Speaker 1: Five o five the five k r C, the detalk station.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday.
Speaker 2: I'm the dude, man.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Thomas. I'm not the dude. Happy Monday to
Speaker 1: you folks. If you had a wonderful weekend. Hey, I
Speaker 1: have a sixty three today, you're at the top of
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Speaker 1: fun statistic that one anyway, coming up seven twenty the
Speaker 1: former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman
Speaker 1: with the Smither Event. Always appreciate having Christopher on the program,
Speaker 1: so thoughts, comments, insights, and quite often going on a
Speaker 1: tear Christopher does. And every Monday at seven twenties when
Speaker 1: we get to hear from him, and today is no
Speaker 1: different than that money Monday with Brian James. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: Brian James, Every Monday at eight oh five. Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs,
Speaker 1: tariff tariffs. Also among other topics with Brian James, fed
Speaker 1: says it's stay and put GDP Slow's four point twenty
Speaker 1: five four point five percent, more and more young families
Speaker 1: unable to afford a home, which is a real sad
Speaker 1: state of affairs, and that is just a practical reality.
Speaker 1: Karrisee Caris Sincidiva and the studio at eight forty or
Speaker 1: on the program at eight forty, always enjoy helping out
Speaker 1: the cincinnti VA spreading the news and the information about
Speaker 1: the benefits of signing up for you your VA coverage.
Speaker 1: So it's more than just medical. It's especially medical care.
Speaker 1: People kind of view it as medical insurance, but no,
Speaker 1: it's actual care. So VA does good things for our
Speaker 1: local veterans. And not all vas are built the same.
Speaker 1: Not al of them as well oiled a machine. And
Speaker 1: I know the Cincinniva is not perfect, but it really
Speaker 1: is striving to do the best it can for the
Speaker 1: American veterans. And I truly appreciate him for that work
Speaker 1: and that effort. So I also appreciate hearing from you.
Speaker 1: You've got a comment, maybe something about the tariffs. I
Speaker 1: do have a feeling that's going to impact all of this.
Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight two to three talk found five fifty on
Speaker 1: at T funds. And in case you're looking for clarity
Speaker 1: on why Trump is imposing the tariffs or has imposed
Speaker 1: the tariffs, twenty five percent additional tariffs and imports from
Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico ten percent on additional teriffs from China.
Speaker 1: It's all about and I got this statement from the
Speaker 1: White House, all about illegal immigration and entanyl. And if
Speaker 1: you stop for a moment, you think about the chaos
Speaker 1: that's going to ensue, and oh my god, the price
Speaker 1: is going to go through the roof. And you know,
Speaker 1: our relationships with Chai, with Canada and Mexico going to
Speaker 1: be strained, already strained with China, hell, probably couldn't be
Speaker 1: strained anymore. It's all about fentanyl and illegal immigration. And
Speaker 1: they have to ask myself out loud, and I'll ask
Speaker 1: you out loud, maybe even answer to this, Why in
Speaker 1: the hell would in Canada and Mexico be interested in
Speaker 1: helping stop the production and in an importation of fentanyl.
Speaker 1: Just ignore the migrant situation for a moment, because of course,
Speaker 1: if we had really strong border security, and I recognize
Speaker 1: the number of miles along the border between the United
Speaker 1: States and Canada, the United States and Mexico make it
Speaker 1: a little difficult to secure it one hundred percent. But
Speaker 1: the Biden administration didn't do anything whatsoever to secure the border.
Speaker 1: In fact, facilitated people coming into the country CVP one
Speaker 1: application where you could just apply for coming into the
Speaker 1: United States and then get flown directly from your country
Speaker 1: into the United States. That's not border security. But we
Speaker 1: could do something about the border. And I don't think
Speaker 1: it's possible to stop the flow of drugs into the
Speaker 1: country given that. I mean, hell, a drone can carry
Speaker 1: quite a bit of a payload if you flew a
Speaker 1: drone from Mexico over the wall, if one existed, then
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have any problem getting drugs into the country.
Speaker 1: But ignoring those practical realities, why wouldn't those two governments
Speaker 1: want to help us stop that? I think it's an illustration,
Speaker 1: at least in Mexico, the fact that the cartels pretty
Speaker 1: much run the country, and they of course make billions
Speaker 1: of dollars. We obviously have a strong demand here in
Speaker 1: our country. What is with everybody in the United States?
Speaker 1: What you get all whacked out on drugs? For anyway,
Speaker 1: it's cocaine for a long time, you know, the cartels
Speaker 1: built the cocaine trade, and now it's fentanyl. Unbelievably deadly
Speaker 1: stuff that is anyway, Donald Trump calling in an emergency
Speaker 1: situation international Emergency Economic Powers Act. That's what he asserted,
Speaker 1: because of yeah, fentanyl and immigration. John taking bold action
Speaker 1: to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable for the promises
Speaker 1: of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous ventanyl and other
Speaker 1: drugs from flowing into our country. He said. Chinese officials
Speaker 1: have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the
Speaker 1: flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels, which they do.
Speaker 1: They send them directly and the cartels put it together
Speaker 1: and ship it off to the United States. Canada is
Speaker 1: involved in that too. According to the release, a recent
Speaker 1: study recognized Canada's heightened domestic production of fentanyl and it's
Speaker 1: growing footprint within international narcotics distribution. Doesn't Canada have a
Speaker 1: vested interest in putting a halt to this? I just
Speaker 1: don't understand the reason we have to go down this road.
Speaker 1: I can't we all agree that fentanyl bad, fentan bad.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand. Tariff they said, we're remain in
Speaker 1: effect until such time as drugs in particular fentanyl and
Speaker 1: all illegal aliens. Stop this invasion of our country. It's
Speaker 1: got an exclamation point out of it. It's statment from
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So what's gonna happen?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 1: Among other items that will become more expensive? Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Jeene Well and Wall Street Journal reporting cherry tomatoes, And
Speaker 1: I might add the Thomas household had a bumper crop
Speaker 1: of cherry tomatoes over in the garden last year, so
Speaker 1: much so that we have jars and jars and jars
Speaker 1: filled with tomato sauce made from cherry tomatoes, tomato juice
Speaker 1: made from cherry tomatoes. You may think cherry tomatoes, Actually
Speaker 1: they're really really good. You get the right brand and
Speaker 1: they have that sweetness that you know full sized tomatoes have.
Speaker 1: But cherry tomatoes on the list. Canada big supply to
Speaker 1: the of cherry tomatoes. I guess us Canadian producers grow
Speaker 1: them in giant greenhouses near the United States border. Mexico
Speaker 1: also supplies tomatoes. Economist warning the domestic producers will be
Speaker 1: tempted to increase their prices to match price on imports. Yes,
Speaker 1: we do grow them here and they're easy to grow, folks.
Speaker 1: Will I will tell you that Tonka trucks, Joe, You're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to handle a ten percent increase on
Speaker 1: Tonka trucks coming from China? Do you think so? Ten
Speaker 1: percent import on tariff on Chinese goods will raise the
Speaker 1: retail price of the Tonka trucks. With over a million
Speaker 1: of those Tonker trucks sold in the United States each year,
Speaker 1: every one of them made in Ohio. Currently priced twenty
Speaker 1: nine to ninety nine, they might rise to about thirty
Speaker 1: four to ninety nine, according to a chief executive of
Speaker 1: Basic Fund, the toys manufacturer guy named Jay Foreman. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: it's not just Tonker trucks. More than eighty percent of
Speaker 1: toys sold in the United States are manufactured in China,
Speaker 1: data shared by the Toy Association, which is described as
Speaker 1: an industry group. Maple syrup just tapped the maple trees
Speaker 1: in the Thomas Yard today. You can do that. It's
Speaker 1: pretty simple to do. We've been making maple syrup now
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. Tap the trees, get a bucket,
Speaker 1: boil it down, and you've got unbelievably wonderful maple syrup.
Speaker 1: So if you don't want to go to the store
Speaker 1: and pay a lot for the tariff Canadian maple syrup.
Speaker 1: More than sixty percent of Canada's production is exported into
Speaker 1: the United States. Canada and the United States are the
Speaker 1: only two countries that produce commercial scale level maple syrup.
Speaker 1: Now you don't have to go with commercial scale. You
Speaker 1: got a maple tree in your backyard, tap it. It's
Speaker 1: not difficult. It's also fun. I mean, how many people
Speaker 1: out there can say, hey, I made my own maple syrup. Tequila?
Speaker 1: Uh oh yeah, we are the largest market for Mexican tequila,
Speaker 1: apparently much more popular now than it used to be.
Speaker 1: And uh oh, saygabydy or avocado toast. More than eighty
Speaker 1: percent of US avocados come from Mexico. Cord of the
Speaker 1: US Department of Agriculture in Mexico provides about half. Here's
Speaker 1: a more troubling figure. Mexico provides about half of the
Speaker 1: United States fresh produce imports, and, notably, given the climate
Speaker 1: difference between Mexico and the United States, described as a
Speaker 1: particularly important supplier of produce in the winter time. So
Speaker 1: undoubtedly your grocery bill is going to get higher if
Speaker 1: you spend any time in the produce department of your
Speaker 1: local grocery, sport, smartphones from China. Of course, now you know,
Speaker 1: Trump's not the only one. We have tariffs on the
Speaker 1: on industrial goods from China. Biden administration also plays tariffs
Speaker 1: on industrial goods. However, most consumer goods like smartphones were
Speaker 1: spared from the additional import tariffs in what the journal
Speaker 1: describes as an effort to avoid the wrath of American
Speaker 1: consumers and across the board. Ten percent tariff on goods
Speaker 1: made from China, which is what it is, will also
Speaker 1: include smartphones for the first time, and maybe it will
Speaker 1: cause price increases. I think you can say possibly or
Speaker 1: maybe and strike that from the sentence and say they will.
Speaker 1: This was a particularly funny reference because you know, you
Speaker 1: could probably pick out a litany of fact thousands of
Speaker 1: different products which are going to be impacted by the tariffs. Well,
Speaker 1: the Street Jaranoil identified sledge hammers made in China. Sledge
Speaker 1: Hammers made in China already face an import tariff of
Speaker 1: twenty five percent when they're imported here in the United States.
Speaker 1: The additional tariff will of course raised the price even further. However,
Speaker 1: take a quick look there are several sledgehammer models made
Speaker 1: here in the United States. You needn't rely on Chinese
Speaker 1: made sledge hammer bless America all because of fentanyl and
Speaker 1: illegal immigration. Does anybody think there's any other perhaps reasons
Speaker 1: to want to engage in this tariff war that we
Speaker 1: now have going on between Canada, Mexico and China. And
Speaker 1: of course Canada Mexico already renounced retaliatory tariffs over the
Speaker 1: weekend in retaliation for the ones that Trump announced, So
Speaker 1: nobody saw that coming. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on
Speaker 1: his way out of office. The actions taken today by
Speaker 1: the White House split US apart instead of bringing us together.
Speaker 1: They are placing matching twenty five percent tariffs up to
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five billion dollars in US imports,
Speaker 1: including alcohol and fruit. Kentucky bourbon producers probably a little
Speaker 1: upset about that. Trudeau, warning of economic pain due to
Speaker 1: the tariffs, encouraged Canadians to choose Canadian products and services
Speaker 1: rather than American ones. Right, It's gonna have real consequences
Speaker 1: for people workers on both sides of our border. He said,
Speaker 1: we don't want to be here, we didn't ask for this,
Speaker 1: but we will not back down in standing up for
Speaker 1: both Canadians and for the incredible successful relationship between Canada
Speaker 1: the United States. For her part, Mexican President and then
Speaker 1: Claudia Scheinbaum also ordered retaliatory tariffs, saying, we categoryally reject
Speaker 1: the Right House slander that the American government has alliances
Speaker 1: with or that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations,
Speaker 1: as well as any intentions of meddling in our territory. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised she's able to say that through a straight face.
Speaker 1: Nobody's paid attention to the situation deteriorating as it has
Speaker 1: been deteriorating for decades. Has to recognize the Mexican cartels
Speaker 1: pretty much had the upper hand when it comes to
Speaker 1: who controls Mexico. If you're a politician running for office
Speaker 1: in Mexico, or if you're an elected official in Mexico
Speaker 1: and you take a stand against the cartels in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, you end up dead. It's like a
Speaker 1: foregone conclusion. Shinebold says the United States government's agencies wanted
Speaker 1: to address the serious fentanyl consumption in their country, they
Speaker 1: could fight the sale of drugs on the streets of
Speaker 1: their major cities, which they don't do. And the laundering
Speaker 1: of money that is illegal activity generates that has done
Speaker 1: so much to harm its population. I can't disagree completely
Speaker 1: with that. You know that whole defund the police movement
Speaker 1: and the decriminalization of drug use, You think that's had
Speaker 1: an impact on increasing or decreasing the demand for drugs
Speaker 1: in our country. If you defund the police and not
Speaker 1: as many officers on the street, given that there's the
Speaker 1: ratio of officers to humanity in any given city, even
Speaker 1: in the most highest employment of officers point in history,
Speaker 1: like if we had a full contingent, it would only
Speaker 1: be like eleven hundred cincin anty police officers to deal
Speaker 1: with like roughly two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1: How could you possibly control all of the drug activity
Speaker 1: in any given neighborhood with that ratio? You can't. Maybe
Speaker 1: if our demand went down, maybe if we reflected on
Speaker 1: ourselves as a society and realizing we're propping up all
Speaker 1: of this criminal enterprise and we're now in a trade
Speaker 1: war with Canada and Mexico as well as China because
Speaker 1: we just can't say no to the drugs. Five twenty
Speaker 1: fifty five case detalk stations stick around more to talk
Speaker 1: about your Phone calls are always welcome, so feel free
Speaker 1: to call up at the bright back with age a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Is there a tax on this too,
Speaker 1: he said Chuck MANGIONI, well, I don't want you to
Speaker 1: play more than twenty seconds. You're you're not You're not you?
Speaker 1: You did avoid the tax. You know you're not old
Speaker 1: enough to remember when you couldn't get away from that
Speaker 1: damn song They played it like every five minutes on
Speaker 1: radio back in the seventies. God, I not gonna have
Speaker 1: an earworm in my head coming off the heels of
Speaker 1: a week of having fear as never boring run through
Speaker 1: my head. Just full that song up from the Raisins, Joe.
Speaker 1: I made a lot of people smile when I posted
Speaker 1: that on Facebook, anyway, and that allows me to use
Speaker 1: up the balance at the time for this segment. Getting
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Speaker 1: feel free to call it prefer talking with you and
Speaker 1: doing local stories, but hey, I'll take it either way.
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Speaker 4: Removing DEI inside the Pentagon, reinstating troops who were pushed
Speaker 4: out because of COVID mandate, Iron Dome for America.
Speaker 5: This is the sound. We are going to restore law
Speaker 5: and order of America. Returning to factory setting.
Speaker 6: We're tracking down the illegal alien criminal. We are throwing
Speaker 6: them the hell out of our country. We have no
Speaker 6: apologies and very dangerous people. And there's a lot to
Speaker 6: talk about.
Speaker 5: President trumple will have a heavy hand and we will
Speaker 5: support him on that, regardless of who stands up against.
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Speaker 1: Canadian band tribute day to day, but only twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: I know, because you don't want to pay the additional
Speaker 1: twenty five percent tariff. Awesome lyrics. That song has awesome lyrics. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: Apparently no one wants to talk to me, So I
Speaker 1: do local stories. Dave had or making it into the
Speaker 1: local stories. Look at that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In addition to Tech Friday interest, I t Dave had
Speaker 1: results to the mayor of Fort Wright, Kentucky, and he
Speaker 1: is aware of the speeding problem Amsterdam Road in Fort Wright.
Speaker 1: Apparently everyone loves to speed on it. There's some stats
Speaker 1: on it too, So I live very close to there,
Speaker 1: walk in the neighborhood all the time, and I see
Speaker 1: it firsthand. So recently the issue was brought up to
Speaker 1: him by multiple residents who live on Amsterdam Ron. He said,
Speaker 1: a lot of residents in the area are frustrated. I
Speaker 1: hear the complaints and I know they're legit because I
Speaker 1: see it myself. Speed limit Amsterdam Road twenty five miles
Speaker 1: per hour. Apparently everyone driving more than forty miles per hour,
Speaker 1: and they've also notes that they blow the stoplights. Are
Speaker 1: the stop signs off? Studied by the police department last
Speaker 1: year found that during one week in January seventy, roughly
Speaker 1: seventy percent of drivers were speeding. Similar study conducted in August,
Speaker 1: number of speeding drivers decrease, still showed nearly a quarter.
