WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:13.759 Five o five a fifty five k r C the 2 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:16.000 talk station Happy Monday series. 3 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.440 Daddy say will. 4 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:29.239 Ava? 5 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:31.239 Problem is that? 6 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:31.879 No idea? 7 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:32.479 What's going on? 8 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:32.759 Yeah? 9 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:34.880 I neither do. I tell you Happy Monday. Brian Thomas 10 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.520 right here, glad to be hope you had a wonderful 11 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.039 weekend and hope you can stick around all morning. Beginning 12 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.920 at six oh five, guests start, and we begin with 13 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.719 some interesting stories from Sharing Collidge of the Cincinnati Inquirer. 14 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.000 Why is it that we had a sixty five million 15 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.719 dollar windfall in the city of Cincinnati. I thought we 16 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.039 were selling the railroad in order to make ends meet. 17 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.840 Apparently not windfall, and that's not unusual. Although this year's 18 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:02.520 sixty five million dollar leftover money going to a bunch 19 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.319 of projects hand selected by the mayor and the city manager. 20 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.560 And the balance of the money apparently you're not going 21 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:10.400 to get any say on where it's going to go. 22 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:15.359 Details from Sharon on that one, and then the updates 23 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.680 the signs to give Kamala Harris credit for projects done 24 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.280 around the city under the Inflation Reduction Act. Previously it's 25 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:24.840 Biden who's getting credit for Biden Harris. I'm going to 26 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.920 change the signs, hurry up and change them, because I 27 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.079 guess the messaging is so important in advance of the 28 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:34.760 election next week that we're going to pay I don't 29 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.439 know how many millions of dollars or whatever. Sharon have 30 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.280 the details on that to change the signs. Biden Joe 31 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.719 is Joe Biden still president. They haven't kicked him out yet, 32 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.519 have they. Strecker now right, so the signs are still accurate. 33 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:56.280 That's shameless anyway. Apparently not everybody likes a new pick 34 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:01.040 for since city council. A white heterosexual man reply a 35 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.200 person of color in the LGBTQ community. So what white 36 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:10.639 men are incapable of representing the constituents of the city 37 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.039 of Cincinnati. Huh yeah, I end of Lacy if he 38 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.159 was a little pissed off about that one, as are others. 39 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:19.800 So Sharon Cooler's reporting and we'll see what she has 40 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.159 to say. There's not anything you can do about it. 41 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.080 She was he was properly appointed. Pursue it to the 42 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.719 process set up in the City of Cincinnati to replace 43 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.800 folks who step down. So anyhow, but somebody's always complaining. 44 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.360 Of course, Sharon's reporting on the complaining anyway, Christopher Smithvent 45 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.879 an early start with Christopher Smithman. I guess he's got 46 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:40.840 a lot in his mind. We're gonna begin with Christopher's 47 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:44.400 Monday Morning Smith event at seven point twenty, followed by 48 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.120 Money Monday Brian James and seeing the number really hurts 49 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.759 inflation and how it's hitting your grocery card groceries up 50 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:58.680 twenty eight percent in just five years. I know you 51 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:02.120 know that he knows that. That's why Kamala Harris can 52 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.520 run around and talk about how awesome things are. We 53 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.919 all go and fill our grocery carts every week or so. 54 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:08.960 I know we did it over the weekend again, my 55 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.400 wife and I never ceases to amaze me how expensive 56 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:16.240 things have gotten. So that one is in the queue 57 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.039 there for Monday Mondy's Brian James fall by two in 58 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:24.960 five US cardholders that be credit card holders are maxed out. 59 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:28.479 That's not a good sign. And plus another unconstitutional student 60 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:33.479 debt relief plan with an editorial comment from Joe Strecker 61 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:38.520 Eye Roll heard that one before heavy Joe, I love 62 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:40.680 hearing from you. Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty 63 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:42.960 five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk pound 64 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.360 five fifty on eighteen and t phones, Hey, how about 65 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:52.479 those Bengals can't win at home? Well, it was a sad, 66 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.639 sad game, and we'd tell you what looked so great 67 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:00.479 out of the gate, and just slowly and surely viraled 68 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.360 into oblivion. So well, I was gonna say, we'll live 69 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:06.520 to fight another day. But I don't know what The 70 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.520 record that we've got right now anyway doesn't impact my 71 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.759 world directly? Now does it question? Whether it impact the 72 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.560 stadium negotiations? Will the Bengals record have anything to do 73 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.439 with the terms conditions negotiated by the upcoming council or 74 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:27.000 other commissioners? And who will those commissioners be? Obviously got 75 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:32.199 some choices over the trifecta Democrats controlling the county commissioners, 76 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:37.319 and I certainly hope you consider the Republican options when 77 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.839 you go in to vote next week or early vote 78 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:43.040 as the case may be. A lodd of people have 79 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:49.279 been early voting lots. Apparently Republicans up pacing Democrats in 80 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:51.759 the swing states as well. In that regard, how about 81 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.920 that it's just yesterday that Democrats owned early vote voting, 82 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.199 but apparently Republican voters have taken an early lead in 83 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:02.000 critical swing states. Early voting data from Arizona, Nevada, and 84 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:06.399 North Carolina showing a higher turnout among registered Republicans than Democrats. 85 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.000 This is accorded reporting from Bloomberg Now. They say, and 86 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.519 point out the obvious. It cannot alone early voting predict 87 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:18.480 election outcomes, but it does show voter enthusiasm, which was 88 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.399 on full display in New York the other day at 89 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.920 the Madison Square Gardens. They packed the place, sold out 90 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.240 Madison Square Gardens, twenty thousand people. By all accounts, there 91 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:29.800 was an equal number of people, if not more outside, 92 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.399 sort of a two rallies going on at the same 93 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:38.839 time in New York City. Oh my god, nineteen thirty 94 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:40.680 nine all over again. You know what. That kind of 95 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:46.160 stuff just blows my mind. There was a rally in 96 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.800 nineteen thirty nine in support of Adolf Hitler and the 97 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.240 was it the National Socialist Party, wasn't it happtly name 98 00:05:54.439 --> 00:06:00.279 actually not fascism, but regardless dictatorial control from the top. Yeah, 99 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.399 there were a lot of folks, I guess, in favor 100 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.759 of Adolf Hitler and what he was trying to accomplish 101 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.000 in Europe. They did have a rally back in nineteen 102 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:11.439 thirty nine, and the Democrats in their desperation pointing out 103 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.560 the realities we're living in, going back to the massive 104 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.120 amount of inflation just in the area of food, among 105 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.759 other things, national death, the interest payments on that, the 106 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.120 fact that we have just an ever expanding this bureaucracy 107 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.839 that's overwhelming business with the regulatory state, on and on 108 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.879 and on about all the defects and problems we have 109 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.600 in our country. They have to point to Donald Trump 110 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:40.439 being a fascist. Just absolute stupidity. Read the damn definition. Please, 111 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.879 I just you know, and that's insulting to you. For 112 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.560 anybody out there has actually read the definitions of fascism 113 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.480 and socialism and capitalism the various other forms of government 114 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.319 quickly realized, you know, Donald Trump not a fascist. He's 115 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:54.600 the one that wanted to get rid of the deep state. 116 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.120 He wanted to get rid of massive regulations. He was 117 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:59.560 the one that drill baby, drill all across you know 118 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:03.519 it up, dot, close it down, open it up. These 119 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:07.839 are the exact opposite things that the Democrats want to 120 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:13.199 do and have done. Literally, So read your definitions and 121 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.680 point to the Democrats who accused Donald Trump of being 122 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.839 a fascist that they're an ignorant when they make statements 123 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.879 like that. And speaking of prices of gasoline and oil, 124 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:26.959 you know, California, Gavin News some recently signed some legislation 125 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:33.160 and requiring refineries to sock away refine gasoline and store it. Now, 126 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.720 do the refineries have the capability of doing that to 127 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.959 the extent the legislation requires it? No, they don't. This 128 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.720 is going to be a massive increase in cost of 129 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.040 doing business for refineries in California. So what do they do. 130 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.720 They're going to stay and suck it up and abide 131 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.399 by the legislation, or are they going to do what 132 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.040 so many people in California and other Blue states have done, 133 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.600 just pack up their bags and leave. Well, they're choosing 134 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.879 the latter option. Phillip sixty six already announced they were 135 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.600 closing its law Los Angeles refinery. That's eight percent of 136 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:07.279 California's refining capacity. That's after the passage of this very 137 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:12.000 expensive regulation requiring them to do all this additional storage. 138 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.480 Now it's Valero they say they may shut down two 139 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:20.920 of their California refineries, which is fourteen percent of the 140 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:28.839 state's gasoline production. And of course it's related to the 141 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:32.200 potential closes because of the regulatory powers granted during a 142 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:36.120 special legislative session, which again resulted in this law requiring 143 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:44.559 them to soock away extra refined petroleum California. California pays like, way, much, way, 144 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:46.960 way more than you and I pay for gasoline, even 145 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:48.639 though what you and I pay for it has probably 146 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.240 perceived to be way too much, notably considering the price 147 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:57.679 of gasoline. When Aham Joe Biden took office, California's oil 148 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:02.679 production has been cut in half. Since two thousand and eight, 149 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.519 was two hundred and forty nine million barrels, thirty eight 150 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.159 percent of what the state needs. Now it's down to 151 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.080 one hundred and twenty four million barrels, which is only 152 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.919 twenty three point four percent of the state's needs. Resulting 153 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:20.399 in California, what are they running their cars on windmills 154 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:26.200 and solar panels hydroelectric power. No, they still have the cars. 155 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:33.720 So as the production domestic production, which means domestic jobs, 156 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:36.639 union jobs too, I might point out for you union 157 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:39.039 members out there considering which direction you want to vote. 158 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:45.519 Imports have surged sixty one percent of the refined I 159 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:50.519 guess petroleum gasoline comes from countries like they say Iraq, 160 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.279 Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, and Colombia. It was only forty eight 161 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.120 and a half percent in two thousand and eight. Again 162 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:00.360 going back to what Donald Trump proposes domestic production, stick 163 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:04.279 refining and domestic employment. Why would we want to fund 164 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:10.120 the East saudiast, Ecuadorians, Colombians and Iraqis if we can do 165 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:13.519 it here and do it cleaner and do it safer 166 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:19.759 and without those pesky shipping costs. Yeah, I guess you know. 167 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.480 They never take into account the cost the ship refined 168 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.360 gasoline to the United States. They put them on a tanker. 169 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:32.480 Tankers that maybe being shot at by Houthi rebels anyway. 170 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:35.720 Joe Patterson, a Republican of Rockland in California, When California 171 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.080 Governor Gasam Neussen said in twenty twenty one he didn't 172 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:41.279 see a future for oil in California, I didn't know 173 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.600 twenty twenty four would be the year he ended it 174 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:49.600 at lightning speed, said today, another refiner said all options 175 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.039 are on the table with refiners here. We can thank 176 00:10:52.919 --> 00:11:02.279 Newsom's legislation exactly. You want inexpens of gasoline, you could 177 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:09.600 get it. You could get it right here. But folks 178 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.279 like AVENUESOM and the Lufties in California decide no, you're 179 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:15.720 not going to have it, and you know, the vehicle 180 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.360 to get the price of gasoline to go up and 181 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.120 for you to well find it yourself in an unaffordable, 182 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.159 untenable position because they have manipulated the market via regulation. 183 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.960 Right sounds a bit fascist to me. Five sixteen five 184 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.320 cares DE talk station five one three seven four nine 185 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.120 fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three Taco 186 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.080 with TOME five fifty on at and t funds. Love 187 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:40.559 to hear from you. Maybe you got something you want 188 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.279 to talk about. I would love to hear about that. Regardless, 189 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:44.960 I hope you can stick around right here at fifty 190 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:53.600 five care CD talk station time for than nine first 191 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:57.279 warning wealer forecast partly cloudy day today high seventy one 192 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.919 oh night, partly cloudie sky, low of fifty eight. Tuesday 193 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.279 is going to be a breezy, partly cloudy day, seventy 194 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.879 eight overnight down to fifty nine with partly cloudy skies 195 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.440 and Wednesday mostly Sunday. I have eighty three right now, 196 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:16.840 thirty seven degrees fifty five Careceiving talk Station five twenty 197 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:27.399 A happy Monday to year five one three two three 198 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.039 talk from our Next Wednesday, the day after the election, 199 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.919 We're going to be at ron Zergus for listener to lunch. 200 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:38.639 Oh my, you know, and I I think about that, 201 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:40.200 and I want to be really, really positive. But I 202 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.200 hope we're there in a festive mood. You know, we 203 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.080 can talk about the future any positive light or you know, 204 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:49.559 deal with the aftermath to the extent Kamala Harris wins. 205 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.000 You know, misery does love company, and it'd be nice 206 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:55.639 to perhaps sharing a Dolt beverage with folks as we 207 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.320 assess the aftermath of a blown outcome that didn't go 208 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:03.759 in our direction, assuming that the vast majority of listener 209 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:09.320 lunch attendees want Trump to win, which I can only presume. Anyway, 210 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.360 Ronzo is always good, So let's see the celebrator commiserate 211 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.120 regardless together next Wednesday. I hope to see you there. 212 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:17.919 And I know one of the concerns lots of people 213 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:22.919 are expressing, and everybody I talk to, you know, more 214 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.120 off the record than on the record, although people are 215 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.080 feel free to call in. I know Bobby has his 216 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:29.159 beliefs about what's going to happen in the aftermath of 217 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:32.919 the election. But many are expecting violence, and that really 218 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:36.000 is very troubling and worrisome because what have we seen 219 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:39.120 in the past. Violence where to come from? The vast 220 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.360 majority of it from the left. Go through your litany 221 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:47.159 of groups outside funded and otherwise that took to the streaks. 222 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:49.679 You've got ANTIFI, Black Lives Matter, you know, the Palace 223 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:54.000 to Antiower, Anti Israeli camps. Many are expecting this is 224 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.360 something I predicted a long time ago, and I hope 225 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.879 to hell it and everything I've got, I hope it 226 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.759 is not true that the illegal immigrants, you know, Donald 227 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:08.159 Trump yesterday just over in Madison Square Gardens, I'm here, 228 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.000 he said, I'm here by conk with a death penalty 229 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:12.799 or any migrant that kills an American citizen law enforcement officer. 230 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.000 I will rescue every city in town that's been invaded 231 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.200 and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty 232 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.480 criminals in jail. Going to kick them the hell out 233 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.080 of our country as fast as possible, and expedite removals 234 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:28.279 of Tredy Iragua and other savage gangs like MS thirteen, 235 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.320 which is equally vicious I will invoke the alien enemy 236 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.519 zac As seventeen ninety eight. Now, obviously he is focusing 237 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:38.000 on the criminal element of the illegal immigrant population, but 238 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:42.480 you know, there's a whole lot of them, and if 239 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:45.559 Donald Trump is threatening deportation on any level, that makes 240 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:52.120 a huge number of folks who are by many people's accounts, 241 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.200 probably going to become highly organized if Trump gets elected 242 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.840 and take to the streets. It isn't a shocking prediction. 243 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:02.879 I hope it's not true, though. Rass Newsen did a poll. 244 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.919 How likely is that there will be violent reaction after 245 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.799 the election of Kamala Harris? Fifty one percent likely, twenty 246 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.759 six percent very likely that will there will be a 247 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:17.000 violence if Harris is elected. Rassmussen found this no the 248 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:20.039 thirty eight percent not likely, eleven said they are not sure. 249 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.039 Flipping it over, what about if President Donald Trump wins 250 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.639 the White House? Forty seven percent said violence is likely, 251 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:34.000 noted that's actually lower, twenty three percent said very, forty 252 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:39.159 four percent not likely, eight percent not sure. They also 253 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.159 asked voters whether most this is a good good one 254 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.360 here at least there's some bipart is an agreement out 255 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.480 in the world generally, Whether most news media outlets report 256 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.200 about politics in a way that tends to make America 257 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:58.039 more united or more divided. Only ten percent said more united, 258 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:02.840 seventy nine percent said more divided. In terms of party breakdown, 259 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.919 not too far away, you got eighty four percent of Republicans, 260 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:11.360 seventy percent of Democrats, and eighty three percent of unaffiliated 261 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.320 voters say the way that most news media outlets report 262 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:19.440 about politics tends to make America more divided. See look 263 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.320 at that a whole full expression of bipartisanship. Now, if 264 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.720 you ask the Democrats versus the Republicans, you put them 265 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.320 in separate rooms, I'm sure they'd have different perceptions about 266 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.240 how the media makes it more divided. Democrats are probably 267 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.200 pointing over to Fox News, while Republicans can literally report 268 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.200 to almost every other news media outlet to well prove 269 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.159 their point. Among those who said they planned to vote 270 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.600 for Harris, seventy one percent said it's at least someone 271 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:47.200 likely there'll be a violent reaction if the vice president wins, 272 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.200 and fifty six percent of Trump voters says it's likely 273 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.799 there'll be a violent reaction if the former president wins. 274 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:58.159 So a little more pessimism when it comes to Harris, 275 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:07.079 when now that suggests that I suppose that all this 276 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.039 baked into the media argument that these Republicans are violent extremists, 277 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:12.599 are the ones going to be taken to the street. 278 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.319 I haven't really seen any evidence of that. And there's 279 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.599 somebody out in the audience going what about January sixth? 280 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:24.680 And I say, yeah, what about January sixth? Did the 281 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.119 election not get certified? 282 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:26.519 Oh? 283 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.400 That's right. We have been living under a Biden Harris administration. 284 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.200 How long did that protest last? Was it a day? 285 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.559 How long would the Antifa and the BLM camps and 286 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:41.319 other various left wing organized camps in camped and embedded 287 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.759 in various cities. There's still around in a lot of them, 288 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.519 cities that went through the whole defund the police movement 289 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:52.599 and all that decriminalized drugs, all that they're living the 290 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.480 aftermath of that, and they're going the polar opposite direction 291 00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:00.799 after living with it for so long. And rat News 292 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.440 in terms of race, rast News and survey found of 293 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.720 black voters more likely to expect violent reactions if Harris 294 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.279 wins the election. Hispanics are more likely to think a 295 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:15.519 Trump victory would provoke a violent reaction, So lots of 296 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:20.119 folks anticipating it. Sadly, I'm one that's kind of leaning 297 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:23.119 on that. I don't really truly believe that if Harris wins, 298 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.200 that the Trump supporters will actually take to the streets. 299 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:31.559 But time will, in fact tell. Five six fifty five 300 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.680 ko City Talk Station got some local stories to dive 301 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.000 on into coming up next day right here, fifty five 302 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:36.960 Karo City Talk Station. 