55KRC Monday Show - Nick Smiley, Smitherman, Money Monday, Dr. Reid

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Five o five at thirty five k r C the
talk station, Happy Monday, try to get entoosed. It was
a vacation, little Irish music there. It looked like the

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UH since any the the the parade over the weekend
on Saturday, I had a little prieve with the weather
God shone down upon and smiled upon the UH Saint
Patrick's Day Parade and down then Cincinnati. Fortunately anyhow, maybe
you were part of that, don't know. And if you
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last week, A whole bunch of great guests last week.
I always enjoy talking to folks and UH today more
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So we'll talk to Nick Smiley, executive director of the
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it's Monday. Former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati
joins a program every Monday at seven point twenty to
vent his spleen. We call it this Smither event from
Christopher Smithman eight o five. Most every Monday. Today is

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all this tariff talk, experts say, don't panic. Topic number one,
buy so or hold? What to do with a plummeting
stock after saying don't panic. And then finally one in
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every single Friday. Again, that's a podcast worth listening to
if you can't listen live fast forward to eight thirty.
Doctor Catherine read a book Fat, Stressed and Sick MSG
Processed Food in America's health Crisis. That's good. I'm glad
we have more of these folks on regarding fitness and
health because I think it's so important that we get

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our heads around and our our our information based around
what's healthy and what's good for you and what is not.
Going back to RFK Junior's pledge to do just that,
at least get the information out there. Don't issue a band,
don't do this. You know it's yeah. If we have,
if we're educated, we can make informed decisions. And if

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you choose to ignore the advice and fine, you may
suffer as a consequence of it. But you know, I'm
not the kind of guy that wants to take something
away from you just because it's bad. Just recognize that
there are bad things out there, and your consumption of
bad things can lead to bad things happening to you.
You know, alcohol is not good for you. But we all,

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we all saw what happened when we had a constitutional
moment banning it. Yeah, people continued to drink and organized
crime flourished. Anyhow, I saw this poll and I thought
was rather interesting. And we're seeing more and more potential
presidential candidates emerge. I know it seems rather early to

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start talking about a presidential race, but the Democrats need
to find someone who emerged from the pile of ashes
that was last November's election. And apparently Democrat favorability rating
among Americans is at a record low, according to CNN,
fueled in part by a dimming view from its own

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frustrated supporters, said Ariel Edwards Levy of CNN, reporting on
its own polling, Democrats and Democratic aligned independents say fifty
seven to forty two percent that Democrats should mainly work
to stop the Republican agenda rather than work with the
GOP to get some democratic ideas in the legislation. Now,

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the likelihood of that happening, and I recognize its slim.
We have a divided country and no one seems to
want to work with anybody. I don't know how the
Democrats could get whatever ideas they want into legislation, considering
the insanity of most of the Democratic ideas. But then again,
when you stop and think about it, Democrats should mainly
work to stop the Republican agenda. That's the strategy. Well,

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what is the Republican agenda? Think about that? I think
primarily working to get the twenty seventeen tax cuts in
trying into law. They've got an uphill battle for that,
but they may very well be to get it done.
There's about two hundred and fifty days left to do that,
according to the countdown ferreting out fraud, waste, and abuse

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in government. How can anybody be against that? It seems
to be primarily what the Republicans are all about these days.
Of course, with the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE, and
all these revelations about the crazy stuff that we've been
paying for, and the fact that even Barack Obama had
urged it's great. This is going viral. A twenty eleven

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video President Obama calling on the federal government to cut
wastele government spending in programs, even the ones that a
lot of people care about. His words, what everyone knows
that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions,
and that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in
programs that a lot of people care about, said Barack
Obama in this fourteen year old, almost fourteen year old clip.

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Sounds familiar, doesn't it, see part of the Democrats' strategy
as well, at one point, and what a bipartisan thing,
getting rid of crap. We're in a death spiral. You know,
it gets old saying it over and over again. But
that's the practical reality of where we are because of
government overspending, and some of it's so easy to get

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rid of, as this Department of Government efficiency is showing
us every day. It's part of the Republican strategy. But
this has been an old adage for the Democrats as well.
Even Barack Obama embraced the idea. He put Joe Biden
in charge of it back then. By the way, Obama
mentioned the importance of more painful cut stressing though the

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US government should at least get rid of its quote
pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody, adding
that in his words, it's a waste we should be
getting rid of even if we didn't have a deficit.
No amount of waste is acceptable, he said, especially when
it's your money. Just as families are living within their means,

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the government should too. Wow, lots of remarkable Stevemen a
democratic proposition, a democratic idea. Obama even provide examples of
stupid spending. Did you know the federal government pays for
a website devoted to a folk music ensemble made up
for forests made up of forest rangers called Finland Foresters.

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I'll put their music on my iPod, but I'm not
paying for their websites. Amen, Barack Obama, how about all
the things that doges identified. I think back then, if
you put it in front of him, he probably would
have agreed completely and across the board. He also pointed out,
we're paying for thousands of buildings across the country that

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no one uses. Barack Obama twenty eleven. Oh look. Former
GSA Government Service Administration had Emily Murphy, speaking of Fox News,
said the GSA will be right sizing its portfolio by
selling or leasing unused government buildings. I think that there's

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an incredible opportunity right now for GSA to say the
government substantial amounts of money by right sizing its portfolio.
Vacant or underutilized federal spaces are all over the place
right now, the GSA is loose using money. The federal
building that they own have over that buildings that they
own have over three hundred and seventy billion dollars in
deferred maintenance. That's a liability that's just growing and growing

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because the buildings haven't been maintained. So getting rid of
own space that hasn't been maintained, that isn't occupied, first
of all, takes that off the government books and gets
rid of that liability. So Barack Obama apparently didn't do
anything about it back in twenty eleven when he promised
to do exactly that. It's still there. Is it okay
to do it now? Or a Democrat's going to resist
because well, it's under a Republican administration. Stop the Republican agenda.

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That's what it's all about. That's the platform. If the
Republicans propose it, then we will stand against it, even
though it is an apolitical, bipartisan practical approach getting rid of,
for example, excess government buildings. Contrasting the current demands by

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the Democrats in other words, fight the Republican agenda fifty
seven to forty two rewind to is September twenty seventeen
the CNN. Same CNN poll found seventy four percent majority
of Democrats and Democratic leaders so their parties should work
with Republicans in an effort to advance their priorities. Only
twenty three percent advocated a combative approach. Time's changed, don't they?

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I suggest this is part of the Trump arrangement syndrome.
Trump living rent free inside all these Democrats had. He's
been characterized as this evil human being, so whatever he
says and proposes is immediately perceived as bad. Is that
a party platform, especially when you note that these really
practical solutions to some of the problems we face by

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way of government spending have no political stripe. Are there
really Democrats out there that don't want to unload unused,
empty office buildings that we're paying for? Is that a
dumb idea? And if so, please explain to me why
should we continue funding shrimp on treadmill studies that don't

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see the benefit anybody shipping billions and billions of dollars
overseas for stupid programs that more than likely aren't even
being done puppet shows in Iraq or whatever. You know.
I mean, I've lost there's so much craziness. I've lost
track of the proposals or the programs that had been funded,
those USA programs, for example, among Americans overall, not just Democrats,

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because I guess the CNN broke them down. Among the
American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability ratings stands at
ready twenty nine percent, described as a record low in
CNN's pulling back to nineteen ninety two, and a drop
of twenty points since January twenty one. Now, for its part,

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Republican Party ratings stands at thirty six percent, So not
a tremendous this, you know, overwhelming improvement over the Democrats,
but it's still better, I think, just a general reflection
that well, we all hate politicians. Just sixty three percent
of Democrats and Democrat leaning independence report a favorable view
of their own party, a dip from seventy two percent

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in January and eighty one percent to start at Joe
Biden's administration, favorability ratings from Democrat Party failing, falling rather
by eighteen points. Among liberals and moderates, alike. Since twenty
twenty one, seventy nine percent of Republicans and Republican leaders
currently take a positive view of their party, turning the

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independence just independence, nineteen percent rate Democrats favorably, twenty percent
rate Republicans favorably, So the Independence pretty much uniformally dissatisfy
with both of the both of the parties. What's the solution,
what is the directive? What is the direction? The Democrats

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are going to go full on liberal, full on liberal
or are they going to be a little bit more
reform minded and try to become the party of the
moderates to recapture those working class, middle class folks that
the Republican Party appealed to in the most recent election.

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It's an interesting challenge the Democrats face right now. Five
eighteen fifty five Karacy de Talk stations stick around, plenty
more to talk about coming up, and of course the
stack is stupid at five point forty after the bottom
of the hour news, I'll be right back five two
fifty five Casey Detalk station. Thank you. Keith made my morning.

(13:50):
Just got an email from him this morning. Right about
just a few minutes, I guess it's almost six pm
here getting back to our rooms, and I'm going to
turn on the show along with a photograph from his
hotel room showing Mount Fuji. He's in Japan and he's
listening to the fifty five KRSDY Morning Show. Joe Strecker,

(14:10):
we've gone global. That's cool. Good morning, Keith. Safe travels
to you, my friend, and thank you for making my morning.
Chip over to the phone. See what Tom's got this morning? Tom,
welcome to the Morning show. Oh, good morning, Oh my god,
where in the hell have you been?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yes, it's that Tom.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, I was hoping.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
So how you doing, Brian?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
I'm doing well. How have you been, my friend? It's
been so long since you called with your message. I
miss it.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, too too long. I'm winding down this job. I'm
working on the the new practice facility for the Houston
football team.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
I don't know if you've been around campus and seeing it.
So it'll be a cool project when it's done. But
I can't wait to get off of it. So yeah,
double things, Yeah, a couple of face to get off
my chest.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
First.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
I can't stand these freaking Canadian geese. At what point
can we start getting rid of them? At what point
are they no longer engager species or something. They're nothing
but a freaking nuisance. So yesterday I'm at I'm at
a restaurant and uh, down down this one window, this
guy is like taunting these these two geese are outside

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the window of the restaurant and he's like he's inside
and they're outside and he's taunting them, and they're not
backing off. They're like fighting at the glass. And if
you went out the door right there where the geese are,
there's just geese crap all over the sidewalk. At some
point we got to be able to get rid of
these stupid things. They're nothing but a nuisance. They don't
only do is make a mess getting away, and you're

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not allowed to mess with them. I don't I don't
think that's right.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Just put a terriff on them, put a terror.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, put the terrafle the south. That a Canadian border
is going to cost some Canadians some big money.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Can you eible?

Speaker 4 (16:07):
You know what My wife and I were talking about that.
I think somewhere somebody eats keeethe. But yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, I've I've dined on goose before and it was
quite luscious and yummy. We had it for U. I
think a Christmas one year my mom did roast goose
and I thought it was great. I mean, come on,
that's in a Christmas Carol, right, It's been happening for
years and years.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes, I guess, Brian, I personally have never had goose.
I'm not saying I wouldn't do it, but I just
never have. And we you know, we we do have
a lot of extra people in this country who need
to be fed, and we got all these extra birds
that are around that are nothing but a nuisance. I
don't know. Two plus two equals for it just seems
to make sense to me. So anyway, the other thing

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that that's been aggravating me lately is the flippant use
of the word perfect. You talk to somebody like customer service,
and you know you're telling them, you know, they're asking
you for information, and you're telling him your name and
you're stelling it for him and your address and everything
is like perfect. Perfect. Now it's not perfect. If it
was perfect, I wouldn't be having to talk to you

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to get a problem solved. There's nothing perfect about this.
This flippant use of the word perfect is just irritating
the crap out of me. If it was perfect, believe me,
we wouldn't be having this conversation right now with customer
service dealing with this problem. So stop using the word perfect.
Oh and by the way, people forget it.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Tom a great day, right, take care of Tom. It's
been months since we've heard from Tom, and he does
Canada Geese, and the use of the word perfect to
go off on a tear on. I'll take it anyway,
it sliced, Tom. It's always good to hear from you.
It's five twenty six. You can feel free to call
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have a happy Monday. Let us see here jump it
over to local stories. Feel free to call though if
you prefer to talk, that'd be okay with me. Beyond that,

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let's jump into the local stories. Molly shram over at
CPO reporting forty seven year old man dead after an
early Sunday morning crash happened in Bondhill, corn in the
sin Sat Police Department, which said the crash took place
at ten fifty five Laidlaw Avenue about five thirty in
the morning. Forty seven year old man police haven't yet
identified driving a Lincoln eastbound on laid Law. He crossed

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the center lane struck a two thousand and four hond
A pilot that was going westbound. Forty seven year old
transport to uc Medical Center, where he died as a
consequence of his injuries. Driver of the Honda, fifty nine
year old woman and a thirty seven year old man
as a passenger, both had thankfully non life threatening injuries
in the crash. They also taken U see Medical Center
since they please said it's investigating both excessive speed and

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impairment as contributing factors. Forty seven year old who died
also not wearing a seat belt. Both in the Honda
did have seat belts on. CBD is asking any witness
to the crash to please contact the traffic unit. Five
to one three three five two. Twenty five fourteen, a

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woman was shot at Smel Riverfront Park on Friday night.
According to sin Sint Police, they were called a Smell
Riverfront Park near Joe knoxall Way about eleven pm. Twenty
one year old woman was shot in the leg taken
to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. Officers said
they arrested a twenty one year old name Nicole Smith
in connection with the shooting. Have un kind of municipal complaints, says.

