55KRC Monday Morning Show with Brian Thomas -- 12/16/24

Brian talks with Stephanie Pierruci, one of the authors of "Sound the Alarm: The Maui Disaster," former Vice Mayor of Cincinnati Chris Smitherman joins the show for the Smithervent plus Money Monday with Brian James.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
By BO five.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
That the dot Gar scene, the Talks Station, Happy Monday, well.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
A vacation, Well, happy Monday, Brian Thomas right here, and
good to see Sean McMahon. They're covering for Joe Strecker.
I guess the Joe's last day of vacation and sure
hope he had a nice time off, maybe relaxing, recharging
his batteries and what more can you hope for with
time off?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Today great show lined up with the return. Actually, last
Thursday was supposed to have Stephanie Peruccio with her book
Sound the Alarm, the Mallie Disaster. It's about that little
a fire and the suspicions and conspiracy theories and concerns
springing from that. She had written a prior book on that,
and this follow up book, Sound the Alarm, sort of

(01:10):
fills in a lot of the details and answers a
lot of the questions that previously were not known, or
at least purports to anyway. But last Thursday, my understanding
is that she was not on the phone. We tried
to call hers because she had a family emergency, something
involving her son with a medical issue. He's okay, but
she was really anxious to get on the program and

(01:30):
really apologetic. And today's today fingers crossed anyway, Sean, did
you check the phones out this morning? Are we all
hooked up right? Yay, there's a thumbs up. I'm glad
to see that again. Apologies to the listeners were hoping
to hear from Bill O'Reilly last week, as well as
Warren Davidson. This was not their fault. Someone was tinkering
with the phones when the studio is apped, not my studio,

(01:54):
the production studio where Sean is sitting right now anyhow,
So fingers crossed for Stephanie will give it another shit at.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Seven oh five.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Smitherman Christopher Smitheman joins a program every Monday at seven
twenty four. We like to call the Smith Event, former
Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. I'm certain he'll
be calling in. He really looks forward to it and
I just love having Christopher on the program. Man of
common sense, logic and reason.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Money Money. With Brian James.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
We will have topics at some point, not quite sure
what they are right now, looking forward to getting the
list or we'll just fly by the seat of our
pants when Brian gets on the program at eight oh five,
So there you go tomorrow, of course, bright part Insights,
goop of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, and boy do
we have every day more and more information coming out
of the Middle East and Syria going through this tremendous turmoil.

(02:39):
And I guess so many people are optimistic on one
level because war has been raging there for thirteen plus years,
and others are very very concerned that something like a
you know, cherial law califate thing might come up. So
as these citizens of Syria try to struggle and settle
things through, always get a good information from Daniel Davis

(03:02):
in his war analysis. So that's tomorrow and the fifty
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Speaker 1 (03:14):
Someone else I'll love to hear from and just bring
it up.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Jack Adaden joins the program on Wednesdays and offering his
thoughtful analysis on a variety of topics. Thank you Jack
and Ainsley Atherton for the wonderful Christmas party we enjoyed
on Friday night, and thank you all too, to my
friends Claire and Jeff Corkor and clairemont Conny Commissioner Claire Corkoran,
and an unbelievably awesome husband and family, great Christmas party

(03:37):
on Saturday night, already got another calendar for next year.
So great fellowship, great conversation over the weekend. And you know,
I didn't know where to start this morning. I never
really quite do. We could talk drones, we could talk
Luigi Mangioni and the insanity going on that, but I
wanted to talk about the insanity of Joe Biden's pardons

(04:00):
and clemency. And I saw this article by Chuck Ross
and Jason Simonson over Free Beacon and my jaw, I
mean my mouth fell open and all throughout reading the
people that he has offered clemency and pardons to. I'm
just asking myself, why does this serve the interest of

(04:21):
justice at all? How is it that someone makes it
to a list And this is like, I mean, fifteen
hundred federal convictions that Joe Biden's granted clemency on the
largest single day grant of clemency in modern history, And
I wonder why, See, if you can answer the question

(04:45):
when we run through the list of some of the
people that you let go. Former judge who sent juveniles
to prison in the Cash for Kids kickback scandal. Former
city official in Illinois who orchestrated the largest municipal embezel
in state history. A journalist who manufactured a fentanyl like
drub drug dubbed the most potent in the United States

(05:08):
car fentanyl. Get the details on that in a minute.
Just a few of the nearly fifteen hundred federal convicts.
President Joe Biden granted clemency you on last Thursday. White
House framed the move as part of Biden's quote record
of criminal justice reform to help reunite family, strengthen communities,

(05:28):
reintegrate individuals back in the society.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Close quote.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Tout in clemency awarded to at least one decorated military veteran,
probably a standout amid all the other scumbags who he
gave let free, says Biden has in taste that was
facing intense pressure to issue these mass clemencies. Why well,
because he pardoned his son Hunter Biden. Well you understand
the connection there. Gee must be good to be a

(05:57):
Biden family member. Dad's president. I got freedom from literally
everything I did for the past decade, in spite of
the fact that I had already been convicted and I
already pled guilty. So the Washington Free Beacon, that's where
I've got this information, did reveal those who receive clemency.

(06:19):
For example, Daniel Phillerup, sentenced to ten years in prison
for selling fentanyl that killed an Albany woman, Shilander agerwaal
and Alabama pill mill doctor, who the Department of Justice said,
quote directly contributed to the opioid epidemic close quote Biden

(06:41):
community seventeen and a half year prison sentence of former
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan, who took two point
one million dollars in kickbacks from a for profit prison
executive in exchange for sentending juveniles to those facilities. Hey, judge,
send him over to my place. Here's some money. Rita Crunwell,

(07:06):
former Dition, Illinois comptroll and treasurer, who embezzled more than
fifty three million dollars from the city and what the
Department of Justice described in their words as the largest
theft of public funds in state history. She used the
money to breed racing horses was sentenced more than nineteen
years in prison. In twenty thirteen, Dixon City officials blasted

(07:27):
Bruden's reprieve of this woman quote. This is a complete
travesty of justice and a slap in the face to
our entire community, said city manager Denny Langloss. That's an
amazing exercise of control in terms of what he said,
I probably would have been a little bit more a
graphic in my response to that one. Wendy Hetchman sentenced

(07:52):
fifteen years in prison for leading a drug ring the
police blamed for a surgeon overdose deaths in Nova Omaha,
Nebraskas in twenty seven team former journalist, this is the
one I was talking about. The car fentyl. She and
her husband manufactured and distributed car fentyl CDC calls that
the most potent fedel analog detected in the United States.

(08:13):
Omaha police tracked down the Henchman's after a spate of
overdosed deaths from the drug. According to the Omaha Investigator,
people were dying, people were overdosing, Families were being destroyed
on a daily basis, and then it stopped. Why because
they arrested him. Joseph Schryshevsky clemency for his role on

(08:39):
a two hundred and fifty five million dollar real estate
ponzi scheme that get a load of this that authority
said was targeted at Orthodox Jews since just under twenty
two years in prison back in twenty elevens that one
of many financial criminals who Broughton gave clemency to. Paul

(08:59):
Burr Works, sentenced to more than fourteen years in prison
in twenty seventeen for operating a nine hundred million dollars
internet ponzi's game.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Three.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Eric Bloom fourteen years in prison for defrauding his financial
firm's clients at more than six hundred and sixty five
million dollars. After his conviction in twenty fifteen, the Department
of Justice, in a statement said the magnitude of Bloom's
crimes is enormous and the impact on his victims devastating,
with victims around the world suffering losses. Toyoti alkeshe sentence

(09:40):
in twenty twenty two to one hundred and twenty six
months in prison for conspiring to commit credit card fraud,
wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft and this game that
targeted the mentally disabled. Biden granted clemency to one former
healthcare executive. Oh wait a minute, I thought e he
was celebrating Brian Thompson's being gunned down. I got more

(10:03):
on that one later, which is just insanity. Healthcare executive
sentenced to one hundred and fourteen months in prison for fraud,
James Burkhardt, who also laundered money from his firm, will
not have to serve the remainder of his sentence thanks
to Yes, Joe Biden. Jacqueline Mills planning clemency twenty seventeen
sentence to twelve and a half years in prison for

(10:23):
stealing nearly four million dollars from a USDA program to
feed poor children in eastern Arkansas. Prosecutors called that one
of the most egregious examples of fraud they had prosecuted out.
Mira Sakadeva, a Mississippi doctor sentenced to twenty years in

(10:47):
prison back in twenty twelve for defrauding Medicare by providing
and this one hits on personally for me, folks deluded
chemotherapy drugs and old needles to cancer patient.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
One patient.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
She has served at the clinic admitted to have having
contracted HIV because of the old needles she was using.
Biden also granted clemency to a guy named William Boylem,
the former Democratic New York State as sembleman, who was
sentenced to fourteen years in prison for bribery, extortion, fraud, conspiracy,
and theft charges back in twenty fifteen. Oh and apparently

(11:28):
last Thursday, with the announcement of these this record number,
they said there's more to come before Biden steps out
office next month. Quote. Gee, look at that. Somebody wrote
in very large capital letters, WTF question mark exclamation board. Oh,
that's right, that was me. President Biden will continue to

(11:51):
review clemency petitions and deliver criminal justice reform in a
manner that advances equity and justice, promotes public safety, supports
rehabilitation and re entry, and provides meaningful second chances. Yeah
to the doctor who gave water down chemo drugs and

(12:12):
dirty needles to patients, people who stole money from mentally
cognitively deficient individuals, on and on and on.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
You know, this list just scratched the surface.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Probably, and I'll give credit to the free beacon, probably
pulled out some of the more egregious examples. But you
tell me, how does anyone on the list that I
just read to you deserve clemency? How did they end
up getting released or freed or otherwise exonerated with all
the other tens of thousands of people in prison? How

(12:45):
do you make the list? Who do you have to service?
If you know what I mean? Five seventeen the talks
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Speaker 1 (13:45):
And what else. I yeah, it's funny because I went back.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
I rarely, rarely, I mean really rarely ever go back
and listen to an interview. But I was up late
on Saturday night just I don't know if I've had
too much coffee or something like that, and went back
and listened to the interview of World War two veteran
Frank Wedder whow Andrew Papist brought in the studio. Boy,
what you know what? I just thought about that, And

(14:11):
you know, you have to her up and down days.
You have good days, you have your bad days. But
I thought about the idea that I was talking with
that man. He was coming up on his ninety eighth
and of our birthday at the time, and what a
cool guy, and what great stories he had, not about
the war, so much about his childhood growing up and
the independence that he enjoyed and the freedom and came

(14:33):
from a family of fifteen kids. He may recall when
I talked to him, He's the guy that came home
one day with his sister from school. His parents had
packed up and moved. He didn't even tell him they
were moving. He just came home to an empty house.
He had a couple of very wonderful, influential adults in
his life. I think one was a minister and there

(14:54):
was one other guy that really shaped his being. But
he gave so much credit to who he was was
and how he became so successful and looked up to
by his fellow World War Two service members that he
became like a father figure for them when he was
only eighteen years old. So but I was just listening
to that going, man, you know what, I'm lucky to

(15:16):
have been able to be part of that conversation. So
there's all kinds of content like that over there at
fifty five case dot com. And just to follow up
in a story I read last week or mentioned last week,
the DC restaurant tours, the various employees of the restaurants
in Washington, d C. Talking about how they're not going
to serve the Trump administration folks, talking about holding up service,

(15:37):
maybe making the slow slow walking service. Not one of
them said that they would, you know, soil the food
as it were. But you know, if they're saying out
loud that they're going to do everything they can to
stand in the way of serving members of the Republican
Party and the Trump administration. I would be a little
reluctant to actually go and eat out, soaping ask some

(15:59):
of the congress people, do you eat out when you
go to Washington, DC? When everybody knows you're a Republican? Anyway,
I got a kick out of this one. As a
follow up article, bartender Joseph, apparently he's worked at a
bunch of DC's top restaurants and bars, was a Kamala
Harris supporter. Isn't real happy about the upcoming administration, he says,

(16:23):
but from a bartending perspective, he sees it as good news.
In his experience, Republicans tip more and are generally lower
maintenance guests than Democrats.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
I think my tip average from Republicans at least ones
that I owe or co workers have recognized is close
to thirty percent. With Dems, I'm surprised if it's over twenty.
At events he's worked at our hosts by Republicans, the
guest asks for no fuss drinks like bourbon and Vodkasota's
are wine. At Democratic events, He's send many more situations

(16:57):
for special requests. He said, you know what, there are
better ways to voice your political concerns that won't jeopardize
your job, and some have been fired. There was a
couple of other updates along the same lines about employees
outspoken refusal to serve Republicans lost their situation. He just

(17:20):
pointed out the obvious. It's impossible to avoid dirty money,
at least as you subjectively perceive it. Five to twenty
five year fifty five kre Steve Talk Station Local stories
coming up. Feel free to call, though you know I'd
rather talk to you and hear the sound of my
own voice. We do have some local stories that go over.
I'll be right back thirty a happy Monday Jam, trying

(17:41):
to make it happy one anyway go. I'll be talking
to Stephanie Perche with the book Sound the Alarm and
the Manley Disaster. Seven oh five for that, as is
always the case, seven to twenty for Christopher Smithman with
the smith Event Money Money with Brian James. That'll take
place at eight oh five. Feel free to call. Otherwise,
let's go to local stories where it's not just New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
We got drones.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
They shut down right Patterson Air Force Base closed by
what they are describing as unidentified drones on Friday night
and early Saturday morning. According to the spokesperson for the base,
that man Robert Perdemann, said a small small unmanned aerial
systems were spotted in the area at the base on
Friday quote. So far, our leadership has determined that none

(18:25):
of the incursions impacted any of our residents, facilities or assets.
We're taking all the appropriate measures to safeguard the installation
and all of our residents. Airfield shut down for about
four hours late Friday evening into early Saturday morning. He said,
number of systems spotted head quote has fluctuated and they

(18:45):
have ranged in sizes and configurations. Our team continues to
monitor the local airspace and we're working with local authorities
to ensure the safety of our personnel, facilities and assets.
When he was asked how often this happens, the right
Patterson is that first time I'm aware of great so
New Jersey does not have a lock on drone sightings.