303 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.160 Don Junior here, guys, are you receiving letters from the 304 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.000 irs claiming you owe back taxes? 305 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.640 As penalties and interest fees pile up the five point 306 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:47.720 thirty on a Monday? Like it or not? Is this Monday? 307 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:50.200 I like it because we get to talk to Christopher Smithman. 308 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.240 That happened at seven to twenty this morning, former Vice Mayor. 309 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:55.480 Monday Monday, as is always the case on Monday, with 310 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.880 the exception of vacation, and today the special edition with 311 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.440 Sharon Coolidge coming up after the top of the hour news, 312 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.519 variety of local city issues, some of which may make 313 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.799 me a little bit upset, certainly do me. Anyway, Let's 314 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:10.200 go to the phone before we get the local stories. 315 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:12.240 Thank you for calling this morning, Jeff, and a happy 316 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:15.720 Monday to you. Happy thank you brother. 317 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:23.319 Quick comment regarding the deporting illegals. Yeah, Trump should take 318 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:31.720 about one hundred Boeing seven eighths, load them up, run. 319 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:36.039 Out of fuel, or loosen a few door. 320 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.559 Poles, drop them off over the golf of Mexico. 321 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.680 Jeez, I can't abide. Although you know, if it was 322 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.759 funny if you said Boeing seven thirty seven max aralines, 323 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.599 because you wouldn't have to rig them, you just set 324 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:50.559 them off in the air and they probably would crash 325 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.240 on their own. But no, don't advocate violence or the 326 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.440 extermination of people merely because they're illegally in our country. 327 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:59.640 Deporting them, however, maybe a good idea. And yes, let's 328 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:03.079 start with criminals. We live in a country where criminal 329 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:08.720 elements from Venezuela have taken over entire hotel buildings. That's 330 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.559 a scary situation right there. I mean, that is scary. 331 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:17.599 Thank you, thanks to the Biden Harris administration, a amber 332 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:22.880 hunt since they enquired don't steal yard signs, Okay, it's illegal. 333 00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:26.400 She write's penalties are somewhat minor or less. The theft 334 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:29.920 is on a broad scale, I guess coordinated efforts or 335 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:32.400 one person going out and stealing hundreds of signs or something. 336 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.240 Ohio thefts of the yard signs are misdemeanors until they 337 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:41.839 reached the one thousand dollars limit. Kentucky, most political sign 338 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.079 thefts we classified as Class B misdemeanors. According to a 339 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:47.359 piece written in twenty twenty two by Campbell Catty attorney 340 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:53.720 Steve Friends and relied upon by Amber Hunt reddit thread 341 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:57.240 this week discussing Cincinnati area thefts, some people are being 342 00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:59.480 a little creative on how to stop it from happening. 343 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:04.160 She referred to them as unsavory homemade options in an 344 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.319 effort to mark, embarrass or inconvenience thieves, including coating yard 345 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:12.799 signs with vasolene and glitter, spraying them with fox or 346 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.839 deer yarine ooh, attaching trackers to them. It was a 347 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.079 case from Missouri where someone did that, put an apple 348 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:22.519 little tracker on it and was able to track down 349 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.119 the person who stole the signs, as well as motion 350 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.559 activated lights or cameras near the signs. So in the 351 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:35.559 final analysis, don't be that person stealing yard signs. You 352 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:37.839 may be held accountable, and of course if you are, 353 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:42.000 you're at least going to be revealed as perhaps someone 354 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.160 who qualifies for the Biggest Duche of the Universe award. 355 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:46.160 Here on the fifty five Case Morning Show, we got 356 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.400 one person hospitalized early Saturday morning after his shooting. It 357 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:51.480 over the Rye Corn of SINCINNTI. Police it was happening 358 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.160 around one am and the fifteen block of fifteen hundred 359 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:57.799 block of Vine Street near Liberty Street intersection. Police set 360 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.880 a person at life threatening injuries after the shooting. Didn't 361 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.599 say if they had any suspects or what led up 362 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:05.880 to the shooting. That's the most recent reporting we have 363 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:11.960 on that seven year old is dead after police say 364 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.160 they were hit by a forklift on private property in Carthage. 365 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.920 Happened Friday afternoon. Said since a police officers responded the 366 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:20.759 area of the two undre block or West North Bend 367 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:24.640 about three pm again Friday for the reported accident. Police 368 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:28.079 says seven year old was hit by a forklift. Child 369 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:33.119 was pronounced dead. I appreciate the WCPO reporting that sad tragedy. 370 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:40.759 Here's another one. A five year old win Hills Academy 371 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:44.000 student dead after he was shot during a drive by 372 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:46.920 shooting in Winton Hills. Happened last Thursday morning. Courts in 373 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:51.359 Saint Police on Holland Drive five o'clock in the Thursday morning, 374 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:55.400 boy identified as Adogas stand for the third taking it 375 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:00.240 since Ay Children's Police said he died on Saturday. Since 376 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.880 Say Public Schools issued to statements of the district's crisis 377 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.319 response team is at the school on Thursday for students 378 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:08.920 and needed additional support. Police haven't released any suspect information 379 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:11.119 or any information about the vehicle used in the drive 380 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:14.200 by shooting. It is still an investigation. If you have 381 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:19.039 any information, please call crime Stoppers five one three three 382 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:22.400 five two thirty forty three five two thirty forty You 383 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.480 remain anonymous. You're eligible for a cash reward if for 384 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:29.160 Tipley's to unrest and Lord, do you need any incentive 385 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:32.200 like a cash reward to get a drive by murderer 386 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:35.519 of a five year old off the streets? Dennis, you're 387 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:37.519 first out of the gate when I come back. If 388 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:39.720 you don't mind holding for just a moment, I'll give 389 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:43.599 you some good information Affordable medical imaging for CT scans, 390 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:49.319 echo cardiograms, ultrasounds. You know it's just insane with the 391 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:52.559 hospital imaging department charges. You know you got out of 392 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.279 pocket responsibility. You've got minimums you have to pay out 393 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:57.640 of pocket, and let's just say, because it's open rollming, 394 00:23:57.640 --> 00:23:59.359 you're gonna be kicking in the beginning of the year 395 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:02.000 your doctor as a CT scan. Do you have five 396 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.839 thousand dollars in your bank account to just write a 397 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.000 check to the hospital for that? Why you exhaust your 398 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:11.079 nine thousand plus dollars of out of pocket responsibility? Of course, 399 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:13.799 who does and who wants to and you don't have to. 400 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:15.480 You have a choice when it comes to your medical care. 401 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:17.880 You can get a CT scan and affordable imaging services 402 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:20.920 for four hundred and fifty dollars and it includes the 403 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.880 radiologist report. You got a board certified radiologist report that 404 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.480 you and your doc will both get within forty eight hours, 405 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:31.359 exactly like mine did. Yes, the overhead is extraordinarily low, 406 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:34.480 but you've got the same equipment and affordable imaging services 407 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:38.680 professionals who've been doing this for forty years. And the 408 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.119 image is gonna be fine. Mine was except for the 409 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:44.240 fact that revealed my cancer was growing again. But there's 410 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:46.440 nothing wrong with the image of the report. Your doctor 411 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:48.200 will say the same thing when they get it back, 412 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:51.720 So don't pay two thousand dollars for an ultrasound, pay 413 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:55.599 two hundred and fifty including the radiologist report. It's that 414 00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:58.960 way across the board. MRIs again, CT Scans, Eco, Cardigram's 415 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:02.680 ultrasounds choice, call him up, schedule appointment five one three seven, 416 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.519 five three eight thousand, five and three seven five three 417 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:09.200 eight thousand online. You can find them at Affordable Medimaging 418 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:09.839 dot com. 419 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:14.240 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station and. 420 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:16.279 Fifty five car CD talk station. You're going to go 421 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:18.319 straight to the phones five one three seven four nine 422 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:21.079 fifty five two three talk. Don't forget fifty five KRC 423 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:24.000 dot com for podcast and the iHeartMedia app Dennis, thanks 424 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:25.720 for holding over the break and for calling this morning. 425 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:26.440 Welcome to the show. 426 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:28.440 Thank you. Hey. 427 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:31.799 I voted last week in the early voting, and I 428 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:34.880 found a real glitch that you know, I can kind 429 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:39.359 of what does that make the election margin too small 430 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:43.640 to rig or guaranteed to be rigged by being too 431 00:25:43.640 --> 00:25:47.440 small a margin? But anyway, I was looking over the 432 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:51.240 ballot that I submitted and it got kicked by the machine. 433 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.400 The machine that was doing accounting indicated that my selection 434 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:59.960 for prosecuting attorney had two or both of the candidates 435 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.400 marked off. Yeah, clearly, I only marked off one of them. 436 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:09.279 And I noticed that the ballot was printed with a 437 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.480 little bit of what looked like pen marks, like you 438 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.079 might get with a pen that ran out of ink 439 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:22.759 on the alternative candidate. So it kicked the ballot out, 440 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.799 and I was told, first, oh, you can just let 441 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:29.279 it go through. Everything else will be counted. Don't worry 442 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:34.519 about the prosecutor's office at a provacation. Tell me about that. 443 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.440 Wheeze. Yeah, I don't worry about that. Well, the fact 444 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:39.200 that it goted. I take some comfort in the fact 445 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:42.559 that got kicked out. I accidentally last time I voted, 446 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:46.599 I accidentally made a little tiny mark on a candidate. 447 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.400 I didn't want to and I tried to erase it, 448 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:51.559 you know, you can't really eraise pen but it looked 449 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:53.440 like it was gone, and I wanted to submit it. 450 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:55.240 They said, no, it looks like you voted for two 451 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:57.680 candidates in the same race. They gave me new ballot. 452 00:26:57.759 --> 00:26:59.960 I filled it out, and they just destroyed the old ones. 453 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:01.799 So that, to me is a sign that the system 454 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:05.279 is working. That the ballot had been printed with a 455 00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:08.279 flaw is terrible. And if it didn't catch it and 456 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:10.880 they processed it and didn't count your vote like the 457 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.079 apparently the poll workers suggested that's a problem, but at 458 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.160 least it got kicked out. 459 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:20.160 Well, the problem is that it was printed that way. 460 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:20.480 Yeah. 461 00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:25.440 No, And after me, a lady came, a young lady 462 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:29.319 came to the same accounting machine. Her ballot got kicked out, 463 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.240 and she was told, you know, you can just The 464 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.079 first things they offered was you can have the rest 465 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:39.920 of your ballot counted. You just won't have the prosecutor's office. 466 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.880 I mean, this is right after I'm going back to 467 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.640 get my ballot replace, but just let it go through 468 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:48.680 or as a lost vote for Melissa Powers. 469 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.440 Or you asked for another ballot and you start over again, 470 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:54.119 which is what you did, right, Yeah. 471 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:57.599 Which takes about fifteen minutes if you're if you're inclined. 472 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:01.000 But some of the younger voters have achieve my goal 473 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:03.039 in life, which is to be a cranky old man. 474 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.400 Well played, Dennis, But I'll still go back to the fact. 475 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.680 Although I don't like the instructions and I don't like 476 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.279 that they give you the option to just let the 477 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.400 error go and the vote not be counted. It is 478 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:18.160 an option, but you had the option to get the 479 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:21.759 new ballot, and of course I blame whoever printed them 480 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:23.960 to the extent they were printed that way. Obviously it's 481 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:28.119 a problem. Is there something that farious befind it behind it? 482 00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:31.200 I don't know. One is left to speculate in these 483 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:34.920 trying times that perhaps that was done intentionally, But in 484 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:38.240 the final analysis, you got one that worked that was 485 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:41.839 not printed that way. So I think, you know, as 486 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:43.480 long as you're willing to wait around for another few 487 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.279 more minutes to get your ballot and do it again, 488 00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:48.599 that's the direction I go. So I kind of view 489 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.200 it as a sign that the system actually worked for 490 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:54.599 the most part, but for the ballot printing part. Pete, 491 00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:56.559 welcome to the program. Happy Monday to you. 492 00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:58.839 Happy Monday. Brian. 493 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.440 On the sign of thieves, there's one guy who is 494 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:06.279 famous on YouTube. He tried to steal when if somebody 495 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:11.720 had electrified. Oh shows him getting the shock of a lifetime. 496 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:13.240 Oh. 497 00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:16.599 I don't recommend that. 498 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:18.720 Well I don't either, but the guy sure got a 499 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.559 shock out of. 500 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:21.680 It, I bet, but I'm bud. 501 00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:22.559 A quick question. 502 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.599 If the violence happens, do they think it'll be after 503 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.039 January twentieth, they're just right immediately after the election. You 504 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:31.079 have any ideas on that. 505 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:34.440 If I had to guess, I think if Trump wins, 506 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:36.440 it's going to be like the pink hat wearing ladies 507 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.799 that came out after he got elected the first time around. 508 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.799 It's going to be immediate to some degree. And I 509 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:44.720 am certain in this world we live in, with non 510 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:49.319 governmental organizations and dark money and evil, nefarious forces on 511 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.240 the left funding all of these different occupy and protest 512 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.279 things for the last multiple years, that you're probably going 513 00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:58.039 to see it sooner rather than later. You know, why 514 00:29:58.039 --> 00:29:59.680 wait for Trump to get sworn in. They're going to 515 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:02.240 hit this streets, they get the people all ginned up. 516 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.000 There will be law fair. The Democrats have lawyers and 517 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.799 thousands of them in every single state, and they will 518 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.160 certainly run into court claiming the vote has been stolen. 519 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:13.799 Sound familiar, Yeah, but it only depends on whose ox 520 00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:16.720 is getting gord. So I think you'll see a build 521 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:20.400 up and then that will lead to a huge amount 522 00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:23.720 of problems right around the certification time. And as we 523 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:27.160 all know, as Vice President Kamala Harris will be responsible 524 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.440 for certifying the vote, there's a lot of question marks 525 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:31.480 swirling around out there whether she'll do it or not, 526 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:35.440 Pence did it, will Kamala Harris do it? And a 527 00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:37.960 lot of protests and violence in the street would probably 528 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.440 lead to the point where they're going to come up 529 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:42.880 with some justification for her. Maybe not certify the vote. 530 00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:46.440 Wait for the chaosk if your popcorn out, be prepared, folks. 531 00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:49.799 Just consider that so many people in the know are 532 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:53.759 talking about it happening that you can almost guarantee that 533 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.519 something is going to happen, and it will probably be 534 00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.519 life of disrupting for quite a few folks. Sha the call, 535 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:02.720 my friend, I truly do. You can feel free to 536 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.240 call us well, I'll be right back. 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You're going to go 564 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:19.480 straight to the phones before I get to this deck 565 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.200 and stupid simming. I don't get more phone callers beyond 566 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:26.960 Mark Mark, thanks for calling this MORNINGOD. 567 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.039 Morning, Brian real quick one of my wife's customers. She's 568 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:35.319 an older lady, about eighty years old. She's a volunteer 569 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:39.880 poll worker and was going through training and a couple 570 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:44.039 things that paid hold her and had her sign. One 571 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.119 of them was signing a piece of paper that if 572 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:49.680 the polling place was to catch on fire, that they 573 00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.440 pledged that the poll workers pledged to try to remove 574 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:59.279 an item from the polling location, And which strikes me 575 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:03.400 is very or something you know, something that is of 576 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:07.599 equipment or along those lines. You can take that for 577 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.319 what it's worth. But the other thing was was recently, 578 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:17.240 I guess last week they are short on Republican poll watchers, 579 00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:22.279 and whoever was conducting the training or the meeting, whatever 580 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:26.920 you want to call it, asked if there was any 581 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:31.680 Democrats that would pose as Republicans as a poll watcher, 582 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.720 so that there were will do that poll watcher not 583 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.119 worker difference, right, Ye, exactly, yeah, there. 584 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.759 I don't believe there are rules and regulations so forth 585 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:48.039 for poll watchers. There'll be someone who voluntarily takes it 586 00:33:48.119 --> 00:33:51.680 upon themselves to just be there to sort of provide 587 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:54.640 some sort of physical presence there intimidating the other side 588 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:56.799 into not cheating, and that works both ways. It's two 589 00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:00.400 a street on that. But uh yeah, I guess I 590 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.880 can see an embedded Democrat as a you know, posing 591 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.519 as a Republican poll watcher. To what effect and to 592 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.239 what end? I suppose you'd have to have, you know, 593 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.400 some shenanigans go on that would require them or invite 594 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.119 them to perhaps make interject themselves into the equation. But 595 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:20.280 that's what the poll workers are supposed to deal with. 596 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:22.639 That is a job of a poll worker to resolve 597 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:26.079 any disputes there. I suppose maybe they'll be there in 598 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:29.079 case a brawl breaks out, who knows, But yeah, I've 599 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:31.840 got to maintain that distinction between watcher and worker. So 600 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:34.920 it doesn't shock me though to hear that you that 601 00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.639 someone said that. Anyhow, thank you very much for the call. 602 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:42.639 Let's see, we got stack a stupid got a woman 603 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:44.800 killed into what they describe as a freak accident and 604 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:49.320 having at a Kansas airfield after she backed into a 605 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:56.599 running airplane propeller while taking photos two what three pm 606 00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:59.280 Saturday over the weekend, says we kind of dispasto se 607 00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.639 to report about the accident. Having a Cook Airfield in Derby, Kansas. 608 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:06.159 Deputies got to the scene, they located the woman, believed 609 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:07.840 to be in her thirties, who have been critically injured 610 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.519 while taking photographs of people getting on and off planes 611 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:13.719 that at the time, she backed into an active airplane propeller. 612 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:18.159 She died at the at the site, taking to the 613 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:22.400 local hospital in extremely critical condition, and later succumbed to 614 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:31.719 her injuries. Authorities currently investigating. Everybody expresses their condolences, of course, 615 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.639 a go fund me page and another cautionary tale about 616 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.039 paying attention to your surroundings when you're taking photographs, especially 617 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:46.840 when there are propellers around. Man Oh Vegan woman's dead, 618 00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.079 thirty four year old Marie Street them Stritum, reached the 619 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:55.679 final camp of the summit of Mount Everest before she 620 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.280 and her husband, Robert Garbol both began signovering from high 621 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:03.119 as suffering from high altitude pulmonary edemon which has caused 622 00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:05.639 fluid to build up in her brain. According to The 623 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.960 Washington Post, her husband survived, taking into the Nepaul hospital 624 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:15.079 for treatment. Thinks is okay. This striding woman had sought 625 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:18.280 to sought to prove that she could scale the mountain 626 00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:24.639 while on a vegan diet. The Monash University lecturer told 627 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:27.360 the university's blog. It seems that people have this warped 628 00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:31.360 idea of vegans being malnourished and weak, she said. By 629 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.519 climbing in the seven Summits, we want to prove that 630 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:38.000 vegans can do anything and more. No, thank your dad. 631 00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:44.039 Not exactly a scientific, you know, controlled study. How many 632 00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:48.800 vegans participated in this sounds like one did goes so well. 633 00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:50.960 Caught up in five fifty six fifty five KRISTEVETHAUKX station 634 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.480 after the top of the ARDW. Sharon Coolidge. City of 635 00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:57.239 Cincinnati had a sixty five million dollars windfall huh and 636 00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:01.719 other budget related updates, plus some folks not happy with 637 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:05.079 the new city council substitute. Christopher Smith maman at seven 638 00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:07.239 to twenty money Monday, with Brian James at oh five. 639 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.199 I'll be right back after the news the twenty twenty 640 00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:12.760 four election. I was going to get to big Kamala Arison. 