Speaker 1: K City Talks station and starting a few minutes late
Speaker 1: in my apologies too for a vice mayor of the
Speaker 1: city of Sin Saint Christopher smith Man got into the
Speaker 1: conversation with Stephan about that book and went a little
Speaker 1: bit long. Christopher, welcome back to the morning show, my friend.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 2: Happy Monday, Brian. I get on and I don't even
Speaker 2: know where to start, but I will start with the
Speaker 2: murder of the CEO of United Health in New York.
Speaker 2: And first, you know, my condolences go out to his family,
Speaker 2: his children as they go into the holiday season. What
Speaker 2: a devastating time for his wife, the CEO's parents. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he's an uncle and people are just mourning his death.
Speaker 2: And to see elected officials like Bernie Sanders indicate that
Speaker 2: there is any justification for this assassination, this murder of
Speaker 2: a human being in the early mornings on the New
Speaker 2: York streets is absolutely outrageous and insane. Yeah, and to
Speaker 2: say that there is a go fund Me account out
Speaker 2: there where people are raising money and acting as if
Speaker 2: this guy is some kind of hero. I don't even
Speaker 2: want to say his name. He's not that he's a coward,
Speaker 2: he's a murderer. He didn't face this man face to face.
Speaker 2: He gave him no chance to live. He shot him
Speaker 2: in his back. He's a coward. And it is amazing
Speaker 2: to me that we have any elected officials in the
Speaker 2: United States of America that we have elected to Congress
Speaker 2: that would come out and justify such a murder.
Speaker 1: Alexander Casio Cortez I gave her quote earlier, sounds like
Speaker 1: she's all about it. I mean, I'm with you, Christopher,
Speaker 1: and you know the I don't know what purpose this
Speaker 1: is supposed to serve, not only just killing this man,
Speaker 1: shooting in the back as if murdering the figurehead the
Speaker 1: CEO of any given insurance company is somehow going to
Speaker 1: change the dynamic, but as sure as hell does create
Speaker 1: a threat of fear and worry and concern among so
Speaker 1: many other people who should be able to go ahead
Speaker 1: and live their life and work within the system that
Speaker 1: the government created through all their edicts and mandates and regulation.
Speaker 1: Anybody wonders how expensive health insurance is, or rather healthcare
Speaker 1: generally speaking, needn't look at Brian Thompson. They need to
Speaker 1: look at the government who created all of this nonsense.
Speaker 2: And you know, this has to put a panic on
Speaker 2: anybody out there, whether they're a CEO, whether they are
Speaker 2: a public figure like yourself. It has to bring like
Speaker 2: a real alert for all of us that this guy
Speaker 2: is hiring a top lawyer, you know, he's fighting to
Speaker 2: go back to New York, and that there's anybody on
Speaker 2: the planet. I've been so disappointed about what I've been
Speaker 2: reading on the internet over the weekend, that anybody is
Speaker 2: justified this kind of murder. It just makes no sense
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: Well, I brought up the article I saw earlier. There's
Speaker 1: this this socialist apparel brand, clothing brand called Comrade Workwear,
Speaker 1: and the head of that company, the founder, James harr
Speaker 1: he called this guy a hero. Says he's a hero
Speaker 1: and he's creating You remember, remember the playing cards of
Speaker 1: the US soldiers carried around when they were fighting the
Speaker 1: war in Iraq. And don't tell me whether that was
Speaker 1: justifiable or not, but that's what they did. So they
Speaker 1: had the pictures of the guys that they were looking for.
Speaker 1: I understand why I gave him something to do. They
Speaker 1: could play cards, but they also would be able to
Speaker 1: see these guys, so if they ran into them on
Speaker 1: the streets of Iraq.
Speaker 3: They know who they're after.
Speaker 1: Well, comrade, Workwear is putting together its own packet of
Speaker 1: cards to include all kinds of CEOs from a whole
Speaker 1: variety of different industries. I mean, is that not just
Speaker 1: sort of begging people to go out and commit horrific
Speaker 1: acts of violence like the murderer we're talking about here.
Speaker 3: To Christopher, it absolutely does.
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas and those people should be held accountable if
Speaker 2: or when there's an attempt or it happened. And I
Speaker 2: just say, I'm hoping you're listening, audience. I know that
Speaker 2: they're they're understanding and with us on this, but we've
Speaker 2: got to call it out. People will say, well, what
Speaker 2: can I do when you see it on the internet
Speaker 2: called out? Say that it's outrageous and over the top.
