55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Five o five. I think you've got k r C
the talk station happen Monday. Will vation no idea what's falling? Yeah,

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you know it's kind of what this protesters at the
Tesla dealership sort of conveyed by way of motivation for
why they were there. I have no idea. So many
videos that people and you know, ask them a question, well,
what do you protest them? What do you protests? They
never ever go to anything specific. They're just like must
bad man bad Anyhow, we'll have plenty of talk about

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on that one this morning. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Brian Thomas inviting phone calls as I always do. If
I went three seven four, nine hundred eight two to three,
talk go with Tom five to fifty. If you have
an AT and T found Christopher Smithman coming up at
seven twenty. Same as the always. They're same as always
as the case on a Monday, former Vice Mayor of
the City of Cincinnati with a smith event. Monday Monday.
Brian James returns eight oh five. Apparently people have the

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wit scared out of him, worried about a stock market crash.
Fifty one percent fright of a crash Wow, just go
back and look at history. After the stock market crash
in the end of the twenties, Oh my god, big
third of the people in the United States unemployed. Just terrible,
terrible situation. So especially at a time when our fiat

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currency is teetering on the brink of self destruction or
immolation or whatever. Yeah, the thirty six trillion dollars in
growing debt, somebody's gonna have to do something about that.
And a lot of the young people, really I think,
coming around to the more conservative side of the Ledger
for that reason alone. They look at it and they say,
look what you guys did to us. Government is too

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damn big. It spends too much money, and it can
live within its means, mean logic and reason. That is
a reasonable logical thing to presume and assume and can conclude.
So anyway, we'll find out about the stock market potential crash,
how tariffs affect the car buying process, futures drop among
tariff fears. And finally one more with Brian James. People

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are adding to their rainy day fund, which I suppose
is a good thing to do. Empower you, Iram Melmann's
going to empower you Summar we're talking about borders and immigration.
That'll be at eight forty and reminder fifty five care
Sea dot com. When you can't listen live, check out
the podcast page get the information right there. They got
the information about Honor Flight. Hope you made it to

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the fiftieth anniversary tribute to the Vietnam War veterans over
the weekend. It was nice talking about that Heart for
Seniors with the Cunningham sisters. Just a couple of lovely
young ladies. Inspirational they are, and I hope you were
a had an opportunity to give a few dollars to
the Heart for Seniors group. What they're just trying to
do is improve people's living conditions in long term care facilities.

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Got some horrific conditions with seniors laying in their own
well filth, just impossible to stay up on top of it. Well,
they've got a solution. It's the simple one. There's electronic
device and it lets the people there know exactly when
someone is in need of a change, which prevents all
kinds of horrific conditions and just quality of life issues

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for those seniors. So it's a good organization to help
out and they were so appreciative of my listeners for
donating and contributing that they've been able to expand in
multiple facilities and they're hoping to just really take this
thing all over the state. And I wish them all
the luck in the world with that. So and if
you donate, the beautiful Cunningham sisters will come and sing

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for a senior in your world, maybe a healthcare professional
in your world. And trust me, they are very, very
talented singers. So if you don't believe me, just go
to the podcast and listen to it, because they did
a short number at the end of the end of
the interview. Again I heard media app is right there
for you when you head on over there. You can

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listen to the content wherever you happen to be really
nice app So a couple of things here. One of
hermind folks that we're gonna be at Barley Korn's Wilder,
Kentucky location this Wednesday for listener lunch. And I say
that with a certain degree of sadness. It's not because
I don't want to go to Barley Corns. It's not

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because I don't like listening to lunch. But anybody who's
been to listener Lunch, may recall, and she used to
call into the morning show my blind friend Barbara Lisniewski,
and I found out this morning Johnny Benstein who regularly
went to listener to Lunch as well. Anyhow, she passed away.
So apparently she was moved from her nursing home into

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the university hospital, apparently with a bowel instruction. Somehow that
resulted in her death. So sad because we lost Johnny,
and I guess his wife still operating his Facebook account.
That's quite a few listeners over the years, isn't it, Joe,
remember quite a few. It's always a really really sad thing.
I remember Patty so well, and wasn't it the Chef?

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And that was Mark the chef? Joe and of course
Bob from Oakley. So it's my nineteenth year in radio.
Made a lot of friends and of course made a
lot of friends at listening to Lunch and Barb love
coming to listen to Lunch. And I was always impressed
with Barb and her ability to get out and about.
She would take that bus they have that that the

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bus that helps disable people get around. She'd arrange for
that show up on her own. Some game toward the
end there she'd need some assistance, and of course some
the van Stein's helped her get around. Other people would
pick her up, but she just was always in such
a bubbly happy mood at listener lunch. So I'm just
just a little bit sad this morning, obviously to learn

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of her passing, and I knew her health was deteriorating,
but to find out that she is gone kind of
hitching that soft spot, if you know what I mean. Anyhow,
and other rather tragic news. That Minimar earthquake was just insane.
You know, with modern social media and everybody's got a
cell phone, everbody's taking video, you really do get it.

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Just an amazing sort of firsthand like experience. These giant
skyscrapers wobbling back and forth, the video of the buildings collapsing,
it's just it what looks like a wasteland. Minimar's military
hunter has said at least as of late yesterday, at

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least twenty twenty eight people have been confirmed at thirty
four hundred plus injured. But it gets worse than that.
They expected death counts to rise sharply because well, you've
got basically what amounts to seventy two hours that you
have to live if you are trapped in rubble. Of
course you need water, you need food, and of course

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you probably need medical attention. So as the hours take
away and they're trying to get through all that rubble
with very little heavy equipment, they're expecting the death cult
to actually jump to above ten thousand. Early modeling from
the US Geological Survey suggests the number of earthquake deaths
and minim our heart lends could rise above ten thousand,

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and that the economic losses might surpass the value of
the country's gross domestic product. This is what you call
a true Charlie foxtrot. So people are going through the rubble,
they say, you know, they don't have any heavy equipment.
As I mentioned, They've got flip flops on and light clothes.

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They don't have anything by way of protection, you know,
breathing protection. Been reports of the stench of death now
just everywhere in the air. Teams from Thailand, China, India,
Russia and United Nations are there, but because of the
damaged infrastructure and hubbled communications, it slow their arrival and
of course it makes it difficult to coordinate actions and activities.

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AID workers in Mandalay said thousands of residents were sleeping
out in the open, lacked everything from water to food
and other essentials. The city has been without electricity since
the earthquakes hit, which obviously again impacts communications and efforts
to coordinate the relief efforts and the search efforts. Of

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the videos that first came out, it was the swimming
pools on top of these high rises. And while the
high rises themselves in clouds, obviously a lot of damage
done to them, but the slashing of the water was
gushing over the side of these buildings, and I just wow,

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I just get a really unsettled feeling when I think
I've been in the Sears Tower and you can actually
feel that building move in high winds, and that just
freaks the hell of me. You know, you wonder how
well it is designed. But when he hit a seven
point seven magnitude quake and you see those buildings moving,
you know, literally feet swaying back and forth, and again

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many of them just collapsing down on top of it,
killing lots of people. That just freaks me out just
thinking about it. So Tremer is apparently so forceful that
they were felt more than six hundred miles away in
the tie capital of Bangkok, where a thirty story office
tower that was still under construction. It collapsed while dozens
of workers were inside, they said. Local media said seventeen

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people were confirmed dead in Bangkok, most of them pulled
from the wreckage of that collapsed high rise, and they
were still searching for around eighty mission construction workers so
far and why the damage was in that one so anyhow, prayers.
I can only imagine that, like Matthew twenty five is
going to maybe organize some relief efforts. It's my favorite

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go to charity if you want to help make sure
that money actually gets in the hands or the food
that donated to the supply. There's no overhead. If you
give a buck, a buck ends up where you want
it to go. Matthew twenty five, M two five. I
think it's M twenty five m dot org online, but
I can see M twenty five m dot or. I

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want to make sure that's the right. One silence is deafening, yeah,
M twenty five, m dot org. So they're still doing
real efforts for the tornado, and I don't know if
they're going to be They usually do so I'm just
throwing it out there and if there's a way you
can help out. I don't know how the money ends
up getting all the way to Minimar, and of course

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they've been in a state of absolute political disarray because
of that Junta. Twenty twenty one is when that happens.
So anyway, tragedy absolutely so thank God for the moment
you have them. Spend them with your loved ones. Appreciate
those moments in time, because well, bad things can happen

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on a moment's notice. It's bout fifteen right now at
five KRCD talk station. Feel free to coll ive. Got
something you want to talk about? JFK coming for your
soft drinks. Got some people angry? I think it's a
great idea. Anyway, there's a whole lot going on this morning.
I hope you can stick around of it.

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Right back fifty five KRC Prohibition.

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It's someone marked down on your calendar.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Next Tuesday, price sal chili be getting at five pm,
last up until seven pm at the Corey Bowman Early
Voting kickoff party. West Side. Jim Keefer asked that I
remind folks about that, So there you go, west Side.
Jim Keefer happy to do that. I'll try to make
a shout out throughout the morning. Put it on your
calendar again next Tuesday, and I'll here and I think

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about that Vietnam Memorial fiftieth anniversary over the weekend. Eric
Mark on my friend reaching out to everyone in the
greater Cincinnati area. Eric, I appreciate you posting this. He
was doing the laundry at the Spotless car Washing laundry
manager came in for his daily clean up. He said, well,
while we were talking, he pointed out this shadow box
that was sitting on top of one of the fixtures

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in the laundromat, and I noticed it before but hadn't
registered with me. He mentioned that it was tossed into
one of the trash cans next to one of the
vehicle base. He said, I'm not sure why anyone would
throw out one of these out, but if it was
a mistake, he wants to get it back in the
hands of those who might care. Wasn't able to find
this Vietnam veteran, but if you know a veteran named

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John O. Moser passed away in twenty seventeen. He born
in nineteen forty passed away in twenty seventeen, obviously served
his country. There's the military flag box, shadow box with
the flag in it. It's at that laundry in Addison.
So John O. Moser. Moser passed in twenty seventeen. That's

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a shame that that thing got thrown away. Anyhow, moving
away from that, got a kick out of this. Robert F.
Kennedy Junior Make America Healthy Again campaigns over West Virginia.
There with Republican Governor Patrick Morrissey, who he told he
was going to put on a carnivore diet to make
him lose thirty pounds and he could use it, but anyway.

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For his part, the Republican governor said he was going
to seek permission from the Department of Agriculture to put
soda on the list of items that you can't buy
with the SNAP program. He said taxpayer dollars should be
targeted toward nutritious food. Of course, Kennedy agree with them wholeheartedly.
There's one thing we can all agree on. It should

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be eliminating taxpayer funded soda subsidies for lower income kids.
I look forward to inviting every governor who submits a
waiver to come to celebrate with me. At the White
House this fall. Huh, Now, why would you be against
that those things are chock full of tons of sugar?
Look at your labels and then just they tell you
what for every teaspoon that's in there, go ahead and

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put it into a little bowl, and it can be
mind blowing how much sugar is in there. Cause of diabetes,
it contributes to obesity. Of course, it's just a terrible
em there's no good nutrition in there. Valerie in Bruce,

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director of the Center for Environmental and Society at Washington
College or environment in Society, disagrees with this. Controlling how
the poor eat is a paternalistic response to a problem
that is not based on snap recipients inability to make
good decisions about healthy food. It's a problem of the

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price differential in choosing healthy or junk foods. Soda and
candy are much cheaper and more calorie dense than one
hundred percent fruit juices or prebiotic, non artificially sweetened carbonated beverages.
And here's an interesting fun fact. She threw it at
the tail end of this argument. Thanks to price supports

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and subsidies by the federal government to support a US
sugar industry. Well, you know what they shouldn't be subsidized
in the US sugar industry, the subsidies corn subsidies. Generally speaking,
I don't think we should be forced to burn corn
in our gas tanks, and yet there's a subsidy for
that too, So let's just stop that. No, we're tariff
and everything else. Why not just get rid of the

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subsidies for sugar. Maybe we'd use less of it, but
you know, you can drink water right there, it is
the tap. And then we turn over to Meredith Potter,
Senior vice president the American Beverage Association. Now where do

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you think they come down on this one? The industry's
leading lobby group quote, what's unhelpful about this whole conversation
is that soda is not driving obesity. We become this
easy punching bag. Well, for the reasons I just pointed out.
You're an easy punching bag because of zero nutritional value.
It's packed full of tons of calories and sugar, which

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is bad for you. Cancer loves sugar too. By the way,
I know I've made that point many times, but I
do the research for yourself. You don't have to trust me.
I'm not a doctor. I don't play one on radio.
Maybe it isn't driving obesie. It's a variety of factors
and conditions driving obesie. But it is a contributing factor.
If you're drinking twelve Mountain dews a day, that's going
to cause you some health problems. Seth Defestano of the

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leftist West Virginia Center on Budget and Policies that a
ban on Snap paying for soda could force shoppers out
of the state and lead to store closures. Are you
telling me the vast majority of profit margins and grocery
stores is driven by soft drink purchases, soda purchases, And
if so, we need to have a come to Jesus meeting,

(16:42):
a wake up that perhaps we're all drinking too much
damn soda. Apparently, as of right now, one of the
senior White House advisers said about fifteen or governors are
currently talking with RFK Junior about removing Sonda soda from
the Snap benefits CALLI means that advisor, we're not seeing
anyone can't drink coke. We're saying no government subsidies for coke. Right,

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I listen, if you take money from the federal government.
In regardless of which form, it always comes with strings attached. Held.
The drinking age here in Ohio would still be nineteen
for beer if the federal government didn't put twenty one
age drinking on the federal funds. Change your drinking laws,
or you can't have money. This is what happens all
the time. Donald Trump is using the federal funding leverage

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to change policies and states all over this country on
the heels of Joe Biden doing the same damn thing. Sadly,
it's how the government works. That's why I always upset.
If they take the money from your pocket and it
goes to DC, you're never gonna see it back unless
it comes with a whole bunch of strings attached. Set
five twenty six. If you five care, see the talk
station got local stories coming up. Railroad money. Who's going

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to be paying that six hundred million dollars as a
litigation started a day over that one, that Norfolk SA derailment.
I'll be right back after these brief words.