Speaker 1: We're going over the speed limit. I just said, the
Speaker 1: biggest people is people. The biggest problem is people during
Speaker 1: the stop signs, says, people don't even tap the brakes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they go right through the stop signs. Growing tired
Speaker 1: of the problem, he is now working with police to
Speaker 1: increase patrols in the area. So we just want people
Speaker 1: to slow down and think about safety again for themselves
Speaker 1: and others Fort Right Police, saying that there is a
Speaker 1: heavy police presence now and it will be seen in
Speaker 1: the area for the foreseeable future. So if you're getting
Speaker 1: ready to drive down Amstein Avenue, keep your eyes peeled
Speaker 1: for the cops because they may be there. Potter City
Speaker 1: wants to make it clear not to meet some of
Speaker 1: a sort of quota. He said. The city doesn't benefit
Speaker 1: financially from police citations, saying almost none of that money
Speaker 1: comes back to the City of Fort Wright, simply a
Speaker 1: matter of keeping people safe. Quote, let's not create a
Speaker 1: situation where someone gets injured or killed simply due to
Speaker 1: bad driving behavior when it's something that's so simple to stop.
Speaker 1: Sounds right. Peter Crabel sitting in the parking lot of
Speaker 1: Coraine Township Walgreens when a bullet went through the back
Speaker 1: of his van and into his liver stray shot fired
Speaker 1: by a publicly unidentified publicly unidentified suspect in the double
Speaker 1: killing of two brothers across the street at Popeye'es over
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. He's been recovering since he's
Speaker 1: picking up a prescription from Walgreens, apparently for a toothache.
Speaker 1: He found himself needed to roll out of the car
Speaker 1: and go inside to ask for help. I guess after
Speaker 1: his liver had been punctioned by the air bullet. Two
Speaker 1: women came to his aid after he entered the Walgreens,
Speaker 1: applying pressure to the wound while he waited for paramedics
Speaker 1: to arrive. Grab told the women applying the pressure to
Speaker 1: tell his wife, Sander he loved her, as he didn't
Speaker 1: know if he was going to make it to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Wow brought to the ICU at University of Sincinni Medical Center,
Speaker 1: where his liver and a cracked rib had been healing
Speaker 1: from the gunshot, and his gallbladder had to be removed.
Speaker 1: He said. After a couple of surgeries and a lot
Speaker 1: of procedures, I become stable and getting better. So I
Speaker 1: remember everything from the bullet to the operating room. I
Speaker 1: woke up feeling blessed to be alive. Amen. Colerain Township
Speaker 1: police call it just before one pm January sixteenth, to
Speaker 1: the intersection of Cole Rain in Springdale, where Rashaan Robinson
Speaker 1: and his brother Willie Dishawn Robinson died at the scene
Speaker 1: shooting in the parking lot of the Popeyes Louisi in
Speaker 1: the kitchen, one of the brothers inside of Blue, Infinity
Speaker 1: in the other just outside of the vehicle. According to
Speaker 1: the Cornine Townships Plus spokesperson, Infinity had twelve gun shots
Speaker 1: through the passenger window. Police haven't yet released a motive
Speaker 1: or announced any arrest in the shooting. However, court records
Speaker 1: show that Rashawn Robinson publicly expressed his fears of being
Speaker 1: killed in a court filing years before his death. Spokes
Speaker 1: Version confirmed Crable was not an intended target in the shooting,
Speaker 1: but he says he's facing months of rehab after he's
Speaker 1: discharge from the hospital. No kidding, dangerous out there, good Amazewell,
Speaker 1: Kentucky or A body of a Mazell woman who was
Speaker 1: reported missing for weeks found over the weekend. On Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: court to the Maysville Police, They along with the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Trace Search and Rescue, found the body of Eugena Harris Cooley,
Speaker 1: forty seven years old, near the area of Walld Park
Speaker 1: in Mason County. Not clear what happened to her or
Speaker 1: Dota daughter Jidjishaw West that her mom was last seen
Speaker 1: walking out of her apartment complex December twenty first. Police
Speaker 1: working with the Mason County Coroner's office to investigate the
Speaker 1: cause of death. Boone County judge has ousted all Union
Speaker 1: City commissioners, avoiding the commission's in tired November general election
Speaker 1: after claims of election fraud. Decision came out on late Friday,
Speaker 1: Boon County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bruggaman granted former Union
Speaker 1: City Commissioner Doug Bind's election contest. In December, Boon County
Speaker 1: Judge Niner restraining order that would have prevented the newly
Speaker 1: elected commissioners from taking their seats January first. The attempt
Speaker 1: came after buying fout a lawsuit contesting the results of
Speaker 1: the November election. With this decision, all three newly elected commissioners,
Speaker 1: John Mefford, Brian Garner, and Eric Delaney have been ousted
Speaker 1: from their seats. The decision leaves Mayor Larry Solomon as
Speaker 1: the only member of the city Commission. Solomon will now
Speaker 1: hold a commission meeting. I guess today it is a third,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, sure is, and he'll likely begin the
Speaker 1: process of appointing new members as the commission, as directed
Speaker 1: by the court. BiiN has requested a new citywide election instead.
Speaker 1: Of appointments because due to scheduling, the appointments will continue
Speaker 1: until twenty twenty seven. Brugerman agreed with Byn's lawsuit claims
Speaker 1: that hundreds of illegal votes in Boone County changed the
Speaker 1: outcome of the commission race, which he lost. Five candidates
Speaker 1: running for four open seats. Buying lost by sixty five votes.
Speaker 1: His lawsuit claims that more than five hundred people illegally
Speaker 1: voted in Union Precinct one and Union Precinct four. EECE
Speaker 1: Judge Bergermann and his judgment quote there could be as
Speaker 1: many as eight hundred invalid votes between Union one and four.
Speaker 1: Some parties contend that nine hundred and thirty two ballots
Speaker 1: were cast. It could be equally assumed that all city
Speaker 1: ballots had been given to the twelve hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: nine non city voters. In any event that disparity is
Speaker 1: greater than five hundred and ninety nine votes, Find's attorney,
Speaker 1: Steve Murgerley said after the ruling he plans to reach
Speaker 1: out to the Assistant Attorney General nominee for the Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Division and request a federal audit and investigation. Huh
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Speaker 1: Comfortably one for about Fair City Talk station. Yeah, Rick,
Speaker 1: I know that Trump's tariffs are the retalia and the predicate,
Speaker 1: as he stated in this announcement over and over again,
Speaker 1: is for illegal immigration and fentanyl, and I must observe.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, it would be really easy.
Speaker 1: I would think, at least to take some efforts by
Speaker 1: the Mexican government's, Canadian governments and the horse of Chinese
Speaker 1: if they were interested in it. I would expect cooperation
Speaker 1: from Mexico and Canada. Mexico's got the cartel situation they
Speaker 1: have to deal with prevents them from actually doing anything
Speaker 1: about it. Canada, I don't know, but they say that
Speaker 1: fentanyl production is increased in Canada as well. But as
Speaker 1: far as Chinese is concerned, I mean, selling fentanyl precursors
Speaker 1: to Mexican cartels is an act of war. I think
Speaker 1: they enjoy and are gleefully watching the damage that's being
Speaker 1: done to our country with this massive amount of death
Speaker 1: and destruction and dependence that fentanyl has created. Aug what
Speaker 1: are the points it was made in Trump's announcement last
Speaker 1: year Customs and Border Protection handed more than twenty one
Speaker 1: thousand pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough to kill
Speaker 1: I'm just staring at all at this figure. Enough to
Speaker 1: kill more than four billion people, and that's what they found.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's making it into the streets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's is. It is a subtle, nefarious, that yet genuine
Speaker 1: act of war. It's like the the info wars that
Speaker 1: we're engaged with, and the gathering up of data and
Speaker 1: the attacking of our computer systems and the installation of
Speaker 1: nefarious software so they can flip a switch and shut
Speaker 1: us all down a moment's notice. Anyhow, Yeah, I'm aware
Speaker 1: of that. Over the stack is stupid Detroit, a priest
Speaker 1: who hosts an exorcism podcast. Thank you, Joe, That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I was thinking. Facing charges after he allegedly took
Speaker 1: a piece of hair from a teenage girl's head and
Speaker 1: used it to floss his teeth. There's no flag for us, amen,
Speaker 1: and there isn't for this, one, prosecutor said January twenty second.
Speaker 1: The criminal complaint about Michigan priest Father Carlos Martins of Detroit,
Speaker 1: that he placed hair of a miner in his mouth
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Speaker 1: that out beyond my understanding. Charged with mis demeter, battery,
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Speaker 1: I see his head bald and Martin's made jokes about
Speaker 1: what he used to have hair, and then he grabbed
Speaker 1: the thirteen year old girl's hair and put it in
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Speaker 1: when the boy told police that Martin then allegedly proceeded
Speaker 1: to make a flossing motion with the girl's hair and
Speaker 1: later that day sat behind the girl in the pew
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Speaker 1: Let me get this one more status Tuba story before
Speaker 1: we get to Bobby. Bobby, hang on one moment got an
Speaker 1: OnlyFans model fell to her death while filming a pornographic scene.
Speaker 1: What New York Post reporting twenty seven year old adult
Speaker 1: entertainment star and she'll love that word, so she's only
Speaker 1: a started the extent she's known by people. Anna Beatriz
Speaker 1: Pierra Alves is known online as to her fans as
Speaker 1: Anna Polly. Died after four long from a hotel balcony
Speaker 1: in Brazil January twenty third. Court to the reporting, she
Speaker 1: was in the middle of filming a pornographic scene with
Speaker 1: two men and that's when she fell to the ground
Speaker 1: floor courtyard of the Mont Blanc Apart hotel, described as
Speaker 1: a four hotel. A four star hotel located in the
Speaker 1: Nova Iguacu, Brazil, Wherever the hell that is. Don't know
Speaker 1: court to the reporting. When questioned by authorities, the two
Speaker 1: men offered conflicting testimonies, but police released the men after questioning.
Speaker 1: Foul play has not been ruled out, though, according to
Speaker 1: the police spokesperson, the comp this is a complex case.
Speaker 1: We don't rule out any possibility, from an accident to
Speaker 1: possible crime. Was reported that her boyfriend I struggle with
Speaker 1: that she's a pornographic actress. How do you maintain a
Speaker 1: relationship with a woman who is having sex with other
Speaker 1: people for a living. Can't reconcile that. Maybe maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just more of a traditionalist anyway. Pedro Henrique Pedro Enrique
Speaker 1: went on social media to morning passing, writing as the
Speaker 1: hours pass, it's starting to sink in and the whole phrasing,
Speaker 1: thank you, Joe. The hole in my heart is only
Speaker 1: getting bigger. If someone is to blame, they will pay
Speaker 1: and the culprit will be found. His hole's getting bigger,
Speaker 1: Joe frazing, Bobby, Welcome to the five Caresey Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you, my friend.
Speaker 8: Heats flags family of forty five seventies.
Speaker 1: My brother there you are, big boomstick.
Speaker 8: That dance as member but D and D.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that'll it'll definitely cause that anyhow. What's on
Speaker 1: it's on your mind today, Bobby.
Speaker 8: Well, we've got all these deterrents and everything that President's
Speaker 8: trying to implement, but you've got to look back on
Speaker 8: history of true cases cases of deterrent. The grade Impaler
Speaker 8: when he starts sticking pikes down the road to his kingdom.
Speaker 1: Vlad the Impaler, Yes, as a warning to other people
Speaker 1: who might consider doing him harm.
Speaker 8: Yes, are you to stick heads on the top of
Speaker 8: the pikes going down to each side of the road.
Speaker 8: That is a deterrent to these cartels.
Speaker 1: I suspect, but I'd like to think we have higher
Speaker 1: moral ground than Glad the Impaler. My recollection is he
Speaker 1: killed his own people and impaled them as a warning
Speaker 1: to other would be invaders. Look, if this guy's nut
Speaker 1: job enough to kill his own people and stick them
Speaker 1: on post as a warning, he might do worse to us.
Speaker 8: It's just a deterrent. It doesn't matter if it's true
Speaker 8: or not. It's just what they perceive it to be.
Speaker 1: Okay, Bobby, I know you'd like to keep your tongue
Speaker 1: in your cheek, and I'd like to think that's where
Speaker 1: it is right. Now, be careful you might pop a
Speaker 1: hole in it with comments like that. I can't abide
Speaker 1: impaling people as a deterrent. It's both parallels to be
Speaker 1: drawn with the the tariffs anyhow, Thank you, Bobby forty
Speaker 1: five seventy. We've got a brighton Colorado where a woman's
Speaker 1: been charged with murder after she killed her boyfriend because
Speaker 1: he expressed doubt about her chances of getting a job.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine year old Ashley began having serious issues with
Speaker 1: the relationship with twenty eight year old Cody Deleisa, largely
Speaker 1: surrounding her difficulty in finding work. According to the press
Speaker 1: release in the District Attorney's office there, at some point,
Speaker 1: White became so frustrated with the relationship that she attempted
Speaker 1: to drown and burn his cat well While attended a
Speaker 1: job interview eight August thirteenth, twenty twenty, and rode home
Speaker 1: in a public bus while texting Deleise about how it went.
Speaker 1: He apparently expressed skepticism about her chances of getting a job,
Speaker 1: which frustrated her. Or to the release, White met with
Speaker 1: a man on the bus who called himself Scott and
Speaker 1: asked if she was in a relationship with a man
Speaker 1: and whether he raped her. This doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: to me. Wright responded that he had, and Scott then
Speaker 1: said they must kill him. White and Scott got off
Speaker 1: the bus together. The pair shot a gun belonging to
Speaker 1: Scott before making the way into White's home and confronting Delesa's.
Speaker 1: Scott introduced himself to de Lisa as White's brother from Texas,
Speaker 1: and at some point after the pair arrived at Delesea's
Speaker 1: he was shot twice in the head.
Speaker 6: That does not make it it.
Speaker 1: He literally does not. Joe, I just read the article
Speaker 1: and I'm more confused now as a human being than
Speaker 1: I was. I feel actually dumber for having read this.
Speaker 1: I had no idea, so I needed to itally. It
Speaker 1: is Monday, and it is in the five o'clock hour,
Speaker 1: still a few moments remaining in it. Four minutes to
Speaker 1: be specific, five fifty six. Stick around, got more to
Speaker 1: talk about in the six o'clock hour, and yeah, please
Speaker 1: feel free to call. Maybe you got something on your
Speaker 1: mind other than impaling people as a deterrent to outsiders.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back after the news.
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Speaker 1: Two things usually on the agenda, and they're on today
Speaker 1: seven twenty with the former Vice Mayor of the City
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman, and this Smither event with Monday Monday,
Speaker 1: Brian James. Fast forward two hours. We'll hear from Brian
Speaker 1: James on tariffs, talk about a little bit about those.
Speaker 1: In the last hour, four point twenty five to four
Speaker 1: point five percent to the Feds, at least insofar as
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve holding interest rate to four point twenty five
Speaker 1: to four point five percent reigns inflation a rather gross
Speaker 1: domestic product group two point five percent slowed slightly in
Speaker 1: the final quarter. We talk about that home affordability crisis
Speaker 1: is taking a toll on America's young adults. Sad reality
Speaker 1: that knows the topics of Brian James. I just appreciate
Speaker 1: hearing from Brian, I always appreciate hearing from U two five, three, seven, four,
Speaker 1: nine fifty five, eight hundred and eighty two to three
Speaker 1: talk and does care and the charsee cares section which
Speaker 1: takes place at eight forty. When we have it, We're
Speaker 1: going to have the Cincinntiva to talk about four significant
Speaker 1: Cincinnati VA facility improvements scheduled to be completed this year.
Speaker 1: As I pointed out, a VIA takes great care of
Speaker 1: the veterans and they're always trying to improve things. So
Speaker 1: thank God for the American veteran and I'm glad we
Speaker 1: have a pretty gosh darn good VA here in the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. Not every city can say that anyway,
Speaker 1: Ah that bump bump bum. I saw this Alisa Finley
Speaker 1: article and I thought it was rather interesting. Now, I
Speaker 1: remember the Trump administration paused federal grants, completely paused them,
Speaker 1: and then of course withdrew that pause after the uproar.