Speaker 2: Don't allow those kind of words just to hang out
Speaker 2: there without us challenging them, because it puts our society
Speaker 2: at risk. This was a horrific murder. It fell on
Speaker 2: the backdrop of the hero mister Penn, who saved the
Speaker 2: lives clearly of people on that train. New York is
Speaker 2: out of control. It's why I don't want to visit.
Speaker 2: It's why people are leaving New York because they are
Speaker 2: concerned about their basic safety. This is just another example.
Speaker 1: All true, But let me observe because while there are
Speaker 1: these outrageous, you know of louding and praising claims that
Speaker 1: this guy did the right thing and you know, he's
Speaker 1: just fighting back against this system or whatever, I really
Speaker 1: truly believe it's almost as if, like when you look
Speaker 1: back in the election, Donald Trump won the popular vote
Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 1: seven days a week, all we heard from media and
Speaker 1: social media and online posting was evil Trump, fascist, going
Speaker 1: to ruin democracy. It's awful, the world's gonna come to
Speaker 1: an end. And you thought the whole world felt that way.
Speaker 1: And in spite of the fact that Kamala Harris came
Speaker 1: across as such a profound, blithering idiot that somehow she
Speaker 1: might win the election, because they had instilled in vast
Speaker 1: majority of American people the idea that Trump was somehow
Speaker 1: well dangerous to the country. Look what happened, you know what,
Speaker 1: all those echoing and all those voices, well got a
Speaker 1: bit of a SmackDown, now, didn't they. So we can go, hmm, maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe that those voices were small, they were a minority,
Speaker 1: and they were elevated by social media in spite of
Speaker 1: the fact that most of us we either kept our
Speaker 1: mouths shut or you know, maybe our voices were suppressed.
Speaker 1: Any words of support for Donald Trump, Nah, those didn't
Speaker 1: quite make it to the top, but boy, they would
Speaker 1: advance the ones that demonize Trump as being some sort
Speaker 1: of whatever fill in the blank demon And in this case,
Speaker 1: it's outrageous that I believe and you believe, people would
Speaker 1: call this guy a hero. And you see a lot
Speaker 1: of it, but the idea that someone would call me
Speaker 1: a hero is so outrageous that that message is being
Speaker 1: repeated a lot to give it the impression that a
Speaker 1: lot of people believe it was the right, honorable thing
Speaker 1: to do to murder this man by shooting him in
Speaker 1: the back. And I personally don't believe that the vast
Speaker 1: majority of Americans feel that way at all. The squeaky
Speaker 1: wheel gets the grease, the outrageous stories get the most coverage,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what we're working through right now,
Speaker 1: at least I'd like to believe it.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, and I think this is why
Speaker 2: the narrative in the last election was the Democratic Party
Speaker 2: left me. I didn't leave them, and so many people
Speaker 2: said listen, you're going and have gone too far. This
Speaker 2: is just yet another example of why the election turned
Speaker 2: out the way it did, and another example why these
Speaker 2: congressional members still have not learned their lesson that they
Speaker 2: must embrace humanity in common sense. A man was murdered,
Speaker 2: this is the Christmas holidays. What do you think his
Speaker 2: wife and his children, and his parents and grandparents are
Speaker 2: thinking today when they can look and hear elected officials say, hey,
Speaker 2: this was a justified murder by your elected officials. So
Speaker 2: am I talking about the everyday person out there? I'm
Speaker 2: talking about people who are in Congress?
Speaker 1: Yes, excellent point. Let's pause, will bring Christopher smithling back
Speaker 1: for more. Smith evan former vice mayor of the City
Speaker 1: is Cincinnati, always making some extraordinarily logic and reasonable comments,
Speaker 1: which is why I love having money. Seven nine's about
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Speaker 1: My Monday's are always happy because get to talk to
Speaker 1: Christopher Smith and former vice Smoth of Cincinnati and the
Speaker 1: get the smither van coming up off top of our news.
Speaker 1: Not sure what we're talking about, but we are going
Speaker 1: to do money Monday with Brian James, Joe Streker on
Speaker 1: vacation and the board being great wonderfully covered by Sean McMahon.
Speaker 1: I appreciate what you're doing today, Sean Christopher or what
Speaker 1: else is on your mind?