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Teenager stable condition after a shooting in Roselawn happened Saturday night.
According to the Cincinni Police officers who were called to
the seventy eight hundred block at Glen Orchard Drive at
eleven thirty PM. When they got there, they found a
sixteen year old male suffering from a gunshot wound. Person
taken to the hospital. Police had not stated if they
have a suspect. The shooting's still under investigation. I guess

(19:30):
not identified because of the minor status. Ah Man Dad
this after a medical emergency while driving in Carthage Sunday morning.
Sinceni Police officers called around seventy m to one o
eight West sixty ninth Street for the port of a
report of a fatal injury crash. A sixty eight year

(19:50):
old man was driving a twenty eleven Volkswagen Route On
on the road when he experienced a medical crisis and
hit two park cars. Officers say the driver's taking the
East Medical Center where he's succumbed to his industries. Our industry, okay,
it's ourly forgive me. Injuries is the word you were
looking for? Brian Excessive speeding impairment not believed to be

(20:14):
factors in the crash. Witnesses the crash asked to context
since they plice department traffic in it five one, three, three,
five two twenty five fourteen Mount Adams stabbing suspect Michael
Bolan has been transferred to authorities in Hamilton County on Saturday.

(20:34):
According with listening in Hamilon County Sheriff's Office online jailed database,
they had a mugshot of Bowling there on the site.
Thirty one year old Bowlin I've been sought by authorities
in Cincinnati for us stabbing for stabbing a construction worker
in Mount Adams. Bowland, according to the listing, was admitted
to the jail Saturday at almost four pm. He's been

(20:57):
wanted by Cincinnati police ever since the attack on the
instruction worker November twenty ninth, and Mount Adams had left
the victim critically injured, says WLWT, who was reporting on this,
later uncovered that Bolan was arrested the very next day
after the attack for criminal trespassing in Madison County, Kentucky,
though he had not yet been named as a suspect

(21:18):
in the stabbing case. After being released on bail in
Madison County, Bowlan fled to Logan County, Ohioway, who's found
by a police to be hiding out at a home
in Indian Lake. Mount Adams residence on Sunday, said that
they felt relieved to know that he was now in
custody and back on Hamilton County go before a judge

(21:41):
well Appeer Court for his arraignment today nine am. If
you're not doing anything charged with attempted murder in Floridian's assault.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
See here.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
I hate reading about Frishes shutting down, but Hamilton County
Magistrate this is from a couple of is. On Friday
granted Ritz of eviction and five more Frishes restaurants, including
the beloved Mainliner location in Fairfax, as well as two
locations that were already closed. Attorney for the company requested
more time to vacate the stores, saying it's already struggling

(22:12):
to shut down eleven other evicted restaurant restaurants during the holidays.
Attorneys for Frish's landlord that's NNN ret LP, asked for
a standard seven day rid of eviction instead of the
ten day writ saying they've had plenty of time to
get out at least that's a quote from their attorney,
Anthony Hornback. Mainliner in Fairfax announced in early December that

(22:36):
was facing the eviction notices the mid diviction hearing. Several
vendors have also filed lawsuits against Frish's Shriver Foods, New
Jersey claims restaurant owner owes them eighteen thousand, five hundred
and forty seven dollars in unpaid invoices. Jeffrey's Coffee and
Tea from Florida claims Fish's owes them thirty thousand plus

(22:57):
dollars with interest. Apparently of these financial troubles showed up
in October, and property owners claimed the chain was four
and a half million dollars behind in rent.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
What a shame.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I have lots of fond memories from Frishes from a child.
It used to be the only fast food place I'd
ever even get a craving for sometime. Over time, the
quality just kind of fell off the map. And enjoy
your own conclusions whether that had anything to do with
them shutting down five point thirty five right now for
your five KRCIT detalk station. We'll have plenty more to

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talk about. Stack is Stupid coming up? Stick around. I'll
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(23:49):
Otherwise it's a stack a stupid time, and we go
to uh, Colorado. Did you, Sean, did you realize the
word Ohio has a negative connotation? Well you're going to
find out, as I did when I read this article.
This is crazy. They say, actually it's an Iowa social

(24:14):
studies teacher. I apologize. There was another reference to Colorado
and Iowa's social studies teacher banned the use of a
whole bunch of different words, and last Tuesday, a nonprofit
foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote to officials at
the Fremont Mills Community Schools District warning that a seventh

(24:35):
grade social studies teacher alleged speech ban is unconstitutional.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Aaron tier Terror, director of public advocacy at this civil
liberties group, said, you know, everyone agrees the teachers have
a duty to prevent classroom disruption, but a blanket ban
on specific words and topics, regardless of the context, my
emphasis goes too far. List of band words, photograph, on

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the on the on the reporting more than a dozen
of them. Individual words. Are you ready? Ohio is on
the list? They say it can mean weird, cringe or
dumb among generation Alpha circles. We have a new generation Alpha.

(25:26):
Is that is that the new crew?

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Is that what we're calling them?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Evidently riz rizz which is short for charisma?

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Now, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Scumitti, which they say refers to a series of videos
featuring animated talking heads that emerge from toilets. Okay, we're
all learning stuff today, aren't we? Didy party, baby oil,
brain rot and rage quitting. Also a blanket ban on meowing, barking,

(26:08):
cursed words, racist comments, LGBTQ plus and fat jokes and
references to drugs, Nazis or the Holocaust. Just a social
studies teacher, you think you might bring up the Holocausts
in the historical context. You might want to talk about
that and the travesties that were brought about by the
Nazi party.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
That does not make it, thank you.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh look, the word nazis on there too, so you
can't even talk about World War Two. School administrator speaking
with Fox News Digital who reached out to them in
an email statement, said that, well, the students help craft
the list as an important lesson of civic responsibility, promoting

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empathy and awareness of how language affects others. They added
that the chart has not been displayed since the first quarter.
It was taken down because, as they realized it was
blanking stupid. Our goal is not to censor or stifle
student speech, but to guide students toward language that fosters
a positive and inclusive learning environment. School added at any

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of these words listed punishable by a thirty minute detention,
including a note to the bottom of a poster. Parent
told that organization at least ten students were disciplined. The
school administrators said consequences are not based solely upon using
particular words unless they are considered vulgar, leude, threatening a
substantial disruption of the school's environment, or bullying toward another student.

(27:39):
I suppose it allows you to talk about the Nazis
and the Holocaust in a historical context, but that just
means some teacher or administrator or some higher authority is
going to determine whether the context is appropriate and meet
out a punishment.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Hmm, this is insane.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
What are you, stupid?

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Diddy party diddler, oiled baby oil scubiti, which apparently also
says toilet ohio alpha beta omega sigma. Well, you can't
talk about the Greek alphabet, brain rot, womp, womp, don't
even know what that means. Don't want to chat? C

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chat is a word that's on the list. Bark, barking, meow, meowing,
curse words, rage, quitting, of course, racist comments. Generally speaking,
the word pimp is on the list. Anybody engaged in
encouraging suicide. That's band, LGBTQ plus jokes, fat jokes, drug references,

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and again Nazi or Holocaust references. Five fifty five KRSTY
Talks Station. Hence the top of the stack is stupid.
Every federal cribout fifty fifty five KCD talk station. Very
happy Monday to you, and go over to the phones
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we get back to the stack of stupid. I got
Kyle on the line, Kyle, Happy Monday, thanks for calling
this morning.

Speaker 8 (29:12):
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 9 (29:13):
Brian, Hey, you know, as a born in bred Kentucky
and I've listened to negative connotations about Kentucky for years,
and at first it was refreshing to hear that's at
least somebody else.

Speaker 10 (29:24):
Was kind of getting the kind of getting the brun
of things.

Speaker 11 (29:26):
But I don't know.

Speaker 10 (29:27):
Now it's kind of it's kind of enraged me a
little bit, so that you know that that corn grown
idiot out there, better watch it. He's calling name, That's
all I got to say. Or watch you watch what
he's banning, because uh, you know, you start trashing Indiana,
the trifect that may rise up and go out west
and and do some butt kicking.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I like it, Kyle, appreciate you sticking up for the commonwealth,
and as well you should. You know, poor people of
West Virginia, nobody sticks over for them. But you know,
I didn't realize the word Ohio was had negative connotations
associated with it. Although you know what, there's a whole
of things in the world I do not know, and
I'll be the first person to admit it. Thanks brother,

(30:04):
have a great day. Back over to the stack of sto.
But I thought this was particularly comical. We'll get a
wheat Ridge, Colorado, where a man was caught on police
body camera after being arrested for causing a multi vehicle crash.
Court to police and wheat Ridge, Colorado officers showed up
with the scene December fourth, crash asked the driver how

(30:25):
many drinks he had? His reply probably ten, followed by hey, hey,
I'm gonna tell you right now, like I'm a professional drinker.
Police officers said, oh, okay, all right, I got you,

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and then put the man in handcuffs.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Please say.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
A breathalyzer analysis showed that he had a blood alcohol
content of drum Roll Maestro zero point three two six,
which is beyond four times over the legal women. Thankfully,
nobody was injured in the crash and the driver's name
was not released. It's okay, he's a professional drinker. Speaking

(31:09):
of drinking and drunking antics, no sense can be made
of this one. But a sixteen year old New Mexico
boy arrested Saturday morning after he allegedly gunned down his
parents and teenage siblings and then called nine to one
one to drunken State to confess the quadruple homicide. Diego
Leiva facing first degree murder charges in the slaughter that

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happened around three point thirty am before the Valencia County
Sheriff's office got a phone call from the murders suspect
courting to New Mexico State Police. In a news release,
the teen allegedly said he killed his family over the
phone to a dispatcher and then walked out with his
hands in the air when the deputies showed up. State

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police say Lava was extremely intoxic hid when we was
taken into custody. Handgun found on the kitchen table. Suspects
forty to ye old father Leoni to Leave, a thirty
five year old mom, Adriana Bencomo, sixteen year old sister Adrian,
and fourteen year old brother Alexander, all found dead with
gunshot ones inside the home. Keller taken nearby hospital for detox,

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then booked in the juvenile center in Albuquerque on Sunday morning.
Former teachers in disbelief that the teen boy could be responsible.
According to the educator Vanessa La Grange, speaking with The Guardian,
I would never have thought that something like this would
happen and that Diego would be capable of doing something
like this. Everyone is in shock. State Police investigator Burea

(32:36):
is still trying to determine what sparked the murder rampage.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
That is sick.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
And finally, police and Wyoming are reminding residents to decorate
their homes for Christmas, but not their vehicles. This after
a driver was pulled over because their car was covered
with Christmas lights. Wyoming Highway Patrol shared a photo on
social media showing the Ford Mustang pulled over by a trooper,
showing the entire vehicle decked out in colorful lights.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Or to the post.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
As the holiday season approaches, we would like to remind
you of a Wyoming statute which says that quote no
person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon
any highway with any lamp or device thereon capable of
displaying a red or blue light visible from directly in
front of the center thereof close quote. Police posts said

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that while decorating at car, in their words, might look
cool and be festive, we would like to remind you
that it is illegal. Please remember to stay safe while
celebrating this season. Five to fifty five ifty five care
see de Talk station. I will point out, though I
believe the statute was to keep people from being confused
that it isn't a police car that you're looking at.

(33:55):
This thing was literally covered with multi colored lights from
head to top, and I don't think anybody couldfuse it
for anything other than somebody well decorating the car for
Christmas season. Just coming up a five fifty six, fifty
five Krcity Talk station plenty to talk about the six
o'clock I would love to hear from you too.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
I will be right back after the news if.

Speaker 12 (34:15):
I'm busy with the college and talk about it.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
You never mind what's going on in the news.