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It is five point thirty Happy Monday. Figures five one, three, seven, nine,
fifty five eight hundred two three Taco with town five
fifty on at and T found Norfolk Southern suing another
couple of companies to see if they can get them
to pay for the six hundred million dollar class action settlement,
at least pay for part of it. Remember the train
d railment from back in two thousand and three, who
could for twenty twenty three? Who could forget it? Apparently,

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starting trial today they want to force the railcar owner
GATX and the manufacturer oxy vinyls which was the chemical
that was released or they manufactured the chemical that was
released and poluded the entire town lossuit won't change anything
about how much the money the residents received. This is
just who's going to pay pay what portion of the

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share of the six hundred million dollar class action settlement.
So they've been down this road before. They already lost
a similar lawsuit when they tried to force GATX and
oxy Vina to help pay for the iron mental cleanup,
which apparently cost Norfolks so other than one billion dollars.
So they're trying to make the same argument that they
need help paying for this class action lawsuit. Accord to

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the statement from the Railroad, Norfolk Southern alone has paid
the cost related to the derailment, despite ample evidence that
other parties share the responsibility. The trials about reinforcing the
role shippers and railcar owners play in transportation safety and
ensuring everyone responsible pays their fast share. They claimed GATX
is responsible for the derailment because of the railcar that
was filled with plastic pellets that caused the derailment when

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it's bearing overheated. Norfolk Southern also says oxy Vinyl should
pay because the railroad said the chemical manufacturer provided inconsistent
and inaccurate information about the vinyl chloride before the officials
decided to release and burn it, which turned out to
be the really stupid thing to do. Both GATX and

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oxy Vinyl said it will be ridiculous to hold them
responsible because Norfolk Southern operated and inspected the train and
all the cars and was responsible for delivering everything safely.
GATX said it comply with all relevant regulations for taking
care of its railcars. They said, even if the car
was damaged six years earlier by sitting in a middle

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of floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey, the railroad should have spotted
the problem and repaired it. NTSB said the crash was
caused by the failure that overheating bearing on gatx's railcar.
Censor spotted the bearings starting to heat up miles before
the derailment, but it didn't reach a critical temperature and
trigger an alarm until just before the car derailed, little

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time to stop the train. Then, Norfolk Southern is the
one that recommended the event and burn operation to let
the vinyl chloride be released into the air and pollute
the entire environment, based partly on information about the chemical
that oxy vinyls had published beforehand, suggesting a chemical reaction
could happen and cause the tank to explode. However, the

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NTSB confirmed in and it's investigation that was unnecessary to
release all that crap into the air because the tanks
were starting to cool off, and the railroad failed to
listen to the advice from oxy vinals experts or share
their opinions with the officials who made the decision, which
is probably why they ended up settling the class action
lawsuit over to Kentucky. Last Thursday, Kentucky lawmakers overrode Governor

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Andy Basher's veto of House Bill four ninety five. The
bill removes Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care, and the
gates the governor's prior executive order to ban conversion therapy.
There you go, see, well, congratulations on rover ride. The
Veto Immigration Customs Enforcement agents arrested two people working at

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a construction side of the Butler County jail this week,
according to the sheriff's announcement. Butler County Scheff Richard Jones
said via social media the two subcontractors were arrested by
ICE officials. Workers arrested after deputies reviewed their identification cards,
which included driver's license asport social Security guard, before they
entered the jailer's construction site. Sheriff Jones said that because

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the work site is a secure jail area, everyone who
enters much show proper id corn to the press release,
upon further review of the documents, it was determined that
the two workers were in fact illegal aliens. An ICE
age and conducted the interviews with the two individuals, who
admitted that they were in the United States illegally. Construction
company that hired the two subcontractors believe their documents were authentic.

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According to Sheriff Jones, he is warning employers to be cautious.
All right, let's see here one more. In response to
dun High School closing before the end of the semester,

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since I Public School said it's holding a special enrollment
hours for students affected, they abruptly announced their closure on Friday,
with the final day of operation March thirty. First today
comes out. They previously said they would close in June
because of financial troubles. Cour to CPS Superintendent Seanna Murphy,
since the public schools is an open enrollment district and
it's just so happens, open enrollment is the month of April,

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so starting on Monday, they would have been able to
start here with us, even if they are outside our
city limits. Done apparently had programs for adult learners and
career and technical education students. CPS Superintendent Murphy said since
at Public Schools offers similar programs with flexible schedules and
virtual learning, so we're here for our kids. The driver
for me today is there are young people six hundred

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plus who don't know what their options are, and we
want to provide clarity about those options. Five point thirty
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problems to deal with wet roads left over from last
night's rain. Outside of Lebanon, one three is plocked off
heart Green Tree due to power lines down from the storms.
Chuck Ingram Hunt fifty five KRC the talk station five

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forty one fifty five kr CED talk station. It's that
time stack a stupid Portland orgon.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Got a guy who living in Portland, Oregon neighborhood wondering
who is putting gallons that's plural of urine into his
recycling bin and why that person is doing it. There's
no flag for us. Alex van Dune said the problem
started in the September when he noticed his recycling bin
had not been collected. So I went to open the

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blue bin and lo and behold there was a nice
deposit of gallon sized bottles of urine, to put it plainly,
and there were six of them. Recycling horror wouldn't take
the bin's context because it's a biohazard had been placed
in the garbage bin it probably would have been collected. Apparently,
the mystery man didn't stop and kept dropping off bottles

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of urine in the bin. Eventually Van don stopped putting
his bins out of the curveball together, hoping the man
would quit, and he did. Buddy moved on to using
a neighbor's garbage bin instead. Van Dune said, I don't
know why he's hitting the same location so many times.
It doesn't make sense to me and why he's doing it.
He has captured surveillance video of the man showing up
to his house, getting out of his car, placing the

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bottles of urine in the recycling bin. Unfortunately, the videos
are too grainy to tell who the guy is. He's
also shared his ordeal on the next door app where
neighbors have flooded the post with theories as to the
reason behind it all, multiple theories floating around. Van Dunn,
for his part, doesn't have any ideas filed a police report,
is trying to get the man's license plate.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
He says he has a message for the mystery man
and maybe he's watching. I don't know. Please stop, Please
just don't do it anymore. He pled he did joke.
It's a lot of pea. I mean, this guy's really
pissing me off, but I'm Bob. Man and a woman

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ran a foul of the law when they were caught
having sex on a grave at a local cemetery, which
is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Trooper
with a canine stopped to give the dog a rest
break around four pm Thursday near the Wild Cow Prairie
Cemetery off I seventy five near Webster in Sumter County.
This according to rest report from the Florida Highway Patrol.

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Troopers spotted a white Nissan parked in front of the
cemetery with the windows down, no one in the immediate area.
Troopers who were also president observed a white male and
female at the rear of the cemetery engaged in sexual
activity a top of an unknown grave. Forty three troopers
approached a couple who went back to the vehicle to

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obtain clothing. Search of the vehicle turned up a purse
which belonged to the woman identified as forty six year
old Stephanie Wegman of Webster. Purse contained two bottles, one
with thirteen alprazolam pills, the other with twenty traditions twenty
oxy cota on pills. She does have a prior criminal's history,

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and surprising no one, she did not have a prescription
for either of the medications. Arrested in metel drug charges,
booked out without bond the Sumter kind of detention center.
The man who apparently had suffered a leg injury taken
a dad hospital support indicated a warrant will be sought
for his arrest. There or at least eight veterans and
nineteenth century county commissioners buried at the Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery.

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That's what makes it a historic site. And I will
I will go on to note, yeah, I you ever
seen the faces of a meth website. They show it

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someone looks Yeah, they show what someone looks like before
they got on meth amphetamine, and then fast forward a
few years after using meth regularly and it looks as
if they got run over by a Norfolk Southern train. Well,
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He's everything else in the mind that was sort of
coming unglued as a society. Anyhow, over back to the
stack of STUVID, we got a Northern Kentucky defense attorney,
Chase Cox, sentenced last year for breaking into his ex
girlfriend apartment, pleaded with a judge presiding of his case
not to send him to jail. Cox told Campbell County

(32:25):
Circuit Court Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward at the time, I
will show you that I can be successful in the community,
because I know I can. Eight days after Cox was
released from jail last August with his six months sentence
suspended in favor of probation, his ex girlfriend reported that
her vehicle was vandalized while it was parked in the
garage for apartment complex.

Speaker 8 (32:46):
YEP.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
After months long investigation by the Newport Police Department. Cox
indicted in December on charges related to the vandalism, including
complicity to criminal mischief and retaliating against a participant in
illegal process. Idiot's doing. Idiot because it is most assuredly,
prosecutors now say, with the Kentucky Attorney General's officers seeking
to revoke the thirty one year old Cox's probation and

(33:08):
send him back to jail. It was the morning of August.
Morning of August twenty third, last Cox's ex our friend
went to the parking guys to get inside the car.
She noticed a racial slur and another profanity scratched into
the paint job, and both front tires popped and deflated.
Woman testified against Cox in her trial last year, leading

(33:29):
to his conviction on misdemeanor criminal trespass and criminal mischief charges,
and she told police that Cox was likely behind the damage.
Said she saw a friend of Cox's, thirty eight year
old Joshua Baker, entered the apartment complex shortly after she
arrived home, but didn't approach him. Investigators say Baker entered
the building using access code belonging to another of Cox's
friends who lives there. Surveillance video they got that showed

(33:53):
Baker was in the apartment complex about ten minutes before
he went through the side door and driving away toward
Cox's home. When identified Baker in a photo lineup, told
police he'd previously seen him at Cox's apartment. Cox had
referred Baker to as his felon friend. Baker, likewise says
criminal charges in connection with the vandalism. Baker has an

(34:15):
extensive criminal history, according to court records, including prior convictions
for drug trafficking, identity theft, and burglary. Also facing charges
he is in Kenton County Circuit cor Court related to
a home invasion and subsequent high speed chase in which
he allegedly wedged himself underneath the Brent Spence Bridge. Police
described it as an effort to escape custody. Now for

(34:38):
his part of the attorney Cox represented Baker in a
twenty twenty one identity theft case, and the attorney's father,
Darryl Cox, currently representing Baker in an ongoing Kenton County case.
Cox's ex girlfriend also told police Baker was a former
client of his. They got a search warre for Cox's
phone found that he was sent a photo of the

(34:58):
woman's parking garl taken by the driver of a vehicle,
maxing the description of the vehicle. Baker drove photos sent
minutes before Baker was seen entering the building, and the
pair also exchanged calls and text messages, with Baker towing
Cox in a text to quote call in a sec
get money ready. Cox was apparently on home incarceration with

(35:27):
an ankle monitor when the incident occurred. Prosecutor say Cox
commissioned Baker to vanalyze the woman's car in retaliation for
her testimony in his earlier criminal trial.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Are we not saying phrasing anymore?

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Apparently not tempted? Burglary thwarted at a Texas car dealership
after a man called nine to one one to report
that he'd been injured while breaking in. Tyler Police Department,
said Jeremiah mcgallan after receiving a call from him, they
had injured himself while trying to break into the Patterson

(36:00):
Dodge dealership. Police say the call came around in a
quarter to four in the morning from mcgallan, who claimed
he had just broken into the dealership and needed help.
Public information officer in the Airbas speaking with Fox News
He said he had broken into the Peterson Dodge dealership
and an attempted to steal a car, but was unable to

(36:20):
get out of the building. He had cuts from breaking
a window at the dealership and crawling through it.

