WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:11.320 Five o five about k r C the talk station, 2 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:31.879 Happy Monday. You are fired, so say it, Donald Trump 3 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:36.079 to the sixteen hundred us A positions, and there's probably 4 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.000 a pretty good reason for that. We can discuss that 5 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.439 this morning. Up beyond that, let's discuss what's on the 6 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.640 rundown this morning. And Uh, I hope you had a 7 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.719 wonderful weekend. Parenthetically, I have very nice weekend, so I 8 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:48.200 hope you had one as nice as Mike. 9 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:49.079 Uh. 10 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:51.479 Today six oh five, this is going to be rather interesting. 11 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.640 I know my listener friend Jay out there who's been 12 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.359 very concerned about medicaid wasting the state of Ohio. Every 13 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.000 time it comes up, you usually hear from Jay with 14 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.439 a comment on it. We did hear from Jennifer Gross 15 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.640 on that topic Representative Gross during the program last week, 16 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.519 and you can find that podcast at fifty five care 17 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.359 sea dot com. Confirming that they had done an audit 18 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.840 and their audit sampling, if I recall correctly, revealed it 19 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.319 about twenty five percent of the medicaid payments we're going 20 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:18.920 to people who don't even live in the state. It's 21 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.519 the state program for people in the state of Ohio. 22 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.079 And since it's the largest expenditure in government in Ohio, 23 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:27.959 and you and I as Ohio taxpayers are paying a 24 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.959 giant chunk of it. We think it's a worthy other 25 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.280 Jay out there, I and anybody else who cares about fraud, 26 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.359 wasted abuse and government think it's a worthy endeavor to 27 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.439 chase this stuff down. So now that they've identified this, 28 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.599 are they going to do something about it? I've got 29 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.159 my pop worn out to wait and find out. But 30 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.359 we talked with auditor Faber previously earlier in the year, 31 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.040 back from actually January of twenty three. I can't believe 32 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.599 it's been that long, and he if I recall correctly, 33 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:58.519 and we're going to hear this together. Joe did a 34 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.239 mashup of it for the six which is why I'm 35 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:03.519 long winded introduction to what was going up with what's 36 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.760 coming up on the program. He downplayed it a little 37 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:08.639 bit and didn't seem to think it was that large 38 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:10.840 of a deal or that it was very complicated and 39 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:15.240 difficult to deal with a challenging situation. Well, fast forward 40 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:19.199 to the audit and the reality that yes, they did 41 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.479 identify a substantial amount of what could be fraud could 42 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:31.199 just be erroneous payments which would be well, some element 43 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.879 of fraud, waste. It will be waste. I suppose, perhaps abuse. 44 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.680 I don't know if it's an intentional of sending out 45 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.960 of these medicaid checks. But in the final analysis, that 46 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.120 seems to be kind of low hanging fruit. Let's talk 47 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.159 about that in connection with what DOGE is doing. You know, 48 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.360 they identified twenty million dollars for Irani and Sesame Street, 49 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:50.879 and you think, what in the hell's how does that 50 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.120 our taxpayer money end up in that kind of program. Well, 51 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.120 that's low hanging fruit, indefensible. Go ahead and try to 52 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:02.319 defend it and cannsidering the sorry state of affairs in 53 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.159 terms of the American dollar and the amount of money 54 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.199 that goes out of government. Anything is worth going after. 55 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.360 I don't care about this. Oh that's just a drop 56 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.360 in the bucket kind of crab. Anything is worth going 57 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:20.280 after if you are hemorrhaging money and spending more than 58 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.520 you are taking in. So any family budget would include 59 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.879 something along those lines. Oh my god, our credit card 60 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.800 bills are going up. No, you can't buy that thing 61 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.360 that we really don't need, that you just kind of 62 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.439 want right now because it's going to make you feel good. 63 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:36.800 For about five seconds. We need to cut that out 64 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.280 of our budget. But it's just a tiny know, it 65 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.560 doesn't matter. My wife's that way like some kind of 66 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.199 five dollars subscription or something and should get all over 67 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.759 me about why do you even why do you have that? 68 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:54.039 It's like, well, it's like five bucks, and then if 69 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.080 you're put in a position where you have to justify it, 70 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.360 you can sit there to get this sort of own Well, okay, 71 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:01.960 I guess you know you're right even though it's only 72 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.560 five bucks. So anyway, we're gonna Joe, did that, like 73 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.120 I said, a mashup, So Jennifer Gross with the last 74 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.439 week's conversation coupled with the earlier conversation from January of 75 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:17.839 twenty three, Joe, it's been that long. My word, I 76 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.519 swear time goes flying by the older. I get somebody 77 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.240 out there is nodding an approval on that. It is Monday. 78 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.959 Christopher Smithmen, former Vice mayor of the City of Sincinnat, 79 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.160 with the Smith Event every Monday at seven to twenty. 80 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.879 I love talking to him, getting his thoughts and comments 81 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:35.240 about whatever is, whatever's under his skin and money Monday 82 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.240 with Brian James every Monday, at eight o five Today, 83 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:42.439 we'll talk about consumer sediment falling, could doge cause a 84 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:48.480 market correction, So say the market is overvalued. Warren Buffett's 85 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.720 surprisingly getting rid of a lot of his stocks and 86 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.800 putting his money in cash. That's a kind of a 87 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.519 warning sign right there. Home sales dropped in January pretty substantially. 88 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.040 It's the price of homes are too high and the 89 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.680 interest rates are too high, so a lot of Americans 90 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.639 that otherwise would have bought a house or wanted to 91 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:09.519 buy a house aren't, resulting in the drop of home sales. 92 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:15.040 And finally, Americans are apparently cash poor, inflation soaking up 93 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.279 more than dollars that Americans would otherwise spend out. I 94 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.600 saw this article and I didn't print it out, but 95 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.519 I think it was Wall Street Journal this morning that 96 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.040 the wealthiest ten percent are really supporting the entire American economy. 97 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.920 They're on a big spending spree because they've got money, 98 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.240 and everyone else is sort of diving into their savings 99 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.480 to help deal with the well costed groceries and otherwise 100 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.519 the overall inflation. So I hope that the Trump administration 101 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.920 could get something done now. I wouldn't expect him to 102 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.560 be able to deal with inflation in the first month 103 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:53.480 in office. That's more of a long term project. But please, 104 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.240 Dear God, come up with something that can help us 105 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.759 deal with inflation in this country because it's just killing 106 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:04.600 people's well sentiment and resulting in people getting rid of 107 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.800 you losing out on savings and savings is extremely important. 108 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.319 And tomorrow, and it's a little warning shot by Joe 109 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.920 Strecker on the run, Now keep your fingers crossed in 110 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.439 mine are vva grammar swimming is supposed to be on 111 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:20.800 the fifty five KC Morning Show tomorrow announce his bid 112 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.560 for governor. And he actually has some good ideas and 113 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:28.240 at least in an abstract concept ten thousand foot level. 114 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.560 He was interviewed by NBC News. He said, for me, 115 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.240 the leading from the front here in Ohio and seeing 116 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.839 setting an example for the rest of the country and frankly, 117 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.480 even bringing some of the principles of efficiency and spending 118 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.120 and deregulation to our state will be the way that I, 119 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.399 as a leader would be able to have the biggest impact. 120 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:52.000 Focusing on freeing up the Ohio for education choice, merit 121 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:54.680 pay for teachers as opposed to the current status quo, 122 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.600 which others have talked about merit pay and that would 123 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.720 attract the best and right his teachers. So hopefully our 124 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.519 children will be better educated in the state of Ohio. 125 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:12.720 So it's a difference between some. Sorry, David Yost had 126 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:16.079 some comments on that. Of course, he has entered the race. 127 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:18.439 He actually entered earlier than expected. He was in a 128 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:23.720 mid January Robert Sprague was going to run, but he 129 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.759 said no, since Ramaswimmy's in it. He threw his support 130 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.000 for Ramaswimmy in this month instead of launching a separate bid. 131 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.959 And then finally Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel, former football coach, 132 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:42.879 indicated that he might seek the endorsement, but we haven't 133 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:48.120 seen any action from him as of yet. Internal pro 134 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:52.399 wings showed by Ramaswimmy and Yost showed that both well 135 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.079 GOP voters in Ohio like both of them, and they 136 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:58.439 say a Trump endorsement might put one or the other 137 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.920 ahead of the pack. But according to NBC, without a 138 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.680 Trump endorsement or other information about Ramaswimming or Yos factor 139 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:09.279 to the equation, Ramaswimmy has led both of the campaign 140 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.120 polls Ramaswimmy wouldn't comment when he asked how confident he 141 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.879 was receiving Trump's support. Yost said he has not discussed 142 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.120 the race with Trump, but hoped he would have a 143 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:31.759 conversation in terms of his vision Ramaswammy energy dominance, manufacturing dominance, 144 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.399 and AI dominance. He talked about phasing out the state's 145 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.360 income tax and shaking up K through twelve education by 146 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:42.200 promoting homeschooling and instituting a merit based pay system for 147 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.399 public school teachers. Specifically on that merit pace and I 148 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:47.759 know I mentioned a moment ago merit based pay for teachers, 149 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:51.919 he said, merit based pay for principles, administrators and superintendents. 150 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.679 The best teachers deserve to be paid much more than 151 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:58.279 they are right now, and yet they're not because there's 152 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.039 no meritocracy in compensation. And that'll take the states that 153 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.600 would make the state a magnet for the best educators 154 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:10.120 across the country. They say, past Republicans and legislatures that 155 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.679 have well tried to do this never ever ever made 156 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:15.799 it into law. In spite of the fact that Republican 157 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.039 governors and Republican legislatures have been dominating the entire state 158 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:21.679 of Ohio now for quite some time. Yet they can't 159 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.720 get it off the dime. Teachers unions and lobbying groups, 160 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.799 of course, have tried to put a barrier to it. 161 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:31.679 Ramaswamy said, I would tell you that it is a 162 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.039 uniting issue across parents across the state. My view is, 163 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.200 I'm not going to pick a fight with anybody. I'm 164 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.000 not going to seek a fight with the teachers unions 165 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.360 or anybody else. What I'm going to stand for is 166 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:46.559 the achievement of our students. I don't think a standard 167 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.399 politician can get that job done. I do think it's 168 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.519 going to be it's going to take somebody with fresh legs, 169 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.080 a governor who's willing to drive real change. I think 170 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.600 that's going to require a leader for our moment that 171 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.200 was a little different than our traditional politician, and that's 172 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.759 a big part of one I'm called into this race 173 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:02.279 as well. 174 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:03.159 Well. 175 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:04.600 We'll see what he has to say about that, and 176 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.559 of course he's on the program tomorrow. I will certainly 177 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:08.960 press him on some of those things. And there's a 178 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.720 new US Census Bureau released its latest net domestic migration 179 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:20.159 report last month. Guess who's the winner in terms of 180 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.120 the state migration, low tax states and states with better 181 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:29.120 education opportunities. Maybe vvex onto something. Texas love the nation 182 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.360 highest net in migration. Between January twenty twenty three or 183 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.720 July twenty three and July twenty four, which is the 184 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:39.480 latest point in time when they have data, eighty five 185 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.440 thousand people went moved to Texas, followed by North Carolina, 186 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:47.960 South Carolina, Florida, and Texas. Those states alone added three 187 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.600 hundred and fifty thousand new residents. And what they have 188 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:56.480 in common low taxes, fewer burdens and regulations and policies 189 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:03.639 that foster economic opportunities. Contrasts that with policieds that stifle 190 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:08.000 competition opposed high cost on businesses. Yeah, California largest net 191 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:11.799 outflow nearly a quarter of a million people left over 192 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.200 one year. The last five years, California lost more than 193 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:22.159 one point four million people. Hmm, profound economic loss. They 194 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:27.000 noted in the study as well that also compounds california 195 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:32.799 fiscal difficulties. Twenty twenty four, the loss of people contributed 196 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:36.919 to a forty seven billion dollar budget deficit. Moving over 197 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:41.279 to New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, other high tax 198 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:45.639 states significant out migration there too. Combined, those five states 199 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:49.440 lost nearly half a million residents, accord to the Census 200 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:54.879 Bureau report. Common thread over reliance on high taxes, excessive regulation, 201 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.639 policies that discourage business growth. And I love this observation 202 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.879 and I've made I made note about this many many times, 203 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.159 out Loued on the Morning Show. You know you don't 204 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.200 write the ship and you don't do something about it, 205 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.799 then everyone's gonna lose out it. What's your favorite pet project? 206 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.200 What do you think needs to be funded? Well, sorry, 207 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.320 sucks to be you. People have left. We're gonna have 208 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.440 to raise taxes to show the budget up. That's gonna 209 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.679 cause more people to leave. The irony is that the 210 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:25.559 promise of fairness and security often produces the conditions that 211 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:30.120 drive away the states, those that the states hope to serve. 212 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:35.000 When I read that, I was thinking of socialism and communism. 213 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.279 Look what happens the countries that adopt those policies. Oh, 214 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.159 it's each according's ability to each according is need. Everybody's 215 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.519 gonna be lifted up by these socialist, wealthy distribution policies. 216 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.440 Just don't just wait for it. It's gonna happen. Well, 217 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:49.279 when people have that thrown in their face. They have 218 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:53.720 no incentive to work, and guess what, everybody ends up suffering. 219 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.480 It produces conditions. Well, at least here we have the 220 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.960 ability to move from the state. Are you gonna leave 221 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.159 the country if you're living in a country like Venezuela, 222 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.919 can you leave the country. Those policies bring about misery. 223 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.399 That's why people have left. So I'm thinking, you know, 224 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.240 VVEX on the right track. If these this again, this 225 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:21.039 is the Census Bureau just pointing out the obvious people 226 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.240 are leaving. Ask the question why maybe if Ohio becomes 227 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:28.200 a magnet for those folks, they have one more state 228 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.000 other than Texas and Florida, et cetera, that provides an 229 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.519 opportunity for us to get some good people moving in 230 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.159 and improve our economy here in the state of Ohio, 231 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:41.919 as well as the opportunity for jobs. Five one three, seven, 232 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.120 four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eighty to two 233 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.120 three Taco with pound five fifty on at and t 234 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.399 phones stick around more to talk about, of course, I'll 235 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:56.120 be right back. News gathered five one three, seven nine 236 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:58.200 fifty five hundred eight hundred eighty two to three talk 237 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.919 pound five fifty on eight and two fundmember Hit five 238 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.039 parasee dot com get your iHeart mediaf so you can 239 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.440 listen to the show, or the podcast or any the 240 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.279 other iHeart content wherever you happen to be with your 241 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.879 smart device. Bill O'Reilly was on, talked about a bunch 242 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.559 of issues. I really enjoyed my conversation with Bill O'Reilly. 243 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.440 I think he's a brilliant guy. And Bill O'Reilly dot 244 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:17.960 com that's a website worth the bookmarking. Got some really 245 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.279 good stuff there. One of the FBI I once knew 246 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.799 my guest Chris Pahota. Corey Bowman, running for mayor of 247 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:26.679 the City of Cincinnati, joined the program as well. We 248 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.080 also heard from Orlando Sanza last week. So great podcast 249 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.559 and thanks, as always a judge checker for lining them 250 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.440 up over to the USA, and of course some the 251 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:37.200 USA is responsible for sending out all that kind of 252 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.840 crazy money that we now that the Low Hanging Fruit 253 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:44.120 I alluded to a moment ago. You know programs they've 254 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:46.039 been funding over the years. The twenty million dollars to 255 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.840 produce Sesame Street in Iraq, nine hundred thousand to a 256 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:54.080 Gaza based terror charity, one point five million of program 257 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.960 slated to advanced diversity equity inclusion in Serbia. And how 258 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.399 about this one. The problem is did any of these 259 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.480 programs yield the result that that were intended or did 260 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.039 the money just go out the door and end up 261 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:14.200 in somebody's pocket. USA Washington Post recently claiming Trump's cuts 262 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:17.679 the US eight or a gift to Haitian gangs. Of course, 263 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.519 we all know Haiti is dealing with some terrible conditions 264 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.159 terrorizing the locals, and so the Washington Post says, we 265 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:29.039 can't cut this aid because, well it's aid for Haiti, 266 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:30.600 who is in desperate need of aid. But a New 267 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.559 York Post expos calling out the screaming and cries and 268 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.279 wailing and gnashing your teeth. Since twenty ten earthquake and 269 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.240 Haiti killed as many as three hundred thousand people, the 270 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.840 United States government has dispersed around four point four billion 271 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.840 with a e dollars of foreign assistance. This is from 272 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.200 the New York Post. At least one point five billion 273 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.120 was dispersed for immediate humanitarian aid after the earthquake. Well, 274 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:57.559 another three billion went to recovery, reconstruction, and development. All 275 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:00.200 sounds worthy, doesn't it. That country needs some help, and 276 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.480 here we are, the United States of America, to the 277 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:05.759 rescue of the at least two point one to three 278 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:10.039 billion in contracts and grants for Haiti related work. New 279 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:14.679 York Post reporting less than fifty million dollars two percent 280 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:20.279 went to Haitian organizations or firms, compared to the one 281 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.919 point three billion dollars fifty six percent going to firms 282 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:34.480 located in or near our United States capital. Little wonder, 283 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:37.600 they write, US eight is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny. 284 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.279 Remains unclear how exactly the billions have been spent and 285 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.399 whether the US tax dollars have had a substantial sustainable impact. 