July 30, 2025 • 39 mins
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Negotiations over tariffs continue. It looks like we are on the cusp of major deals, and American consumers still haven't felt major price increases. So why won't the Fed cut rates?
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Negotiations over tariffs continue. It looks like we are on the cusp of major deals, and American consumers still haven't felt major price increases. So why won't the Fed cut rates?
After a shooting in New York City, and a highly publicized assault in Cincinnati, Ohio, Americans are wondering, "What exactly happened to public safety?"
For the latest news, follow me on Instagram and X:
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events that mat are to our generation. This is the
Next Gen Report with Ethanu can In.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey everybody, welcome back. Good to be with you once again.
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my attention and interests me throughout the day. It'll be
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checking it out. I'm gonna start getting those rolling. I
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did want actually on Friday. I'm gonna start doing those
maybe every Friday. We'll see maybe more frequently. Just got
to kind of work through some of the technical difficulties.
But yeah, so that's fun, that's exciting. I encourage you
to check that out. That'll be great. All right, what
do we want to talk about today. We have quite
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a bit. That's the easiest part of my job is
I have no shortage of topics. The difficult part is
actually figuring out how I want to talk about it.
So let's start with talking about some good news, and
then we'll get into all of the different reasons why
you should buy and responsibly carry a firearm a little
bit later in the show. But let's start with the
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good news. The economy is doing pretty good. Everybody is
still concerned about Trump's tariffs and what are those going
to do. I feel like at this point we kind
of know what the game here is. The tariffs are
clearly not the end goal. The tariffs are the stick.
You use the tariffs to basically pure pressure whatever country
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into negotiating with you, and that seems to be largely
what is happening. Companies are not companies, but also yeah, companies.
Companies are investing back in the United States, and then
nations are working with Trump on trade. We haven't had
all these deals cut and finalized yet, but we have
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had major progress, especially with big players like the EU
and China. The folks that have been talking a big
game about how we are not gonna let Trump bully
you bully us. We're gonna stand up to him. We're
not gonna pay these tarffs. We're gonna teariff you. United States. Well,
guess what, goober, You export to us more than we
export to you, So you tariffing us really doesn't hurt
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us all that badly. But US tariffing you incentivizing our
companies to not do business over there, incentivizing our consumers
to not buy products from you. That hurts you more
than you tariffing us hurts us. And what we've also
seen so far from the inflation data that we have,
is that these companies are eating the costs of these tariffs.
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They're kind of working it into their margins rather than
passing that down to consumers, which is great. And of
course the deals are being cut, which means these tariffs
will be lightened. All of this will work its way out,
and if whatever tariffs remain can factor into income tax relief,
then we're golden. You're paying less tax. Maybe you pay
a little bit more money for the things you buy
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on a day to day basis, but you pay less
income tax because we get that money from tariffs. Now,
perfect beautiful, So here is Scott Besson just to kind
of make this point talking about how the negotiations that
they've been having recently with China are going well, EU
are just about ready to sign a trade deal. They've
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pretty much just gotten to the crossing the t's and
dotting eyes phase. So we seem to be in a
pretty good shape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I think that everyone can see the arc of where
these trade deals are going. I won't say that the
Chinese were on their heels, because they're very composed. Vice
Premier Houli Fung is a seasoned politician, but it's clear
that the momentum was with us that when you get
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the EU the world's largest trading block, when you get
that deal inked, we had Japan, we had Indonesia, we
had Vietnam. So not only did we have the EU,
who is a very large trading relationship with China, we
also had three of their neighbors.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All right, so that's good news. We've got to deal
with a major trading block and three of their neighbors.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Great.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So you would think at this point we'd start looking
into doing some rate cuts, right because remember the entire
time Donald Trump has been the president, we have not
had a FED rate cut. Why, I don't know. They
did one for Joe Biden when inflation was far higher,
and now they're not doing one for Donald Trump when
inflation has reversed or stopped, but it's slowed down, it's
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leveled out, and I remind you that's what we're looking for, right,
correcting that. First of all, inflation never really goes down.
All you can do is kind of get your wages
to catch up, which for that you kind of need
things like a FED rate cut. So inflation has slowed down,
it's not skyrocketing like it was under Biden. So now
what we need is for the economy to catch up
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with where the prices went. And the FED still won't
cut rates. Their argument is always, well, there could be
inflation from the tariffs. Yeah, but we haven't seen that,
and we've had more than enough opportunity to see that.
So it kind of feels like you're just not wanting
to cut rates for political reasons, because again, when inflation
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was high, you cut them for Joe Biden and it
made inflation worse, and now that inflation is down, you
won't cut them for Trump. And it's what we actually
need in order to kind of get the paychecks of
the Americans to catch up. Here's how this works. That
money that is the FED rate cut essentially does this.
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It makes it easier for companies to do things like
access cheap capital, to hire more people, to give bonuses,
things like that. So if you want the felt cost
of everything to go down, what you essentially need is
everybody to start making more money, something that they can't
do until rates start to come down, and companies can
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take out lower interest loans to do things like investing themselves.
So now's the time to do that, and the Fed
won't do it. This is baffling everybody, including even CNBC's
Jim Kramer, who was so shocked by this he dropped
an f bomb on live TV. Take a listen back
to trade.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Do you think fifteen percent it's called at the tirephraight rise.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
At that level, it's not going to have an impact
on growth already.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
There's a story on the take right now.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Tariff's already stunting world growth while market shrug.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's the headline.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
We our biggest problem is we have so much growth
that the FED won't cut what the US the immediate.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is like, oh, crap I didn't mean to do that.
That was an accident. But he's making a good point.
We have so much growth and the Fed still won't
cut rates. Why now is the time to do it.
The longer Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve waits to
cut rates, the more it looks political. And I was
trying to give Jerome Powell the benefit of the doubt here,
I'm starting to think it is political. I want to
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dig into this more. Maybe I'll have a expert on
to talk about this on Sunday. We'll see. Stay tuned anyway,
we got a great show coming up. We'll be right back. Alrighty,
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Let's talk about this shooting that we had in New
York because I think it is important. It's important because
once again the left jumped immediately to ignore the facts
on the case, ignore what actually happened. We need gun control,
which is their default modus operandi. That's Latin for mode
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of operation. That's what they go to immediately. It's gun control,
gun control, gun control. What they never bothered to think
about is, wait a minute, this happened in New York,
where they have very strict gun laws. So it's almost
like and hear me out on this. I know this
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is going to be wild for me to say, but
it's almost like people that are dead set on murdering
other people are not really that concerned with the laws.