Speaker 9 (36:26):
Are you stupid?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Her ball said. Mcgallan said he was trying to steal
a car by throwing a rock through the window to
gain entry to the building, and that's when he cut himself.
Said Unfortunately for him, there were several unlocked doors he
could have used to get out. After twenty six years
here the truth is stranger then fiction. Official from the
dealership speaking with local news the only damage of the

(36:49):
business was the window that he shattered when he threw
the rock to get inside. The only thing he has
managed to steal was candy from the desk of a salesperson.
He was taken to the hospital, later transport transported to
Smith County Jail, where he was arrested for burglary of
a building.

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Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

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No, they didn't say what kind of candy he stole.
Jail like guarantee it wasn't on our RFK Junior's list
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Lord Almighty, more than two thousand dead already, and they're
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the rubble. They don't have electricity, they don't have resources,
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(40:38):
I was looking at these Did you feel like you
accomplished anything? These these Tesla protests? Did it make you
feel better? So over the weekend you had this organized
day of protests for against Tesla's, the Tesla Takedown protest.

(40:58):
It was kind of a this a group called Action Network.
They published an interactive map online sharing the protest times
and locations, and another website. They proclaim Elon Musk is
destroying our democracy and he's using the fortune he built
at Tesla to do it. In what way is he
destroying democracy? Lots of signs saying Elon Musk is a

(41:22):
Nazi fascist. Elon Musk, I mean, if anything, he's the
antithesis of that. Fascism is the control of the means
of production. Right, you have a business, the government tells
you how you have to run it. Yes, it's your
private business, but you have really literally knows say over how.
That's kind of the system of government we live in

(41:42):
under democrats and all the rules and regulations they heap
down upon us. And it's not just democrats, mind you.
Elon Musk is the guy who's trying to pair that back,
trying to get rid of some of the stupid things
that we pay for and a lot of And I
think this is driven in large part these leftist organizations.

(42:03):
They are organizing the useful idiots of the world who
apparently are easily duped by a meme online which merely
proclaims Elon Musk is a Nazi fascist. Really, and that's
enough to convince you to go stand outside of a
Tesla dealership or otherwise commit acts of vandalism because someone
said it, even though definitionally speaking, it's the most farthest

(42:25):
thing from accuracy you could ever run across. And look
at some of the videos when people get interviewed, they
you know, why are you here, why are you protesting Tesla?
I hey have fact is Well wait a second. I
saw one woman was asked about that and they said,
what evidence do you have that he's a bad guy. Well,
it's on the line, just go google it. And so

(42:47):
she was very the woman interviewer was very kindly. You
know kind to her. She wasn't being you know, in
her face or yelling at her, just simply asking in
a very nice tone of voice. Well, no, you tell
me why you have a problem with Elon Musk. I
don't have to do that. You can look it up
for yourself. Oh well that's persuasive, isn't it. You got

(43:14):
a seven year old Christopher Talbot arrested after allegedly striking
a counter demonstrator to Tesla takedown protests near a Tesla dealership.
This is a Meridian, Britian Police Department. Talot hit a
forty nine year old man after making an obscene gesture
toward him. So violence, huh? You know, And as I

(43:38):
look over all the reporting on this, you know, mostly
peaceful protest. Do you remember hearing that, you know, the
fires raging in the back at anti fire, Black Lives Matter,
it's more largely peaceful protest. But you know there's acts
of violence all across just because Tesla. That's why Elon Musk.
That why, And you can't get your head around why
they're there except that these left wing organizations are stirring

(44:00):
the pot and telling you you need to be there
because well I think it's because they're funding source is
going to be dried up. If Elon Must continues to
go after things like US eight and all the money
that flows out of the United States government into the
world and then back into the pockets of these left
wing organizations, they may have a funding problem. And it's
been widely reported that it's they're calling this astro turf

(44:21):
that many of the people that show up at these
protests are getting paid to do it. Surprising coordination of
the quit time, it was reported in several of them.
You know, they all got up and left right at noon.
I guess that's when the clock was over. It was
time to punch out. You need to be here between
eight and noon and you'll get however much money? Is
that a real grassroots protest? Is they are? They really

(44:44):
genuinely there because their belief systems and because they think
Elon's doing something bad. And we even moving away from
the somewhat conspiratorial sounding thing that these left winging organizations
are organizing this, you know what vest interest does someone
have to stand outside and protest Tesla the automobile or

(45:06):
even protest Elon Musk and his efforts to ferret out fraud, waste,
and abuse. Does that person really think it's a good
idea to have hundreds of thousands of people that reportedly
are over the age of one hundred and twenty with
active Social Security numbers on the Social Security ranks. Aren't
you worried that social Security is going to collapse under
its own weight because it is, And isn't that something

(45:27):
that's done that has step at getting those rolls off
or getting those ranks cleared up is something that will
help preserve it to some degree. Anyway, if you leave
them open and on there, someone might be able to
use them and draw benefits from socials security. And I'm
not saying that that's happened widespread. They're still looking into it.
But if you're really on the side of wanting to
keep Social Security intact, then you've got to appreciate what

(45:50):
Elon Musk has done. Do these people outside the Tesla
dealerships and screaming to people that owning Tesla's do they
think it's a great idea to spend twenty million dollars
for same street in Iran or wherever that was, or
all of the other crazy programs that USA funded. Do
they have a vested interest in those programs. I find

(46:12):
it impossibly that they do ask him about one specific program. Okay,
so you're protesting about do you have any problem with
him eradicating like pill in the blank, tester him on that.
You know, go down the list of all the crazy
stuff that we've learned because one man put pen to
paper and got some group of people around him that
are good at finding this kind of crap and tried

(46:33):
to put an end to it. But overall, when you
step back from all this, you see a lot of violence.
And for years under the Biden administration, another the Obama administration,
and you know, even all those squeaky wheels in the
Trump administration during the first term, where were the big

(46:53):
concerns expressed by our government entities, the Department of Justice
and others. It was white right wing extremists. It was
racist out in the world. They represented the biggest challenge
and problem to American law enforcement. Meanwhile, all around him,
it's all these left wing organizations are the ones that are
committing act of violence and burning buildings down, the ones

(47:15):
that are throwing paint over monuments, the ones that are
throwing paint on artwork. Destructive. Yes, property damage, yes, sometimes violence.
It's all coming from the left side of the ledger.
And what are they offering you? You have more and

(47:35):
more articles coming out about the Democrats just sort of
beside themselves and disbelieve because they don't know where to go.
They don't know what their brand is. The brand right
now is just scream out loud, angry, loud noise, loud noise,
loud noise, and then stick the word Trump or musk
in there. And that's what you stand for right now,

(47:57):
that's it or bizarre stuff that nobody in America wants.
Men aren't women, Women aren't men. And that's a hill
the left is gonna die on when poll after poll
after poll after poll reflects that the American population is

(48:19):
sane and follows medicine and science in the sense that
you know it's a chromosomal difference. Are you packed with
this type of gear or that type of gear? It
seems to be determined above your gender, and just by
denying it and saying to the other gender, we are
not going to accept it and go along with you
because we know that's not right. That's what the Democrat

(48:40):
Party stands for. Not everybody in the Democrat Party believes
that the polling reflects it. It's one little segment of
the Democrat Party, but yet that segment has taken over completely.

(49:00):
Colorado Senator Michael Bennett, He's Democratic Party brand, he called
it problematic. It was I meet the press yesterday, really problematic.
I guess for his actual words, I agree, the Democratic
brand is really problematic. It's a brand that's associated with
New York and California, is associated with the educated elite

(49:20):
in this country and not anymore with the working people
in this country. Betto was asked me to agree with
California Governor Gavin Newsom's assertion the Democratic Party brand is
toxic Newsom's word, which he said on Bill Maher's program
on Friday. Bet It'd appear to concur with Newsom's conclusion,

(49:45):
harshly criticizing the party for losing touch with everyday voters.
The Democrats need to present a compelling vision for the
future of the country, and the faire to do so
was responsible for President Donald Trump's now too non executive
wins quote. The Democratic Party has lost touch with working
people in our country at a time when fifty years

(50:05):
of trickle down economics has meant that most Americans feel like,
no matter how hard they work, their kids aren't going
to live a life better than the life they led. Well,
if you hadn't a Douglas in a twenty thirty six
trillion dollar hole, maybe they would have a future that
they might, you know, be positive about. They're going to
be left to pay down that they're killed children. If
they haven't, You're going to be left to pay that down,

(50:26):
or the system will collapse on under the weight of
itself because of the interest payments we're making on that
and so Security, Medicaid, medicare in a state of disarray
and leading to their ultimate demise. Of those programs too,
because they've been mismanaged all these years. I mean, come on,
you got a lot of problems on your hands. But
screaming and just name calling that is not an argument.

(50:48):
It is not an advancement of a specific set of
proposals and principles that are an alternative to what Americans
pretty much won. Donald Trump's approval rating is pretty damn
good right now. New CBS poll He's got fifty percent approve,
which was higher than any point during his last term. Now,
some people have a problem with how he's dealing with
the inflation and somebody the economy, but only by a

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couple of extra digits. They love what he's doing with immigration,
very great numbers in terms of how he's handling immigration. So,
in spite of all the yelling, yell, yell, yell, yeo yell,
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Six twenty four. If you have KRC talk station, you
got time for at least one call Tony thanks for
calling this morning. Welcome to the program, Marien.

Speaker 11 (53:13):
How you doing.

Speaker 12 (53:14):
Did you have a good weekend?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, actually did. We had some folks over Saturday cooked
a fantastic Neil really enjoyed it and other than that
just kind of kicked back. So yeah, it was nice.

Speaker 13 (53:24):
Was So my question is, I'm not very smart person,
but why is it that we are borrowing money?

Speaker 11 (53:31):
Why aren't we the one loading money.

Speaker 14 (53:33):
We are such a big economy.

Speaker 13 (53:35):
We should be loading countries money and to having it,
you know, come.

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Back to us with interest and stuff.

Speaker 15 (53:40):
Why isn't the other way around?

Speaker 7 (53:41):
There's something in our economy that makes it where we
have to do this that way or what.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Well, we always give money away because we're trying to
buy friendship. It's what the Chinese are engaged in right now,
and they're ever growing presence because they're taking a queue
from us. You start throwing out money in the world,
people adopt your policies and adopt your security interest and
of course get addicted to the bbilical court of your
money flowing in, so you get to bend their will
to your favor. Well, and at some point you realize

(54:09):
that you're now thirty six trillion dollars in debt, you
got to trillion dollars annual interest payment on it, and
your own systems and your own social safety welfare net
has not been tended to end minded to the point
where all the people in your country who have relied
on your promises to keep them in retirement and take
care of their medicine, etc. Can't rely on that anymore. So,

(54:29):
you know, you would think that your idea would really work, Tony,
I gotta admit, but that's just not how it's turned
out for us. Too many politicians not paying attention to
what's going on and keeping their own personal interest in mind.
You got a lot of rhinos out there. They see
their pet project in their state and they're not going
to give up a single dime worth of that money,

(54:50):
which of course prompts the Democrats to do the same thing.
They're the big spenders, they're the big government types. They
are the fascists of the world. Let's get our definition straight.
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Speaker 16 (56:34):
Good morning, Brian. A couple of things. First all, last
week I think Astrity were talking about something and dealing
with the cops and the kids and stuff. Was like
the solution is to give kids snacks at the bus
stop to stop crime and nuts. But what you're talking
about this morning about the test list things. Somebody I

(56:54):
think it's on the northwest side of town. Some buddy.
There's a group chann lines and reporting on a group
of knuckleheads that were initially they're all worried about the
department that they had being removed and how that's going
to impact the schools, which is for the better, I
would think, But they were the ones out leading this

(57:16):
Tesla thing the other day. It's like, I got no
clue what that's got to do with schools.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
But yeah, whatever, Well that's the conclusion I'm left with. Whatever.
I mean, your day of rage is over with. You
accomplish nothing. The dealership is still there, people still like
their Teslas, and all you're doing is ruining and endeavoring
to ruin, literally take down a company it employs one
hundred thousand people and apparently makes a product that people
absolutely love or at least used to love until they

(57:43):
turn it into a political symbol. And the Left is
just doing this to manipulate useful idiots that don't even
know why they're there screaming about Elon musk Olive ark.
What does that mean? He's a man doing a job
for free that is trying to save us from ourselves.
He's pointing out all the fraud, wasted abuse, and government
giving us great illustrations and pointing out that we do
a terrible job minding the money that they take from

(58:04):
our paychecks. Is that what's got them angry? Are you
angry about that. I mean, I don't understand why you
can be. I'm looking at a mean right now. Don't
be afraid to call things what they are. MAGA is
a terrorist organization, they said that on this really in
what way, shape or form. ICE is a secret police
force conducting ethnic cleansing. It went on to say, no,

(58:28):
citizenship is not based on ethnicity. Now, many of the
folks coming across the border have a certain ethnicity. I
happen to have an Irish and English ethnicity. That's where
my ancestors are coming from. But I'm a white guy,
so apparently it's anybody who's not white. This is ethnic cleansing.
Although we have a country that is a melting pot
fill of people with all different races, creeds, and colors

(58:49):
of skin. If you're here illegally, it has nothing to
do with your race. It's a question of the legal
status and you're here and if you're a criminal. For
God's sake, I think we can uniformly agree, as the
polling suggests we do in large numbers. You need to
be kicked out of the country because you're a threat
to our society. Doesn't matter whether you're white or yellow

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or brown or any other color. Let's look at the
box here. Are you here legally? Or did you break
the law entering the country? Okay? You did break our
immigration laws. Have you committed crimes? Okay, there's a check
mark boom in that check sheet of deciding whether someone's
allowed to stay in our country or kick them out.
Is there anything about the color of their skin? No,
but there they are making the charge. It's like people

(59:35):
critical of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Oh, you're just
racist against Chinese people. No, we're not. It just happened
to be the Chinese people ran the Wuhan Institute of
Virology and it's Chinese Communist Party. More fundamentally, nothing wrong
with the Chinese people as a racist people. I just
disagree with their former government. I mean, these statements don't
make any sense. New Hampshire, Gary, Welcome to the program.