286 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.279 USA and its vendors have generally failed to make such 287 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:54.440 data public. They suggest the exposure of usage by DOGE 288 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.960 confirms long running suspicions of mishandled aids. Some Haitian reporters 289 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.080 weren't about the disappearing many years ago. Under the Obama administration, 290 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.000 USAID funds to Haiti were dispersed, in part through the 291 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:11.000 Clinton Foundation. At least Stacy Abrams Dinner have her hands 292 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:12.839 on some of this money. Oh, that's right, she got 293 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.640 her hands on two billion in other people's money. Lacking 294 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.440 funding transparency also noted by the Government Accountability Office in 295 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:22.759 twenty twenty three under the Biden administration. They stayed in 296 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.279 their analysis the USAID activities in Haiti, the USA Admission 297 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.400 in Haiti does not fully track data on its local 298 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.680 partnerships or its activities to strengthen local organizational capacity, which 299 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.680 limits institutional knowledge about these efforts and understanding of results 300 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:43.720 and lessons learned to inform future activities. The GAOS said 301 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:48.799 the Administrative of USA should ensure that the USAID Haiti 302 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.559 develops a process to track and assess consistent and complete 303 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:57.759 result information for infrastructure activities, such as the final outputs, outcomes, 304 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:02.559 cost time frames, and lessons learned. No kidding, We're talking 305 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.480 about billions of dollars here, and they don't know what 306 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:11.839 happened with it. They don't track it. Notable. Haiti's noted 307 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:16.039 for being a rather corrupt country, and you're just throwing 308 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.519 money at an obvious, legitimate problem that exists. We could 309 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:21.880 have all the love and compassion in the world, and 310 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:27.839 sometimes money can solve people's problems. But here, just take 311 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:33.720 it and we won't be watching where it goes. Yeah, 312 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.160 I have real faith that this money went to the 313 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:40.000 Haitian people. Yeah, total faith five five twenty six. Local 314 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.279 stories coming up next or phone calls always welcome. I'll 315 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:49.880 be right back culling name on days running out of 316 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:52.000 time in the month of February. But it really flies 317 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.559 by going back to my observation a time does indeed 318 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:58.920 fly over to my alma mater, University of Cincinnati. Apparently 319 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:02.359 a photograph circle on social media showing that the restroom 320 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:06.279 science have changed to comply with Ohio law. Restroom sign 321 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:11.759 specifically says biological men, and I presume the women's restroom 322 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:17.279 sign says biological women. It also has a QR code 323 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.960 on the sign, which apparently lets anybody know or everyone 324 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.440 know where single occupancy restrooms are located on UC campus, 325 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.640 and those actually have a sign on it that says 326 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:37.599 all that changed from all gender to single occupancy restroom. 327 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:42.039 You see spokesperson speaking with a WCPO channel nine here 328 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:46.559 local statement the change connected to Ohio Senate bill. Donald 329 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.079 Trump had nothing to do with this one. Ohio Centate 330 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:52.400 Bill one to four requiring single sex bathroom showers and 331 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.680 changing rooms in K through twelve schools, colleges, and universities 332 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:59.960 quote related SB one to four. Some UC residence hall 333 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.440 have seen signage changes. The legislation specifies the requirements for 334 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:08.920 updated signage. Mike Dwine signed this into law. When it 335 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.720 goes into full effect. I guess if went in effect 336 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.200 February twenty fifth or does go in to effect February 337 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.680 twenty fifth. It is what day is today? The twenty 338 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:21.000 fourth explicitly stating restrooms must be for only male or 339 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:25.200 female biological sex quote. A school shall designate each student restroom, 340 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.279 locker room, changing room, or shower room that is accessible 341 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:30.559 by multiple students at the same time, where they're located 342 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:32.680 into school building or located in a facility used by 343 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:36.240 a school for a school sponsored activity for the exclusive 344 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:41.119 use by students of the male biological sex only or 345 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.720 by students of the female biological sex only. So there 346 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:48.279 you go. They're in compliance, or at least they're seeking 347 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:53.480 to comply. Officer from the Comington Police Department arrested Sunday 348 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:57.079 morning for dy Fox nineteen. Trey Matthews reporting thanks Pokra. 349 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:01.119 Trey Joshua not arrested Monday morning by the Kenton County 350 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.039 Police Department on three charges driving under the influence of alcohol, 351 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:06.880 according to Kenton County records. Other charges include speeding more 352 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.319 than twenty six miles per hour over the speed limit 353 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:14.839 and disregarding traffic signals. Captain Bradbury the Coming to Police 354 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.319 Department quote, we are aware of the arrest of Joshua 355 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:20.279 not this morning for Duy. We are disappointed to learn 356 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.240 of this incident. Command staff will be in the office 357 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.920 tomorrow to look into the matter. He was sworn in 358 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:29.839 in early twenty twenty and has been with a fourth since. Also, 359 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:31.920 according to websites, he served as member of the Coming 360 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:40.400 In Police Community Liaison team expected in court Thursday. Anderson 361 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.359 High School is going to be closed due to electrical 362 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.720 issues today. Forest Hills School District announced in a Facebook 363 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:49.519 post yesterday afternoon that the high school will be closed 364 00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:55.000 today because of ongoing electrical issues. They all after school 365 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:58.200 activities are canceled unless alternative plans have been made with 366 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:03.160 a coach or advisor scheduled to act. It was scheduled 367 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.279 to take place at Anderson High School on Tuesday, being 368 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:10.359 moved to March eleventh portally. The issue began after multiple 369 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:13.079 components of the building's electrical system were exposed to water 370 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.240 district set in a Facebook posts, the exposure occurred because 371 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:20.640 a fire sprinkler had burst due to freezing temperatures. This 372 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:22.920 closure does not affect the rest of the Forest Hills 373 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.880 High School District, schools or schools that rely on Forest 374 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:32.440 Hill's busing. Well, not everybody gets the day off. Back 375 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.759 in Lincoln Heights, where a man has been cited for 376 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:39.039 littering after being caught throwing racist propaganda out of his 377 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:45.640 car throughout Hamilton County early Sunday morning, Days Corner press 378 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.160 release by the Hammond County Sheriff's Office. Lincoln Heights deputies 379 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:50.799 responded to the area Mulberry Street and Locust Street about 380 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.799 quarter after two in the morning to assist Lachland Police 381 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:56.480 Department with the traffic stop. Stop conducted after members of 382 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.519 the Lincoln Heights Safety and Watch that's a group reporting 383 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.319 a man seen randomly throwing racist propaganda pamphlets from his vehicle. 384 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.279 Incident reportedly started to Lincoln Heights continued into lockdown Lachlan. 385 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:11.079 Thanks to Max Schilling at the w CPO for the 386 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:14.319 reporting on this one credit where credits due. Deputies on 387 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:19.160 the scene pulled over the suspect, identified as William Bater 388 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:24.920 forty seven. He admitted to distributing propaganda pamphlets from his vehicle. 389 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:30.160 Is that called? Is that distributing? Just throwing him out 390 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:34.119 of the window. He was cited for a littering discovered 391 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.000 he was in possession of a homemade flag that Lincoln 392 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:40.319 Heights citizens had made with the words peace and love 393 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.680 written on it. Deputies confiscated the flag from Bader returned 394 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:49.359 it to the Lincoln Heights residents. According to Charmee McGuffey, 395 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.839 the sheriff Office does not condone or agree with hate 396 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.000 speech that is proliferated by anyone, including Nazis and the KKK. 397 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:58.519 Sheriff's Office remains committed to working with residents of the 398 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:01.599 diligient Lincoln Heights to ensure there's well, at least they 399 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:08.559 were able to cite him. I'll just note that he's 400 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:11.359 worthy of the biggest douche of the universe. Five thirty 401 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.039 five fifty five KR. See the talk station stack is 402 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:17.759 stupid coming up? You can feel free to call alternatively. 403 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:20.920 That's entirely up to you. I'll be right back. Actually 404 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:28.240 thirty degrees and a happy Monday to you. Jumping over 405 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:31.559 the stack of stupid and noting that my wife and 406 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:34.160 I do have zero expectations of receiving a gift on 407 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:36.880 Valentine's Day. We have the alternative in front of me 408 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:39.559 on the top of the stack is stupid. Fifty seven 409 00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:42.359 year old woman in Texas arrested last week after allegedly 410 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:46.079 attacking her husband with a kitchen knife on Valentine's Day 411 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:54.799 while arguing about him purchasing her the wrong gift. Rid 412 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:56.680 To Tate, taking in a custody on Friday, charge of 413 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.240 one kind of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The 414 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.200 affidavit obtained by Law on Crime Reporting on this Officers 415 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.160 in the Waco Police Department showed up in around twenty 416 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:09.519 after ten in the evening Friday, fourteenth of February, responding 417 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:11.079 to a nine to one to one call it a residence. 418 00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:16.839 Document states that the call was regarding a domestic disturbance 419 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:24.000 in progress, also listed in the report as a lover's quarrel. 420 00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:26.839 In the call notes section stated of the caller later 421 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:29.519 identified as Tate's husband, had advised the emergency dispatcher that 422 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:33.960 his wife was being violent and had a knife. Of course, 423 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.759 he identified his wife in the telephone call. Upon arriving 424 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:38.480 in the scene, the officers knocking the door. They were 425 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.160 let inside by Tate's husband. In an interview with police, 426 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:45.400 husband explained that earlier that morning he had given his 427 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.240 wife a necklace as a Valentine's Day gift. However, his 428 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:50.960 wife allegedly became upset at the gift because he did 429 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:54.960 not get her the bracelet that she really wanted. That's 430 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:58.519 when he went to work. He showed up from work 431 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.359 at home about four pm, the documents. When he got there, 432 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:04.000 he said his wife continued to harangue about the gifts, 433 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.400 so he decided to leave for a few hours in 434 00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:10.000 the hope that she would calm down for it. That's 435 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:18.519 what he did. Sadly, he arrived back home later. Tate's 436 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:20.880 husband said his wife was not only angry, she was 437 00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:24.440 so armed. She was also armed with a large kitchen knife. 438 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.680 Tate allegedly yelling at her and a husband while wielding 439 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:29.640 the knife. At one point, he claimed that she pointed 440 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:33.559 the weapon at him and yelled, come and get it what. 441 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:38.079 According to the affidavit, mister Tate stated he felt his 442 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:42.519 life was threatened, which led him to record the encounter. 443 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:46.599 Of course, you know someone's coming after you with a knife. 444 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:48.319 You know, the last thing I'm gonna do is get 445 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:50.759 my cell phone out and try to record the thing. 446 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.640 And I don't think that'd be first and foremost in 447 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:55.200 my mind. Hell, it probably take me a minute to 448 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.920 figure out how to launch the video anyway. Anyhow, police 449 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:01.000 reviewed the footage and said they could see with the 450 00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:03.000 knife in her hand. She was arrested at the scene, 451 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.599 taking in processed at the mcclennan County Jail. She was 452 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:09.799 no longer listed as an inmate at the facility as 453 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:13.079 of the last Thursday, so out on presumably some kind 454 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:20.160 of bond. Selenas California high school math teacher in California 455 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:23.920 on leave under investigation for allegedly trying to sell pills 456 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:27.799 to his students. One student's mother, who didn't want to 457 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.319 be identified, said, I'm getting these messages from my daughter 458 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.680 that are teacher is selling drugs in the classroom to 459 00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:36.480 enhance homework and test performance. And I just thought, maybe 460 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:40.079 she's taken it out of context. This is appalling. There's 461 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:43.279 no way a teacher is doing this. Well, that was 462 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:45.640 her view. The woman said her child as in the 463 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.200 teacher at Selena's high school math class. She started getting 464 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.440 text messages from her child last week. The woman added 465 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.440 to put that onto teenagers who are still learning their brains, 466 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:59.400 are still developing and normalizing drug use. With a classroom 467 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:02.160 in the middle of the fentanyl crisis, it's absurd. The 468 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.000 lack of judgment, to me is is astounding. Students ld 469 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:07.720 her mom that the white pills were in a plastic 470 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:09.799 bag and the teacher pulled him out of his briefcase. 471 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:12.440 Police confirmed they did take a report and that they 472 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.720 were investigating. Principle said a letter to the families that read, 473 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.480 we want to assure you that we are aware of 474 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:22.119 the situation or actively conducting an ongoing investigation. Unknown whether 475 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:24.079 any of the children bought the pills, but officials say 476 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:29.359 the pills may have been Thailand. All the text reads 477 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:35.839 he said, homework enhancing pills five dollars, Test enhancing pills 478 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:40.000 twenty five dollars, and that we should take fifteen a week. 479 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:52.119 Asked them what's in them? He said, it's a secret. Okay, 480 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:59.839 you're fight. I'm guessing that's gonna happen. Bridgeport, Connecticut man 481 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.799 accused of murdering and eating his victim over a decade 482 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:08.200 ago granted a condition of release, some calling that mind boggling. 483 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:10.720 Tyree Smith arrested in twenty twelve in connection with a 484 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:15.319 murder of Angel Gonzalez, who was found mutilated with a 485 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.319 hatchet in a vacant apartment. Smith's cousin testified that Smith 486 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:23.119 told her he ate the victim's eyeball and a part 487 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:28.200 of his brain. There's no flag for us. That led 488 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:30.799 to Smith being found not guilty by reason of insanity 489 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:35.359 in order to a forensic hospital for sixty years. The 490 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:38.799 Psychiatric Security Review Board of Connecticut granted him a condition 491 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:41.960 of release last Friday, after Smith's psychiatrists claimed that his 492 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:46.160 schizophrenia and substance abuse issue had been largely solved through 493 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:54.039 medication and treatment. I know, Joe. Condition of Smith's release 494 00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.319 means that although he will be placed back into a 495 00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.720 public setting, he will be under strict supervision and required 496 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:04.480 to continued treatment. Thank you, Joe for anticipating my reaction 497 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:09.720 on that one as well. Board's decision quickly met with 498 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:13.599 what they're prescribing is put pushback and outrage from Gonzalez's 499 00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:18.440 family and lawmakers. Gonzalez's sister in law asked in a 500 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.759 hearing board, how do we really know he's not going 501 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:30.480 to do this again. Legitimate question. He promised. I swear 502 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:35.519 I will never cannibalize a human being again. Now, who 503 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:39.680 can argue with that? In a statement for multiple I 504 00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:41.880 don't know why this is a Republican or Democrat issue, 505 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:44.920 but apparently the Republicans are concerned. The legislator's Republicans sent 506 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.880 out a later a letter stating was outrageous and mind boggling. 507 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:50.880 This individual killed an eate part of his victim and 508 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.599 was found not guilty by reason of insanity. This terrible 509 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.119 decision puts public safety in jeopardy. This person should never 510 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:06.920 be out. Joe's comments cracked me up, says the one 511 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:08.640 Republican in Connecticut. 512 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:10.759 Yeah, don't quote Democrat. Thank you? 513 00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:15.000 Where's he been? I missed those calls from Tom. You 514 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:17.200 can feel free to call and substitute for Tom's former 515 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:20.400 call every morning five and three, seven four nine fifty 516 00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:22.839 five hundred eight hundred eighty two three TALKO with pound 517 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:25.000 five fifty on AT and T the phone. Otherwise, I 518 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:28.319 got a few more stupid stories to dive into after 519 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:32.920 these brief words. Fifty five car the talk station. It's time, 520 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:42.400 It's Monday. Back over to the stack of stupid. Uh 521 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:47.440 let us see here. Florida woman behind bars after she 522 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:50.960 allegedly attacked a man with a garden hoe for canceling 523 00:31:51.000 --> 00:32:05.680 plans with her phrasing garden hoe phrasing that's the venue, right, y'all, 524 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:14.880 three you find her? Does Ron Wilson ever talk about that? 525 00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:19.720 Pole County Sheriff's Office. I never heard it, because you know, 526 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:23.119 we do have Ron's show on in the morning. At 527 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:24.759 least I know my wife listens to it while I 528 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:27.920 should remain in bed. Pole County Sheriff's Office said. Melanie Davis, 529 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:31.720 forty seven, had plans to quote hang out close quote 530 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:33.519 with a man last week when he canceled on her. 531 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:36.960 Upset by the decision, Davis allegedly went to his home 532 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:41.160 in frost Proof of Florida three o'clock in the morning 533 00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:44.240 on Tuesday and yelling at him from outside. Forty seven 534 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.359 year old Melanie Davis most recently arrested for allegedly hitting 535 00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:49.599 a man with a garden holl after he canceled the plans. 536 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:54.920 Altercation escalated when Davis climbed a fence to his property, 537 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.119 pushed through a door, and began punching him and at 538 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.920 some point, she grabbed the gardening tool and hit him 539 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:06.039 with it, causing a serious cut in his arm. She's 540 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.440 been accused of striking a man with a garden hull 541 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:11.759 during an altercation. Man taken to the hospital while Davis 542 00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:18.599 was taken to jail. Been charged with arm burglary with battery, 543 00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:23.400 aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, simple battery, and criminal mischief. 544 00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:26.279 Apparently has a long history of the Pole County Sheriff's office, 545 00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:28.279 going back to nineteen ninety seven, when she was first 546 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:32.480 charged with battery at age nineteen. Jail records said she 547 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:36.599 was arrested in Polk County twenty seven times prior to 548 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.920 the incident involving the garden hull frasing. Previous charges rank 549 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:43.799 from petty theft to battery causing serious injury. Last time 550 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:45.960 in the booked into the Pole County jail was March 551 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.000 twenty four, charged with domestic violence on a person over 552 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:58.720 the age of sixty five Polk County, not Hamilton County, Hey. 553 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.720 She may have been arrested in Hamilton in County jail, 554 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:06.000 I don't know. Go to Kilgore, Texas, where a former 555 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.679 instructional aid for Kilgore School Districts has been arrested for 556 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.840 allegedly having a relationship with a student. Here we go again, 557 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:20.199 why are you no idea? Kayla Nicole Odell, who's thirty 558 00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:23.320 four years old and should know better of Glade Water 559 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.000 booked into the Greg County Jail office Wednesday, charged with 560 00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:29.000 improper relationship between an educator and a student at court 561 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.679 to the Kilgore isd the investigation into Odell's conduct began 562 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.280 last month. District Citadel's employment with the school began in 563 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.920 August at twenty three, lasted until her resignation in January 564 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.079 of this year. They said at the time begun into 565 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:49.400 possible educator misconduct involving her. After the investigation results were 566 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:51.800 given to law enforcement. She's being held at the Greg 567 00:34:51.880 --> 00:35:00.159 County Jail without bond. What in the hell I mean? 568 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.800 This kind of case is always just amaze me. And again, 569 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:07.199 I'm painfully aware that was going on in my high school. 570 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:11.440 Several illustrations of that I do specifically recall, but that 571 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:18.079 was before social media. I know, man, I know. We 572 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:21.719 go to Paris for our final stack of stupid story 573 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.960 of the morning. Thieves used a stolen card I guess, 574 00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:29.800 like a credit card to buy a winning French lottery ticket, 575 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:32.679 which apparently was worth five hundred and twenty three thousand dollars, 576 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:38.079 but they vanished before cashing in. Now they're fugitives in France. 577 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:41.400 Man whose card was stolen identified in police documents as 578 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:45.480 a guy named Jean David E, offering to split the 579 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.000 cash with the winners. He also wants his wallet back. 580 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.320 Thieves the course, facing the risk of arrest. As of 581 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.199 the yesterday or over the weekend, state lottery operator said 582 00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.400 that no one had submitted the ticket to cash out. 583 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:05.840 Jean David's lawyer, Pierre d'bissont, said, it's an incredible story, 584 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:10.000 but it's all true. John David discovered earlier this month 585 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:11.840 that his backpack had been stolen from his car in 586 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:15.639 the southern city of Toulouse, including bank cards and other documents. 