Speaker 1: But it took a moment to I mean, did the
Speaker 1: pause that kind of shook the framework of a lot
Speaker 1: of Democrat states and Democrat cities, because well, they are
Speaker 1: almost entirely dependent upon you and I working out here
Speaker 1: in other flyover states to keep their their systems going,
Speaker 1: and that's what her observations were in this Democratic States
Speaker 1: are wards of Washington subtitle There's a reason for the
Speaker 1: panic over the Trump white House's temporary federal spending pause.
Speaker 1: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy was complaining, fifteen percent of
Speaker 1: our workforce are funded by those dollars, and that in
Speaker 1: and of itself is a frightening thing. Lawsuit brought by
Speaker 1: all twenty two states with Democratic attorneys general plus the
Speaker 1: District of Columbia detailed a litany of programs funded by
Speaker 1: you and your labor in your perhaps red state. Washington
Speaker 1: said it received one hundred and twenty one million dollars
Speaker 1: last year for allergy and infects his de's disease research.
Speaker 1: Illinois claimed federal Medicaid funds made up sixty percent of
Speaker 1: its twenty twenty three spending on critical health services. New
Speaker 1: York Governor Kathy Hogel Washington, do you realize the consequences
Speaker 1: of what you've done here and you really want us
Speaker 1: to not fund law enforcement? Do you allow us to
Speaker 1: not fund roads and bridges? Lissa Finley notably interjects, well,
Speaker 1: what are New York state taxes for? Right the freeze
Speaker 1: didn't apply to the most federal dollars of float of
Speaker 1: states for social welfare, education, transportation, since those are based
Speaker 1: on statutory formulas, although the administration's original memo didn't explain
Speaker 1: that clearly, and on Wednesday last week, the administration recinded
Speaker 1: the memo after a judge blocked it. Democratic states and
Speaker 1: their economies depend much more on Washington than Republican states do.
Speaker 1: This year, New York received roughly four thousand, nine hundred
Speaker 1: dollars per capita from the Feds California forty three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: That's two to three times as much as Florida seventeen hundred,
Speaker 1: Texas fifteen hundred. It's because Democratic states provide more generous
Speaker 1: social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to
Speaker 1: regulatory changes by yeah the Biden administration. Democratic states also
Speaker 1: received a disproportionate served more than one trillion with a
Speaker 1: te that Congress sent the state and local governments in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty one as pandemic relief. Between
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two, federal
Speaker 1: dollars flowing to red states and local governments increased by
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifteen billion dollars, more than the rise
Speaker 1: in Social Security and medicare combined. And you know that
Speaker 1: we're still spending money on COVID. It seems to be
Speaker 1: kind of comical to me, says Most COVID funds are
Speaker 1: running out, though the Biden Federal Emergency Management Agency planned
Speaker 1: to hand out disaster relief funds to states and cities
Speaker 1: for pandemic quote unquote emergency spending through August of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. See this is a big scam, folks. And
Speaker 1: I kind of made comments and was painfully or wherever
Speaker 1: while it was going out. They were throwing money all
Speaker 1: over the place. And a lot of these democratic cities
Speaker 1: before COVID had run themselves into the ground with overspending.
Speaker 1: Look at the pension problems that Illinois faces, and New
Speaker 1: York and other cities the overwhelming nightmare that their budgets are.
Speaker 1: And oh my god, look here's COVID money from the
Speaker 1: federal government. Let's pay off our debts. And that's what
Speaker 1: was done. And here we are talking about additional pandemic
Speaker 1: spending through twenty twenty six, She writes. This year's Los
Speaker 1: Angeles City budget includes two hundred and eight point two
Speaker 1: million in FEMA COVID funds one city, including housing vagrants
Speaker 1: in hotels. What's that got to do with COVID? New
Speaker 1: York State's budget this year includes nearly three and a
Speaker 1: half billion dollars in FEMA dollars for COVID quote emergency
Speaker 1: protective matters close quote like home test kits? Are people
Speaker 1: still using those home test kits? I mean, by this
Speaker 1: point in time, I think we're all painfully aware that
Speaker 1: the COVID pretty much like a regular, good old fashioned
Speaker 1: cold unless you're in a comorbid category three. Only five
Speaker 1: billion dollars after blowing through federal pandemic, largest states and
Speaker 1: localities are tapping FEMA to backfill their budgets. Congress and
Speaker 1: Turns keeps back filling FEMA rents and repeat. Government Accountability
Speaker 1: Office last summer projected that the COVID disaster quote unquote
Speaker 1: disaster will be the most expensive in FEMA history. Bretherident
Speaker 1: Trump is right to call for shifting more FEMA responsibilities
Speaker 1: to the states. Federal spending on disaster relief creates a
Speaker 1: moral hazard by reducing the incentive for states to invest
Speaker 1: in disaster preparedness and mitigation see Los Angeles sam goes
Speaker 1: for social welfare. States have lessons center to help lift
Speaker 1: people out of poverty, since they receive more federal dollars
Speaker 1: if people stay poor. When you're spending someone else's cash,
Speaker 1: there's hardly an his center to spend it prudently. Medicaid
Speaker 1: state's biggest source of federal dollars in courages. In efficient spending,
Speaker 1: states receive one to three dollars from Washington for every
Speaker 1: dollar they spend on Medicaid nine dollars for lower income,
Speaker 1: able bodied individuals covered under Obamacare's expansion. Democratic states provide
Speaker 1: more expansive benefits and easier eligibility, and writing more money
Speaker 1: out of Washington. Some are ringing more money out of Washington.
Speaker 1: Some thirty six percent of Californians are covered by medicaid.
Speaker 1: Compare that to Florida, where it's nineteen and in Texas,
Speaker 1: where it's fifteen. Thirty six percent federal share of California's
Speaker 1: Medicaid spending nearly one hundred and twenty billion, is more
Speaker 1: than Florida's entire budget. America's Welfare Queen New York federal
Speaker 1: dollars make up roughly forty percent of the state's budget.
Speaker 1: Let that sink in. Some forty four percent of New
Speaker 1: Yorkers are covered by medicaid or quasi public option for
Speaker 1: lower income people, including migrants. Thanks to a Biden regulatory waiver,
Speaker 1: they've fed foot about ninety five percent of this public
Speaker 1: options cost, translated to eleven point seven billion dollars this
Speaker 1: year alone. Government social assistance and healthcare account for nearly
Speaker 1: all new jobs added in such Democrat run states as California,
Speaker 1: nearly all also in New York, Minnesota, in Illinois, nearly
Speaker 1: all new jobs from your taxpayer dollars. Their high taxes
Speaker 1: and excessive regulation of suppressed job creation by private businesses,
Speaker 1: so that government spending is now the main engine of
Speaker 1: employment and growth. How long can that last? Soaring pension
Speaker 1: bills I mentioned in a moment ago for government workers
Speaker 1: or crowding out public services. Lawmakers have in turn hiked taxes,
Speaker 1: but the resulting population flight has shrunk their tax This
Speaker 1: is a total recipe for disaster, and it's unfolding before
Speaker 1: our very eyes. All this has made them more dependent
Speaker 1: on Washington spending. Why should taxpayers in Houston and Jacksonville
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati subsidized mismanaged government in Sacramento, in Albany, that's
Speaker 1: a rhetorical question. They shouldn't. By slashing federal spendings, Republicans
Speaker 1: in Washington could give progressive governments an impetus to reform
Speaker 1: and escape their welfare trap. Call it tough love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, Listen Finley, more people were aware of this reality,
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Speaker 1: fifty five care sea dot com. After California, obviously, we're
Speaker 1: all painfully a whare of the LA's of the Pacific
Speaker 1: Palisades or every place else burning to the ground. They
Speaker 1: have a wildfire recoveries our. His named Steve Soberov, and
Speaker 1: apparently he was on a phone call with Hollywood talent
Speaker 1: executives and he was telling them, do not accept the
Speaker 1: low ball offers, the receiving on their properties house burns
Speaker 1: of the ground, and no end in sight in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, getting the home rebuilt or no idea insight
Speaker 1: when the home could possibly be rebuilt. He said, whether
Speaker 1: you're broke or you're old, don't sell now, because in
Speaker 1: one year we're going to be putting billions of dollars
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood of improvements. Now, going back to the
Speaker 1: article by Elysa Finley, does anybody think that one billion
Speaker 1: dollars or more is going to come from the state
Speaker 1: of California or do you think you and I are
Speaker 1: going to be shouldering that bill? He said, you'll get
Speaker 1: triple what these guys are offering you. Now, it's like
Speaker 1: William Morris Agency and these other talent agencies, you know
Speaker 1: folks that represent One was identified Jake Tapper, United Talent
Speaker 1: Agency of Beverly Hills was on the meeting, so all
Speaker 1: the movers and shakers in the Hollywood area, I suppose
Speaker 1: During the call, he said half hour labor could get
Speaker 1: deported before the Palisades is rebuilt, which he said could
Speaker 1: be extremely expensive. Also warning the folks on the call
Speaker 1: not to take the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Speaker 1: Power testing at face value, not reassuring this one, saying
Speaker 1: don't bathe your baby in their water. All right, he
Speaker 1: said on the call, construction costs are going to be
Speaker 1: as high, going to be high because the demand for
Speaker 1: commodities is going to be high, the demand for labor,
Speaker 1: whether or not half our labor is deported before this happens.
Speaker 1: Obviously a shot out of the ballot Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: rather insulting to the construction labor for suggesting that they're
Speaker 1: all made up of illegal immigrants. He says, it's going
Speaker 1: to be high. We're going to be recruiting people from
Speaker 1: around the country to come and live at Motel sixes.
Speaker 1: Like the Alaska gold Rush. It's going to take a
Speaker 1: long time. So on one hand, don't sell because ultimately,
Speaker 1: at some point way down the road, when taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: are going to be injected and fused into the area,
Speaker 1: we'll finally be able to rebuild and you won't have
Speaker 1: to sell it at a no pun intended fire sale price.
Speaker 1: You're just going to have to wait for it. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, if you don't have any money, and you
Speaker 1: maybe inherited your home or has been in your home generations,
Speaker 1: where are you're going to be living? Pacific Palisades not
Speaker 1: presently inhabitable anyway. Back over the water situation, referring to
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Department or to Water and Power. Just
Speaker 1: because the DWP says your water is safe, have somebody
Speaker 1: tested before you move back in. And when they say
Speaker 1: drinking water, use bottle water, Well, it's easy for him
Speaker 1: to say, isn't it, And maybe easy for the executives
Speaker 1: on the call to say, I imagine that they probably
Speaker 1: have money and maybe their houses didn't burn to the ground.
Speaker 1: What they don't say? He went on, and they're starting
Speaker 1: to say it now. Don't bathe your baby in their water,
Speaker 1: don't take a bath in the water, don't take a shower,
Speaker 1: don't do your dishes, don't do your laundry. You don't
Speaker 1: want to do anything with that water until it's deemed safe,
Speaker 1: and then personally, if you can afford it, I would
Speaker 1: get an independent agency or maybe there's a kid at
Speaker 1: CBS that can tell you if your water is safe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the CVS burned down too. Sober Off said it
Speaker 1: could take as long as ready five years for people
Speaker 1: to rebuild the destroyed homes. Said, I thought you said
Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be political. Now I want you
Speaker 1: on the I want you on the bus to yes
Speaker 1: hit this analogy. You're either on the yes bus or
Speaker 1: the no bus. Criticism is a bus to know what
Speaker 1: he's on the yes bus, he says. He acknowledged that
Speaker 1: only about five percent of Palisades residents can afford their
Speaker 1: house now, given that many are generational owners or bought
Speaker 1: their houses before construction costs in real estate products for
Speaker 1: the skyrocket and ready for this, he predicted the cost
Speaker 1: would be in his words, nuts, explaining that we'll probably
Speaker 1: cost one thousand and to twelve hundred dollars per square
Speaker 1: foot to rebuild. Said there's no one in Polisades that
Speaker 1: won't have a gap between what their insurance policies will
Speaker 1: pay out and the costs to reconstruct their homes. As
Speaker 1: he doesn't know what kind of aid will be available
Speaker 1: to make up the shortfalls. Still, he told these Witzy
Speaker 1: executives on the call, the best thing for people to
Speaker 1: do is ready they're building plans, hire legal help. There's
Speaker 1: another cost many people might not be able to meet.
Speaker 1: Hire legal help to negotiate with insurance companies and hold
Speaker 1: onto their watts rather than accept low ball offers from speculators.
Speaker 1: Some things are easier said than done. Got a couple
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Speaker 1: Ken's first. Ken, Thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday, Oh.
Speaker 8: Happy Monday.
Speaker 12: Hey.
Speaker 13: I just wanted to come in concerning Donald Trump firing
Speaker 13: these igs. There's one of them who's going around and
Speaker 13: he's sitting in the different media television, these news shows,
Speaker 13: and I just say to myself, man, I'm glad that
Speaker 13: Donald Trump has done this. To leave certain people in
Speaker 13: these positions is like leaving Comy in for another year.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 13: The one thing that I wish somebody would ask is
Speaker 13: these igs ask these igs did Comy spy on Donald
Speaker 13: Trump illegally? And then after he became president, did Comy
Speaker 13: and others go after a sitting voted in president, but
Speaker 13: nobody wants to address any of this stuff. I think
Speaker 13: I think Donald Trump is a quick study and he
Speaker 13: learned the hard way that there's certain people in government
Speaker 13: you cannot ever try us, and you have to get them.
Speaker 8: Out well and or wing to get your comment on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they're not doing their job. Inspectors General is
Speaker 1: supposed to mind the store and find out where the
Speaker 1: money's going. And if you saw that announcement from Elon
Speaker 1: Musk the other day, they just basically rubber stamp literally
Speaker 1: every check that's amanded out of federal government. Just pay everybody,
Speaker 1: pay everybody. So many trillions of dollars flowing out of government.
Speaker 1: No one can keep watch over it. Well, it's part
Speaker 1: of the job they're supposed to do. We had Todd
Speaker 1: Zenzer on the phone. He was Inspector general for what
Speaker 1: like thirty years, and he knows exactly what the job's about.
Speaker 1: You can go back on the podcast pages and hear
Speaker 1: what he had to say. But yeah, I got no
Speaker 1: problem new sheriff in town, you know, and who among
Speaker 1: us hasn't been victim of some sort of reorganization. They
Speaker 1: used to reorganize the legal department of my prior employer
Speaker 1: almost like every three years, like, well, here comes gonna
Speaker 1: reorger again. They're gonna drop people and people get fired.
Speaker 1: Thankfully never happened to me. I did quit on my
Speaker 1: own accord, but god knows whether I'd still be there.
Speaker 1: I had stuck it out in Anthon, Blue Cross and
Speaker 1: Blue Shield, and you know what, there is no guarantee
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be able to keep this job either.
Speaker 1: But thank God for my listeners, which I take that
Speaker 1: concern off of my lap. But you know what, times
Speaker 1: change and new shriffes come into town and people get
Speaker 1: people lose their jobs. And I'm quick to point out,
Speaker 1: you know who has any pity for folks in the
Speaker 1: coal industry. You know, this whole global warming thing resulting
Speaker 1: in so many coal jobs just being completely deleted. I
Speaker 1: sucks to be you. You're in a dirty industry. We
Speaker 1: don't care about you. But when you go ahead and
Speaker 1: you start firing government employees, it's like, well, you can't
Speaker 1: do that. Why not everybody else's face is being fired
Speaker 1: at some point. You know, I'm not gonna weep over
Speaker 1: And I have accountants that are friends of mine and
Speaker 1: I get an accountant to help with my taxes every year.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I'm sorry if a complete industry gets if
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Speaker 1: come up with a saner system of taxation, fair tax,
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Speaker 1: would be a welcome change for me. And I'm certain
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Speaker 14: Morning lording Brian, how are you this great Monday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get my engine fired up, Dwayne,
Speaker 1: but I'm feeling pretty good. No complaints. I can't say
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Speaker 14: Hey, I wanted to talking about kind of piggyback on
Speaker 14: your COVID comments and the wayte abuse and wrong decisions
Speaker 14: that leads me into the newly declared subernatorial candidate on
Speaker 14: the Democrat side doctor Amy Acton. Yeah, mister Dewayne puts
Speaker 14: ahead of the Apartment of Health. I want everyone to
Speaker 14: remember the wrong decisions after five confirmed cases in Ohio,
Speaker 14: close schools, after one hundred confirmed cases in Ohio, close
Speaker 14: restaurants and bars, and the kicker is and this should
Speaker 14: be the campaign slogan, CNN come through the Buckeye State's
Speaker 14: version of straight talking Anthony Falci. And my last little
Speaker 14: tidbit to leave you with is are the voters in
Speaker 14: Ohio going to pardon her as well?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think she's a snowball's chance in hell. Hell,
Speaker 1: we can all just remember remind everybody that she's responsible
Speaker 1: for dwine saying you can't drink at a bar after
Speaker 1: ten pm, as this that was going to do something
Speaker 1: to stop COVID. You don't have to leave, but you
Speaker 1: can't drink. Oh okay, Yeah, that's that. There's the lynch pin.