Speaker 3: Oh, I got it. Did you have a good weekend?
Speaker 3: By the way, I didn't ask you that coming.
Speaker 2: Out of the gate had a good weekend. I had
Speaker 2: a good weekend, Brian Thomas. Let me share this with you, brother.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do my best to connect these dots
Speaker 2: of the Amazon ceo giving a million dollars for the
Speaker 2: inauguration for President elect Trump, the Google ceo giving a
Speaker 2: million dollars, and the Facebook now called Meta give a
Speaker 2: million dollars to the inauguration of Donald Trump. Now this
Speaker 2: these are some of the most left platforms in the
Speaker 2: entire globe. And the cancel culture. This is what I
Speaker 2: think of when I saw that would normally cancel their
Speaker 2: neighbor outs, their neighbor had on a Trump had or
Speaker 2: had a Trump sign up, or their family members out
Speaker 2: there that are saying, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 2: come to Christmas dinner because you supported Trump. In some
Speaker 2: kind of way. Think of the pathology of the platforms
Speaker 2: that these left people use every day that each of
Speaker 2: their CEOs have personally donated a million dollars. As I
Speaker 2: stand here this morning to the inauguration of President elect Trump,
Speaker 2: and they are saying nothing about it. They're not saying
Speaker 2: they're canceling their Facebook posts or canceling their positions or
Speaker 2: their Google They're never going to use Google Map ever again.
Speaker 2: They're saying. They're not saying I'm not going to shop
Speaker 2: on Amazon anymore. We're going to boycott them. You hear
Speaker 2: nothing as the left voices of the Amazons, the Facebooks,
Speaker 2: now Meta and Google are all lining up giving a
Speaker 2: million dollars apiece. And you will see this happen from
Speaker 2: the West coast as we get closer and closer to
Speaker 2: January twentieth. They are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.
Speaker 2: And I'm connecting these dots because you got the guy
Speaker 2: out there on the farm who said on a bill
Speaker 2: of hay, on his round beel of hey saying, hey,
Speaker 2: I support Trump, has no money in it other than
Speaker 2: their vote and their support. But you've got these multi
Speaker 2: multi millionaires and billionaires who are giving millions of dollars
Speaker 2: to Trump now kissing the ring because he won the presidency,
Speaker 2: even with all of the lives of their platform, and
Speaker 2: you hear crickets from the left, we really got my goat.
Speaker 1: I imagine I can hear it in the ton your voice.
Speaker 1: But don't you think you know? And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. But those of these that you mentioned,
Speaker 1: I bet probably contributed handsomely to Kamala Harris's campaign, probably
Speaker 1: more than the individual million dollar donations they're making for
Speaker 1: the inauguration. Do you think they're trying to buy some
Speaker 1: love for the Trump administration knowing full well that they
Speaker 1: might be investigated for elevating or deplatforming certain speech on
Speaker 1: their various sites.
Speaker 3: Christopher, I think.
Speaker 2: It's fair to call it political prostitution. Now, yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: I do. And what insenses me is again the hypocrisy
Speaker 2: that they can go and give these millions of dollars
Speaker 2: and this won't be the only donation they make. Their
Speaker 2: packs will weigh in like you were indicating, and they're
Speaker 2: going to come in with five and ten and fifteen
Speaker 2: million dollars paying off any bet that President elect Trump has.
Speaker 2: But you will not hear a word from the left. Now,
Speaker 2: what was also bizarre or what this big win that's
Speaker 2: been kind of quiet on the media was this fifty
Speaker 2: teen million dollars settlement from ABC. I think his name
Speaker 2: was Stephilopsis. That camp okay, So he said these comments
Speaker 2: during the election that Trump had raped somebody this case
Speaker 2: that he's appealing, and they had to pay not only
Speaker 2: fifteen million dollars to Trump as it relates to building
Speaker 2: his library, but they also had to pay you, as
Speaker 2: a lawyer, a million dollars of the legal fees that
Speaker 2: the Trump I guess organization or he had to incur
Speaker 2: in order to suit. So this was sixteen million dollars
Speaker 2: that they had to fork out because of the lies
Speaker 2: that they were telling during the election. Look for more
Speaker 2: of this as we move forward. There will be more
Speaker 2: mainstream media that will have to write checks for things
Speaker 2: that they said along the election campaign that were absolutely
Speaker 2: live and they're going to all continue to pay. But
Speaker 2: you don't hear the left talking about it. You don't
Speaker 2: hear the apologies about it. You know, this is when
Speaker 2: you're talking to your family over the Hollids. Oh man,
Speaker 2: you know, Trump raps somebody? Trump did this and goes, well,
Speaker 2: aren't you aware that that ABC was caught in a
Speaker 2: live saying that this is what he did? And they
Speaker 2: had to pay fifteen million dollars and then one million
Speaker 2: for the legal fees, a total of sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I guess part of me has
Speaker 1: to observe. And you can see this going all over.