587 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:18.679 The lawyer said he asked his bank to block the 588 00:36:18.760 --> 00:36:20.239 card and learned that it had already been used at 589 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.599 a local shop. At the shop, a vender told him 590 00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.280 two apparently homeless men had used one of the cards 591 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:30.440 by the winning scratch off lottery ticket, Debbie Song said 592 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:33.239 they they were so totally happy that they forgot their 593 00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:36.599 cigarettes and their belongings and walked out like crazy people. 594 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.800 Fought a police complained about the theft, but ready to 595 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.480 withdraw it if the thieves come forward so they can 596 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.880 share the money. Without them, no one would have won, 597 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:51.000 he said. Prosecutors also may want to seize the winnings, 598 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:54.840 considering them illegally obtained gains, accord to the lawyer. Lawyer 599 00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:57.599 launched the national appeal last week, asking the preparators to 600 00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.800 contact his office to make a deal. TSK nothing, We 601 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:03.280 will share with you and you would be able to 602 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:08.119 change your lives. Apparently, he said the ticket will eventually expire. 603 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:14.239 This time is working against us, he cautioned, just give me, 604 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:16.360 just give me the quarter of a million dollars. We'll 605 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:19.280 just walk away. Five fifty five ifty five care City 606 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:23.199 Talk station the mashup my interview with Representative Jennifer Gross 607 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:26.800 about Medicaid waste and fraud in the state of Ohio 608 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:31.400 mashed up with Keith Faber from January twenty twenty three, which, 609 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:33.719 if I recall correctly, he didn't think it was a 610 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:37.039 big deal or said it was very complicated. Either way. 611 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.519 After that interview and my inquiry with him, they ended 612 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:44.039 up doing an audit and the sample audit reflected that 613 00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.880 I think twenty five percent or so of the Medicaid 614 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:50.840 payments from this state we're going to out of state recipients, 615 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.360 which doesn't sound quite right. That'll come up next. I 616 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:58.320 hope you can stick around covering Trump's first one hundred days. 617 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:03.320 Every day promise is made, promises KEP fifty five krs 618 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:04.280 the talk station. 619 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:05.599 No. 620 00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:08.599 I got to ask you about fraud, waste, and abuse. 621 00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:10.679 My understanding is we're one of the worst states when 622 00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:13.920 it comes to spending and a misspending, I'll call it 623 00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:16.239 that generally in the program. Are you doing anything with 624 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:18.519 your committee to get to the bottom of that and 625 00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:20.800 drill down maybe we can find some savings on the 626 00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:21.840 money going out the door. 627 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:23.920 We absolutely are. 628 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:25.440 Our auditor, Auditor. 629 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:29.280 Favor did an audit on Medicaid last year and he 630 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:32.760 found when he pulled a sample of people on Medicaid 631 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:35.440 that twenty six percent of the sample that we were 632 00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:38.199 paying Medicaid costs for don't live in Ohio. 633 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:39.239 Oh my god. 634 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:44.159 So when you find that kind of stuff, because we're 635 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:47.960 a state that has something called self addest station. So 636 00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:50.679 I know you're an attorney, but what this means is 637 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.719 that if you if I go in and you say 638 00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:55.840 are you on Medicaid? I can say, yep, Brian, I am. 639 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:57.800 And yet I live in Westchester, and you know I 640 00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:59.199 won't say where I live. And I live in a 641 00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:02.079 middle class home. And if I say I have Medicaid, 642 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:04.800 they have to accept that. They don't confirm it. They 643 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.400 don't confirm my address, they don't confirm my income level, 644 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.159 none of it. So now we are what we have 645 00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:12.719 to ask for waivers in some of these things, but 646 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.920 we're going to do regular cross checks because and that's 647 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:20.079 an answer to the auditor's audit. I mean, what more 648 00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:22.960 do I need to say to you that our auditor 649 00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:25.679 found this and what I've found and it's taken me. 650 00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:28.199 And this is why you know term limits are not 651 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:29.800 what everybody thinks they are. 652 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:31.199 It takes us. 653 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:33.239 A while to figure all of this out, and then 654 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.800 in eight years we're gone, but the bureaucrats stay. And 655 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:40.519 so we get into this huge spend because the bureaucrats keep. 656 00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:45.480 Spending, obviously the ball is drought. Is anybody going to 657 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.880 be held accountable on this? I guess up. First off, 658 00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:50.000 I need to understand about accountability on it, because we 659 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.519 are talking, we are the worst state in the Union 660 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:55.760 on this. Our improper payment rate is reportedly double the 661 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:59.159 national average, and it's billions of dollars. I got to 662 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.000 listen to the calls in to point out the amount 663 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.719 of fraud and waste or fraud in the medicaid system 664 00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:05.800 here in Ohio could have paid for three brent sprents 665 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:10.199 bridges regardless of that. Is this not a at least 666 00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:12.079 conceptually simple matter. 667 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:18.199 To fix, And that's exactly the right answer. The problem 668 00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:20.400 is is, in fact, if we're going to continue to 669 00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:23.880 run a eighty eight county system, you've got to have 670 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:26.519 some accountability in those eighty eight counties. I mean, the 671 00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:29.599 answer maybe to consolidate this back. I hate to say 672 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.400 bigger is better, but because in state government it never 673 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:36.480 has been true. But in this case, to require a 674 00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:39.960 state system that those local job and family services offices 675 00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:43.480 actually run down those alerts, you know, they send an alert. 676 00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.920 In some cases the alerts can be you know, just 677 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:48.159 a pain in the butt because there are so many 678 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:52.000 of them, and in some cases the alerts don't mean much. 679 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.320 But the reality is the system is designed to trigger 680 00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:58.639 on certain things, and if it triggers on that there's 681 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.599 a reason to look at that person as a potential beneficiary. 682 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.280 And so what we found is upwards are twenty five 683 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:09.360 million dollars of people were receiving duplicate benefit eligibility in 684 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:12.679 multiple states. And that was just a snapshot. It wasn't 685 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:17.360 even a holistic across the board, every plane take a 686 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:20.039 look at it. The bigger problem was the first, the 687 00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:22.960 first audit we did in Medicaid that started identifying some 688 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:26.840 of these problems, and we found in that case literally 689 00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.639 one hundred and twenty million dollars and this is extra 690 00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:33.199 money that was kept by the managed care organizations. 691 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:35.599 Where they were literally. 692 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:38.320 Being paid for claimants that were ineligible, you know, people 693 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:40.199 that were in our prisons, people in the jails and 694 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:43.800 other places. That is also a big problem, and so 695 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:45.639 I think the state needs to come back in and 696 00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:47.679 take a look at these contracts and to managed care 697 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.800 people and do some claim recovery wo go back and 698 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.440 try and get some of that money back. And so 699 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:54.800 we've really been trying to make a big deal about that, 700 00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:57.559 and certainly this is the tip of the iceberg. We 701 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:01.760 are partnering with the Government Accountability Office and other similar 702 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:05.760 state auditors offices around the country to get a national database. 703 00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:09.159 There is no reason that we don't have a database 704 00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:11.719 to say, hey, Joe Smith is getting claims in Indiana, 705 00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:16.400 rights in Ohio for medicaid, right, And in many cases 706 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.639 it's really easy to track those down because we've got 707 00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:24.000 their individual claim identifiers. I mean it's not like we 708 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:25.760 can say, hey, yeah, there's a lot of Joe Smith. 709 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:28.239 There are, but we know which Joe Smith is using 710 00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.840 which account numbers, and so that should be relatively easy 711 00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:34.719 from a database perspective to find out where other claims 712 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:35.320 are being made. 713 00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:37.719 It just rights to the level of criminal conduct. I mean, 714 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.679 if the local counties dropped the ball and not falling 715 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:43.559 through with these red flags that came up. The entities 716 00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:45.639 that are responsible for paying and managing the claims that 717 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.559 you refer to these medical providers, I mean, can they 718 00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:51.880 not be held accountable? Is there something by way? I 719 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:53.960 mean you have that as an option to call back 720 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:56.400 the money, right, Yeah. 721 00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:58.679 And certainly some of those cases, that's the solution is 722 00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.800 for them to look into it. You know, I had 723 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:02.719 hate to say this, but when we first alerted to 724 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:06.119 Medicaid the one hundred and twenty million dollar problem, some 725 00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:10.119 of The reaction we got from their internal personnel was, yeah, 726 00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:12.679 we get that that's a problem, but we really thought 727 00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.199 the problem would even be bigger than that. Right, one 728 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.119 hundred and twenty million dollars not that big a deal 729 00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:19.599 when you're running a fifty billion dollars or forty billion 730 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.239 dollar program. Remember Medicaid in Ohio, just to put this 731 00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:27.000 in perspective for your for your listeners, Medicaid in Ohio 732 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:32.039 encompasses darn near fifty cents on the dollar of state 733 00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:36.320 discretionary spending. And so the state budget has something called 734 00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:38.960 general revenue fund dollars, and when you look at the 735 00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:43.320 all the funds that are spent in the state of Ohio, Medicaid, 736 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:46.360 meaning the healthcare system for the poor, is nearly fifty 737 00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.280 cents of the dollar, and it's largely it's about sixty 738 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:53.519 percent federal dollars and about forty percent state dollars, give 739 00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:56.480 or take. That ratio changes when the federal governments do 740 00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:58.559 things like they did in the pandemic to sweepen the 741 00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:01.199 reimbursement rate for the states so that we won't kick 742 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.039 more people off the Medicaid roles. But effectively, it's a 743 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:08.480 lot of money and From that perspective, a little bit 744 00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:11.280 of an error adds up really quickly to a lot 745 00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:11.679 of money. 746 00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:15.239 To the billions. I mean, yeah, we are talking about 747 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:18.840 billions of billions of fraudulent payment here. I mean every 748 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:21.360 little bit counts, and this is obviously added up very quickly. 749 00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:27.119 I guess I'm just like millions of questions flowing through 750 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:31.119 my head on this auditor favor. What took so long 751 00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:34.119 to identify this as even a problem. I understand you. 752 00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.440 You're working on a solution. You're working on trying to 753 00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:38.760 get some of the money back. Hopefully it'll stop. But 754 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.440 if it's fifty cents on the dollar, that figure would 755 00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:43.760 be a lot lower if billions of dollars didn't go 756 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.039 out and fraudulent payments. 757 00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:51.000 Well, the short answer is, our job as auditor is 758 00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:54.760 to gentify places when government doesn't work very well. It's 759 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:57.719 the job of the departments and the governor and the 760 00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:01.480 legislature to find the solutions. Can make some recommendations when 761 00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:04.079 something doesn't work well, things they need to fix. But 762 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.960 as the Independent Auditor, what we do is go out 763 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:11.119 and take a look at government. We identify when people lie, stealing, 764 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:14.159 cheat in government, and then we also make recommendations to 765 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:17.960 make government work better, faster, cheaper. We've now convicted our 766 00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:21.960 one hundred or were approaching convictioning our hundredth government official 767 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.199 who was lying, stealing and cheating so far. I mean, 768 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:28.119 certainly there is lie, cheating and stealing in these programs, 769 00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:33.440 but that isn't the source of most of the money 770 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:36.400 that's being lost. Unemployment, it certainly was, that was a 771 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:40.400 different scenario, but in Medicaid, what we're seeing is really 772 00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:43.000 it's just the system isn't working like it should, and 773 00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:47.280 we've got bureaucrats, for lack of a better term, that frankly, 774 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.159 have grown indifferent and that has to get fixed. And 775 00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.239 that's what we really push on the medicaid side. When 776 00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.000 the Department of Job and Family Service, as people tell 777 00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:00.440 us they're shocked that the number we find for waste 778 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:04.440 broaden abuse inside their system isn't bigger and it's one 779 00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.000 hundred and twenty million dollars in they're like, oh, well, man, 780 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.599 that's just kind of a number, and we're going, really, 781 00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:13.320 that's unacceptable. One hundred and twenty million dollars is literally 782 00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:17.559 in many cases, the difference between us having programs to 783 00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:20.960 help addict it or mentally help ill or other programs 784 00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:21.719 in the state or not. 785 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:26.840 Chamonin says we get a little sun today, turning partly cloudy. 786 00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:30.960 High have fifty two, freezy and maybe some showers. Thirty 787 00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:32.360 six overnight with partly Claudius. 788 00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:32.599 Guys. 789 00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:35.719 High have fifty six with early rain. Just a slight 790 00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:39.239 chanceer rain early in the morning with afternoon sunshine. Mostly 791 00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:41.719 cloudy overnight with low thirty two and then all the 792 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.760 way up to sixty three. Although Wednesday they're looking for 793 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:46.920 some rain, it's mostly the best chance of rain all 794 00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:49.800 week right now thirty degrees. Time for traffic from the 795 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:50.239 U see. 796 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.840 How traffic Center Around forty percent of cancers aren't preventable. 797 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:55.360 Why style changes and in screenings can make a difference 798 00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:57.719 called five one, three, five eighty five U see see 799 00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:01.000 see highway traffic and pretty good shape this morning with 800 00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:03.880 no accidents to deal with, and I'm not seeing anything 801 00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:06.760 close to a delay as of yet. In Bend, seventy 802 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:10.119 four are doing fine. Pass north Fend approaching seventy five. 803 00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:13.320 You're looking at five minutes coming down the hill southbound 804 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:16.519 seventy one problem free through Blue Ash and Kenwood Cruise 805 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.639 are working with an accident in Fairfield that's on Nillis 806 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.440 near River. Chuck Ingram on fifty five Kara see the 807 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:23.519 talk station. 808 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:26.679 Six twenty three to fifty five KR City Talk Station, 809 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:30.000 Happy Monday. If I went three seven fifty eight hundred 810 00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:32.639 fifte talk five five fifty on AT and T phone, 811 00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:34.760 I was hoping Jay would call in, because Jay's the 812 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.599 one that always calls it on that topic. But I 813 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.199 always enjoy hearing from Bobby. Bobby, welcome back to the program. 814 00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:41.320 Happy Monday, sir. 815 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.239 Happy Monday, my brother. I tell you what. I'm glad 816 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:47.880 the sun will be out today. It's a somber day. 817 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:50.079 I've got my black arm band on today. 818 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:51.719 For what reason? 819 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:57.679 Well, Jolly read the Readout show you know is going 820 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.719 to be canceled, and it's the last last airing this week, 821 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.400 so you know it. It was my favorite comedy show 822 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:11.760 with that fool, and you know, anybody, it's just a 823 00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:12.559 somber day. 824 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:18.000 That's hilarious, Bobby, that's hilarious. All five people who watch 825 00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:20.920 the show, Bobby included among them, are disappointed that Joy 826 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:28.360 Reid's plug has been pulled. Pretty amaze. They're just trying 827 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:30.719 to turn around the sinking ship of ratings. That's what 828 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:33.400 more can you do, but probably the right thing to 829 00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:41.559 do from a corporate perspective. Sorry you're feeling blue about it, Bobby, 830 00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:45.239 have a good day. You can feel free to call 831 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.159 in as well. I do have local stories coming up. 832 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:50.599 I'd rather hear from you, so feel free to give 833 00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:52.199 you a ring at five one, three, seven, four, nine 834 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:54.480 fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two three talk 835 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.480 don't go away again. Local stories coming up. 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You can use the search engine to find it, 861 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:09.280 go directly to the website seven zero eight three thousand 862 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:11.480 dot com, or give them a ring at five one 863 00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:15.679 three seven zero eight three thousand fifty five KRC the 864 00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:18.320 talk station KRCD talk Station are very happy Monday to 865 00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:22.119 yea Christopher Smith minut at seven twenty Every Monday we 866 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:24.119 get to hear the Smither vent from the former Vice 867 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:26.400 Mayor and before we get the local stores here, Carl 868 00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:28.440 on the line. Hey, Carl, thanks for calling this morning. 869 00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:31.880 Hey Brian, good morning. Hey. I heard the interview with 870 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.960 Jennifer Gross on Thursday and that was a wonderful interview. 871 00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:39.199 I also heard the interview with Ken Kober on Thursday. 872 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:41.760 You know he's the head of the Cincinnati Police Union. Yeah, 873 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:45.920 and he was speaking about the Cincinnati Community Responder program 874 00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:49.480 where citizens respond to police calls instead of police officers. 875 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:50.239 Yeah. 876 00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:50.639 Yeah. 877 00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.159 Ken was on another talk radio show on Friday. But 878 00:50:55.199 --> 00:50:57.400 during neither one of those shows did it come up 879 00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.639 that that whole idea of having citizens respond to police 880 00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:03.639 calls came out of the defund the police movement, and 881 00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:06.559 I wanted to bring that up to your listeners. Now, 882 00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.079 Ken was all. Ken also mentioned that it was developed 883 00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:11.840 by the Emergency Communications Director, and he threw out some 884 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:16.679 names that I didn't recognize. However, that idea really sounds 885 00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:20.480 like something our beloved mayor mayor Aftab would pyre Vo 886 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:25.280 would support. I was downtown a couple of weeks ago 887 00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:27.840 and I saw one of those three one one rapid 888 00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:31.639 responder vehicles and I wondered what that what is that about? 889 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:35.920 And due to your interview, now I know there's a 890 00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:40.360 public service announcement here in Cincinnati. Citizens of the City 891 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:44.239 of Cincinnati who are involved in their community, such as 892 00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:48.840 community council or if they report a lot of incidents 893 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:51.280 on three one one system. The City of Cincinnati is 894 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.480 starting up this three one one Citizens Academy and it's 895 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:57.039 going to be here. It's going to start in March. 896 00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:01.599 It's up two hours four days. Usually they have it 897 00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:07.400 on one day a week and it's very informative. So 898 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:11.000 if any of your listeners want to get involved with that, 899 00:52:11.239 --> 00:52:14.639 they should do an Internet search on Cincinnati three to 900 00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:16.760 one one Citizen's Academy and they have to put in 901 00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:20.159 an application. The city does do it. Please check and 902 00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:23.039 it's a very informative program. I went through it last year, 903 00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:27.960 and they can become space is limited and they can 904 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.440 become a three to one one ambassador and find out 905 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:33.000 why the potholes aren't getting fixed. 