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Told that Ukraine was gonna win Clay Travis at buck
Sexton today at noon on fifty five k r C
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Was a vacation.
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I'm the dude man.
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You may be. I am Brian Thomas and a happy
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the fog of the craziness going on in the world,
not the situation, the devolving situation between US and Ukraine
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past Internet reality still hasn't sunk in for me. And
that's okay. Anyway, again, stepping back from the reality is
what's going on. I know everybody's all upset about this
blow up that happened with Ukrainian President Zelensky and President
Trump and JD. Vance this past what was it Friday.
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It's I think it's a lot of faux anger or reaction.
I got a friend in France who you know, it's like, oh,
Europe thinks. So it was just kind of an interesting exchange.
And my perception, you know, just putting aside that politicians
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are narcissistic clowns. Generally speaking, I think we need to
appreciate the fact that Ukraine on its own can't win
that war. Russia's might is tremendous compared to what Ukraine's
got left. I mean, they're going around and rounding up people,
and I mean this has been going on for a
long time. It's three years in a war, but they're
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going around rounding up people in bars and sending them
front line people who don't necessarily want to fight. You
got a lot of regions Ukraine that are ethnically Russian.
They believe in align with Russia. And I suppose if
you ask them, they'd rather be affiliated or be part
of Russia than in independent Ukraine. Ukraine's not an ATO member.
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And is it worth going into World War or three
over Ukraine? I mean, and recognizing the power and might
of Russia relative to Ukraine. You know, negotiating a peace
still is going to require some concessions on the part
of the Ukraine, of the Ukrainian people. They're going to
have to give up something because Russia right now has
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the upper hand. Looking at NATO alone, they don't have
the military resources. They rely entirely on the United States,
Which is really my fundamental point on all my observations.
Everything seems to require our engagement and involvement. Why NATO's
the one that's got most at stake here, They're the
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ones most at risk. They believe that Russia is an
existential threat to their existence or their own independence, then
man up. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday you'repe
prepared to take the lead in defense of Ukraine, fine,
including troops and planes. But here's the big giant butt
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in the room needs the strong backing of the United States.
After a summer with eighteen European leaders, Starmar said a
coalition of the willing would defend a peace deal in
Ukraine and said a number of countries have signaled that
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they want to be a part of a plan to
bring durable peace to the country. Pasterte, what does that mean?
A peace deal? That's what Trump was trying to negotiate,
a resolution of the conflict. Now, if you substitute the
United States in these negotiations, are they going to be
come up with a able to come up with a
better deal, then maybe Trump might help negotiate. Don't you
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think they are going to have to concee that Russia
has the upper hand, has already taken over giant, well
not giant chunks, but substantial chunks of Ukraine and is
now holding them those chunks that really are ethnically Russian people.
That there's gonna have to be some concessions to Russia
and giving up pieces of Ukraine. Do you think the
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European Union can negotiate a quote unquote peace deal that
results in Russia completely pulling out and restoring Ukraine's borders
to where they were before Russia invaded them. And I'm
not defending Russia's invasion. The side chatter on of this
who's at fault, Who's at fault? Well, of course Russia
is at fault. They're the ones that invaded. But a
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welcome invasion at least in so far as the ethnic
Russians are concerned, that's the side they want to be on.
It's like all those Illinois counties that want to be
part of Indiana who are being held hostage here.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Star war.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Not every nation will to feel able to contribute, but
that can't mean that we sit back. Instead, those will
will intensify planning now with real urgency word word word
word word word. The UK is prepared to back this
with boots on the ground and planes in the air.
Europe must do the heavy lifting. Well, fine, Europe, you
should have been doing the heavy lifting. Can you do
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the heavy lifting though you've depleted your military, you haven't
invested in military because we've been funding the whole ooh
almost oh, I caught myself from an sec violation. I'm
a little heated about this this morning. There wouldn't be
a it wouldn't be a NATO if it wasn't for
the United States funding it. To be clear, Starmer said,
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we agree with mister Trump on the urgent need for
a durable peace. There's those words again, peace. What does
that specifically mean? Prime Minister Starmer? What do you mean
when you want to negotiate peace? What kind of deal
are you going to create? You're gonna sit down with Putin?
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What's Putin gonna demand? Putin's gonna demand some land? Are
you willing to negotiate that? And then the aftermath because
everbody said, wha, what's gonna keep Putin from reinvading Ukraine?
We need troops and military hardware enter the United States again,
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That's why they keep pivoting back to the United States.
Now this Friday devolvement, the discussion grew so heat to
the White House scrapped the signing ceremony for an agreement
that would have grown to the United States access to
Ukraine's rare earth mentals in exchange for continued support. In
exchange for continued support, we finally get something back in
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return for the billions of dollars that we're throwing at
this pointless war. I don't have a problem with that.
Rather than US unilaterally giving up and were broke. By
the way, I'm sorry, I have to throw the reality
into the room. Thirty six trillion dollars in the whole
debt service now at a trillion dollars annually. We're blank
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and broke man. And yet we're expected to continue to
throw billions and billions and billions of dollars in aid
to NATO. Generally speaking, and of this specific conflict in Ukraine,
everybody turns to us. Everybody turns to us. Trump said
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he determined that Zelunsky is not ready for peace if
America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him
a big advantage in negotiations. Well, no kidding, because apparently
without our involvement in our military hardware and the billions
of dollars of aid, they'd have lost the war already.
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Starmar said yesterday Prime Prime Minister, nobody wanted to see
what happened last Friday, But I do not accept that
the US is an unreliable ally. The US has been
a reliable ally of the UK for many many decades
and continues to be. There are no two countries as
closely along as ours. Our defense AHA, our security HA,
and our intelligence is intertwined in a way. No two
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other countries are. Well, that's probably all accurate. How big
is the United Kingdom's military now that we have been
sort of the police force of the entire Natal Alliance
since the end of World War two? Starmer, for his part,
said he announced a two billion dollar export financing toe
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of the Ukraine to purchase five thousand air defense missiles
manufactured in Belfast. Ah, the military industrial complex exists outside
of the United States. You didn't know there were weapon
manufacturers in Belfast, did you? He signed a two point
seven billion dollar loan for additional military Ukraine. Note that
that's alone, not a gift. We haven't been loaning. We've
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just been giving away. And Trump was trying to negotiate
some measure of protection for the United States and mechanism
to maybe benefit us in return for military hardware by
way of the minerals deal. That was the point of that. Sorry,
no more free lunch man. You better give us something
in return for what we are taking from us. You're
not entitled to our money, our weapons, and our support.
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British Ambassador of the United States Peter Mandelssohn called for
a reset between the US and Ukraine, encouraging Zelunsi to
sign the minerals deal. He said, what helping sure the
United States has a stake in Ukraine's future? He said,
the United States must have a role in any peace deal. Now, pauls,
I'm gonna ask yourself, why is that? Why do we
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have to be involved at all? Listen, I understand ice
Relationianism isn't a practical foreign policy, to quote Casablanca, But
how is it that we are the crutch upon which
the world relies in in negotiating peace deals. What if
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you just sort of, you know, magically took us out
of the equation? What the hell would they do without us?
Apparently nothing? Mandelssion this British Ambassador of the United States
said on ABC's This Week, we would also like to
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see the United States giving us cover for this. We
want to know the US is covering our backs in
what we are putting into Ukraine on the ground that
there is some sort of ultimate backstop if things get
really nasty. He said, the Russians need to know they
are going to answer to the United States as well
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as to the Europeans on the It sound like world
War three to you. It seems to me to be
the desire of these leaders. It's like, you know, we're
just gonna go headlong into World War three. You know,
maybe for those folks out there that are interested in
population control, there's your answer. The Malthusians will love it.
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Boy will wipe out half the world with nuclear weapons,
and we won't have all these cockroaches that the globalists
and the Greens call well killers of the planet if
we eradicate a whole bunch of them. I don't know.
I hate to go down that road and make those
things assertions out loud, but what in the hell is
going on here? But it really does give you a
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sense of perspective, doesn't it. Everyone keeps turning to us,
Everyone keeps turning to us. They have been relying upon
us now for decades and decades, and I'm sorry, going
back to the fundamental point here, we're broke. Five eighteen
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I've love to hear what you think about this. I'm baffled.
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I am completely perplexed. I'll be right back. Surprize of
how cold it is. Didn't seem that way when I
walked out to my car this morning, about twenty two
on a Monday. Let's go to the Phone's got several
callers online and we'll start with Mississippi James, and we'll
get to New Hampshire, Gary, my out of state friends, James.
Welcome back, my friend. Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yes, sir, doctor Brian. Now I did a little dive.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I didn't do.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
A deep dive until Ukraine. But they say this go
back to the nineties when Ukraine surrenders is nuclear arms
capability in exchange for the United States and the European
nation protected them against all foreign affairs. So this stuff
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had been brought forward to today. Now we know the
war been going on for three years. We don't see
where Joe track to negotiate in it. I mean, we
don't know to underline it. But yeah, they did supply
to the money and the ammunition. Because Ukraine supposed to
gave up their capability in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, we didn't provide them with a defense obligation. There's
no written treaty that said the European Union or the
United States would send military troops or boots on the
ground to defend them militarily. Now, we've got this relationship
with NATO countries, so if one of the NATO countries
is invader, the United States has a defense obligation. But
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I haven't seen anywhere where it's written that we have
to defend Ukraine against the foreign invader.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Well, not by sinning, not by senning military, which we
have not done that. We just send money and they quit. Yeah,
it's a proxy war, so if they you know, like
I said, I didn't do a deep dive into it
and still got to do my research, but that's what
I came up with. This goes back to the nineties.
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So you may have a much smarter call of more
informed callers than I am that may be able to
shine some more light on this.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
All right, have a good day here YouTube.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
James. Always good to hear from you, my friend. We
have time for another one, Joe. Yes, we do a
new Hampshire. Gary. Welcome back to the Morning Show.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Gary.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, I guess Gary's not going to be speaking with
us this morning, so anyhow we're at the time. In
this segment, Pat You'll be first out of the gate
when I get back. Hang on, got a brief few
brief words here, and we'll resume the conversation. Is Monday
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hang on because Pat's first out of the gate. As promise, Pat,
thanks for holding over the break there. Welcome to the
Morning Show.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Oh thank you, Brian. I'm about as up that as
you are. One thing that I wanted to know, Uh
Lizinsky had breakfast with some Democrats and some Republicans before
he went to meet with uh Donald Trump. The thing is,
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I want to know who the Democrats and the repair
Well we know some of the dumbs because she was
one yesterday. But anyway, it seems to me like they
might have pumped him up the you know, to go
after uh Donald Trump, because Trump is trying to get
the peace and the war, and I think uh Lizinsky,
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with all the billions that he's got, he doesn't even
know where half of it is. I just want to
know what they said to him that got him to
do what he did at the White House. So but anyway, Brian,
if there's a person out there that digs into the stuff,
I like to know who they.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
All were at the breakfast.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Yeah, anyway, sweetheart, you have a try to stay call them.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
I know.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
I'm trying to calm down, have a good day, and
keep praying for the country.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Thanks Pat, Yes, absolutely pray for the country that we're
because we're broke. Going back to that fundamental promise, we
are going to spend ourselves into our oblivion. Therein lies
the challenge. I mean, Lord Almighty, the world has its
hand in our pocket. That's my observation. I was like,
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what prompted this rant this morning? You know, peace beasp spaces,
United States, Peace beast pa species. But we need the
United States and just really try to be you know,
step a ten thousand foot level. And he's so, wait
a second, why does the rest of the world think
it needs our approval or that we need to blessed
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lay our hands upon whatever negotiation they want to enter
in to. It's because we keep funding every blanket project
in the world. We keep throwing all of our the
money that doesn't exist out into the world. They are
hooked up with like an umbilical court to the United
States pocketbook. I think that's what needs to stop. Oh yes,
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that will lower our power and influence in the world.
But you know, in the grand scheme of things, So
what do you want to be hooked at? That was
kind of the point I made to my friend in France.
You know, I wouldn't want to be dependent upon us. Well,
it's ruining your relationship with the NATO countries. Well well,
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you know, okay, let's pause some run and let's take
again a ten thousand foot look at what NATO has become.
Stiflers of free speech, pursuers of zero carbon and green energy,
and they can't even afford to run their own plants
because they've put themselves in that position Greta Thunberg dominating
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their energy policy. We pick and choose in the world
who we want relationships with autocracies, you know, help We've
got significant trade with China, who's our biggest genuine existential
threat in the world. We don't see eye to eye
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with most of the NATO countries in terms of how
they're run. Again, going back to free speech, for example,
they don't allow it. Isn't that a human rights abuse?
Stifling individual thought? Yes? We have historic relationship with NATO.