Speaker 1: I mean, multiple articles have been written on it, multiple
Speaker 1: comments by Democrats trying to to sort of survey the
Speaker 1: landscape and realize, you know, how badly they lost to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and what their message is going to be.
Speaker 1: The Democrat Party message is going to be on a
Speaker 1: going forward basis, because clearly eight years of NonStop demonization
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump and woke ideology and DEI and wide
Speaker 1: open borders and massive inflation clearly did not help them,
Speaker 1: and IOTA notably defunding the police, DECRIMINALI, decriminalizing drugs. They're
Speaker 1: all going to the back opposite direction. They don't know
Speaker 1: what the stands for anymore, because the direction the party
Speaker 1: was going was not palpable to the vast majority of Americans, and.
Speaker 2: Clearly so many Catholics like myself and so many Christians
Speaker 2: like you, and others have seen them attack people's religions
Speaker 2: openly over the last four to six years. And you
Speaker 2: saw so many Catholics, it didn't matter whether they were
Speaker 2: a Democrat or a Republican, reject the Democratic Party because
Speaker 2: of their rhetoric, the decisions and the things. That's why
Speaker 2: people are saying, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Brian Thomas. I'm
Speaker 2: a Christian, I'm a Catholic. I'm happy Merry Christmas. People
Speaker 2: are rejecting this neutrality around God. God can't be in
Speaker 2: the school. God can't be. We can't save the pledge
Speaker 2: of Legians in schools. People are waking up and rejecting
Speaker 2: it and reclaiming these basic common sense things in a
Speaker 2: society that make us orderly, that bring humility to our
Speaker 2: young people. Young people don't respect the flag because many
Speaker 2: of our school systems don't respect the flag.
Speaker 1: Well, they don't respect the flag, and they promote this socialist,
Speaker 1: leftist ideology as well, which again people appear to be
Speaker 1: rejecting soundly any other component of it. Christopher, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's just me being overly optimistic. You say, you know,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to someone sometimes. And there was a period
Speaker 1: that we've lived through now for quite some time. Or
Speaker 1: if they get angry, well do these Merry Christmas? How
Speaker 1: do you know that I'm Christian? You know, I've pointed
Speaker 1: out many times that is a joyful wish to you.
Speaker 1: The person who gives you that greeting is in a
Speaker 1: celebratory mood over the holiday season and over their religion,
Speaker 1: and they're sharing the love that they get from that
Speaker 1: with you. Merry Christmas to you, whether or not you
Speaker 1: celebrated or not. It's a kind thing if someone if
Speaker 1: my Jewish friends, yes, if my Jewish friends wish me
Speaker 1: happy Hanukkah, you know what, I feel really good about that.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for including me in your celebration.
Speaker 1: That is a beautiful, friendly thing to do. So it's
Speaker 1: this division.
Speaker 4: Inclusion is actually inclusion, right, and your reaction should be
Speaker 4: one of embrace and thanks, not one of like woo,
Speaker 4: which you know.
Speaker 3: I think that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Americans are tired of, the
Speaker 1: fomenting of division on literally any topic that can come
Speaker 1: up with. And I do believe that that is largely
Speaker 1: fostered and encouraged by outside forces like foreign governments, and
Speaker 1: this is not a conspiracy because our own government has
Speaker 1: pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, has
Speaker 1: bought farms and computer scientists working twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 1: seven days a week to put out messages of division
Speaker 1: on social media. In our country, bots are producing messages
Speaker 1: that are angry and evil. When someone makes a comment
Speaker 1: like you get this artificial intelligence generated message countering what
Speaker 1: you're trying to sing in a really negative mean way.