I know that's crazy to suggest. I know that's wild,
but that seems to be the pattern that we're seeing,
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and I think we need to consider that possibility. Right anyway,
here's what actually happened. Four people were gunned down in
a midtown Manhattan office building. This happened on Monday. The
New York Police Department is sending investigators to Las Vegas,
where the gunman lived, to learn more about the possible
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motive for the deadly rampage. Sean or No Shane Devon Tamora,
twenty seven, walked into the building carrying an assault rifle
and a suicide note in his back pocket, alleging that
he suffered from CTE, a brain disease linked to head trauma.
According to a source, Mayor Eric Adams said investigators believed
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Tomorrow was headed for the NFL offices, but he took
the wrong elevator. So from what I can tell, it's
essentially this guy was mentally ill, and he blamed the
NFL and whatever past football career he may have had
for that. And so he went to New York with
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a gun he was not allowed to have there, took
it into a place he was not allowed to have it,
and committed murder, which you're not allowed to do. Four
people were killed, including an NYPD officer. This is tragic.
This is very sad. And then he turned the gun
on himself and took his own life. Now, immediately, the
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first thought from the left isn't okay. How did this
guy like openly walk through the city streets with an
AR even though he's not allowed to have the anar
in New York? I mean, this checked all the boxes
of guns they want banned. It looks scary. It was
an assault rifle quote unquote, It had like a thirty
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round magazine in it, and he was just walking through
the streets. The photos of him on security tape just
walking around with it. So clearly the problem is not
we need more laws, because we've got the laws and
they're being completely ignored. Where was the law enforcement the
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entire time? That's a question that should be asked. Why
was nobody asked, hey, you, what are you doing with
that gun? In most parts of Texas, you're allowed technically
to just open carry an assault rifle. You can do
that now, I guarantee you. The minute you do it,
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some officers gonna walk up to you and say, hey, man,
what are you doing. And you can say, oh, I'm
just hanging around. I'm just exercising my Second Amendment right
to carry a firearm. I'm allowed to have this and
I'm carrying it. It's nothing against the law. And he'll say, okay,
carry on, and he'll watch you out of the corner
of the eye the entire time, and not only that,
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every other person in the vicinity who is carrying. And
guess what, here in Texas, it's a lot of people.
They're going to get you keeping an eye on you
as well, and if you try to do something illegal
with that assault rifle, you will be stopped quickly. Maybe
not instantaneously, but quickly. This guy was not stopped at all,
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which raises serious questions about, Okay, what is the law
enforcement doing. Why do you have all of these laws
on the books if when it comes time to actually
enforce them because there is a threat, there's no one
to be found to enforce them. That's the conversation we
should be having, but instead we've got Yahoo's like Andrew Yang.
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He's been around the block for a while. He ran
for president as a Democrat, I believe in twenty twenty.
He's got a lot of money behind him. He's started
a couple of businesses, a successful entrepreneur. He is the
founder of the Forward Party, which is just some left
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wing progressive political party. He's got a lot of money
behind him, and he's I don't know, a decent enough guy,
it seems, but he's a leftist, leftist, and he tweeted
out it's too easy to get an automatic rifle in America.
And this, I think is the perfect example of the
fact that the people pushing gun control have no idea
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what the hell they're talking about. It's too easy to
get an automatic rifle in America? Are you sure about that?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
If you don't know your left farm, you're right when
it comes to guns. You might not understand why what
he just said is so wrong. So let me explain
it to you. Automatic rifles are illegal for the average
person to own. You cannot get your hands on one,
at least not legally. You can still get one illegally,
that's not that's not hard to do, which just goes
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to tell you how well gun control works. You can
get a glock switch and a brace and a barrel
adaptation that'll turn your your glock into a essentially fully
automatic assault rifle, give or take. It's illegal, but you
can do it. It's not hard. You see videos all
the time of people on social media that have them.
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But officially, automatic rifles are heavily regulated by the National
Firearms Act of nineteen thirty four and the FOPA of
nineteen eighty six, requiring an ATF background check, fingerprinting, a
two hundred dollars tax stamp, and a six to twelve
month approval period. New ones have been banned since nineteen
eighty six, limited to costly pre nineteen eighty six models,
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which go for around ten thousand and forty thousand dollars.
And on top of that, that's just the federal regulations.
There are state laws that add up on top of that.
That's according to Congress dot gov, ATF dot gov, and
a bunch of other legal gun sites. So this guy
just has no clue what he's talking about, which is
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a common theme amongst gun control advocates. They don't know
what they're talking about. Anyone who does know what they're
talking about will tell you that, yeah, you can't get
your hands on a automatic assault rifle. It's illegal. And
what they'll also tell you is the best way to
end these mass shootings or these gun violence incidents is
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expand the good Americans' access to firearms, because that's how
almost every single mass shooting ends. A good guy with
a gun will take out the shooter unless they kill
themselves first, which happened in this case. I mean, it
blows my mind. It's complete cognitive dissonance. We keep acting
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like we don't know how to solve this problem. We
know exactly how to solve this problem, and it's not
even hard. I posted this on Eggs. If you want
to maybe not completely end, but significantly reduce the amount
of mass shootings that occur in the United States and
the amount of lives that are lost in mass shootings,
here are the three things you do. Expand access to
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firearms for everyone, all the time. Make sure as many
people are encouraged to and able to have access to firearms.
What you want is basically, no good American leaving the
house on any given day without a at least a
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handgun on their person. Then what you do next make
the unjustified taking of a human life the most severely
punished crime. We've got to stop playing these games where
you know, you, you know, kill fifteen people and then
you spend you know, at least the next twenty years
living on the taxpayer dime in a federal prison. And
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that's even if you get the death penalty, which oftentimes
you don't because they hate using them for some reason.
If you take a human life unjustifiably, you should be
executed and quickly as well. Disincentivized murder, make sure people
are scared of committing murder, and then you reward the
people who use firearms to protect their life and property
or the life and property of others. We have got
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a completely reversed system where you're punished for using a
firearm to keep yourself for others safe. See Kyle Rittenhouse
for examples. We need more people like that. That's how
you stop mass shootings. That's how you do it. All right,
We've got a lot more coming up. Stay tuned, we'll
bear back. Sorry that break really snuck up on me.
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I was getting fired up there. You need to take
a breather, all right, let's get fired up again. Breather's over.
So we've got this. I don't know really what to
call it. It's a riot of some sort. It's an assault, clearly,
but I don't know really what you would call this.
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To me, just looks like a violent assault of this
random white couple in Cincinnati, Ohio by what I can
only describe as a gang. And I'm not sure where
it came from. I'm not sure why. I don't think
anybody really knows. But it's sucking and it's frankly terrifying,
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and we need to be calling it out clearly, because
these are signs of a late stage society. That's what
these are. New York Post has the breakdown. Disturbing video
shows women knocked out cold by jeering crowd and wild
Cincinnati street brawl. Shocking footage captured a woman getting knocked
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out with a cold punch to the face during a
violent brawl on a Cincinnati street, and police have vowed
to track down the violent thugs seen in the viral clip.
