Speaker 1: Five o five about k r C the talk station,
Speaker 1: Happy Monday. You are fired, so say it, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: to the sixteen hundred us A positions, and there's probably
Speaker 1: a pretty good reason for that. We can discuss that
Speaker 1: this morning. Up beyond that, let's discuss what's on the
Speaker 1: rundown this morning. And Uh, I hope you had a
Speaker 1: wonderful weekend. Parenthetically, I have very nice weekend, so I
Speaker 1: hope you had one as nice as Mike.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Today six oh five, this is going to be rather interesting.
Speaker 1: I know my listener friend Jay out there who's been
Speaker 1: very concerned about medicaid wasting the state of Ohio. Every
Speaker 1: time it comes up, you usually hear from Jay with
Speaker 1: a comment on it. We did hear from Jennifer Gross
Speaker 1: on that topic Representative Gross during the program last week,
Speaker 1: and you can find that podcast at fifty five care
Speaker 1: sea dot com. Confirming that they had done an audit
Speaker 1: and their audit sampling, if I recall correctly, revealed it
Speaker 1: about twenty five percent of the medicaid payments we're going
Speaker 1: to people who don't even live in the state. It's
Speaker 1: the state program for people in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1: And since it's the largest expenditure in government in Ohio,
Speaker 1: and you and I as Ohio taxpayers are paying a
Speaker 1: giant chunk of it. We think it's a worthy other
Speaker 1: Jay out there, I and anybody else who cares about fraud,
Speaker 1: wasted abuse and government think it's a worthy endeavor to
Speaker 1: chase this stuff down. So now that they've identified this,
Speaker 1: are they going to do something about it? I've got
Speaker 1: my pop worn out to wait and find out. But
Speaker 1: we talked with auditor Faber previously earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: back from actually January of twenty three. I can't believe
Speaker 1: it's been that long, and he if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: and we're going to hear this together. Joe did a
Speaker 1: mashup of it for the six which is why I'm
Speaker 1: long winded introduction to what was going up with what's
Speaker 1: coming up on the program. He downplayed it a little
Speaker 1: bit and didn't seem to think it was that large
Speaker 1: of a deal or that it was very complicated and
Speaker 1: difficult to deal with a challenging situation. Well, fast forward
Speaker 1: to the audit and the reality that yes, they did
Speaker 1: identify a substantial amount of what could be fraud could
Speaker 1: just be erroneous payments which would be well, some element
Speaker 1: of fraud, waste. It will be waste. I suppose, perhaps abuse.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an intentional of sending out
Speaker 1: of these medicaid checks. But in the final analysis, that
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of low hanging fruit. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about that in connection with what DOGE is doing. You know,
Speaker 1: they identified twenty million dollars for Irani and Sesame Street,
Speaker 1: and you think, what in the hell's how does that
Speaker 1: our taxpayer money end up in that kind of program. Well,
Speaker 1: that's low hanging fruit, indefensible. Go ahead and try to
Speaker 1: defend it and cannsidering the sorry state of affairs in
Speaker 1: terms of the American dollar and the amount of money
Speaker 1: that goes out of government. Anything is worth going after.
Speaker 1: I don't care about this. Oh that's just a drop
Speaker 1: in the bucket kind of crab. Anything is worth going
Speaker 1: after if you are hemorrhaging money and spending more than
Speaker 1: you are taking in. So any family budget would include
Speaker 1: something along those lines. Oh my god, our credit card
Speaker 1: bills are going up. No, you can't buy that thing
Speaker 1: that we really don't need, that you just kind of
Speaker 1: want right now because it's going to make you feel good.
Speaker 1: For about five seconds. We need to cut that out
Speaker 1: of our budget. But it's just a tiny know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. My wife's that way like some kind of
Speaker 1: five dollars subscription or something and should get all over
Speaker 1: me about why do you even why do you have that?
Speaker 1: It's like, well, it's like five bucks, and then if
Speaker 1: you're put in a position where you have to justify it,
Speaker 1: you can sit there to get this sort of own Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess you know you're right even though it's only
Speaker 1: five bucks. So anyway, we're gonna Joe, did that, like
Speaker 1: I said, a mashup, So Jennifer Gross with the last
Speaker 1: week's conversation coupled with the earlier conversation from January of
Speaker 1: twenty three, Joe, it's been that long. My word, I
Speaker 1: swear time goes flying by the older. I get somebody
Speaker 1: out there is nodding an approval on that. It is Monday.
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithmen, former Vice mayor of the City of Sincinnat,
Speaker 1: with the Smith Event every Monday at seven to twenty.
Speaker 1: I love talking to him, getting his thoughts and comments
Speaker 1: about whatever is, whatever's under his skin and money Monday
Speaker 1: with Brian James every Monday, at eight o five Today,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about consumer sediment falling, could doge cause a
Speaker 1: market correction, So say the market is overvalued. Warren Buffett's
Speaker 1: surprisingly getting rid of a lot of his stocks and
Speaker 1: putting his money in cash. That's a kind of a
Speaker 1: warning sign right there. Home sales dropped in January pretty substantially.
Speaker 1: It's the price of homes are too high and the
Speaker 1: interest rates are too high, so a lot of Americans
Speaker 1: that otherwise would have bought a house or wanted to
Speaker 1: buy a house aren't, resulting in the drop of home sales.
Speaker 1: And finally, Americans are apparently cash poor, inflation soaking up
Speaker 1: more than dollars that Americans would otherwise spend out. I
Speaker 1: saw this article and I didn't print it out, but
Speaker 1: I think it was Wall Street Journal this morning that
Speaker 1: the wealthiest ten percent are really supporting the entire American economy.
Speaker 1: They're on a big spending spree because they've got money,
Speaker 1: and everyone else is sort of diving into their savings
Speaker 1: to help deal with the well costed groceries and otherwise
Speaker 1: the overall inflation. So I hope that the Trump administration
Speaker 1: could get something done now. I wouldn't expect him to
Speaker 1: be able to deal with inflation in the first month
Speaker 1: in office. That's more of a long term project. But please,
Speaker 1: Dear God, come up with something that can help us
Speaker 1: deal with inflation in this country because it's just killing
Speaker 1: people's well sentiment and resulting in people getting rid of
Speaker 1: you losing out on savings and savings is extremely important.
Speaker 1: And tomorrow, and it's a little warning shot by Joe
Speaker 1: Strecker on the run, Now keep your fingers crossed in
Speaker 1: mine are vva grammar swimming is supposed to be on
Speaker 1: the fifty five KC Morning Show tomorrow announce his bid
Speaker 1: for governor. And he actually has some good ideas and
Speaker 1: at least in an abstract concept ten thousand foot level.
Speaker 1: He was interviewed by NBC News. He said, for me,
Speaker 1: the leading from the front here in Ohio and seeing
Speaker 1: setting an example for the rest of the country and frankly,
Speaker 1: even bringing some of the principles of efficiency and spending
Speaker 1: and deregulation to our state will be the way that I,
Speaker 1: as a leader would be able to have the biggest impact.
Speaker 1: Focusing on freeing up the Ohio for education choice, merit
Speaker 1: pay for teachers as opposed to the current status quo,
Speaker 1: which others have talked about merit pay and that would
Speaker 1: attract the best and right his teachers. So hopefully our
Speaker 1: children will be better educated in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1: So it's a difference between some. Sorry, David Yost had
Speaker 1: some comments on that. Of course, he has entered the race.
Speaker 1: He actually entered earlier than expected. He was in a
Speaker 1: mid January Robert Sprague was going to run, but he
Speaker 1: said no, since Ramaswimmy's in it. He threw his support
Speaker 1: for Ramaswimmy in this month instead of launching a separate bid.
Speaker 1: And then finally Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel, former football coach,
Speaker 1: indicated that he might seek the endorsement, but we haven't
Speaker 1: seen any action from him as of yet. Internal pro
Speaker 1: wings showed by Ramaswimmy and Yost showed that both well
Speaker 1: GOP voters in Ohio like both of them, and they
Speaker 1: say a Trump endorsement might put one or the other
Speaker 1: ahead of the pack. But according to NBC, without a
Speaker 1: Trump endorsement or other information about Ramaswimming or Yos factor
Speaker 1: to the equation, Ramaswimmy has led both of the campaign
Speaker 1: polls Ramaswimmy wouldn't comment when he asked how confident he
Speaker 1: was receiving Trump's support. Yost said he has not discussed
Speaker 1: the race with Trump, but hoped he would have a
Speaker 1: conversation in terms of his vision Ramaswammy energy dominance, manufacturing dominance,
Speaker 1: and AI dominance. He talked about phasing out the state's
Speaker 1: income tax and shaking up K through twelve education by
Speaker 1: promoting homeschooling and instituting a merit based pay system for
Speaker 1: public school teachers. Specifically on that merit pace and I
Speaker 1: know I mentioned a moment ago merit based pay for teachers,
Speaker 1: he said, merit based pay for principles, administrators and superintendents.
Speaker 1: The best teachers deserve to be paid much more than
Speaker 1: they are right now, and yet they're not because there's
Speaker 1: no meritocracy in compensation. And that'll take the states that
Speaker 1: would make the state a magnet for the best educators
Speaker 1: across the country. They say, past Republicans and legislatures that
Speaker 1: have well tried to do this never ever ever made
Speaker 1: it into law. In spite of the fact that Republican
Speaker 1: governors and Republican legislatures have been dominating the entire state
Speaker 1: of Ohio now for quite some time. Yet they can't
Speaker 1: get it off the dime. Teachers unions and lobbying groups,
Speaker 1: of course, have tried to put a barrier to it.
Speaker 1: Ramaswamy said, I would tell you that it is a
Speaker 1: uniting issue across parents across the state. My view is,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pick a fight with anybody. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to seek a fight with the teachers unions
Speaker 1: or anybody else. What I'm going to stand for is
Speaker 1: the achievement of our students. I don't think a standard
Speaker 1: politician can get that job done. I do think it's
Speaker 1: going to be it's going to take somebody with fresh legs,
Speaker 1: a governor who's willing to drive real change. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to require a leader for our moment that
Speaker 1: was a little different than our traditional politician, and that's
Speaker 1: a big part of one I'm called into this race
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: We'll see what he has to say about that, and
Speaker 1: of course he's on the program tomorrow. I will certainly
Speaker 1: press him on some of those things. And there's a
Speaker 1: new US Census Bureau released its latest net domestic migration
Speaker 1: report last month. Guess who's the winner in terms of
Speaker 1: the state migration, low tax states and states with better
Speaker 1: education opportunities. Maybe vvex onto something. Texas love the nation
Speaker 1: highest net in migration. Between January twenty twenty three or
Speaker 1: July twenty three and July twenty four, which is the
Speaker 1: latest point in time when they have data, eighty five
Speaker 1: thousand people went moved to Texas, followed by North Carolina,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Florida, and Texas. Those states alone added three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand new residents. And what they have
Speaker 1: in common low taxes, fewer burdens and regulations and policies
Speaker 1: that foster economic opportunities. Contrasts that with policieds that stifle
Speaker 1: competition opposed high cost on businesses. Yeah, California largest net
Speaker 1: outflow nearly a quarter of a million people left over
Speaker 1: one year. The last five years, California lost more than
Speaker 1: one point four million people. Hmm, profound economic loss. They
Speaker 1: noted in the study as well that also compounds california
Speaker 1: fiscal difficulties. Twenty twenty four, the loss of people contributed
Speaker 1: to a forty seven billion dollar budget deficit. Moving over
Speaker 1: to New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, other high tax
Speaker 1: states significant out migration there too. Combined, those five states
Speaker 1: lost nearly half a million residents, accord to the Census
Speaker 1: Bureau report. Common thread over reliance on high taxes, excessive regulation,
Speaker 1: policies that discourage business growth. And I love this observation
Speaker 1: and I've made I made note about this many many times,
Speaker 1: out Loued on the Morning Show. You know you don't
Speaker 1: write the ship and you don't do something about it,
Speaker 1: then everyone's gonna lose out it. What's your favorite pet project?
Speaker 1: What do you think needs to be funded? Well, sorry,
Speaker 1: sucks to be you. People have left. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to raise taxes to show the budget up. That's gonna
Speaker 1: cause more people to leave. The irony is that the
Speaker 1: promise of fairness and security often produces the conditions that
Speaker 1: drive away the states, those that the states hope to serve.
Speaker 1: When I read that, I was thinking of socialism and communism.
Speaker 1: Look what happens the countries that adopt those policies. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's each according's ability to each according is need. Everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna be lifted up by these socialist, wealthy distribution policies.
Speaker 1: Just don't just wait for it. It's gonna happen. Well,
Speaker 1: when people have that thrown in their face. They have
Speaker 1: no incentive to work, and guess what, everybody ends up suffering.
Speaker 1: It produces conditions. Well, at least here we have the
Speaker 1: ability to move from the state. Are you gonna leave
Speaker 1: the country if you're living in a country like Venezuela,
Speaker 1: can you leave the country. Those policies bring about misery.
Speaker 1: That's why people have left. So I'm thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: VVEX on the right track. If these this again, this
Speaker 1: is the Census Bureau just pointing out the obvious people
Speaker 1: are leaving. Ask the question why maybe if Ohio becomes
Speaker 1: a magnet for those folks, they have one more state
Speaker 1: other than Texas and Florida, et cetera, that provides an
Speaker 1: opportunity for us to get some good people moving in
Speaker 1: and improve our economy here in the state of Ohio,
Speaker 1: as well as the opportunity for jobs. Five one three, seven,
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Speaker 1: smart device. Bill O'Reilly was on, talked about a bunch
Speaker 1: of issues. I really enjoyed my conversation with Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 1: I think he's a brilliant guy. And Bill O'Reilly dot
Speaker 1: com that's a website worth the bookmarking. Got some really
Speaker 1: good stuff there. One of the FBI I once knew
Speaker 1: my guest Chris Pahota. Corey Bowman, running for mayor of
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, joined the program as well. We
Speaker 1: also heard from Orlando Sanza last week. So great podcast
Speaker 1: and thanks, as always a judge checker for lining them
Speaker 1: up over to the USA, and of course some the
Speaker 1: USA is responsible for sending out all that kind of
Speaker 1: crazy money that we now that the Low Hanging Fruit
Speaker 1: I alluded to a moment ago. You know programs they've
Speaker 1: been funding over the years. The twenty million dollars to
Speaker 1: produce Sesame Street in Iraq, nine hundred thousand to a
Speaker 1: Gaza based terror charity, one point five million of program
Speaker 1: slated to advanced diversity equity inclusion in Serbia. And how
Speaker 1: about this one. The problem is did any of these
Speaker 1: programs yield the result that that were intended or did
Speaker 1: the money just go out the door and end up
Speaker 1: in somebody's pocket. USA Washington Post recently claiming Trump's cuts
Speaker 1: the US eight or a gift to Haitian gangs. Of course,
Speaker 1: we all know Haiti is dealing with some terrible conditions
Speaker 1: terrorizing the locals, and so the Washington Post says, we
Speaker 1: can't cut this aid because, well it's aid for Haiti,
Speaker 1: who is in desperate need of aid. But a New
Speaker 1: York Post expos calling out the screaming and cries and
Speaker 1: wailing and gnashing your teeth. Since twenty ten earthquake and
Speaker 1: Haiti killed as many as three hundred thousand people, the
Speaker 1: United States government has dispersed around four point four billion
Speaker 1: with a e dollars of foreign assistance. This is from
Speaker 1: the New York Post. At least one point five billion
Speaker 1: was dispersed for immediate humanitarian aid after the earthquake. Well,
Speaker 1: another three billion went to recovery, reconstruction, and development. All
Speaker 1: sounds worthy, doesn't it. That country needs some help, and
Speaker 1: here we are, the United States of America, to the
Speaker 1: rescue of the at least two point one to three
Speaker 1: billion in contracts and grants for Haiti related work. New
Speaker 1: York Post reporting less than fifty million dollars two percent
Speaker 1: went to Haitian organizations or firms, compared to the one
Speaker 1: point three billion dollars fifty six percent going to firms
Speaker 1: located in or near our United States capital. Little wonder,
Speaker 1: they write, US eight is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny.
Speaker 1: Remains unclear how exactly the billions have been spent and
Speaker 1: whether the US tax dollars have had a substantial sustainable impact.
