55KRC Thursday Morning Show -- 4/10/25

George Brunemann joins to talk Ohio Issue 2 and the Restore Liberty Event on Sunday, Congressman Warren Davidson, Brian Reisinger talks about his book "Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer," plus iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five Happy you k r s the talk
station every Friday Eve a vacation.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yep, I wish we could just play that whole song.
Oh look, futures are off, Happy Happy Friday, Eve Thursday,
call it what you want. Almost at the end of
the week and you gotta be on vacation next week,
looking forward to exhaling and sleeping in a mental health week.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
That's what it's all about anyhow, what's all about here
in the fifty five Morning Show. Get to see Sean
mc mannon there covering for Joe's tracker. The things will
be well in hand. Did have a couple of technical
difficulties yesterday, but no big deal. Got them all ironed out,
and I think we're gonna get the return of Daniel Davis.
We didn't get hear from Daniel Davis on Tuesday because
of the technical difficulty and Shaun's nod and has had
an approval. Yes tomorrow we'll have him on. I believe

(01:14):
what was it seven thirty is what you got seven thirty,
So we'll still get that update on what's going on
in Ukraine and Russia, which is kind of fallen off
the map at least in terms of reporting on it.
You know, it was dominating the news and back and forth.
It's amazing how the news cycle changes. I know that
ward in the conflict is still going on, just don't
really have quite a handle on where it is. I

(01:38):
think the latest news I read as Russia was making
further inroads into Ukrainian territory, which I think that's what
Daniel Davis has been pointing out for the last several months,
not full year anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
What's coming up today?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
George Redman and studio restored Lardy dot Us events on Sunday,
talked a little bit about yesterday with Americans for Prosperities
Donovan O'Neil. On that one, we'll hear more from George,
who's going to be in studio, and we'll also hear
in the seven o'clock hour from Congressman Warren Davidson. It'll
be good timing for that one. House passed a bill
yesterday to limit nationwide injunctions by district court judges. Future

(02:15):
uncertain in the Senate, I will assure you on that one.
Speaker Johnson also delayed the vote on the Senate budget resolution.
A lot of conservative Republicans holding out for promises of
greater cuts to government spending, which if you're going to
hold out for something, I think that's a worthy holdout.
And the Senate has a paltry four billion over ten years,

(02:35):
which is they spill more than that on a daily
basis in the federal government. But anyway, we'll hear from
Congressman Davidson on a variety of topics. Of course, we
have no shortage of topics to talk about. Brian Resider
with the book Landridge, Cash Poor, My Family's Hope and
the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer. Brian's going

(02:56):
to join the program in eight of five talk about
that book. And of course I have a lot of
farmers in my lineage, including the fact that I married
out of my element OutKick my coverage with my wife,
daughter of a dairy farmer. And while I have never
you know, you can't fully appreciate the life of a
small farmer, especially a dairy farmer, until you see what

(03:18):
it requires. And oh my word, it is the toughest job.
They're all, I mean, they're proud of what they do,
the work that they put in on the farm. And
you know, again, dairy farmers you got to milk those
cows twice a day, or they don't produce and you
don't get any income. You can't leave, or you have
to have other people there to take over the job

(03:39):
of milk and cows every day. It's just amazing how
much work's involved in that. And it's not exactly a
fat bank job either. My wife did not grow up
in the lap of luxury at all, but she understands
the value of hard work. And I always like to
point out it's an interesting thing. You know, they never
really had much. Her dad built their house with his

(04:02):
own two hands. You might think, oh, it's probably a
ramshackle house. No, you know, not large ranch shaw house.
But I was always amazed at the brick work. The
man was not Amazon. But you you could take a
ruler with millimeters on it and go around the entire
house and measure the width of the mortar between the

(04:24):
bricks that he laid himself, and you couldn't. It wouldn't
be a millimeter off. Everything was absolutely perfectly laid. And again,
he wasn't amazing. He wasn't a trained brick layer. I
don't know how he figured it out, but he did.
That's the kind of thing you had to do. She
grew up in a small, small house, three total bedrooms,

(04:46):
her her twin brother, and her two sisters. You spend
most of your time outside. There wasn't a whole lot
of room to roam around inside the house, canning your
own food and the interesting story, you know, when you
get it used to a lot of amenities. And then
the nineteen seventies, stagflation comes in and people are struggling,

(05:06):
and people are without jobs, and people are you know,
complaining over the prime I remember people complaining of the
price of coffee. A gasoline with shortage. You had lines
around the corner rationing of gasoline and things like that.
You know, you had your if your license play ended
in an odd number or an even number, you were
allowed to fill up or you weren't, in order to
keep the lines of traffic down. For gas stations, I

(05:27):
actually had gas. They didn't know any that was going on, really,
I mean, maybe aware of it because of the news,
but their life didn't change. They went on with their
lives day to day. Nothing changed, you know, they didn't
struggle or suffer more because of what was going on
in the world. But then again, you know, when things
bounce back, their lives didn't bounce back any greater than

(05:47):
it was. It was a sort of a static line.
And it's kind of an interesting and you know, I
think fascinating, a neat concept. But when you're pretty much
self sufficient, that's the way it is. You up happy.
I don't know. Anyway, we'll talk about the American farmer
eight to five started golf on that tangent. Jay Ratle,

(06:08):
fireheart media aviation expert. I always looked forward to Thursdays at
ay thirty. Today, unruly passenger causes a sixteen hour delay,
calls for a boycott after airline is selected for ice
deportation flights naturally and an emotional support animal mix up
strand as a passenger and her emotional support support animal
in Puerto Rico. Good stories of Jay. So what happened yesterday? Wow?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
The stock market bounce back.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Donald Trump announced that he was pausing the reciprocal tariffs
and went into effect for ninety days, and of course
raised the rates on China, who seems to be the
only country out there that's not willing to play ball.
Trump said he'd authorized a ninety eight pause and substantially
low reciprocal tariffs during this period of down to ten
percent across the board, which was prepared anyway effective immediately

(07:03):
decision and the pause and the full impact of the tariffs.
Because more than seventy five countries have already reached out
to the White House to negotiate a solution on the
new duties, he said, those countries also have not retaliated
in any way, shape or form against the US, which
was what he said up front. Here, I'm gonna here's
all these tariffs are gonna throw on you. Seventy five

(07:25):
percent for you, thirty five percent for you, depends on
what their tariffs were on US goods. Of course they
weren't as high as some of the countries had on
our goods. But he said, hey, you want to negotiate,
come on, let's negotiate. You don't want to negotiate, We're
gonna leave it that way, or maybe even get worse,
which is exactly what happened with Beijing. China now facing
one hundred and twenty five percent tariff that hours after

(07:47):
Beijing said it would be imposing higher tariffs on US products.
I think they bumped theirs up eighty five percent, so
not wanting to play ball, you get worse tariffs, or
it's going to remain the status quo. You want to
play ball, you get a tariff pause. Now, all this
argument in this discussion exists outside of the realm whether
any of this is within the executive branches authority. And

(08:10):
of course we had these conversations yesterday, of course with
Judge Ednita, Poloitano and others have also observed, like Congressman Massey,
that you know, this may be extra constitutional, but ignoring
the legal realities of what's going on, it's literally going
on before our very eyes. And what happened. The stock

(08:32):
market blew up in a good way. Everybody's screaming and moaning, yelling,
oh my god, we're all gonna die. We're gonna go
into a recession. And I don't know what's gonna happen today,
But futures are up. If I'm looking at this correctly,
and I'm staring at the top scroll of the Wall
Street Journal, which has futures, they're all up for this

(08:53):
morning after yesterday, huge jump after Trump's announcement on this
pause yesterday, Jones Industrial Average jump more than two thousand
points five point seven percent, and I think if I'm
looking at this morning's futures, it looks like seven point
eighty seven percent up this morning NASDAK eight point seven

(09:19):
percent bump, and right now I'm staring at twelve point
one point six on the future scroll up. S and
P five hundred probably the best indicator of the you know,
at least business health as opposed to the S and
P or as opposed to the Dow Industrial Average. We

(09:39):
hear that about that from Brian James all the time
as well as others. S and P up six point
eight percent yesterday, at least as of the reporting on
the article I'm looking at. But across the board, the
markets went through the roof, erasing all of the losses
that people struggled with over the last several days after
the TERFF announcements. So negotiations in play. Maybe we'll come

(10:03):
up with some free trade that would be good for
the global economy, I would argue, And look Canada, Canadian
Prime Minister Mark Karney pledged yesterday to negotiate new economic
and security relationship with the United States. This after he
announced the pause, the pause and reciprocal terrence and now
by President Trump. He said, is a welcome reprieve for

(10:25):
the global economy. As President Trump and I have agreed
the US president and a Canadian Prime minister will commence
negotiations on a new economic policy and security relationship immediately
following the federal election. That is what Canadian Prime Minister
Carney said. He goes, you know, after the federal following
the federal election in which he is projicted projected now

(10:47):
to win again, So.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Carni wrote.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
As part of today's announcement, the President has a signaled
that the US will engage in bilateral negotiations with a
number of other countries. This will likely result in a
fundamental restructuring of the global trading system. In that context,
Canada must also continue to deepen its relationship with trading
partners that share our values, including the free and open

(11:13):
exchange of good services and ideas. And that's exactly what
Trump was hoping to accomplish. Imagine that bold in a
China Chop attitude. Yeah, maybe bold. Could any other president
have tried to accomplish this?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yes? Did any of them try to accomplish this?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
And the trade imbalances continue to grow and grow and grow,
and I'm not quite sure what's going to happen with China?
You know, they do rely on us heavily. Hundreds of
billions of dollars we buy in Chinese made products, and

(11:56):
this is going to have a profound impact on that. Yes,
as we all know, you're to is going to be
more expensive. I don't know if they make toasters in
other countries, countries with whom we may negotiate a better
trade relationship. Could be that that toaster may be manufactured
in oh, I don't know, India or some other country.
We're not making them, that's for sure, but it may
be that we can get those items and goods from

(12:17):
some other countries that we have established a better trade
relationship with. I know that would create a trade imbalance
with those countries because we'd be buying all this stuff
rather than from China from them. But at least of
the countries that come immediately to mind, that might have
a less expensive manufacturing position because for all the reasons
China does you know, no osha, no EPA, no regulations,

(12:41):
cheap labor. At least they don't want to destroy us,
which of course the Chinese Communist Party has hell bent
on doing. Five eighteen fifty five Cacity Talk station five
on three seven four nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred
and eighty two to three Talk Crabbage.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Mike's calling in. We're going to get an update on
last night's UH celebration, the return of the Honor Flight.
Looking forward to that hang around, be right back. This
is fifty five KARC and iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're in the futures. I just did an update on
it from a different site. The Wall Street Journal had
an updated their futures. So it looks like futures SMP
down about one point four percent, NASTAC one point eight
and now one point seven in early trading.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
So there you go. Let me go back over to
the phones. Cribbage. Mike, my submariner friend. You were there
Honor Flight tri State yesterday, first one of the season.
How did it go?

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Man, Brian?

Speaker 5 (13:33):
From start to finish, Just another phenomenal day from the
send off, the whole day in DC and then to
come home, which is another tremendous support from the community
and their family members. You know, just when you think
it can't get any better, and just what a great
outpouring of love and patriotism for those eighteen hours, for
those Korean and Vietnam.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
War veterans eighteen hour day.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
For some of those guys are are getting up in
years too, and that's it's great that they're we're able
to climb that hill and just keep going and going
and going. But the adrenaline flows on those days. You
said you couldn't get any better, and it apparently did.
You've been there for a lot of these welcome home
ceremonies as well as on honor flights. Was there a

(14:16):
bigger turnout this year? Do you think this time?

Speaker 6 (14:18):
You think they just.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Continue to grow because I call them my Honor flight
alumni because you see a lot of people now in
the outskirts of the parade route wearing those gold shirts
and a couple of times, I remember last October flight
I had them, I says someone on the flight. He says, oh, no,
I just had to be here again to experience this.
You know, they estimate between like twelve and fifteen hundred.

(14:41):
In fact, there's a beautiful over hang like a balcony
that's filling up more because really during the whole Horseshoe
parade route, they're about five or sixty and just a
thunderous applause because we start to parade all the way
in the entrance to the ticketing area and of course
throw all the way down the other end. I mean,
they can hear the bagpipes and it's just you know,
I know what's coming, you know, And like you say that,

(15:02):
they're glad to be home. So there's a little bit
of rejuvenation when they get off that plane, but as
soon as they really realize what's waiting for them, just
like you said, allergy moment. But oh yeah, spring flights
are so special in DC because you get a lot
of eighth grade and high school trips to our nation's capital,
right and on three different on three different occasions, there

(15:22):
was a eighth grade from Columbus that went out of
their way to shake their hands when we were at
the World War Two Memorial. When we were at the
Marine Memorial, the Regima, you know iconic flag raising statue,
there was a group a high school cliffs from Los
Angeles and the one father said that as we were
breaking up from our picture, he said, could a couple
of the vet's stand with our students? He said, because

(15:44):
my father fought in Vietnam and I want to be
able to tell them what these men did.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh that's outstanding, just awesome. Yeah, that was one of
those allergy inspiring moments when I was lucky enough to
be in an honor flight. It was also at the
World War Two Memorial and I had a World War
Two veteran I was escorting, and we had a group
of I can't remember eight or ten young people, you know,
K through twelve. I'd say that maybe fifth grade, sixth
grade come up and shake their hands and it was

(16:11):
like it just, you know, at no prodding from an adult,
they just seem to wander over and shake the hands
of the veteran I was accompanying. And how about in
the welcome home ceremony where they're young people there as well.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
I would say at this point at at least twenty
to twenty five percent. And I sent you to those pictures.
The one picture of the two young ladies holding the
very treasured triangle flag that we take on every flight.
Those are the Ziegler girls are from the Cleaves area.
They've even been interviewed nationally. They are like our Lemon
eight stan little girls.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
The other one, I believe she's about ten now. She
has been at every welcome home for the last five
years they do fundraising. Between the two of them and
of course their mother, they've raised an excess of thirty
thousand dollars on a flight and you ask them why
and they said, we just love our veterans.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh my god, that's so amazing. God, I'll get ready
to have an allergy moment right now, Mike. Oh that's
really awesome. Well, God bless you for the work you
do for Honest Flight throughout the year, and thank you
for providing the update. I really was looking forward to
hearing from you this morning because I honestly, if I
had to put all my money down on something, I