The fight broke out in the heart of downtown Cincinnati
on Friday night, with a white man and woman appearing
to be relentlessly targeted by a group of largely black assailants.
It remains unclear what sparked it. Witnesses told WXIX that
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one of the groups made racial comments before blows started,
though it's unclear who the initial aggressors were, so we
don't know what started this, we don't know why. All
we know for sure is we we have this video,
these series of videos of this couple getting the absolute
snot beat out of them. I'll play you a little
bit of the video here. You might be able to
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get a sense of what's going on from the audio,
but take a list of this. There's three or four
guys just beating the crap out of this guy. They've
thrown him onto the ground, they're stopping on his head,
kicking him. Even some chicks are jumping in on this.
This is a white guy, by the way, These are
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all black folks. I don't know what the situation there
is or why that's the racial dynamic, but it is.
They're just beating the snot out of this guy, curb
stopping him. As I understand it, this is at a
jazz festival in Cincinnati is where this happened, just downtown Cincinnati. Look,
they're kicking this guy's head in just up against the curb.
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It's disgusting. It really is sad to watch. And he's
just he's cowering the entire time, because what else can
you do. You've got four or five people that are
all far more athletic than he is, just beating the
snot out of him. In the clip, a man in
a white T shirt is chased down the street and
shoved to the sidewalk by two other men, who proceeded
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to punch and kick him. Once he's down, Others, jeering
from a crowd men and women alike, rush in and
stomp on the man's head and torso, with one even
body slamming him. In the videos, after trying in vain
to defend himself, the man is seen staggering to his
feet with a bloody face when a woman rushes to
help him. This is where things get interesting. She runs
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a foul of the crowd when she tries to hold
back one of the attackers and is promptly shocked in
the face twice, sending her tumbling to the ground with
her head cracking on the pavement. The pictures that have
come out from this are shocking. You may have seen
them on Twitter already. This video has been circulating for
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a couple of days now. This is insane that this
could happen. Where were the police? Nobody knows what was
going on there? Nobody knows. But more importantly, what justifies
that reaction? I mean, maybe maybe if you want to
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give everyone in this video the benefit of the doubt,
you say, we see here that a witness says racial
comments were made, but we don't know who made those comments.
Let's assume, let's assume that this white guy said something
to some of these black folks that he shouldn't have.
I think you all know what I'm getting at. Are
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we now in the position where that justifies you beating
the snot out of him and his wife in the street?
Is that where we've gotten to as a society. Should
you say the certain things that I'm alluding to? Absolutely
not No. Should that be essentially a death sentence for
you and your wife? Should that subject you to mob
violence in the street?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Both of those things can be true. At once. Disgusting
that this even happened. But again, this is why I
say everyone should have a firearm on their person. Again,
I don't know the situation here. But if you and
what I believe is your wife are getting attacked by
a mob and they're stomping and kicking your head in
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and knocking your wife out cold in the street, you're
justified pull out your firearm, defend yourself, defend your wife.
Crap like this is why when me and my wife
leave the house, I have a firearm on me all
the time. I do not leave my home unless I'm
going to work because I can't carry there. But unless
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I'm in the office at the studio, if I'm not
in my home, I have a firearm on my person.
And you should too. If you are legally allowed to
carry a firearm, if you're legally allowed to own a firearm,
get one, carry it. Defend yourself. Because the classic saying
is when seconds count, the cops are minutes away. I
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love that saying because it's true. It is where were
the cops in this video? They were in the middle
of downtown Cincinnati. Why was nobody there to break up
this riot? Even if you give everyone the benefit of
the doubt, the police should have shown up and pulled
the people apart and stopped this. But they didn't. Where
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were they. I have no idea. I love hpd Our
cops here in Houston are fantastic. I have the pleasure
of speaking with them rather frequently. I know many of them.
They're great folks. I don't trust them to be there
for me in seconds when seconds count. I just don't
because I know the reality of their job. It's not easy.
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They have to be in a lot of places all
at once, and there's not that many of them. Thankfully,
this is being called out by none other than the
vek Ramaswami. He I believe has officially receive even the
GOP nomination for governor of Ohio where this incident occurred.
If he hasn't, he's campaigning for it right now here.
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He is on news radio seven hundred WLW. Technically there
are sisters station over here in Houston because they're also iHeartRadio,
so shout out to them. And here is vivek Ramaswami
talking with them about this can't happen in our cities.
We cannot allow things like this to occur and the
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cops just not step in, there'd be no action taken.
We have got to do better.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Here he is saying this, I'm not going to sit
here and just throw my hands up in the air
and complain about it. I'm going to do something about it.
That's how manic forgiver, and I do think that we
set the tone from the top. And my view is
it is not controversial, It is not Republican, it is
not democrat. It is common sense to increase police presence
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in our cities. I'm talking about downtown Cincinnati, I'm talking
about the inner city of Cleveland. I'm talking about the
inner city of Toledo and Dayton, and yes, even Columbus Now,
look at areas like the Short North in Columbus. In
the every week you wake up to some type of
news about some type of crime that's not acceptable. And
I do think that it takes a leader with the
spine at the top to actually say it. So my
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job as the next governor of the state to set
the tone for our state that includes, we wanted the
cities in our state no more apologizing, no more differing around.
This is common sense, and we're going to stand for
it with apology. We're bringing law and order back to
Ohio in a way that most people in the state want,
and every citizen of this state deserves.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And I won't be apologizing for that. We're just going
to get it done as we should, as we should.
Here's the thing. I might sound like a little bit
of a hypocrite on this, but I'm going to say this.
Should you leave your home as responsible adults? Say you
have a wife and family, if you're I'm speaking to
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the men here. Let me say that to the guys
out there. Should you leave your home if you have
you know, say your wife or even your fiance, your girlfriend,
and let's say maybe you have some kids, you have
a family of some type, some makeup. Should you leave
the home without a firearm if you have the ability
to carry one, No, you shouldn't. It's irresponsible of you.
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Chances are, and I pray to God this is the reality.
You never have to use it. In a perfect world,
you leave the house every day with a firearm and
never touch it. That I believe is the perfect society.
Should you leave the house without a firearm? No? Should
you be able to? Yes, you should be able to.
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And the fact of the matter is, in most modern
American cities you can't. It's just not safe to do that.
It should be, it should be you should be able
to have faith in your fellow citizens to say, if
something happens there is a threat, other people around me
will step up and act and eliminate the threat, or
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the law enforcement will be there to eliminate the threat.
Those are the signs of a healthy society. We don't
live in a healthy society. This is the harsh truth.