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The witnesses and victim reported to police that Smith was
shot the victim after an altercation. Fox nineteen reporting court
document say she's facing one kind of filonious assault and
a judge center bond at fifty thousand dollars not in
courtroom A correct Joe. Officers are still investigating these shooting. Oh,

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let's jump and see what Pete's. God rather talk to
you than read the local stories. But see what a pete.
Thanks for calling this morning. I hope you're having a
happy Monday.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Thanks, Brian.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Two quick things I saw. I think it's Minnesota. The
lawmakers are trying to codify Trump derangement syndrome as an
official mental illness in that state. And as far as geese,
a lot of people hunt them and eat him.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
But they're nasty, they're strong.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
You have to cover them up with a.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Lot of seasoning to be able to stomach.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Oh okay, well that's not all geese. I suppose farm
raised geese is probably what Christmas. That's a different thing.
They're not as gamy, right.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, game me, but the watter ones are really gamy.
A friend of mine made a bunch of like deuice
trail bloney, and I'm telling you it was nauseating.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well maybe maybe brianing them for a substantial period of
time might help it.

Speaker 6 (21:19):
Would you have to take make efforts to get rid
of all that gaming nasty. It's getting really grease, that's
what you mean.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, well, yeah, well, appreciate the heads up on that.
I've always questioned, you know, wondering sort of in my
head whether those things are edible, and kind of assumed
they weren't because you hadn't heard about people eating Canada geese.
So confirmation from Pete Pat Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
Happy Monday, Well, happy Saint Patrick's day, Brian.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
I love hearing Tom this morning. I never heard him
on a tear. He's great. That's one thing I wanted
to say. I have been noticing a keen Jeffries uh
being kind of pushed up the ladder, and I got
the thinking Chucky Schumer is now being thrown under the

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bus AOC and I thought, I wonder if Chucky gets
put out, they're going to put a keen in his place.
But I thought, you know, Bobby Kennedy, Eric Adams, all
these different Democrats who opened their mouth and complained basically

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are being thrown under.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
So Joe pointed out. Joe did point out that Jeffries
is a member of the House of Representative, is not
a senator, so he's not eligible for the role.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Okay, So but anyway, all I can say, and I
agree with Tom, don't vote get honey.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah. Apparently they did a poll among Democrats who is
favored for the presidential nomination Number one. I think it
was the CNN poll where they were asked an open
question with a blank line, who do you think should
be should should lead the party into the next presidential election.
Number one, The only person to receive double digits at

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ten percent Alexander Okazia Cortes, and I say good luck
with that. I suppose that would ultimately mean Alexander Ocasio
Cortez against jd Vance. Anyhow, five point thirty five fifty
five KRC the Talk station. If she had any traction

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that would really frighten me, I mean really frighten me.
We got more to talk about. Stack is Stupid coming
up next, so we can stick around for that. I'll
be right back.

Speaker 9 (23:53):
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Speaker 1 (24:00):
Thirty nine on a Monday, and a happy one to you.
Fools and their money are soon parted a couple of
weeks ago. I read it in the Stack is Too
But of course some idiot paid eighty seven forty dollars
for a cheeto shaped like a Pokemon figure charizard. Whatever.

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Pokemon cards in and of themselves represent an illustration of
fools and their money being soon parted. Anyway, we now
have the auction side Golden decided to put a Michael
Jordan esque snack up for auction, described as the Jumpin' Cheeto.

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Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. As of the
time of the reporting, current bid show a highest bid
at two hundred and seventy five dollars according to the
web The auction side Golden e Cheeto is in a
three inch case to protect it from the air. In
the description, the reverse of the case is designed like

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a collectible card, highlighting Jordan's accomplishments from his illustrious career.
The cheeto itself is positioned against the backdrop of the
iconic photograph that inspired the world renowned logo. Apparently, you
have some number of days left before the auction closes.
If you are interested in bidding beyond the current auction price,
I would say maybe it's time to get some counseling.

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Last year, along the same lines, this is the quote
from the article, Well, this is one of the more
unique pieces of jordan memorability to go for auction. Anything
associated with him can fetch lucrative prices. Last year and
Autograph two thousand and three four logo man card sold
for two point nine two eight million dollars. I don't

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know what planet I'm on. That is a correct statement.
Go to Florida and why not as a tradition, it's
attack of stupid. Florida woman charged with domestic battery for
allegedly throwing a watermelon at her boyfriend, who happily dodged
the airborne fruit. During what it is described as a

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verbal confrontation. Shelley Hardwick, fifty one, allegedly picked up a
whole watermelon and threw it in the direction of the
victim of Cord. To the police report, Amen Joe, fifty
six year old man quickly moved out of the way
of the incoming watermelon. I love the smoking guns, reporting,
the weight of which is not disclosed. In the arrest Affida,

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Hardwick told police she threw the watermelon only out of frustration,
denied throwing it at her boyfriend's direction. Bought arrival at
the Paris residence, described as a motel in Dundon, Gobs
noted there is a watermelon seeds on the victim's face
and clothing. H Hardwick arrested for domestic battery misdemeanor. After

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spending a night in Joe. She was released from custody
on her own recognizance. Judge directed Hardwick, who's pleaded not guilty,
to have no connection with the victim. Additionally, the judge
ordered Hardwick to be outfitted with an ankle bracelet that
monitors are you ready? That monitors alcohol consumption? What editorial

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decision by Joe Strecker to place this into the stack
of stupid as opposed to one of the local stories
having to go at Governor of Wine are you today?
Joe governed to Wine asking Donald Trump to move NASA's
headquarters to Cleveland. He sent trumple letter Dwine Center trumpet

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letters shared Saturday on the Governor's Facebook page and other
social media accounts. NASA's lease on the current building in Rushington,
d C expires in twenty twenty eight. Florida and Texas
olscove also vying for the Space Agency's headquarters, primarily because
I think they're approximately located next to oceans or gulfs,
as the case may be. Quote as Governor of OHIOM
writing to strongly recommend the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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headquarters be located to the NASA Glen Research Center. This
is an optimal time to move the headquarters out of Washington,
DC area, take advantage of a much more economical location
and gain significant efficiencies through co location with a vibrant
NASA Research center. Ohio is the birthplace of aviation, he wrote,

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the heart of America's aerospace industry and a critical hub
for advanced technology research and manufacturing, including the Air Force
Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton
and Ohio's newly designated Hub of Aerospace and Defense Innovation
in Youngstown. Said the move with align with you MINAE
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Research Center, offers a significant lower cost living and operates
expense and operating expenses than Washington. It would result in
substantial savings for tax players, he claimed, while maintaining access
to world class aerospace research and development resources. Stacker stupid
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planet I'm on? I don't know that this bill was
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a Babylon b article, which is all satire. Funny stuff too.
Kfox TV in San Antonio reporting that the House Bill
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stan Gerditz. Proposed piece of legislation aims to target students
who exhibit quote any type of behavior or accessory displayed
by a student in a school or district other than

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behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the
Homo sapien species. Prohibition extends the surgical or superficial means
of features that are non human, such as tails, leashes, collars,
other accessories designed for pets, fur other than naturally occurring
human hair, or a wig made to look like human hair,

(32:26):
artificial animal like ears, barking, noowing, hissing, and or animal
noises not indicative of human species, licking oneself for the
sake of grooming, using a litterbox, for passing the stool,
passing of stool, urine, or other human byproducts. Exceptions carved
out school mascots in certain theme days, which apparently Texas

(32:48):
public schools can have five of those. Bill also outlines
that quote allowing or encouraging the child to develop a
dependence on or belief that non human behaviors are socially
acceptable us quote in an educational setting constitutes child abuse,
and if educators are found to support these tendencies and
violation of the Act. The attorney gentlemen find the district

(33:08):
twenty five thousand dollars are up to Governor. Governor Abbot apparently,
in a recent interview, raised concerns that kids go to
school dressed up as cats with litter boxes in their classrooms,
although local news there says there have been no confirmed
instances of educator schools or school districts permitting or providing
litter boxes to students to use in the state of

(33:30):
Texas or anywhere else in the country. I seem to
have read that they allowed that for reasons unknown to me.
Are you blanking kidding me? Nope, not kidding it. I
can't believe that it's allowed or permitted anywhere, quite honest
with you. We've go to Louisville, Kentucky High School. Special

(33:52):
education teacher there has been arrested following accusations of abuse
in the classroom. Jamison Woods been charged with criminal abused,
two counts of harassment with physical contact, and official misconduct.
Criminal complaint says the first incident happened in January this
year Odham County High School. Woods with a small group
of special needs of students when she allegedly started demonstrating

(34:15):
crisis prevention intervention holds on a fifteen year old with
autism for in the words of the complaint, no justified reason.
Court documents say the student was not bothered by the
whole but asked Woods for a hug afterward. Woods then
allegedly denied him, saying, quote you have nasty germs close quote.

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Woods then went towards the cabinet went while the student
followed and asked for another hug. She then allegedly grabbed
a can of aerosol spray cleaner and sprayed his face. Joe,
I think we've got an award to give out, Woods
reported to me, within a foot of the student, and
she moved the can around as it sprayed. Students' classes
blocked the spray from getting in his eyes. Next reported

(34:58):
incident January thirtyth police said Wood threw a yoga ball
at a fifteen year old mentally disabled student and a
fourteen year old student with multiple disabilities, both allegedly hitting
the head multiple times. The classroom eight saw the incident.
Oldham County School said in the statement, we were made
aware of the allegations of owning a teacher at OHS
back in January, the teachers immediately removed from the school

(35:20):
and placed on leave on investigation led by OCPD took place.
Teacher has not been back on campus since the allegations
were brought forward. We continue to cooperate with the ongoing
investigation and are committed to the safety and well being
of our students.

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went global. I mentioned earlier in this in this program
that Keith sent me a message. He's in Japan. He
sent me a picture of Mount Fuji out of his window,

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he said to me, listening to the morning show. He
chimed in, he said, I haven't seen anyone dressed as
a cat here, referring back to my furries article, the
legislation in Texas that would ban people from being furries
in schools. I just thought it was funny because I
would have figured Japan is like the one place you'd
be certain to run into someone dressed like a cat.

(37:10):
Maybe I have a misconception about our friends in Japan. Anyway,
before I get into other areas of the news, let's
see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, Happy Monday to you,
Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Happy day of the Green Man, my friends.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
St.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Patrick's Day, right, I have a question for you. Most
of the time, you always celebrate a person's death, but
on St. Patrick's Day, you celebrate to or his birth,
you celebrate his death.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Belief.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
So, yeah, that's kind of strange and morbid.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I suppose it is. It's also a day when everybody
can be irish and there is no such thing as
cultural appropriation on St. Patrick's Day.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Maybe out there Washington Park they'll have their fountains green.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Maybe it's I guess possible.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
There's still biting money left for skate parks and everything else.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I didn't see a single thing in the news about
the shooting that you mentioned. You called me over the
weekend to say there was a shooting at the gun show.
Not a single sentence word or utterance about that. Is that?
Did that actually happen or were you misinformed?

Speaker 2 (38:28):
No, it actually happened. I had a friend of mine
run out of there. He said when he heard the shot,
he just took off run and he said he'd find
out the information later. But apparently three individuals got wounded
by one shot.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
You'd think that would make the news locally.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
It should. You've had an article in the Scio the
Times about it. Oh really, that was the only thing
I saw? Yes, how about that?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Well, just thought i'd follow up with it because I
did look for it after you and I talked, I
searched for it a couple of times and couldn't find anything.
So anyhow, anything else on your mind today? And Bobby,
that's it my average one. He did the same, a
sure thing. And Bobby's got my direct dial.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Another point. I started out this morning with a CNN
poll saying the Democratics party's favorability rating is at a
record low. Even among Democrats. They not quite sure where
to go other than they should work to stop the
Republican agenda, which is I guess, in some respects consistent
with the Barack Obama agenda. Going back to his announcement
about cutting government spending back from twenty eleven, a video

(39:32):
which has gone viral. Joe Biden was putting in charge
of that one. So so we can say that that's
bipartisan cutting fraud, waste, and abuse, stupid spending that doesn't
benefit Americans out of the government. And how about this one,
What else the Republicans doing or what is this administration
doing that the Biden administration did not deporting illegal criminal aliens.