(17:22):
would have put it down on exactly what you just
got done, saying that it was a huge turnout and
that you know a lot, and that young people actually
showed up. I try to encourage that, Mike, because it's
a great opportunity for young people to experience something they
probably rarely experience, and that's a healthy dose of patriotism
and respect for the American military and those who have served,

(17:43):
so including you, Mike.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Thank you, sir, May twenty first circle of your calendar.
Now when they May twenty first, nine pm.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Be there, amen, and you'll hear about it from me
as well in advance. Thanks brother, we'll talk real soon.
Man five twenty six. Right now, if you five cares
to the talk station stories or phone calls, their phone
calls are always welcome here in the morning show, regardless
of which way we go. I'll be back after these
prief words and a happy Thursday. See now, I don't

(18:11):
know which future is index to look at. They keep changing.
I look at different sources and they are different.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Wherever I go something there, it's likely twelve percent up
and some say one point down.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I don't know anyway.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I know everybody got their money back yesterday as long
as you didn't pull it out of the market, including
west Side Jim. I will not tell you specifically what
he lost over the past week, but he got it
all back plus some yesterday. And the other reason I
bring up west Side Jim in the text he sent
me two days into early voting, and I got this
text last night about seven Only one hundred and fifty

(18:44):
six votes have been cast in the City of Cincinnati.
The Board of Elections, which he referred to as pathetic
with an exclamation point. City of Cincinnati residents, it's early
voting time. Let's get out there and cast a vote
for Corey Bowman, good Man.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Eddie how Ohio. That's the state budget.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I only have a couple of highlights on it because
that's all that was reported. Four thousand page omnibus bill
passed sixty to thirty nine. Five Republicans said no. Some
are saying there's a slash in public education funding. Some
are calling it an increase. This is one of the
big arguments going back and forth. The proposed budget gives
two hundred and twenty six million. Proponents for greater school

(19:23):
fundings say it should be closer to eight hundred million.
Finance Chair Brian Stewart of Ashville said that the two
twenty six is actually an increase from the amount that
the school's got in twenty twenty five. Some the Democrats argue,
say that's misleading. I don't know what the reality is
on that one. But the reason I bring it up.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Since I don't have a whole lot of details, So
it's in that four thousand page omnibus. Guess what, Yeah,
money for the Cleveland Browns. Lawmakers agreed to put six
hundred million in bonds toward the new Browns stadium. This
one of and seventy six acre mixed use project that

(20:02):
the Haslam owners of the Browns family wants. At least
according to uh Thank Morgan Scharbe believe this is WCPO
news reporting, the state is going to end up paying
about one billion dollars to pay off the debt over
twenty five years. Browns are asking the state to borrow
six hundred million for the new stadium by issuing bonds

(20:26):
that the state would then repay. That will be you
repaying with interest including increased sales tax revenues, income tax revenues,
and commercial activity tax revenues from this what they call
Brook Park project. The stadium total costs two point four
billion dollars just just blows my mind. Cour to the team,

(20:48):
they say half of that's going to come from private
sources and the public meaning the taxpayer is going to
put the rest of the bill Kuihoga County taxpayers, among others,
six hundred million going to be coming from them. The
remaining six hundred million dollars from this date, which means
that's you and me feel good about that.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Something I ran into this morning and thankfully the traffic
diversion was diverting people off I seventy one south onto
the Montgomery Road exit, which is the exit I take anyway.
And I was wondering and puzzling while the cones were
put up and the police were there. That's because a
semi tractor trailer hauling forty thousand pounds of cheese overturned

(21:30):
just south of that Montgomery Road exit, in between Montgomery
and Kenwood Road. So they were routing people off Montgomery
and having them reroute around to Kenwood Road and then
get back on seventy one at Kenwood. No injuries reported,
No cheese spilled onto the highway. Chan drove past that
the high speed lane going northbound. It was the semi

(21:51):
and the accident had intruded into the northbound lane, but
he didn't stop and get cheese. Let's shut down about
eleven thirty pm last evening, according to Sergeant Robert May
of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Officers. So I guess it's
still being cleaned up. I have no idea because I
can't look out a window because I don't have one.

(22:13):
In other local stories, a Green township man's been accused
of following a senior citizen home and robbing him of
his car at gunpoint, leading police on a chase. Twenty
seven year old Mark Adam's now facing charges of aggravated burglary,
aggravated robbery, and fleeing police. Green Township Police say Adams
followed an elderly man home from a Kroger on Glenway
Avenue Tuesday. When the victim parked his car in the

(22:36):
attached garage, Adams pointed a gun at them and stole
the car. Victim called nine to one one police started following.
The officers said they had to stop chasing at it
because he was driving recklessly and putting people's lives at risk.
They later found the stolen car parked behind a house
Adam's estate at Police said they also found documents with

(22:59):
the victim's name on them inside the home. Adams now
at the Hamilton County Detention Center on a three hundred
thousand dollars bond. Obviously did not appear in front of
Judge Silverstein. Five thirty five fifty five care see the
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Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's five forty coming up with five forty one if
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we're doing that empower you summinar tonight seven PM about
health and most notably a lot of information about COVID nineteen.

(23:35):
He did some real teasing with the promotion.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yesterday we was on the program talking about how they
pulled VOCs off the market after reported reportedly seven thousand
reported incidents of problems associated with taken that with with
with with using vox and I remember that was like
all the rays to deal with arthritic pain in a
while a long time ago, there were thirty thousand such
complaints to I guess the sea or wherever these incidents

(24:01):
are reported regarding the COVID nineteen vaccine. Was that pulled
off the market? Nope, So just one of the topics
he's going to be talking about during the seminarch and
I should be fascinating anyhow. Over the stack is stupid.
A teenage customer was choked by a McDonald's worker after
the girl walked behind the counter to take some ranch

(24:23):
dipping sauce after not being helped by an employee. This,
according to Florida Police, seventeen year old return to McDonald's
lobby when a Keen Samson, thirty one years old, grabbed
her arm. According to the police report, when the teen
tried to break free, Sampson allegedly grabbed her neck and
took her to the ground, then, according to the complaint,

(24:43):
choked the victim again while they were on the floor.
This in Saint Petersburg, Florida. As his tradition. Criminal complaint
doesn't reveal how much a many ranch packages, if any,
were secured after the victim crossed the McDonald's front counter threshold.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
I love the smoking gun.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Cops responded to McDonald's on Friday afternoon, note of the
victim had visible injuries to her neck and elbow, adding
at the incident was all captured on video. Of course,
it was Samson charged with child abuse. She was released
from the county jail that Friday evening after posting a
twenty five hundred dollars bond and has pleaded not guilty
to the felony count. Judge ordered Samson not to have

(25:23):
any contact with the victim and directed her to stay
away from the area of the defense, which as this
smooking gun accurately observes will likely impact her tenure at McDonald's.
E Let us go to Wayne Kunny, Kentucky. Monticello man

(25:48):
arrested and is facing numerous charges of the police say
he was found walking naked on a highway court to
the recitation. Deputies at the Wayne County Sheriff's Office responded
to a report of a nude guy walking down Kentucky
thirty two eighty six. There they located James K. King,
who told deputies he was quote going to get some

(26:08):
pants close quote. Officers said he appeared to be under
the influence of a controlled substance and became disorderly, repeatedly
kicking the door of the patrol car while being taken
to jail.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, well, there's your.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Bubbling bomber stupidity, which I will admit, Sean, is the
appropriate SoundBite to play here. But you know, I know
a lot of people who smoke weed, and I went
to college, and while I did not personally smoke weed,
I was surrounded by people who smoke weed. Not one
of them ever removed their clothes and started walking down
the highway. So I don't think this was a marijuana

(26:44):
related incident. Probably not, right, King been charged with indecent
exposure second degree, public intoxication, controlled substance, and disorderly conduct
second degree. Also arrested on six outstanding Wayne County District
Court warrants, including multiple counts of contempt of court, failure

(27:05):
to appear, public intoxication, criminal trespassing, and possession of drug
paraphernalia and again probably not a bong. Court record show
King left rehab on an agreed order related to several
of the underlying charges. He was taken to the Wayne
County Detention Center where I'm suspecting probably still less, stick

(27:27):
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Speaker 1 (27:41):
Conference.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Anyway, back over to the stack of stupid, we get
another naked guy. This Altuna, Pennsylvania, where a naked guy
who was allegedly only wearing shoes got arrested after a
mother spotted him at Memorial Spray Park and Playground. Thirty
six year old Bobby Lee Nicholson Altun arrested in charge
with indiescent exposure and opened lewdness after the Altuna police

(28:04):
were called to the area. This happened at the end
of March March thirty. First criminal complaint says the momb
called police while she was waiting for her child to
finish dance lessons that she spotted this naked guy in
the playground, saying his genitals were fully exposed. When police
got there, she showed him a video of the guy
running away. Had a witness helped direct police to where

(28:25):
he ran off to. Police found pants on the playground
that had a wallet and ID for Nicholson in the pocket.
Nicholson quickly found and detained. According to the charging documents,
he was placed into a police cruiser so no one
else had to look at him. Also reportedly belligerent after
being put into custody and taken to the Altuna police station.

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Police noted that they had to physically remove the shoes
from his feet, which was the only thing he was
actually wearing. They also saying the charging documents that he
refused to give them an address. Placed in the Blair
County Prison thirty five thousand dollars bail with a hearing
schedule for the sixteenth set, Wanda go drugs on that

(29:07):
one too. Enraged therapist. Oh my god, an enraged therapist.
That's next level stuff. Anyway, She got arrested after finding
her daughter in bed with a naked guy. Doctor Kimberly
bird Rider, fifty eight arrested on a charge of battery
in her home in the community of Oxford. I don't

(29:30):
think that's our Oxford, to be quite honest with him.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Bird Writer's daughter contacted law enforcement and reported that her
mother had just beat her up. This in the arrest
report from the Wildwood Police Department. Described as a yoga
specialist trained at Harvard University, bird Writer walked unannounced into
her daughter's bedroom. That's where she found her with a
man lying on the bed unclothed. Bird Writer ran at

(29:54):
the pair, but her daughter stood up to protect her
man friend. That's how he's described to the article. Bird
Writer's struck her daughter in the face with an open hand.
The man fled. Bird Writer was successful in kicking him
prior to the quick exit, although it does not describe
where she kicked him. Bird Writer told police that her
daughter quote meets strange men on the internet and brings

(30:16):
them back to their residence to have sex with them.
Close quote said she doesn't know the men and is
not comfortable with them staying at the residence, a position
which I understand. But apparently this woman is of age.
Bird Writer said she's asked her daughter several times not
to bring the men into the house. Bird Writer booked
into the sumter kind of detention center where she was
initially held without bond. Well kick her out of the

(30:38):
damn house. He's obviously an adult. This isn't a case
that involves child molestation.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
UH.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Minnesota woman who confessed in her personal journal that she,
in her words, totally stole a car today exclamation point
pleaded guilty to a felony car court a felony charge
peeling the Appearing in district court, Vanessa Guerrera, thirty, copped
to receiving stolen property in connection with the theft of
a Ford van judge said Guerrera sentencing.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Order and.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
They called it persistence investigation. I don't know what that
is to be prepared by probation officers. Conviction carries a
maximum penalty of five years in prison. Anyway, during the
auto theft investigation, police determined that the stolen van worth
two thousand dollars had been sold for scrap courting to
the criminal complaint. Witnesses at the auto salvage business day

(31:36):
that Guerrera brought the van in and sold it to them.
Police probe investigator Andrew Conneckie was able to locate the
journal belonging to Guerrera, which contained the incriminating entries. On
the same day of the ford's owner discovery that the
vehicle is missing. Guerrera road quote totally stole a car today,
something I never thought of doing. Effings, super freaking out
about it. Close quote. Guerra denied knowing that the vehicle

(32:00):
was stolen when she was first confronted by Officer Kaneki
or Sheriff KANECI, please obtain the journal from her mom,
with whom Guerrera and her boyfriend had once resided. Prior
to the rest. She'd been working as a door dash driver,
previously convicted of theft, driving with a suspended license, driving
without insurance, and was on probation when she stole the van.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Idiot Yeah, five fifty six.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
To fifty five carers of Detalk station more to talk
about in the top of the hour. After the top
of the air news and of course an opportunity for
you to steer the direction of the conversation. Feel free
to call. I'll be right back if I think about
the CD talk station. If everybody's having a happy Friday eighteenth,
and let's see, here's get something really important out of
the way while I'm talking and shouldn't be doing it

(32:49):
right now. But I didn't say hello to my wife
this morning. It is again in Chicago at a conference.
So there's a couple of hearts showing her that I
love her and telling her that I'm thinking about her.
Thank you for indulging me on that. Getting out of
my system while I move over to let you know.
One hour from now, George Brunneman returns to the studio.
He's gonna be talking about the Restored Liberty dot Us event.
We talked touched on that yesterday with Americans for Prosperities

(33:12):
Donovan O'Neil. The event is on Sunday and everybody's welcome.
It's a tax event. So George of Restore Liberty dot
Us at seven oh five fall by Congressman Warren David.
So we certainly have a lot to talk about with him,
including tariffs and Oh my god, the world was going
to end up until yesterday when Donald Trump announced a

(33:32):
ninety day pause because seventy so far seventy five countries
have stepped up to tell Donald Trump and the Trump
administration that they want to haggle. They're willing to sit
down and negotiate better trade terms. So he said, okay,
I'll pause for everybody who's willing to sit down with
us and talk about it. We're gonna, you know, stop
these tariffs from taking effect. China, however, went the opposite direction,

(33:54):
so you know, they added eighty four percent tariff on
US goods that are in the country after Donald Trump
imposed one hundred and twenty five I don't number which
back and forth, but they're going the exact opposite direction.
But the market reacted quite favorably to Trump's pause and
so great illustration. As I mentioned the last hour, Jim

(34:14):
Keefer had lost a substantial amount during the sell off,
and of course if you looked at your four oh
one k or whatever else you had your stockholdings, you
probably lost a significant amount as well. He got it
all back and then some yesterday they described it as
the third biggest sort market across the board market surge ever,
or at least since World War two or something. But

(34:35):
it was a massive reclaiming of the losses that had occurred, because,
of course, the people are sitting down in the suggestion
that we might engage in some open and free to
way trade that's going to be good for everybody, so
happy to see that, and again ignoring whether or not
any of this is legal or within the executive powers.