Speaker 8 (34:19):
All this is a diversion.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
At six oh five and fifty five Krcity Talk Station.
Brian Thomas wishing everyone a very happy Monday. I hope
you had as wonderful weekend as I did. Christmas celebrations
in full full gear. Couple of parties I was able
to go to, thanks again to Jack and Namesley Atherton
and the Corkorans for the two wonderful parties my wife
and I were able to attend. We had a glorious time,
and I hope Santa Kon went well. We had the

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Santa Kon folks. The proceeds benefiting the Cure Starts now
wonderful cancer fighting organization they are and not sure. I
didn't see really much reporting on it, but I hope
it was a really great turnout. They were hoping to
raise sixty five dollars. I think last year they raised
fifty five, so fingers crossed they achieved their goals. But wonderful,

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Speaker 1 (35:14):
Get your heart medium.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
While you're at it, feel free to call me this
morning five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two to three talk five fifty
on AT and T Funds. Want is to dive into
this drone thing. Uh And I guess the EDITORI board
of The Wall Street Dream kind of hit it on
the head about trust generally speaking, because it seems to
me and maybe you've noticed, there's a lot of eroded trust.

(35:37):
And we can go back years and years about reasons
why we might have little faith and trust in our
government and parenthetically, there was another article that I probably
won't have a chance to get to today, but remember
Operation choke Hold, where araic Holder's Justice Department got banks
to drop accounts because of the type of business that
they were involved in. That's going on again. It's going

(36:01):
on in big, big, big time. So there's one reason
we'll go back to the irs with Lowis Learner attacking
conservative organizations, and just fast forward throughout the years, and
there's one illustration of another, and now we've got all
these drones flying around and conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories
are created in factual, in factual vacuums. If we don't

(36:25):
get some honesty from our elected officials, we start kind
of questioning it, making things up or maybe drawing conclusions
pattern observation. And speaking of pattern observation, they one person
I always kind of joke around. She's probably listening Moreane,
Good morning, Steve. Stephanie Perucci's coming up in one hour
on the book Sound the Alarm the Maui Disaster, which

(36:47):
she was like the very first person to suggests that
Lahana fires were suspicious and were designed to achieve some
broader objective. It wasn't just the fire. Exactly what the
subject matter that book is about. So we'll let Stephanie
talk about that and reach her conclusion. Christopher Smithman coming
up at seven to twenty with a smith Event, former

(37:08):
Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati Every Monday in
the Morning Show. Fast forward to eighth five Money Money
with Brian James in the mean kind drones in the
cost of loss trust.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
No one in America.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Seems to believe anyone in authority says about these drones
and unproven claims are fulfilling the vacuum. It's like the
one politician you said he thought it was an Iranian mothership.
You know, I laughed out loud when I read that.
I was like, you said that out loud. And then
of course you have the CIA and FBI and Justice

(37:44):
Department everybody else chiming in saying no, no, no, no, no,
the military, that's that's that's not true. Well from what
orifice did he pull that theory out of?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Did you just make it up.

Speaker 11 (37:58):
There?

Speaker 13 (37:58):
Right?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Thousands of Americans who are not cranks have seen drones
or what they think are drones overhead New Jersey and
of all places, a hotbed sidings though overcurred across the
northeast California. We had it happen at right Pad Air
Force Base over the weekend. They shut down right Padded
between late Friday night and early Saturday morning for about
four hours because of drones flying around. Yet nobody in

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Washington seems to be able to convincingly explain the sightings.
A joint statement Thursday by the FBI and Department of
Homeland Security said, we have no evidence at this time
that the reported drones sidings pose a national security or
public safety thread or have a foreign nexus. But when
you hear that, you're like, well, wait a second, you've
already admitted you don't know what they are. How can
you make a conclusion that they don't pose any threat?

(38:42):
Legitimate question?

Speaker 5 (38:43):
It is.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Statement added Historically, we have experienced cases of mistaken identity
where reported drones are in fact manned aircraft or facilities.
We are supporting local law enforcement in New Jersey with
numerous detection methods, but have not corroborated any of the
reported visual sidings with the electronic detection. To the contrary,
upon reveal available imagery, it appears that many other reporting

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sightings are actually manned aircraft operating lawfully note the operative
word in that sentence. Many many, not all. Yet, the
unexplained sightings persist. One costs Stewart International Airport, New York's
Hudson Valleys shut down its run day for a runway
for an hour on Friday. Governor Kathy Hogel demanded answers

(39:30):
from the Biden administration. Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan described as.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Not known as a show.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
A voter said he saw flory of aerial objects above
his house in Donaldson, Maryland. Members of Congress demanding answers,
offering their own theories, like the aforementioned representative Jeff Van Drew,
who mentioned the Iranian mothership Pentagon said no GOP. State
senator from in New Jersey, John Bammick with News Nations

(40:01):
said it must be something going on that they can't
tell us because they're so fearful of what the public's
going to do when they hear what the drones are doing.
And as the journal observed, this is how deep the
suspicion runs. Like most of my listening audience might feel
the same way about it, and when that happens, conspiracy

(40:24):
theories fill the air as much as the drones do.
One Twitter account with one hundred and ninety two thousand
followers posted on x that quote all caps, we are fworded.
The drones are Project blue Bean close quote and like
the journal, I had no idea what the hell that is,
And they said, well, we admit to not being fluent

(40:46):
in this theory, but apparently Project Bluebean refers to a
plan by government and the military to stage celestial events
as a pretext to impose authoritarian rule. Don't beam us up, Scotty.
We'd ignore this stuff, except millions of people might believe it.

(41:08):
That's the world we live in. And sorry to say,
the reason isn't merely the result of conspiracist or crack
pots who will exploit doubt for attention. And here's the
sailing point. The Biden administration has squandered its credibility to
the point that it's rational not to believe what it says.

(41:28):
Remember the Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the continental US.
The administration downplayed its importance while it was courting better
relations with Beijing, only to shoot it down over the
Atlantic Ocean. It also downplayed representative to Mike Turner's warning
based on solid intelligence about the danger from potential Russian
nuclear blast in space. The administration failed for months to

(41:54):
be canted about the migrant flights from the border to
the US interior. Remember that when only Fox News was
talking about the poorest border maybe Brightbart or other conservative organizations,
and no one ever uttered a words in spite of
the visual evidence and showing literally thousands and thousands and
thousands of illegal immigrants flowing over the border every single day.

(42:17):
Ah well, there was only so long you can keep
that undercover, because well, they were causing problems for literally
every city on the Texas or rather rather on the
Mexico border. But then you know, when people stepped up
to the plate and started shifting and moving these illegal
immigrants to declared sanctuary cities, that's when the Democrats and
the sanctuary city started saying, oh my god, we've got

(42:40):
a real problem on our hands. The citizenry is outraged.
They are screaming at us every day about how they're
soaking up all the resources these newly arrived illegal immigrants.
We need to do something about it. Well, like I said,
you can only keep the lid on that for so month.
So long, but you look back and you remember what
the bidamin isministration said. For months, the Biden administration covered

(43:05):
up the truth about Biden's declining mental and physical fitness,
only to have it exposed in the presidential debate. My favorite,
most recent illustration. After the COVID nineteen subcommittee report came out,
the government's attempt to censor alternative views about COVID shutdowns
during the Trump administration also spread mistrust. The more Americans

(43:29):
don't trust their government, the more panic or protests are possible.
On Sunday, New York Governor Hockel said FEDS are deploying
high tech direction gear to her state to help with
the drones swarms. The FEDS need to explain to Congress
and the public with more specificity what's really going on.

(43:50):
But the larger need is for a government Americans can trust. Amen,
and you know part I mean, here I am wondering
why we aren't told the truth more often, going back
to many conversations I've had with Congressman When's sure of

(44:11):
Congressman Davidson, Congressman Massy. I mean, you could go on
for hours and hours and hours about all these folks
on these various select subcommittees looking into the antics or
whatever particular subject matter the subcommittee was formed for, asking
the behind the scenes agencies, the quote unquote deep State,
if you want to refer to that, for documents and
information they possess on the subject matter, only to be

(44:33):
told basically to go to hell. A metaphorical middle finger
raised to the people that we elected to oversee the
activities that you and I pay for. If they're subpoena
to give the documents handed am documents over, there's a
foy information requests to give the documents over, hand them over.

(44:53):
Why would you be obstructionist about that? What does that
lead to the same kind of stuff we're talking about.
Hearing this op ed piece and generally speaking, hmm, why
wouldn't they give us those documents? Why won't they let Oh,
I don't know, maybe Senator Rand Paul or perhaps Congressman
Brad Weinstrom had the candidate information about the taxpayer dollars

(45:14):
that were spent on gain a function research at of
all places, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. What are we
doing messing around with bat viruses with the Chinese Communist Party.
That's information I think the American people should be able
to know. At least let the people on the sub
committee know. Oh my god, it could be this. You know,
confidential information, you need security clearance whatever. Hand it over

(45:39):
to them. That's what they were elected for, and by
not doing it, you raise all kinds of concerns. You
elevate the concept of conspiracy theories. And you support the
idea of coming up with them in a factual void.
Factual void perhaps intentionally created by those behind the scenes.

(46:02):
Maybe they want us to mistrust the government. I don't know.
I'm at a loss. Six seventeen fifty five Kshity Talk Station.
Bobby's on the line. You can feel free to call too.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments on that
or anything else you might want to talk about this morning.
I also want you to call us Intilation. It's the
right thing happeny Monday.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Mar Marie was listening Project Bluebean, which I'd never heard of.
The Wall Street Journal never heard of either. Jesus. The
theory with the Project Blue being is that images will
be projected in the sky, holograms, and people will be
fulled into thinking that they are real wait for it, folks,

(46:46):
and the endgame being that a hologram of Jesus will
be projected telling people to accept one world religion. The
man that tried to warn people not to be fooled
by them died at mysteriously. How's that for a good
conspiracy theory. Thank you for the smiley face, Maureene. I
think even she finds that one to be preposterous. Bobby,

(47:09):
welcome to the program. Thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
Happy Monday to you, my brother, and keep holding that
torture freedom high and bright.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
It's dark outside.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Trying to do it, man, trying to do it.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
When they start issuing these blanket pardons, will you think
the Horowitz will get one through the IG report he
put out on the January sixth issues that.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
He said, honestly, yes, I tell.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
You what my brother once they know you know, and
I tell you we had sixty two people, they only
had about twenty eighth that they wanted to say, and
they didn't talk about any of the contractors that they
had out there. So it's going to be a comedy
show when Congressman Jordan and Massy go ahead and give
out their information that they have.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Yeah, well you know what I show.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
You know, Biden could issue a blanket pardon for every
single employee in the government. I guess I don't know
what the limitations are. I don't think the American people
very happy about something like that, but that doesn't stop
people from in still investigating what actually happened. So just
because you know, I'll listener, I've been commuted or I've
been pardoned for all any climbs or ledged that I

(48:23):
did or did not do or whatever, and you can say,
so what, We're still incited to get the information. That's
what this panel is all about. We're gonna get to
the bottom of this crap, so what never happens again,
so we can maybe reassure the American people that yes,
we are trying to do our job, and we'll do
our job. And then you can look back at the
Biden administration and his presidency and say.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Hmm, that's who did this. Huh.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Well, maybe I'll think about who I'm going to vote
for a little bit more thoughtfully next time, and I'll
vote for somebody else.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
I don't know, But we.

Speaker 7 (48:52):
Got some of the best listeners in the country, brother,
And I tell you, if they just want to have
a nice comedy show, all they got to do is
archive all the foodages and videos and try to track
down the people that were wearing the Bullwick cover rolls.
Bullwick coveralls. Okay, the Bullwick coverrolls. They were the ones
rolling the fences down because they're all government issue. I

(49:14):
know this for a fact, because they got the barcodes
on the numbers of Well.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Once again, once again, Bobby, as I quite often say
when I'm speaking with you, I'm just gonna have to
take your word for it, because one, I don't know everything,
and I never heard of Bullwick Coverall until you just
brought it up today. Nor do I know whether or
not they have a connection with the federal government. Just
gonna let it sit out there. Someday, maybe, maybe, maybe
we'll get to the bottom of it and we will
be told the truth, although allow me a large measure

(49:43):
of skepticism that that day will come. Six thirty one,
Happy Monday, Local Stories in front of me. But I
do have New Hampshire Gary on the phone. It's gonna
start with him. Gary, Welcome to the program. Good to
hear back from you. Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 5 (49:59):
Did you ever thing that you would ever see a
day that you're talking about conspiracies and UFO and all
your life you think about the topics we go around,
it's like crazy sometimes. Yeah, let me settle you know,
I'll bake on your last comment that you made before commercial.
What is true? You know Patcha's pilot headed down. I

(50:24):
will shed a little bit of light on what's going
on at Dayton because I got I talked to my
dad every day. He is a retired Air Force person
from Wright Patterson and he spent a lot of time
up there. And my dad he's up in the dates
now and he always visits the carmac every time he

(50:44):
goes up to right Penn. And he said about a
week week and a half ago, he was up there
and he was watching what he said was between twelve
and fifteen car sized drones on the tarmac being worked
on and what he called playing follow the leader okay,

(51:07):
shuppering real low, and he watched it. So what's amazed
to me is these things. The Air Force knows they're
working on their tarmac. They know exactly what goes on
in the tarmac. Why is everybody writing like it's a
mystery that these things are flying and around and like,

