Speaker 1: Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas fifty five KRS the Talk Station.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the great things I always look forward to
Speaker 1: whenever I get to sit in for Brian Thomas, especially
Speaker 1: on a Monday, is this segment right here where Chris
Speaker 1: Smitherman joins us and we have we like to call
Speaker 1: the smither Vent and Chris Smitherman, welcome again to fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC.
Speaker 3: I hope you had a great weekend.
Speaker 2: I did, Dan, thank you so much. My grandson came
Speaker 2: to visit with his beautiful parents. I'm about that Christopher
Speaker 2: and my Bill, and he's five months old and it
Speaker 2: was just a great opportunity to spend some time with him.
Speaker 2: So had I had a great weekend. I'll have to
Speaker 2: send you a picture after the after the show. But
Speaker 2: let me tell you. Let me tell you, Dan Carroll,
Speaker 2: I want to establish some common sense things in this
Speaker 2: first segment, some things that I know that I know
Speaker 2: are going to be obvious, but I think they need
Speaker 2: to go out over the airways. Number one is that China, China, China,
Speaker 2: their government is the political enemy of the United States
Speaker 2: of America. Period. They want to dominate the world, and
Speaker 2: they view the United States of America as in their way.
Speaker 2: I'm a person that shops to at lalmart, our Target,
Speaker 2: our Costco, our Sam's Club, and I think over the
Speaker 2: last thirty years, when I look at products, it says
Speaker 2: made in China. Okay. And so this notion that all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, people are saying that the United States
Speaker 2: is being aggressive towards China as it relates to tariff,
Speaker 2: It's not. China has been aggressive towards the United States
Speaker 2: with their tariffs for the last thirty or forty years
Speaker 2: and making it very difficult, Dan Carroll for the United
Speaker 2: States companies to do business in China. So far, I
Speaker 2: think I'm one hundred percent on everything I've just said.
Speaker 2: This is not about the Chinese people. Meaning when I
Speaker 2: say the Chinese government, I'm being very specific the Chinese government,
Speaker 2: not Chinese Americans that are living in our countries who
Speaker 2: are patriots of the United States of America. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about the Chinese government wants to dominate us. That is
Speaker 2: why they have warships, It's why they're buzzing over Taiwan,
Speaker 2: and they were punking out President Biden. And they just
Speaker 2: found out that there's a new sheriff in town. His
Speaker 2: name is President Donald Trump, and he's saying, listen, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna allow you to continue to treat American goods
Speaker 2: and services poorly. If you want to do business in
Speaker 2: America and you want to charge our American company's tariffs,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have reciprocal tariffs for you. So far, it
Speaker 2: all makes common sense to me. And so I've been
Speaker 2: watching the news over the weekend and I've listened to
Speaker 2: all these globalists who seem to be advocating and cheerleading
Speaker 2: for China. Meanie, I'm sitting there going, man, we're really
Speaker 2: concerned about China and what's going on with the Chinese
Speaker 2: manufacturing there. What is their middle class going to do?
Speaker 2: That's what President Trump ran on. He said, Look, I've
Speaker 2: been going through places like West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 2: basically I'm those that there's three examples, and I'm seeing
Speaker 2: towns that have just blown apart because they don't have
Speaker 2: the same manufacturing infrastructure that they had thirty or forty
Speaker 2: years ago. I wonder why, because the globalist said to
Speaker 2: our country that if you you just open up our borders,
Speaker 2: you do what they call free trades, that the middle
Speaker 2: class is gonna be Okay, that's not what happened. All
Speaker 2: of our jobs were shipped over to China, Nike being
Speaker 2: one of those companies with sweatshops over there, and then
Speaker 2: they bring their products back to the United States without tariffs.
Speaker 2: So they set up shop around the world, whether it's Taiwan,
Speaker 2: whether it's Vietnam, whether it's China. They put all of
Speaker 2: their manufacturing their Dan Carroll, and then they bring their
Speaker 2: products back here, and they've left out the middle class,
Speaker 2: the people that used to be able to make enough
Speaker 2: money to buy a house, then their children to college,
Speaker 2: right have a decent retirement. They don't want to live
Speaker 2: off the government. They're not here saying man, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get on food stamps. I want you to subsidize
Speaker 2: my apartments. These are hard working men and women who
Speaker 2: want to get up every day and go to work
Speaker 2: in their country, and they deserve that dignity. That is
Speaker 2: what is at stake right now, Dan Carroll, as we
Speaker 2: go into what I consider a short term fight for
Speaker 2: a long term.