906 00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:41.000 Ah, that's an interesting way to conclude that. Joe said 907 00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:44.360 that that actually came about after the Kyle Plush incident 908 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:47.599 where the kid got stuck in the minivan and ended 909 00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:51.320 up dying because the Sheriff's office couldn't find him, and 910 00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.360 a very tragic and sad situation. I don't know the 911 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:57.320 genesis of it away. Joe stands it stays on top 912 00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:58.880 of a lot of these things too, But regardless of 913 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.840 where it came from, I thought the FLP president did 914 00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:05.559 a good job explaining why it isn't necessarily a good idea, 915 00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.599 Like when a citizen shows up who is not armed 916 00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:11.440 and who does not have body camera on him or 917 00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:15.800 her and the situation devolves as quite often some seemingly 918 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:20.280 innocuous calls to nine when one can do so. Represents 919 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:23.800 some safety and challenges, and it's also really expensive. They're very, 920 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.480 very well paid, I think he said, as high as 921 00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:30.159 ninety thousand dollars annually, and then you have the vehicles 922 00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:33.000 and the training costs and all of that. So ultimately 923 00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:36.840 I think Cober and I kind of reached the conclusion 924 00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:39.079 and signed over all like kind of a bad idea, 925 00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:42.199 but appreciate the information on that, And of course people 926 00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:44.360 can get involved and find out for themselves, as you 927 00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:48.880 just indicated, man's been cited for littering after being caught 928 00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:52.760 throwing out racist propaganda from his car throughout Hamilton County. 929 00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:56.239 Happened early yesterday morning. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and a 930 00:53:56.239 --> 00:53:59.599 press release say Lincoln Heights deputies respond to the area 931 00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:02.400 Mulbar Street and Locus Street about quarter after two in 932 00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:05.079 the morning to assist Lachland police with the traffic stop, 933 00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:07.760 which was conducted after members of the Lincoln Heights Safety 934 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:11.400 and Watch Group, another group to help out the community, 935 00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:14.840 reported a man scene randomly throwing racist propaganda pamphlets out 936 00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:20.800 of his car. Incident reportedly starting Lincoln Heights continued into Lachland. 937 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:24.559 Deputies on the scene pulled over the suspect, identified him 938 00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:28.679 as William Bader, who's forty seven years old, who admitted 939 00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:32.840 to what they describe as distributing the propaganda pamphlets from 940 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:34.960 his vehicle, throwing him out the window. I guess he 941 00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:38.519 wasn sighted for littering. It was discovered he was in 942 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:41.840 possession of a homemade flag that the Lincoln Heights citizens 943 00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:44.119 had made, so I guess he stole. It. Had the 944 00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:47.000 words peace and love written on it, which seemed extraordinarily 945 00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:51.960 inconsistent with his racist message on the pamphlets. Deputies confiscated 946 00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:54.320 the flag from Beta, returned it to Lincoln Heights residence 947 00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:57.480 Charmeae McGuffey. In the statement, the Sheriff's office does not 948 00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:00.760 condone or agree with hate speech that is proliferically by anyone, 949 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:03.840 including Nazis and KKK, although you have to note she 950 00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:08.480 has no control over the speech. The mechanism of distribution, however, 951 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:11.440 is a sitable offense since he was thrown it all 952 00:55:11.480 --> 00:55:14.719 over town. She said. The Sheriff's Office remains committed to 953 00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:16.599 working with the residents of the village of Lincolnites to 954 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:19.320 ensure their safety. Six point thirty five right now, if 955 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.519 you have k STEE talk station, they're back. 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Impressive product knowledge and customer service. 984 00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:50.920 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station. 985 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:55.840 Hey Monday Monday with Brian James every Monday at eight 986 00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:01.360 oh five. Consumer sentiment dropping, good dooje causing market correction. 987 00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:05.840 Home sales dropped in January and most Americans apparently are 988 00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:08.039 cash poor. So those are the subjects we'll talk about 989 00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:11.639 with Brian James at eight oh five, preceded by conversation 990 00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:14.760 I thoroughly enjoy every week Christopher Smithmen, former vice mayor 991 00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:16.800 of the City of Cincinnati, with what we call the 992 00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:19.159 Smith Event. You can hear that every Monday at seven 993 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.039 twenty and remember podcast page fifty five care sea dot 994 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:24.079 com and you can't listen to lives and terrific guests 995 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:27.679 lined up. Last week Bill O'Reilly, we talked about wanted 996 00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:31.239 the FBI. I once knew by longtime FBI agent Chris 997 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:35.119 p Hoda, Corey Buman was on. He's, of course running 998 00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:37.119 for the mayri city of Cincinnati. Got enough signature, so 999 00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:39.639 he's going to be on the ballot Orlando. Soanza, what's 1000 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:42.840 he been doing since the election? Of course, must must 1001 00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:45.960 have listening every Friday at six or six thirty with 1002 00:57:46.039 --> 00:57:49.840 Dave Hatter. So there you go. That's just just a 1003 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:53.400 slice of what the podcast page has fifty five care 1004 00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:55.400 sea dot com, where I also strongly encourage you to 1005 00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:57.719 get your iHeartMedia apps. You can listen to that content 1006 00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:00.599 and live stream this program and one of the other 1007 00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:03.559 shows on the iHeartMedia network. Before I get to other stories, 1008 00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:05.480 I got Stephen on the line. Stephen, thanks for calling 1009 00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:06.800 this morning. Happy Monday to you. 1010 00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:09.639 Oh, thank you, Happy Monday to YouTube. 1011 00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:09.960 Brian. 1012 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:13.760 I just caught the tail end of your last segment, 1013 00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:17.559 and what I want to say is that I am 1014 00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:22.559 disappointed in the Republican Party leadership of Hamilton County because 1015 00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:29.760 the leader needs to come out and make a condemnation 1016 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:37.360 of what is transparing in Lincoln Heights. Because again, without character, 1017 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:41.440 without integrity, without ethics, there is no rule of law. 1018 00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:46.320 The constitutional rights make no sense. But the assignlence of 1019 00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:51.719 our leaders on this issue is offensive and it is weak, 1020 00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:57.639 and our leaderships conservative leaders need to stand up and 1021 00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:07.159 promote the virtues and values of responsible behavior, integrity and what. 1022 00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:08.360 Is going on. 1023 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.480 The silence is deafening, and I condemn it is it 1024 00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:15.559 is just weak. 1025 00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:18.119 Well, I suppose you make a valid point. Anything is 1026 00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:21.400 controversial like that that's going on. And of course, when 1027 00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:26.159 when racists are distributing racist propaganda and doing racist things, 1028 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:29.360 it is an obvious opportunity for politicians to step up 1029 00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:32.960 and go ahead and offer their condemnation of it. Question 1030 00:59:33.079 --> 00:59:35.920 whether anybody can do anything about it, Like the guy 1031 00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:39.519 that's throwing pamphlets out the window, that is a sitable offense. 1032 00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:42.440 Whether or not somebody did something that was citable. When 1033 00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:44.719 they were protesting on the bridge and Evendal, that's a 1034 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:48.159 different story. I've heard they were in the road blocking traffic. 1035 00:59:48.440 --> 00:59:50.320 You can give them a ticket for that, and that 1036 00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:52.760 should have been done. Neither the Sheriff's department nor the 1037 00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:55.159 Evendel police decided to go down that road. And that's 1038 00:59:55.159 --> 00:59:58.599 why some were condemning them. But since the REPUBLICI oh yeah, 1039 00:59:58.679 --> 01:00:00.320 go ahead. 1040 01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:04.800 Uh you know, Conservative leaders were very outspoken uh uh 1041 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:10.360 and condemned b l m Antifa uh for not just 1042 01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:13.519 the violence that they engaged in, but prior to that, 1043 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.159 who they are and what they represented it and the 1044 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:18.880 threats they were. 1045 01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:24.719 To uh get just just uh uh you know, the 1046 01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:29.559 the you know, community and and and and safety. Okay CRT. 1047 01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:34.320 You know, conservatives are very outspoken against CRT. Nothing illegal, 1048 01:00:34.599 --> 01:00:41.559 but very outspoken. That same passion against those things that threaten, okay, 1049 01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:46.519 all our way of life applied the same to Lincoln Heights. 1050 01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:49.639 But they're silence, and and I'm a conservative. I am 1051 01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:54.519 a very conservative uh individual African American, and I want 1052 01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:59.559 to see conservative leadership speak up uh and not tolerate 1053 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.320 in silence. What is going on? 1054 01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:05.039 Oh, I don't disagree with that. It's an opportunity to 1055 01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:08.159 elevate the Republican Party in a very blue county. So yeah, 1056 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:10.760 they can come out and make statements of condemnation. But 1057 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:15.280 when you talk about criticism of, for example, critical race theory, 1058 01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:18.039 the criticism, I think largely stem from the fact that 1059 01:01:18.039 --> 01:01:21.119 that was being taught in schools. Now, if you had 1060 01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:25.039 racists promoting a clan message in schools, you would hear 1061 01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:28.639 people screaming from across the political spectrum. How dare you 1062 01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.760 so something that is a form of indoctrination that conservatives 1063 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:36.679 disagree with and maybe even some Democrats disagree with. There's 1064 01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:41.159 a reason for that because it was incorporated into the curriculum. 1065 01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:45.199 It wasn't just people on a bridge expressing their political 1066 01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:49.000 thoughts or opinions. That's all protected, as is standing on 1067 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:52.960 a bridge promoting something that's horrific, like racism. But when 1068 01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:55.119 you start and cross the line and you commit a crime, 1069 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.159 then tickets should be issued. Citations should be given in 1070 01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.320 order to try to deter that type of behave you 1071 01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:00.840 from happening. 1072 01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:05.840 And I understand, I understand the legal recourse. However, we 1073 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:10.119 need leaders to stand up, uh and promote what is right, 1074 01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:15.719 yeah for for individuals and the things that they said that. 1075 01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:20.719 Is on video that I watched about African Americans should 1076 01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:25.519 not be tolerated with silence at all because that that 1077 01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:31.119 that creates, that creates too much disharmony, disunity in our community. 1078 01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:36.960 And Republicans embrace unity, okay, that what they did was 1079 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:41.119 the antithesis of unity, and the things they said were 1080 01:02:41.199 --> 01:02:42.760 just morally reprehensible. 1081 01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:46.840 And now I'm not arguing with you, man, you made 1082 01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:49.159 your point, and I don't disagree with you. I think 1083 01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:51.760 it is a welcome opportunity to stand in unity with 1084 01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:54.719 the folks who generally, and I think it's about ninety 1085 01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:58.079 nine point nine nine percent of the population who agree 1086 01:02:58.119 --> 01:03:02.880 with what you're saying. Horrific states, horrific ideology, horrific people, period, 1087 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:06.519 end of story. How can anybody embrace that ideology? It's 1088 01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:09.880 just beyond my comprehension. I get your points, Stephen, and yeah, 1089 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:12.480 they should speak out more often, maybe get more traction, 1090 01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:16.840 maybe maybe elevate themselves to something that you know that 1091 01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:19.559 isn't just a sort of a political afterthought. Oh that's right. 1092 01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:21.960 We do have Republicans at Hamilton County. Why don't we 1093 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:25.280 hear from them more often? I don't disagree, Stephen, Eric, 1094 01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:26.719 You're gonna have to hang on if you don't mind. 1095 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:28.239 I do have to take a break amount of time 1096 01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:30.760 in this segment, and I want to strongly recommend QC 1097 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:33.199 kinetics from my listeners out there. Here's struggling with pain. 1098 01:03:33.960 --> 01:03:37.199 You know it isn't It's just a terrible thing to 1099 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:38.480 know that you're gonna get up out of bed and 1100 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:40.480 probably from the moment you put your feet down, you 1101 01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:43.320 got that knee pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, arthritic pain. 1102 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:46.800 Generally speaking, you talk to your doctor about surgery. 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Give me a call five one 1139 01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:41.519 three seven four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight 1140 01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:43.360 two three talk Eric, thanks for holding over the break there, 1141 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:44.679 welcome to the program. 1142 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:47.239 Well, thank you, Brian, and good morning. 1143 01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:47.519 To you, sir. 1144 01:05:47.800 --> 01:05:51.880 Good morning. So yeah, you know, I. 1145 01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:55.840 Just wanted to call because first I want to thank 1146 01:05:55.920 --> 01:06:00.239 the share for stopping that person and simply doing what 1147 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:03.639 great police work is, which is when you see something 1148 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:07.440 enforce what you can. Yeah, somebody's doing something like that. 1149 01:06:07.559 --> 01:06:10.880 So big, big, big ups to the Sheriff's department for 1150 01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:14.119 stepping up for that. And you know that day when 1151 01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:16.960 I was on the bridge, and those guys did come 1152 01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:21.079 out into the streets on through the yellow lines, yelling 1153 01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:22.159 into my window. 1154 01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:26.000 They should have at least ticketed them. That's called jaywalking. 1155 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:29.400 And I agree, Eric, Yeah, you're the one that confirmed 1156 01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:31.320 me that they actually did walk out in the street, 1157 01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:32.960 because you have a business right on the other side 1158 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:34.239 that bridge, and. 1159 01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:36.559 I look at that bridge every day out of my office. 1160 01:06:36.679 --> 01:06:39.360 I've had customers call me and say, hey, is it 1161 01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:40.679 okay to come over there? 1162 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:43.000 Oh no, I mean yeah. 1163 01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:45.639 I mean, you know, people are calling me asking me, hey, 1164 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:50.000 you know what's going on? And and you know, I 1165 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:52.679 agree with that last caller that you know, you see 1166 01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:56.519 the Democratic candid party stepping up saying you shouldn't. 1167 01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:58.679 Be able to wear a mask and have a gun 1168 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:03.800 open carrying on anywhere. But I haven't seen one Republican 1169 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:05.320 say that, and I need them to. 1170 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:09.079 Look, hey, it's against me. I mean, that's that's Actually 1171 01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:11.599 the other problem with that, Eric, is its actually lawful 1172 01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:14.519 to do that. 1173 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.880 What I'm getting at is it shouldn't be. So what's 1174 01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:24.440 happening is you hear the Democratic people saying, the candidates saying, hey, 1175 01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:28.719 we need to stop the ability for someone to wear 1176 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:32.119 a mask and open carry a firearm. We don't care 1177 01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:33.039 what firearm. 1178 01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:34.400 They carry, we don't care what it is. 1179 01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:40.960 But I'm not hearing that from my friends that are 1180 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:46.360 Republican senators, congress people. And this is not a partisan issue. 1181 01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:50.800 It's not Trump's fault, it's not a Democrat's fault, it's 1182 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:55.239 not antifa's fault. It's thirteen idiots that need to understand 1183 01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.199 that if you're going to be somebody that's carrying a weapon, 1184 01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:02.679 man up, un cover your face, and exercise your right 1185 01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:06.960 to carry that weapon. That is god an American given. 1186 01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:11.119 But don't be a uss. What I'm getting at is 1187 01:08:11.159 --> 01:08:14.320 what we can do to make sure our daughters don't 1188 01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:17.159 have to deal with that, our children. So that's what 1189 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:21.920 I'm looking for from your You know, then let's change it. 1190 01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:24.520 At least take the effort to put to pass the 1191 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:26.800 law that you can know you can't walk around fully 1192 01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:29.800 masked with an open carrier firearm, and see if it 1193 01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:33.560 passes constitutional muster. I mean, I'm not sure ultimately if 1194 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:36.800 it goes to the Supreme Court, that would be constitutional 1195 01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:39.279 to have that law on the books, But you got 1196 01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:41.680 to at least try to show your constituents you care 1197 01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:43.760 about them, You're going to take every effort you can 1198 01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:46.920 because again, hate speed is just protected speech. So you 1199 01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:49.960 can't pass the law banning content, but you might be 1200 01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:52.720 able to pass the law involving walking around fully masked 1201 01:08:52.760 --> 01:08:57.880 with the firearm. Yeah, so at least try, right, Eric, 1202 01:08:58.039 --> 01:08:58.760 at least try. 1203 01:08:58.920 --> 01:08:59.119 Yeah. 1204 01:08:59.319 --> 01:09:03.159 Okay, Hey, Brian, I love you, man, That's what other. 1205 01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:04.760 I love you too, And I can't thank you, know 1206 01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:07.720 for calling in, and I do really appreciate you pointing 1207 01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:10.880 out that they were in the street. And again, you 1208 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.880 could sign them for jaywalking, you could sign them for 1209 01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:16.520 obstructing traffic. That anything you can come up with to 1210 01:09:16.560 --> 01:09:20.800 give them a ticket for to deter that type of behavior. 1211 01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:23.920 Perfect idea, right there, Eric, Thank you so much for 1212 01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:27.680 calling man. Have a great week. Six fifty four fifty 1213 01:09:27.720 --> 01:09:30.520 five k C the talk station. We have plenty more 1214 01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:31.680 time out for the top of the UR News at 1215 01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:34.640 least the segment to talk before we get to former 1216 01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:36.680 vice mayor of the city since Saint Christopher Smith. It 1217 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:38.439 just something I wanted to get in real quick here. 1218 01:09:39.039 --> 01:09:40.359 And you knew this was coming. 1219 01:09:41.560 --> 01:09:41.760 Now. 1220 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.199 Well, well, the California legislator, you know, put away fifty 1221 01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:48.800 million dollars to fight Donald Trump's efforts at whatever comes 1222 01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:52.600 down their way for legal Workkevin Newsom's already asked Congress 1223 01:09:52.640 --> 01:09:56.319 to approve forty billion dollars in aid to help Los 1224 01:09:56.319 --> 01:09:59.840 Angeles recover from the wildfire. Send a letter Friday to 1225 01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:03.399 lawmakers in the House Speaker Mike Johnson. Los Angeles is 1226 01:10:03.399 --> 01:10:06.000 one of the most economically productive places on the globe, 1227 01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:08.399 but it can only rebound in flourish with support from 1228 01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:11.560 the federal government. That's you, folks, as it recovers from 1229 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:16.000 this unprecedented disaster. They say real estate losses alone in 1230 01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:19.399 the various fire ridden areas thirty billion dollars. And they 1231 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:22.960 say the economic losses from the firestorm estimated it surpass 1232 01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:28.560 two hundred and fifty billion dollars. And he's given you 1233 01:10:28.600 --> 01:10:33.760 an assurance quote, Governor Newsom, make no mistake, Los Angeles 1234 01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:40.359 will use this money wisely. That the largest request. His 1235 01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:43.600 largest request is for an additional sixteen point eight billion 1236 01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:49.359 from FEMA to rebuild property and infrastructure, five billion earmarked 1237 01:10:49.359 --> 01:10:53.159 for debris cleanup, nine point nine billion from the Department 1238 01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:57.079 of Housing and Urban Development for grants to fire victims, homeowners, businesses, 1239 01:10:57.079 --> 01:11:00.359 and renters five point twenty nine billion from the Small 1240 01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:08.960 Business Administration for homeowner and business loans. He did not 1241 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:13.159 comment on recent threats from Trump the Trump administration that 1242 01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:19.840 federal aid could come with strings attached. Yeah, that's what 1243 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:23.119 happens with federal aid. It always comes with strings attached. 1244 01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:24.960 To be careful what you ask for, because you may 1245 01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:26.319 end up having to do a bunch of things that 1246 01:11:26.359 --> 01:11:29.680 you otherwise wouldn't do. Mississippi James, you're first when we 1247 01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:31.680 come back from the break. If you don't mind holding sir, 1248 01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:33.600 love hearing from you at six fifty six Right now 1249 01:11:33.640 --> 01:11:37.720 fifty five KRCD talk station covering Trump's first one hundred days. 1250 01:11:37.840 --> 01:11:40.239 Every day we stand on the verge of the four 1251 01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:42.439 greatest years in American history. 1252 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:45.039 Fifty five krc D talk station. 1253 01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:50.479 This report is sponsored by True Grain versus d Madness. 1254 01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:54.239 Federal Judge has black flaplocked access to stay in the game. 1255 01:11:55.359 --> 01:12:16.920 Fifty five krc D talk station. Seven oh six fifty 1256 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:19.760 five Karrosen Talk Station. By the time, I'm swishing everyone 1257 01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:21.640 a very happy Monday. Try to make it happy anyway. 1258 01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:23.960 It's always happy on Monday. Because Christopher SMITHMA joins the 1259 01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:26.239 program in the next segment seven to twenty with Christopher 1260 01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:28.680 and a fast forward one hour to Money Monday with 1261 01:12:28.920 --> 01:12:31.520 Brian James. The meantime, Mississippi James is on the line. Hey, 1262 01:12:31.560 --> 01:12:36.760 Mississippi James, thanks for holding over the breake. Welcome back, Hello. 1263 01:12:36.680 --> 01:12:40.319 Mister Brian, doctor Brian as I say, yep, hey, I 1264 01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:45.520 just wondered, did the police from evandale H Lochland get 1265 01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:49.600 the name, address and some security number of the peoples. 1266 01:12:49.199 --> 01:12:51.399 That was riding in the back of the van. 1267 01:12:52.560 --> 01:12:54.560 You know, that's normally one of the first things they 1268 01:12:54.640 --> 01:12:58.319 say is that benifier, you have any id So is 1269 01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:01.199 that list out there is hudo people was in case 1270 01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:05.640 they they found something that they could charge him with later. Uh, 1271 01:13:05.800 --> 01:13:08.880 these peoples out unknown, we have to you have to have, 1272 01:13:09.399 --> 01:13:12.920 you know, probable cause to engage in that communication. 