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How we rebuilt most of those countries in the aftermath
of World War Two. We trade with them. If it
wasn't for US, I don't think that they would be
as economically successful as they are. Same thing with China
are imbalance with China is overwhelming? Why because with the
wealthiest country in the world sort of kind of ignoring
our massive debt. See what Charlie's got this morning, Charlie,
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Welcome in the Morning Show. Sorry for my rent there.
I wanted to get to your call. Welcome.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
Yeah. I love your program, Brian.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
I try to listen to it as often as I
can too. Comments. I think that is it the Dunbar region.
I think they're mostly epic Russians? Yes, why not just
give that to the Russians. That's an exchange for Russia
leaving and then Russia allowing a huge buffer zone between
Russia and Ukraine following this, and that way we'll have
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at least a tenuous piece. That's my first comment.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, I mean and that that goes to my point
about ethnic Russians there, that the Dunbass region or Dunbar
region is mostly oh with Russia because they are ethnically Russian,
and they relate to Russia and not Ukraine as an
independent country. I mean, it doesn't it's not an affront
to them to be a part of Russia. That's the point.
And to negotiate a peace because Russia's got the upper
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hand militarily, it's going to require some land concessions. Anybody
practically reals life realize. That's why Puttin is like, hey,
screw you guys. You know we're winning, and do we
want to risk World War three by putting a whole
bunch of troops in there in order to sustain the
Russia or the Ukrainian front from further incursions by Russia?
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Is it worth global devastation for that. I'm of the
mind to say, no, it's not. So everybody's talking about peace,
what does peace mean? Vladimir Putin's gonna say peace requires
land concessions. We're winning the war. I've got no reason
to give up on the advances we've made. Besides, go
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ahead and do a poll of the people in the
areas that we've taken over, and they'll probably say they're
okay with being part of Russia. That's I mean, that's
kind of where I'm going here. They talk piece piece
piece piece piece, but they never articulate out loud they
mean the NATO countries who are now I guess, taking
the front on negotiating a piece. They never say out
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loud what that means.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Glad to me.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Puttin's going to have a say in that, isn't he right?
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Feel free to call or pause and let's get away
from the headier conflicts and my rant this morning and
dive into the stack is stupid. Oh parenthetically, PG sitting
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Feld is going to try to take his case to
the Supreme Court. Just getting in a little headlining there
from the local stories that I didn't get to anybody
placing bets on whether he's going. They're going to accept it.
Stick around, be right back after these brief words.
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Care or see the talk station. I'm very happy Monday
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funds before we get to the stack of stupid. I
got Dwayne on the line. Dwayne, thanks for calling this
morning in a very happy Monday to you, sir.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Good morning, Brian, Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Hey.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
I think I think Trump advanced just out at Zelensky
for what he is. Can basically put our corrupt politicians
on notice who were lining their pockets from this money
laundry operation. The big thing to remember is our country,
through USAID funded a CIA news organization. Remember the whistleblower,
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Lieutenant Colonel Vinman, who uh out at Trump on the
perfect phone call, and Zelensky through Trump under the bus,
and that's why he got impeached. So Trump did not
forget that, let me tell you. So he embarrassed Zelenski.
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And now, of course Finman is a Democrat congressman, so
they rewarded him by testifying to impeach Trump. And now
he's a Democratic congressman for using our tax dollars through USAID.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, and you know that's another important fundamental point. Ukraine
does not have clean hands. It has notably been a
very corrupt country. It's as if you know, we were
when people he said, oh we need to defend Ukraine,
need to defend Ukraine. And that's why I mentioned about
picking and choosing the countries that we are willing to
have relationships with and those we are not. You know,
there are countries we work with all the time that
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are terrible with human rights abuses, and there are countries
that we refuse to work with because well, you know,
they're autocracies, or they're you know, they're communists, or I mean,
fill in the blank. You just sort of pick and
chew is what sins are going to justify or not
justify a relationship with, or you're willing to overlook them.
But Ukraine does not have clean hands at all. And
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you go back to the Biden administration. You think about
you know, Hunter Biden's relationship Barissmal Holdings. You know, there's
corruption all day long. So yeah, it just there's so
much to take into account here. And this isn't a
black and white situation. It is as gray and as
obtuse and and foggy as anything could possibly be. Appreciate
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the call, Dwayne, I really do. This whole thing's got
me really down over to the stack of stupid. But
you can feel free to call anyway interrupt the stacker stupid,
I don't mind. I thought this was hilarious. City Group
accidentally credited a client's account with are you ready eighty
one trillion dollars last April? Can you imagine waking up
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and you got eighty one billion dollars in a year account?
Financial Times report of the incident that went unreported until now.
It happened last April. They mistakenly entered an internal transfer
of eighty one trillion dollars into a client account when
the intended amount was two hundred and eighty dollars. Actually
it was April of twenty twenty two, so that it
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managed to slip through the banks in initial checks and balances.
Accord to the internal account of the event seen by
Financial Times as well as two people familiar with the matter,
eighty one trillion dollar error missed by both the payment
employee responsible for the transaction and a second official task
with verifying it before being approved or processing the following
business day wasn't until ninety minutes after the payment posted
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that a third employee caught the discrepancye while reviewing the
bank's account balances. Payment then reversed several hours later. No
client funds actually left City Group. The bank was did
the disclosure the quote near miss close quote to the
Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.
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The bank has been under regulatory scrutiny since mistakenly wiring
nine hundred million dollars to Revlon creditors back in twenty twenty,
an era that led to the departure of then CEO
Michael Corbett, as well as hefty fines. Wow, we got
to Saint Louis where a forty one year old man's
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been charged with attacking his parents after an argument about
the Internet going down at their home. Just away. Yeah,
just unplug the router and then plug it back in again.
It's called a reboot. Saint Louis Metropolitan Police arrested Martice
Fulton Sunday, charging with two counts a third degree domestic assault.
Forty save Police showed up at the home after multiple
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calls about a disturbance and met with Fulton's parents, who
are seventy four and seventy three years old. Office has
learned that after an argument about the Internet being down
at the residence, Fulton allegedly attacked both of his parents,
striking his father and mother and trying to strangle his
father with a power cord. Do what also accused of
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throwing his mother to the ground. Not in front of
Judge Silverio. Yes, the biggest douche of the universe, in
all the galaxies.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
There's no bigger.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
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Many of you have been sold.
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Five fifty on a Monday fifty five KCV talk station
A try to make it a good one five one three,
seven fifty and two three talk. Lets jump out to
the phone for I return to the stackers too, but
I got Pete on the line. Pete, thanks for calling
this morning. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 13 (30:58):
Thanks Brian heys Linsky. I listen to Tucker. He said
that the Lensky has been black markets selling our ammunition
and equipment all over the black market around the world,
and that even cartels in Mexico have some of our
our equipment and ammunition to use against US as well
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as terrorist groups and usually Tucker's pretty spot off.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, and that's exactly what I was going to say.
I have no idea whether or not Tucker Carlson is right,
but he usually is a very well informed guy, So
I doubt he would go out on a ledge and
make things up and say it out loud. So and
it wouldn't wouldn't shock me a bit, Pete, honestly wouldn't
trying to.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Find out if the Linsey got a Swiss Bank account.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Somewhere plural accounts, plural. Yeah, I'm sure he's taken well,
taking care of himself financially for whatever future he has
in store for him. Plus, you know he suspended elections.
You know, talk about people need defending democracy. We need
to defend democracy. We needed Well, you know why don't
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have an election? Well it's a war torn region. We
can't have an election in a war torn region. Okay,
just another fun factor throw into the mix when you're
contemplating these things. And nobody's got clean hands in this,
no one except I think we can all agree the
biggest beneficiaries of an ongoing conflict the military industrial complex. Uh,
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let us return to the stack of stupid. We're you
go to North Carolina. A woman is wonder for attempted
murder after allegedly locking her boyfriend in a storage unit
where he was stuck for some several days with no
food or water before finally being rescued. Rob A fifty
two year old Robin Deaton of Matthews, North Carolina, being
sought on an attempted murder and kidnapping charges of an
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Roe Police Department said she remains at large. Fifty one
year old boyfriend had been locked in the unit on Thursday.
Beating allegedly convened to crawl to the back of the
unit to get her something, and that's when she slammed
the door shut, saying what the hell, this is what
you get just he had no food, water, or power source.
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There were two locks on the storage unit. He said
he was in that unit and his phone was about
to die when he asked if he needed emergency services.
I need to get out of here. I just can't breathe.
I haven't had anything to drink or eat. Officers respond
to the facility about a quarter after one on Monday afternoon.
According to the incident report, Man taken to the area
hospital since and has since been released. Into the report
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lists to the crime as false imprisonment, though the detectives
sought higher charges for Deton's arrest want because based on
the investigation Saint Louis County, Missouri, Webster Groves woman pointed
a firearm at a Duncan Donuts drive through a tendant
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in spite of get after if she got a re
fund for her order. In Saint Louis A gott County
Friday Court investment Amen Joe Court, an investigator with the
rock Hill Police Department, Ebony Gaither, thirty five, argued with
the attendant about her order and ultimately got a refund.
Investigator wrote, quote, defendant, apparently unsatisfied, takes the ceramic tip
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container from the counter and throws it, causing it to break.
She then throws the food at the victim. The attendant
followed Gaither out, began recording video and tried to get
a photo of her license plate. Investigator wrote, defendant points
a semi automatic pistol of victim. The victim states that
law enforcement will get involved. According to court records, that's
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when Gayther got out of her car and approached the
victim before trying to hit them in the face. Do
what the hell everything captured on the victim's cell phone.
Of course, Gaither are now facing charge of unlawful use
of a weapon fourth degree the assault and property damage
for pulling out a weapon during the argument, swinging her
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fist at the victim's head and breaking the tip jar
bond fifty thousand dollars cash only ten percent not authorized
obviously again not in front of Hamilton County Judge. Silverstein.
Arrested Sunday. Gaylor said to appear in court Monday. The
hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday because she wanted her attorney
to be present. Yeah, that might help. Five fifty five
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five care see the talk station. You know, if the
world would just learn your sound bite, Joe, just walk away,
we would be in a much, much, much better place.
Take a deep breath. Count to ten, and remember someone
has a cell phone camera out and is recording your actions.
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Scary and o'relegan as that may be. You're gonna get
caught from doing stupid things. Plenty to talk about in
the six o'clock hour. Man, I got a stack of
trainny Joe, you hit like eight articles, got a roll
this morning. Prep for the show. Hang on, folks, be
back after the news.
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We're happy, Happy Monday to you and Thomas. Looking for
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the topic of conversation. I thoroughly enjoyed that five with
three seven, four, nine, fifty five, eight hundred and eighty
two to three Talk Town five fifty on AT and
T phone, kind of move away from my rant on Ukraine. Boy,
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that had me going this morning in the five o'clock hour.
If you're just tuning in, you feel free to find
the podcast to that hour on fifty five car Ze
dot com. Anyhow, just just the ultimate point. It's like
the entire world keeps looking to us, keeps looking to us.
They want to negotiate a peace. What does that mean? What?
Speaker 6 (37:05):
What?
Speaker 10 (37:05):
What?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
When? When France and in the UK want to take
over the peace negotiation they talk about we need a piece,
need a piece that the United States can buy into.
Why why us? I think the point ultimately is I
made it. Not going into more glorious rants. They've all
got their hand in our pocket and we're broke, painfully,
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painfully broke. Anyway, I put a post on the idea
on Facebook, and I's surprised that many people responded to it.
Have you been seeing these demands for boycotts and don't
buy anything? I guess in the name of I don't know,
some sort of diversity equity inclusions, so sort of left
wing ideologically driven concept that no, do not shop at
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fill in the blank store or do not buy anything
on some given day. Let's stop the onomy from functioning
and show them the power of the people. And then
the next day comes and then you go out and
buy the stuff that you didn't buy the prior day.
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I mean, that's kind of the reality of that. In
my parallel was it's like a snow day. You know,
the roads are closed, so you can't make it out
to Kroger to buy your milk. You missed the opportunity
to get ahead of the storm, so you're stuck at home.
You're not out participating in economic activity because well, the
roads are closed, or you're afraid of crashing your car
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because the roads are slick. Then what do you do?
As soon as the roads are clear, you get in
your car and you go out and you buy something.
There's no overall economic impact. The only way to have
an economic economic impact along the lines of what they
suggest is going to happen is if you just commit
to quit buying period. Done over with. I'm not buying
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anything anymore. And how would that serve society? Your friends
and neighbors who are in the you know, are getting
a paycheck related to an economic activity, which we all do.
I don't know. It's just there's some idiots out there, truly, truly,
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and so I turn to Maine because Joe had a
stack of training. Is what I'm calling it this morning.