641 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.079 Now President Trump's going to get the debater. I'm gonna 642 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.559 get off about that. On fifty five KRS the talk 643 00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:22.679 station Bengals fans. When you line up Chevy's family of SUVs, 644 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.119 you get fifty five car CD talk station. A very 645 00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:27.039 happy Monday, till you try to make it happy anyway. 646 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.079 Christopher smith manan former vice maaron Is smith Event coming 647 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:31.760 on the next hour. We're gonna get seven to twenty 648 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:34.920 in extra ten minutes for Christopher Money Money with Brian 649 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.920 James at atoh five and right now, welcome back to 650 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.880 the fifty five KRC Morning Shore reporting for the Cincinnati 651 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:42.880 Inquirer on all things related to the City Council. Sharon Cooleidge, 652 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:45.159 good you have back on the program. I hope you're well. 653 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:49.559 Good morning, Cincinatti dot COM's refriend share. 654 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.480 It's a couple crazy week over at city Hall. 655 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.840 Yes it has. And thank you for enlightening us on 656 00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.559 this most recent article regarding the sixty five million dollars windfall. 657 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:03.320 Something you really don't expect from the Cincinnati Council and 658 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:05.960 the budgeting process they always go through, and it's dire 659 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.519 and it's woe as me and the puncheon's underfunded. We're 660 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:09.880 going to run out of money. We've got to sell 661 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:15.280 a railroad. No, apparently not sixty five million dollars left 662 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:18.480 over from last year's budget. That's a lot of money. 663 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:24.679 Honestly, I can't keep up. It's sometimes to die. Your 664 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:27.440 situation is sometimes there's a ton of money. It just 665 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.519 honestly depends on the day. And I would say that 666 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:33.760 line over there, and I cannot keep up. But yes, 667 00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:38.599 the carryover was sixty five million, and they have just 668 00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:40.519 been spending it over the last two weeks while I 669 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:44.199 was working on a different story. So I really wanted 670 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.880 to wrap it up all and let people know, you know, 671 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:49.239 really what they're doing with it. 672 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.199 Okay, and that's fair enough, and we can be critical 673 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.440 maybe about some or maybe not others, but we can 674 00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:57.639 certainly look at each line item and wonder whether or 675 00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:01.559 not it's inappropriate use of art taxpayer dollars. But what 676 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.719 you point out in the article is a little disturbing 677 00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:08.599 to me is that they, I mean, as you describe it, 678 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:13.239 this carryover creates a quasi fall budget process without the 679 00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:17.079 special evening budget hearings where counsel, even where council invites 680 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:20.119 the community to find out what the constituents want, they 681 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:22.039 just kind of go on their own and decide on 682 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:23.480 their own where this money goes. 683 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:29.159 Well, of course, you're doing it in public meetings during 684 00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:33.159 the day. It's not even FYI my most to find 685 00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:36.840 out more information about all of the different things in there. 686 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.800 I just call, like you know, I don't know ten 687 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:42.559 people to sort it all out, which is my job, 688 00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.800 of course. But I really do think that citizens should 689 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.440 be able to with a tap of a button really 690 00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:53.679 understand every single thing that's not a line item and 691 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.119 a presentation that you can find in the system. This 692 00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:59.159 is a lot of money and has a lot of 693 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:03.199 plans with this, taking the city in different directions, and 694 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:06.679 I think that people really have a right to know. 695 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:07.119 What that is. 696 00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:09.360 I mean, the idea that they're creating a fund for 697 00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:16.239 developers has gotten hardly barely a mentioned, barely a mentioned, 698 00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:20.519 and I think that people are very interested in that well. 699 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:23.079 Of course, five and a half million dollars for housing fund, 700 00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:26.719 which you point out goes to developers seeking gap financing 701 00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:30.679 for housing projects. This on the heels of the city's 702 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:35.199 rezoning basically the entire city of Cincinnati to accommodate more 703 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:39.599 multifamily and multiple unit dwellings. Perhaps are those two connected. 704 00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:46.480 They certainly candy. They said, there's a multitude of projects 705 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:49.599 in the pipeline this Friday after you, by the way, 706 00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:52.440 because normally I would it be like, well, what projects 707 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.239 is that? We still might do that, But yes, those 708 00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:58.320 two things could be very very connected. We just we 709 00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:02.480 don't know. I mean there's a lot. They rolled back 710 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.920 the residential abatements in a way that everyone was not 711 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.480 happy about, and then on the heels of that, there 712 00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:16.239 was supposed to be an overhaul of commercial development abatements. Meanwhile, 713 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:18.960 because everyone else is paying property more property Texans than 714 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:22.159 ever before, stop me if you've heard that one before, ye, 715 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.480 so come at that time. Then they never do anything. 716 00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:31.719 The residential abatements was so hard to get through and 717 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:36.239 approve and change anything. They do nothing with the commercial abatements. 718 00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.840 Then the futurest Commission comes out and that really says 719 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:43.679 we need one hundred million dollar fun housing. Housing. Housing is, 720 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:46.920 of course, you know, very business friendly, and we do 721 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:51.199 need housing. I will never not say that I get 722 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:54.000 that we need affordable housing, meet all kinds of housing, 723 00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:59.280 but this is not what the citizens have said. They 724 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.000 want that. They want to give it to developers just 725 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:06.039 to build housing. And on top of that is I'm 726 00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:10.239 big into transparency. I want to know every time they 727 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:11.920 give money to developers. 728 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:13.039 Yeah, that's it. 729 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:14.599 I just want to know what are they doing, what 730 00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:18.239 are the projects? And this fund really seems to take 731 00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:20.400 it out of the public eye. They're going to put 732 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:24.159 it under the Cincinnati Development Fund. Yeah, make the decisions. 733 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:27.599 So I'm like, so it really where the money is 734 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:29.960 five and a half million you reported five and a 735 00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:33.440 half million is being handed over to the Cincinni Development Fund, 736 00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:36.639 which on its own will be allocating the money. 737 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:40.480 Meaning, as you write, we're not the taxpayers, the voters 738 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:42.519 are not going to be subject to a public vote. 739 00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:43.599 In other words, they're going to do whatever the hell 740 00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.039 they want. It is not you know, the council members 741 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:47.719 aren't going to have to go on record for any 742 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:51.000 project over another. That's all again, well I didn't do that. 743 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.480 The Sinsori Development Fund did. 744 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:57.199 It right, And we'll never even know, like what if 745 00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:00.280 it is, Like, it's not some giant housing development that 746 00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:02.960 we're like, okay, as you see and you're like, what 747 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:05.679 is that? But I think a lot of these connected 748 00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:09.440 community projects are not necessarily going to be unless somebody's 749 00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:13.599 neighbor calls. They're meant to be, you know, on the 750 00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:15.840 outsports skirts of the neighborhood, and they're not meant to 751 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:18.639 be big developments, so we might not even. 752 00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:19.239 Know this well. 753 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.599 And it is interesting happening, isn't it interesting the predicate 754 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:25.440 and the initial comment you made on that, which is true. 755 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:29.199 There is a huge demand for housing affordable and otherwise. 756 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.880 Demand usually is met by you know, entrepreneurial types who 757 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:34.960 want to go in and make some money, meeting the 758 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.599 demand that already exists out there. So I just I 759 00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:40.840 kind of wonder how it is that the taxpayer dollars 760 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:42.440 have to go to any given project. 761 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.519 You know, they do say over there it's hard to 762 00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:48.880 get financing. I mean, this is a flip side of it. 763 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:53.679 Banks don't want to lend. Every project costs way more money, 764 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:55.639 so it makes it hard to get your money back out. 765 00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:58.320 The developers do always come in and say they don't 766 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:03.119 have any money, they can't afford it, and that's where 767 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:04.639 the citizens come into help them. 768 00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:07.840 Well in these citizens, obviously this is being funded on 769 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.000 their back since they didn't they didn't roll back the 770 00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:12.920 property taxes, and all of our properties have increased. You 771 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.800 point out overall property values up twenty eight percent, taxes 772 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.679 up twelve percent. So while the developers may lament their circumstance. 773 00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:24.519 This is a circumstance of this lack of funding and 774 00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:27.719 ability to meet ones. You know, day to day expenses 775 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:29.760 is something that happens to every single resident in the 776 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:31.119 city of Cincinnati largely. 777 00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.119 You know, it really does. I mean a Facebook group 778 00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:39.719 where people are trying to get their taxes reduced, and 779 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:42.960 it's a really kind of heartbreaking. It is the stories 780 00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:46.639 that you hear in that group, and you get the 781 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:49.440 feeling they're working. People possibly not coming down to city 782 00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:54.239 Hall on Wednesdays during public comments to really. 783 00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:55.360 Give their feedback. 784 00:44:56.920 --> 00:44:59.119 But I think if you had a night meeting related 785 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:02.239 to those or a night budgeteering and it's like, well 786 00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:04.400 should we give this who should we give this money too, 787 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:08.079 I'm not sure that the answer would be this sixty 788 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:09.159 five million. 789 00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:12.480 Right, I agree with you on that, Nor would I 790 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:16.239 think the average resident of the city of Cincinnati want 791 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:18.159 two and a half million to go to Woo the 792 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:21.599 Sundance film festival that doesn't impact most people's lives on 793 00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:23.000 a day to day basis, And I'm sure two and 794 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.559 a half million could be better spent elsewhere to serve 795 00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:27.840 the residents of the city. I guess the argument is, well, 796 00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:29.440 if we get Sundance, it's going to bring it a 797 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:33.079 whole bunch of people. But this is just an advertising campaign. 798 00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.039 It's not going to guarantee that it's coming here. So 799 00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.639 the money's gone whether or not Cincinnati gets the Sundance. 800 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:39.960 The money, well, I will say, maybe I should have 801 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:42.320 been more clear about this. The money won't be spent 802 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:45.280 unless we get it. It's the part of a much 803 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:50.880 larger bid. Okay, I have to tell you because Louisville 804 00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:54.639 was in the running for a Sundance and they are 805 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:58.000 not on the short list, and their business career career 806 00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:01.880 in Louisville had a story that seventy nine million dollars 807 00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:06.039 was not enough, so they had ported in everything. So 808 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:09.079 they had put together some sort of bid. These bids 809 00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:14.840 are secrets, you know. They kind of come from the jobs, 810 00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:18.159 entities and things like that. And so they're trying to 811 00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:22.239 so we all spend that money and less Sundance gets here. 812 00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:26.480 And they are talking about a gigantic economic impact. And 813 00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:31.119 an interesting thing about Sundance is just not the film festival. 814 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:34.239 But they moved their whole headquarters here and all of 815 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.440 the regular jobs to come with Sundance, and so I 816 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:39.719 think there's a lot more to explore here on that, 817 00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.599 but it goes with the same thing. It's like, just say, 818 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:48.360 just say when you're putting forward to spending. 819 00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:51.000 I'll encourage my listeners to get a copy of the 820 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.920 article and look at the breakdown, which I appreciate you doing. 821 00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:57.239 Cincinnati's sixty five million dollars windfall of support for Sundance, 822 00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:02.119 a developers, and a grocery store. Real quick here before 823 00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:04.119 we take a break, Sharon Coolis from the enquire I 824 00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:06.400 see that there's one point seventy five million of this 825 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:10.079 windfall for Green Project Fund. I got a million dollars 826 00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:13.760 to help citizens, you know, make their homes more energy efficient, 827 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:16.239 a quarter of a million for training workers to do 828 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:19.800 green focused home assessments. And what disturbed me most was 829 00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:23.360 a half a million dollars to create a green Bank, 830 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:26.280 which you described as an office that will serve as 831 00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:28.599 a pass through for federal money given to the state. 832 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:31.480 So we have another layer of bureaucracy and another layer 833 00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:35.320 of employee salaried workers to help facilitate federal money getting 834 00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.039 out into the community. 835 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.800 That was my understanding, but that seems to be a 836 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:46.760 requirement to get the money the state. Actually I named 837 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:49.960 it in the story the big name of escaping me. 838 00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:53.320 So the money flows to the federal government. It's five 839 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:58.519 hundred million dollars to Ohio related to whatever the federal 840 00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:03.119 money is. And Mark Jeffrey and he has been talking 841 00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:05.239 about this. I will say this did not come at 842 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:07.280 the last second. He's been talking a lot about this. 843 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.480 Five hundred million dollars is going to be given to 844 00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:13.599 the state, and he wants Cincinnati to be up and 845 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:17.159 ready to go. So you have to have all this 846 00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:20.960 preparatus kind of like requirements related to the money from 847 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:24.760 the state and the federal government. And he's like, will 848 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:28.119 be the only one ready to go, and so that 849 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:32.360 first bite of the apple, we could stand to get 850 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:34.320 a lot of money from it. Is kind of his point. 851 00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:36.559 All right, Well, I. 852 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:38.239 Have to tell you there's been a lot of discussion 853 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:40.079 about this city all that I haven't covered. 854 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:42.840 I'm looking forward to getting the balance of the work. 855 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:46.679 So I expect to read more on this down the road. 856 00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:49.480 On the enquire from Sharon Coole at Sharon, let's pause 857 00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:53.000 and find out spending money on Kamala Harris Road projects 858 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:57.320 and some people not happy with Evan Nolan as the 859 00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:00.280 new council member. Be right back, just a moment with more. 860 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.480 Sharon Coolidge. First, a word for my dear friends at 861 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:05.280 Fasten pro Roofing. They were just so honest and such 862 00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:07.719 wonderful folks. Will take great care of you. It all 863 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:11.039 starts with a free roof inspection, and they'll do that 864 00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:13.079 if you call them up to do some different projects, 865 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:15.400 like I want new siding on my house. That's what 866 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:17.559 my friend Steve said. They inspected his roof when they 867 00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:19.559 were over there and lo and behold, oh you got 868 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.639 some problems up here. Obviously you couldn't see them, but 869 00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:25.320 those latent problems could have gotten really bad for Steve. 870 00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:26.639 So if they were able to take care of that 871 00:49:26.639 --> 00:49:28.800 for him, he was so pleased. Referred them to his 872 00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:31.599 son who was gushing water down during that most recent 873 00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:35.199 torrential downpar You know, he told call fast and Pro Roofing. 874 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:37.519 After you put the bucket underneath it, get the water. 875 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:39.800 He figured, yeah, you're going to take you break, maybe 876 00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:41.320 three days for them to get out there. They were 877 00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:44.679 out there in the rain taking care of that leak. 878 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.760 I mean, that's just immediate customer service and that's the 879 00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:49.719 kind of thing you can expect from these folks. A 880 00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.159 plus with a better business. Beeer locally owned and operated, 881 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.599 probably serving the area since nineteen ninety nine. They do gutters, 882 00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:57.679 gutter guards. We'll clean your gutters out. Do that before 883 00:49:57.719 --> 00:49:59.719 wintertime so you don't get an ice dam and they 884 00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:01.440 can all of your ice damp problems in the winner 885 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:05.320 to all exterior projects rules of any type, both residential 886 00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:07.880 and commercial. And it's superior work. I assure you of that, 887 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:11.760 including custom metal work five one three seven seven four 888 00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:14.440 ninety four ninety five for that free inspection five one 889 00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.880 three seven seven four ninety four ninety five. Online it's 890 00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.679 fasten FST and Fastenproroofing dot Com. 891 00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:23.320 Fifty five KRC unless you've been touched. 892 00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:25.280 Six twenty two fifty five Krcity talk station. We just 893 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:28.079 stretched the surface of the sixty five million dollars windfall 894 00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.880 expenditures with Sharon Coolidgman the Cincinni Enquirer. Again, it's worthy 895 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:33.599 looking at the breakdown of where that money is going 896 00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:38.480 to go is reflective of well certain political perspectives. Moving 897 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:44.079 over talk about political perspectives, this is shameless. It doesn't 898 00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:45.639 matter which side of the political edge you're on in 899 00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:48.440 terms of spending taxpayer dollars to change the naming of 900 00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:52.039 the signs crediting Joe Biden for upcoming road projects and 901 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:56.000 substituting that with Kamala Harris's name. Sharon, I must observe 902 00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:59.480 Joe Biden's still president, and if he's still president, does 903 00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:02.480 shouldn't he still get credit for the projects being done, 904 00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:07.679 even if it's necessary to give someone credit for it? Sharon, So, I. 905 00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:09.760 Mean, he is still on the side. And they changed it, 906 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:12.639 and they changed the design, being very clear about this, 907 00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:16.960 they changed the design to say Biden Harris. But that 908 00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:22.679 is really what made it so interesting is that at 909 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:26.480 the last second they added her name. The what side 910 00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:30.199 of that, she was still the vice president when they 911 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:33.239 designed the signs a much earlier in the year and 912 00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.480 they're getting ready to put them up, and they were like, well, 913 00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:38.320 he signed the law, we're going to give him credit. 914 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:41.519 And this was really flowing down and nobody really made 915 00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:47.000 any secret about this. They all the US Department of Transportation, 916 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:50.880 the White House itself, like spokespeople for these agents. You 917 00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:53.360 feel like, this is about transparency, this is what we're 918 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:53.800 going to do. 919 00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:56.760 Yet earlier in the year when. 920 00:51:57.199 --> 00:51:59.880 It came time to do all of this, which was 921 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:03.000 asked of these agencies, of all of the cities, not 922 00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:06.719 just Cincinnati, UH, to do all these urban you know, 923 00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:12.840 cities that are very blue. Right, and then they felt 924 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:14.480 like they needed to addvert and then. 925 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:18.079 After right after Biden got the plug pulled although he 926 00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:20.920 is still president. Isn't it interesting that the request to 927 00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:23.159 spend this money was brought to you by, of course 928 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:26.719 the Biden Harris administration. It wasn't necessary, but as you 929 00:52:26.760 --> 00:52:29.039 point out in the reporting, it was done to score 930 00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:33.039 brownie points with with with the administration. Ah, if you 931 00:52:33.159 --> 00:52:36.280 capitulate to our request to give Biden and now Harris 932 00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:39.960 credit for the projects that will inure to your benefit. Nudge, nudge, 933 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:41.760 wink wink. 934 00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:45.000 You know what I have to tell you after everything 935 00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:48.039 we've been through, and I think all of your listeners 936 00:52:48.159 --> 00:52:53.400 know related to text messages, yet don't see that much 937 00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:55.840 stuff in text messages when you get a public records 938 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:58.639 or quest for emails. Keep every once in a while, 939 00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:01.920 something slips through people themselves a lot. Even I'm like, 940 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:05.800 don't text me that call me. We try not to 941 00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:09.039 text a lot. Those things are public record in Ohio. 942 00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:14.079 We know that, but you know, when you're reading these 943 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:18.480 messages coming in from different sources, there was a lot there. 