(59:58):
I'm always good to hear from you, my friend.

Speaker 17 (01:00:01):
Hey, Brian, how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:00:04):
A little wound up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Yeah, it's better to be better to be wound up
on a money than a sleep. Because I had a
miserable night's sleep last night. I think it's because we
had pizza for dinner and it didn't sit well with
me regardless though.

Speaker 17 (01:00:15):
Yeah, oh my goodness, Yeah, I've been up since too.
Don't ask me why, I just have. Hey, just just
to let you give you a little little First of all,
my condolence for Bard, Yeah, a long term. I'll set
a prayer for her now that she's crossed over and
we'll appreciate that. And and second of all, we really

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appreciate you and Joe as a morning team. You guys
are you know, it's got to be hard to hear
all of this every day. We thrive on it. But
you know, yeah, I think it makes you more mature
over the years that you've been here. I don't think
you're as naive or I know, definitely I'm not the

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same way I was twenty years ago when I started
listening to you eighteen years ago, actually listening to your dad.

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Yeah, Well, you know, the more you read, the more
your knowledge base increases, and the more you can sort
of see the forest for the trees, if you know
what I mean.

Speaker 17 (01:01:20):
So, yeah, but let me tell you something I get
from the New Hampshire aspect. I talked to people up here,
and it's mostly the co exists. People with the yard
signs out hate has no home, must he at the
Festiality dealership, you know, so you know, you just look
at their They say one hypocrisy, I guess you'd call it.

(01:01:46):
You say one thing and do another. Right, it's the
only peaceful if if I.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Agree with you exactly.

Speaker 17 (01:01:53):
Yeah, in the meantime, what the beatings begin. And it's
actually a shame because there actually destroying this country because
how many people have stock market value invested in their
four oh one ks for Tesla and anything like that,
or how many people work for Tesla. Those people get

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hurt in addition, and all for what. Because the Democrats
are getting their way, they'll destroy anything to get in
their way. Don't get me wrong, Republicans would do the
same thing if we allow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
That, if we allow it.

Speaker 17 (01:02:30):
Politics, right, it's destructive, Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
I don't get out the path of violence, man, that's
my But you know, you got to remember there's a
lot of evil forces out there, like George Soros who
wants our country to end as it currently exists, and
all the destruction that'll go along with it. I mean,
we must even be the point, you know, we're like
the foundation upon which the globe functions. Financially, we're that wealthy.
We have so much money out of the world, and

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we prop up so many countries and we engage in
common and trade with them. If you end the United States,
you end all of that from happening, and the world
spirals into misery. That apparently is what they're after and
what they want. It's frightening, though, but that's that's the
end result of bringing down America one stock market, one
company publicly traded company at a time. Yeah, four to one.

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K's vanished, people's investments vantaged, people are out of work
and on the streets, and it further devolves into extra chaos. Yeah,
that's great. Let's bring back the Great Depression. Great idea.
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Headquarters of the Republican Party in New Mexico torched yesterday,

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which is what the authorities are calling a deliberate act
of urson. Republican Party New Mexico, and a social media
post showed the damages of the Shaped States Up headquarters
in Albuquerque, where spray painted on the wall ice equals
KKK right for all the reasons. I just pointed out
that it's so misguided that you know you're an idiot.

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I'm sorry, you're just an idiot and burning the place
down obviously not good either. According to the Post earlier
this morning, the entry where the Republican Party New Mextch's
headquarters in Albuquerque was destroyed in a deliberate act of arson,
which also included spray painting the words ice equals KKK.
This horrific attack, fueled by hatred and intolerance, is a

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direct assault on our values, freedoms, and our rights to
political expression. Deeply relieved that no one was harmed in
what could have been a tragic, deadly attack. That from
a statement from Amy Barrella, the chairwoman of the Republican
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to justice and ensure that they are prosecuted to the
fullest extent of a law. Well yeah, well let's hope
they are too. And you know, as wet as I

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am to my little libertarian values. It would never cross
my mind to like torch George Soros's headquarters or something.
You end up negating your own message when you do that.
I mean you've got logic and reason on your side,

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or at least I claim to. I believe you're capable
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choosing what you want to spend your money on, getting
an education that's available to you. It's right there, making
responsible choices, or not suffering the consequences of poor choices,
and hopefully learning from them and then not going down
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want to sleep with knock yourself out. I don't have
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freedom's all about. But that freedom also includes my right
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It's a beautiful thing. So we have the arguments on
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that's exactly what this basically turns into. Well, I hate
the Republicans, so I'm going to burn him down. I
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have dangerous people coming across the border, maybe members of
terrorist selves, maybe terrorists themselves, maybe the Chinese communist parties
sending people over. We've got tens of thousands of Chinese
military age men that have come across the open borders
during the Biden administration that might represent a challenge to us,
and of course organize chaos in the streets. When you

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of our country, making sure our children can get an education.
We're not sitting in a room with a bunch of
kids who don't speak English and need remedial liverate literally
everything holding our students back, and then moving away from
that component of illegal immigration. Look at how bad our
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we need a return to decision making to a local level,
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the vast majority of a very large majority of us
are happy with what at least the Trump administration is
doing in so far as immigration crackdown. We're on the

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right side of the ledger on that one. Politically, of course,
ICE doing its job for a change. And here we
go to the other side. While ICE cracking down on
illegal immigration. We have a TikTok user posting what is
I agree with the description a disturbing video calling on
people to, in his words, shoot at ICE agents, shoot

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them on site. Blaldonk it's this guy that poasted it.
He actually had the nerve and the stupidity to post
a video of himself, the guy actually telling people to
shoot ICE agents. Quote shoot at ICE agents on site.
That's right. If ICE agents are trying to take you

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or a loved one, shoot them on site. Well, from
a legal perspective, I think he's got it wrong. Not
allowed to use deadly force unless you are confronted with
deadly force. And this is merely law enforcement doing the

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job that they are told to do based upon the
law and the way it reads. So this guy apparently
has since taken down the message you can get in
trouble with authorities. Took down the message on Sunday evening
after Fox News Digital reached out to him on TikTok. Whoops. Wow,

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it went viral and apparently for all the wrong or
right reasons, depending on your perspective. That's what's going on
out in the world. Yes, one guy with an opinion.
We all know what opinions are, like, everybody's got one sphincter's.
But in this particular case, I think it's reflective of
the just outrageous attitude that some people have when without

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borders and without some sort of border stability, without a
managed immigration system, the whole place just comes falling down
in on itself. More to talk about off top of
the ar News plus Christopher Smithmen coming up at seven
to twenty, and I hope you can stick around. Be interesting.
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At seven twenty with a return of former Vice Mayor
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smither van. Fast forward an hour to Money Money with
Brian James, including first one fifty one percent are scared
of a stock market crash and I sure hope he
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someonear on borders and immigration. Ira joins a program at
eight forty five three, seven nine fifty five hundred, eight
hundred eight two to three, talking to jump over to
the phones of former Anderson Township trustee Drew Pappus on
the line, Drew, good to hear from me, as it
always is.

Speaker 9 (01:15:07):
Good morning, Brian, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:15:09):
I just wanted to hope everybody's safe out there with
the storms that we had last night pursed off and
I look forward to always hearing from the wonderful Christopher
Smithman here in twenty minutes at the Smither Vent.

Speaker 9 (01:15:20):
It's one of the highlights of Monday mornings.

Speaker 11 (01:15:23):
But thanks to you and Joe, I've had the opportunity
here to just remind everybody that today is the last
day to purchase your tickets for the let Us Never
Forget Scholarship Dinner, which is.

Speaker 9 (01:15:35):
Coming up on April to twelfth, And it's just.

Speaker 11 (01:15:40):
A great organization I'm involved with. Keith Moppin does a
wonderful job out here. To date he's given the Foundation
is given over three hundred I mean, I'm sorry, over
three quarters of a million dollars in scholarships to local
kids for.

Speaker 9 (01:15:58):
College wow memory in memory.

Speaker 11 (01:16:02):
Of the of the local veterans that have passed away
in combat. So I just can't really say enough about
this event which is taking place on April twelfth. But
if you go to Yellow Ribbonsupport Center dot com you

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can get all the information and buy tickets and even
there's some table sponsorships there available for any of our
corporate friends that want to be as generous as they can.
So I can't thank you and Joe enough for giving
me the opportunity to come on here and mention about
the Yellow Ribbon Supports Center and all the good they do.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Well, that's just wonderful. And it's nice that you know,
Matt Mappin, who of course perished fighting in service of
our country, his name is being used for such a
wonderful cause, so you know, God rest his soul. But
it's a I don't know. It's great that this Yellow
Ribven Support Center deck exist and remembering Matt's name and

(01:17:02):
of course those others who have who've fallen in combat,
you always got a vehicle forum here Drew to promote
such events. You know me, I love the American veteran
and anything we can do to support causes related to
them as a welcome opportunity here in the Morning show.

Speaker 9 (01:17:16):
I know that, and I can't thank you enough.

Speaker 11 (01:17:18):
And it's just it's just, you know, sometimes getting a
plug in or your message out with all the chatter
going on in the world's difficult, and there's so much
need out there, there really is. But this organization does
just is very very it's a very efficient, small organization

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that does great jobs. You know that over the years,
this organization has helped send over thirty seven thousand care
packages to active duty service members overseas. I mean, holy,
these people, these are just good people. They don't necessarily
seek the limelight. They do good work. And this dinner
if if you're you're you're welcome to be my guest

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at a table this year if you have the time
on the twelfth. But I'd just like to tell you this,
this organization does so much good and it's such a
great evening to just sit there and and you know,
it's it's it's not a it's not a it's a
somber occasion. It's a memorial. You know, we we we
say the names of all the soldiers and it's it's

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very very somber. It's a powerful evening. But it also
is is an evening that fills you with hope because
so many people are are are doing good to support
the American veteran and the American soldier and remember their memory.
So that's the most important thing. So uh again, Yellow
Rivetsupportscenter dot com is the website you can go and

(01:18:44):
buy tickets. I just we're trying. They're trying to make
the final push h to get tickets sold. It's up
at the oasis. It's not far so if you can, uh,
if you if you're so inclined to either sponsor a table,
be a sponsor for the event, donate, or just buy
a ticket.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
We really appreciate it. Thank you so much for coming
on the program and bringing it to my listeners' attention, Drew.
That means a lot to me. And what I'll do
is I'll ask Joe to put the link to the
Yellow Ribbinsupport Center dot com on my blog page as well,
just in case people forget the name of the link,
so one more opportunity to get in touch with them.
And today's the last.

Speaker 9 (01:19:20):
Day, right, Today's the last day. April the first is
the last day. And oh is that tomorrow? What's today's say?

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
There is a thirty first you got if it's April first,
you got till tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (01:19:30):
Yeah, we got till tomorrow. So I appreciate that.

Speaker 11 (01:19:33):
And well, you know, with the with the storm's keeping
me up half.

Speaker 9 (01:19:36):
The night, my my my days are off.