Speaker 1: That's the key to stopping the spread of COVID. What
Speaker 1: the hell?
Speaker 14: And we just want the media to remember that. We
Speaker 14: want to bring that to front of mine.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, well, if she's still in the race next year,
Speaker 1: when we have the goodernatorial race in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Trust me, you'll be hearing that type of message on
Speaker 1: the fifty five care Ce Morning Show. Here, let me
Speaker 1: remind you and the On the Republican side, declared candidate
Speaker 1: Heather Hill, former president of the Morgan County School Board,
Speaker 1: Robert Sprague, High State Treasurer, David Yost, High Attorney General
Speaker 1: announcement pending VVA Grandma Swammy. On the Democrat side, the
Speaker 1: only declared candidate is Amy Acton, former director of the
Speaker 1: High Department of Health. That's it, you, amster Gary. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Brian. How are you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing that, hey.
Speaker 15: I was just going to piggyback off of your comments
Speaker 15: at California and the Palisade fires and all the fires
Speaker 15: going on out there. I think the majority of the
Speaker 15: people who have money or want to leave southern California
Speaker 15: for other places in the world. I mean, they got
Speaker 15: more than enough money. They can go anywhere. I mean, really,
Speaker 15: do they want to sit on a neighborhood where they
Speaker 15: might be the only house that's not in Amber Shambers?
Speaker 15: You know that's not burnt to an ash to look
Speaker 15: at that For the next five years, and then you've
Speaker 15: got to wonder what that's going to do to everybody's
Speaker 15: the tax space, right and you know, so the tax
Speaker 15: space is going to have to decrease, which means that
Speaker 15: they're going to have to rely on the people that stay.
Speaker 15: Same thing with the workforce for rebuilding everything, which is
Speaker 15: going to be extra high. Same thing with supplies are
Speaker 15: going to be extra high. So you've got high taxes.
Speaker 15: There's really unsafe water. And you know how they environmentalists
Speaker 15: out there, they won't even bathed in the water now,
Speaker 15: you know, probably for just cause now and they'll just
Speaker 15: they'll spread. They don't have to put up with that.
Speaker 1: No, they don't. And it's an excellent point you make
Speaker 1: that you know, does Hollywood even need to be in Hollywood, California?
Speaker 1: If you want to make movies, you can literally make
Speaker 1: them anywhere. How they make movies in Cincinnati. Now, all
Speaker 1: that talent out there and they've got money, they can move.
Speaker 1: And you're right, I agree with you completely. Who would
Speaker 1: really seriously want to wait around for between one and
Speaker 1: five years to have their house rebuild when the next
Speaker 1: door neighbors and most of the people across the street
Speaker 1: didn't even have enough insurance to do a rebuild, they're
Speaker 1: going to have to sell, and that land is going
Speaker 1: to go to a for a low ball offer for
Speaker 1: a long time, because only I would think some sort
Speaker 1: of corporate investment entity could sink the kind of money
Speaker 1: you need in to acquire a bunch of land out
Speaker 1: there and then afford to be able to wait around
Speaker 1: until the conditions are ripe to have the homes rebuilt
Speaker 1: in their own image or vision, right. I mean, everybody
Speaker 1: was talking about this thing having so many parallels to
Speaker 1: the Lahina fire that they're now having all the restrictions
Speaker 1: on rebuilding. Those houses were in people's families for generation
Speaker 1: after generation after generation, and they don't meet modern building codes,
Speaker 1: so they're not going to have their homes rebuilt the
Speaker 1: way it used to be in the line, and it's
Speaker 1: going to be pursued into some grand strategy and probably
Speaker 1: a walkable community type phenomenon, like they're trying to shove
Speaker 1: down everybody else's throat out here. Oh yeah, and you're right,
Speaker 1: you know what, didn't it be interesting question to have
Speaker 1: answered Gary The total taxes that the collective communities that
Speaker 1: burned in the ground paid in Los Angeles area like
Speaker 1: how many tax dollars were collected from the people who
Speaker 1: used to live in the now burned down Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1: I bet it is an outrageous amount of money and
Speaker 1: it's gone.
Speaker 15: And one billion dollars and one billion dollars that they're
Speaker 15: going to throw into the community is nothing compare what
Speaker 15: they need. I mean, hell, they don't even have a
Speaker 15: fire department, no less water system that's adequate, and hop
Speaker 15: out medical and rebuilding bridges, water systems and everything else.
Speaker 15: Don't eat one billion help bridges alone. Don't eat that
Speaker 15: up nothing flat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question. Well, I mean what you saw
Speaker 1: the figures. Even early on they were talking about forty
Speaker 1: to fifty sixty billion dollars in property damage, and I
Speaker 1: bet that figures a lot more than that now once
Speaker 1: they calculate it all up. A billion dollars is a
Speaker 1: drop in the bucket for the damage that's been concurred
Speaker 1: down there. Good points, Gary, You're right, I can't argue
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Speaker 1: you care to call on comment. I got Christopher Smithman
Speaker 1: every Monday at seven twenty today, no different. And you know,
Speaker 1: and in the remaining time, why not go here? I
Speaker 1: saw this headline. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a bunch of right wing extremists
Speaker 1: that were the real problem in this country. So say,
Speaker 1: with the Biden FBI anyway, trans Vegan terror cult, check
Speaker 1: the right boxes, you too could be remember of the
Speaker 1: trans vegan terror called Zi's cult blame for a string
Speaker 1: of what they call brutal murders as well as mayhem
Speaker 1: in the United States, including the recent fatal shooting of
Speaker 1: a Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Nationwide manhunt underway for
Speaker 1: Michael zecho Z A Jko described it as a trans
Speaker 1: non binary person. They say he's the one that bought
Speaker 1: semi automatic weapons used by two other excuse me trans
Speaker 1: individuals to shoot and kill Border Patrol agent David Maylon
Speaker 1: back in the twentieth of January during a traffic stop
Speaker 1: in Vermont. Several of the associates now in custody for
Speaker 1: various violent crimes, while the leader, Jack ziz La Soda,
Speaker 1: described as a vegan who also goes by the name
Speaker 1: Andrea Phelps, is at large after he faked his own
Speaker 1: death to escape prosecution. Jacko, connected with the group an
Speaker 1: online posts also a person of interest in the double
Speaker 1: murder of her parents in connection with the slang of
Speaker 1: the Vallejo, California landowner named Curtis Linde alleged cult tied
Speaker 1: to a string of killings which they say are reminiscent
Speaker 1: of the murders carried out by Charles Manson and his followers.
Speaker 1: Lesota himself currently not charging any of the killing. Some
Speaker 1: members of this ziz group charged with gravely injuring and
Speaker 1: later murdering that Curtis lind landowner, who they attacked with
Speaker 1: a sword after he tried to kick him off from
Speaker 1: squatting on his property. He was eighty two years old,
Speaker 1: shot and killed one of them in self defense, lost
Speaker 1: an eye. The January seventeenth in attack, he was poised
Speaker 1: to testify against these jailed assailants when he was stabbed
Speaker 1: to death outside his home. They arrested a guy named
Speaker 1: Maximilian Bentley Snyder, who has connections with his trans vegan cult,
Speaker 1: in charge him with murder. Prosecutor said Lynn was intentionally
Speaker 1: killed for the purpose of preventing his testimony in the
Speaker 1: criminal proceeding. Andy No, writer for The New York Post,
Speaker 1: described Losodas group known as the Zizians, as a highly
Speaker 1: educated trans vegan rationalist to hold fringe esoteric ideological beliefs
Speaker 1: about transhumanism and animal rights. Brian Thomas, hosted the fifty
Speaker 1: five Care Morning Show, calls them cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Speaker 1: Lysoda was at the scene of Lynn's first attack and
Speaker 1: was squatting on that property. Please let him Goole Go.
Speaker 1: Though all the skipped court appearance on unrelated charges, police
Speaker 1: records show a pattern of violence among members associated with him.
Speaker 1: Felix Ophelia Buckholt University of Washington, Teresa Milo Consuelo young Blood,
Speaker 1: two trans individuals fired at Maryland fired at Mayland during
Speaker 1: the traffic stopped, killing him, according to the complaint. As
Speaker 1: for mister Delsoda, his whereabouts are currently unknown. Arrested in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen while protesting and then barricading a workshop put
Speaker 1: on by Berkeley based Center for Applied Rationality. And I
Speaker 1: read that and I go, oh, there's one of those too, huh.
Speaker 1: His mother and associates claimed he later died in a
Speaker 1: boating accident and produced an obituary. Coastguards, however, conducted a search,
Speaker 1: never found a body, and police later made contact with
Speaker 1: Lysoda at the scene of Lynn's first attack, but again
Speaker 1: he wasn't arrested or charged. So we have those trans
Speaker 1: vegan terror cults. Five six fifty seven. Don't go away.
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Speaker 1: next segment. Christopher Smithmen, former vice mayor of the City
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Speaker 1: Fast forward an hour. We're going to talk about tariffs,
Speaker 1: talking about the gross domestic products slowing uh. More and
Speaker 1: more young families are unable to afford a home and
Speaker 1: that just breaks my heart. Us cares return of the
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Speaker 1: all about that together at eight forty five three seven
Speaker 1: eight hundred eight two to three Taco with pound five
Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. And one of the
Speaker 1: things Trump did he got rid of gender pronouns employees
Speaker 1: and all the federal agencies in order to remove pronouns
Speaker 1: from their email signatures by last Friday afternoon. This according
Speaker 1: to internal memos citing two executive orders signed by Donald
Speaker 1: Trump his first day in office seeking to curb diversity,
Speaker 1: equity and inclusion programs. Accord to the one message sent
Speaker 1: to the Center for Disease Control staff, and any other
Speaker 1: information not permitted in the policy must be removed from
Speaker 1: employee signatures by five pm Friday. Employees instructed to remove
Speaker 1: the pronouns from everything from government grant applications the email
Speaker 1: signatures all across the departments. Plays of the Department of
Speaker 1: Energy received similar notice were told this was meet to
Speaker 1: meet requirements in the executive order, including removal of all
Speaker 1: DEI language and federal discourse communications and publications. The result
Speaker 1: of Trump administration's pushed to do away with all DEI
Speaker 1: efforts and it's rolling out across the board. And this
Speaker 1: is just one little illustration of it. But you know,
Speaker 1: how did we end up in this bizarre, weird, crazy
Speaker 1: idea that these and I pulled it up because l
Speaker 1: g b t q I a UC Davis dot edu.
Speaker 1: They have a department. It's the LGB T t QI
Speaker 1: a Resource Center. And in case you're wondering what all
Speaker 1: those they stay for at Lesbian gets Bisexual, which we
Speaker 1: all understand and can understand that quite clearly, all of
Speaker 1: which relate to one's sexual proclivities. Then transgender queer intersection
Speaker 1: asexual and I get kind of fuzzy on that. If
Speaker 1: you are a transgender woman, it means you're a guy
Speaker 1: biologically you could still be attracted to, at least from
Speaker 1: a you know, sexual proclivity standpoint, to women you just
Speaker 1: like dressing up black a gal. I think ed Wood
Speaker 1: Glenn or Glenda is a movie you can check out
Speaker 1: on that one right if you get done watching Plan
Speaker 1: nine from Outer Space. But they have examples of pronouns
Speaker 1: on this list, and I never heard of a lot
Speaker 1: of these. We're supposed to keep track of this, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm so happy to see the federal governments
Speaker 1: getting rid of them. CO co, O, N E N.
Speaker 1: And they put it in context like co laughed or
Speaker 1: you know, you would say normally he laughed or she
Speaker 1: laughed CO or N laughed, E y and he. They
Speaker 1: actually have he, she and they on there. But then again,
Speaker 1: some people refer to themselves collectively as they more than
Speaker 1: one person roaming around on their head. And I've made
Speaker 1: that observation many times before. But if you go around
Speaker 1: telling me that you want me to meet to call you.
Speaker 1: They when I'm referring to you with the pronoun, I'm
Speaker 1: going to laugh at you and suggest maybe you need
Speaker 1: some psychological counseling, because apparently you've got more than one
Speaker 1: person roaming around inside your head. G X I E
Speaker 1: y O y O z E. And then the final
Speaker 1: one they have here is v V E. They also
Speaker 1: admonish you try to avoid using the phrase preferred pronouns
Speaker 1: or preferred name, as these suggest an element of flexibility
Speaker 1: or that someone's identity is less than valid. Someone's name
Speaker 1: and pronoun are not suggestions and are not preferred over
Speaker 1: something else. They are inherent to who we are. YO
Speaker 1: said that, I guess maybe Sanity's finally returning to the world.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'd like to think so. Federal agencies
Speaker 1: and departments were given a deadline of five pm on
Speaker 1: Friday to implement Trump's order mandated the US government recognize
Speaker 1: only two sexes that are, in Trump's words, not changeable.
Speaker 1: Memocent Wednesday to agency heads detailed the launder lists of
Speaker 1: tasks required to comply with the order, including sweeping directive
Speaker 1: to withdraw all relevant documents directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements,
Speaker 1: and plans, along with far more specific requests to change
Speaker 1: gender to the word sex on government forums, disable any
Speaker 1: email prompts that ask users for their pronouns, and cancel
Speaker 1: any employee resource groups that include or promote ideology. I
Speaker 1: wonder if the UC Davis website will soon disappear. It's
Speaker 1: still up as of this morning. I do believe they
Speaker 1: receive federal funds. That's why I kind of uttered that
Speaker 1: out loud. Agencies also ordered to take down any what
Speaker 1: they call outward facing media that could be interpreted as
Speaker 1: promoting a view of gender that isn't in liign with
Speaker 1: the current administration's policies on gender. In other words, there's
Speaker 1: two jack, two genders, period, end of story. It's what
Speaker 1: you were born with. So apparently, by Friday afternoon, search
Speaker 1: results for gender on the US Center for Disease Control
Speaker 1: and Preventions website all dead links, which had been active
Speaker 1: even earlier in the day. On Friday, websites of the
Speaker 1: Department of Health and Human Services scrubbed all the pages
Speaker 1: on gender affirming care and LGBTQ plus rights. CDC representatives
Speaker 1: didn't respond to her quest for common Trump said such
Speaker 1: actions were intended to defend women's rights and protect freedom
Speaker 1: of conscious by using clear and accurate language in policies.
Speaker 1: Which take me over to the former Lea Thomas swimmers.
Speaker 1: Lea Thomas a man pretending to be a woman. We've
Speaker 1: all probably familiar with her. Georgia State Senate Committee passed
Speaker 1: the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act last Thursday after
Speaker 1: testimony for multiple female athletes who have been complaining about
Speaker 1: sharing locker rooms with transgender athletes. So this bill requires
Speaker 1: athletes to participate on teams that align with their biological
Speaker 1: sex at birth. It's anticipated it will be signed into law.
Speaker 1: Former North Carolina State women swimmer Kaylie Alans, thirty one
Speaker 1: time All American a two time NC two A champion,
Speaker 1: spoke about the experience of competing against and sharing a
Speaker 1: locker room with Thomas. Quote, this is a great statement
Speaker 1: from her. We are were sorry. We all were just
Speaker 1: guinea pigs for a giant social experiment formed by the
Speaker 1: NCAA regarding how much abuse and blatant disregard women would
Speaker 1: be forced to take in silence, said she recount of
Speaker 1: the emotion she felt when competing in areas with Leah
Speaker 1: Thomas and how much sadness she felt watching women lose
Speaker 1: out on chances to compete fairly at the event, claiming
Speaker 1: she wanted to cry and leave the event after seeing
Speaker 1: Thomas win the five hundred meter freestyle. It all just
Speaker 1: felt so off and wrong. Did I go to the
Speaker 1: locker room in that day to see Thomas and realize
Speaker 1: there is no escaping this nightmare no matter where I go.