944 00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:20.480 To look at it a lot, yes, and again I 945 00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:23.400 go back to the just to score brownie points. Taxpayer 946 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:25.800 dollars should be spent to do an ad campaign for 947 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:28.960 where credit to give credit anyway? Pivoting over will just 948 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:30.000 suggus say. 949 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:32.039 Ad campaign, get me out? 950 00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:34.880 I know, and that's well, it's what it is. I 951 00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:38.440 would argue Evan Nolan. He spent he replaced Mika Owens, 952 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:41.639 it was her selection. He's been sworn in, and there 953 00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:44.800 was some outrage amongst certain members of the black community 954 00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:48.320 because of course Nolan is white. Harris who has position 955 00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:50.920 he took his black and also remember which I don't 956 00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:54.840 think matters, but of the LGBTQ community. I'm a live 957 00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:56.239 and let live kind of guy. I don't think that 958 00:53:56.280 --> 00:53:59.159 has anything to do with representation and a representative government. 959 00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:02.119 But that really irks some people, including folks on the NAACP, 960 00:54:03.039 --> 00:54:08.239 expressing disappointment and profoundly disheartened by her decision to appoint 961 00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:13.000 apparently a white guy. It's a harmful message. Are we 962 00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:16.920 looking for competence and capability. By all accounts, he does 963 00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:18.920 have the competence and ability to be council member. 964 00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:22.719 Absolutely, this really isn't about him. 965 00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:24.159 That. 966 00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:27.679 It's not about that. It really is about what the 967 00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:31.880 citizen mandate is. And I won't say was upset. We're 968 00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:36.239 going to still say is upset, Like this conversation is persisting. 969 00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:39.639 People are like in the black community and LGBTQ, they 970 00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:43.400 really would like to see representation of themselves. And their 971 00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:47.760 argument is, and there's some interesting statistics here, is that 972 00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:51.599 the citizens said they wanted the seat to be held 973 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.239 by a black man. So if you go back to 974 00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:58.559 twenty twenty one, this is the overhaul of council. Right, 975 00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:01.199 they're on the heels of corrupt. Everybody's going to be 976 00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:04.760 all new, everyone's term limited out. The citizens for the 977 00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:08.400 very first time chose a majority black city council and 978 00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:11.199 that was very important in the black community. But then 979 00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:14.360 you look at the makeup of who council is and 980 00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:18.039 it almost is like the slaves kind of carried the day. 981 00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:21.239 So this was a very interesting mix of people put 982 00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:26.440 forward by the Democratic Party, a very balanced council. But 983 00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:29.679 when you look at what citizens did when they went 984 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:34.000 in the ballot box, the top five vote getters were 985 00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:37.880 the black members of council and that, and so they're 986 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:41.440 kind of like, this is what citizens said, Meika, and 987 00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:44.920 by the way, you benefited from the slate yourself, and 988 00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:48.280 so that's kind of their points. They're like, we are 989 00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:51.320 interested in this, but we are representing the citizens, and 990 00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.199 this is what the citizens said. So that's kind of 991 00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:58.239 the argument that's being made. However, Meka is the sole 992 00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:01.920 decision maker, and I think we're going to see a 993 00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:06.119 change in how appointments this company, you know, for some 994 00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:08.800 reason can't fulfill their duties. I think that we will 995 00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:10.639 see a change to that process. 996 00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:12.719 Well, I would like to see a change in this 997 00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:16.400 whole idea that identity politics is important and that merit 998 00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:20.639 or a confidence and capability is less important than filling 999 00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:24.199 in blanks on race and sexuality. But then again, that's 1000 00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:26.559 just me. I want the best possible candidate running, and 1001 00:56:26.599 --> 00:56:29.599 maybe Mika decided after interviewing the various folks that were 1002 00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:33.000 submitted by the Democrat Party that mister Nolan, Evan Nolan 1003 00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:33.679 was the best. 1004 00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:39.400 Well, it was a very short interview process. She said 1005 00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:43.679 that they have to get back to business. It's really busy. Now, 1006 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:47.480 I might argue that, yes, they have been doing a 1007 00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:49.800 lot of things the last couple of weeks, but that's 1008 00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:52.519 not exactly. There's a huge danger of City Hall of 1009 00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:57.719 things being five four For instance, the carryover money, yeah, 1010 00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:02.679 like two buckets of that I think is with one 1011 00:57:02.719 --> 00:57:07.079 week discussions, and those I believe for unanimous votes. I 1012 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.159 guess I couldn't say that for sure, but they certainly 1013 00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:12.000 weren't close votes, and so we're never in danger of 1014 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.239 five to four over there. So much everything passes unanimously. 1015 00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:18.960 I just observe it. It's not like Mika selected Liz 1016 00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:21.400 Keating to take the seat back over. She did stick 1017 00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.000 with her own party, and I have to imagine we'll 1018 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.599 give Evans some time to prove his competence or not. 1019 00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:27.920 But I just find it and. 1020 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.880 We'll have it, because the process is you finish out 1021 00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:33.599 the time. It doesn't even say a lot of places are. 1022 00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:38.519 If it's like not halfway through and everything, then you 1023 00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:41.960 have to have a special election because somebody shouldn't be 1024 00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:44.519 filling that term for such a long period of time. 1025 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:48.360 But not not that there's no special election, So he's 1026 00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:50.880 finishing out more than a year term. 1027 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.119 We'll still get a little more than a year an 1028 00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:54.880 opportunity to decide whether or not it did a good 1029 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:58.679 job or not. Sharon Coolidge, good luck, good luck, and 1030 00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:01.599 good one figuring out the ballot of those expenditures. 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A million dollars for pedestrian safety and a 1113 01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:06.079 bike program initiatives to be used when needed safety problems 1114 01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:09.159 arrived half a million dollars to help pay for a 1115 01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:12.800 mortar headquarters building, apparently more to provides training and support 1116 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:15.760 from minority owned businesses. It's building a new headquarters in 1117 01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:19.320 Walnut Hills. Seems we have a lot of empty buildings 1118 01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:23.159 in space that might be utilized. I don't know. I 1119 01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:25.199 don't know who's riding their bike to the ballet, Joe, 1120 01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:29.360 I really don't. I don't think people wear tuxes to 1121 01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:32.280 the ballet anymore. It's twenty twenty four. I imagine you 1122 01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:35.880 see a lot of jeans and sweaters these days. A 1123 01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:39.039 million three in capital Reserve projects. So you got more 1124 01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:41.840 than half a million dollars for repairs of Cincinnati parks, 1125 01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:44.880 quarter of million dollars for keep Cincinnati Beautiful so they 1126 01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:48.199 can acquire their own headquarters. On top of a quarter 1127 01:02:48.239 --> 01:02:52.159 of million dollars they got last year speed cushions for 1128 01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:56.119 Coleraine Avenue, more than three hundred thousand for City Hall 1129 01:02:56.280 --> 01:02:58.599 res renovations. They're going to be used that money to 1130 01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:00.800 create a break room for say, the staff, and to 1131 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:04.719 revamp a presentation room where they hold press conferences half 1132 01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:07.280 a million dollars now that we have to pay that 1133 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:09.400 we don't we didn't used to have to pay because 1134 01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:12.679 rather than sell the new police firearms back to Smith 1135 01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:15.320 and Wesson, Uh, they're going to be destroyed now at 1136 01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.719 a cost of a half a million dollars for acquiring 1137 01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:21.760 new police handguns uh and not reselling them. So they 1138 01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:23.639 dug you into the whole half a million dollars to 1139 01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:27.199 virtue signal about gun violence or something one point four 1140 01:03:27.239 --> 01:03:30.119 million for Talburt House, which I guess I can understand, 1141 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:33.480 and a whole multitude of others, including funding for CINCINNT 1142 01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:36.800 police officer pay, firefighter pay. They've thrown some money at 1143 01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:39.519 the pension, although I don't know that it is anything 1144 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:46.480 near what's needed to well provide adequate pension funding. And 1145 01:03:46.639 --> 01:03:50.039 most of these seemingly projects hand selected by the mayor 1146 01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:52.760 govern six point thirty seven to fifty five kc DE 1147 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.480 talk station. 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Money Money with Brian James at the 1170 01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:01.480 reppointed time at eight oh five meantime. Over the phones, 1171 01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:03.880 we got a couple of callers online. Always enjoy talking 1172 01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:07.119 to you, So let's talk let's start with Denash, thanks 1173 01:05:07.119 --> 01:05:07.960 for calling this morning. 1174 01:05:07.960 --> 01:05:12.039 Happy Monday, Happy Monday to Brian. Brian, I got a 1175 01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:18.880 news from a whistleblower, Garry Bernstein, an XCI agent who 1176 01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:23.119 has put out a video and a website explaining how 1177 01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:28.639 the foreign entities have been controlling the US elections. And 1178 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:34.960 it's very detailed information, really pulling the blanket over all 1179 01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:38.039 the corruption that's been taking place in the electronic voting 1180 01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:43.920 machine systems. And what he has done is validated doctor Corcy, 1181 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:49.880 doctor Purquette, and also Jeffrey O'Donnell, who had put out 1182 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:54.840 their websites recently in the last two months explaining that 1183 01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:59.559 they there's something seriously wrong with the computer systems being 1184 01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:03.440 used to not only in Ohio, but in every state 1185 01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:07.440 of the US and territory. And as doctor course he's 1186 01:06:07.480 --> 01:06:11.199 finding out, and doctor Briquett, every state that they have 1187 01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:20.079 reviewed the Secretary of States voter registration ragization roles databases, 1188 01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:25.960 they have reported activity of computerized manipulation and it's been 1189 01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:31.519 going on, according to Gary Bernstein, since two thousand and three. 1190 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:36.800 And it's amazing how detailed information he has provided on 1191 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:39.920 his website to support his reports. 1192 01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:44.480 What solutions are recommended. Is this all have to do 1193 01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:46.159 with the dominion voting system? 1194 01:06:47.079 --> 01:06:51.400 With every voting system, doesn't matter which company, they're all 1195 01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:58.039 using the same source of computer source code one way 1196 01:06:58.159 --> 01:06:58.599 or the other. 1197 01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:00.639 Well, is this the type of thing that Dave Hatter 1198 01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:03.760 talks about all the time, that they're not thinking first 1199 01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:06.800 about security when designing systems or thinking about you know, 1200 01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:11.400 accomplishing tabulating votes, but leaving holes in the computer programming 1201 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:15.960 and and and open, not intentionally perhaps maybe intentionally, don't know, 1202 01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:21.559 but just not focusing enough on security when trying to 1203 01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:24.320 to to to accomplish the task, which fundamentally is counting votes. 1204 01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:30.079 Well, it's it's more than just negligent or incompetency. It 1205 01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:34.760 is actually what, according to Garry Bunstein, is showing is 1206 01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:41.440 a deliberate interference from commerce China and down all these 1207 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:46.840 other countries Siberia that really organized this system. 1208 01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:50.639 Yeah, in Russia, But I guess now, who's going to 1209 01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:53.960 point to this flaw? And we'll just assume for the 1210 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:56.679 sake of discussion that they're accurate and that therefore the 1211 01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:01.119 vote can be manipulated from outside. What if Trump wins, 1212 01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:04.159 is that still the truth is still the case? Because 1213 01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:06.840 I know by all the apparently all our lettered agencies 1214 01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:10.119 like the FBI say that Russia wants Trump to win, 1215 01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.559 whereas Iran and North Korea and maybe China want Harris 1216 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:18.640 to win or something. So if it's open to corruption 1217 01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:21.640 on both sides and both sides have different end games, 1218 01:08:22.920 --> 01:08:26.399 do we all question the election regardless of who's declared 1219 01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:29.800 victor on Wednesday? Assuming we know by that, I. 1220 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:34.600 Would say yes, because it's not only whether Trump wins 1221 01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:41.000 and other candidates the down of you know, the ballot individuals. 1222 01:08:41.279 --> 01:08:43.760 The thing that we need to roll up our sleeves 1223 01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:49.159 is that how I guess dumbfounded our government and our 1224 01:08:49.199 --> 01:08:53.159 agents that God re elect and that are not picking 1225 01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:56.000 up the ball and saying, hey, all these people are 1226 01:08:56.039 --> 01:08:59.399 telling us this information, let's spend some time and money 1227 01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:02.920 to see if it's true or not. So I from 1228 01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:05.479 my point of view, after following this for like over 1229 01:09:05.560 --> 01:09:10.279 twenty years now, I can tell you truthfully that the 1230 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:15.960 computer hack who came out and testified in Congress in 1231 01:09:16.039 --> 01:09:20.319 two thousands said do not use any electronic system. His 1232 01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:24.880 name is Eugene Curtis. He's a programmer who admitted writing 1233 01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:28.279 it source code computer back then for a Republican candidate 1234 01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:32.000 to switch quotes, and he's been saying over and over 1235 01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:36.680 and again, no electric electric on ext system should be 1236 01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:38.039 used for elections. 1237 01:09:38.119 --> 01:09:41.800 Well, I can understand his recommendation since we're out of 1238 01:09:41.800 --> 01:09:45.640 time here to Nash, I can understand that recommendation because obviously, 1239 01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:48.720 if it's computer, it's electronic, If it's connected to any 1240 01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:52.680 you know, interactive network, weather, to the World Wide Web, 1241 01:09:52.760 --> 01:09:56.079 or just within some you know, within the state web 1242 01:09:56.119 --> 01:09:59.319 of connectivity, there's going to be a possibility that someone 1243 01:09:59.319 --> 01:10:02.920 could hack in and manipulated. So because of that, in 1244 01:10:02.920 --> 01:10:05.359 that the existence of that threat, and we see it 1245 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:09.279 literally everywhere we turn in every business that there's a 1246 01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:12.439 computer connected. Whether it's fishing or hacking or you know, 1247 01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:16.960 denial of service attacks or just outright manipulation, it's possible. 1248 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:20.359 And because it's possible, it shouldn't be part of the 1249 01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:23.760 equation or the voting process. Dnash. Always appreciate you staying 1250 01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:25.439 on top of this, my friend. I appreciate you calling 1251 01:10:25.479 --> 01:10:27.399 in as well. New Hampshre Gary. You're going to be next. 1252 01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:29.239 You don't mind holding for a moment. 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Garrety, welcome back, Good. 1279 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:40.840 Morning, Brian. 1280 01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:43.520 I hope all is well with you and your your 1281 01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:47.640 leukemia lymphoma. 1282 01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:50.119 That's why I'm specific on that because I like to 1283 01:11:50.239 --> 01:11:52.840 joke I think I won the cancer lottery. I suppose 1284 01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:55.199 if you're going to get diagnosed with cancer, it beats 1285 01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:59.840 the living hell out of you know, leukemia or a geoblast. 1286 01:12:00.039 --> 01:12:02.600 I'm a liver cancer, a pancreatic cancer. I could go 1287 01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:04.880 on for a long long time. So I appreciate the 1288 01:12:04.920 --> 01:12:06.199 concern that. Thank you very much. 1289 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:08.800 I still pray for you about the age. 1290 01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:12.199 You mean a lot to everybody out here. Hey, just 1291 01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:15.960 two points, especially after DANSK got up there. You know 1292 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:20.000 they they've got a big thing that ray Epps White 1293 01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:21.800 is working for Dominion. 1294 01:12:21.399 --> 01:12:24.079 Voter Tabulation Corporation. You know. 1295 01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:29.560 I've seen that up there. The main thing I wanted 1296 01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:32.920 to get across today is what I'm seeing in New 1297 01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:37.600 Hampshire and were mostly a blue mostly a blue state 1298 01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:43.239 that with some unusual rights for freedom of gun rights, 1299 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:45.239 you know, the Second Amendment. 1300 01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:46.119 They stay up here. 1301 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:52.439 Unusual, Yeah, it is unusual, it is. But we're quickly 1302 01:12:52.479 --> 01:12:57.960 becoming a Massachusetts bleedover. Everybody's tired of taxes and they 1303 01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:00.760 want the freedom of tax and they to turn mass 1304 01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:06.760 to tax they want to turn New Hampshire into Massachusetts. 1305 01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:08.560 And New York. We get a lot of bet so. 1306 01:13:08.720 --> 01:13:11.760 I'm seeing a lot of commercials and one of them 1307 01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.560 is the redefinition of rights, much like what they did 1308 01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:20.840 in Rome. They're having advertisements boat blow straight down ticket 1309 01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:24.640 up here, and one of the freedom to be free 1310 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:28.039 of gun violence. And I would like to know, how 1311 01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:31.760 do you guarantee me the right to be free of 1312 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:34.840 gun violence. I want the right to be free of 1313 01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:42.000 hammer violence for car violence, right exactly how do you 1314 01:13:42.119 --> 01:13:45.520 do that? And you know, if anybody starts asking common 1315 01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:47.199 sense questions, you can see. 1316 01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:47.640 Right through it. 1317 01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:53.079 You know they're asking the freedom of your body, access 1318 01:13:53.119 --> 01:13:57.840 and control for abortion up to nine months. Again, you know, 1319 01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:00.880 the government dictates what you can and can't do with 1320 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:05.520 your body. You can't inject yourself with heroin, that's your 1321 01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:09.199 own body. You know the government does have autonomy over 1322 01:14:09.279 --> 01:14:14.119 your body. To an extent they do, and it's just 1323 01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:18.000 real interesting to see how everything's being distorted in bastardized. 1324 01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:20.840 Well, you're right, but see my inust reaction is something 1325 01:14:20.920 --> 01:14:23.199 like that is the point that you glombed onto. How 1326 01:14:23.279 --> 01:14:25.960 is gun violence different from any other form of violence? 1327 01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:29.000 I mean, you know, the Sarnab brothers filled a pressure 1328 01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:33.000 cooker with ball bearings and explosives. Okay, that was violence. 1329 01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:34.239 I don't want to see any of that. But are 1330 01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:37.199 we going to go out and ban pressure cookers, baseball bats, 1331 01:14:37.439 --> 01:14:41.760 bass guitars. I mean, they want to focus on that 1332 01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.359 one thing that brought us our freedoms and liberties in 1333 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:48.600 this country. It's the one great equalizer literally for every 1334 01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:51.199 person out there in the world. I usually, you know, 1335 01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:54.000 regularly you think about that ninety pound woman who was 1336 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:56.000 attacked and she had a firearm, and guess what she 1337 01:14:56.079 --> 01:14:58.880 was able to fend off a six foot plus couple 1338 01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:03.119 of plus hundred guy. That's what we need, the ability 1339 01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:05.960 to defend ourselves. And by taking that away, of course, 1340 01:15:06.279 --> 01:15:10.760 you have to turn to government and local law enforcement 1341 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:14.239 resources in order to have safety. You're gonna wait around 1342 01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:16.000 for nine to one one to call up somebody's kicked 1343 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:17.840 in the front door of your house. I don't want 1344 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:20.600 to be in a position like that. But it's the 1345 01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:25.119 ridiculous part, though, is what you've glombed onto. They focus 1346 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:28.520 on gun violence because they want to take away your guns. 1347 01:15:29.680 --> 01:15:34.199 It's really the ultimate great equalizer and why they want 1348 01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:35.720 to do that. And we live in a country of 1349 01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:39.439 what five hundred million or so firearms, more firearms than 1350 01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:43.159 every man, woman, and child in the United States. Compare 1351 01:15:43.159 --> 01:15:46.560 to the number of firearms to the number of you know, 1352 01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:50.359 crime committed with them, you can see very clearly that 1353 01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:55.399 the vast, vast majority of firearm owners are law abiding citizens, 1354 01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:58.640 either using those firearms for hunting, for the shooting sports 1355 01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:04.520 like I use, and or personal protection bus You know, 1356 01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:09.039 millions of armed citizens are a little difficult thing to 1357 01:16:09.079 --> 01:16:12.279 put the hammer down on if you are an oppressive government. 1358 01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:15.479 Check the number of military resources there are, the number 1359 01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:17.880 of people serving in the military plus the National Guard 1360 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:21.079 collectively all added together, and assuming they would all be 1361 01:16:21.159 --> 01:16:24.800 on the rights on the side of government oppressing you, 1362 01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:27.439 you still way outnumber them. And know, it doesn't matter 1363 01:16:27.479 --> 01:16:29.960 that they have f sixteen fighter jets, because I really 1364 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:34.239 seriously doubt they're going to be dropping bombs on large neighborhoods. 1365 01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:37.359 You know what I'm saying. Check out your revolutionaries around 1366 01:16:37.399 --> 01:16:40.760 the world. It's amazing that the AK forty seven and 1367 01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:43.319 a bunch of crazies in the mountains of Afghanistan we're 1368 01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:46.079 able to kick not just the Russians out, but the 1369 01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:49.279 entire United States military. There's lots of illustrations like that 1370 01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:52.760 out in the world. Six fifty six coming up with 1371 01:16:53.319 --> 01:16:55.680 Top of the Iron News, followed by Christopher Smithman with 1372 01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:57.840 the smith Event at seven twenty. There be more time 1373 01:16:57.840 --> 01:16:59.359 to talk between now and then. I hope you can 1374 01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:02.640 stick around the twenty twenty four election. 