Speaker 11 (01:19:37):
But I just I just really hope that people have
the opportunity to get out there and and and support
this great organization. So I just thank you again for
the opportunity. And you guys are always so gracious that
there's a good cause and a worthy cause, you and
Joe and the good work show does there. You guys
are always very very generous with your time and appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
That's one of the points of the Morning Show, my friend.
I feel blessed to be in a position to let
people know about all these wonderful organizations and some of
the good that's going on in the world, because Lord knows,
we are surrounded by a lot of nonsense. If I
can just boil it down to that, you know what
I'm saying, Amen, take care and God bless you. Drew
Pappus appreciate bringing that to everybody's attention. And one more thing,

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there's a Corey Bowman who's obviously running for mayor the
city of Cincinnati as a Republican. Westside Jim Keefer asked
that I remind everyone that next Tuesday, the eighth, at
Price Sil Chili, there is an early voting kickoff event,
And then we mentioned this before in the Morning Show
and Corey was on so early voting kickoff event Price

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Hill Chili begins at five pm and lasts until seven pm.
So help get the word out about Corey Bowman. You
can talk to him, shake his hand, find out what
he's all about, and see if you have some interest
in supporting the campaign. But it's fast approaching, and of
course he's gonna have primary, and then after he wins
the primary, it's off to the races against have to
have pro ball. So there is a choice in this
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Five KRCD Talk station. It being a Monday, I always
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former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, h Christopher
Smithman with a smith Event. Welcome back, Christopher Hope you
had a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:24:44):
I did. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. And I,
you know, want to also extend my my prayer to
anybody who was impacted by the storms last night and
continue to encourage people to drive bapuly out there today.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Man, it sounded like we were in a war last night,
just the constant bomabone of owe thunders like geese just
couldn't get over that thunder.

Speaker 17 (01:25:08):
It was.

Speaker 8 (01:25:09):
It was startling my mom. She couldn't stop calling me
making sure that we were okay. What I want to
share with you today, and it's a complicated subject matter
because race is always complicated. But you know, I was
very disappointed in Representative Crockett for a lot of things

(01:25:35):
that she had said. This is a representative out of
Texas who's been making national news because of things that
she's been saying. And some of those things she's been saying,
she's been she insulted the governor of Texas about him
being in a wheelchair. She's been cussing in her official
capacity as a member of Congress in chambers that I

(01:26:00):
do too. She's been cutting outside of those chambers, meaning
just during interviews she's been using profanity. She's been dancing
in the hallway on Instagram, I believe one of the
platforms with her tongue hanging out and even kind of
holding her crops as she's doing this dance in the hallway,
which I thought was ridiculous for a member of Congress.

(01:26:23):
But what she did this weekend when she went after
a congressman Byron Donald's by literally saying that he wasn't
black because he was married to a white woman, really
hit another loaf for her. And so I'm going to
spend a little time talking about Representative Crockett, who spent

(01:26:44):
the majority of her life living a privilege life. This
is a woman who comes from a two family home,
which is wonderful, a pastor first lady, who sent her
to private schools her entire life, her college education two
thousand students, seventy one thousand a year. She went to

(01:27:05):
Catholic schools her whole life. And so this notion that
this highly educated African American woman who seems to be
playing to the lowest common denominator when we need African
American women and men the talented ten, he's going to
the lowest common denominator. But to attack this man's family,

(01:27:29):
to say that because he's married to a white woman
it now doesn't make him black, makes her absolutely insane
and somebody who should not be serving as a member
of Congress. This is not about Democrat or Republicans. There
are children out there who are from interracial relationships. There

(01:27:52):
are people who are listening to this show who are
in interracial relationships. We've got the Vice President who's married
to an age an Indian woman, who, by the way,
came really from povertive poverty. Unlike Representative Crocket, who's thinking
something that she's not. She's a phony, she's a fake,
and you got you got her going after an African

(01:28:14):
American man because.

Speaker 12 (01:28:16):
Of who he chooses to love and looks.

Speaker 8 (01:28:19):
Like as a beautiful family, a beautiful white and I
want to salute them. I want to lift them up,
and I want to lift up every interracial couple, no
matter what the combination is, that they have the rights,
that those relationships are beautiful, and that Representative Crocket should
absolutely be censured.

Speaker 12 (01:28:39):
For her comments.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Yeah, I can't argue with that, Christopher. You know, as
I was contemplating what she said, if that were I mean,
it's it's ludicrous, it's stupid. It obviously illustrates that she's
just insane. But if that is true, that if a
black man who marries a white woman is not black,
then Barack Obama was not black. He was the product

(01:29:04):
of two white people then, and that isn't that what
that means?

Speaker 12 (01:29:11):
It means all of the above.

Speaker 8 (01:29:14):
It means all of the above. I mean the notion
for her to assert what's black and what's not black,
having spent her the majority of her time in what
would be considered white institutions. She didn't go to Spelman,
she didn't go to Howard, she didn't go to Tuskegee

(01:29:35):
Institute like my mom and dad went. She went to
an affluent private school two thousand kids, where the tuition
had seventy one thousand dollars a year. Wool. And I'm
just saying, I am tired of these state and phony
people who try to assert what their blackness is and
how that's defined for the rest of America. This African

(01:29:58):
American man who is running for governor for Florida has
the right to love Mary whoever he wants to, and
I think that she should be censure for her comments
because they're so repulsive.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
Well, you know that reminds me of Joe Biden's statement,
if you don't vote Democrat, you're not black. I mean,
there's another ridiculous thing. This is your politics to find
our skin color.

Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
It's all of the above are true, but it just
tells you the cesspool of race that she could get
on an African American a radio show and make these
kinds of comments and not be challenged. Yeah, thinking about
all of the athletes out here right who are married
to white women. I just thought Tiger Woods, who just announced,

(01:30:45):
i think an engagement to a white woman, What in
her mind makes her believe that because somebody's in an
interracial relationship, they have now surrendered who they are.

Speaker 12 (01:30:56):
And so this is this this low mental of.

Speaker 8 (01:31:00):
This Representative Crocket who's been saying things about whether it's
whether it's Senator Cruz, whether it's the governor of Texas now,
whether it is her colleague, a congressional member of Congress
Byron Donalds who's running for the Florida governorship. I'm just
saying to you, Representative Crocket, if this is what the
Democratic Party has to offer America, stame on them. Stame

(01:31:24):
on them.

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It's seven thirty here, fifty five KRSD talk station. Always
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Christopher smithvan doing the Smith Event. Why something else that
has got to be on your mind? Christopher?

Speaker 17 (01:34:06):
What is it?

Speaker 12 (01:34:08):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:34:08):
I have to tell you that, first I thought the
return of the astronauts from space that were stranded there
for nine months was a remarkable scientific feat. And again
I give my kudos to Elon Musk and his team.
The President of the United States NASA, all the scientists.

(01:34:29):
I raised this because they have given their first interview
on Fox News with Bill Hemmer and I know, you know,
he's a Cincinnati guy. Oh Elder is an anchor there.

Speaker 12 (01:34:42):
He got that first interview.

Speaker 8 (01:34:44):
With Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams, who are the two
astronauts that or were returned to space after being left there.

Speaker 14 (01:34:53):
For nine months.

Speaker 8 (01:34:54):
And it's just one of those interviews that I think
all of us should watch because these are scientists that
are just out trying to do their job. They're just
they're just you know, giving their best to America. But
at the end of the day, I'm sure there are
feelings that they were left that that people a trip
that was supposed to be eight or nine days ended

(01:35:17):
up being nine months. And the politics surrounding it is
clear that they understand that's the that's the past administration
left in there, and the current administration put a plan
together to get them.

Speaker 1 (01:35:31):
Yeah, And you know, every time I think about that, Christopher,
because I'm not claustrophobic, but if you put me in
that position and you tell me that there's no way
you can get back to Earth and I'm in this little,
tiny space station. I'm going to become claustrophobic pretty damn quickly.
There isn't enough valume or xanax or UH anti anxiety
medications on the planet that can call me down out

(01:35:53):
of that. So, you know, God bless them, and the
idea that they were able to keep their their cool
and maintain themselves and and uh and continue to get
the job done while they're up there, in and of
itself is an amazing thing because I'm I don't think
I'm alone in the world that says I probably would
have broken down psychologically over that.

Speaker 8 (01:36:12):
No, I totally agree with you. I don't think I
could have been in those close corners, close quarters for
nine months and still the you know what I'm hearing
is the lack of communication with them on how they
were actually going to get back didn't become clear to
them until after the election, And that is scary stuff

(01:36:34):
that all of us, meaning talking about the previous administration
wasn't really focused on getting them back to Earth. It's
just it's just an amazing story. I'm sure they're going
to write a book about it, but you you know,
scientists tend to be very guarded about what they're saying,
and I believe that what they're trying to communicate is

(01:36:56):
a broader message of thankfulness to the administration, but also
a commitment to space travel and Elon Musk. And this
kind of pushes me into what I saw this weekend,
Ryan Thomas, with all of these protests at Tesla's locations.
People were having cars being keyed, damaged, fires, whatever was

(01:37:21):
going on. And I'm talking about across the United States
of America. Obviously there were peaceful protests that we saw
in front of a lot of dealerships. But this notion
that you're mad at Elon Musk and this Doge organization
because they are correctly identifying waste and fraud, it just

(01:37:42):
blows me away. Why are they protesting?

Speaker 17 (01:37:45):
Number one?

Speaker 9 (01:37:45):
And I heard your show this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:37:48):
And then the notion that no Democratic Congressional member has
literally come out and said they are against the violence
that they are seeing against Tesla owners and against dealerships,
people who own property. It is numbing to me how
quiet they have been, Brian Thomas of not just simply

(01:38:09):
saying what is happening is wrong, and it's because they
want it to happen, or their organizations are privately funding
what we're seeing across the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
Yeah, and you know that that is going on. A
lot of the organization has been identified and people have
put together a money trail to show where some of
the money's coming from that's funding these. There are some
suggestions that many of the people that showed up with
these were paid protesters. But to me, the issue boils
down to what is your problem with Elon Musk? I
mean you scream at him and say he's a Nazi,

(01:38:43):
which makes absolutely no sense. Definitionally speaking, It's like I
wish they all got a copy of Mirriam Webster's out
of Read The Definition of Fascism, because Elon Musk is
cutting and hopes to cut more of the size and
scopal government. The Trump administration is endeavoring to get rid
of regulations. Regulations are a mechanism fascists you to control

(01:39:05):
the means of production. That's exactly what fascists do. Government
tells you how you can run your business or can't
run your business in a free market, You run your
own business any damn way you feel like it. Well,
Elon Musk is much closer to a free market fundamentalist
than he is a fascist? Just to scream out fascist
and Nazis just doesn't make any sense. And when these

(01:39:27):
people have been interviewed, you look at the interviews, the
YouTube videos and the posts, and someone you know, kindly
and and and and and in a gentle manner, approaches
one of these protesters and gently and kindly merely ask
them what their problem is. They can't even answer it.
They don't know it is fascist, Like, okay, upon what

(01:39:48):
information are you drawing your conclusion that this guy's somehow
a fascist? And they can't answer it. They just scream
and yell.

Speaker 8 (01:39:56):
It's identity politics, bran and comments on steroids where they
have no public policy, so they're just left to personal
attack because they're not dealing with this substance. And they
think that Americans are dumb and that we don't understand
that what is happening has never happened like this before.

(01:40:19):
This is historic where you have a group of people
who are actually going line by line and identifying fraud.

Speaker 12 (01:40:28):
Why is there somebody one.

Speaker 8 (01:40:29):
Hundred and fifty years old getting a Social Security check?
Why is there a nine month old baby getting an
SBA loan?

Speaker 12 (01:40:38):
Yeah, ALLVPPO, what the reality of it?

Speaker 8 (01:40:41):
Is is that there are major problems. Why are there
systems I'm talking about computer systems or software that systems
that are not communicating with each other, you know. So
this notion that we can we can't really improve the government,
which is what Elon Musk in their team are doing,

(01:41:02):
is absurd. And you would think that the Democrats and
the Republicans and the few Independents that are there would.

Speaker 14 (01:41:09):
All agree on this.

Speaker 12 (01:41:10):
And so this notion of all this fake.

Speaker 8 (01:41:12):
Outrage and burning of cars and burning of dealerships and
engaging in violence, and we live in a democracy with
no Democratic congressional member to my knowledge being outspoken about
that violence is absolutely outrageous from my perspective, and they
will they don't have anything to stand on right when

(01:41:36):
violence breaks out in other areas because they were so
quiet right now.

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Speaker 12 (01:43:11):
Right, brother.

Speaker 8 (01:43:12):
Look, my heart goes out to Rachel Morin's family, who's
she was murdered.

Speaker 12 (01:43:21):
Mother of five children.

Speaker 8 (01:43:23):
That trial starts this week. Victor Antonio Martinez, horrendous out
of Al Salvador, who crossed into the United States of
America illegally February of twenty twenty three. And I pray
that this family gets justice, that they get closure, and
I hope this trial also underscores why having a border

(01:43:49):
that is not an open border and border policies and
immigration policies that make sense are so important. Here's a
person from another country who killed an American citizen, a mother,
a wife, a mother of five children, and I just
think it's absolutely insane, and I just want to lift

(01:44:11):
her up, even though I don't know this family obviously,
you know, I just I've been following the story, and
I think her murder as she's out, this guy comes
out of a drain and kills her on a walk
or a run is just absolutely crazy. Brian Thomas, and
I just can't get my head wrapped around anybody who

(01:44:31):
believes that having open borders where people can just come
into our country, or district judges that can say turn
planes around with gang members on it, we have got
to make sure that all of our communities are safe.
And Americans who are out here every day going to
work like this morning, headed to their first meetings, getting

(01:44:52):
their cups of coffee, they deserve to be safe. Man.