(39:54):
Accord a new Tip Insides poll released by a nineteen
percent margins Americans back broad mass deportations of all illegal
aliens by fifty six percent to thirty seven percent. According
to Steve Cortez, who what was the one response were
behind this Tip Insides poll, He said, in a country
that's politically polarized or most issues break down to forty

(40:15):
seven forty seven along party lines, kind of margin on
a controversial topic like immigration points to an emergent consensus
in the country. M how about that support for deportation
or criminal illegals? Criminal illegals number the first point fifty

(40:36):
six to thirty seven was all illegal aliens. When it
comes to criminal illegal aliens, widespread consensus that they should
be kicked out if the illegal alien is a criminal
record in the United States or their home country. Deportation
is a plus sixty five percent. Among registered voters, seventy
nine percent are in favor of it, only fourteen percent

(40:56):
are against. Smaller upset a senior citizen nearly unanimous. Senior
citizens say ninety four percent approve of deporting criminal aliens
compared to four percent who are against it. Subset of
former Vice President Kamala Harris. Voters give deportation the criminal
illegal aliens their approval as well. Seventy one percent huh

(41:24):
and you know, I have to go back to the
first poll. Democrats say stop the Republican agenda fifty seven
to forty two. That is exactly what they want. Rather
than working with the GOP to get something accomplished along
what they want, fight the Trump agenda, which would include
deporting criminal illegal aliens. Not a winner among Hispanics, sixty
nine percent say deport criminal illegal aliens. And he turned

(41:47):
to independent voters eighty percent say deport criminal illegal aliens. Hm,
the pollsters said, so, why have Americans moved so aggressively
toward Trump and in favor of strict law enforcement regarding immigration?
He cited three reasons. First, Biden's border hoax, claiming ad

(42:08):
nauseum that he actually wanted law in order, but needed
new congressional action to secure our country. Now that Trump
has secured the border only weeks into office, the fullness
of that crass prevarication is laid bare before the country.
That is a noteworthy point. Over and over again, they

(42:28):
kept saying Trump stopped the legislation they would have prevented this.
We need new legislation on immigration now. Actually you don't.
Second the economy, he cited an influx of millions of unvetted,
unwelcome migrants, put massive additional strain on that predicament of
affordable apartments and homes, and finally, public safety. Horrible cases
of totally preventable violence clearly moved Americans who understandably worry

(42:52):
about crimes that would never happen if illegal alien perpetrators
were not allowed in this country. Margin of era two
point four percent, so well within any marchin affair on
that one, they got to pivot over to California along
the same lines. Look I wrote Castle Doctrine and Second
Amendment on the top of the article headlines Migrant gangs

(43:16):
put on notice after a string of home burglaries. What
is described as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in California
asking the heart Department of Homeland Security to remove Chili's
status on the Visa Program waiver or waiver program because

(43:36):
of the burglary risk the Chileans are posing. Representative Young Kim,
Derek Tran, Dave Min, Mike Levin of California Sinelearty DHS
asking that ChIL be taken off the list. That list
allows citizens from certain countries to visit the United States
for about three months without a visa quote. We are
concerned about the VWP. This waiver program continues to be

(43:57):
exploited by South American theft group, a majority of whom
originate from Chile. Known as burglary tourism, certain eligible individuals
travel to the United States through the VWP for the
purpose of committing residential and commercial robberies before returning to
their country of Oregon origin. That's in the letter obtained
by Fox News. The letter goes on, in addition having

(44:20):
an impact on familial communities, these South American theft groups
continue to victimize Orange County companies and entrepreneurs, placing a
burden on our local police departments, already beset by a
lack of resources and staffing deficit that would probably be

(44:41):
a result of the defund the police movement. In twenty
twenty four, they wrote there were fifty nine residential burglaries
suscepted expectator of being committed by these satgs these groups
in the Orange County Sheriff Department Southeast Patrol area. Given
the threat to public safety, we believe immediate action must
be taken. That's reported that this burglary tourism practice has

(45:03):
become relatively common in communities throughout the country, including affluent
areas in Orange County, California, Scottsdale, Arizona, oh And Travis
Kelcey from the Kansas City Chief had it coming and
had it evented his place, as well as Joe Burrow
here in Cincinnati theft victims when they were out of
town at games. Previous letters sent by these representatives asking

(45:27):
the Biden administration to take a similar action back in
June of twenty three, warning that these groups will sometimes
sell stolen goods online to launder money through Chinese crime syndicates.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Biden administration put on notice by some of his own kind.
Orange County Distric's attorney, Todd Spitzer said, every other South
American country that has participated in the past has been
kicked out of the program for sending their criminals into
the United States of America. Those Chileans have been coming
here for years. They're going to Orlando, Florida, where Disney
World is. They're coming into Orange County, California, where Disneyland is,

(46:05):
and they're not here to visit the happiest place on earth.
They're here to burglarize. Well, if California wasn't so strict
with gun control, maybe had a castle doctrine. They might
learn their lesson and not take chances and break into
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to everyone who has not perturbed and angered Joe Strecker.
He keeps a list uh furthered immigration thing. Donald Trump
invoked the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight to

(48:03):
boot out gang members, notably the Venezuela and Trade de
Iragua gang members. So on Saturday issued a presidential proclamation
invoking this act to speed up the deportations of the
Venezuelan nationals who are fourteen years or older, who are
members of the gang trade d Arragua and who are

(48:23):
not citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States
illegal immigrant gang members specifically, so before you issue the proclamation. Apparently,
lawyers for five of the detainees being processed for deportation
fouled a lawsuit to stop the President's deportation practice in
front of US District George Judge James Boseburg, US District

(48:47):
Corps for the District Columbia, who issued an order barring
the deportation of those five specific plaintiffs for at least
the next couple of weeks while the legal proceedings continue.
Then later on Saturday evening, the same judge returned issuing
a second order granting a class action certification to all
non citizens who would otherwise be subject to Trump's presidential
proclamation booting them out under the Alien Enemies Act of

(49:10):
seventeen ninety eight. Lawyers from the ACLU and Democracy Forward
Is filed the complaint challenging the legality of his invocation
of this Alien Enemies Act, noting that the seventeen ninety
eight law has only ever been invoked on three prior occasions.
The War of eighteen twelve World War One and World

(49:31):
War Two. I don't know that that necessarily limits its
application in other times, even though we're not in a
declared war now. The plaintiffs claim THEE and Alien Enemies
Act plainly in their words, plainly only applies to warlike
actions that go on, saying it cannot be used here
against nationals of a country Venezuela, with whom the United

(49:52):
States is not at war, which is not invaded in
the United States, and which has not launched a predatory
incursion in the United States now. In his proclamation, though,
Trump says the Venezuelan government has gradually ceded more of
its authority to the terrorist group Trade the Aragua and
other similar transnational criminal organizations, resulting what the proclamation referred

(50:15):
to as a hybrid criminal state. If they're facilitating these
folks coming into our country, if they are emptying their
jails or cleaning out their neighborhoods to get rid of
their gang problem, and sending them here, then one might
construe that as potentially an active war, I can or
at least something that falls under this act. Trump's proculation

(50:38):
states evidence irrefutably demonstrates that TDA has invaded the United
States and continues to invade, attempt to invade, and threaten
the invade the country, perpetrated irregular warfare within the country,
and use drug trafficking as a weapon against our citizens. Now,
Trump reached out to the Venezuelan government or the l
Salvadorian government, offered them six million dollars to imprison three

(51:02):
hundred of these train de Airagua suspects and two more
individuals suspected of ties the Salvadorian Transnational Gang MS thirteen.
Bozburg said at the Saturday evening hearing where he issued
the second order, I do not believe I can wait
any longer and required to act. A brief delay in

(51:24):
the removal does not cause the government any harm. Meanwhile,
these gang members were on a deportation plane already in
international waters. Bozburg ordered the deportation planes that were already
in the air to turn around, which the administration said,
now they're in international waters, so it's too late. And
the planes did touch ground, and the El Salvadorian government

(51:47):
has taken them and placed them into their prison facilities.
So not quite sure if that represents some sort of
constitutional crisis, but at least they're out of the country
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Speaker 1 (53:50):
Station to Shy, a six thirty to fifty five kr
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Nick Smiley, executive director of the Tools Program, We'll find
out what that's all about. It's basically well trades, getting
people involved in the trades, and they're having a fundraiser
to help that in that effort. And there are plenty
of jobs in the trades, and I'm sure Nick will
confirm that, so a career opportunities abound out there in

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the world still. Christopher Smithman at seven to twenty with
the Smith Event Money Monday with Brian James, and we're
going to hear from doctor Catherine Kathleen Read with her
book Fat, Stressed and Sick MSG Processed Food in America's
Health Crisis. That'll be at a thirty meantime five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty eight hundred eight two to three talking there.
It is, as Bobby pointed out, he called me on Saturday,

(54:34):
let me know there was gunshots at the Ohio Gun
Collectors Association, and it is reported in the side of
the post a gunshot fire to the Ohio Collectors Association
Saturday left two people injured, prompting a large law enforcement
response and a temporary lockdown of the event. Apparently a
single round discharged by one of the attendees there, which
was held in Wilmington. That's where it always is. I've

(54:55):
been there to that thing. The shot hit one person.
Another individual injured by a ricochet. Clinton County Sheriff's Department
responded immediately securing the scene, locking down the entire venue
for several hours while they established the crime scene. The
event at six hundred and sixty vendor tables and was
crowded at the time of the incident. It always is crowded.

(55:16):
Investigations ongoing circumstances surrounding the shooting aren't yet released. She
had no further details regarding the condition of the individuals
or the potential charges have been released. They're really good
about checking firearms and securing them before you come in
if you come in with one, because you can wander
around and sell them. Vendors are usually really good about
that too, But they also sell Ammo there, so it's

(55:37):
conceivable that someone could buy a gun or have a
gun and then buy some AMMO and load it up
right there, which would be really really stupid. Go to Kentucky.
My friend's in the Commonwealth. There's a bill that is
probably going to be signed. Governor Adbsheer's planning on signing
it making it harder for retailers to sell vape products
to children. It's center bill one hundred, apparently got bypart

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is in support from both the House and Senate. Bill
would create the division of Tobacco, Nicotine and Vapor Product Licensing,
falling within the Department of Beverage Control. Will give the
investigators authority to inspect any premise where alternative nicotine, tobacco
and vaping products are sold without obtaining a search warrant,

(56:23):
kind of trouble by that. Advocates claim the bill will
help create safe and healthy environments for children in Kentucky.
Terry Brooks, executive director of the Kentucky Youth Advocates, said
Senate Bill one hundred is targeted addressing what is not
a problem, but a pandemic in the Commonwealth. The bill
would also require retailers that sell any nicotine products to

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be licensed, and would establish penalties for retailers that sell
the products without a license. According to Brooks, retailers are
going to get those surprise inspection visits, and they're not
just going to be looking at who you are selling
beer and cigarettes to, but they're going to be watching
how you manage how you sell vape products. If the
bill signed in the law by Governor of Sheer, Kentucky,

(57:06):
would joined forty other states who have similar programs preventing
retailers from selling vaping products to kids and teenagers. I
don't know that the other states allow a warrantless search.
Kind of scratching my head over that one. A woman
was shot at smel Riverfront Park on Friday night, according
to police inst Police they said they were called a
smell about eleven pm. Twenty one year old woman was

(57:28):
shot in the leg was taken to the hospital with
what are described as non life threatening injuries. Officers arrested
twenty one year old me Cole Smith had on kind
of municipal complaint. Says that witnesses and the victim reported
to police that Smith shot the victim after an altercation.
She's facing one kind of flowious assault. Judge set her
bond at fifty thousand dollars in Officers are still investigating

(57:50):
the shooting on that one. Forty seven year old man
Dad this after an early Saturday morning crash in bond Hill,
according to Sin Saint Police Department, and it took place
at ten fifty five laid Law Avenue five thirty in
the morning. A forty seven year old man has not
yet identified driving an six Lincoln Town car eastbound on
laid Law, crossed the center line and ran into a