It's all these transgender athletes winning and competing against women
and in the name of defending women's rights. It is
indeed madness. Madness, Main's transgender madness. According to the editorial
board of the Wall Street Journals, pretty much summing up
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everything I feel about this. Democrats want to know how
so many voters abandoned them in November. They could take a
gander at the progressive melt down in Maine, and I
honestly am appalled at what they did in Maine. Last Tuesday,
Maine House Representative voted to censure Republican representative Laurel Libby
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for posting photos of a transgender high school athlete on Facebook.
The transgender athlete competed in boys track and field, then
switched over to competing the girls pole art vault this
year and won the Class B state championship. So Libby,
in defensive women out there in the world, said this
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is outrageous and unfair to the many female athletes who
work every day to succeed in the respective sports. So
the progressives have a meltdown. They voted seventy five to
seventy to formally reprimand this elected official for speaking her
mind and exercising her right to free speech, which is
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guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and I'm
willing to bet also embodied in Maine's own constitution, although
I don't know that for a fact, I think every
state has that. The censor mean. This is what it means.
She isn't allowed to either speak or vote. She's not
allowed to represent her constituents unless she issues an apology,
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and she said she's not going to do that. Under
the main constitution, expelling a member requires two thirds majority,
but state lawmakers have used the center as a backdoor
to silence Miss Libby by a simple majority vote. Trying
to speak in her own defense during the main House
resolution to censor her representative, Libby repeatedly interrupted by other
members challenging her remarks. My understanding also is that her
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microphone was turned off regularly during her efforts to defend
herself in her position, so she posted her remarks on Facebook.
The progressive left claims she was doxing a minor by
posting the photo, stating the obvious, the state champions athlete
has no reasonable expectation of privacy after winning a high
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profile championship. Taking pictures of those victories and distributing them
in the press or internet is routine. Happens all the time,
and there is no law prohibiting what Misslibby did, which
is free political speech. Her posts did not attack the
athlete that simply reposted the champion's picture and noted that
the same athlete had placed fifth in the men's competition
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in a previous year. Those are statements of fact. Go ahead,
run through your liberal fact checking site. Is the above true? Absolutely,
the above is true. The legislature's censure of Miss libty
also deprives her of the right to vote on legislation,
which ultimately disenfranchises her constituents by denying them representation. Good
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point they make. What's to stop the majority party from
centering any problematic lawmaker to make sure legislation passes. Democrats
should be considering whether they really want to go down
the road of regulating posts on social media. Now. For
his part, Trump's executive order on transgender athletes says schools
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or education institutions that received Title nine funding cannot deny
women an equal opportunity to participate in sports, noting that
allowing transgender athletes to compete in women in sports is demeaning, unfair,
and dangerous to women and girls. Most recently, Trump confronted
me and Governor Janet Mills at a White House event
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over the state's refusal to abide by the executive order.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi warrant officials in California, Maine,
and Minnesota in a letter that they're going to face
consequences they don't comply with federal law. Notably, I guess
the funding is going to be pulled. How about that?
And that happens all the time. And I use as
an illustration what happened to Ohio back when I was
in college. You know, if you don't raise the drinking
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age to twenty one, you are not going to get
federal highway dollars. And we capitulated federal money always with
strings attached. Administrations have a change of plans. They want
to they reinterpret Title nine. Title nine protects women, not
transgender men. And if you don't capitulate and follow what
we believe Title nine to say and stand for, then
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you're not going to get your at your dollars. Fine,
you can live without them. You can continue your transgender policies.
You just don't. It just doesn't come along with federal funding.
How firmly do you stand on those policies? Can you
live without the funding? Then, the journal concludes the Republicans
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prospered politically in twenty twenty four by campaigning on the
unfairness of forcing girls to compete against testosterone loaded transgender athletes.
Now to dodge a debate over the policy, main Democrats
who abuse their power by silencing a duly elected dissenter.
They've learned nothing from the defeat. Amen to that, and
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this is so overwhelmingly rejected the idea of allowing men
to compete against women merely because they say, one day,
wake up and say I'm a gal. We need to
just concede to that. We need to just say, Okay,
you're a girl, and that means you're allowed to compete
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against these other girls, biological women, even though you're six
too and weigh two hundred plus pounds. Is that right?
Is it fair? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 10 (45:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (45:28):
And the vast majority of people are overwhelmingly against it.
And I'm sure the citizen remain feels the same way.
And if you're one of her constituents, you don't have
a representation anymore. They've just unplugged the First Amendment. This
is the crazy world we live in, folks, and it
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Happy Monday to you five three seven fifty two to
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Christopher Smithman joins a program i thoroughly enjoy those conversations.
He's a good man. Monday Monday with Brian James, I
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At the same time, I love when we have more
and more backlash to the climate agenda. This woke religion
that is the climate agenda. Steep increases Washington Time's reporting
on this. Thank you, Susan Friccio. Apparently, high energy bills
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leading customers in underscore the word democratic led states where
they are pursuing zero carbon emissions and harming their own
economies are now leading the citizenry to question renewable energy
policies that have failed to deliver more reliable, less expensive electricity.
Price hikes in New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, among other states
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of left consumers fuming. She writes, government leaders scrambling to
provide relief as voters threatened to turn against them at
the polls for implementing policies primarily blamed for the spike.
And it is only the policies that are causing this.
They've done this to themselves intentionally, Executive director of Massachusetts
Fiscal Alliance. It feels like all of a sudden people
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woke up. I think over time, yes, the blame will
be squarely on a elected leaders, and who else would
it lie?
Speaker 6 (50:02):
In?
Speaker 2 (50:04):
Democrats seeking to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts
by twenty fifty. A program encouraging residents to convert from
natural gas to electric heat has significantly increased most monthly
energy bills, in many cases by double or more, whittling
away your spending power. And I think that's one of
the farious elements behind all this. One resident Scott O'Donnell's
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electric bill for his eleven hundred square foot ranch home
has nearly doubled over the last year. Six hundred and
eighty five dollars bill for February for eleven hundred square
feet two hundred and ninety bucks for heat, and get
a load of this three hundred and ninety five dollars
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for what they call delivery charge, which includes a recently
raised feed of funded program called Mass Save, which gives
rebates to residents who convert to electric powered heat. The
cost passed along to rate payers who I guess converted
electric heat. Work the math out on that one. Governor
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of Mara, Healey, of course Democrat, recently approved a twenty
five percent budget increase for the Mass Saved program, prioritizing
the elimination of all fossil fuel heating in the state.
Electric companies increased the fee to pay for the expanded program,
adding that the electricity prices that were already among the
highest in the nation. The state has it rejected installing
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natural gas pipelines and new fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.
Get a load of this, rather than rely on their
own pipelines and their own source of fossil fuel, which
apparently they have because someone tried to get the power
of the pipelines installed that was rejected. It imports most
of its energy, including liquefied natural gas, at a much
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higher cost, from Canada, Norway and other countries. Massachusetts is
buying natural gas from Canada, Norway and other countries, which
doesn't make any sense to me from a logic and
reason standpoint, because that means they're producing carbon, which they
want to be carbon neutral. Go ahead, working out in
your mind. They say a third of the state's energy
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comes from renewable sources, mostly solar. Major natural gas power
plant shuddered in May, and the only state energy projects
planned involve renewables, which of course don't produce a lot
of electricity and don't work like solar when it's a
cloudy outside. Kind of harsh Winners in New England as well,
local television news interview the governor. She did not respond
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to an inquiry parenthetically from the Washington Times, but she
did speak with local news that her administration is not
to blame for the higher costs. Really, just because she
says it doesn't mean people aren't smart enough to figure
it out, is exactly her and the Democrats fault for
implementing the policies which will cause their electricity bills to double.
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So she asked the Department of Public Utilities to take
a look at the rates and do anything and everything
we can as a state to lower heating bills. That's
a quote from her. Well, look inwardly, get rid of
your stupid policies which are directly related to causing the
energy prices to go through the roof. She ordered energy
companies to cut rates by at least five percent in March,
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saving consumers and average about fifteen bucks a month. Talk
to the guy with the eleven hundred square foot ranch
and see if that makes a difference in his world.
Governor and other state officials say eliminating fossil fuel in
the electric grid will provide cleaner air and reduce the
impact of climate change, which they say is causing adverse
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weather events. Okay, you're on your own, Massachusetts. What are
the surrounding states doing? Don't we all breathe the same air?
Isn't the wind blowing from the west across our country,
notably coming from China where they're belching out carbon and
pollution every single day with their every day going online,
new coal fired plants. That's yes, is the answer rhetorical question.
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According to Ray Kander, Deputy government affairs officer for the
New Jersey Business and Industry Association, we have continuously warned
the creating policies that set artificial deadlines for actions and
discouraging new generation from sources that include natural gas, nuclear,
as well as other renewables will result in much higher
energy prices for New Jersey residents and businesses. That's over
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in New Jersey where they're bracing for a twenty percent
increase this summer based on decarbonization policies that have led
to reduce power supply economics, folks, laws of supply and
demand less electricity more expensive. Big increase caused in part
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by the state's ambitious plans removed fossil fuels from the
electric grid by shutting down coal and oiled fire plants,
as well as state approved rising charges in utility customers
bills to fund Maryland's energy efficient upgrades. They're whittling away
you're spending power, folks. It's all artificial and it's all
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chasing your tail. Again, going back to the fact that
we live on a globe where the air is circulated globally.
See what India's doing, See what Turkey's doing, see what
Rush is doing, see what China's doing, and look at
us acting like idiots thinking that one action by one
single state is going to have an impact on the climate.
If you believe that carbon plant food is a bad thing.
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Six twenty eight, Brian, if you don't mind holding I
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I went and made the mistake of doing that myself
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Thank you Westside Jim Keefer for bringing me to Bud
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And you'll speak with one of the Herbert family members.
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to hold over the break. Brian, welcome to the morning,
showing a very happy Monday to you, sir.
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Yeah, happy Monday, good morning.
Speaker 10 (57:23):
Yep.
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The lady in Maine that they centered. If I was her,
I absolutely would apologize. I'm so sorry that the truth
hurts your feelings.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 6 (57:38):
Yep.
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I mean, I'm appalled at it that they would do that.
Democrats are and they want to fall on the sword.
I guess it's a good thing. I mean, word gets out.
This is something that most people overwhelmingly reject, and they're
such a tiny, tiny segment of the population that even
qualifies as transgender, and this is the hill they want
to die on. Okay, watch commit suicide.
Speaker 6 (58:01):
Right exactly on corn subsidies.
Speaker 2 (58:08):
You're trying to get me all agitated again, Brian, Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (58:11):
Well, this one's going to fire you up. So my
family's farm's been in my name for seven or eight
years and there's not been a stitch of corn grown
on it that whole time, and probably for four or
five years before that, there wasn't a stitch of corn
grown on that. But there is a ten acre corn base.
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So every year the prices are low, they send me
a form. If I fill it out, then they send
me a check because corn prices were down. Oh jeez,
I don't fill it out anymore because it's just wrong.
Speaker 2 (58:43):
I don't prill corn. Well, you're a man of principle then, Brian.
You know it's you got that dangling cared of incenter
to fill the format. You could take the money, but
because you have higher character than that, you say no.
And I have to applaud you for that. Most people
would take advantage of it. And therein lies the problem
with subsidies like that. You know, I have to ask you, Brian,
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the reason there's so much corn being grown is because
of subsidies. Don't you think that farmers would grow a
crop that is in demand in lieu of corn if
there weren't corn subsidies, couldn't they grow something that people
out in the world really truly genuinely want and need.
I mean, I just have to ask out loud, because
I'm not a farmer ahead, how we're.
Speaker 8 (59:25):
Gonna fill our gas tanks if they don't grow extra corn?
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Go back to just using plain old gasoline, which is
better for your internal combustion engine. Lord Almighty, what did
we do before ethanol? Appreciate it?
Speaker 10 (59:39):
We just raised trees timber.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
Good for you and in demand last time. I Good luck, Brian,
God bless the American farmer, just please quit growing corn
and turning it into corn syrup that ends up in
literally everything we eat. It's bad for us. Stick around.
I'm gonna take George's call. George, if we don't mind
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has been on hold longest. George, thanks for calling this morning.
Welcome to the Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
And Brian, I was just thinking, uh, with that green
energy they got all them bird swaters out there tucking
up care wat's the power out of the wind? I
wonder what effect that has on the wind patterns. It
may be contributed to the catch you whether they keep.
Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Talking about I don't know. I don't know, but you
do point out something I'm fundamentally opposed to. Listen, they
do slaughter birds and bats. And if an oil company
was responsible for killing any form of wildlife, and they
have been prosecuted for it by I don't know which
governmental entity, the EPA, whoever's responsible for such things? Oil companies,
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evil oil companies. Oh my god, there's a bird that
is covered in oil. You are going to be prosecuted.