1273 01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:15.039 Police don't have a right to ask you for identification 1274 01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:17.199 if you haven't committed a crime. And that's where the 1275 01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:21.560 whole story gets gray and hazy because Eric who just 1276 01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:24.520 called was literally there because his business is on the 1277 01:13:24.520 --> 01:13:26.079 other side of that bridge and he had to go 1278 01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:29.359 over the bridge past these idiots and they harassed him. 1279 01:13:29.359 --> 01:13:31.039 They went out into the middle of the road, so 1280 01:13:31.279 --> 01:13:33.960 isn't that a sitable offense? And if the police were around, 1281 01:13:34.039 --> 01:13:36.159 I would think that's one way you could learn who 1282 01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:39.039 they are ask for their identification because they're going to 1283 01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:41.760 get a ticket for blocking traffic or jaywalking or whatever 1284 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:44.800 thing you can come up with legitimately. So, but if 1285 01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:46.479 you've got a bunch of people load in the back 1286 01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:48.600 of U haul van and you're not breaking the law, 1287 01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:51.319 you're not speeding, you're not you know, weaving or anything 1288 01:13:51.399 --> 01:13:55.560 that that justifies police intervention, I don't know if there's 1289 01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:59.840 a mechanism for you to actually lawfully get that information. So, 1290 01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:02.479 oh yeah, that's all riding in the back of it van. 1291 01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:05.880 Well though you know that I don't know, miss Simpi James. 1292 01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:07.880 You may be right. I do not know, and I 1293 01:14:07.880 --> 01:14:11.560 would think you probably are because that's a dangerous place 1294 01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:13.640 to be. There aren't any seat belts in the back 1295 01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:15.199 of a U haul van, you know what I mean. 1296 01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:18.239 So perhaps that's another area they could have looked at. 1297 01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:21.159 So you know, I guess I'm I'm interested in annoying 1298 01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:23.439 and I've heard absolutely no follow up on it. Maybe 1299 01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:26.279 somebody's read something how it is that they couldn't track 1300 01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:29.119 down where that van was readed, where it came from, 1301 01:14:29.119 --> 01:14:31.800 and who was the one that rented it, So you know, 1302 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:33.760 a lot of question marks floating around. I don't know 1303 01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:35.880 if law enforcement is still looking into it, if it's 1304 01:14:35.880 --> 01:14:38.960 an open investigation or something they've just now moved past. 1305 01:14:39.439 --> 01:14:41.720 But I know a lot of people are angry and 1306 01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:43.960 a lot of people are looking for answers. But I 1307 01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:46.279 keep having to walk back to the point where you know, 1308 01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:49.439 there's only so much law enforcement can do with idiots. 1309 01:14:49.880 --> 01:14:53.159 If idiots aren't breaking the law, then they can expouse 1310 01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:56.119 their idiot speech. Fortunately, the guy throwing pamphlets out the 1311 01:14:56.119 --> 01:14:59.359 window that was arrested over the weekend, he was breaking 1312 01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:02.560 the law. He was literally littering, and he got cited 1313 01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:07.720 for it. So it's complicated Mississippi, James, And it is frustrating, 1314 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:08.760 very frustrating. 1315 01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:10.920 Actually is biased? 1316 01:15:11.079 --> 01:15:12.239 Is not complicated? 1317 01:15:12.359 --> 01:15:15.000 That's the way you framing. Its just biased. 1318 01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:16.640 How is it bias? 1319 01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:20.760 Well, once again, if they was riding in the back, 1320 01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:22.159 that was a misdemeanor. 1321 01:15:23.840 --> 01:15:29.159 But I never thought of that, James, until to this morning. 1322 01:15:29.199 --> 01:15:30.960 You brought it up. That's the first time it's ever 1323 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:33.279 been elevating. You're like, you know, You're right, that could 1324 01:15:33.319 --> 01:15:38.800 have been something they could have done HU. But like 1325 01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:40.680 like getting out in the middle of the street, it seems 1326 01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:43.960 to me they could have done something by issuing a 1327 01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:47.600 citation for that. Now, in the final analysis, I don't 1328 01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:50.119 believe it would change the hearts and minds of the racist. 1329 01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:54.359 It might prevent them from doing something illegal misdemeanor, but 1330 01:15:54.479 --> 01:15:56.600 it may stop them from you know, loading into the 1331 01:15:56.640 --> 01:15:58.079 back of a U haul down the road because they 1332 01:15:58.079 --> 01:15:59.920 know they could get cited for it. It may prevent 1333 01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:01.479 them from walking out in the middle of the street 1334 01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:03.760 because they know they'll get sighted for it, But it 1335 01:16:03.800 --> 01:16:06.479 won't stop them from standing on the sidewalk and expousing 1336 01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:10.239 their racist hate. So what do you do? What do 1337 01:16:10.279 --> 01:16:11.640 you say? What do you say? 1338 01:16:11.720 --> 01:16:11.880 Right? 1339 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:12.520 What do you say? 1340 01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:12.720 Then? 1341 01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:14.960 Okay, next time they get on the bridge, if they 1342 01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:17.399 all got there and they arrived and they parked lawfully 1343 01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:22.399 in their individual automobiles, unbuckled their seatbelt and walked over 1344 01:16:22.439 --> 01:16:25.560 to the bridge with the racist hate signs, then they 1345 01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:27.600 have a right to do that. So I don't think 1346 01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:30.560 it would dissuade them. My bigger problem with this is 1347 01:16:30.600 --> 01:16:32.359 I think everybody talks about it so much that it 1348 01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:35.159 almost elevates them to some sort of legitimacy. 1349 01:16:35.720 --> 01:16:35.880 Either. 1350 01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:37.960 Were thirteen of those idiots there, and I bet it 1351 01:16:37.960 --> 01:16:39.840 took them all year long to come up with a 1352 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:41.800 group with thirteen people who are willing to go out 1353 01:16:41.840 --> 01:16:44.479 in public and stand there as they were covered. Their 1354 01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:46.800 faces were covered, but they have to stand there and 1355 01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:50.800 expouse a message that no one agrees with or very 1356 01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:54.079 few people agree with it. I personally don't know anyone 1357 01:16:54.119 --> 01:16:56.560 who agrees with that message, James, I truly do not, 1358 01:16:57.000 --> 01:17:04.279 and I certainly don't. Oh so, James, appreciate it as always, 1359 01:17:04.439 --> 01:17:06.119 stay well and looking forward to having you back in 1360 01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:09.720 the area when it falls out up here. Dan Hill's 1361 01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:12.560 former FOP President's called in on the hotline. Dan, thanks 1362 01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:16.239 for calling this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show, Brian. 1363 01:17:17.399 --> 01:17:19.600 I have to respond because I've talked about this a 1364 01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:22.439 little bit. I wasn't there. I have an interviewed Dame. 1365 01:17:22.479 --> 01:17:25.199 I was there. But to me, the common sense tells 1366 01:17:25.239 --> 01:17:28.159 me this. You got two groups of people that don't 1367 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:30.840 care for each other. People are getting angry, people have 1368 01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:35.279 long guns, and you have a different priority than just 1369 01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:37.199 trying to cite the people that you don't like their 1370 01:17:37.239 --> 01:17:41.159 political view, The priority is keeping the peace, is public safety. 1371 01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:44.800 They were doing everything they could to get those goose, 1372 01:17:44.960 --> 01:17:47.399 and we all agree. I think that's how we walk 1373 01:17:47.439 --> 01:17:50.279 into this conversation. First we should throw up our hands 1374 01:17:50.279 --> 01:17:52.640 and say we all think the Nazis are idiots. All 1375 01:17:52.680 --> 01:17:54.520 the cops that were there, I'm certain to feel the 1376 01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:56.640 same as the cops. I know they all think the 1377 01:17:56.720 --> 01:17:59.159 Nazis are idiots. I know you know that the Nazis 1378 01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:02.960 are idiots. But you get thrown into a situation there. 1379 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:06.520 Instead of just trying to find a way to cite 1380 01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:08.560 people that you don't like their view, you had a 1381 01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:11.960 greater priority, and that was public safety, in your own safety, 1382 01:18:12.039 --> 01:18:15.199 and and uh and keeping the peace. And like I said, 1383 01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:17.640 they were dealing with two groups that were becoming hostile 1384 01:18:17.760 --> 01:18:19.800 with one another, and you got a chance to get 1385 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:21.439 them the heck out of there, You get them the 1386 01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:26.960 heck out of there. And uh. I just I'm getting 1387 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:29.000 tired of all this backlash and all these people that 1388 01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:32.439 are jumping on this as an opportunity to point out 1389 01:18:32.439 --> 01:18:35.600 that the police. The police didn't do everything that they 1390 01:18:35.439 --> 01:18:37.840 they could have potentially did it. As far as taking 1391 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:42.479 legal action, I'm almost certain that the other group probably 1392 01:18:42.600 --> 01:18:45.359 was doing things technically wrong too that they could have 1393 01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.000 been cited for, but that's not Again, that wasn't a priority. 1394 01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:52.800 It was priority was was not having a shootout. So yeah, 1395 01:18:53.359 --> 01:18:57.600 that point, that's what I believe was was without doubt 1396 01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:01.840 was the was the number one thing on each and 1397 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:05.000 every one of those police officers and police supervisors up there, 1398 01:19:05.520 --> 01:19:09.159 was let's avoid having a shootout because that's a really 1399 01:19:09.640 --> 01:19:14.159 bad thing for public safety to start having two angry 1400 01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:15.279 groups shoot at each other. 1401 01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:17.720 Oh, I couldn't agree with you more, Dan, And that's 1402 01:19:17.720 --> 01:19:19.720 a point that's very well taken. You have to put 1403 01:19:19.720 --> 01:19:22.800 it in context. And then, of course, in the aftermath, 1404 01:19:23.239 --> 01:19:25.479 that's when the Monday morning quarterbacks come out and say 1405 01:19:25.479 --> 01:19:27.520 why didn't they do this? And why didn't they do that? 1406 01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:30.560 And while I can point out that there might have 1407 01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:33.039 been sitable offenses, and you would know better than that 1408 01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:36.199 than than I would, like, I never thought about, you know, load, he's. 1409 01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:38.720 Probably right about the back of the van. But if 1410 01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:42.960 if back in my day, Sergeant Dan Hills was somehow 1411 01:19:43.119 --> 01:19:46.960 thrown that incident and I'm in charge of I'm like, 1412 01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:49.239 get them out of here. We don't have time for 1413 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:50.960 that Let's get them moving. They want to move, they 1414 01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:53.840 want to go, Let's help them go. And that's exactly 1415 01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:58.079 everything I've seen is that they help them go, which prevented, 1416 01:19:59.079 --> 01:20:02.720 you know, an absolute tragedy. And then all these folks 1417 01:20:02.760 --> 01:20:05.479 because they don't like their views. I don't like their views, 1418 01:20:05.640 --> 01:20:07.520 but that's not how you police. You don't go around 1419 01:20:07.520 --> 01:20:09.239 on I'm going to try to get every citation I 1420 01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:11.760 can because I don't like their views, or you know, 1421 01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:15.119 I don't like the views of some group on the 1422 01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:18.520 opposite end of the spectrum. You can't police that way. 1423 01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:21.399 And so I wish the Monday Morning quarterback in would 1424 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:23.560 tone down just a little bit. I think even Dale 1425 01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:27.239 Police did an outstanding job because everybody came out of 1426 01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:28.520 that without any bullet. 1427 01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:32.439 Holes alive, no shots were fired. And I think that 1428 01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:35.479 is a very very good point. And Dan, I can't help. 1429 01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:37.520 I can't thank you enough for Connor on the morning 1430 01:20:37.520 --> 01:20:40.239 show to make that actually the outcome was a positive one. 1431 01:20:40.439 --> 01:20:42.399 It's just that I think there's just so much frustration 1432 01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:45.199 out there that that message you're free to spread it 1433 01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:48.600 in the United States of America. That is a documented 1434 01:20:49.479 --> 01:20:52.039 case from the Supreme Court. Brandenburg look it up. We 1435 01:20:52.079 --> 01:20:55.720 don't like it, but hate speech is protected speech as 1436 01:20:55.760 --> 01:20:58.560 much as we may disagree with that speech. Thanks, brother, 1437 01:20:58.600 --> 01:21:00.960 appreciate it. We have time for another one, Joe. No, no, 1438 01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:02.760 I'm sorry, Hank, I'm sorry. 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Monday is always made extra special because 1477 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:46.840 now is the day, at the time of the week 1478 01:22:46.880 --> 01:22:48.199 and we get to talk to the former Vice mayor 1479 01:22:48.239 --> 01:22:50.920 of the City of Cincinnati, get his musings and let 1480 01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:53.119 him venice clean the Smith Event ad vice mayor, former 1481 01:22:53.199 --> 01:22:55.479 vice Mayor Christopher Smith and my friend welcome back to 1482 01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:57.479 the morning show, oh. 1483 01:22:57.439 --> 01:23:00.600 Man, thank you for having me on. And every week 1484 01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:04.760 there's so much to talk about. I don't know where 1485 01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:06.840 to start, but I'd like to ask for a little 1486 01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:10.920 privilege from my friend because I spent the last four 1487 01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:15.640 or five days man in Canton, Ohio, supporting my daughter 1488 01:23:16.479 --> 01:23:20.800 Seaton High School and so many other teams from the 1489 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:24.399 same Ohio you know, for their for their state championship. Yeah, 1490 01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:27.279 and I talked about that, man. The girls did a 1491 01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:30.119 great job. They came in fifth and they're heating thirteenth 1492 01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:33.880 in the state. They broke a Seaton, they broke a 1493 01:23:33.920 --> 01:23:36.119 seat and thank you. They broke a seat and record 1494 01:23:36.520 --> 01:23:40.960 and I just wanted to give a shout out to Maddie, Josie, 1495 01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:46.479 Hannah and Hannah, Sarah, Sam, Meredith and Camille and the 1496 01:23:46.600 --> 01:23:50.680 big shout out goes to Jody Schafer, the seating swim 1497 01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:54.720 coach by the way, who's really paid nothing peanuts for 1498 01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:58.640 everything that she does for these girls and that team 1499 01:23:58.720 --> 01:24:02.119 at Seaton. So I can't say enough, the parents can't 1500 01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:05.920 say enough good things about Jody Schaeffer and you being 1501 01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:10.479 a swimmer, you know what it takes every day, every morning, 1502 01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:14.159 every afternoon to get prepared to go through all of this. 1503 01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:17.119 And to all the seniors on the seating team, we 1504 01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:17.760 salute you. 1505 01:24:18.319 --> 01:24:19.840 That's you know, that's very I'm glad you brought it 1506 01:24:19.880 --> 01:24:21.399 up because of course I know how proud you are. 1507 01:24:21.439 --> 01:24:26.520 And I did have the opportunity to go go upstate 1508 01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:29.600 for a relay as well when I was a senior 1509 01:24:29.640 --> 01:24:31.840 in high school and it's quite an experience, man, And 1510 01:24:31.880 --> 01:24:36.119 you you know, that's when you realize, you know, there 1511 01:24:36.159 --> 01:24:40.880 are some really, really talented and excellent swimmers out there 1512 01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:43.239 in the world. I can't remember what place we came in, 1513 01:24:43.279 --> 01:24:45.479 but we were. We were definitely in the also ran 1514 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:49.039 are also a swim category. But fun time it was. 1515 01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:52.000 And as bringing back some some of the few fond 1516 01:24:52.039 --> 01:24:55.199 memories I have of swimming, you mentioned morning practices. That's 1517 01:24:55.239 --> 01:24:58.880 a Vietnam flashback type response or experience for me, man, 1518 01:24:59.399 --> 01:25:01.840 I remember that alarm going off at four o'clock in 1519 01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:04.039 the morning and wanting to throw it across the room, 1520 01:25:04.199 --> 01:25:06.399 and getting to school and having to swim before the 1521 01:25:06.439 --> 01:25:09.640 school started, and showing up and getting dressed and heading 1522 01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:11.359 off to class, and then you did it all over 1523 01:25:11.399 --> 01:25:14.279 again after class was over. It's like, oh my god, 1524 01:25:14.800 --> 01:25:17.279 you spend so much time in the water. And you know, 1525 01:25:17.319 --> 01:25:20.880 swimmers are the unsung heroes in high schools because you know, 1526 01:25:21.159 --> 01:25:22.920 like I said last time you and I talked, very 1527 01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:26.239 few people from these student bodies show up at swim meets, 1528 01:25:26.319 --> 01:25:29.439 unlike basketball games or football games, where it's a common 1529 01:25:29.479 --> 01:25:32.720 thing to hey, meet at the basketball game. He was like, yeah, definitely, 1530 01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:34.880 you know, and you cheer on your fellow classmates, but 1531 01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:36.159 not swimming. 1532 01:25:37.560 --> 01:25:41.199 They don't. And let me share with you, you know, a 1533 01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:45.199 big shout out for great programs in our city like 1534 01:25:45.319 --> 01:25:51.680 Saint x who oh yeah, elder, you know, as examples 1535 01:25:51.760 --> 01:25:54.880 like Walded Hills High School. I mean, we have a 1536 01:25:54.920 --> 01:25:57.720 lot to be like Saint Ursula. We have a lot 1537 01:25:57.760 --> 01:26:00.000 to be proud of in our city and in our 1538 01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:05.960 region of just tremendous swimmers tremendous programs around us. But 1539 01:26:06.119 --> 01:26:09.079 you know I'm biased because you know, I'm a girl 1540 01:26:09.159 --> 01:26:14.039 dad for Seaton and i just can't say enough about 1541 01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:17.359 the girls that went and swim for the state championship. 1542 01:26:17.640 --> 01:26:19.439 And I'm going to just give their names one more 1543 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:25.640 time before we go to break Maddie, Josie, Hannah, Sarah, Sam, Meredith, 1544 01:26:25.720 --> 01:26:28.960 and Camille. And to their great coach Jody Shafer, thanks 1545 01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:31.640 for that privilege. As we go into the break, man, oh, 1546 01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:33.560 I just want to tell you that a great team, 1547 01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:35.079 great swimmer and a great season. 1548 01:26:35.279 --> 01:26:38.720 Well that's that's fantastic. And you know, for parents out 1549 01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:41.560 there that and my wife was not one that wanted 1550 01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.399 our children to engage in contact sports. My son played 1551 01:26:44.439 --> 01:26:48.680 lacrosse and and also was a swimmer himself, and my 1552 01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:53.479 daughter played volleyball. But swimming is probably one of the 1553 01:26:53.520 --> 01:26:56.399 greatest sports in terms of how much good it does 1554 01:26:56.439 --> 01:27:00.319 for your body. You know, lower impact, great aerobic benefits, 1555 01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:05.199 and it's an easy way to remain lean and in shape, 1556 01:27:05.239 --> 01:27:08.640 and it's it's just a wonderful sport in terms of 1557 01:27:08.680 --> 01:27:12.399 physical activity and benefits for your body's and it's a lasting, 1558 01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:15.239 long term impact they'll have on you so think about 1559 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:18.479 putting a child on the swim team and a great coach, 1560 01:27:19.079 --> 01:27:21.279 give them all the skills they need, you know, teach 1561 01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:23.119 them how to do flip turns right, and teach them 1562 01:27:23.119 --> 01:27:25.079 how to do the strokes right. It's amazing what some 1563 01:27:25.199 --> 01:27:27.800 lessons will do for the ability to improve your speed 1564 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:28.720 in the swimming pool. 1565 01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:33.880 Man, hey man, you see some really big men who 1566 01:27:33.960 --> 01:27:36.439 are swimming. How you think about football players, Man, look 1567 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:38.800 at some of these swimmers out here and how they 1568 01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:44.880 are built. I mean, just just strong, lean bodies that 1569 01:27:44.920 --> 01:27:48.000 are going in there, and it's just remarkable about their speeds. 1570 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:50.520 And as we come back out of the break, I'm 1571 01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:54.239 going to pivot into my spleen bit that has everything 1572 01:27:54.279 --> 01:27:56.760 to do with the first segment. I just wanted to 1573 01:27:56.800 --> 01:28:01.960 spend the first segment speaking about love and excitement about 1574 01:28:02.039 --> 01:28:05.600 these programs around us and specifically State in high school. 1575 01:28:05.760 --> 01:28:08.680 Proud Papa, and you deserve to be a proud papa. 1576 01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:10.439 And you're doing it all on your own now because 1577 01:28:10.479 --> 01:28:12.640 you know you lost your wife to cancer after that 1578 01:28:12.680 --> 01:28:15.560 long battle, and I know she is looking down and 1579 01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:20.520 smiling and also proud of Camille and her efforts. So 1580 01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:23.479 thanks Christopher for bringing that up. Hold on a second, 1581 01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:25.680 we'll bring him back and he can launch into his vent. 1582 01:28:26.239 --> 01:28:30.359 After I mentioned Colin Electric Andrew Cullen has got a great, 1583 01:28:30.479 --> 01:28:33.000 great group of electricians. Somebody else had commented to me 1584 01:28:33.000 --> 01:28:34.640 about it and said, oh, you had to call on 1585 01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:36.520 Electric over to do a project and we had this 1586 01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:40.119 lady electrician. I looked at I said, was it Lily, Yeah, 1587 01:28:40.239 --> 01:28:42.399 that's her because I brought her up on the morning 1588 01:28:42.479 --> 01:28:44.000 show quite a few times over the years. It was 1589 01:28:44.079 --> 01:28:46.079 just I just watching her in action when they were 1590 01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:48.560 doing our canlight project. They were in the house all day. 1591 01:28:48.560 --> 01:28:50.800 They installed I don't know how many twenty thirty cans 1592 01:28:50.840 --> 01:28:54.239 or whatever. Man, she was just a well oiled machine, 1593 01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:57.039 she and her team. But you get great service, I 1594 01:28:57.039 --> 01:28:58.760 think is a fundamental point on Then that was the 1595 01:28:58.760 --> 01:28:59.920 point that was made to me by one of the 1596 01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:02.039 listeners who took my advice on hiring Colum and they 1597 01:29:02.079 --> 01:29:05.680 enjoying a plus with a better business ureau, full uh 1598 01:29:05.039 --> 01:29:08.600 uh wiring warranty on everything that they do for you, 1599 01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:11.840 and right now power up your twenty twenty five home 1600 01:29:11.960 --> 01:29:14.680 sale starts now. Code changes were implemented the spring of 1601 01:29:14.800 --> 01:29:17.640 last year have exponentially driven up the costs of service 1602 01:29:17.720 --> 01:29:20.600 upgrades through and through the roof, So there has never 1603 01:29:20.600 --> 01:29:22.479 been a better time to take advantage of big savings 1604 01:29:22.520 --> 01:29:25.000 on a service update for your home. 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Joanna nine tells us Today we 1616 01:30:02.359 --> 01:30:05.039 get some sun, but it's going to turn partly cloud 1617 01:30:05.079 --> 01:30:07.800 eivet a bit breezy, maybe a shower. Fifty two for 1618 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.640 the high overnight thirty six with clouds fifty six to 1619 01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:14.039 high Tomorrow with PM sunshine and a slight chance of 1620 01:30:14.159 --> 01:30:16.560 rain in the morning. Overnight mostly clouds with a little 1621 01:30:16.600 --> 01:30:19.119 thirty two and then best chance of rain all week 1622 01:30:19.199 --> 01:30:21.479 comes Wednesday, but it also comes with the highest sixty 1623 01:30:21.479 --> 01:30:24.439 three thirty degrees. Right now, let's hear about traffic conditions 1624 01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:26.319 from Chuck Ingram from. 1625 01:30:26.159 --> 01:30:28.800 The uc ON Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers 1626 01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:32.039 are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screening can make a difference. 1627 01:30:32.640 --> 01:30:35.840 Called five one, three, five eight five uc CE see 1628 01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:38.319 cruise continue to work with the wreck north found seventy 1629 01:30:38.319 --> 01:30:41.800 five above seventy four right two lanes or block traffic 1630 01:30:42.039 --> 01:30:45.000 back to pay US seventy four close to Hoppel in 1631 01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:47.319 bound seventy four. There's a wreck on the right shoulder 1632 01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:50.560 at Montana northbound fourth seventy one broken down in the 1633 01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:53.560 left lane coming off of the bridge. There's a wreck 1634 01:30:53.640 --> 01:30:56.520 on river at near State. Chuck Ingram on fifty five 1635 01:30:56.640 --> 01:30:58.640 KRC the talk station. 1636 01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:02.680 Sony nine if if you've have kercit talks station, A 1637 01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:05.479 very happy Tuesday to you tomorrow on the morning show. 1638 01:31:05.479 --> 01:31:07.920 In addition to our regular guest keep your Fingers Crossed, 1639 01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:13.039 Joe Streckers lined up vec VvE grama swammy. So looking 1640 01:31:13.039 --> 01:31:14.920 forward to having him on the program since he's announced 1641 01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:17.600 his run for governor of the state of Ohio. Without 1642 01:31:17.640 --> 01:31:21.840 further Ado, Christopher Smithman, unleash this league. 1643 01:31:23.079 --> 01:31:30.239 Look, brother, common sense is lost in our politicians. So 1644 01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:33.119 the first half I talked about being that girl dad 1645 01:31:33.159 --> 01:31:38.279 and being excited. But to think again that the President 1646 01:31:38.359 --> 01:31:42.560 of the United States has to sign executive orders that 1647 01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:50.159 say boys should not be swimming, fighting, wrestling, participating in 1648 01:31:50.239 --> 01:31:54.079 any sport against our girls is insane. And to have 1649 01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:58.039 the governor of Maine in the last forty eight hours 1650 01:31:58.079 --> 01:32:01.920 in DC argue minutes with the President of the United States, 1651 01:32:01.960 --> 01:32:07.119 which he simply says, listen, follow federal law. We don't 1652 01:32:07.159 --> 01:32:12.520 want boys participating in sports with girls. As defiant as 1653 01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:15.159 she was. Anybody that saw that thing, I'll see you 1654 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:19.079 in court. And then two hundred and fifty million dollars 1655 01:32:19.079 --> 01:32:24.039 of federal dollars being stripped from her state. She deserves it. 1656 01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:27.039 Maine is a part of the United States of America. People, 1657 01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:29.800 you cannot have your cake and eat it too. We 1658 01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:34.800 do not want boys participating in sports against our girls. 