Speaker 1: USA and its vendors have generally failed to make such
Speaker 1: data public. They suggest the exposure of usage by DOGE
Speaker 1: confirms long running suspicions of mishandled aids. Some Haitian reporters
Speaker 1: weren't about the disappearing many years ago. Under the Obama administration,
Speaker 1: USAID funds to Haiti were dispersed, in part through the
Speaker 1: Clinton Foundation. At least Stacy Abrams Dinner have her hands
Speaker 1: on some of this money. Oh, that's right, she got
Speaker 1: her hands on two billion in other people's money. Lacking
Speaker 1: funding transparency also noted by the Government Accountability Office in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three under the Biden administration. They stayed in
Speaker 1: their analysis the USAID activities in Haiti, the USA Admission
Speaker 1: in Haiti does not fully track data on its local
Speaker 1: partnerships or its activities to strengthen local organizational capacity, which
Speaker 1: limits institutional knowledge about these efforts and understanding of results
Speaker 1: and lessons learned to inform future activities. The GAOS said
Speaker 1: the Administrative of USA should ensure that the USAID Haiti
Speaker 1: develops a process to track and assess consistent and complete
Speaker 1: result information for infrastructure activities, such as the final outputs, outcomes,
Speaker 1: cost time frames, and lessons learned. No kidding, We're talking
Speaker 1: about billions of dollars here, and they don't know what
Speaker 1: happened with it. They don't track it. Notable. Haiti's noted
Speaker 1: for being a rather corrupt country, and you're just throwing
Speaker 1: money at an obvious, legitimate problem that exists. We could
Speaker 1: have all the love and compassion in the world, and
Speaker 1: sometimes money can solve people's problems. But here, just take
Speaker 1: it and we won't be watching where it goes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have real faith that this money went to the
Speaker 1: Haitian people. Yeah, total faith five five twenty six. Local
Speaker 1: stories coming up next or phone calls always welcome. I'll
Speaker 1: be right back culling name on days running out of
Speaker 1: time in the month of February. But it really flies
Speaker 1: by going back to my observation a time does indeed
Speaker 1: fly over to my alma mater, University of Cincinnati. Apparently
Speaker 1: a photograph circle on social media showing that the restroom
Speaker 1: science have changed to comply with Ohio law. Restroom sign
Speaker 1: specifically says biological men, and I presume the women's restroom
Speaker 1: sign says biological women. It also has a QR code
Speaker 1: on the sign, which apparently lets anybody know or everyone
Speaker 1: know where single occupancy restrooms are located on UC campus,
Speaker 1: and those actually have a sign on it that says
Speaker 1: all that changed from all gender to single occupancy restroom.
Speaker 1: You see spokesperson speaking with a WCPO channel nine here
Speaker 1: local statement the change connected to Ohio Senate bill. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump had nothing to do with this one. Ohio Centate
Speaker 1: Bill one to four requiring single sex bathroom showers and
Speaker 1: changing rooms in K through twelve schools, colleges, and universities
Speaker 1: quote related SB one to four. Some UC residence hall
Speaker 1: have seen signage changes. The legislation specifies the requirements for
Speaker 1: updated signage. Mike Dwine signed this into law. When it
Speaker 1: goes into full effect. I guess if went in effect
Speaker 1: February twenty fifth or does go in to effect February
Speaker 1: twenty fifth. It is what day is today? The twenty
Speaker 1: fourth explicitly stating restrooms must be for only male or
Speaker 1: female biological sex quote. A school shall designate each student restroom,
Speaker 1: locker room, changing room, or shower room that is accessible
Speaker 1: by multiple students at the same time, where they're located
Speaker 1: into school building or located in a facility used by
Speaker 1: a school for a school sponsored activity for the exclusive
Speaker 1: use by students of the male biological sex only or
Speaker 1: by students of the female biological sex only. So there
Speaker 1: you go. They're in compliance, or at least they're seeking
Speaker 1: to comply. Officer from the Comington Police Department arrested Sunday
Speaker 1: morning for dy Fox nineteen. Trey Matthews reporting thanks Pokra.
Speaker 1: Trey Joshua not arrested Monday morning by the Kenton County
Speaker 1: Police Department on three charges driving under the influence of alcohol,
Speaker 1: according to Kenton County records. Other charges include speeding more
Speaker 1: than twenty six miles per hour over the speed limit
Speaker 1: and disregarding traffic signals. Captain Bradbury the Coming to Police
Speaker 1: Department quote, we are aware of the arrest of Joshua
Speaker 1: not this morning for Duy. We are disappointed to learn
Speaker 1: of this incident. Command staff will be in the office
Speaker 1: tomorrow to look into the matter. He was sworn in
Speaker 1: in early twenty twenty and has been with a fourth since. Also,
Speaker 1: according to websites, he served as member of the Coming
Speaker 1: In Police Community Liaison team expected in court Thursday. Anderson
Speaker 1: High School is going to be closed due to electrical
Speaker 1: issues today. Forest Hills School District announced in a Facebook
Speaker 1: post yesterday afternoon that the high school will be closed
Speaker 1: today because of ongoing electrical issues. They all after school
Speaker 1: activities are canceled unless alternative plans have been made with
Speaker 1: a coach or advisor scheduled to act. It was scheduled
Speaker 1: to take place at Anderson High School on Tuesday, being
Speaker 1: moved to March eleventh portally. The issue began after multiple
Speaker 1: components of the building's electrical system were exposed to water
Speaker 1: district set in a Facebook posts, the exposure occurred because
Speaker 1: a fire sprinkler had burst due to freezing temperatures. This
Speaker 1: closure does not affect the rest of the Forest Hills
Speaker 1: High School District, schools or schools that rely on Forest
Speaker 1: Hill's busing. Well, not everybody gets the day off. Back
Speaker 1: in Lincoln Heights, where a man has been cited for
Speaker 1: littering after being caught throwing racist propaganda out of his
Speaker 1: car throughout Hamilton County early Sunday morning, Days Corner press
Speaker 1: release by the Hammond County Sheriff's Office. Lincoln Heights deputies
Speaker 1: responded to the area Mulberry Street and Locust Street about
Speaker 1: quarter after two in the morning to assist Lachland Police
Speaker 1: Department with the traffic stop. Stop conducted after members of
Speaker 1: the Lincoln Heights Safety and Watch that's a group reporting
Speaker 1: a man seen randomly throwing racist propaganda pamphlets from his vehicle.
Speaker 1: Incident reportedly started to Lincoln Heights continued into lockdown Lachlan.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Max Schilling at the w CPO for the
Speaker 1: reporting on this one credit where credits due. Deputies on
Speaker 1: the scene pulled over the suspect, identified as William Bater
Speaker 1: forty seven. He admitted to distributing propaganda pamphlets from his vehicle.
Speaker 1: Is that called? Is that distributing? Just throwing him out
Speaker 1: of the window. He was cited for a littering discovered
Speaker 1: he was in possession of a homemade flag that Lincoln
Speaker 1: Heights citizens had made with the words peace and love
Speaker 1: written on it. Deputies confiscated the flag from Bader returned
Speaker 1: it to the Lincoln Heights residents. According to Charmee McGuffey,
Speaker 1: the sheriff Office does not condone or agree with hate
Speaker 1: speech that is proliferated by anyone, including Nazis and the KKK.
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office remains committed to working with residents of the
Speaker 1: diligient Lincoln Heights to ensure there's well, at least they
Speaker 1: were able to cite him. I'll just note that he's
Speaker 1: worthy of the biggest douche of the universe. Five thirty
Speaker 1: five fifty five KR. See the talk station stack is
Speaker 1: stupid coming up? You can feel free to call alternatively.
Speaker 1: That's entirely up to you. I'll be right back. Actually
Speaker 1: thirty degrees and a happy Monday to you. Jumping over
Speaker 1: the stack of stupid and noting that my wife and
Speaker 1: I do have zero expectations of receiving a gift on
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. We have the alternative in front of me
Speaker 1: on the top of the stack is stupid. Fifty seven
Speaker 1: year old woman in Texas arrested last week after allegedly
Speaker 1: attacking her husband with a kitchen knife on Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: while arguing about him purchasing her the wrong gift. Rid
Speaker 1: To Tate, taking in a custody on Friday, charge of
Speaker 1: one kind of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The
Speaker 1: affidavit obtained by Law on Crime Reporting on this Officers
Speaker 1: in the Waco Police Department showed up in around twenty
Speaker 1: after ten in the evening Friday, fourteenth of February, responding
Speaker 1: to a nine to one to one call it a residence.
Speaker 1: Document states that the call was regarding a domestic disturbance
Speaker 1: in progress, also listed in the report as a lover's quarrel.
Speaker 1: In the call notes section stated of the caller later
Speaker 1: identified as Tate's husband, had advised the emergency dispatcher that
Speaker 1: his wife was being violent and had a knife. Of course,
Speaker 1: he identified his wife in the telephone call. Upon arriving
Speaker 1: in the scene, the officers knocking the door. They were
Speaker 1: let inside by Tate's husband. In an interview with police,
Speaker 1: husband explained that earlier that morning he had given his
Speaker 1: wife a necklace as a Valentine's Day gift. However, his
Speaker 1: wife allegedly became upset at the gift because he did
Speaker 1: not get her the bracelet that she really wanted. That's
Speaker 1: when he went to work. He showed up from work
Speaker 1: at home about four pm, the documents. When he got there,
Speaker 1: he said his wife continued to harangue about the gifts,
Speaker 1: so he decided to leave for a few hours in
Speaker 1: the hope that she would calm down for it. That's
Speaker 1: what he did. Sadly, he arrived back home later. Tate's
Speaker 1: husband said his wife was not only angry, she was
Speaker 1: so armed. She was also armed with a large kitchen knife.
Speaker 1: Tate allegedly yelling at her and a husband while wielding
Speaker 1: the knife. At one point, he claimed that she pointed
Speaker 1: the weapon at him and yelled, come and get it what.
Speaker 1: According to the affidavit, mister Tate stated he felt his
Speaker 1: life was threatened, which led him to record the encounter.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know someone's coming after you with a knife.
Speaker 1: You know, the last thing I'm gonna do is get
Speaker 1: my cell phone out and try to record the thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that'd be first and foremost in
Speaker 1: my mind. Hell, it probably take me a minute to
Speaker 1: figure out how to launch the video anyway. Anyhow, police
Speaker 1: reviewed the footage and said they could see with the
Speaker 1: knife in her hand. She was arrested at the scene,
Speaker 1: taking in processed at the mcclennan County Jail. She was
Speaker 1: no longer listed as an inmate at the facility as
Speaker 1: of the last Thursday, so out on presumably some kind
Speaker 1: of bond. Selenas California high school math teacher in California
Speaker 1: on leave under investigation for allegedly trying to sell pills
Speaker 1: to his students. One student's mother, who didn't want to
Speaker 1: be identified, said, I'm getting these messages from my daughter
Speaker 1: that are teacher is selling drugs in the classroom to
Speaker 1: enhance homework and test performance. And I just thought, maybe
Speaker 1: she's taken it out of context. This is appalling. There's
Speaker 1: no way a teacher is doing this. Well, that was
Speaker 1: her view. The woman said her child as in the
Speaker 1: teacher at Selena's high school math class. She started getting
Speaker 1: text messages from her child last week. The woman added
Speaker 1: to put that onto teenagers who are still learning their brains,
Speaker 1: are still developing and normalizing drug use. With a classroom
Speaker 1: in the middle of the fentanyl crisis, it's absurd. The
Speaker 1: lack of judgment, to me is is astounding. Students ld
Speaker 1: her mom that the white pills were in a plastic
Speaker 1: bag and the teacher pulled him out of his briefcase.
Speaker 1: Police confirmed they did take a report and that they
Speaker 1: were investigating. Principle said a letter to the families that read,
Speaker 1: we want to assure you that we are aware of
Speaker 1: the situation or actively conducting an ongoing investigation. Unknown whether
Speaker 1: any of the children bought the pills, but officials say
Speaker 1: the pills may have been Thailand. All the text reads
Speaker 1: he said, homework enhancing pills five dollars, Test enhancing pills
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars, and that we should take fifteen a week.
Speaker 1: Asked them what's in them? He said, it's a secret. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're fight. I'm guessing that's gonna happen. Bridgeport, Connecticut man
Speaker 1: accused of murdering and eating his victim over a decade
Speaker 1: ago granted a condition of release, some calling that mind boggling.
Speaker 1: Tyree Smith arrested in twenty twelve in connection with a
Speaker 1: murder of Angel Gonzalez, who was found mutilated with a
Speaker 1: hatchet in a vacant apartment. Smith's cousin testified that Smith
Speaker 1: told her he ate the victim's eyeball and a part
Speaker 1: of his brain. There's no flag for us. That led
Speaker 1: to Smith being found not guilty by reason of insanity
Speaker 1: in order to a forensic hospital for sixty years. The
Speaker 1: Psychiatric Security Review Board of Connecticut granted him a condition
Speaker 1: of release last Friday, after Smith's psychiatrists claimed that his
Speaker 1: schizophrenia and substance abuse issue had been largely solved through
Speaker 1: medication and treatment. I know, Joe. Condition of Smith's release
Speaker 1: means that although he will be placed back into a
Speaker 1: public setting, he will be under strict supervision and required
Speaker 1: to continued treatment. Thank you, Joe for anticipating my reaction
Speaker 1: on that one as well. Board's decision quickly met with
Speaker 1: what they're prescribing is put pushback and outrage from Gonzalez's
Speaker 1: family and lawmakers. Gonzalez's sister in law asked in a
Speaker 1: hearing board, how do we really know he's not going
Speaker 1: to do this again. Legitimate question. He promised. I swear
Speaker 1: I will never cannibalize a human being again. Now, who
Speaker 1: can argue with that? In a statement for multiple I
Speaker 1: don't know why this is a Republican or Democrat issue,
Speaker 1: but apparently the Republicans are concerned. The legislator's Republicans sent
Speaker 1: out a later a letter stating was outrageous and mind boggling.
Speaker 1: This individual killed an eate part of his victim and
Speaker 1: was found not guilty by reason of insanity. This terrible
Speaker 1: decision puts public safety in jeopardy. This person should never
Speaker 1: be out. Joe's comments cracked me up, says the one
Speaker 1: Republican in Connecticut.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't quote Democrat. Thank you?
Speaker 1: Where's he been? I missed those calls from Tom. You
Speaker 1: can feel free to call and substitute for Tom's former
Speaker 1: call every morning five and three, seven four nine fifty
Speaker 1: five hundred eight hundred eighty two three TALKO with pound
Speaker 1: five fifty on AT and T the phone. Otherwise, I
Speaker 1: got a few more stupid stories to dive into after
Speaker 1: these brief words. Fifty five car the talk station. It's time,
Speaker 1: It's Monday. Back over to the stack of stupid. Uh
Speaker 1: let us see here. Florida woman behind bars after she
Speaker 1: allegedly attacked a man with a garden hoe for canceling
Speaker 1: plans with her phrasing garden hoe phrasing that's the venue, right, y'all,
Speaker 1: three you find her? Does Ron Wilson ever talk about that?
Speaker 1: Pole County Sheriff's Office. I never heard it, because you know,
Speaker 1: we do have Ron's show on in the morning. At
Speaker 1: least I know my wife listens to it while I
Speaker 1: should remain in bed. Pole County Sheriff's Office said. Melanie Davis,
Speaker 1: forty seven, had plans to quote hang out close quote
Speaker 1: with a man last week when he canceled on her.
Speaker 1: Upset by the decision, Davis allegedly went to his home
Speaker 1: in frost Proof of Florida three o'clock in the morning
Speaker 1: on Tuesday and yelling at him from outside. Forty seven
Speaker 1: year old Melanie Davis most recently arrested for allegedly hitting
Speaker 1: a man with a garden holl after he canceled the plans.
Speaker 1: Altercation escalated when Davis climbed a fence to his property,
Speaker 1: pushed through a door, and began punching him and at
Speaker 1: some point, she grabbed the gardening tool and hit him
Speaker 1: with it, causing a serious cut in his arm. She's
Speaker 1: been accused of striking a man with a garden hull
Speaker 1: during an altercation. Man taken to the hospital while Davis
Speaker 1: was taken to jail. Been charged with arm burglary with battery,
Speaker 1: aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, simple battery, and criminal mischief.
Speaker 1: Apparently has a long history of the Pole County Sheriff's office,
Speaker 1: going back to nineteen ninety seven, when she was first
Speaker 1: charged with battery at age nineteen. Jail records said she
Speaker 1: was arrested in Polk County twenty seven times prior to
Speaker 1: the incident involving the garden hull frasing. Previous charges rank
Speaker 1: from petty theft to battery causing serious injury. Last time
Speaker 1: in the booked into the Pole County jail was March
Speaker 1: twenty four, charged with domestic violence on a person over
Speaker 1: the age of sixty five Polk County, not Hamilton County, Hey.