(51:30):
oh look what we have here. They had to shut
it down. Now. I'm not saying any other Air Force
base or anything. All I know is my dad actually
saw these things, and he has no reason to lie
to me, right And and why would anybody not be
announced you know.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Well, okay, Gary, I was waiting for that because you
know there are there are military bases around where some
of these things are flying. They have been recorded to
be the size of SUVs. Fine, you know, that's something
I would expect our American military to have, and we
presume that we do because we all know other countries
have them. Why wouldn't we just say, now, you guys,
settle down. It's the American military operating and testing the drones.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Let us go. It's not that big of a deal.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Some of them may be you know, private drones, and
you know, and some of them may be actually aircraft
that because of the lights on the aircraft, you think
it's a drone because so many people are seeing drones.
But in the final analysis, if you see an suv
size drone, it's ours. End the story, no more conspiracy theories,
and then we may take some comfort at least they're

(52:36):
testing some of these giant drones. We have modern technology,
and maybe we'll feel a little bit more secure in
our own defense.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
Right right, We had some flying up here in New Hampshire.
For example, we have a nuclear power plant up here
and we also Haveport Smith which they make nuclear submarines.
Now they have reports of aerial drones flying in their

(53:03):
restricted spaces here in southern New Hampshire. But you know,
that's all I know. I'm not saying who they belong
to or anything. I'm just saying that's kind.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Of odd, well odd, or maybe not, because the first
thing went through my mind on that there may be
a really great damn reason for us to want to
fly a drone over a nuclear facility or a subplant,
maybe to get an overhead shot of what's going on
down there. Some people are saying that maybe they're trying
to detect you know, perhaps chemicals or radiation. I don't know,

(53:35):
but there are quite legitimate reasons to fly a drone around.
I mean, people use them all the time for hobbyist reasons,
but also to look at the way things are going
down below. There's I mean, it's easy. You want to
see where the water and the flood damage is, put
a drone up in the sky. There's a perfectly reasonable
explanation to do that. Maybe you've got a submarine facility,

(53:56):
maybe you need to fly one around just to make
sure that things look like they're in order or whatever.
But you know, just tell us right now. It's like, well,
we don't know, we don't know. Uh, don't worry about it,
but we really can't tell you where they are. And
therein lies the rub and the challenge, because that's when
people start making stuff up about holograms of Jesus being

(54:18):
projected into the sky.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Take care man.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Good to hear from you, Gary, thanks to the Inside
Baseball there from right Back sixty two fifty five Kerr
City Talk Station five one three seven fifty five hundred
eight hundred eighty two to three talk.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
And yes it's confirmed.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Stephanie Britchie and the book Sound of the Alarm, the
Malley Disaster. Sean McMahon, who's covering for the vacationing Joe's
trekker who's supposed to be back tomorrow, just got texted,
got done texting her, so she's all ready to go
after the top of the our news. And I just
got a text from Christopher Smith and he is ready
to rock and roll at seven twenty with the Smither event.
So things are looking good for the Morning show this

(54:58):
week after a couple of wrinkles last week. No fault
of Sean.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Anyhow.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Moving over to this the murder of CEO Brian Thompson
from Neted Healthcare. You may have heard about that, and
the murderer is becoming a bit of a celebrity, which
I find absolutely disgusting. People's genuine, absolute ignorance over how
we ended up here with the healthcare system as screwed
up as it is. And I'll be the first person

(55:26):
to acknowledge that failed to appreciate the realities of how
we ended up here. I read that article from the
Mesa's Institute last week explaining the entire history of health
system in our country and how basically the federal government
and massive regulations have created this epic, unaffordable nightmare that
we all live in.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Anyway, and we've.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Got elected officials like Alexandrio Casio Cortes. She said, denied
claims could be interpreted by people struggling to afford healthcare
related costs as an act of violence against them. Well,
you know what, it could be interpreted that way, and

(56:09):
I can hand you deck of tarot cards and you
throw them down on the floor, and you can say,
I interpret that pile of tarot cards as meaning something,
and I would say, uh yeah, great, insane.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Anyway, all that.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Pain that people have experience is being concentrated on this event.
It's really important, this is her quote, really important. We
take a step back, and it's to not to comment.
And this is not to say that an act of
violence is justified. But I think for anyone who's confused,
is shocked, or appalled, they need to understand that people
interpret and feel and experience denine claims as an act

(56:48):
of violence against them. Close quote. And she also posted
a video on x saying, when we kind of talk
about how systems are violent in this country in this
passive way, our privatized healthcare system is like that for
a huge amount of Americans. I mean I did not

(57:08):
have health insurance until I got elected to Congress. When
I first ran for Congress, I had to sit in
a free clinic. Hm follow up comment to that by
James Freeman, Americans can only dream of a privatized healthcare system,

(57:28):
relief from stifling regulation, and a revival of patient driven care.
But if Representative Acasio Cortez really doesn't want to enjoy
the benefits of for profit medicine, why was she not
thrilled to be served at a free clinic. As for
repulsive commons on violence, She's sadly not alone among prominent

(57:50):
Democrats who seek to explain it away. When the alleged
perpetrator seems to have a leftist agenda. True, and as
far as leftists go, people are actually funding a defense
fund for Luigi Luigi Mangioni, the murderer, I'm sorry, alleged

(58:13):
murderer of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Of course,
he's facing charges in Pennsylvania, going to be in New
York as a consequence of the December fourth shooting murdering.
There's an anonymous group out there called the December fourth
Legal Committee. They've already raised about one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars of their two hundred thousand dollars goal to

(58:38):
fund his legal defense. They said, we're not here to
celebrate violence. We do believe in the constitution right to
fair legal representation, which you know I've advocated and argued
before too. Yes, he is going to face massive legal expenses.
When asked about the support received for the defense fund,

(59:02):
his attorney, guy named Thomas Dickey, when interviewed by CNN's
Caitlin Collins, said he probably wouldn't accept donations from his
client's supporters, saying, in that quote, I don't feel comfortable
about that, so I don't know, I haven't given that
much thought. Obviously my client appreciates support that he has,

(59:25):
but I don't know, it just doesn't sit right with
me really close. Quote now, think about that. That's his
defense lawyer, innocent till proven guilty. He's got legal bills
he's going to be facing. I mean, defense lawyer's going
to get paid. He's going to get paid from some
money or something. So I guess the idea that he
actually uttered out loud he doesn't feel comfortable taking money

(59:47):
from the general population to have his legal fees discharged.
I think perhaps suggests that he believes his client is
outright guilty, which I don't know how you argue around that,
considering well, there it is caught on video six forty
seven fifty five cair see de talk station, and maybe
he'll argue it's a deep fake six fifty three fifty

(01:00:10):
five cair Cee detalk station, Stephanie Ferucci. The book Sound
the Alarmed, The Malley Disaster of Cop of the Iron
New is Christopher Smidman at seven twenty and right now
more to this Brian Thompson Murder. There is a socialist
described as an apparel brand. Socialist apparel brand, I wonder

(01:00:31):
if everything's olive drab gray or complete camera rouge black.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Anyhow.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Comrade Workwear they're planning to release a set of what
they call most Wanted CEOs playing cards. You may remember
Iraq and Bagdad Bob and all that, when the United
States military issued playing cards with all the evil bad
guys that they were trying to track down so they
easily have a photograph of them. That's what they're doing,

(01:01:00):
Most Wanted playing Cards. I just I find this appalling.
James Harr, who is the founder of Comrade Workwear, this
is what I'm thinking for back, for the back of
the cards. Basically, each suit is going to be like

(01:01:21):
certain types of industries. So clubs are going to be
like pharmaceuticals and chemical companies.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
The heart's going to.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Be like retail and real estate, things you need to survive.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
He said.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
He developed the cards for specific CEOs and encourage feedback
from his well, I guess his followers. Tell them, if
you guys dig this, because I want to put them
out like asap, so let's get some feedback. His request
on of course, of all things TikTok. Naturally, he's going
to be on a Chinese Communist Party media platform, he

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described the murder of Brian Thompson and as good news,
calling the assassin his f wording hero. In a different video,
he described the general excitement about Thompson's death as awesome.

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There's no amount of dead CEOs that is going to
change the nature of capitalism, he said. And no matter
how awesome it is, you know what's happening, we do
need to maintain the knowledge that this energy that we're
having that it's not going to change anything systematically.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Well, there is that. I believe it is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Comrade workwhere website say this mission is creating opportunities for education,
community development, organization toward liberation. Go ahead and make some
sense out of that. I believe that the intersection of
art and self expression lies a powerful opportunity for leftists
to bring conversation, and it's typically confined to the corners
of the Internet into the public sphere. Apparel is a

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canvas that brings these dialogues into the streets, into our
daily lives, and into shared spaces. Oh you know, I'm
kind of wondering as I read this. He's an apparel manufacturer.
He sells things. Do you think he gives this stuff away?
I bet he makes a nice living selling comrade work
where let's talk to Stephanie Peruci after the top of

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the internetw is the name of the book, Sound the
Alarm the Maui Disaster. That'll be next.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Oh, students, people are talking about Annie. We are Hamah.

Speaker 8 (01:03:34):
Just turns my stomach.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
Fifty five krs the talk station coming on a seven
oh five I fifty five KRCD talk station. A very
very heavy Monday to you. I've been looking forward to
this conversation since last Thursday. He had a little bit
of a hiccup last Thursday. Not Stephanie Perucci's falt little
problems out of her hands, but better late than never

(01:03:58):
to talk with her about her books, Sound the Old Alarm,
The Maui Disaster that sparked a global awakening. Stephanie's a
founder and CEO of Proachie Publishing, an independent free speech
publisher designed to elevate world consciousness through books. International best
selling book Burned Back, better described as exposing the globalist
playbook as it was manifested on Maui. This same fire

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we're talking about here in Sound the Alarm the la
Heena Fire. Welcome back or welcome to the program. Stephanie,
it's a real pleasure to have you on the fifty
five KRC Morning Show.

Speaker 13 (01:04:29):
Thank you so much for having me. It's great to
be here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
And the Lahena fire, a lot of my listeners will
remember it, and almost immediately after it happened, I started
hearing and allow me a little leeway, we can call
it what we want, conspiracy theories about how the fire started,
how why buildings burned down and others didn't, and the
motivation is behind it. You do refer to in the
materials as the scene of a crime, and that this

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fire was allowed to happen. How I guess I just
set the start. Why what is the why behind? I mean,
if we assume all of the above, why would they
want to burn down behind as opposed to any place
else in Hawaii or anywhere else for that matter.

Speaker 13 (01:05:13):
Yeah, that's a great question. My first book explored exactly that.
It was called burn Back Better, and the proposal in
that book was that we had some very weird anomalies
around the burn. There were some extremely negligent behaviors by
every public official that we could find. We saw nobody

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who really found a way to help the people. Water
was turned off. There were eighty alarms on the island
that didn't just on Maui, that didn't go off to
warn people that there was an emergency. The power was off,
and self service was turned off early that morning, even
though they're blaming the electric companies. So with evidence, you know,

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such as that, in addition to about one hundred and
fifty other very bizarre things that happened during the fire,
the only thing we could think is that they're trying
to grab just about the most beautiful piece of land
in the world. And the reason I think it might
have been Lahina is a few different things. Number One,

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it had already been mapped out for a smart you know,
sustainable development. Okay, So the reason they they incinerated Lahina,
we suspect, is because it was a working class town.
They weren't incinerating multimillion dollar homes or hotels. This was
one of the last stretches of working class community really

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on Maui, right on the ocean there, and about twelve
thousand people were displaced in Eighty six percent of the
twenty two hundred or so structures that were burned were
resident height.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
All right, And I know I've been to Hawaii absolutely epic, beautiful,
and I've seen some of the multi gazillion dollar homes
that folks that have been building there over the years.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
And the Hawaiians, the.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Hereditarya you know, born there and lived at they view
it as a bit of an invasion. I think there
was one Hollywood movie star who sort of started the
trend back in the early seventies, and from that point
they all just view the whole places gone into hell
in a hands basket. But in terms of this taking property,
I did the residents of Lahina own their property because

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you know, I'm I have the deed to my house,
it's paid off in full. You can burn it to
the ground, intentionally or otherwise. I'm still going to own
the land and no one can take that away from me.
How do you get around that challenge when you're talking about,
you know, the government coming in and sort of redoing
it and turning into one of these sustainable fifteen minute cities.

Speaker 13 (01:07:57):
You know what happened in the Highlights Capital of the
Kingdom of Hawaii. A lot of these homes really were
owned for generations, hundreds of years, and if you were
to walk inside of them, a lot of them looked
almost like museums of Hawaiian history, and they were owned

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by these families. There was no bank that got involved
with a mortgage or anything like that. So the the
properties were so sacred that there was no amount of
money that you could throw at these people to sell
because it was really, you know, almost its own It

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almost had its own soul like a family member. You
just don't.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Sure, Yeah, I can understand that, but that I mean,
I guess in the final analysis though, again, disasters do happen,
and whether this was intentionally burned to the ground or
it just happened because you know, some woman's cow knock
a lantern over in a barn, the property the property

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still belongs to them, right.