What about the millions and millions of birds and bats
that are slaughtered every year by the windmills? Aren't the
power companies responsible for that. We've got a bad enough
problem with bird flew out there killing millions and millions
of wild birds. We don't need the help of windmills
slaughtering more of them. You think the environmentalists would actually
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have a concern about that. And isn't it interesting the
environmentalists steping up to the plate when it comes to
whales because the offshore wind developments apparently impact the whales.
Save the whales. The green and movement was kind of
built in part on that. Oh no, we don't care
about the whales because as we're generating electricity with offshore windmills,
it's the humming and the noise that's created by the
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windmills offshore that drives the whales apparently crazy. So yeah,
you can't reconcile the two positions at all at all.
Appreciate the college, George, and see what New Hampshire Gary's got.
We'll give it another shot, New Hampshire Garry. Let's try again.
Speaker 10 (01:04:22):
Yeah, sorry about that. Brian had my mute on. Hey,
just tell you a little bit of history. I like
to read history. One of the terms that they used
back in World War One amongst the elites for starting
World War One was called societal hygiene. It was a
way that they could make money by the military industrial
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complex while they believed that they could get rid of
the lower class or the unwanted or the unproductive in
their societies. You want to talk about really six stuff.
The more things change, the more they remained. The Europe's
that war. They're going to start World War three. We're
going to have to bear them out, you know, same old,
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same old stuff. As far as the Green Agenda, I
can tell you. Did you see that story up here
about Vermont where actually Vance in his family had to
go into hiding.
Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Yeah, they're on a skiing trip and I guess you
got attacked by protesters.
Speaker 10 (01:05:25):
Do you want to see the Uh, there's a big line.
It shows how many of them over there. It's like
the nineteen sixties. Vermont's actually a beautiful, wealthy state, but
they live on a different plane, a different planet, even
more so than New Hampshire. And they're they're they're violent.
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You know. Of course love means love has no hate here.
All the signs say right. But if you get in
their way, buddy, just they'll show you what height is.
And if you see it, they're just going down the road.
And everybody had the Ukrainian flag, the gay Pride flag
and the Green Agenda, and I can't help. But the thing,
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none of these people would be willing to go fight
for Ukraine, but they want to throw them. No. No,
same thing with the Green Agenda. They're making just as
much money off the Green Agenda with their loans and
allocations through their buddies and all the grants, just like
that twelve billion dollar grant for the solar farm down
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in Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
You know that.
Speaker 10 (01:06:32):
I think it was Obama put in And then they
had a hailstorm. Yeah, that didn't work out, you know,
twelve billion dollars later, right in a hailstorm, which nobody
even did it. How about an environmental impact all that land?
Now they're all busted glass, right, and it's not like,
you know, if you live down in Texas, you know
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you're going to have hailstorm. But they did it anyhow.
But now the company's bankcruff felt they're going to twelve
billion billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Yeah, it's well, you have sort of linked two different things.
One on one hand, you got the military industrial complex,
which is the one that benefits mostly from the ongoing
conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which, as you heard Sean
Hannity say along the lines of what I was ranting
about in the five o'clock hour, Russia without US using
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it as a proxy war would have kicked Ukraine's butt.
By now, We're to run over the entire country. So
the only thing that's keeping them alive is dollars from
the United States, and that's why I was ranting this morning,
what in the hell do we have to do with it?
I love this post by Ken Blackwell. It's a picture
of Zelensky with the caption, Remember when I'd come to
the US and remind the president of all the dirt
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I had on his son and leave with a bundle
of money. I missed those days. That seems to be
the chickens that have come home to rust. Trump was saying,
you know, we need to negotiate a piece here, and
that's going to have to involve concessions by Ukraine and
when and it pisses everybody off. This this this con or,
this this this problem that developed on Friday with the
Russian president and JD. Vance and Donald Trump and all
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by screaming and whaling and national teeth. Oh my god,
how undiplomatic and blah blah blah blah blah. So what
does he do is Selunski gets on a plane, goes
to the UK, where the French President Marcone and the
UK's Prime minister now say they're going to take over
the discussion of peace. What does that mean in their mind?
What does a peace resolution involve? Does it mean concessions
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to Russia. Russia's got the upper hand on this for
the reasons that Hannity pointed out and I pointed out
as well, superior resources, superior army. Ukraine's running out of
live human bodies that are capable of defending whatever territory
they've got, and without the help of Western countries they
would have been dealt a fatal blow by now. And
you got the green industrial complex was the further point
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to that it's just a fake economy that's been created
under this green crap, a fake economy without government dollars,
that entire system does not exist. There isn't a windmill manufacturer,
notably China. There aren't solar panel manufacturers unless there's a
demand formed by society a product that can compete and
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provides some measure of efficiency or reliability. For individuals to
decide on their own if they want to go down
that road, that's okay. Thomas Massey did it. He chose
to use an old Tesla battery and solar panels and
maybe even some wind I can't recall if he's got
a windmill on his farm, but on his farm, he
chose to go down that road. Individual choice it worked
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for him, and it works for him, it doesn't work
for everybody, especially on a mass scale. When you've got
millions of people living in a city, they can't afford
to have their own solar panel up. So it's got
to be done on a huge industrial level, funded by government.
And when the power goes out, well, you have unhappy people.
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Going back to the backlash on green energy that was
revealed by the Washington Times that I spoke of earlier
military industrial complex, green industrial complex. Who's benefiting from it?
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So love helping out the American veteran anyway I can,
as most of my listening audience knows, and I was
talking about the you know, the backlash to the green
agenda is well becoming very significant New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts
the subject of the Washington Times article that you know,
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this is just It is legislatively created. It is a
high cost of energy brought about by efforts to get
rid of carbon and ultimately with unreliable energy sources and
the odd goofy reality. I believe Massachusetts just like European
Union countries, they don't want to drill in their own backyard.
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They don't want to build their own nuclear plants. To
what do they do They buy gas from someplace else,
as if that makes it clean or green. This is
just backcrap, insanity. Absolutely, electricity bills doubling, especially when these
inflationary pressures were all under grocery prices going through the roof,
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you don't have enough money to spend, and much like
your real estate taxes, your energy bill goes through the roof.
This is doing some significant damages to people's financial stability.
If we didn't pursue this nonsense, then your energy bill
wouldn't go through the roof, and you'd have a more
reliable form of energy in the form of natural gas
or maybe even nuclear power. And I embrace that, and
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thank god we have a president Now that's an all
the above strategy kind of guy. Before I get on
to something else here, let's see what CJ's got this morning. CJ,
thanks for calling the Morning Show and a happy Monday
to you.
Speaker 17 (01:17:37):
Happy Monday to you as well. And I was actually
gonna fall just piggyback right onto what you're saying. My
mom owns a farm in Illinois, and she gets a
phone call all the time from Hansen's, a mineral company,
in order to dredge and take all the rare earth
minerals out of her farm and basically take her farm
out of production of food. Then you have in California
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all these solar farms that have literally destroyed the cattle
industry out there because there's no room for the grazing,
and these ranchers are being given loads and loads of
money to basically stop producing food.
Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
And so now we have the.
Speaker 17 (01:18:20):
Law supply and demand will always outrun whatever we think
is a good idea, because if you reduce apply and
continue with the same demand, the price is going to
go up in order to bring balance to the economy.
And we have totally forgotten about economics when it comes
to these stupid and insane environmental policies.
Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Well, it also invites looking to maybe a more nefarious
component to it. You know, when I think of the
availability of abundant, inexpensive food in our country, some may
argue that's what led to the modern obesity problem we
face because you know, you can go to your local
fast food place for less than five bucks, get you know,
three thousand galeries worth of food. You know, maybe it's
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by design. Maybe they want the supply to go down
and ergo the price to go up so we ultimately
consume less. That would fit into the socialist agenda reduced consumption,
more heartache and pain less stuff and things for us
to consume, you know. I mean, there's whole bit, and
there's environmental reasons for that as well. We apparently have
a garbage problem in the planet, too many plastics in
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the in the globe, We got plastics float around the ocean,
particulates in everybody's bodies. You know, there's a multitude of
layers on this you could point to, and it all
seems to sort of lend itself to maybe, well, maybe
this is a broader conspiracy theory looming behind the scenes here.
Lower abundant energy means less consumption, less production. Look at Germany,
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they're not producing as much as they used to because
it can't afford the electricity. It's four times higher than
here in the United States. That's a recipe for business reduction.
I think that's actually part of it. I hate to
say it out loud for fear being labeled some kind
of kook, But we're living the reality of this, and again,
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all in the name of reducing carbon dioxide, which is
plant food. It's such a small fraction of the Earth's
atmosphere too. And the climate does change, it always has changed.
I mean, how do you separate, you know, pre industrial
revolution climate change from what's going on now. You know,
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the talking heads and networks and the left wing green
agenda folks want to blame every single climate event on us.
We're the cockroaches, We're the problem. The wildfires, Oh, that's
climate change. Oh really, Like, there weren't wildfires pre industrial Revolution.
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I mean we know there are or were. I mean,
trees reflected. You cut a tree down that's more than
several hundred years old, you can see when a wildfire
went through. It's shown in the rings of the tree. Oh,
but that wasn't us back then. No, that was just
a naturally occurring event. The glacier that once covered the
state of Ohio ten thousand or so years ago, that's gone.
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Thank god, right, thank god it's gone, so we can
pay farmers to grow corn. Well, not allowed me the
last remaining moments of this segment to pivot over to
this pretty much relatable modern feminism makes women miserable? How
does that connect? Institute for Family Studies recently analyzed findings
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from the annual American Family Survey, finding thirty seven percent
of conservative women between the age of eighteen and forty
say they were completely satisfied with life. Get only twelve
percent of liberal women feel that way. Backed up by
prior studies, twenty twenty one, Columby University professors put out
us study on depression among twelfth graders, taking a look
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at data between twenty five and twenty eighteen, finding female
liberals reported worse internalizing symptoms scores over the study period
than all other groups. Penn State University study from twenty
seventeen noted politically conservative participants were significantly more optimistic and
satisfied with life than their liberal counterparts counterparts. A study
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in Psychological Science two thousand and eight quote, why are
conservatives happier than liberals? Citing a two thousand and six
Pew Research survey showing forty seven percent of conservative Republicans
called themselves very happy, while only twenty eight percent of
liberal Democrats did the same, Researchers from Columbia speculated the
political events might have contributed to liberal depression. Republicans made
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political gains in the twenty tens, including Trump' selection. The
researchers claimed issues like here you are, global warming, structural racism,
and pervasive sexism quote became unavoidable features of political discourse.
Implication is that liberals are depressed because they care so
much about the world problems. Article points out, Well, that
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may sound noble, stressing out about something you can't control
isn't a virtue. It can lead to quote learned helplessness
close quote. If people believe their choices won't improve things,
they often give up or make worse choices. Little one
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this is a factor, they say it's a deeper explanation.
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Feminists originally argued for equal opportunity in voting, education, in
the workplace that happened. Second wave feminists went further. They
disparaged marriage and religion as tools of the patriarchy. They
didn't view children as a source of deep, meaningful fulfillment,
but rather as an obstacle to career success. Third and
fourth wave feminists went beyond that. Many contend to different
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outcomes between men and women are solely the result of
societal expectations. These ideas have gone so far that leftists
now claim men can become women. Why some men would
willingly give up the power of the patriarchy has never
quite explained. These ideas of gain tremendous cultural power, especially
on the left. As a result, liberals are less likely
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to be married, go to church, or have kids. These
haven't brought joyous liberation, but rather the opposite. In a
book called Get Married, author Brad wilcox's married men and
women are around twice as likely to be very happy
as their single counterparts. An obvious factor is that loneliness.
Single childless adults more than twice as likely as married
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individuals to say there always are almost always lonely. He noted, Historically,
single individuals found community and connection in a church or synagogue,
but liberals are less likely to attend religious services. If
women want to be happy, they should embrace what modern
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Seven twenty one Here at fifty five KRCD Talks Days
A great time to be tuning into the fifty five
Faressey Morning Show. This is the time of week we
get the former vice mayor of the city since Saint
Christopher Smith and on the program event his Fleen Smither event.
Welcome back, Christopher, my dear friend. It's always a pleasure
to have you on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
Oh brother, it's so good to hear your voice, and
I'm always honored to be on. Every week there's something
to talk about. Yeah, it just gets everybody fired up.
Speaker 10 (01:26:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
I want to start with something that's you know, a
little abstract, and I want to I want to just
deal and I'm gonna start talking about this subject matter
of racism.