Speaker 1: She may have been arrested in Hamilton in County jail,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Go to Kilgore, Texas, where a former
Speaker 1: instructional aid for Kilgore School Districts has been arrested for
Speaker 1: allegedly having a relationship with a student. Here we go again,
Speaker 1: why are you no idea? Kayla Nicole Odell, who's thirty
Speaker 1: four years old and should know better of Glade Water
Speaker 1: booked into the Greg County Jail office Wednesday, charged with
Speaker 1: improper relationship between an educator and a student at court
Speaker 1: to the Kilgore isd the investigation into Odell's conduct began
Speaker 1: last month. District Citadel's employment with the school began in
Speaker 1: August at twenty three, lasted until her resignation in January
Speaker 1: of this year. They said at the time begun into
Speaker 1: possible educator misconduct involving her. After the investigation results were
Speaker 1: given to law enforcement. She's being held at the Greg
Speaker 1: County Jail without bond. What in the hell I mean?
Speaker 1: This kind of case is always just amaze me. And again,
Speaker 1: I'm painfully aware that was going on in my high school.
Speaker 1: Several illustrations of that I do specifically recall, but that
Speaker 1: was before social media. I know, man, I know. We
Speaker 1: go to Paris for our final stack of stupid story
Speaker 1: of the morning. Thieves used a stolen card I guess,
Speaker 1: like a credit card to buy a winning French lottery ticket,
Speaker 1: which apparently was worth five hundred and twenty three thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: but they vanished before cashing in. Now they're fugitives in France.
Speaker 1: Man whose card was stolen identified in police documents as
Speaker 1: a guy named Jean David E, offering to split the
Speaker 1: cash with the winners. He also wants his wallet back.
Speaker 1: Thieves the course, facing the risk of arrest. As of
Speaker 1: the yesterday or over the weekend, state lottery operator said
Speaker 1: that no one had submitted the ticket to cash out.
Speaker 1: Jean David's lawyer, Pierre d'bissont, said, it's an incredible story,
Speaker 1: but it's all true. John David discovered earlier this month
Speaker 1: that his backpack had been stolen from his car in
Speaker 1: the southern city of Toulouse, including bank cards and other documents.
Speaker 1: The lawyer said he asked his bank to block the
Speaker 1: card and learned that it had already been used at
Speaker 1: a local shop. At the shop, a vender told him
Speaker 1: two apparently homeless men had used one of the cards
Speaker 1: by the winning scratch off lottery ticket, Debbie Song said
Speaker 1: they they were so totally happy that they forgot their
Speaker 1: cigarettes and their belongings and walked out like crazy people.
Speaker 1: Fought a police complained about the theft, but ready to
Speaker 1: withdraw it if the thieves come forward so they can
Speaker 1: share the money. Without them, no one would have won,
Speaker 1: he said. Prosecutors also may want to seize the winnings,
Speaker 1: considering them illegally obtained gains, accord to the lawyer. Lawyer
Speaker 1: launched the national appeal last week, asking the preparators to
Speaker 1: contact his office to make a deal. TSK nothing, We
Speaker 1: will share with you and you would be able to
Speaker 1: change your lives. Apparently, he said the ticket will eventually expire.
Speaker 1: This time is working against us, he cautioned, just give me,
Speaker 1: just give me the quarter of a million dollars. We'll
Speaker 1: just walk away. Five fifty five ifty five care City
Speaker 1: Talk station the mashup my interview with Representative Jennifer Gross
Speaker 1: about Medicaid waste and fraud in the state of Ohio
Speaker 1: mashed up with Keith Faber from January twenty twenty three, which,
Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, he didn't think it was a
Speaker 1: big deal or said it was very complicated. Either way.
Speaker 1: After that interview and my inquiry with him, they ended
Speaker 1: up doing an audit and the sample audit reflected that
Speaker 1: I think twenty five percent or so of the Medicaid
Speaker 1: payments from this state we're going to out of state recipients,
Speaker 1: which doesn't sound quite right. That'll come up next. I
Speaker 1: hope you can stick around covering Trump's first one hundred days.
Speaker 1: Every day promise is made, promises KEP fifty five krs
Speaker 1: the talk station.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I got to ask you about fraud, waste, and abuse.
Speaker 1: My understanding is we're one of the worst states when
Speaker 1: it comes to spending and a misspending, I'll call it
Speaker 1: that generally in the program. Are you doing anything with
Speaker 1: your committee to get to the bottom of that and
Speaker 1: drill down maybe we can find some savings on the
Speaker 1: money going out the door.
Speaker 5: We absolutely are.
Speaker 6: Our auditor, Auditor.
Speaker 5: Favor did an audit on Medicaid last year and he
Speaker 5: found when he pulled a sample of people on Medicaid
Speaker 5: that twenty six percent of the sample that we were
Speaker 5: paying Medicaid costs for don't live in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: So when you find that kind of stuff, because we're
Speaker 5: a state that has something called self addest station. So
Speaker 5: I know you're an attorney, but what this means is
Speaker 5: that if you if I go in and you say
Speaker 5: are you on Medicaid? I can say, yep, Brian, I am.
Speaker 5: And yet I live in Westchester, and you know I
Speaker 5: won't say where I live. And I live in a
Speaker 5: middle class home. And if I say I have Medicaid,
Speaker 5: they have to accept that. They don't confirm it. They
Speaker 5: don't confirm my address, they don't confirm my income level,
Speaker 5: none of it. So now we are what we have
Speaker 5: to ask for waivers in some of these things, but
Speaker 5: we're going to do regular cross checks because and that's
Speaker 5: an answer to the auditor's audit. I mean, what more
Speaker 5: do I need to say to you that our auditor
Speaker 5: found this and what I've found and it's taken me.
Speaker 5: And this is why you know term limits are not
Speaker 5: what everybody thinks they are.
Speaker 3: It takes us.
Speaker 5: A while to figure all of this out, and then
Speaker 5: in eight years we're gone, but the bureaucrats stay. And
Speaker 5: so we get into this huge spend because the bureaucrats keep.
Speaker 1: Spending, obviously the ball is drought. Is anybody going to
Speaker 1: be held accountable on this? I guess up. First off,
Speaker 1: I need to understand about accountability on it, because we
Speaker 1: are talking, we are the worst state in the Union
Speaker 1: on this. Our improper payment rate is reportedly double the
Speaker 1: national average, and it's billions of dollars. I got to
Speaker 1: listen to the calls in to point out the amount
Speaker 1: of fraud and waste or fraud in the medicaid system
Speaker 1: here in Ohio could have paid for three brent sprents
Speaker 1: bridges regardless of that. Is this not a at least
Speaker 1: conceptually simple matter.
Speaker 7: To fix, And that's exactly the right answer. The problem
Speaker 7: is is, in fact, if we're going to continue to
Speaker 7: run a eighty eight county system, you've got to have
Speaker 7: some accountability in those eighty eight counties. I mean, the
Speaker 7: answer maybe to consolidate this back. I hate to say
Speaker 7: bigger is better, but because in state government it never
Speaker 7: has been true. But in this case, to require a
Speaker 7: state system that those local job and family services offices
Speaker 7: actually run down those alerts, you know, they send an alert.
Speaker 7: In some cases the alerts can be you know, just
Speaker 7: a pain in the butt because there are so many
Speaker 7: of them, and in some cases the alerts don't mean much.
Speaker 7: But the reality is the system is designed to trigger
Speaker 7: on certain things, and if it triggers on that there's
Speaker 7: a reason to look at that person as a potential beneficiary.
Speaker 7: And so what we found is upwards are twenty five
Speaker 7: million dollars of people were receiving duplicate benefit eligibility in
Speaker 7: multiple states. And that was just a snapshot. It wasn't
Speaker 7: even a holistic across the board, every plane take a
Speaker 7: look at it. The bigger problem was the first, the
Speaker 7: first audit we did in Medicaid that started identifying some
Speaker 7: of these problems, and we found in that case literally
Speaker 7: one hundred and twenty million dollars and this is extra
Speaker 7: money that was kept by the managed care organizations.
Speaker 8: Where they were literally.
Speaker 7: Being paid for claimants that were ineligible, you know, people
Speaker 7: that were in our prisons, people in the jails and
Speaker 7: other places. That is also a big problem, and so
Speaker 7: I think the state needs to come back in and
Speaker 7: take a look at these contracts and to managed care
Speaker 7: people and do some claim recovery wo go back and
Speaker 7: try and get some of that money back. And so
Speaker 7: we've really been trying to make a big deal about that,
Speaker 7: and certainly this is the tip of the iceberg. We
Speaker 7: are partnering with the Government Accountability Office and other similar
Speaker 7: state auditors offices around the country to get a national database.
Speaker 7: There is no reason that we don't have a database
Speaker 7: to say, hey, Joe Smith is getting claims in Indiana,
Speaker 7: rights in Ohio for medicaid, right, And in many cases
Speaker 7: it's really easy to track those down because we've got
Speaker 7: their individual claim identifiers. I mean it's not like we
Speaker 7: can say, hey, yeah, there's a lot of Joe Smith.
Speaker 7: There are, but we know which Joe Smith is using
Speaker 7: which account numbers, and so that should be relatively easy
Speaker 7: from a database perspective to find out where other claims
Speaker 7: are being made.
Speaker 1: It just rights to the level of criminal conduct. I mean,
Speaker 1: if the local counties dropped the ball and not falling
Speaker 1: through with these red flags that came up. The entities
Speaker 1: that are responsible for paying and managing the claims that
Speaker 1: you refer to these medical providers, I mean, can they
Speaker 1: not be held accountable? Is there something by way? I
Speaker 1: mean you have that as an option to call back
Speaker 1: the money, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: And certainly some of those cases, that's the solution is
Speaker 7: for them to look into it. You know, I had
Speaker 7: hate to say this, but when we first alerted to
Speaker 7: Medicaid the one hundred and twenty million dollar problem, some
Speaker 7: of The reaction we got from their internal personnel was, yeah,
Speaker 7: we get that that's a problem, but we really thought
Speaker 7: the problem would even be bigger than that. Right, one
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty million dollars not that big a deal
Speaker 7: when you're running a fifty billion dollars or forty billion
Speaker 7: dollar program. Remember Medicaid in Ohio, just to put this
Speaker 7: in perspective for your for your listeners, Medicaid in Ohio
Speaker 7: encompasses darn near fifty cents on the dollar of state
Speaker 7: discretionary spending. And so the state budget has something called
Speaker 7: general revenue fund dollars, and when you look at the
Speaker 7: all the funds that are spent in the state of Ohio, Medicaid,
Speaker 7: meaning the healthcare system for the poor, is nearly fifty
Speaker 7: cents of the dollar, and it's largely it's about sixty
Speaker 7: percent federal dollars and about forty percent state dollars, give
Speaker 7: or take. That ratio changes when the federal governments do
Speaker 7: things like they did in the pandemic to sweepen the
Speaker 7: reimbursement rate for the states so that we won't kick
Speaker 7: more people off the Medicaid roles. But effectively, it's a
Speaker 7: lot of money and From that perspective, a little bit
Speaker 7: of an error adds up really quickly to a lot
Speaker 7: of money.
Speaker 1: To the billions. I mean, yeah, we are talking about
Speaker 1: billions of billions of fraudulent payment here. I mean every
Speaker 1: little bit counts, and this is obviously added up very quickly.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just like millions of questions flowing through
Speaker 1: my head on this auditor favor. What took so long
Speaker 1: to identify this as even a problem. I understand you.
Speaker 1: You're working on a solution. You're working on trying to
Speaker 1: get some of the money back. Hopefully it'll stop. But
Speaker 1: if it's fifty cents on the dollar, that figure would
Speaker 1: be a lot lower if billions of dollars didn't go
Speaker 1: out and fraudulent payments.
Speaker 7: Well, the short answer is, our job as auditor is
Speaker 7: to gentify places when government doesn't work very well. It's
Speaker 7: the job of the departments and the governor and the
Speaker 7: legislature to find the solutions. Can make some recommendations when
Speaker 7: something doesn't work well, things they need to fix. But
Speaker 7: as the Independent Auditor, what we do is go out
Speaker 7: and take a look at government. We identify when people lie, stealing,
Speaker 7: cheat in government, and then we also make recommendations to
Speaker 7: make government work better, faster, cheaper. We've now convicted our
Speaker 7: one hundred or were approaching convictioning our hundredth government official
Speaker 7: who was lying, stealing and cheating so far. I mean,
Speaker 7: certainly there is lie, cheating and stealing in these programs,
Speaker 7: but that isn't the source of most of the money
Speaker 7: that's being lost. Unemployment, it certainly was, that was a
Speaker 7: different scenario, but in Medicaid, what we're seeing is really
Speaker 7: it's just the system isn't working like it should, and
Speaker 7: we've got bureaucrats, for lack of a better term, that frankly,
Speaker 7: have grown indifferent and that has to get fixed. And
Speaker 7: that's what we really push on the medicaid side. When
Speaker 7: the Department of Job and Family Service, as people tell
Speaker 7: us they're shocked that the number we find for waste
Speaker 7: broaden abuse inside their system isn't bigger and it's one
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty million dollars in they're like, oh, well, man,
Speaker 7: that's just kind of a number, and we're going, really,
Speaker 7: that's unacceptable. One hundred and twenty million dollars is literally
Speaker 7: in many cases, the difference between us having programs to
Speaker 7: help addict it or mentally help ill or other programs
Speaker 7: in the state or not.
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Speaker 1: always enjoy hearing from Bobby. Bobby, welcome back to the program.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, sir.
Speaker 10: Happy Monday, my brother. I tell you what. I'm glad
Speaker 10: the sun will be out today. It's a somber day.
Speaker 10: I've got my black arm band on today.
Speaker 1: For what reason?
Speaker 10: Well, Jolly read the Readout show you know is going
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Speaker 10: so you know it. It was my favorite comedy show
Speaker 10: with that fool, and you know, anybody, it's just a
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Speaker 1: That's hilarious, Bobby, that's hilarious. All five people who watch
Speaker 1: the show, Bobby included among them, are disappointed that Joy
Speaker 1: Reid's plug has been pulled. Pretty amaze. They're just trying
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Speaker 1: more can you do, but probably the right thing to
Speaker 1: do from a corporate perspective. Sorry you're feeling blue about it, Bobby,
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Speaker 11: Hey Brian, good morning. Hey. I heard the interview with
Speaker 11: Jennifer Gross on Thursday and that was a wonderful interview.
Speaker 11: I also heard the interview with Ken Kober on Thursday.
Speaker 11: You know he's the head of the Cincinnati Police Union. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and he was speaking about the Cincinnati Community Responder program
Speaker 11: where citizens respond to police calls instead of police officers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Ken was on another talk radio show on Friday. But
Speaker 11: during neither one of those shows did it come up
Speaker 11: that that whole idea of having citizens respond to police
Speaker 11: calls came out of the defund the police movement, and
Speaker 11: I wanted to bring that up to your listeners. Now,
Speaker 11: Ken was all. Ken also mentioned that it was developed
Speaker 11: by the Emergency Communications Director, and he threw out some
Speaker 11: names that I didn't recognize. However, that idea really sounds
Speaker 11: like something our beloved mayor mayor Aftab would pyre Vo
Speaker 11: would support. I was downtown a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 11: and I saw one of those three one one rapid
Speaker 11: responder vehicles and I wondered what that what is that about?
Speaker 11: And due to your interview, now I know there's a
Speaker 11: public service announcement here in Cincinnati. Citizens of the City
Speaker 11: of Cincinnati who are involved in their community, such as
Speaker 11: community council or if they report a lot of incidents
Speaker 11: on three one one system. The City of Cincinnati is
Speaker 11: starting up this three one one Citizens Academy and it's
Speaker 11: going to be here. It's going to start in March.