Speaker 1: I had no idea he was going to be allowed
Speaker 1: in the women's locker room, as we did not consent
Speaker 1: to have a man in our locker room. And I'm
Speaker 1: immediately on every time I enter a locker room afterward,
Speaker 1: knowing any moment a man can walk in, walk on
Speaker 1: enemy while I'm changing, said she felt so uncomfortable that
Speaker 1: she started abandoning the locker room and instead began to
Speaker 1: change in a storage closet behind the bleach. One other
Speaker 1: University of Kentucky summer, Caitlin Wheeler said young women teenage
Speaker 1: girls were forced to undress next to a fully intact
Speaker 1: biological male who exposed themselves to us while we were
Speaker 1: simultaneously fully exposed. We were never asked, we were never
Speaker 1: given a choice. In another option, we were just expected
Speaker 1: to be okay with it, to shove down our discomfort,
Speaker 1: our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would
Speaker 1: have been being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
Speaker 1: And one doctor, because some people were opposed to this,
Speaker 1: then get over it. Doctor Jody Greenwald, described as a
Speaker 1: pediatrician in Roswell, speaking to this panel that was discussing this,
Speaker 1: told the panel that transgender girls are not predators and
Speaker 1: warned that transgender youth are more at risk for suicide.
Speaker 1: And I circled that. Now she can't say on a
Speaker 1: quivocally that transgender girls are not predators. They may very
Speaker 1: well could be, and we know from the news that
Speaker 1: some of them are, notably the guys that go in
Speaker 1: the women's locker room and pleasure themselves in front of
Speaker 1: the other women in the locker room. I would call
Speaker 1: that predatory behavior. I don't know what your definition of
Speaker 1: it is, but it certainly falls into mind and I
Speaker 1: can understand. And it's a sad thing that transgender youth
Speaker 1: probably more to risk for suicide. If you really truly
Speaker 1: believe in your mind, and I believe that many do,
Speaker 1: that you are really deep down inside a gender that
Speaker 1: you're not born with. You look down, you got twig
Speaker 1: and berries, and yet you identify as a woman, and
Speaker 1: you really believe in your heart of hearts that you
Speaker 1: are a woman. I can understand how that might be
Speaker 1: a massive psychological burden for you, recognizing as any sane
Speaker 1: rational person would, that there is nothing any doctor or
Speaker 1: scientist or surgeon can do to transform your chromosomal reality.
Speaker 1: They might be able to change the exterior a little bit,
Speaker 1: and part's not going to work like the originals do
Speaker 1: when you're born that way, but you know, you got
Speaker 1: to go through your life recognizing that that is an
Speaker 1: impossible thing to accomplish. Period, end of story. Might that
Speaker 1: lead to suicidal ideation? One can make a logical conclusion
Speaker 1: that it might, but that they are more of a
Speaker 1: risk to suicide, should imperil the hearts and minds and
Speaker 1: create an unfair competitive reality for some of them and
Speaker 1: for the women in sports. We're gonna turn the entire
Speaker 1: world upside down because some percentage have suicidal ideation, much
Speaker 1: like sadly, a pretty substantial percentage of the former folks
Speaker 1: in uniform serving our country proudly, sadly their numbers are
Speaker 1: a lot higher in terms of suicide than the general
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Speaker 1: Ordinate It is seven twenty one if you've got krcdtalk station,
Speaker 1: and it is that time of week we get to
Speaker 1: hear from the former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Christopher Smith Aman with d smither Van. Christopher, I hope
Speaker 1: you had a wonderful weekend. Welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you Brian for having me on and I did,
Speaker 2: and my heart just went out, I'm sure like yours.
Speaker 2: And you're listening to audience on those two plane crashes,
Speaker 2: Oh you know what we saw happening in in in
Speaker 2: d C. And Pennsylvania. And you know, it's as shocking
Speaker 2: as it is to our conscious. It's just you pray
Speaker 2: for the families and you know, particularly you know, for
Speaker 2: all of them. But to think waiting in an airport
Speaker 2: a plane is arriving and you see it explode, I
Speaker 2: just it just it just messes up your mind. So
Speaker 2: my love goes out to those families. And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: we still have the safest transportation with plane travel, you know,
Speaker 2: even when you see things like this happen. Obviously, they're
Speaker 2: going to have to deal with things at that airport
Speaker 2: with with the military doing exercises there and commercial planes
Speaker 2: landing and taking off, they're going to have to change
Speaker 2: what they're doing there, obviously. But what a tragedy on
Speaker 2: both in both cases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it, no question about it. I
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm not a huge fan of flying anyway, Christopher,
Speaker 1: and has nothing to do with safety. It is everything
Speaker 1: with the hassle of it, you know, getting to the
Speaker 1: airport two hours before the head of the flight, going
Speaker 1: through the you know tsa uh sphincter probe and you
Speaker 1: know the it's it's just it's a hassle. And then
Speaker 1: you're stuck on a tin can and you can't get
Speaker 1: out of go any place. I love. That's why I
Speaker 1: love driving so much, Bud. Now you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: factor in the the idea that it scares the hell out.
Speaker 1: I mean, to get on a plane, the Boeing seven
Speaker 1: thirty seven Max, the door flies off. You got all
Speaker 1: kinds of equipment problems if you're on a Boeing airline.
Speaker 1: And now air traffic control, we learned about how bad
Speaker 1: things the situation are with air traffic control, the shortage
Speaker 1: of air traffic controllers, the lowered standards for air traffic
Speaker 1: controller and like she's the wheeze. Not exactly great marketing
Speaker 1: for the airline or the airline industry.
Speaker 2: Well, Secretary Duffy's gonna sort it all out. You know,
Speaker 2: certain things we've had, Yeah, he will. Certainly. We've had
Speaker 2: our former mayor footage edge, you know, over over transportation,
Speaker 2: which made no sense to me at all.
Speaker 3: What his experience was to serving that capacity, and he's
Speaker 3: left things probably uh messed up, and uh it's going
Speaker 3: to take the secretary of the new Secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 8: To clean it up.
Speaker 2: Look, man, I very rarely talk about well Cincinnati politics
Speaker 2: in my in my events, but you know what caught
Speaker 2: my eye was was our mayor meaning mayor pure vol
Speaker 2: indicating cutting the you know, cutting the balogney, very thin
Speaker 2: on whether they're going to cooperate with ICE or not. Look,
Speaker 2: this is this is to anybody who lives in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: in our fifty two neighborhoods, this is completely outrageous. Right,
Speaker 2: It's one thing to turn on MSNBC and listen to
Speaker 2: them talk about ICE is separating families, which is just
Speaker 2: a lie. This administration has only focused on gang members, criminals,
Speaker 2: drug drug dealers, I mean a rapist. Those are the
Speaker 2: people that are being thrown out. And I think that
Speaker 2: they're talking points, whether it's the View or CNN or MSNBC,
Speaker 2: they don't understand that what they did over the last
Speaker 2: call of ten years, people have now caught up with
Speaker 2: them and they understand that they're lying, right, and so
Speaker 2: this note they keep coming back with the same sound bite.
Speaker 2: We're separating families, and we're putting mothers and we're taking
Speaker 2: them out of the people who are legally here. They're
Speaker 2: being handcuffed. I heard it all this weekend and it's
Speaker 2: all nothing but lies. And so to hear our mayor
Speaker 2: say that he would not cooperate with ICE to remove
Speaker 2: criminals who are in our country illegally, meaning they've already
Speaker 2: broken the law to come here illegally. And you're talking
Speaker 2: about a gang member that might be in one of
Speaker 2: our fifty two neighborhoods that you're directing in some way
Speaker 2: that Chief Fiji of the Cincinnati Police Department doesn't cooperate. Man,
Speaker 2: this is where insanity and no common sense his the role.
Speaker 2: This is where he thinks as a Democrat, a liberal Democrat,
Speaker 2: that is somehow he's gonna win. What do you think
Speaker 2: University of Cincinnati is gonna think, Cincinnati State? Right? What
Speaker 2: do you think that that the Xavier University is gonna think?
Speaker 2: You know when Mount Saint Joseph if one of their children,
Speaker 2: one of the kids on those campuses comes up dead.
Speaker 2: Because we have a mayor that says, hey, I was
Speaker 2: unwilling to cooperate with ICE, right, But it's so serious,
Speaker 2: meaning the mindset is so serious that we've got to
Speaker 2: deal with it because he's down there clownings right, and
Speaker 2: the reality of it is I don't blame the police chief.
Speaker 2: I blame all nine members of council because they have
Speaker 2: the power to check the mayor. They should be passing
Speaker 2: a resolution today saying we're cooperating with Ice. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna hold the mayor accountable.
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Speaker 1: talk station right Thomas with Christopher Smithman, former Vice man
Speaker 1: in the City of Cincinnati, we get him every Monday
Speaker 1: for the smither Van Smithman. Mister Smithman, what else is
Speaker 1: on your mind this morning, my friend.
Speaker 2: Well brother, the January sixth pardons. You know, I've been
Speaker 2: approached a lot about President Trump's decision to pardon those
Speaker 2: involved with January sixth, and I just want to dig
Speaker 2: into this. I want to remind your listeners that President
Speaker 2: Biden partened just about his whole family on the way out.
Speaker 2: And this matters because no one has ever seen the president,
Speaker 2: you know, pardon his son and then come back and
Speaker 2: pardon his brothers and their spouses and obviously Fauci and
Speaker 2: others in such a broad way. And so this notion
Speaker 2: when people approach me, it's like it's like they're having
Speaker 2: no conversation with me about the context of what is
Speaker 2: going on. And they say, man, I'm so worried about
Speaker 2: this protester that hit a police officer and he was pardoned,
Speaker 2: and I'm and I'm thinking in my head, I'm going,
Speaker 2: when when did Democrats discover the police? I mean, this
Speaker 2: was this clearly was the party that wanted to defund
Speaker 2: the police, reimagine the police department. They have been so
Speaker 2: unsupportive of law enforcement, peace officers across the United States
Speaker 2: and the world. They've been shutting down entire highways by
Speaker 2: walking on them with flags and and taping themselves to
Speaker 2: the high way so traffic can't get by gluing themselves
Speaker 2: to the road. This is what the Democrats have been doing.
Speaker 2: So it's been so strange when I'm looking at the
Speaker 2: mainstream media Brian Thomas, and they're there trying to make
Speaker 2: me think that they care about law enforcement now and
Speaker 2: what's happening here as it relates to January sixth, But
Speaker 2: they never mention President Biden's parton of his entire family.
Speaker 2: They haven't learned anything from the previous election. They're right
Speaker 2: back on their talking points, whether you're listening to the View,
Speaker 2: whether you're listening to MSNBC, whether you're listening to CNN.
Speaker 2: It is so outrageous how they continue to put out
Speaker 2: lives about what's happening, whether we're talking about immigration or
Speaker 2: whether we're talking about the pardons. And it's just under
Speaker 2: my craw I couldn't take it this weekend because they
Speaker 2: kept coming back talking about January sixth, as if they
Speaker 2: gave a damn about law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Wells in it's student observation, Christopher, I agree completely with you,
Speaker 1: and you know, I would say there was something to
Speaker 1: be said about certain members of the entire collective of
Speaker 1: Jay six ers who are being prosecuted. And we know
Speaker 1: many of them were nonviolent, merely walked into the building,
Speaker 1: which could be viewed as a technical trespass. But you know,
Speaker 1: under the circumstances, I don't think it's worthy of the
Speaker 1: resources and expenditure a time the federal government went through
Speaker 1: to track every single one of them down. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine they put that much effort into tracking down I mean,
Speaker 1: true genuine criminals. And I understand the point that he
Speaker 1: can be made because FOP president made it on this
Speaker 1: program and he made it in the Inquirer. I believe
Speaker 1: it was inquiring but local news that you know, it
Speaker 1: was only only the people who violently attacked police that
Speaker 1: he had a problem with. And I don't abide attacking
Speaker 1: the police, but in the broader scheme of things, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the state of California. You got people
Speaker 1: going in and shoplifting and cleaning out and looting buildings.
Speaker 1: There never brought it to criminal justice, and and you know,
Speaker 1: there's this weird double standard that exists, and you can
Speaker 1: highlight it if you want, But if you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to go ahead and say he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: pardoned the January sixth ers, and you can pivot over
Speaker 1: and say, well, how on the hell did he end
Speaker 1: up partnering a bunch of people who were not subject
Speaker 1: to even prosecution, like his family members with the exceptional
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. You know, they hadn't been accused formally on anything.
Speaker 1: How did they get a pardon for literally everything that
Speaker 1: they had done for the prior ten years.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I no one's ever seen anything like it, No, Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: And by the way, when we look at presidents who
Speaker 2: did you know deporting people who came to our country illegally.
Speaker 2: You go back to some Democratic presidents, whether they're talking
Speaker 2: about President Clinton or we're talking about President Obama, they
Speaker 2: they deported more people than President Trump has in his
Speaker 2: and it's back four years. So I don't know what
Speaker 2: he's going to do over these four years. But the
Speaker 2: reality of it is people who come to this country illegally.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if anybody listening tries to go
Speaker 2: to another country illegally, figure out what will happen.
Speaker 8: To you.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're the only country out there that has
Speaker 2: open borders that he'll be in jail five years. And
Speaker 2: and and let me just say also that the partner
Speaker 2: of those those Americans who this is under Trump, who
Speaker 2: were who were praying in front of abortion clinics. These
Speaker 2: things just kind of go under the radar and they're
Speaker 2: not discussed a lot. But but he's been partnering other people.
Speaker 2: He just partnered a congressional member, he and his wife
Speaker 2: that was that was being targeted by the dj and
Speaker 2: they said they were dropping charges against them. That was
Speaker 2: just this weekend. And so the reality of it is
Speaker 2: what what what President Trump has learned is that the
Speaker 2: criminal justice system at times can be weaponized because he
Speaker 2: went through it. See I'm a believer in God, and
Speaker 2: see what happens here is that people were looking at
Speaker 2: President Trump is said if they can do it to him,
Speaker 2: they can do it to me. And so he understands
Speaker 2: that now, and so he's looking at the justice system
Speaker 2: a little differently, and he's looking at these cases saying, man,
Speaker 2: I know what they did to me, I can see
Speaker 2: what they did to you. You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use my power to relieve the system off
Speaker 2: of you. That's one of the things that you're gonna
Speaker 2: constantly see a drum beat through these four years with
Speaker 2: President Trump. He's going to continue to go and say, no,
Speaker 2: the DOJ went too far here, No, this judge went
Speaker 2: too far here. I understand what they did to me
Speaker 2: in Manhattan, New York. I understand what they did to
Speaker 2: me in Florida. I'm not gonna let it happen to
Speaker 2: somebody else. And I think that's a positive.
Speaker 1: Thing I do too. And don't forget the folks who
Speaker 1: are protesting in school boards over you know, woke policies
Speaker 1: being taught at schools. Isn't it a parent's prerogative to
Speaker 1: raise their voice at the appropriate meeting, the school board
Speaker 1: meeting where people do have the opportunity to speak their
Speaker 1: mind to the school board so the school board can
Speaker 1: understand and learn what the parents that have children in
Speaker 1: the school have on their minds, only to be shut down,
Speaker 1: thrown out, or otherwise gone after by law enforce horsman.
Speaker 1: It's just, it was, it just, it was It's just
Speaker 1: it was a crazy, crazy period of time, Christopher.
Speaker 2: I mean, they almost made them the enemy of the state.
Speaker 2: They say, parents, we want you involved, We want you
Speaker 2: to come down and advocate for our children. So then
Speaker 2: the parents show up, and what do you do arrest them?
Speaker 2: You make them the enemy of the state. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean it was. It's absolutely absurd. And by the way,
Speaker 2: we saw the report cards from the school system. Let's
Speaker 2: not walk around like an ostrich with our head in
Speaker 2: the sand. Our public school system needs reforms, we need help, right,
Speaker 2: we need to have vision. And it's not just in Cincinnatians.
Speaker 2: Across the United States of America. We've got babies that
Speaker 2: are graduating that cannot read and write. This is very serious.