(58:11):
two thousand and four Honda Pilot heading westbound. Forty seven
year old man taking a UC medical center died because
of the injuries. Fortunately for the people in the Honda,
fifty nine year old woman and a thirty seven year
old man was the passenger. Both had non life threatening injuries.
They were taking a UC medical center. Police are investigating
both excessive speed and impairment as possible contributing factors. The

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forty seven year old man who died also not wearing
a seat belt. Both of the folks in the Honda
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and I talk about that right off the top of
the hour news, followed by Christopher Smithman. I always enjoy
this smith event, and I hope you do. From the
former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. Let us
see here going back to the point that President then

(01:00:24):
President Barack Obama made widely circulated viral video about the
President Obima back in twenty eleven talking about cutting crappy spending,
wasteful government spending and programs, saying, everybody knows that getting
rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions, and
that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs
that a lot of people care about, saying the US

(01:00:48):
government should at least get rid of pointless waste and
stupid spending. That doesn't benefit anybody who said it's waste
we should be getting rid of even if we didn't
have a deficit. Quote, no amount of waste is acceptable,
especially when it's our or your money. Just as families
are living within their means, government should too. How about
that they also provide examples of stupid spending. Did you

(01:01:09):
know that federal government pays for a website that devoted
a folk music ensemble made up of forest rangers they're
called fiddling foresters. I'll put their music on my iPod,
but I'm not paying for their websites. Great, it was
a great concept. Didn't follow through on it. He put
then Vice President Joe Biden in charge of the effort
to quote hunt down misspent tax dollars in every agency

(01:01:30):
and department of this government. It's like putting Kamala Harris's
borders are okay, congratulations, your borders are and then not
do anything about it. So well, this is about Hunter's laptop. Joe, Oh,
Joe looked on Hunter's laptop and didn't find anything except
evidence of criminal activity and drug abuse and porn. And

(01:01:56):
going back to the CNN POLLI here I mentioned both
of these articles. In the five o'clour the CNN poll
among Democrats and Democrat aligned independence, fifty seven percent say
that Democrats should work to stop the Republican agenda, which occludes,
of course, ferreting out fraud, waste, and abuse, which obviously,
at one point in time was the Democrats agenda too.
At least lip service was paid to it, even though

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nothing ever happened. Further to the efforts that are actually
going on now, Carrie Lake recently named is the Trump
administration senior advisor to the US Agency for Global Media.
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she is hard at work announcing that she's reducing millions
in costs, exposing suspicious activity, and eliminating positions at this
global media agency. She issued a letter US AGM and
outlets it overseas will be reduced to their statutory functions,
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we placed on paid administrative leave beginning Saturday, March fifteenth,
that's past Saturday, and remain on leave until further notice,
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not statutorily required. So I fully support the President's executive order.
Waste fraud abuse run rampant in this agency, and American
taxpayers should have to fund it. Go check with Barack Obama.
This would be one of the areas that he was
talking about, presumably. In her letter, she highlighted what she

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described as a few of the most egregious findings, massive
national security violations, including spies and terrorist sympathizers and or
supporters infiltrating the agency, eye popping, self dealing, involved in contracts, grants,
and high value settlement agreements. Just these are quotes obscene

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over spending, including a nearly quarter of a billion dollar
lease for a Pennsylvania Avenue high rise that has no
broadcast facilities to meet the needs of the agency, and
includes a nine million dollar commission to a private real
estate with connections, hundreds of millions being spent on fake
news companies, and a product that often parrots the talking

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points of America's adversaries. She says, this agency is not
salvagel from top to bottom. This agency is a giant
rot and burdened the American taxpayer, national security risk for
this nation, and is irretrievably broken. While these are harsh words,
while there are bright spots within the agency with personnel
who are talented and dedicated public servants, this is the

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exception rather than the rule. So it's unfortunate that the
work was done by self interested insiders and coordination with
outside activist groups and radical leftist advocacy organizations. To quote Trump,
proof close quote, the agency made it impossible to reform.
In fact, they weren't just trump proofing the agency from
political leadership, they were accountability proofing the agency from the

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American people. They did all this while spending taxpayer money
to create false narratives which were amplified by biased media
counterparts with clear conflicts of interest at the Washington Post, NPR,
and more to actively cover up their obscene waste, fraud,
and abuse. Now Subsequently, she issued a video at the

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office building that she was speaking about in that least Agreement.
I'm sitting here on the thirteenth floor of a shiny,
brand new, beautiful skyscraper building that is costing you the
taxpair of fortune. Fast forward in the online video. Fancy
conference rooms with wall to wall windows. There are six
conference room at least that's what I've counted so far.

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Italian marble finishes everywhere, leather furnishing, all of which being
paid for by the American taxpayer. And it's not the
only thing we've seen. We're seeing grants where they've taken
the grants that they've changed and they've changed the contract
just days before we I guess the Trump administration got
in here to make it less transparent for us to

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find out where the money's going and what's happening with
these grantees. It was an obvious, obvious sign that they
wanted to keep us from finding out anything that we
could possibly go on and change to make it better
for the American taxpayer. I want you to know I'm
hard at work here in Washington, DC and working to
make sure that we are not being We're not being
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and make sure there's no misuse of your dollars in
this action. She apparently locked out more than one thousand
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The tools program get folks involved in careers in the trades,
which I think is a great idea. I remember artificial
intelligence can't get to get rid of the trades. You're
editing job at a newspaper or maybe well supplanted by

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one can fix a plumbing problem except someone in the trades.
Electricians can't substitute that with artificial intelligence. So a great
opportunity for folks to get a career and we'll get
information on that at the top of the ur News over.

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Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Goodernatorial candidate Viva Gramma Swimmy has proposed this is something
he can campaign on, eliminating the income tax here in Ohio.
How about that? Lucas kind of Republican Party's annual Lincoln
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we're going to get rid of the income tax in
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thousand coming in at number three, North Carolina ten thousand

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numbers of seventy two thousand and change. And it might
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to you. I'm excited to talk with Nick Smiley. He's
the executive director of the Tools Program. Because Nick, welcome
to fifty fifty five KS Morning Show. There are job opportunities,
are actually career opportunities out there in the trades. Aren't
there tons of them?

Speaker 13 (01:13:19):
Brian, how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
I'm doing great. Great to have you on the program
to talk about the Tools Program and the the March
Madness kind of fundrais of the kickoff for people to
enjoy and learn about Tools Program and also have a
great time. Before we get to the details on that,
let my listeners know about the Tools Program and what
you're all about.

Speaker 13 (01:13:37):
Absolutely so. The Tools Program was founded approximately five and
a half six years ago. I think we're in our
six school year now. The main focus of the program
is skilled trade career exposure for K through twelve. We
do have an eighth grade math and science project where
we come in take over the eighth grade math class
for a day, give the teacher a break, teach about
maths and science skills, and then our main focus is

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really helping students transition from high school into the skilled
trades industry. When when to make sure we open every door,
make the opportunities available to them, and then provide resources
such as scholarships for transition money and tool packages as well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Well. I think it's fantastic concept. And you know, as
I've noted, and you can correct me if I'm wrong,
if I've got a misconception on this. These are jobs
that artificial intelligence can't take away.

Speaker 13 (01:14:24):
Oh, you show me a computer that's going to finish
your drywall after it frames up your wall, and I
think we're heading a bad direction that we can see
that happening. Absolutely, none of these jobs are going to
be outsourced. You know, we were during the big call
back in the day. We were essential workers so to speak.
So definitely something that if you're looking for a long
term career, build a family, support that family, this is

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the place for you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Yeah, And the word career is important. It's not just
a job. I mean you can actually feed a family
and live a comfortable life on the salaries of these
job pays. These are not you know, minimum wage type jobs.

Speaker 13 (01:14:58):
Definitely. Currently we actually ranked nice in the country out
of all safety states. Our current average salary for skilled
trades men and women in Ohio is sixty two and
a half thousand.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:15:09):
The funny thing is I go to a lot of schools.
I speak at a lot of high schools, and whenever
I get to that part of the presentation, you can
see that the teachers kind of perk up and look
and say, oh a little it's a little.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
More than we make.

Speaker 13 (01:15:20):
So that might be a good path for your kids.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
Well, and it's always good to have their buy in.
That's funny observation. But to the point, this isn't limited
to just people graduating from high school. I mean other people, like,
for example, if you're thirty or forty years old and
you're interested in changing your life, you can pursue a
job in the trades. It's not too late, correct, Oh.

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
Not too late at all. Always a good time to
make a change. A lot of skills that come from
other industries are transferable, so we've got a lot of
people that get into our industry never realizing that building
something with your hands. At the end of the day,
being back, you know, being able to look at that
and say that's what I did today. It's very gratifying feeling.
So we have a lot of people that transition from
other industries into our industry all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
That's great, and you know it is really really rewarding.
I you know, jack of all trades, mester and none. I.
But when you don't have an extra money to hire
someone in the trades, like when you're in one hundred
and twenty five year old house and you're starting out
with your new wife, like me in Chicago, I used
to go to the library and get books out and
learn how to do things around the house, just teach myself.
And you know, when you've completed a project and every

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time you walk into a room like I did that,
it really is. It is a rewarding thing. And I've
talked to folks who you know, worked high iron and
did some steel projects, and every time they drove by
a building, it just overwhelming sense of pride that you
know what, if it wasn't for me, that wouldn't be there.

Speaker 13 (01:16:39):
That's the truth for me. There's a lot of buildings.
One of my favorite that I like to tell the
students about is the robling building, like the blue and
white twisted building right there across the bridge, well ground up. Yeah,
definitely a sense of pride for the people that work
on it. When you do have kids. Fair warning to anybody,
they're gonna get sick of hearing that, they're gonna get
sick of driving by everything on seventy five and dedes

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I built that, I built that, I built that, you know,
so definitely works for us on the pride side. Keeps
your kids in line, lets them know that you actually
do know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Yeah, no question about it. Well you know, and it's
all all trades. I mean, they're just like any plumbing.
It's electric, it's HVAC. I mean, there's a whole there's
a whole, huge number of areas.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:17:23):
Ohio Valley Construction Education Foundation, which is ABC's education wing,
actually added multiple over the past five six years. We've
got everything from craft laborers now a class you can
take all, like you said, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, you name it.
It's pretty much covered. I think one thing that's very
popular right now is we've seen a big uptick in electricians.

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So with all the high schools I go to, the
tools program now has forty participating schools from Van Wert
down in northern Kentucky, and in every one of those
high schools never fails three or four of the kids
booming to get into that electric industry. Right now, it
seems like electrician is the most popular. Maybe two years
ago it was plumbers.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
That's amazing. And I had one of my plumb type
plumbing folks over the house and he was a journeyman
and he had an apprentice with him. And apprentice a
young man. I said, hey, just starting out. He was, yeah,
and the journeyman's smid. He goes, this is an absolutely
fantastic job. He said, I'm doing really well. I got
a family and we're all comfortable, and you know, I

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love the job. I love getting up to work and
talking to people and solving their problems. And the apprentice
was really excited about his future career. So it's true,
and there are multiple opportunities out there in these trades.
I understand you're doing. The Tools program is doing a
sort of a fundraiser kickoff thing.

Speaker 13 (01:18:43):
Yeah, our second largest fundraiser of the year. It's going
to be at Top Golf. It's this Thursday, March twentieth.
Still have some tickets available. Some people want to get involved.
Not only is it a wonderful event in terms of
all you can eat, all you can drink, lots of prizes.
We've got the top Contender petition going on. It is
top golf, So while the weather might not be perfect

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every day, they still have heat and it is covered
so rain or shine, we're always there. But it's a
great event. All proceeds going to our Scholarships Foundation, making
sure that we can keep providing those transitional funds for
these students as they leave high school and head into
the skill trades industry.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
So who are you hoping will attend this? Are you
looking for organizations that are in the trades, just like
run of the middle folks like me who have really
no connection with the trades. Who's invited?

Speaker 13 (01:19:30):
Well, don't tee this with a good time, Brian, because
we will definitely put you on the list. If you're
gonna be there for us, we will definitely get.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
You on the list.

Speaker 13 (01:19:38):
But it's truly open to anyone. The idea behind it
is mainly if you are a company that's interested in
something like the Tools program getting apart, you know, becoming
a part of this wonderful program that we have. It'd
be great for you if you're an educator looking at
bring some skill trade career exposure to your school, get
connected with some companies who are willing to provide some

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of those resources as well. It's good for you and
just anybody that's looking to have a great time. It's
always a great time at the event. Top Golf does
an amazing job at getting us all set up, so
it's pretty pretty easy deal for me as the organizer.
But everybody seems to have a great time. And like
I said before, we've got lots surprises to give away,

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so we just want everybody to come out and have
a great time, leave with something nice and all for
a great cause.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Well, and let me repeat something that I thought you
heard open bar and barbecue so wow.