Speaker 11: It's up two hours four days. Usually they have it
Speaker 11: on one day a week and it's very informative. So
Speaker 11: if any of your listeners want to get involved with that,
Speaker 11: they should do an Internet search on Cincinnati three to
Speaker 11: one one Citizen's Academy and they have to put in
Speaker 11: an application. The city does do it. Please check and
Speaker 11: it's a very informative program. I went through it last year,
Speaker 11: and they can become space is limited and they can
Speaker 11: become a three to one one ambassador and find out
Speaker 11: why the potholes aren't getting fixed.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's an interesting way to conclude that. Joe said
Speaker 1: that that actually came about after the Kyle Plush incident
Speaker 1: where the kid got stuck in the minivan and ended
Speaker 1: up dying because the Sheriff's office couldn't find him, and
Speaker 1: a very tragic and sad situation. I don't know the
Speaker 1: genesis of it away. Joe stands it stays on top
Speaker 1: of a lot of these things too, But regardless of
Speaker 1: where it came from, I thought the FLP president did
Speaker 1: a good job explaining why it isn't necessarily a good idea,
Speaker 1: Like when a citizen shows up who is not armed
Speaker 1: and who does not have body camera on him or
Speaker 1: her and the situation devolves as quite often some seemingly
Speaker 1: innocuous calls to nine when one can do so. Represents
Speaker 1: some safety and challenges, and it's also really expensive. They're very,
Speaker 1: very well paid, I think he said, as high as
Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars annually, and then you have the vehicles
Speaker 1: and the training costs and all of that. So ultimately
Speaker 1: I think Cober and I kind of reached the conclusion
Speaker 1: and signed over all like kind of a bad idea,
Speaker 1: but appreciate the information on that, And of course people
Speaker 1: can get involved and find out for themselves, as you
Speaker 1: just indicated, man's been cited for littering after being caught
Speaker 1: throwing out racist propaganda from his car throughout Hamilton County.
Speaker 1: Happened early yesterday morning. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and a
Speaker 1: press release say Lincoln Heights deputies respond to the area
Speaker 1: Mulbar Street and Locus Street about quarter after two in
Speaker 1: the morning to assist Lachland police with the traffic stop,
Speaker 1: which was conducted after members of the Lincoln Heights Safety
Speaker 1: and Watch Group, another group to help out the community,
Speaker 1: reported a man scene randomly throwing racist propaganda pamphlets out
Speaker 1: of his car. Incident reportedly starting Lincoln Heights continued into Lachland.
Speaker 1: Deputies on the scene pulled over the suspect, identified him
Speaker 1: as William Bader, who's forty seven years old, who admitted
Speaker 1: to what they describe as distributing the propaganda pamphlets from
Speaker 1: his vehicle, throwing him out the window. I guess he
Speaker 1: wasn sighted for littering. It was discovered he was in
Speaker 1: possession of a homemade flag that the Lincoln Heights citizens
Speaker 1: had made, so I guess he stole. It. Had the
Speaker 1: words peace and love written on it, which seemed extraordinarily
Speaker 1: inconsistent with his racist message on the pamphlets. Deputies confiscated
Speaker 1: the flag from Beta, returned it to Lincoln Heights residence
Speaker 1: Charmeae McGuffey. In the statement, the Sheriff's office does not
Speaker 1: condone or agree with hate speech that is proliferically by anyone,
Speaker 1: including Nazis and KKK, although you have to note she
Speaker 1: has no control over the speech. The mechanism of distribution, however,
Speaker 1: is a sitable offense since he was thrown it all
Speaker 1: over town. She said. The Sheriff's Office remains committed to
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Speaker 1: this morning. Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, Happy Monday to YouTube.
Speaker 3: Brian.
Speaker 8: I just caught the tail end of your last segment,
Speaker 8: and what I want to say is that I am
Speaker 8: disappointed in the Republican Party leadership of Hamilton County because
Speaker 8: the leader needs to come out and make a condemnation
Speaker 8: of what is transparing in Lincoln Heights. Because again, without character,
Speaker 8: without integrity, without ethics, there is no rule of law.
Speaker 8: The constitutional rights make no sense. But the assignlence of
Speaker 8: our leaders on this issue is offensive and it is weak,
Speaker 8: and our leaderships conservative leaders need to stand up and
Speaker 8: promote the virtues and values of responsible behavior, integrity and what.
Speaker 1: Is going on.
Speaker 8: The silence is deafening, and I condemn it is it
Speaker 8: is just weak.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose you make a valid point. Anything is
Speaker 1: controversial like that that's going on. And of course, when
Speaker 1: when racists are distributing racist propaganda and doing racist things,
Speaker 1: it is an obvious opportunity for politicians to step up
Speaker 1: and go ahead and offer their condemnation of it. Question
Speaker 1: whether anybody can do anything about it, Like the guy
Speaker 1: that's throwing pamphlets out the window, that is a sitable offense.
Speaker 1: Whether or not somebody did something that was citable. When
Speaker 1: they were protesting on the bridge and Evendal, that's a
Speaker 1: different story. I've heard they were in the road blocking traffic.
Speaker 1: You can give them a ticket for that, and that
Speaker 1: should have been done. Neither the Sheriff's department nor the
Speaker 1: Evendel police decided to go down that road. And that's
Speaker 1: why some were condemning them. But since the REPUBLICI oh yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 13: Uh you know, Conservative leaders were very outspoken uh uh
Speaker 13: and condemned b l m Antifa uh for not just
Speaker 13: the violence that they engaged in, but prior to that,
Speaker 13: who they are and what they represented it and the
Speaker 13: threats they were.
Speaker 8: To uh get just just uh uh you know, the
Speaker 8: the you know, community and and and and safety. Okay CRT.
Speaker 8: You know, conservatives are very outspoken against CRT. Nothing illegal,
Speaker 8: but very outspoken. That same passion against those things that threaten, okay,
Speaker 8: all our way of life applied the same to Lincoln Heights.
Speaker 8: But they're silence, and and I'm a conservative. I am
Speaker 8: a very conservative uh individual African American, and I want
Speaker 8: to see conservative leadership speak up uh and not tolerate
Speaker 8: in silence. What is going on?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't disagree with that. It's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: elevate the Republican Party in a very blue county. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they can come out and make statements of condemnation. But
Speaker 1: when you talk about criticism of, for example, critical race theory,
Speaker 1: the criticism, I think largely stem from the fact that
Speaker 1: that was being taught in schools. Now, if you had
Speaker 1: racists promoting a clan message in schools, you would hear
Speaker 1: people screaming from across the political spectrum. How dare you
Speaker 1: so something that is a form of indoctrination that conservatives
Speaker 1: disagree with and maybe even some Democrats disagree with. There's
Speaker 1: a reason for that because it was incorporated into the curriculum.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just people on a bridge expressing their political
Speaker 1: thoughts or opinions. That's all protected, as is standing on
Speaker 1: a bridge promoting something that's horrific, like racism. But when
Speaker 1: you start and cross the line and you commit a crime,
Speaker 1: then tickets should be issued. Citations should be given in
Speaker 1: order to try to deter that type of behave you
Speaker 1: from happening.
Speaker 8: And I understand, I understand the legal recourse. However, we
Speaker 8: need leaders to stand up, uh and promote what is right,
Speaker 8: yeah for for individuals and the things that they said that.
Speaker 14: Is on video that I watched about African Americans should
Speaker 14: not be tolerated with silence at all because that that
Speaker 14: that creates, that creates too much disharmony, disunity in our community.
Speaker 14: And Republicans embrace unity, okay, that what they did was
Speaker 14: the antithesis of unity, and the things they said were
Speaker 14: just morally reprehensible.
Speaker 1: And now I'm not arguing with you, man, you made
Speaker 1: your point, and I don't disagree with you. I think
Speaker 1: it is a welcome opportunity to stand in unity with
Speaker 1: the folks who generally, and I think it's about ninety
Speaker 1: nine point nine nine percent of the population who agree
Speaker 1: with what you're saying. Horrific states, horrific ideology, horrific people, period,
Speaker 1: end of story. How can anybody embrace that ideology? It's
Speaker 1: just beyond my comprehension. I get your points, Stephen, and yeah,
Speaker 1: they should speak out more often, maybe get more traction,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe elevate themselves to something that you know that
Speaker 1: isn't just a sort of a political afterthought. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: We do have Republicans at Hamilton County. Why don't we
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Speaker 1: two three talk Eric, thanks for holding over the break there,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Brian, and good morning.
Speaker 3: To you, sir.
Speaker 1: Good morning. So yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to call because first I want to thank
Speaker 2: the share for stopping that person and simply doing what
Speaker 2: great police work is, which is when you see something
Speaker 2: enforce what you can. Yeah, somebody's doing something like that.
Speaker 2: So big, big, big ups to the Sheriff's department for
Speaker 2: stepping up for that. And you know that day when
Speaker 2: I was on the bridge, and those guys did come
Speaker 2: out into the streets on through the yellow lines, yelling
Speaker 2: into my window.
Speaker 8: They should have at least ticketed them. That's called jaywalking.
Speaker 1: And I agree, Eric, Yeah, you're the one that confirmed
Speaker 1: me that they actually did walk out in the street,
Speaker 1: because you have a business right on the other side
Speaker 1: that bridge, and.
Speaker 2: I look at that bridge every day out of my office.
Speaker 2: I've had customers call me and say, hey, is it
Speaker 2: okay to come over there?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I mean yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, people are calling me asking me, hey,
Speaker 6: you know what's going on? And and you know, I
Speaker 6: agree with that last caller that you know, you see
Speaker 6: the Democratic candid party stepping up saying you shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be able to wear a mask and have a gun
Speaker 2: open carrying on anywhere. But I haven't seen one Republican
Speaker 2: say that, and I need them to.
Speaker 1: Look, hey, it's against me. I mean, that's that's Actually
Speaker 1: the other problem with that, Eric, is its actually lawful
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 2: What I'm getting at is it shouldn't be. So what's
Speaker 2: happening is you hear the Democratic people saying, the candidates saying, hey,
Speaker 2: we need to stop the ability for someone to wear
Speaker 2: a mask and open carry a firearm. We don't care
Speaker 2: what firearm.
Speaker 8: They carry, we don't care what it is.
Speaker 2: But I'm not hearing that from my friends that are
Speaker 2: Republican senators, congress people. And this is not a partisan issue.
Speaker 2: It's not Trump's fault, it's not a Democrat's fault, it's
Speaker 2: not antifa's fault. It's thirteen idiots that need to understand
Speaker 2: that if you're going to be somebody that's carrying a weapon,
Speaker 2: man up, un cover your face, and exercise your right
Speaker 2: to carry that weapon. That is god an American given.
Speaker 2: But don't be a uss. What I'm getting at is
Speaker 2: what we can do to make sure our daughters don't
Speaker 2: have to deal with that, our children. So that's what
Speaker 2: I'm looking for from your You know, then let's change it.
Speaker 1: At least take the effort to put to pass the
Speaker 1: law that you can know you can't walk around fully
Speaker 1: masked with an open carrier firearm, and see if it
Speaker 1: passes constitutional muster. I mean, I'm not sure ultimately if
Speaker 1: it goes to the Supreme Court, that would be constitutional
Speaker 1: to have that law on the books, But you got
Speaker 1: to at least try to show your constituents you care
Speaker 1: about them, You're going to take every effort you can
Speaker 1: because again, hate speed is just protected speech. So you
Speaker 1: can't pass the law banning content, but you might be
Speaker 1: able to pass the law involving walking around fully masked
Speaker 1: with the firearm. Yeah, so at least try, right, Eric,
Speaker 1: at least try.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, Brian, I love you, man, That's what other.
Speaker 1: I love you too, And I can't thank you, know
Speaker 1: for calling in, and I do really appreciate you pointing
Speaker 1: out that they were in the street. And again, you
Speaker 1: could sign them for jaywalking, you could sign them for
Speaker 1: obstructing traffic. That anything you can come up with to
Speaker 1: give them a ticket for to deter that type of behavior.
Speaker 1: Perfect idea, right there, Eric, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: calling man. Have a great week. Six fifty four fifty
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Speaker 1: Mississippi James, thanks for holding over the breake. Welcome back, Hello.
Speaker 16: Mister Brian, doctor Brian as I say, yep, hey, I
Speaker 16: just wondered, did the police from evandale H Lochland get
Speaker 16: the name, address and some security number of the peoples.
Speaker 3: That was riding in the back of the van.
Speaker 16: You know, that's normally one of the first things they
Speaker 16: say is that benifier, you have any id So is
Speaker 16: that list out there is hudo people was in case
Speaker 16: they they found something that they could charge him with later. Uh,
Speaker 16: these peoples out unknown, we have to you have to have,
Speaker 16: you know, probable cause to engage in that communication.
Speaker 1: Police don't have a right to ask you for identification
Speaker 1: if you haven't committed a crime. And that's where the
Speaker 1: whole story gets gray and hazy because Eric who just
Speaker 1: called was literally there because his business is on the
Speaker 1: other side of that bridge and he had to go
Speaker 1: over the bridge past these idiots and they harassed him.
Speaker 1: They went out into the middle of the road, so
Speaker 1: isn't that a sitable offense? And if the police were around,
Speaker 1: I would think that's one way you could learn who
Speaker 1: they are ask for their identification because they're going to
Speaker 1: get a ticket for blocking traffic or jaywalking or whatever
Speaker 1: thing you can come up with legitimately. So, but if
Speaker 1: you've got a bunch of people load in the back
Speaker 1: of U haul van and you're not breaking the law,
Speaker 1: you're not speeding, you're not you know, weaving or anything
Speaker 1: that that justifies police intervention, I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: a mechanism for you to actually lawfully get that information. So,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's all riding in the back of it van.
Speaker 1: Well though you know that I don't know, miss Simpi James.
Speaker 1: You may be right. I do not know, and I
Speaker 1: would think you probably are because that's a dangerous place
Speaker 1: to be. There aren't any seat belts in the back
Speaker 1: of a U haul van, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So perhaps that's another area they could have looked at.
Speaker 1: So you know, I guess I'm I'm interested in annoying
Speaker 1: and I've heard absolutely no follow up on it. Maybe
Speaker 1: somebody's read something how it is that they couldn't track
Speaker 1: down where that van was readed, where it came from,
Speaker 1: and who was the one that rented it, So you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of question marks floating around. I don't know
Speaker 1: if law enforcement is still looking into it, if it's
Speaker 1: an open investigation or something they've just now moved past.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of people are angry and
Speaker 1: a lot of people are looking for answers. But I
Speaker 1: keep having to walk back to the point where you know,
Speaker 1: there's only so much law enforcement can do with idiots.
Speaker 1: If idiots aren't breaking the law, then they can expouse
Speaker 1: their idiot speech. Fortunately, the guy throwing pamphlets out the
Speaker 1: window that was arrested over the weekend, he was breaking
Speaker 1: the law. He was literally littering, and he got cited
Speaker 1: for it. So it's complicated Mississippi, James, And it is frustrating,
Speaker 1: very frustrating.
Speaker 16: Actually is biased?
Speaker 1: Is not complicated?
Speaker 8: That's the way you framing. Its just biased.
Speaker 1: How is it bias?
Speaker 16: Well, once again, if they was riding in the back,
Speaker 16: that was a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1: But I never thought of that, James, until to this morning.
Speaker 1: You brought it up. That's the first time it's ever
Speaker 1: been elevating. You're like, you know, You're right, that could
Speaker 1: have been something they could have done HU. But like
Speaker 1: like getting out in the middle of the street, it seems
Speaker 1: to me they could have done something by issuing a
Speaker 1: citation for that. Now, in the final analysis, I don't
Speaker 1: believe it would change the hearts and minds of the racist.
Speaker 1: It might prevent them from doing something illegal misdemeanor, but
Speaker 1: it may stop them from you know, loading into the
Speaker 1: back of a U haul down the road because they
Speaker 1: know they could get cited for it. It may prevent
Speaker 1: them from walking out in the middle of the street
Speaker 1: because they know they'll get sighted for it, But it
Speaker 1: won't stop them from standing on the sidewalk and expousing
Speaker 1: their racist hate. So what do you do? What do
Speaker 1: you say? What do you say?
Speaker 16: Right?
Speaker 1: What do you say?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: Okay, next time they get on the bridge, if they
Speaker 1: all got there and they arrived and they parked lawfully
Speaker 1: in their individual automobiles, unbuckled their seatbelt and walked over
Speaker 1: to the bridge with the racist hate signs, then they
Speaker 1: have a right to do that. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it would dissuade them. My bigger problem with this is
Speaker 1: I think everybody talks about it so much that it
Speaker 1: almost elevates them to some sort of legitimacy.
Speaker 3: Either.
Speaker 1: Were thirteen of those idiots there, and I bet it
Speaker 1: took them all year long to come up with a
Speaker 1: group with thirteen people who are willing to go out
Speaker 1: in public and stand there as they were covered. Their
Speaker 1: faces were covered, but they have to stand there and
Speaker 1: expouse a message that no one agrees with or very
Speaker 1: few people agree with it. I personally don't know anyone
Speaker 1: who agrees with that message, James, I truly do not,
Speaker 1: and I certainly don't. Oh so, James, appreciate it as always,
Speaker 1: stay well and looking forward to having you back in
Speaker 1: the area when it falls out up here. Dan Hill's
Speaker 1: former FOP President's called in on the hotline. Dan, thanks
Speaker 1: for calling this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show, Brian.