Speaker 13 (01:09:11):
No, Unfortunately, what happened three weeks before the fire and
what's happening still is there have been multiple pieces of
legislation aimed at the state having the ability to assume
ownership of land as it is destroyed by a disaster.
So curiously, three weeks before the August eighth, twenty twenty

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three fire, a resolution was signed into order. It was
called an emergency proclamation, indicating that if there were a
disaster that the state was going to rebuild sustainable, you know,
multifamily homes over wherever that disaster had taken place. So

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this emergency proclamation is detailed in my first book, Burned
Back Better, and in my second book, Unfortunately, we detail
another bill. It's called Senate Bill thirty three eighty one,
which is supported, of course by the Hawaii Community Foundation.

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A lot of nefarious activity around that organization, and they
propose in this bill that a group of nine people
selected by the governor would be in charge of determining
what the rebuilt looks like. And not only the four

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or five miles that burned in Mahina would be would
be part of this redevelopment plan, but the entire west
side of Maui, it almost on a map, looks like
it's own little island. So we're talking businesses and homes

(01:11:02):
that were not even close to the fire.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Fair enough.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Now, that sounds to me like a takings clause situation.
So if the government wants to, you know, condemn my
land for the purposes of a broader, you know, public
works project, they can do that, but they got to
pay me for it. So are these folks being paid?
If this is sort of analogous to a takings claw situation.

Speaker 13 (01:11:28):
No, there was nothing in the bill that indicated people
would be paid. There has been a scapegoat for the fire,
which is the electric company Hawaiian Electric or he coke.
Hawaiian Electric is supposedly going to pay out about two

(01:11:49):
billion of four billion that they are responsible to pay
out starting this spring two people who lost their homes. However,
Senate Bill thirty three eighty one never indicated that the
land would be purchased, but that it would that everything
would just kind of for all intents and purposes, government's

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going to declare eminent domain. They're going to decide what
you do. And that was why Senator Kurt Favela in
particular fought really hard against that bill. Now, there were
cultural ambassadors and organizations in Hawaii who supposedly are working

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for the people and Hawaiian but on their board there
are people involved in tourism, banking, and even Disney resorts.
So a lot of high powered executives want this state
to grab that land because it's going to be very
profitable if they turn it into a little miniature Las

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Vegas or Disney World.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Oh yeah, absolutely, And going back to your point about
people being very protective of these very historic homes. I won't,
you know, over my dead body while I sell it
to Disney. I don't care how much money they come
at me with this fire provides a convenient mechanism to
bring that about in the face of all the stone walling,
if I can use that term that the people might add. Now,

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is there currently litigation over this? I mean I'm a
litigation attorney by trade and was in the courtroom for
you know, sixteen years, and this sounds to me like
it's right for someone to file suit and make these
challenges like you know, compensation, private property, the takings clause,
and of course civil action against the power company the

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extent it is personally responsible for the fire happening in
the first place.

Speaker 13 (01:13:39):
We don't think the power company was responsible, but at
this time they're the only real Escot scapegoat that has
been found guilty of anything. And the problem with people
getting money for the for the property is the fact
that for some reason, usually under the excuse that it

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was dangerous to go into the burn zone, even though
the town was leveled, nothing was going to fall on you,
it was just ash. But the insurance adjusters were not
allowed into the burn zone. So at this time, even today,
over I guess, sixteen months after the fire, people are

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still paying mortgages on the homes they lost because insurance
adjusters haven't been able to get in there and determine
the properties are lost. And even more sadly, only one
home is being rebuilt at this time. The people absolutely

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don't know how to fight to get the permits required
to rebuild, and when they do get permised, it doesn't
look like they're going to rebuild the homes that they
once had. It looks like they're going to be required
to have so many easements and underground utilities that it
would just be untenable, very extensive to live on Maui

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or anywhere in Hawaii really in.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
The first place, Well pretty much is pretty much is anyway.
I mean, it's a finite amount of absolute epic, gorgeous land.
Of course, the laws of supplying demand being what they are.
I mean, my wife and I were there, like god,
it would be great to live here. Look how much
beauty you're surrounded by all the time. And of course
that's why property increases in value. Well, I guess, you know,

(01:15:42):
and so far, maybe what we need to do in
terms of getting people to have their property assessed. Stephanie Perucci,
one of the authors have Sound the Alarm, the Malay
disaster that sparked global awakening. How about some of the
drones that are flying around New Jersey. Maybe get a
couple of drones of flying around there and survey the property.
You don't need to be on the ground subject to
something falling on you that's not there in order to
do an adequate survey of the property.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Just the thought this is thought well.

Speaker 13 (01:16:06):
One of the reasons we wrote the first One of
the reasons I actually wrote the first book, Burned Back Better,
was because there were one or two really intrepid sort
of citizen journalists who were flying around with drones. If
it weren't for these guys, especially a man named Eric
west on YouTube Hawaii real Estate, if he weren't flying

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around with a drone, we wouldn't even have an idea
of what went on inside the burn zone. Because they
built a dust stream sence the day after the fire
that was I think two and a half miles between
two and a half and five miles long, so no

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one could even look in to see what happened in
that area. A lot of the footage that we have
with taken by people who were stuck in the fire
and maybe they hid in a parking garage or something
like that and they kind of walked out in the morning,
but most people in that burn area didn't make it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Well, a lot to consume here, and I could go
on for probably a couple of hours talking with you,
but we're all going to just read the book and
find out about it. Sound the Alarm, The Malle Disaster,
This Spark Global Awakening by one of the authors, Stephanie Prucci,
along with Shane Buell and Tracy Derwin. And you can
also read the prior book by Stephanie burn Back Better Lahaina,
The Perfect Storm or a Perfect Crime question Mark. It's

(01:17:38):
been great having you on. I'm glad we're able to
get you back on, Stephanie. And interesting phenomena going on
here and seems to me again the litigation attorney in
me seems to think that somehow, some way this is
going to all end up being in court and subject
to it much closer and thorough investigation.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Thanks for writing the book.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
We'll share that book on my blog page of fifty
five cares dot com so folk can easily get a
copy of it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Stephanie, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:18:03):
For having me. I appreciate it. Let's get informed about
what's going on so that we don't see it happen anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
There you go, and you do mention other suspicious fires
that you connect with this kind of thing, Stephanie, Take care,
happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and all that good stuff as
we move toward toward the festive time of year. Take
care seven nineteen. Right now, Christopher Smithman's coming up five
KR city talk station starting a few minutes late. And
my apologies too for a vice mayor of the city

(01:18:32):
of Sin Sant and Christopher Smithman got into the conversation
with Stephanie about that book and went a little bit long. Christopher,
welcome back to the morning show, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
Happy Monday, Brian. I get on and I don't even
know where to start, but I will start with the
murder of the CEO of United Health in New York.
And first, you know, my condolences go out to his
family on his chillldren as they go into the holiday season.

(01:19:04):
What a devastating time for his wife. The CEO's parents
I'm sure he's an uncle and people are just mourning
his death. And to see elected officials like Bernie Sanders
indicate that there is any justification for this assassination, this

(01:19:28):
murder of a human being in the early mornings on
the New York streets is absolutely outrageous and insane. And
to say that there is a gofund me account out
there where people are raising money and acting as if
this guy is some kind of hero. I don't even
want to say his name. He's not that. He's a coward.

(01:19:51):
He's a murderer. He didn't face this man face to face.
He gave him no chance to live. He shot him
in his back. He's a coward. And it is amazing
to me that we have any elected officials in the
United States of America that we have elected to Congress
that would come out and justify such a murder.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Alexander Casio Cortes I gave her a quote earlier, sounds
like she's all about it. I mean, I'm with you, Christopher,
and you know the I don't know what purpose this
is supposed to serve, not only just killing this man,
shooting in the back as if murdering the figurehead, the
CEO of any given insurance company is somehow going to
change the dynamic. But as sure as hell does create

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a threat of fear and worry and concern among so
many other people who should be able to go ahead
and live their life and work within the system that
the government created through all their edicts and mandates and regulation.
Anybody wonders how expensive health insurance is, or rather healthcare
generally speaking, needn't look at Brian Thompson. They need to

(01:20:55):
look at the government who created all of this nonsense.

Speaker 4 (01:20:59):
And you know, this has to put a panic on
anybody out there, whether they're a CEO, whether they are
a public figure like yourself. It has to bring like
a real alert for all of us that this guy
is hiring a top lawyer, you know, he's fighting to

(01:21:20):
go back to New York, and that there's anybody on
the planet. And so I've just been so disappointed about
what I've been reading on the internet over the weekend
that anybody is justified this kind of murder. It just
makes no sense to me.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Well, I brought up the article I saw earlier. There's
this this this socialist apparel brand, clothing brand called Comrade Workwear,
and the head of that company, the founder, James Harr
he called this guy a hero, says he's a hero
and he's creating You remember, remember the playing cards of
the US soldiers carried around when they were fighting the
war in Iraq. And don't tell me whether that was

(01:21:55):
justifiable or not, but that's what they did. So they
had the pictures of the guys that they were looking for.
I understand why I gave them something to do. They
could play cards, but they also would able to see
these guys, so if they ran into them on the
streets of Iraq, they know who they're after. Well, comrade,
Workwere is putting together its own pack of cards to
include all kinds of CEOs from a whole variety of
different industries. I mean, is that not just sort of

(01:22:18):
begging people to go out and commit horrific acts of
violence like the murderer we're talking about here today, Christopher.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
It absolutely does. Brian Thomas and those people should be
held accountable if or when there's an attempt or it happened.
And I just say, I'm hoping you're listening, audience. I
know that they're understanding and with us on this, but
We've got to call it out. People will say, well,
what can I do when you see it on the
internet called out, say that it's outrageous and over the top.

(01:22:49):
Don't allow those kind of words just to hang out
there without us challenging them, because it puts our society
at risk. This was a horrific murder. It fell on
the backdrop of the hero mister Kinn, who saved the
lives clearly of people on that train. New York is
out of control. It's why I don't want to visit.

(01:23:11):
It's why people are leaving New York because they are
concerned about their basic safety. This is just another example.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
All true, but let me observe because while there are
these outrageous, you know, of louding and praising claims that
this guy did the right thing and you know he's
just fighting back against this system or whatever. I really
truly believe it's almost as if, like when you look
back in the election, Donald Trump won the popular vote

(01:23:40):
in spite of the fact that twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, all we heard from media and
social media and online posting was evil Trump, fascist, going
to ruin democracy. It's awful. The world's going to come
to an end, and you thought the whole world felt
that way. And in spite of the fact that Kamala
Harris came across as such a profound, blithering idiot that
somehow she might win the election, because they had instilled

(01:24:03):
in vast majority of American people the idea that Trump
was somehow well dangerous to the country. Look what happened,
you know what, all those echoing and all those voices,
well got a bit of a SmackDown, now, didn't they.
So we can go, hmm, maybe just maybe that those
voices were small, they were a minority, and they were

(01:24:25):
elevated by social media in spite of the fact that
most of us we either kept our mouth shut or
you know, maybe our voices were suppressed. Any words of
support for Donald Trump, yeah, those didn't quite make it
to the top, but boy, they would advance the ones
that demonized Trump as being some sort of whatever fill
in the blank demon And in this case, it's outrageous

(01:24:47):
that I believe, and you believe, people would call this
guy a hero. And you see a lot of it,
But the idea that someone would call me a hero
is so outrageous that that message is being repeated a
lot to give it the impression that a lot of
people believe it was the right honorable thing to do
to murder this man by shooting him in the back,
And I personally don't believe that the vast majority of

(01:25:09):
Americans feel that way at all. The squeaky wheel gets
the grease, the outrageous stories get the most coverage, and
I think that's what we're working through right now, at
least I'd like to believe it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
I agree with you, and I think this is why
the narrative in the last election was the Democratic Party
left me. I didn't leave them. Yeah, And so many
people said listen, you're going and have gone too far.
This is just yet another example of why the election
turned out the way it did, and another example why

(01:25:44):
these congressional members still have not learned their lesson that
they must embrace humanity and common sense. A man was murdered,
this is the Christmas holidays. What do you think his
wife and his children, and his parents and grandparents are
thinking today when they can look and hear elected officials say, hey,

(01:26:05):
this was a justified murder by your elected officials. So
am I talking about the everyday person out there? I'm
talking about people who are in Congress.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
Yes, excellent point. Let's pause, will bring Christopher smithling back
for more. Smith evan former vice mayor of the City
of Cincinnati, always making some extraordinarily logic and reasonable comments,
which is why I love having them on the program
seven nine. Who is about ter CD talk station. Hope

(01:26:37):
everybody's having that happy Monday on Mondays are always happy
because get to talk to Christopher Smith and former vice
mayor of the Cincinnati and the get the Smith van
coming up off top of the our news.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
Not sure what we're talking.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
About, but we are going to do Money Monday with
Brian James, Joe Streker on vacation and the board being great,
wonderfully covered by Sean McMahon. I appreciate what you're doing today, Sean,
Christopher or what else is on your mind?

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
All I got it? Did you have a good week
and by the way, I didn't ask you that coming
out of.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
The gate, had a good weekend? Had a good weekend,
Brian Thomas, let me share this with you, brother. I'm
going to do my best to connect these dots of
the Amazon CEO giving a.