Speaker 13 (01:20:32):
Well, I mean, when you're in the scale trades industry,
I gotta be honest. I was thinking of fajita bar
and I asked a couple of guys and they're like, hey,
we're construction guys. We don't want fajitas, we want barbecue.
So we went back to the barbecue menu. It's been
popular for the past three years and can't deviate from
what works can we.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
No, you can't, and a lot of these You help
these young people find employment opportunities, correct, I mean you
hook the people who are pursuing the trades as a
new career with employers who are searching for them.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:21:03):
So the program as a whole. If we're thinking of
the perfect prime example, Okay, we talk to a student
in high school, we kind of get connected with them
somewhere between their freshmen and junior year. Those are the
meet and greets that I go out and have with
all the schools that participate in the program once or
twice a year. Once we spark that interest, we're looking
to get that junior to have a summer job between

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their junior and senior year. Make sure that they like
whatever trade they're thinking about. You know, for pet it's
the electrician. Want to get him out on that job
shadow see see if that's what he likes. If he
likes that and he works through the summer, the perfect
plan is that student then comes back to high school
their senior year. That company has now hired them, so
they are either co opting or they're just already employed
waiting to graduate that year. We have them apply for

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our scholarship. Nine times out of ten student wins the scholarship,
they're already placed they graduate, So now we've given them
direct placement. We've given them a scholarship of five to
twenty five hundred dollars for transition money that can be
used for whatever, whether it's a down payment for a car, clothing, tools,
anything like that. And then the pure focus of the

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program is once they get out of high school, we've
got them direct place, We've got them a toolkit, we've
got them a scholarship. I like to tell any student,
once we get you into the industry, if you figure
out that it's not for you, that's just what it is.
It's just not for you. Because we've opened every door,
we've made it as simple as possible, and we just
want to make sure that we're sparking that interest. So
every time I'm on your show, I can't can't. I

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was gonna say this at the end, but I want
to kind of plug you out. I got to thank
you and Joe. You guys have an amazing platform. You
guys have us on the support that you've given us
and allowed us to be on your platform. Promote our program,
promote the great things we're doing. It's amazing. I'm Brian.
We couldn't do it without you, guys, And I just
want you to know that every time I'm on your
show never fails. A grandpa, a mom, a dad, somebody

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reaches out to me because they heard me talking. And
every single time that's happened, we've got their grandson or
son or daughter place.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
That's awesome them. That's exactly why I love having you
on the show, because you think about what you just said.
You got some a kid just out of high school
already making money, employed in something that he already hears,
she already has familiarity with. Because of this introductory component,
they're making money as opposed to heading over and sitting
in music appreciation class and a four year college degree

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that's digging them a giant hole in the ground in debt.
I mean, fast forward four years. They probably got a
big bank account, savings account, maybe they're already participating in
the retirement funding. They're working every single day, and somebody
else is coming out with a sheepskin from a university
with a music appreciation degree or like my degree, political
science degree and kind of puzzling at what am I

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going to do, gonna be a barista at Starbucks. I
just love the program. I love the concept. I can't
thank you enough for what you're doing. And I'll recommend
my listeners go to Tools program dot org where they
can get all the details about this event and get
registered for it. It's going to be a great time,
and it lasts a long time. It starts at noon,
it goes all the way to five point thirty.

Speaker 13 (01:24:00):
It's the first day of the March Madness Tournament. It's
kind of a ploy there, right. You just come and
get all your golfing and all your drinking and eating
in and then get that phone out and start making
those parlays.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Nick Smiley, Tools Program, I hope you have a wildly
successful event. And for folks out there, parents, grandparents, whoever
has connection with the young people. Hell, the young people
might be listening, get in touch with the Tools Program
dot org and you'll hit the ground running. Nick, keep
up the great work, man. You know you always got
an opportunity to be here on the fifty five KRC
Morning Show. Thanks Brian.

Speaker 13 (01:24:33):
I appreciate it, man, more than you know.

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My friend, I did, brother, had a great weekend, and
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I did too. Man. I enjoy what you have to say,
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would just chime in that I too, had a wonderful weekend.
She may be listening. My mom prepared Paul out of
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Oh happy birthday. Yeah.

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You know what I want to talk about this morning
is I want to connect some dots between the dismantling
of the Department of Education on the federal level and
what is happening in our classrooms, but specifically our parents.
And so what I see politically is a period of

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time where schools across this country, depending on where you lived,
were disrespecting or separating children from their parents as it
relates to raising them. And so you saw parents going
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and school boards across this country even going so far
to have those parents arrested, and it didn't matter what
the subject matter was. The parent is the power. And
so now what you're seeing is the federal government, through
the Executive brand, saying you know what, I'm going to
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individual state to kill or the education that they believe
best serves their communities. People. Because I'm talking to people
Brian Thomas. They're saying, well, the executive branch is trying
to get rid of education. They are all kinds of
iterations of this. That is absolutely crazy what the executive

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branch is saying. I'm going to take the money that
you all that we're dishing out, and we're going to
allocate that to each of the states and let you
determine how you want to educate your kids. And why
this is important to me, Brian Thomas is I am
a conservative man who believes in fatherhood and being a
great dad like you, and I don't want any teacher.

(01:28:39):
And I love teachers. My wife was a teacher. I
don't want any teacher telling me how to raise my child.
If my child goes to school and is thinking about suicide,
I want the school to call me and tell me
what's going on with my child. If my child is saying, hey,
I think I'm I want the school to call me

(01:29:02):
the parent and tell me what's going on with my
minor child. If my child is in a classroom with
a furry and my child comes home barking or MEOWI
and they're accommodating the furry with some kind of litter box,
in the bathroom. I want to know that that's going
on with my child, and no teacher has the ability

(01:29:26):
to keep that information from a parent. And so what's
going on to the left, the Democrats who are lost
their way, they don't understand that parents are rising up
saying I want to raise my child now. If you
on the West Coast want to have furries and you
want to accommodate them with litter boxes inside of your restrooms,

(01:29:50):
you can do that on the West Coast. If you
want to do that on the East Coast, it's okay,
but not in the Midwest. We don't want furries. And
if there is a hurry and my child is coming
home meowing because the kid next to him as a furry,
and I don't know what the hell is going on,
I want the teacher to tell me about it. Brian Thomas,

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you know what I'm saying is so real, it's really happening.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
It's scary, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
And you know, to the folks on the East and
West Coast, you don't have to allow your school districts
to do that. You can rise up. And if the
general consensus in any given community with the school board
is that no, I do not abide that, and I,
as a parent, am entitled to know this information. Then
they can vote in a school board that I'll move
in that direction. As long as we've got the flexibility
to deal with what we want, then we should be

(01:30:38):
able to do it. But in all cases, everywhere, my
argument would be along your lines, Christopher, parents are entitled
to know what's going on. They are the parent. The
teachers stand in the shoes of the parents while they're
at school. But that's just from a you know, a
liability perspective in local parenthice is what it's known under
the law. But that does not take away the parents'

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Speaker 5 (01:33:20):
Brian Thomas. Look I watched with amazement with SpaceX launching
this weekend. Oh yeah, going to a space station to
rescue American astronauts and bring them home. And so by
the next time we are talking, God willing those astronauts

(01:33:42):
will be back on Earth. And as I watched in
amazement the technology, even the rocket returning to Earth and
landing on its own. This notion of rockets. You know
that you and I grew up with them going into
the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah, and then we had to go
fish them out. Right now it's reusable. It comes right

(01:34:02):
back and right on the landing strip. Boom, you know,
it lands.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
It's amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
The arm it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
You know what it reminds me of, like it reminds
me of something like from a sci fi movie. Back
in the nineteen fifties, You and they had no concept
of how space travel would actually work. And you go
back and you look at and like, oh my god,
look at that. That's ridiculous. But the rockets would always
land right the way they took off. They would just
you know, thrusters in the rocket would land standing straight up,
which we know during our space exploration that's not the

(01:34:31):
way it really worked. But look at this, it does work.
That way now. I mean, it's just I just can't
it over it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
It was amazing to watch. And then the video feed
that we were able to capture from takeoff all the
way to space, all the way to docking to the
space station is just remarkable. I could absolutely be a
geek about some of this kind of stuff. I find
it incredibly exciting, and I know that it's an completely

(01:35:00):
new industry which will continue to drive our economy in
ways that we can't even imagine because what they're learning
with space travel will be applied in so many different ways,
so many different companies will be created through this. And
so I go, there's a guy named Elon Musk that's

(01:35:21):
behind this, and he's now talking about going to Mars.
But in this conversation with whether it was Tesla Starlink
owning what was a Twitter now is X and I'm
sure he owns many other things that I'm missing, including
space X, he now positioned himself and one hundred maybe

(01:35:43):
two hundred people that are saying, you know what, I
need to do a deep dive, support the president and
get in here through this organization they're calling DOGE and
figure out what our federal government is doing and how
they're spending their money, and in that the left has
decided to make him a pariah, a very bad person,

(01:36:05):
when they used to love him. This is the guy
who has Tesla space x. You know, I love the
social media platform, whether you know Twitter, We love Elon Musk.
And now that he has aligned himself with the federal
government and the executive branch and specifically President Trump, the

(01:36:27):
left wants to kill him. They're literally setting things on fire,
going after people's personal teslas, going after dealerships. That is violence,
and there should be no place in politics for violence.
This was the party that said we are tolerant, we
want to expand we're inclusive of everybody. Our tent is

(01:36:50):
big enough for anybody in everybody. And here we see
the truth. A party that cannot accept the election result,
and what they're trying to do through federal judges, through intimidation,
is trying to overthrow the results, are make it difficult
for the executive branch to govern.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
It is really, really truly unhinged. Christopher, and I just
keep pointing back, you know, like we've got this video
that's gone viral, Barack Obama talking about getting rid of
fraud waste and abuse. Back in twenty eleven, he put
Joe Biden in charge of it, and he cited a
bunch of illustrations of you know, American tax payer dollars
shouldn't be going to this fraud wasted abuse. It was
a good concept back then. It's never been a bipartisan thing. Finally,

(01:37:35):
you got a guy that's fit for the job. He's
not even drawn a salary. He's taken a break from
his own money making profitable entities to do this on
behalf of the American people in order to save us
from ourselves. Elected officials weren't going after it. But when
you look at what he's cut out and what the
efforts are that he has led to cut the fraud,
waste abuse out of government, Like, wait a second, how

(01:37:56):
could you be against this? How could you be against
getting rid of SOSIS security numbers for people who are
in their hundreds. You know that's a possible area of fraud.
Someone could use that number and get an unlawful employment.
They could get checks that aren't properly do. That's a simple,
low hanging fruit, and yet you're against it. I don't

(01:38:17):
mean they're defending the indefensible or trying to anyway, I
think unsuccessfully, just screaming into the air that, oh my god, evil, evil,
Orange Man's Apprentice is going It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 5 (01:38:29):
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He
doesn't need this, No, he doesn't need anybody's Social Security number,
this insanity that they are pushing. His motive is, we
are thirty six trillion dollars in debt, and our government,
our United States of America, will not be able to

(01:38:52):
survive if we don't get the spending under control. And
the best place to start is waste and fraud and corruption.
And so he's really dealing with the low hanging fruit.
And then so we're we're not having discussions about as
you discided, you just said, incited one hundred and fifty
year old getting a Social Security check. If we're worried

(01:39:14):
about the condition of social security, we don't want checks
going out to people that are one hundred and fifteen
years old, that are dead and somebody else is cashing
the check. And I just can't see why any Democrat
can be against fraud, can be against corruption, can be
against waste. And so at the end of the day,

(01:39:37):
it's a losing proposition for them as we move into
the two year election, and I'm going, what are you
guys gonna run on? Are you gonna say you spent
the last two years Brian Thomas saying I was against fraud,
I was against Doug against It doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 1 (01:39:56):
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Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Christopher Brian, We've been watching protests at these universities across
the United States of America, and most people who have
graduated from some of these institutions can't even recognize them,
like Columbia University, like Harvard, like Yale. So many alumni

(01:41:37):
are embarrassed by what they're seeing. Where Jewish students are
being targeted by people who are carrying Hamas flags, which
is a terrorist organization, on their campuses, with boards that
have refused to intervene, presidents that have refused to hold
the students accountable, and it's taking the executive branch to

(01:41:59):
stay and step in. We are not going to allow
anti Semitic behavior, not language, because that's protected. Your behavior.
Where you are threatening Jewish students, you are standing in
their way so they cannot get into the library, or
to the classroom, or to wherever they're trying to go.

