55KRC Monday Morning Show -- 11/24/25

Brian talks with Christopher Smitherman to hear the Smithervent, Money Monday with Brian James of Allworth Financial plus KRC Cares with Chris Klug of the Cincinnati VA

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Five o five at fifty five k r C the
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taking the rest of the week off beginning Wednesday, and
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dust Tracker, who's probably staring at the back of his
eyelids right now, at least I hope he is. Uh,
let us see here. Coming up on the fifty five
KRCE Morning Show. It is Monday, so we get Christopher

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Smithman back, former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
You gotta be calling up and doing the smither event.
And don't know what he wants to talk about. Always
look forward to hearing from him logic and reason and uh,
I just a recent election in downtown Cincinnati's still got
me reeling. You passed up on a great man. That's
what happens in only one out of four people show

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up to vote. Anyway, Monday, Monday, it is Monday. We
get Brian James every Monday eight o five talking about
a variety of different things. Don't have the topic list
for Brian James. I'm sure he will come ready to
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on AT and T phones. Did I say the phone
number yet already? Anyhow, what's legal? I'm confused. I'm sure
you probably have heard a few days ago. Last week
we had half a dozen members of Congress that had
served in the military or intelligence committee urging service members
and intelligence officials that will be the CIA to disobey

(03:42):
illegal orders that President Trump may issue. They posted a
video on X last Tuesday, you had Elisa's Slotkin, who's
got the big X owner back on this. He's recently
commented on it. She's not even aware of any illegal
orders that Donald Trump is issued, but I got a
comment or two on that anyway. Mark Kelly, Jason Crow,
Maggie Goldlander, and Chris Deluzio and Chrissy who I am

(04:08):
all had some military or intelligence experience. All Democrats said
that threats to our constitution are coming from right here
at home, and urge military and intelligence community members to
refuse illegal orders. Quote. No one has to carry out
orders that violate the law or our constitution. Know that

(04:28):
we have your back. Don't give up the ship.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Donald Trump came out and called this treason traders a
told the American military to disciby my orders. Should be
in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks
trying to explain that what they said was okay, it
wasn't and never will be. Was sedition at the highest
level and sedition as a major crime. There can be
no other interpretation of what they said. All right, well,

(04:55):
you can be on either side of the equation on
this one, though other interpretation of what they said. He
is interpreting what they said. I have a question for you,
answer it. All this revolves around Venezuela one. Do they
represent an immediate threat to the United States? These drug
dealers there. Keep going back to the fact they're fifteen

(05:19):
hundred and two thousand miles away in a boat. That
doesn't sound like an eminent threat to the United States
to me. They're not storming the border, they're not going
back to the entire Biden administration, we don't have an
authorization for US military force. The best of my knowledge,

(05:39):
there isn't one. You want to try to take the
one for what nineteen ninety one the invasion of Iraq
or Afghanistan. I know there isn't one out there, the
best of my knowledgy it even can closely apply to this.
Congress has not declared war, and in fact, the Senate

(06:00):
defeated a resolution disapproving of the strikes under the War
Powers Act fifty one to forty nine vote. So they
haven't disapproved the strikes, but they haven't approved them either.
I would say we're in a state of flux, state
of limbo. Maybe what is lawful and unlawful under our

(06:22):
constitution as this, you know, refusally illegal order video suggested
do we even know? And Sloughtin doesn't even know? Been
an interviewed yesterday on the Sunday Shows this Week with
host Martha raddits quote from Slockin. So, I think the

(06:47):
reason we put that statement out is because the sheer
number of frankly young officers who are coming to us
and saying, I'm not sure what do I do? You know,
I'm in South and I'm involved in the National Guard.
I'm not sure what do I do? Slot can claim
these multitudes of service members coming to them and asking

(07:10):
the what should I do? Question? We have report after
a report of legal officer JAG officers coming forward and saying, look,
I push back on this. I'm not sure that this
is legal. There is such things as illegal orders. Is
a little sick there, because of course grammatically that was incorrect. Anyway,
you get to just what she said. That's why it's

(07:30):
in the Uniform Code of Military Justice going back to Nuremberg, right,
And it's just that it's totally benign statement, and if
the president is concerned about it, then he should say
stay deeply within the law. But I think it's important
to no, it's not hypothetical, radit's the host. Let's talk

(07:50):
right now. Do you believe President Trump has issued any
illegal orders? Slockin's response, to my knowledge, I'm not aware
of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some
legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes
and everything related to Venezuela. Okay, enter Congress, how far

(08:17):
can a president go? I'm asking for myself and for
under the constitution, which requires, you know, declaration of war.
And then we've got the Warpowers resolution, which I don't
know constitutionally that is constitutional. It's never been tested, but
at least you've got that, which would require congressional action. Right,

(08:37):
What does our country do when faced with a challenge,
in this particular case, massive quantities of drug coming across
our border? What does our country do when we are
faced with a challenge like this and we have a
gridlock deadlock Congress. They can't even agree on what time
of day it is that The Republicans say it's five
thirteen or five fourteen on a Monday morning in advance

(09:00):
of Thanksgiving. The Democrats are going to say, no, it's not.
I think we could all agree we have a real
problem with drugs flown into our country. Where does that
problem spring from? I be first and foremost pointing to
the people in the country here are using drugs. If
there was no demand, we wouldn't be dropping bombs on

(09:20):
boats over in Venezuela. We wouldn't even yeah, in Venezuela,
we wouldn't have this conversation. Trump's talking about doing land strikes?
Is that lawful flocking? Doesn't know? A couple of sources

(09:45):
said covert operations in Venezuela likely to be part of
a new action against Maduro. Nicholas Maduro, president of the Venezuela,
while two US officials speaking with Reuters said the new
operations under consideration, including attempt to overthrow the Dureau. This
is the kind of stuff the CIA engages in all
the time, screwing around with foreign elections and what's going

(10:08):
on in foreign governments. We don't do that, Yes we do.
Cordon Reuters are the official speaking on a condition of anonemity.
President Trump is prepared to use every element of American
power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and
bring these people responsible to justice. Fair enough, what's lawful
and what's unlawful? If you listen to Slocke and something's

(10:30):
going on that may be unlawful. These obviously, if you
take her at her word, these individuals, these young officers
who are apparently en masked, coming to her asking is
it lawful? She can't even answer the question yesterday on
the Sunday Show. How far can a president go if
you have a basically an ineffective gridlock Congress who can't

(10:53):
do anything, and a threat that doesn't seem to be imminent,
but obviously a threat is doing vast amounts of harm
to the United States. I'm at a loss on this
one Senator round Paul thinks it's going to be a
problem for the Republican Party. I'm not quite sure about that.

(11:14):
Talking to Margaret Brennan about the invasion of Venezuela, the
the eminent threat of invasion of Venezuela suggests it might
splinter or the Republican Party. So, I like a lot
of people, including myself, were attracted the president because of
his residence to get us involved in foreign war.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
But Trump has been launching this campaign designed to eliminate
the drug traffickers, Paul said, I think by doing this,
referring to officially designating Venezuela as Cartel de los Solz
as a foreign terrorist organization. By doing that, Paul says,

(11:53):
they're pretending as if we are at war. They're pretending
as if we've gotten some imprimature to do what they
When you have war, the rules of engagement are lesson.
But I don't know that designating them a terrorist organization
allows you to start launching bombs and dropping bombs on

(12:14):
a country against whom you have no declaration of war. Anyway,
That's why I'm asking for your breading on this. Apparently
the troops don't know I don't know about that, but
put yourself in a position. Are we to do nothing?
Senator Paul suggests we work here at home to deal

(12:37):
with the demand problem, which I mentioned a moment ago.
We should be trying to work on the demand side,
treating it as a health problem, as an addiction problem
in our country, and trying to lessen demand. And that
is part of the overlall solution. Well, I concur with
you on that. But how many years have been fighting
the war on drugs? How many programs are out there
to help people struggling with drug addiction. It's boiled down,