Speaker 8 (01:27:13):
Million dollars for the inauguration.

Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
For President elect Trump, the Google ceo giving a million
dollars and the Facebook now called Meta giving a million
dollars to the inauguration of Donald Trump. Now, these are
some of the most left platforms in the entire globe.
And the cancel culture. This is what I think of

(01:27:38):
when I saw that would normally cancel their neighbor out
their neighbor had on a Trump or had a Trump
sign up, or their family members out there that are saying,
you know, I don't want to come to Christmas dinner
because you supported Trump in some kind of way. Think
of the pathology of the platforms that these left people

(01:27:59):
you every day that each of their CEOs have personally
donated a million dollars. As I stand here this morning
to the inauguration of President elect Trump, and they are
saying nothing about it. They're not saying they're canceling their
Facebook posts or canceling their positions or their Google They're
never going to use Google map ever again. They're saying,

(01:28:21):
they're not saying I'm not going to shop on Amazon anymore.
We're gonna boycott them. You hear nothing as the left
voices of the Amazons, the facebooks now Meta, and Google
are all lining up giving a million dollars apiece. And
you will see this happen from the West coast as
we get closer and closer to January twentieth. They are

(01:28:44):
nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. And I'm connecting these
dots because you got the guy out there on the
farm who said on a bill of hay, on this
round bil of hey saying hey, I support Trump, has
no money in it other than their vote and their support.
You've got these multi multi millionaires and billionaires who are

(01:29:04):
giving millions of dollars to Trump now kissing the ring
because he won the presidency even with all of the
lives of their platform. And you hear crickets from the left.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Well, Christopher really got my goat. I imagine I can
hear it in the tone of your voice. But don't
you think you know? And I don't know. I have
no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
But those companies that you mentioned, I bet probably contributed
handsomely to Kamala Harris's campaign, probably more than the individual
million dollar donations they're making for the inauguration. Do you
think they're trying to buy some love for the Trump
administration knowing full well that they might be investigated for
elevating or deplatforming certain speech on their various sites.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Christopher, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
It's fair to call it political prostitution. Now, yeah, I do.
I do, And and what insenses me is again the
hypocrisy that they can go and give these millions of
dollars and this won't be the only donation they made.
Their packs were weigh in, like you were indicating, and
they're going to come in with five and ten and
fifteen million dollars paying off any debt that President elect

(01:30:14):
Trump has. But you will not hear a word from
the left. Now, what was also bizarre or what with
this big win that's been kind of quiet on the
media was this fifteen million dollars settlement from ABC. I
think his name was Stephialoficis.

Speaker 1 (01:30:29):
I can't yopolis.

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
Okay, So he said these comments during the election that
Trump had raped somebody this case that he's appealing, and
they had to pay not only fifteen million dollars to
Trump as it relates to building his library, but they
also had to pay you, as a lawyer, a million
dollars of the legal fees that the Trump I Guess

(01:30:54):
organization or he had to incur in order to suite.
So this was sixteen million dollars that they have to
fork out because of the lies that they were telling
during the election. Look for more of this as we
move forward. There will be more mainstream media that will
have to write checks for things that they said along

(01:31:15):
the election campaign that were absolutely live, and they're going
to all continue to pay. But you don't hear the
left talking about it. You don't hear the apologies about it.
You know, this is when you're talking to your family
over the college. Oh man, you know, Trump raped somebody?
Trump did this, and goes, well, aren't you aware that
that ABC was caught in a live saying that this
is what he did and they had to pay fifteen

(01:31:35):
million dollars and then one million for the legal fees,
a total of sixteen million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
Yeah, and you know, I guess part of me has
to observe and you can see this going all over.
I mean, multiple articles have been written on it, multiple
comments by Democrats trying to to sort of survey the
landscape and realize, you know, how badly they lost to
Donald Trump and what their message is going to be.

(01:32:01):
The Democrat party message is going to be on a
going forward basis, because clearly eight years of NonStop demonization
of Donald Trump and woke ideology and DEI and wide
open borders and massive inflation clearly did not help them
an iota, notably defunding the police, decriminal decriminalizing drugs. They're

(01:32:21):
all going to the back opposite direction. They don't know
what their party stands for anymore because the direction the
party was going was not palatable to the vast majority
of Americans.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
And clearly, so many Catholics like myself and so many
Christians like you and others have seen them attack people's
religions openly over the last four to six years. And
you saw so many Catholics, it didn't matter whether they
were a Democrat or a Republican, reject the Democratic Party

(01:32:53):
because of their rhetoric, the decisions, and the things. That's
why people are saying, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Brian Thomas.
I'm a Christian, I'm a Catholic. I'm happy, Merry Christmas.
People are rejecting this neutrality around God. God can't be
in the school. God can't We can't save the Pledge
of Legiance in schools. People are waking up and rejecting

(01:33:16):
it and reclaiming these basic common sense things in a
society that make us orderly, that brings humility to our
young people. Young people don't respect the flag because many
of our school systems don't respect the flag.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
Well, they don't respect the flag and they promote this socialist,
leftist ideology as well, which again people appear to be
rejecting soundly any other component of it. Christopher, And maybe
it's just me being overly optimistic. You say, you know,
Merry Christmas to someone sometimes and there was a period
that we've lived through now for quite some time, or
if they get angry.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Will do you use Marry Christmas? How do you know
that I'm Christian?

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
You know, I've put it up many times that that
is a joyful wish to you. The person who gives
you that greeting is in a celebratory mood over the
holiday season and over their religion, and they're sharing the
love that they get from that with you. Merry Christmas

(01:34:17):
to you, whether or not you celebrated or not. It's
a kind thing if someone If my Jewish friends, yes,
if my Jewish friends wish me happy Hanukkah, you know
what I feel really good about that. Thank you very
much for including me in your celebration. That is a beautiful,
friendly thing to do. So it's this division.

Speaker 14 (01:34:38):
Inclusion is actually inclusion, right, and your reactions should be
one of embrace and thanks, not one of like woo,
which you know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
I think that's part of the problem. And I think
that's what Americans are tired of.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
The fomenting of division on literally any topic that can
come up with. And I do believe that that is
largely fostered and in courage by outside forces like foreign governments.
And this is not a conspiracy, because our own government
has pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party, for example,
has bot farms and computer scientists working twenty four hours

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a day, seven days a week to put out messages
of division on social media. In our country, bots are
producing messages that are angry and evil. When someone makes
a comment like you get this artificial intelligence generated message
countering what you're trying to sing in a really negative,
mean way. That might not even be a real human being,

(01:35:32):
But what does it serve. It serves their interest to
divide the American people among themselves. And that's just I
think the ultimate evil inherent in all of this. It
allows the easy encouragement of division between us. It allows
individual small quantities of folks. Going back to the people
who are praising the murderer from New York, it makes

(01:35:54):
them look like they have the majority opinion and that
you're the wrong one because you don't share it with them.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
Makes no sense at all, none, no sense at all,
Brian Thomas. Let me end by sharing with you this
drone siasco, that it's happening at the White House, that
the FBI, that National Security, no one knows where all
these drones are coming from. Look and in a playful way,
but very serious. Those drones are gonna fly over a

(01:36:21):
community that really believe in the Second Amendment and really
believe the country. They're gonna come down. Okay, they're gonna
fly out in Montana or Idaho, or they're gonna come
in Ohio over by a little little county called Preble County.
And let me tell you, when they go across one
of those counties like Preble County, I guarantee you we're
gonna know where the where the drone is. That it's
gonna be on a farm in their cornfield. Because they

(01:36:44):
would have shot it down. And they don't have little guns, baby,
They've got real stuff to bring a drone down, the
size of a dog gone car or the or a
dining room table. They're not gonna tolerate it. So when
your when your government doesn't protect you, what happened is
normal people take things into their own hands. And that's
what the Constitution is all about in the Second Amendment

(01:37:07):
is to protect us from our own government. And so
the reality of it is a government is saying, I
don't know what these are. They're just flying over your fields.
They're just flying over your house, they're just flying over
your military basis, and we don't have any information for you.
When they fly over the right community, not New Jersey
as an example where they don't have Second Amendment rights

(01:37:29):
over there, they're gonna fly over the right dog on state,
and I guarantee you we're gonna know everything we need
to know about those drumas.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
It's so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
Christophers, Chris Christy, the former governor Chris Christy from New Jersey,
you said pretty much the same things. Listen, they're gonna
be drone vigilantes and they will start taking them down.
And why because nobody's telling us the truth about anything.
You answer the questions, you give the American people the whole,
cold heart, honest truth, and they be less inclined to

(01:37:57):
do that, like, oh, those belong to the CIA. Okay,
well we may have some problems, we might have to
discuss that, but at least I know who they belong
to right now.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
I was like, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
I was like, Scooby do you know? Scooby Doo is like,
you know, Like, guy, you just were asked about these
drones that are flying around the America over people's homes
and over these very sensitive sights, and you're telling the
whole world, we don't know anything about it, we don't
have any information for you. And they're they're saying this
to our congressional members. Fortunately, our mayors are taking it serious,

(01:38:31):
saying no, no, no, But I just watch what happens
over the next week or two. Americans are going to
take this into their own hands. When the government is
unwilling to protect, they will protect themselves. And they don't
realize there are people out there that have serious weapons.
I'm not talking about this little baby stuff that I have.

(01:38:53):
Quite frankly, I'm talking serious stuff. They will light up
the sky, bring the drone down, and drag it into
their born and they'll be able to tell you everything
you need to know about it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Just wait, all right, Well, the lawyer in me must
immediately say, I agree with you that that's going to happen.
I don't want my listeners to start doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
That is illegal.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
So in spite of the fact that there are laws
on the books, you and I both know people break them.
Starting out with the story you started with this morning,
Christopher Smithman, Great Smitherman, Love you brother. We'll talk again
real soon.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
Great week five K City talk station.

Speaker 5 (01:39:30):
You got.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
TATO five here a fifty five R city talk station.
Very happy Monday to you. It's that time of week.
We always talk with all Worth Financials, Brian James, get
some sound money advice, and apparently both of us gonna
be flying by the seat of our pants today. Give
me the absence of Joe Strekker. I guess we didn't
have a coordinated list of topics. At least I didn't
get on Brian, and Sean was talking to He said,

(01:39:52):
you didn't have a list either, So let's just dive
on into some things going on in the world, like,
for example, the markets. Wow, we are looking at serious,
serious records going on here. I can see dow Ja
in futures are up right now forty four thousand, four
and twenty nine s and P's at six thousand and
sixty eight and as that twenty two thousand. Is this

(01:40:15):
going to continue? And I know you can't t leaf
read shelf into that. You probably would be so rich
you could have retired a long time ago. But we've
seen to be on a bit of a tear, which
is great for everybody out there in the world's got
a four to one care something invested in the markets.
But the FED is also dealing with interest rates, So
how are all are those connected in any way, shape
or form. I nobody's talking about recession anymore, So where

(01:40:38):
are we going with all this? Brian James, welcome back
in a Happy.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
Monday to you.

Speaker 11 (01:40:43):
Happy Monday to you as well. This is going to
be an interesting one, isn't it. We'll just wing it
and we'll make it on charm.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:40:52):
So yeah, crazy markets and there's always something to talk about.

Speaker 11 (01:40:54):
So that's put me in a room and a full
of people who would have to listen to me, and
I'll make you anyway. The markets have been absolutely crazy
this year and really for two years now. There there
are reasons for that, and there are things where you
kind of go, huh, so the actual market or reasons there,
there's there's business out there coming out of a lot

(01:41:16):
of catalysts. So artificial intelligence is a huge thing. We
seems like that dropped out of the sky about two
years ago. Uh you know when chat GPT first went
live and people realized that it could have it could
have a you know, an actual conversation with them, and
not only that, but but come up with conclusions on
its own and help people solve problems.

Speaker 8 (01:41:35):
So that there's been a huge boom there.

Speaker 11 (01:41:38):
And the story behind that, or the darling stock of
that movement is in Nvidia, which is known historically for
being more in the graphics market, the video game space
and the computer aided designs.

Speaker 8 (01:41:49):
Yeah and all that, But the technology that.

Speaker 11 (01:41:52):
Escapes me is why I don't know exactly why we
need video chips to do artificial intelligence.

Speaker 1 (01:41:57):
But we do.

Speaker 11 (01:41:58):
So that's just but the point is that's catalyst. That
is something that a lot of industries have seen as hey,
this could make it make it easier to do business,
it could make it you could expand our profit margin,
and so on and so forth. So that's one of
the major catalysts that have moved the market forward. It's
not just the companies like Nvidia, it's the companies out
there who have nothing to do with it directly but

(01:42:18):
are benefiting from it as a technology.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Okay, and I get that, But see the concern I have,
and I'm not the only one to have expressed this.
There will be this period of time where we are
building this artificial intelligence structure. Apparently that takes all kinds
of computer technology and lots of energy, and we can
get to energy policy here in a moment as well.
But you know, people are going to be building and
developing and creating. But the net impact of artificial intelligence,

(01:42:44):
it seems to me, is to eliminate a lot of
employment because it is so capable of processing data coming
up with these conclusions. Things that human beings used to do,
or at least currently are doing, that AI might take
away from them because what it is capable of performing.