Speaker 1: That might not even be a real human being. But
Speaker 1: what does it serve. It serves their interest to divide
Speaker 1: the American people among themselves. And that's just I think
Speaker 1: the ultimate evil inherent in all of this. It allows
Speaker 1: the easy encouragement of division between us. It allows individual,
Speaker 1: small quantities of folks. Going back to the people who
Speaker 1: are praising the murderer from New York, it makes them
Speaker 1: look like they have the majority opinion and that you're
Speaker 1: the wrong one because you don't share it with them.
Speaker 2: I mean, I make no sense at all, none, no
Speaker 2: sense at all. Brian Thomas. Let me end by sharing
Speaker 2: with you this drone siasco, that it's happening at the
Speaker 2: right house, that the FBI, that national security, no one
Speaker 2: knows where all these drones are coming from. Look in
Speaker 2: a playful way, but very serious. Those drones are going
Speaker 2: to fly over a community that really believe in the
Speaker 2: Second Amendment and really group the country. They're gonna come down. Okay,
Speaker 2: they're gonna fly out in Montana or Idaho, or they're
Speaker 2: gonna come in Ohio over by Litlok County called Preble County.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you when they go across one
Speaker 2: of those counties like Preble County, I guarantee you we're
Speaker 2: gonna know where the drone is. That it's gonna be
Speaker 2: on a farm in their cornfield because they would have
Speaker 2: shot it down. And they don't have little guns. Baby,
Speaker 2: They've got real stuff to bring a drone down the
Speaker 2: size of a dog go car or a dining room table.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna tolerate it. Sore. When your government doesn't
Speaker 2: protect you, what happens is normal people take things into
Speaker 2: their own hands. And that's what the Constitution is all
Speaker 2: about in the Second Amendment, is to protect us from
Speaker 2: our own government. And so the reality of it is
Speaker 2: a government is saying I don't know what these are.
Speaker 2: They're just flying over your fields. They're just flying over
Speaker 2: your house. They're just flying over your military basis and
Speaker 2: we don't have any information for you. When they fly
Speaker 2: over the right community, not New Jersey as an example,
Speaker 2: where they don't have Second Amendment rights over there, They're
Speaker 2: gonna fly over the right dog on state, and I
Speaker 2: guarantee you we're gonna know everything we need to know
Speaker 2: about those drums.
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 1: Christopher Chris Christy, the former governor Chris Christy from New Jersey,
Speaker 1: said pretty much the same things, like, listen, there are
Speaker 1: gonna be drone vigilantes and they will start taking them down.
Speaker 1: And why because nobody's telling us the truth about anything.
Speaker 1: You answer the questions, you give the American people the whole,
Speaker 1: cold heart, honest truth, and they'd be less inclined to
Speaker 1: do that. Like, oh, those belong to the CIA. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we may have some problems. We might have to
Speaker 1: discuss that, but at least I know who they belong
Speaker 1: to right now.
Speaker 3: It's like I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was laughing at like Scooby do I know, you know,
Speaker 2: Scooby Doo is like you know, like God, you just
Speaker 2: were asked about these drones that are flying around the America,
Speaker 2: over people's homes and over these very sensitive sights, and
Speaker 2: you're telling the whole world we don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2: We don't have the information for you. And they're they're
Speaker 2: saying this to our congressional members. Fortunately, our mayors are
Speaker 2: taking it serious, saying no, no, no, But I just
Speaker 2: watch what happens over the next week or two. Americans
Speaker 2: are going to take this into their own hands. When
Speaker 2: the government is unwilling to protect, they will protect themselves.
Speaker 2: And they don't realize there are people out there that
Speaker 2: have serious weapons. I'm not talking about this little baby
Speaker 2: stuff that I have, quite frankly, I'm talking serious stuff.
Speaker 2: They will light up the sky, bring the drone down,
Speaker 2: and drag it into their barn, and they'll be able
Speaker 2: to tell you everything you need to know about it.
Speaker 1: Just wait, all right, Well, the lawyer and me must
Speaker 1: be immediately say I agree with you that that's going
Speaker 1: to happen. I don't want my listeners to start doing that.
Speaker 1: That is illegal. So in spite of the fact that
Speaker 1: there are laws on the books, you and I both
Speaker 1: know people break them. Starting out with the story you
Speaker 1: started with this morning, Christopher Smith Smither, love you brother,
Speaker 1: will talk again, real soon, rather than great Week seven
Speaker 1: twenty five and five cars to the dog station.
Speaker 3: You got