Speaker 3: Game, well, and you know what I want to get
Speaker 3: into that.
Speaker 1: I want to explore that a little bit more of you, Chrisman,
Speaker 1: because or Chris Smithman, because I think you're right on
Speaker 1: the money with all of this. And you know, there
Speaker 1: are so many now who are expressing this expectation and
Speaker 1: this frustration that none of this has come to fruition yet.
Speaker 1: And I was talking about that this morning. I look
Speaker 1: at my calendar. Donald Trump hasn't been in office for
Speaker 1: three months yet, and already we're expecting or supposed to
Speaker 1: have results, tangible results for all these things that are
Speaker 1: going on. And somehow this is equating to a failure
Speaker 1: on behalf of this administration because the results aren't in yet.
Speaker 1: But Chris Smitheman, stay right there. We'll do a little
Speaker 1: traffic and weather together here and then we'll get right
Speaker 1: back to Chris Smitheman and the smith Event on fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC.
Speaker 3: The Talk Station. Fifty five KRC. Fifty five KRC the
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Speaker 1: Dan Perrell in for Brian Thomas, continuing on now with
Speaker 1: Chris Smithman and the Smither Event, and Chris Smithvan always
Speaker 1: great to have you here, and you laid out the
Speaker 1: case I think pretty well about what is happening with China.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's all these narratives that the left
Speaker 1: continues to throw out there to try and undermine Trump
Speaker 1: and everything is he and that he is doing.
Speaker 2: And the.
Speaker 1: Narrative that's getting a lot of play right now, there's
Speaker 1: two of them that are developing out there right now.
Speaker 1: And number one is is that we're not seeing any
Speaker 1: results from this. This has gone on too long. The
Speaker 1: American people are on the precipice of peril with their
Speaker 1: four oh one ks and their investments and everything. That's
Speaker 1: all going to go down the drain as long key,
Speaker 1: as long as Trump keeps up this this war with China,
Speaker 1: this trade war with China. And then the other narrative
Speaker 1: is that if Trump wants man manufacturing to come back
Speaker 1: to the United States, And I just played the cut
Speaker 1: from John Carr from ABC News. He's talking about, well,
Speaker 1: those factories make iPhones, and they make and they make shoes,
Speaker 1: and he says, are we going to become a nation
Speaker 1: of cobblers, as if somehow these manufacturing jobs really are
Speaker 1: beneath the dignity of the American people to go out
Speaker 1: there and go to work and be productive in this
Speaker 1: sort of way.
Speaker 2: What say you, brother, We've got some incredibly ignorant people
Speaker 2: out there. It's just amazing to me mail that lacks
Speaker 2: common sense and they just absolutely lie, like Senator Shift.
Speaker 2: But let me say this. When President Barack Obama took
Speaker 2: over the presidency, approximately the Dow was at sixty five hundred.
Speaker 2: We hit forty five thousand on the Dow. Ten percent
Speaker 2: corrections are normal. The correction we had was ordered. So
Speaker 2: when I see the market down ten or twelve or
Speaker 2: fifteen percent, I just want to share with Americans who
Speaker 2: are hearing our voices. Markets just don't go up. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they come down, and that's a part of the process
Speaker 2: of kind of pushing out the excesses that are in
Speaker 2: the market so that the market can find a floor
Speaker 2: and then move higher. So first, I'm not concerned about
Speaker 2: paper losses. I don't think that Donald Trump is hitler,
Speaker 2: and I don't think he plans on bringing the end
Speaker 2: of the world. And so the Democratic Party keeps pushing
Speaker 2: these crazy narratives about what is happening, and it is
Speaker 2: causing people to panic. Look China, China, China owns approximately
Speaker 2: seven hundred the seven hundred and fifty billion dollars of
Speaker 2: our debt, and I think what happened is China started
Speaker 2: to sell that debt on the open market pushing our
Speaker 2: rates down, which would have caused us to have a
Speaker 2: spike in our in our long term rates, and the
Speaker 2: White House probably got concerned about it. Now, everything that
Speaker 2: I just said right there is speculation, But the reality
Speaker 2: of it is, why did future past presidents allow the
Speaker 2: Chinese government to buy seven hundred and fifty or seven
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty or eight hundred billion dollars of our debt?
Speaker 2: Why did future past governments allowed the Chinese government to
Speaker 2: walk in and buy our agricultural farms, our small farmers.
Speaker 2: They're buying land all around us, Dan Carroll, which makes
Speaker 2: no sense to me. The Congress and the Senate has
Speaker 2: been they've been sitting on their hands. You know why speculation.