Speaker 2: And by the way, we've got third world countries that
Speaker 2: are beating us in the space of education. We're spending
Speaker 2: more per pupil than than any country in the world,
Speaker 2: but we have our young people getting further, further and
Speaker 2: behind in the areas of math, in the area of English,
Speaker 2: in the area of reading. So we've got to wake
Speaker 2: up and hold these school boards accountable. We've got to
Speaker 2: hold our teachers. And by the way, let me shout
Speaker 2: out to our public school public school teachers across the
Speaker 2: United States of America. They have a very hard job
Speaker 2: because the families are not where they are where they
Speaker 2: were fifty to one hundred years ago. So they're asked.
Speaker 2: Our teachers are being asked to be mom and dad.
Speaker 2: Our coaches are being asked to be uncle and aunts
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff because our families. The
Speaker 2: families are being blown up across the United States of America.
Speaker 2: So the Cincinnati public school kids, whether it's Toledo, whether
Speaker 2: it's la whether it's Chicago, have really hard jobs out
Speaker 2: here trying to teach our babies or are who are
Speaker 2: struggling at home, who are underpaid and overwork. So I
Speaker 2: give that to them, but it still means that we've
Speaker 2: got to educate our babies. We cannot have kids, you know,
Speaker 2: who can't read and write, graduating from the twelfth grade
Speaker 2: and think they're going to make get in our society.
Speaker 2: It just is not going to work. Thomas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I don't know what the school
Speaker 1: system that you went through as a young man, Christopher
Speaker 1: was like, but you know, we I went through public
Speaker 1: schools over on the West Side, you know, John Foster,
Speaker 1: Dulles and dull High Junior High School and No Kills
Speaker 1: High School. And I reflect on the amenities that we
Speaker 1: had and you know, compared to today pretty lean ship.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't the one room schoolhouse with everybody
Speaker 1: in one room of all different grades. But you know,
Speaker 1: the bells and whistles that people have this expectation should
Speaker 1: exist at a high school level like these grand facilities
Speaker 1: and these brand new, massive complexes with all this taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1: Is that necessary to educate a child? Really? I mean
Speaker 1: you really need all those extra bells and whistles. And
Speaker 1: the answer is clearly no, you know, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not more money that's needed, it's it's maybe a different
Speaker 1: approach at how children are taught. Perhaps that's the fit,
Speaker 1: the focus, and of course an involved yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's a county. I think you know, you
Speaker 2: can't have a kid, you know, beating up a teacher
Speaker 2: and then coming back to school the next week. You
Speaker 2: can't have them throwing a computer out a teacher and
Speaker 2: then having them come back to school the next day.
Speaker 2: And so the teachers need backup when kids are disruptive
Speaker 2: in classrooms. If you talk to teachers, they'll tell you that, look,
Speaker 2: i've got thirty kids in here, and let's say say
Speaker 2: twenty five of them are great, but five of them
Speaker 2: disrupt my class every single day, and nobody gets those
Speaker 2: five kids out of the classroom so that the other
Speaker 2: twenty five can learn. That's what we've got to do.
Speaker 2: Our public school system is broken because they have this
Speaker 2: notion of no child left behind. I don't want to
Speaker 2: leave a child behind. Nobody wants to. But if you're
Speaker 2: unwilling to hold those five children accountable so that the
Speaker 2: other twenty five can learn, right, what you're going to
Speaker 2: have is pandemonium. And that's what we have in our
Speaker 2: public school systems across the country. And by the way,
Speaker 2: this is not about black and white anybody listening. These
Speaker 2: are about American children, no matter where they are. People
Speaker 2: try to separate us about public education around race. And
Speaker 2: by the way, I graduated from public education the School
Speaker 2: for Creative and Performing Arts in downtown Cincinnati. The reality
Speaker 2: of it is is where we are now is everybody
Speaker 2: wants to divide everybody around race. This is about teaching
Speaker 2: our American children, who are our future, and we can't
Speaker 2: have these kind of bad kids in schools disrupting classrooms
Speaker 2: for these teachers and think everybody's going to learn. Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: we have a weak system around accountability. If the kid
Speaker 2: doesn't want to learn, you're give them one or two
Speaker 2: or three or four chances, whatever it is, and you're
Speaker 2: out of here. You're out of here because I've got
Speaker 2: twenty five other kids here who want to learn, who
Speaker 2: want to read, who want to get their algebra done
Speaker 2: or their geometry done. I'm tired of it, Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: If we don't turn our public education around in a
Speaker 2: serious way, this the United States of America as we
Speaker 2: know it is going down the toilet.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show. Good to hear from you today.
Speaker 12: Good morning, Brian. As always, you and Joe are true patriots.
Speaker 1: Buddy, truly appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just wanted to talk to you about another
Speaker 12: word that President Trump could have said during the next
Speaker 12: forty years is We're going to go back to and
Speaker 12: sense And that would have been a great replacement for
Speaker 12: Golden Age, because let me tell you, you and I
Speaker 12: both know when you use common sense, you definitely bring
Speaker 12: in a gold page. I mean we've been going against
Speaker 12: that for a lot more than four years. I mean
Speaker 12: it's been it's been psychotic. I mean it's everything you
Speaker 12: and I have talked about in the past. Everything has
Speaker 12: to do with common sense. I mean, if you see
Speaker 12: something done wrong, then use common sense to fix it.
Speaker 12: And for some reason, our government has been one of
Speaker 12: the biggest advocates of using insanity instead of common sense
Speaker 12: for quite a few decades now.
Speaker 8: And I'm just so.
Speaker 12: Happy that we're going to hopefully get back to common sense.
Speaker 12: And like you and mister Smithman, was saying, there is
Speaker 12: so many things that you could use common sense to fix.
Speaker 12: I mean, education, legal, aspects of our society. I mean,
Speaker 12: there's so many things that common sense will fix. And
Speaker 12: I just hope that both Democrats and Republicans get together
Speaker 12: after these four years to actually sit down and understand
Speaker 12: that if we use common sense, we can actually work
Speaker 12: together to better the country.
Speaker 8: And I just it would just be so nice to
Speaker 8: have that happen.
Speaker 1: It would indeed, you know, the problem is that common
Speaker 1: sense isn't common anymore. I think at least that's kind
Speaker 1: of the catchphrase people quite often use as a retort,
Speaker 1: you know. And on the education thing, one thing I
Speaker 1: absolutely do not understand, Jeff is letting kids move forward
Speaker 1: to the next grade when they have not yet mastered
Speaker 1: or even coming close to mastering the skill sets in
Speaker 1: the grade that they're in. How can that possibly be
Speaker 1: a service to that young person. If you cannot read
Speaker 1: at grade level and you get moved to the next grade,
Speaker 1: you're just going to be that much further behind. And
Speaker 1: that makes absolutely no sense none. All in the name
Speaker 1: of the little Johnny is going to feel badly because
Speaker 1: he's not moving along with the rest of his classmates. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, if I was a parent along those lines,
Speaker 1: i'd say, good, you can't move forward. We need to
Speaker 1: get you at the grade level you're in first, then
Speaker 1: you can move on. So anyway, I appreciate it, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I can't argue with you. I know you didn't call
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Speaker 1: thanks for calling the Morning Show, and a happy Monday
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Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. Hope you can say the same.
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Speaker 16: The one thing I wanted to comment on was just
Speaker 16: the fact that we have actual leadership and sanity coming
Speaker 16: back into the US and through our administration, and it's
Speaker 16: just it blows me away.
Speaker 2: And then I stay with me on this.
Speaker 16: Because you know, it's a little deep in the woods.
Speaker 16: But you know when you hear people like Adam Schiff
Speaker 16: try to argue about protecting Capitol police, which I'm all
Speaker 16: for one hundred percent protecting our police.
Speaker 1: Force real quick because we're out of time.
Speaker 16: But with all the GEO, with all the advanced technology
Speaker 16: that we have, and they've tracked all these people on
Speaker 16: January sixth, it just blows me away that we haven't
Speaker 16: pinned those same people down to the ones that were
Speaker 16: all summer long working with Antifa to you know, to
Speaker 16: to destroy our cities. And I guarantee if we really.
Speaker 17: Found Joe and John and all these people that were
Speaker 17: in prison, that they were probably the same ones that
Speaker 17: were destroying our cities in Minneapolis and across Seattle and
Speaker 17: so forth.
Speaker 1: Anyway, you're not the first person to make that observation,
Speaker 1: my friend. It is rather curious, isn't it. Hey, brother,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the calling the kind words, Chuck,
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate it. Don't go away, folks. Brian James
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Speaker 1: We talked money, money Monday with Brian James from Allworth Financial.
Speaker 1: Got some good topic to talk about and of course
Speaker 1: number one on the list there tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. Brian James,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning show. It's always good having
Speaker 1: you on the program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's always good to be here with you.
Speaker 4: And it's always good to have a batch of headlines
Speaker 4: from the weekend to discuss, don't we Isn't.
Speaker 1: That the truth? And we were talking about gross domestic
Speaker 1: product and four point twenty five to four point five
Speaker 1: percent in terms of the FED and its rate, and
Speaker 1: sadly the third topic really is so concerning to me.
Speaker 1: Young families can't able, can't afford to buy a home.
Speaker 1: But let's dive on into the terraffs. And if you
Speaker 1: look at the White House dot gov fact sheet in
Speaker 1: case people aren't really aware, of exactly why Donald Trump
Speaker 1: put tariffs on Canada and Mexico and China. He cited
Speaker 1: fentanyl and the borders, the illegal immigration. Those are the
Speaker 1: two main things that he is he's promoting these tariffs for. He's,
Speaker 1: you know, shut down the borders or help us with
Speaker 1: border security and quit shipping fentanyl into our country. Declaring
Speaker 1: a national emergency based on that under the International Emergency
Speaker 1: Economic Powers Act. I guess I have to ask out loud,
Speaker 1: not knowing really anything about the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
Speaker 1: is this something that could be subject to legal charger
Speaker 1: illegal action or Congress could step in and take them away?
Speaker 1: I really, I really don't know that. I'll stay out loud.
Speaker 4: Brian, Yeah, I know, And I think that there's a
Speaker 4: lot of us who aren't clear exactly on what the
Speaker 4: what the legal implifications are of these decisions, because sometimes
Speaker 4: we hear that decision was made and executive order was issued,
Speaker 4: and somebody else will say, wait a minute, that's completely illegal.
Speaker 4: In some cases they've been declared unconstitutional, but nobody has
Speaker 4: stepped up and actually acted on any of those perceptions
Speaker 4: of these executive orders. So this is a president we've
Speaker 4: seen before. Obviously, we know he's willing to push the envelope.
Speaker 4: He certainly is this time around with kind of nothing
Speaker 4: to lose as a basically a lame duck under current
Speaker 4: rules because he can't run for election again. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what we've been seeing. And everything has come fast
Speaker 4: and furious since inauguration.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's going to be across the board. I
Speaker 1: don't know how anybody can say that this will not
Speaker 1: have an impact on prices. I mean, you're raising you're
Speaker 1: putting tariffs on these goods. I think necessarily the price
Speaker 1: is going to be passed along to the consumer. And
Speaker 1: it's a huge swath of goods. I got a kick
Speaker 1: out of some of the ones that the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal identified, like cherry tomatoes, Tanka trucks. They mentioned this
Speaker 1: specifically because they're all in China, but they also pointed
Speaker 1: out that more than eighty percent of toys sold in
Speaker 1: the United States are made in China. Maple syrup, you know,
Speaker 1: tap your own maple trees in the backyard like we did,
Speaker 1: I guess, tequila, avocados, smartphones from China subject to a
Speaker 1: ten percent increase in tariffin in the last one. I
Speaker 1: really got to kick out of sledge hammers made in China.
Speaker 1: Sledge hammers are already subject to a twenty five percent import tax,
Speaker 1: although we do have some sledge hammer manufacturers here in
Speaker 1: the United States. But it goes way beyond those ones
Speaker 1: that were identified, it does.
Speaker 4: Now, hold on one second while I check sledge hammer futures.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 4: But I think know that that's that is a fascinating list.
Speaker 4: And you and I could go find another article right
Speaker 4: now that'll have twenty seven other products that you didn't
Speaker 4: just mention. So I think that's that. This this is
Speaker 4: what what you know, what we've been calling it. You know,
Speaker 4: over the weekend you're starting to hear the words trade war.
Speaker 4: Other countries are now calling it a trade war. So this,
Speaker 4: this is very much so the present, delivering on the
Speaker 4: the promises that he made. Now, one thing he didn't
Speaker 4: seem to have mentioned until now is that, oh, by
Speaker 4: the way, this is going to cost us. As you
Speaker 4: were hinting, prices are going to go up. There's no
Speaker 4: way to avoid that. Over the weekend he said, yeah,
Speaker 4: price must be paid, but the end result will be
Speaker 4: all worth it. But there could be some pain in
Speaker 4: the near future here so he didn't really mention that
Speaker 4: during the campaign. That's obviously not something you expect to
Speaker 4: gain any votes by really shining a light on. But
Speaker 4: there is no way to slap tariffs on companies who
Speaker 4: are looking to make a profit and force those companies
Speaker 4: to only take it out of their profits. They're going
Speaker 4: to raise prices. This is the United States of profit
Speaker 4: margin companies who are having to deal with these costs.
Speaker 4: And it might might it might be a company that
Speaker 4: you perceive is an American company, but they may be
Speaker 4: bringing parts in from to build. Cars are a great example.
Speaker 4: For one, part inside of a car may literally go
Speaker 4: back across the border of Canada and or Mexico several
Speaker 4: times before it lands in its final car. So it
Speaker 4: may be an American brand, you may beying it from
Speaker 4: what you feel in American dealership, but the parts in
Speaker 4: it could be coming from multiple countries that will all
Speaker 4: add up and wind up on that windowsticker.
Speaker 1: Well, and to some effect, the threat of tariffs has
Speaker 1: kind of worked, I know in terms of repatriating some
Speaker 1: of the illegal immigrants. Some certain countries have said, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll take them back under threat of Donald Trump retaliating
Speaker 1: against him. And is that really the impact he's looking for?
Speaker 1: And again going back to the fact sheet, this is
Speaker 1: purely based upon FENTONYL and illegal immigration. Now, we, I think,
Speaker 1: to a large degree, can control the border because obviously
Speaker 1: they're cracking down on it already. We did have a
Speaker 1: more secure border in prior administrations, but more resources went
Speaker 1: down there for walls and security and warm bodies in
Speaker 1: the form of ice agents. I think you could curtail
Speaker 1: one of the two identified problems to a large extent.
Speaker 1: Now Canada represents a more sizable challenge considering that is
Speaker 1: pretty much a why open border, and it is a
Speaker 1: big one. But I guess I'm just wondering what resources
Speaker 1: the Mexican government could even bring to bear since their
Speaker 1: country is largely controlled by and feel free to disagree,
Speaker 1: but it's been my conclusion over the years that the
Speaker 1: CAR tells they have a substantial amount of power in Mexico,
Speaker 1: and here's Trump trying to take away one of their
Speaker 1: primary sources of income, which is drugs and varying illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants to the southern border.
Speaker 4: Right, And I think you raise a great point in
Speaker 4: terms of there's there is a lot of enforcements or
Speaker 4: at least much more on the south side than there
Speaker 4: is on north side. So I think when when when
Speaker 4: we when we uh lay a levy energy tarists, for example,
Speaker 4: against Canada, and not a lot of people know this.
Speaker 4: I think it's becoming a more popular news item where
Speaker 4: people are going, huh, I didn't know that Canada is
Speaker 4: the largest of among the countries the United States brings
Speaker 4: in oil from Canada is the largest one, so that
Speaker 4: that's so obviously we were trying to poke them in
Speaker 4: the eye. Of course, that's maybe maybe there's better ways
Speaker 4: to handle up. That's effectively what we're doing to get
Speaker 4: their attention on the fentanyl issue. But I think also
Speaker 4: what's underlying this. To me, this is the first shot
Speaker 4: across the bow of we want to be producing much more.
Speaker 4: We want to import less and produce more domestically. So
Speaker 4: first off, let's just make domestic oil more expensive. However
Speaker 4: we can do it, and we'll call it fentanyl, and
Speaker 4: we'll call it illegal immigration or whatever. But let's just
Speaker 4: slap oil tariffs on Canada. That will force us to say, hey,
Speaker 4: imported oil is more expensive. It's going to drive the
Speaker 4: price up. That will get the attention of the domestic
Speaker 4: drillers and the drill baby drill thing. Right now, domestic
Speaker 4: oil companies don't really want to drill so much. They're
Speaker 4: not super excited about it because oil prices are not
Speaker 4: that high. If we drive it up, this is Trump's thinking.