1659 01:32:35.039 --> 01:32:38.800 It's a common sense thing. Look, Brian Thomas, you're a 1660 01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:42.039 girl dad. I'm a girl dad. There are girl dads 1661 01:32:42.119 --> 01:32:45.760 that are listening to this broadcast right now all across 1662 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:48.359 this country, and they know what I'm saying is true. 1663 01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:50.960 But even if you're not a girl, dad, you have 1664 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:54.239 the common sense to understand that you do not want 1665 01:32:54.279 --> 01:32:58.640 boys swimming, fighting, wrestling. I don't care what it is 1666 01:32:58.680 --> 01:33:04.760 playing football against your girls. It's totally ludicrous that we 1667 01:33:04.800 --> 01:33:07.359 would think that we would have to debate and have 1668 01:33:07.479 --> 01:33:12.239 this conversation. And you have schools and politicians still across 1669 01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.159 this country. In the last forty eight hours, I'm there 1670 01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:19.520 in Canton, Ohio, watching my TV watching the governor of 1671 01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:23.199 Maine literally defiant to the end, looking the President in 1672 01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:26.520 the eye, saying I'm not gonna listen to the federal 1673 01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:29.680 government telling us no more will we allow boys this 1674 01:33:29.720 --> 01:33:31.720 women against our girls. And by the way, if you 1675 01:33:31.800 --> 01:33:36.000 want to talk about fairness and protecting our girls in 1676 01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:39.359 title nine, you would be standing with me. I'm a 1677 01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:43.199 person who supports the LGBTQ plus community, but I do 1678 01:33:43.279 --> 01:33:49.359 not support biological men praying in sports against girls. It 1679 01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:51.399 makes no sense in my mind. 1680 01:33:52.000 --> 01:33:54.880 Well, you didn't call looking for an argument, and I 1681 01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:59.000 guess it's eighty two percent of the American population, including 1682 01:33:59.199 --> 01:34:01.800 seventy plus percent of Democrats. If you think if you 1683 01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:04.199 want to put the blame on this to some political party. 1684 01:34:04.239 --> 01:34:06.600 It's the Democrats that are pushing this, not the Republicans 1685 01:34:07.079 --> 01:34:10.760 all fully agree with you. It's a losing argument for 1686 01:34:10.800 --> 01:34:14.199 a politician to embraces. And as you, as you point out, 1687 01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:17.039 I mean, we're counting your twenty twenty five and we're 1688 01:34:17.079 --> 01:34:20.359 having a conversation about this. That it even was elevated, 1689 01:34:20.359 --> 01:34:24.840 and that that men were actually participating against and regularly 1690 01:34:24.920 --> 01:34:28.760 beating women in sports, that that could have even happened 1691 01:34:29.479 --> 01:34:32.680 is mind blowing to me. It's just it's impossible to 1692 01:34:32.680 --> 01:34:35.760 get your head around and rewind like fifteen years and say, hey, 1693 01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:37.479 do you know what boys are going to be competing 1694 01:34:37.479 --> 01:34:40.439 against women in sports in a little while, and be like, 1695 01:34:40.760 --> 01:34:43.000 you're out of your mind. This is never gonna happen. 1696 01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:46.880 Boys have a biological advantage over girls, strength and size 1697 01:34:46.920 --> 01:34:50.880 and speed, and you know, women's records versus men's records 1698 01:34:51.000 --> 01:34:55.039 demonstrably prove that over and over again. Now there is 1699 01:34:55.079 --> 01:34:58.239 the rare occasion, you know, you know, where a woman 1700 01:34:58.520 --> 01:35:03.840 can beat a man, but the vast majority of the 1701 01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:05.319 cases that's not going to be the case. 1702 01:35:06.319 --> 01:35:10.000 No, no, no, And let me share with you, like 1703 01:35:10.319 --> 01:35:15.000 on this practical, practical point that I know you appreciate 1704 01:35:15.520 --> 01:35:18.520 My daughter Camille has been swimming since she was five. 1705 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:21.760 She started at the Critonville Swim Club and now she's 1706 01:35:21.800 --> 01:35:24.720 seventeen and she's swimming for Seed in high school. Look, 1707 01:35:25.159 --> 01:35:28.399 these are girls that have dedicated their entire life to 1708 01:35:28.439 --> 01:35:33.159 the support to this sport. Girls are losing and winning 1709 01:35:33.239 --> 01:35:35.399 in this sport by as you know, a tenth. 1710 01:35:35.119 --> 01:35:35.720 Of a second. 1711 01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:39.199 Yeah, what in the world would you want to destroy 1712 01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:44.319 that girl's opportunity to get a scholarship to swim to whatever, 1713 01:35:44.359 --> 01:35:46.920 Because you're just looking at the times when you're trying 1714 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.840 to recruit to have a boy in that pool with 1715 01:35:50.920 --> 01:35:54.760 that girl who and her family, her mom, dad, grandparents, 1716 01:35:54.760 --> 01:35:58.960 who have dedicated their entire life for the last ten years, 1717 01:35:59.039 --> 01:36:02.319 the last twelve year for that girl. I'm just saying, 1718 01:36:02.439 --> 01:36:06.079 it's amazing to me that Democrats want to die on 1719 01:36:06.119 --> 01:36:09.359 this still, Brian Thomas, that they still believe that it's 1720 01:36:09.439 --> 01:36:15.560 okay for boys to compete against girls in sports. It's not. 1721 01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:20.000 It's a bridge too far. And I'm so happy that 1722 01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:24.600 President Trump is saying no to this, we are not 1723 01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:27.640 going to allow you to do this. You're going too far. 1724 01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:31.840 And to that main Governor and any governor across this country. 1725 01:36:32.079 --> 01:36:35.560 I think the federal government should strip every single dollar 1726 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:38.000 from them and then let their constituents if they can 1727 01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:40.760 go it alone, if they can ignore the federal government, 1728 01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:43.399 you can't eat your cake. You can't have your cake 1729 01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:46.039 and eat it too. You don't get our federal dollars. 1730 01:36:46.239 --> 01:36:48.800 And at the same time say you're going to ignore us. 1731 01:36:49.199 --> 01:36:51.920 Yeah, And there's a lot of precedent for withholding federal dollars. 1732 01:36:52.000 --> 01:36:53.279 I mean here in the state of Ohio. You may 1733 01:36:53.319 --> 01:36:56.880 remember many years back, in fact, I was grandfathered in 1734 01:36:57.239 --> 01:36:59.640 at the age of nineteen because I well, I beat 1735 01:36:59.680 --> 01:37:01.640 the dead line, but they would the federal garment withheld 1736 01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:05.680 federal tax dollars for the highway funds unless we capitulated 1737 01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:09.359 to turning the drinking age into twenty one in this state. 1738 01:37:09.399 --> 01:37:11.319 We didn't want to do it. We wanted to allow 1739 01:37:11.399 --> 01:37:14.800 nineteen year olds to drink beer, but because the federal 1740 01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:16.840 government wanted it to be twenty one, we had to 1741 01:37:16.840 --> 01:37:19.079 finally say, okay, well, we need the federal money, so 1742 01:37:19.119 --> 01:37:21.479 we'll go ahead and change the drinking age. And that's 1743 01:37:21.479 --> 01:37:24.560 what happens. So lots of precedent for this out there 1744 01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:28.560 and I and again everybody agrees with you. And I'm 1745 01:37:28.600 --> 01:37:31.600 sure the vast majority of her constituents agree with your 1746 01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:33.840 point of view and not the governor's point of view. 1747 01:37:34.119 --> 01:37:36.359 So I mean, even Trump told her I when calling 1748 01:37:36.359 --> 01:37:38.960 her out, he said, you know, good luck, because you're 1749 01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:41.640 not going to get re elected again. You know, hold on, 1750 01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:44.600 we'll bring Christopher Christopher back for a few more thoughts. 1751 01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:48.520 Seven thirty six at fifty five K see the talk station. 1752 01:37:48.720 --> 01:37:50.680 And you know, I always look at it this way. 1753 01:37:51.119 --> 01:37:54.840 You can get the best for less, and isn't that 1754 01:37:54.880 --> 01:37:57.159 a good thing? Less money for the best. And I 1755 01:37:57.159 --> 01:38:00.319 would I insist that the mechanics at Foreign Exchange se 1756 01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:03.680 certified master technicians that will repair your imported car are 1757 01:38:03.680 --> 01:38:06.760 traditionally imported car, whether it's from Asia or Europe, and 1758 01:38:06.760 --> 01:38:08.279 they'll fix it and you'll be glad. You'll get a 1759 01:38:08.279 --> 01:38:10.279 full warrant, teen parts in service. They treat you like 1760 01:38:10.359 --> 01:38:14.880 family there. 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Please tell them, Brian 1779 01:39:07.000 --> 01:39:09.560 said high five one three six four four twenty six 1780 01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:12.079 twenty six five one three six four four twenty six, 1781 01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:12.680 twenty six. 1782 01:39:13.560 --> 01:39:19.239 This is fifty five KARC an iHeartRadio station, a great setting. 1783 01:39:24.439 --> 01:39:29.520 Seven forty if you about kcdtalk stations. Responding to uh, 1784 01:39:29.640 --> 01:39:32.000 let us see here, Tom, who said, yeah, I fully 1785 01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:33.960 agree that men and women should not be participating in 1786 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:37.119 the same sports once they are a certain age. But 1787 01:39:37.319 --> 01:39:39.439 should this really be a federal issue? If abortion is 1788 01:39:39.479 --> 01:39:41.279 a state issue, which I agree it is, shouldn't this 1789 01:39:41.359 --> 01:39:43.640 be a state issue as well? Well? Tom? The answer 1790 01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:47.600 is twofold one. Title nine governs this and it involves 1791 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:50.680 that's a federal law, and it involves the receipt of 1792 01:39:50.760 --> 01:39:54.319 federal money. If you're a private school in a state 1793 01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:57.000 and you do not accept federal money, then this doesn't 1794 01:39:57.039 --> 01:39:59.399 apply to you. You can have men participating against women 1795 01:39:59.720 --> 01:40:02.359 can exceptually, though we all agree that it's not right. 1796 01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:05.159 So that's that's the distinction that needs to be drawn here. 1797 01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:08.199 There is. It's Title nine and the receipt of federal 1798 01:40:08.239 --> 01:40:11.600 dollars which come with strings attached, right, Christopher. They always 1799 01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:13.640 come with strings, they they do. 1800 01:40:13.840 --> 01:40:19.960 And elections have consequences, meaning President Trump wawn, he has 1801 01:40:20.039 --> 01:40:24.359 the right to put his footprint on the federal government. 1802 01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:27.800 I e. Get back to work, and so these these 1803 01:40:27.880 --> 01:40:29.800 workers that are out there like, hey man, I've been 1804 01:40:29.840 --> 01:40:33.119 working from home. I've been taking bubble bass and on 1805 01:40:33.239 --> 01:40:36.319 my laptop and running around do whatever. And you have 1806 01:40:36.359 --> 01:40:38.399 a new you have a new sheriff that says you 1807 01:40:38.439 --> 01:40:40.239 know what, I want you to show up to work. 1808 01:40:40.279 --> 01:40:42.920 I want you to physically be here. We've got federal 1809 01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:46.199 buildings that are just empty that we're paying for. Come 1810 01:40:46.239 --> 01:40:48.039 back to work. Oh no, I'm not going to come 1811 01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:50.000 back to work. You know, I'm going to give you. 1812 01:40:50.279 --> 01:40:52.520 I'm going to give you the middle finger, and I'm 1813 01:40:52.520 --> 01:40:56.239 not coming back. Who does that to their employer? And 1814 01:40:56.720 --> 01:40:59.399 if you're a federal worker, get back to work, and 1815 01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:02.520 there's no body out here who has sympathy for you 1816 01:41:02.800 --> 01:41:06.600 because we're going to work every single day. Yeah, I 1817 01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:07.560 don't get this, man. 1818 01:41:07.720 --> 01:41:09.680 This is the most crazy story on that one of 1819 01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:12.119 the craziest story. Rather. I read the other day. There's 1820 01:41:12.119 --> 01:41:15.720 a federal cafeteria that's been shut down since COVID, and 1821 01:41:15.760 --> 01:41:20.119 the cafeteria workers are at home being paid their cafeteria 1822 01:41:20.279 --> 01:41:25.520 salary to work. And you can't remote cafeteria work. I mean, 1823 01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:28.000 think about that. I mean you can argue if you're 1824 01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:29.760 a federal employee that sits in front of a computer 1825 01:41:29.840 --> 01:41:31.760 in an office in federal garment, you can take that 1826 01:41:31.800 --> 01:41:34.239 computer and hook up and log in from home. Everybody's 1827 01:41:34.319 --> 01:41:36.319 doing it these days, and you can make an argument. 1828 01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:38.800 The look I'm producing I'm getting my eight hours in. 1829 01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:41.000 I hear check my look, check, look at all the 1830 01:41:41.000 --> 01:41:45.199 work I've done. So I get that argument. It's inconvenient 1831 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:47.159 to show up at work. But it's inconvenient for everybody 1832 01:41:47.199 --> 01:41:49.079 that has to drive into an office and do their job. 1833 01:41:49.159 --> 01:41:51.960 But if you're a cafeteria worker, how dare you draw 1834 01:41:52.000 --> 01:41:55.960 a salary make an argument that you're remote working. It's preposterous. 1835 01:41:56.760 --> 01:41:59.640 Think about every public service worker in the country. May 1836 01:41:59.760 --> 01:42:03.039 they come out every day, whether they're removing snow or 1837 01:42:03.199 --> 01:42:06.399 salting the streets or picking up trash, picking up our trash. 1838 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:09.720 I don't get all of this, you know, Like the 1839 01:42:09.720 --> 01:42:12.600 bottom line is President Biden let it go too long. 1840 01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:15.640 He just allow people to do whatever they wanted to do. 1841 01:42:15.960 --> 01:42:18.840 And you have new bosses in place that are saying, 1842 01:42:18.880 --> 01:42:21.600 we want productivity, we want to know what you're doing, 1843 01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:25.560 we want the energy of the workers all coming together 1844 01:42:25.720 --> 01:42:29.159 whatever's in their mind. They are the boss. And if 1845 01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:32.399 you don't want that job, quit, you're going to be 1846 01:42:32.439 --> 01:42:36.840 fired today. I'm just amazed at all of the anks 1847 01:42:36.920 --> 01:42:38.760 over this. When I'm talking to people like oh Man, 1848 01:42:38.800 --> 01:42:42.560 I think they should just let them continue to work remotely. Look, 1849 01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:46.039 they can't come back to work and do your job. 1850 01:42:46.359 --> 01:42:49.399 My last point is on DOGE. I don't even understand 1851 01:42:49.399 --> 01:42:53.359 what some of these Democratic congressional members are arguing. We're 1852 01:42:53.399 --> 01:42:58.720 talking about fraud, we're talking about corruption. We're talking about 1853 01:42:58.720 --> 01:43:01.880 the misuse of money, whether it's Social Security and somebody 1854 01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:04.680 getting a tech who's one hundred and fifty years old. 1855 01:43:05.359 --> 01:43:08.279 I mean, the reality of it is, what are you protesting? 1856 01:43:08.760 --> 01:43:11.399 I don't understand it. Man, I'm sitting there going kit. 1857 01:43:11.520 --> 01:43:16.119 We all just agree that fraud and corruption is bad. 1858 01:43:16.520 --> 01:43:19.640 Nothing they've put up there that I've seen that we're 1859 01:43:19.680 --> 01:43:24.560 spending money on internationally or or domestically makes any sense 1860 01:43:24.600 --> 01:43:27.760 to me. And as we get closer to April the fifteenth, 1861 01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:30.359 when people have to file their taxes, they're going to 1862 01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:33.199 be more pissed off by this subject matter than they 1863 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.319 are even now, because we're tired of writing checks through 1864 01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:39.640 the federal government and then wasting it and then having 1865 01:43:39.680 --> 01:43:42.399 federal work. Or sit back and some there knows that 1866 01:43:42.520 --> 01:43:44.159 us and say, you know what, I really don't have 1867 01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:46.439 to work. I really don't have to tell you whether 1868 01:43:46.479 --> 01:43:49.079 I'm productive or not. I really don't have to listen 1869 01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:52.640 to my boss. That is not reality. Get your butts 1870 01:43:52.640 --> 01:43:54.960 back to work, do your job, and if not, you 1871 01:43:55.000 --> 01:43:55.800 don't have one. 1872 01:43:56.319 --> 01:44:00.439 Yeah, it is our money that pays their salary. I 1873 01:44:00.439 --> 01:44:03.720 think we should read we have a legitimate expectation that 1874 01:44:03.800 --> 01:44:06.800 we know that work is getting done. They're in an 1875 01:44:06.840 --> 01:44:10.039 office building where there's some supervision going on and some 1876 01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:12.680 insurance that they're actually sitting at their desk doing their work. 1877 01:44:13.319 --> 01:44:15.079 Good point, Christ And the last thing I'm going to say, 1878 01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:16.960 the last thing I want to say to you, Brian Thomas, 1879 01:44:17.359 --> 01:44:20.920 is there are some jobs that could be done remotely. 1880 01:44:21.279 --> 01:44:25.680 I understand that, but that's not a cafeteria worker. Right. 1881 01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:29.760 There are obvious positions here. If I want the public 1882 01:44:29.800 --> 01:44:33.960 to understand, there are grotesque situations that are happening right 1883 01:44:34.039 --> 01:44:37.600 now that the new leaders are seeing saying, listen, you 1884 01:44:37.800 --> 01:44:40.960 cannot be a cafeteria worker and tell me that you're 1885 01:44:41.039 --> 01:44:44.760 working from home. That doesn't work. So we understand that 1886 01:44:44.880 --> 01:44:48.159 there are exceptions out here where there are federal workers 1887 01:44:48.159 --> 01:44:51.520 who could do their jobs remotely. We can deal with that, 1888 01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:55.640 but there's so many of them that cannot get back 1889 01:44:55.720 --> 01:44:58.800 in the office. Do your job. We're going to sort 1890 01:44:58.840 --> 01:45:01.159 it out. Let's see what thank you're doing every day. 1891 01:45:01.479 --> 01:45:04.479 And then for those workers who we don't need, they've 1892 01:45:04.479 --> 01:45:07.000 got to find a new job because we don't want 1893 01:45:07.039 --> 01:45:09.680 to just keep paying for nothing. That doesn't make sense. 1894 01:45:10.039 --> 01:45:13.159 And all of us are tired of paying these higher taxes. 1895 01:45:13.279 --> 01:45:16.119 It is just crazy. Whether it's property taxes, whether it's 1896 01:45:16.159 --> 01:45:19.479 federal taxes, whether it's state taxes, whether it's city taxes. 1897 01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:23.279 We are taxed out. Brian Thomas this week, that's where 1898 01:45:23.319 --> 01:45:26.960 we are. Congratulations to the seat and girls, Thank you 1899 01:45:27.079 --> 01:45:29.560 so much for allowing me to have that privilege to 1900 01:45:29.760 --> 01:45:33.520 just say thank you to Jody Schaefferman. What a phenomenal coach. 1901 01:45:33.760 --> 01:45:36.720 I have tremendous respect for her. Brian Thomas, for everything 1902 01:45:36.840 --> 01:45:40.359 she does ultimately for free. What a great swim program. 1903 01:45:40.640 --> 01:45:41.359 You're my brother. 1904 01:45:41.680 --> 01:45:43.600 Thank you so much man, Love you brother. We'll talk 1905 01:45:43.680 --> 01:45:46.640 next Monday. Congratulations and Camille on the in the relay 1906 01:45:46.720 --> 01:45:50.760 team and the coach. Excellent work up state. Seven forty seven, 1907 01:45:50.800 --> 01:45:53.920 Thank you brother. You're welcome man, always welcome the opportunity 1908 01:45:53.960 --> 01:45:56.039 to talk with you. Seven forty seven fifty five KRCD 1909 01:45:56.159 --> 01:45:58.039 Talk Station. 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Wednesday. 1940 01:47:27.880 --> 01:47:29.760 But it is they say the best chance of rain 1941 01:47:29.880 --> 01:47:33.279 all week. I guess the full day on Wednesday, thirty degrees. 1942 01:47:33.359 --> 01:47:34.880 Right now, let's get a traffic update. 1943 01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:38.199 From the uc of Traffic Center Round. Forty percent of 1944 01:47:38.239 --> 01:47:41.840 cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. 1945 01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:44.279 Called five one, three, five eight five U see see 1946 01:47:44.359 --> 01:47:47.800 see left lane remains block northbound fourth seventy one on 1947 01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:50.600 the bridge and that's backing traffic to south Gate over 1948 01:47:50.680 --> 01:47:54.039 at twenty five minute delay into town northbound seventy five 1949 01:47:54.239 --> 01:47:56.720 right two lanes of block for the wreck above seventy 1950 01:47:56.800 --> 01:47:59.880 four backing traffic da Hoppo and inbound seventy four backs 1951 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:03.720 in North Bend. There's a wreckon river near State than 1952 01:48:03.760 --> 01:48:06.880 Hay's warsaw blocked off at river as well. Show Kingbram. 1953 01:48:06.920 --> 01:48:09.279 I'm fifty five krs the talk station. 1954 01:48:11.920 --> 01:48:14.840 Seven if you have KERCD talk station Money Money with 1955 01:48:14.880 --> 01:48:17.319 Brian James at the top of the our news. Apparently 1956 01:48:17.840 --> 01:48:21.199 our sentiment has fallen. Could those cause the market correction? 1957 01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:24.880 Home sales drop in January and more Americans are cash poor? 1958 01:48:25.000 --> 01:48:27.279 Those of the subject matter with Brian James. The Meantimes 1959 01:48:27.319 --> 01:48:29.399 take Jim's call. Jim, thanks for calling this morning. Welcome 1960 01:48:29.439 --> 01:48:33.159 to the show. Hi, Brian, how are you doing doing well? Man? 1961 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:34.680 Hope you can say the same. What's on your mind 1962 01:48:34.720 --> 01:48:35.119 this morning? 1963 01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:42.039 I think for us traditional thinking folks instead of it's 1964 01:48:42.079 --> 01:48:45.760 hard not to get frustrated listening to some of this 1965 01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:48.279 liberal dogma. But I think for the next two years 1966 01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:52.960 we should encourage it. I wish every liberal governor would 1967 01:48:53.039 --> 01:48:56.560 root for boy playing against girls and all the other 1968 01:48:56.640 --> 01:48:58.960 stuff for at least two more years. 1969 01:48:59.600 --> 01:49:02.600 I didn't agree more. And it was funny because Christopher 1970 01:49:02.720 --> 01:49:05.560 talked about they picked this hill to die on. There 1971 01:49:05.640 --> 01:49:08.880 was a Daily Caller, uh, sort of an op ed, 1972 01:49:08.920 --> 01:49:12.479 but a reporting piece headline it appears Democrats have finally 1973 01:49:12.560 --> 01:49:15.159 picked a hill to die on by Adam Pack and 1974 01:49:15.239 --> 01:49:20.640 that was the point he was making and they quote it. No, 1975 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:21.239 no go ahead. 1976 01:49:22.520 --> 01:49:24.399 I was just gonna say, they haven't dropped. 1977 01:49:24.399 --> 01:49:27.000 They haven't gotten off of any of their hills since November. 1978 01:49:27.520 --> 01:49:29.680 They're still It's unbelievable. 1979 01:49:31.439 --> 01:49:34.119 Joy Reid got fired, finally got fired. 1980 01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:39.079 Bobby called this morning. He said he was wearing a 1981 01:49:39.159 --> 01:49:42.760 black armband honor of Joy Joy Reid getting getting canceled 1982 01:49:42.840 --> 01:49:46.960 because that was his his favorite comedy television show. So 1983 01:49:48.760 --> 01:49:49.439 appreciate it. 1984 01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:52.079 If you're not if you're not screaming at it, you're 1985 01:49:52.119 --> 01:49:53.880 laughing at it, and you try to laugh at it 1986 01:49:53.920 --> 01:49:55.920 and encourage it and just keep doing it on and 1987 01:49:56.039 --> 01:49:56.840 keep doing what you're doing. 1988 01:49:57.319 --> 01:49:57.880 It's working. 1989 01:49:58.159 --> 01:50:02.239 Yeah. He was one of her five regular audience members. So, Jim, 1990 01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:03.920 thanks to the call man. I appreciate that. 1991 01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:04.479 Yeah. 1992 01:50:04.560 --> 01:50:07.600 In this article, Terry Shilling, who's president of American Principles Project, 1993 01:50:08.399 --> 01:50:10.520 had this to say about this hill, that Democrats are 1994 01:50:10.560 --> 01:50:14.520 dying rather than changing course and abandoning the destructive transgender agenda. 1995 01:50:14.600 --> 01:50:16.920 Democrats are ignoring what the majority of Americans know to 1996 01:50:17.000 --> 01:50:20.199 be true just to appease the radical wing of their party. 1997 01:50:20.760 --> 01:50:24.159 And here's the Saling point. I hope Democrats keep running 1998 01:50:24.279 --> 01:50:27.439 campaigns and focus on the transgender agenda. It will make 1999 01:50:27.479 --> 01:50:33.239 Republican candidate cycles much easier. To Jim's point. Yeah, and 2000 01:50:33.359 --> 01:50:35.960 then here's a fun one out of Wisconsin. Governor Wisconsin 2001 01:50:36.159 --> 01:50:40.479 Troy Tony Evers, Democrat, getting a little backlash because of 2002 01:50:40.520 --> 01:50:45.560 the budget he introduced that recommends some changes, including a 2003 01:50:45.720 --> 01:50:52.239 change that swaps the word mother for inseminated person. Also 2004 01:50:52.439 --> 01:50:57.920 changed the term paternity to parentage. Other change father would 2005 01:50:57.960 --> 01:51:02.399 be replaced to parent, mother would become quote parent who 2006 01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:10.399 gave birth to the child, right or well much seven 2007 01:51:10.479 --> 01:51:13.840 fifty five fifty five cars to the talk station Brian James, Monday, Monday, 2008 01:51:13.920 --> 01:51:15.119 coming up at the top of the our news. I 2009 01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:18.800 hope you can stick around covering Trump's first one hundred days. 2010 01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:22.640 Every day America's deadline is over. 2011 01:51:22.880 --> 01:51:27.439 Fifty five KR the talk station, this report do anything 2012 01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:28.000 Trump does? 2013 01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:30.279 I think she knows we is doing every day. 2014 01:51:30.199 --> 01:51:33.720 What we have to you know, fifty five KRC the 2015 01:51:34.159 --> 01:51:41.520 talk station. Hey O five A fifty five kr C 2016 01:51:41.680 --> 01:51:42.359 the talk station. 2017 01:51:42.520 --> 01:51:45.520 A very Happy Monday always made extra special happy we 2018 01:51:45.600 --> 01:51:48.640 get to hear from Brian James, Mworth Financial on money matters. 2019 01:51:49.119 --> 01:51:51.039 Brian James, Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Welcome back 2020 01:51:51.039 --> 01:51:53.600 to the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Thank you, and 2021 01:51:53.640 --> 01:51:55.840 good morning to you as well. Not a lot of 2022 01:51:55.920 --> 01:51:58.520 good news in the rundown of topics here, so let's 2023 01:51:58.600 --> 01:52:01.520 talk about um sentiment. I know there's a couple of 2024 01:52:01.560 --> 01:52:03.600 polls out of Michigan, University of Michigan Pole and a 2025 01:52:03.680 --> 01:52:08.119 CNN poll people not feeling real good about the economy, 2026 01:52:08.119 --> 01:52:11.079 at least in so far as concerns about inflation or concerned. 2027 01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:17.000 They are the those polled who are having these concerns 2028 01:52:17.079 --> 01:52:18.399 and the sentiment dropping off. 2029 01:52:19.479 --> 01:52:24.159 Accurate, Well, any poll is only as accurate as the 2030 01:52:24.239 --> 01:52:26.640 audience that they're talking to. Now, these do come from 2031 01:52:26.680 --> 01:52:29.239 the University of Michigan, which is that that's who we're 2032 01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:32.399 always talking about, right whenever you hear the words consumer sentiment. Yes, 2033 01:52:32.439 --> 01:52:35.520 there are plenty of organizations, but the University of Michigan 2034 01:52:35.680 --> 01:52:38.039 is the whopper that has been around for the longest time. 2035 01:52:38.079 --> 01:52:39.680 So if you're going to trust any pole, it's the 2036 01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:42.319 one with the largest reach in the most history. So 2037 01:52:42.800 --> 01:52:46.039 University of Michigan latest survey is showing a significant decline 2038 01:52:46.159 --> 01:52:49.560 in sentiment from in February, dropping by about ten percent 2039 01:52:49.680 --> 01:52:52.479 from January. This is not shocking if you've paid any 2040 01:52:52.520 --> 01:52:54.720 attention at all to the headlines. I think there were 2041 01:52:54.720 --> 01:52:56.560 plenty of people out there who thought all we had 2042 01:52:56.600 --> 01:53:00.279 to do was was elect a really conservative administration and 2043 01:53:00.399 --> 01:53:03.199 everything would get fixed with the push of a button, 2044 01:53:03.199 --> 01:53:04.159 because it's just that simple. 2045 01:53:04.560 --> 01:53:06.279 Well, we know that's not the case. Obviously. 2046 01:53:06.880 --> 01:53:09.479 Egg prices or the thing that everybody's sick of hearing about. 2047 01:53:10.119 --> 01:53:12.800 Tariffs are never ever, ever going to be an immediate 2048 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:16.199 good thing. They are shot across the bow to start 2049 01:53:16.239 --> 01:53:17.960 a little bit of a trade war and settle things 2050 01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:20.560 out at a different point. But in the very short run, 2051 01:53:20.840 --> 01:53:24.840 we're always going to have a negative downturn as business 2052 01:53:24.920 --> 01:53:27.359 sorts itself out and countries figure out how they're going 2053 01:53:27.439 --> 01:53:30.560 to work together again with regard to these trade agreements. 2054 01:53:30.600 --> 01:53:34.000 We've seen it before though, so nothing to panic about yet. However, Yes, 2055 01:53:34.079 --> 01:53:36.279 obviously a lot of grumpy people out there at the moment. 2056 01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:39.680 Well, and I found it a little ridiculous that Trump 2057 01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:42.479 actually said on the campaign praile here at trail he 2058 01:53:42.560 --> 01:53:45.520 promised to bring down prices starting day one. I think 2059 01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:47.560 I may even comment about that on the air. How 2060 01:53:48.239 --> 01:53:52.760 I mean, this is inflation is very complicated and complex. 