(34:57):
That's the conversation I had with Judgent in apo Altana yesterday,
and you can feel free to look that up and
listen to what he had to say, because it's probably
not and I share his constitutional analysis of that. But
this is the reality we live in. There is that
nineteen seventy seven law that allows an emergency emergency authorization

(35:20):
to use these tariffs, and that's what Trump asserted it under.
And whether or not there is an actual emergency, because
the fentanyl crisis was the original pretext for the Mexican
Canadian increase of twenty five percent, and that apparently was
interpretedly too. It was interverted too broad, and it impacted
things far beyond Canada and Mexico. So he had to

(35:40):
shift gears and claim we have an emergency which authorizes
him to impose tariffs because of the trade imbalance. Well,
the politano and the statistics pointed all out rightfully noted
that the trade imbalance has existed since the nineteen thirty
so not necessarily in an unforeseen unexpected event, which is
what constituted it's an emergency. Plus, there's some question looming

(36:02):
around there as to.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Whether that that that that the executive branch can even
take on a congressionally constitutionally delegated authority, which is the
power of the purse spending. You exist within the powers
of Congress, not the executive branch, and there's many Supreme
Court presidents saying you can't pawn off this authority. So

(36:25):
I don't think that's ever been tested in court. It
may under these circumstances, But after yesterday's rebound, and if
things keep going along swimmingly, there's not going to be
a whole lot of I guess probably willingness to attack
and go after these negotiations because they may lead to
a better place for everybody. So I'm just trying to
keep that in mind rather than you know, putting my

(36:47):
constitutional and lawyer hat on and wondering whether any of
this is actually legal or not, but you can rest
assured at least as of yesterday, you got your money
back if you didn't flee the markets. And Brian James
on Money Monday would tell you never do that. Stocks
go down, stocks go up, recessions happen, then they come
out of them, and over time you always end up
on top with long term investments.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Anyway, Canada's already suggested better negotiations and new economic and
security relationships. So say if Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karney,
as I mentioned in the last hour, they're willing to
sit down at the table to negotiate open and free trade. Yeah,
Canada most also continue deep in its relationship with trading

(37:31):
partners that share our values, including the free and open
exchange of good services and ideas.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yet good.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's amazing what Trump's been able to accomplish in such
a short period of time if you put things in context,
and speaking of getting things done in a short period
of time, I you know, related to nothing I've talked
about this morning, but I thought it was a worthy
exercise to talk about this exchange between Elon Musk and
Chuck Schumer. Chuck, I'm starting to think you're getting a

(38:04):
piece of the action with the government fraud. But no,
that couldn't possibly be the reason, could it. That was
a post he put on X earlier this week, and
so Schumer had to respond to that, of course, because
of course the Department of Government Efficiency has been exposing
all the fraud, waste, and abuse, including social Security, and
Schumer has been accusing of the Department of Governmental Efficiency

(38:27):
of sabotaging his word social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which
is an absolute, outright lie.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
And I hate repeating myself on that.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
How does getting rid of you know, one hundred and
fifty year old people off of active Social Security roles?
Discovering that illegal immigrants to the tune of millions have
been issued social Security numbers when they're not authorized or
it's not legal for them to have them, under the
circumstances that fraudulent payments have been flowing out within the

(38:57):
Social Security Department for a long time. Medicaid obviously a
lot of fraud involved in Medicaid. Millions of illegal immigrants
now hooked up to the Medicaid system, which people are
claiming that the Trump administration is trying to harm. If
you get rid of them and take them off Medicaid

(39:18):
because they're not eligible to be on in the first place.
And you get take these folks off the rolls of
taking money out of the Social Security funds, which really
honestly don't exist. That's saving the system. So it's an
outright lie when you say that they are trying to
destroy those systems. They're doing more than any other administration

(39:39):
prior to help save and salvage them by getting rid
of well fraud. So Sumer fires back to this suggestion,
sort of you know, tongue in cheek suggestion that hey,
you're on the take. Could that possibly be the reason
that you're against us doing what we're doing? Sumers responds,

(40:00):
another elon lie. He wants you to think that anyone
who dares to stand up to him is committing fraud.
Here's the salient part. Meanwhile, he's taking tens of billions
from the government. Close quote, Oh, so you went to

(40:24):
work today and yesterday and then he passed. However long
you've been in the work world paying federal taxes. He's
taking tens of billions from the government because it's the
government's money. In the hearts and minds of most leftists
like Chuckie Schumer. Anyhow, it's an obvious lie, and you know,
someone gets in your face and starts telling you that

(40:46):
you know just well how to ask them how it
is that the Trump administration or Elon Must specifically, or
anybody involved in ferreting out all this crap is taking
something away from you when every dollar they save that
does not go out the door in fraud is actually
a dollar that's going to actually go to someone who
is within the legalities of Medicare, Medicaid social Security lawfully

(41:09):
taking the money authorized to eligible for it. Meanwhile, over
a socias security, the Social Security Administration announced this week
that it's planning to perform an anti fraud check at
least on claims filed by phone and walk back services
over the phone quote beginning on April fourteenth. The agency
announced on x the Social Security Administration will perform an

(41:32):
anti fraud check on all claims filed over the telephone
and flag claims that have fraud risk indicators. This after
a DOGE findings of waste fraud abuse, such as non
citizens getting the Social Security numbers and payments to accounts
said to be one hundred two hundred and even three
hundred years old. Again, how is eradicating those names off

(41:54):
the active ranks something that's bad, unless, of course, if
you believe Elon Musk's tongue and cheek comment that some
of our politicians are benefiting from that. Why else would
a politician reject the idea of getting rid of those
active social and security numbers when these people clearly do
not exist at least any longer. Don't you find something

(42:16):
openly and obviously nefarious about that? I mean, they's so
wed to the anything Trump or his administration does is
bad position. That's something that they used to out loud
advocate for. They're on tape, they're on video, they're on record.
This campaign promises we're gonna ferret out the fraudways and

(42:38):
bus over in the Social Security Department. But they never
did anything about it. So it was okay when they
said it and promised it, even though they didn't follow
through on it. But now that the Trump.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Administration does it, they can't even give them okay, you
know what, I hate to have to agree with something
Trump and his team are doing, but this is a
good thing for the country. They're so wed to their
anti Trump, evil orange man position that they can't even
give him credit for something that should have been done
a long time ago, something that should have been part
of the core mission of all of these government entities

(43:08):
to have a fiduciary obligation perspective on the dollars they
have taken from you, to responsibly manage them to efficiently
run their individual lettered agency. Doesn't that sound like something
that's good for everybody? Isn't that it like an apolitical thing,

(43:29):
something that lacks a partisan stripe. I mean, why can't
we all embrace that concept?

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Well, because we'd have to give Trump credit for actually
getting something done that we've been promising the American people
for years. Maybe that's the reason or what started this rant.
Maybe Elon Musk is onto something with his tongue in
cheek comment about Schumert being on the take.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Something tells me if he's around long enough, and that
team in doges around long enough, they may find the
paper trail which will tell us one way or another.
On the heels of that interesting comment from the White
House Press Secretary and Donald Trump the prior day about
this this unbelievable revelation that they found that we will
soon find out about I'm waiting and waiting on that one.

(44:21):
Maybe they've already established this paper trail. My popcorns out
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Speaker 1 (44:56):
He's got a couple of callers.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Online beginning with order, which they received, was said Jim, Jim,
good to hear from. I mentioned your named a couple
of times this morning already.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Yeah, I heard that.

Speaker 7 (45:06):
Bryan's the reason I called in.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Good morning, uh, good morning.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
You know, people need to just kind of settle back,
if you know, talk to a financial planner or someone
that handles your money or a four to one case.
That's not in my case. I don't hit a four
to one. But you know, this has happened before, and
my guy got me off the ledge, and I kind
of I knew it was going to happen, But the
past couple of weeks you get a little bit anxious

(45:32):
about when you see your your money going out the
window and you wonder if it's going to come back.
But I think Trump has actually come to reality that
he's not God. He and he has to work with
these people instead of sitting up there playing the puppet manster.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Well, the people and you're referring to countries with whom
we trade wanted to now work with Trump. They reached
out and express a desire to do that, and so
I guess it was his Treasury secretary. He said, listen, man,
watch you back off the tariff. They're willing to come
to the table. This is going to take a while
to negotiate, so put a pause on it and let's
see what happened. So he did that, and of course

(46:10):
the markets reacted quite favorably. I mean the markets went
through the roof of his record day of teff trading yesterday,
and you didn't lose any money. If you didn't sell anything,
you didn't lose anything. Because a financial plann would be
quick to tell you that it's like what's my house worth.
It's worth what it's worth the day you close, not before.
You don't know what's my portfolio worth. Well, right now,

(46:33):
at this moment in time, it's worth X, but tomorrow
may be worth something less than X, and the day
after maybe X plus.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
But it's the day you sell.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
It is when you know whether you had made a
profit or took a loss. And that's all there is
to it.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Well, and the.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
People that got freaked out and took their money out
right away or in the past couple of weeks, I
know they're sorry they did it. But you know what
you do now is you sit back and wait for
about sixty to seventy seventy five eighty days, and then
when that ninety day ringing the bell is going to
come up, then you do make some kind of an

(47:08):
action because if you take it out now, you got
losses and they're not they're not coming back.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I mean, why you don't sew that's why you don't
sew when the market drops like it did exactly. I mean,
no one wants to see that happen. It does cause
anxiety and concerns. But you know, there's a lot of
market volatility these days, especially the way the stocks are
traded with artificial intelligence factoring into it, and you got
all these instantaneous transactions done by computers stuff. It's not

(47:34):
like the old days where you had to call up
your broker and people looked at actual things that are important,
like pe ratios. Sometimes people just trade on a whim,
you know, meme stocks and things like that. It's a
crazy thing out there. That's why I'm not involved with
financial planning. I don't think about it. I never look
at my four to one K until I have my
sort of semi annual meeting with my financial planner and
get a lay of the landscape. So that's why I

(47:57):
don't get anxiety because I don't look. I don't know
how much I lost two days ago, and I'm sure
it was a good chunk. But I feel pretty confident,
like you, Jim, that you made it all back yesterday.
What's gonna happen today? Don't know, Dot Dallas Trading. Look
at futures are down point smps down point one point
four NASDAK futures one point six down. So we might

(48:19):
lose a little bit of today. What will happen the
next day, God only knows. Pat, hang on, I'll take
your call in a minute, I'd say, already out of time.
Here at six twenty six to fifty five KR City
Talk Station. If one called six thirty two fifty five
CAR CIT DE Talk station five one three seven four
nine fifty five hundred eight hundred DY two three, you
talk Brian Thomas here inviting me to call like Pat did. Pat,
thanks for calling this morning. Welcome on the morning show.

Speaker 6 (48:41):
Oh thank you, Brian.

Speaker 7 (48:43):
I'm embarrassed it's Cole Raine involved in this voting today.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
No city of Cincinnati, Okay, well I can't actually I
can't speak to anything outside of the City of Cincinnati
because I've been focused on Corey Bowman and the primary.
But early voting started, and that it's one of the
things I brought up earlier because Westside Jim Keeper was
already disappointed in the numbers of people who have voted early.
It's only one hundred and fifty six as of yesterday afternoon,

(49:07):
so it's easy to do. Hammon Kenny Bard of Elections
has all the information posted on the website, which is
vote Hamilton Countyohio dot gov, so you can probably find
out the answer to your question right there. I'd vote
Hamilton County, Ohio dot gov.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
So okay, sure thingk Pat, you have a great day.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Thanks for calling six thirty comingup with six thirty three. Yeah,
southbound seventy one. I don't know if they cleaned it
up yet, but a semi tractor trailer hauling forty pounds
of cheese flipped over the southbound lane. Happened overnight about
eleven thirty last evening, and it was closed as of
this morning. When I was pulling in to the Montgomery
Road exit, and thankfully that's where they were diverting people,

(49:50):
so I got diverted right off or where I normally
divert anyway, moving people down to Kenwood and then Kenwood
back on to seventy one. So they're cleaning it up.
Wreckord was on the scene and my producer for Today
Covin for Joe Strekker, Sean McMahon said he drove past
the coming northbound the northbound lanes were closed because most
of some of the wreck had, you know, crossed over

(50:10):
the dividing strip Therehile House passed the budget and you're
not going to be happy about it. Ignoring everything else,
Let's focus on stupid six hundred million dollars from for
bonds for the grand and glorious mega complex for the
Cleveland Browns. While makers agreed to put six hundred million

(50:31):
in bonds toward the new Brown Stadium, a one hundred
and seventy six acre mixed use project filled with stuff
and things, they asked the state to borrow six hundred
million for the new stadium by issuing bonds debt the
state would then repay with interest using increased sales tax revenues,
income tax revenues, and commercial activity tax revenues from the

(50:51):
entire Brook Park project. Taxpayers basically on the hook for that.
They say it would cost the state one billion dollars
to pay off that debt over twenty five years. Stadium
cost two point four billion. Every time I read that,
it just puts bile up in my throat. Half of
it from private sources, they claim, the public footing the

(51:13):
rest of the bill six hundred million coming from local
governments like Cuyahoga County taxpayers. So they're going to feel
the sting that Hamilton County taxpayers did with the Paul
at the formerly known Paul Brown Stadium, and then the
remaining six hundred million coming from the state.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
Why don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Well they're you know that might apply normally, but you know,
this was the vote on this budget package, sixty to
thirty nine, five Republicans voting against it. So the vast
majority of this is coming from Republicans which run Columbus.
It is a deep, deep, deep red state. Sean, Okay,

(51:55):
I give you a pass on that. See I could
correct the record. Gave me an opportunity to remind me
folks that Republicans do stupid things as well. Six thirty five.
If you have Karcite talk station, maybe feel differently about
that one. You're not going to change my mind on
taxpayer funded stadiums. Six forty one fifty about kars De
talk station.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
See, I don't know everything. That's why I rely on
smart people.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
In this particular case, George Brenneman is going to be
in studio off the top of the R News. We
got a whole bunch of different topics to talk about,
including the event on Sunday, So it's not just that
issue too. Based on Pat's call, Issue two is on
the bile for the entire state of ohiouse everybody. Hamilton
kind of needs to get out there and vote, and
he says vote no on issue too, So we'll talk
about issue too when he comes into studio after the
top of the R News. So there is the correct