Speaker 10 (01:26:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
What I want to be what I want to share
with you, Brian, is that the word racism, in my opinion,
is being watered down. See, racism is real and there
are people out there that have issues. They make decisions,
but we're in this world like if somebody says I
support the LGBTQ plus community. But I say, I don't
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want boys to compete against girls. All all of a sudden,
I don't like the gay community. That's crazy, right. There's
notion that you know if I'm saying, well, I want
reforms in public education, knowing that, Let's say where I live,
which is true. Let's say they're thirty seven thousand kids
and seventy percent of them are African American, all of
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a sudden, I'm against African American kids. I happen to
be African American. So we've got to get ourselves. We've
gone into the gooney crazy world where people can't have
honest conversations about important subject matters without being called a
racist or saying that they're homophobic, or saying they have
some other kind of issue, and it makes it difficult
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to have very tough conversations. I think sometimes the Democratic
Party knows that, and they're pushing these agendas in order
for people not to tackle the major issues that are
facing our country. For the last point I'll give you
is just because someone says, as a parent, listen, I
want to make this decisions about what's happening in my house.
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I don't want my child to be able to change
their gender without me the parent, having something to say
about that. That doesn't make me homophobic, No, No, that
makes me somebody that wants to be involved in my
child's life. And what's happening right now they push so
far that it to the left that they're having these
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conversations that basic Americans out here who are getting up
every day trying to raise a family are being called
all kinds of crazy dangs. And the reality of it
is they're just wanting common sense. If you're a mom
and you're a dad, and you're in your house and
you're raising your family, you want to be able to
make decisions about your child and their life, not the institution,
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not the educational system, me the parent.
Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
Well. And the problem is, you know, it boils down
to its name calling. When you don't have a legitimate argument,
then you just start labeling people and name calling. But
the problem with this is LG that is sexuality, lesbian, gay, bisexual.
That is what you prefer by way of sexual relationships
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with your partner. That I have no problem with, none whatsoever.
But the minute you throw tea in there, just because
you're transgender doesn't mean you're a particular sexuality. It means
that suddenly you can change your chromosomal biological reality and
call yourself something that you are not. There is no
connection with the to the T to the LGB part.
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There are guys walking around in dresses that say they're women,
but they might be attracted to men, they might be
attracted to women, they might be attracted to both men
and women. That is their sexuality, it's not their gender.
Gender has nothing to do with sexuality. I mean, it's insane.
And that's that was the point of Dave Chappelle's comedy
routine that got him so, you know, in so much
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trouble is because he made the point that I'm making
right now. It's like, fine, you're gay, find your lesbian,
Fine you're bisexual. But then the transit it was like
it was be set up as they're all driving in
the car together and then the trans transgender person gets
in the car and kind of ruined it for everybody
because it complicates an otherwise straightforward discussion about one sexuality.
Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
And all I'm saying, Brian, is that their parents out
there that are facing are you know, are facing very
complicated things already being a parent is the hardest job
in the world. We wake up every day, we're trying
to make the right decisions for our kids. What we
don't need our institutions trying to intervene and tell us
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how to raise our children. And that doesn't make somebody
anti anything because they have a vision or a dream
for their kids. I'm a girl dad, I don't want
dudes in the locker room with my daughter. That doesn't
mean it doesn't mean that I don't support the gay community.
That's the point. And we've got to be able to
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have these conversations without all the name calling. And that's
what's been frustrating for me. If these people that are
so far on the left, who don't love our country,
who believe that if I put an American flag on
my house on July fourth, that means I'm a racist,
that is absolutely true. There are people out there that
confront people because they have the flag. They're holding the
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flag and all of a sudden, okay, I see the flag,
that person's a racist. But you're holding a Ukrainian flag
or you're holding a Hamas flag, and you say that
there's something wrong with me because I'm in my country
with an American flag on my house. I'm saying we
have gone so far, the left has gone so far
that it's so difficult to have these basic common sense conversations.
(01:31:44):
And this is why Democrats are saying, the Democratic Party
didn't leave me. Mean I didn't leave the Democratic Party.
Excuse me, the Democratic Party left me.
Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Yeah, the squeaky will gets the grease. And in the
world where we have the Internet and opinions can be
offered and collected and thrown at people, makes it sound
like their voice is a majority voice when it isn't.
There are a very small segment of society, these left
wing loons that make these arguments and do this name calling.
They want themselves to be perceived as powerful and large
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and strong. When we look at the polling across America
on this very issue, this transgender issue, the vast overwhelming
majority reject the idea that you can change your gender.
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Seven thirty one on Monday, Brian Thomas with Christopher Smithman
doing that Smither event Christopher take it Away? What else
is on your mind or further to that prior discussion.
Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
Well, I'm gonna tie a little bit of this together
and kind of stay with the same theme. And I
know this might be a little complicated and convoluted, but
you know, I'm going to try to tackle this conversation
that's been happening on immigration. Look, because people are saying
they want you to come in this country legally, I
don't want you to jump the line. That there's a process.
(01:35:09):
It doesn't make you anti immigration, it doesn't make you
against any particular race. What it says here is there's
a process. People who have come here legally, who are
working every day, who are listening to this show, do
not want people jumping the line and coming into our
country illegally. And so this notion that you know, people
(01:35:31):
are trying to say, well, man, you're a racist or
or you don't like immigrants, and da da da dah,
that's not the conversation we're having. The conversation we're having
is we want you to come to our country with
a process, not jumping across a fence and running somewhere
and we don't know where you are in our country,
(01:35:53):
and no other country in the world allows people to
just run in jump ups and and say hey man,
I'm here, have a baby, and now the baby says,
I'm an American. No other country does this people, and
so we've got to get back so we can have
some sensible conversation. And this is what is tied in
(01:36:15):
to the apes that people have with the Ukrainian president
and the conversation that took place in the White House.
People are tired of Americans walking around with Ukrainian flag.
You live in the United States of America. I feel
really bad for Ukraine. I don't think Putin should have
invaded Ukraine. But I live in the United States of
(01:36:37):
America and I see veterans that don't have a place
to live. Think billions of dollars to people who have
jumped the line. You put them in a hotel, you
feed them, you give them health care. But the veteran
is sitting out there in a tent and has nothing.
That's the problem. And so what these left people don't
(01:36:58):
understand is that basically Americans are saying, I want to
take care of us, I want to take care of
our community.
Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
I hear you screaming out loud, brother, I can't argue
a bit. I mean, it's just part of the national security.
You know, we need to be able to control the
influx of humanity through an orderly legal process so our
cities aren't overwhelmed and the resources aren't all soaked up.
As you pointed out, you know, these you know, these
left wing sanctuary cities have you know, really kind of
(01:37:28):
strangled themselves and ruined it, ruined life for their own populace,
for their own electorate. You know, resources are going over
to illegal immigrants that shouldn't have been in the country.
If we had a legal, orderly process that was followed,
the cities wouldn't be overwhelmed. New York City spent billions
of dollars on the illegal immigrant population they have. Where
do you think that money might have gone had they
(01:37:48):
not been overwhelmed through their sanctuary policies with illegal immigrants
shown over the doorstep. I mean, it's just a recipe
for disaster. It's the point of having a legal orderly system.
And anybody say says this, you're racist, that's just that
is the dumbest argument. This is so dumb because people
from the four corners of the globe have come across
(01:38:10):
the border they're of all different races, ethnicities, creeds. There's
no one size fits all. I mean, if it was
a bunch of white people showing up from some white
country invading our country and causing the same problem, and
you and I were complaining about it, will we be
called racist? I guess you'd have to take that one
out of the equation. I'm sorry, you're a black man, Christopher.
(01:38:30):
I mean, like, God, go back to your earlier part
about racism.
Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
Yes, that's my point that they're undercurrent of what the
left is saying is that if you want an orderly process,
if you're saying come to our country legally in some way,
that makes you a racist. It makes you a bad person.
(01:38:56):
Immigrants who are here legally, who get up at every
day and go to work, are frustrated that people are
jumping the line because it's not what they.
Speaker 6 (01:39:06):
Had to do.
Speaker 3 (01:39:07):
They had to go through all kinds of processes in order,
and it takes years to do. They're also frustrated. But
I'm just saying, as an American, I am not a
racist because I say I want orders, I want an
orderly process to become an American citizen. I want people
to come here work hard, build a great life for themselves.
(01:39:30):
But I want them to do it legally. There's nothing
wrong with that paragraph. And I'm saying, as we're dealing
with these issues with the Ukrainian president, what a lot
of people don't understand is that Americans who are getting
up every day are connecting the dot and they're saying,
I'm tired of taking care of everybody else. And at
the same time, I'm driving through potholes, My infrastructure is
(01:39:53):
falling apart. You can't even take care of the people
that are here every day. That's what they don't get.
It's not that America isn't generous, It's not that we
don't care about what's happening in Ukraine, but we wanted
somebody to come here and have a conversation with us
with respect. Make sure that you understand the sacrifices that
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the tax payers are making. And we don't want any
boots on the ground. We don't want I don't want
my son who's in the military, to be on the
front lines in Ukraine and die for that. That's not
what I want for my son. And so what you're
hearing is a country that is saying it's okay to
put us first. That doesn't make us racist. It says, listen,
we're gonna look out for ourselves. And I want people
(01:40:36):
that are driving to work today and going in and saying, listen, man,
I got to get up every day and I have
to go to work. Guess what, Federal workers, You're gonna
have to get up and go to work like everybody
else has to get up and go to work, whether
you're an immigrant who came here legally through the process
or not. All we're saying is we want you to
get paid for doing eight hours of work. And there's
(01:40:59):
nothing wrong with that. And it doesn't make anybody your racist,
It doesn't make anybody anti anything.
Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
Bryan Thomas, Well, I think they just use that race
argument because it's it's what's preposterous, and people are afraid
to stand up for themselves and assert the logic and
reason that you're you're you're offering here in the fifty
five KRC Morning Show, Christopher, people are afraid to do that.
They're afraid to be labeled as something in spite of
the fact that the label is a preposterous, stupid, illogical conclusion.
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Seven two the fifty five per CD talk station enjoying
Christopher Smitheman's ramp this morning. He's on a tear, Christopher,
anything else on your mind? You mentioned potholes in the
last Segmentum briefly, Apparently the city of Cincinnati fixed six
and twenty four potholes over the past couple of weeks,
(01:42:56):
and there's thousands and thousands more that need to be
need to be your.
Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Dressed, I mean, I mean, Brian, we sold the railroad
for one point six billion dollars. We don't know what's
going on with that pot of money. They promised us
that infrastructure would be would be you know, fixed, whether
it's the Western Hills Viaduct which is crumbling, or whether
(01:43:22):
it's the potholes that were driving around in the city
of Cincinnati. It's horrible out here. I mean, the streets
in Cincinnati are just horrible. But the election will happen
and people will elect the same nine people and the
same mayor, and they really don't want change, right. This
is about leadership, right. The lack of snow removal on
(01:43:45):
our side. Streets in our communities were horrible in this
this past winter. I meaning, even if they got some
of the main streets, there were schools that could not
operate because they just weren't dug out. They didn't have
a plan and it was a mess. And they really
just don't have a plan for our infrastructure in our region.
And this is what's happening all across the country. And
(01:44:07):
that's one of the points that Americans are saying, you
gotta take care of us. We live here, we're paying taxes.
And so when you wake up and you say, man,
you spent fifty million here, you threw eighty million here,
you spent thirty five million here, and then Americans are
driving around dodging potholes in their community. It absolutely makes
(01:44:28):
no sense. Brian Thomas, That's what's going on right now,
and people are pushing back. I am tired. Even me
as an African American, people will say, well, smitheman, you're
an uncle Tom. What makes me an Uncle Tom? Because
I love my country? What makes me an Uncle Tom?
Because I want to make sure that my children speak
proper English. They pull their pants up, feel respectful. Yes, sir, no, ma'am.
(01:44:51):
I mean people have lost their minds when they say
excellence has anything to do with race. I want the
best for my five kids. I work hard for that
every single day. I don't ask anybody for anything, right,
But the reality of it is, if you're standing up
for your country, if you say you love the flag,
if you say you want better for your kids, whether
(01:45:11):
you're black or white, you're something other than just wanting
to be a great American.
Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
I just want everybody to know in this segment, I
love this country. And if you don't like this country
and you want to take a Ukrainian black and fly
it somewhere, go live in Ukraine. If you say you
love what's going on and you love Harmama, go to Gaza.
If you say, hey, man, I don't like this country
and I want to go to go to that country,
(01:45:37):
We'll start a fund to fly anybody with a one
way ticket out of the United States of America. I
don't know if they saw what happened in Congo, but
there were about seventy Christians that were beheaded about a
month ago and found their bodies. So if they want
to go somewhere I'm watching people in the LGBTQ plus
(01:45:58):
community carrying home my flag news alert. They will cut
your head off if you go into guys and tell them.