2061 01:53:52.800 --> 01:53:54.800 You talk about egg prices, well, there's something called the 2062 01:53:54.880 --> 01:53:57.960 bird flew out there. They're killing millions and millions and 2063 01:53:58.079 --> 01:54:01.319 millions of chicken, obviously reducing the availability the price of eggs. 2064 01:54:01.359 --> 01:54:04.760 So there's one legitimate connection that has nothing to do 2065 01:54:04.880 --> 01:54:08.880 whatsoever with any administration's policies. So you can't magically make 2066 01:54:08.920 --> 01:54:11.199 bird flu go away or magically increase the number of 2067 01:54:12.479 --> 01:54:14.760 laying chickens in the world. So we're gonna have to 2068 01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:16.479 struggle with that problem for a while till it gets 2069 01:54:16.560 --> 01:54:19.760 worked out. However it gets worked out. But insofar as 2070 01:54:19.880 --> 01:54:21.800 tariffs are concerned, and you and I kind of share 2071 01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:24.439 the same point on that, if you increase tariffs, the 2072 01:54:24.520 --> 01:54:28.760 prices are going to necessarily increase by some percentage, maybe 2073 01:54:28.800 --> 01:54:31.000 not a full twenty five percent, but that's going to 2074 01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:34.520 get passed the loan to the consumer. Has that happened yet, 2075 01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:38.079 I mean, we're feeling yet the impact of tariffs because 2076 01:54:38.439 --> 01:54:40.720 my understanding is it hasn't really settled in yet. 2077 01:54:41.560 --> 01:54:44.880 Yeah, we're starting to see increases on prices on things 2078 01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:47.119 laid on things that come out of China. For example, 2079 01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:50.239 iPhone's MacBooks are starting to increase prices a little bit. 2080 01:54:51.079 --> 01:54:52.640 The fast fashion types of things. 2081 01:54:52.680 --> 01:54:54.960 These are names who wouldn't have heard of ten years ago, 2082 01:54:55.520 --> 01:54:57.720 Shine and Timu, and I think I'm pronouncing one of 2083 01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:01.840 those incorrectly. But these are places where people have used 2084 01:55:01.960 --> 01:55:05.800 a lot in recent history to get really cheap clothing 2085 01:55:05.840 --> 01:55:06.399 and things like that. 2086 01:55:06.760 --> 01:55:09.199 That's kind of ground zero for what we're really after. 2087 01:55:09.600 --> 01:55:10.520 There are rules, not not. 2088 01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:13.079 Only the tariffs, but there are rules that were in 2089 01:55:13.239 --> 01:55:18.079 place called the deminimous Exemptions that that basically allowed China 2090 01:55:18.159 --> 01:55:22.119 to create extremely cheap items of apparel and things like 2091 01:55:22.199 --> 01:55:24.439 that and ship them over here. Shipping is the big part, 2092 01:55:25.079 --> 01:55:28.079 but the policies that were in place prior to this 2093 01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:31.560 allowed them to do that very easily and very cheaply. 2094 01:55:31.640 --> 01:55:32.760 Those rules have changed too. 2095 01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:35.239 That's not a tariff, that's simply the removal of a 2096 01:55:35.319 --> 01:55:38.000 discount effectively, so things like that are going to get 2097 01:55:38.039 --> 01:55:43.560 more expensive. We're also seeing produce fruits and vegetables from Mexico, avocados, tomatoes, strawberries, 2098 01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:45.800 bell pepper, stuff like that. If you've been paying attention, 2099 01:55:45.920 --> 01:55:49.279 have seen noticeable price increases, they're not yet. Remember these 2100 01:55:49.319 --> 01:55:51.680 are things that per unit don't cost that much to 2101 01:55:51.760 --> 01:55:54.479 begin with. So unless you're truly paying attention, and you're 2102 01:55:54.600 --> 01:55:56.439 one of those people with a spreadsheet and I've seen 2103 01:55:56.479 --> 01:55:59.720 them in the grocery store lately tracking prices over time, 2104 01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:01.880 you may not notice this. But you know something that 2105 01:56:01.960 --> 01:56:04.800 costs fifty cents now that now costs fifty five cents, 2106 01:56:05.119 --> 01:56:06.920 that's a nickel. But if you do the math, that's 2107 01:56:06.960 --> 01:56:09.680 a ten percent increase. So these things were just at 2108 01:56:09.720 --> 01:56:11.600 the beginning of this. They're going to sneak in. The 2109 01:56:11.680 --> 01:56:14.279 price increases are going to sneak in kind of without 2110 01:56:14.359 --> 01:56:16.560 us noticing unless you're paying close attention. 2111 01:56:16.800 --> 01:56:18.159 Well, I know one of the things that was mentioned 2112 01:56:18.199 --> 01:56:20.239 in the article fed share, A Jerome Pala said last 2113 01:56:20.319 --> 01:56:23.199 year to keynote address is you know it was inflation 2114 01:56:23.359 --> 01:56:25.359 brought about by a number of factors. Again, all these 2115 01:56:25.399 --> 01:56:29.319 different factors over which a brand new administration can't really control, 2116 01:56:29.439 --> 01:56:33.000 but pent up demand, stimulative policies, pandemic changes in work 2117 01:56:33.079 --> 01:56:37.439 and leisure, policies and the additional savings associated with constrained services. 2118 01:56:37.640 --> 01:56:40.399 In other words, people weren't out spending the money. Finally, 2119 01:56:40.439 --> 01:56:43.159 when the economy got opened back up again, it was 2120 01:56:43.239 --> 01:56:46.079 a spending free for all, which contributed to a historic 2121 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.119 surgeon consumer spending on goods. If the demand goes down 2122 01:56:50.359 --> 01:56:52.439 because people are feeling the heat of you know, the 2123 01:56:52.520 --> 01:56:54.600 real estate tax is going up, or maybe some of 2124 01:56:54.640 --> 01:56:57.640 the increase in pricing. Obviously, grocery store prices continue to 2125 01:56:57.760 --> 01:57:00.359 go up. If demand goes down, then that might have 2126 01:57:00.399 --> 01:57:05.279 an impact on lowering prices because the supply will increase. Correct, 2127 01:57:05.359 --> 01:57:06.720 that's all part of the correction. 2128 01:57:06.920 --> 01:57:09.399 But demand going down is usually going to result in 2129 01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:12.319 some pain to I know, because if demand goes down 2130 01:57:12.439 --> 01:57:15.199 for a product that your company creates, guess who's in 2131 01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:16.520 for a round of belt tightening. 2132 01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:19.680 So that's all part of the process here of If we. 2133 01:57:19.760 --> 01:57:22.880 Want to change the point at which we meet in 2134 01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:25.640 the market, meaning what do we pay other countries for 2135 01:57:25.720 --> 01:57:27.560 the goods and services that we're buying for them, what 2136 01:57:27.680 --> 01:57:29.800 do they pay us for ours, we want to change 2137 01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:32.159 the point where we are on the playing field for that, 2138 01:57:32.479 --> 01:57:34.520 But that's not going to happen without some pain and 2139 01:57:34.560 --> 01:57:36.880 without some adjustment, and that you're seeing an awful lot 2140 01:57:36.960 --> 01:57:39.359 of that, you know, just in the federal government with 2141 01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:41.560 the cuts that like them or not, the cuts that 2142 01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:44.760 are coming from from the Doze Office, whether it's real 2143 01:57:44.880 --> 01:57:48.079 or not, these things are actually happening, and that is 2144 01:57:48.159 --> 01:57:49.840 the same thing. We just want to change how the 2145 01:57:49.920 --> 01:57:52.960 money moves around. We want to change how business is done, good, 2146 01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:55.359 bad and different. There can be good things that come 2147 01:57:55.399 --> 01:57:56.920 out of that, there can be bad things, but no 2148 01:57:57.039 --> 01:57:59.239 matter what, there's going to be disruption, and it's going 2149 01:57:59.279 --> 01:58:00.640 to be a bit of a b right, and we're 2150 01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:02.199 already seeing that these last several weeks. 2151 01:58:02.319 --> 01:58:04.319 Well, sort of a correlated to this discussion, I saw 2152 01:58:04.399 --> 01:58:06.840 this article headlines in the front page at the Wall 2153 01:58:06.880 --> 01:58:09.199 Street Journal. The US economy depends more than ever on 2154 01:58:09.359 --> 01:58:12.880 rich people. The highest earning ten percent of Americans account 2155 01:58:12.920 --> 01:58:16.800 for almost fifty percent of all consumer spending, and as 2156 01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:19.760 the article points out, the number of lower income earners 2157 01:58:19.840 --> 01:58:22.840 spending is dropping, but the rich people keep going out 2158 01:58:22.920 --> 01:58:25.119 and spending heaploads of cash and all kinds of things, 2159 01:58:25.199 --> 01:58:27.960 including travel and you know, stuff that's out of the 2160 01:58:28.000 --> 01:58:29.119 reach of a lot of Americans. 2161 01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:32.760 Yeah, and that's what masks a lot of you know, 2162 01:58:32.840 --> 01:58:36.159 the real life situation here in the United States, because 2163 01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:39.960 those ten percent can really keep the economy cooking as 2164 01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:43.039 they have for the last several years. But you also 2165 01:58:43.119 --> 01:58:45.079 have a lot of people suffering out there, but that's 2166 01:58:45.159 --> 01:58:47.479 hidden by the fact that we have a strong economy. 2167 01:58:47.520 --> 01:58:50.079 Economy keeps growing. The stock market the last couple of 2168 01:58:50.159 --> 01:58:52.960 years has been strong. We tend to forget about twenty 2169 01:58:53.000 --> 01:58:54.880 twenty two was a terrible year in the stock market, 2170 01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:57.560 but it doesn't come with a story attached, really, so 2171 01:58:57.680 --> 01:58:59.520 we don't really think about that. Nobody talks about it 2172 01:58:59.600 --> 01:59:02.199 like we do in two thousand and eight. However, there's 2173 01:59:02.199 --> 01:59:04.079 a lot of people suffering out there, but that gets 2174 01:59:04.159 --> 01:59:07.920 completely hidden by all the economic activity that that largest 2175 01:59:08.000 --> 01:59:11.199 or richest ten percent is producing. And unfortunately, that's become 2176 01:59:11.239 --> 01:59:13.640 the American way over the last century or so. That's 2177 01:59:13.760 --> 01:59:16.359 not a new phenomenon. It's just getting the two groups 2178 01:59:16.359 --> 01:59:17.119 are just getting. 2179 01:59:16.960 --> 01:59:20.039 Further and further apart, all right, and pivoting over to 2180 01:59:20.119 --> 01:59:24.079 something connected on some level market correction. I keep hearing 2181 01:59:24.079 --> 01:59:26.079 about we're going to we're due for a market correction, 2182 01:59:26.199 --> 01:59:27.960 and not in a good way. In other words, the 2183 01:59:28.000 --> 01:59:30.199 market is over priced and people are expecting it to 2184 01:59:30.840 --> 01:59:34.159 drop off and valuations of stocks to drop off. And 2185 01:59:34.279 --> 01:59:36.840 the question is, as some are have observed, are the 2186 01:59:37.039 --> 01:59:40.520 doge cuts bad for the economy and will it empower? 2187 01:59:40.520 --> 01:59:42.479 Will it cause perhaps a market correction? 2188 01:59:43.720 --> 01:59:43.920 Good? 2189 01:59:44.000 --> 01:59:44.319 Very well. 2190 01:59:44.359 --> 01:59:47.000 So this latest talking head is Steve Cohen. He's the 2191 01:59:47.079 --> 01:59:50.560 CEO of er point seventy two asset Management, and he 2192 01:59:50.800 --> 01:59:53.039 says he is now bearished on the US economy for 2193 01:59:53.079 --> 01:59:55.920 the first time in a while. He manages a hedge fund. 2194 01:59:56.000 --> 01:59:58.359 He's a billionaire hedge fund type of a guy, obviously 2195 01:59:58.479 --> 02:00:00.359 a very smart person who have gotten to the point. 2196 02:00:01.119 --> 02:00:03.479 Certainly his opinion is worth something. But at the same time, 2197 02:00:05.199 --> 02:00:07.399 you can go back through time, and I encourage people 2198 02:00:07.439 --> 02:00:09.640 to do this when you start to feel attracted to 2199 02:00:10.399 --> 02:00:13.119 this one talking head on some TV show says, here's 2200 02:00:13.159 --> 02:00:15.640 what I think that is valuable. However, go back in 2201 02:00:15.760 --> 02:00:18.720 time and go see what people said about early twenty 2202 02:00:18.760 --> 02:00:20.960 two or early twenty three or twenty four. There is 2203 02:00:21.119 --> 02:00:23.640 always at least one talking head out there who is 2204 02:00:23.680 --> 02:00:26.800 not necessarily a stupid person, but there's always one talking 2205 02:00:26.880 --> 02:00:30.399 head out there that is predicting a huge pullback We 2206 02:00:30.560 --> 02:00:32.920 never ever ever go back and see whether these people 2207 02:00:32.920 --> 02:00:35.239 will write or not. So maybe Brian Thomas, you and 2208 02:00:35.319 --> 02:00:38.439 I should mark our calendars for February whatever it is, 2209 02:00:38.560 --> 02:00:41.119 twenty fourth of twenty six and see if mister Cohen 2210 02:00:41.199 --> 02:00:41.760 was correct or not. 2211 02:00:41.920 --> 02:00:43.800 Yeah, let's hope he's not correct, because a lot of 2212 02:00:43.800 --> 02:00:45.159 people have a lot of money in for oh and 2213 02:00:45.279 --> 02:00:47.439 ks and they're counting on that for the retirement. We 2214 02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:49.399 don't want to see the market going to toilet again. 2215 02:00:49.520 --> 02:00:51.960 Does take a little bit while to get that money back, 2216 02:00:52.359 --> 02:00:54.479 although the market has rebounded enough that most people have 2217 02:00:54.600 --> 02:00:57.920 made up that money that we lost in twenty twenty two. Anyhow, 2218 02:00:58.079 --> 02:01:00.560 Brian James, all with financials pause will find out about 2219 02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:04.760 home sales dropping in January and more Americans taking loans 2220 02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:08.560 to pay for emergencies, but at what cost? Cash poor 2221 02:01:08.600 --> 02:01:11.119 Americans a real problem eight fifteen fifty five KC DE 2222 02:01:11.239 --> 02:01:14.159 Talk station, Don't go awayd be right back fifty five KRC. 2223 02:01:14.760 --> 02:01:16.840 If you're a Claremont County VET and a very happy 2224 02:01:16.920 --> 02:01:20.359 Monday to you, try to find some happiness in these 2225 02:01:20.800 --> 02:01:23.279 sad stories we're talking about with money, mondays Brian James, 2226 02:01:24.239 --> 02:01:27.920 and in real estate, home sales have dropped January because 2227 02:01:28.000 --> 02:01:30.600 prices are really high and people's perception of the interest 2228 02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:33.039 rates for mortgages really high, and the combination of the 2229 02:01:33.079 --> 02:01:35.800 two just really puts people out out of the market. 2230 02:01:36.279 --> 02:01:38.319 I saw the medium price of a home in January 2231 02:01:38.520 --> 02:01:42.239 three hundred and ninety six nine hundred dollars. That's up 2232 02:01:42.279 --> 02:01:45.319 four percent four point eight percent from the year before, 2233 02:01:45.439 --> 02:01:47.720 and the highest price ever for the month of January. 2234 02:01:48.199 --> 02:01:50.880 That's a lot of money for medium price, Brian James, 2235 02:01:51.800 --> 02:01:55.720 that really is and then we may maybe maybe seeing 2236 02:01:55.800 --> 02:01:56.560 a peek in all this. 2237 02:01:56.720 --> 02:01:59.239 So sales are previously owned homes fell by almost five 2238 02:01:59.319 --> 02:02:03.119 percent in January compared to December. One point one eight 2239 02:02:03.199 --> 02:02:05.800 million homes for sale at the end of January. That 2240 02:02:05.920 --> 02:02:07.880 was an increase of three and a half percent and 2241 02:02:08.079 --> 02:02:12.239 an up seventeen percent from January twenty four. So interestingly, 2242 02:02:12.359 --> 02:02:14.880 we are seeing more homes than the number of homes 2243 02:02:14.960 --> 02:02:18.359 hitting the sale block has increased percentage wise, but the 2244 02:02:18.439 --> 02:02:20.439 actual closed sales are starting to drop. 2245 02:02:20.520 --> 02:02:23.000 So that's a sign of a peak here. 2246 02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:25.560 And as you mentioned that the median price of a 2247 02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:27.880 home three hundred and ninety six thousand dollars, that's up 2248 02:02:27.960 --> 02:02:30.439 five percent itself. That's the highest we've ever had on 2249 02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:33.359 that particular measure. In Cincinnati is not exempt from this 2250 02:02:33.439 --> 02:02:36.000 anymore like we used to be. The secret is out 2251 02:02:36.039 --> 02:02:38.319 that this is a wonderful place to live, and at 2252 02:02:38.439 --> 02:02:41.399 least up until now, has been very reasonably priced with 2253 02:02:41.479 --> 02:02:44.760 regard to real estate. Still is of course regarding the 2254 02:02:45.319 --> 02:02:48.199 compared to the richest places out there in New York City, 2255 02:02:48.520 --> 02:02:50.640 San Francisco, and so forth. But at the same time, 2256 02:02:50.720 --> 02:02:52.560 we are not the bargain that we used to be, 2257 02:02:53.279 --> 02:02:55.960 so we're lot this isn't too much of a surprise 2258 02:02:56.039 --> 02:02:58.279 the analysts. We're expecting about a two point six percent 2259 02:02:58.760 --> 02:03:01.640 decline in sales, however, or the actual decline was about 2260 02:03:01.720 --> 02:03:04.840 five percent, So these you know, we might be getting 2261 02:03:04.840 --> 02:03:06.720 to that point where we're going to start to see a. 2262 02:03:06.720 --> 02:03:09.319 Correction, bit of a correction of the housing market. Well, 2263 02:03:10.239 --> 02:03:12.319 I guess if you want to sell your home and 2264 02:03:12.439 --> 02:03:14.720 it sits out there for a long time and people 2265 02:03:14.800 --> 02:03:17.680 aren't coming to see it, maybe you've overpriced the home 2266 02:03:17.760 --> 02:03:21.039 and asking too much, which obviously, if you're going to 2267 02:03:21.079 --> 02:03:22.640 sell the house, you're gonna have to lower the price 2268 02:03:22.720 --> 02:03:24.439 to a point where someone's going to even show up 2269 02:03:24.520 --> 02:03:26.199 to take a look at it, which apparently they're not 2270 02:03:26.399 --> 02:03:29.479 right now. So yeah, that there's a market correction that 2271 02:03:29.560 --> 02:03:32.600 might benefit everybody, just lower expectations on the value of 2272 02:03:32.720 --> 02:03:35.119 your home. Yeah, and that's where it starts. I mean 2273 02:03:35.199 --> 02:03:36.840 there a house is always worth something. 2274 02:03:36.920 --> 02:03:40.079 Houses are never absolutely completely worthless and let it unless 2275 02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:42.319 it's you know, completely run down and about to fall apart. 2276 02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:44.800 It's always the price that's the issue. 2277 02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:48.000 So if the if the buying market has shied away 2278 02:03:48.039 --> 02:03:49.920 from the neighborhood you happen to be in, well you 2279 02:03:49.960 --> 02:03:52.319 can correct that by lowering the price. It's not wonderful, 2280 02:03:52.359 --> 02:03:54.439 but it doesn't mean you cannot sell your house at 2281 02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:57.560 the same time. So there's also an issue right now 2282 02:03:57.640 --> 02:04:01.039 with there are there are arguably fewer buyers out there 2283 02:04:01.159 --> 02:04:03.399 than there would be in a normal market, because there 2284 02:04:03.439 --> 02:04:06.520 are people out there who want to change their neighborhood 2285 02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:09.119 or downsize, or they want to sell their home for 2286 02:04:09.199 --> 02:04:11.880 some reason, but they're currently sitting on a mortgage it's 2287 02:04:11.960 --> 02:04:14.399 less than four percent. Well, those folks are going to say, 2288 02:04:14.439 --> 02:04:16.159 you know what, we're not really in a hurry that 2289 02:04:16.279 --> 02:04:19.439 the problems we've identified here are not immediate. Let's wait 2290 02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:21.800 until it's better and enjoy our four percent mortgage a 2291 02:04:21.800 --> 02:04:24.680 little more. So that means sellers are really only dealing 2292 02:04:24.720 --> 02:04:26.680 with people who are forced to move because of a 2293 02:04:26.800 --> 02:04:28.960 job or maybe they have to have a bigger house 2294 02:04:29.079 --> 02:04:31.279 or something like that. That just means there are fewer 2295 02:04:31.359 --> 02:04:34.319 buyers out there now because the ones who have flexibility 2296 02:04:34.359 --> 02:04:37.239 are exercising that flexibility and going to hold off a 2297 02:04:37.239 --> 02:04:37.560 little bit. 2298 02:04:37.760 --> 02:04:41.159 And we've had conversations before about you know, paying off 2299 02:04:41.359 --> 02:04:44.000 your home and actually owning it. And I know that's 2300 02:04:44.079 --> 02:04:46.000 not always within the reach of a lot of people, 2301 02:04:46.119 --> 02:04:47.960 but my wife and I you know, did a little 2302 02:04:48.000 --> 02:04:50.199 bell tightening over the years when we had that lower, 2303 02:04:50.399 --> 02:04:53.600 just slightly under three percent mortgage because we refinanced to 2304 02:04:53.640 --> 02:04:55.640 a much lower level. That's the right thing to do, 2305 02:04:56.319 --> 02:04:59.439 but we use the extra money to make extra payments 2306 02:04:59.520 --> 02:05:01.720 every month and ended up being able to buy the 2307 02:05:01.760 --> 02:05:04.319 home a lot earlier. Now, is that, from a financial 2308 02:05:05.359 --> 02:05:08.159 planning standpoint, a good thing to do when it is 2309 02:05:08.319 --> 02:05:10.840 that low, or where we have been better served had 2310 02:05:10.920 --> 02:05:13.199 we taken that extra revenue and maybe put it into 2311 02:05:13.239 --> 02:05:14.079 the market or something. 2312 02:05:15.119 --> 02:05:17.600 Great question comes up all the time here at this table, 2313 02:05:17.640 --> 02:05:21.600 and I'm not sure it's a quizit important question. So yeah, 2314 02:05:21.640 --> 02:05:24.000 I can show I can show you in a spreadsheet, Brian, 2315 02:05:24.359 --> 02:05:27.000 that the best thing we should all do is borrow 2316 02:05:27.079 --> 02:05:29.479 money against everything and always invest it, and by the 2317 02:05:29.479 --> 02:05:31.199 time we're one hundred years old, we have a gigantic 2318 02:05:31.239 --> 02:05:34.319 pile of money. That's the mathematical answer, but it's obviously 2319 02:05:34.439 --> 02:05:38.600 not the human answer. So when you have this situation, yeah, 2320 02:05:39.800 --> 02:05:41.840 it always makes sense to invest as much as you can. 2321 02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:44.439 What I would encourage people to do is truly learn 2322 02:05:44.560 --> 02:05:48.159 how an amortized mortgage works. And that simply means go 2323 02:05:48.399 --> 02:05:51.840 look at understand the relationship between your payment and the 2324 02:05:51.920 --> 02:05:54.960 interest rate and how much goes to principle early in 2325 02:05:55.039 --> 02:05:57.920 the mortgage versus how much goes late. If you're ten 2326 02:05:58.039 --> 02:06:01.039 years into a fifteen year mortgage, are paying very very 2327 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:03.399 very very very little no matter what the interest rate is. 2328 02:06:03.680 --> 02:06:06.960 You are paying very little interest because you're mostly paying principle, 2329 02:06:07.079 --> 02:06:10.319 because you pay the interest on amortization exactly. Yes, you 2330 02:06:10.399 --> 02:06:12.880 paid it up front. Your first payment was ninety nine 2331 02:06:12.920 --> 02:06:15.520 percent interest. Your last payment is going to be ninety 2332 02:06:15.560 --> 02:06:18.560 nine percent principle. Everything else is somewhere in between. So 2333 02:06:18.800 --> 02:06:21.159 I am a big believer, and of course come up 2334 02:06:21.159 --> 02:06:23.000 with a financial plan, and first of all, see what 2335 02:06:23.119 --> 02:06:25.199 you need to do, and then once you've got the 2336 02:06:25.279 --> 02:06:28.680 basics covered, make these decisions based off of what will 2337 02:06:28.720 --> 02:06:31.359 make you feel most confident. If you feel like my 2338 02:06:31.479 --> 02:06:33.600 nest egg is a little low, I need more money, 2339 02:06:33.800 --> 02:06:36.800 that's fine, and your interest, your mortgage rate is reasonable, 2340 02:06:37.039 --> 02:06:38.079 then focus. 2341 02:06:37.840 --> 02:06:38.439 On the four one k. 2342 02:06:38.640 --> 02:06:40.479 Put those extra dollars a four one k and grown. 2343 02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:42.640 Or if you feel the opposite, you know what, I think, 2344 02:06:42.680 --> 02:06:44.159 We're okay, we got a good pile of money. I 2345 02:06:44.239 --> 02:06:46.319 really want to get this mortgage monkey off my back. 2346 02:06:46.680 --> 02:06:49.680 That's fine, pay it down more quickly. That's an emotional decision, 2347 02:06:49.720 --> 02:06:51.680 not so much a mathematical one, right, And you know, 2348 02:06:51.840 --> 02:06:54.479 I really really understood that when we did it. But 2349 02:06:54.800 --> 02:06:57.840 we were able to do the extra payments because we 2350 02:06:57.920 --> 02:07:00.560 were in a comfortable position. And I got to think 2351 02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:02.520 about being in debt, Brian, I really do. 2352 02:07:02.760 --> 02:07:03.239 I hate it. 2353 02:07:03.319 --> 02:07:05.279 I don't know if it's because of my west Side genetics, 2354 02:07:05.319 --> 02:07:07.359 but if I owe a human being a dollar, I 2355 02:07:07.439 --> 02:07:11.359 want to discharge that asap. And that and just you know, 2356 02:07:11.439 --> 02:07:14.920 the idea of owning something outright just makes me feel 2357 02:07:15.119 --> 02:07:17.920 very comfortable, you know what I mean. It's a psychological thing, 2358 02:07:18.640 --> 02:07:21.520 it absolutely is. And here's a common situation that drives 2359 02:07:21.600 --> 02:07:22.000 this question. 2360 02:07:22.319 --> 02:07:24.399 So when people are in their late fifties, early maybe 2361 02:07:24.439 --> 02:07:26.960 mid sixties, and they still have a mortgage, that's usually 2362 02:07:27.000 --> 02:07:29.800 about the age that if there's an inheritance coming, then 2363 02:07:29.880 --> 02:07:32.279 that's about when it's going to happen. So oftentimes people 2364 02:07:32.319 --> 02:07:34.159 will have a windfall and I've now got a one 2365 02:07:34.199 --> 02:07:36.520 hundred grand available that I don't have it doesn't have 2366 02:07:36.560 --> 02:07:38.399 a job. Should I invest it, Should I pay off 2367 02:07:38.439 --> 02:07:41.159 the mortgage or whatever? So, yes, those wind falls tend 2368 02:07:41.199 --> 02:07:44.479 to drive that decision. And again there's a mathematical component 2369 02:07:44.560 --> 02:07:46.640 to it. And I always let's start with the math. 2370 02:07:46.720 --> 02:07:49.159 Here's the impact of investing it versus here's the impact 2371 02:07:49.399 --> 02:07:52.199 of paying off all of your debt. And then we 2372 02:07:52.279 --> 02:07:54.960 can start to see here's the mathematical impact that is known. 2373 02:07:55.000 --> 02:07:57.560 It's black and white, it's in stone. Let's talk about 2374 02:07:57.600 --> 02:08:00.920 how you will feel emotionally and psychologically doing one versus 2375 02:08:01.000 --> 02:08:01.279 the other. 2376 02:08:01.439 --> 02:08:03.960 That is usually the answer as long as those basics 2377 02:08:03.960 --> 02:08:07.239 are covered right, And another a shout out for financial 2378 02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:11.239 planners who are working for you and have a fiduciary obligation. 2379 02:08:11.359 --> 02:08:13.399 They will break this down for you. You don't have 2380 02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:15.399 to do it yourself. And I think it's a critical 2381 02:08:15.479 --> 02:08:17.800 thing for your future to have a financial planner so 2382 02:08:17.920 --> 02:08:21.159 you can have these conversations and make informed decisions to 2383 02:08:21.239 --> 02:08:25.119 maximize your investment opportunities. Brian James pause from them. We're 2384 02:08:25.159 --> 02:08:27.439 going to find out with the problem we're facing here 2385 02:08:27.479 --> 02:08:31.880 in America, people are apparently pretty cash poor. Maybe some 2386 02:08:31.960 --> 02:08:34.600 financial planning advice additional coming up next eight twenty six 2387 02:08:34.600 --> 02:08:38.840 to fifty five KCD talk station fifty five KRC. This 2388 02:08:39.199 --> 02:08:45.319 is this simply money minuted Channel nine and weel forecast 2389 02:08:45.359 --> 02:08:47.000 tells us we're going to have some sun this morning. 2390 02:08:47.000 --> 02:08:50.359 It'll be partly cloudy, breezy later today, possible showers fifty 2391 02:08:50.399 --> 02:08:52.520 two for the high, partly cloudy every night for the 2392 02:08:52.560 --> 02:08:55.359 low of thirty six. I have fifty six tomorrow with 2393 02:08:55.439 --> 02:08:57.239 a little chance of rain in the morning, followed by 2394 02:08:57.359 --> 02:09:00.680 afternoon sunshine, thoty every night down to thirty and the 2395 02:09:00.720 --> 02:09:02.960 best chance of rain all week will be on Wednesday. 2396 02:09:03.000 --> 02:09:07.720 But the bonus you get sixty three degrees thirty three 2397 02:09:07.800 --> 02:09:09.600 right now if you've got KERCD talk station time for 2398 02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:11.319 traffic Chuck Ingram fundly. 2399 02:09:11.079 --> 02:09:13.399 You see how traffic center. Around forty percent of cancers 2400 02:09:13.399 --> 02:09:17.239 are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. 2401 02:09:17.399 --> 02:09:19.520 Called five one three, five eighty five U see c 2402 02:09:19.720 --> 02:09:22.880 see the latest thanksentent he's been two to seventy five 2403 02:09:22.960 --> 02:09:23.960 at Montgomery Road. 2404 02:09:24.079 --> 02:09:26.079 Lefling's bocked in bend seventy four. 2405 02:09:26.199 --> 02:09:29.119 Continues to be a slow go from above Montana from 2406 02:09:29.239 --> 02:09:32.640 problems earlier. There's a retroun Union center at Lakota West 2407 02:09:33.079 --> 02:09:37.000 and on Madison at gwind Shade. Chuck Ingram on fifty 2408 02:09:37.039 --> 02:09:38.880 five KRC the talk station. 2409 02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:43.720 Ay twenty nine. If if you got KCD talk station 2410 02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:47.279 doing that money Monday thing with all the financials Brian James. 2411 02:09:47.359 --> 02:09:50.079 He is a financial planner, and maybe he can help 2412 02:09:50.079 --> 02:09:51.960 out some of the folks who are dealing with these struggles. 2413 02:09:52.000 --> 02:09:53.880 And it's kind of heartbreaking, Brian, when you read how 2414 02:09:53.920 --> 02:09:56.920 many folks do not have money to cover, you know, 2415 02:09:58.079 --> 02:10:00.119 an expense that might pop up. A lot lot of 2416 02:10:00.119 --> 02:10:02.880 people live in paycheck to paycheck and even as the 2417 02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:07.439 article points out folks making six figures, I mean that 2418 02:10:07.760 --> 02:10:09.600 sounds to me like they maybe need to speak with 2419 02:10:09.720 --> 02:10:12.239 someone like you in financial planning. I don't know. I'm 2420 02:10:12.279 --> 02:10:15.000 not living in these circumstances, but when you see it 2421 02:10:15.079 --> 02:10:17.720 broken down, you know somebody has a car repair, or 2422 02:10:17.920 --> 02:10:21.239 medical bills or a big one surprise expenses, which happened 2423 02:10:21.279 --> 02:10:25.079 to literally every human being. They're put in a bad place, 2424 02:10:25.159 --> 02:10:26.600 and quite often that's going to end up on a 2425 02:10:26.640 --> 02:10:29.279 high interest credit card. Exactly. 2426 02:10:29.399 --> 02:10:33.319 This is a real life example of fins to the left. 2427 02:10:33.479 --> 02:10:36.479 Fins to the right were surrounded by sharks. And as 2428 02:10:36.520 --> 02:10:39.600 you pointed out, it affects not only people who just 2429 02:10:39.640 --> 02:10:41.439 don't have a lot to put together, it affects people 2430 02:10:41.439 --> 02:10:43.720 who aren't paying attention. So I'll here's two quick examples 2431 02:10:43.760 --> 02:10:46.319 that had a client does it's probably twenty five years ago. Well, 2432 02:10:46.359 --> 02:10:48.359 when I was young and just getting started, client would 2433 02:10:48.439 --> 02:10:51.239 would pull out money from their IRA to pay there 2434 02:10:51.319 --> 02:10:53.600 I forget with cash to go or whatever, whether the 2435 02:10:53.760 --> 02:10:56.920 payday lender. They just treated their monthly payday lender like 2436 02:10:57.000 --> 02:10:59.119 a credit card. Every month they would go get money 2437 02:10:59.159 --> 02:11:01.840 out and pay a ridiculous interest rate, and then they 2438 02:11:01.840 --> 02:11:03.479 would have to take money out of the IRA to 2439 02:11:03.520 --> 02:11:05.439 pay it off. So it took months to get them 2440 02:11:05.760 --> 02:11:09.399 to catch up and stop that process. Now, shortly after that, 2441 02:11:09.560 --> 02:11:11.560 I had a client that came to me from the 2442 02:11:11.680 --> 02:11:13.920 private client group of a bank I was working for, 2443 02:11:14.720 --> 02:11:17.439 and he was a doctor with an enormous amount millions 2444 02:11:17.479 --> 02:11:19.760 of dollars worth of cash flow, and he was paying 2445 02:11:19.920 --> 02:11:23.680 thirty some thousand dollars in overdraft fees just because he 2446 02:11:23.800 --> 02:11:26.399 never sat down to catch up on his own cash flow. 2447 02:11:26.880 --> 02:11:30.640 And when the rules changed the CFPB, that's a whole 2448 02:11:30.680 --> 02:11:33.000 other topic. But the CFPB came in and said the 2449 02:11:33.039 --> 02:11:35.159 banks can't do this anymore. The bank that I was 2450 02:11:35.199 --> 02:11:37.960 employed by was concerned about the revenue we were going 2451 02:11:38.039 --> 02:11:40.319 to lose because we couldn't do that to him anymore. 