We live in a deeply, deeply unhealthy, immoral society that
does not incentivize the protection of life, and it allows
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you to skate with the threatening of life. We make
so many excuses for it. We'll get into that in
a minute. We'll talk about this police chief coming up
in the next segment, who immediately jump to making excuses
for this mob which is discussing in and of its
own right. We'll think into that in just a second.
I don't have enough time to say everything I want
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to say about it in these last ten seconds, so
stay with me just one more ad break. We will
be right back and we'll talk about that. All right,
(29:16):
So let's talk about the Cincinnati police chief and her
response to all of this. You would think the first
response of a police chief to what I guess can
be best described as a violent riot like this happening
in her city. Probably not riot because it wasn't widespread,
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but you get the point. You would think the first
response of any self respecting police officer would be, hey,
don't beat the crap out of people in the street.
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Her first response, when I only decided to address this
incident in a press conference was how dare the media
make these people look so bad? How dare social media
users spread this video on the internet and make these
poor people who beat the snot out of this couple
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look so terrible. I'm not kidding, that's what she said.
I wish I was joking. It makes me sick to
my stomach that i'm not, but I'm not. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Another topic I want to cover real quick social media
and journalism and the role it plays in this incident.
And yes, guys, that's you.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
That is you.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Social media. The post that we've seen does not depict
the entire incident.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Okay, let me stop right there. She's right, it doesn't
depict the entire incident. That doesn't matter. As I talked
about in the last segment, I don't care what the
lead up was, what happens in that video which you
can go find it on X If you haven't watched it,
I played you the audio, but it's another thing entirely
to see it. Go watch it, regardless of what the context,
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what the lead up was. That was disgusting. That was
a horrible response to whatever may have occurred in the
lead up. Okay, continue, stupid police chief Terry THETGI or
I don't know how to pronounce that. Th e ttge
by the way, is the police chief in question? Here? Continue?
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Go on.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
That is one version of what occurred at times.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are a
misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event. What that
does that causes us some difficulties in thoroughly investigating the activity.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Know the hell it doesn't You have on video people
beating the snot out of this couple in the middle
of the street. That's all you need. That is all
you need. Bring those people in, get their statements. Unless
that guy said, Hey, I have a bomb and I'm
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about to blow all of us up. Unless those words
emitted from his mouth. What you saw in that video
of him, and what I have to assume is his
wife getting the crap beat out of them in the
middle of the Cincinnati street is utterly unjustifiable, completely and totally.
You don't need the context. It doesn't matter. The harsh
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reality of American society is, whether you like it or not,
you are allowed to say mean things to people. Should
you No? Are you allowed to yes? Should that result
in you getting the hell beat out of you and
your wife who's just trying to hold people back from
curb stomping you. No, you should not have to pay
for your life with that. You should be chastised. Maybe
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you should be say, hey, what are you doing. That's
not cool. Don't say those things, maybe even thrown out
of polite society, but physically have your face kicked in
while your wife is knocked unconscious in the street. No,
it's unjustifiable. Put those people in jail. I don't care
what the context is, and I'm not gonna sit here
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and blame social media or the media in general for
calling this out and making your job harder. Also something
that is interesting and worth pointing out, as she's giving
this press conference coincidentally in front of a poet sure
of her own face, which is fascinating to say the least. Anyway,
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she's got more to say. Let's take a listen and enforcing.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
The law, because what happens that social media post and
your coverage of it distorts the content of what actually happened,
and it makes our job more difficult.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Go ahead, RK here, thank you.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Two questions.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Where were the airsp officers in the central business section?
They were working. They were both in vehicles and like
I said, they had to maneuver through the traffic.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
My second question is he had said social media and
media distorted the content of what actually happened.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
What exactly was distorted? I understand that there was one
multiple views of the video, but exactly what led up
to this? I mean, what was distorted?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:49):
So I think by.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
The irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one
side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context,
and then people run with that and then it grows
legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have
to try to manage as part of the investigation.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, did you catch that there were two good questions
that she was asked?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Just then?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Where were the nearest cops? That's important? Where the hell
were they? They were in the area, but they had
to maneuver through traffic because they were in cars. Okay,
fair enough, I'll give you that one. You say this
was distorted. What exactly was distorted? Well, you see the context.
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We have the distortion of the broader context, and that's
the responsibility of the social media. She has no answer,
which just goes to tell you she was just making
crap up that entire time when she's talking about context
being distorted, and oh the responsibility of the media and
Lodi Dotty dotty Dotti do she doesn't have any idea
(36:07):
what the hell she's talking about, because again, the context distortion.
I don't care. I don't care what the context was,
and you shouldn't either. The question is, is having the
crap beat out of you in the street and then
when a woman tries to hold people back from kicking
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your head in to the curb because you're already down
and out, she gets knocked the hell out in the
middle of the street. Is that justified ever? And my
answer is maybe, But only if that guy has a
bomb vest or an AR fifteen is about to start
shooting people up. Only in that situation is that the case?
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And I guarantee you that guy wasn't packing, because if
he was, he would have pulled his piece. He would
have And it's disgusting that anybody, let alone a police chief,
would try to make excuses for this, because that's what
she's doing. Remember how I told you one of the
things we need to do is disincentivized violence and incentivize
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the protection of life. This is the exact opposite of that.
This entire press conference from this stupid police chief is
the complete and total opposite of that. This is the
incentivizing and excuse making of extreme radical violence. Again, we
don't know the full context, but I really don't think
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it's important. I don't care for what it is worth. Though,
Vivek Ramaswami, as previously mentioned, did speak to the lady
in question. Her name is Holly. This is the woman
who was knocked out cold in the street. Vivek posted
I spoke to Hally earlier today. She's a single working mom. Okay,
so not this guy's wife or girlfriend or anything who
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went to a friend's birthday party. It is unconscionable that
there were no police presidents in that area of Cincinnati
on Friday night, or even an ambulance to take her
to the hospital. Hardworking Americans shouldn't have to worry for
their safety when they have a good time in our cities.
Holly said. Not a single local or state official had
yet reached out as of earlier this afternoon, other than
one police detective. Okay, that's crazy, but yeah, this seems
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to be a very sympathetic response from Vivek, which I
have to imagine Vivek, being brown, would not be this
sympathetic if he found out that these people were just
throwing N bombs around and that's what got the crap
beat out of them. But again, even if that's what
did happen, that does not justify the snot being beat
out of you in the street. It just doesn't. We
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have got to work our way out of this late
stage societal collapse that we seem to find ourselves in.
We do, all right, That's all I've got for you.