(13:02):
I would say complicated. It is confusing. But when it
comes down to the law and what is lawful and
what isn't, I think we've run into a colossal train wreck.
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Joe Burrow walking around on the sidelines. So you want
to talk to guys, Is Bobby you have anything to
say today on the fifty five care Morning Show, Sean,
do you just want to talk to you? Does he
want to talk? Is you just want to chatter in
your ear? Because he does that to Strecker all the time. Bobby,
Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
You, Happy Monday, monk friend.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (14:17):
Same thing?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
What you got an answer to my question? Is it lawful?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
In the last fifty years? At that was a Vietnam
War ended in nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was hoping somebody would come up, yes, and North
Korean's South.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
For you.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Prior to that, We've been fifty years and I can
give you a list of seventy some countries that we
went ahead and had military actions in YEP, that's it.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
But does that make it lawful or right? You know me,
I've said a million times, and I've talked to Napolitano
about this. I am of the mind that you can't
just start dropping bombs on people in foreign lands against
and we have no military conflict. I mean, I don't
know how we've gotten to this point, Bobby, that I
really don't. I mean, I could see it. I understand
about history and what people can get away with. Going

(15:11):
back to Vietnam, there was no declaration of war. How
many years are we in there? Fifty thousand plus lives
lost and not go ahead? Bobby explained it to me.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
No, We've lost fifty some thousand in Vietnam in my lifetime.
I'm older than you, and we have not had a
declaration war in my lifetime.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Nope.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
But I can go all the way to small you
and everywhere in the world that we went ahead and
had military action in and why hasn't Congress done something
about that? It's a great talk.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
It is all talked, all talk fast, all fast, and
those with the rules for expedience purposes. Because the rule
the Constitution requires a declaration of war, War Powers Act
at least requires an authorization for use military force. President
can use military action as a commander in chief for
eminent threats to our citizenry here and uh and our

(16:03):
and our land. But that isn't going on. Like I
go to the Venezuela and boat drug dealers. They're two
thousand miles away. You're going to drop a bomb on them.
You don't know ultimately where they're going to go. You
can speculate, but we.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Went ahead and declare the individuals as enemy combatants. An
enemy combatant are groups that do not wear the uniforms
of their country. And the way our country is there,
you know they're open, open to take offense against.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well, I guess where where does it say just by
declaration of someone is an enemy combatant? And what is
the definition of that? And does Congress pass or thumb
up or thumb down on that? The answer is no,
of course. Doesn't that make it kind of fast and loose?
Any given president sitting in the office can declare some
organization and enemy combatant then draw bombs on them. Look

(16:57):
what we just did with Syria.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
President hit of Syria ahead of tam I I mean,
he doesn't end.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
I know, I just think maybe I sound stupid. I'm not.
I don't want to be contradictory or or you know,
I'm not trying to be caging or anything. That it
has happened doesn't answer the question of where the authority
comes from and how far and broad is the authority.
I mean, we're in a moment where, I mean, we're
in a moment where we really need to ask ourselves

(17:26):
this question. So that's why I'm raising it. And this
slot Can issue is kind of cropped up. And even
she doesn't know she's now telling troops to you know,
ignore illegal orders. You can't even put her thumb on
one that she claims is currently illegal. Here, I am
raising the possibility that some of these actions may be
illegal for lack of congressional authorization. But she doesn't even

(17:49):
go down that road. No one seems to know. I
guess is ultimately where I am on this. That's troubling
to me. Five twenty five Right now, Scott and Corey
on the phone, looking forward to having you guys on
the program. Just give you a minute, got to take
quick break through a few messages and we'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (18:02):
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Service to them twenty nine on them Monday, Thanksgiving Weekay,
love me my Thanksgiving, and I hope you have some
great plans for Thanksgiving, and I hope it involves family,
and I hope it does not involve a political discussion.
But I love political discussions here on the fifty five
Jersey Morning. So we'll see what Scott's god got a
few callers online. Hang on, Tom and Corey, you get
right with you. Scott, thanks for calling. Happy Monday to you.

(18:29):
Happy Monday.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Brian.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Thanks.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
I'll just say, desperate times call for desperate measures, and.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
I believe you've got everything all.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
You're dancing around everything. So Trump empowered through an executive
order to look into the election, those that panel heads
their findings, and so I say that these drug broad
strikes and Cartel de la souls, it's more about what's
about to happen with the findings of the election in

(18:58):
the Venezuelan being in on the dominion and smartmatic the
fest of our elections, which goes back probably at least
a decade, maybe twenty years.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
A second ago. You're referred to the to thecrats. Hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Scott, hold on,
I gotta understand what you're talking about. You're referring to
the Venezuelan elections or our elections, because there's been declarations
of shenanigans in both. Let me use that term loosely both.

Speaker 7 (19:24):
It all starts in Denizwel. They were the results, the
results of the the paneled executive order, the investigation are
going to come out. So that's what these democrats are doing.
They they're following the Podesta Plan and your your viewers
can look that up. So these Democrats, they are an

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open sedition and they are at war with the American government.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
So that's what I mean.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
Desperate times called for desperate measures. So through this the
finding that are about to be released, that's why they're
going on That's why they're going on air telling our
service members to disobey these orders. Since I starts arresting
these conspirators, that's when this is all going to kick off.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, it seems to be a rather convoluted chain of circumstances.
I don't know what this report you're referring to says.
I haven't seen it myself, and based upon your comments,
it hasn't been released yet, so I don't know where
you got the information. But how does you know I
don't know how we are in a position to determine
whether or not there's been fraud in the event azuel
In election. We can't even figure it out our own

(20:36):
system of government here, I mean, and how does Venezuela
and election interference translate into our using military action? Wouldn't
you still need And here's my point, going back to
congressional authorization, whatever predicate it is to justify, I mean,

(20:58):
to the extent military force can be justifed, what is
the predicate for it? And where is the congressional action
authorizing an example, authorization for use of military force, declaration
of war. This is the part that's absent from me,
regardless of whatever issue justifies or at least makes an
argument for military justification. So why it's confusing to me?

(21:22):
And maybe I'm just confused on a Monday morning as
we go into a long week, I don't know, a
long weekend. I don't know. Let's see what Corey's got Tom,
hang on you next, Corey, welcome to the program. Thanks
for calling. Can you make sense out of this for me?
Or you want to call up talk about something else?

Speaker 8 (21:37):
Well, I can see both sides of it. First song,
I'm calling from Finley, Ohio this week. Hey, good morning Finley,
app But anyhow, I can see both sides of it. One,
I think Trump is technically legal to do what he's
doing because the War on Terror still stands, has not

(22:01):
been repealed. So I think that's what gives him the
justification to declare anybody a terrorist group and go after
anywhere in the world the same way Obama used drones
to kill Americans in another country. But about that, no,
I know it's the same thing, the exact same thing,
and Trump is using it for his benefit that it

(22:23):
has a country he could argue.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
But okay, Tom, go ahead. The quote war on terror? Close? Quote?
Have we declared and authorized a war on terror? And
isn't that, in and of itself an extraordinarily convoluted argument.
If a president merely has to sign an executive order
designating any given group as a terrorist organization, that puts
them into the fold as an enemy under the umbrella

(22:47):
of war on terror. Where's the document legal authorization for
waging a war on terror, which necessarily means waging a
war on individual groups that are not under color of
a state flag. That's where the problem unfolded. I guess
when our framers of the Constitution were contemplating war. You're
thinking about war between nations, armies fighting armies, and so

(23:09):
you can certainly see that. Okay, we have a flag.
They are fighting us, our system of life. They want
to overthrow the United States. There you go, there's a
declaration of war. But if you have little fringe elements
within sovereign nations that the sovereign nation doesn't necessarily support,
or maybe it does tacitly, but regardless, it isn't there
foreign policy to go after the United States. How do

(23:32):
we start launching missiles, dropping bombs and otherwise eradicating people
that belong to a group within a larger state.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
I don't know there's of action after nine to eleven,
which people like Rampaul at the time Senator his father
Rom Paul argued against it, which more people would not
vote a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
We wouldn't be in the situation today.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, as we fast approached Tom's call, appreciate the call man, Tom,
hang on at a time in the segment, but you
know I can't cut you off earlier, So we'll take
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welcome back, my friend, Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 9 (26:00):
Yeah, yeah, good morning. And I agree with Corey. If
people wouldn't be voting Democrats so much, we wouldn't be
having a lot of these problems.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't know, but in the context of my out loud,
I don't understand question when it comes to the legality
of military strikes. I'm gonna I'm gonna fog here. The
Republicans also not in complete uniform agreement on what it
is is necessary to start dropping bombs. I mean Brand
Paul's run, Thomas Massey's another. I mean, it's not as

(26:30):
if the Republican Party has locks the immunity. And is
it okay if the party's locks the immunity for the
President of the United States of America to start dropping
bombs where they he damn well pleases. It's a legitimate question,
Republican or Democrat. Does it make it right if you
have uniformity in agreement within the party.