1375 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:07.159 Vice President Kamala Harris, I'm clapping you don't. 1376 01:17:07.000 --> 01:17:07.239 Have to do. 1377 01:17:07.560 --> 01:17:08.880 On fifty five KRC. 1378 01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:30.319 This report is sponsored by. 1379 01:17:26.159 --> 01:17:31.199 Seven six pick five KRC Talk station. Try to make 1380 01:17:31.199 --> 01:17:36.199 it a happy Monday, TikTok TikTok, as we fast approach 1381 01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:38.840 next Tuesday, and of course an invitation to listener lunch 1382 01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:42.560 next Wednesday should be interesting. Let's just say the least 1383 01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:46.279 everything is interesting of late. May you live in interesting times? 1384 01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:50.359 Of course is well used and often use quote. It 1385 01:17:50.479 --> 01:17:54.960 is not It is not something that you want to 1386 01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:57.600 have to live through. Though not a good indication anyway, 1387 01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:01.239 Karris listener, lunch Ron's rue next week after the election. 1388 01:18:01.319 --> 01:18:04.199 Hopefully there'll be something there we can celebrate. We'll keep 1389 01:18:04.239 --> 01:18:06.399 our fingers crossed on that one. Christopher smithmen worthy of 1390 01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:08.439 celebration every Monday with the Smith Event. He's gonna be 1391 01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:09.920 on a little bit early today, coming up at seven 1392 01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:12.239 to twenty in the next segment Monday Monday. Brian James 1393 01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:14.439 coming up in one hour. How inflation is hitting your 1394 01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:16.960 grocery card with groceries up? I think what twenty eight 1395 01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:19.800 percent of the last five years? You knew that two 1396 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:22.640 and five US credit card holders are maxed out. And 1397 01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:27.680 another unconstitutional student debt relief plan those with Brian James 1398 01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:29.439 in an hour five one, three, seven, four, nine to 1399 01:18:29.439 --> 01:18:31.239 fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three 1400 01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:33.600 talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. A 1401 01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:36.079 bit of a Shenanigan's declaration by Sharon Coolidge from The 1402 01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:39.159 enquire in the six o'clock hour podcast fifty five care 1403 01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:41.560 Sea dot com. Yes they had a windfall and extra 1404 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:45.199 sixty five million dollars left over from the budget. It's 1405 01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:48.279 worthy looking into what a council has decided to spend 1406 01:18:48.279 --> 01:18:50.359 it on and of course they didn't consult with you. 1407 01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:53.720 What else is coming on? A lot of people talking 1408 01:18:53.720 --> 01:18:55.840 about voter fraud this morning, quite a few calls related 1409 01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:58.439 to it, and a couple of stories connected with that. 1410 01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:02.720 Nothing to do with electronic vot but of course voter 1411 01:19:02.800 --> 01:19:06.399 registration forms to go to Pennsylvania, very important, all critical 1412 01:19:06.439 --> 01:19:09.720 state for the election. Investigators found twenty five hundred voter 1413 01:19:09.800 --> 01:19:16.079 registration forms submitted in two massive batches, sixty of which 1414 01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:21.600 the investigators say are fraudulent. All of these batches were 1415 01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:25.840 submitted to Lancaster County, apparently the largest county in Pennsylvania, 1416 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:29.119 at least in terms of voter numbers. Official say the 1417 01:19:29.159 --> 01:19:33.800 work of a large scale canvassing operations. Not yet revealed 1418 01:19:34.199 --> 01:19:36.640 who's behind it. I'll let you draw your own conclusions 1419 01:19:36.680 --> 01:19:40.960 on that. Roughly twenty five hundred applications hit near Pennsylvania 1420 01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:45.840 October twenty first registration, near the twenty first registration deadline, 1421 01:19:46.239 --> 01:19:52.199 so it was a big application ballot gathering effort. People 1422 01:19:52.199 --> 01:19:54.359 were out, It was paid folks going out and getting 1423 01:19:54.399 --> 01:19:59.520 people to submit applications. Application processors were immediately alarmed when 1424 01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:02.760 they saw all these massive batches showing up multiple applications 1425 01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:07.119 with the same handwriting and signatures. Red flag. Many forms 1426 01:20:07.119 --> 01:20:10.039 filled out on the same day, and applications were previously 1427 01:20:10.119 --> 01:20:14.119 registered voters whose signatures on the forms didn't match the 1428 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:20.960 ones on file, prompting a police investigation. Lancaster County detectives 1429 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:25.000 confirmed many of the applications were indeed fraudulent, indications of 1430 01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:30.439 fraud including inaccurate addresses, false personal identification information, false names, 1431 01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:33.840 names that didn't match the social Security numbers on the forms. 1432 01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:37.600 Some cases, many they say forms had accurate data, but 1433 01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:42.439 the supposed applicant told detectives that they had neither requested 1434 01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:47.039 nor completed the forms. Also confirmed the signatures were not 1435 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:50.600 there as an all against sixty percent vetted so far 1436 01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:54.520 found to be fraudulent, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams 1437 01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:58.600 in a statement LASO Friday during a press conference. It's 1438 01:20:58.680 --> 01:21:01.399 believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a 1439 01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:05.439 large scale canvassing operations for voter registrations that date back 1440 01:21:05.479 --> 01:21:08.680 to June. The majority of the applications received or dated 1441 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.800 August fifteenth and after those canvassing for voter registrations were 1442 01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:20.079 employed and paid to obtain voter registration applications. She noted 1443 01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:24.199 the canvassing operation primarily took place at shopping centers, parking lots, parks, 1444 01:21:24.199 --> 01:21:27.399 grocery shores, sidewalks, and businesses. The fraudulent activity took a 1445 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:31.319 variety of forms, from completely bogus applications, the ones where 1446 01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:34.680 real voter had started to register but then decided not 1447 01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:37.600 to go forward with that, but ended up having their 1448 01:21:37.600 --> 01:21:44.920 applications submitted for them anyway. Hmmm. District attorney said forgery 1449 01:21:44.920 --> 01:21:47.439 of an application, which we have seen evidence of, would 1450 01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:49.680 be a felony of the third degree, punishable laptist seven 1451 01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:54.880 years in prison in a fifteen thousand dollars. Frimeh also 1452 01:21:54.960 --> 01:21:58.720 said the fraud appears to be an organized effort at 1453 01:21:58.720 --> 01:22:03.159 this point, and noting that two other Pennsylvania counties investigating 1454 01:22:03.239 --> 01:22:10.319 similarly suspicious batches of registration applications showing up. Now it 1455 01:22:10.359 --> 01:22:13.119 could be a RICO charge. You got organized criminal activity 1456 01:22:13.199 --> 01:22:15.840 is a third degree felling. That's criminal. You've got multiple 1457 01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:20.199 people working together to achieve the project applications turning in. 1458 01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:22.920 Maybe someone will get prosecuted. I'm not going to hold 1459 01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:25.880 my breath for it, but at least they're on it, 1460 01:22:26.039 --> 01:22:29.840 which gives me some measure of comfort. The question is 1461 01:22:29.880 --> 01:22:33.720 what other states are doing and are they paying well 1462 01:22:33.720 --> 01:22:36.079 as close attention to things like this happening as they 1463 01:22:36.079 --> 01:22:40.520 were in Lancaster County and also in terms of election security. 1464 01:22:40.640 --> 01:22:43.800 The Chinese hackers, as well as other international hackers apparently 1465 01:22:43.880 --> 01:22:49.279 added again reported that the hackers targeted the phones of 1466 01:22:49.399 --> 01:22:52.800 Donald Trump JD Vance along with Vice President Kamala Harrison 1467 01:22:52.880 --> 01:22:56.520 people that are affiliated with her. Hackers believe to be 1468 01:22:56.560 --> 01:22:59.399 tied to the Chinese Intelligence Service. Wall Street jenneral. Reporting 1469 01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:03.880 on this one, investigators notified a bipartisan group of politicians 1470 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:08.359 targeted by the hackers. A number of prominent Democrats in 1471 01:23:08.439 --> 01:23:12.640 Congress among the targets, including staffers Senior Majority Leader Chucky 1472 01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:16.720 Schumer Huh. They said the scope of the attack has 1473 01:23:16.840 --> 01:23:19.920 grown substantial, at least what they know about has grown 1474 01:23:20.159 --> 01:23:23.319 in the recent weeks as their investigation expands. Investigators now 1475 01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:27.439 believe those hackers gained access to US telecommunications infrastructure and 1476 01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:32.600 targeted or compromised at least several dozen companies and people. 1477 01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:38.399 They called their activity unusually aggressive since being discovered last month. 1478 01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:42.920 Hackers have attempted to re enter patched systems after being 1479 01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:45.520 kicked out of them previously. So we discover a hack, 1480 01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:47.680 we eradicate it, and then they're back at it again. 1481 01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:49.760 This is something they've had. It brings up all the time. 1482 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:53.079 This is twenty four hour day, seven day week operations 1483 01:23:53.319 --> 01:23:55.560 the Chinese Communist Party has in place, but they're not 1484 01:23:55.600 --> 01:23:59.239 the only ones, said. The boldness of the hackers' activities, 1485 01:23:59.279 --> 01:24:02.159 the vast of the espionage, and the timing of the 1486 01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:06.640 attacks weeks before the presidential election has some officials worried 1487 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:09.159 about the possibility of a far more significant effort to 1488 01:24:09.159 --> 01:24:13.479 interfere or disrupt with the election. Experts tracking foreign influence 1489 01:24:13.479 --> 01:24:15.640 efforts say the day's right before the election are the 1490 01:24:15.680 --> 01:24:19.159 most vulnerable to attack is the proximity to voting leaves 1491 01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:23.560 little time to mount a response. Going back to Danesh's comment, 1492 01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:26.359 we've known about these problems, well, at least that he 1493 01:24:26.439 --> 01:24:29.079 was referring to now, for more than a decade. It 1494 01:24:29.159 --> 01:24:32.800 sounds like anything been done to fix the coding issues 1495 01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:36.079 and the electronics software. That's a field that I'm not 1496 01:24:36.199 --> 01:24:39.520 naturally necessarily familiar with, although I do read the reports 1497 01:24:39.560 --> 01:24:42.239 that people have posted out there, Doctor Corsi and others. 1498 01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:44.920 Does ra a significant amount of concern in my brain. 1499 01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:47.640 I wish I had more computer programming wherewithal to understand 1500 01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:50.279 the nature of the problem. But that it is a 1501 01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:55.000 problem is what bothers me. One person in the response 1502 01:24:55.039 --> 01:24:59.880 to this Chinese hack, they're taunting us. What is the 1503 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.399 diplomatic messaging behind them doing them showing us that they're 1504 01:25:03.399 --> 01:25:05.840 doing it and continuing to do it after they're caught. 1505 01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:09.439 The brazenness of the operation, the person said, marked a 1506 01:25:09.479 --> 01:25:12.239 new frontier and how the Chinese government is leveraging cyber 1507 01:25:12.279 --> 01:25:17.560 activity against the United States. FBI, in a separate statement Friday, 1508 01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:20.840 confirmed it was investigating what they called unauthorized access to 1509 01:25:20.880 --> 01:25:27.600 commercial telecommunications infrastructure by Yes the Chinese Communist Party. Statement 1510 01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:29.920 was the first formal acknowledgment by the US government about 1511 01:25:29.920 --> 01:25:38.159 this massive breach, so I say. Recently, the White House 1512 01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:41.800 has convened what they're calling highly confidential meetings to assess 1513 01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:45.840 the damage of the compromises, which include intrusions into Verizon 1514 01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:50.239 AT and T and Lumen Court. To the statement from Verizon, 1515 01:25:50.760 --> 01:25:53.439 spokesman Rich Young said, we're aware of the highly sophisticated 1516 01:25:53.520 --> 01:25:57.800 Nation State actor has reportedly targeted several US telecommunications providers 1517 01:25:57.800 --> 01:26:01.279 to gather intelligence so that their company was working with 1518 01:26:01.359 --> 01:26:06.520 law enforcement to assess and remediate any potential impact. No 1519 01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:10.600 conclusive statement on whether it has been fully addressed and 1520 01:26:10.640 --> 01:26:15.159 fully remediated. We all know one thing's for sure. They're 1521 01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:18.640 out there, and to the extent I'm not saying they 1522 01:26:18.680 --> 01:26:21.760 can because they don't know, but to the extent they 1523 01:26:21.840 --> 01:26:26.680 could get into the computer voting and manipulate the vote, 1524 01:26:27.600 --> 01:26:29.720 I think it's a pretty safe thing to say that 1525 01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:33.000 they will. But going back to the point that was 1526 01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:35.920 made earlier, that I made earlier, if the vote can 1527 01:26:35.960 --> 01:26:40.359 be manipulated, and our US lettered agencies are saying that 1528 01:26:40.359 --> 01:26:43.079 the Russians want Trump to win, and we don't know 1529 01:26:43.159 --> 01:26:46.079 necessarily what the Iranians want, Probably they want him to lose, 1530 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:49.279 and we don't know what the Chinese want. I think 1531 01:26:49.279 --> 01:26:53.760 they just want to stir dissent and maybe confusion about 1532 01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:57.560 the outcome of the election. If it can be manipulated, 1533 01:26:57.600 --> 01:27:01.119 it could go either way. So if Trump has declared 1534 01:27:01.159 --> 01:27:02.680 the winner, are you going to take comfort in that? 1535 01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:05.399 Or do you think the thousands of Democrat lawyers in 1536 01:27:05.479 --> 01:27:08.239 literally all fifty states are going to hit the ground 1537 01:27:08.319 --> 01:27:11.560 running with their lawsuits in court to attack the integrity 1538 01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:14.680 based upon what we know about the potential maybe even 1539 01:27:14.720 --> 01:27:19.880 ability for the systems to be hacked. Seven sixteen fifty 1540 01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:24.000 five KR. 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Welcome back, Christopher. 1572 01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:46.960 I hope you had a wonderful weekend. 1573 01:28:48.039 --> 01:28:50.760 Oh I did. Thank you so much for having me on, Brian, 1574 01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:54.479 and I can tell you the voter turnout across the 1575 01:28:54.560 --> 01:29:00.239 country is just astronomical. Obviously that is true right here 1576 01:29:00.319 --> 01:29:05.359 in Hamilton County. Just an amazing turnout people. There's a 1577 01:29:05.399 --> 01:29:07.600 lot of energy around it, but it's still not enough. 1578 01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:10.880 And I think that's why people like yourself and me 1579 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:14.279 and others are saying bank your vote, vote early, so 1580 01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:18.880 we can identify who those low propensity voters might be, 1581 01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:22.960 move move out of the way, so that campaigns who 1582 01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:26.520 are interested, like a Melissa Powers, you know, she was 1583 01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:29.880 running for Hamilton County prosecutor life support, she can knock 1584 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:32.479 on your door and say, hey, it's the Monday before 1585 01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:34.359 the election. Are you titning to vote? 1586 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:37.000 We really need you, right, And that's right, it's so important, 1587 01:29:37.119 --> 01:29:39.920 it is, and it's a really valuable point to double 1588 01:29:39.960 --> 01:29:42.640 down on Christopher. The point being once you voted, the 1589 01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:46.000 parties know that your vote has been cast, and so 1590 01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:49.680 they will no longer use up valuable and limited dollars 1591 01:29:50.039 --> 01:29:53.640 to send you campaign flyers and to come knocking on 1592 01:29:53.680 --> 01:29:56.159 your door. You're taking off the list. So if you're 1593 01:29:56.239 --> 01:29:58.880 tired of getting mailings in that kind of thing or solicitations, 1594 01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:01.760 cast your vote and apparently it'll save the campaign money 1595 01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:03.119 and you won't be bothered anymore. 1596 01:30:04.840 --> 01:30:08.319 Absolutely, I mean the ground games that the candidates have 1597 01:30:08.399 --> 01:30:11.159 to put in place in the last three or four days, 1598 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:14.760 it's just amazing. You know, if you're if your Melissa Powers. 1599 01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:17.880 Are you're a Jim Neil and you're thinking about election day. 1600 01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:19.840 You're trying to see how many volunteers do you have 1601 01:30:19.960 --> 01:30:22.199 to cover every poll? You know, how are you going 1602 01:30:22.279 --> 01:30:25.880 to feed people? How many volunteers do you need on 1603 01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:29.640 the ground knocking on doors across the entire county, Or 1604 01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:32.960 if you're voting locally, across your neighborhood. So you're right, 1605 01:30:33.079 --> 01:30:35.560 I can pass by your house and volunteer says, hey, 1606 01:30:35.560 --> 01:30:38.119 that person voted. I'm going to the next house right. Hey, 1607 01:30:39.000 --> 01:30:42.279 mister and missus Johnson, you haven't voted. Are you going 1608 01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:44.560 to early vote? Are you planning on voting tomorrow? 1609 01:30:44.920 --> 01:30:45.119 Oh? 1610 01:30:45.520 --> 01:30:48.159 I feel like the candidate is in the bag. I 1611 01:30:48.239 --> 01:30:51.560 really don't feel Oh no, we need you to show up. 1612 01:30:52.079 --> 01:30:55.439 We need you to vote absolutely. Or the person says, hey, 1613 01:30:55.439 --> 01:30:59.600 my mom is sick. She's filled out her paper, but 1614 01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:02.439 I can't drive it over. I'll take it over for you. 1615 01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:04.680 I'll put it in the mailbox for you, so you know, 1616 01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:06.920 when you run into all kinds of things. But that 1617 01:31:07.079 --> 01:31:10.119 point of banking your votes so that each of the 1618 01:31:10.159 --> 01:31:13.680 campaigns can look and understand that person is voted, is 1619 01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:16.680 critical and it saves tremendous money and time. 1620 01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:19.640 Brian Thomas, it sure does. And my wife is out 1621 01:31:19.680 --> 01:31:21.920 handing out pink slips over at the Hamilton County bord 1622 01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:25.479 of election yesterday and said voter turnout was strong. That's 1623 01:31:25.479 --> 01:31:27.479 all I've heard is just that it's a lot of 1624 01:31:27.520 --> 01:31:30.319 people are early voting, and I'm happy to hear that. 1625 01:31:30.439 --> 01:31:32.960 But no idea one way or another who's benefiting from 1626 01:31:33.000 --> 01:31:35.439 the early voting, except nationally speaking, it looks like the 1627 01:31:35.479 --> 01:31:38.680 Republicans actually has some of an advantage in the swing states, 1628 01:31:38.960 --> 01:31:39.800 which is shocking. 1629 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:41.520 Yeah. 1630 01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:44.840 Well, places like North Carolina just got smashed by what 1631 01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:50.000 we call hurricanes, Yeah, hurricanes, and they're there saying my 1632 01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:55.560 government forgot me. And at the same time, my government 1633 01:31:55.640 --> 01:32:00.279 was sending money, you know, to places like Lebanon while 1634 01:32:00.319 --> 01:32:03.600 we did not have running water, we didn't have electricity, 1635 01:32:04.039 --> 01:32:08.079 our houses were gone by way of mud slides. And 1636 01:32:08.399 --> 01:32:11.079 I lost my mom or I lost my pet, or 1637 01:32:11.119 --> 01:32:14.720 I lost my child. Believe me, the people in North 1638 01:32:14.760 --> 01:32:18.079 Carolina understand that, and they're voting for recovery. It's a 1639 01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:22.560 recovery vote. They're voting Democrat, Republican or inter independent. They're 1640 01:32:22.640 --> 01:32:26.560 voting who do I think will best respond to my recovery. 1641 01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:29.000 The hurricane has happened, but it's going to take me 1642 01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:32.000 years to recover. Who do I trust with my life? 1643 01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:35.319 And that's why you see people crawling over mudpiles down 1644 01:32:35.319 --> 01:32:38.039 in North Carolina, coming out of the hills, doing anything 1645 01:32:38.079 --> 01:32:40.680 and everything that they can do to get to the polls. 1646 01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:43.199 They are serious. In North Carolina, people were like, oh, 1647 01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:45.199 we don't know whether they're going to vote. Oh, they're 1648 01:32:45.239 --> 01:32:48.520 voting in North Carolina, and they're voting in places like Georgia. 1649 01:32:48.600 --> 01:32:51.079 They remember the Lake in Riley situation. You don't have 1650 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:54.079 to tell them about open borders and what happens. One 1651 01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:58.319 of their citizens was murdered just jogging from a college campus. 1652 01:32:58.479 --> 01:33:01.640 So this election is very different. People are motivated for 1653 01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:04.479 a lot of different reasons. I think this conversation you 1654 01:33:04.520 --> 01:33:07.399 and I are having about bank votes, you're seeing most 1655 01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:11.079 likely more conservative voters who are saying I'm a traditionalist, 1656 01:33:11.119 --> 01:33:13.880 I'm going to vote on election day, changing their minds 1657 01:33:13.880 --> 01:33:16.560 saying I'm going to vote early, bank to vote and 1658 01:33:16.680 --> 01:33:20.000 allow the campaigns to know who voted and who didn't. 1659 01:33:20.039 --> 01:33:21.399 I believe that's what's happening. 1660 01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:24.279 I think you are right Christopher suidtheman will pause, bring 1661 01:33:24.279 --> 01:33:26.279 you back for more of the Smither event this morning 1662 01:33:26.279 --> 01:33:27.880 at seven twenty five. Right now for the five Kerr 1663 01:33:27.960 --> 01:33:30.600 City Talk station. 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There's an accident near Martin Drive that's banking 1705 01:35:30.359 --> 01:35:33.960 traffic onto Fort Washington Way. He spend two seventy five. 1706 01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:36.520 There's an accident. It went and the right two lanes 1707 01:35:36.520 --> 01:35:40.279 are now blocked up because of that wreck. Traffic getting 1708 01:35:40.319 --> 01:35:44.279 heavier from Hamilton Avenue. Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC, 1709 01:35:44.479 --> 01:35:45.279 the talk station. 1710 01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:52.119 That's a seven twenty nine fast approaching seven thirty year 1711 01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:56.119 fifty five KR ceed talk station, Right Thomas with Christopher 1712 01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:58.000 smitham and former vice mayor of the City of Cincinna, 1713 01:35:58.000 --> 01:36:01.439 doing the Smither event. What's on your mind today? Christopher? 1714 01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:10.279 Look, brother, when I hear Hillary Clinton comparing what happened 1715 01:36:10.279 --> 01:36:17.319 at the Madison Square Guarden yesterday to the KKK and 1716 01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:25.319 to Nazis. As an African American man whose parents are 1717 01:36:25.359 --> 01:36:31.960 from the South, whose grandfather I stayed with every summer 1718 01:36:32.000 --> 01:36:35.159 for ten years down in Montgomery, Alabama, had a gun 1719 01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:40.119 in every corner waiting for the clan to come. For 1720 01:36:40.319 --> 01:36:47.800 these politicians to lower themselves to use political points to 1721 01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:53.119 talk about a terrorist organization that put terror on African 1722 01:36:53.159 --> 01:36:59.960 Americans in the South with the Dixiecrats is absolutely insane 1723 01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:08.000 and outrageous. I am, I can't believe how low these 1724 01:37:08.039 --> 01:37:11.800 people are willing to go to divide us around race 1725 01:37:13.079 --> 01:37:18.680 and identity politics. It's an election. Half of America aren't 1726 01:37:18.760 --> 01:37:23.439 KKK members and Nazi members, And the people that went 1727 01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:29.600 yesterday were incredibly diverse, Latinos, African Americans. People had the 1728 01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:35.359 Israeli flags for Hillary Clinton. And any talking point on 1729 01:37:35.479 --> 01:37:39.880 any of these mainstream media outlets to describe what happened 1730 01:37:39.960 --> 01:37:43.600 yesterday other than some political rally, which is what it was, 1731 01:37:44.000 --> 01:37:47.079 and to describe it as a KKK met place, a 1732 01:37:47.159 --> 01:37:51.840 KKK gathering, or a Nazi gathering. Now, let me be 1733 01:37:51.960 --> 01:37:55.560 clear what anti Semitic people look like. They look like 1734 01:37:55.600 --> 01:37:59.119 the college kids that were on these liberal college campuses 1735 01:37:59.399 --> 01:38:04.159 marching around with Hamas flags, climbing, taking the American flag down, 1736 01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:09.199 raising the Hamas flag, putting tints up everywhere. And we 1737 01:38:09.239 --> 01:38:13.319 didn't hear from Hillary Clinton, she did not denounce that behavior. 1738 01:38:13.880 --> 01:38:16.680 As a matter of fact, we didn't hear from Bill Clinton, 1739 01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:20.560 former president. We didn't hear from any of the talking boys. 1740 01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:24.199 We didn't hear from former President Barack Obama. When these 1741 01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:27.960 people on the college campuses, the Ivy League campuses that 1742 01:38:28.079 --> 01:38:33.960 they attended, were flying Harma's flags and saying anti Semitic things, 1743 01:38:34.199 --> 01:38:38.399 there was nothing yesterday that equated to Hitler. And so 1744 01:38:38.479 --> 01:38:43.119 to call another candidate Hitler is so outrageous and so 1745 01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:47.399 over the top. Every American should be denouncing it this morning. 1746 01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:50.800 No matter what your political affiliation is, no matter who 1747 01:38:50.840 --> 01:38:53.319 you like or you don't like in this election, half 1748 01:38:53.399 --> 01:38:57.199 of America are not KKK members and Hitlers. 1749 01:38:58.399 --> 01:38:58.600 You know. 1750 01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:02.079 The other component of the Christopher is it's that, I mean, 1751 01:39:02.119 --> 01:39:05.319 they've dusted this off before and made these challenges and 1752 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:09.720 accusations against Trump before. We have four years of Donald 1753 01:39:09.760 --> 01:39:12.920 Trump as president of the United States of America, and 1754 01:39:13.039 --> 01:39:15.600 I just pushed them and pressed them to answer the question, 1755 01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:18.720 what specifically during those four years did he do that 1756 01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:22.279 You could draw a straight parallel between Donald Trump and 1757 01:39:22.560 --> 01:39:24.239 Adolph Blank and Hitler. 1758 01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:25.520 Right. 1759 01:39:25.840 --> 01:39:28.000 You know, they say he's going to take away democracy. 1760 01:39:28.039 --> 01:39:32.680 He's gonna, you know, unleash the military forces on the people, 1761 01:39:34.479 --> 01:39:36.800 round them up and put them in tournament camps or something. 1762 01:39:36.880 --> 01:39:39.600 I know FDR did that, but I don't recall Donald 1763 01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:42.079 Trump ever doing anything that appeared to come across as 1764 01:39:42.399 --> 01:39:47.079 fascist or dictatorial or I don't know something that reminisced 1765 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:52.479 reminiscent of the eradicated endeavor to eradicate the Jewish population. 