Speaker 4: I have to respond because I've talked about this a
Speaker 4: little bit. I wasn't there. I have an interviewed Dame.
Speaker 4: I was there. But to me, the common sense tells
Speaker 4: me this. You got two groups of people that don't
Speaker 4: care for each other. People are getting angry, people have
Speaker 4: long guns, and you have a different priority than just
Speaker 4: trying to cite the people that you don't like their
Speaker 4: political view, The priority is keeping the peace, is public safety.
Speaker 4: They were doing everything they could to get those goose,
Speaker 4: and we all agree. I think that's how we walk
Speaker 4: into this conversation. First we should throw up our hands
Speaker 4: and say we all think the Nazis are idiots. All
Speaker 4: the cops that were there, I'm certain to feel the
Speaker 4: same as the cops. I know they all think the
Speaker 4: Nazis are idiots. I know you know that the Nazis
Speaker 4: are idiots. But you get thrown into a situation there.
Speaker 4: Instead of just trying to find a way to cite
Speaker 4: people that you don't like their view, you had a
Speaker 4: greater priority, and that was public safety, in your own safety,
Speaker 4: and and uh and keeping the peace. And like I said,
Speaker 4: they were dealing with two groups that were becoming hostile
Speaker 4: with one another, and you got a chance to get
Speaker 4: them the heck out of there, You get them the
Speaker 4: heck out of there. And uh. I just I'm getting
Speaker 4: tired of all this backlash and all these people that
Speaker 4: are jumping on this as an opportunity to point out
Speaker 4: that the police. The police didn't do everything that they
Speaker 4: they could have potentially did it. As far as taking
Speaker 4: legal action, I'm almost certain that the other group probably
Speaker 4: was doing things technically wrong too that they could have
Speaker 4: been cited for, but that's not Again, that wasn't a priority.
Speaker 4: It was priority was was not having a shootout. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that point, that's what I believe was was without doubt
Speaker 4: was the was the number one thing on each and
Speaker 4: every one of those police officers and police supervisors up there,
Speaker 4: was let's avoid having a shootout because that's a really
Speaker 4: bad thing for public safety to start having two angry
Speaker 4: groups shoot at each other.
Speaker 1: Oh, I couldn't agree with you more, Dan, And that's
Speaker 1: a point that's very well taken. You have to put
Speaker 1: it in context. And then, of course, in the aftermath,
Speaker 1: that's when the Monday morning quarterbacks come out and say
Speaker 1: why didn't they do this? And why didn't they do that?
Speaker 1: And while I can point out that there might have
Speaker 1: been sitable offenses, and you would know better than that
Speaker 1: than than I would, like, I never thought about, you know, load, he's.
Speaker 4: Probably right about the back of the van. But if
Speaker 4: if back in my day, Sergeant Dan Hills was somehow
Speaker 4: thrown that incident and I'm in charge of I'm like,
Speaker 4: get them out of here. We don't have time for
Speaker 4: that Let's get them moving. They want to move, they
Speaker 4: want to go, Let's help them go. And that's exactly
Speaker 4: everything I've seen is that they help them go, which prevented,
Speaker 4: you know, an absolute tragedy. And then all these folks
Speaker 4: because they don't like their views. I don't like their views,
Speaker 4: but that's not how you police. You don't go around
Speaker 4: on I'm going to try to get every citation I
Speaker 4: can because I don't like their views, or you know,
Speaker 4: I don't like the views of some group on the
Speaker 4: opposite end of the spectrum. You can't police that way.
Speaker 4: And so I wish the Monday Morning quarterback in would
Speaker 4: tone down just a little bit. I think even Dale
Speaker 4: Police did an outstanding job because everybody came out of
Speaker 4: that without any bullet.
Speaker 1: Holes alive, no shots were fired. And I think that
Speaker 1: is a very very good point. And Dan, I can't help.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for Connor on the morning
Speaker 1: show to make that actually the outcome was a positive one.
Speaker 1: It's just that I think there's just so much frustration
Speaker 1: out there that that message you're free to spread it
Speaker 1: in the United States of America. That is a documented
Speaker 1: case from the Supreme Court. Brandenburg look it up. We
Speaker 1: don't like it, but hate speech is protected speech as
Speaker 1: much as we may disagree with that speech. Thanks, brother,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We have time for another one, Joe. No, no,
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Speaker 1: happy Monday to you. Money. Monday with Brian James at
Speaker 1: eight oh five. Monday is always made extra special because
Speaker 1: now is the day, at the time of the week
Speaker 1: and we get to talk to the former Vice mayor
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Speaker 1: him venice clean the Smith Event ad vice mayor, former
Speaker 1: vice Mayor Christopher Smith and my friend welcome back to
Speaker 1: the morning show, oh.
Speaker 3: Man, thank you for having me on. And every week
Speaker 3: there's so much to talk about. I don't know where
Speaker 3: to start, but I'd like to ask for a little
Speaker 3: privilege from my friend because I spent the last four
Speaker 3: or five days man in Canton, Ohio, supporting my daughter
Speaker 3: Seaton High School and so many other teams from the
Speaker 3: same Ohio you know, for their for their state championship. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I talked about that, man. The girls did a
Speaker 3: great job. They came in fifth and they're heating thirteenth
Speaker 3: in the state. They broke a Seaton, they broke a
Speaker 3: seat and thank you. They broke a seat and record
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to give a shout out to Maddie, Josie,
Speaker 3: Hannah and Hannah, Sarah, Sam, Meredith and Camille and the
Speaker 3: big shout out goes to Jody Schafer, the seating swim
Speaker 3: coach by the way, who's really paid nothing peanuts for
Speaker 3: everything that she does for these girls and that team
Speaker 3: at Seaton. So I can't say enough, the parents can't
Speaker 3: say enough good things about Jody Schaeffer and you being
Speaker 3: a swimmer, you know what it takes every day, every morning,
Speaker 3: every afternoon to get prepared to go through all of this.
Speaker 3: And to all the seniors on the seating team, we
Speaker 3: salute you.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's very I'm glad you brought it
Speaker 1: up because of course I know how proud you are.
Speaker 1: And I did have the opportunity to go go upstate
Speaker 1: for a relay as well when I was a senior
Speaker 1: in high school and it's quite an experience, man, And
Speaker 1: you you know, that's when you realize, you know, there
Speaker 1: are some really, really talented and excellent swimmers out there
Speaker 1: in the world. I can't remember what place we came in,
Speaker 1: but we were. We were definitely in the also ran
Speaker 1: are also a swim category. But fun time it was.
Speaker 1: And as bringing back some some of the few fond
Speaker 1: memories I have of swimming, you mentioned morning practices. That's
Speaker 1: a Vietnam flashback type response or experience for me, man,
Speaker 1: I remember that alarm going off at four o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning and wanting to throw it across the room,
Speaker 1: and getting to school and having to swim before the
Speaker 1: school started, and showing up and getting dressed and heading
Speaker 1: off to class, and then you did it all over
Speaker 1: again after class was over. It's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you spend so much time in the water. And you know,
Speaker 1: swimmers are the unsung heroes in high schools because you know,
Speaker 1: like I said last time you and I talked, very
Speaker 1: few people from these student bodies show up at swim meets,
Speaker 1: unlike basketball games or football games, where it's a common
Speaker 1: thing to hey, meet at the basketball game. He was like, yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, and you cheer on your fellow classmates, but
Speaker 1: not swimming.
Speaker 3: They don't. And let me share with you, you know, a
Speaker 3: big shout out for great programs in our city like
Speaker 3: Saint x who oh yeah, elder, you know, as examples
Speaker 3: like Walded Hills High School. I mean, we have a
Speaker 3: lot to be like Saint Ursula. We have a lot
Speaker 3: to be proud of in our city and in our
Speaker 3: region of just tremendous swimmers tremendous programs around us. But
Speaker 3: you know I'm biased because you know, I'm a girl
Speaker 3: dad for Seaton and i just can't say enough about
Speaker 3: the girls that went and swim for the state championship.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to just give their names one more
Speaker 3: time before we go to break Maddie, Josie, Hannah, Sarah, Sam, Meredith,
Speaker 3: and Camille. And to their great coach Jody Shafer, thanks
Speaker 3: for that privilege. As we go into the break, man, oh,
Speaker 3: I just want to tell you that a great team,
Speaker 3: great swimmer and a great season.
Speaker 1: Well that's that's fantastic. And you know, for parents out
Speaker 1: there that and my wife was not one that wanted
Speaker 1: our children to engage in contact sports. My son played
Speaker 1: lacrosse and and also was a swimmer himself, and my
Speaker 1: daughter played volleyball. But swimming is probably one of the
Speaker 1: greatest sports in terms of how much good it does
Speaker 1: for your body. You know, lower impact, great aerobic benefits,
Speaker 1: and it's an easy way to remain lean and in shape,
Speaker 1: and it's it's just a wonderful sport in terms of
Speaker 1: physical activity and benefits for your body's and it's a lasting,
Speaker 1: long term impact they'll have on you so think about
Speaker 1: putting a child on the swim team and a great coach,
Speaker 1: give them all the skills they need, you know, teach
Speaker 1: them how to do flip turns right, and teach them
Speaker 1: how to do the strokes right. It's amazing what some
Speaker 1: lessons will do for the ability to improve your speed
Speaker 1: in the swimming pool.
Speaker 3: Man, hey man, you see some really big men who
Speaker 3: are swimming. How you think about football players, Man, look
Speaker 3: at some of these swimmers out here and how they
Speaker 3: are built. I mean, just just strong, lean bodies that
Speaker 3: are going in there, and it's just remarkable about their speeds.
Speaker 3: And as we come back out of the break, I'm
Speaker 3: going to pivot into my spleen bit that has everything
Speaker 3: to do with the first segment. I just wanted to
Speaker 3: spend the first segment speaking about love and excitement about
Speaker 3: these programs around us and specifically State in high school.
Speaker 1: Proud Papa, and you deserve to be a proud papa.
Speaker 1: And you're doing it all on your own now because
Speaker 1: you know you lost your wife to cancer after that
Speaker 1: long battle, and I know she is looking down and
Speaker 1: smiling and also proud of Camille and her efforts. So
Speaker 1: thanks Christopher for bringing that up. Hold on a second,
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Speaker 1: In addition to our regular guest keep your Fingers Crossed,
Speaker 1: Joe Streckers lined up vec VvE grama swammy. So looking
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Speaker 3: Look, brother, common sense is lost in our politicians. So
Speaker 3: the first half I talked about being that girl dad
Speaker 3: and being excited. But to think again that the President
Speaker 3: of the United States has to sign executive orders that
Speaker 3: say boys should not be swimming, fighting, wrestling, participating in
Speaker 3: any sport against our girls is insane. And to have
Speaker 3: the governor of Maine in the last forty eight hours
Speaker 3: in DC argue minutes with the President of the United States,
Speaker 3: which he simply says, listen, follow federal law. We don't
Speaker 3: want boys participating in sports with girls. As defiant as
Speaker 3: she was. Anybody that saw that thing, I'll see you
Speaker 3: in court. And then two hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: of federal dollars being stripped from her state. She deserves it.
Speaker 3: Maine is a part of the United States of America. People,
Speaker 3: you cannot have your cake and eat it too. We
Speaker 3: do not want boys participating in sports against our girls.
Speaker 3: It's a common sense thing. Look, Brian Thomas, you're a
Speaker 3: girl dad. I'm a girl dad. There are girl dads
Speaker 3: that are listening to this broadcast right now all across
Speaker 3: this country, and they know what I'm saying is true.
Speaker 3: But even if you're not a girl, dad, you have
Speaker 3: the common sense to understand that you do not want
Speaker 3: boys swimming, fighting, wrestling. I don't care what it is
Speaker 3: playing football against your girls. It's totally ludicrous that we
Speaker 3: would think that we would have to debate and have
Speaker 3: this conversation. And you have schools and politicians still across
Speaker 3: this country. In the last forty eight hours, I'm there
Speaker 3: in Canton, Ohio, watching my TV watching the governor of
Speaker 3: Maine literally defiant to the end, looking the President in
Speaker 3: the eye, saying I'm not gonna listen to the federal
Speaker 3: government telling us no more will we allow boys this
Speaker 3: women against our girls. And by the way, if you
Speaker 3: want to talk about fairness and protecting our girls in
Speaker 3: title nine, you would be standing with me. I'm a
Speaker 3: person who supports the LGBTQ plus community, but I do
Speaker 3: not support biological men praying in sports against girls. It
Speaker 3: makes no sense in my mind.
Speaker 1: Well, you didn't call looking for an argument, and I
Speaker 1: guess it's eighty two percent of the American population, including
Speaker 1: seventy plus percent of Democrats. If you think if you
Speaker 1: want to put the blame on this to some political party.
Speaker 1: It's the Democrats that are pushing this, not the Republicans
Speaker 1: all fully agree with you. It's a losing argument for
Speaker 1: a politician to embraces. And as you, as you point out,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're counting your twenty twenty five and we're
Speaker 1: having a conversation about this. That it even was elevated,
Speaker 1: and that that men were actually participating against and regularly
Speaker 1: beating women in sports, that that could have even happened
Speaker 1: is mind blowing to me. It's just it's impossible to
Speaker 1: get your head around and rewind like fifteen years and say, hey,
Speaker 1: do you know what boys are going to be competing
Speaker 1: against women in sports in a little while, and be like,
Speaker 1: you're out of your mind. This is never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Boys have a biological advantage over girls, strength and size
Speaker 1: and speed, and you know, women's records versus men's records
Speaker 1: demonstrably prove that over and over again. Now there is
Speaker 1: the rare occasion, you know, you know, where a woman
Speaker 1: can beat a man, but the vast majority of the
Speaker 1: cases that's not going to be the case.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, And let me share with you, like
Speaker 3: on this practical, practical point that I know you appreciate
Speaker 3: My daughter Camille has been swimming since she was five.
Speaker 3: She started at the Critonville Swim Club and now she's
Speaker 3: seventeen and she's swimming for Seed in high school. Look,
Speaker 3: these are girls that have dedicated their entire life to
Speaker 3: the support to this sport. Girls are losing and winning
Speaker 3: in this sport by as you know, a tenth.
Speaker 8: Of a second.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what in the world would you want to destroy
Speaker 3: that girl's opportunity to get a scholarship to swim to whatever,
Speaker 3: Because you're just looking at the times when you're trying
Speaker 3: to recruit to have a boy in that pool with
Speaker 3: that girl who and her family, her mom, dad, grandparents,
Speaker 3: who have dedicated their entire life for the last ten years,
Speaker 3: the last twelve year for that girl. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: it's amazing to me that Democrats want to die on
Speaker 3: this still, Brian Thomas, that they still believe that it's
Speaker 3: okay for boys to compete against girls in sports. It's not.
Speaker 3: It's a bridge too far. And I'm so happy that
Speaker 3: President Trump is saying no to this, we are not
Speaker 3: going to allow you to do this. You're going too far.
Speaker 3: And to that main Governor and any governor across this country.
Speaker 3: I think the federal government should strip every single dollar
Speaker 3: from them and then let their constituents if they can
Speaker 3: go it alone, if they can ignore the federal government,
Speaker 3: you can't eat your cake. You can't have your cake
Speaker 3: and eat it too. You don't get our federal dollars.
Speaker 3: And at the same time say you're going to ignore us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's a lot of precedent for withholding federal dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean here in the state of Ohio. You may
Speaker 1: remember many years back, in fact, I was grandfathered in
Speaker 1: at the age of nineteen because I well, I beat
Speaker 1: the dead line, but they would the federal garment withheld
Speaker 1: federal tax dollars for the highway funds unless we capitulated
Speaker 1: to turning the drinking age into twenty one in this state.
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Speaker 1: finally say, okay, well, we need the federal money, so
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and change the drinking age. And that's
Speaker 1: what happens. So lots of precedent for this out there
Speaker 1: and I and again everybody agrees with you. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure the vast majority of her constituents agree with your
Speaker 1: point of view and not the governor's point of view.