Speaker 12 (01:44:56):
And so this notion that.

Speaker 8 (01:44:58):
These district judge just federal judges that are being shopped
and I'm not an attorney, you are, but they're shopping
these these judges so that they're putting these different rulings
in our injunctions on uh, the executive branch of government,
while we have trials like this that are happening where families,
American families are seeking justice. The hypocrisy of that is

(01:45:22):
just blowing my mind this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:45:24):
Yeah, I understand that all day long. Hell, I read
an article earlier about this TikTok video. There's a guy
that actually his own He's on this video telling people
to shoot ICE agents on site. Oh, just one guy.
We all know what opinions are like, and everybody's got one.
But I mean to just advocate me just because they're

(01:45:48):
an ICE agent, to shoot them, to murder them if
you see them, shoot them. It's basically the boiled down,
you know, a version of his message. And I just
was appalled that someone would actually advocate for something like that,
and I hope no one takes his advice. But you
know where the Internet allows people to interject all kinds
of awful, awful concepts in the world, and we need

(01:46:09):
to think rationally and reasonably about them and reject them
out loud, and more politicians should come out and reject
those things out loud and speak against them. Going back
to your points earlier, I mean, this is not political.
This isn't a Republican Democrat thing. I mean, just because
you can disagree on immigration policy, but the idea that
you would murder an ICE agent who is merely doing

(01:46:31):
the job of upholding the law is preposterous.

Speaker 8 (01:46:36):
Well, we know that your sister served Cincinnati well as
a find police officer. They're police officers, state highway patrol
men's share of ICE agents, FBI agents, DEA agents, atf
agents all over this country that get up every day
and go to work to keep us safe. And so

(01:46:58):
the notion that someone one would be anywhere saying kill
one of them is absolutely crazy. And and what's unbelievable
is that they're not in custody. I mean, I think
that person should be arrested, absolutely, and and and knowing
that when you put something out there like that, there's
somebody crazy enough to listen or see it and go

(01:47:19):
do it. That's what that's what's so real and powerful
about social media. You can't control it once you put
out once you put it out.

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
There, No you can't. You can't unring a bell. Once
it's out, it's out.

Speaker 8 (01:47:32):
We have My last point in two seconds is we
got these big races down in Florida. This gentleman who's
running for Congress by the last name of Fine. This
is going to be a big test, a big thermometer
test for Republicans. Can they hold a seat as we
march into midterm elections, This open seat, that election is tomorrow,

(01:47:53):
So I'll be watching those results, and I tell you
if Republicans in that area. Now, now, this is again,
this is like me watching a sports match, right, watching
the final four. Meaning I'm just saying, you've got Republicans
and Democrats that are fighting it out down in Florida.
If they lose this battle, right, it's not a good
sign as they march into the mid elections, mid term

(01:48:16):
elections next year. Particularly, we're talking about the state of Florida,
which is typically a red state. So I'll be watching
that race very closely, trying to see And I think
this is why Democrats are ginning up all this fake anger,
having people go out in March and find a foil,
meaning their foil is Elon Musk.

Speaker 12 (01:48:34):
He's bad, he's the fastest, he's a Nazie.

Speaker 8 (01:48:37):
They're trying to create all this emotion not around public policy,
but around yeah, and the Democratic Party is pushing nothing
but hate. They're not pushing public policy. And it's very,
very dangerous because somebody could lose their life out here.

Speaker 9 (01:48:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:48:53):
Well, and that's what it really boils down to. Apparently
they have nothing to run on that the American people
are interested in, So it's all hate and screaming and
name calling, which is an advocacy for a point, What
positions are they advocating for?

Speaker 8 (01:49:09):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:49:09):
I mean, where's the draw that would take someone away
from considering the policies of Donald Trump and wanting to
convert over to Democrats. I mean, I'd like to see
their agenda. Can't find it anywhere, at least nothing that
appeals to me or makes any sense to me.

Speaker 14 (01:49:25):
No, not my problem, I guess right now, Christopher, violence
is always wrong.

Speaker 8 (01:49:30):
We can always condemn it, and I think your entire
listening audis no matter what their gender is or their race, right,
we all can agree that violence is wrong.

Speaker 12 (01:49:41):
That's why it's so interesting that.

Speaker 8 (01:49:43):
We don't have any Democratic congressional members condemning it. And
as they go into these elections, it's like they're wanting to.

Speaker 17 (01:49:51):
Gen this up.

Speaker 12 (01:49:52):
The reality is somebody could get.

Speaker 8 (01:49:54):
Hurt, like the CEO of one of the major healthcare systems.
People out here have broken minds, They can take accents,
and people can lose their lives. So I hope that
we get better leaders. I hope that the leaders starts
sneaking up about this stuff because it's very serious and
what you described on TikTok is absolutely outrageous about the

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ice agent.

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And it is Monday. It is eight oh five. It
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good to talk to you. Good morning, good morning, glad
to be here. Thanks once again for the opportunity to
talk to you, you and your listeners. Well, the first
topic got me a little worried. Now, just because someone
thinks it may happen doesn't necessarily mean that they're relying

(01:52:06):
on car You know, concrete facts and information. But I'm
a little frightened by fifty one percent of Americans worrying
about a stock market crash, you know, as opposed to
like a correction or a downturn or something. But I
mean a crash is a significant, like massive life changing
ruining phenomenon. Yeah, it all depends on how you react

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to these things too.

Speaker 10 (01:52:29):
Now I would point out that none of these things,
none of these forecasts are ever based on factual information,
which is what makes them forecasts. We never know what's coming,
that's just these are just measurements of what mood are
we in. So one of this is that a new
study is out showing that fifty one percent of people
are expecting a market crash. I also would remind everyone

(01:52:49):
that the same percentage of people were expecting the second
leg down from the recession, the brief recession that occurred
during the COVID period that was five years ago, and
they spent probablyably two or three years waiting for that
to kick in, and it never did, thank you. We
just talk about things until they happen or don't happen.
That way, see, because you know, there always is going

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to be some kind of downturn at some point. So
if you keep the conversation going on for enough years,
then at some point you can say, see, I told
you so exactly. I've been talking about rain for the
better part of a week, Brian, and look, lo and behold,
I was right last night.

Speaker 1 (01:53:24):
Go pick this all up. I'm no, you kept this
all up. But some of this, this this expression of concern,
I guess is predicated on the tariff situation, which I
know we're going to be talking a little bit more about.
But tariffs have got people a little spooked and jittery.
I mean, I've saw some really frightening uh statistics about
the impact on car buying and how much it may

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increase the price of cars, which I know is on
your short list of talk about today. Maybe ten thousand
dollars more, depending But it's you know, when you looked
at the breakdown of what's in an American car, you know,
American car made in Detroit, you're like, actually, oh, it's
not it's like forty to sixty percent imported. Stop.

Speaker 10 (01:54:04):
Just because the CEO's rear end sits in an office
that is within the bounds of the United States doesn't
mean that that particular company's cars are exempt. For example,
terriff exposure for GMS about forty five percent, twenty five
percent for Stalantis, the artist formerly known as Chrysler, and
about twenty percent for four. So even in US made cars,
about thirty five percent of parts are not compliant with

(01:54:26):
the US Mexico Canada agreement from a few years ago
that Trump put in place but doesn't seem to like anymore.
So the estimates rise from you know, anywhere around twenty
seven hundred to five thousand dollars maybe in some extreme scenarios,
like you mentioned, ten thousand dollars in the added costs
of paying.

Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
For these arguments.

Speaker 10 (01:54:44):
The thing to look at, though, is these aren't supposed
to kick in for a couple of weeks. These are
still negotiating tactics. Maybe something changes between now in April
second or third, whenever theing's actually kick in, but remains
to be seen.

Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
Yeah, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the scenario does change,
and maybe whoever he's asking for something from will capitulate
and give it to some of Trump's terms and that
we won't have to go through the tariff struggle because
you know, I mean, you know it, I know it
they're going to make the price that things go up.
There's just there's nothing you can get around that, whether
they're fair or not, I mean reciprocal. I understand the

(01:55:17):
fairness argument because we're having our things subject to tariffs
over on their side of the ledger of whatever country
is receiving them and slapping the tariffs on why they're
doing that. I don't know the genesis or basis behind
any of it, but you know, if this isn't trying
to create an even playing field, that argument at least
passes Mustard. But you can't get around the practical effect

(01:55:39):
that they're going to make things more expensive. So and
that's we don't need that right now, Brian.

Speaker 10 (01:55:46):
That is not helping, of course no, But well I
would throw out there though, if you were one interesting
thing I've noticed over the past couple months, because I've
noticed my phones haven't ranged very much.

Speaker 1 (01:55:55):
People aren't too spooked by this.

Speaker 10 (01:55:56):
Some of it is because there's a decent amount of
people out there who feel that the person in charge
right now is exactly who they wanted, and this is
just the pain we have to go for we have
to deal with. But other people are simply looking and
I would say most people are simply looking at their
investment statements.

Speaker 1 (01:56:10):
If you are sitting on a.

Speaker 10 (01:56:11):
Properly diversified portfolio, you're not down that much because where
the United States is proactively making changes to present ourselves
differently to the world and the overall economic situation on
this planet that is causing so some of this is
pretty much self inflicted. We're going to grumble about tariffs
and all these things, well, then yeah, the stock market's
going to get a little squirrely. That creates an opportunity

(01:56:32):
for other places. So therefore, as we're sitting here right now,
the S and P five hundred is down about five
percent for the year. The Nasdaq is an official correction territory,
down ten percent a year.

Speaker 1 (01:56:42):
Today.

Speaker 10 (01:56:43):
International stocks, which I've spent the last ten years trying
to convince people not to dump, are up nine percent.
Our merging market funds are up about four and a
half percent. So if you have a diversified portfolio, you're
probably about even for the year. Despite some of the scariest, craziest,
most unsettling headlines I've seen, so mostly the market is quiet.

Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
Well, you know, it's interesting you put that in the
context of your phone not ringing very much, because, as
you pointed out so many times over the years, your
phone will ring a lot when it hits the fan.
In some way, you got a you know, precipitous drop,
and the S and P five hundred or something. People
get all wigged out and like, should I sell? Should
I sell? And that's what you're you're a counselor as

(01:57:23):
a financial planner, You're you're a talker off of a
ledge kind of guy, exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:57:29):
And that's what we talk about. We talked about how
are we going to deal with these things? Then we
also put it in context of history. Something else I've
been boning up on is what happens, what has happened
during some of the scariest historical times we've had here
and then the next closest one. And I don't mean
to prognosticate anything here, but World War Two obviously was
a reshuffling of the deck in terms of how the
world gets along with each other. Nineteen forty one, the

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S and P five hundred was down somewhere between ten
and fifteen percent. That was when we first stepped into
that fray, and the unknown became the talk of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
We have no idea what's coming out of this.

Speaker 10 (01:58:03):
Nineteen forty two, forty three, forty four, and forty five
were each up a minimum of fifteen to twenty percent.
So if you own stocks through that entire period, you
did just fine. You weren't comfortable, you weren't happy, but
you didn't lose money.

Speaker 1 (01:58:17):
I did not know that. That's interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:58:19):
It's kind of mine, Bob, and think about it, because
all that means when wherever we have craziness, we don't
root for this stuff. But generally speaking, American companies historically
have been the best ever at figuring out about how
to profit off of something. So remember the stories from
World War Two about how factories pivoted to making instead
of cars, they were making tanks. Instead of we're creating tires,

(01:58:40):
they were making treads for the equipment we needed overseas.
It's just a catalyst the market will pivot to wherever
the profits can be made. We saw the same thing
when COVID kicked in and everybody had to go out
by a second set of computers to take home so
we can all work from home. We all never heard
of zoom before. Now zoom is pretty much uiquitous I'm
looking at you on it right now. These are just

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that create an opportunity for somebody to make money.

Speaker 1 (01:59:03):
Yeah, And I guess the other component is when Trump
announced these tariffs. And I'm not sure there's a direct
straight line you can draw, but a lot of very
major businesses, you know, large multi billion dollar companies, including
autobile manufacturers, So they're going to start moving some production here.
And that's exactly the point Trump was trying to accomplish

(01:59:24):
the return of American manufacturing jobs. And maybe it'll it'll
bear fruit. I guess the question is when you look
at the component parts of these American autobiles, as we
just talked about, can we get those component parts to
return or be manufactured here, and if so, how long
would something like that take and how long will it
or how much will it cost?

Speaker 10 (01:59:45):
As you always point out that we are an expensive
place to produce anything because we've got an awful lot
of rules and things in place.

Speaker 1 (01:59:51):
Some of that is being dismantled right now.