Speaker 2: I believe China's been buying them all off. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 2: she makes a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. Somebody
Speaker 2: explained to me why this woman is worth a hundred
Speaker 2: million dollars? How does that happen? And I'm saying to everybody, China,
Speaker 2: We've got to focus on them. We've got to give
Speaker 2: this president, that Congress, and the Senate the opportunity and
Speaker 2: the space in order for them to reset our relationship
Speaker 2: with China. We've got to send the message to China
Speaker 2: now at some point we've got to draw a line
Speaker 2: into say and I say, let's do it. Now. It's
Speaker 2: economic today, maybe one day it's World War three. I'm
Speaker 2: not calling on that. I'm just saying we can't allow
Speaker 2: China to push us around. That's why Russia is taking
Speaker 2: Ukraine under Biden. If we had a week president, You've
Speaker 2: see China taking Taiwan right now. We can't allow this.
Speaker 2: And so this notion that all of a sudden, this
Speaker 2: president has caused the trade war is crazy. We're already
Speaker 2: in a trade war. We're getting our buts kicked, and
Speaker 2: we have a president that says.
Speaker 1: No more, you know, Chris mythan We've had so many
Speaker 1: different companies announce their intentions to build factories in the
Speaker 1: United States, to have manufacturing here, not just pharmaceutical but
Speaker 1: chip factories and apple and car manufacturers and all the rest.
Speaker 1: And I believe the number right now is near seven
Speaker 1: trillion dollars of investment in the United States. But these
Speaker 1: things take a little bit of time to come into fruition.
Speaker 1: But this whole notion that we're supposed to start seeing
Speaker 1: results now that we need to have results now. And again,
Speaker 1: you know, the United States economy is the biggest ship
Speaker 1: out there, and it takes a little while to turn
Speaker 1: these things around. So how do you get the notion
Speaker 1: out there that we need to have a little bit
Speaker 1: of patience when again, we have the constant drumbeat that this,
Speaker 1: this whole notion that Trump wants to have manufacturing come
Speaker 1: back to the United States is going to be a failure.
Speaker 1: And there's one hundred and thirty countries out there now
Speaker 1: that there, and there, and the Trump administration is negotiating
Speaker 1: with every single one of them. And when I see
Speaker 1: all these gears in motion and I see all these
Speaker 1: sort of things that are happening, it looks to me
Speaker 1: like they are aligning in the way that they need
Speaker 1: to align for the bigger picture to all come together.
Speaker 1: Is it going to take a little while?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 1: But according to the left and according to the news media,
Speaker 1: we should be seeing results now.
Speaker 2: Well, first, you're right that this is going to take
Speaker 2: some time to reset, and I believe that time period
Speaker 2: is going to be greater than ninety days. We'll see
Speaker 2: a lot of great trade deals that will come down
Speaker 2: through the White House. But this is going to be
Speaker 2: a process, as you have clearly outlined for your listening audience.
Speaker 2: But skilled labor is a natural security issue. If we
Speaker 2: happen to go to war, we need people that know
Speaker 2: how to build ships, build tanks, build planes. Now, whoever's
Speaker 2: out here talking about widgets, let me just explain something.
Speaker 2: Why is the uaw so behind Trump because they understand
Speaker 2: that they want to see their corvette rolling through China.
Speaker 2: They're tired of the terraffs. They want to see their
Speaker 2: month things. If you are a Ford lover, they want
Speaker 2: to see the Cobra down the streets of China, not
Speaker 2: with a thirty forty or one hundred percent cara. We
Speaker 2: want to see the Porsches over here. People love them.
Speaker 2: But what we want to see our corvette in Germany.
Speaker 2: We're tired of our European partners and our Asian partners
Speaker 2: pushing us around basic common sense that if you sell
Speaker 2: more cars, you create more stability, greater workers, more workers
Speaker 2: here in the United States of America. Think about a
Speaker 2: company like Boeing. Now they're only competitors' air Bus, but
Speaker 2: the more planes they sell, do you know what China
Speaker 2: has been doing to Boeing over the last four years.