Speaker 1: So I mean, even Trump told her I when calling
Speaker 1: her out, he said, you know, good luck, because you're
Speaker 1: not going to get re elected again. You know, hold on,
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Speaker 1: let us see here, Tom, who said, yeah, I fully
Speaker 1: agree that men and women should not be participating in
Speaker 1: the same sports once they are a certain age. But
Speaker 1: should this really be a federal issue? If abortion is
Speaker 1: a state issue, which I agree it is, shouldn't this
Speaker 1: be a state issue as well? Well? Tom? The answer
Speaker 1: is twofold one. Title nine governs this and it involves
Speaker 1: that's a federal law, and it involves the receipt of
Speaker 1: federal money. If you're a private school in a state
Speaker 1: and you do not accept federal money, then this doesn't
Speaker 1: apply to you. You can have men participating against women
Speaker 1: can exceptually, though we all agree that it's not right.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the distinction that needs to be drawn here.
Speaker 1: There is. It's Title nine and the receipt of federal
Speaker 1: dollars which come with strings attached, right, Christopher. They always
Speaker 1: come with strings, they they do.
Speaker 3: And elections have consequences, meaning President Trump wawn, he has
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Speaker 3: a new you have a new sheriff that says you
Speaker 3: know what, I want you to show up to work.
Speaker 3: I want you to physically be here. We've got federal
Speaker 3: buildings that are just empty that we're paying for. Come
Speaker 3: back to work. Oh no, I'm not going to come
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Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the middle finger, and I'm
Speaker 3: not coming back. Who does that to their employer? And
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Speaker 3: there's no body out here who has sympathy for you
Speaker 3: because we're going to work every single day. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't get this, man.
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Speaker 1: that has to drive into an office and do their job.
Speaker 1: But if you're a cafeteria worker, how dare you draw
Speaker 1: a salary make an argument that you're remote working. It's preposterous.
Speaker 3: Think about every public service worker in the country. May
Speaker 3: they come out every day, whether they're removing snow or
Speaker 3: salting the streets or picking up trash, picking up our trash.
Speaker 3: I don't get all of this, you know, Like the
Speaker 3: bottom line is President Biden let it go too long.
Speaker 3: He just allow people to do whatever they wanted to do.
Speaker 3: And you have new bosses in place that are saying,
Speaker 3: we want productivity, we want to know what you're doing,
Speaker 3: we want the energy of the workers all coming together
Speaker 3: whatever's in their mind. They are the boss. And if
Speaker 3: you don't want that job, quit, you're going to be
Speaker 3: fired today. I'm just amazed at all of the anks
Speaker 3: over this. When I'm talking to people like oh Man,
Speaker 3: I think they should just let them continue to work remotely. Look,
Speaker 3: they can't come back to work and do your job.
Speaker 3: My last point is on DOGE. I don't even understand
Speaker 3: what some of these Democratic congressional members are arguing. We're
Speaker 3: talking about fraud, we're talking about corruption. We're talking about
Speaker 3: the misuse of money, whether it's Social Security and somebody
Speaker 3: getting a tech who's one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 3: I mean, the reality of it is, what are you protesting?
Speaker 3: I don't understand it. Man, I'm sitting there going kit.
Speaker 3: We all just agree that fraud and corruption is bad.
Speaker 3: Nothing they've put up there that I've seen that we're
Speaker 3: spending money on internationally or or domestically makes any sense
Speaker 3: to me. And as we get closer to April the fifteenth,
Speaker 3: when people have to file their taxes, they're going to
Speaker 3: be more pissed off by this subject matter than they
Speaker 3: are even now, because we're tired of writing checks through
Speaker 3: the federal government and then wasting it and then having
Speaker 3: federal work. Or sit back and some there knows that
Speaker 3: us and say, you know what, I really don't have
Speaker 3: to work. I really don't have to tell you whether
Speaker 3: I'm productive or not. I really don't have to listen
Speaker 3: to my boss. That is not reality. Get your butts
Speaker 3: back to work, do your job, and if not, you
Speaker 3: don't have one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is our money that pays their salary. I
Speaker 1: think we should read we have a legitimate expectation that
Speaker 1: we know that work is getting done. They're in an
Speaker 1: office building where there's some supervision going on and some
Speaker 1: insurance that they're actually sitting at their desk doing their work.
Speaker 3: Good point, Christ And the last thing I'm going to say,
Speaker 3: the last thing I want to say to you, Brian Thomas,
Speaker 3: is there are some jobs that could be done remotely.
Speaker 3: I understand that, but that's not a cafeteria worker. Right.
Speaker 3: There are obvious positions here. If I want the public
Speaker 3: to understand, there are grotesque situations that are happening right
Speaker 3: now that the new leaders are seeing saying, listen, you
Speaker 3: cannot be a cafeteria worker and tell me that you're
Speaker 3: working from home. That doesn't work. So we understand that
Speaker 3: there are exceptions out here where there are federal workers
Speaker 3: who could do their jobs remotely. We can deal with that,
Speaker 3: but there's so many of them that cannot get back
Speaker 3: in the office. Do your job. We're going to sort
Speaker 3: it out. Let's see what thank you're doing every day.
Speaker 3: And then for those workers who we don't need, they've
Speaker 3: got to find a new job because we don't want
Speaker 3: to just keep paying for nothing. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: And all of us are tired of paying these higher taxes.
Speaker 3: It is just crazy. Whether it's property taxes, whether it's
Speaker 3: federal taxes, whether it's state taxes, whether it's city taxes.
Speaker 3: We are taxed out. Brian Thomas this week, that's where
Speaker 3: we are. Congratulations to the seat and girls, Thank you
Speaker 3: so much for allowing me to have that privilege to
Speaker 3: just say thank you to Jody Schaefferman. What a phenomenal coach.
Speaker 3: I have tremendous respect for her. Brian Thomas, for everything
Speaker 3: she does ultimately for free. What a great swim program.
Speaker 3: You're my brother.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much man, Love you brother. We'll talk
Speaker 1: next Monday. Congratulations and Camille on the in the relay
Speaker 1: team and the coach. Excellent work up state. Seven forty seven,
Speaker 1: Thank you brother. You're welcome man, always welcome the opportunity
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Speaker 1: Brian James at the top of the our news. Apparently
Speaker 1: our sentiment has fallen. Could those cause the market correction?
Speaker 1: Home sales drop in January and more Americans are cash poor?
Speaker 1: Those of the subject matter with Brian James. The Meantimes
Speaker 1: take Jim's call. Jim, thanks for calling this morning. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Hi, Brian, how are you doing doing well? Man?
Speaker 1: Hope you can say the same. What's on your mind
Speaker 1: this morning?
Speaker 17: I think for us traditional thinking folks instead of it's
Speaker 17: hard not to get frustrated listening to some of this
Speaker 17: liberal dogma. But I think for the next two years
Speaker 17: we should encourage it. I wish every liberal governor would
Speaker 17: root for boy playing against girls and all the other
Speaker 17: stuff for at least two more years.
Speaker 1: I didn't agree more. And it was funny because Christopher
Speaker 1: talked about they picked this hill to die on. There
Speaker 1: was a Daily Caller, uh, sort of an op ed,
Speaker 1: but a reporting piece headline it appears Democrats have finally
Speaker 1: picked a hill to die on by Adam Pack and
Speaker 1: that was the point he was making and they quote it. No,
Speaker 1: no go ahead.
Speaker 17: I was just gonna say, they haven't dropped.
Speaker 18: They haven't gotten off of any of their hills since November.
Speaker 18: They're still It's unbelievable.
Speaker 17: Joy Reid got fired, finally got fired.
Speaker 1: Bobby called this morning. He said he was wearing a
Speaker 1: black armband honor of Joy Joy Reid getting getting canceled
Speaker 1: because that was his his favorite comedy television show. So
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 18: If you're not if you're not screaming at it, you're
Speaker 18: laughing at it, and you try to laugh at it
Speaker 18: and encourage it and just keep doing it on and
Speaker 18: keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 3: It's working.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He was one of her five regular audience members. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: thanks to the call man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In this article, Terry Shilling, who's president of American Principles Project,
Speaker 1: had this to say about this hill, that Democrats are
Speaker 1: dying rather than changing course and abandoning the destructive transgender agenda.
Speaker 1: Democrats are ignoring what the majority of Americans know to
Speaker 1: be true just to appease the radical wing of their party.
Speaker 1: And here's the Saling point. I hope Democrats keep running
Speaker 1: campaigns and focus on the transgender agenda. It will make
Speaker 1: Republican candidate cycles much easier. To Jim's point. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then here's a fun one out of Wisconsin. Governor Wisconsin
Speaker 1: Troy Tony Evers, Democrat, getting a little backlash because of
Speaker 1: the budget he introduced that recommends some changes, including a
Speaker 1: change that swaps the word mother for inseminated person. Also
Speaker 1: changed the term paternity to parentage. Other change father would
Speaker 1: be replaced to parent, mother would become quote parent who
Speaker 1: gave birth to the child, right or well much seven
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Speaker 1: A very Happy Monday always made extra special happy we
Speaker 1: get to hear from Brian James, Mworth Financial on money matters.
Speaker 1: Brian James, Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Thank you, and
Speaker 1: good morning to you as well. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: good news in the rundown of topics here, so let's
Speaker 1: talk about um sentiment. I know there's a couple of
Speaker 1: polls out of Michigan, University of Michigan Pole and a
Speaker 1: CNN poll people not feeling real good about the economy,
Speaker 1: at least in so far as concerns about inflation or concerned.
Speaker 1: They are the those polled who are having these concerns
Speaker 1: and the sentiment dropping off.
Speaker 19: Accurate, Well, any poll is only as accurate as the
Speaker 19: audience that they're talking to. Now, these do come from
Speaker 19: the University of Michigan, which is that that's who we're
Speaker 19: always talking about, right whenever you hear the words consumer sentiment. Yes,
Speaker 19: there are plenty of organizations, but the University of Michigan
Speaker 19: is the whopper that has been around for the longest time.
Speaker 19: So if you're going to trust any pole, it's the
Speaker 19: one with the largest reach in the most history. So
Speaker 19: University of Michigan latest survey is showing a significant decline
Speaker 19: in sentiment from in February, dropping by about ten percent
Speaker 19: from January. This is not shocking if you've paid any
Speaker 19: attention at all to the headlines. I think there were
Speaker 19: plenty of people out there who thought all we had
Speaker 19: to do was was elect a really conservative administration and
Speaker 19: everything would get fixed with the push of a button,
Speaker 19: because it's just that simple.
Speaker 1: Well, we know that's not the case. Obviously.
Speaker 19: Egg prices or the thing that everybody's sick of hearing about.
Speaker 19: Tariffs are never ever, ever going to be an immediate
Speaker 19: good thing. They are shot across the bow to start
Speaker 19: a little bit of a trade war and settle things
Speaker 19: out at a different point. But in the very short run,
Speaker 19: we're always going to have a negative downturn as business
Speaker 19: sorts itself out and countries figure out how they're going
Speaker 19: to work together again with regard to these trade agreements.
Speaker 19: We've seen it before though, so nothing to panic about yet. However, Yes,
Speaker 19: obviously a lot of grumpy people out there at the moment.
Speaker 1: Well, and I found it a little ridiculous that Trump
Speaker 1: actually said on the campaign praile here at trail he
Speaker 1: promised to bring down prices starting day one. I think
Speaker 1: I may even comment about that on the air. How
Speaker 1: I mean, this is inflation is very complicated and complex.
Speaker 1: You talk about egg prices, well, there's something called the
Speaker 1: bird flew out there. They're killing millions and millions and
Speaker 1: millions of chicken, obviously reducing the availability the price of eggs.
Speaker 1: So there's one legitimate connection that has nothing to do
Speaker 1: whatsoever with any administration's policies. So you can't magically make
Speaker 1: bird flu go away or magically increase the number of
Speaker 1: laying chickens in the world. So we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: struggle with that problem for a while till it gets
Speaker 1: worked out. However it gets worked out. But insofar as
Speaker 1: tariffs are concerned, and you and I kind of share
Speaker 1: the same point on that, if you increase tariffs, the
Speaker 1: prices are going to necessarily increase by some percentage, maybe
Speaker 1: not a full twenty five percent, but that's going to
Speaker 1: get passed the loan to the consumer. Has that happened yet,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're feeling yet the impact of tariffs because
Speaker 1: my understanding is it hasn't really settled in yet.
Speaker 19: Yeah, we're starting to see increases on prices on things
Speaker 19: laid on things that come out of China. For example,
Speaker 19: iPhone's MacBooks are starting to increase prices a little bit.
Speaker 1: The fast fashion types of things.
Speaker 19: These are names who wouldn't have heard of ten years ago,
Speaker 19: Shine and Timu, and I think I'm pronouncing one of
Speaker 19: those incorrectly. But these are places where people have used
Speaker 19: a lot in recent history to get really cheap clothing
Speaker 19: and things like that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of ground zero for what we're really after.
Speaker 1: There are rules, not not.
Speaker 19: Only the tariffs, but there are rules that were in
Speaker 19: place called the deminimous Exemptions that that basically allowed China
Speaker 19: to create extremely cheap items of apparel and things like
Speaker 19: that and ship them over here. Shipping is the big part,
Speaker 19: but the policies that were in place prior to this
Speaker 19: allowed them to do that very easily and very cheaply.
Speaker 1: Those rules have changed too.
Speaker 19: That's not a tariff, that's simply the removal of a
Speaker 19: discount effectively, so things like that are going to get
Speaker 19: more expensive. We're also seeing produce fruits and vegetables from Mexico, avocados, tomatoes, strawberries,
Speaker 19: bell pepper, stuff like that. If you've been paying attention,
Speaker 19: have seen noticeable price increases, they're not yet. Remember these
Speaker 19: are things that per unit don't cost that much to
Speaker 19: begin with. So unless you're truly paying attention, and you're
Speaker 19: one of those people with a spreadsheet and I've seen
Speaker 19: them in the grocery store lately tracking prices over time,
Speaker 19: you may not notice this. But you know something that
Speaker 19: costs fifty cents now that now costs fifty five cents,
Speaker 19: that's a nickel. But if you do the math, that's
Speaker 19: a ten percent increase. So these things were just at
Speaker 19: the beginning of this. They're going to sneak in. The
Speaker 19: price increases are going to sneak in kind of without
Speaker 19: us noticing unless you're paying close attention.
Speaker 1: Well, I know one of the things that was mentioned
Speaker 1: in the article fed share, A Jerome Pala said last
Speaker 1: year to keynote address is you know it was inflation
Speaker 1: brought about by a number of factors. Again, all these
Speaker 1: different factors over which a brand new administration can't really control,
Speaker 1: but pent up demand, stimulative policies, pandemic changes in work
Speaker 1: and leisure, policies and the additional savings associated with constrained services.
Speaker 1: In other words, people weren't out spending the money. Finally,
Speaker 1: when the economy got opened back up again, it was
Speaker 1: a spending free for all, which contributed to a historic
Speaker 1: surgeon consumer spending on goods. If the demand goes down
Speaker 1: because people are feeling the heat of you know, the
Speaker 1: real estate tax is going up, or maybe some of
Speaker 1: the increase in pricing. Obviously, grocery store prices continue to
Speaker 1: go up. If demand goes down, then that might have
Speaker 1: an impact on lowering prices because the supply will increase. Correct,
Speaker 1: that's all part of the correction.
Speaker 19: But demand going down is usually going to result in
Speaker 19: some pain to I know, because if demand goes down
Speaker 19: for a product that your company creates, guess who's in
Speaker 19: for a round of belt tightening.
Speaker 1: So that's all part of the process here of If we.
Speaker 19: Want to change the point at which we meet in
Speaker 19: the market, meaning what do we pay other countries for
Speaker 19: the goods and services that we're buying for them, what
Speaker 19: do they pay us for ours, we want to change
Speaker 19: the point where we are on the playing field for that,
Speaker 19: But that's not going to happen without some pain and
Speaker 19: without some adjustment, and that you're seeing an awful lot
Speaker 19: of that, you know, just in the federal government with
Speaker 19: the cuts that like them or not, the cuts that
Speaker 19: are coming from from the Doze Office, whether it's real
Speaker 19: or not, these things are actually happening, and that is
Speaker 19: the same thing. We just want to change how the
Speaker 19: money moves around. We want to change how business is done, good,
Speaker 19: bad and different. There can be good things that come
Speaker 19: out of that, there can be bad things, but no
Speaker 19: matter what, there's going to be disruption, and it's going
Speaker 19: to be a bit of a b right, and we're
Speaker 19: already seeing that these last several weeks.