We'll be back on Sunday seven pm AM nine to
fifty KPRC for the Live Sunday Show, and of course
check me out on social media at Underscore Ethan buchanan
on X. Thank you very much for listening, and we'll
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But yeah, so that's fun, that's exciting. I encourage you
to check that out. That'll be great. All right, what
do we want to talk about today. We have quite
(01:26):
a bit. That's the easiest part of my job is
I have no shortage of topics. The difficult part is
actually figuring out how I want to talk about it.
So let's start with talking about some good news, and
then we'll get into all of the different reasons why
you should buy and responsibly carry a firearm a little
bit later in the show. But let's start with the
(01:47):
good news. The economy is doing pretty good. Everybody is
still concerned about Trump's tariffs and what are those going
to do. I feel like at this point we kind
of know what the game here is. The tariffs are
clearly not the end goal. The tariffs are the stick.
You use the tariffs to basically pure pressure whatever country
(02:08):
into negotiating with you, and that seems to be largely
what is happening. Companies are not companies, but also yeah, companies.
Companies are investing back in the United States, and then
nations are working with Trump on trade. We haven't had
all these deals cut and finalized yet, but we have
(02:28):
had major progress, especially with big players like the EU
and China. The folks that have been talking a big
game about how we are not gonna let Trump bully
you bully us. We're gonna stand up to him. We're
not gonna pay these tarffs. We're gonna teariff you. United States. Well,
guess what, goober, You export to us more than we
export to you, So you tariffing us really doesn't hurt
(02:51):
us all that badly. But US tariffing you incentivizing our
companies to not do business over there, incentivizing our consumers
to not buy products from you. That hurts you more
than you tariffing us hurts us. And what we've also
seen so far from the inflation data that we have,
is that these companies are eating the costs of these tariffs.
(03:14):
They're kind of working it into their margins rather than
passing that down to consumers, which is great. And of
course the deals are being cut, which means these tariffs
will be lightened. All of this will work its way out,
and if whatever tariffs remain can factor into income tax relief,
then we're golden. You're paying less tax. Maybe you pay
a little bit more money for the things you buy
(03:36):
on a day to day basis, but you pay less
income tax because we get that money from tariffs. Now,
perfect beautiful, So here is Scott Besson just to kind
of make this point talking about how the negotiations that
they've been having recently with China are going well, EU
are just about ready to sign a trade deal. They've
(03:56):
pretty much just gotten to the crossing the t's and
dotting eyes phase. So we seem to be in a
pretty good shape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I think that everyone can see the arc of where
these trade deals are going. I won't say that the
Chinese were on their heels, because they're very composed. Vice
Premier Houli Fung is a seasoned politician, but it's clear
that the momentum was with us that when you get
(04:28):
the EU the world's largest trading block, when you get
that deal inked, we had Japan, we had Indonesia, we
had Vietnam. So not only did we have the EU,
who is a very large trading relationship with China, we
also had three of their neighbors.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All right, so that's good news. We've got to deal
with a major trading block and three of their neighbors.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Great.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So you would think at this point we'd start looking
into doing some rate cuts, right because remember the entire
time Donald Trump has been the president, we have not
had a FED rate cut. Why, I don't know. They
did one for Joe Biden when inflation was far higher,
and now they're not doing one for Donald Trump when
inflation has reversed or stopped, but it's slowed down, it's
(05:17):
leveled out, and I remind you that's what we're looking for, right,
correcting that. First of all, inflation never really goes down.
All you can do is kind of get your wages
to catch up, which for that you kind of need
things like a FED rate cut. So inflation has slowed down,
it's not skyrocketing like it was under Biden. So now
what we need is for the economy to catch up
(05:38):
with where the prices went. And the FED still won't
cut rates. Their argument is always, well, there could be
inflation from the tariffs. Yeah, but we haven't seen that,
and we've had more than enough opportunity to see that.
So it kind of feels like you're just not wanting
to cut rates for political reasons, because again, when inflation
(05:59):
was high, you cut them for Joe Biden and it
made inflation worse, and now that inflation is down, you
won't cut them for Trump. And it's what we actually
need in order to kind of get the paychecks of
the Americans to catch up. Here's how this works. That
money that is the FED rate cut essentially does this.
(06:19):
It makes it easier for companies to do things like
access cheap capital, to hire more people, to give bonuses,
things like that. So if you want the felt cost
of everything to go down, what you essentially need is
everybody to start making more money, something that they can't
do until rates start to come down, and companies can
(06:41):
take out lower interest loans to do things like investing themselves.
So now's the time to do that, and the Fed
won't do it. This is baffling everybody, including even CNBC's
Jim Kramer, who was so shocked by this he dropped
an f bomb on live TV. Take a listen back
to trade.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Do you think fifteen percent it's called at the tirephraight rise.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
At that level, it's not going to have an impact
on growth already.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
There's a story on the take right now.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Tariff's already stunting world growth while market shrug.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's the headline.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
We our biggest problem is we have so much growth
that the FED won't cut what the US the immediate.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is like, oh, crap I didn't mean to do that.
That was an accident. But he's making a good point.
We have so much growth and the Fed still won't
cut rates. Why now is the time to do it.
The longer Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve waits to
cut rates, the more it looks political. And I was
trying to give Jerome Powell the benefit of the doubt here,
I'm starting to think it is political. I want to
(07:42):
dig into this more. Maybe I'll have a expert on
to talk about this on Sunday. We'll see. Stay tuned anyway,
we got a great show coming up. We'll be right back. Alrighty,
(08:22):
Let's talk about this shooting that we had in New
York because I think it is important. It's important because
once again the left jumped immediately to ignore the facts
on the case, ignore what actually happened. We need gun control,
which is their default modus operandi. That's Latin for mode
(08:46):
of operation. That's what they go to immediately. It's gun control,
gun control, gun control. What they never bothered to think
about is, wait a minute, this happened in New York,
where they have very strict gun laws. So it's almost
like and hear me out on this. I know this
(09:07):
is going to be wild for me to say, but
it's almost like people that are dead set on murdering
other people are not really that concerned with the laws.
I know that's crazy to suggest. I know that's wild,
but that seems to be the pattern that we're seeing,
(09:28):
and I think we need to consider that possibility. Right anyway,
here's what actually happened. Four people were gunned down in
a midtown Manhattan office building. This happened on Monday. The
New York Police Department is sending investigators to Las Vegas,
where the gunman lived, to learn more about the possible
(09:48):
motive for the deadly rampage. Sean or No Shane Devon Tamora,
twenty seven, walked into the building carrying an assault rifle
and a suicide note in his back pocket, alleging that
he suffered from CTE, a brain disease linked to head trauma.