Speaker 4: I believe if we drive that price up, they'll be
Speaker 4: more attracted to go drill. And take into account the
Speaker 4: executive orders he has put out there over the past
Speaker 4: few weeks to make drilling easier. Right now, the profit
Speaker 4: isn't there for them, but based on oil futures from
Speaker 4: last night that bounced about two percent to the upside,
Speaker 4: it looks like it's going to go more attractive for him.
Speaker 1: Well, and doesn't this sort of fly in the face
Speaker 1: of you know, rebuilding or going back to build the
Speaker 1: Keystone Xole pipeline because that brings oil from Canada into
Speaker 1: the United States right correct?
Speaker 4: And now I haven't heard him mention that in a
Speaker 4: very very long I know, I know, so I think
Speaker 4: I don't think that's a major priority for him. It
Speaker 4: was a hot point because I think that was a
Speaker 4: poke in the eye to the to the liberal side
Speaker 4: that wanted that shut down because of it for environmental reasons.
Speaker 4: And so forth. But that was never really his objective.
Speaker 4: I think his objective is for more domestic oil. So
Speaker 4: that's why we haven't heard the word keystone all through this.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard that since the since the election.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I get in terms of and I understand
Speaker 1: maybe the motivating force behind increasing the price of Canadian
Speaker 1: oil in the United States is exactly what you said.
Speaker 1: But those projects don't come online very quickly. I mean,
Speaker 1: it takes a while to ramp up a drilling project,
Speaker 1: doesn't it exactly.
Speaker 4: And that's why that's the pain he's talking about. He
Speaker 4: can't talk about pain when he's trying to win an election.
Speaker 4: Candidate Trump doesn't have to talk about that. President Trump
Speaker 4: has to give us a heads up that hey, this
Speaker 4: might hurt for a little while, so that six months later,
Speaker 4: when a little while is still happening, because we haven't
Speaker 4: started much of this domestic production yet, he can say
Speaker 4: I told you about this way back in February. It
Speaker 4: was going to hurt. We got to pay the price, good, bad,
Speaker 4: and different. That's the reality that we're curry in currently.
Speaker 1: In And going back to my question about you know,
Speaker 1: legal challenges, I mean, we currently have a trade agreements
Speaker 1: or trade agreements in place with Canada and Mexico. Didn't
Speaker 1: Trump negotiate that when he was president the first time around. Sure,
Speaker 1: there's a lot.
Speaker 4: Of things he did when he was president the first
Speaker 4: time around that don't seem to hold any bearing. Now,
Speaker 4: look at all the people he appointed that now he's firing.
Speaker 4: A lot of the firings you're hearing are his own
Speaker 4: people from six eight years ago. So I don't know
Speaker 4: that history necessarily means much of anything. It's just the
Speaker 4: reality of you know, his his window he looks at
Speaker 4: is what do I see right now? What do I
Speaker 4: need to do about it?
Speaker 1: The history is irrelevant, it sure is. And going back
Speaker 1: to the whole idea about drugs, you know, drugs have
Speaker 1: been coming into this country since before I was born.
Speaker 1: It's the demand that is the problem. I mean, if
Speaker 1: we weren't a nation of a bunch of addicts and
Speaker 1: cravers of drugs, then this wouldn't even be an issue.
Speaker 1: I know that's a simple statement to make, but Lord Almighty,
Speaker 1: it's just I don't get it. That just seems to
Speaker 1: be should be another way to skin a cat, if
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Rather than going down this road,
Speaker 1: but here we find ourselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I step back and look at the biggest
Speaker 4: of big pictures, you know, I always use the term
Speaker 4: the United States a profit margin, and we've seen that
Speaker 4: is our number one focus, and it always has been
Speaker 4: how much more money can we make? And the wider
Speaker 4: we spread that the profit margin range, the more people
Speaker 4: get hurt on the bottom end of it. If you're
Speaker 4: born in the top two thirds of wealth in this country,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be okay. But if you're in the bottom third,
Speaker 4: you're gonna struggle. And we tend to, unfortunately take advantage
Speaker 4: of that group of people. And I think that has
Speaker 4: a lot to do with the addiction issues that we've seen.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to fix it. And if you
Speaker 4: and I could push a button right now this morning,
Speaker 4: we do it. But right now, profit margin Trump's everything.
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Speaker 1: thing with all our financials Brian James, all Right, is
Speaker 1: the R word going to come up in our conversation today?
Speaker 1: Brian James A Federal Reserve holding interest rate to four
Speaker 1: to a quarter to four and a half percent, plus
Speaker 1: we have a new gdpeak final quarter review figure. So
Speaker 1: what's this all mean.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say the R word. I don't
Speaker 4: want to jinx anything, so fair enough, but we would
Speaker 4: not not looking so bad at the moment we do.
Speaker 4: We do seem to be slowing down. So so fourth
Speaker 4: quarter GDP came in at two point three percent. That's
Speaker 4: a deceleration from last quarter, which is three point one percent.
Speaker 4: These are all annualized numbers. So we do is we
Speaker 4: get the number for a three month period, we multiply
Speaker 4: it by four, and we declare that to be what
Speaker 4: the what we think the economy would do over a year.
Speaker 4: So we're falling a little bit short of the economists
Speaker 4: want two point tanted two point six percent, So we
Speaker 4: fell a little bit short of that. Things seem to be.
Speaker 4: I do think some of that could be accounted for
Speaker 4: by the idea that, especially toward the end of the quarter,
Speaker 4: companies may have been backing off a bit on investments
Speaker 4: that they were going to make, waiting for this inauguration
Speaker 4: to occur and to see what's coming here in the
Speaker 4: first quarter. In darn it all, we sure are seeing
Speaker 4: it here in the short run. So Federal Reserve as
Speaker 4: for their position, they held the interest rates, and we
Speaker 4: want to keep an interest rates in the target right
Speaker 4: now four and a quarter four and a half percent.
Speaker 4: This wasn't a big surprise. We kind of expected this
Speaker 4: pause really for the same reason Jerome Powell has said
Speaker 4: he wants to see how the economy is going to
Speaker 4: respond to the different changes coming out of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Like tariffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, such as the things we've been talking about.
Speaker 1: Almore, Well, let's get that and let's just se see
Speaker 1: we can't tie those two together. If as you and
Speaker 1: I kind of expected, and I think logical thinking people
Speaker 1: will expect the same thing. Prices is going to go
Speaker 1: up at least for quite a few goods and services.
Speaker 1: What will that be, by way, what would the Fed's
Speaker 1: response to that price increase in terms of interest rate?
Speaker 4: Well, the Fed is going to wait to see inflation.
Speaker 4: I mean that that's their goal is to control inflation.
Speaker 4: Inflation isn't that bad right now? Certainly not where we
Speaker 4: were a few summers ago. At nine percent, It's slightly
Speaker 4: higher than what we've wanted it to be. Core Core
Speaker 4: PCE came in at two point eight percent, which was
Speaker 4: right around the expectations, but a lot higher than what
Speaker 4: that committee shoots for at two percent. Jobless claims were okay,
Speaker 4: and new home sales are a little better than anticipated.
Speaker 4: So we're not seeing the kind of things yet that
Speaker 4: the Fed would indicate or are going to be inflationary,
Speaker 4: and therefore we need to react at this point. Though
Speaker 4: the market bonds are trading as though we're going to
Speaker 4: see a cut in June. That is a very very
Speaker 4: short term here's what's happening right now type of an update.
Speaker 4: Let's keep an eye on out of the next few
Speaker 4: weeks and see if that holds true.
Speaker 1: And if it does, about it to be more like
Speaker 1: a quarter point, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, We're not in a situation where we've got raging
Speaker 4: inflation and raging deflation. Nothing's raging, So I would anticipate
Speaker 4: more tapping of the brakes, tapping of the gas pedal
Speaker 4: if we do anything at all in the short run,
Speaker 4: but much more likely a very much wait and see approach.
Speaker 4: Jerome Powell is not even reacting to how he's being
Speaker 4: disparaged by the president who actually appointed him in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: So Donald Trump would like to see lower rates sooner
Speaker 4: rather than later, but he does not appear to be
Speaker 4: ready to get rid of Jerome Powell to the extent
Speaker 4: that he could at at this point.
Speaker 1: Isn't it kind of a weird faw and ignoring whether
Speaker 1: you're a foe or against Donald Trump's decision to tariff
Speaker 1: that we expect it's going to increase the prices prices, Well,
Speaker 1: that's an inflationary thing done because tariff's have been put
Speaker 1: in place, and the Federal reserves job is to manage
Speaker 1: inflations through its interest rates, so that's a completely separate function.
Speaker 1: It's like there's a strange connect slash disconnect that's going
Speaker 1: on here between one side and the other.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the good news for Trump is that
Speaker 4: people are sensitive to inflation. We just had that nine percent,
Speaker 4: as I mentioned, and people still talk about that as
Speaker 4: if it's still here. Not the case anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm still at the grocery store. But that's I mean
Speaker 1: that has there's a lot of layers in the grocery
Speaker 1: store prices.
Speaker 4: I understand that absolutely absolutely, But what I think that
Speaker 4: gives him is some headroom to say, well, yeah, prices
Speaker 4: have gone up here. You know this hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 4: but I could see it playing out this way. After
Speaker 4: we do see some inflation resulting directly from the tariffs
Speaker 4: in the coming months, he could easily say, Yep, this
Speaker 4: is the price we have to pay that I told
Speaker 4: you about back in February. But at least it's not
Speaker 4: nine percent like it was under the Biden administration. That's
Speaker 4: how that's going to be positioned. So I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: Trump looks at this as though he's got some headroom
Speaker 4: to work with.
Speaker 1: Well, let's keep our popcorn out. We'll find out together.
Speaker 1: Brian James pause and bring us I'm to talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. And one more thing we'll be
Speaker 1: talking about, and I just I just just so badly
Speaker 1: for young people these days, home affordability, American dream kind
Speaker 1: of out of their reach at this point. Can anything
Speaker 1: change this current landscape? It'say twenty five fifty five cars
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Speaker 1: Monday Any money with Brian James. I'm all worth financial.
Speaker 1: Appreciate being loaned out every Monday for a few segs,
Speaker 1: but talk about money matters and get yourself a certified
Speaker 1: financial plan or fee based one, so they have a
Speaker 1: fiduciary obligation to you and you can plan for your retirement.
Speaker 1: And I guess, in addition to lack of home affordability,
Speaker 1: probably young people can't afford to put money away for
Speaker 1: the retirement either. Brian, this is a sad reality settling
Speaker 1: in here, lack of affordable housing and the American dream elusive,
Speaker 1: a lot of kids still living at home with their parents,
Speaker 1: and I understand that it's just an Is there any
Speaker 1: end in sight on this and what would it take
Speaker 1: to change this landscape?
Speaker 4: Well, they say that you only dream during rem sleep,
Speaker 4: and I don't think Americans are getting as much rem
Speaker 4: sleep as we used to, So I'm not sure that
Speaker 4: the implications of the American dream are all that wonderful
Speaker 4: right now. It is right, You're right, it's very tough
Speaker 4: out there. Anybody who's got young, young adults trying to
Speaker 4: launch themselves into the world and be independent. It's a
Speaker 4: challenge even if they can afford the house payment that
Speaker 4: almost always comes direct in the face of oh yeah,
Speaker 4: by the way, don't forget you're gonna have to fund
Speaker 4: your own retirements because social Security is probably not going
Speaker 4: to look much like it does right now. So don't
Speaker 4: forget that mortgage payment and retirement all by the way,
Speaker 4: got by lunch too, So it's a tough challenge right now.
Speaker 1: And energy bills and repair cost. You know, the furnace
Speaker 1: is going to go out at some point, the roof
Speaker 1: is going to have to be replaced at some point.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, I've owned a homes since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety and I know exactly how much it can cost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the problem is not too much avocado
Speaker 4: toast either. That's the fund Sully headliner sledgehammers exactly. Young
Speaker 4: people can't afford sledghammers. However, will they make it now
Speaker 4: that these are real issues? And I don't mean to
Speaker 4: make light of them.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: Since since nineteen seventy nine, middle wage workers have gone up,
Speaker 4: have seen their wages increase only about sixteen point eight percent.
Speaker 4: That's an annualized growth rate of zero point four percent
Speaker 4: per year. Now, if you look at home prices, one
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars home in the late seventies would be
Speaker 4: something like three quarters of a million eight hundred thousand
Speaker 4: dollars right now. So wages have simply not come up
Speaker 4: with homes. Homes stopped being the American dream. They became
Speaker 4: an investment, just like anything else, a speculative, commoditized investment,
Speaker 4: sometime in the past, well really slowly over the past
Speaker 4: several decades. So the economy as a whole doesn't really
Speaker 4: care that it costs young people an awful lot more
Speaker 4: as a percentage of their paycheck to own a home.
Speaker 4: All we really care about is, hey, that's an investment
Speaker 4: I can throw money at and it will grow, and
Speaker 4: I don't really have to worry about the side impacts
Speaker 4: on other people because I'll just blame them on spending
Speaker 4: too much on avocado toast. Well that's our philosophy right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there was a time, and I know there
Speaker 1: always have been big houses being built, But I remember
Speaker 1: my grandpa marsh my mom's dad, and grandma. They had
Speaker 1: a little house on Cooper Drive in Lexington, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how many square feet it was, but it
Speaker 1: was not a very large home. Three boys, she had
Speaker 1: three brothers. They all swept in one room in the roofline.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 1: It was a walk up, but it was one big room,
Speaker 1: three beds in it. You know, nobody had their own bedroom.
Speaker 1: My mom had a separate one downstairs, but very modest.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I never remember my grandfather being
Speaker 1: upset or unhappy. He always had a you know, contented
Speaker 1: view of life. And you know, just work for IBM,
Speaker 1: and I just I think our expectations on what we're
Speaker 1: supposed to have by way of house has changed dramatically,
Speaker 1: and they just they start churning out these big houses,
Speaker 1: these mega mansions, and even the smaller homes are much
Speaker 1: much much bigger than they used to be, and of
Speaker 1: course that's going to directly impact affordability. You see some
Speaker 1: sort of perhaps sea change in how we perceive housing,
Speaker 1: like the smaller houses being becoming more popular. Obviously they're
Speaker 1: cheaper to build.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I absolutely do. Smaller houses are becoming more popular.
Speaker 4: Not because people go, hey, I want to live in
Speaker 4: a smaller house. People go, hey, I can't afford a
Speaker 4: bigger houses. This is the best I can do. And
Speaker 4: I think that drives a lot of conflict really between
Speaker 4: the generations. I don't ever remember I'm fifty years old,
Speaker 4: so I've been around a couple of blocks. I don't
Speaker 4: ever remember there being conflict between generations like there is now.
Speaker 4: I think what you're referring to, though, is that some generation,
Speaker 4: at some point is going to have to be the
Speaker 4: one to capitulate and say, you know what, we simply
Speaker 4: will not have it as good as our forebears did.
Speaker 4: We're going to have to take the hit before we
Speaker 4: get to move forward. And if I'm fortunate not to
Speaker 4: be in that situation, and I'm trying to guide my
Speaker 4: kids away from getting too hung up on that because
Speaker 4: the world is just plain changing, but I can see
Speaker 4: where I would be extremely frustrated and bitter if I
Speaker 4: was the one told you know what, it's just not
Speaker 4: going to be as good as what you grew up watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or maybe the perception of what equals good. Going
Speaker 1: back to the cost of maintaining and up keeping a home,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to furnish it, you got to
Speaker 1: clean it, and you know, the smaller you have, smaller space,
Speaker 1: you have to deal with, the less there is of that.
Speaker 1: So comparatively speaking, the cost of voting a smaller home
Speaker 1: is less than a big home, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: there's some pus sides to it all.
Speaker 4: There absolutely are but I think that doesn't really settle
Speaker 4: in until somebody is truly in that situation. But them
Speaker 4: putting themselves and I'm guess I'm picturing for a young
Speaker 4: family that first trip around with the real estate agent
Speaker 4: looking at what they can afford versus what they had
Speaker 4: in their heads before they got in the car that morning. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that is a cold water shock.