Speaker 10 (01:59:54):
You know, there were some announcements made over the weekend
about some steps he's taken to weekend unions, some first
shots fired across the valle at the labor market here
in the United States. That's not necessarily going to go
well because a lot of those people were his supporters
and they're having some of the rugs pulled out from
under them. But if we're going to manufacture parts here,
and this is all about making the United States more profitable,

(02:00:16):
he's got to look at the cost of good soul.
What does it cost to produce this stuff? If just
bringing the jobs back on shore isn't the only step
that's true.

Speaker 1 (02:00:24):
That is true, and we know all day long it's
impossible to even the playing field from a production cost
standpoint when you are dealing with countries that have just
practically dictatorial control over the working conditions, and quite often
they're poor and the people do not get paid very much.
So that in and of itself is kind of a
It's a drag on doing business in the United States.

(02:00:47):
That's why everybody moved over to China for so long.
We can give you embraced China as a trading partner.
They have inexpensive labor and they're welcoming. They're happy to
open manufacturing facilities and get that the skids greazed for that,
and then next thing you know, we find that we're
not making anything here when it all hits a fan,
like during the pandemic that was a frightened wi cold
water does to reality. I think I'd rather pay more

(02:01:09):
for something if knowing that it was made here and
that we have a steady supply of it, you know,
then I have to rely on what might very well
be our arch enemy in a conflict to make it.

Speaker 10 (02:01:22):
Yeah, I think philosophically you'd have a lot of people
agreeing with that. But on the other hand, the market
and the price of any given stock is based off
of how profitable can that company be going forward. Philosophically
we can say, yeah, I want to buy stuff from here,
but that's going to have an impact on the price
as well.

Speaker 1 (02:01:36):
All right, well, we'll stop contemplating our navels. We'll bring
Brian James back. Talk a little bit about futures dropping
among the tariffiars and people. I guess from a good
stand thing they're adding to their rainy day fund, which
I'm gonna guess Brian James thinks is a good idea.
More with money Monday's Brian James. After I mentioned my
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Speaker 1 (02:02:50):
Your nineteenth if you've have KERCD talk station. Brian Thomas
Swift all worse financials. Brian James doing money Monday, continuing
our discussion, a little bit about future here. Just pulled
up the Wall Street Journal's web page and dows down
about zero point sixty seven. Future wise, it looks like
one point down for SMP five hundred, NASDAC about almost
a point and a half, and the headline upper left

(02:03:13):
hand corner global stocks slump as concerns mount over US tariffs.
Brian was he not there anymore? I don't see his
little photograph in the pickup or the box there. Joe, Okay,

(02:03:37):
he's not there. He disappeared. Brian James went running and hiding.
I don't know what happened to him anyway. Apparently, US
Savings Rates wrote in Rose in February, for the second
straight month, Americans rebuilding their rainy day funds after the
holiday shopping season. It's the article that he provided me
for my insight in your edification. Savings rates up to

(02:04:00):
four point six percent last month from four point three
in January and only three point three in December. They
say a low savings right usually means consumers would have
to reduce spending at some point to rebuild their savings,
which slows the economy. So the current savings rate below
normal but not accessively so arranged from about five to
six percent in a decade before the pandemic. So and
I've always heard that, you know, from a financial standing

(02:04:22):
plan point, you know, try to sock away some money
to cover you for the rainy day. You never know
when it's going to hit the fan. I had a
friend of mine just lost his job the other day.
I think it was unanticipated, but it does happen. So
making sure you have some money socked away. And I'm
not sure the amount. One of the things I wanted
to ask Brian was how many months worth of daily

(02:04:42):
savings or our money you should have socked away in
that savings account. Anyhow? Is that him back again, Joe?
You're trying to get a hold of him, all right, Well,
you kind of got me off guard. I know it's
not your fault, Joe, because he just kind of disappeared
but left me without a topic. So I thought we'd

(02:05:03):
be filling up this half of an hour anyway, one thing.
I did what I get to since we were talking
about Democrats and their policies and not seem to be
able to articulate any strategy to deal with Republicans other
than scream and yell and pull their hair out over
really things that don't make any sense. Kind of a
theme this morning out on the heels of that ridiculous
Tesla protest. Elon Musk isn't a fascist, it's definitionally he's

(02:05:26):
the polar opposite of it. Brian was talking about that
reducing rules and regulations. That's what stagnates an economy, it
slows it down, and those rules and regulations are telling
you how to run your business. That's what fascists do.
So when you've got an administration that's in there that's
doing its best to get rid of the burden of
ridiculous regulations, you are dealing with an administration that is

(02:05:47):
the polar opposite of fascism. So get your definition straight
and try to make some sense of why going after
Elon Musk and Tesla's makes any sense whatsoever. I Brian there,
I was.

Speaker 13 (02:06:03):
Looking at you and hearing you the whole time, and
we just got done talking about how great zoom was
and what a catalyst it was, and then here we go, so.

Speaker 14 (02:06:09):
I think that I'll take the falter jinxing.

Speaker 1 (02:06:11):
Then I go, that's okay. I'm glad he came back.
I was just getting rid of launch into another discussion
about the politics when we find ourselves. But as I
was mentioned, thinking we were going to be talking about
the global stock slamp, concerns mount over US tariff. Just
an update on the Wall Street Journal. Across the board,
you know, futures are down. The worst down right now
is NASDAC at one and a half, but the rest

(02:06:32):
of them are down about a point, maybe a little
bit under dal Jones Industrials this point seventy three.

Speaker 17 (02:06:36):
So this is just.

Speaker 1 (02:06:39):
Didn't they factor in the market already that these these
tariffs are going to kick in?

Speaker 14 (02:06:44):
Brian, Yeah, and that's why we've seen the volatility. Remember
we get we're having lately, we're having.

Speaker 13 (02:06:50):
About two days of down one percent, you know, down
one one and a half percent, and then we'll be
down three percent and then we get a chunk of
it back because the market will decide that they're something
out there, some shiny object that it likes, and it'll
bring it back, So we are anticipating these these tariffs
kicking in, and then we are celebrating what it looks
like they're not going to kick in tomorrow. At some
level of this, Brian is going to be saber rattling

(02:07:14):
because it is a negotiation tactic. Remember what Donald Trump thinks,
he's the best in the world at that's making a deal.
So a lot of this is I'm going to do
something terrible to you in a month unless you act
the way that I want you to act. And in
some cases he's getting some concessions there. Remember our first
very first discussion about this, probably a month and a
half ago, where the tariffs that they were they were
going to levy against Canada that went away overnight, became

(02:07:36):
something else as the negotiation continued. But the way he
stated it at the very outset of the discussion is
very different from what's happening now. So some of this
is saber rattling by both sides. No country on the
face of the Earth can afford to completely seclude itself.

Speaker 14 (02:07:50):
From the rest of the world.

Speaker 13 (02:07:52):
Now that our every every company's customer base is the
entire planet, so there won't be any endgame. We are
just going to take our ball and go home and
only sell to American customers.

Speaker 14 (02:08:04):
That is not possible.

Speaker 1 (02:08:05):
Right on one of my favorite movies, Costablanca, one of
the lines isolationism is no longer a practical foreign policy,
And I think that's certainly the case in matters of business,
international business and real quick I read the article in
the savings rates have gone, people who are like putting,
you know, replenishing their savings accounts. As a financial planner,
is there a certain and I don't mean a dollar figure,

(02:08:27):
but based upon one's earnings and one's living expenses, is
there a certain number of months worth of money that
is recommended to sock away just in case.

Speaker 8 (02:08:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (02:08:38):
I think that's a great important discussion to have.

Speaker 12 (02:08:40):
And for people who are.

Speaker 13 (02:08:42):
Who lead really really simple lives and there's not a
whole lot going on at the moment, I would a
minimum of three months. I would say more like six months.
If you've got kids and a mortgage in the mix,
and you have two jobs, you know, two high paying jobs,
that kind of thing you might want to look at
more like twelve months, because something crazy like that could
have significant amount of impact on your situation. One thought

(02:09:04):
I would throw out there. I believe personally the ideal
savings rate is zero percent.

Speaker 14 (02:09:09):
The reason I say that is.

Speaker 13 (02:09:10):
Because it should have been planned for a long time ago,
and if you've got that kind of money socked aside,
you don't need to be putting more into it. So
I have not changed my savings rate in probably two decades,
because we solved the emergency prone problem a while ago,
and ever since then I focused on getting kids through
college and our retirement.

Speaker 12 (02:09:26):
And so forth.

Speaker 14 (02:09:27):
I don't believe you need to put.

Speaker 13 (02:09:28):
Cash into your savings account every single month. If you're
already there, it's just piling more money aside, and.

Speaker 1 (02:09:35):
It's not invested, I mean, other than bank interest rate,
which we all know doesn't pay very much compared to
what your yields might be in the market investment.

Speaker 9 (02:09:43):
Exactly.

Speaker 13 (02:09:43):
I want to make sure people didn't hear me, did
not just hear me say that you don't need an
emergency count.

Speaker 14 (02:09:47):
The point us to know what you need and then
know when you've accomplished a goal so that you can
move on to the next goal.

Speaker 1 (02:09:54):
But that's if first order of business in terms of
establishing a financial plan is to get that base amount
away so you can then invest cam I right on
that that is.

Speaker 13 (02:10:04):
The oil in the engine, because we can do magic
with the long term investments. But when the ship goes sideways,
is it occasionally will you lose your job or you know,
the stock market takes a chunk away a lot of times,
some of those that happened all at the same time.

Speaker 14 (02:10:17):
You have to have something to keep you afloat, or
you'll have to dip.

Speaker 13 (02:10:20):
Into your long term savings, which probably are taking a
bit of a hit at the moment. That what I'm
describing is pretty much happening right now. People are getting
laid off and they're having to sell at a loss
to cover the bills because they didn't have an emergency fund.

Speaker 1 (02:10:31):
And then there's you know, the danger of having to
pay you know, the taxes and the penalties and things
like that by tapping into your four h one K.
So try to avoid that, get that savings padded really well,
and then you can exhale and just watch your investments grow.
Brian James, Monday, Monday, I appreciate all Worth Financial loaning
you out. Sorry for the glitch there, but we got
back on track and got the information out for my listeners.
I'll look forward to talking to you again next week.

(02:10:52):
I hope you have a wonderful week, my friend, have
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Maybe kick a couple of phone calls before we get
too Ira Melman, who's going to do a Borders in
Immigration Empower Youth seminar. He's joining the program at eight forty.
Looking forward to him and him on the show.

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skies tomorrow with the high fifty six forty six overnight
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Daton Road in order to get things moving again. Northbound
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Palestine train dearrailment. They got a trial today. Norfolk Southern
wants two other companies to help them pay for the

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six hundred million dollar class action lawsuits settlement over the
twenty twenty three trained arralment. So the railroad fial motion
to that sets the goats trial today to try and
force the railcar owner, a company called GATX, and then
also the chemical manufacturer on Oxyvinyls to share the cost

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of the settlement. Norfolk Southern believes those two companies are
partly responsible. U This does not impact any and in
any way the amount of money the residents were received.
Simply a question of where the money's going to come from,
So this only impacts which company has to write a
check to pay for the class action settlement. Norfolk Southern
lost a similar lawsuit for the environmental cleanup that they

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had to pay a billion dollars. Norfolk Southern was on
the hook for a billion dollars, so they tried to
force GATX and oxy Vinyls to help pony up for
that and they lost, so it's probably riding on the
wall for them. Norfolk Southern argues that GATX bears some
responsibility for the derailment because it owned the railcar that
was filled with plastic pellets that caused the derailment. That's

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the one that had the bearing that caught on fire.
And they believe oxy Vinyl should pay because the railroad
says chemical manufacturer provided inconsistent and inaccurate information about its
vinyl chloride before officials decided to release and burn it,
which is obviously what led to the billion dollars worth
of cleanup that had to happen. Both GATX and oxy

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vinyls so it will be ridiculous to hold them responsible
for the derailment because Norfolk Southern operated and inspected the
train and all the cars, as well as was responsible
for delivering their cargoes safely. GATX said it complied with
all relevant regulations for taking care of its cars. They said,
even if the car had been damaged years earlier, because
it sat in the middle of floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey,

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the railroad should have spotted the problem and repaired it.
NTSB said the crash was caused by the failure of
an overheating bearing. Now, the railroad sensor spotted the overheating,
but it didn't reach a critical temperature and trigger and
alarm until just before the derailment, so they had very
little time to stop the train and we all know
what happened after that. Norfolk Southern is the one that

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recommended the vent and burn operation that released the vinyl
chloride into everybody's homes and neighborhoods. But the claim the
claim is that they had had beforehand suggested that chemical
reaction could happen and caused the tank cars to to explode. However,
National Transportation and Safety Board confirmed in its investigation that

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it was unnecessary to release all that stuff into the
air because the tank cars were starting to cool off,
and the railroad failed to listen to advice from oxyvinals
experts or share their opinions with officials who made the decision.
So trial again kicks off the day it's expected to
last a couple of weeks. Immigrations and Custom agents arrested

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two people working at a construction site at the Butler
County Jail this week. Sheriff Richard Jones announced via social
media the two subcontractors work on a construction project at
the jail arrested by ICE officials. They were arrested after
deputies reviewed their identification, which included a driver's license, passport,
and social security guard before entering the jail's construction site.