1766 01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:56.960 I mean, come on, you know I can't and you 1767 01:39:57.079 --> 01:39:59.680 can't help think anybody can I talk about this, talk 1768 01:39:59.720 --> 01:40:02.520 about out you know how the Jewish community feels. But 1769 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:05.760 I can tell you this. You know, if I were Jewish, 1770 01:40:05.800 --> 01:40:08.800 and I would say, they're equating a person who killed 1771 01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:12.359 six million of by people, right, that seems a little 1772 01:40:12.680 --> 01:40:16.159 over the top. And to say that the that the 1773 01:40:16.680 --> 01:40:21.159 that the event yesterday had any reflection to KKK. I 1774 01:40:21.199 --> 01:40:24.039 can speak to that as an African American, as a 1775 01:40:24.319 --> 01:40:27.479 family that has a rich history in the South and 1776 01:40:27.760 --> 01:40:32.439 understands who the KKK were. That makes no sense. It's 1777 01:40:32.479 --> 01:40:36.600 one thing to say I don't like former President Trump 1778 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:39.880 because I think he's arrogant, because I think he says 1779 01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:44.560 things that are outrageous. Right that you can there's enough 1780 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:47.800 material out there for you to criticize, in my opinion, 1781 01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:51.680 former President Trump. There's enough material for you to sit 1782 01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:55.880 back and and look at the Vice President Harris and 1783 01:40:55.920 --> 01:40:59.159 criticize her on the marriage. Maybe thinks that she did 1784 01:40:59.199 --> 01:41:01.920 when she was the Attorney general are things she didn't 1785 01:41:01.960 --> 01:41:05.960 do regarding the southern border. But to start putting putting 1786 01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:10.159 things into races and calling people hitler and KKK members, 1787 01:41:10.479 --> 01:41:13.439 it is absolutely outrageous, and by the way, it puts 1788 01:41:13.880 --> 01:41:18.079 former Donald Trump's line more on the line today when 1789 01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:20.600 they come out with that rhetoric, what are they gonna 1790 01:41:20.640 --> 01:41:24.560 do when somebody tries to assassinate him again? When you 1791 01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:28.279 start doing what are they gonna do on November the 1792 01:41:28.319 --> 01:41:31.920 sixth if he wins the race? So on January twentieth, 1793 01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:34.600 are you gonna now say you're now swearing in a 1794 01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:38.520 KKK member or you're swearing in hitler. Many they don't 1795 01:41:38.600 --> 01:41:42.800 understand that their rhetoric matters, and their leadership is absolutely 1796 01:41:42.840 --> 01:41:45.560 in the gutter this morning, and I have to respond 1797 01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:49.159 to it with the strongest language that anybody could ever 1798 01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:53.640 hear me, say, go out vote, participate in the political process, 1799 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:57.640 bank your vote, make sure your your language is matching 1800 01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:01.039 what is really happening. The United States is having an 1801 01:42:01.039 --> 01:42:03.960 election and the world is watching we are not going 1802 01:42:03.960 --> 01:42:08.159 to elect on either side a communist or Hitler or 1803 01:42:08.199 --> 01:42:12.000 a fascist. It's in a damn election and half of 1804 01:42:12.039 --> 01:42:14.720 the country is supporting one candidate and the other half 1805 01:42:14.760 --> 01:42:17.279 of supporting the other. And at the end of the day, 1806 01:42:17.439 --> 01:42:21.520 we will have an orderly transition of power like we 1807 01:42:21.680 --> 01:42:24.039 always have had. But I want to speak to this 1808 01:42:24.279 --> 01:42:27.119 former Donald Trump is not Hitler and he's not a 1809 01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:28.199 KKK member. 1810 01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:32.399 Wow, it's crazy that you even have to bring that up. 1811 01:42:32.399 --> 01:42:34.720 But I think what we're looking at here, Christopher, it 1812 01:42:34.800 --> 01:42:37.680 is so bizarre and it makes so little sense, and 1813 01:42:37.720 --> 01:42:39.880 it is not it is grounded in nothing but an 1814 01:42:39.920 --> 01:42:44.119 outright lie. That it reflects the level of desperation that 1815 01:42:44.199 --> 01:42:46.680 Democrats have gotten to. They're stuck that they I mean, 1816 01:42:46.720 --> 01:42:50.119 they picked Hiller or Kamala Harris rather than go through 1817 01:42:50.119 --> 01:42:53.880 a process, rather than having the Democrat individual democrats, you know, 1818 01:42:53.920 --> 01:42:57.199 go through a primary hand selected. She's got nothing to 1819 01:42:57.319 --> 01:43:01.039 run on. She is running away from little everything she 1820 01:43:01.119 --> 01:43:04.760 once strongly stood for. And now every time she's gone 1821 01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:08.199 on television since she was anointed or has it, has 1822 01:43:08.239 --> 01:43:11.600 been interviewed by anyone, she can't even give you a 1823 01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:16.920 straight answer on any topic. Whatsoever. Every time she comes 1824 01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:20.680 on her poll numbers fall. Why because someone out there 1825 01:43:20.680 --> 01:43:23.119 in the world is actually expecting her to answer a question, 1826 01:43:23.479 --> 01:43:25.560 how is your administration going to be different from what 1827 01:43:25.560 --> 01:43:28.880 we've been living under four years, which right now sucks 1828 01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:33.199 for literally everybody? No response? You know, where are you 1829 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.640 on immigration? Where are you? I mean it's fracking is 1830 01:43:36.680 --> 01:43:39.800 another joke issue you can't get. 1831 01:43:39.880 --> 01:43:43.800 Where are you on inflation? Like the biggest thing facing 1832 01:43:44.039 --> 01:43:47.600 all Americans, no matter your race or your gender. I'm 1833 01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:49.840 trying to figure out how to live, how to survive 1834 01:43:50.039 --> 01:43:53.840 every day? I how can I pay my basic bills, 1835 01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:57.880 find my children to good schools, pay for their education, 1836 01:43:58.399 --> 01:44:02.079 have one vacation a year. Americans are This is a 1837 01:44:02.159 --> 01:44:07.960 bread and butter economic election, and those candidates that are 1838 01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:11.640 missing that most likely will not get the votes on 1839 01:44:11.680 --> 01:44:15.039 this run. People are hurting right now. Look, brother, you 1840 01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:17.800 know that I'm a financial planner and I can tell 1841 01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:23.319 you my clients are being laid off quietly across a 1842 01:44:23.479 --> 01:44:29.079 number of industries, and they're taking distributions from their IRA 1843 01:44:29.279 --> 01:44:33.479 accounts to live and they are not fifty nine and 1844 01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:36.199 a half and going out there and trying to find 1845 01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:38.960 a six figure job once you're a middle manager and 1846 01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:42.840 you've been laid off, is very difficult. I have situations 1847 01:44:42.960 --> 01:44:46.520 where both the husband and wife have lost their jobs, 1848 01:44:46.680 --> 01:44:49.239 and so whether they're getting a six month separance or not, 1849 01:44:49.600 --> 01:44:52.479 or a three month separance. When you get your January 1850 01:44:52.960 --> 01:44:57.520 of next year, those Americans who've been laid off are 1851 01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:00.720 going to be struggling. They're voting their posablek Brian Thomas, 1852 01:45:00.800 --> 01:45:03.119 that's all their voting. They're trying to figure out how 1853 01:45:03.159 --> 01:45:05.720 they're going to pay their bills. And they understand that 1854 01:45:05.840 --> 01:45:09.479 this government is releasing their reserves in order to bring 1855 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:11.680 down oil prices. And we know what's going to happen 1856 01:45:11.720 --> 01:45:14.920 to fuel on November sixth as we go into January. 1857 01:45:15.159 --> 01:45:17.399 I mean, we're not dumb. We understand there's an election 1858 01:45:17.479 --> 01:45:20.119 and all of a sudden, Unletted gat its gases down 1859 01:45:20.119 --> 01:45:22.399 to two point fifty five a gallon. Come on, man, 1860 01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:26.600 you're releasing all of the oil, all of our reserves 1861 01:45:26.600 --> 01:45:29.840 that were supposed to use for an emergency for an election. 1862 01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:31.159 We're smart. 1863 01:45:31.239 --> 01:45:34.520 We did it at the same time screaming at you 1864 01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:37.880 using getting rid of internal combustion engines and going out 1865 01:45:37.920 --> 01:45:41.279 and buy an electric vehicle to save the planet. They 1866 01:45:41.279 --> 01:45:45.199 are encouraging the consumption of gasoline by lowering the price, 1867 01:45:45.279 --> 01:45:49.399 a price which would already be low but for the 1868 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:52.680 Democrat policies of trying to take away our carbon or 1869 01:45:52.760 --> 01:45:57.880 rather our carbon producing products like gasoline engines. See, they 1870 01:45:57.880 --> 01:45:59.680 create the problem and then they come to the rescue 1871 01:45:59.720 --> 01:46:01.800 to try to solve it by tapping into the strategic 1872 01:46:01.800 --> 01:46:04.520 padrolling oilserve and putting us in greater jeopardy if there 1873 01:46:04.600 --> 01:46:06.960 is in fact something that goes on in the world 1874 01:46:06.960 --> 01:46:10.319 that makes us need our own oil reserves just to 1875 01:46:10.359 --> 01:46:12.920 buy votes, it's so obvious. 1876 01:46:12.079 --> 01:46:16.039 And oil we probably were buying at twenty and thirty 1877 01:46:16.119 --> 01:46:18.840 dollars a barrow that we're now probably gonna have to 1878 01:46:18.840 --> 01:46:19.640 pay one hundred. 1879 01:46:20.039 --> 01:46:20.279 Yeah. 1880 01:46:20.399 --> 01:46:23.880 Yeah, they're not smart man. The goal is to buy 1881 01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:27.720 low and sell high, right, And they're just the opposite 1882 01:46:27.760 --> 01:46:32.000 because they're hell bent on winding at election right, not 1883 01:46:32.159 --> 01:46:35.680 really thinking about the people. And that's the difference here. 1884 01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:36.399 Brian Thomas. 1885 01:46:36.520 --> 01:46:38.720 Yeah, an election that is, you know, pivoting on the 1886 01:46:38.720 --> 01:46:41.680 whole economic reality. And again I gotta go back. They're 1887 01:46:41.680 --> 01:46:44.600 the ones that spent us into this situation. There would 1888 01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:47.720 be no so called Green New Deal if we just 1889 01:46:47.840 --> 01:46:50.000 move the hell away the idea that you know, carbon 1890 01:46:50.079 --> 01:46:52.560 dioxide is a danger to the planet when it happens 1891 01:46:52.600 --> 01:46:55.039 to be plant food. I mean, we put ourselves in 1892 01:46:55.079 --> 01:46:58.199 this position. We have evaxiculated ourselves. We have cut our 1893 01:46:58.199 --> 01:47:01.279 own throats in the name of this climate religion. You know, 1894 01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:03.680 energy prices would be a lot low. That's why Donald 1895 01:47:03.680 --> 01:47:07.560 Trump's promising to drill baby. It's an old line, drill baby, drill. 1896 01:47:07.640 --> 01:47:11.239 But the point being, we've got it, let's access it, 1897 01:47:11.359 --> 01:47:14.319 let's bring the price down. Nothing is going to stop 1898 01:47:14.439 --> 01:47:18.439 us from using petroleum products in the near future at all. 1899 01:47:18.880 --> 01:47:21.159 I mean, you want a plastic bottle, guess what, you 1900 01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:23.239 need oil out of the ground to make that, among 1901 01:47:23.600 --> 01:47:26.560 thousands of other products, including gasoline. 1902 01:47:26.560 --> 01:47:29.720 It it only makes us more dependent on the Middle 1903 01:47:29.760 --> 01:47:33.720 East and buying oil from those who want to destroy us. 1904 01:47:33.800 --> 01:47:34.359 Yes, it does. 1905 01:47:34.479 --> 01:47:37.960 Mean it's such common sense. And by the by the way, 1906 01:47:38.159 --> 01:47:41.000 the more oil you buy from the Middle East, the 1907 01:47:41.039 --> 01:47:45.600 more bombs, the more planes, the more tanks they can buy. 1908 01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:48.560 I mean, why would we do that, so we're energy 1909 01:47:48.840 --> 01:47:52.000 dependent on our enemies to provide us oil. It's just 1910 01:47:52.439 --> 01:47:56.000 no common sense. And by the way, by the way. 1911 01:47:56.119 --> 01:47:59.840 No one is saying extract the oil at any cost, 1912 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:02.159 saying there are ways to go and get it, be 1913 01:48:02.399 --> 01:48:05.600 environmentally conscious while you do it. But to say I'm 1914 01:48:05.640 --> 01:48:10.000 just gonna shut it down has us in a precarious situation. 1915 01:48:10.359 --> 01:48:12.640 And I think that most people out there Brian, when 1916 01:48:12.680 --> 01:48:16.079 they're thinking about this, they understand that the way food 1917 01:48:16.199 --> 01:48:19.399 and goods get to us is still our truck drivers 1918 01:48:19.439 --> 01:48:22.439 out there. And guess what when when diesel is that 1919 01:48:22.600 --> 01:48:25.279 six and seven dollars a gallon. By the way, if 1920 01:48:25.279 --> 01:48:27.399 you're riding around and you're listening to me right now, 1921 01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:30.479 we need you to participate and vote, make sure that 1922 01:48:30.560 --> 01:48:34.600 you vote and participate in the process. But those truck 1923 01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:36.680 drivers that are out there, they know that they were 1924 01:48:36.680 --> 01:48:39.520 paying six dollars a gallon for diesel. What do you 1925 01:48:39.560 --> 01:48:42.399 think they're gonna eat it? No, they pass it on. 1926 01:48:42.680 --> 01:48:46.119 That's what we call inflation. And that's what you hear. 1927 01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:49.520 That's what you hear the candidate saying, I'm gonna lower 1928 01:48:49.560 --> 01:48:52.359 the prices of fuel. And by the way, when I 1929 01:48:52.399 --> 01:48:55.079 do that, it's going to impact the economy in so 1930 01:48:55.319 --> 01:48:57.960 many different ways. We're gonna be able to bring down 1931 01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:02.199 inflation at a much lot more of a rapid pace. Chris, 1932 01:49:02.239 --> 01:49:04.800 really what you hear with that articulation. 1933 01:49:04.439 --> 01:49:07.920 Get on X at vote Smithlman. That's it X and 1934 01:49:08.159 --> 01:49:10.079 you'll be glad you're hooked up to Christopher Smithman. I 1935 01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:12.039 always enjoy hearing from me. Christopher. Thanks for the Monday 1936 01:49:12.039 --> 01:49:14.039 morning spleened done again. I hope you have a fabulous 1937 01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:16.520 week and all the kinds of love and the world 1938 01:49:16.520 --> 01:49:18.399 and health to you and your family and Brian. 1939 01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:20.960 And Brian, I met you one of your people that 1940 01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:24.000 loves you. His name is Patrick up in the Eaton area, 1941 01:49:24.239 --> 01:49:25.880 and he gives you again. I send it to you 1942 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:27.159 yesterday a great shout out. 1943 01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:27.479 He said. 1944 01:49:27.520 --> 01:49:29.119 He listens to you every morning. 1945 01:49:29.239 --> 01:49:29.800 That's what it says. 1946 01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:30.760 I appreciate that. 1947 01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:33.279 It was all about Brian Thomlins. He's going to make 1948 01:49:33.279 --> 01:49:35.159 it to a listener lunch, he said. I'm going to 1949 01:49:35.199 --> 01:49:37.920 make it down to a listener lunch. God bless you, brother. 1950 01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:40.079 God bless you Christopher. Thanks for passing that along and 1951 01:49:40.119 --> 01:49:42.560 put a smile on my face yesterday seven for forty 1952 01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:44.680 three I Fifi five krcity talk station call an Electric 1953 01:49:44.720 --> 01:49:47.880 Family and nobert it since nineteen ninety nine, Priding themselves 1954 01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:53.119 on their terrific reputation, honest reputation, outstanding customer service, outstanding 1955 01:49:53.199 --> 01:49:55.920 electrical work, well oiled machine. They are in your home 1956 01:49:55.920 --> 01:49:58.600 and a project big and small and done. Had big 1957 01:49:58.640 --> 01:50:01.279 projects and small project of my home. 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Two in five US cardholders maxed out. And 1989 01:51:38.439 --> 01:51:42.640 another unconstitutional student debt relief pan our plan UH springing 1990 01:51:42.640 --> 01:51:44.479 from the comments a Christopher Smith and try to lower 1991 01:51:44.520 --> 01:51:47.039 the gas prices to get you to vote for them 1992 01:51:47.600 --> 01:51:49.399 only to have the price of gas go back up, 1993 01:51:51.479 --> 01:51:54.199 trying to buy your votes by forgiving New Year's student debt. 1994 01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:56.600 Now speak to all the people out in the world 1995 01:51:56.640 --> 01:51:59.279 who did not encourage student debt, who went into the 1996 01:51:59.359 --> 01:52:03.520 trades or actually paid it off, and ask them how 1997 01:52:03.520 --> 01:52:05.920 they feel about that. Let's see what Wayne's got to say. Hey, Wayne, 1998 01:52:05.960 --> 01:52:09.479 thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday, Happy Monday. 1999 01:52:09.520 --> 01:52:12.800 Brian just got a quick question for you. If we 2000 01:52:12.920 --> 01:52:17.239 got the super majority in Ohio, how do the Democrats 2001 01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:21.640 get all these ballot issues? They got the abortion one 2002 01:52:21.760 --> 01:52:24.880 last year, and then this year they got the issue one. 2003 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:26.520 How does that happen? 2004 01:52:27.319 --> 01:52:30.399 Well, as to the abortion issue, like it or not, 2005 01:52:31.199 --> 01:52:34.439 poll after poll after poll, so's the majority of Americans 2006 01:52:34.520 --> 01:52:38.000 want some right to have an abortion, whether it's you know, 2007 01:52:38.119 --> 01:52:40.119 a little tiny window or all the way up to 2008 01:52:40.159 --> 01:52:43.159 the ninth oneth of pregnancy. It polls really well. Usually 2009 01:52:43.199 --> 01:52:46.399 a close to sixty percent wants something by way of abortion. 2010 01:52:46.479 --> 01:52:49.479 The people who want zero abortion are always polling in 2011 01:52:49.560 --> 01:52:51.680 the minority. I know people hate to hear that, but 2012 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:54.479 it's the truth. So I draw the parallel between the 2013 01:52:54.560 --> 01:52:58.000 abortion issue Ohio as the same as the gambling issue. 2014 01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:01.640 Most people don't care if you gamble, why not have gambling? 2015 01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:03.920 Vegas has had it for years, Rena has got it. Look, 2016 01:53:03.960 --> 01:53:06.439 they got it over in Southeast India. How about us? 2017 01:53:07.079 --> 01:53:10.119 They don't look behind the window dressing of what it was, 2018 01:53:10.239 --> 01:53:14.159 which was establishing specific casinos and basically a cartel thing 2019 01:53:14.720 --> 01:53:18.399 like that original marijuana legalization bill which we rejected because 2020 01:53:18.479 --> 01:53:21.079 well it handed over the money to a hand select 2021 01:53:21.119 --> 01:53:25.000 people ahead of time. But they want abortion, so like, okay, 2022 01:53:25.079 --> 01:53:27.840 I think they vote for abortion now. So far as 2023 01:53:27.920 --> 01:53:32.279 Issue one's concerned, completely different thing people will usually and 2024 01:53:32.399 --> 01:53:34.680 we did. There was a research analyst from UCE on 2025 01:53:34.840 --> 01:53:37.680 last week on my show. If it's really complicated and 2026 01:53:37.760 --> 01:53:40.640 people don't know anything about it, they tend to vote no, 2027 01:53:40.960 --> 01:53:43.239 just as a knee jerk reactions like I don't get it, 2028 01:53:43.359 --> 01:53:45.520 So I'm going to keep the status quo. But maybe 2029 01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:47.399 a lot of people on that one. But there's been 2030 01:53:47.439 --> 01:53:50.079 a lot of advertising coming in talking about how awesome 2031 01:53:50.239 --> 01:53:52.760 Issue one's going to be, and people may be swayed 2032 01:53:52.800 --> 01:53:56.039 by that and not have read the language or understand 2033 01:53:56.119 --> 01:53:59.439 the ramifications for it in Ohio, and Issue one isn't 2034 01:53:59.479 --> 01:54:04.680 necessary at least on its face. A blue or red thing. Oh, 2035 01:54:04.760 --> 01:54:06.920 it's about Jerry Manning. It's about Jerry Manning. We've been 2036 01:54:06.960 --> 01:54:09.920 to court so many times. He's jerremanding these politicians and 2037 01:54:10.199 --> 01:54:12.079 you know, favor in their own best interests. Blah blah blah. 2038 01:54:12.079 --> 01:54:14.439 Well that's all this this independent committee's going to be, 2039 01:54:14.479 --> 01:54:16.479 except they won't be accountable to the voters of the 2040 01:54:16.520 --> 01:54:20.520 state of Ohio. Voters should rejected for that reason alone. 2041 01:54:20.560 --> 01:54:23.399 But then when you read it, you're like your eyes glazed, 2042 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:27.239 They're like, what the hell, how complicated the process is, 2043 01:54:27.319 --> 01:54:30.680 and how all kinds of nefarious opportunities exist within it? 2044 01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:32.880 And then move away from it and you find out, yes, 2045 01:54:33.119 --> 01:54:39.359 in fact, is a real solid blue backed issue. We've 2046 01:54:39.439 --> 01:54:43.319 got foreign money from the Swiss guy that's whatever the 2047 01:54:43.359 --> 01:54:45.399 hell his name is. Sorry, Marien, I forget it, but 2048 01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:47.680 you know, twenty million dollars of his money, all the 2049 01:54:47.720 --> 01:54:51.119 Stark money coming in, all the Democrat organizations, from teachers' 2050 01:54:51.199 --> 01:54:54.840 unions across the board support it. Why because we live 2051 01:54:54.880 --> 01:54:57.319 in a red state in Ohio. Now, they can't win 2052 01:54:57.399 --> 01:54:59.000 at the voting box. So what they want to do 2053 01:54:59.159 --> 01:55:02.279 is change the district so that better benefits the Democrat 2054 01:55:02.359 --> 01:55:04.359 candidates and gives them a better shot of winning when 2055 01:55:04.359 --> 01:55:07.960 they otherwise couldn't lose. So that one, it's sort of 2056 01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:11.079 a political on its face, but it is very political 2057 01:55:11.439 --> 01:55:13.600 when you look who's behind it and the motives behind it. 2058 01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:17.560 So that's my analysis, Wayne. So yeah, you know, abortion 2059 01:55:17.880 --> 01:55:21.680 isn't an R or D issue, and I know you 2060 01:55:21.840 --> 01:55:23.960 know people on the Republican side of the ledger that 2061 01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:27.680 do favor some access and rights to an abortion and 2062 01:55:27.960 --> 01:55:30.680 the Democrat Party, oh that's the that's the first that's 2063 01:55:30.720 --> 01:55:34.359 what they run on, which is really eerie, ghoulish and weird, 2064 01:55:35.800 --> 01:55:39.199 but they do own the party of protecting abortion rights 2065 01:55:39.239 --> 01:55:43.079 and Republicans historically have owned trying to protect the interest 2066 01:55:43.159 --> 01:55:47.119 of life. So that's again, it's a far more political issue, 2067 01:55:47.159 --> 01:55:51.680 but in terms of crossing political boundaries, abortion quite typically does. 2068 01:55:52.680 --> 01:55:55.359 That's my take and I gotta stick with it, Wayne, 2069 01:55:55.720 --> 01:55:59.159 That's all I got. Were out of time in this segment. Sorry, Carl, 2070 01:55:59.199 --> 01:56:01.239 can't get to your call. We got money Monday with 2071 01:56:01.279 --> 01:56:03.000 Brian James coming up after the top of the Our News. 2072 01:56:03.000 --> 01:56:05.319 I hope we can stick around every day. The most 2073 01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:08.279 important day is election day. You're going to hear every 2074 01:56:08.399 --> 01:56:11.239 single bit of information when you we like to listen 2075 01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:16.239 fifty five KRS this report talk about what they're doing 2076 01:56:16.359 --> 01:56:19.199 keeping him in court all day on fifty five KRC. 2077 01:56:22.399 --> 01:56:25.039 Heyto five. If you're a fifty five cars Get Talks station. 2078 01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:28.399 Very happy Monday to you. Except for Bengals fans or 2079 01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:33.800 a little upset or that snatching defeat from the jaws 2080 01:56:33.840 --> 01:56:36.159 of victory yesterday, Welcome back to the fifty five KRC 2081 01:56:36.279 --> 01:56:38.640 Morning Show. It is Monday, which means this time for 2082 01:56:38.800 --> 01:56:42.119 money Monday, all Worth Financials. Brian James returns to talk 2083 01:56:42.159 --> 01:56:45.079 about food prices. To start with, Welcome back, my friends. 2084 01:56:45.119 --> 01:56:46.399 Always good talk having you on the show. 2085 01:56:46.920 --> 01:56:49.399 Absolutely, thanks for the hospitality as always. 2086 01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:51.800 And let's start with a boo day this time. Yeah, 2087 01:56:51.880 --> 01:56:55.720 I know, in a boo day, true, And we just 2088 01:56:55.760 --> 01:56:57.239 can't win at home, then we just get rid of 2089 01:56:57.279 --> 01:56:59.720 the stadium all together and play elsewhere, you. 2090 01:56:59.800 --> 01:57:02.359 Know, short term, long term gain or maybe the other 2091 01:57:02.359 --> 01:57:02.800 way around. 2092 01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:06.960 I don't better than putting another quarter billion dollars into 2093 01:57:07.000 --> 01:57:09.520 it out I'm sorry, I'm sorry, one point three billion 2094 01:57:09.560 --> 01:57:12.039 dollars to upcall say don't don't low ball this soon 2095 01:57:12.439 --> 01:57:14.520 too early in the negotiations. I guess the new locker 2096 01:57:14.600 --> 01:57:17.079 rooms didn't help them. You know, that's maybe they really 2097 01:57:17.119 --> 01:57:19.079 didn't need that either. Okay, we can have a field 2098 01:57:19.159 --> 01:57:20.359 day with that, but we're not We're gonna have a 2099 01:57:20.399 --> 01:57:21.640 field day on food prices. 2100 01:57:22.000 --> 01:57:22.159 Now. 2101 01:57:22.239 --> 01:57:24.439 I recognize that you can scream and yell about inflation 2102 01:57:24.520 --> 01:57:27.840 all day long as a political candidate, question what could 2103 01:57:27.960 --> 01:57:31.279 a candidate actually do about the price of food, because many, 2104 01:57:31.479 --> 01:57:34.720 as your article from nerd Wallet indicates, maybe those factors 2105 01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:38.960 are completely outside of the realm of controllability. Like bird flu. Okay, 2106 01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:40.800 if you've got bird flu going through and it's wiping 2107 01:57:40.840 --> 01:57:44.079 out tens of thousands of chickens, you're gonna have a 2108 01:57:44.159 --> 01:57:46.720 price increase for eggs. I don't know that there's hands 2109 01:57:46.760 --> 01:57:48.960 that can be laid on that problem, but that seems 2110 01:57:48.960 --> 01:57:50.680 to be one of those active God things which is 2111 01:57:51.199 --> 01:57:55.119 out of the hands of politicians. The price of diesel fuel, however, 2112 01:57:55.399 --> 01:57:57.640 is within the realm of fixability. And of course, the 2113 01:57:57.720 --> 01:58:00.439 price of diesel impacts the price of literally anything that 2114 01:58:00.520 --> 01:58:04.199 has to be shipped, like food, and it has increased 2115 01:58:04.279 --> 01:58:07.840 dramatically twenty two percent since twenty twenty. And if we 2116 01:58:08.000 --> 01:58:11.319 drilled more or refined more, the price wouldn't necessarily go down. 2117 01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:14.039 But let's talk about some of these other factors. Brian James. 2118 01:58:14.600 --> 01:58:16.319 So let's set the table here a little bit. Brian, 2119 01:58:16.399 --> 01:58:18.760 So we all know, we all know that food prices 2120 01:58:18.800 --> 01:58:20.600 in general are up. We feel that, you know, there's 2121 01:58:20.600 --> 01:58:22.840 nobody exempt from that. Everybody feels at every trip to 2122 01:58:22.880 --> 01:58:25.000 the grocery store. So let's put some numbers to it. 2123 01:58:25.399 --> 01:58:29.159 Twenty eight percent increases since twenty nineteen, and that's coming 2124 01:58:29.279 --> 01:58:32.279 from several different sources. So a lot of it is 2125 01:58:32.319 --> 01:58:35.319 operating costs. You know, it's just cost more to produce things. 2126 01:58:35.399 --> 01:58:37.640 You have to pay more for labor and moving it 2127 01:58:37.720 --> 01:58:40.640 around the country. Obviously, fuel cast fuel cost more, as 2128 01:58:40.720 --> 01:58:43.920 you just reference to. Beef prices were driven up, for example, 2129 01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:46.880 by drought and high green prices. Rising interest rates have 2130 01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:51.159 also reduced it reduced the size of cattle herds because 2131 01:58:51.199 --> 01:58:53.479 you know, farmers tend to mortgage their cattle just like 2132 01:58:53.520 --> 01:58:55.439 we mortgage our homes to just as a way of 2133 01:58:55.479 --> 01:58:58.520 doing business. Supply chain disruptions, of course, have been a thing. 2134 01:58:58.560 --> 01:59:00.479 We don't need to be beat that to death anymore. 2135 01:59:00.760 --> 01:59:02.920 Other than the one big point to remember is I 2136 01:59:03.039 --> 01:59:05.720 remember this from fifth grade social studies. Ukraine was always 2137 01:59:05.840 --> 01:59:07.800 known as the bread basket of the world. Well that's 2138 01:59:07.840 --> 01:59:11.399 a thing now of course, because it's the bread basket 2139 01:59:11.479 --> 01:59:13.039 isn't as big as it used to be thanks to 2140 01:59:13.039 --> 01:59:14.880 the war over there, so that's going to drive things up. 2141 01:59:15.279 --> 01:59:17.039 But I think, Brian, I think that the big one 2142 01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:19.000 out there that we don't talk about much because I 2143 01:59:19.039 --> 01:59:21.840 think we're really too scared to deal with it, is 2144 01:59:21.920 --> 01:59:22.960 corporate profitability. 2145 01:59:23.479 --> 01:59:26.239 So grocery stores profit margins have increased. 2146 01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:29.119 Revenues are outpacing costs by more than six percent in 2147 01:59:29.159 --> 01:59:31.680 twenty twenty one and seven percent in twenty twenty three, 2148 01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:35.640 so they're expanding their profit margins during this time period, 2149 01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:38.439 and that just makes me go, wait a minute, where's 2150 01:59:38.479 --> 01:59:40.560 the actual problem. There are real things out there, like 2151 01:59:40.640 --> 01:59:43.640 the bird flu. There are always things out there driving 2152 01:59:43.720 --> 01:59:45.800 the movement of prices. But at the same time, I 2153 01:59:46.720 --> 01:59:49.880 can't help but wonder if every time there's a scary headline, 2154 01:59:50.279 --> 01:59:52.319 somebody in a boardroom somewhere says, you know what, I 2155 01:59:52.399 --> 01:59:54.479 bet we can squeeze some profit margin into this and 2156 01:59:54.600 --> 01:59:55.680 people won't notice. 2157 01:59:56.159 --> 01:59:59.199 Well, I guess, or they will notice and realize that 2158 01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:02.079 Well I can without I know that The article referenced 2159 02:00:02.119 --> 02:00:05.880 high cocoa prices cocoa productions down. Obviously, that's going to 2160 02:00:05.960 --> 02:00:07.880 cause an increase in you know, your Hershey bar and 2161 02:00:07.920 --> 02:00:10.199 anything else that's got chocolate in it. And as it 2162 02:00:10.279 --> 02:00:14.520 points out, people just cut back on quantities they buy. Why, Well, 2163 02:00:15.000 --> 02:00:17.720 chocolate isn't a necessary thing. You may love it, and 2164 02:00:17.800 --> 02:00:19.720 you may you think you need it, but you really don't. 2165 02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:24.600 It's not necessarily nutritional. But people can make choices and 2166 02:00:24.920 --> 02:00:27.479 just choose not to buy it, which, of course that's 2167 02:00:27.520 --> 02:00:30.119 according to the data that's in here. People have done. 2168 02:00:30.119 --> 02:00:32.399 It's like I will not abide. And then they go 2169 02:00:32.560 --> 02:00:34.159 back to, well, if we can't get people to buy 2170 02:00:34.199 --> 02:00:36.880 it at that, we'll just shrink the number of ounces 2171 02:00:36.960 --> 02:00:38.520 from a twelve ounce bar down to a nine and 2172 02:00:38.560 --> 02:00:40.439 a half ounce bar. It it'll appear as though the 2173 02:00:40.520 --> 02:00:42.840 price has gone down, but actually you're getting less quantity 2174 02:00:42.880 --> 02:00:44.800 from the money paid. I mean, we're smarter than that. 2175 02:00:44.960 --> 02:00:47.680 We can see that. It doesn't take rocket sciences figure 2176 02:00:47.720 --> 02:00:50.760 that that shift in packaging size. 2177 02:00:51.760 --> 02:00:54.600 Yeah, I'm reminded when when you bring up the shrinkflation topic, 2178 02:00:54.840 --> 02:00:57.319 I can give you a quick example just from our house. Now, 2179 02:00:57.399 --> 02:00:59.239 this is a while ago, back when the kids were 2180 02:00:59.239 --> 02:01:02.159 eating baby food, these little fruit bar things that they loved, well, 2181 02:01:02.199 --> 02:01:05.840 one of them fell behind the shelves and sat there 2182 02:01:05.920 --> 02:01:08.479 for several years, and then when we finally cleaned it out, 2183 02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:11.279 I found it and I realized that the fresh ones 2184 02:01:11.319 --> 02:01:13.399 from last week that were sitting on the shelf were 2185 02:01:13.560 --> 02:01:15.840 literally about two thirds the size of the one that 2186 02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:18.319 had fallen behind the shelves and sat there for three years. 