that so
Speaker 2: many times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, you know the way legislatively that the VA
Speaker 3: set up is that veterans do have to go through
Speaker 3: an eligibility process to be enrolled in VA healthcare. And
Speaker 3: there is a if veterans don't have a service compensation benefit,
Speaker 3: a non service connected pension benefit, or there's other criteria
Speaker 3: that is very specific to waiving any other exemptions. There
Speaker 3: is a over the income threshold four veterans that would
Speaker 3: not make them eligible for VA Healthcare. And so what's
Speaker 3: important about that? And I'm glad you bring that up.
Speaker 3: This is where we want veterans to be able to
Speaker 3: be filing for any type of service connected related compensation
Speaker 3: opportunities that are available to them. And when I said
Speaker 3: about us changing so much in the last twelve to
Speaker 3: eighteen months, this is where the Packed Act really came in.
Speaker 3: The toxic exposure requirements of things I've seen veterans who
Speaker 3: were not eligible before for VA healthcare become eligible because
Speaker 3: of the long list of different toxins in those presumptive
Speaker 3: editions that were not recognized previously. Is now made veterans
Speaker 3: become eligible. And then on top of that, veterans that
Speaker 3: are service connected at a lower level, let's say they
Speaker 3: were maybe initially service connected for ten or twenty percent
Speaker 3: related to their service. The Pact Act has significantly increased
Speaker 3: some of those percentages for veterans. One of the many
Speaker 3: examples that I've seen as veterans went from a lower
Speaker 3: percentage to a higher percentage above seventy percent. And what
Speaker 3: that then does is it now provides long term care
Speaker 3: at no cost for life. And then veterans also receive
Speaker 3: educational benefits for their children or for example, like eighty
Speaker 3: percent of in state tuition is covered.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So again reasons to you know, just get to the
Speaker 3: right experts, the right offices, and just you know, look
Speaker 3: at everything that's available to you.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you said that last part. Get the
Speaker 2: right experts, the right resources, because that really is what
Speaker 2: veteran service organizations are for, like the Claremont County Veteran
Speaker 2: Services I have them all the time. They can help
Speaker 2: you navigate these filings and these challenges that the veterans
Speaker 2: might be confused by and pursuing, you know, their available
Speaker 2: coverage or benefits.
Speaker 3: Rather. Yeah, that's absolutely true, you know, for you know
Speaker 3: the part that I represent all the time and working
Speaker 3: with you. We're on the healthcare side of things, and
Speaker 3: you know, primarily specifically to the healthcare eligibility, right, you
Speaker 3: want to contact our main office at five one three,
Speaker 3: four seven, five six, four nine nine. But many of
Speaker 3: those other benefits that I mentioned, looking at service connection possibilities,
Speaker 3: looking at non service connection possibilities, the educational benefits, the
Speaker 3: burial benefits. You know here particularly Hamilton County, Claremont County,
Speaker 3: and Butler County are the offices that we work with.
Speaker 3: They do phenomenal jobs. They've got great officers. I know
Speaker 3: a lot of times, you know, veterans and families come
Speaker 3: to those offices looking for immediate assistance, which again, if
Speaker 3: you're looking at claim stuff, that stuff's going to.
Speaker 4: Take a while.
Speaker 3: But those offices do so many other things. They offer
Speaker 3: financial assistance for those veterans that live in those counties,
Speaker 3: plus transportation services, so there's so many different things that
Speaker 3: are available, you know, to veterans that take advantage of that.
Speaker 3: You know, we want to continue to make them aware
Speaker 3: of right.
Speaker 2: And that's why I bring them up, because they do that.
Speaker 2: You're right. They do a fantastic, fantastic job for the veterans.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: So for all age group veterans, how does a veteran
Speaker 2: get enrolled in VA Healthcare and then also remain actively enrolled?
Speaker 2: Is there additional steps you need to remain active once
Speaker 2: you have been enrolled?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the worst artist is what I said before,
Speaker 3: is to start with our eligibility office. You call five one, three,
Speaker 3: four seven, five six, four nine nine. Those are directile
Speaker 3: lines to our eligibility staff. There is an online application
Speaker 3: that veterans can do and they find off the national websites.
Speaker 3: I don't encourage them to do that just because I'm
Speaker 3: going to be transparent. It's a bureaucratic system line of that,
Speaker 3: and I'd rather I'm still old school, Brian. I want
Speaker 3: to pick up the phone and I want to talk
Speaker 3: to someone on the other end and be able to
Speaker 3: ask the questions.
Speaker 10: That I want.
Speaker 3: So that's the eligibility route for that. And then once
Speaker 3: we get you enrolled. We really do want to see
Speaker 3: you if you're fully healthy and you don't really need services,
Speaker 3: but we do want to see you every year and
Speaker 3: to maintain your real active treatment plans all the prevention
Speaker 3: model based healthcare system. We really want to see you
Speaker 3: every two years, you know, so it will forecast that out.
Speaker 3: One of the complaints that we get a lot of
Speaker 3: times from our veterans is all, my goodness, do you
Speaker 3: remind me of all my appointments? I get a letter,
Speaker 3: I get a postcard, I get a text message, I
Speaker 3: get a phone call. So there's multiple ways that we
Speaker 3: do want to see you. But that's how you stay
Speaker 3: and remain active with us well.
Speaker 2: And it's all in your own best interest in terms
Speaker 2: of maintaining health. And you can get in front of
Speaker 2: a problem. It's a lot less costly for the American
Speaker 2: taxpayer to deal with and it's a lot better for
Speaker 2: you to get ahead of health problem. So you earned it.
Speaker 2: En Roll five one, three, four seven, five sixty four
Speaker 2: ninety nine. That's that's the number you call to talk
Speaker 2: with Todd or one of the crew over at the
Speaker 2: cincinna Va and get yourself enrolled in the benefits that
Speaker 2: you earned. Thank you all for your service to our country.
Speaker 2: And Todd, keep up the great work at the Cincinni VA.
Speaker 2: I know you're doing your best to help my veteran
Speaker 2: friends in the audience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Brian, we appreciate your collaboration and partnership. And yeah,
Speaker 3: last year, I just want to mention in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four we saw the highest number of veterans we've ever
Speaker 3: sold in one year. So veterans were reaching out to
Speaker 3: us and taking it advantage of things they've worked before.
Speaker 3: So we're very happy about that.
Speaker 2: Well, to the extent I played any part in that role,
Speaker 2: it makes me just as proud as I can be
Speaker 2: to be in a position to spread the words. So
Speaker 2: keep up the great work. I know you and I
Speaker 2: have talked throughout the year about these important benefits. So
Speaker 2: getting rolled five one, three, four, seven, five, sixty four
Speaker 2: ninety nine. Happy New Year, Todd Sledge, you and everybody
Speaker 2: at the Cincinnati VA. Keep up the great work.