Speaker 11 (01:43:03):
You know, I think this might be when we worried
thirty years ago about there being actual robots and things
taking over jobs.

Speaker 8 (01:43:10):
That's happening too. We see those videos all the time.

Speaker 11 (01:43:12):
But I think this might be a bigger movement since
so much so much as information based and not physically based. Right,
we don't employ employ nearly as many people in factories
anymore as we do in that kind of that information sharing,
you know, in intelligence kind of space. But if you
look at the industries that have benefited most from it,
here's what's happening out there. Maybe some of you have

(01:43:33):
seen this, you know, as you're interacting going through your
normal day. So in the healthcare healthcare space, AI is
being used to improve diagnostics, actually personalizing treatment plans. It's
you know, it's the personalizing part that's a little rattling there,
because I'm talking to a computer about my personal treatment
plans and also picking up on drug discovery. There's out there,
are algorithms out there or they're now looking at medical

(01:43:55):
images and predicting patient outcomes and actually being involved in
the surgeries themselves. So and you may have seen this,
you know, doctors are starting to tell their patients because
I'm hearing this literally from my clients that they turned
on some kind of thing in the room, and it
was listening to our conversation, and it kept track of
the notes in the kid and it gave some some
It gave the doctor some research on possible prescriptions and
so forth. So that's a big place that we're starting

(01:44:18):
to see AI surface. And yet there's somebody out there
who probably needs to be thinking about their next move
if they if their job is going to go.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
To a computer. Well, and I think you make an
excellent point on that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:30):
If you have enough data about an individual, and you know,
we can talk all day long about how much data
gathering there is out there. We do that with Tech
Friday's Dave Hatter every week, But you gather enough day
about an individual. I always worry about the adequacy of
medical school these days, because you know, you have all
this woke training and all this training that seems to
have absolutely nothing to do with teaching young people doctors.

(01:44:55):
To become great diagnosticians, you had to have a smart
doctor who had his or or her, you know, fingers
on the pulse of modern medicine. Read journals of American medicine,
articles that come out new technology, and all that can
be done probably more officially and more smartly or taking
into account all the information we have by artificial intelligence,

(01:45:15):
meaning you're probably going to end up with a better
medical diagnosis and may end up reducing some of the
need for physicians out there, or licensed physicians at least
along the traditional lines.

Speaker 8 (01:45:28):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 11 (01:45:28):
I think the places where it's going to be most
impactful is places that kind of pretty religiously follow a
flow chart, where where where decisions don't have to be
made on the fly. In other words, it's about sussing
out the symptoms and you know understanding, you know that
when a happens, we always do b I think things
like that. There's always going to be a place, I

(01:45:50):
think for for human interactions in terms of anywhere where
people might get scared. So on one hand, you know,
we see this a little bit on the in the
financial service industry, where there's I remember seeing that my
career was being threatened all the way back in the
nineties when it was all about no load mutual funds
and that's all anybody needed. And then it became about
exchange traded funds and manage money and all these different things.

(01:46:13):
But what none of those services I've ever been able
to provide is a shoulder.

Speaker 8 (01:46:18):
To cry on. So if there's an industry where there
is a.

Speaker 11 (01:46:21):
Human element that I think it's going to be an
awful long time before people will completely throw their trust
into a machine. Now that versus a factory or something
that's producing hard assets.

Speaker 8 (01:46:31):
That's very, very different.

Speaker 11 (01:46:33):
But again, you know, where there's a human element, there's
always going to be a need for humans.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
I think, right, and you've commented many times you're more
of a counselor or a psychologist.

Speaker 8 (01:46:44):
Completely unlicensed by the way, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
I always joke about when I see my physician, we
end up end up having these long winded political conversations.
I always call myself his therapist and wonder why he
shouldn't be paying me, or at least we could call
it a wash. I get free medical care, he gets
my consultation on matters political, but artificial intelligent. Also in
the financial industry, it's been around for a long time.
Computers crunching the numbers and doing the projections and the

(01:47:11):
strategies on where money can be invested. But also that
idea of real time. You know, look at the spikes
sell right when it spikes, it's all instantaneous and computers
can do nothing but assist and guide and make that
even more efficient. Leaving, I would argue the kind of
guys that are sitting around staring at a computer screen

(01:47:32):
trying to get it on the fly to a substantial
disadvantage unless they can tap into AI.

Speaker 11 (01:47:38):
Yeah, and it's the speed there, because when you're talking
about the high frequency day traders and things like that,
it's all about speed.

Speaker 8 (01:47:45):
It's not about finding the idea. Finding the idea is
hard enough in that.

Speaker 11 (01:47:49):
Space, but it's getting it executed quickly before some computer
who is ten steps ahead of you.

Speaker 8 (01:47:54):
Has done it. That that's the challenge there. So yeah,
we've seen.

Speaker 11 (01:47:57):
Algorithmic trading has been around for a long time. They
look market trends and historical data and to make those
trading decisions.

Speaker 8 (01:48:03):
But again, it's all about speed. We never call that AI.
That's basically what it is. Also what we're seeing too
is there.

Speaker 11 (01:48:10):
Of course, all banks every day are fending off fraudulent
attacks to try to break into people checking and savings accounts.
So that's not a you know, if you hear from
your bank that we think we got hacked, that's not
a one off. That's happening literally all day I've been
I've been employed by places where I was able to
watch the screen blink on and off as it was
catching all these attacks from all over the planet.

Speaker 8 (01:48:30):
So that used to be to some extent.

Speaker 11 (01:48:33):
Still is a bunch of people sitting in front of
a computer watching for things, but that is rapidly getting
replaced by computers watching computers to figure out what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Again.

Speaker 11 (01:48:43):
That's so that's all AI risk management is out there.
AI models are being used to predict those risks by
looking a huge amount of data. And that has to
do with if you'r if risk management has to do
with if you're a bank and you're lending money to
a business, well, here's a bazillion financial.

Speaker 8 (01:48:57):
Data points about them.

Speaker 11 (01:48:58):
Where's the risk. That's something that we've done a lot
more quickly by computer nowadays than than than an individual person.

Speaker 8 (01:49:05):
And everybody knows. Of course.

Speaker 11 (01:49:06):
On the customer service side, we're surrounded by these AI
chatbots and these Every website you go to has a
has a good looking person down on the bottom right
corner with a headset on, and I guarantee you you're
not talking to that person.

Speaker 8 (01:49:17):
There's not even a human being behind it.

Speaker 11 (01:49:19):
But every website seems to offer that nowadays. In terms
of these uh, these AI chatbots, which.

Speaker 8 (01:49:24):
They're they're not great, but they're better than they were
three years ago. But I don't know about you.

Speaker 11 (01:49:27):
It still it still takes me one or two questions
and I go, yeah, I need to type the word
representative over and over again until I know I get
a human.

Speaker 4 (01:49:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:35):
But insofar as ferreting out the fraud and abuse and
efforts to crack into bank accounts, I suppose it's a
good thing we have AI on our side, considering how
often that happens and the multitude of those attacks that come.

Speaker 1 (01:49:47):
In every day.

Speaker 11 (01:49:48):
Yeah, and that's another uh, we'll take all the help
we can get there. That's another place where people are
I don't want to say unnecessarily concerned, because that's that'll
never be the case with regard financial fraud. But I
do think it is something that is a lot more
talked about than actually occurs. You and I phrase it

(01:50:09):
like this, if somebody was losing money out of their
fifth third checking account on the regular because somebody had
hacked into their to their you know, to the fifth
third mainframe system was yanking money from everywhere that would
make headlines. So normally, when when somebody's account gets hacked,
I mean, this is sort of anecdotal. I'm not an
industry expert on this, but when I actually hear about
it happening to a client or their family member or whatever,

(01:50:30):
it's almost always traced back to some individual person who
knew that person socially and got a hold.

Speaker 8 (01:50:35):
Of their passwords.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
Fishing in that kind of thing, right, Yeah, and that's
where Dave had Yeah, that's where Dave Hadter comes in
every Friday, because he is constantly warning us about the
pitfalls and that we will actually invite on ourselves by
not being a little more more careful about what we
click on. So let's pause, We'll bring Brian James back.
I've got a couple more questions to ask him, not
only about some about retail and it being Christmas season.

(01:50:58):
One more with Muny Monday's Brian James is age sixteen
right now fift about Carscity Talks Station Money, A twenty
three fift about Krio City Talk Station Brian Twins with
all were financials. Brian James doing Money Monday. And even
though we lacked topics, there's a million, multitude of things
we can always talk about. One, it looks like the
Fed's going to be cutting interest rates on Wednesday. They're
trying to suggest that that perhaps they're more aggressive cutting

(01:51:21):
of rates probably won't happen, from at least what I've read,
because there's that pesky inflation word that's still looming around.
What's your expectation, Brian James, Yeah, so what we.

Speaker 11 (01:51:33):
Were expecting there is we're looking for the overall opinion
of the Fed right now, is it really, really, really
super wants to get interest rates down, But like you said,
inflation is just not quite cooperating. We're not where we were,
you know, two years ago, where inflation was at nine percent.
We were all talking about different types of investments we
hadn't talked about in thirty years, and then that kind

(01:51:53):
of came and went, and we've come all the way
back down.

Speaker 1 (01:51:56):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:51:56):
The Fed really wants to get it down in the.

Speaker 11 (01:51:58):
Two percent range, and we're right around three, which is
not bad, and it enables us to kind of get
back on our feet, and that's that's really that's a
decent amount of the reason for the market doing what
it's done over the last couple of years, because that
allows the economy to get back on its feet, not
where we want to be, but definitely trending in the
right direction. However, in the shorter run, we don't want
to they don't want to cut anymore just yet, because

(01:52:20):
it could it could easily bring in place in roaring
right back if we get to a tipping point and
we happen to discover that all of a sudden, businesses
want to borrow a bunch of money at cheaper rates
and uh and which ultimately results in higher prices usually,
which is end place.

Speaker 3 (01:52:35):
Yeah, and you got to remember the fat also borrows
money too, and that's where a national debt comes from.
And they're borrowing at a higher rate. That means our
credit card bills higher, and the uh, well, amount of
money that gets taken out of the tax payer dollars
to cover it is bigger and bigger every year, fast
approaching at trillion dollars a year, which is scary stuff.
Let's just run a little wrong rather than taking you.
In the next segment, I saw Macy's was going to

(01:52:57):
be cutting its stores down to like three fifty within
the next two years. In two thousand and eight, they
had eleven hundred stores, and they project by I think
it was twenty twenty five that they'd only had three
hundred and fifty box stores left. That's just that's a
reality that just is not going to change, is it,
Because well, everyone apparently is buying online these days.

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (01:53:20):
Actually I was reading about that this morning, on the
topic of shopping online. So I was curious because in
twenty twenty we were all everybody knew what the internet was,
we all had mobile devices and all that stuff. But
in twenty twenty we were told we couldn't leave our houses.
That was the first year where we were still figuring
that out. So that year, twenty six percent of all
holiday retail sales occurred online. That doesn't sound too shocking.

(01:53:42):
My assumption, though, Brian, was that that was a spike
because obviously we weren't supposed to leave in our houses
back then, and a lot of people adhere to that.
So in twenty twenty four, though, online shopping is expected
to account for about thirty percent this time around.

Speaker 8 (01:53:54):
Yeah, so it was always there as a of course,
We've been doing that for a long time now.

Speaker 4 (01:53:58):
That's not a shock.

Speaker 11 (01:54:00):
But to me, the fact that are the worldwide pandemic
from four years ago is still is not keeping up
currently with what is happening online now.

Speaker 8 (01:54:09):
That's interesting to me. That does seem like a like
a pivot.

Speaker 11 (01:54:12):
Point that's been there, and to your point, that's why
Macy's is doing what it's doing. Macy's is not known
for their online presence, and to be honest, if you've
been into Macy's store lately, they've been looking a little
bit down in the dumps. They're not exactly the welcoming
queen spaces that they were once known.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
Right well, and you know, honestly, I know Northstroom is expensive,
but you know, there was a time when that was
the best place to go if you had to buy
a suit because they had some really great selections of
quality suits. Well they had to have anything on the
rack anymore. There You order it online basically through their
you know, the north Strom site, And I don't know,

(01:54:49):
that's frustrating for me because I want to see and
feel and touch and try on and I hate the
idea of ordering something with the idea that you're going
to have to return it anyhow. Pivoting over, I wanted
to ask you about what we can expect and I
know Trump can only do so much and so far
as energy policies are concerned, But considering he has an
all the above energy strategy, at least that's what he's projected,

(01:55:11):
does that suggest perhaps maybe a different market shift, that
maybe just maybe investing in green projects won't be in
vogue as much before. Maybe there'll be fewer tax dollars
supporting these projects, and maybe gas and oil would roar
back and perhaps even lower the cost of our goods
because everything gets still gets shipped by tractor trailers with diesel.

Speaker 11 (01:55:36):
Yeah, I think that's going to be a great space
to look at in terms of where the economic productivity
and the profit margin is going to come from. At
the end of the day, every industry is worried about
profit margin.