2187 02:01:18.760 --> 02:01:21.119 But to the point did we stop buying them? No, 2188 02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:23.640 because that was a convenience factor for us. We grumbled 2189 02:01:23.640 --> 02:01:25.600 about it, for sure, but the kids liked them. We 2190 02:01:25.640 --> 02:01:27.640 didn't have to argue. It was a quick snack for them, 2191 02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:30.159 and it wasn't the normal garbage that they that they 2192 02:01:30.279 --> 02:01:32.920 usually want. So we swiped their credit card anyway. And 2193 02:01:33.000 --> 02:01:35.840 that's that's kind of you know, if you've got the 2194 02:01:35.920 --> 02:01:37.920 ability to do it, you may not want to, but 2195 02:01:38.000 --> 02:01:40.479 you still do it anyway. And I think that's a 2196 02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.000 way for that the companies can lean into again continuing 2197 02:01:43.039 --> 02:01:45.399 to squeeze that profit margin out because they know we're 2198 02:01:45.439 --> 02:01:48.960 not going to change drastically. Americans aren't too excited about sacrifice. 2199 02:01:49.000 --> 02:01:53.399 That's true, but we are as Americans don't mind profitability, 2200 02:01:53.600 --> 02:01:57.960 and six percent margin isn't really that much. I mean, 2201 02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:00.159 you look at other profit margins for you know, peopleople 2202 02:02:00.199 --> 02:02:02.399 to produce goods and services. I mean it's thirty forty, 2203 02:02:02.439 --> 02:02:05.479 can be fifty percent or even more. But we obviously, 2204 02:02:05.560 --> 02:02:08.520 because food is an absolute necessity, we all get all 2205 02:02:08.560 --> 02:02:11.520 bent out of shape when profit margins jump a little bit. 2206 02:02:11.640 --> 02:02:15.000 But there's still really comparatively low to many businesses, if 2207 02:02:15.039 --> 02:02:15.760 not most. 2208 02:02:16.159 --> 02:02:19.000 That's true, but groceries are always razor thin profit markes. 2209 02:02:19.159 --> 02:02:21.600 So six seven percent is a lot more than the norm. 2210 02:02:21.680 --> 02:02:24.359 The norm is half that or even lower sometimes because 2211 02:02:24.439 --> 02:02:27.880 that's how those businesses have to run to simply maintain 2212 02:02:27.960 --> 02:02:29.960 any level of profitability, and that's why they have to 2213 02:02:30.000 --> 02:02:31.640 get so big. Right, You don't have mom and pop 2214 02:02:31.680 --> 02:02:34.520 grocery stores anymore for the large part, because they simply 2215 02:02:34.560 --> 02:02:37.479 can't afford it to compete with the Kroger's and the 2216 02:02:37.479 --> 02:02:40.680 Walmarts of the world that can function and declare success 2217 02:02:40.720 --> 02:02:43.239 at a two to three percent profit margin. So profit 2218 02:02:43.319 --> 02:02:47.399 margins doubling it doesn't look like a big number. But again, 2219 02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:49.319 my only point of this, like you said, you already 2220 02:02:49.359 --> 02:02:51.960 referenced it is that the profit margin is the American way. 2221 02:02:52.039 --> 02:02:54.239 I often use the phrase United States a profit margin 2222 02:02:54.319 --> 02:02:56.399 because we are all about the stock market. We're all 2223 02:02:56.439 --> 02:02:59.239 about what are the investments we're making worth and all 2224 02:02:59.319 --> 02:03:01.399 that kind of thing. Uh and and this is what 2225 02:03:01.600 --> 02:03:03.640 drives it so and I don't and I will make 2226 02:03:03.720 --> 02:03:05.560 no you know, no bones about it. I personally have 2227 02:03:05.680 --> 02:03:07.720 benefited from the stock market what it has done over 2228 02:03:07.800 --> 02:03:10.359 the last you know, several decades, and that's a core 2229 02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:12.640 part of it. But it's just like anything else, we 2230 02:03:12.720 --> 02:03:14.640 can take it too far and it leaves a mark. 2231 02:03:15.039 --> 02:03:17.720 Well, I noted grocery price is now one point three 2232 02:03:17.760 --> 02:03:21.079 percent higher year over if you look at the September 2233 02:03:21.159 --> 02:03:23.680 as the calendar year for the or the fiscal year. 2234 02:03:24.000 --> 02:03:27.760 At least that's lower than the inflation rate. That's true now. 2235 02:03:27.920 --> 02:03:29.640 Now, the the other headline that goes along with that 2236 02:03:29.800 --> 02:03:33.319 is restaurant prices have gone up by almost four percent. Restaurants, 2237 02:03:33.359 --> 02:03:35.720 of course, are eating the same or are taking the 2238 02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:39.000 same hits to the cost of their goods sold as 2239 02:03:39.319 --> 02:03:41.720 your your average person just buying groceries at the store. 2240 02:03:42.279 --> 02:03:45.199 But profit margins are increasing by four percent at those restaurants, 2241 02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:48.720 which is more than the cost of the groceries. And 2242 02:03:48.880 --> 02:03:52.680 in addition, remember the staff, the weight staff that is 2243 02:03:52.840 --> 02:03:55.640 on you. They're they're working for you, they're they cost 2244 02:03:55.760 --> 02:03:58.720 more now too. So restaurants have seen it from both directions. 2245 02:03:58.960 --> 02:04:02.399 Well, and that's the thing about you know, and Democrats 2246 02:04:02.439 --> 02:04:04.720 are using the ones talking about raising minimum wage of 2247 02:04:04.800 --> 02:04:06.840 twenty five dollars an hour, and whether you're for that 2248 02:04:07.079 --> 02:04:10.079 or against it, if you're for it, it is going 2249 02:04:10.159 --> 02:04:13.760 to increase wherever it has to be raised. You know, 2250 02:04:13.880 --> 02:04:16.159 Restaurant workers are some of the ones that would benefit 2251 02:04:16.439 --> 02:04:20.640 personally from a twenty five dollars per hour salary. But 2252 02:04:21.000 --> 02:04:23.239 that means that the particular restaurant's going to have to 2253 02:04:23.319 --> 02:04:25.399 increase the price of what they're selling to cover the 2254 02:04:25.520 --> 02:04:25.960 increase in. 2255 02:04:26.000 --> 02:04:29.239 Wages, right, And I think this is a place where 2256 02:04:29.279 --> 02:04:32.880 the combination of restaurants having to raise costs for both food, 2257 02:04:33.159 --> 02:04:35.880 which affects people in their homes as well, but restaurants 2258 02:04:35.960 --> 02:04:38.760 also have to deal with the cost of labor. I 2259 02:04:38.880 --> 02:04:41.039 think that's really going to imped to make people look 2260 02:04:41.279 --> 02:04:44.399 very very closely at what does it actually cost me 2261 02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:46.359 to go out and is this food that somebody is 2262 02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:49.079 bringing to me already prepared, is it really better than 2263 02:04:49.119 --> 02:04:49.880 what I could do at home. 2264 02:04:49.960 --> 02:04:50.840 Do I like it enough? 2265 02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:52.920 And I'm looking I'll be honest, Brian, I'm looking squarely 2266 02:04:52.960 --> 02:04:55.520 at Fishes. Frishes has gone through. They've been in the 2267 02:04:55.560 --> 02:04:58.800 headlines lately, right, yeah, close restaurants around town and the 2268 02:04:58.920 --> 02:05:00.680 quality just is and what it used to do. 2269 02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:01.399 You are right, and. 2270 02:05:01.359 --> 02:05:04.720 That's in everybody talking about, well I'm going to miss 2271 02:05:04.760 --> 02:05:06.079 this place, but it's just not what it was. And 2272 02:05:06.119 --> 02:05:07.960 I think I read that about six or seven places 2273 02:05:08.000 --> 02:05:10.159 over the weekend, so I think that's going to happen 2274 02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:12.199 a lot more. That's just a microcosm of what's coming 2275 02:05:12.239 --> 02:05:13.119 for the restaurant industry. 2276 02:05:13.359 --> 02:05:13.479 You know. 2277 02:05:13.600 --> 02:05:15.840 I've but you know, and we can pick on Frishes 2278 02:05:15.840 --> 02:05:18.119 because you're right, And I mean I used to have 2279 02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:20.439 a nostalgic feeling about Frishes. It was one of the 2280 02:05:20.479 --> 02:05:23.399 only quote unquote fast food that I would actually crave 2281 02:05:23.439 --> 02:05:25.680 because I was a little kid. I love the Frishes, 2282 02:05:25.720 --> 02:05:27.479 big boy, But you go in and get it now 2283 02:05:27.560 --> 02:05:30.199 it just isn't the same. But Brian, I don't know 2284 02:05:30.199 --> 02:05:32.840 what your experience has been, but the food that we 2285 02:05:32.960 --> 02:05:35.479 have gotten by way of carry out since the pandemic 2286 02:05:35.560 --> 02:05:39.000 has been over. The quantities are lower, the price is 2287 02:05:39.159 --> 02:05:41.159 much higher, and I got to tell you, the quality 2288 02:05:41.279 --> 02:05:44.079 almost across the board has really suffered. I don't know 2289 02:05:44.119 --> 02:05:46.319 if it's the workers that are cooking it or what 2290 02:05:46.520 --> 02:05:49.640 that's coming from, but I have been really, really disappointed 2291 02:05:49.680 --> 02:05:53.640 in a whole lot of carry out over the over 2292 02:05:53.760 --> 02:05:54.399 quite some time. 2293 02:05:54.479 --> 02:05:54.640 Now. 2294 02:05:55.359 --> 02:05:57.239 Yeah, I've seen the same thing, and I think it's 2295 02:05:57.319 --> 02:05:59.600 just all a It's just a factor of where that 2296 02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:00.680 industy tree is right now. 2297 02:06:00.760 --> 02:06:02.920 It's hard to find good help. It's hard to keep 2298 02:06:03.000 --> 02:06:03.680 good help when you. 2299 02:06:03.680 --> 02:06:05.560 Have them, because it doesn't take that much for somebody 2300 02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:08.039 to find a better opportunity anymore. And they're just is 2301 02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:12.520 so much less room for error, Brian, when something again, 2302 02:06:12.560 --> 02:06:14.319 I'll pick on fishes again. I still love fishes. I 2303 02:06:14.359 --> 02:06:15.800 still go for the on the ones that I know 2304 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:17.920 are still holding it together. I still love the chili. 2305 02:06:18.000 --> 02:06:19.600 Some of them even have a salad bar, and I 2306 02:06:19.680 --> 02:06:22.319 kind of missed that a remnant from Yeah, you know, 2307 02:06:22.640 --> 02:06:24.560 I still go, but I notice it. It's just not 2308 02:06:24.680 --> 02:06:26.159 the same. I'm not at the point yet where I'm 2309 02:06:26.159 --> 02:06:28.520 willing to abandon the ones I've found that are still okay, 2310 02:06:28.920 --> 02:06:30.760 But I feel like that I feel like the clock's ticking. 2311 02:06:31.319 --> 02:06:33.239 It is, and the one I think closest to me 2312 02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:35.239 is one of the ones that's been slated for closure. 2313 02:06:35.359 --> 02:06:39.600 So that's going to end my least easy relationship with 2314 02:06:39.720 --> 02:06:41.960 getting a big boy fixed. Plt's pause. We'll bring Brian 2315 02:06:42.039 --> 02:06:45.840 James back. Not another positive topic to talk about our 2316 02:06:46.000 --> 02:06:49.840 credit card debt. More with money, money, Brian James after 2317 02:06:50.000 --> 02:06:53.000 something about money. Foreign exchange is all about money. You 2318 02:06:53.079 --> 02:06:54.760 want your car fix. You want to fix with a 2319 02:06:54.800 --> 02:06:56.800 full warranty on parts and service. You want a highly 2320 02:06:56.880 --> 02:06:59.760 trained ASU certified Master technician working on it, someone that 2321 02:06:59.840 --> 02:07:02.760 has data access to your manufacturer's technical ability. But you 2322 02:07:02.800 --> 02:07:04.600 don't want to pay what the dealer charges for it. 2323 02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:07.239 And like Brian and I were talking about, prices of 2324 02:07:07.399 --> 02:07:10.840 parts for repairs have gone up as well, supply chain 2325 02:07:10.920 --> 02:07:13.640 issues and disruptions and all that. So you want to 2326 02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:16.199 look at your bottom line. That's why you want to consider, 2327 02:07:16.279 --> 02:07:19.119 and I strongly recommend taking your car into foreign exchange. 2328 02:07:19.520 --> 02:07:22.760 I choose the Westchester location where Austin and his highly 2329 02:07:23.399 --> 02:07:26.880 highly trained skilled mechanics work on my various cars, my 2330 02:07:27.000 --> 02:07:30.720 wife's mind, my daughter's and since she just acquired a 2331 02:07:30.920 --> 02:07:35.520 Nissan to replace her destroyed thank you dear jumping out 2332 02:07:35.600 --> 02:07:39.239 on an expressway Mazda, She too will be experiencing the 2333 02:07:39.279 --> 02:07:42.560 foreign exchange difference getting a car fixed happily so with 2334 02:07:42.720 --> 02:07:46.039 that warranty and paying a lot less money. That's what 2335 02:07:46.119 --> 02:07:48.880 it's all about, save money foreign X dot com form 2336 02:07:48.920 --> 02:07:51.399 the letter X dot com Westchester to find Austin and 2337 02:07:51.439 --> 02:07:53.920 the crew. That's a Tylersville exit off of seventy five. 2338 02:07:54.079 --> 02:07:57.079 Go east to Kingland Drive which is just two streets. 2339 02:07:57.119 --> 02:07:59.880 Hang a right, you're there. That's thirty eight thirty seven 2340 02:08:00.119 --> 02:08:03.560 Kinglin Final online four and X call him up. Please 2341 02:08:03.600 --> 02:08:05.239 tell Brian said, how when you do five one three 2342 02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:07.640 six four four twenty six twenty six five one three 2343 02:08:07.720 --> 02:08:11.760 six four four twenty six twenty six fifty five KRC 2344 02:08:12.239 --> 02:08:13.399 the talk station. 2345 02:08:14.840 --> 02:08:14.960 Here. 2346 02:08:15.000 --> 02:08:17.239 It is a nice nine first warning weather forecast. Got 2347 02:08:17.319 --> 02:08:20.279 partly cloudy skuys today seventy one. It'll remain partly cloudy 2348 02:08:20.399 --> 02:08:23.359 over night fifty eight and against tomorrow partley cloudy in 2349 02:08:23.479 --> 02:08:27.399 seventy eight overnight partly cloudy as well fifty nine. Come Wednesday, 2350 02:08:27.760 --> 02:08:30.800 mostly sunny eighty three. The high thirty six Right now, 2351 02:08:30.920 --> 02:08:32.720 time for traffic from the. 2352 02:08:32.760 --> 02:08:35.159 UCLP Tramphings Center, Kenna on the expert team at you 2353 02:08:35.239 --> 02:08:38.079 see healthwarth the Poenix sans Sports Medicina Matter the Injury 2354 02:08:38.479 --> 02:08:41.920 Same day appointments are available schedule online and you see 2355 02:08:41.920 --> 02:08:44.520 how dot com seven Fund seventy one is running close 2356 02:08:44.560 --> 02:08:47.199 to an extra half hour from two seventy five to 2357 02:08:47.279 --> 02:08:50.399 an accident at red Bank. Everything but the far right 2358 02:08:50.560 --> 02:08:53.880 side is blocked off single file to get by inbound 2359 02:08:53.920 --> 02:08:58.079 seventy four backs above Montana northbound seventy five, buttermilk to 2360 02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:00.880 the bridge. Chuck Ingram on fifty I had Karos the 2361 02:09:01.039 --> 02:09:01.840 talk station. 2362 02:09:04.880 --> 02:09:07.960 Eight nineteen fifty five krs, the talk station Money Monday, 2363 02:09:08.399 --> 02:09:11.880 Brian James Malworth Financial and before we dive into the 2364 02:09:11.920 --> 02:09:13.840 credit cards, I don't know if you've seen it, Brian 2365 02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:16.079 as a financial planner. I was talking to Christopher Smithman 2366 02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:18.800 this morning, also a financial planner, and we were talking 2367 02:09:18.840 --> 02:09:22.319 about the realities of folks, you know, losing employment and 2368 02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:25.800 having to dip into their retirement savings. You know, some couples, 2369 02:09:25.920 --> 02:09:28.399 both of them lost their jobs. He was talking about 2370 02:09:28.399 --> 02:09:30.600 how difficult you know, let's say you're you're not at 2371 02:09:30.640 --> 02:09:32.520 fifty nine and a half, you can't retire. Yet, let's 2372 02:09:32.520 --> 02:09:35.119 say you're fifty, you lose your situation, a little difficult 2373 02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:37.119 to go out and find a six figure job at 2374 02:09:37.199 --> 02:09:40.720 age fifty after you've gotten a customer that kind of salary. 2375 02:09:40.720 --> 02:09:44.079 And it's even worse when both both a husband and 2376 02:09:44.239 --> 02:09:46.399 wife or partners as the case may be, of lost 2377 02:09:46.439 --> 02:09:50.239 their situation due to down economic times. And that's got 2378 02:09:50.319 --> 02:09:52.760 to be a difficult situation for someone as a financial 2379 02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:55.359 planner because you always caution, as do all of them 2380 02:09:55.439 --> 02:09:57.640 do anything but dip into your four oh one K 2381 02:09:57.840 --> 02:10:00.239 savings because of the penalties that can be you can 2382 02:10:00.279 --> 02:10:02.319 be hit with, and of course your lost opportunity to 2383 02:10:02.399 --> 02:10:05.840 continue enjoying the time value of money and compounding interest. 2384 02:10:06.439 --> 02:10:09.039 But I think reflected in this story that you want 2385 02:10:09.079 --> 02:10:11.720 to bring up people maxing out their credit cards in 2386 02:10:11.800 --> 02:10:13.039 order to get around that situation. 2387 02:10:14.000 --> 02:10:16.520 Absolutely so this survey that comes from bank Rate, and 2388 02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:19.760 we see this pretty frequently from them, it's never surprising 2389 02:10:19.840 --> 02:10:20.720 when the data comes out. 2390 02:10:20.800 --> 02:10:23.880 So over one third of US credit card holders have 2391 02:10:24.079 --> 02:10:25.319 max out their credit cards. 2392 02:10:25.359 --> 02:10:28.520 This is since March of twenty two is the time 2393 02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:31.199 frame here of the survey, so as you might expect, 2394 02:10:31.319 --> 02:10:33.840 the group's most affected are the ones that you kind 2395 02:10:33.880 --> 02:10:36.760 of just reference, so lower income earners, older individuals, and 2396 02:10:36.840 --> 02:10:39.800 families with children under eighteen. In other words, people with 2397 02:10:39.960 --> 02:10:43.640 the less with the least ability to kind of handle volatility. 2398 02:10:44.159 --> 02:10:46.760 So with what they're saying, the reasons are over half 2399 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:49.319 of them say inflation is the reason, just their normal 2400 02:10:49.359 --> 02:10:52.479 expenses have increased. About thirty eight percent of them said 2401 02:10:52.479 --> 02:10:54.319 that it was some kind of emergency that they had 2402 02:10:54.359 --> 02:10:56.119 to stick on a credit card. Well, what do we 2403 02:10:56.159 --> 02:10:57.680 talk about there all the time, Brian. You got to 2404 02:10:57.680 --> 02:10:59.159 make sure you got oil in the engine. That's the 2405 02:10:59.199 --> 02:11:01.680 emergency fund. Got to have liquid cash on the side 2406 02:11:01.720 --> 02:11:03.880 so you can avoid this. About a quarter of them 2407 02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:06.359 said it was related to a job or some form 2408 02:11:06.439 --> 02:11:10.119 of income that disappeared unexpectedly and they had to shift 2409 02:11:10.159 --> 02:11:12.359 their normal expenses to your credit card. And then about 2410 02:11:12.359 --> 02:11:14.960 twenty two percent say it was medical costs. So all 2411 02:11:15.039 --> 02:11:17.239 of these things though, Brian, or there are things that 2412 02:11:17.319 --> 02:11:20.319 are unavoidable. Stuff is going to happen. That's the way 2413 02:11:20.399 --> 02:11:23.199 life works, every inch of it, Every single one of 2414 02:11:23.279 --> 02:11:26.319 these topics can be addressed with that emergency fund making 2415 02:11:26.359 --> 02:11:28.880 sure there's cash off to the side. That's a conversation 2416 02:11:29.000 --> 02:11:31.199 I have with every single one of my clients. And 2417 02:11:31.279 --> 02:11:34.439 more importantly, they're kids who haven't been through a lot 2418 02:11:34.479 --> 02:11:37.359 of the crazy yet that older people have seen, so 2419 02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:39.920 they haven't seen the full economic cycle and what can happen. 2420 02:11:40.640 --> 02:11:42.399 But it is extremely important to make sure you know, 2421 02:11:42.479 --> 02:11:44.399 and I always tell people, figure out what you spend 2422 02:11:44.560 --> 02:11:47.479 over a six month period, and it's not that hard. 2423 02:11:47.960 --> 02:11:50.560 I'm not asking you to put together a budget frequently. 2424 02:11:50.640 --> 02:11:52.800 I'm just saying, hey, let's look at your take home pay. 2425 02:11:52.840 --> 02:11:54.520 If you're married, let's look at your take home pay 2426 02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:57.600 of your spouse to what hits the bank. That's your input, 2427 02:11:57.720 --> 02:12:01.279 and then your output is everything that that moves around 2428 02:12:01.520 --> 02:12:04.439 and leaves something behind, the difference between what comes in 2429 02:12:04.560 --> 02:12:07.319 and what's left over. That's what you spent. Multiply that 2430 02:12:07.399 --> 02:12:11.119 by at least three or six something like that months, 2431 02:12:11.239 --> 02:12:13.279 and then you'll have a good amount for emergency fund. 2432 02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:15.880 Stick it in a highyield savings account. Check that box 2433 02:12:15.960 --> 02:12:18.199 that you've accomplished that goal. Then you can think about 2434 02:12:18.199 --> 02:12:19.000 the longer term pace. 2435 02:12:19.239 --> 02:12:22.079 You know, Brian, when I think about this, and I 2436 02:12:22.159 --> 02:12:24.880 can't put myself in other people's circumstances, only know what 2437 02:12:25.000 --> 02:12:28.079 I have been through myself and my wife, and I think, God, 2438 02:12:28.439 --> 02:12:31.960 I married a very very frugal woman. I mean, she 2439 02:12:32.359 --> 02:12:35.239 is in high maintenance. She doesn't demand, you know, ten 2440 02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:39.359 thousand dollars purses and crazy stuff like that. Very contemplative 2441 02:12:39.439 --> 02:12:42.159 when it comes to making purchasing decisions. And one of 2442 02:12:42.199 --> 02:12:43.640 the reasons I fell in love with her because that 2443 02:12:43.800 --> 02:12:46.600 was the environment I grew up in as well. So 2444 02:12:47.000 --> 02:12:51.199 we have always always put off buying stuff that we 2445 02:12:51.279 --> 02:12:54.439 think we want if we really couldn't quite afford it, 2446 02:12:54.640 --> 02:12:55.880 or you were going to have to put them on 2447 02:12:55.960 --> 02:12:58.039 a credit card and pay these outrageous credit card debts. 2448 02:12:58.039 --> 02:12:59.720 You know, another day we'll come down the road when 2449 02:12:59.760 --> 02:13:02.399 it within the realm of affordability. But always ask that question, 2450 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:05.399 do you really truly need it? Whatever it is. I 2451 02:13:05.479 --> 02:13:07.439 know we live in a consumer driven economy and it's 2452 02:13:07.479 --> 02:13:10.560 easy to get caught up in things like designer bags 2453 02:13:10.680 --> 02:13:13.079 or whatever. I'd love to pick on those, But do 2454 02:13:13.199 --> 02:13:15.399 you really need it? And you can find a lot 2455 02:13:15.439 --> 02:13:17.439 of ways in places in your budget where you can 2456 02:13:17.640 --> 02:13:20.279 save that money and have that padding, just because you 2457 02:13:20.399 --> 02:13:25.039 don't react in a consumptive way as your immediate reaction. Yeah, 2458 02:13:25.079 --> 02:13:27.199 I think if that's a habit that's a healthy habit 2459 02:13:27.319 --> 02:13:29.399 to put in place. It's no different than eating better, 2460 02:13:29.520 --> 02:13:32.279 exercising regularly. Once you've built the habit, it's less of 2461 02:13:32.359 --> 02:13:34.680 a challenge to achieve in the future. So I think 2462 02:13:34.760 --> 02:13:36.159 back when you know, when we were young and just 2463 02:13:36.239 --> 02:13:38.840 getting started. Yeah, I wanted the nicer car. I wanted 2464 02:13:38.880 --> 02:13:40.680 you know, making money. I should do these things right, 2465 02:13:40.720 --> 02:13:41.319 it can afford it. 2466 02:13:41.359 --> 02:13:43.600 Well, it took a handful of times of both of 2467 02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:45.560 us sitting down and going, you know what, let's not 2468 02:13:45.720 --> 02:13:47.359 do that because we're going to have a baby soon 2469 02:13:47.560 --> 02:13:49.479 or whatever, so we're gonna have to buy a bigger hat, whatever, 2470 02:13:49.560 --> 02:13:51.720 whatever the thing was at the time. A couple of 2471 02:13:51.840 --> 02:13:54.399 rounds of that, and I noticed, Brian, maybe you notice 2472 02:13:54.439 --> 02:13:57.640 the same thing that our desire in buying those things 2473 02:13:58.000 --> 02:14:00.039 just kind of went away, just stop coming up, and 2474 02:14:00.119 --> 02:14:02.359 we eventually almost kind of hit delibrium. I'll be honest, 2475 02:14:02.399 --> 02:14:05.119 I can't remember the last time we had a discussion where, 2476 02:14:05.600 --> 02:14:07.520 you know, where is this do we really want to 2477 02:14:07.560 --> 02:14:09.359 stretch to do this? It just doesn't come up. We've 2478 02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:11.159 kind of settled into our routine and we don't really 2479 02:14:11.239 --> 02:14:13.359 have money conversations or arguments. 2480 02:14:13.039 --> 02:14:18.279 Anymore exactly, exactly, exactly, yeah, And I can't remember the 2481 02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:20.640 last time. I mean it's been decades probably since my 2482 02:14:20.720 --> 02:14:22.199 wife and I had to have it as a conversation 2483 02:14:22.399 --> 02:14:24.399 like that, because both of our default modes, as you 2484 02:14:24.479 --> 02:14:27.239 spring from the proposition that no, you don't need it. 2485 02:14:28.359 --> 02:14:29.920 At the end of the day, will. 2486 02:14:29.560 --> 02:14:31.479 It change we buy that flashy new car, it's going 2487 02:14:31.520 --> 02:14:34.279 to get whacked with a soccer ball in the Yeah, 2488 02:14:34.359 --> 02:14:35.960 that's by one that already has a soccer ball. 2489 02:14:36.000 --> 02:14:37.520 Then well, and then you get to the point where 2490 02:14:37.520 --> 02:14:40.119 if you've frugally saved enough, then you can splurge every 2491 02:14:40.159 --> 02:14:42.199 once in a while as long as it manages within 2492 02:14:42.279 --> 02:14:45.319 your budget. So now, real quickly before we part credit 2493 02:14:45.359 --> 02:14:48.760 card that what type of recommendation you give to people 2494 02:14:48.760 --> 02:14:51.199 who are maxing out? Because maxed out could mean anything. 2495 02:14:51.239 --> 02:14:53.039 It could be five thousand, it could be twenty five 2496 02:14:53.119 --> 02:14:55.399 thousand dollars. I mean, I don't know what people's maxes 2497 02:14:55.439 --> 02:14:58.319 on credit cards. But what's the best that people can do. 2498 02:14:58.520 --> 02:15:00.920 I know, searching for a lower inch credit card and 2499 02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:03.279 transferring a balance as one, But anything else you have 2500 02:15:03.359 --> 02:15:04.199 a recommendation on. 2501 02:15:05.279 --> 02:15:08.159 It's simple, briand pay attention, right because I've seen a 2502 02:15:08.199 --> 02:15:10.800 lot of cases recently where people have they've maxed out 2503 02:15:10.840 --> 02:15:12.479 some cards or they just have a higher amount of 2504 02:15:12.479 --> 02:15:15.279 credit card debt and it, you know, and this again 2505 02:15:15.399 --> 02:15:18.439 is usually adult children of my of my clients who 2506 02:15:18.560 --> 02:15:19.800 they just want me to kind of talk to and 2507 02:15:19.920 --> 02:15:21.720 let's just just be an arms length away and explain this. 2508 02:15:21.800 --> 02:15:23.640 And what I'm hearing more and more is people who 2509 02:15:23.680 --> 02:15:26.039 have maxed this stuff out, but it's still they still 2510 02:15:26.079 --> 02:15:28.199 have a strong credit score, and they still are getting 2511 02:15:28.239 --> 02:15:32.359 these zero percent balance of balance transfer offers while they're 2512 02:15:32.399 --> 02:15:34.039 paying twenty five twenty seven percent. 2513 02:15:34.359 --> 02:15:35.159 So pay attention. 2514 02:15:36.119 --> 02:15:38.239 Credit card debt is not evil. If you let it 2515 02:15:38.319 --> 02:15:41.560 become evil, it will know then it is. But pay 2516 02:15:41.640 --> 02:15:43.800 attention to what you're paying in terms of interest rates. 2517 02:15:44.119 --> 02:15:46.159 Don't let it get away. Mark the calendar as to 2518 02:15:46.239 --> 02:15:48.880 when that promo rate goes away, because that's what the 2519 02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:51.520 bank is hoping for. Literally put it on your calendar, 2520 02:15:51.600 --> 02:15:53.880 put it an outlook, or whatever you're managing to remind you, 2521 02:15:54.199 --> 02:15:56.560 I need to solve this problem by this timeframe. And 2522 02:15:56.680 --> 02:15:59.119 it's okay to move from one credit card to another 2523 02:15:59.199 --> 02:16:03.039 balance transfer offer if that's your situation. Keep the interest 2524 02:16:03.119 --> 02:16:04.560 rate down and you'll be able to get back on 2525 02:16:04.640 --> 02:16:06.119 top of it. If you let it get to twenty 2526 02:16:06.159 --> 02:16:08.560 five twenty seven percent like the banks are hoping, you'll 2527 02:16:08.640 --> 02:16:09.920 never get out from under that burden. 2528 02:16:10.000 --> 02:16:10.720 So pay attention. 2529 02:16:11.159 --> 02:16:13.600 Excellent advice from Brian James will get one more segment 2530 02:16:13.680 --> 02:16:15.479 with him. Hey, it looks like they're trying to buy 2531 02:16:15.560 --> 02:16:18.199 some more votes, that's my take on it. We'll hear 2532 02:16:18.239 --> 02:16:21.319 what Brian has to say about student dad forgiveness round 2533 02:16:21.479 --> 02:16:23.640 what are we at for? Stay right here at fifty 2534 02:16:23.640 --> 02:16:29.159 five K see the talk station. Who voted? I vote it, 2535 02:16:29.319 --> 02:16:32.520 I vote, I voted, I voted, everybody voted already your 2536 02:16:32.600 --> 02:16:35.079 vote has been counted. Thank you for your vote today, 2537 02:16:35.280 --> 02:16:38.600 Thank you for your vote. And you've elected to be informed. 2538 02:16:38.680 --> 02:16:39.639 And the most. 2539 02:16:39.440 --> 02:16:41.920 Important thing that needs to be done here is to 2540 02:16:42.200 --> 02:16:43.159 educate the electorate. 2541 02:16:43.479 --> 02:16:46.319 Every day. The most important day jee elect you. Day 2542 02:16:46.399 --> 02:16:49.520 you're going to hear is election day. Every single bit 2543 02:16:49.600 --> 02:16:51.959 of information when you elect. 2544 02:16:51.799 --> 02:16:55.040 To listen, well, this election is all about listen closely. 2545 02:16:55.360 --> 02:17:00.600 Fifty five KARC the talk station that would be partly 2546 02:17:00.639 --> 02:17:03.360 cloudy day today, highest seventy one remain partly CLOUDI over 2547 02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:06.879 nine going down to fifty eight partly Claudie again, Tomara Breezy. 2548 02:17:07.000 --> 02:17:09.799 They're saying seventy eight for the high of the partly 2549 02:17:09.840 --> 02:17:11.840 cloudy night with a low of fifty nine. Wednesday, we 2550 02:17:11.920 --> 02:17:13.520 get our son back for the most part in we 2551 02:17:13.600 --> 02:17:15.879 eighty three for eye Right now, it's thirty six. Time 2552 02:17:15.959 --> 02:17:19.319 for traffic from the uc hout Triumphics Center. Count on 2553 02:17:19.360 --> 02:17:20.120 the expert team. 2554 02:17:20.319 --> 02:17:23.479 You see Health Orthopedics in supports medicine no matter the injury. 2555 02:17:23.639 --> 02:17:26.920 Same day appointments are available schedule online at you see 2556 02:17:26.959 --> 02:17:31.040 health dot com. Southbound seventy one continues to run close 2557 02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:34.639 to an extra forty minutes from two seventy five to 2558 02:17:34.760 --> 02:17:37.040 an accident at a red bank one polling to gets 2559 02:17:37.120 --> 02:17:40.760 five that's on the right shoulder. Southbound seventy five slows 2560 02:17:40.760 --> 02:17:44.959 through Wachman inbound seventy four heavy above Montana shouting Vermont 2561 02:17:45.000 --> 02:17:45.760 fifty five KR. 2562 02:17:45.879 --> 02:17:49.879 See the talk station May thirty one, if if you've 2563 02:17:49.879 --> 02:17:52.239 got KCD talk station doing that money Monday thing with 2564 02:17:52.399 --> 02:17:55.239 all Worth Financials Brian James oh and Brian one of 2565 02:17:55.280 --> 02:17:57.280 my listeners did point out and we didn't bring it 2566 02:17:57.360 --> 02:17:59.680 up in the concept of inflation, but Tim I think 2567 02:17:59.719 --> 02:18:03.920 right pointed out it's the running of the printing press 2568 02:18:04.079 --> 02:18:07.559 does tend to water down the monetaries or water down 2569 02:18:07.600 --> 02:18:09.280 the value of the dollar. And I know they've been 2570 02:18:09.319 --> 02:18:12.479 hard at work, not just this administration, but prior ones 2571 02:18:13.440 --> 02:18:15.319 hard at work running the printing press. Of course, that 2572 02:18:15.440 --> 02:18:18.520 money translates it to speaking of credit card debt, the 2573 02:18:18.559 --> 02:18:20.319 amount of money we have to pay a debt service 2574 02:18:20.360 --> 02:18:22.280 which is now more than we spend on military. So 2575 02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:25.200 as long as they're running the press, our money doesn't 2576 02:18:25.239 --> 02:18:26.920 go nearly as far. So I think that is a 2577 02:18:27.000 --> 02:18:30.760 valuable point worth bringing up as we pivot over to, oh, look, 2578 02:18:30.799 --> 02:18:32.760 something that might run the printing press more. For giving 2579 02:18:32.840 --> 02:18:37.000 four point five billion dollars in student debt for public 2580 02:18:37.159 --> 02:18:39.479 service workers. That's kind of insulting, isn't it. 2581 02:18:39.559 --> 02:18:39.879 Brian. 