2452 02:11:40.720 --> 02:11:42.520 Fins to the left, fins to the right. If there's 2453 02:11:42.560 --> 02:11:44.600 a need out there, there will be somebody out there 2454 02:11:44.640 --> 02:11:47.399 to fill it. But yes, you're right, this concern among 2455 02:11:47.439 --> 02:11:51.039 a lot of people is resulting in these payday lenders 2456 02:11:51.079 --> 02:11:53.560 and these subprime credit cards where fees are sometimes go 2457 02:11:53.680 --> 02:11:56.279 up to ninety percent of the principal payday loans average 2458 02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:59.920 cost of about thirty five percent. There's abuse out there, 2459 02:12:00.239 --> 02:12:01.520 but people are still falling for it. 2460 02:12:01.840 --> 02:12:06.399 So in terms of a payday loan, they're gonna if 2461 02:12:06.640 --> 02:12:09.439 you know, you borrow us one thousand dollars, the payday 2462 02:12:09.560 --> 02:12:12.600 lender is gonna get thirty five percent of that. 2463 02:12:13.560 --> 02:12:15.920 Yeah, because if you if you are somebody who is 2464 02:12:15.960 --> 02:12:18.479 forced into the situation of going to a payday lender, 2465 02:12:18.880 --> 02:12:20.800 then that means you don't have anything else. You don't 2466 02:12:20.800 --> 02:12:22.960 have anything else you could use as collateral other than 2467 02:12:23.039 --> 02:12:25.960 your next payday, your next paycheck. So you walk into 2468 02:12:26.000 --> 02:12:27.960 one of these places and they have bulletproof glass for 2469 02:12:28.039 --> 02:12:31.520 a reason, and you want to and you basically provide 2470 02:12:31.600 --> 02:12:35.199 proof of employment with your past pay stubs, and you 2471 02:12:35.399 --> 02:12:37.640 just basically tell them you're gonna get my next paycheck, 2472 02:12:37.680 --> 02:12:39.880 it's gonna come on this day. And they say, cool, 2473 02:12:39.960 --> 02:12:41.720 here's one thousand bucks. By the way, it's gonna be 2474 02:12:41.760 --> 02:12:44.640 thirteen fifty to pay us back because that's the average 2475 02:12:44.680 --> 02:12:46.920 cost of the payday loan. But again, remember these are 2476 02:12:46.960 --> 02:12:49.680 people who don't have any other choice and feel forced 2477 02:12:49.760 --> 02:12:52.760 into these situations. There's always gonna be somebody willing to 2478 02:12:52.800 --> 02:12:56.119 bankroll that. But it's not much different than than paying 2479 02:12:56.159 --> 02:12:57.399 the mafia protection money. 2480 02:12:57.640 --> 02:13:02.039 Wow, Now, is there a best case option for folks 2481 02:13:02.079 --> 02:13:04.520 who find themselves in this position? Like, oh my god, 2482 02:13:04.600 --> 02:13:07.239 you know I got this three thousand dollars bill that 2483 02:13:07.319 --> 02:13:09.199 I had to pay. Was a medical expense or they 2484 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:13.359 needed their roof repaired or car repaired? Is there an 2485 02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:16.399 option that it represents the best option for folks rather 2486 02:13:16.479 --> 02:13:20.000 than obviously something like a paiday loan. Sure? 2487 02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:22.359 So what I what I what I look at in 2488 02:13:22.439 --> 02:13:26.199 situations like this is you know what else could we 2489 02:13:26.359 --> 02:13:27.119 borrow against? 2490 02:13:27.319 --> 02:13:27.560 Is there? 2491 02:13:27.800 --> 02:13:30.399 First off, maybe there's a credit card out there that 2492 02:13:30.520 --> 02:13:33.000 you've got in your arsenal that doesn't have a ridiculous 2493 02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:35.159 interest rate. Maybe you have something that's that's on a 2494 02:13:36.199 --> 02:13:39.039 on one of those bonus upfront offering rates, or maybe 2495 02:13:39.079 --> 02:13:42.199 you're getting those envelopes in your mailbox. Nobody wants to 2496 02:13:42.279 --> 02:13:44.239 have more credit cards than we have to. But if 2497 02:13:44.279 --> 02:13:46.760 somebody is offering you zero percent for six months or 2498 02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:48.840 twelve months or whatever it is, then that can be 2499 02:13:48.920 --> 02:13:50.880 an opportunity to deal with this kind of thing. 2500 02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:55.319 If that's not a choice, then maybe a home equity line. 2501 02:13:55.479 --> 02:13:59.199 I just wrote that down home equity can be Yeah, 2502 02:13:59.239 --> 02:14:01.680 because it's a great Interest rates are currently run a 2503 02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:04.000 seven percent or whatever, so you figure home equity loans 2504 02:14:04.039 --> 02:14:06.960 probably going to fall into that lower single digit category. 2505 02:14:07.479 --> 02:14:09.199 If you've got equity in your home, and you can 2506 02:14:09.279 --> 02:14:11.600 get your bank to could give you a home equity loan. 2507 02:14:11.720 --> 02:14:15.520 At least you're not paying thirty percent interest. Correct now, 2508 02:14:15.960 --> 02:14:17.159 debt is debt. We don't want it. 2509 02:14:17.199 --> 02:14:20.159 But remember this shouldn't be a permanent situation anyway. If 2510 02:14:20.199 --> 02:14:23.199 you find yourself in this permanent situation of just always 2511 02:14:23.279 --> 02:14:26.840 being behind, then it's time for a ground to ceiling 2512 02:14:27.119 --> 02:14:29.920 Florida ceiling redo of your all your finances. This is 2513 02:14:30.000 --> 02:14:32.359 more like the engine fell out the bottom of the 2514 02:14:32.439 --> 02:14:34.119 car and I can't afford to buy a new one. 2515 02:14:34.159 --> 02:14:35.960 I'm just gonna have to pay the five grand or 2516 02:14:36.000 --> 02:14:37.720 whatever it is to put an engine back in the car. 2517 02:14:38.119 --> 02:14:40.359 That's something that makes perfect sense for a home equity 2518 02:14:40.439 --> 02:14:43.439 line of credit. And because yes, you should be able 2519 02:14:43.479 --> 02:14:46.680 to keep that interest rate within the single digit the 2520 02:14:46.760 --> 02:14:49.560 single digit range, which is helpful. But the other thing 2521 02:14:49.600 --> 02:14:52.039 I throw out is if you have one out there, 2522 02:14:52.039 --> 02:14:54.439 and I've had this conversation recently with clients and you 2523 02:14:54.520 --> 02:14:57.359 want to pay it off, do so. Don't necessarily close 2524 02:14:57.399 --> 02:14:59.199 it because you never know how you're going to need 2525 02:14:59.239 --> 02:15:01.439 a pile of cash the short run, and if you 2526 02:15:01.560 --> 02:15:05.319 are about to retire, keep that line open even if 2527 02:15:05.359 --> 02:15:08.239 it's paid off. It can be at zero even just 2528 02:15:08.319 --> 02:15:10.199 pay an annual fee or something, because it will be 2529 02:15:10.319 --> 02:15:13.159 harder to get one after you no longer have W 2530 02:15:13.319 --> 02:15:13.840 two income. 2531 02:15:14.159 --> 02:15:17.239 Yeah, you get basically like a checkbook that draws against 2532 02:15:17.319 --> 02:15:20.680 your home equity line of credit so correct, or even 2533 02:15:21.079 --> 02:15:21.960 a debit card as well. 2534 02:15:22.159 --> 02:15:24.000 It's very easy to use once you've got it set 2535 02:15:24.079 --> 02:15:25.399 up and then making the payments back. 2536 02:15:25.560 --> 02:15:27.520 It works like a credit card. It'll look and feel 2537 02:15:27.600 --> 02:15:30.359 like a credit card. It's just you're borrowing against your house. 2538 02:15:30.399 --> 02:15:32.319 If you're going to borrow five thousand bucks against two 2539 02:15:32.399 --> 02:15:34.920 hundred thousand dollars house, you're okay. If you're going to 2540 02:15:35.000 --> 02:15:37.520 borrow one hundred grand against your two hundred thousand dollars house, 2541 02:15:37.640 --> 02:15:39.079 maybe we need to sit down and talk about what 2542 02:15:39.159 --> 02:15:39.920 the real problem is. 2543 02:15:40.039 --> 02:15:41.720 Yeah, you might want to hold off on that new 2544 02:15:41.880 --> 02:15:46.640 edition remodeling project at that particular time. Brian James, appreciate 2545 02:15:46.720 --> 02:15:50.039 your sound financial advice and the suggestions you offer folks, 2546 02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:52.319 and for coming on the program every morning to talk 2547 02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:54.039 every Monday to talk about it. I'll look forward to 2548 02:15:54.039 --> 02:15:56.479 next Money, another edition of Money Monday, and thanks as 2549 02:15:56.479 --> 02:15:59.159 always to all with financial for loading you out. I 2550 02:15:59.239 --> 02:16:01.079 appreciate the oppertinity. We'll talk to you in a week. 2551 02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:02.840 Take care of Brian. It's a thirty five right now, 2552 02:16:02.840 --> 02:16:04.800 fifty five KRS City Talk station, joking up with the phone, 2553 02:16:04.840 --> 02:16:06.560 opening up the phone, lunch of the something specific you 2554 02:16:06.600 --> 02:16:10.119 want to talk about, Happy to do that, but anyway, 2555 02:16:10.159 --> 02:16:11.239 don't go well, I'll be right back. 2556 02:16:11.680 --> 02:16:14.960 This is fifty five KARC an iHeartRadio station. 2557 02:16:15.600 --> 02:16:17.640 Man, this is Jeffy coming on an eight thirty nine 2558 02:16:17.640 --> 02:16:19.640 and fifty five KR City Talk station five one, three, 2559 02:16:19.760 --> 02:16:22.079 seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two 2560 02:16:22.079 --> 02:16:24.119 to three Talk or go with Town five fifty on 2561 02:16:24.159 --> 02:16:27.800 AT and T phones. Reminding folks early in the morning 2562 02:16:27.840 --> 02:16:29.960 six oh five, we did a sort of a mashup. 2563 02:16:30.039 --> 02:16:32.120 Joe put a mash up together an interview with my 2564 02:16:32.559 --> 02:16:35.879 with with Representative Jennifer Gross from last week talking about 2565 02:16:35.879 --> 02:16:38.879 the Medicaid waste and the fact that the auditor had 2566 02:16:38.959 --> 02:16:42.440 finally dove into it and discovered that I guess twenty 2567 02:16:42.520 --> 02:16:46.520 five percent or twenty six percent of the state's medicaid payments. 2568 02:16:46.520 --> 02:16:48.639 We're going to people who do not live in the state. 2569 02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:53.920 Obviously a massive red flag for fraud and uh, I 2570 02:16:54.079 --> 02:16:56.319 was recalling and I know my listener friend Jay out 2571 02:16:56.319 --> 02:16:58.040 there brings us up all the time, and I'm not 2572 02:16:58.079 --> 02:16:59.559 sure if he was listening to it or not. Jay, 2573 02:16:59.680 --> 02:17:01.159 if you didn't get a chance to listen and go 2574 02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:03.239 to the podcast page fifty five care sea dot com. 2575 02:17:03.680 --> 02:17:06.079 But he has keen interest in this subject because we're 2576 02:17:06.079 --> 02:17:08.799 talking a lot of money. And when you look at 2577 02:17:08.840 --> 02:17:10.120 the amount of money going out of state and the 2578 02:17:10.200 --> 02:17:13.280 amount of money that it the medicaid program deals with, 2579 02:17:13.360 --> 02:17:17.959 which is between forty and fifty million dollars or billion 2580 02:17:18.079 --> 02:17:21.479 dollars in the state budget, the largest item in the 2581 02:17:21.520 --> 02:17:25.399 state budget, Medicaid. The total amount going out of state, 2582 02:17:26.280 --> 02:17:29.440 it seemed to me, doing my rudimentary math, translated to 2583 02:17:29.559 --> 02:17:35.959 around ten billion dollars. And I interviewed Keith Faber about 2584 02:17:36.000 --> 02:17:37.840 this back it was all the way back to January 2585 02:17:37.920 --> 02:17:40.920 twenty twenty three, and he seemed to dance around the 2586 02:17:40.959 --> 02:17:42.239 issue a little bit. And I'll let you draw your 2587 02:17:42.280 --> 02:17:44.120 own conclusions. We had a bit of a computer glitch 2588 02:17:44.159 --> 02:17:46.719 this morning, got it's work sorted out. So Joe's got 2589 02:17:46.760 --> 02:17:50.040 the podcast of Jennifer Gross talking about the subject because 2590 02:17:50.079 --> 02:17:52.639 she is on a Medicaid Subcommittee in Columbus now that 2591 02:17:52.719 --> 02:17:57.159 they formed to deal with and solve and fix these problems. 2592 02:17:57.799 --> 02:18:00.399 The problem is you need an administration willing to let 2593 02:18:00.600 --> 02:18:03.399 you fix the problems, like, for example, a work requirement. 2594 02:18:03.840 --> 02:18:05.559 If you want to require and make a mandate or 2595 02:18:05.639 --> 02:18:08.000 work requirement in order to qualify for Medicaid, you either 2596 02:18:08.040 --> 02:18:09.520 have to get classes and training, or you have to 2597 02:18:09.559 --> 02:18:11.079 go out and look for a job, which they want 2598 02:18:11.120 --> 02:18:12.280 to do in the state of Ohio. You got to 2599 02:18:12.399 --> 02:18:18.719 get approval from the administration in DC. So now that 2600 02:18:18.799 --> 02:18:20.840 we have a change of the guard, the likelihood that 2601 02:18:20.920 --> 02:18:22.959 that will happen and we will get approval in the 2602 02:18:23.040 --> 02:18:25.239 state is far more likely than it was under the 2603 02:18:25.280 --> 02:18:30.559 Biden administration, which wouldn't allow for mandatory work requirements. But 2604 02:18:30.719 --> 02:18:33.479 insofar as fixing the problems of paying people who don't 2605 02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:36.280 live in the state, apparently that's also a complicating factor. 2606 02:18:36.399 --> 02:18:39.079 So they're acting now. They're seemed to be working on 2607 02:18:39.239 --> 02:18:41.639 it now, and I'm glad Jennifer Gross is on the job. 2608 02:18:41.760 --> 02:18:43.920 But if you didn't get a chance to listen to that, 2609 02:18:44.120 --> 02:18:47.319 it's well worth The difference between January twenty twenty three 2610 02:18:48.399 --> 02:18:52.520 and the audits they've done sample audits. They are, but 2611 02:18:52.760 --> 02:18:55.360 enough for them to calculate that twenty five twenty six 2612 02:18:55.399 --> 02:18:58.040 percent was going out of state and probably still is 2613 02:18:58.159 --> 02:19:00.760 as we speak. Can you imagine how much I mean 2614 02:19:00.799 --> 02:19:05.120 that would free up ten billion dollars? It just you 2615 02:19:05.120 --> 02:19:08.559 could take the line item off the budget. Maybe you 2616 02:19:08.600 --> 02:19:11.440 could lower our real estate taxes if we did something 2617 02:19:11.559 --> 02:19:13.840 like that, or get rid of the income tax or 2618 02:19:13.920 --> 02:19:16.680 something certainly something valuable they could do with all that 2619 02:19:16.799 --> 02:19:20.120 money laying around and speaking of money, I thought this 2620 02:19:20.239 --> 02:19:23.719 was rather interesting. Now do a thought exercise right here. 2621 02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:28.799 Who opened the borders and allowed ten to fifteen million 2622 02:19:29.120 --> 02:19:32.159 illegal immigrants to come into our country? Open door, Welcome 2623 02:19:32.280 --> 02:19:34.440 here you are. Your hearing date will be sometime down 2624 02:19:34.479 --> 02:19:38.079 the road, probably five or six years. Have fun. Here's 2625 02:19:38.120 --> 02:19:40.840 a bus. Where do you want to go? I want 2626 02:19:40.879 --> 02:19:43.399 to go to a sanctuary city. Okay, that would have 2627 02:19:43.440 --> 02:19:47.879 been the Biden administration for those not paying attention, And 2628 02:19:48.040 --> 02:19:49.959 look at what happened when Trump got elected. Look the 2629 02:19:50.280 --> 02:19:52.239 number of people coming across the southern border is down 2630 02:19:52.280 --> 02:19:58.120 to a trickle. It's amazing. And who called themselves sanctuary cities? 2631 02:19:58.120 --> 02:20:01.719 Who designated themselves a welcome an open environment for illegal 2632 02:20:01.799 --> 02:20:05.559 immigrants to come to and not worry about the city 2633 02:20:05.680 --> 02:20:10.879 cooperating with ICE officials and costing you out of the country. Well, 2634 02:20:11.040 --> 02:20:15.360 New York's one of them. So the Biden administration invited 2635 02:20:15.440 --> 02:20:20.280 and actually encouraged people, coupled with non governmental organizations paid 2636 02:20:20.360 --> 02:20:25.000 for with your money, facilitating the costing of the border, 2637 02:20:25.079 --> 02:20:28.879 facilitating the finding of housing and shelter, and facilitating everything. 2638 02:20:30.280 --> 02:20:32.319 They were paid with your tax payer dollars to do that, 2639 02:20:33.200 --> 02:20:36.079 which had the aripple effect of encouraging even more people 2640 02:20:36.120 --> 02:20:38.719 to make the perilous journey to the southern border, knowing 2641 02:20:38.760 --> 02:20:40.719 that there were organizations there that were going to help them, 2642 02:20:40.760 --> 02:20:42.159 and that there were cities that were going to welcome 2643 02:20:42.200 --> 02:20:45.760 them and invite them and not throw them out. And 2644 02:20:45.840 --> 02:20:48.600 now once the Trumble administration comes in, is trying to 2645 02:20:48.639 --> 02:20:51.760 cost some of the money back, most notably eighty million 2646 02:20:51.799 --> 02:20:54.719 dollars previously sent to New York City via the Federal 2647 02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:59.399 Emergency Management Agency FEMA. You may have heard about that, 2648 02:21:00.079 --> 02:21:03.559 or the purpose of housing migrants FEMA. Sorry sucks to 2649 02:21:03.600 --> 02:21:07.799 be North Carolinians. FEMA money went to New York City. 2650 02:21:09.520 --> 02:21:11.440 So New York City's now foled a lawsuit against the 2651 02:21:11.479 --> 02:21:14.040 Trump administration. They foiled on Friday, seeking to wrestle back 2652 02:21:14.079 --> 02:21:17.360 that eighty million dollars. They alleged the funds previously approved 2653 02:21:17.360 --> 02:21:19.360 and then paid out by FEMA, only to be removed 2654 02:21:19.360 --> 02:21:23.520 from the city bank account on February eleventh without notice 2655 02:21:23.600 --> 02:21:27.000 or administrative process. It's magical that the government can do that, 2656 02:21:27.159 --> 02:21:28.879 isn't it. Oh, by the way, we're pulling the money 2657 02:21:28.879 --> 02:21:31.319 directly out of your bank account. Look, it's not there anymore. 2658 02:21:33.879 --> 02:21:36.639 That funding was revoked after Elon Musk doing his doge work, 2659 02:21:36.760 --> 02:21:40.520 found fifty nine million dollars a FEMA payments that New 2660 02:21:40.600 --> 02:21:43.079 York was was being used by the city in New 2661 02:21:43.159 --> 02:21:48.479 York City to house illegal immigrants in luxury hotels. And 2662 02:21:48.559 --> 02:21:51.079 the luxury hotel owners love it because, you know, post 2663 02:21:51.159 --> 02:21:53.959 COVID and during COVID, those places were empty. They weren't 2664 02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:56.879 making a dime on any room. Once the illegal immigrants 2665 02:21:56.879 --> 02:21:58.600 show up, they need a place to stay. New York 2666 02:21:58.639 --> 02:22:01.399 City's city has some mandatory housing rules. Hey, let's put 2667 02:22:01.440 --> 02:22:03.879 them in luxury hotels. And the hoteliers are happy because 2668 02:22:03.879 --> 02:22:07.639 they're getting full freight for the room rental. Apparently to 2669 02:22:07.879 --> 02:22:13.920 fifty nine million dollars, so Trump called that massive fraud. 2670 02:22:15.000 --> 02:22:17.239 New York City was awarded two separate grants during the 2671 02:22:17.280 --> 02:22:20.959 Biden administration. Remember this is your money. A problem created 2672 02:22:21.000 --> 02:22:24.040 by Biden resulted in your taxpayer dollars as precious few 2673 02:22:24.079 --> 02:22:27.479 as there are going to New York City fifty eight 2674 02:22:27.559 --> 02:22:30.559 point six million dollars first, and another twenty one point 2675 02:22:30.719 --> 02:22:38.159 nine million dollars to help house the immigrants pat payments 2676 02:22:38.200 --> 02:22:41.440 made under the Shelter and Services Program. The Congress appropriated 2677 02:22:41.520 --> 02:22:43.920 six hundred and fifty million dollars for last year to 2678 02:22:43.959 --> 02:22:47.840 help local governments respond to the migrant crisis. Notice they 2679 02:22:47.959 --> 02:22:51.639 use the word crisis, and notice the crisis that didn't 2680 02:22:51.680 --> 02:22:59.000 have to happen. It was the Biden opened border's policy. Apparently, 2681 02:22:59.079 --> 02:23:01.840 right now, forty five one thousand migrants staying and taxpayer 2682 02:23:01.920 --> 02:23:04.840 funded shelters in New York City, up from sixty nine 2683 02:23:05.079 --> 02:23:07.319 thousand more than a year ago. The law City accuses 2684 02:23:07.360 --> 02:23:09.719 of the federal government of violating federal regulations in the 2685 02:23:09.799 --> 02:23:13.280 terms of these Shelter and Service Program grants, as well 2686 02:23:13.280 --> 02:23:16.200 as abusing the federal government's authority and obligations to implement 2687 02:23:16.319 --> 02:23:24.360 congressionally approven funded and appropriated fund of programs. Adams defended 2688 02:23:24.399 --> 02:23:28.120 and supported the lawsuit, the mayor, writing that the eighty 2689 02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:30.959 million dollars was approved, paid for, and then rescinded, all 2690 02:23:31.000 --> 02:23:33.479 while the city spent more than are you ready who's 2691 02:23:33.559 --> 02:23:38.319 the fault here? Seven billion dollars of its own taxpayer 2692 02:23:38.360 --> 02:23:40.559 money to tackle the crisis over the past three years, 2693 02:23:42.120 --> 02:23:46.040 a situation invited by and created by their sanctuary city status. 2694 02:23:49.280 --> 02:23:53.600 Quote from Eric Adams, we are going to work to 2695 02:23:53.799 --> 02:24:01.000 ensure our city's residents get every dollar they are owed. Huh, 2696 02:24:02.399 --> 02:24:10.479 they're owed. I don't know. It's a problem of their 2697 02:24:10.479 --> 02:24:14.239 own creation. Democrats, sanctuary city, with a democratic administration and 2698 02:24:14.280 --> 02:24:18.120 an OPRAH borders policy. They brought this on themselves, and 2699 02:24:18.239 --> 02:24:21.959 I personally don't feel that, you know, the the money 2700 02:24:22.000 --> 02:24:26.760 should be left in their hands. I mean with with 2701 02:24:26.959 --> 02:24:30.200 with terrible action should come some consequences, But you know what, 2702 02:24:30.639 --> 02:24:34.760 maybe we better not do this again. We going to 2703 02:24:34.799 --> 02:24:38.920 whole rethink the whole process. A forty seven fifty five 2704 02:24:38.959 --> 02:24:41.920 KSY talks say, look, Jay's on the phone. I'm glad 2705 02:24:41.959 --> 02:24:43.360 you're out there. Jay will take your call. I got 2706 02:24:43.440 --> 02:24:44.719 to take a break right now. I'll be right back 2707 02:24:44.719 --> 02:24:50.079 after these brief words fifty five the talk station, have 2708 02:24:50.239 --> 02:24:52.840 you found your new favorite? One more time from the 2709 02:24:52.920 --> 02:24:56.879 Channel nine weather forecat we got on hands today. Sunny 2710 02:24:56.920 --> 02:24:59.159 skies and that is until it gets cloudy. There may 2711 02:24:59.159 --> 02:25:01.159 be a shower or two out there today. High have 2712 02:25:01.239 --> 02:25:03.159 fifty two. It's going to be partly Claudia overnight going 2713 02:25:03.200 --> 02:25:05.280 down to thirty six. Fifty six to high tomorrow with 2714 02:25:05.360 --> 02:25:09.040 a little rain in the morning maybe otherwise a sunny day. 2715 02:25:09.559 --> 02:25:11.760 Uh openight will of thirty two with mostly cloudy skies 2716 02:25:11.799 --> 02:25:13.280 and then he had the best chance of rain all 2717 02:25:13.319 --> 02:25:15.760 week all day Wednesday, but it will get to sixty 2718 02:25:15.799 --> 02:25:16.840 three degrees. 2719 02:25:16.520 --> 02:25:16.959 For the high. 2720 02:25:17.440 --> 02:25:19.479 Those are that at thirty seven. Time for final traffic 2721 02:25:19.600 --> 02:25:23.159 Chuck Ingram from the UCL Tramping Center. Around forty percent 2722 02:25:23.239 --> 02:25:26.559 of cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make 2723 02:25:26.600 --> 02:25:28.879 a difference. Called five one three, five eighty five u 2724 02:25:29.000 --> 02:25:32.520 se see see North Bend seventy five continues slow button 2725 02:25:32.559 --> 02:25:35.719 Milton Kyle's southbound heaviest in in Adel Black one and 2726 02:25:35.879 --> 02:25:39.200 Ben seventy four. A few break lights between Montana and 2727 02:25:39.399 --> 02:25:42.239 seventy five. There's a wreck east to seventy five at 2728 02:25:42.319 --> 02:25:45.600 Montgomery on the left shoulder and cruiser cleaning up a 2729 02:25:45.600 --> 02:25:48.559 wreck on Union Center at Lakota West. Chuck Ingram on 2730 02:25:48.680 --> 02:25:51.079 fifty five KRC the talk Station. 2731 02:25:53.840 --> 02:25:56.879 Eight fifty and fifty five krs the Talk Station, A 2732 02:25:57.000 --> 02:25:59.440 very happy Monday to you, extra special day of the 2733 02:25:59.479 --> 02:26:03.399 Morning show. Prayers from everyone. Keep your fingers crossed. Joe 2734 02:26:03.479 --> 02:26:05.799 has scheduled vv A Gramma Swammy to join the program 2735 02:26:05.879 --> 02:26:09.639 tomorrow along with the Bright Bird Inside Scoop and the 2736 02:26:09.840 --> 02:26:12.760 Daniel Davis Deep Dive. So should be exciting tomorrow and 2737 02:26:12.799 --> 02:26:14.959 looking forward to having VVAC on the program and fingers 2738 02:26:14.959 --> 02:26:18.079 crossed that that will happen further Ado get Jay's called Jay, 2739 02:26:18.120 --> 02:26:19.760 Thanks for calling this morning. I was hoping you were 2740 02:26:19.799 --> 02:26:20.120 out there. 2741 02:26:21.159 --> 02:26:22.200 Oh I'm out here, man. 2742 02:26:22.280 --> 02:26:22.440 Hey. 2743 02:26:22.879 --> 02:26:25.639 Fantastic work that you and Jay are doing. You guys 2744 02:26:25.680 --> 02:26:28.559 are second to none. Nobody does this kind of thing. 2745 02:26:29.280 --> 02:26:29.399 Well. 2746 02:26:29.440 --> 02:26:30.159 I appreciate that. 2747 02:26:32.639 --> 02:26:34.680 Real quick message to the listeners and know we're short 2748 02:26:34.680 --> 02:26:38.079 on time. Why should you care about this medicaid fraud? 2749 02:26:39.040 --> 02:26:43.079 Forty billion dollars is with Ohio pays in medicaid. Pennsylvania 2750 02:26:43.159 --> 02:26:45.000 state budget is forty billion dollars. 2751 02:26:45.440 --> 02:26:48.280 That says A. That's a mouthful, right, there man that 2752 02:26:48.760 --> 02:26:49.079 that's it. 2753 02:26:49.440 --> 02:26:50.159 Well, get better. 2754 02:26:50.559 --> 02:26:53.639 Pennsylvania is a GDP is one trillion dollars a year. 2755 02:26:53.840 --> 02:26:59.319 Ohio's GDP is nine hundred billion. So and if you 2756 02:26:59.479 --> 02:27:02.639 take half, now this, you know twenty five percent of 2757 02:27:02.719 --> 02:27:05.559 the Medicaid and Ohio going out of state. Don't assume 2758 02:27:05.639 --> 02:27:07.760 that that's part of the forty three point three percent 2759 02:27:07.920 --> 02:27:09.000 improper payment rate. 2760 02:27:09.479 --> 02:27:10.639 What if it's on top of that? 2761 02:27:11.360 --> 02:27:13.159 Bottom line is if you take a look at the 2762 02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:18.399 primary and secondary education line in ohiocheckbook dot gov, it's 2763 02:27:18.440 --> 02:27:20.680 twenty billion dollars to fund all of our primary and 2764 02:27:20.719 --> 02:27:24.719 secondary education. You could take the ways from medicaid theoretically 2765 02:27:24.920 --> 02:27:28.079 fund primary and secondary education, and that would drop everybody's 2766 02:27:28.120 --> 02:27:31.120 property tax by seventy percent. Because seventy percent of your 2767 02:27:31.159 --> 02:27:34.719 property tax fund schools. I think the schools need. 2768 02:27:34.719 --> 02:27:35.760 To have a haircut as well. 2769 02:27:36.120 --> 02:27:38.120 But just think about that, and think about what kind 2770 02:27:38.159 --> 02:27:41.719 of economic development opportunity Ohio could have if they'd ever 2771 02:27:41.920 --> 02:27:45.559 get this property tax then cleaned up. And here's the point. 2772 02:27:45.840 --> 02:27:48.239 All the money to drop your property tax is already 2773 02:27:48.360 --> 02:27:52.920 in Ohio, already in Columbus and Medicaid fraud. So anybody 2774 02:27:53.000 --> 02:27:54.879 that's listening, say why should I there and pick up 2775 02:27:54.879 --> 02:27:57.680 the phone and call my representative state senators. Take a 2776 02:27:57.719 --> 02:27:59.760 look at your property tax bill and ask yourself if 2777 02:27:59.799 --> 02:28:02.719 you to have that touch by fifty to seventy five percent, 2778 02:28:02.840 --> 02:28:04.760 or to continue to fund medicaid fraud. 2779 02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:07.559 Well well done, Brian and Jay. And the other point 2780 02:28:07.600 --> 02:28:09.200 that needs to be made on this, the way we 2781 02:28:09.360 --> 02:28:12.639 fund education in the state of Ohio was deemed unconstitutional 2782 02:28:12.760 --> 02:28:16.360 like twenty years ago by our Supreme corpl and Mayo. 2783 02:28:16.479 --> 02:28:17.399 So there's the solution. 2784 02:28:17.760 --> 02:28:20.600 The solution, it's to be an excellent solution. So yeah, 2785 02:28:20.719 --> 02:28:22.440 call Jennifer Gross, tell her to keep up the good 2786 02:28:22.479 --> 02:28:24.479 work and get in touch with Favor the auditor. Tell 2787 02:28:24.559 --> 02:28:26.959 him to keep auditing and ferreting out the fraud, waste 2788 02:28:26.959 --> 02:28:28.520 and abuse. And somebody's got to get on the hoard 2789 02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:30.959 of the Trump administration and start asking for these much 2790 02:28:31.079 --> 02:28:33.479 needed changes so we can get rid of the fraud, 2791 02:28:33.520 --> 02:28:35.840 wasted abuse. And I think we stand a good chance 2792 02:28:35.920 --> 02:28:38.399 under our Trump administration. They certainly under the Biden administration 2793 02:28:38.440 --> 02:28:43.319 they didn't allow it. It's just just unbelievable to me, unbelievable. Jay, 2794 02:28:43.399 --> 02:28:45.520 Thank you so much. I appreciate your enthusiasm and your 2795 02:28:45.600 --> 02:28:48.559 kind words about the program. I really really do, and 2796 02:28:48.799 --> 02:28:50.760 for riding hurt on me to stay on top of 2797 02:28:50.840 --> 02:28:56.920 that particular issue. It's this insane amount of money and 2798 02:28:57.040 --> 02:28:59.760 it's right there, you know, I consider it low hanging fruit. 2799 02:29:00.239 --> 02:29:04.079 What address are you sending the check to? Oh, look, 2800 02:29:04.159 --> 02:29:06.760 New Hampshire. Maybe we shouldn't be sending checks out there, 2801 02:29:07.520 --> 02:29:13.559 just the thought. Now I know New Hampshire. Gary's not 2802 02:29:13.639 --> 02:29:16.399 getting one of those Medicaid checks. Joe, I'm sure he's 2803 02:29:16.440 --> 02:29:20.280 not anyhow, Folks, again that interview with Jennifer Gross, a 2804 02:29:20.360 --> 02:29:22.520 couple of the Key Faber interview, and again, apologies for 2805 02:29:22.639 --> 02:29:26.959 the position to stop it. That's Joe's Chucker's territory, but 2806 02:29:27.959 --> 02:29:29.799 Joe doesn't need a break. Every once in a whise 2807 02:29:29.840 --> 02:29:31.520 got to leave the studio and he usually does it 2808 02:29:31.559 --> 02:29:35.360 when I'm jawing, so it's just bad timing. But apologies. 2809 02:29:35.440 --> 02:29:37.000 But it all came out in the wash and that's 2810 02:29:37.040 --> 02:29:38.680 what counts, and it's right there on the blog page 2811 02:29:38.719 --> 02:29:41.639 ifty five carsy dot com podcast page. Christopher smithm with 2812 02:29:41.719 --> 02:29:44.840 the Smithment. Congratulations to his beautiful daughter and the team 2813 02:29:44.879 --> 02:29:46.799 that made it. Up State came in thirteenth in the 2814 02:29:47.159 --> 02:29:50.200 in the relay and that's an excellent, excellent showing, but 2815 02:29:50.319 --> 02:29:52.319 he had more to talk about the beyond that. But 2816 02:29:52.680 --> 02:29:54.200 very proud of his daughter he is and he has 2817 02:29:54.280 --> 02:29:56.399 every right to be so money money with Brian James 2818 02:29:56.920 --> 02:30:00.600 consumer sentiment following could doze cause a market ca home 2819 02:30:00.680 --> 02:30:03.840 sales dropping off in January and sadly more Americans are 2820 02:30:03.920 --> 02:30:06.440 cash poor. He gave us some sound advice about that 2821 02:30:06.559 --> 02:30:11.040 latter category. Maybe get around it. So podcast at about 2822 02:30:11.079 --> 02:30:13.000 cariscy dot com. You try hard mediap while you're there, 2823 02:30:13.000 --> 02:30:15.760 and keep your fingers crossed for the Baked Ramaswamy tomorrow 2824 02:30:15.799 --> 02:30:18.639 along with Daniel Davis Deep Dive and of course the 2825 02:30:18.719 --> 02:30:21.159 Bright bart Inside Scoop. Thank you, Judge Strecker for the 2826 02:30:21.200 --> 02:30:23.920 guests you lined up today. I truly appreciate it and 2827 02:30:24.000 --> 02:30:26.440 the work you did on Going back to January of 2828 02:30:26.559 --> 02:30:28.840 twenty three with my interview with Keith Faber, that's the 2829 02:30:28.879 --> 02:30:33.120 last time I've talked to him. I hope you have 2830 02:30:33.159 --> 02:30:36.159 a wonderful day, folks, and please don't go away. Clenbeck's 2831 02:30:36.200 --> 02:30:36.680 coming up. 2832 02:30:37.319 --> 02:30:40.280 A full rundown and the biggest headlines there's minutes away 2833 02:30:40.520 --> 02:30:41.559 at the top of the hour. 2834 02:30:41.600 --> 02:30:43.879 I'm giving you a fact now. The Americans shouldn't know 2835 02:30:44.000 --> 02:30:48.159 fifty five KRS the talk station. This report Dave sponsored