(52:41):
answer to the question posed by Pat and apologies, I
didn't have that in the forefront of my mind. But
then again, you know, I got limited random access memory
going on up there, and the older I get, the
less space there is in there. It's like when you
choose to commit to something to memory, you've got to
like throw something out that's in your hard drive. I've
I think this is kind of way my life goes. Anyway,

(53:06):
I'll read this real quick here because if you weren't
listening this morning, in the five o'clock hour, we heard
from Curbage Mike my submarine, her friend who is very
very much involved in Honor Fly Try State. Dianne Benicki,
the ambassador for Honor Fly Try State, issued this to everyone.
She just quick note to say thanks to all to
made the trip out to CVG for the all caps

(53:26):
best welcome home ever, which is kind of the way
Mike described it. The ambassadors and the sales tables scattered throughout.
We're able to answer questions. Thanks to the Essaar and
Dar and others who made up the color guard. Thanks
to the Hibernians and the Emerald Society pipes and drums
who so wonderfully led the parade. Thanks to the staff
at CVG for loading as part of their space for
the celebration. And a heartfelt thank you to those who

(53:48):
gave handshakes and kisses to those veterans returning from the
trip of a lifetime. Most of these returning last evening
did not receive this kind of welcome upon the return
from duty. And of course she's referred to the Vietnam vetters,
which made up the mass of the majority of those there.
She writes, I saw a great deal of emotion in
the eyes as well as amazement at the size of

(54:08):
the crowd. Thanks again, remember we do this again. Put
it on your calend Wednesday, May twenty first. Hope to
see you then. It is a wonderful event to attend
the return home celebration. So thanks to everybody, he was
able to make it. And I got a big chuckle
out of this. I guess this masa make America's showers

(54:30):
great again. Donald Trump did another executive order yesterday repealing
a ruling by the prior administration and the Obama administration
restricting water flow from shower heads. Back in twenty twenty one,
the Department of Energy under Biden reversed a Trump era

(54:52):
rule that had removed the Obama administration's limitations on the
flow of water from your shower head at two point
five gallons per minute. So one administration, you know, screws
you over, and another one comes in and gives you
the freedom to choose, and then, of course the following administration,
under a different political persuasion, takes the right to choose
away from you. And in terms of shower head, I

(55:13):
would much prefer a higher flowing shower head. And that's
kind of how I got a chuckle out of this article,
because apparently Donald Trump likes it too. So yesterday in
the Oval Office, Trump recented the Biden air's standards and
said this, he's so goofy. Sometimes in my case, I
like to take a nice shower to take care of

(55:35):
my beautiful hair, I have to stand under the shower
for fifteen minutes until it gets wet. It comes out, drip, drip, drip.
It's ridiculous. And he'd made prior statements to that effect before,
but apparently in connection with this executive order, they called
how and they called out how much legal ease was
used to define, you know, a showerhead, saying the Biden

(55:57):
administration was a The Biden definition was a staggering thirteen
thousand words the Oxford English Dictionary, by contrast, to find
showerhead in one short sentence. So the order apparently impacted
other limitations done by the Obama and Biden administrations for
everyday utilities such as gas stoves, water heaters, washing machines, furnishes,

(56:22):
and dishwashers, noting that this administration will aim to end
quote Biden's dumb war on things that work. Close quote
amen to that, listen. I'm all about choice. If there's
a more efficient product out there and it's available, fine,

(56:42):
but don't take away ones that work from us. Quite often,
they these so called more efficient products cost you a
lot more money to acquire, and this is another illustration
of you know, who's the fascist, the government that's telling
a manufacturer they must limit their product to do x,
Y or z and it may not exceed some random

(57:04):
arbitrary figure like two point five gallons per minute. Where
did that come from? Why isn't a two point eight
or two point one? I don't know. Oh, I'm sure
they've got statistics that you and I paid for some
random government study to say two point five is about
all the people can tolerate. But offering one that uses
less water, you can market that saying, you know, if

(57:26):
your water bill is really high, why don't you choose
one of these lower flowing shower heads or do what
the vast majority of us do. There's that little restrict
in there, that piece of plastic that's about, I don't know,
a quarter inch wide. You stick a little knife or
a pin or something in there, and you pop that
guy out, and you magically turn a two point five
gallon per minuted shower head into something that actually works.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
There is a workaround, but.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Taking away the option of cooking with natural gas, for example,
I mean, that's what works the best. I've been cooking
with gas pretty much my entire life. My mom had
an electric stove and it sucked, and she'd tell you
the same thing. Restaurants use gas. It's immediately changeable temperature wise,

(58:14):
it's really it works wonderfully. And how many emissions you
think are put up by such a simple stove? And
don't believe your home is being polluted by your gas stove.
I mean, I got a blower right above mind that
pulls all that out of the house. But even if
you don't have one, the amount of pollutants that come
out of it are very, very minimal. And of course

(58:34):
people aren't dropping dead left and right because you use
a gas stove. But that's just one cliance among many
trying to take away your furnace from you, trying to
take away you'r hot or your hot water heater from you,
micromanaging industry and limiting the American people's choice in the
name of some religion out there that many people don't
believe in, including me. Offer it as a choice, let

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the consumer decide, much in the same way I argue
about electric vehicles. Some people love them, some people don't.
Let us choose and let the market forces decide. It's
been a successful mechanism and a successful concept for almost
as long as our country has been around, well up

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until the last couple of administrations. Anyway, six forty eight
fifty five ker CD talk station, a forty six fifty
three to fifty five pair CD talk station, and a
very happy what a Friday eve to you?

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Kimber? Which date it is? George TETs because my wife's
out of town.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
George Runneman in the studio restored Liberity dot us with
a whole host of topics to talk about, including issue too.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
I just got the ballot language.

Speaker 6 (59:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
It offers a.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Two point five billion dollars in general obligation bond. This
is the State of Ohio limited as two hundred fifty
million dollars per year over ten years to fund the
state capital improvements program via the Ohio Public Works Commission. Anyway,
the cord to the Hio Public Works Commission, fifty six
point seven percent of this bond money borrowed money that

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will have to pay interest on.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
We'll go to roads, and I gotta stop right there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
But some of it's gonna go to water supply, some
to wastewater management, some for bridges and culverts, and a
tiny amount for storm routed utilities. But I thought we
paid tax on gasoline to fund the roads. And I thought,
you know, municipalities charged taxing the like for the game.
But the gamp of the City of Cincinnati supposed to
be taking care of roads and it doesn't. So we're

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supposed to allow the state to borrow two point five
billion dollars to further fund something that's supposed to have
already been funded. I'm sorry, I gotta go a hard
no on that one. And well, I know George Runham
has already told me to say vote no on issue too,
but I take him at his word. But you know,
having read the language, which you can find yourself. Just

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search Ohio Issue to twenty twenty five in your search
engine and you two can read the lange, we'd and
jar your own conclusions about that. I haven't seen the
arguments for or against, but you know, I thought roads
were supposed to have been paid for.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
More with George Brennman, followed by Congressman Warren Davidson. Congressman
Davidson returns to the program at seven forty. We're gonna
hear from Brian Rensinger about his book land Ridge Cash Poor,
My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing
American Farmer. He'll join the program in ETO five and
then we get to hear from iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay
Ratliffe every Thursday at eight thirty. An enjoyable conversation it

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always is, so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Don't go away.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
George Brenneman on a whole host of issues coming up
after the top of the our News seven oh five
the fifty bove kre CD talk station, A very Happy

(01:01:53):
Friday Eve to you. Congressman Warren Davison coming up at
seven forty. We'll hear in one hour Brian and Resider
with his book Rich Cash for My Family's Hope and
The Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer and Jay Ratliffe.
I heard d aviation extper Day thirty, but as promised
in studio from Restore Liberty dot Us, you should really
check out what's going on there. George Brunneman. It's always

(01:02:14):
a pleasure of seeing you in person and talking with you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
I see again Brian, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Since it came up and you're the one that I'd
forgotten all that issue too, it's made me a stealth
issue that's exactly nobody's talking about it, and I'm like,
what the hell is issued too? And I feel embarrassed
because of course it's an issue that's on the ballot.
Early voting has already started. It's not just City of Cincinnati,
which I've been focusing on because you know, Corey Bowmen's
been on the program, you know, like what freshing alternative

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to the current you know, Democrat runs city with all
the problems and all the issues, and so issue too
flew completely under my radar, to my embarrassment. But I'm
happy to admit that, yeah, even I don't know everything
that's going on, but a statewide issue, and it's a
two point five billion dollar general obligation bond basically for infrastructure,

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including fifty six point seven percent of it apparently directed
to roads.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Well, they do the infrastructure stuff because they know it's
easy to pass that. It's like doing a library levee
or a child's you know, health levee or something. It's
one of those things that they know will pass. But
in this case they're actually putting it into the Ohio Constitution. Again,
like you know, it seems anymore they can't get the
legislature to do what they want, so they they stick
it in the constitution. But it's basically like you say,

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billions of dollars in a slush fund. So it's a
bond saying we're going to have this bond out there
that they can use whenever they want for whatever projects
they want, as long as it fits in that you know,
infrastructure category. But bonds are basically future taxes. So if
you're going to have this two point five billion dollar bond,
it means at some point we're going to pay ten

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x that because it's a loan and you got interest
rates and they're sky high now. So I mean, not
only is it the wrong time to be taken a
loan because of the instru it's just learn how to
spend within your budget money well, and if.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
You need money for the roads, you know, again going
back to inaction within the legislative branch. And of course
we can see that in Washington, DC literally every day
of the week over the past how many decades, right,
But I think a more appropriate response to that would
be a gasoline tax. I'm sorry, they just passed what
two years ago by Billy Sites got us that one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
It was right another thirty cents or something, and people
got upset about that, and I understand being upset about that.
But if you're driving a car, you're using the roads.
Except if you're driving a Tesla Evil Teslas, you're not
paying a gasoline tax. Maybe there should be an EV
tax since they weighed so much more than other automobiles.
They actually did that too, I forgot, did they. Yeah,
so my hybrids, my cars are both hybrids, and so

(01:04:48):
I got an extra I think it's like seventy five
fifty bucks or something like that that I have to
pay for my license plates because I don't use enough gas. Okay,
Well to me, that's fair. You use the roads, pay
for the wear and tear on the roads. Okay, but
I live on the West Side, so like, like Corey
likes to say, his speech is, we don't need speed bumps,
we got potholes.

Speaker 7 (01:05:07):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Oh god, sunset here, I can bring that up right
out of the gate. It's like it's like bringing up
the streetcar when with five friends from the Taxpayer Protection
Alliance are on the program.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Anyhow. But so, yeah, there's issue two on the ballot.
It's the only thing on the ballot. I think your
color was from Cole Rain. So that's the only thing
on the Cole Rain ballot. Okay, I think it's the
only thing on most of them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
But as Jim Keifer pointed out, as of yesterday, I
suppose at the end of the day only one hundred
and fifty six people had early voted. So was this
about initiative that got issue too on the ballot?

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
I don't think so. Okay, I do not think so.
So the slush fund is a desire from our elected
officials in Columbus or some lobbyist firm that got had
put on there. All right, that's the way Columbus tends
to work. Well, I would go no, cause again, infrastructure
more money. It's just a lot of extra money and

(01:06:03):
it could go literally anywhere, and probably we'll be directed
to well connected developers and contractors. Absolutely absolutely, all right, Well,
we had a Donovan and Neil for Americans for Prosperity.
Who's teaming up with you for the Sunday event? Yes,
the Restore Liberty US Sunday event at Double Tree Suite's
Blue Ash sixty three hundred East Kemper Road.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Doors open at four point thirty. A complimentary good word
for that, because it's a dinner buffet, complimentary dinner buffet
at five pm with speakers starting out at six. Again,
remind my listeners what the point of this Sunday event is.
So it started out as a tax day rally. You
remember in the good old tea party days, we used
to have us all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Yeah. The last one was actually in twenty twelve when
I was president. Since a tea party Dan Regan Old
and I did we demand a balanced budget amendment on
Fountain Square in twenty twelve. We haven't had anything like
that since, and so that's kind of where it started.
But then the more we thought about it, the idea
is we're living in a really unique time now where
we have an actual chance to cut spending. We got

(01:07:07):
Doze out there finding all of this ridiculous amounts of spending.
You know, computer systems that don't talk to each other,
and therefore we got millions of migrants on our Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid. It's like, this is ridiculous. So the focus
is going to be on the on the spending side
of it. So why are we spending so much? How
do we make these permanent and how do we push

(01:07:29):
it down to the local level. You know, the state
budget increased twenty percent. What the heck are they thinking
other than I've heard part of that is the cask
thank you of expanded Medicare, and now the federals aren't
kicking in everything, so we have to pay that of
Medicare and Medicaid, Medicaid Medicaid Medicare you pay for Medicaid,

(01:07:51):
you get exactly. But and it was all funded by
the federal government, so that made it a okay, like
ninety percent covered by the federal government. But I remember
arguing against that, saying that this day was coming that
they were going to take that funding away.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
And now it's our problem to foot that bill right,
and no work obligation. We have people who are able bodied,
young people who are taking from you know, those who
really qualify for assistance under Medicaid, so draining the resources
and dollars from that. When there are job opportunities out there,
I mean, the trades alone you can earn while you learn,

(01:08:28):
have gainful employment and a career that will pay you
quite quite well. Yes, I mean, you know, embrace the trades.
You know, be an electrician, become a plumber, you contrary
construction work. There are literally thousands of jobs available out there,
and it's an interesting skill. I mean there's a difference between,
you know, sitting in a desk using your brain all

(01:08:49):
day and sitting at a job site using your hands
and arms. I find both of them fulfilling. I don't
know why they treat one differently than the other either.
Of course, I grew up with a dad that you know,
was a handyman. Did everything I didn't. I suggested, joke,
black electrical tape or WD forty. If either of those

(01:09:09):
didn't fix it, Dad, that would hire somebody out. And
you know, necessity is the mother of invention. So when
my wife and I bought our first house, we lived
in oak Park, just outside of Chicago. While I was
practicing up there, the house was one hundred and twenty
five years old and it had been mostly updated by
the prior owners. For that twenty percent that still need
to work. That was before the internet. I would go