2582 02:18:43.520 --> 02:18:48.360 See there, I'm here, here, here we are. Okay, the 2583 02:18:48.479 --> 02:18:50.520 volume got turned down somehow. I don't know. Go ahead, 2584 02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:51.200 I'm sorry, Brian. 2585 02:18:51.600 --> 02:18:53.479 Hey, Well, one quick point that I was making before 2586 02:18:53.479 --> 02:18:56.079 I knew you could not hear me, was it we 2587 02:18:56.120 --> 02:18:57.200 have a big election coming up. 2588 02:18:57.200 --> 02:18:57.920 Don't know if you know. 2589 02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:01.799 But on the point of in, Tim's exactly correct. The 2590 02:19:02.040 --> 02:19:04.799 printing press has been running full steam. But don't think 2591 02:19:04.799 --> 02:19:06.840 you're going to change that at the ballot box. It 2592 02:19:06.920 --> 02:19:11.000 has been decades since either party actually cared about how 2593 02:19:11.079 --> 02:19:13.600 much debt we have created. So yeah, and that's one 2594 02:19:13.600 --> 02:19:15.680 actually not going to get changed with one administration, right. 2595 02:19:15.719 --> 02:19:17.079 Well, one thing, you know, it's certainly going to go 2596 02:19:17.159 --> 02:19:19.000 up to Harris at least, I mean she at least 2597 02:19:19.079 --> 02:19:22.440 is promising all these different programs and policies and platforms 2598 02:19:22.520 --> 02:19:26.079 that will most certainly themselves increase the amount of money spent. 2599 02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:29.920 But Donald Trump is not running on a fiscal hawk 2600 02:19:30.479 --> 02:19:33.040 platform either, and if he was, I think he would 2601 02:19:33.079 --> 02:19:34.680 have said it by now. But I don't hear anything 2602 02:19:34.719 --> 02:19:40.040 from Donald Trump about cutting sufficiently government spending or outlays 2603 02:19:40.079 --> 02:19:43.040 in that regard, so pivoting over they are trying to 2604 02:19:43.040 --> 02:19:45.319 buy some votes on I can't characterize it any other 2605 02:19:45.360 --> 02:19:48.479 way than this, you know, as someone who did go 2606 02:19:48.559 --> 02:19:50.760 to college, and I think my parents, every single all 2607 02:19:50.799 --> 02:19:53.399 the time, is the gift of life, the best gift 2608 02:19:53.440 --> 02:19:55.639 they ever gave me, And the gift of education comes 2609 02:19:55.719 --> 02:19:58.559 in right at number two. I was fortunate enough to 2610 02:19:58.600 --> 02:20:00.680 have them there to cover my college debt, but they 2611 02:20:00.760 --> 02:20:04.159 paid it off and I still feel as though if 2612 02:20:04.200 --> 02:20:06.959 I hadn't gone to college, and my tax dollars are 2613 02:20:07.000 --> 02:20:11.360 being used to forgive other people's going to college. You know, 2614 02:20:11.399 --> 02:20:13.159 what about people who went in the trades? What about 2615 02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:15.799 those who paid off their loan, you know, properly and 2616 02:20:15.879 --> 02:20:18.239 under the contract that they signed promising to do it. 2617 02:20:18.959 --> 02:20:20.760 It seems to me this is something that would alienate 2618 02:20:20.879 --> 02:20:22.920 more people than actually bring them into the fold. But 2619 02:20:23.040 --> 02:20:23.600 what do I know? 2620 02:20:24.440 --> 02:20:27.319 Well, and I think it's our sort of our unwillingness 2621 02:20:27.440 --> 02:20:30.040 as a society to really talk about the future. 2622 02:20:30.120 --> 02:20:30.239 Right. 2623 02:20:30.280 --> 02:20:33.239 This is why we get politicians who don't want to 2624 02:20:33.280 --> 02:20:34.559 fix it because we don't want to talk about it 2625 02:20:34.600 --> 02:20:37.239 involve sacrifice. What I think about, Brian, is what about 2626 02:20:37.239 --> 02:20:39.040 the people who what about the college students who are 2627 02:20:39.040 --> 02:20:42.520 freshmen and sophomores now racking up debt. If we forgive 2628 02:20:42.600 --> 02:20:45.319 a bunch of debt now for the people who currently 2629 02:20:45.399 --> 02:20:47.399 have it and are under payment programs, what about the 2630 02:20:47.440 --> 02:20:49.399 people who are just outside that window? Aren't we going 2631 02:20:49.479 --> 02:20:52.000 to have to have having set that precedent, Aren't we 2632 02:20:52.079 --> 02:20:54.360 going to have to have that conversation again and again 2633 02:20:54.399 --> 02:20:57.200 and again. Now all of a sudden, we're ultimately offering 2634 02:20:57.319 --> 02:21:00.479 free college education, which was never the goal, of course, 2635 02:21:00.840 --> 02:21:03.760 But if we've set the precedent that the government is 2636 02:21:03.799 --> 02:21:05.120 going to pick it up and wipe the debt away, 2637 02:21:05.280 --> 02:21:07.719 we're completely ignoring where the problem comes from in the 2638 02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:10.399 first place, which is runaway tuition cost the cost of 2639 02:21:10.479 --> 02:21:11.280 getting an education. 2640 02:21:11.440 --> 02:21:15.000 So well, and doesn't this have the exact opposite effect. 2641 02:21:15.040 --> 02:21:16.600 I mean, if you're going to get your loans forgiven, 2642 02:21:16.600 --> 02:21:19.319 then there's no incentive for colleges to lower the cost 2643 02:21:19.440 --> 02:21:19.920 of tuition. 2644 02:21:21.479 --> 02:21:22.959 Absolutely, there's no there's no gain. 2645 02:21:23.040 --> 02:21:25.040 If the demand is going to be there anyway, then 2646 02:21:25.079 --> 02:21:27.000 the colleges can just say cool, the money comes from 2647 02:21:27.000 --> 02:21:27.600 a different direction. 2648 02:21:27.719 --> 02:21:30.959 What difference does it make? So not a great way 2649 02:21:31.000 --> 02:21:31.799 to run a business. 2650 02:21:31.879 --> 02:21:34.040 So but uh so, what they're doing here is that 2651 02:21:34.159 --> 02:21:37.079 there's a debt program that has just been announced. Of course, 2652 02:21:37.159 --> 02:21:39.120 as you reference just prior to the election, Pretty sure 2653 02:21:39.120 --> 02:21:41.879 we did this four years ago. Yeah, if I remember correctly, 2654 02:21:42.399 --> 02:21:45.040 potentially eight million Americans could be affected by this. 2655 02:21:45.399 --> 02:21:46.959 So Secretary of Education. 2656 02:21:46.719 --> 02:21:49.879 Could automatically cancel debts for anybody who they expect to 2657 02:21:49.959 --> 02:21:52.159 default in the next two years. And that's going to 2658 02:21:52.200 --> 02:21:55.079 be based on criteria such as household income assets and 2659 02:21:55.159 --> 02:21:57.840 pre existing debt. Now, it's interesting to me if you, 2660 02:21:58.000 --> 02:22:00.799 if I, if I, if I'm somebody who tilted this 2661 02:22:00.879 --> 02:22:02.840 way and I understand what the criteria is, I might 2662 02:22:02.879 --> 02:22:05.360 scramble to put myself into that criteria in the short 2663 02:22:05.440 --> 02:22:06.680 run here, so could. 2664 02:22:06.520 --> 02:22:09.159 Wind up creating issues where there weren't any before. 2665 02:22:09.959 --> 02:22:12.840 Also looking at chronic illness, medical debt, childcare costs, and 2666 02:22:13.319 --> 02:22:14.479 also impacts. 2667 02:22:14.120 --> 02:22:15.120 Of natural disasters. 2668 02:22:15.159 --> 02:22:17.079 We've had enough of those this year where you can 2669 02:22:17.159 --> 02:22:19.239 kind of highlight these are the people that are looking 2670 02:22:19.319 --> 02:22:21.559 to help where we can afford. It remains to be seen, 2671 02:22:21.799 --> 02:22:25.159 but it does have to get through some approval processes. 2672 02:22:25.280 --> 02:22:27.719 Yeah, and litigation as well, because all the other efforts 2673 02:22:27.760 --> 02:22:30.920 to forgive debt haven't gone very well for the Biden administration. 2674 02:22:32.280 --> 02:22:34.639 Power of the purse rests in Congress, I suppose, so 2675 02:22:35.079 --> 02:22:37.440 Biden's saying it doesn't mean it's necessarily going to happen. 2676 02:22:38.079 --> 02:22:40.319 Brian James, always a pleasure having you on the program 2677 02:22:40.399 --> 02:22:42.799 every Monday, beginning at eight oh five Money Monday with 2678 02:22:42.959 --> 02:22:45.760 Brian James. Thanks to all Worth Financial for loaning you out. 2679 02:22:45.840 --> 02:22:49.079 As always, Brian, I'll look forward to another conversation next week. Yeah, sir, 2680 02:22:49.200 --> 02:22:51.040 talking in one week. Have a great week eight thirty six. 2681 02:22:51.120 --> 02:22:53.360 Right now if you have Kcity toxation phone lines are open. 2682 02:22:53.399 --> 02:22:55.399 If you got a comment, feel free to call. Don't 2683 02:22:55.440 --> 02:22:56.920 know which direction I'm going to go we get back 2684 02:22:56.959 --> 02:22:59.680 from the break, but some direction and you can feel 2685 02:22:59.719 --> 02:23:03.440 free to steer at five one, three, seven, eight hundred 2686 02:23:03.479 --> 02:23:05.520 eighty two three talk pound five fifty on AT and 2687 02:23:05.559 --> 02:23:07.920 T phones. I'll be right back after these brief words. 2688 02:23:09.159 --> 02:23:12.920 Only a few laps to go and when the selection 2689 02:23:13.639 --> 02:23:20.959 in a historic race for today's fast paced action, very 2690 02:23:21.280 --> 02:23:23.879 fast and what could be around the next turn? 2691 02:23:23.959 --> 02:23:25.840 What is important in this race? 2692 02:23:26.079 --> 02:23:28.799 Check in with our crew at the top of the hour. 2693 02:23:28.879 --> 02:23:30.159 We're going to be done so fast. 2694 02:23:30.239 --> 02:23:33.239 If I win your and the driver's seat, then your 2695 02:23:33.319 --> 02:23:36.719 head will spin. Stay up to speed on fifty five 2696 02:23:36.840 --> 02:23:43.600 KRC the talk station Penenting a thirty nine fifty five 2697 02:23:43.680 --> 02:23:46.000 krs DE talk station. Very happy Monday to you. 2698 02:23:48.159 --> 02:23:50.399 We'll get the bright bart inside scoop tomorrow at eight 2699 02:23:50.440 --> 02:23:53.000 oh five, said Daniel Davis. Is on vacation this week, 2700 02:23:53.079 --> 02:23:54.680 so we won't get a deep die with Daniel Davis. 2701 02:23:54.719 --> 02:23:57.440 So what's really open? We would because of the strike 2702 02:23:57.600 --> 02:24:02.159 Israel did on the Iranians the day. So by all accounts, 2703 02:24:02.440 --> 02:24:04.959 they stayed away from oil fields and energy production, but 2704 02:24:05.079 --> 02:24:08.920 did target bomb manufacturing facilities of the military installation. So 2705 02:24:09.799 --> 02:24:11.719 that keep your popcorn out on that. That is not 2706 02:24:11.879 --> 02:24:14.040 over by any stretch of the imagination. So we'll get 2707 02:24:14.079 --> 02:24:16.040 him back next week. Go to the phones and see 2708 02:24:16.040 --> 02:24:18.120 what Carl's got. Hey, Carl, thanks for calling this morning. 2709 02:24:18.159 --> 02:24:18.840 Happy Monday to. 2710 02:24:18.840 --> 02:24:21.600 You, Happy Monday. The nice thing about Monday is that 2711 02:24:21.719 --> 02:24:26.520 the Sunday morning television shows or over with. I'm telling you, yeah, 2712 02:24:27.360 --> 02:24:27.719 you are. 2713 02:24:27.680 --> 02:24:29.319 Talking about the Bengals game, aren't you? 2714 02:24:30.079 --> 02:24:30.280 Yeah? 2715 02:24:30.879 --> 02:24:35.120 Are the Bengals game is over with? My goodness. I 2716 02:24:35.239 --> 02:24:37.719 heard the interview with Sharon Coole Reach and she was 2717 02:24:37.760 --> 02:24:40.239 discussing what is occurring at city Hall. I am a 2718 02:24:40.280 --> 02:24:43.840 public service announcement for the residents of Cincinnati. They might 2719 02:24:43.920 --> 02:24:46.360 not not only be coming after your gas doves, they 2720 02:24:46.399 --> 02:24:49.719 may be coming after your gas street lamps. The UCEE 2721 02:24:49.760 --> 02:24:53.200 School of Environment and Sustainability is conducting a short survey 2722 02:24:53.280 --> 02:24:56.040 about gas light lamps. These are the lamps out by 2723 02:24:56.120 --> 02:24:57.920 the street that give off the light. 2724 02:24:58.120 --> 02:24:58.520 Oh yeah. 2725 02:24:58.600 --> 02:25:00.360 Purpose yeah, The purpose of the REACH HI just to 2726 02:25:00.360 --> 02:25:03.760 collect data about community perceptions of gas lights, natural gas, 2727 02:25:03.879 --> 02:25:07.440 and air pollution more generally that was their words. Now 2728 02:25:07.559 --> 02:25:10.920 listeners can find the survey by searching on community perception 2729 02:25:11.280 --> 02:25:14.159 of gas lights in Cincinnati and gas lights are in 2730 02:25:14.200 --> 02:25:18.799 the Cincinnati neighborhoods of Clifton, pleasant Ridge. Montgomery, Ohio has 2731 02:25:18.840 --> 02:25:22.000 gas lights on one street. London, England, and Berlin, Germany 2732 02:25:22.120 --> 02:25:25.000 had gas lights. San Diego has a gas light district. 2733 02:25:25.159 --> 02:25:27.239 And of course real estate agents have sold many homes 2734 02:25:27.280 --> 02:25:30.200 in Clifton due to the gas lights. Now Clifton's gas 2735 02:25:30.280 --> 02:25:34.799 lights are on the National Register of Historic Places. Yes, 2736 02:25:35.360 --> 02:25:37.479 it's gonna be interesting. They try to get rid of 2737 02:25:37.559 --> 02:25:40.959 them when they are on the National Register of Historic Places. 2738 02:25:41.520 --> 02:25:41.719 Yes. 2739 02:25:42.479 --> 02:25:44.520 Now, I can't remember all the questions. It was a 2740 02:25:44.559 --> 02:25:47.079 short survey, but some of the questions stood out. One 2741 02:25:47.120 --> 02:25:50.079 of the questions was where does your household get power from? 2742 02:25:50.799 --> 02:25:54.639 And they listed natural gas, coal, solar, not sure or other. 2743 02:25:55.079 --> 02:25:58.000 They never mentioned electricity. I don't know if that was 2744 02:25:58.000 --> 02:26:01.319 an oversight or a typographical area or you know, this 2745 02:26:01.479 --> 02:26:04.079 is a student survey, or if it was part of 2746 02:26:04.120 --> 02:26:07.280 the survey to get you to fill in the other blank. 2747 02:26:07.639 --> 02:26:09.520 And then of course they ask does your neighborhood have 2748 02:26:09.639 --> 02:26:13.559 gas lights. Oh, here's one. Is air pollution a concern 2749 02:26:13.879 --> 02:26:16.559 of yours? But one of the questions that really stood 2750 02:26:16.600 --> 02:26:20.600 out was, here's the question to divide everybody. All tax 2751 02:26:20.719 --> 02:26:24.200 payers pay for the operation of gas lights. Do you 2752 02:26:24.440 --> 02:26:27.680 think that all residents should pay for the operation of 2753 02:26:27.840 --> 02:26:31.959 gas lights? And I put down yes, because all residents 2754 02:26:32.040 --> 02:26:35.959 already pay for the electricity and the maintenance of the 2755 02:26:36.000 --> 02:26:40.200 street light. Some years ago, I saw the cost associated 2756 02:26:40.239 --> 02:26:42.159 with every electric street light out there. You know, the 2757 02:26:42.200 --> 02:26:43.840 city of sincat he has to write a check every 2758 02:26:43.879 --> 02:26:46.159 so often to doke energy for the electricity and the 2759 02:26:46.200 --> 02:26:49.040 maintenance of those street lights. So it's going to be 2760 02:26:49.079 --> 02:26:50.520 interesting to see where that goes from. 2761 02:26:50.719 --> 02:26:54.079 It will be now, on one hand, I don't know 2762 02:26:54.159 --> 02:26:57.520 what the operation cost is for a gas light compared 2763 02:26:57.600 --> 02:27:02.159 to a modern perhaps l E lighting system. Now they 2764 02:27:02.200 --> 02:27:04.840 may not be as romantic or attractive, but the LED 2765 02:27:05.040 --> 02:27:07.520 lighting solutions they make these days can look very warm 2766 02:27:07.639 --> 02:27:11.000 and you know, sort of even mimic a gas light. Look. 2767 02:27:11.040 --> 02:27:12.319 I mean, if you go to home depot, you can 2768 02:27:12.399 --> 02:27:14.920 see those old school kind of LED light bulbs and 2769 02:27:15.239 --> 02:27:18.360 they can flicker and look like gaslights. So is you know, 2770 02:27:18.639 --> 02:27:22.159 replacing gas and subsisting with an LED conversion. How much 2771 02:27:22.239 --> 02:27:24.120 that is going to cost. What is the daily or 2772 02:27:24.239 --> 02:27:27.959 monthly or annual operating costs for gas versus these similar 2773 02:27:28.000 --> 02:27:30.840 operating costs for an LED solution lighting, which I'm going 2774 02:27:30.920 --> 02:27:33.760 to presume that at least is less expensive than a 2775 02:27:33.840 --> 02:27:37.440 traditional incandestion operation. So that's the thing you need to 2776 02:27:37.520 --> 02:27:40.040 look at. How dear and near and dear to the 2777 02:27:40.120 --> 02:27:42.120 hearts and minds of the folks that live in gaslight 2778 02:27:42.200 --> 02:27:45.600 districts are actually having an actual gas bulb if you 2779 02:27:45.719 --> 02:27:48.760 can mimic it enough to subsid it out with something 2780 02:27:48.840 --> 02:27:52.040 that's cheaper. Question is would it ultimately be cheaper given 2781 02:27:52.079 --> 02:27:55.639 the replacement costs and operating costs questions which I don't know. 2782 02:27:56.440 --> 02:27:59.079 You have a point there, yes, so you know, I 2783 02:27:59.079 --> 02:27:59.559 don't mind. 2784 02:27:59.479 --> 02:28:02.360 Looking at things like that when it's done practically and logically. 2785 02:28:02.440 --> 02:28:04.360 What it sounds me like though, this is all wrapped 2786 02:28:04.440 --> 02:28:07.200 up in carbon production and it probably have nothing to 2787 02:28:07.200 --> 02:28:09.799 do with economic reality. Once the rubber meets the road, 2788 02:28:09.840 --> 02:28:11.920 they just want to get rid of everything that is 2789 02:28:12.040 --> 02:28:16.879 run by uh, of course carbon producing products. Then ask yourself, Carl, 2790 02:28:17.440 --> 02:28:21.399 where does the electricity come from that runs the converted 2791 02:28:21.479 --> 02:28:24.079 street lights, and I think you will find pretty quickly 2792 02:28:24.159 --> 02:28:27.239 that it does not come from green resources or sources. 2793 02:28:27.639 --> 02:28:30.399 Appreciate the call man five one, three, seven, four, nine, 2794 02:28:30.440 --> 02:28:32.479 fifty eight hundred and eighty two to three. Talk got 2795 02:28:32.479 --> 02:28:34.719 one more segment to go through. If you want to call, 2796 02:28:34.840 --> 02:28:36.559 feel free to do so. Otherwise I can give you 2797 02:28:36.600 --> 02:28:38.680 a couple legal updates, and I think I'll put a 2798 02:28:38.719 --> 02:28:41.000 smile on my listeners faces. Stay right here. If if 2799 02:28:41.000 --> 02:28:43.520 you have k SE the talk station, What do you 2800 02:28:43.639 --> 02:28:44.600 need to know today? 2801 02:28:45.040 --> 02:28:46.959 Create an opportunity economy? 2802 02:28:47.040 --> 02:28:48.719 But you haven't done it and you won't do it. 2803 02:28:48.879 --> 02:28:52.280 What you'll want to know for tomorrow? Callful conversations about 2804 02:28:52.319 --> 02:28:53.000 election integrity. 2805 02:28:53.079 --> 02:28:54.680 The government runs out of money at the end of 2806 02:28:54.719 --> 02:28:56.120 the month in the future. 2807 02:28:56.200 --> 02:28:59.520 If we approached November Finn, I fire them. I didn't instant. 2808 02:29:00.120 --> 02:29:02.879 We've got breaking news happening right now. We can all change. 2809 02:29:03.639 --> 02:29:06.360 Checking in two, three, four times a day helps you 2810 02:29:06.600 --> 02:29:07.639 keep up with light. 2811 02:29:07.600 --> 02:29:08.879 To understand what's going on. 2812 02:29:09.159 --> 02:29:13.520 Because they listen. By fifty five KRC the talk station, 2813 02:29:14.200 --> 02:29:15.799 what's the best news? Your final look at the nine 2814 02:29:15.840 --> 02:29:18.959 first warning weather forecast partly cloudy skies today seventy one 2815 02:29:19.000 --> 02:29:22.239 overnight partly cloude fifty eight, partly cloudy and breezy tomorrow 2816 02:29:22.239 --> 02:29:24.959 with the highest seventy eight fifty nine with partly cloudy 2817 02:29:25.000 --> 02:29:27.600 sky's overnight Wednesday a mostly sunny day with a high 2818 02:29:27.600 --> 02:29:30.879 of eighty three closing that thirty seven degrees. And let's 2819 02:29:30.920 --> 02:29:34.440 tiny hear about that final traffic report from the uc 2820 02:29:34.639 --> 02:29:35.440 LP Tramthink Center. 2821 02:29:35.559 --> 02:29:37.959 Count on the expert team and you see Health Orthopedix 2822 02:29:38.000 --> 02:29:41.159 stands sports Medicine, No matter the injury, same day appointments 2823 02:29:41.200 --> 02:29:43.799 are available, schedule online and you see health dot com. 2824 02:29:43.920 --> 02:29:46.520 Cruise continue to work with the reck southbound seventy one 2825 02:29:46.959 --> 02:29:49.879 near a red bank. Only the right lane guts by 2826 02:29:50.120 --> 02:29:52.040 that tramping backing up the fifer. 2827 02:29:52.399 --> 02:29:56.079 There over an hour delay down northbound seventy one. 2828 02:29:56.120 --> 02:29:59.399 There's an accident after ridge that blocks the left two lanes. 2829 02:30:00.040 --> 02:30:03.360 Recar on Montgomery at Gwynn Ellen Chuck Ingram on fifty 2830 02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:05.040 five krs seen the talk station. 2831 02:30:08.280 --> 02:30:09.959 Shou I have eight forty eight to fifty five KRC 2832 02:30:10.120 --> 02:30:13.920 the talk station. Thank you, Maureene. Marine's been having her 2833 02:30:13.959 --> 02:30:16.600 eye on this. Tucker Carlson Bernie Moreno rally and it 2834 02:30:16.680 --> 02:30:19.200 has been changed again. It's a real moving target, that one. 2835 02:30:19.799 --> 02:30:22.760 So if you're planning on going to it, the Carlson 2836 02:30:22.799 --> 02:30:25.520 Moreno rally, it's going to be taking place now. It's 2837 02:30:26.479 --> 02:30:30.799 Wilmington this Sunday, November third. Doors open at noon, rally 2838 02:30:30.920 --> 02:30:34.360 at one, so you'll see Tucker Carlson and Bernie Marino 2839 02:30:34.360 --> 02:30:36.840 hopefully unless they change it again in they're running out 2840 02:30:36.879 --> 02:30:39.639 of time for that one vote Moreno, whether you go 2841 02:30:39.680 --> 02:30:42.239 to the rally or not, I appreciate that. Thanks Mareene 2842 02:30:42.319 --> 02:30:45.520 for helping my listeners stay on top of that moving target. Anyway, 2843 02:30:45.520 --> 02:30:47.239 I want to mention real quick here if I can 2844 02:30:47.280 --> 02:30:50.000 get both of them in. For those folks, you gotta 2845 02:30:50.040 --> 02:30:53.239 remember it takes a long time litigation. I've mentioned this 2846 02:30:53.319 --> 02:30:55.000 so many times over the years, not that it comes 2847 02:30:55.040 --> 02:30:58.799 as shock to anybody, but from complaint to final adjudication 2848 02:30:59.000 --> 02:31:03.200 can be years. The case of COVID nineteen, people who 2849 02:31:03.239 --> 02:31:06.680 were fired because they had legitimate religious objections getting a 2850 02:31:06.760 --> 02:31:10.159 vaccination or finally getting their due and getting their day 2851 02:31:10.159 --> 02:31:13.920 in court. We got another victory here Bay Area Rapid 2852 02:31:13.959 --> 02:31:17.760 Transportation District employees mc bart out in San Francisco. It's 2853 02:31:17.840 --> 02:31:21.079 the I guess their version of the streetcar public transportation. 2854 02:31:21.840 --> 02:31:24.920 Six of them are each going to be receiving more 2855 02:31:24.959 --> 02:31:28.600 than one million dollars. This was a federal case. The 2856 02:31:28.719 --> 02:31:31.719 jury sided with the fired employees seven point eight million 2857 02:31:31.760 --> 02:31:35.639 dollars total verdict, again only six employees. After a dispute 2858 02:31:35.680 --> 02:31:39.239 over Bart's twenty twenty one mandate requiring folks to get 2859 02:31:39.319 --> 02:31:44.239 vaccinated or lose their job, they argue it violated the 2860 02:31:44.280 --> 02:31:48.680 religious police First Amendment. First point the First Amendment freedom 2861 02:31:49.000 --> 02:31:52.959 free exercise of religion. The government cannot interfere with that. 2862 02:31:53.479 --> 02:31:57.239 Guess what it did. Attorneys wrote, of the one hundred 2863 02:31:57.239 --> 02:32:01.200 and seventy nine religious objector employees, not one received an accommodation. 2864 02:32:01.440 --> 02:32:04.239 Exclusion to religious people from the enjoyment of a right 2865 02:32:04.399 --> 02:32:08.280 stands in violation of the First Amendment's religious clauses and 2866 02:32:08.399 --> 02:32:12.280 federal and state anti discrimination in employment laws. Thank you 2867 02:32:12.440 --> 02:32:15.520 to the Pacific Justice Institute. They're the ones that well 2868 02:32:15.680 --> 02:32:19.959 manage the altigation expenses bringing this lawsuit on behalf of 2869 02:32:20.120 --> 02:32:24.159 the six employees. Their lead attorney said, the you know, 2870 02:32:24.680 --> 02:32:27.399 renal employees chose to lose their livelihood rather than deny 2871 02:32:27.479 --> 02:32:31.040 their faith. That in and of itself shows the sincerity 2872 02:32:31.079 --> 02:32:34.280 and depth of their convictions after nearly three years of struggle. 2873 02:32:34.319 --> 02:32:37.200 These essential workers feel they were heard and understood by 2874 02:32:37.280 --> 02:32:40.280 the jury and are overjoyed and relieved by the verdict. 2875 02:32:40.319 --> 02:32:43.159 I can only imagine that they are and moving over 2876 02:32:43.200 --> 02:32:45.319 to Judicial Watch. I've had them in the program many 2877 02:32:45.399 --> 02:32:48.200 times over the years. Another organization that can handle the 2878 02:32:48.840 --> 02:32:51.920 cost of litigation in behalf of them well cases they 2879 02:32:51.959 --> 02:32:56.159 want to advance. Judicial Watch announced last week the US 2880 02:32:56.200 --> 02:32:58.520 Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued 2881 02:32:58.520 --> 02:33:02.040 an opinion reversing a lower court ruling in Mississippi's election 2882 02:33:02.200 --> 02:33:05.719 law that permitted absentee ballots to be received as late 2883 02:33:05.760 --> 02:33:10.840 as five business days after the election. So Judicial Watch 2884 02:33:10.879 --> 02:33:14.159 fil the civil rights lawsuit against them, and that's because 2885 02:33:14.200 --> 02:33:17.079 it conflicted with federal law. According to the Fifth Circuit opinion, 2886 02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:23.639 Congress statutorily designated a singular quote day for the election 2887 02:33:23.879 --> 02:33:28.079 close quote. Members of Congress and the appointment of presidential electors. Text, 2888 02:33:28.280 --> 02:33:32.159 precedent and historical practice confirmed this quote day for the 2889 02:33:32.399 --> 02:33:35.479 election close quote is the day by which ballots must 2890 02:33:35.520 --> 02:33:40.000 be cast by voters and received by state officials. Because 2891 02:33:40.040 --> 02:33:43.879 Mississippi's statute allows ballot receipt up to five days after 2892 02:33:44.559 --> 02:33:48.040 the day of election. It is preempted by federal law. 2893 02:33:48.120 --> 02:33:51.280 We reversed the district Court's contrary judgment and remand for 2894 02:33:51.360 --> 02:33:57.959 further proceedings. So good news. Maybe we will know on 2895 02:33:58.120 --> 02:34:02.440 Wednesday the outcome of the election. Maybe we won't. George, 2896 02:34:02.559 --> 02:34:04.319 welcome to the program, Thanks for calling today, and a 2897 02:34:04.319 --> 02:34:05.319 happy Monday to you, sir. 2898 02:34:07.479 --> 02:34:08.000 Well, thank you. 2899 02:34:09.239 --> 02:34:16.120 I was thinking about the college loans. Maybe if the 2900 02:34:16.239 --> 02:34:21.520 colleges had to provide those loans whole as opposed to 2901 02:34:22.959 --> 02:34:29.479 somebody else and suffer the consequences of making bad loans, 2902 02:34:29.559 --> 02:34:32.719 they might improve their products so people can pay for 2903 02:34:32.840 --> 02:34:33.920 their education. 2904 02:34:35.000 --> 02:34:37.079 Yeah, and you know what's funny about I laughed out 2905 02:34:37.120 --> 02:34:39.760 loud when you said that. George. It's a brilliant thought 2906 02:34:40.280 --> 02:34:43.280 because look at it this way. You got a young, 2907 02:34:43.520 --> 02:34:46.600 wide eyed, seventeen eighteen year old ready to start college 2908 02:34:46.639 --> 02:34:49.639 out choosing his or her major. They have to apply 2909 02:34:49.760 --> 02:34:52.879 to the college, and the college has to do the underwriting. Right, 2910 02:34:53.280 --> 02:34:55.799 let's take a look at who this person is and 2911 02:34:55.920 --> 02:34:58.319 where they are and where they might be after receiving 2912 02:34:58.360 --> 02:35:01.680 a four year or more, perhaps from our university. They 2913 02:35:01.719 --> 02:35:04.000 want to be an engineer. That's a good value they 2914 02:35:04.079 --> 02:35:06.120 seem to be smart, they've got great grades. They'll make 2915 02:35:06.159 --> 02:35:10.280 great engineers. Engineers usually do pretty well. Okay, that passes 2916 02:35:10.440 --> 02:35:13.440 underwriting approval. What if the kid wants to get into 2917 02:35:13.559 --> 02:35:16.239 an art major or a I don't know, some sort 2918 02:35:16.280 --> 02:35:20.399 of social sciences major where there are no employment opportunities, George, 2919 02:35:20.639 --> 02:35:22.239 then the college would have to reflect on that. 2920 02:35:22.600 --> 02:35:22.840 Huh. 2921 02:35:23.120 --> 02:35:25.360 They're going to spend eighty thousand dollars between now in 2922 02:35:25.360 --> 02:35:27.239 the next four years to get a degree in oh, 2923 02:35:27.319 --> 02:35:30.120 I don't know, naval contemplation or here, I'll take a 2924 02:35:30.200 --> 02:35:33.440 go at my own political science. Is that going to 2925 02:35:33.600 --> 02:35:35.680 return on value that's gonna give them enough money to 2926 02:35:35.719 --> 02:35:38.440 pay off this student loan? Probably not, so they would 2927 02:35:38.520 --> 02:35:39.639 fail underwriting. 2928 02:35:40.079 --> 02:35:40.280 Huh. 2929 02:35:41.000 --> 02:35:43.159 Now, if you remove the whole underwriting process and you 2930 02:35:43.239 --> 02:35:46.559 give everybody the opportunity to go without any just sort 2931 02:35:46.600 --> 02:35:49.840 of comparison or analysis of what their future earning is 2932 02:35:49.879 --> 02:35:52.520 going to be, then uh ah, that's going to be 2933 02:35:52.600 --> 02:35:54.440 something the federal government would do that is not going 2934 02:35:54.520 --> 02:35:57.600 to be doing something that a sane lender would do. Right, 2935 02:35:58.639 --> 02:36:05.120 Welcome to underwriting. That's a good call, George. I appreciate 2936 02:36:05.239 --> 02:36:07.520 that Sharon Cooley has joined the program this morning. It's 2937 02:36:07.520 --> 02:36:10.239 worth looking into her article from the Inquire sixty five 2938 02:36:10.319 --> 02:36:13.280 million dollar windfall in the City of Cincinnati's budget and 2939 02:36:13.440 --> 02:36:16.719 what they decided to spend the money on. We didn't 2940 02:36:16.719 --> 02:36:18.680 even can't get a chance to scratch a whole lot 2941 02:36:18.680 --> 02:36:20.680 of the surface of that one. So do a little 2942 02:36:20.719 --> 02:36:23.159 research on that one and see the rest of it. 2943 02:36:23.239 --> 02:36:25.360 Sharon said she's gonna be doing some follow up reporting 2944 02:36:25.440 --> 02:36:27.520 on that because sounded to me like a bit of 2945 02:36:27.559 --> 02:36:31.959 a Shenanigan's declaration, considering, Oh my god, the dire predictions. 2946 02:36:32.040 --> 02:36:32.600 Woe is me. 2947 02:36:32.840 --> 02:36:34.520 It's gonna be terrible in the city if we don't 2948 02:36:34.559 --> 02:36:38.239 sell our railroad. We don't know that turns out, turns around. 2949 02:36:38.239 --> 02:36:40.959 They're sitting down or sitting on an extra sixty five 2950 02:36:41.399 --> 02:36:45.520 million dollars. Christophers smithament on with a Monday morning Smith 2951 02:36:45.559 --> 02:36:47.760 event Get out and vote. That was the primary point 2952 02:36:47.799 --> 02:36:50.440 of his initial event. Go vote, Get to the Hamilt 2953 02:36:50.479 --> 02:36:52.520 County Board of Elections or your local board of elections, 2954 02:36:52.600 --> 02:36:55.600 get that vote booked and banked. Lord knows what's gonna 2955 02:36:55.600 --> 02:36:57.719 happen between now and next Tuesday. At least you'll have 2956 02:36:57.799 --> 02:36:59.399 it done and you know your vote will be counted 2957 02:36:59.399 --> 02:37:03.159 at least that is our initial presumption. And of course 2958 02:37:03.239 --> 02:37:05.799 Money Monday with Brian James, how inflation is hitting your 2959 02:37:05.879 --> 02:37:09.319 grocery cart, US card holders have maxed out on their 2960 02:37:09.360 --> 02:37:12.600 credit cards in too many cases. And finally that student 2961 02:37:12.799 --> 02:37:16.079 debt relief that will provided the impetus for that last 2962 02:37:16.120 --> 02:37:18.520 college I appreciate tune in tomorrow we get the Bright 2963 02:37:18.600 --> 02:37:21.239 Part inside Scoop at eight oh five. Daniel Davis on 2964 02:37:21.360 --> 02:37:23.440 vacation this week, so we'll have another opportunity for a 2965 02:37:23.479 --> 02:37:25.959 different guest or more phone calls, which I really enjoy. 2966 02:37:26.399 --> 02:37:28.520 Thanks for the conversation we had this morning. I truly 2967 02:37:28.559 --> 02:37:31.040 appreciate it. I appreciate you tuning into the morning show, 2968 02:37:31.040 --> 02:37:34.159 and I of course appreciate Joe Strecker, executive producer, for 2969 02:37:34.280 --> 02:37:36.319 doing all he does to make it work right. Have 2970 02:37:36.440 --> 02:37:38.920 a wonderful day, folks, I hope you do anyway. Fifty 2971 02:37:38.959 --> 02:37:41.239 five KRS dot com, get your iHeartMedia app while you're 2972 02:37:41.239 --> 02:37:44.159 over there checking out those podcasts and stick around because 2973 02:37:44.159 --> 02:37:46.760 Glenn Beck is coming right up. The world can change 2974 02:37:46.840 --> 02:37:50.600 in just second. We'll bring you the latest and just 2975 02:37:50.760 --> 02:37:55.600 minutes at the top of the hour, fifty five KRC talkstation. 2976 02:37:56.280 --> 02:37:57.239 This report is spons