(01:42:22):
No one understands why these universities are allowing the behavior
because their free speech is protected. So that's not what
we're dealing with. We're dealing with you threatening people, setting
things on fire, breaking windows, vandalism. You don't have the
right if you are from another country to come into

(01:42:47):
our country and then threaten other people. That is crossing
the lines. But my point is Columbia, Harvard, and Yale,
they should never give them back the four hundred million dollars.
We should force Columbia to step up and say every
student who comes here, no matter where you're from in

(01:43:07):
the world, it doesn't matter your child can come here safely,
get a good education, and come home in one piece
as my daughter Brian Thomas is looking at universities because
there are a lots of parents that are in my situation.
I've been saving incrementally for my daughter, like I've done
for the other five to go to college. So we

(01:43:30):
have this dream for our children to get a good education.
So my point is I now, in the back of
my mind, I'm thinking, when I go to these college visits,
which we just did one, what's gonna happen? Is this
what I'm gonna call one of these woke universities where
I have to turn my TV on and see people
like they did in Trump Power this past week. They're

(01:43:54):
chanting down with this holding Hama's flags, being arrested. It's
not what I want for my child. I don't mind
peaceful protests, I don't mind speech that is protected. That's
the conservative nature. But when it turns to violence, Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
Thomas, it's wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:44:12):
What is the left doing? What This is a democratic
party that people are constantly saying. Brian Thomas in conclusion,
I don't recognize this democratic party. This is not my
grandfather's party, This is not my father's party. This party
has left me. I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The
Democratic Party has left me. I am hearing that drum

(01:44:36):
beat all across this great state of Ohio, and I'm
seeing it on social media by so many people, And
I just do not understand why these woke universities are
not stepping in and saying violence is wrong. We condemn it.
And if it were happening to black students, if there
were white students standing in the front of a live

(01:45:00):
ary blacking black students are African American students from entering,
we would hear from the Democratic Party no matter what
their race was. Well, no matter who they're talking heads are.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
You hear from the Republicans as well as they are
standing up for the rights of the Jewish students at
these universities. And again, you know, to your point, we
got those Nazis on the bridge. They're allowed to speak
their Nazi venom, but they're not allowed to block traffic
and getting people's faces. That will be an assault, I
would argue, because you know, battery is when you make
physical contact. Assault is when you create the eminent apprehension
that you're going to get harmed. So you know, that's

(01:45:34):
going on in these campuses. But that's a very excellent point.
It was going to make it if you didn't make it.
This is a race of people. They may practice Judaism
as a religion, but regardless of whether they do or not,
and many of my Jewish friends are not practicing Jews,
but they are still Jewish people. They're going after a
race of people, and that's a race of people that

(01:45:57):
may or may not be in favor of Israel. They
may be in favor of a Kalestinian state. A lot
of Jewish people profess to be of that mindset. So
you're just painting with a broad brush, going after all
Jewish students just because they're Jews. And that is inherently racism,
but it's got its own name, of course, anti Semitism.
It's awful.

Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
And I Brian Thomas, there's a difference between the Palestinian people,
as you know, and Harmas. Harmas is a terrorist organization,
and I'm very careful I'm not talking about the Palestinian people.
I'm talking about Harmas. And we've got kids on college
campuses with the Harmas flag, a terrorist organization, some of

(01:46:38):
them from other parts of the world. Their guests in
our country, blocking American citizens or other guests who are
here studying at our major university. I support the federal
government from pulling their four hundred million dollars of funding
from Columbia. Don't stop their executive branch. Go all the
way to every university that refuses to protect any race

(01:47:02):
of people. But we're discussing right now the Jewish students
that are there where acts of violence are being practiced
upon them. It's wrong, and I denounce it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:13):
And I am in favor of what you just said, Christopher.
I share your your your observations on that. And you
know the other thing we've learned in all this putting
aside the issue that led to the withholding of funds.
Isn't it amazing how many hundreds of millions and billions
of dollars get thrown from the American taxpayer to these universities.
It's just mind blowing.

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that CNN survey and talking about Democrats being well upset
with their own party in the direction of the party's
going kind of silver what Christopher was talking about. But
fifty seven to forty two percent say that Democrats should
mainly work to stop the Republican agenda as opposed to
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the lines of what Democrats want into legislation. I know
that seems like a tough road to ho these days,
but just fighting anything that Republicans want, period, end of story.
And you know, you go back to Christopher's observations and
defending the indefensible. It seems like insanity. And what are
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(01:51:10):
are asking or pushing for, even though it makes them
look like idiots. I don't understand how you can be
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point that Christopher was making that I've been making a
lot of late. Everybody has been but Democrats in a
state of disarray. You know, Chucky Schumer's up against the
wall now because he voted to keep the government open.

(01:51:31):
I thought that's what the Democrats always wanted, Oh, don't
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rather challenging position of being the party who would absolutely
have been responsible for shutting down the federal government, which
would have left everything in Donald Trump's control. He gets
to decide what's essential in government and what's not. And
I have a feeling the Department of Government efficiency would

(01:51:52):
have been deemed essential. So and and I kind of
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Warren Davidson doesn't execut issue executive orders, so see Republican
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Regular listeners know what time it is. Brian Thomas always
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All were financials Brian James to do money Monday. Brian,
welcome back and have you Saint Patrick's day.

Speaker 14 (01:53:37):
Good morning, regular and irregular listeners, And back to you, Brian,
same to you.

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Yeah, we've got a couple of irregular listeners out there anyhow,
so your irregular speakers as well. Yeah, I understand sort
of reciprocal tariff, because if someone is tariffing our goods
going in, then why should they do that. I'm level
playing field kind of guy. It's difficult to operate in
a level playing field considering the cost of doing business

(01:54:05):
relative to any given countries. You know, ohsha practices or not,
or the presence of slave labor or not. But all
things aside. At least I can get my head around, Well,
if they're charging twenty five percent on our goods coming
in and then a corresponding tariff on their goods coming in,
would you know, serve to perhaps end the tariffs completely.

(01:54:26):
But if you're trying to tariff somebody into doing something
they otherwise wouldn't do, and we ended up in this
trade war because of course they'll put reciprocal tariffs on.
So tariffs kind of bother me. And it's one of
the things I believe I differ with in the Trump administration.
But people are freaked out about tariffs and kind of
panicking and it has impacted the stock market at least,

(01:54:46):
although they've been, you know, predicting a correction for a
long time now, Brian, and I know you've read articles
about a correction coming. These drops in the markets have
been attributed to the Trump tariffs. So what's this story
about this and should we be panicking? Well, yeah, that's
lots of unpacked there.

Speaker 14 (01:55:05):
The first thing let's talk about is you mentioned potential
correction on the way, Well, congratulations, it's here. We are
ten percent below the highest peak on the S and
P five hundred that's what's commonly known as a correction.
We're not calling this a a bear mark or anything
like that. We had a correction as recently as twenty three.
We have volatility, of course comes and goes. Yeah, this

(01:55:26):
is of course being driven by the tariffs. And it's
not so much the tariffs, it's the back and forth.
What the market can handle bad news, it can handle
good news. What it can't handle is unknown news. And
with the Trump administration waffling back and forth on whether
we're gonna put these tariffs against Canada or no, we're
gonna hold off for a month, that kind of thing.
What the market wants to know is how likely our

(01:55:47):
company is going to be able to make a dollar
and how many dollars are they going to make? And
when we've got the rules changing, you know, think of
it this way. Can we predict if the Bengals are
going to win a game if they change the length
of the field during the game. You can't really predict
exactly anything when when kind of the metrics of how
we measure things are changing all the time, so as
tariffs and the rules are changing on a daily basis,

(01:56:08):
not only the Trump administration but also as you mentioned,
countries are reciprocating, so we're just moving things back and
forth on both ends. The market hates that, and that's
why we're in a bit of a downturn here.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
Well, I would putting them in place and just saying
that's it, they're fixed. Would that provide some stability in
the market or the market would go down simply because
it's going to cost more to purchase foreign goods and
we'll be exporting fewer American goods. Well, I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:56:37):
I don't think that would happen because we never say
we're gonna put this tariff in place. It's gonna sit
here for two years. We're going to use it until
we get what we want. And that's the unpredictable part.
We have gotten the responses, you know, as a negotiating tool,
these are things that have that have elicited responses, and
we've gotten other countries to start acting as we've wanted
them to. You know, that's not quite a tariff, but
our threats to back out of NATO has gotten finally

(01:57:00):
European nations to start spending the correct or closer to
the correct percentages of their GDPs on defense. That's the
same structure they're trying here. Let's just simply make the
change the rules, change the inputs, meaning the US is
going to put less into these kinds of things. That's
going to force everybody to react in a manner that
we're hoping to gain from them, and then we can
see whether we still need it. We don't want permanent tariffs.

(01:57:22):
They're not a way to make money. They're a way
to change the behavior of those we're doing business with,
and once we get that, we'll.

Speaker 1 (01:57:28):
Back out, all right, Well, pitting over to buy seller hold,
what do we what do we do with a plummeting stock?
And I mean most of everything I think I'm invested
in through my financial planner index funds, so it's filled.
It's comprised of hundreds of different stocks. So I'm not
picking and choosing which stocks I'm personally holding. It's in

(01:57:48):
a bundle of other stocks. But assuming someone is buying
a specific stock, like let's just use Tesla as an example,
which is down fifty percent, how do you decide what
to do with something like that?

Speaker 14 (01:57:59):
Brian Sure, Well, those specific types of examples, it depends
on what your what your goal is.

Speaker 3 (01:58:05):
If your goal is.

Speaker 14 (01:58:06):
Simply to build a financial plan for your household and
execute on that. And you need growth to keep up
with inflation over time. But your goal is not to
try to be the market or to own cool stocks
that you can one up people on the on the
first tee of the golf outing every Saturday morning. Yeah,
then you're taking the right approach. At the end of
the day, all that matters is that you can you
can outpace inflation and grow your assets and still live

(01:58:27):
the lifestyle you're trying to. That's a little different than
I want to own Tesla, and I really support Elon Musk,
so I'm going to ride this out. Well, that better
not be your Neste, because that's going to be a
volatile stock. And the reasons for volatility in that specific
example are completely self inflicted. Yes, man invented a product
that everybody wanted and that filled a need, and then
he chose to throw it into the fire for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (01:58:48):
I cut you off. Go ahead, Oh no, you know,
but I mean people are holding him personally responsible for,
you know, exercising some cuts in government, and that's I
suppose they're prerogative, but you know, five minutes ago he
was the dark of the left because he's going to
save the planet from carbon emissions, and everybody was out
buying Tesla's the virtue signal or on the mistaken belief
that it was environmental, the environmentally good thing to do.

Speaker 14 (01:59:11):
Correct, And if you you it's hard to even point
at what the motivations are because if it was about
you know, usually we blame greed and the greed of
corporate America and so on and so forth. Well, he
had to know, he's not a stupid man. He had
to know that he was going to take some hits,
a few politions, oh yeah, spots along the way, and
many of his companies by making these moves. And he
made them anyway, which tells us that he's a leader
who is not driven by profit and efficiency. He's driven

(01:59:34):
at least in some part by power.

Speaker 1 (01:59:36):
Indeed. Well, okay, so I understand you. Managing emotions is important.
And of course, if you have you know, a financial
planner managing your portfolio and it is in all these
you know, mixed index funds, then just ride it out.
It's all going to go away. Don't divest because the
market's gone down. Hell, I've been through the downs and
ups over my life, and as you always point out,
Brian James, it always ends up going up over time.

(01:59:58):
At least historically, that's always been the trend. Unless something
like the Fiat currency collapses because of our overspending and
government that's a completely different scenario that we can't plan for.
But beyond that, it just continues to go up over
time in spite of the downturns from time to time.

Speaker 14 (02:00:13):
Yeah, and thanks for the minder that we weren't even
discussing the article at ant here with my little side
tour on Elon Musk. But no, this is what I
tell my clients every time we have any kind of
a concern, which is that it is long as long
as there is greed in the market, as long as
someone outs there out there once more dollars than they
currently have, then there is going to be a stock market.
Stock market has existed in some fashion for the last

(02:00:36):
four or five hundred years. This is why you learned
about the Dutch East India Company in the fifth grade.
You didn't know why you were learning it. Your fifth
grade teacher didn't know why they were teaching it. But
this is why it was the origin of the stock market.
That's five hundred years ago. So now fast forward to today,
and every company under the sun worth at salt you
can buy shares of, and sometimes they go up and down.

