Speaker 2: Seven five.
Speaker 1: I think you have karosebe talk station. It's Friday and
Speaker 1: a woo for Friday generally speaking. Add an extra woohoo
Speaker 1: because you get to talk with Orlando's sons. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Orlando Sons. I really appreciate you coming on the
Speaker 1: program to day to give us an update about what's
Speaker 1: been going on since the election.
Speaker 2: Brian, how are you great to always be on with you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. And how the wife and kids start
Speaker 1: with the most important thing in your life.
Speaker 3: They are fantastic. Look, we are headed into the springtime,
Speaker 3: which hopefully we're clear of the Cincinnati flux of weather.
Speaker 3: But wife and kids are doing great.
Speaker 1: It's since today weather is bipolar. There's no question about it.
Speaker 3: So glad you Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, well and there you go. We can go back
Speaker 1: to the race against Greg Landsman. And one of the
Speaker 1: most disappointing things in the November election for me was
Speaker 1: that Greg Landsman prevailed. I just could not believe that
Speaker 1: you are such a superior person. Your background, your quality
Speaker 1: of your character, your service to our country, your experience.
Speaker 1: I thought you would have brought so much of that seat.
Speaker 2: And there we go.
Speaker 1: We got Greg Landsman, Gang of five landsman in the role,
Speaker 1: and by all accounts he's keeping his head down and
Speaker 1: not really doing anything.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, like we always I think thought throughout
Speaker 3: the race, right, Brian, is that we weren't going against
Speaker 3: necessarily our opponent. We were going against the index, specifically
Speaker 3: in Hamilton County, in the city. So but we put
Speaker 3: it all out in the field. I could not have
Speaker 3: been more proud of the work that the team put
Speaker 3: in and all the volunteers.
Speaker 2: And all the support.
Speaker 3: But we keep up the fight. We keep up the
Speaker 3: fight moving forward.
Speaker 1: Well, and it hasn't taken the window out of your sales,
Speaker 1: I hope are you still considering something down the road
Speaker 1: by way of elected office.
Speaker 3: Well, look, Brian, what I say is this is that
Speaker 3: for the current moment, I'm fully committed to the great
Speaker 3: work that we're doing at the Hamilton County Veteran Service Commission. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what greater honor and mission to help support and serve
Speaker 3: those who have served our country. And in Hamilton County
Speaker 3: with over forty thousand veterans, third largest county in Ohio
Speaker 3: with by veteran population, we're doing good work at the
Speaker 3: present time.
Speaker 2: I'm fully committed to it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that. And what better person to
Speaker 1: be in that role than you, who also probably served
Speaker 1: your country. West Point graduate you were, and you know
Speaker 1: your time in the service, I know is valuable to you,
Speaker 1: and you learned a lot, so you have the knowledge
Speaker 1: and experience for that role because you understand what it
Speaker 1: is to have served your country, which is I think
Speaker 1: it's a necessary element to take that job.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what we're seeing right in our country
Speaker 3: today is just this desperate need for a focus on
Speaker 3: not just supporting those that have served, but for supporting
Speaker 3: those that are currently serving. And so I believe I'm
Speaker 3: just as much in the fight as as anyone else
Speaker 3: that's looking to again, whether it's revitalizing our military or
Speaker 3: just showing that we are a country that supports those
Speaker 3: service men and women that have sacrificed so much. It
Speaker 3: truly is an honor, not just for me, but for
Speaker 3: my wife as well as you know, Brian. She served
Speaker 3: her country proudly, and I think the future is bright
Speaker 3: for our country with the way that our military is
Speaker 3: again being prioritized.
Speaker 1: Well, see another reason you're happy you went to West
Speaker 1: Point because that's where you met her. As I met
Speaker 1: my wife in law school. Right, the best part about
Speaker 1: going to law school is I got her out of
Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, I got a law agree and
Speaker 1: I practice. But you know there are there are priorities, so.
Speaker 3: That and just like just like me, your wife also
Speaker 3: outranks you.
Speaker 2: I know, we have to keep it.
Speaker 1: That waymed to that. Well, see we get okay, you
Speaker 1: and I both know you experience in Hamilton County's gone blue.