Speaker 1: Well, sort of a correlated to this discussion, I saw
Speaker 1: this article headlines in the front page at the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. The US economy depends more than ever on
Speaker 1: rich people. The highest earning ten percent of Americans account
Speaker 1: for almost fifty percent of all consumer spending, and as
Speaker 1: the article points out, the number of lower income earners
Speaker 1: spending is dropping, but the rich people keep going out
Speaker 1: and spending heaploads of cash and all kinds of things,
Speaker 1: including travel and you know, stuff that's out of the
Speaker 1: reach of a lot of Americans.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and that's what masks a lot of you know,
Speaker 19: the real life situation here in the United States, because
Speaker 19: those ten percent can really keep the economy cooking as
Speaker 19: they have for the last several years. But you also
Speaker 19: have a lot of people suffering out there, but that's
Speaker 19: hidden by the fact that we have a strong economy.
Speaker 19: Economy keeps growing. The stock market the last couple of
Speaker 19: years has been strong. We tend to forget about twenty
Speaker 19: twenty two was a terrible year in the stock market,
Speaker 19: but it doesn't come with a story attached, really, so
Speaker 19: we don't really think about that. Nobody talks about it
Speaker 19: like we do in two thousand and eight. However, there's
Speaker 19: a lot of people suffering out there, but that gets
Speaker 19: completely hidden by all the economic activity that that largest
Speaker 19: or richest ten percent is producing. And unfortunately, that's become
Speaker 19: the American way over the last century or so. That's
Speaker 19: not a new phenomenon. It's just getting the two groups
Speaker 19: are just getting.
Speaker 1: Further and further apart, all right, and pivoting over to
Speaker 1: something connected on some level market correction. I keep hearing
Speaker 1: about we're going to we're due for a market correction,
Speaker 1: and not in a good way. In other words, the
Speaker 1: market is over priced and people are expecting it to
Speaker 1: drop off and valuations of stocks to drop off. And
Speaker 1: the question is, as some are have observed, are the
Speaker 1: doge cuts bad for the economy and will it empower?
Speaker 1: Will it cause perhaps a market correction?
Speaker 10: Good?
Speaker 1: Very well.
Speaker 19: So this latest talking head is Steve Cohen. He's the
Speaker 19: CEO of er point seventy two asset Management, and he
Speaker 19: says he is now bearished on the US economy for
Speaker 19: the first time in a while. He manages a hedge fund.
Speaker 19: He's a billionaire hedge fund type of a guy, obviously
Speaker 19: a very smart person who have gotten to the point.
Speaker 19: Certainly his opinion is worth something. But at the same time,
Speaker 19: you can go back through time, and I encourage people
Speaker 19: to do this when you start to feel attracted to
Speaker 19: this one talking head on some TV show says, here's
Speaker 19: what I think that is valuable. However, go back in
Speaker 19: time and go see what people said about early twenty
Speaker 19: two or early twenty three or twenty four. There is
Speaker 19: always at least one talking head out there who is
Speaker 19: not necessarily a stupid person, but there's always one talking
Speaker 19: head out there that is predicting a huge pullback We
Speaker 19: never ever ever go back and see whether these people
Speaker 19: will write or not. So maybe Brian Thomas, you and
Speaker 19: I should mark our calendars for February whatever it is,
Speaker 19: twenty fourth of twenty six and see if mister Cohen
Speaker 19: was correct or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope he's not correct, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people have a lot of money in for oh and
Speaker 1: ks and they're counting on that for the retirement. We
Speaker 1: don't want to see the market going to toilet again.
Speaker 1: Does take a little bit while to get that money back,
Speaker 1: although the market has rebounded enough that most people have
Speaker 1: made up that money that we lost in twenty twenty two. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: Brian James, all with financials pause will find out about
Speaker 1: home sales dropping in January and more Americans taking loans
Speaker 1: to pay for emergencies, but at what cost? Cash poor
Speaker 1: Americans a real problem eight fifteen fifty five KC DE
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Speaker 1: If you're a Claremont County VET and a very happy
Speaker 1: Monday to you, try to find some happiness in these
Speaker 1: sad stories we're talking about with money, mondays Brian James,
Speaker 1: and in real estate, home sales have dropped January because
Speaker 1: prices are really high and people's perception of the interest
Speaker 1: rates for mortgages really high, and the combination of the
Speaker 1: two just really puts people out out of the market.
Speaker 1: I saw the medium price of a home in January
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety six nine hundred dollars. That's up
Speaker 1: four percent four point eight percent from the year before,
Speaker 1: and the highest price ever for the month of January.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money for medium price, Brian James,
Speaker 1: that really is and then we may maybe maybe seeing
Speaker 1: a peek in all this.
Speaker 19: So sales are previously owned homes fell by almost five
Speaker 19: percent in January compared to December. One point one eight
Speaker 19: million homes for sale at the end of January. That
Speaker 19: was an increase of three and a half percent and
Speaker 19: an up seventeen percent from January twenty four. So interestingly,
Speaker 19: we are seeing more homes than the number of homes
Speaker 19: hitting the sale block has increased percentage wise, but the
Speaker 19: actual closed sales are starting to drop.
Speaker 1: So that's a sign of a peak here.
Speaker 19: And as you mentioned that the median price of a
Speaker 19: home three hundred and ninety six thousand dollars, that's up
Speaker 19: five percent itself. That's the highest we've ever had on
Speaker 19: that particular measure. In Cincinnati is not exempt from this
Speaker 19: anymore like we used to be. The secret is out
Speaker 19: that this is a wonderful place to live, and at
Speaker 19: least up until now, has been very reasonably priced with
Speaker 19: regard to real estate. Still is of course regarding the
Speaker 19: compared to the richest places out there in New York City,
Speaker 19: San Francisco, and so forth. But at the same time,
Speaker 19: we are not the bargain that we used to be,
Speaker 19: so we're lot this isn't too much of a surprise
Speaker 19: the analysts. We're expecting about a two point six percent
Speaker 19: decline in sales, however, or the actual decline was about
Speaker 19: five percent, So these you know, we might be getting
Speaker 19: to that point where we're going to start to see a.
Speaker 1: Correction, bit of a correction of the housing market. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess if you want to sell your home and
Speaker 1: it sits out there for a long time and people
Speaker 1: aren't coming to see it, maybe you've overpriced the home
Speaker 1: and asking too much, which obviously, if you're going to
Speaker 1: sell the house, you're gonna have to lower the price
Speaker 1: to a point where someone's going to even show up
Speaker 1: to take a look at it, which apparently they're not
Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, that there's a market correction that
Speaker 1: might benefit everybody, just lower expectations on the value of
Speaker 1: your home. Yeah, and that's where it starts. I mean
Speaker 1: there a house is always worth something.
Speaker 19: Houses are never absolutely completely worthless and let it unless
Speaker 19: it's you know, completely run down and about to fall apart.
Speaker 1: It's always the price that's the issue.
Speaker 19: So if the if the buying market has shied away
Speaker 19: from the neighborhood you happen to be in, well you
Speaker 19: can correct that by lowering the price. It's not wonderful,
Speaker 19: but it doesn't mean you cannot sell your house at
Speaker 19: the same time. So there's also an issue right now
Speaker 19: with there are there are arguably fewer buyers out there
Speaker 19: than there would be in a normal market, because there
Speaker 19: are people out there who want to change their neighborhood
Speaker 19: or downsize, or they want to sell their home for
Speaker 19: some reason, but they're currently sitting on a mortgage it's
Speaker 19: less than four percent. Well, those folks are going to say,
Speaker 19: you know what, we're not really in a hurry that
Speaker 19: the problems we've identified here are not immediate. Let's wait
Speaker 19: until it's better and enjoy our four percent mortgage a
Speaker 19: little more. So that means sellers are really only dealing
Speaker 19: with people who are forced to move because of a
Speaker 19: job or maybe they have to have a bigger house
Speaker 19: or something like that. That just means there are fewer
Speaker 19: buyers out there now because the ones who have flexibility
Speaker 19: are exercising that flexibility and going to hold off a
Speaker 19: little bit.
Speaker 1: And we've had conversations before about you know, paying off
Speaker 1: your home and actually owning it. And I know that's
Speaker 1: not always within the reach of a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but my wife and I you know, did a little
Speaker 1: bell tightening over the years when we had that lower,
Speaker 1: just slightly under three percent mortgage because we refinanced to
Speaker 1: a much lower level. That's the right thing to do,
Speaker 1: but we use the extra money to make extra payments
Speaker 1: every month and ended up being able to buy the
Speaker 1: home a lot earlier. Now, is that, from a financial
Speaker 1: planning standpoint, a good thing to do when it is
Speaker 1: that low, or where we have been better served had
Speaker 1: we taken that extra revenue and maybe put it into
Speaker 1: the market or something.
Speaker 19: Great question comes up all the time here at this table,
Speaker 19: and I'm not sure it's a quizit important question. So yeah,
Speaker 19: I can show I can show you in a spreadsheet, Brian,
Speaker 19: that the best thing we should all do is borrow
Speaker 19: money against everything and always invest it, and by the
Speaker 19: time we're one hundred years old, we have a gigantic
Speaker 19: pile of money. That's the mathematical answer, but it's obviously
Speaker 19: not the human answer. So when you have this situation, yeah,
Speaker 19: it always makes sense to invest as much as you can.
Speaker 19: What I would encourage people to do is truly learn
Speaker 19: how an amortized mortgage works. And that simply means go
Speaker 19: look at understand the relationship between your payment and the
Speaker 19: interest rate and how much goes to principle early in
Speaker 19: the mortgage versus how much goes late. If you're ten
Speaker 19: years into a fifteen year mortgage, are paying very very
Speaker 19: very very very little no matter what the interest rate is.
Speaker 19: You are paying very little interest because you're mostly paying principle,
Speaker 19: because you pay the interest on amortization exactly. Yes, you
Speaker 19: paid it up front. Your first payment was ninety nine
Speaker 19: percent interest. Your last payment is going to be ninety
Speaker 19: nine percent principle. Everything else is somewhere in between. So
Speaker 19: I am a big believer, and of course come up
Speaker 19: with a financial plan, and first of all, see what
Speaker 19: you need to do, and then once you've got the
Speaker 19: basics covered, make these decisions based off of what will
Speaker 19: make you feel most confident. If you feel like my
Speaker 19: nest egg is a little low, I need more money,
Speaker 19: that's fine, and your interest, your mortgage rate is reasonable,
Speaker 19: then focus.
Speaker 1: On the four one k.
Speaker 19: Put those extra dollars a four one k and grown.
Speaker 19: Or if you feel the opposite, you know what, I think,
Speaker 19: We're okay, we got a good pile of money. I
Speaker 19: really want to get this mortgage monkey off my back.
Speaker 19: That's fine, pay it down more quickly. That's an emotional decision,
Speaker 19: not so much a mathematical one, right, And you know,
Speaker 19: I really really understood that when we did it. But
Speaker 19: we were able to do the extra payments because we
Speaker 19: were in a comfortable position. And I got to think
Speaker 19: about being in debt, Brian, I really do.
Speaker 10: I hate it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because of my west Side genetics,
Speaker 1: but if I owe a human being a dollar, I
Speaker 1: want to discharge that asap. And that and just you know,
Speaker 1: the idea of owning something outright just makes me feel
Speaker 1: very comfortable, you know what I mean. It's a psychological thing,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. And here's a common situation that drives
Speaker 1: this question.
Speaker 19: So when people are in their late fifties, early maybe
Speaker 19: mid sixties, and they still have a mortgage, that's usually
Speaker 19: about the age that if there's an inheritance coming, then
Speaker 19: that's about when it's going to happen. So oftentimes people
Speaker 19: will have a windfall and I've now got a one
Speaker 19: hundred grand available that I don't have it doesn't have
Speaker 19: a job. Should I invest it, Should I pay off
Speaker 19: the mortgage or whatever? So, yes, those wind falls tend
Speaker 19: to drive that decision. And again there's a mathematical component
Speaker 19: to it. And I always let's start with the math.
Speaker 19: Here's the impact of investing it versus here's the impact
Speaker 19: of paying off all of your debt. And then we
Speaker 19: can start to see here's the mathematical impact that is known.
Speaker 19: It's black and white, it's in stone. Let's talk about
Speaker 19: how you will feel emotionally and psychologically doing one versus
Speaker 19: the other.
Speaker 1: That is usually the answer as long as those basics
Speaker 1: are covered right, And another a shout out for financial
Speaker 1: planners who are working for you and have a fiduciary obligation.
Speaker 1: They will break this down for you. You don't have
Speaker 1: to do it yourself. And I think it's a critical
Speaker 1: thing for your future to have a financial planner so
Speaker 1: you can have these conversations and make informed decisions to
Speaker 1: maximize your investment opportunities. Brian James pause from them. We're
Speaker 1: going to find out with the problem we're facing here
Speaker 1: in America, people are apparently pretty cash poor. Maybe some
Speaker 1: financial planning advice additional coming up next eight twenty six
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Speaker 1: Ay twenty nine. If if you got KCD talk station
Speaker 1: doing that money Monday thing with all the financials Brian James.
Speaker 1: He is a financial planner, and maybe he can help
Speaker 1: out some of the folks who are dealing with these struggles.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of heartbreaking, Brian, when you read how
Speaker 1: many folks do not have money to cover, you know,
Speaker 1: an expense that might pop up. A lot lot of
Speaker 1: people live in paycheck to paycheck and even as the
Speaker 1: article points out folks making six figures, I mean that
Speaker 1: sounds to me like they maybe need to speak with
Speaker 1: someone like you in financial planning. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not living in these circumstances, but when you see it
Speaker 1: broken down, you know somebody has a car repair, or
Speaker 1: medical bills or a big one surprise expenses, which happened
Speaker 1: to literally every human being. They're put in a bad place,
Speaker 1: and quite often that's going to end up on a
Speaker 1: high interest credit card. Exactly.
Speaker 19: This is a real life example of fins to the left.
Speaker 19: Fins to the right were surrounded by sharks. And as
Speaker 19: you pointed out, it affects not only people who just
Speaker 19: don't have a lot to put together, it affects people
Speaker 19: who aren't paying attention. So I'll here's two quick examples
Speaker 19: that had a client does it's probably twenty five years ago. Well,
Speaker 19: when I was young and just getting started, client would
Speaker 19: would pull out money from their IRA to pay there
Speaker 19: I forget with cash to go or whatever, whether the
Speaker 19: payday lender. They just treated their monthly payday lender like
Speaker 19: a credit card. Every month they would go get money
Speaker 19: out and pay a ridiculous interest rate, and then they
Speaker 19: would have to take money out of the IRA to
Speaker 19: pay it off. So it took months to get them
Speaker 19: to catch up and stop that process. Now, shortly after that,
Speaker 19: I had a client that came to me from the
Speaker 19: private client group of a bank I was working for,
Speaker 19: and he was a doctor with an enormous amount millions
Speaker 19: of dollars worth of cash flow, and he was paying
Speaker 19: thirty some thousand dollars in overdraft fees just because he
Speaker 19: never sat down to catch up on his own cash flow.
Speaker 19: And when the rules changed the CFPB, that's a whole
Speaker 19: other topic. But the CFPB came in and said the
Speaker 19: banks can't do this anymore. The bank that I was
Speaker 19: employed by was concerned about the revenue we were going
Speaker 19: to lose because we couldn't do that to him anymore.
Speaker 19: Fins to the left, fins to the right. If there's
Speaker 19: a need out there, there will be somebody out there
Speaker 19: to fill it. But yes, you're right, this concern among
Speaker 19: a lot of people is resulting in these payday lenders
Speaker 19: and these subprime credit cards where fees are sometimes go
Speaker 19: up to ninety percent of the principal payday loans average
Speaker 19: cost of about thirty five percent. There's abuse out there,
Speaker 19: but people are still falling for it.
Speaker 1: So in terms of a payday loan, they're gonna if
Speaker 1: you know, you borrow us one thousand dollars, the payday
Speaker 1: lender is gonna get thirty five percent of that.
Speaker 19: Yeah, because if you if you are somebody who is
Speaker 19: forced into the situation of going to a payday lender,
Speaker 19: then that means you don't have anything else. You don't
Speaker 19: have anything else you could use as collateral other than
Speaker 19: your next payday, your next paycheck. So you walk into
Speaker 19: one of these places and they have bulletproof glass for
Speaker 19: a reason, and you want to and you basically provide
Speaker 19: proof of employment with your past pay stubs, and you
Speaker 19: just basically tell them you're gonna get my next paycheck,
Speaker 19: it's gonna come on this day. And they say, cool,
Speaker 19: here's one thousand bucks. By the way, it's gonna be
Speaker 19: thirteen fifty to pay us back because that's the average
Speaker 19: cost of the payday loan. But again, remember these are
Speaker 19: people who don't have any other choice and feel forced
Speaker 19: into these situations. There's always gonna be somebody willing to
Speaker 19: bankroll that. But it's not much different than than paying
Speaker 19: the mafia protection money.