Speaker 2: They literally listen to this. Boeing doesn't get paid until
Speaker 2: they deliver a plane. Dan Carroll they they built about
Speaker 2: eighty four planes for China, the Chinese airline industry. Each
Speaker 2: one of those planes worth about two hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: one million dollars. Under Biden, those plans have been sitting
Speaker 2: somewhere in a warehouse because China has been refusing to
Speaker 2: take ownership for planes that they purchased that they told
Speaker 2: Boeing to. Well, they put a deposit down, and then
Speaker 2: Boeing cannot deliver these plans and capture the two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty one million dollars per plane. I'm tired of
Speaker 2: China pushing us around. We've got to show the rest
Speaker 2: of the world that doesn't matter whether you're African Americans,
Speaker 2: whether you're a Latino American, whether you're a Jewish American
Speaker 2: or white American. We are Americans. And then let me
Speaker 2: tell you, if you travel anywhere out of the United
Speaker 2: States of America, they say you're an American. I don't
Speaker 2: care if you're African American, Jewish, they hear your accent,
Speaker 2: that's an American. We better understand that we're in the
Speaker 2: same ship here. It's not about race. What China has
Speaker 2: been trying to do with their money is make us
Speaker 2: fight about race. They've been using the Democratic part the
Speaker 2: Socialist Party, the Communist Party like the AOC, pushing this
Speaker 2: crazy agenda that I shouldn't like you just because of
Speaker 2: the color of your skin. And then they put out
Speaker 2: people like Representative Crockett that reinforces her own congressional member
Speaker 2: who's married to a white woman all of a sudden
Speaker 2: is not African Americans because of his selection of who
Speaker 2: he loves and the children that he makes. That was
Speaker 2: Representative Crockett. We've got to push back on all of
Speaker 2: these narratives. Come together as Americans, give the executive branch
Speaker 2: of this government the opportunity to clean it up, make
Speaker 2: sure that trade is fair, so that we are a
Speaker 2: stronger country one hundred years from now for our children.
Speaker 2: I hope I've answered that question for you, Dan Carroll.
Speaker 2: We need to give this executive branch the time and
Speaker 2: the space to take on our partners, which by the way,
Speaker 2: is also Europe, not just our enemies, but it's also
Speaker 2: places like Europe.
Speaker 1: Chris mnthven stay right there, We've got one more sayon
Speaker 1: to go, and when we come back, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you about this poll that shows about half of
Speaker 1: those who were on the left believe that killing Musk
Speaker 1: or killing Trump may be justified, and I'll get your
Speaker 1: thoughts on that as we continue on with the Smith
Speaker 1: event on fifty five KRZ the talk station.
Speaker 2: This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC, the Talks station seven forty three. Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll in for Brian Thomas, and we continue with Chris
Speaker 1: Smitherman and the Monday Smith Event. And Chris Smitherman, this
Speaker 1: is I read this over the weekend about Rutgers University
Speaker 1: did a study of mostly left of center people and
Speaker 1: they found that forty eight to fifty five percent of
Speaker 1: left of center people were able to somewhat justify the
Speaker 1: murder of Elon Musk or President Trump. And this to
Speaker 1: me is a very disturbing finding. That number should be zero.
Speaker 1: How do we get to the point in this country
Speaker 1: where you've got so many And it doesn't say the
Speaker 1: ages of the people that they that they talk to,
Speaker 1: but as I read this, I get the sense that
Speaker 1: it's predominantly younger people, but how do we get to
Speaker 1: the point in this country to where the justifying of
Speaker 1: political assassination is something that people can abide and abiding
Speaker 1: This by any degree whatsoever should be totally and completely unacceptable,
Speaker 1: but somehow it is amongst you know, a certain segment
Speaker 1: of our population.
Speaker 2: Well, first, let me thank Eli Musk for his service
Speaker 2: in the Doze group and his team that are exposing
Speaker 2: for all of us the waste, the fraud, the abuse
Speaker 2: that's happening at the federal level. Number one. Number two,
Speaker 2: there's never a place in our society for violence, political
Speaker 2: or otherwise, and so I love that you're denouncing it.
Speaker 2: Number Three, our mass media outlets have been calling Elon
Speaker 2: Musk and President Donald Trump a Nazi. Now, now, the
Speaker 2: Nazis killed six million Jews. So this notion that this
Speaker 2: language that they're using, they are inciting the violence, Dan Carroll,
Speaker 2: They're basically saying it's okay to kill Hitler. And so
Speaker 2: you and I understand that Elon Musk, nor President Trump,
Speaker 2: nor anyone in his cabinet or the Congress Democrat or Republican,
Speaker 2: are independent or in the Senate, none of those people
Speaker 2: are Hitler. And so they keep pushing this narrative on MSNBC,
Speaker 2: on CNN, on whatever liberal news channel that you can
Speaker 2: listen to, trying to justify that killing somebody in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form is okay. It's a scary time that
Speaker 2: we're currently living in. And let me say to all
Speaker 2: of you that if we get to the point where
Speaker 2: killing people is the option, you know, we are in
Speaker 2: a very very very bad place as a country. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But is it? Is it the schools? Is it the parents?