Speaker 8 (01:46:06):
That you're gay.
Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
They don't want you there. That's what makes our country
so great. We're the greatest experiment in the entire world,
and that's why people are trying to fly and get
here to our country for a better place. But I'm
tired of people dogging out our flag, dogging out our country,
saying all these kinds of things because I want better.
Because I want better doesn't make me an uncle tourm
(01:46:29):
doesn't make you a racist, doesn't make you homophobic. Because
I don't want a dude in the locker room with
my daughter. I don't want a dude competing against my
daughter or anybody's daughter in any sport. That's my spling
vent Today. We're gonna stand up for our country, don't
I think that we should support what's happening over in
Ukraine in the way that we should. But guy, if
(01:46:52):
you think it's okay for you to come dressed like
that to the White House, you've lost your mind. I
have very important meetings this week. I guarantee you I'm
not going to any of those meetings in my pajamas period.
I'm gonna go dress respectfully, and also I'm gonna make
sure that I know my audience and I have and
I'm sorry, I have very high level meetings over the
(01:47:15):
next five days. I'm spending time preparing for those meetings.
I promise you I will not go to any of
those meetings look like looking like the President of Ukraine, guarantee.
And if I do, I expect that person to throw
me out of their office.
Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
We landed there. That's awesome. Thank you Christopher Smithing and
God bless you Sarah. I look forward to another next Monday.
Take care man, have a great week. Seven forty seven
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It's seven point fifty two fifty five kr CG talk
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God bless the American veteran anyways. Springing from the local
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story which I just couldn't believe, the city apparently has
fixed six three and twenty four count them since Friday,
February twenty first. There are thousands left over, they say
Fox nineteen reporting on this one. They got over one
and ninety seven requests to repair potholes since Monday, and
you can report potholes by calling three one one or
(01:51:10):
go to Sincy with y three one one dot com.
Apparently I'm encouraging people to do that. I'm sorry. Three
to one one Cincy, I got that backward three one
one sincey with ay dot com. But on the break
after I reported there, I just read about this story.
Just clearly we have a pothole problem. Of course, winter
weather does exacerbate it, but I keep going back to
(01:51:30):
all the roads out there that have been crumbling for
years and not repaired. Generally speaking, Joe called three one one,
and what did you learn when you called three one
other than the fact that you can't dial three to
one one from our phone system here in the office.
You have to use your cell phone. He got a
little concern in case, like we needed nine to one one.
So there's that looming concern in the back of our minds.
(01:51:51):
But Joe, what what what did you hear when you
called it?
Speaker 18 (01:51:55):
The service you're attempting to use have been restricted or
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Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
And then it hangs up. So apparently dialing three one
one you can't leave a message, and how do you
reach customer service? They didn't give you a number for
that either. Huh. Yes, I'm sorry that I'm just laughing,
(01:52:35):
and I feel badly for the residents of the City
of Cincinnati having to contend with this. But this is
what the administration has brought you. They promised the solution
of the problem. They promised to make it easy for
you to report the potholes. I think it even came
along with a promise to fix your car if your
car has been damaged by a pothole. And I was
joking about that last week, like, yeah, right, I'm sure
(01:52:57):
that the burden of proof for you to prove that
whatever damage to your car that came from the pothole
actually came from the pothole and not something else is
pretty high that they're not going to go around randomly
issuing checks to pay for your automobile repairs because of
the pothole. You hit. Sorry, bit jaded and cynical and
skeptical about that, but that they tell you to call
(01:53:18):
three one one to report the potholes, and that is
the voice message that you get at least as of
this morning. Okay, okay, I wish people would remember this
kind of thing when they ended they can go to
the voting polls in whenever the elections are, you get
the government you vote for, not the government you deserve.
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(01:54:34):
the morning show and happy Monday to you, sir. Hope
you had a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 19 (01:54:37):
Good morning, Brian Thomas, back at you and Hope you're
doing well as well.
Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
I am doing great, other than the general frustrations of
the political landscape and all the other topics got to
deal with every day, most of which I have no
control over.
Speaker 5 (01:54:48):
But before we.
Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Get into the topics you have, I just wanted to
know because I remember Nathan Backrack and I think, I
know you know, they created what they called, I believe,
the greased Palm Index, and they tracked the lobbying dollars
the more the lobbying money was spent, and they put
it into a particular fund. So the big contributors to
political campaigns, ones with the most lobbying dollars were putting
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funds to track them to see if they grew at
a faster rate than say, other index funds, which I
thought was kind of a brilliant thing. I don't know
how I ended up working out, but I wanted to
know along those same lines, is there a Military industrial
complex index, like where you got all the defense contractors
put in one single fund, because it seems to me
(01:55:35):
those guys are probably doing pretty well.
Speaker 19 (01:55:38):
Yeah, that's a great observation, and yeah, I'm sure there is.
That's not something I pay attention to directly, but I
can guarantee you that there is somebody out there that
has built a pile of investments around any idea that
anyone might might assume is getting a lot of money
thrown at it. So there are all kinds of investment
products that focus on industries and things like that. And
as you mentioned, yeah, I'm not sure whatever happen to
(01:56:00):
it either. Maybe they don't pay attention as much anymore
now that they're retired. Yes, I do recall the idea
behind let's go follow who gets money thrown at them
and invest in those different areas. And yeah, of course,
anytime there is spending, there's going to be an equal
and opposite reaction in the investment underlying value.
Speaker 2 (01:56:16):
No doubt about it. All right, let us move over
to the topics you actually present it to me. Appreciate
you indulging me on that. Though first quarter GDP growth
looks like, according to CNBC, on track for negative growth.
Speaker 20 (01:56:29):
Well go figure.
Speaker 19 (01:56:30):
When you add a bunch of costs in things in
terms of tariffs and we start to get the talking
heads and the projections coming out, we're starting to see
the possibility of negative growth predictions. So Atlanta FED is
now predicting that we're going to see the GDP shrink
by about one and a half percent here in the
first quarter of twenty twenty five. They're kind of known
(01:56:50):
for this. This particular tracker is always leans toward the
volatility side, and it usually becomes a little clearer later
in the quarter. But still, this is just kind of
a warning of what shouldn't be too shocking. Even the
President himself came out and said there could be some
pain here on the front end as they implement the
things that they want to do.
Speaker 20 (01:57:08):
So where this is coming from.
Speaker 19 (01:57:09):
Consumers spent a little less than expected in January and
that led to a downgrade and growth predictions in the GDP.
Exports dropped a bit too, and some other places as well.
Speaker 20 (01:57:19):
We've all heard about the.
Speaker 19 (01:57:20):
Egg prices and inflation popping up in certain places too.
But yeah, this is all coming together to make it
look like it could be a bumpy first Quarterbran.
Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Well, you know, I have to observe. When people's extra money,
to the extent they have any disposable income, is being
sucked up by increased property taxes and increased energy bills,
you're not going to be participating in the economy and
keeping our consumption economy going.
Speaker 19 (01:57:44):
Yeah, that's true. It all plays together. All the puzzle
pieces got to fit one way or another. So there's
a lot of impacts here coming from a bunch of
different directions, just all the data we have now, and
we have a new administration that is shaping data and
looking at it differently. They even saw a reference to
the possible ability that they may split out government spending
from the GDP calculation.
Speaker 5 (01:58:05):
Yeah, purportedly to.
Speaker 19 (01:58:07):
Get shine a little a brighter light on where the
money comes from and where it all goes. But that's
going to be yet another indicator we all have to
pay attention to when people are still struggling to understand
the ones that come out every day.
Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
Now, I would love to know that figure. I'm surprised
that hasn't been done yet.
Speaker 19 (01:58:22):
I think it gets done, it just doesn't get broadcast.
We talk about GDP every quarter. I mean there are
websites out there. All this stuff is freely available to
anybody who wants to dig it up, but the media
doesn't pick up on that. We like our simple bullet
points and our soundbites and things, and that's always been
what is the GDP as opposed to all the different
derivatives of the GDP.
Speaker 20 (01:58:41):
So, yeah, those numbers are out there.
Speaker 19 (01:58:43):
It would be good to see how much of our
GDP purportedly is grown by actual little government spending, so
that we know what the impact is going to be
when we choose not to spend that way anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Well, I know, but I mean you think about like
the green industrial complex as I called it earlier, that
is basically fully supported by the government and government spending.
I mean, a lot of these companies woudn't even exist
but for the government and fusion of our taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 19 (01:59:09):
Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of that
out there. Matter of fact, some of your largest companies,
your your sexiest stories of the last decade have come
with a lot of government investment, and our you know,
our President in chief, Elon Musk, is no stranger to that.
A lot of the dollars that went into Tesla came
from the same came from those same green budgets as
well as heaven those that SpaceX has taken a lot
(01:59:31):
of dollars from the federal government because they do a
lot of things that.
Speaker 2 (01:59:33):
NASA used to do. Yeah, but more efficiently.
Speaker 20 (01:59:37):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 19 (01:59:38):
So there is a negative thing, but it's something we've
never paid attention to before.
Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
To your point earlier, Yeah, those astronauts are still stranded
up in space too. I must observe on that or not.
Not a comical note. I feel sorry for those folks,
But if you can't do it yourself, you've got to
rely on outsourced companies and maybe do it more efficiently. Anyhow, Now,
in terms of the first quarter being on track for
negative GDP growth, is that an indication that the FED
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might lower interest rates?
Speaker 19 (02:00:06):
Could be, But the other thing the FED has to
worry about is we want to keep the economy running,
but we also have to worry about inflation.
Speaker 20 (02:00:12):
That's really the Fed's job, those two things.
Speaker 19 (02:00:14):
Let's make sure everybody has a job, and let's make
sure inflation's under control when you really boil it down,
that's the goal. So when we're talking about inflation being
a factor in all this in the slowdown, that does
not indicate that we're going to see further rate cuts
anytime soon, And I would say we're I don't think
that has changed in the past several weeks, because inflation
really is.
Speaker 20 (02:00:33):
It's very sensitive right.
Speaker 19 (02:00:34):
Now, It's not going to take much of an impact
of anything, as we've already seen to drive prices back
up where we were a few years ago. So I
don't think we're at a point yet where we're on
the brink of that happening. But we're also definitely not
an environment where we're going to see a rate cut tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
Well other than the real estate market, because if you
lower the interest rates and it has an impact on
the current real estate interest rate, how else is the
interest straight from the Fed? How does that impact inflation?
Speaker 19 (02:01:02):
Generally speaking, Well, any cost of anything has to do
with what is it cost to produce that good or
service it and to begin with, So if there's a
company out there that has borrowed money to pay its employees,
to build its factories, to do whatever it needs to do,
then that is a factor that's that will ultimately trickle through.
Everything trickles down to the consumers. So you have the
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producers and the consumers. The consumer's got to pay the bills,
including all the taxes. No different than if your property
taxes go up and you're renting an apartment, you won't
think that, hey, I got to pay a bigger.
Speaker 20 (02:01:33):
Property tax bill.
Speaker 19 (02:01:34):
No, you don't have a property tax bill, but your
rent's going to go up because your landlord's going to
take it from you. That's the same thing that happens
to every consumer in every corner of the world everywhere,
because all those costs get passed down. So that's where
the impact will be seen, and you have to look
closely to see it sometimes.
Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
All right, fair enough, Well, I take an early break
here because we want to talk about food prices and inflation,
which I think has to tie in with the next
topic we'll do in the next segment, which is expect
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and sadly something I'm painfully aware of. I do go
grocery shopping every week with my wife, and food prices
(02:03:53):
have gone up precipitously, and most notably I just look
at the price of beef quite often. I'll just pick
up a package just to see where it is in
terms of how much price per pound, and then put
it back down to the beat section, just because it's
just like it's mind blowing. And eggs, of course we
can blame bird flu for that. I mean there's no
I don't think there's a relationship with the price of
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eggs and inflation more so than they've just been slaughtering
all the chickens because of bird flu. But what's the
story from Walmart's CEO on food prices.
Speaker 19 (02:04:23):
Doug mc millan's not in a good mood this morning,
so he's the CEO of Walmart, and he's highlighting that
strain that's coming up on American consumers due to this.
So yeah, we're not shocked at this. I even paying
attention to the headlines at all. It's been hard to
avoid whichever side of it you're on. It's been hard
to avoid the discussion about egg prices. But Doug, who
is paying attention of course to how much money his
company is making, as that is his job, is seeing
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he's a good predictor of what people are doing.
Speaker 20 (02:04:48):
There at the cash register there.
Speaker 19 (02:04:50):
So we're seeing impact on things like beef and eggs,
non alcoholic beverages, sugar and sweets. Sugar is up almost
six and a half percent. We're seeing non alcoholic beverages
up to four percent, of beef and veal we're looking
at to be of about three percent.