Speaker 9 (26:49):
No, the law is the law, and it's either right
or it's wrong based on the law. Now, I have
made this next statement multiple times and I'll say it again.
The Constitution is only as good as the people who
are charged with upholding the constitution. So it's like any

(27:09):
law in any city or state or county or whatever.
You know, there is what prosecutorial discretion. You got to
be willing to do something about it. A person, even
if you're filing a personal suit, someone has to be
willing to step up, pork the money over for the
lawyers or what court costs or whatever. Somebody has to

(27:32):
be willing to step out there and say, no, I'm
not going to tolerate this. I'm going to try to
do something about it. And of course, as you know
in Congress, trying to do something about anything is a
very tedious task, and it was intentionally made that way.
But if enough people are not going to step up
and get in the way of any president's decisions, then

(27:56):
who's going to do anything about it? You know, the
Supreme Court just jump in. They have to have a
case brought to them. Correct, So it's again, who's gonna
do something about it?

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Right?

Speaker 9 (28:09):
And I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with it. My answer
is I don't have a freaking clue. I mean, it
sure looks like it's not according to the Constitution, But
I'm no constitutional scholar, but I have enough common sense
to know that if there are plenty of people sitting
in Congress and their staff who know the answer to
this question, and so if they're not gonna do anything

(28:31):
about it, well what are we gonna do? Call it
okay now doesn't mean it's right. It just means that
nobody's gonna do anything about it. And you know, there's
political questions that are usually more important to the people
who should do something about it. Usually operations become more important,

(28:51):
and that's a problem that should not be going on.
But you know, we were dealing with human beings. So
I don't I don't like the way this whole thing
is going. You know, when you can sit there and go, well,
somebody's got to do something about it, Okay, I'll agree
with that, But it doesn't mean you have to do
something illegal.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
You know, this is back to the legality question. This
is where the gray area is Slotkin screaming about telling
people to ignore illegal orders, and yet she can't even
put her thumb on one that she believes to be illegal.
Right now, I'm just questioning the the overall reality of
where we are. It's complicated. We're dropping bombs on Venezuela,
and boats were getting ready to drop bombs on Venezuela.
The country going after the designated narco Terrorist's fine, but

(29:33):
if some other country decided that they they're gonna label
Antifa to Oh, I'd love Antipah to be labeled terrorist group,
wouldn't you, Tom, I mean they're terrorist organization. Fine, what
if some other country decided to start dropping bombs on
Antifa encampments here in the United States? Would we scream
our heads off about how we've been violated? I think
we probably would. It's a two way street.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
I agree, and you.

Speaker 9 (29:56):
What you have here is that you have politicians who
don't want to come out and be specific about what
they're what. They have a problem with the fact that
it's Donald Trump. Now, he he's an easy target. Hey,
they go after him, they fire their arrows and bullets
at him and whatever, and he's still standing. Literally we're

(30:17):
talking about literally and figuratively here. So I don't agree
with everything he does. He kind of makes himself a
target by the way he runs his mouth. One of
the few things I don't like, and well, actually there's
more than to you there's I don't like some things
that he does and decisions that he makes, but he
runs his mouth. I don't like how personal he gets.
He's supposed to be a you know, he's the president

(30:39):
of the United States. Why you got to take make
everything so personal and be insulting. But that's his style
and it's God and where he is today. So you know,
I'm just that's my opinion on it. But these Democrats,
they don't want to really stick their neck too far
out because they're hoping they're Yeah, they don't want.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
To do that.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Just like Barack Obama drop bombs on people in foreign countries,
they don't raise a finger or an eyebrow in in
argument against it. At the same point, how far are
you vos?

Speaker 9 (31:11):
Illegal orders is a very vague term. It could mean something. Look,
it could mean these Venezuelan things. We don't know. They
won't come out and say exactly what. And I think
it's intentional. They're intentionally not saying, but they are sowing
seas of division and undermining stuff in the military. That
is wrong. It is no doubt that's wrong. Everybody sees

(31:35):
that's wrong, right, and that's Democrats doing that. So add
it to the list. One more reason don't vote Democrat.
Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Always good to hear from you, Tom. Yeah, but the
Democrats getting even idente for what's legal and illegal see
It'll be better if they had come out with that
statement telling do not abide, do not follow this particular
order and for the following reasons. It's the following reasons
is what I'm trying to dive down on. Get to
get to Yes, this is us during the pot of division.

(32:05):
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Speaking of callers, let's jump to the phones. They have
Brian on the line. Brian, welcome in the morning show.
Happy Monday to.

Speaker 10 (33:31):
You, Happy Monday to you too, Brian, and I bid
you a happy Thanksgiving thanks man you too, Thank you.
You were talking about there was some confusion about on
the Democrats side about what would constitute a legal order,
and I was just wondering would it really make their
heads explode if that order came from a woman, because

(33:54):
they don't know how to define what a woman is.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah, the extra confusion to it. And I don't think
it's just the Democrats are confused. I think the Republicans
are confused as well. It's a question of his boxes
being Gordon in terms of this military involvementor military use
and author and force use. Appreciate my Brian extra complication
on that one.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Here.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Let me give props to Mike who sent me an
email earlier. So if someone gave the military illegal orders
to take a dangerous experimental medical treatment that also violated
the First Amendment protected religious convictions, can they refuse it?
Well played, Mike, over to the stack of stupid got
the blase? An Iowa man has a well an idea

(34:38):
to help you shake off the blues. Twice last month,
police say danan Airy, thirty years old, stood against the
rear of his twenty twelve Chevy Impala. And here's in
the rest report quote with his pants and underwear removed
to his ankles and shirt lifted to casually expose his
genitals and abdomen to oncoming traffic. Close quote this in

(35:04):
Iowa City. One question by police, mister Dana and Ari
reportedly confessed to the indecent exposure criminal complaint. Says Aary
explained that this behavior was fulfilling his excitement that was
currently missing in his blah life. That, of course is

(35:24):
a quote. Investigators say he knew that this behavior was
inappropriate and unacceptable, as well as offensive to others within view,
but he did it anyway, apparently as a lengthy rap sheet.
Arrested last week on two indecent exposure counts, being held
to the Johnson County jail in law of a five
thousand dollars bond. Interesting jail name for that particular story too,

(35:45):
if you think about it, just don't think about it
too hard. Portland police last ones they released body camera
footage of an armed incident happened in Lloyd District. Say
naked man with a gun seen running before firing a
shot from a police investigator said an officer hit forty
three year old Robert Hatley with his patrol car after

(36:06):
officers saw him fire the weapon. Hattleie kept running when
in an apartment building, was eventually taken into custody after
officers used a stun gun off and police. Portland Police
beer reviewing the use of the patrol car as a
deadly force event. Hattie was taken to the hospital, was
treated and released. Then he went to jail for unlawful
use of a weapon and fell in possession of a

(36:29):
firearm dan. Finally, after a planned sexual threesome didn't materialize,
Florida woman became angry and pummeled her boyfriend in the face.
The attack witnessed by the woman who had been invited
to the couple's residents for the three way not Cincinnati
style Court of Investigators Angeline Court. Forty seven and a

(36:51):
boyfriend invited his female friend a Clearwater apartment to engage
in sexual activity. However, this plan was interrupted, police say
when all parties to find to participate in the sexual activity.
Rest Hafideva doesn't reveal why the whole idea of the
threesome was aborted.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
That does not make sense.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Nothing today makes any sense. After this declination of the activity,
Curly allegedly became angry and repeatedly struck the forty seven
year old victim in the face as he was seated
in the couple's living room couch. The female invites he
accorded to the police, watched Curl strike the victim in
the face with the closed fists multiple times. After being

(37:32):
read or Rit's, Curl denied hitting the man. Curl arrested
about quarter after one in the morning on Sunday for
domestic battery misdemeanor, and she was released from custody later
that day on her own recognizance. Of course, the judge
or to Curl to have no contact with the victim.
That okay, that's why it's in the stack of stupid
FI fifty six fifty five Kirsteve Talk Station plenty to
talk about in the six o'clock hour. I would enjoy