Speaker 3: Is it the media?
Speaker 1: Is that all these things combined? Because to my way
Speaker 1: of thinking, this needs to be examined thoroughly, because we
Speaker 1: have if if we can't, if we can't get through
Speaker 1: to groups of people that you know, the way to
Speaker 1: settle your differences is through elections or through coming to
Speaker 1: the table, through having discussion, I mean really meaningful discussions
Speaker 1: and not some of the you know, some of the
Speaker 1: nonsense that we're subject to when it comes to people
Speaker 1: having roundtables or consultant driven kind of stuff, but real
Speaker 1: face to face and human interaction, that that is the
Speaker 1: way to resolve your differences instead of just going out
Speaker 1: and eliminating what you consider to be a threat. If
Speaker 1: you don't like that threat, in a political sense.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But look, we've had leaders in our country which
Speaker 2: is incredibly scary. It the dark history in the sixties
Speaker 2: where people were saying that doctor Martin Luther King was
Speaker 2: a communist, he was a threat to our culture, threat
Speaker 2: to our society. The FBI, the CIA, everybody was looking
Speaker 2: at this guy, a light upon him, and they dehumanized
Speaker 2: him so far that people thought it was okay to
Speaker 2: take him out, to kill him. Here's the bottom line.
Speaker 2: We now understand that doctor King was one of the
Speaker 2: greatest Americans to ever live. He was one of those
Speaker 2: men who understood the Constitution. He understood that being conservative
Speaker 2: and saying that all of us are made equal, no
Speaker 2: matter the color of your skin. Right. Obviously, Representative Crockett
Speaker 2: has lost that right. Maybe she's missed something in her teaching,
Speaker 2: in her history of America. But you can d humanize
Speaker 2: somebody far enough, Dan Carroll, that you can then come
Speaker 2: to these conclusions that it's okay to kill them. I
Speaker 2: put this right at the at the footsteps of mass
Speaker 2: mainstream media. They continue to push these narratives and dehumanize
Speaker 2: the leaders that you just identify, and if they get
Speaker 2: away with it, right, which we hope they won't shame
Speaker 2: on all of us. So you being outspoken about it,
Speaker 2: I think is incredibly critical. The Democrats right now just
Speaker 2: don't have any solutions. That's why they're bathing in all
Speaker 2: of this. You know, when you sit back and you say, well,
Speaker 2: what is your solution to the disparity in trade? I
Speaker 2: don't have a solution to that. So what do you
Speaker 2: think your solution is? When we're dealing with China stealing
Speaker 2: our secrets, meaning our technology companies have been screaming from
Speaker 2: the rooftops that China is literally stealing our intellectual property? Democrats,
Speaker 2: what is your solution to that? See, at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, these elections locally, that's why supporting this
Speaker 2: guy named Corey Bowman here in Cincinnati for mayor who's
Speaker 2: running as a Republican because I'm tired of the status quo.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of my potholes. I'm tired of bridges falling,
Speaker 2: I'm tired of the flood's happening and we don't know
Speaker 2: where the mayor is. I'm tired of all of these
Speaker 2: no answers and this cultural warfare that we're having. I
Speaker 2: love Americans, I love this country. I'm glad that I'm
Speaker 2: an American. I'm going to fight for this country and
Speaker 2: I'm betting on America. I'm betting on the executive branch.
Speaker 2: I'm betting off President Trump and whoever was the president.
Speaker 2: I've always been a person to bet on America, it
Speaker 2: didn't matter who was in the White House. We're living
Speaker 2: in a time now where people think it's okay as
Speaker 2: an American to bet against our own country. That is
Speaker 2: absolutely up sane, obscene, and a complete shameful thing for
Speaker 2: anyone to say. China is the target. China wants to
Speaker 2: take us over. The government of China, not the people
Speaker 2: are the enemy of the United States of America, and
Speaker 2: they've made that very clear. Please, please, listening, audience, give
Speaker 2: the executive branch the opportunity to solve some of these
Speaker 2: big problems. Because most politicians want to kick the can
Speaker 2: down the road. They don't want to deal with the
Speaker 2: big problems. That's what you're talking about, Dan Carroll. If
Speaker 2: you give the executive branch the opportunity to deal with
Speaker 2: the big problems, we know they'll be short term pain,
Speaker 2: but there will be long term game, all right.
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