Speaker 1: Wow, Now, is there a best case option for folks
Speaker 1: who find themselves in this position? Like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you know I got this three thousand dollars bill that
Speaker 1: I had to pay. Was a medical expense or they
Speaker 1: needed their roof repaired or car repaired? Is there an
Speaker 1: option that it represents the best option for folks rather
Speaker 1: than obviously something like a paiday loan. Sure?
Speaker 19: So what I what I what I look at in
Speaker 19: situations like this is you know what else could we
Speaker 19: borrow against?
Speaker 3: Is there?
Speaker 19: First off, maybe there's a credit card out there that
Speaker 19: you've got in your arsenal that doesn't have a ridiculous
Speaker 19: interest rate. Maybe you have something that's that's on a
Speaker 19: on one of those bonus upfront offering rates, or maybe
Speaker 19: you're getting those envelopes in your mailbox. Nobody wants to
Speaker 19: have more credit cards than we have to. But if
Speaker 19: somebody is offering you zero percent for six months or
Speaker 19: twelve months or whatever it is, then that can be
Speaker 19: an opportunity to deal with this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: If that's not a choice, then maybe a home equity line.
Speaker 1: I just wrote that down home equity can be Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's a great Interest rates are currently run a
Speaker 1: seven percent or whatever, so you figure home equity loans
Speaker 1: probably going to fall into that lower single digit category.
Speaker 1: If you've got equity in your home, and you can
Speaker 1: get your bank to could give you a home equity loan.
Speaker 1: At least you're not paying thirty percent interest. Correct now,
Speaker 1: debt is debt. We don't want it.
Speaker 19: But remember this shouldn't be a permanent situation anyway. If
Speaker 19: you find yourself in this permanent situation of just always
Speaker 19: being behind, then it's time for a ground to ceiling
Speaker 19: Florida ceiling redo of your all your finances. This is
Speaker 19: more like the engine fell out the bottom of the
Speaker 19: car and I can't afford to buy a new one.
Speaker 19: I'm just gonna have to pay the five grand or
Speaker 19: whatever it is to put an engine back in the car.
Speaker 19: That's something that makes perfect sense for a home equity
Speaker 19: line of credit. And because yes, you should be able
Speaker 19: to keep that interest rate within the single digit the
Speaker 19: single digit range, which is helpful. But the other thing
Speaker 19: I throw out is if you have one out there,
Speaker 19: and I've had this conversation recently with clients and you
Speaker 19: want to pay it off, do so. Don't necessarily close
Speaker 19: it because you never know how you're going to need
Speaker 19: a pile of cash the short run, and if you
Speaker 19: are about to retire, keep that line open even if
Speaker 19: it's paid off. It can be at zero even just
Speaker 19: pay an annual fee or something, because it will be
Speaker 19: harder to get one after you no longer have W
Speaker 19: two income.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get basically like a checkbook that draws against
Speaker 1: your home equity line of credit so correct, or even
Speaker 1: a debit card as well.
Speaker 19: It's very easy to use once you've got it set
Speaker 19: up and then making the payments back.
Speaker 1: It works like a credit card. It'll look and feel
Speaker 1: like a credit card. It's just you're borrowing against your house.
Speaker 19: If you're going to borrow five thousand bucks against two
Speaker 19: hundred thousand dollars house, you're okay. If you're going to
Speaker 19: borrow one hundred grand against your two hundred thousand dollars house,
Speaker 19: maybe we need to sit down and talk about what
Speaker 19: the real problem is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might want to hold off on that new
Speaker 1: edition remodeling project at that particular time. Brian James, appreciate
Speaker 1: your sound financial advice and the suggestions you offer folks,
Speaker 1: and for coming on the program every morning to talk
Speaker 1: every Monday to talk about it. I'll look forward to
Speaker 1: next Money, another edition of Money Monday, and thanks as
Speaker 1: always to all with financial for loading you out. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the oppertinity. We'll talk to you in a week.
Speaker 1: Take care of Brian. It's a thirty five right now,
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Speaker 1: six oh five, we did a sort of a mashup.
Speaker 1: Joe put a mash up together an interview with my
Speaker 1: with with Representative Jennifer Gross from last week talking about
Speaker 1: the Medicaid waste and the fact that the auditor had
Speaker 1: finally dove into it and discovered that I guess twenty
Speaker 1: five percent or twenty six percent of the state's medicaid payments.
Speaker 1: We're going to people who do not live in the state.
Speaker 1: Obviously a massive red flag for fraud and uh, I
Speaker 1: was recalling and I know my listener friend Jay out
Speaker 1: there brings us up all the time, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if he was listening to it or not. Jay,
Speaker 1: if you didn't get a chance to listen and go
Speaker 1: to the podcast page fifty five care sea dot com.
Speaker 1: But he has keen interest in this subject because we're
Speaker 1: talking a lot of money. And when you look at
Speaker 1: the amount of money going out of state and the
Speaker 1: amount of money that it the medicaid program deals with,
Speaker 1: which is between forty and fifty million dollars or billion
Speaker 1: dollars in the state budget, the largest item in the
Speaker 1: state budget, Medicaid. The total amount going out of state,
Speaker 1: it seemed to me, doing my rudimentary math, translated to
Speaker 1: around ten billion dollars. And I interviewed Keith Faber about
Speaker 1: this back it was all the way back to January
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and he seemed to dance around the
Speaker 1: issue a little bit. And I'll let you draw your
Speaker 1: own conclusions. We had a bit of a computer glitch
Speaker 1: this morning, got it's work sorted out. So Joe's got
Speaker 1: the podcast of Jennifer Gross talking about the subject because
Speaker 1: she is on a Medicaid Subcommittee in Columbus now that
Speaker 1: they formed to deal with and solve and fix these problems.
Speaker 1: The problem is you need an administration willing to let
Speaker 1: you fix the problems, like, for example, a work requirement.
Speaker 1: If you want to require and make a mandate or
Speaker 1: work requirement in order to qualify for Medicaid, you either
Speaker 1: have to get classes and training, or you have to
Speaker 1: go out and look for a job, which they want
Speaker 1: to do in the state of Ohio. You got to
Speaker 1: get approval from the administration in DC. So now that
Speaker 1: we have a change of the guard, the likelihood that
Speaker 1: that will happen and we will get approval in the
Speaker 1: state is far more likely than it was under the
Speaker 1: Biden administration, which wouldn't allow for mandatory work requirements. But
Speaker 1: insofar as fixing the problems of paying people who don't
Speaker 1: live in the state, apparently that's also a complicating factor.
Speaker 1: So they're acting now. They're seemed to be working on
Speaker 1: it now, and I'm glad Jennifer Gross is on the job.
Speaker 1: But if you didn't get a chance to listen to that,
Speaker 1: it's well worth The difference between January twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and the audits they've done sample audits. They are, but
Speaker 1: enough for them to calculate that twenty five twenty six
Speaker 1: percent was going out of state and probably still is
Speaker 1: as we speak. Can you imagine how much I mean
Speaker 1: that would free up ten billion dollars? It just you
Speaker 1: could take the line item off the budget. Maybe you
Speaker 1: could lower our real estate taxes if we did something
Speaker 1: like that, or get rid of the income tax or
Speaker 1: something certainly something valuable they could do with all that
Speaker 1: money laying around and speaking of money, I thought this
Speaker 1: was rather interesting. Now do a thought exercise right here.
Speaker 1: Who opened the borders and allowed ten to fifteen million
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to come into our country? Open door, Welcome
Speaker 1: here you are. Your hearing date will be sometime down
Speaker 1: the road, probably five or six years. Have fun. Here's
Speaker 1: a bus. Where do you want to go? I want
Speaker 1: to go to a sanctuary city. Okay, that would have
Speaker 1: been the Biden administration for those not paying attention, And
Speaker 1: look at what happened when Trump got elected. Look the
Speaker 1: number of people coming across the southern border is down
Speaker 1: to a trickle. It's amazing. And who called themselves sanctuary cities?
Speaker 1: Who designated themselves a welcome an open environment for illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants to come to and not worry about the city
Speaker 1: cooperating with ICE officials and costing you out of the country. Well,
Speaker 1: New York's one of them. So the Biden administration invited
Speaker 1: and actually encouraged people, coupled with non governmental organizations paid
Speaker 1: for with your money, facilitating the costing of the border,
Speaker 1: facilitating the finding of housing and shelter, and facilitating everything.
Speaker 1: They were paid with your tax payer dollars to do that,
Speaker 1: which had the aripple effect of encouraging even more people
Speaker 1: to make the perilous journey to the southern border, knowing
Speaker 1: that there were organizations there that were going to help them,
Speaker 1: and that there were cities that were going to welcome
Speaker 1: them and invite them and not throw them out. And
Speaker 1: now once the Trumble administration comes in, is trying to
Speaker 1: cost some of the money back, most notably eighty million
Speaker 1: dollars previously sent to New York City via the Federal
Speaker 1: Emergency Management Agency FEMA. You may have heard about that,
Speaker 1: or the purpose of housing migrants FEMA. Sorry sucks to
Speaker 1: be North Carolinians. FEMA money went to New York City.
Speaker 1: So New York City's now foled a lawsuit against the
Speaker 1: Trump administration. They foiled on Friday, seeking to wrestle back
Speaker 1: that eighty million dollars. They alleged the funds previously approved
Speaker 1: and then paid out by FEMA, only to be removed
Speaker 1: from the city bank account on February eleventh without notice
Speaker 1: or administrative process. It's magical that the government can do that,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Oh, by the way, we're pulling the money
Speaker 1: directly out of your bank account. Look, it's not there anymore.
Speaker 1: That funding was revoked after Elon Musk doing his doge work,
Speaker 1: found fifty nine million dollars a FEMA payments that New
Speaker 1: York was was being used by the city in New
Speaker 1: York City to house illegal immigrants in luxury hotels. And
Speaker 1: the luxury hotel owners love it because, you know, post
Speaker 1: COVID and during COVID, those places were empty. They weren't
Speaker 1: making a dime on any room. Once the illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: show up, they need a place to stay. New York
Speaker 1: City's city has some mandatory housing rules. Hey, let's put
Speaker 1: them in luxury hotels. And the hoteliers are happy because
Speaker 1: they're getting full freight for the room rental. Apparently to
Speaker 1: fifty nine million dollars, so Trump called that massive fraud.
Speaker 1: New York City was awarded two separate grants during the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. Remember this is your money. A problem created
Speaker 1: by Biden resulted in your taxpayer dollars as precious few
Speaker 1: as there are going to New York City fifty eight
Speaker 1: point six million dollars first, and another twenty one point
Speaker 1: nine million dollars to help house the immigrants pat payments
Speaker 1: made under the Shelter and Services Program. The Congress appropriated
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty million dollars for last year to
Speaker 1: help local governments respond to the migrant crisis. Notice they
Speaker 1: use the word crisis, and notice the crisis that didn't
Speaker 1: have to happen. It was the Biden opened border's policy. Apparently,
Speaker 1: right now, forty five one thousand migrants staying and taxpayer
Speaker 1: funded shelters in New York City, up from sixty nine
Speaker 1: thousand more than a year ago. The law City accuses
Speaker 1: of the federal government of violating federal regulations in the
Speaker 1: terms of these Shelter and Service Program grants, as well
Speaker 1: as abusing the federal government's authority and obligations to implement
Speaker 1: congressionally approven funded and appropriated fund of programs. Adams defended
Speaker 1: and supported the lawsuit, the mayor, writing that the eighty
Speaker 1: million dollars was approved, paid for, and then rescinded, all
Speaker 1: while the city spent more than are you ready who's
Speaker 1: the fault here? Seven billion dollars of its own taxpayer
Speaker 1: money to tackle the crisis over the past three years,
Speaker 1: a situation invited by and created by their sanctuary city status.
Speaker 1: Quote from Eric Adams, we are going to work to
Speaker 1: ensure our city's residents get every dollar they are owed. Huh,
Speaker 1: they're owed. I don't know. It's a problem of their
Speaker 1: own creation. Democrats, sanctuary city, with a democratic administration and
Speaker 1: an OPRAH borders policy. They brought this on themselves, and
Speaker 1: I personally don't feel that, you know, the the money
Speaker 1: should be left in their hands. I mean with with
Speaker 1: with terrible action should come some consequences, But you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe we better not do this again. We going to
Speaker 1: whole rethink the whole process. A forty seven fifty five
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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling this morning. I was hoping you were
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm out here, man.
Speaker 14: Hey.
Speaker 20: Fantastic work that you and Jay are doing. You guys
Speaker 20: are second to none. Nobody does this kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 20: Real quick message to the listeners and know we're short
Speaker 20: on time. Why should you care about this medicaid fraud?
Speaker 20: Forty billion dollars is with Ohio pays in medicaid. Pennsylvania
Speaker 20: state budget is forty billion dollars.
Speaker 1: That says A. That's a mouthful, right, there man that
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 4: Well, get better.
Speaker 20: Pennsylvania is a GDP is one trillion dollars a year.
Speaker 20: Ohio's GDP is nine hundred billion. So and if you
Speaker 20: take half, now this, you know twenty five percent of
Speaker 20: the Medicaid and Ohio going out of state. Don't assume
Speaker 20: that that's part of the forty three point three percent
Speaker 20: improper payment rate.
Speaker 3: What if it's on top of that?
Speaker 20: Bottom line is if you take a look at the
Speaker 20: primary and secondary education line in ohiocheckbook dot gov, it's
Speaker 20: twenty billion dollars to fund all of our primary and
Speaker 20: secondary education. You could take the ways from medicaid theoretically
Speaker 20: fund primary and secondary education, and that would drop everybody's
Speaker 20: property tax by seventy percent. Because seventy percent of your
Speaker 20: property tax fund schools. I think the schools need.
Speaker 4: To have a haircut as well.
Speaker 20: But just think about that, and think about what kind
Speaker 20: of economic development opportunity Ohio could have if they'd ever
Speaker 20: get this property tax then cleaned up. And here's the point.
Speaker 20: All the money to drop your property tax is already
Speaker 20: in Ohio, already in Columbus and Medicaid fraud. So anybody
Speaker 20: that's listening, say why should I there and pick up
Speaker 20: the phone and call my representative state senators. Take a
Speaker 20: look at your property tax bill and ask yourself if
Speaker 20: you to have that touch by fifty to seventy five percent,
Speaker 20: or to continue to fund medicaid fraud.
Speaker 1: Well well done, Brian and Jay. And the other point
Speaker 1: that needs to be made on this, the way we
Speaker 1: fund education in the state of Ohio was deemed unconstitutional
Speaker 1: like twenty years ago by our Supreme corpl and Mayo.
Speaker 10: So there's the solution.
Speaker 1: The solution, it's to be an excellent solution. So yeah,
Speaker 1: call Jennifer Gross, tell her to keep up the good
Speaker 1: work and get in touch with Favor the auditor. Tell
Speaker 1: him to keep auditing and ferreting out the fraud, waste
Speaker 1: and abuse. And somebody's got to get on the hoard
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration and start asking for these much
Speaker 1: needed changes so we can get rid of the fraud,
Speaker 1: wasted abuse. And I think we stand a good chance
Speaker 1: under our Trump administration. They certainly under the Biden administration
Speaker 1: they didn't allow it. It's just just unbelievable to me, unbelievable. Jay,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate your enthusiasm and your
Speaker 1: kind words about the program. I really really do, and
Speaker 1: for riding hurt on me to stay on top of
Speaker 1: that particular issue. It's this insane amount of money and
Speaker 1: it's right there, you know, I consider it low hanging fruit.
Speaker 1: What address are you sending the check to? Oh, look,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Maybe we shouldn't be sending checks out there,
Speaker 1: just the thought. Now I know New Hampshire. Gary's not
Speaker 1: getting one of those Medicaid checks. Joe, I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: not anyhow, Folks, again that interview with Jennifer Gross, a
Speaker 1: couple of the Key Faber interview, and again, apologies for
Speaker 1: the position to stop it. That's Joe's Chucker's territory, but
Speaker 1: Joe doesn't need a break. Every once in a whise
Speaker 1: got to leave the studio and he usually does it
Speaker 1: when I'm jawing, so it's just bad timing. But apologies.
Speaker 1: But it all came out in the wash and that's
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Speaker 1: guests you lined up today. I truly appreciate it and
Speaker 1: the work you did on Going back to January of
Speaker 1: twenty three with my interview with Keith Faber, that's the
Speaker 1: last time I've talked to him. I hope you have
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