(01:09:31):
to the library and I'd get a book on electrician
you know really, yeah, I ran wire. I did hardwood
floor work either. I even did plaster and lathe work.
I had all kinds of woodworking projects and you know,
I learned a lot because, you know, I didn't have
a lot of extra money to hire somebody out to

(01:09:51):
do it, and it's expensive to hire a contractor in Chicago.
You think it's bad now here, Lord Almighty. You know,
it's just was like, well, honey, we're either going to
put that one off or I'm gonna have to.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Learn how to do how to do it, and it
was fun. Well, YouTube nowadays is the easiest, and I
wish I had YouTube back then. It really would have
streamlined the process. Oh golly. Yeah. So, I mean, so
it's getting back to the event that the idea was,
we really wanted to emphasize what can happen now because
it's such a unique time. Yeah. So we've got Corey

(01:10:24):
Bowman's gonna be there talking about what his plans are
for City of Cincinnati to get the budget under control.
We got Adam Matthews Rodney Creech coming in from Columbus. Uh,
Columbus is a big deal right now? Is income tax?
Getting rid of the income tax? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Uh promise he wants to do that, and I had
a conversation with him here. He's going to be at
the Warren Kenny Lincoln Reagan Dinner tonight and I'm speaking
there and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
Oh you can be there as well. I'll see you there.
Oh good, good, good. Yeah, they changed the shuffle.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
We shuffled who's doing what, and apparently I get to
introduce VVK, which is a real honor and privilege, because
I've had a tremendous matter respect from that guy since
I interviewed when he out as a Woke Incorporated.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Book same here. So I did a podcast with him
real early on in that process, and I was just amazed.
That guy is one of the smartest people I've ever
met ever, and he's so enthusiastic and excited. I mean
you can hear it in his voice. Oh yeah, about
the future for all time, and his brain goes into overdrive.
We started off the podcast with the joke that he's

(01:11:23):
the valedictorian to Saint X. I'm a valed victorian from
from Elder High School. I had to get my little
digs in there. But every time we talk it he
outranks you. No offense to my west side further out
or that was a joke, But we actually got news
yesterday that Vivek is going to be sending us a

(01:11:44):
video message for the for the thing tomorrow, as is
Bernie Marino to I mean Sunday Sunday. Sorry, Sunday Sunday.
So if you come to the if you come to
the Double Tree, you'll hear from Bernie Marino, you'll hear
from Viveake. We're still trying to get Warren Davidson to
send us something, but we'll give him a shout out
when he's on here. Coming up on the program at
seven forty this morning. Cool. But then we also have

(01:12:09):
Mark Pokita. Have you ever interviewed Mark. He's with the
Grassroots Freedom Initiative. He's going to give us sort of
the facts on what's going on fiscal wise in Ohio.
So he's going to talk a little bit about issue too.
He's going to talk about the new budget, what they're
doing with property taxes versus income taxes. So it should
be a you know, a fairly eclectic presentation.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
And I saw they just passed the budget in Columbus. Yeah,
four thousand pages, sixty sixty to thirty something.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
With only five Republicans win against it. Yeah. Oh, you're
so happy to see six hundred million dollars going to
the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, and that's kind of what the
problem is locally. I don't trust any of our current
commissioners to negotiate with the Bengals. It's just going to
get out of control, you know, back in the days
when they negotiated the original and that's now in the

(01:13:03):
textbooks as the example of the worst public private ever. Well,
it's because both people negotiating were sitting on the same
side of the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Table and we at least a week later, right, Yeah, anyhow,
let's pause. We bring George Runner from Restore Liberty dot
Us back to talk about some more issues. After I
mentioned seven fifty five KRCD talk station check it all out,
Restore Liberty dot Us. George Renman's on the job, you know,
looking out for our money and government fraud ways abused

(01:13:33):
in action and things we can do about it. And
of course show up at the event this weekend on Saturday,
that's Sunday, Sunday rather Palm Sunday. Was just getting ready
to say that's why I can't either. Mom's having a
radio for dinner, looking forward to that. Double Tree Suites,
Blue ash doors open at four thirty. Complimentary buffet dinner
five o'clock speakers at six, So nice opportunity to hear

(01:13:56):
all the folks that he already went through.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
And yeah, and the reservations are are highly recommended. There's
only like twenty five seats left. Oh, so go to
restoreliberty dot us and just click on the reserve or
just go to restore liberty dot us slash reserve more
point important point.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
So spaces are limited. I just want to get your reaction.
You probably saw the survey out that you know, like
fifty five percent of the Democrats left leaners at least
embrace on some level the concept of assassinating Donald Trump
and Elon Musk, and I just use that as sort
of a springboard for this. The tolerance for an advocacy

(01:14:39):
for violence coming from the left, it seems it's a
profound problem. And I've never experienced this kind of thing
in my lifetime. Although I guess I live through the
late sixties without being ware of the politically, I wasn't
old enough to understand what was going on. So it's
not a violence isn't a new phenomenon. But all of this,
you know, attacking people's car, you know, I mean these

(01:15:01):
the Tesla's were like the darling of the green folks,
the zero missions, unbelievably efficient and and amazing electronic wonders.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
They are.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
You own some hybrids, and I got a friend of
mine who owns one of those Tesla plaids.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
It's a rocket ship. It is a racket.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Loves it so good, make the choice and buy one.
But now that he's got that, which he bought way
in advance of Elon Musk and doge in his affiliation
with the Trump administration, what it's a legitimate target.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
Now, I don't understand it. It's like they're they're allowed
to become unglued over the fact that this guy is
getting rid of waste. I it's it's it's a mental illness.
That's the only way to think about it. If you
think of it as some kind of they're making a
conscious decision to do it. Why wouldn't anybody get so

(01:15:51):
violent over our vehicle that, like you say, I mean,
the reasoning he's the largest car company in the world
now is because he makes the best version of that product.
Right in my engineering world, my last gig was actually
modeling every electric car made in the world, and nobody
can touch the efficiency of a Tesla the guy is

(01:16:11):
just so far out there, and you watch what his
team is doing. He's brought in these whiz kids and
the nerds have just been let loose, and they're finding
all these you know, just crazy connections and lack of connections,
all of this you know, fraud, waste and abuse. And
suddenly he is ground zero four. He's a Nazis. He's

(01:16:33):
stealing your money. It's like, I don't understand it. And
my main concern is, you know, especially Schumer, they're going
out there lying about everything. Hey, he's lying, you know,
I mean literally lying.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
He's telling him that Elon Musk wants to take away
your your Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
That's an outright lie. It's specifically not being touched. And
so if the only thing that's being touched is saving
money for people who are qualified to receive benefits under
these programs, because they're getting rid of people who are
ripping them off, so now they can afford to actually
give the check for Social Security and medicare a little
bit crazy, anticipated yeah, but what happens when even the

(01:17:15):
lies aren't working Because they aren't people are seeing what's
going on and saying, wait, a minute, he's talking about
social security. I haven't heard a word about that. He's
got to be lying. So if the lies don't work,
are they really going to keep going down this route
of we need to kill Trump, we need to kill Musk,
we need to go after and attack his business so
he's bankrupt. I think that's a horrible path. And if

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you think back to the summer of twenty twenty and
all of the violence that happened then compared to January sixth,
which is always the you know what about that? January
six was a was a show. I mean, they had
so many plants in there that this was just a show.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
And even beyond that conspiracy component of it, you know
that it was coordinated, egged on by and leftists or
the FBI or whoever, evil forces that want to make
the Republicans look bad, and it worked. I we were
screaming at the time. I've said it many times. I'm
watching it all on FULLD on my laptop, screaming that
I'm going no. But that's your reaction, that's the whole point.

(01:18:16):
Republicans looked at that and said that's wrong. Democrats look
at what happened in twenty twenty and what's happening now
with the cars that are saying no, that's that's an
actual reaction to the current problem. We should be destroying
Tesla's right. And you also notice that January sixth was
one day, one day and a couple hours. Actually this

(01:18:36):
is an ongoing day after day phenomenon. The rallies over
the weekend, the attack of Tesla showrooms, the organized protest
against Elon musk and and the Trump administration. People spray
painting private property. These Tesla vehicles that were once great
and now are somehow Nazi mobiles.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
It's absolutely in mostly by Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
You got one more segment with George Brenneman before we
get to Congressman Warren Davidson. First though, seven if you
both KRCD Talk Station Restore Liberty dot Us George Brunneman
in studio, remember to show up with the event on
Sunday again beginning at four thirty when the doors open,
and enjoy that complimentary buffe hear from some wonderful speakers
and some common sense solutions to our problems we face.

(01:19:19):
And one of the problems we face, and I know
you wanted to put a plug in for your other
online and health related effort. George So, and they're remaining
a couple of minutes, why not shift.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Over to health So Restore Wellness dot org. We hit
our first meeting a couple of weeks ago. Went fantastic. Actually,
Keith did a speech on motivation. Went over really well.
We did a podcast on COVID five years later. What
we learned that thing is fantastic. Highly recommend go to
Restore Wellness dot org and let's give that a listen

(01:19:53):
At the rally on Sunday, we're going to have a
table there for Restore Wellness. We're going to be having
a raffle for a set of the books where you've
got the lies I taught in medical school, lies your
doctor tells you, and the Casey means book Good Energy.
Those are a fantastic trio book, so we'll be you
can get them for a dollar instead of the fifty

(01:20:14):
five or whatever costs for the set. Yeah, we had
a lot of people ask about the books you recommend,
and there is a link. There is a link on
the web page and we're going to have all of
those books on at least the sheets for all of
them on display so you can read through it. We'll
give you the key R code, so it's real simple
to just point your phone at it and you can
order it off Amazon. But yeah, every sore. Well this
has been going great. We're going to try and you know,

(01:20:36):
get that rolling out as well to throughout the area.
But I just wanted to make sure people were where
it's still going on. It's it's gaining strength. Yeah. Well,
and so I got to ask, how's it going with
the working out while you're watching television? Well, thanks you
for kicking me in the butt.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
And I had other people who have over the years
suggested it's making similar that I got a little heat
from them, like, well, I told you about the I
got the same. But you know it all it all
came down to, you know, the sort of the cancer
diagnosis and my wife and my family suggesting that I
had put on a few too many pounds over the
past couple of years. And so the stars all align

(01:21:13):
to the point where when you guys were in studio
talking about you know, these health benefits, all I do
is sit and watch Netflix after the show. So I
want to because I want to clear my mind of
the colossal craft that we deal with every day. So
I did get a set of adjustable weights, and so
now I pull them out and I do reps and
I feel there, and I'll wait a half hour and
I'll do another set, and so you know, I'm obviously

(01:21:36):
not ripped, and you can see through my sweater here,
but it's I'm doing something well and every the whole
point of all that it helps, Every little bit helps,
and it's amazing how little steps make a difference. So,
you know, get rid of the high frucos corn serrup
that's been done for a month now, and that's that's
why how I lost weight.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
And then the others, you know, we'll all get rid
of all of the processed stuff and then and if
you really want to take the big step, try and
get rid of the carbs, because it's just evil stuff.
There are more and more studies coming out talking about
the benefits of that. I think it's really starting to
catch on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
It is, and that's why you know, I keep expressing
some measure of excitement for at least RFK Junior, with
his name recognition and the fact that he you know,
he's just pretty much long time left, this guy who
I taught alone a lot. I'm glad he's part of
the Trump administration in this particular role. You know, he
doesn't have any control over environmental policy, has control over

(01:22:31):
information about our health, getting the message out about help.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
Looking for two things from him. Get the floor ad
out of the water. Yeah, working on that, and get
the soft drinks out of snap.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
They're working on that too, and there's been some progress
in some of the states going down this road.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
I don't have any idea why we Paicola's going nuts
because they paid a fortune to get it put into
the program in the first place. Oh how about that
surprise money connections, money talks and health walks. That's apparently
the case. Yeah, it's it's just crazy. But hey, last plug.
Go to restore Liberty dot us. Click on the link,

(01:23:05):
make sure you register. We're looking to pack the house.
And a big shout out to Americans for Prosperity for
co sponsoring the event and helping us with all the costs.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
George Breunhman, thanks for coming in studio, good luck with
the event, and again thanks to AFP folks. Congressman Warren
Davids is online. He's ready to talk. We'll bring him
on right after these brief words starting fifty five KCD
Talk Station, A very happy Thursday to you, always a
good day. When Congressman Warren Davidson returns to the fifty
five KRC Morning Show, Congressman Davidson, welcome back. It's a

(01:23:35):
pleasure to have you on, as it always is.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
Ran.

Speaker 6 (01:23:39):
It's always an honor. Thanks, good to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
And first off, I got to give you a little
bit of earfull through George Brunneman, who didn't stick around
to the studio to give it to himself that he
was hoping that you could do a video for the
Restore Liberty Fiscal Sanity rally on Sunday. So there you
make your own decisions. I told him I would pass
it along and put you on the spot.

Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
They've got a little I will find a way that
sounds like a great thing to do.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
A video for.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Yeah, there's going to be a lot of them, including
I believe, I guess vivek Ramaswami is going to be
providing one and Bernie Moreno as well. So you're in
good company there and that's a great organization Restored Liberty
dot Us. All right, I've taken you off the spot
and putting you back in your role as an elected
official in Congress. I don't know which which direction you
would have starts you perhaps just gauging your reaction on

(01:24:26):
the whole tariff situation. I guess everybody got all their
money back. Yesterday when Donald Trump said he was sitting
down with what seventy five countries expressed the desire to
negotiate and work out something, including Canada, that sounded like,
you know, they wanted to push down for maybe open
free trade, open trade, and maybe just get rid of
tariff's all together, but at least sitting down at the

(01:24:46):
table and talking about it resulted in this ninety day pause,
which the markets exhaled and went through the roof. Your
reaction to all this going.

Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
On, I love it when a plan comes together. You know,
people are like, oh, Trump folded, No, this was a
total bait the whole time, and it took this. I
mean the crazy thing is people are like, well, why
didn't he just get everybody to work together before? Well,
he tried his whole first term, and he told people
as he was meeting with them. Since June of twenty
twenty three, he put out a video in June of

(01:25:16):
twenty twenty three, saying exactly what he was going to
do on his campaign website, and then he got an
office and people acted surprise that he did it. It's
like why would you. I mean, he says he's going
to do things, he does them in his campaign promises,
and this is one of them. And the big thing
that people didn't get about, why are you putting tariffs
on our allies? Well, one, they're not treating as fairly,

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that's true, but the biggest thing is they refused to
help with China. So what happened is China misplayed this badly,
and now we've built a coalition. We've set up the
opportunity to get the allies, our supposed allies, and the
people that came forward and said, well help. Part of
helping isn't just fixing your trade relationship with us, it's
fixing our collective trade relationship with China. China's been taking

(01:26:02):
advantage of everyone, stealing our intellectual property, blocking market access,
and part of why China has no leverage they don't
allow us access to their market. So, okay, put your
tiarfs at whatever you want, but it's not going to
hurt us as much as our tears are hurting you.
And that's what you're seeing turmoil in the bond market
because China needs to keep selling off things to create
liquidity to hold their currency pegged low. It's their currency

(01:26:25):
manipulation practice. So this is a well crafted play. It's
a big part of why Scott Bessant became the Secretary
of Treasury.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
Yeah, and I was just going to bring Scott beston
up because yesterday he said, in response to that eighty
four percent additional tariff, China added because they're going the
opposite direction, rather than negotiate something with us, they hyped
on a much bigger tariff. So what we're a one
twenty five and they're kind of close to that at
this point. But he said they may delist Chinese stock
from American exchanges.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
That would happen. That would be a it would herd,
that would sting.

Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
Yeah, We've got a lot of tools that we could
use to go through China. I mean right now, that's
one of the things. And you know, honestly, China gets
special treatment to even be listed. Normally, you have to
be fully audited by a firm recognized by you know,
the New York Stock Exchange for example, Masdak whatever, you
have credible audits. But China's stocks are essentially tracking stocks

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because they're not going through the same level of scrutiny,
And so you could easily just hold the Chinese companies
to the same standard as everyone else, and while they
would be delisted. We've got nearly three hundred thousand students
in the United States from China. America has about thirty
thousand students in China. So we go ahead and say, well,
you know, you can't study here. And honestly, China expects

(01:27:40):
their students to spy on Americans in order to be
eligible for the student visa. So you know, there are
all kinds of tools that we could use here. And look,
I think honestly, Donald Trump, Scott Besant, myself, and most
of my colleagues, we would love to have a friendly
relationship with the people of China. Chisha Ping, that's he's
not that kind of guy. He's not the same guy

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that Doung Chaoping was. And that's the kind of deal
that happened. It opened up China is you had kind
of this mindset that we can engage and bring China
into the fold. Now they may have been in dishonest
the entire time. But culturally, the phenomenon in China is
just radically different under Chijuping than it was under Hu Jentao.
And you know, if you follow anything much about China,

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who Jintao was the guy that Chijiping purp walked out
of their People's Congress at the last time. He was
the former president, former leader, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party,
and just a very different kind of approach to foreign engagement.
And Chijiping is essentially like Mao mal Or.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
I was going to say Stalin, but yeah, very so,
very reminiscent of the Soviet Union. If you disagree with
or represent some sort of threat to the leader, then
you tend to disappear and are it used to be
they eradicated you from photographs. Even I thought that using
old technology they could erase people's existence. Kind of very Orwellian.

(01:29:01):
Oh that maybe that's why he wrote nineteen eighty four. Anyway,
turning over to the Senate budget resolution, which I saw,
Speaker Johnson canceled a vote yesterday evening on the Senate
budget proposal. Apparently there's some good holdouts in Congress that
want to, you know, get more promises of cuts. And
my understanding is the Senate proposal only cuts four billion

(01:29:21):
over ten years, which is like how much we spill
on a daily basis, and House Republicans were looking for
more like two trillion in cuts. Where are we on this?

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
Congressman Davidson, Well, I couldn't support the Senate version, and
honestly so, I was in negotiations with the Speaker, you know,
really all week, but we basically closed the doors and
sat there from like six pm until eleven last night
trying to negotiate some sort of way around this. The
Senate doesn't really want to be bound to the House's number,

(01:29:51):
and look, bad news doesn't get better with time. I mean,
if they say, oh, we can find the votes, well,
don't find the votes three months from now. Find the
votes now. And you know, they're having a hard time
getting people in the Senate to commit to promising to
save money, let alone on final passage. When all the
deals put together, then there'll be a lot of pressure
to get it done because the tax cuts will have

(01:30:12):
been negotiated, the spending cuts will have been negotiated, the
debt ceiling limit will have been agreed to. And here's
the thing the House said, look in exchange for one
and a half trillion as a floor, we will raise
the debt limit by four trillion dollars. Now, when are
you going to normally make a loan? For the loan
officers out there listening, when are you going to make

(01:30:34):
a loan of four trillion dollars when somebody promises to
only find a way to come up with one and
a half trillion, and you know darn well that they
actually over a ten year period don't need four trillion,
they need eighteen trillion, right, who's going to make that loan? Well,
that's what basically Congress is doing with either of these bills.
So even the House bill isn't very good. But instead

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at one and a half trillion dollar floor, the Senate
bill said, we'll see your four trillion, we'll raise it.
We want five trillion, and we're only going to commit
to four billion in savings, which is like a day
of interest payments exactly. That's insane. That's insane, and you
know there's there's no Now. They promised privately in the Senate.

(01:31:15):
Part of how they got some of these good senators
to go along with it. They promised privately, Well, we're
really going to come up with two to three trillion,
put it on paper exactly press conference, in publicans say
it at least, but they're all, well, with the quiet
whispers behind the closed doors, you know, we really think
we can come up now we're done with the hollow
promises stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:31:36):
That's that's basically how you we got into this mess,
not because Conservatives held up things. We got in this
mess because of bipartisan bankrupt America policies have got us
thirty six train in debt.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
And I'm glad you said bipartisan banker of American policies
because let's face it, the Republicans own the Senate, and
maybe not by much, but they still do. They control it.
They have the majority of votes saying with the House,
Uh this this, it's as if they're they're they're passing
up a golden opportunity with all of the spotlight that's
being shed by the Department of Governmental Efficiency on all
of the fraud wasted abuse in government. These are hard

(01:32:09):
earned taxpayer dollars taken from our wallets because we labored
for it, and they don't seem to care a whit
about where the money goes. That message has been projected
loud and creative the American public.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
We get it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
We understand that more people are outraged by thanks to
the work of Doge.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
This seems like the best possible time in this in
the history or at least as long as I've been living,
to make a make an argument for genuine cuts to
government spending.

Speaker 6 (01:32:35):
Yeah, I've never seen more momentum in the public and
the popular consciousness behind less government. And you just got
to be honest. If you find somebody right now that
is not going to say they'll vote for less government
in light of the environment we're in right now, they
don't want less government.

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:32:52):
I mean there's people that could get boxed into less
government because they know that's what the momentum with the
public is. The idea that we're going to move this
and not actually deliver less government, to me is insane.
And look, the President's sent out, Look, we're going to
get at least a trillion dollars in cuts and all that,
and that's important. But the lack of trust isn't what
Donald Trump. It's not what the team he's hired. Those

(01:33:13):
guys are great. It's with the Senate the Senate always
fails us, and you look at it like where's the pressure.
There's always like pressure on House conservatives, and you know
the reason we can't have nice things is conservatives in
the House. Right when was their pressure on the Senate?
I mean, there's not even a cross word to a senator.
When was their pressure on the Senate when they were
negotiating this crap deal of four billion dollars in savings

(01:33:35):
that's crazy. As they were doing that, where was the
pressure being applied to the Senate? So right now, I
think that's the thing that's like, You've got a couple
dozen of us that are just like, look, I can't
vote for this thing without something further. And then you know,
there's there's jet fumes out here and everybody wants to
get out of town for Easter break and Passover and
all that. You know, maybe that'll make everybody come come

(01:33:56):
together and do a reasonable deal. But I think those
of us that are dug in on we're bankrupting America
and I'm not going to participate in it, are in
for the fight. And it's like, look, we don't want
to be obstructionist in the sense of you know, getting
the agenda done, but we do want to be obstructuralist.
If you're planning on driving to the crash site colassing

(01:34:17):
us in a dip bomb, we don't want to participate
in that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
Yeah, history will remember who fought for the fiscal responsibility
and who and who let us well down this existential threat,
which is the you know, essentially thirty six trillion and
growing every moment. While we speak deficit we have, It's
just it's it's crazy. I mean, no one can project
down the road how this can work out successfully, and

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that is a reality.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
No one can hide from.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
So you know, we're gonna we're going to spend ourselves
into oblivion and we're going to collapse the Fiat currency,
which will basically mean the end of the American economy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (01:34:55):
Mean, and look when the when when the US US dollar,
when the usonomy has the time borrowing funding treasuries, that's
not like you know when Gerise had a hard time
borrowing and or whatever. We are the market. I mean,
people go to the dollar for the hedge, They buy
US treasuries for security instability. I mean, we not only
have about five percent of the world's population four and

(01:35:17):
a half or so. We got over fifty percent of
the world's capital invested in our markets. Yeah, I mean
so truly. Like the idea that the United States could
have problems with our economy in the world economy be
okay is crazy. I mean it is, and that's kept
us propped up for a long time things that everybody

(01:35:39):
knows isn't sustainable, and that's led people to falsely believe that, well,
we can keep doing this. We can just print money.
You know, we have the reserve currency. We can just
spend more money and defits don't matter, and think, well,
a def sit don't matter, why bother collecting taxes? I mean,
I used to be part of the reason why why
people said, well, we want to hold the taxes low
because they'll hold down the size and scope of government.

(01:36:00):
But they've blown way past that. There's not even a
talk about balancing the budget at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Congress and Warren Davidson wish we had more time. We
are out.

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
I appreciate your willingness to talk with my listeners of
me this morning, and I'll look forward to having a
conversation again. Meanwhile, keep fighting a good fight. We got
a golden opportunity right here now YouTube.

Speaker 6 (01:36:17):
Brian, God bless you and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
Take care seven fifty three fifty five CARES to DE
Talk Station. Coming up on eight oh five and fifty
five care CD Talk Station. A very happy Friday Eve
to you. Been looking forward to this conversation all morning.
My next guest Brian Reisinger. He grew up on a
family farm in Sault County, Wisconsin and loves to talk
about the hidden stories of rural America. Like most children
of farmers, he worked with his father from the time

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you could walk before he ultimately entered the world of
business and business journalism and public policy. He has been
published in like every single publication you can think of,
USA Today, Newsweek, Yahoo News, Wisconsin Public Radios, Wisconsin Life.
I could go on Real Clear Politics and go to
that site all the time. He also is an award
winner Nationalist newspaper Calmness, first place in Seven Hills Literary

(01:37:03):
Contrast Contest, and the Saul Sword And I could go on,
but today we're going to talk about his very first book,
Land Rich, Cash Poor, My Family's Hope and the Untold
History of the Disappearing American Farmer. Brian, Welcome to the
Morning Show. It's a real pleasure to have you on today.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
Hey, good morning, it's good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
I feel like I have some least connection with you.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
I am.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
I outkicked my coverage when I married my wife. She
grew up on a rural dairy farm out in Pennsylvania,
a little town no one's ever heard of called Avella.
Her dad literally worked his entire life every single day.
If you don't milk the cows twice a day, you
don't get paid. So it was a small farm, a
house he built himself. They all grew up, they all

(01:37:45):
worked the farm, never had really much money at all,
but it was just it's just it's an amazing life.
When you hear the stories and the hardships that go
along with it. It's not an easy life at all.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
Something I know that I'm telling you that you know about,
and so quite often you know multiple generations.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
You know, kids want to move away, they want to
go to the city. They don't want to follow in
their fathers or mother's footsteps. And I suppose that's part
of this disappearing American farmer concept.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
But it's beyond that, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
Because it's expensive to be a small farmer these days.

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
You're absolutely right. I'm so glad we share that history.
And it sounds like your wife's probably a hard working
person in all values and had a great child. And
you know, you're absolutely right in terms of the way you
describe the way of life. And here's the issue. It
goes so deep. It does have to do with what's
our next generation doing, but it has to do with
economic factors, governmental factors, technological factors, all kinds of ways

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that we've been leaving our family farmers behind. That's what
we do in the book. We dive into the hidden
airs of history that are driving that disappearance. Why is
it happening, and what's the consequence to all of us?
And then we leave out with my family's story, and
those are stories that are probably like the ones you
heard from your wife's family stories. Is survival of you know,
weather farm accident. Second, iic up people from the depression
to today, and you know, it's definitely a unique thing.

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It's a life deals with with both beauty and hardship
that goes hand in hand.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Growing up, you know, I not not fully appreciating the
concept of the small, the family farm by contrast to
the corporate farm. And of course, if you're a corporate farm,
you can afford to buy the what I don't know
how much one of those massive tractors costs. There are
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I just I can't
imagine a situation where my my now late father in law,

(01:39:31):
he lived in ninety three, I think years old, the
idea that he could ever afford something that costs so
much in order to just sort of just try to
keep up in terms of competing. I mean it, it's
just it represents such a colossal challenge for small farmers
to compete with, you know, somebody who's got tens of

(01:39:52):
millions of dollars because they're backed up by major corporations.

Speaker 1 (01:39:56):
You know, it does.

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
And here's what's going on. We've got that kind of
force going on all across our economy. So the food
companies are working to keep up with the rest of
the American economy by getting bigger and bigger. The agribusiness
companies work and keep with food companies, and the farmers
are left trying to keep up with the agga business.
Food companies several are trying to keep up with the Joneses.
So you get farms, whether they're a big, small, or medium,
they are all trying to keep up with the jones

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and everybody has that pressure to get bigger or get out.
A lot of our bigger farmers got that way trying
to survive a lot of our medium and smaller farms.
You ended up not making it because that we do
still have a lot of family farms left in this country.
But it's truly against the odds. It's people like your
father in law who are continue to work trying to
figure a way to be competitive, to be efficient, to
be resourceful, even though the economic crises and government policies

(01:40:40):
you hit them in unique ways that people don't understand.
And even though so much of our technology, to your point,
has been leaving family farms behind. It doesn't have to
be this way, but it certainly is this way. With
the deck stacked against our family farmer who's whatever their
type or size, fighting to keep going well.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
And it almost seems like they're intentionally trying to put
the small farm out of business. And I don't know
if you've ever seen it, and I know it's Britain
or the United Kingdom. But Clarkson's farm, you know, Jeremy
Clarkson has this farm, and every show really illustrates the
insanity of the micro management of government authorities over you

(01:41:16):
know the types of crops that are grown, where they
can be grown, you know the amount of moisture contact
content in a rape seed, and it's almost as if
they want to drive amount of business with rules and regulations.
Then you keep on the whole idea of this climate change, religion,
col flatulence. We need to regulate that, we need to
regulate how much space your chickens have or your pork has.