According to a source, Mayor Eric Adams said investigators believed
(10:09):
Tomorrow was headed for the NFL offices, but he took
the wrong elevator. So from what I can tell, it's
essentially this guy was mentally ill, and he blamed the
NFL and whatever past football career he may have had
for that. And so he went to New York with
(10:31):
a gun he was not allowed to have there, took
it into a place he was not allowed to have it,
and committed murder, which you're not allowed to do. Four
people were killed, including an NYPD officer. This is tragic.
This is very sad. And then he turned the gun
on himself and took his own life. Now, immediately, the
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first thought from the left isn't okay. How did this
guy like openly walk through the city streets with an
AR even though he's not allowed to have the anar
in New York? I mean, this checked all the boxes
of guns they want banned. It looks scary. It was
an assault rifle quote unquote, It had like a thirty
(11:15):
round magazine in it, and he was just walking through
the streets. The photos of him on security tape just
walking around with it. So clearly the problem is not
we need more laws, because we've got the laws and
they're being completely ignored. Where was the law enforcement the
(11:36):
entire time? That's a question that should be asked. Why
was nobody asked, hey, you, what are you doing with
that gun? In most parts of Texas, you're allowed technically
to just open carry an assault rifle. You can do
that now, I guarantee you. The minute you do it,
(11:58):
some officers gonna walk up to you and say, hey, man,
what are you doing. And you can say, oh, I'm
just hanging around. I'm just exercising my Second Amendment right
to carry a firearm. I'm allowed to have this and
I'm carrying it. It's nothing against the law. And he'll say, okay,
carry on, and he'll watch you out of the corner
of the eye the entire time, and not only that,
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every other person in the vicinity who is carrying. And
guess what, here in Texas, it's a lot of people.
They're going to get you keeping an eye on you
as well, and if you try to do something illegal
with that assault rifle, you will be stopped quickly. Maybe
not instantaneously, but quickly. This guy was not stopped at all,
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which raises serious questions about, Okay, what is the law
enforcement doing. Why do you have all of these laws
on the books if when it comes time to actually
enforce them because there is a threat, there's no one
to be found to enforce them. That's the conversation we
should be having, but instead we've got Yahoo's like Andrew Yang.
(13:04):
He's been around the block for a while. He ran
for president as a Democrat, I believe in twenty twenty.
He's got a lot of money behind him. He's started
a couple of businesses, a successful entrepreneur. He is the
founder of the Forward Party, which is just some left
(13:25):
wing progressive political party. He's got a lot of money
behind him, and he's I don't know, a decent enough guy,
it seems, but he's a leftist, leftist, and he tweeted
out it's too easy to get an automatic rifle in America.
And this, I think is the perfect example of the
fact that the people pushing gun control have no idea
(13:47):
what the hell they're talking about. It's too easy to
get an automatic rifle in America? Are you sure about that?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
If you don't know your left farm, you're right when
it comes to guns. You might not understand why what
he just said is so wrong. So let me explain
it to you. Automatic rifles are illegal for the average
person to own. You cannot get your hands on one,
at least not legally. You can still get one illegally,
that's not that's not hard to do, which just goes
(14:20):
to tell you how well gun control works. You can
get a glock switch and a brace and a barrel
adaptation that'll turn your your glock into a essentially fully
automatic assault rifle, give or take. It's illegal, but you
can do it. It's not hard. You see videos all
the time of people on social media that have them.
(14:43):
But officially, automatic rifles are heavily regulated by the National
Firearms Act of nineteen thirty four and the FOPA of
nineteen eighty six, requiring an ATF background check, fingerprinting, a
two hundred dollars tax stamp, and a six to twelve
month approval period. New ones have been banned since nineteen
eighty six, limited to costly pre nineteen eighty six models,
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which go for around ten thousand and forty thousand dollars.
And on top of that, that's just the federal regulations.
There are state laws that add up on top of that.
That's according to Congress dot gov, ATF dot gov, and
a bunch of other legal gun sites. So this guy
just has no clue what he's talking about, which is
(15:28):
a common theme amongst gun control advocates. They don't know
what they're talking about. Anyone who does know what they're
talking about will tell you that, yeah, you can't get
your hands on a automatic assault rifle. It's illegal. And
what they'll also tell you is the best way to
end these mass shootings or these gun violence incidents is
(15:52):
expand the good Americans' access to firearms, because that's how
almost every single mass shooting ends. A good guy with
a gun will take out the shooter unless they kill
themselves first, which happened in this case. I mean, it
blows my mind. It's complete cognitive dissonance. We keep acting
(16:13):
like we don't know how to solve this problem. We
know exactly how to solve this problem, and it's not
even hard. I posted this on Eggs. If you want
to maybe not completely end, but significantly reduce the amount
of mass shootings that occur in the United States and
the amount of lives that are lost in mass shootings,
here are the three things you do. Expand access to
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firearms for everyone, all the time. Make sure as many
people are encouraged to and able to have access to firearms.
What you want is basically, no good American leaving the
house on any given day without a at least a
(16:56):
handgun on their person. Then what you do next make
the unjustified taking of a human life the most severely
punished crime. We've got to stop playing these games where
you know, you, you know, kill fifteen people and then
you spend you know, at least the next twenty years
living on the taxpayer dime in a federal prison. And
(17:18):
that's even if you get the death penalty, which oftentimes
you don't because they hate using them for some reason.
If you take a human life unjustifiably, you should be
executed and quickly as well. Disincentivized murder, make sure people
are scared of committing murder, and then you reward the
people who use firearms to protect their life and property
or the life and property of others. We have got
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a completely reversed system where you're punished for using a
firearm to keep yourself for others safe. See Kyle Rittenhouse
for examples. We need more people like that. That's how
you stop mass shootings. That's how you do it. All right,
We've got a lot more coming up. Stay tuned, we'll
bear back. Sorry that break really snuck up on me.
(18:16):
I was getting fired up there. You need to take
a breather, all right, let's get fired up again. Breather's over.
So we've got this. I don't know really what to
call it. It's a riot of some sort. It's an assault, clearly,
but I don't know really what you would call this.
(18:40):
To me, just looks like a violent assault of this
random white couple in Cincinnati, Ohio by what I can
only describe as a gang. And I'm not sure where
it came from. I'm not sure why. I don't think
anybody really knows. But it's sucking and it's frankly terrifying,
(19:01):
and we need to be calling it out clearly, because
these are signs of a late stage society. That's what
these are. New York Post has the breakdown. Disturbing video
shows women knocked out cold by jeering crowd and wild
Cincinnati street brawl. Shocking footage captured a woman getting knocked
(19:22):
out with a cold punch to the face during a
violent brawl on a Cincinnati street, and police have vowed
to track down the violent thugs seen in the viral clip.
The fight broke out in the heart of downtown Cincinnati
on Friday night, with a white man and woman appearing
to be relentlessly targeted by a group of largely black assailants.