Speaker 20 (02:05:04):
Now, these are all facts.
Speaker 19 (02:05:05):
And when we can find these anywhere, I think it's
more impactful at least worth talking about.
Speaker 20 (02:05:09):
Brian to what should somebody do about this?
Speaker 19 (02:05:12):
This question comes up all the time in the course
of my day as a financial planner. People want to
know them is it time for me to worry about this?
What should I be doing about this? Inflation I keep
hearing about. My question is always Okay, what were you
spending on all of these items before? Then we can
figure out what the impact is going to be. And
most of the time, and this is a necessarily bad thing.
Most of the time, people have no idea because we've
(02:05:34):
not kept budgets.
Speaker 20 (02:05:35):
We don't know where we are.
Speaker 19 (02:05:37):
So that's a great first step is to understand where
your money's going in the first place, so that you
can model out some impact and figure out whether you
really need to worry about this or just be mad
at the cash register.
Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Well, I guess part of me I want to react
by saying, Okay, I'm glad sugary beverages are more expensive,
and I'm glad people are buying fewer of them because
that's a discretionary item. You don't need mountain dew in
your life, right, I mean, I'm kind of been on
a sugar tear of late. But in the final analysis,
if you need nutrition to stay alive, you need certain calories.
(02:06:10):
Hopefully your calories are coming from something that's good for you.
But rather than buying mountain dew, maybe you just drink
a glass of water. Is your life going to be
really impacted to the negative for that, No, I would
say it's going to be a positive result. I don't
know if that's baked into this cake, if that's by
design or intention, but you know, maybe it'll force people
to make more responsible choices because your dollar is not
(02:06:30):
going as far at the grocery store.
Speaker 19 (02:06:32):
Yeah, and we will see that impact. We've seen that
happen before when we've had price bikes. People do tend
to change their behavior, and I, personally, I don't believe
this is part of any engineered change of behavior by
any administration. It's just I think we've got an administration
that truly just cares about let's make this country as
successful from a commercial and business standpoint as it possibly can,
(02:06:53):
and they're making decisions to move us in that direction.
These are again not designed results, but it's it's just
simply what's happening.
Speaker 20 (02:07:01):
I agree with you.
Speaker 19 (02:07:01):
If people bought less sugar and less and less stuff
like that, we're probably in a better spot. But the
fact that we're seeing inflation increasing on those indicates that
demand may be rising the companies. Companies may be buying more.
It's not necessarily people buying bags of sugar. It could
be companies buying it more at a commodity level and
because they feel like that's where they can make their
profits fair enough.
Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
On that, I got a kick out of his observation
that you see people are buying smaller pack sizes than
they used to, but with shrinkflation, they were doing that anyway,
even if they wanted the family sized bag. The family
size bag now on contains twelve ounces where it used
to contain eighteen ounces or something along those lines. I
just thought that was an interesting comment, given that we
(02:07:42):
all lived through shrinkflation.
Speaker 20 (02:07:44):
Right, Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 19 (02:07:46):
That's another cycle that we see too, when it's harder
for companies to make money off of off of the
original sizes and things that they were making. One way
and they know they can't push the button and sell more,
another way can be to make it cheaper to sell
the same amount by putting smaller projects inside smaller products,
inside little packages that they won't notice.
Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
I remember a commercial about that the guy that saved
the company one hundred million dollars a year by taking
like one olive out of the olive jar.
Speaker 19 (02:08:13):
You know, y and airlines make their take the tomatoes
off of their off of their rubber chicken sandwiches and
saved billions of dollars.
Speaker 20 (02:08:21):
Yeah, yeah, it does add up.
Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
It does does make sense in the long run, every
little bit counts, all right. Pivoting over to restaurants, and
I've observed this also. Carry out has gotten really expensive
compared to the not that long ago. Even we it's
an Asian restaurant, and I don't think there was a
single entree that was less than like twenty two dollars.
And we're talking about just standard, you know, Chinese food
(02:08:43):
kind of orders and that that is just like mind
blowing to me. But that's the direction that's gone. But
more and more are going bankrupt too.
Speaker 19 (02:08:51):
Yeah, we're seeing that bankruptcy is coming out of but
a lot of these are older names, so it's not
I don't think we're yet at a point where all
of it is a totally their fault of inflation and
so forth. These are things that have kind of run
their course. So the big one, big ones we've seen recently,
TGI Fridays, Denny's, Ruby Tuesday, Red Lobster, all of them
(02:09:11):
have filed for bankruptcy protection. Hooters hit the headlines as
of this morning. Their food sucked though exactly. You know
the only thing that I ever liked about Hooters their
mild sauce with it was a jar of death, but
it was really good. Oh, I think you're got a
good buffalo sauce with butter in it, which is, you know,
good in the long run, but not so much of.
Speaker 2 (02:09:30):
The schwartz had nothing to do with the wait staff.
Speaker 10 (02:09:33):
Now this is.
Speaker 20 (02:09:34):
Off the shelf at Kruger. Still get it.
Speaker 2 (02:09:37):
With Yes, they out of trouble, ran James. Well, you
know this this could be I mean, I understand the COVID.
They required to borrow money to stay open, and they
got you know, debt service on that. I mean, I
note the article says this meant companies accumulated debt they
had to pay back over time plus interest. Someone wrote
us government right next to that. Oh right, that was me.
(02:09:59):
But there's more competition out there, and there are better
products going back to Hooters. If you can go someplace
down the street that has superior chicken wings, then you're
gonna go there, right, And that's what.
Speaker 19 (02:10:13):
I was hinting at before with these these are older chains.
Restaurants do run their courses and there are some icons
that never go away. But if you just look over time,
there aren't any restaurants that have been aside from these,
you know, ridiculously long family owned type stories that have
been in existence for one hundred hundred and fifty years.
It generally doesn't work that way. They last a few
decades at most. That's a huge success story, but eventually
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people's taste change some if things feel dated, TGI Fridays
and Applebee's, which doesn't exist anymore, I don't think. But anyway,
they've all kind of run the course and become the
butt of jokes after ten years. It's very easy for
consumers to change their minds and go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (02:10:48):
Yeah, and the quality can go down as well, frishes
and we end up losing our frishes locally. All right,
let's pause. We'll bring Brien James back for one more.
Talk about four oh one k balances. Which direction are
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Eight twenty eight come to an eight twenty nine I
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Brian Thomas, with one more segment with money Monday's Brian
James moving over to four oh one K balance is
something he knows all about since he's an ancial planner.
That's what it is all about. Hopefully everybody's investments are
going well. Which direction are we going in four oh
one K balances because the market seems to have been
doing pretty well late now, they've.
Speaker 19 (02:12:25):
Been going up and yeah, that's it shouldn't be too
big of a shock the market is the market usually
goes up and not down. And we've seen, you know,
the market hit an all time high in December and
it's touched that twice, once in January, once in February.
So the average balance for a four toh one K
retirement accounts about one hundred and thirty one thousand dollars.
That's the second highest average we've had on Revered on record.
(02:12:45):
So that's a good thing. But that does happen when
the economy is going okay. There's a lot of scary
headlines out there, but underneath that are a lot of
people who are doing okay and making it through. And
actually contributions are up too, so we've seen a we've
seen large amount of people putting more and more for
one K dollars in and that's represented in the fact
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that we're seeing these balances go up. So when the
economy is doing okay, people will put more money in.
When people start to slow down on their contributions, that
can be an indicator as well, because they're needing to
kind of pinch pennies a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:13:17):
Well, and I don't know how you reckon saw more
people putting away more money in a four one K
plan when we talked about the other topics, which is
inflation is soaking up a lot more dollars at least
in terms of the grocery prices.
Speaker 19 (02:13:31):
Yeah, fair point, But that's what I was hinting at before.
Speaker 20 (02:13:34):
There are a lot of people out there who were
doing just fine.
Speaker 19 (02:13:37):
We're in an economy, Brian, where we were in a
country where we worry about the profit margin of our
public traded companies. There are a lot of people who
get hurt by that. There are a lot of people
who make a lot of money off of it. I'm
not here to weigh in on whether that's good or bad.
But if you're somebody who's got the ability to put
away more money than you spend every month, then you've
been in a great environment really for the last several years,
(02:13:58):
and I would say even prior to that, we had
twenty twenty two, which was one of the five worst
years we've ever had in the stock market. But there's
been a lot of years where it's been a lot
better than that, And so that's why we're seeing these balances,
the highest average balances we've ever seen, meaning people are
putting it in and.
Speaker 20 (02:14:13):
Allowing it to grow and not relying on it.
Speaker 19 (02:14:16):
The average contribution nowadays is about fourteen percent, which really
that's an eye popping number, and I want to read
a little more into that to see where that came from.
Speaker 20 (02:14:24):
But that's what's being highlighted here in the article.
Speaker 2 (02:14:26):
Well, as every good financial planner, I'll tell you should
at least put something in it for no other reason
then to make sure you get if you have one,
the employer match. I mean, that's just sound financial planning
right there.
Speaker 19 (02:14:37):
Yeah, absolutely, that's free money that's sitting there on the
table waiting for you to take it.
Speaker 6 (02:14:41):
Now.
Speaker 19 (02:14:41):
Of course, you have to make sure that you can
pay your bills. None of this matters if you can't
pay your bills, If you're running up credit card bills
for the sake of building up.
Speaker 20 (02:14:50):
Your four O one K.
Speaker 19 (02:14:51):
In the end, that's going to balance out and kind
of work against you. So it all comes down to budgeting.
And as I've been teaching my kids and their friends
as it has come up, you have go to find
your way to get yourself in a situation where you
can spend less than you make. Do that for thirty
five forty years and you'll be just fine, regardless of
what the headlines are.
Speaker 20 (02:15:09):
And that's true for everybody as of right now as well.
Speaker 2 (02:15:12):
My wife and I've been trying to do that since
when we first met. I think it's in my West
Side genetics to spend less than we make. Just searching
everywhere whenever you can save some money, even if it's
just a small amount, All that adds up over the
long haul. I mean, it really is. I remember just
struggling with the reality when we were living in Chicago.
You know, we had a budget for our house, and
(02:15:34):
I've talked about the interest rates and you know, the
balloon mortgage we had to get. But we bought a
comparatively modest home compared to what my peers at the
law firm were buying. And I was just sort of
just in amazement at you know, they felt the need
to buy this huge monstrosity of a home, and I
just like, I'm thinking to myself, why all the resources
(02:15:56):
you got are going into your home. You become house poor,
and that to me is the ultimate, you know, a
financial sin from my perspective. Anyway, Yeah, I've got.
Speaker 20 (02:16:05):
A similar story there too, related to housing.
Speaker 19 (02:16:07):
So we moved into a house in the early two thousands,
and it would have been, you know, normally probably your
second home, and you know, then you kind of graduated
one little more space, want a bigger house or whatever.
But we got lucky and landed in a neighborhood with
a bunch of absolutely fun, wonderful people, and.
Speaker 20 (02:16:21):
None of us have ever left.
Speaker 19 (02:16:22):
So that occurred to me as I've done financial plans
for my clients a lot of times, I'm seeing mortgages
where they bought a house in their late forties early fifties,
presumably for that reason, got bored one of different change
of scenery.
Speaker 20 (02:16:33):
I didn't do that.
Speaker 19 (02:16:34):
And I'm realizing now that our house is almost paid
off and I'm not going to have that mortgage hanging
over my head. And that's the reason. It had nothing
to do with a conscious decision. It just worked out,
But it had to do with the fact that we
simply didn't have the desire to move because of the
people that were around us. That not everybody has that
fortunate situation. But there is a very very mathematical impact
to not having a mortgage for the rest of your retirement.
Speaker 2 (02:16:56):
Amen into that. Nacktol I pointed out earlier in my
psychologically speaking, not having a mortgage was always just critical
to me because I can't stand the concept of owing money.
I just can't stand it. I mean, there have been
periods in my time my life, well you had to
have a credit card balance. It was just required, you know,
you had necessities and you didn't have the money in
the bank, and it just loomed over me like this monster.
(02:17:19):
So I'm just uncomfortable with debt, knowing people money, and
so that's that's kind of driven my financial planning throughout
my entire life.
Speaker 19 (02:17:27):
Yeah, and that's when we do financial plans at all Worth,
we'll build into the plan a quote unquote spending goal
of getting that debt paid down. Mortgages aren't necessarily the
scariest thing, it's not the worst, not the end of
the world if you have one. But if you're about
to retire with thirty thousand dollars in credit card debt,
then we need to sit down and have a and
have a little bit of a come to Jesus conversation,
because that kind of thing is going to blow up
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in your face. But it's understanding the situation that you're in,
figuring out the resources you have with which to address,
and then implementing a plan.