Speaker 1: I mean, damn it. We lost the prosecutor's office to
Speaker 1: Connie Pillach, who was out in front of TESLA protesting
Speaker 1: to the DOJE efforts to get rid of the size
Speaker 1: and scope of government. When she promised right after being
Speaker 1: elected she's going to keep politics out of it. I
Speaker 1: guess she forgot that pledge anyway. But no recognizing what's
Speaker 1: going on. And I have seen a lot of polls.
Speaker 1: Trump's popularity story is pretty high, and people are thoroughly
Speaker 1: appalled and upset about what we are learning and how
Speaker 1: and the revelations about where our hard earned taxpayers have
Speaker 1: been spent. And I find it preposterous that the Democrats
Speaker 1: are at their screaming, bloody murder trying to defend programs
Speaker 1: like you know, circumcisions and Mozambique or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have something that's completely out of control. These policies
Speaker 1: and program are indefensible, and I have to imagine a
Speaker 1: lot of the Democrat voters in Hamilton County probably feel
Speaker 1: the same way. It's one of the reasons, you know,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump on his pledges when he was running for
Speaker 1: presidents to do exactly this made a lot of inroads
Speaker 1: into the Black community, the Hispanic community. Obviously, immigration had
Speaker 1: a large thing to do with that because it's impacting
Speaker 1: the black and Hispanic communities also. So do you think
Speaker 1: do you hold out any hope that we could write
Speaker 1: the ship that is Hamilton County right now down the
Speaker 1: road orlanda Well, I'll.
Speaker 3: Say this is that this past election, Brian is it
Speaker 3: was truly a turning point for our country where people
Speaker 3: from all across communities, and you speak of you know,
Speaker 3: just urban communities that have typically voted one way for decades,
Speaker 3: really saw that this was the year where we needed
Speaker 3: to write the ship.
Speaker 2: And specifically when it comes to.
Speaker 3: Overbloated government, the fraud, waste, and abuse that we see
Speaker 3: across the entire federal government. We're sick and tired of it,
Speaker 3: And for those that are quote unquote upset with the
Speaker 3: way that the president of the administration has been operating
Speaker 3: in trying to cut down the fraud, waste, and abuse
Speaker 3: in just his first month in office. This is what
Speaker 3: he ran on to your point, Brian, he ran on
Speaker 3: this campaign for two plus years. Everyone knew that that
Speaker 3: was his mission. He was going to do what no
Speaker 3: other president has done in the modern era, and that
Speaker 3: was actually go in there into the belly of the
Speaker 3: beast and cut whether it's deregulation or cut federal spending.
Speaker 3: I mean the things that we uncovered with the millions
Speaker 3: of dollars that have gone into programs. You mentioned some
Speaker 3: of them, but I mean Sesame Street in Iraq, a
Speaker 3: tune of twenty million dollars. You know, the waste it's created,
Speaker 3: this federal government that people were sick and tired of,
Speaker 3: that Americans were paying for, hard working tax payers were
Speaker 3: paying for. So, you know, do I have sympathy for
Speaker 3: those that don't necessarily like the way that he's operating.
Speaker 3: The answer is no, because this is the way that
Speaker 3: he was running on and for the millions of voters
Speaker 3: that voted to elect him into office. We put him there,
Speaker 3: the American people overwhelmingly put him there. And the thing
Speaker 3: that I will say is allow the president to do
Speaker 3: his job to literally enact the policies that he ran on.
Speaker 3: That Brian is democracy, indeed is a threat to democracy,
Speaker 3: you know, is these unelected career bureaucrats that hide behind
Speaker 3: civil servant status thinking that they answer to no one
Speaker 3: and are completely unchecked. It's not the way that our
Speaker 3: founding fathers intended. What they intended was that one person
Speaker 3: would run to get all the votes, hopefully majority of
Speaker 3: the votes across America. They would run on platforms, they'd
Speaker 3: be able to be elected as president of the United States,
Speaker 3: choose the people by advice and consent of the Senate
Speaker 3: to carry out the mission. And that's exactly what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Now, Yes we are, and it's refreshing alternative from other
Speaker 1: prior presidents, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden, who also promised
Speaker 1: to get rid of fraud, waste abuse in government. They're
Speaker 1: on tape, they're on record, there's YouTube videos out there
Speaker 1: with all their comments along the same lines. They promised
Speaker 1: to do the same thing, yet they didn't deliver. The
Speaker 1: government just merely got bigger, and the regulatory environment just
Speaker 1: got more difficult to deal with and navigate. And had
Speaker 1: they delivered on the promises, I just kind of scratched
Speaker 1: my head and kind of wonder theoretically if the Democrats
Speaker 1: will be screaming and yelling about if their Democrat president
Speaker 1: had engaged in these efforts.