It remains unclear what sparked it. Witnesses told WXIX that
(19:48):
one of the groups made racial comments before blows started,
though it's unclear who the initial aggressors were, so we
don't know what started this, we don't know why. All
we know for sure is we we have this video,
these series of videos of this couple getting the absolute
snot beat out of them. I'll play you a little
bit of the video here. You might be able to
(20:09):
get a sense of what's going on from the audio,
but take a list of this. There's three or four
guys just beating the crap out of this guy. They've
thrown him onto the ground, they're stopping on his head,
kicking him. Even some chicks are jumping in on this.
This is a white guy, by the way, These are
(20:30):
all black folks. I don't know what the situation there
is or why that's the racial dynamic, but it is.
They're just beating the snot out of this guy, curb
stopping him. As I understand it, this is at a
jazz festival in Cincinnati is where this happened, just downtown Cincinnati. Look,
they're kicking this guy's head in just up against the curb.
(20:56):
It's disgusting. It really is sad to watch. And he's
just he's cowering the entire time, because what else can
you do. You've got four or five people that are
all far more athletic than he is, just beating the
snot out of him. In the clip, a man in
a white T shirt is chased down the street and
shoved to the sidewalk by two other men, who proceeded
(21:17):
to punch and kick him. Once he's down, Others, jeering
from a crowd men and women alike, rush in and
stomp on the man's head and torso, with one even
body slamming him. In the videos, after trying in vain
to defend himself, the man is seen staggering to his
feet with a bloody face when a woman rushes to
help him. This is where things get interesting. She runs
(21:38):
a foul of the crowd when she tries to hold
back one of the attackers and is promptly shocked in
the face twice, sending her tumbling to the ground with
her head cracking on the pavement. The pictures that have
come out from this are shocking. You may have seen
them on Twitter already. This video has been circulating for
(21:58):
a couple of days now. This is insane that this
could happen. Where were the police? Nobody knows what was
going on there? Nobody knows. But more importantly, what justifies
that reaction? I mean, maybe maybe if you want to
(22:20):
give everyone in this video the benefit of the doubt,
you say, we see here that a witness says racial
comments were made, but we don't know who made those comments.
Let's assume, let's assume that this white guy said something
to some of these black folks that he shouldn't have.
I think you all know what I'm getting at. Are
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we now in the position where that justifies you beating
the snot out of him and his wife in the street?
Is that where we've gotten to as a society. Should
you say the certain things that I'm alluding to? Absolutely
not No. Should that be essentially a death sentence for
you and your wife? Should that subject you to mob
violence in the street?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Both of those things can be true. At once. Disgusting
that this even happened. But again, this is why I
say everyone should have a firearm on their person. Again,
I don't know the situation here. But if you and
what I believe is your wife are getting attacked by
a mob and they're stomping and kicking your head in
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and knocking your wife out cold in the street, you're
justified pull out your firearm, defend yourself, defend your wife.
Crap like this is why when me and my wife
leave the house, I have a firearm on me all
the time. I do not leave my home unless I'm
going to work because I can't carry there. But unless
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I'm in the office at the studio, if I'm not
in my home, I have a firearm on my person.
And you should too. If you are legally allowed to
carry a firearm, if you're legally allowed to own a firearm,
get one, carry it. Defend yourself. Because the classic saying
is when seconds count, the cops are minutes away. I
(24:06):
love that saying because it's true. It is where were
the cops in this video? They were in the middle
of downtown Cincinnati. Why was nobody there to break up
this riot? Even if you give everyone the benefit of
the doubt, the police should have shown up and pulled
the people apart and stopped this. But they didn't. Where
(24:27):
were they. I have no idea. I love hpd Our
cops here in Houston are fantastic. I have the pleasure
of speaking with them rather frequently. I know many of them.
They're great folks. I don't trust them to be there
for me in seconds when seconds count. I just don't
because I know the reality of their job. It's not easy.
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They have to be in a lot of places all
at once, and there's not that many of them. Thankfully,
this is being called out by none other than the
vek Ramaswami. He I believe has officially receive even the
GOP nomination for governor of Ohio where this incident occurred.
If he hasn't, he's campaigning for it right now here.
(25:10):
He is on news radio seven hundred WLW. Technically there
are sisters station over here in Houston because they're also iHeartRadio,
so shout out to them. And here is vivek Ramaswami
talking with them about this can't happen in our cities.
We cannot allow things like this to occur and the
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cops just not step in, there'd be no action taken.
We have got to do better.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Here he is saying this, I'm not going to sit
here and just throw my hands up in the air
and complain about it. I'm going to do something about it.
That's how manic forgiver, and I do think that we
set the tone from the top. And my view is
it is not controversial, It is not Republican, it is
not democrat. It is common sense to increase police presence
(25:56):
in our cities. I'm talking about downtown Cincinnati, I'm talking
about the inner city of Cleveland. I'm talking about the
inner city of Toledo and Dayton, and yes, even Columbus Now,
look at areas like the Short North in Columbus. In
the every week you wake up to some type of
news about some type of crime that's not acceptable. And
I do think that it takes a leader with the
spine at the top to actually say it. So my
(26:18):
job as the next governor of the state to set
the tone for our state that includes, we wanted the
cities in our state no more apologizing, no more differing around.
This is common sense, and we're going to stand for
it with apology. We're bringing law and order back to
Ohio in a way that most people in the state want,
and every citizen of this state deserves.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And I won't be apologizing for that. We're just going
to get it done as we should, as we should.
Here's the thing. I might sound like a little bit
of a hypocrite on this, but I'm going to say this.
Should you leave your home as responsible adults? Say you
have a wife and family, if you're I'm speaking to
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the men here. Let me say that to the guys
out there. Should you leave your home if you have
you know, say your wife or even your fiance, your girlfriend,
and let's say maybe you have some kids, you have
a family of some type, some makeup. Should you leave
the home without a firearm if you have the ability
to carry one, No, you shouldn't. It's irresponsible of you.
(27:24):
Chances are, and I pray to God this is the reality.
You never have to use it. In a perfect world,
you leave the house every day with a firearm and
never touch it. That I believe is the perfect society.
Should you leave the house without a firearm? No? Should
you be able to? Yes, you should be able to.
(27:44):
And the fact of the matter is, in most modern
American cities you can't. It's just not safe to do that.
It should be, it should be you should be able
to have faith in your fellow citizens to say, if
something happens there is a threat, other people around me
will step up and act and eliminate the threat, or
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the law enforcement will be there to eliminate the threat.
Those are the signs of a healthy society. We don't
live in a healthy society. This is the harsh truth.
We live in a deeply, deeply unhealthy, immoral society that
does not incentivize the protection of life, and it allows
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you to skate with the threatening of life. We make
so many excuses for it. We'll get into that in
a minute. We'll talk about this police chief coming up
in the next segment, who immediately jump to making excuses
for this mob which is discussing in and of its
own right. We'll think into that in just a second.