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According to the press release in the Sheriff's office, upon
further review of the documents, it was determined that the
two workers were in fact illegal aliens. An ICE agent
conducted the interviews with the two individuals, who admitted that
they were in the United States illegally. Constructions company that
hired the two subcontractors believed their documents were authentic, according
to Sheriff Jones, but he is warning employers to be cautious.

(02:16:09):
So there are fake documents out there, and you know
Elon Musk getting rid of this live so security numbers.
We got time for that one, Jeff, No no way, Sorry,
Jay apologize. We got Ira Melman coming up waiting in
the wings Power Youth Seminar on borders and immigrations. We'll
hear a little bit about that coming up next.

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If you want to call back, phone lines are open.
Couldn't reach Iram Melman. Joe tried multiple times. He's not
answering his phone. Doesn't mean it's not an important seminar
taking place tomorrow night, seven pm. We must prevent future
administrations from opening our borders. So he's the media director
for Federation of American Immigration Reform FARE and he's going

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to be discussing the impact of the open borders during
the Biden administration, reviewed policy changes that Trump has made
in the first over months or first months of his administration,
how they've substantially curb mass illegal immigration, which clearly they have.
And he'll also talk about legislation that has to be
passed to prevent future administration from implementing an open borders policy.

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You know, this is something that the Republicans and Democrats
are going to get together on, and you'd think they
would given that, you know, they're talking about Democrats not
having really a vision for their party. Maybe they should
embrace something the vast majority of American people want, which
is secure borders. You know, briefs bring some sense of
logic and reason of the borders process, you know, make
it easier to deny people access to our country since

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our social welfare state is collapsing under its own weight,
let alone the weight of additional twenty million or so
people coming in. So empower you America dot org can
register and watch from the it's a virtual only it apparently,
so register to attend virtually empower you America dot org
for that one. So it should be a fascinating discussion.

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And I just the Democrats keep going back to Donald
Trump stopped the legislation that would have solved the problem.
The legislation that had been proposed at the time did
not stop the problem. It just enshrined it. The sort
of open borders reality So anyhow five one three, seven,
nine fifty five eight hundred eight two three talk, there's Jay, Jay,

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Thanks for calling back, my friend. Welcome to the morning show.

Speaker 17 (02:19:19):
Hey, thanks, Brian.

Speaker 15 (02:19:20):
Hey one or two point out that I had heard
recently that Trump had put out a warning to the
automakers and said, you guys better not raise your prices
because of these tariffs.

Speaker 1 (02:19:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:19:33):
I thought that's what communists did. I think that's what
conservatives did, was to set the prices and all the
rest of it. I understand why he's doing it, but
I really think the optics are terrible. So I got
a better idea for him. Why doesn't he tell the automakers. Look,
I understand I'm putting pressure on your on your cost
of your products. So I'm going to get us out

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of the cafe standards, and which means corporate average fuel
efficiency standards that have been in place under the EPA.
So the EPA. So as a result, for the listeners,
what this means is, if you're Ford and you're making
pickup trucks and SUVs that maybe get seventeen twenty twenty
five miles to the gallon, the federal government says none, no, no, no,

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your average fuel efficiency for the fleet that you make
for your product needs to be pick a number thirty five.
So that forces them to make evs whether anybody wants
to buy them or not. And then it also requires
them to purchase carbon offset credits from Tesla or other
EV manufacturers, so they'll have to give their profit to

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EV manufacturers to allow them to stay in business, which
is a really bad idea. So maybe Trump ought to say,
cafe standards are no more. We're going to let the
free market decide what you want to buy, and therefore
on shackle the hands of Ford and GM and whoever
that you don't have to make these these EV's that
are stacking up that nobody wants to buy, just to

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stay in business.

Speaker 14 (02:21:03):
Isn't that a better idea?

Speaker 1 (02:21:05):
I agree? I agree completely. And also then we won't
have to pay incentives for you'd go out and buy
evs in the form of tax incentives like seventy five
hundred dollars, go and buy an e Geto a Knox,
you know, on the on the taxpayer expense. You're doing
something you might otherwise do because well, it makes that
vehicle become affordable artificially, so to at great expense of
the American economy. So I agree.

Speaker 15 (02:21:26):
And do you know what's odd is I got to
be a little bit if I was to be honest
with the right wing media. Sometimes when Trump says stuff
like that, and I'm a fan of Breitbart and Newsmax
and some other right wing media that that I think
this gets it right more than wrong. The silence on
our side sometimes when Trump does something like this is disappointing.

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It's it's okay to call him out when he does
something wrong and to be as critical. Could you imagine
if Joe Biden did that, our side would be on fire.
And sometimes I think our side can be just as
slanted as the left whenever they refuse to call it
out for.

Speaker 8 (02:22:09):
What it is.

Speaker 15 (02:22:09):
But when a sitting president tells private businesses, you better
not raise your price based on this thing I did,
something's out of balance.

Speaker 14 (02:22:17):
Yeah, it needs it needs to be addressed.

Speaker 1 (02:22:19):
I certainly appreciate your point on that, and I guess
the only thing that I find it fault in that
is when you recognize forty to sixty percent of a
domestic produced automobile comes packed full is with four is
foreign parts, and if the manufacturer is going to have
to pay more for those parts to go into their
domestically manufactured cars. They're going to have to raise the

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price if they're going to maintain some level of comparable
level of profitability. So him to tell him to do
that runs counter to the business reality that they're going
to be facing because they're going to have to pay
twenty let's say, twenty five percent more for wiring, harnesses
or whatever other foreign manufactured part that's going into the car.

Speaker 15 (02:23:00):
And why just automakers, Why not air conditioner manufacturers? There
anybody else making anything out of the loan?

Speaker 11 (02:23:05):
The luminum his steel, right, No, it's auto makers.

Speaker 15 (02:23:08):
It said, don't you guys raise your prices, which, now
again we have government picking winners and losers, which I
thought we voted against.

Speaker 1 (02:23:15):
Yeah, well, just because Donald Trump tells them he doesn't
want them to raise their prices doesn't mean that they
have to listen to him. It isn't a law or
an edict or regulation that's been passed.

Speaker 14 (02:23:25):
But I fully I understand.

Speaker 15 (02:23:27):
There's a lot of influence there coming out of the
Oval Office, though.

Speaker 1 (02:23:30):
Yeah, yeah, well you know, and listen, autobile manufacturers and
their unions got him elected so I mean he does
owe them something right back again, and they may take
their ball with them the next election and you know,
go back to the Democrats.

Speaker 8 (02:23:45):
So he work for them, not the.

Speaker 15 (02:23:47):
Other way around. He needs to remember that he's not
the CEO anymore.

Speaker 8 (02:23:50):
He works for them.

Speaker 1 (02:23:51):
Yeah, I'm with you all day on that one.

Speaker 12 (02:23:53):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (02:23:53):
Good to hear from me, Man, Thanks for calling back.
I got one more segment coming up. Eight forty five
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Shot ingram Mon fifty five K scene the talk station
Hey forty nine about cair Ce talk station Happy Monday
Tomorrow inside scoop at break bart noon, the Daniel Davis
deep dive talking about tariffs, and you go back to
Ontario Premier Doug Ford Rember he threatened twenty five percent
retaliation of American energy exports because we import a lot

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of energy from Canada. And there's a great op ed
by a guy named Mark Osterich, and I just read
a couple segments of it to give you an indication
of how stupid and insane all of this is. He's
a founding part of a nonprofit consulting from Crane and
Gray and an editor of the daily energy newsletter Grid Brief. Anyway,
he points out in twenty twenty forty US imported twenty
seven thousand, two hundred gigawatt hours of electricity from Canada,

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which is enough to cover twenty percent of New York
supplier fifteen percent of New England's total winter load because
we made building new power plants here nearly impossible and
incentivized imported power through regulatory loopholes that allow us to
ignore any emissions that happened outside the US. They don't
count export emissions import virtue. Meanwhile, domestic energy projects in

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the Northeast stalls butter or collapse. We're sitting on four
hundred and sixty nine billion tons of coal, two point
nine trillion cubic feet of gas, and centuries of nuclear fuel.
But in the US, building power plants now requires a
legal team. In decades of hearings, we've turned power generation
into a theater of guilt. We're producing energy in the
United States is too sinful to permit, but importing it

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from somewhere else lets us feel purer. It's not policy,
it's penance. In twenty one, New York shut down the
Indian Point Nuclear Plant, one of its last sources of
zero emissions base load power. Same year, the state began
ramping up electricity imports from Canada to fill the gap
seven thousand, six hundred gigawatt hours. Specifically, hydro electric power

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couldn't alone handle the demand, so Ontario's gas plants fired
up to meet the demand, releasing an estimated one million
tons of carbon dioxide, which is plant food. Because as
emission occurred outside of the northern border, New York claimed
to drop in its own energy sector emissions, and that's
the game. When Canada's hydro facilities Canada Gas hydro faulters.

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Canada Gas steps in, but the emissions vanish on US
climate ledgers. Vermont, importing over eighty percent of its electricity,
Massachusetts and much of the rest of New England operate
from the same playbook. The great operators they belong to
imports around fifteen percent of its winter peak from Canada.
When hydro output dropped eighteen percent due to drought, gas

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peaker plants and fossil fuels save the day. In twenty
twenty three, alone, utilities in Quebec, Ontario New Brunswick generated
an estimated thirteen point four million metric tons of carbon
dioxide planted, none of which appear on the emissions ledgers
of states Massachusetts and Vermont, despite their heavy reliance on
imported power from those provinces. Meanwhile, the twelve hundred megawat

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Commonwealth wind project was canceled outright after the developer paid
a fifty million dollars penalty to walk away due to
well the financial infeasibility and permitting delays. This is not
a glitch in the system. It is the system. I
love this. A nineteen ninety nine rule made up and
pulls out of someone's finer by the Environmental Protection Agency

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allows state to treat imported electricity as emissions free, regardless
of how it's generated. It's a convenient accounting trick that
lets politicians hit climate targets without reducing actual emissions. The
same time. Domestic energy projects face a labyrinth of legal, regulatory,
and activist roadblocks thanks to laws like Title VIV of
the Clean Air Act and permitting system, and a permitting

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system that treats any new infrastructure as a threat until
proven otherwise. We build a political culture that worships the
optics of clean energy while punishing the act of actually
producing it. Across the Northeast, domestic energy projects don't you
just struggle. They're buried Offshore wind collapses under lawsuits over
fishing rights and ocean views. Small modular reactors gather dust

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in regulatory limbo pipelines are killed over and wetlands nuclear
plants drowning litigation. In twenty sixteen, New York vetoed the
Constitution pipeline, leaving the Marcellus Shale untapped. Two years later,
during a brutal colt snap, Massachusetts imported liquefied natural gas

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from Russia rather than lay pipe from Pennsylvania. A proposed
forty two megawat biomass plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, was blocked
on a technicality in twenty twenty one, after years of
permit delays and concerns over environmental justice. Clean local energy
was too controversial. Imported emission no comment. Altogether, the region

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has canceled enough projects to generate forty two thousand gigawat
hours annually, more than fifty percent above the power that
we imported from Canada in twenty twenty four. We're not
out of energy. We've just outlawed reality. We pretend it's progress,
We pretend the air is cleaner. We pretend that exporting

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emissions is environmentalism. It's not. It's theater for climate lobbies, campaigns, soundbites,
and activists who measure success in press releases, not power output,
the emissions remain, only the guilt is outsourced. So No,
Ford's teriff threat isn't the story. It's just a headline.

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The real story is what made that threat possible. Our
addiction to imported virtue, our refusal to build in a
regulatory culture that punishes the very act of producing energy.
We're not short on power, which is too sanctimonious to
generate it amen exclamation point. And that's just Canada generating

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power view with their gas plants. Meanwhile, China and their
coal plants providing us with all the parts and component
parts that go into domestic automobiles as well as electric vehicles,
which the climate left would love you to drive, unless,
of course, it's a tessela, in which case you're an EZ.
Does this all makeing sense to you? No, it doesn't.
Eight fifty five fifty five cars the talk station Christopher

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Smith and Smith havent right there on the podcast page
fifty five kre se dot com. Of course, also Tomorrow
Breitbart and Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Thank you Joe Strecker
for helping me out on a Monday. Got a couple
of stumbles, but we got through it fine because you
always appreciate what you do. Folks have a wonderful day.
Stick around glenmbex up next.

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