Speaker 3: Right right, I mean, at the end of the day. Again,
Speaker 3: there's growing pains right now because it's one thing to
Speaker 3: say it on the campaign, and it really doesn't matter
Speaker 3: what party the presidential candidates running on. We've seen it
Speaker 3: on both sides to your point, Brian. We've seen candidates
Speaker 3: on both sides say that they would go in there
Speaker 3: and they would cut waste, they would cut fraud abuse,
Speaker 3: they would shrink the size of government. But no one's
Speaker 3: actually done it to the extent that President Trump is
Speaker 3: doing right now. He my gosh, he hit the one
Speaker 3: month mark yesterday of being the forty seventh president the
Speaker 3: United States, and the amount of money that we're already
Speaker 3: uncovering that are being saved for the American people. It's
Speaker 3: just astounding, and one the only surprise that people should
Speaker 3: have is the speed at which he's doing it and
Speaker 3: the people that he has tapped to lead. These government
Speaker 3: agencies are committed to the mission that they are there to, yes,
Speaker 3: serve the best interests of the American people.
Speaker 2: But guess what.
Speaker 3: They are not there to make overbloated government bigger. They're
Speaker 3: there to shrink the size of government. And here's the
Speaker 3: word that you know has gotten a lot of flak
Speaker 3: the last few weeks. Efficient, to make federal government more efficient.
Speaker 3: The question that we should be asking is, for any
Speaker 3: of these agencies, whether it's the DOJ, the FBI, energy Treasury,
Speaker 3: can we operate with a more streamlined, efficient federal agency.
Speaker 3: And if the answer is yes, then we should be
Speaker 3: doing everything we can to.
Speaker 1: Get there exactly. And you know, that's what Elon Musk
Speaker 1: is really notably famous for. I mean, I talked to
Speaker 1: an author of a book about Elon Musk and his
Speaker 1: business practices. You know, he buys Twitter and immediately fires
Speaker 1: like eighty percent of the employees. And yet there it
Speaker 1: is as acts, it still runs, it still works, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have the limitations on free speech, is a very
Speaker 1: wildly popular platform that apparently didn't need all those extra
Speaker 1: employees in the first place. That author also pointed out
Speaker 1: that he instructed the folks at Tesla to start literally
Speaker 1: removing every single component product in the cars until such
Speaker 1: point that they wouldn't work anymore in order to increase efficiency,
Speaker 1: weight and keep costs down. I mean, that's the point
Speaker 1: of Elon Musk being efficiency and getting rid of, you know,
Speaker 1: the unnecessary components.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And you know you mentioned layoffs. You know,
Speaker 3: that's exactly what we would expect for a company that
Speaker 3: is trying to be more efficient, it's trying to go
Speaker 3: into cost saving mode. It's so that for the end user,
Speaker 3: for the end customer, they deliver a better product, better
Speaker 3: experience at a better price.
Speaker 2: For government, what should we expect.
Speaker 3: Again, we should expect a federal government that is the size,
Speaker 3: no bigger than it needs to be in order to
Speaker 3: deliver the same efficient, productive service or product that the
Speaker 3: American citizen should expect. And so for these lays you know,
Speaker 3: again we cannot say, although some do that it's cruel
Speaker 3: that we're seeing, you know, these overnight layoffs of thousands employees.
Speaker 3: Number one, in his first couple of weeks, President Trump
Speaker 3: offered a incredible, never heard of deal for federal employees
Speaker 3: to essentially not go back to work and take an
Speaker 3: amazing six plus months before they can early retire and
Speaker 3: give them full benefit, full pay. I mean, that's unheard of.
Speaker 3: If he really wanted to, he would have fired those
Speaker 3: employees on January twentieth, but no, instead he offered a
Speaker 3: great buyout. If you want to retire, you don't, you
Speaker 3: don't want to stay while this ship is moving, then
Speaker 3: by all means, you know, you can leave and we'll
Speaker 3: offer you a great benefits package. For these employees have
Speaker 3: been laid off in the last couple of weeks their
Speaker 3: probationary employee, and these employees that have entered into the
Speaker 3: federal workforce know that they are subject to a certain
Speaker 3: amount of time as a probationary employee.