(37:54):
hearing from you. Maybe one of us can ultimately figure
out the answer to the question, where does the military
force use come from? By way of approval congressional? Does
the executive have this power on his own to do it?
I didn't read it in the Constitution, so I'm puzzled,
and apparently everyone else is and has been since post

(38:15):
World War two. Don't go away, I'd be right back after
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Timas Swish and everybody a very happy Monday, looking forward Thanksgiving.
I hope you are as much as I am. Just
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and T phones. Don't know which direction I'm gonna go,
although I do sud a kind of laughing over the
un Climate Ox which ended over the weekend. I got
a couple of comments about that. Segue into well reality
has drug Home. But real quick here Christopher Smithmen coming
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(39:21):
the eye Center. Where would the locations be, what are
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As I mentioned, so real quick here. Oh and in
the five o'clock hour, I'm asking the question out loud.
It would be an ongoing question because I don't think
anybody can answer it. On the heels of this, slocking
and other elected officials saying disregard illegal orders obviously put

(39:44):
Donald Trump in a tizzy. She over the weekend can't
identify any order that Donald Trump is issued that she
deems to be illegal. So we're in kind of a
gray area here. But it all swirls around Venezuela. Where's
the authority come from to start dropping bombs on Venezuela.
We get an entire carrier group down there. Mean, I

(40:07):
know they're evil people. I'm not on Maduro's side. I
think guy's an idiot. He's obviously driven his entire country
into the toilet. He's probably in bed with an ARCO terrorist.
But I'm looking for a sense of law and order
in all of this, And you know, I kind of
leave on the side of Senator Ran Paul. It's like, whoa, whoa,
what is going on here? And will this fracture the Republicans?
The attacks on Venezuela and drug boats. I'm not quite

(40:30):
there yet, but you got Democrat presidents dropping bombs on
people in countries against whom we have no authorization for
you some military force and no declaration of war. I
was against that. I'm against it. If Trump does it,
tell me where the legal authority comes from, point to something.
All this stems from, in my estimation, congressional inaction. The

(40:53):
world continues to move. Our constitution has certain legal requirements
built into it really don't allow for the dysfunction that
are we currently have with elected officials. If Congress is
not going to act, the president's hands seem to be
tied from a constitutional perspectives, that mean that we just
have to sort of lay back and take it anyhow.

(41:17):
Moving on, So every leader in the world flies to
Brazil for this climate Concrience conference, COP thirty flying in
their private jets, and I read a couple of times
that they cut down like six hundred thousand acres of
rainforest to build roads and hotels for these idiots. Whether

(41:38):
or not that figure is accurate, it remains to be seen.
But no one gives a damn when these people fly
in their carbon dioxide pollutant, belching private jets to Venezuela
at a rump for a week and a half at
great expense, and then do nothing, really, which is exactly
what they did when reality hits climate change. The agreement

(42:01):
that they did reach calls for well tripling the financing
for climate adaptation. Go ahead and make some sense out
of that. All I know is foreign governments want to
tap into the wealthy Western countries to fund whatever it

(42:21):
is that they need to do by way of adaptation.
This is a global wealth redistribution scam. I've been saying
it for years, and I'm wed to that proposition until
someone can show me something different. Because when the citizenry
starts demanding power and wind and solar doesn't provide it,
then you got to start looking someplace else. And that's
what everybody's doing. In fact, one of the things that
the European Union was doing was border fees, border fees

(42:45):
on carbon intensive GOODSS goods well part of the so
called agreement from the COP thirty conferences. No, No, you
can't do that. Climate policies should not constitute a means
of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on
international trade. So I guess the European Union thought that

(43:11):
basically taxing carbon intensive goods somehow is going to take
the carbon dioxide out of the air. We all know
what a laugh that kind of proposition is. But now
here's Cop thirty said, no, you can't do that. You
know why, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among others,
expressed what they called implacable opposition. Why because, well, their

(43:32):
countries are fueled on fossil fuels and they don't want
these policies to interfere with the sale of their fossil fuels,
revealing a bitter conflict at the heart of the global
climate politics. Gordon, what are the folks there? It's between

(43:53):
those who accept the science, laugh about that statement, and
recognize that the world must wean itself off fossil fuels
over the next two or three decades man too, maybe three,
maybe ten, who knows, and those who are actively resisting
this in order to produce even more of them, in
other words, fossil fuels. Why are they continuing to produce
even more of them? Well, because the people need energy.

(44:18):
That's where we move her to New York, New York
Governor Kathy Hockel approved a natural gas pipeline that has
been opposed by the climate lobbying up until a moment
of time ago. Opposed by Governor Kathy Hockel. Why, well,
that's because they need natural gas to keep the power
running tennds away, and your governor got Shapiro, Josh Shapiro

(44:38):
bailed out of cap and tax program as well last week. Hm,
what's going on here with these democrats? Ball Street journalm
and Shapiro showed is or. Mister Shapiro showed his pragmatic
streak when he used a budget deal with the Republican
legislators as an excuse to pull out of the regional
greenhouse gas initiative. Apparently a dozen of so states in

(44:59):
the northeast of join in this what the journal refers
to as climate suicide pack, which involves taxing the CO
two emissions of fossil fuel power plants. Ask a question,
amid rising energy prices, will taxing CO two emissions from
fossil fuel plants raise or lower your energy bill? Right?

(45:21):
Apparently the money taking in this stupid proposal would allow
the states to spend the money on climate boondoggles, as
the journal describes them. The goal is to raise the
cost on fossil fuel plants and make them less competitive
in the wholesale market against wind and solar power. That's
the laugh in all of this, isn't it the throat

(45:42):
cutting that we engage in in an effort to rid
the world of plant food. You artificially increase the price
of something that works twenty four to seven and can
be acquired cheaply. That will be the fossil fuel production
of energy. No, we can't have that. We need to
make it less affordable, So let's start taxing the hell
out of it. God, these people are insane. This pointed out.

(46:04):
Fossil fuel plants might have to then shut down. If
they forced the price to go so high, then well
they can't do business. General notes. Climate activists will cheer,
but the result will be a less reliable electric grid
and higher rates for consumers. Blackouts and soaring utility bills
in the state won't help Shapiro if he runs for
president in twenty twenty eight. MM tens of eighties and

(46:27):
other Northeastern states come close to suffering widespread power or
can close to suffering wide spread power outages during the
twenty twenty two Arctic blast the main prout power producer
PJM interconnection they oversee. The mid Atlantic grid responded to
the close run catastrophe by increasing payments to fossil fuel
generators to keep them running. Payments, of course, contribute to

(46:51):
the contribute to the rising electric rates, and the Cap
and Trade program would have raised them even more. Well,
here's fun Residential electric rates have risen by fifty percent
in Pennsylvania over the last five years. Now compare that
to twenty nine percent on average nationwide. Still awfully high,
artificially high, I might interject. They say. Some estimates suggests

(47:12):
the Cap and Trade plan would have increased Pennsylvania's electricity
bills between twenty four and thirty six percent by twenty thirty. Meanwhile,
Hopeles approved the pipeline he carried natural gas fracked in
Pennsylvania to New York City and Long Island. Her predecessor,
Andrew Cuomo blocked that pipeline. Now, the state desperately needs
more natural gas to keep the lights and heat on.

(47:33):
Winter times coming state grid operators one blackouts could happen
as soon as next summer, and as a result of
the nuclear and gas plant retirements. Yeah, see the European
Union on hell. Well that's working out. Germany is nearly bankrupt.
Gas plans sometimes have to run on oil during heat

(47:56):
waves of frigid weather. But this is this is expensive
and violate state emission standards. So go back to the pipeline.
Hoko may fear an even bigger catastrophe gas shortage, which
happened back in twenty twenty two Christmas freeze nearly caused
the city's pipes to lose pressure. Apparently, had that happened,

(48:16):
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission warned that the entire gas
system would have to be shut down, maybe for months,
leaving natural gas customers without heat in the middle of winter.
Somebody wrote wtf after that comment, going back to reality,
how do we stop that from happening? Governor Hochol MSS,
former Green champion, says we need to build a damn pipeline.