Speaker 2 (02:17:55):
Well, that's the beauty of having a financial planner. It's
like having a responsible adult telling you what to do
not to do right. It's your You're the job is
to be like a surrogate parent. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 19 (02:18:07):
As a financial I'm a human too. As a financial planner,
I make the same mistakes. I just know exactly the
impact of the bad choice I'm about to make sometimes.
Speaker 2 (02:18:14):
Brian James, appreciate your assistance every week with these issues
and bringing things to our attention and providing some sound
financial advice. I'll look forward to another edition of Monday
Monday next Monday. Have a great week, my friend.
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Thank you sir.
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And I know how you like to hear the positivity
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that's going on. Absolutely, and so I've got too quick
an excerpts here. I won't mention any names obviously for
for privacy reasons, but uh got one. Got this last
week gentleman sent me an email and he said, I
would just like to self report that the folks at
the Hamilton Community based out patient Clinic, which is out
there in Butler County, said he went in for treatment
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of depression and suicide ideation, and through the process of
that and his coordination folks and the annual physicals, he
began immediately receiving glasses and seeing twice a year to
ensure that his cataracts are not getting any worse. So
he's very happy to be able with that. Also went
to audiology, received new here in age two. Things you
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and I both talk about all the time. Oh yeah,
with our veterans. Then he goes on to say, my
wife and I attended marriage counseling recently successfully completed counseling,
and while won a difference. He goes, I routinely meet
with my whole health coach at this clinic. I'm an
active participant. I've been in the sixteen week Move program,
which is a weight loss program, and he goes, I've
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lost forty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (02:20:54):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (02:20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (02:20:56):
He goes on to say, I've been counseled by a
VA dietician to eat better, how to cook better. I'm
participating in driver's training programs to regain my Ohio operators
permit because of the cataracts. And I plan to participate
in the upcoming sixth Service Challenge thing that we have
going on here.
Speaker 5 (02:21:16):
He goes on to say.
Speaker 16 (02:21:18):
He goes, I began to ride a recumbent bike through
the VA to help me treat my depression, my loss
of socialization, prove my physical, physical ability and mental fitness,
and prolong my life.
Speaker 2 (02:21:31):
I get online on a.
Speaker 16 (02:21:32):
TV that the system and different things that the VA
provided me so I could not ride alone, but I
just wanted to share these few things that the Cincinnati
va what they've done for me, and they've improved my life, and.
Speaker 2 (02:21:43):
Going honest, really tell a story. Yes, I thought you'd
appreciate that. I truly do. And I've been on my
own personal quest to try to improve my health through
my diet, and I and my listeners known as I
probably stick of hearing you say, you know, did my
best to really pretty much eradicate any added sugars in
my diet. I don't drink sodas, I never really did anyhow,
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but you know, just looking out for where the added
sugars are and trying to get rid of them, and
that alone has improved my mood. I can't imagine that guy.
He he's got hearing problems, he's overweight, he doesn't exercise,
and just correcting those three things that would dramatically impact,
you know, something like depression and perhaps suicidal ideation, I'd imagine.
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I'm not a psychiatrist a psychologist, and don't play one
on radio, but I mean, given my personal experience with
diet and its relationship to mood boy, that that that
has to help tremendously.
Speaker 6 (02:22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (02:22:37):
Absolutely, And the reason why I wanted to talk about
that excerpt expert from that particular veteran. It's you know,
he talked about eyeglasses, hearing aids, mental health, food, all
the whole health stuff. So this is really a good
description of what the VA does. Yeah, and you know
we're we you know, I don't say this a lot,
and I should more so is that you know, we're
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more than healthcare. We do offer a lot of the
health and welfare type support systems with things. I just
thought I diduld share that this morning because it's just
an outstanding really a snapshot of all the different things.
Speaker 5 (02:23:10):
And he's getting all this under one roof.
Speaker 16 (02:23:12):
Yeah he's not driving multiple places and just just fantastic.
I can't wait to personally meet him in person.
Speaker 2 (02:23:19):
Oh I have that.
Speaker 5 (02:23:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:23:21):
Do you offer a mental telehealth for mental services?
Speaker 20 (02:23:26):
Absolutely?
Speaker 16 (02:23:27):
We do so that you know, veterans are given an option,
you know, if they like to be seen in person
or if they like to be seen through telehealth. And
you know that's a big advantage for many of our
veterans that are working, uh you don't you know, don't
have the flexibility and the liberties to get away from work,
so you know, they can schedule to be seen before
work on a break lunchtime, you know, different times to
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do that so they can be coordinated.
Speaker 2 (02:23:49):
And it's is it easy to get an appointment? I
know out in the world of non veterans, you know,
finding a mental health provider is a struggle in and
of itself. Sometimes yeah, yeah, so you know, once again,
you know, we're regulated in mandate to get appointments within
thirty days or thirty five days, and this is heavily,
heavily scrutinized and followed as a performance measure.
Speaker 16 (02:24:13):
So like my boss who's the director of the hospital,
you know, this is one of the things that she's
evaluated on to make sure we're within this parameters, not
only with mental health, with all of those services. And
so sometimes when we can't meet that because of maybe
a medical condition that the doctor considers, or maybe travel
time or distance, this is where the community care aspect
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comes into place, where veterans get approved for community care
away from us.
Speaker 2 (02:24:39):
Fantastic, Well, I guess I have to you know, going
along with the availability of the care that you offer
along those lines, you haven't suffered from cutbacks from the
current administration, that you aren't struggling to meet the needs
of the of the of the veterans in our community.
Speaker 16 (02:24:55):
No, Brian, we you know where there's been no cutbacks
to us. We're going to work continuing our mission here
to Cincinnati VA. As I think I might have mentioned
on our last show together last year in twenty twenty four,
we set an all time record for the number of
veterans we served in that given year, and we continue
to keep growing with veterans looking at the healthcare options,
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and we continue to maintain a ninety two percent or
above trust score with our veterans when when they're asked
and surveyed about the services and customer service and care
that they receive.
Speaker 2 (02:25:27):
That speaks volumes right there, because I know we went
through some troubled times of the VA going back a
decade or so, and I think you said, I know
locally anyway, you've got those problems ironed out, and I
know things keep getting better every year. So we'll pause,
we're being Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTIVA back and we'll
talk about why those veterans out there who haven't signed
up should, even especially those under the age of fifty,
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Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
See the talk station. Brian Thomas with Todd Sledge from
the CINCINNTI VA. Boy, Todd, I don't think you could
have had a better commercial for the reason to get
your VA benefits in the story you just told in
the last segment. But it illustrates the profound benefit of
signing up for the VA. But you want to make
an appeal to those veterans under the age of fifty.
So's explained why. That's why it's so important.
Speaker 16 (02:27:21):
Yeah, Brian, you know, thanks for that. Yeah, you know,
for for myself doing this for so long. What I
continue to just see with our veterans who were past
the age of fifty, especially when they get in their
sixties in early seventies, is they've they never took advantage
of getting enrolled into the VA healthcare system. And so,
you know, as life goes on, and you know, in
these these temples of our bodies we think we take
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care of, they do break down.
Speaker 2 (02:27:44):
Like a good old car, Yes they do. Our warranties
expired at some point some earlier day.
Speaker 16 (02:27:51):
Yeah, yeah, no matter how much he changed the oil
or the tires. You know, things do they wear it down.
And so you know what I've seen so many different times.
Is you know, I'll get get a lot of calls
like you do from friends, acquaintances, different connections, and they'll say,
you know, hey, my dad or my grandfather, my uncle,
you know, they're in a private facility or there are
over a christ or a different hospital and not that
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they don't do good services, and they're like, you know,
dad's a va. Why are we having to take care
of this stuff? And so never enrolled. So you know
the encouragement of just getting enrolled and making sure that
you're in our system, finding out the type of different things,
the portfolio of care that we can provide you that
can go along with private health insurance or if you
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lose your health coverage because of a spouse retires, or
different costs of stuff. You know, that portfolio I talk
about as eyeglasses and hearing aids and mental health services,
but it's just more than that too, the long term
care benefits, you know, the the oncology stuff, the different
things that we have where you know, as someone who
served their country, they're not having their personal assets attacked
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through private health care costs that we all face as
being a veteran because as you've said many times this
is one of the things that you get when you
signed up to serve the country.
Speaker 2 (02:29:06):
So you do offer long term care solutions?
Speaker 5 (02:29:09):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 2 (02:29:10):
Absolutely.
Speaker 16 (02:29:11):
We have a full service what we call our community
Community Living Center here, which is a very robust nursing home,
hospice care. We do this stuff in home. We have
contracts in the out in the Tri State where veterans
can go. So, oh, it's a gamut of it's a
gamut of services that we have here. You know, there's
nothing we do not do here, except for we don't
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do transplants, and we do not have a spinal cord
injury program. However, we can send you to v any
Va in our area to do that or in the
private sector.
Speaker 2 (02:29:43):
Oh, that's an amazing benefit. As long as you and
I have been talking, I never realized you offered long
term care solution because I mean that that'll talk about
eating up one's savings and later in life. That is
I mean for whole families. You know, we got to
take care of Dad, and it's costing us X thousands
of dollars a month in this long term care facility,
(02:30:04):
and we're struggling already. This I mean you're in a
huge bind.
Speaker 16 (02:30:09):
Yeah, absolutely well, and that's you know, part of the
different things not only enrolling in our system, but also
talking to a local service officer at your county office
in Hamilton County or Butler County or Claremont County or
in house here about the different disability benefits related to
your services that you're eligible for. Because here's the other factor,
Brian is as veterans, if they get it, if they
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are able to get a minimum of seventy percent service connected,
that's not just for one condition. It could be a
combination of different percentages that add to seventy, then their
long term care is free. So there's all kinds of
these different advantages of different things, and which is why
I encourage every veteran to come and talk to a
expert about all the benefits that are able well in
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terms of long term care facility.
Speaker 2 (02:30:57):
I know from so many conversations with veterans and veterans
group veterans like hanging out with fellow veterans. There's a
relationship element there that's already built in. So if you
were going to a retirement facility where you don't know
anybody but versus a veterans facility where at least you
have a tie that binds. I imagine that's got to
be very I mean at least psychologically benefit of beneficial. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:31:21):
Absolutely, it doesn't matter the age too, you know.
Speaker 16 (02:31:24):
I chuckle of times when I get a chance to
go over to our community living center and I you know,
here about about two months ago, we had a veteran
who was here who's turned one hundred years old, and
we had a beautiful birthday for him. And even at
one hundred, he was still rasm guy that was in
the army because he was a marine, you know, because
because I think the gentleman that was younger said asking
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for a piece of cake, and he is nat, I
don't feed army.
Speaker 2 (02:31:51):
That's great, bust that even late in life, it never stops.
That's great. Well, remind my listeners about where the sites
are available for us since a vacare. Yeah.
Speaker 16 (02:32:03):
So you can find all of our locations on online
at Cincinnati, VA dot gov. If you google that, it
show you all that there's a location, stab show you
all that we're located. But real quick I can mention
those We have two facilities in Kentucky, so Brian and
we serve three states, three bordering states. Here in the
tri state area fifteen counties. We have two clinics in Kentucky,
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one in Florence, one in Bellevue. Also over in Dearborn,
Indiana beautiful State of the Ark clinic over there in
the Lausburg community. You go north, as I mentioned our
Hamilton community based out patient clinic which is in Butler.
Then you go out east you have the Claremont Seaboch
out there as well, and then also out in Georgetown,
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we also have a full eye center down here on
Highland Avenue, and also in Norwood we have our Health
and Behavior Wellness Center for that. So you know those
where all of our facilities are. And I know we're
getting close to the end of time. I do want
to mention Brian as we talk about communication. My office
is now started a podcast. Oh cool, Yes, now out
on Spotify and the different platforms. We're doing these about
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once every four to five weeks, and I love the.
Speaker 2 (02:33:11):
Name of it.
Speaker 16 (02:33:12):
A gentleman in my office who's a combat veteran, he
came up with the name for our podcast, and it's
called Beyond the Boots. So the theme is, you know,
after you wear those boots, so we're still going to
take care of you later on. So folks and who
are podcast listeners, go on there and check that out.
Speaker 2 (02:33:27):
Fantastic. What a great opportunity for folks to stay in
touch and get involved and learn more about the VA.
Todd Sledge on behalf of all my veteran friends out
there and their families. Thanks for everything you and the
Cincinni VA do for them. And I'll encourage my veteran
friends out there. If you not signed up for your
VA benefits, there's no downside to doing it. Todd. We'll
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talk again real soon. Thanks again.
Speaker 16 (02:33:50):
Yeah, my pleasure, Brian, and thank you for what you
do and we really appreciate all your support all the time.
Speaker 2 (02:33:55):
My distinct pleasure from the bottom of my heart. We'll
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