Speaker 2: That I don't know what the.
Speaker 3: Majority of people expect when they hear the term probationary,
Speaker 3: but working just in government in the past, is probationary
Speaker 3: means that you could be removed at will at any
Speaker 3: time you serve with the pleasure of the federal government
Speaker 3: or the agency you work for, and if the federal
Speaker 3: agency or the administration views that that is not the
Speaker 3: most efficient means for federal government, then you could be layoff.
Speaker 3: You knew that going in, and the question is that
Speaker 3: can we operate again with greater efficiency with lower workforce.
Speaker 3: It's not like we are leaving these people out to dry.
Speaker 3: Think about, Brian, the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands
Speaker 3: of jobs that are out there, whether it's in the
Speaker 3: private sector or whether it's in state government that these
Speaker 3: American hardworking, yes, hopefully hardworking American citizens now have to
Speaker 3: find ulterior employment. But they're out there. You know, we
Speaker 3: have an abundance of opportunity here. Just because they may
Speaker 3: have worked in federal government for the last eighteen months
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that there's nothing else that they can do.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they picked themselves up by the bootstrapsy as we
Speaker 3: would expect for every American. You get out there, you
Speaker 3: do hard work, it's based on merit, and you go
Speaker 3: ahead and continue to contribute to the economy and to
Speaker 3: the way of life here in America.
Speaker 1: Orlando Sanza, it's just such a pleasure hearing you and
Speaker 1: you're insightful, logical and reasonable comments. I wish you all
Speaker 1: the best, the best of health, love to you and
Speaker 1: your family, and your continued success with the Hamilton County
Speaker 1: Veteran Services. I can't thank you enough. Just my love
Speaker 1: for the American veteran is well known to my listening audience,
Speaker 1: and it's wonderful to know someone like is there helping
Speaker 1: the veterans out of the Hamilton County Veterans Services Commissioned.
Speaker 1: So we'll be on. We'll talk again. You got some
Speaker 1: development you want to pass along to my listeners along
Speaker 1: those lines, you always have an opportunity in a form
Speaker 1: here on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 3: Brian, thanks so much, my friend, Take care, have a
Speaker 3: great weekend.
Speaker 1: Thanks brother you two. It's seven twenty to fifty five
Speaker 1: kr SE Detalk station. You got a wood burning fireplace
Speaker 1: or free standing stove or self feeding wood waste pellow stove,
Speaker 1: take advantage right now. The Chimneycare fireplace and stove helping
Speaker 1: you make sure that you ensure that your home is
Speaker 1: safe so you can enjoy the comfort without concern. And
Speaker 1: you should have a measure of concern if you haven't
Speaker 1: had your fireplace chimney inspected, most notably with the wood burners,
Speaker 1: you could have a problem there kreosode build up, but
Speaker 1: that could cause a chimney fire. It happens all the time.
Speaker 1: The lining gets cracked, and then your second chimney fire
Speaker 1: because you don't have a swept, could well maybe burn
Speaker 1: your house down bad. Absolutely, so take advantage right now.
Speaker 1: They're doing a winter special from the Chimneycare Fireplace and Stove.
Speaker 1: It's a woodburning sweeping evaluation which is only one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty nine dollars in ninety nine cents plus tax.
Speaker 1: The expert the Chimneycare Fireplace to those certified chimney sweeps.
Speaker 1: They can handle all elements of safety in your home,
Speaker 1: whether they have a gas burner or a wood burner.
Speaker 1: But this wood burning special is really a great idea.
Speaker 1: So if it's been a while you can't remember last time,
Speaker 1: book your appointment online. It's easy to do at Chimneycare
Speaker 1: code dot com a plus with a better business feer.
Speaker 1: They got a beautiful showroom looking at a four thirteen
Speaker 1: Wards Corner Road. If you're looking for a fireplace insert
Speaker 1: or a free standing stove or a wood waste pellet stove,
Speaker 1: I recommend going to the website and checking out all
Speaker 1: the things they have available there. Again, you can make
Speaker 1: the appointment at the website or call and tell them.
Speaker 1: Brian said, Hi, since nineteen eighty eight five one three
Speaker 1: two four eight ninety six hundred five to one three
Speaker 1: two four eight ninety six hundred fifty five car The
Speaker 1: talk station Santos