(48:43):
New York's environmental regulators, who previously rejected the pipeline, said
in September it is needed to maintain a reliable gas system. Quote,
we need to govern in reality. Miss Hokeel said after
approving the pipeline, kind of like Cop thirty we need
to well Haram In reality, Saudi Arabians are a little

(49:03):
upset we're going to tax their products, so we can't
have that. Let's not mention really carbon dioxide in any
COP thirty agreement that comes out. Why well, people keep
building gas plants and coal plants in this world to
keep up with the with the demand. Their citizenry needs electricity.
And then there's this pesty ai facilities out there which

(49:25):
the entire world is clamoring for, which is up massive
quantities of power. So reality runs headlong into this green
alarmist nonsense, and it appears that reality is winning the day.
Makes me happy. Stephen Chris, I see you are on
the phone. I will be happy to take your calls

(49:46):
when I get back. I said, to get that out
of my system, maybe stir the pot of conversation here
on the fifty five Cassing Morning Show. Don't go away,
be right back, fifty five car Detox station, wany I
figure out Cassite talk station and going to go straight
to the phone. It's got a couple of callers. We're
kind of up this there on hold there while I yack.
And in the last segment, we're going to order which
they receive, which means Steve is first. Chris hang on, Steve,

(50:08):
welcome to the show, and thanks for holding.

Speaker 11 (50:11):
So you did start the conversation. Pot let's see first topic.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
So it was.

Speaker 11 (50:17):
The military in the UH about South America. Well, just
because they're doing something somewhere doesn't mean that's why they're
in the area. Maybe something else is going on in
this Commander in chief I think he has a powered
moving military around and has to yas Congress after so
many days. So that topic, I mean, just because they're
doing something, it's like a rodeo clown. So over here,

(50:37):
look over here.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Point acknowledge and well taken, Steve. Just because we move
a carrier group to any place, any given place, it
happens all the time. Obviously it's done to show a
military flex of muscle. There hasn't been a missile launch
into the interior vent as well. Those ships can be
sent anywhere. As commander in chief, he absolutely has that authority.
My bigger point is the actual blowing up of boats
and the what seems to be imminent launching of strikes

(51:00):
into the interior Venezuela and the designation of that group
as a terrorist Organization questioned whether that gives the President
of the United States of America the authority to launch
military strikes. And that's where my puzzle, my being puzzled
comes from. I don't know that it does. I don't
think it does. No one seems to know. Even Slotkin,
who's telling American military forces in the CIA to disregard
illegal orders, can't even put her thumb on what she

(51:22):
believes to be an illegal order or identifying one that
Donald Trump is issued yet, so everyone seems being a
state of confusion.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Steve Correat, that's right now.

Speaker 7 (51:31):
Data centers.

Speaker 11 (51:32):
A small data center has about ten megs a backup
diesel fuel energy. The one in Elebanon has like fifty megs,
and so up northeast Northeastern states. They wanted all these
data centers up there until they found out the backup
was diesel fuel, and so they canceled all their all
the stuff. They didn't want them up there.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Seriously.

Speaker 11 (51:53):
Yeah, in Lebanon, Ohio, you're talking about the natural gas
line didn't have the power to compress the gas. Well,
the bill one eleven in right now. But the Union's
around here to love and big, you know. Construst is
love the fact that all this construsting being done. But
the data center after built has like ten people in it,
so you have a lot of supporting, you know, trades

(52:14):
keeping this building running.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Yeah, but as.

Speaker 11 (52:17):
For hiring people to come in and work, it's not
a factory computers.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
In a dark room. In my mind's eye, I can energy.
I can only concede Steve, that's exactly right. I mean,
how many people do you need to run an AI
FA soley, I don't know, but it's not like an Amazon,
you know, fulfillment center where you need a whole bunch
of people to process the goods. So, but I guess
that's where we are. Where at phase one, which is

(52:42):
construction jobs and building and this this this quote unquote
investment of billions of dollars to do exactly that. Phase two,
of course, will be the role out of the artificial
intelligence facilities. What is Phase three? Is it profit or
is it the elimination of our jobs? I certainly know
that Phase three will involve massive quantities of electricity consumption.
And the only golden thing I can see in all

(53:02):
of that is it may lead to all of us
having nuclear plants, small modular reactors which never go out
and provide us with abundance of electricity and allow us
to move forward with a booming economy that isn't contingent
upon capturing carbon dioxide. Thank you, Steve, appreciate it. Let'sen
what Chris has got. He was kind of the whole Chris,
thanks for holding Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
Hey Brian, first time caller, Love your show, and thanks
for keeping me company on my drive. I'm driving to
Florida this morning.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
So, oh, you're right, you're on your way to Florida. Chris.
Sean put up that you were heading to Lexington. I
thought that was your destination, but that's just to stop
off on the way to the to the Sunshine State.
Where are you heading in Florida? If I can ask? Enviously, Chris,
I'm going down to the north side of Orlando, going
to spend Thanksgiving with.

Speaker 8 (53:52):
My family and also doing some work down there.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
So good for.

Speaker 8 (53:55):
Nice seeing these two dollars and fifty six cent gas prices.
UH as well, But but no real quick, I was
listening to your uh several of the callers where you
were talking about, you know, the UH unlawful orders in
the video that several of these democrats, you know, politicians

(54:16):
did Uh. Your point is spot on, you know, talking
about the legal ramifications, and if you look at the
clandestine stuff that the CIA has done over the years,
you know there there's always a number of different angles
that where you ask why, But for government officials to

(54:36):
do a video to proactively talk about president and unlawful
orders when they themselves can't even tell you what was
unlawful is beyond the pale.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (54:49):
And I got to tell you for all of the
talk that we've heard in the last you know, four
and a half years about January sixth, and how we've
had that cram down our face and how that is
seditious behavior for a politician to go out and say.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
What they did on that video.

Speaker 8 (55:07):
I mean, it really makes me want to barf. And
kudos to you for stating that when challenged, you know,
some of these same people about what was the name
and on lawful order and they can't do it right
On all of these news programs, they have not been
they've not said that, So it is it is beyond

(55:28):
the pale, And kudos to you for stating that they
you know, they can't even say what it was right.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Well, but see, to me, I agree with you. I
think it's terrible. I don't like the division of this country.
I don't like the idea of underminding American military. But
it invites the question that I've been asking all morning, Chris,
and that is, okay, they can't even identify what is
quote unquote unlawful, and I step back from this current
issue the slot can you know pronouncement with the other Democrats,

(55:57):
and that started this conversation, and I think it's a
worthy discussion to engage in because the question of lawful
when it comes to the use of military force is
one that remains open now. I mean, for me, the
Constitution says declaration of war period, end of story. There's
nothing in there called a War Powers Resolution which was passed,
and I know that that gives them some apparent flexibility.

(56:18):
We could argue all day long about whether even that
is constitutional, but that hasn't been used to provide Trump
with the authorization to drop the bombs at least right
now on ships. I anyway, I don't mind the discussion
to talk about lawful and unlawful when it comes to
the use of military force. It's just something that I
think should be used only only only when we are

(56:40):
I think under attack six twenty six and what does
it mean to be under attack? Chris? Thank you so much.
Safe travels man. I hope you enjoy yourself in Florida
and you have a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving with your family.
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Please confirm the shooting happened about one thirty the morning
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life threatening injuries. Total number of shootings near the establishment
now seven people. In November alone, four people got shot
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Sunday shooting was driving a Dodge Charger with tinted windows.
No other description provided. Bars owner didn't respond to requests
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the owner provided a statements saying the establishment is committed
to safety and has a zero tolerance policy for violence.
Council Member Seth Wash previously raised concerns about this bar

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in the city after receiving noise complaints. City responded by
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eukle Lite, Ohio, where a quote unquote belligerent man who

(58:30):
threatened to smack a Kentucky Fried Chicken employee because they
couldn't serve food that was actually sold at rallies. I'm
thinking drugs here. Maybe facing now a number of charges
after leading police officers in a chase on his scooter
accorn to South eukle Police Department. Incidents started thirty four
year old Lessander Mosley went to the KFC on Mayfield Road.