Speaker 1: It is. And my wife regularly points back to the
Speaker 1: eighties with lifestyles of the rich and famous, which she
Speaker 1: thinks was a turning point and what really between what
Speaker 1: truly really matters and what people just get envious of
Speaker 1: and look to and believe that they are not going
Speaker 1: to be happy unless they have what the Joneses have
Speaker 1: down the street, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's so much easier to see what the
Speaker 4: Joneses have nowadays, and this is harder. Obviously, we've got
Speaker 4: social media, so you can't get away from it even
Speaker 4: if you want to, and you're trying to do the
Speaker 4: same thing that This is how we drive profit profit
Speaker 4: in the United States of profit margin. Get people excited
Speaker 4: about something, whether they can afford it or not, and
Speaker 4: take advantage of it, of the rush when it happens.
Speaker 1: And here's one other thing I've observed over the years,
Speaker 1: you know, this the idea that we're all going to
Speaker 1: live in a house and have our own stuff and
Speaker 1: things like that. If everybody in China, and I know
Speaker 1: they have a housing issue in China of a different type,
Speaker 1: but if every one of the one point two or
Speaker 1: four billion people in China had felt that they had
Speaker 1: to build a three thousand and four thousand, five thousand
Speaker 1: square foot house, I think that would cause a problem
Speaker 1: in terms of like natural resources and the ability to
Speaker 1: even accomplish that. Yeah, I've thought of that a lot
Speaker 1: recently too, as we you know, because the big pushback
Speaker 1: here can be against suburban sprawl, because you know, every
Speaker 1: year there's a new call to sat going up in
Speaker 1: a cornfield somewhere.
Speaker 4: That's especially happening around here, and there are people who
Speaker 4: object to that and say we shouldn't be doing that,
Speaker 4: We should be conserving, conserving, And I'm always thinking, wherever
Speaker 4: that person lives, do you do you want to live
Speaker 4: in a skyscraper with five thousand other families? You should
Speaker 4: we all stay inside some little pasture somewhere. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: I think there's logic to both sides. Yeah, but I
Speaker 4: don't think the extremes are ever going to play a
Speaker 4: role here.
Speaker 1: Complicated it is, and we can only hope that at
Speaker 1: least the home interest rates go down at least to
Speaker 1: provide some measure of affordability for you young people. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Brian. Always a distinct pleasure having you on
Speaker 1: the program. I'll look forward to next Monday, another edition
Speaker 1: of Monday Monday, and you best to you and everybody
Speaker 1: at all Worth.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, stay warm out there in fake spring. We'll
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Speaker 1: Todd Sledge and the Cincinntiva is returning for our KRC
Speaker 1: Care section to talk about some what are described as
Speaker 1: significant changes coming to the VA facility. Welcome back, Todd Sledge.
Speaker 1: It's always great having you on the show. Yeah, Bran,
Speaker 1: it's always great to talk with you.
Speaker 18: And as you said, share this, share the motivation to
Speaker 18: make sure our veterans are connected with what they need
Speaker 18: to know here in Cincinnati. Yes, indeed, So what is
Speaker 18: coming to the VA this year, Well, many of our
Speaker 18: veterans that are listening know that we've we've been under
Speaker 18: a lot of construction for a very long period of time,
Speaker 18: and so there are four significant plan completed projects for
Speaker 18: twenty twenty five, and I just wanted to point those out, Brian,
Speaker 18: because two of them are really going to be phenomenal
Speaker 18: for us, and they involve two of our community based
Speaker 18: out patient clinics where we are expanding, we continue to expand,
Speaker 18: So those veterans out in Claremont County, the Eastgate area,
Speaker 18: Milford and Mount Orb and Georgetown and the East side
Speaker 18: of Cincinnati will be moving to a new new location
Speaker 18: this fall.
Speaker 1: It's over there.
Speaker 18: I call it the TQL land over there in East
Speaker 18: Cape where they've kind of taken over over there by
Speaker 18: the TQL location. We're expanding our new clinic in the fall.
Speaker 18: And what's significant about that move. We're also doing the
Speaker 18: same thing with our Hamilton clinic out in Butler County,
Speaker 18: and both of these facilities are doubling in size, so
Speaker 18: both of them are going from Yeah, so both of
Speaker 18: them are going from approximately like Claremont for example, they're
Speaker 18: going from a sixteen thousand square foot facility to a
Speaker 18: twenty six thousand square foot facility. And then Hamilton the
Speaker 18: same way. So both of these facilities brand new, first floor,
Speaker 18: state of the art, plenty of parking, great expansion of it.
Speaker 1: And if I think of our veterans, want.
Speaker 18: To take a take a trip to see what the
Speaker 18: new clinics will look like in Hamilton and Eastgate. We
Speaker 18: opened up a very similar clinic like this in Dearborn
Speaker 18: over there in Larnsburg, Indiana, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 4: Brian.
Speaker 1: So with the larger expanded facilities, what comes along with
Speaker 1: that it just more space, more doctors, more offices, or
Speaker 1: the additional services are going to be offered for the veterans.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's well, the some of the services, well, we'll
Speaker 18: expand a little bit more because of the physical size
Speaker 18: of these things. But what it does is it is
Speaker 18: more space and the design of it is very interesting.
Speaker 18: So if you think about these two facilities being like
Speaker 18: a just a normal shoebox size, the providers do all
Speaker 18: their work in the middle of the building and on
Speaker 18: the between the two sides the right and left, there
Speaker 18: are doors that access from like this inner inner circle
Speaker 18: or inner working hub, and the provider goes from room
Speaker 18: to room instead of the patient or the veteran going
Speaker 18: room room to room for different specialties, so it's a.
Speaker 1: Different flow operation.
Speaker 18: Some of the things like our physical therapy and occupational
Speaker 18: therapy sections will definitely expand and make things better for us,
Speaker 18: as well as more office space for some some different
Speaker 18: very different specialties that happen, like mental health and the
Speaker 18: dietary and things.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, in addition to the expanded size of those locations,
Speaker 1: anything else coming to the vice facilities by way of
Speaker 1: improvements to share.
Speaker 18: Yeah, the main hospital, the other two I wanted to
Speaker 18: mention where primary care. Our primary care section has been
Speaker 18: under construction that's located right off the first floor. That'll
Speaker 18: open up again here in twenty twenty five, which again
Speaker 18: is just making it more space, easier for veterans to navigate,
Speaker 18: and just a very much of an update. When we
Speaker 18: put that expansion on in the early nineties. Obviously we've
Speaker 18: outgrown it. And then every veteran knows who comes to
Speaker 18: the facility come through this big, large revolving door we have.
Speaker 18: Our lobby's been under renovation and it's starting to show
Speaker 18: glimpses of what that's going to look like. And we're
Speaker 18: very excited about how that's going to look where things
Speaker 18: are just more serviceable, it's not chopped up and more inviting,
Speaker 18: with a really really nice main lobby, piece of piece
Speaker 18: of marble that's in the middle of that's going to
Speaker 18: be very attractive.
Speaker 1: Well great, well, and I know the number of veterans
Speaker 1: who now signed up for vacare has increased, and that's
Speaker 1: the goal over the VA's to get those veterans to
Speaker 1: take advantage of their VA benefits, which is literally healthcare.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Absolutely, And so our fiscal year runs very differently than
Speaker 18: a normal calendar season. We ended our twenty twenty four
Speaker 18: fiscal calendar year September thirtieth of twenty twenty four. And
Speaker 18: to your point, Brian was the most number of veterans
Speaker 18: we've seen in one given year. And so I think
Speaker 18: veterans are starting to understand about how and through your
Speaker 18: help and the different stuff that we do, about how
Speaker 18: to take advantage of these benefits and how to make
Speaker 18: a VA healthcare part of their healthcare portfolio. And I
Speaker 18: think some of the myths and misconceptions about who's eligible
Speaker 18: for VA healthcare is really coming to place. So we're
Speaker 18: really excited about our efforts and how we're reaching folks,
Speaker 18: and we're looking to expand that as well. And I've
Speaker 18: always said, what not a better place to be served
Speaker 18: every day by a staff who know exactly what veterans
Speaker 18: are looking for and the different things that they deal with.
Speaker 18: And it's so Treely he absolutely the hearing loss and
Speaker 18: the prosthetics and the the eye here, and but particularly
Speaker 18: the toxic exposure stuff, which we're really high on here
Speaker 18: over the past two years. Well, let's pause, we'll bring
Speaker 18: Todd back talk about enrolling and what types of healthcare
Speaker 18: services are there and how veterans can apply and all
Speaker 18: these good fun facts more with todd Sledgem the Cincinniva.
Speaker 18: After these brief.
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Speaker 1: Hey forty nine people have rc DE talk station Happy
Speaker 1: Monday Deep Dive with Daniel Davis and the bright Part
Speaker 1: inside Scoop tomorrow in the morning Show among other topics,
Speaker 1: and in the meantime Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTI of
Speaker 1: the A. All right, you let everybody know about the
Speaker 1: improvements coming to the various facilities making it easier to navigate,
Speaker 1: expanded room for the veterans to get their healthcare there,
Speaker 1: and let us pivot over to getting even more of
Speaker 1: the veterans enrolled in the VA health system. How can
Speaker 1: enrolling in the VA health services improve a veterans over
Speaker 1: all health and well being?
Speaker 18: Todd Well, Brian, you know, one of the things I
Speaker 18: like to focus on with this is that there are
Speaker 18: so many, so many different things that we can do
Speaker 18: that's more financially efficient, easier for veterans to do, and
Speaker 18: a lot of less wet, a lot of less way times.
Speaker 18: As you're probably well aware, there's a lot of different
Speaker 18: specialty type services in the community that are very hard
Speaker 18: to get into the dietary dermatology sometimes you know, seeing
Speaker 18: an audiologist, some different folks and these are things that
Speaker 18: we by mandate, we have to get you a scheduled
Speaker 18: appointment within thirty days to be seen or find some
Speaker 18: other arrangements for you to be seen. So that's you know,
Speaker 18: that's one of the overall health and well being. But
Speaker 18: one of the main things is is our preventative medicine model,
Speaker 18: where you know, we can do things with different specialty
Speaker 18: tests and prevention measures of things that the private sector
Speaker 18: really can't offer or they're going to run through your insurance.
Speaker 18: So I always encourage people to do that. And you
Speaker 18: know this when it comes to again, I'm going to
Speaker 18: repeat myself when it comes to the eyeglasses and hearing aids. Yeah,
Speaker 18: cost efficient measure of that, but more particularly, you know,
Speaker 18: and I think of services like mental health helping that
Speaker 18: you know, with with with all the mental health services
Speaker 18: that we have, our home care programs that we have
Speaker 18: in house care of things, and just you know, an
Speaker 18: overall really old family medicine style. You know, you know,
Speaker 18: your provider's my name, you know your nurse is by name,
Speaker 18: which is a very different relationship when it comes to
Speaker 18: I think people going to the doctor, especially stubborn people
Speaker 18: that avoid the doctor, like myself, oh.
Speaker 1: So much, Like I have my own primary care physician
Speaker 1: who I've been going to for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: It's the same type of thing going on with the VA.
Speaker 1: You're just not assigned a primary care physician randomly when
Speaker 1: you go in. You get to see the same doctor
Speaker 1: every time. Oh yeah, we have what's called we have
Speaker 1: what's called PAC teams, Brian. They're patient aligned care teams,
Speaker 1: so you're always seeing the same primary care physician as
Speaker 1: well as that same team, so every time when you
Speaker 1: walk in. So for example, the clinics that I mentioned
Speaker 1: that are expanding, they all have their same assigned person
Speaker 1: that walks in and not nine out of ten times.
Speaker 18: I mean, they know these people by their first name,
Speaker 18: they know their pet's name, they know whether the grandkids
Speaker 18: go to school. So it's a very relationship style relationship
Speaker 18: with us.
Speaker 1: That's good. I think, you know, my perception is on
Speaker 1: some level and I haven't experienced THEA services that didn't serve,
Speaker 1: but that it might be a more sterile environment less
Speaker 1: you know of that sort of familial relationship. So you've
Speaker 1: satisfy my curiosity on that. That's a wonderful thing to hear.
Speaker 1: So how DoD veterans apply for the VA healthcare benefits
Speaker 1: or any eligibility requirements for veterans to rule in VA
Speaker 1: healthcare services.
Speaker 18: Yeah, so the minimum requirements for VA healthcare services twenty
Speaker 18: four consecutive months. That's the minimum requirement. That's you know,
Speaker 18: that's just your normal twenty four consecutive months of service
Speaker 18: starting from your basic training on forward. And there are
Speaker 18: some other specialty factors for guard and reserve personnel that
Speaker 18: served on some executive orders. But there's many, many, many
Speaker 18: resources that people could take advantage and find out what
Speaker 18: they're eligible for. And first it starts with us by
Speaker 18: calling five one three four seven five sixty four ninety nine.
Speaker 18: That's a direct dial number two or Eligibility office. Anybody
Speaker 18: can call that and find out what their veteran Level
Speaker 18: one would be entitled to and how to enroll in
Speaker 18: doing that. So you know, again that's five one three
Speaker 18: four seven, five sixty four nine nine.
Speaker 8: That's directly to us.
Speaker 18: Now, you also, veterans can also take advantage of their
Speaker 18: county Veteran Service Commissions, which we have, you know, many
Speaker 18: of those here right here in the tri States. So
Speaker 18: in Claremont County there's the Veteran Service Commission, there's the
Speaker 18: Butler County Veteran Service Commission at Hamilton County.
Speaker 8: They can also help.
Speaker 18: You get enrolled by starting the paperwork for you or
Speaker 18: telling you exactly or tolling veterans what to do exactly
Speaker 18: to get enrolled and apply with us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, veterans. I talk to those guys all
Speaker 1: the time, the Claimont County, butter and Hamilton County Veteran Service,
Speaker 1: whichever one you're trying to, they strongly encourage you to
Speaker 1: have them help you because, as I've had it explained
Speaker 1: to me, going to the government via website and navigating
Speaker 1: that can be a bit of a challenge and confusing.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Absolutely, you know, any any big robust organization that has,
Speaker 18: you know, an online system is always going to have
Speaker 18: its complexities. And I'm still very old school, you know,
Speaker 18: I pick up the phone face to face, you know.
Speaker 18: I know we're in a world of teams meetings and
Speaker 18: zoom meetings, but I'm still an old school guy to
Speaker 18: when it want to be face to face, and I
Speaker 18: encourage people to do that because VA healthcare eligibility is
Speaker 18: very complex. It's not just cutter drive whether you know.
Speaker 18: You know, it's not about that you get hurt in
Speaker 18: active duty. It's there's more things to it that makes
Speaker 18: it complex, and we want to make sure we have
Speaker 18: all those boxes checked and the people that know eligibility
Speaker 18: you know how to navigate the series of questions based
Speaker 18: upon a veteran's responses or a spouse's responses to Thanks.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Todd, Sledge and Snavia get in touch with
Speaker 1: the Enrollment Office direct five one three four seven five
Speaker 1: sixty four ninety nine. And don't overlook the benefit to
Speaker 1: your Veteran Service commissions in your county because they can
Speaker 1: be very very helpful and also have additional resources, including
Speaker 1: some of them that'll transport you to the VA facility,
Speaker 1: which is a nice extra service that may be available
Speaker 1: for you. Todd as always thank you for what you're
Speaker 1: doing for the American veteran each and every day. I
Speaker 1: always enjoy our conversations and I really do enjoy spreading
Speaker 1: the word about what is available at the VA for them.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Absolutely, Brian.
Speaker 18: We appreciate your kind words all the time and our
Speaker 18: support and supporting us and what we're doing.
Speaker 8: And as I always say, you know, if we're not.
Speaker 18: Doing something that's the way that the veteran sees, please
Speaker 18: reach out to us, talk to patient advocates to it,
Speaker 18: don't put it in your pocket. No, as my grandfather
Speaker 18: used to tell me, he said, don't put that frustraction
Speaker 18: in your pocket and walk away, because somebody else might
Speaker 18: experience that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you may bring about a transformative change to
Speaker 1: the benefit of the rest of your veteran friend. That's
Speaker 1: that's right. And you're always open to hear' segians and
Speaker 1: comments and even criticism. Todd, thanks again my best to
Speaker 1: everyone at the VA. Keep up the great work, my friend.
Speaker 1: I know we'll talk again real soon. It's eight fifty six.
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