(02:00:56):
I think what it boils down to, Brian Thomas, is
that there are five years that I consider attention getters
within the last century. That's two thousand and eight, nineteen
thirty seven, seventy four, two thousand and two, and twenty
twenty two.

Speaker 1 (02:01:09):
We just had one.

Speaker 14 (02:01:10):
These are all years where the market was down more
than fifteen percent. What they all have in common is
every last one of them was followed by a year
where the pendulum swung back the other way and got
back most, if not all, of the of what had
been lost. So if you can make sure you hang
on for a three year time period, then you're going
to be okay. And we do that by making sure
that the dollars we need in that period aren't exposed

(02:01:32):
to this in the first place. That's an emergency fund,
all right.

Speaker 1 (02:01:35):
For those out there buying individual stocks, I mean, your
options when the thing goes down is buy seller, hold,
And I like to buy option because if you believe
in the business and you think it has legs and
will ultimately come back because it's providing a service or
good that people value, then you may be good in
buying more. It's a buying opportunity because it's probably going

(02:01:56):
to go back up, although that's not the case with
Boeing of late.

Speaker 14 (02:02:00):
That's true, but again, that's the whole point we were
talking about before any one stock is going to have
its issues that you can't see coming out of left field.
Hopefully most of the people were talking to are on
their way to work and you have a four to
oh one K, four h three B or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:02:14):
You are congratulations.

Speaker 14 (02:02:15):
You are already doing the right thing, as long as
you haven't gone into your payroll department and told them
to stop pulling money out to contribute to your bi
weekly or weekly paycheck or whatever you have because you
are investing through this downturn. I love this situation, Brian,
for people who have just gotten started. In the last
five years, we have seen the absolute best the markets
can be, and we could have seen the worst. Those

(02:02:37):
of you who remember twenty two into twenty three and
twenty four, you'll remember that you saw your four to
oh one K grow very very quickly, and it might
have confused you that's the pendulum swinging, pendulum swinging back
the other way, and that's those dollars that you invested
at the bottom getting a nitro boost all the way
back to the top. So if you leave it alone,
you're doing the right thing.

Speaker 1 (02:02:55):
Yeah, you're acquiring more stock for less money when it's
in a downturn. So I'd like that advice for folks
just starting out. You're doing it at the right time.
Right now, you're plumping down the entire cycle. Now, I
just wait for it and watch your money grow, because
it ultimately will. It's possible bring prying back to talk
about apparently one in three folks have been victims of

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Speaker 1 (02:04:39):
One more segment here with Money Monday's Brian James. There's
just some frightening statistics on the amount of fraud and
scam that's going on out there. Brian James. Yeah, absolutely,
So we're seeing a spike.

Speaker 14 (02:04:49):
I go figure, whenever there is a crazy market activity,
we wind up with with people trying to take advantage.
So about one in three adults have experienced financial fraud
in the past twelve months. About two and five have
actually lost money, So that includes nineteen percent of people
who lost money because somebody accessed their personal information. At
about a quarter of them actually sent money themselves to

(02:05:11):
a scammer or paid for some kind of phony service
or something.

Speaker 1 (02:05:14):
This isn't new. We've had fraud.

Speaker 14 (02:05:16):
Of course, there were counterfeit currencies as long as there
have been currencies. We had our friend Charles Ponzi might
remember him, Oh yeah, in the eighteenth century, and then
ever since it's been the rise of telecommunications and social
media has just made it all louder.

Speaker 1 (02:05:29):
But the endgame is pretty much still the same, it
really is, And we talk every week with Dave Hatter
for Tech Friday at six thirty on Fridays, and a
week doesn't go by, he isn't highlighting or elevating another
form of fraud or attention. And the FBI quite often
will issue warnings and alerts about new scams. It's just
so easy to do because so many people are connected

(02:05:51):
with social media and the Internet, and there are a
lot of gullible people out there, and most notably the
senior community. I'm not taking a poke at him, it's
just they tend to be more believing and and and
and more prone to being subject to these attacks. So
are we looking at any particular type or style of
financial fraud that this article highlights? Well, I think what we're.

Speaker 14 (02:06:12):
Seeing most you kind of hinted at it already, or
seniors are being taken advantage of because you know, at
some point, for every last one of us, the shields
go down just a little bit, and the scammers out
there know that. And there are team ways to get
in touch with people nowadays and can and convince them
how to think a little differently using social media, of course,
So the ways to kind of protect here is if

(02:06:34):
you feel like you might be in a situation like this,
you might have a loved one in a situation like this,
then make sure you have alerts set up on all
of your financial accounts. There are ways that you if
you look deep in the settings and those kinds of
things that you know. Normally people log into their financial
sites and get what they need and get back out.
We'll spend some time for a pot of coffee and
look at the different bells and whistles inside your credit
card provider, in your bank's website, they will text you

(02:06:57):
if transactions are happening, if somebody bugs in from a
different computer that the bank has not seen before. There
are a lot of ways that you can be informed
that something's going wrong, and consider having those texts go
to somebody who isn't you, If you have a trusted
adult child, or you know, even just anybody, just a
second set of eyes, just like anything else, can be
really really helpful and protect us from these things.

Speaker 1 (02:07:18):
And two factor authentication, changing your passwords, getting a password
manager that creates really complex passwords that people can't hack into,
and shut off your credit I mean you can contact
trans and Union and Experience and close your credit out
so no one can you know, can can try to
open credit in your name. That's something I did years ago. Yeah,
that's a great point. Freeze your credit.

Speaker 14 (02:07:40):
You can do that. You can turn it on and off.
It adds an extra step. But if you don't really
need to apply for a new credit all that often,
and most people shouldn't be, that's a whole other conversations
you are, then yeah, freeze it off and just make
it impossible to use.

Speaker 1 (02:07:52):
One mora'll throw out there.

Speaker 14 (02:07:54):
If you have not logged in or set up your
own social security profile a my social security profile, then
you should go do that. You may not be receiving
social Security or maybe you don't have any questions about
it or whatever, but you should still go claim it.
That way, you'll know that you're the one who got it.
That's another way that people are stealing identities.

Speaker 2 (02:08:11):
Now.

Speaker 14 (02:08:11):
If someone has never set up their soci security profile
and they get a hold of your social security number, well,
they can begin to impersonate you a lot more easily.

Speaker 1 (02:08:18):
So go set that up and lock it down. Well,
and they can begin in person you a lot more
easily if they have access to all the information on
your computers, and you know as Dave points out all
the time every week. Don't click on suspicious links or emails.
I mean I don't click on I mean my friends
with my mom sends me links, and my friends will
send me links, and I am loath to click on
any of them because it literally could be something that

(02:08:39):
would maliciously launch software into my computer.

Speaker 14 (02:08:43):
Yeah, if you suspect you might get an email that
looks like your bank, Yeah, it's going to have the logo,
it's going to look like something they legitimately sent you.
If you have a suspicion that maybe this is a
real thing I need to deal with, don't click that link.

Speaker 1 (02:08:55):
Log into the bank's website.

Speaker 14 (02:08:56):
If it's truly an important problem, it'll be the first
thing in your face in a form of a notification
or something like that. But don't click the email in
or the link inside the email. Go straight to the
bank or call them and ask if there's anything they
need or if they're noticing any problems.

Speaker 1 (02:09:10):
On their end. Amen to that. And you got to
be very proactive on this. And if you're proactive, the
likelihood of getting scammed or having your money ripped off
it drops precipitously. Brian Jennings. Appreciate the sound advice as always,
and it's important to get a financial planner that's working
in your court and feed based financial plannets have a
fiduciary obligation to you to maximize the return on your investment,

(02:09:30):
so do that and then you don't have to worry
about it. Brian James, thanks for the time he spilled
my listeners each and every week here for money Monday,
and I'll look forward to having another discussion with you
next week.

Speaker 14 (02:09:39):
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. May all things stay green all
day long.

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Speaker 1 (02:10:41):
This let's turn to our health. I am pleased to
welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Doctor Catherine
aka Katie Reid. You's the founder of Unblind My Mind, inco,
nonprofit dedicated to improving health through informed food choices. It's
got a background of biotech, cancer, pharmaceuticals and brings a
wealth of scientific knowledge to her work on ronic inflammatory disease.

(02:11:01):
Joining the fifty five KRC Morning Show to talk about
a book she co wrote along with Barbara Pice, PhD
It is Fat, Stressed and Sick msg Processed Food in
America's health Crisis. Doctor Reid is a real pleasure to
have you on the program this morning.

Speaker 15 (02:11:16):
Oh thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (02:11:18):
And I don't know how you feel about it. I
honestly very excited about RFK Junior and hopefully his ability
through raising our awareness so kind of the things you're
talking about in your book, so we can make informed
choices about our diets, because I think a lot of
people are really uninformed about processed foods and are what's
in them, including as you illustrate and number one out

(02:11:39):
of the gate and the title of your book MSG.
I remember all the raids was getting Chinese restaurants to
drop MSG from their from the foods, and we're going
back a couple of decades at least on that one,
and a lot of them advertised no MSG added. Good.
Well apparently it's all over the place.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
It is, It's all over the place.

Speaker 15 (02:12:00):
And yeah, you know, I'm excited about RFK Junior making
some changes about you know, being aware and having a
you know, back to real whole foods, not such the process,
but the Yeah, the processed foods. The MSG is hidden
in the ingredient with and so even foods that will
say no MSG added, what it's implying is it's not

(02:12:23):
pure MSG are not including MG that's created from the
processing of proteins.

Speaker 14 (02:12:31):
Okay, it's a bit of.

Speaker 1 (02:12:32):
A yeah, So it's not on the label as contains MSG.
But MSG is in the foods that we buy, the
process foods we buy because of how it's how the
food is made.

Speaker 15 (02:12:45):
How it's processed, and if you think about ingredient labels,
they're not required to put the manufacturing process on there
and then the end product resulting from that processing. So
if you take a protein and you process it with
a bunch of you know, pasteurization, acid, hydrolysis, fermentation, it'll

(02:13:07):
degrade the protein into its component parts, the amino acids,
and glutamate is an amino acid.

Speaker 2 (02:13:14):
And they know that.

Speaker 15 (02:13:15):
I mean, that's how MSG used to be process is
using wheat gluten and doing an acid hydrolysis.

Speaker 4 (02:13:22):
On the wheat gluten.

Speaker 15 (02:13:25):
But now there's cheaper processes to making MSG, so they're
very well aware that processing these proteins makes MSG. It's
a very addicting component, so we keep going for more.
It hijacks our taste receptors and our brain thinks it's wonderful,
and so it's like rigged against us trying to find
a healthier, more quality of life.

Speaker 1 (02:13:47):
Well, isn't that the point of MSG being an additive
or as a byproduct of processing to make the food
taste better, like salt makes food taste better.

Speaker 5 (02:13:56):
Exactly.

Speaker 15 (02:13:56):
It is the underlying mechanism of all addictions. But so
they're they're putting it in there too for you know,
increasing profits, increasing you know, consumption.

Speaker 1 (02:14:07):
Okay, now, I think most people know that is a
just a giant a dietary recommendation. We all hear it,
stay away from processed foods. How do you define processed foods?
Is like if I go out to the Indian restaurant,
I get carry out, I don't think of that as
processed food. They're using spinach, they're using a specific kind
of cheese, or they're using whole chunks of meat, And

(02:14:28):
if I did that at home, it wouldn't be defined
as process So how does that, you know, homemade preparation
type thing differ from a processed food as we know it.

Speaker 15 (02:14:39):
Yeah, and there's different categories on the degrees of processing.
So it's the ultra processed foods that they discussed in
the book, you know, fat, stressed, and sick. MSG processed
foods in America's health crisis. You know, that can be
purchased on Amazon. That it really is the ultra processed
foods that contains the largest amount of the MSG because

(02:15:01):
of the processing of the proteins. So you just mentioned cheese,
and a lot of people won't consider that process, but
that is process you're taking. Yeah, you're taking milk, you're
fermenting it, you're you know, having it. You know, cultures
that are added to it to degrade the proteins and caseine,
the major protein in milk or dairy products, is then

(02:15:24):
degraded and so you get glutamate as a byproduct of
the fermentation of that milk. The more age the.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
Cheese, the more the higher the MSG.