(58:53):
KFC employees told the police demand tried to order food
that was served at Rallies, completely different restaurant that's located
directly across the street from the KF see where this
guy showed up. When the staff told him he didn't
serve Rally's food, Mosley became belligerent and threatened to smack
an employee. Employee then called police and an officer showed up.
The man got on his blue moped that was outside

(59:15):
the restaurant and took off. Police said the man rode
the scooter on the sidewalk with quote zero regard to
pedestrian traffic safety clothes quote, ignoring officer's command to stop,
and said headed west on Ardmore Road. Officers saw Moseley
turn his body away from the road and toward the officer,
extending his middle finger in the direction of the police. However,

(59:40):
when his eyes were off the road, he lost control
of the moped, slashed scooter and then fell onto the
pavement and slid into the southwest curb of Air Gone road.
Oh I know it. Man launched from the scooter, slid
into the street into a large tree. Mex showed up
on the scene a few minutes later. Court of the
police took him to the hospital. Police later identified the

(01:00:01):
suspect as that Lessander Mosley, charged with disorderly conduct OVI,
no motorcycle license, reckless operation and operation of a motorcycle
without a helmet. May also be charged with failure to
comply with an order of signal of the police officer,
which is also a third degree pelaphony okay. One person

(01:00:23):
dead after a rollover crash having a Brown County about
eight to five minutes after eight am on Saturday, Corner
high State Highway Patrol in nineteen ninety nine Ford Crown
VIC drifted off US sixty two slash US sixty eight
into the grass medium and then hit a guardrail and
went over to the embankment. It flipped landed on the
roof in a creek thirty feet below. No other vehicles

(01:00:47):
involved in the incident. Police identified the decedent no longer
with his forty five year old David Leonard from Aberdeen.
They're investigating the incident. No meption of drugs or alcohol
or aairman being related. Ripley County, Indiana, we have an
Aurora man now facing an attempted murder charge after driving

(01:01:08):
into another man after a crash this passed week. According
to Indiana State Police, troopers from the Sales Post, alongside
deputies from the Ripley County Sheriff's Office and Jefferson County
Sheriff's Officer, responded to the crash on US four to
twenty one near Michigan Road. Jefferson County. Troopers found the
driver of a ninety one Chevy truck, forty six year
old Larry Webster. The second rear ended another vehicle while

(01:01:29):
traveling northbound on US four twenty one. After the other
driver exited his vehicle, Webster allegedly intentionally struck the vehicle
a second time and struck the driver who was standing
next to the vehicle. Webster then fled the scene in
his truck. Indiana State Patrol troopers located him in an
abandoned truck on Old Michigan Road in Ripley County. Webster

(01:01:51):
was located walking nearby. When taking Webster into custody, and
altercation occurred and a trooper was injured, treated and released
at a local nearby hospital. The troopers was driver of
the vehicle that Webster struck, also injured and transported to
a nearby hospital. Webster was taken to hospital in Madison
before being taken to a second hospital for additional evaluation,

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later released and then booked finally into the Jefferson County
jail charged with attempted murder six thirty six. Right now,
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At six forty at fifty five KRC, the Talk Station,
and a Happy Monday, T five one, three, seven, nine,
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talk two pound five fifty on eighteen T phones. I'm
a big proponent of cash. I find it a great
way of managing finances. If you, you know, set yourself

(01:03:00):
an allocated limit, you withdraw some cash at the beginning
of the week, and you use that to fund your purchases.
It's built in budget control. You've limited the amount of
money it's in your pocket. Credit cards. I know how
easy it is to grab a credit card and just
buy something. So it's just a way that I, throughout
my wife, have tried to manage my finances. So I
still I am a big fan of cash these days.

(01:03:21):
The other component of it is and I'm not paranoid.
I don't think really big brother is watching me in
the nineteen eighty four cents, although it's easy to come
to that conclusion these days, but well, you know, I don't.
I really don't like the idea of credit card companies
just assuming or you know, compiling all of this data
on what I buy and don't buy. You know, my
second amendment, loving friends, is special designation for when you

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use your credit card at a lawful business that sells
firearms and related products and services. You know, why do
they need to know that? So just a little extra point.
But I like the cash, and I don't like places
that don't take cash. I mean, read your currency for

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all debts public and private. It is legal tender. So
I kind of like this thing going on. Ohio. We well,
if the legislators passed what this called the currency Access
to spend here. Obviously cash currency access to spend here.
That would require businesses and government offices to accept cash

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for payments up to five hundred dollars. I don't know
why the cap is there. The bill will require businesses
and government entities to provide at least one point of
sale location that accepts cash whatever, as long as they
accept cash. Also bans them from charging those using cash
for a transaction at a higher price than those using
other payment methods, and I found that actually laughable. The

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businesses have to pay a percentage of the transaction to
the credit card companies, so you know they're losing out
on to a certain degree if they accept credit cards.
So the idea that they might charge you more for
using cash kind of mix just just makes that absurd.
I had lunch with my mom over the weekend and

(01:05:12):
then we were at a small little Greek place over
on the West side and shivvy it real nice place,
and they give you a discount for paying cash in
amount of a little over a dollar on our small tab,
So I liked that anyway. O High State Representative Dave
Thomas behind this. He introduced it its House Bills five
point fifty four he said, It's simple. Cash is the

(01:05:34):
basis for business in America. Our taxpayers should always have
the ability to use cash in their daily lives. I
hear from residents who may not trust virtual payment options
or just prefer to use physical cash.

Speaker 8 (01:05:43):
Me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
This bill balances the needs of government and businesses to
be efficient with the ability to still rely on physical currency. Yeah,
and you can still use just work them me here
talking about the power going off, and the last segment
about the people waking up these global war alarm is
waking up to the reality that oh okay, yeah, well
we need regular, always running power. Doesn't matter where it

(01:06:07):
comes from. If the electricity goes off, we got a
problem on our hands. We being the elected officials worrying
about their jobs, You and I worrying about how cold
it is outside. We don't want windmills and solar panels
providing the basis for our life. Literally, But if the
power does go out, I can take my cash and
I can go someplace and buy stuff with it. You

(01:06:28):
can't do that with a credit card if the powers off.
Can you just an extra wrinkle in this? Apparently, Target, Walmart,
and Costco are moving towards self checkout methods that don't
accept cash, And of course, I'm sure you've run into
this in many occasions. I've been to the Krugger and
I've seen those you know, self checkout aisles where you

(01:06:48):
must use a credit card. There's a little cash thing
right there, but it apparently is inoperable the most times,
or maybe it's not operable at all by design. So
what say you about cash as an option? And I
appreciate businesses and their ability to have some flexibility when
it comes to how they want to run their business.
Nobody is more profound believer in the rights of businesses

(01:07:09):
to decide their practices than me. And I think refusing
cash in yours not to the business's benefit because it's
just one more payment option that is available to there
would be customers. But the currency is legal tender for
all debts, public and private. I'm going to hang my

(01:07:32):
hat on that from a legal perspective, and I would
encourage businesses to continue to honor cash for the transactions.
Your thoughts, maybe you want to deal with that cash.
I don't like that. It's just in this Well, I'll
go back to the Orwellian world in which we live
and in the massive accumulation of all this data about

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you the individual. Just depriving them of one more method
just puts a smile on my face. Six forty five
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to any of those places anyway. Tech Friday, We're gonna
do it on Tuesday tomorrow. One of the great things
about tomorrow, We've got a great show lined up Tech
Tuesday with Dave Hatter, Have not to get scammed on
Black Friday and cool tech gadgets and gifts this year
two of the topics. We're gonna have Congressman More and
Davidson on tomorrow. Bring him account from the Hudson Ins
to Latest Energy Policy Charged Conversation Brigham's podcast. I recommend

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you listen to that one. We'll get the end. It's
good with Bright Barton News and the Daniel Davis Deep Dives.
So we've got a full show tomorrow which I'm looking
forward to. But it is Black Friday. And since Dave
Hatter's gonna be talking about some cool tech gadget, sounds
like stuff he doesn't object to. You know, parents really
need to watch out for artificial intelligence toys. There was
an advisory issued by a group out there, an advocacy

(01:09:19):
group called fair Play, warning you parents against buying artificial
intelligence toys for the children. This advisory endorsed by more
than one hundred and fifty child development and digital safety experts.
AI toys, they say, are chatbots that are embedded in
everyday children's toys like plus these dolls, action figures, or
kids robots, and use artificial intelligence technology designed to communicate

(01:09:41):
like a trusted friend and mimic human characteristics and emotions.
And they gave a bunch of examples, a bunch of
toys that I'm not familiar with, but they're all out there,
and the more and more, these toy makers are going
to be incorporating AI into the toys, and they market
these to children as young as infants, which is scary stuff. Now,
recently there's a lawsuit five you ma, we have heard
about a fourteen year old committed suicide after engaging with

(01:10:03):
an artificial intelligence entity out there that triggered suicidal thoughts.
We'll see how the litigation works out on that. But
some frightening stuff revealed by this particular advocacy group one
page advisory a bunch of different reasons why you should
not indulge your children with AI toys. They're typically powered

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by the same intelligence that has already harmed children, which
we have these suits about, we have all these reporting about.
They suggest the toys prey on children's trusts, disrupt healthy
relationships and the ability to build resilience, invade family privacy
by collecting sensitive data, and displace key creative and learning activities.