I don't have enough time to say everything I want
(28:48):
to say about it in these last ten seconds, so
stay with me just one more ad break. We will
be right back and we'll talk about that. All right,
(29:16):
So let's talk about the Cincinnati police chief and her
response to all of this. You would think the first
response of a police chief to what I guess can
be best described as a violent riot like this happening
in her city. Probably not riot because it wasn't widespread,
(29:39):
but you get the point. You would think the first
response of any self respecting police officer would be, hey,
don't beat the crap out of people in the street.
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Her first response, when I only decided to address this
incident in a press conference was how dare the media
make these people look so bad? How dare social media
users spread this video on the internet and make these
poor people who beat the snot out of this couple
(30:21):
look so terrible. I'm not kidding, that's what she said.
I wish I was joking. It makes me sick to
my stomach that i'm not, but I'm not. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Another topic I want to cover real quick social media
and journalism and the role it plays in this incident.
And yes, guys, that's you.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
That is you.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Social media. The post that we've seen does not depict
the entire incident.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Okay, let me stop right there. She's right, it doesn't
depict the entire incident. That doesn't matter. As I talked
about in the last segment, I don't care what the
lead up was, what happens in that video which you
can go find it on X If you haven't watched it,
I played you the audio, but it's another thing entirely
to see it. Go watch it, regardless of what the context,
(31:24):
what the lead up was. That was disgusting. That was
a horrible response to whatever may have occurred in the
lead up. Okay, continue, stupid police chief Terry THETGI or
I don't know how to pronounce that. Th e ttge
by the way, is the police chief in question? Here? Continue?
(31:44):
Go on.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
That is one version of what occurred at times.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are a
misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event. What that
does that causes us some difficulties in thoroughly investigating the activity.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Know the hell it doesn't You have on video people
beating the snot out of this couple in the middle
of the street. That's all you need. That is all
you need. Bring those people in, get their statements. Unless
that guy said, Hey, I have a bomb and I'm
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about to blow all of us up. Unless those words
emitted from his mouth. What you saw in that video
of him, and what I have to assume is his
wife getting the crap beat out of them in the
middle of the Cincinnati street is utterly unjustifiable, completely and totally.
You don't need the context. It doesn't matter. The harsh
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reality of American society is, whether you like it or not,
you are allowed to say mean things to people. Should
you No? Are you allowed to yes? Should that result
in you getting the hell beat out of you and
your wife who's just trying to hold people back from
curb stomping you. No, you should not have to pay
for your life with that. You should be chastised. Maybe
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you should be say, hey, what are you doing. That's
not cool. Don't say those things, maybe even thrown out
of polite society, but physically have your face kicked in
while your wife is knocked unconscious in the street. No,
it's unjustifiable. Put those people in jail. I don't care
what the context is, and I'm not gonna sit here
(33:44):
and blame social media or the media in general for
calling this out and making your job harder. Also something
that is interesting and worth pointing out, as she's giving
this press conference coincidentally in front of a poet sure
of her own face, which is fascinating to say the least. Anyway,
(34:04):
she's got more to say. Let's take a listen and enforcing.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
The law, because what happens that social media post and
your coverage of it distorts the content of what actually happened,
and it makes our job more difficult.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Go ahead, RK here, thank you.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Two questions.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Where were the airsp officers in the central business section?
They were working. They were both in vehicles and like
I said, they had to maneuver through the traffic.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
My second question is he had said social media and
media distorted the content of what actually happened.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
What exactly was distorted? I understand that there was one
multiple views of the video, but exactly what led up
to this? I mean, what was distorted?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:49):
So I think by.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
The irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one
side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context,
and then people run with that and then it grows
legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have
to try to manage as part of the investigation.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, did you catch that there were two good questions
that she was asked?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Just then?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Where were the nearest cops? That's important? Where the hell
were they? They were in the area, but they had
to maneuver through traffic because they were in cars. Okay,
fair enough, I'll give you that one. You say this
was distorted. What exactly was distorted? Well, you see the context.
(35:45):
We have the distortion of the broader context, and that's
the responsibility of the social media. She has no answer,
which just goes to tell you she was just making
crap up that entire time when she's talking about context
being distorted, and oh the responsibility of the media and
Lodi Dotty dotty Dotti do she doesn't have any idea
(36:07):
what the hell she's talking about, because again, the context distortion.
I don't care. I don't care what the context was,
and you shouldn't either. The question is, is having the
crap beat out of you in the street and then
when a woman tries to hold people back from kicking
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your head in to the curb because you're already down
and out, she gets knocked the hell out in the
middle of the street. Is that justified ever? And my
answer is maybe, But only if that guy has a
bomb vest or an AR fifteen is about to start
shooting people up. Only in that situation is that the case?
(36:53):
And I guarantee you that guy wasn't packing, because if
he was, he would have pulled his piece. He would
have And it's disgusting that anybody, let alone a police chief,
would try to make excuses for this, because that's what
she's doing. Remember how I told you one of the
things we need to do is disincentivized violence and incentivize
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the protection of life. This is the exact opposite of that.
This entire press conference from this stupid police chief is
the complete and total opposite of that. This is the
incentivizing and excuse making of extreme radical violence. Again, we
don't know the full context, but I really don't think
(37:35):
it's important. I don't care for what it is worth. Though,
Vivek Ramaswami, as previously mentioned, did speak to the lady
in question. Her name is Holly. This is the woman
who was knocked out cold in the street. Vivek posted
I spoke to Hally earlier today. She's a single working mom. Okay,
so not this guy's wife or girlfriend or anything who
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went to a friend's birthday party. It is unconscionable that
there were no police presidents in that area of Cincinnati
on Friday night, or even an ambulance to take her
to the hospital. Hardworking Americans shouldn't have to worry for
their safety when they have a good time in our cities.
Holly said. Not a single local or state official had
yet reached out as of earlier this afternoon, other than
one police detective. Okay, that's crazy, but yeah, this seems
(38:19):
to be a very sympathetic response from Vivek, which I
have to imagine Vivek, being brown, would not be this
sympathetic if he found out that these people were just
throwing N bombs around and that's what got the crap
beat out of them. But again, even if that's what
did happen, that does not justify the snot being beat
out of you in the street. It just doesn't. We
(38:40):
have got to work our way out of this late
stage societal collapse that we seem to find ourselves in.
We do, all right, That's all I've got for you.
We'll be back on Sunday seven pm AM nine to
fifty KPRC for the Live Sunday Show, and of course
check me out on social media at Underscore Ethan buchanan
on X. Thank you very much for listening, and we'll
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