(01:41:38):
I mean, it just adds so much additional cost burden
and I guess paperwork on the small farmer.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
Yeah, you know, you're so right. Every single day, government requirements, regulations, taxes,
different things are really waging war on the American family farmer.
And you know, the people who care about our environment.
The irony is that there's nobody who cares as much
about our soul, health and abundant water, clean water as
our farmers. So there's a lot of room for people
who care about environment and farmers to work together. But

(01:42:06):
the problem is our political debates divide everybody and we've
got government that's really stamping out family farmers. I give
you a one brief, perfect example. This happens. This stuff
happens every single day, but there's really really serious times
in our history, or escalated in the farm crisis. The
government was pushing more debt on farms to make them
get bigger, and then within a few years they raised
interest rates because they were trying to deal with inflation.

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You can argue forour or against the government trying to
encourage farmers to expand you can argue forour or against
changing interest rates. But when you push debt on them
with the government, and then you use that same government
to make that debt more expensive, you wipe out tens
of thousands of farms. My parents, we tell the story
in the book. They just barely survived that they had
been dealing with a drought and almost had to take

(01:42:47):
out a bunch of debt right before the farm crisis hit.
They didn't have to do that because they've banded together
with neighbors to get through that drought year, and they
avoided taking on debt which would have wiped them out.
In the nineteen eighties, just like happened to tens of
thousands of farms, all at the hand of our government.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
And I'm so glad you brought that up, that you
banded together, because I've also gotten stories from my wife,
you know, anecdotes, and it's like, I shouldn't I should
give credit to my dad's side of the family too,
because they were all what I call dirt farmers in Tennessee.
So I got farm stock on both sides. But the
idea of community, and this is one of the more
positive things and one of the realities of you know,

(01:43:21):
when you ask yourself when you hear about you and
I talking about all this crisis and the problems and
the difficulties of being a farmer. There are so many
rewards to being a small farmer. And part of it
is that sense of community. Because the entire region where
my wife grew up, they're all farmers. They're all engaged
in the dairy business or you know, or at least
some aspect of farming. And when the hard times hit,

(01:43:42):
when people you know, struggle with difficulties, they all step
up to the plate and help each other out.

Speaker 1 (01:43:46):
It's a beautiful thing to behold.

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
That's absolutely right. By the way, I'm glad that they
put a microphone in front of somebody who's got farming
on both sides of your family. That's outstanding.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Yeah, well, you see, I did following the footsteps. I
practiced law for sixteen years and I've been on the
radio now for this is my nineteenth year. I think
I was frightened away by the hardships that I saw
when I was exposed to it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
Brian, Well, I'll tell you we struggle with those same
things in our family. My sister's work and take over
the farm from my dad. I worked with my dad
from time like a walk. I love my roots, but
I didn't have their talent for cattle and crops. So
although I still worked with them on the business side,
and they're throwing a track from my dad. But you know,
I pursued my writing career. I'm just honored to be
able to tell the stories. So you and I have
come to some of the same things. But you know

(01:44:26):
your point on neighbors banning together. You're absolutely right. That
neighbor that I mentioned that helped my parents get through
the farm crisis in nineteen eighty is what happened. Is
he was an elderly man, didn't need all the crops
in his field. My dad was a young man starting
out and had fields that were barely putting up the crops.
He needed to feed his animals. So they went what
they call halves, and you might know this from your
own family background, when you go have one guy does

(01:44:48):
the work and then they split the crop right. Well,
the old man the name was Leo, and he refused
to take his fair share. He gave my dad more
of the crop than he ought to have, and my
dad kept on going down there trying to pay him money.
And you walked into the guy's cigarette, you know, filled
living and trying to hand him money there after dame time,
the guy said, you just got married. You don't know

(01:45:09):
me nothing. To take it and go. And we get
emotional just thinking about what we've been gone for a
number of years now. But if he hadn't done that,
my parents would have taken out a load of debt,
potentially just before the farm crisis hit. And it was
that working together and that sense of local community that
really got people through. And by the way, you know,
my dad was able to help this guy, but he
put in extra hours, working around the clock to get

(01:45:30):
the crops off this guy's field, and so it was
people helping people, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Yeah, And the other sense I always get is in
another story back in from my wife. Back in the seventies,
we went through stagflation and the economy went down the toilet,
and I'm sure it happened in multiple different times over
the life of that particular farm and my father in law.
But because they were realistic and not materialistic, they pretty

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much were self sufficient.

Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
They didn't, you know, want more.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
They didn't think that, oh my god, I wish I
had a better this, or that they had everything they needed.
And so when hard times hit the general population and
people then had to do without something, they became used
to like, oh, we're going to have to cut back
on this, or we need to drop the country club membership.
Because of the you know, the economic thing, their life
remained static. They continued to live at the same level,

(01:46:20):
which was enough to feed them and satisfy them and
pay the bills, and they it was sort of if
they didn't have a newspaper, they didn't even realize the
rest of the world was going through this turmoil.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
Yeah, that's absolutely right, you know, It's one of the
things that I encountered so much when I was working
on the book because I knew these family stories, I
knew bits and pieces of them, and I wanted to
reconstruct and be able to tell the survival stories. But
then I started researching what was going on around us
at that time. What was happening to my great grandparents
in the early nineteen nine so what was happening to
my grandparents and the depression? What were the bigger forces
at play? And it's so true that you know, when

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you're on the ground and the farm, you don't necessarily
have a way to see the bigger forces affecting you.
And then vice versa. Right the rest of the country
that's living out some of those forces doesn't necessarily get
a chance to see what's on the farm. And that's
really the challenge. That's the core reason that our farms
are disappearance, because that disconnects. And here's the thing. It
impacts not only our rural communities like where I'm from
and like where your family has roots that are getting

(01:47:13):
hollowed out, but it impacts every single American dinner table
because when we're losing our farms, we're impacting the price,
the health, the security of the food supply for every
single American.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Brian Rising or the author of the book we're talking
about today, land Ridge Cash Poor, my family's hope and
the untold history of the disappearing American farmer, Brian, if
you could fix something, and I mean, I guess for
an initial question of the answer, can the small farm,
can the the the American small farmer be saved? Can
they continue assuming they desire to continue farming as opposed

(01:47:47):
to corporate sized farms, Can they survive? And if there's
something if the answer may be leaning toward no, because
of all the things that we sort of scratch the
surface of that you dive deep to deep two in
your book, what would you change that might need to
a better life for them or a more successful, lasting
farm life.

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
Absolutely, you know there is reason for hope. We've lost
seventy percent of our farms in the past century, which
is devastating, but we still got nearly two million left.
And here's the incredible thing. Ninety six percent of our
family farms. And it's because people have farms that they're
working part time will also pull them two to three
jobs to keep things going. So these are families nearly
two million families that are you know, continuing to fight

(01:48:28):
forward even though we haven't you know, made the economics
work in this country. Imagine if we made the economics
work again. And so we do need to change things,
and there's moves we can make that can inject new
entrepreneur opportunity out there for our farmers. We need to
research and development revolution so that all of our technology
is bringing farms of all sizes, medium and small as
well as large along. We need to change our policies

(01:48:48):
to make sure we've got fair markets for small businesses
in this country. And we need to make sure that
consumers who care about where their food comes from take
steps toward buying from local farmers, buyack from a farmer
down the road, you know that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
Yeah, imagine that that was an injection of positivity the
whole buy local, buy from your local farmers, the you know,
eat and consume local. What's available fresh from the farm,
you know, grass raised, be a grass fed beef raised
from your local farm. It should be easier for I
suppose farmers to slaughter their own beef and sell it locally.
Maybe I knew Congressman Thomas Massey's on my program a lot.

(01:49:22):
I'm a huge fan of it. Is he has his
own farm, and you know he is a big fan
of you know, raw milk or some health benefits of that.
My wife grew up drinking it, you know, straight from
the Couch's as healthy as she could possibly be. So,
you know, but maybe this RFK junior emphasis towards health
might give that much needed infusion for the local farmer.

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
Yeah, you know, that's the hope. There's always opportunity in
peril and for the farmer. And you know, people caring
about where the food comes from us shifting toward farmers
able to meet the markets and meet now, but also
meet new markets from people who care about local, regional
fresh food, who care about specialty foods. Being able to
shift our farm economy in that direction, that creates the
entrepreneur opportunity for our farmers. It also creates more options

(01:50:05):
for consumers. We've got to make sure that we make
those transitions. Understand that farms are small businesses. Then I
have a whole lot of money sitting around to invest
in new things, but they can make change over time.
And if we can get focused on that and every
consumer takes a step toward the farmer. I know the
farmers are ready to take more steps toward the consumer.

Speaker 1 (01:50:18):
And knowing the farmers the way I do, I know
you are right on that. Brian Rising, your author of
land Ridge Cash for my family's hope and the untold
history of the disappearing American farmer, hopefully we can reverse
that process. Brian, it's been a real pleasure talking with
you today. I appreciate you spending time with my listeners
of me and for writing the book, which is now
available on my blog page at fifty five KRC dot
com so people can easily get a copy of it,

(01:50:39):
and I strongly encourage them to do that because you
will have a much more profound appreciation for the hard
work that these men and women put in every single day. Brian,
you take great care of yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
Hey, thanks you too, Thanks for having me my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:50:51):
It's eight nineteen right now if you have KR City
doc station, it being Thursday. I heard me the ABAS
and expert Jay Ratliff waiting in the wingings looking forward
to having imback on as I always am. Maybe a
word or two about the markets. Hey thirty on a Thursday,
regular listeners, No, it's that time week Get Stuck. iHeartMedia
aviation expert Jay Ratlift.

Speaker 2 (01:51:11):
Welcome back, my good friend, Jay Ratliffe. It's a pleasure
to have you on the program.

Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
As always spent some of the morning talking about your dad.
Oh really, yeah, I was every morning I'm on with
Bill Wills up at the TAM in Cleveland. Yeah and yeah,
he used to do the farm reports forty some years
ago and that of WLW and was talking about some
fond memories of your dad. So I enjoyed that this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
I appreciate that, and I'm sure my dad was smiling
from above and reflecting on those memories himself. And you know,
I gotta go down this stock trading road because you know,
we always talk about it. You are a stock trader.
Daytrade fund dot com is where you find Jay and
his methodology and where you can learn it. But your
reaction to the insanity that went on this week, you

(01:51:57):
know Trump's you know, tariffs are issue. The mark goes crazy,
trillions of dollars, dogs and cats, let me together, We're
all gonna die and then lo and behold after him
pausing it because so many countries stepped up to the
plate and said no, we want to negotiate. We don't
want to do retaliatory tariffs. We'd rather sit down and
work something out with you. So he said, all right,
we'll go ninety day pause. And one of my listeners,

(01:52:19):
and you may have heard me mention it before, west Side,
Jim Keefer. He lost a substantial amount of his portfolio,
but gained all of it back plus some additional yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:52:27):
He's ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
And that's why you don't you don't panic. And you know,
I have to admit, there's part of me that wonders
if Donald Trump didn't pull this just to show the
world he will do what he needs to do. And
would that cause people that weren't formally gonna negotiate as
country leaders say, you.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
Know what we need to I think that.

Speaker 4 (01:52:53):
We always talk, we always talk about the Airplane movie
and there's a scene in there where all the lights
go out on the runways and they look over and
Johnny's pulled the plug with a big smile that you know,
maybe that was Donald Trump. I don't want to think
he would be playing with people's money that way, but
you know, most people are just gonna you know, panic,
but not pull the trigger and make any rash decisions.

(01:53:15):
And you and I've talked about so many times before.
The two emotions that I teach my students about are
fear and greed. And if you can get the emotions
out of the equation, you can make a lot of
money consistently on Wall Street. But the problem is when
people allowed the headlines and all the panic and things
of this nature to start to, you know, influence their decisions.

(01:53:35):
You had people that were making some really rash and
ill advised decisions based on what was taking place, convinced
the market was going to continue to go down and
it you know, you just got to stay away from
the emotion part. And Warren Buffett, if I may, the
guy that was being chastised at an investor conference in
I want to say it was February because people were

(01:53:59):
telling the fifth richest man on the planet that he
was making a mistake because he had three hundred and
forty four billion dollars on the sidelines. They said that
money should be in the market, come on, get it,
and he's like, nope, I wait for stocks to go
on sale, then I make my call. So I always
think it's fun when somebody tells the fifth richest man
in the world, he's doing something wrong, because you get
to that point by doing a lot of things right.

(01:54:21):
He doesn't panic when the market drops. He's just looking
for stocks that go on sale and buys him.

Speaker 2 (01:54:26):
Yeah, and you know, perhaps he did buy after the
cell off the other day. It wouldn't shock me if
he did.