(01:10:44):
Accord to the advisory. You know, because when children play
with a standard Teddy Bear, it's pointed out they use
their imagination and engage in pretend play, supporting critical foundational development.
But artificial intelligence substitutes that your kid becomes basically a
mindless entity absorbing this back and forth communication designed to

(01:11:06):
build your child's trust, and may end up sending them
off in some crazy direction. And we've got lots of
illustrations of that crazy direction. After collecting private details about
family and children, the advisory said, AI toy companies can
use all of this intimate data to make their AI

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systems more lifelike, responsive, and addictive, allowing them to build
a relationship with the child and ultimately sell products and services. Well,
you hope it's only ultimately designed to sell product and services.
All that's nefarious in and of itself. Your children do
not have the educational and you know, foundational ability to

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cope with this. This isn't an adult sitting and you know,
using logic and reason going, well, I can see through
this crap. You know, they're just trying to sell me
a product. Children don't have that. Rachel Franz, director of
Fairplace Young Children Thrive Offline Program, companion AI is already

(01:12:11):
harm teams. Stuffing that same technology and acute kid friendly
toys exposes even younger children to risk beyond what we
currently comprehend. She said, it's ridiculous that these toys are
unregulated and being marketed to families with the promise of safety,
learning and friendship promises that have no evidence behind them,
while mounting evidence shows that similar technology can do real harm,

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just suggesting the risk is simply too great. Let your
children develop their minds without this AI involvement. It's bad
enough we give them smartphones at a young age, but
when you have artificial intelligence telling children to do really
kind of bizarre things. And there's been some crazy stories
about this, notably when kids commit Suicidekids who are on

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life's psychological margins obviously are at a greater risk of
being impacted by this. So it's Black Friday coming up.
Do the responsible thing you've got young children. Maybe get
them the plain old Teddy Bear and not the AI
teddy Bear. It'd be good for him in the long run.
Maybe Dave Hatter will be talking about this. I know

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we talked about the Internet of Things devices all the time,
and I can't imagine Dave Hatter embracing this as a
great concept. Buying them that is for your children. Embracing
that is a great concept for your child's development. Be
wary out there. Six stifty five. Don't go away. We
got Christopher smith and coming up after the top of
the air news at seven twenty with the Smither event.

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I'll take phone calls between now and then, and I'll
be right back after the news seven oh six here

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at fifty five k ror CD talk station. That's something
you want to talk about, you feel free to call me.
Joe Strecker on vacation today, Sean McMahon behind the board
building phone calls, making sure everything's well oiled, and looking
forward to Christopher Smithman coming up at seven twenty. I
always look forward to hearing Christopher on the program for
the Smither Van, and I don't know what he wants
to talk about today. I don't even know what the
topics are with Brian James Day, although I did exchange

(01:14:24):
emails with Brian Sincetreker is gone. He's going to be
shooting me the topics before eight oh five, one hour
from now, when we do money Monday. Uh care see cares.
We're going to hear from the Cincinni VA's Chris Clue today.
Apparently they've got a couple of new outpatient clinics and
an eye center that are opening. We're going to find
out about those locations. What they are for, and of
course get an update on veterans enrollment of the VA.
Take advantage of everything you earned. It is the right

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thing to do, some great medical care. And we've got
some good people at the Cincinni VA, so love supporting
the American veteran Just remind you you got benefits out there,
so the details coming up at the end of the
next hour. Feel free to call five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
to three top pound fix fifty on AT and T phones.
Remember to Mar's lineup, including a special Tuesday edition of

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Tech Friday, we'll call it Tech Tuesday tomorrow, plus Warren
Davidson among others on the show tomorrow. Okay, I know
you got this whole thing swirling around Representative Marjorie Taylor
Green's resignation from Congress, and of course she had a
bit of a spat with Donald Trump. And you know,
to my always Trump thumbs up listening audience, in this
particular case, I don't think Trump's really his response was

(01:15:29):
necessarily appropriate. Tends to fly off the handle a little bit,
but one of the things she was talking about is,
you know, he's emphasis on foreign policy. He's not paying
attention to domestic issues. And I know he promised to
bring that inflation. Ask yourself, how can any present president
bring down inflation? You just wave one. The printing press

(01:15:51):
is still running. You thank the Bideny administration for plumbing
in trillions and trillions and trillions of additional dollars into
the economy. A lot of it went to fraud, waste,
and abuse, which is always in number one in my
mind in terms of what Congress should start with. Eliminate
the possibility of fraud, waste, and abuse. Well, in the
area of healthcare is one of the things she's critical
about the Trump administration. We got to do something to

(01:16:12):
fix the problem with healthcare. Yeah, I'll agree with that. Well,
apparently the Trump administration is supposed to roll out a
new plan that's aimed at curbing rising healthcare costs. What's
in this one Healthcare Price Cuts Act. This proposed legislation
again could come out as early as today. It would

(01:16:33):
prevent premium spikes under Obamacare. We only have a general
framework on this apparently today, as early as today, we're
gonna hear from Trump, doctor Mendment Oz and the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid services corner of the officials. Scott Mescent,
Treasury Secretary, was on the meet the press over the
weekend yesterday in fact, saying that there's gonna be announcement

(01:16:56):
on this about tackling healthcare costs. Drum roll, maestro, what's
gonna be John's proposed legislation again, the Healthcare Price cuts
Actor Court of both White House and other officials would
seek to end what they referred to as quote surprise
premium hikes generated by the ACA. Now, the painful reality

(01:17:23):
of Affordable Care Act is it's not affordable and it's
becoming like the insurer of last resort. Like any insurance
company in this particular case is not a private insurance
company which has got all kinds of rules and regulations
about how many how much money they must keep in
reserves to pay claims. And if the reserve money is

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going down and the claims experience is going up, you
got to raise premiums to cover the payment of claims. Well,
is kind of turned on its head with Obamacare. So
you have the American taxpayer shouldering the burden on all this. Well,
it seems to be under the health insurance companies get
the premium dollars, they process and pay the claims. Bottom
line is, this is why the price is going up.

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Everybody who's sick goes on Obamacare, and when you have
insurance payments covered by the American taxpayer, it hides it.
Remember the subsidies that drove us to shutting the government down, right,
those are subsidies that we're going to people making more
than sixty five hundred dollars a year. The people who
make less than that don't get any claim or don't
get any have to pay any premium. So one of

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the things that I like that I think is a
good idea in this it would eliminate what they call
zero premium subsidies. Well, if you aren't paying any premium whatsoever,
but are receiving the benefits of Obamacare, this invites fraud.
The fraud that I mentioned before. They call them ghost beneficiaries.

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So if you require some at least small minimum payments,
it acts as a way of verifying eligibility for those
of receiving benefits. So a fake person or a computer
generated AI type of individual who's claiming benefits, or maybe
some illegal immigrant more likely they're at least going to

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have to write a check to the government to make
a premium payment, even if it's a small one, just
one little extra check in there. Plan also contains what
they're calling a deposit program. This one's a little puzzling
to me. It would incentivize lower premium options on the
Obamacare exchange for individuals who downgrade coverage. The difference in

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costs would be deposited into a health savings account funded
with taxpayer dollars. No, that's more government involvement. How do
we get here anyway? Government involvement. That's what the sixty
two to five subsidy when it went away, you had
to look at the premium. You're actually exposed to the

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reality of what it costs to operate Obamacare. Those dollars
were being fund being paid out. It isn't as if
there was no premium that Obamacare just suddenly became free. No,
the money was continuing to dig us a hole in
terms of the federal government making the payments. The system
is broken. This is why the one thing that I

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like that the Trump administration had thrown out at least casually.
If this money is in fact going to be coming
from the federal government, landing in the pocket of the
American taxpayer, with of course some obligation that that money
be used to buy health insurance or pay health claims.