Speaker 1 (01:55:45):
That's it.

Speaker 11 (01:55:46):
No matter what product you sell, you want to sell
it for a good for a good high price, and
you want to you want to create it as cheaply
as you possibly can. The difference between those two numbers is,
of course, profit margins. So where where this administration can
have an impact on that, of course, is if we
can produce energy more cheaply, then that should benefit everybody
across the line. It does require some sacrifices, of course,

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of some socio political goals that other groups have had.

Speaker 8 (01:56:13):
But that group is not in power anymore.

Speaker 11 (01:56:15):
So that's the sacrifice that would be made, and hopefully
it will. And I have a feeling what's going to
happen is we're going to be a lot louder about that.
Whatever gains we get on reducing the cost of creating
goods and services is going to probably be a lot
louder than the impact of the tariffs are going to be.
I think we're going to try to brush that the

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under the rug, because there's no way to put tariffs
against an industry and not have it raised prices. So
hopefully they'll be able to offset that by reducing the
cost of energy, and I think the goal is reducing
the cost of energy.

Speaker 8 (01:56:47):
Among those things.

Speaker 11 (01:56:47):
The goal is to put the US in a stronger position.
But that's not just one lever you got to push.
There's bells and whistles and buttons and levers and all
kinds of different things that have to coordinate to make
that successful.

Speaker 1 (01:56:59):
Yeah, clear is one area that I've been really, really really.

Speaker 3 (01:57:02):
Hopeful on one because it doesn't produce carbon, so you
can't complain about it. It produces abundance of electricity. Modern
nuclear plants are a lot smaller. They can be used
uniformally sort of modular, so one size fits all. You
don't have to create a brand new design every time
you build one, which is a lot of where billions
of dollars go in the regulatory system kicks in. So
I saw a glimmer of hope that a company like

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Alphabet could consider buying and building its own modular nuclear
plants to serve its own artificial intelligence needs. Hell, if
they're willing to pay for it, the government's not going
to stand away from it. It's not a public private
utility combo where the taxpayers are stuck with this. I
just see that there's a real potential there to make
some progress and we'll have an abundance of less expensive

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nuclear power with no complaining about carbon.

Speaker 11 (01:57:50):
So I think there's a lot of hope for that
because obviously there's a pivot point here. We've just had
a major swing of course politically in this country. So
the income President Trump has shown some support for nuclear energy,
but he's still got some nuance in his.

Speaker 8 (01:58:04):
Nuances to his dance during his first.

Speaker 11 (01:58:07):
Term, he actually did put some pro nuclear policies in place,
such as there were billions of loan guarantees for things
for nuclear projects. And as you mentioned, he's got on
all of the above energy policy, meaning if it's out
there and you can create energy, and we can do
it inside this country, then we should do it.

Speaker 8 (01:58:23):
That's what's been spoken.

Speaker 11 (01:58:25):
He hasn't set a ton about this coming up for
what he's going to do in his second term, but
so he's promised to approve some new reactors, but he's
also at the same side expressed some skepticism for whether
the federal government should back those in the first place. Now,
what's interesting You mentioned Google's kicking around the idea, and
they're not the only ones or Alphabet. Rather, they're kicking
around the idea of building their own power sources for

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some of the projects that they have. And the other
thing that I've noticed recently is Alphabet among other companies
very recently over the last two weeks, have been throwing
lots of money into President Trump's and augur So, so
I'm just thinking that they're trying to butter the skids. Yeah,
they want to benefit small We talk about all the time,
how companies are not political.

Speaker 8 (01:59:08):
You're seeing this in real time.

Speaker 11 (01:59:10):
The messaging prior to now is that technology is surt
of anti republican and more left leaning. We'll look at
the money come screaming into the inaugural campaign of the
most right leaning posi politician we've had in the history
of the country.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
Like you always like to point out, you know, companies
work within the environment that they are stuck in. And yes,
giving to Donald Trump's inauguration campaign. Make grease the skids,
Brian James, all were financial. Appreciate them loaning you out
every Monday for a nice conversation about money. Hey, we
managed to do it on the fly today, Brian, I
appreciate that. Look forward to next Monday and another edition
of Money Monday. Have a great week, my friend.

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Yes, Sarah, we'll talk you in a week.

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t phones interesting developments going on. Just the other day,
there was an argument for the Supreme Court about transgender
treatment for adolescents us versus SCURMETI. It involves the Tennessee
ban on transgender treatments for adolescents children under the age

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of eighteen. I embraced that all day long, because you
know what, think about what life was like when you
were eleven or twelve. I don't know if you remember that,
but talk to an eleven or twelve year old and
tell me if you really do believe that they had
the capacity to understand the future, the reality of their
puberty and their sexual transition from pre pubescent to post pubescent,

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their exposure to things sexual. Although I know it's far
more pervasive given the just the absolute unbelievable volume of
pornography that's out there on the Internet these days, but
they the argument was nonetheless made, and I note that
the timing couldn't have been more interesting, since the United
Kingdom just last week permanently banned the use of puberty

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blocking hormones for almost everyone under the age of eighteen,
which extends a temporary ban that was imposed in May
by their National Health Service. So no more prescriptions for
puberty blockers for young people like that, they recommend therapy
and other ways of working around and let's wait around
to see, you know, when they get to be actual adults,

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before we start doing things that could have lasting, irreversible impacts.
And that's exactly with this young lady, Clementine Brown. She
actually filed a civil lawsuit. She's now a twenty year
student at University of California, Los Angeles. She claims that

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she well was basically I will call it abused, according
to the lawsuit that she filed against the Center for
Transgender Healthal and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, as
well as I believe the doctor's there. And this is
such a sad, sad thing to read about. The complaint

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says around the age of eleven or twelve, likely do
it least in part to this sexual abuse she experienced
as a young child. She started having some struggles with
the thought of developing into a woman and began to
believe that life would be easier if she were a boy.
And you know, put that in context and just think

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about that for a moment. She's a young girl that
experienced the horror of sexual abuse don't you think that
might have a profound impact on her psychologically and that,
oh my god, if I was a boy, this never
would have happened to me. That's not to say that
young boys don't get molested as well, but you can

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see in the context of this particular case that might
very well be the case.

Speaker 1 (02:02:58):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:02:58):
So again the complaints begin str ugging with the thought
of developing and will begin to believe that their life
of you here is issue were a boy. According to lawsuits,
her parents decided to take her to this Center for
Transgender Youth Health and Development at Children's Hospital LA. At
the very first consultation, again according to the complaint, the
facts in the law it will all come out, the doctor,

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in the words of the complaint, immediately and unquestionably, unquestioningly
affirmed Clementine as transgender and recommended again the first consultation
recommended surgical implantation and puberty blockers. So for those out
there getting a hormone replacement therapy, you know, adults, that

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would be the exact same thing pellots to you know,
block puberty. Recommending the surgical implantation and then bringing miss
breeing the plane of Clementine elligis misrepresentations were used in
her words and the complaint to convince her parents to
agree that puberty blockers are completely reversible and that she

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would commit suicide if she did not begin taking testosterone. Now,
what doctor out there could definitively determine this young lady's
future would involve her committing suicide absent taking testosterone the

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magic bullet to stop her from committing suicide, But according
to the complaint, I didn't. Identifying as a boy didn't
bring any relief. She spiraled into depression, psychosis, and yes,
even attempted suicide. After these hormone blockers are put in
as journal reports. Eventually the new mental health care and

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natural dessistance of gender dysphoria as one of the progresses
into adulthood, she realized, hey, in fact, she was not transgender.
Yet her body, in the come words of the complaint,
had been profoundly damaged in ways that can never be repaired.
Now suing her physicians and her their institutions in state

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court citing patient privacy, the hospital did in the same thing.
The Center for Transgender Health and Development and Children's Hospital
Los Angeles has provided high quality, age appropriate, medically necessary
care for more than thirty years, they said, based on
guidelines from professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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The surgeon who Breen said performed the double mass sectomy
said something similar quote, our robust processes and protocols are
designed to ensure that patients navigating our services fully understand
the implications of the gender affirm and procedures they may
choose to undergo, fully understand at this young age, fully

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understand the ramifications of having a double mass sectomy and
going on auberty blockers. So this will all be worked
out in court. But I have no problem waiting until
the age of eighteen. In a matter of fact, you know,

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maybe even at eighteen, this isn't the right path for anyone.
This is such a sort of new concept. But lopping
things off and sewing things on when it can't be
undone and you will not, I am certain from everything
I've read. If you lopped it off and you have
sewed something new or sewed something new on, you're not

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going to experience the same thing that the real biological
god given genitalia are going to provide you. At least
it matters sexual and they also come along with some
profound medical challenges. I just really hope that someday, and
I hope it someday very soon, that we'll look back

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at this period in history and say, oh my god,
what were we thinking? This all reminds me of some
evil story that of Joseph Mengele's department within the Nazi Party.
These poor children, Yes, get therapy, Please have conversations. Yes,

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engage in a thoughtful communication with your child and remind
them regularly.

Speaker 4 (02:07:29):
And I'm no.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
Psychiatrists or psychologists, and i don't play one on radio.
I'm just thinking along the lines of common sense and
all of the difficult conversations that my parents had to
have with me about the world's problems and matters that
you will face and how to deal with them and
cope with them. Life ain't perfect, you know, there are
going to be challenges in life. But this type of

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literal experimentation on young people at this young age is
just to me bile inspiring in the back of my
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talking to Daniel Davis, retired Lieutenant colonel, because of the
world completely coming unglued, most notably in the Middle East.
But I also did see that Chinese have launched one

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of the largest, if not the largest military exercises outside
of Taiwan, which to me is extraordinarily frightening, particularly given
the Biden administration.

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
It's got, you know, six weeks left in it.

Speaker 3 (02:09:53):
Worried that they might take advantage of that before Donald
Trump becomes president, and lord on, I don't think Donald
Trump's came laying hands on the situation and ending the
problems there either. But you know, these are challenges the
world leaders face. But right now things just so crazy.
So I appreciate having Daniel Davis on the show to
talk about matters military.

Speaker 1 (02:10:14):
So that'll be.

Speaker 3 (02:10:15):
Tomorrow eight thirty for him. In the meantimes, go to
the phones to what Evelyn's got. Evelyn, thanks for calling
this morning.

Speaker 12 (02:10:19):
Happy Monday to you, oh you Tobe, Brian, and thank
you so much for what you just explained. With this
transgender medical evil, it's like the Nazi doctors. Absolutely, and
people get.

Speaker 16 (02:10:33):
Hooked into this psychobabble. I mean, all our lives, there
are issues that we worry about and try to resolve somehow.
But if you get talked into having parts of yourself
changed or removed, it's just so evil. So thank you again.

Speaker 1 (02:10:51):
Oh well, I was.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Happy to do it, Evelyn and the other common sense
point on this. And you know, anybody can believe what
they want. This is why I always say, listen, I'm
a little ull. You know what, if you believe yourself
to be the sex that you're not born with chromosomally,
I don't care. I can live with a world with
people out there that believe that. You can't make me
buy it. And what bothers me is this concept of

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just taking people at their word and then saying they
are indeed a woman or a man when they were
not biologically born that way. That's where you that's where
you take that left turn into into la la way,
Like wait what that doesn't change the chromosomal reality. Mainly
because some person says I believe I am a woman, Fine,

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you believe you are.

Speaker 1 (02:11:38):
I accept that.

Speaker 3 (02:11:39):
And if you want to get psychological counseling or talk
to somebody about it or a therapist, fine, you know
that's great, but you're never gonna change your chromosomeal reality.
You look down, you got a twig and berries, and
that's what you were born with. You know that is
a fact, Jack, And it's saying that you're not doesn't
make it go away. And in the reality of the world,
lopping it off and reversing it or whatever doesn't change

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the biological reality or chromosome reality either. It's just you've
just removed something like a wart. I don't get it.
I don't get it. I don't understand it. And the
enabling of that by the medical community, surgeons embracing that
as a concept, and again for eleven or twelve year

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old who does not have any concept of what tomorrow
will bring, let alone post puberty into their adult relationships
and lives, I just don't understand it, and I can't abide.
And that's what I'm allowed to do because this is
me living my life and expressing my opinion. You can
disagree with it, you can agree with it, you can

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have something somewhere in between. That's cool as long as
we engage in a thoughtful debate about it. And they've
been engaging in a thoughtful debit about this in Europe
now for a long time too. And Britain just banned
it from happening. And they are not the first European
nation to do that. Swedes have already banned. There are
other countries out there that, in their medical wisdom and

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in their learned opinions, have decided this is not an
acceptable path. And so that's where I am on it,
and I'm pleased to see that they've done it. Tennessee's
done the same thing.

Speaker 1 (02:13:17):
Let them.

Speaker 3 (02:13:18):
And you know what, if California wants to go a
different direction, that's fine. No one's forcing you to do
any of it. But I think, in the name of
protecting the interest of the you know fully unmolded, not
fully bake hearts and minds of children, at least take
a pause, at least allow them to become adults where

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they are free, as adults in a free society, to
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