Speaker 4 (01:54:31):
I think he was waiting for a little bit more.
And Braden, you never know. If if the tariffs and
as we approach that ninety day mark aren't in a
you know, in line with where we want, we could
see another round of volatility. Now. The good news is
that we if we do have round two, we've got
between now and then to work on it and for
people to understand what could happen and to relax. And

(01:54:52):
in fact, on my success blog at the Day Trade Fund,
I think it was a November entry of last year.
On my success blog, I talked about how to survive
and thrive when one of these market corrections take place.
And they happen all the time, so if you can
be prepared when it takes place, it doesn't catch you
off guard. Be you don't panic, and see you've got

(01:55:13):
a predetermined plane of action you're going to follow. Even
if it means don't do anything and then do what
the big guys do. That the Warren Buffets and others
look for stocks to go on sale, and I warrant
obviously holds them for longer periods of time than our eight,
ten and fifteen minutes that we flip stocks. Right, it's
the same concept. You look for stocks and it's the
specific point. If they reach that point, you buy them

(01:55:33):
and you know exactly where you're going to sell them.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
Well, I can't let the end of this conversation and
as it's going to a break without observing you know,
we are all familiar with, at least my listeners are
the bias in media, and it's certainly they are not
favorable to the Trump administration across the board. So maybe
a lot of this hysteria and gloom and doom and
we're all going to die as a consequence of them
stirring the pot of fear that was brought about and

(01:55:58):
well led to maybe some of the markets sell off.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
I don't know, but what.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
Brain you're exactly correct, and if you're talking about if
as possible, as we saw with one of those recent
polls that you've addressed, that the idea of an assassination
on any of the you know, Musk or a Trump
or these others is considered justifiable in the eyes of
some of those people. I mean, yeah, that's the kind
of message that they're sending. Yeah, they'll do anything and

(01:56:22):
you know, whatever it means to try to prevent the
president from doing what he's doing. In fact, in the
last little bit, it's about the only thing that they've
really had to jump up and down on to point at.
But it's also the president Trump's own doing, because remember
he talked about when he was campaigning, if the market
wasn't doing well, look under me, it did great, blah
blah blah blah blah. So now that he's president, he's

(01:56:43):
got to own anything if it goes up or down.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
Yeah, certainly true. Anyway, we'll pause, we will talk aviation issues.
Aviation expert Jay ratlifte be right back after these brief words.
And I heard media aviation expert Jay Rattlift as they
lead into the first story, Jay Ratlift, is it just
the Internet which brings these stories to our attention and
they always existed at the same level, or our passenger

(01:57:08):
is becoming more and more unruly these days.

Speaker 4 (01:57:12):
I would say there's an element of both, but it's
it's probably a little bit more prevalent these days because
and I think a lot of it has to do
is just the aggravation of a lot of people as
they fly. In the eighties, nineties, two thousands, a lot
of times we would have load factors averaging sixty seventy
percent where you still had room on the airplane. You

(01:57:34):
weren't fighting for overhead storage space. It just it was
a more pleasant experience to travel than what it is now.
Now it's you know, you don't enjoy travel, you endure
it to get where you're at, and it's almost like,
you know, full contact rugby or something when you're trying
to do it. So these stories, now that we've got
social media, they tend to get out there more often,

(01:57:56):
and there's a tendency to think, well, it's just because
you know, we have the ability to get him out there.
But the numbers are up a bit. The problem is
a lot of times when these people are involved in assault,
they don't share that information with other airlines, And that
remains one of my biggest pet peas, because if you
assault somebody on American well you should not be allowed

(01:58:16):
to fly in United where you could assault a flight
attendant or another passenger, there should be some sort of consequences.
And boy, what a headache we had on that American
flight leaving JFK on his way to Milan. And that
just sounds so nice. Just get on a plane and
you're going to Milan. You just sit back, relaxed, and
you're gonna have a good time. Until four hours into
the flight, you've got a passenger who gets into a

(01:58:38):
heated argument with a flight attendant over what his meal
wasn't what he had ordered, Lord Ques did, oh yes.
So the verbal argument then becomes a physical situation where
he's actually shoving some of the flight attendants, and then
he makes a dash towards the cockpit because of course
the captain is going to be very interested in his

(01:59:00):
particular problem, and they stop him, and then all of
a sudden they turn that airplane around. They're four hours
into flight over the Atlantic Ocean back to JFK's It
was closest airport they could get to so for American airlines.
So you come back, you land, the demand is taking off, detained,
I hope, arrested, and passengers will put up overnight. Sixteen

(01:59:24):
hours after they left the first time, they're back on
the airplane and then headed back to Milan. So it
just goes to show it takes, you know, and there's
people in Italy that are waiting for that aircraft to
get there for them to take to wherever that next
segment was going to be. So you've got somebody that's
not only impacting everybody that's on a flight, but people

(01:59:45):
that are waiting on that aircraft at the next destination.
And think of the people that were on their way
to a wedding or reunion or you know, my family
members on life support. I've got to get there before
they pass away. And you've got this absolute moron, this
acting up on this flight that is causing every other
passenger on board to suffer as a result.

Speaker 2 (02:00:09):
Oh you know, I don't care if I got a
deadline or a layover or anything. I'm just I'm gonna
be just just insanely angry just.

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
Because you know, I'm being held up by this jerk. Period.
End of story. You don't have think much further than that.
It's like you, one guy caused all of this because
of a meal that you were served. It's airplane food.
For God's sake, it's gonna suck regardless of what they.

Speaker 4 (02:00:33):
Feed you, but he wanted the less sucky kind. I think,
yeah right, It just but the idea of when it
became a security situation, that's when everything was off. Because
the airlines have very clearly defined protocol. When you know
there's no air marshall on board, they were calling for
any law enforcement officers or military that were on board

(02:00:53):
to assist because they were having a difficult time at
first to contain the individual. And every time I fly,
I'll say hello to the lead flight attendant and let
her let he or see know where I'm seated, just
in case he needed an extra set of hands, because
a lot of times you don't want to announce over
the intercom, you know, do we have any law enforcement
because I mean that's going to really start to bring

(02:01:14):
people out thinking something's wrong. And if they can just
come back and whisper if it's a medical emergency to
a doctor or nurse, or if they've got someone on
their law enforcement or whatever that can help a situation,
they want to do that. So it's a little bit,
you know, let's telegraphed across the cabin, but they were
calling for help to try to get this guy subdued
and restrained. They were able to do so. And then,

(02:01:36):
of course because of that one person, I mean, vacations
and all those kinds of things.

Speaker 2 (02:01:43):
And it happens, and I think you might open yourself
up to a passenger induced beat down as well.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
But I just to reserve my judgment.

Speaker 4 (02:01:51):
Technically, we're only allowed to restrain, you can restrain forcefully.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
So yes, indeed, all right, how about boycotting airline because
they're cooperating with Immigrations and Customs officials.

Speaker 4 (02:02:04):
Well, we got the way. Little Airlines. They're the airline
that has been hired as a charter flight to help
the homeland security as far as their ice transportation for
the deportation of people that are being escorted out of
the country, a lot of them being you know, criminals
and other types of things. And there are groups around

(02:02:25):
the country that are saying, we are going to boycott
this airline because they're involved in something we don't agree with.
And you have the airline that flies to several cities
that you have where the democratic leadership of those cities
are saying, look, we're giving this airline some subsidies and
assistance in order to be here, and we want those

(02:02:48):
subsidies to be removed because we don't like what they
are doing. And of course the CEO for the airline says, look,
if it's not us, as someone else, we're going to
take the business because it's going to help our business
and allow us to continue to help you know, people
around the country as we fly because they're regularly scheduled airline.
But if it wasn't, then would be somebody else. Yeah,

(02:03:10):
so yeah, they've got a boycott and you know, I
we'll see where it goes or doesn't go. But it
seems like the CEO is pretty much a look, I
don't care, but this is what we're going to do
because A it needs to be done and be you know,
if it's not us, it's going to be someone else.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
Fair enough, Well, we'll bring you right back on.

Speaker 2 (02:03:27):
Another couple of stories to run by emotional support animal
story and then oh, look, I have one more. An
idiot passenger try to open a door in fly plus
hub delays one more with Jay Ratliffe. Be right back,
K forty eighth and five pair CD Talk Station, Ryan.

Speaker 1 (02:03:41):
Thomas, Jay Ratliffe wrapping up our aviation segment here, I
understand an emotional support animal cause a bit of a
problem for a passenger. And we've had all kinds of
crazy stories about emotional support animals. What kind of emotional
support animal was it this time? Jay?

Speaker 4 (02:03:58):
It was a parent one and she was flying Frontier
JFK to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and she had all
the documentation everything that Frontier required, so she was allowed
to take this rather large bird as her support animal
on board the flight down to Puerto Rico. She's coming
back and the agents there say you can't take a

(02:04:20):
parrot on our flight, it's too big. And she's like,
wait a minute, I flew Frontier down here, and they said, well, look,
all you got to do is go to our website.
It clearly states that no large birds can be accepted
as you know, emotional sport animals, so you just have
to leave it behind. And she's like, I'm not leaving
my pet slash emotional support animal behind. So she was

(02:04:43):
looking a Frontier to do something about the situation that
they created. And yeah, the last word I've not heard
if they've got it worked out. But she was in
essence staying in Puerto Rico till they got it worked out.

Speaker 2 (02:04:57):
Well, if you've got attached to a parrot, and I
know a lot of people are are there's things live
eighty five one hundred years and oh yeah yeah, so
you know, yes.

Speaker 4 (02:05:04):
And then if you know a lot of people look
at these, you know, pets as children type of thing,
and the idea of just leaving it behind is no
well one, it's a ridiculous situation, but or a suggestion.
But yeah, that's what somebody said. I suspect Frontier management
probably didn't think that was the most proper thing to say.

Speaker 2 (02:05:25):
Well, real quick, I saw this morning. I always check
aviation news and this one on Simplyflying dot com. Before
you and I talk, Frontier Airline's flight had turned back
to Denver after an unruly passenger attempted to open the
door on the Airbus A three twenty mid flight to
turn back. What I mean, you know, I guess people

(02:05:45):
become unhinged on some level. Maybe they're mentally challenged when
they get on, but you know, opening a door mid flight,
well done.

Speaker 4 (02:05:53):
Trying to because you and I both know that they
can't because once the air is pressurized, it's not going
to happen. But that's the third grab the handle and
give it a pull story that I've had. In the
last two weeks, We've had three flights where people have
become irritated to the point that they have actually gone
up to the emergency door exit and they've tried to

(02:06:13):
jerk the handle. Now, if people are not aware of
the fact that the door can't be opened, obviously you're
gonna have people freaking out thinking they're about to die.
So you've got people diving on the individual trying to
make sure that they stay away from the door. And yeah,
in fact, we had one guy in a flight that
tried to do it. They moved him to a seat
away from it, and he tried to do it twice

(02:06:35):
on the same flight. So you know, it's just people
that are acting this kind of way induce panic, and
of course they'll never be allowed to fly on that
particular airline again, and they could be charged for inciting panic.
But most of the time the airlines do not even
pursue that. All they're told is, you know, you're not

(02:06:56):
gonna be flying us again, and they leave it. And
other than that, they may and should be getting a
fine from the Federal Aviation miministration for failure to abide
by the instructions of a uniform crew member, which can
be ten or twenty thousand dollars, if not more. So,
it's not gonna be something they're not gonna have some
consequences for. But obviously you wish it was more than
what it was.

Speaker 3 (02:07:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:07:16):
Well, and speaking of consequences, at the bottom of the website.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
Where I found this, they have a it's an image.
It's you know, the Halloween costumes. It's the Unruly Passenger
Halloween costume, and the it's a depiction of a guy
who's got duct tape all around them and zip ties
and the package includes it's the Spooky Unruly Passenger, includes
duct tape, zip tie cuffs, cancel tickets, fines, unemployment application costs,

(02:07:42):
thirty seven thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:07:45):
Oh, easily, easily and yeah, and probably some divorce papers too. Yeah.
One of the better images you can do is do
a Google search of an airline passenger that was duct
taped to a seat. They duct taped his mouth and
I mean they must have used two a duct tape
on this poor guy. And it's it's it's it's yeah,
it's probably the poster chilt of why you don't want

(02:08:06):
to act up on a flight.

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
No, and then there's that pesky fine, all right, we
got to close out as we always do with hub delays.
How's it looking out there for air travel today, Jay.

Speaker 4 (02:08:14):
Ratliff, You know, we've got some obviously weather headed towards
the Northeast, and I think Minneapolis has already seen some delays,
but it's going to be Washington, d C, Philadelphia, New York,
maybe Boston by the end of the day. But in essence,
if you're flying anywhere to the Northeast, expect some delays.
Certainly expect some turbulence where we're going to be seeing
some some rough weather, not dangerous, just uncomfortable. Make sure

(02:08:36):
you've got your seatbelt fastened about you and get to
the airport early if you're flying to or through the Northeast,
because we will see some delays that are going to
be kind of plaguing us for the rest of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:08:46):
Sound advice and Jay Raylife. As always, Jay, love having
you on the program. I hope you have a wonderful
week man, and I'll look forward to next Thursday and
another Oh no, I'll be gone next Thursday, I'm taking
the week off.

Speaker 4 (02:08:55):
Yeah, so it was, it was, It was on my calendar.
Joe made sure that I had all that stuff written
down and recorded. So I hope you're doing something fun.

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
And relaxing mental health week off. I'm just so exhausted with,
you know, the stories I have to deal with every
once in while. I just got to take some time
off and decompress.

Speaker 4 (02:09:13):
That's what I'll be doing next, I said Mike McConnell
of text, saying hey, you're ready to come back yet
after two days being retired, after significance paused for effect,
it was like, no, I'm fine, getting a lot more
rest now.

Speaker 1 (02:09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:09:25):
I saw more emotion on his face last week than
i'd seen anytime I ran into in the hall. And actually,
because if you if you know Mike, he's a very
emotionless kind of guy. If he's happy, you're sad, just
has the same look on his face. I actually saw
what really appeared to be a smile on his face
multiple times throughout last week.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
I even commented to him on it. He got a
big grin on his face when I said it was and.

Speaker 4 (02:09:47):
It was good to see. It was good to see
you that day as well.

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
Oh man, I'm so glad you stopped then because I
told you to.

Speaker 4 (02:09:52):
Be in trouble. If I hadn't, You're right made it
a point.

Speaker 1 (02:09:55):
Brother, You're darn right you would have take care of Jay.
Thanks for what you do.

Speaker 4 (02:09:58):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:09:59):
We'll talk to weeks from no leash you and I will, ma'am.
George Brenman was interested to Restore Liberty event, and we
also talk some other things going on politically and generally speaking.
Restore Liberty dot us. The event is on Sunday, open
doors open at four thirty. Get all the details at
five KRC dot Com'm just go directly to restore Liberty
dot Us because there are only a small number of
tickets left. Got some great speakers lined up and some

(02:10:21):
video presentation, so that'll take place on Sunday. Congressman Barn
Davidson was on excellent Conversation with a Congressman This Morning
podcast at five care sea dot com. Get a copy
of Brian Reisinger's book land Ridge Cash Poor, My Family's
Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer.
Probably gonna want to get a copy after you hear
the podcast again. Fifty five kr SE dot com. Shaw
McMahon filling in for Joe Strecker. You did a wonderful

(02:10:43):
job today. Appreciate what you're doing and I'll see you tomorrow. Folks,
have a great day. Don't go away. Glenn Back's coming
right up.