Speaker 15 (02:15:37):
And so you know, even the breads the way they're
making them, they're fortifying it with gluten, they're fermenting it,
they're adding you know, a bunch of different ingredients that
will degrade that protein. So if you think about cheese
and bread, well, wow, you know that's like a big
staple in American But then like you know, the the
Americans craze on protein. You know, the protein powders collagen

(02:16:01):
seems to be a big fad lately, but they're using
hydrolyzed collagen. They're using an acid hydrolysis process on that
collagen that will degrade that protein and break it up
into its subunits of amino acids, glutamate, you know, being
a significant part of that degradation. Weigh protein is a

(02:16:22):
it's actually a cheese byproduct, waste product from you know,
making cheese, and so they wanted to use whey because
they didn't want to have a bunch of waste from
the cheese manufacturing. So now it's all over our you know,
different protein enriched products, but like whig protein isolate or
so a protein isolate, these are code words of it

(02:16:44):
went through an extreme amount of processing. So what is
not processed would be eating you know, like you said,
your vegetables, your whole grains like you know, brown rice
or quin waw. Starchy vegetables could be used as a
carbohyde source like.

Speaker 5 (02:17:00):
Potatoes or sweet potatoes, root of bega.

Speaker 15 (02:17:04):
Having you know, good whole quality unsured or unprocessed meat
like pasta, raised chicken, grass fed beef, wild caught, h seafood,
and then fruits, organic raw nuts, seeds, you know. Again,
the glycis shape or the round up that they're putting in.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
Some of these products also kind of contribute.

Speaker 15 (02:17:25):
To inflammation and some of that glutamate signaling even in
the body. So those are some of the things that
would be considered unprocessed. You know, you're literally just you know,
so when you talk about Indian food, you know they're
obviously putting a lot of you know, cheese in there,
or dairy or a lot of these cream things and sauces.
And even though it's got spinach, you're.

Speaker 1 (02:17:51):
Going after my pillock panier. Yeah, well, we don't do
it all the time, but are we doing our souls
in the Thomas household on My wife makes sour dough
bread every week and uses it from sour dough starter.
There's no additives, there's none of the multi gazillion labels
that you're you know, the components that are in a
store bought loaf of bread which will lasts like three

(02:18:13):
or four weeks, if not months on your shelf. Is
that a healthful thing to do? By contrast? Or are
we sort of spin in our wheels thinking it's better
for us?

Speaker 15 (02:18:23):
Well, I mean it is better for you than like
the like you said, like the wonderbread that are like,
you know, able to be in your house for weeks
and weeks with half molding.

Speaker 1 (02:18:31):
Half life of patrol plutonium.

Speaker 15 (02:18:35):
Yeah exactly, but you know it's using cultures, as you
suggest that the sour fermentation is using lacto bacillis bacteria
to ferment the wheat, and that's how they used to
make msg is fermenting gee wheat.

Speaker 1 (02:18:51):
Well, you're bursting all kinds of bubbles this morning, doctor.

Speaker 15 (02:18:53):
I know, I know, you know, but it is a
happy Monday, like you said, and uh, you know, it's
it's awareness and so you and if people start moving
the needle like Okay, I'm going to have you know,
less cheese in my diet or I'm going to have
more newer cheese as opposed to like older age cheese
like mozzarella or cottage cheese. And you're kind of just
making more mindful choices to improve the health, especially if

(02:19:17):
you're afflicted with a chronic inflammatory condition, which most of
us are, Like, I mean, I think there's like seventy
percent of the population that has at least one chronic
inflammatory condition.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Most have two.

Speaker 15 (02:19:29):
So we're dealing with a you know, a health crisis.
And so this is all about getting the word out
there and making more informed health choices.

Speaker 1 (02:19:36):
Well, and looping back to MSG that apparently is everywhere.
Is that the problem with MSG is is this inflammatory
issues that most of us are dealing with.

Speaker 15 (02:19:47):
Yeah, and so you know it is very highly inflammatory,
but it's a neurotransmitter, so it's activating our nervous system,
but it can trigger the inflammatory response where we're almost
neurologically why to the inflammatory you know condition, And so
we make all the glutamate we need where we need it,

(02:20:07):
when we need it for the neurological activation or a
variety of other functions. It serves in the body metabolics,
you know, energy production, insulin release. I mean, it's it's
signaling a variety of different functions. So when it's at
high levels, it's signaling stress. It is the stress response
in our body at high levels. So if you think

(02:20:29):
about like anxiety for example, or people who are experiencing
like panic attacks, it is typically excessive glutamate signaling that
is triggering. Yes, and so if you are constantly in
that you know, fight, flight, fear, fawn response, it is
an excess of glutamate signaling going on in your nervous

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system and so yeah, and so it is. It's fascinating
how this is absolutely wired to our survival response.

Speaker 8 (02:20:59):
And some people are wired.

Speaker 15 (02:21:01):
To thinking the cheetah is around the corner constantly even
though there's no cheetah.

Speaker 1 (02:21:05):
Yeah, I get it. Yeah, well, okay, Now other than that,
you know, anxiety feeling, you know so many people have it.
I was just ready to ask you, you know, if if
so many people are dealing with this, this inflammatory disease
will call it, how do they know the signs and
symptoms of it? Because you know, I think of inflammation.
I think of inflammation. You know, it's like you know,
your your your fingers roll and or you got arthritis

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or something like that. But you know that the telltale
signs of it, So anxiety being one of them. Are
there any other signs that someone might be suffering from
this perhaps MSG connected problem.

Speaker 15 (02:21:39):
Yeah, And that's where I kind of have a whole
chapter in the book, you know, fact Stress and sick
MSG Processed Foods in America's Health Crisis. I have a
whole chapter dedicated to all the various conditions or you
know what we call these states that are associated with
high levels of glutamate. So obesity we wouldn't think as
an inflammatory condition, but it is energy and balance. Glutamate

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signaling is absolutely at the basis of that. There's an
entire category of depression labeled glutamate based depression. So there's depression, anxiety.
My whole journey started with my youngest being on the
spectrum with autism. And for those parents or anybody who's
afflicted with autism, you can understand that many are it

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trapped in a fight like fear fawn response, or they're
very vulnerable to a stress response. It doesn't take much
from their environment to be like, okay, they want to
shut down, right, And that she was very sensitive to glutamate,
had no idea that this was really going to help
her condition and have a much better quality of life

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by really being aware where the glutamate is in the
food supply. So cancer and I go through a lot
of that with cancer is if you think about cancer,
cells is a metabolic cellular abnormality. Lutamate signaling will cause
a lot of that abnormality because it's a stress response,
and cancer can sometimes be what the body thinks is

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a cure to that stress response.

Speaker 1 (02:23:10):
I understand.

Speaker 15 (02:23:12):
Yeah, and so it's it is it's you know, we're
getting like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, you know, even migraine headaches are
typically attributed to the successive glutamate signaling. So, like you said,
the swelling could be, you know, one of these signs
of you know, but pain response is a glut tomate
signaling response often. I mean, there's a lot of other
signals going on to but glutamate is often at the

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base of some of these pain responses.

Speaker 1 (02:23:37):
I understand.

Speaker 15 (02:23:38):
Yeah, we're talking like the mother load here.

Speaker 1 (02:23:40):
Yeah, well, I understand sugar is not good for you either,
So I just by cutting sugar out of my diet,
I've been able to lose like seventeen pounds over the
past six months. I just stay the hell away from
all added sugar. So maybe by doing that, I'm also
getting a lot of the MSG out of my diet
because everything's got added sugar, and it's a product with
added sugar, I'm not going to eat it exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:24:01):
No, It's true.

Speaker 13 (02:24:01):
It's like, so once you start.

Speaker 15 (02:24:02):
Getting rid of refined sugars, you are eliminating a lot
of processed foods, and that is where you know, you
start to get rid of a lot of the MSG sources.

Speaker 1 (02:24:10):
Now I've learned a lot today, Doctor Reed. This has
been a fascinating conversation. Your book Fat, Stressed and Sick
MSG Processed food An America's Health Crisis is on my
blog page fifty five cars dot com and the link
so everybody can get it. And I appreciate what you're
doing raising America's awareness to where the problems come from.
And I hope you keep up the great work, and
I hope a lot more people start paying attention. One

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of the process. Christopher smithment with the Smith event as
well in my conversation with Brian James, I just wanted
to read a little segment out of this article I
saw Epoch Times, and it's a it's a read that
you should read. Massive Lithium ion battery fire raises questions
about California's energy future and it talks about this fire
that broke out at this battery storage facility. You probably

(02:26:37):
recall me talking about or maybe read about it in
yourself and the news. But all the shenanigans that went on,
the fast tracking, the the the the approval process, the
looking the other way because oh this is green, this
is a green project, and you know, ignoring the huge,
huge safety problems that these present. So let me just

(02:26:58):
read a little excerpt from it. What's in the plume
has ample experience with lithium fires. There have been ten
battery storage fires in California since twenty twenty one, and
Vistra that's the one that most recently caught fire several
times used LG batteries comprised of roughly fifty percent manganese,
nickel and cobalt. At the county's request, the APA began

(02:27:21):
monitoring early for air quality testing for hydrogen fluoride, one
of the most toxic compounds emitted in battery fires, along
with particulate matter typically measuring in air quality monitoring. Vistra
also installed its own air monitors, but there was no
mention of heavy metals in reporting from the EPA, VISTRA,
state agencies, or the county, not until scientists working with

(02:27:41):
the Elkhorn Slaw that's the area made a stunning announcement
in late January. As a result of the fallout from
the smoke, surface soil and nature preserve had drastically elevated
levels of these compounds hundreds two thousands of times above
background levels. Part of the concern over heavy metal that
they don't biodegrade and can easily accumulate in the food chain.

(02:28:03):
Even at very low levels. They have a cumulative impact
over time, making the determination of a safe threshold a
matter of contention. In humans, exposure to heavy metals and
other toxins such as pesticides, can give longer term impacts,
damaging DNA, interfering with protein and enzyme function, creating oxidative stress,
and stimulating cancer progression. According to multiple global studies in livestock,

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and they had a number of stillborn livestock out there
real high concentrations after this fire. Studies show exposure can
cause damage to the central nervous system and reproductive failure,
as well as impacting other organ systems, among other impacts.
Nickel and cobalt especially problematic, according to do To Joseph Landolf,
associated professor with USC's Kex School of Medicine and an

(02:28:48):
expert in chemically induced carc carcinenicity who often works with
the EPA. He said quote Nickel is a carcinogen, especially
in insoluble form, where it can cause damage to the
sinuses and lungs, resulting in tumors and occasionally to the kidneys. Normally,
he said, EPA would conduct a complete risk assessment of
the whole area, which is expensive and time consuming calculate

(02:29:11):
the exposure risk properly. Some industrial hygienis and area resident
Michael Polcaalba said reporting from the government and VISTRA mitt misleading,
said from a tennial standpoint, is a big shock that
EPA was only monitoring for two airborne hazards. Monterey County
has just taken a back seat, and no one else
is asking the obvious question, what's in the plume? That

(02:29:37):
giving the all clear sign to move back the next
day was based on just two point five particulate matter
and hydrogen fluoride, he said, referring to particles measuring two
point five micrometers in diamond or less used to monitor
air quality. Said they didn't even consider other contaminants involved.
And this article just goes on and on and on

(02:29:59):
about sort of turning the other way and not providing
a sufficient information. And this is dangerous stuff. I mean,
the more I read, the more my mouth fell open
and disbelief. And these poor folks living in the area,
you know, it's literally a carpet coating of these dangerous
compounds on everything. And because it doesn't break down in

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the soil, it's likely to end up in the food chain.
Plants grow in the soil and it's absorbed up through
the plants. Cows eat the grass, and of course it's
absorbed into the cows. I mentioned the reproductive issues. And
again the article starts out with one farmer out there
who just shortly after the plume hit up and coated
the area. He lost quite a few livestock stillborns. So

(02:30:45):
you know it ain't green when you think about it.
Along these lines, of course, you got the manufacturing process
which is terrible, and you got the slave labor in
Africa that's bringing forth all these rare earth minerals that
go into the batteries, and then of course storage of
the batteries and these runaway fires that happened. So yeah, uh,
you don't hear that from Greta Thunberg and the global

(02:31:06):
warming folks, do you, Yeah, wait till it comes to
your neighborhood. Anyhow. Epoch Times massive lithium ion battery fire
raises questions about California's energy future. It's quite a long article,
but it is well worth read. So check that out
if you got some free time and you're looking to
get to enlighten yourself on the dangers associated with this
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