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That would force competition. If all the insurance companies that
provide medical insurance from the biggest two, you know, the smallest,
had to compete against each other and buy for those
dollars that are in the hands of the individual, you
can see a situation where capitalism works, the laws of

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supply and the man work, and of course there's going
to be a big supply of medical insurance companies out
there looking to get your business versus someone else. You
lower premiums to deal with that. At least that's the
way it's supposed to work in a free market economy.
So if you've got a mechanism, if you have a

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proposal to deal with the rapidly increasing cost of health
care in this country, what do you think it would be.
How can the federal government control the price of health care?
Or we're going to go full on Zorhan MUNDHAMI and

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just say it will be no more than this, We
will not have a premium spike in excess of this.
You can say it, but does it change the underlying
dynamic that drove the price of medical insurance up. In
other words, the claims experience the increasing cost of medical
care generally speaking, and how do we get to the
providers and lower the price of medical care. Say, in hospitals,

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they seem to have free reian to do whatever they want.
Market forces don't really seem to apply to a hospital.
And how they derive or come up with some price
for anything you do? It commercials for affordable imaging services
there for a long time, and they only charge a
few hundred dollars for something that'll cost you thousands of
dollars in a hospital imaging department. Why are they charging
thousands of dollars in the imaging department medical insurance they

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negotiate the price. So it's a system colossally screwed up.
And I think the Trump administration as well as everybody
else could use some advice or guidance on how to
best curb the costs because as of right now, I mean,
we're not going to get anto relief from this anytime soon.
I cannot imagine it. And going back to my problems
earlier this morning and dealing with this whole is it

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lawful what's lawful, what's unlawful when it comes to striking
the Venezuela or any other country with military hardware. At
some point, you know Congress is going to have to act.
Does anybody think Congress is equipped? In this divided government?
We have to fix or solve or otherwise offer rational

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solutions to the healthcare situation. We have the problem we
have with healthcare. Democrats are full on socializing medicine. That's
more government, more fraud waste than abuse, and not raining
in premiums. Somewhere the answer lies in the private sector.
I'm convinced it's just how do we get back to
private sector? I think anybody my age remembers when you

(01:23:36):
know your pediatrician would show up at the house and
give you your your injection in your living room, do
house calls, and it didn't cost your parents that much
money at all. Could we ever go back to that?
Probably not. But somewhere we went off the rails, and
we need to fix it. Seven sixteen fifty five Krocite
talks Stations Dating the obvious, Christopher smitham and saving me

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from myself coming up an.

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Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
Just show seven twenty fifty have KRCD talk station. Thank
God for this time of day and this time of week.
Christopher Smithlman, former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Every week here at this time to event the Spleen.
The Smith event is what we call it. Welcome back,
my dear friend, Christopher Smithlan. Thank you for being on
the program.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Oh, thank you so much, brother, for having me on,
allowing me to have some what I would say, even therapy.
Once a week I can share with you and the
rest of the world what's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
I call it therapy for me.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
And I don't have to burden you know, my dear
friends around me. I can just give it, give it
to you and the rest of the world. Brother. So
you just sit back on the couch and look at me.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Put my feet up, and let you go, hey real
quick here for you dive in. What's what's what's burning
on your head, and what's causing your spleen to be invented?
You have some good plans for things giving. I mean,
you have such a big family, and I can envision
the Smitham and family gather around and enjoying each other's
fellowship and some great times on Thanksgiving. You have something
good plan.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
Yeah, thirty years, thirty five years or so, we've been
doing the same things brother in thirty five years, and
we get together with my oldest brother. So our whole
family does not get together for Thanksgiving. People are in
different places, and so I won't have all my kids.
They have their significant others or other things that they're doing.
But I have some of them. And that's all cool, man,

(01:25:31):
you know, It's just a part of life and rotating.
But I've always been at these thirty five years, I've
been with my oldest brother, and so that's what we'll do.
We'll sit down and have some turkey.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
I want to share. I want to share with you brother,
as I wish happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody. What
happened in Chicago when they were putting up a Christmas tree.
And I'm going to tie it to Cincinnati. Okay, we
as a city in Cincinnati are moving towards Chicago if
we're not already there per capita, per population, as far

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as violence is concerned. But they are just too many
things that are paralleling here that I just want to
raise some attention. You can't even go into the heart
of Chicago with the raising of their Christmas tree and
not deal with a mass shooting. That's when you know
your city is completely off the rails. You have a

(01:26:31):
democratic mayor, you have a democratic council, you have a
democratic school board, right, and you have criminals in Chicago
that are being cradled by the electeds, and they are
neutering and have been neutering their police department with the reimagination,

(01:26:52):
with the defund the cops, and what you have is
a city that is completely out of control. And the
saddest thing is that those who are experiencing the violence
are African Americans. African Americans are being murdered or shot
or made We don't hear about those people who are paralyzed, right.

(01:27:13):
We don't hear about the person who was shot and
had to be put back together like the bonic man.
I used to watch that as a kid. We don't
hear about those people. We just hear about those who
are dead. But we don't understand the horrific life that
people are living in these urban cores. And it is
coming and has arrived at the doorsteps of Cincinnati. I

(01:27:37):
continue to wake up and hear in our OTR, in
the core of our city shootings, a mass shooting by
the FBI four or more. We had three shot in OTR.
We were one short from the definition of a mass
shooting in our downtown right by the same bar that

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we all know is a problem that city council and
this mayor and this manager refuse to deal with. And
the people that are dying around us are African American
males who are being murdered every single or every other
day or every weekend in our core, in Cincinnati and

(01:28:18):
places like Chicago. I would guess that six hundred people
have been shot in Chicago or in this year as
we close out the year. Imagine that. Think about your
high school graduating class and think about six hundred people
being shot in one year. These are extraordinary blood baths
that are happening in our core. And to have this mayor,

(01:28:39):
who happens to be African American to stand up, look
people on the eye in Chicago and say everything is cool,
everything is all right. I got it under control. He
has nothing under control. He does not care about African
American life. I am concerned about this mayor and this council.
My voice will continue the weigh in that they don't

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don't care about the violence, because if they cared about it,
they'd be doing something different. They wouldn't be holding and
coddling our cops. They let them do their jobs, They
let them do proactive policing. They wouldn't be talking about, oh,
we cannot do community based policing and proactive policing at
the same time, when every time I turn on my
dog on a TV, I'm looking at almost a mass

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shooting every single weekend in our downtown. Here's the closure
closing on this one. Guess what that area not. Everybody
overwhelmingly voted for this council and this mayor in OTR.
So guess what. Elections have consequences. And this is what

(01:29:43):
you get where you continue to vote for these kind
of mayors, these kind of councils, these kind of school boards.
You have failing schools. You have a city that is
violently being coddled by the criminals. The criminals are running.
They're more worried about the criminals then they are the
law abiding citizens, whether you're black or white. Wake up

(01:30:05):
Cincinnati and wake up Chicago. But if you continue to
vote the same way you continue to vote. Guess what
look in the mirror, Take your turkey out, eat your
Thanksgiving and don't complain. This is what you'll wanted.

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Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
Seven thirty here fifty five KRCD talk station. I always
enjoy my conversation with Christopher Smith and the Smith VNA
is what we call the segment every Monday, beginning at
seven to twenty. Game for a few and Christopher, whatever
else is on your mind. I got a couple of
questions this this three shot outside the over the Rhine
bar of the weekend, and of course this has been
a real problem. The name of the establishment Privy on

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Elm Street. It's been identified as having noise complaints and
prior shootings outside the establishment. I guess I have to ask,
you know, I'm a little reluctant personally to blame the
establishment because you know, I'm guessing it's operating during lawful
business hours. It is not doing something illegal by way
of providing you know, unlawful substances or you know, a criminal.

(01:33:35):
I don't know what's going on in there, but is
it the bar that's the problem. Seems to me it's
the people that either hang out in the bar and
then go out and commit crimes after they leave it,
or the people hanging outside the bar and maybe not
even going in that are causing the problems. But I mean,
are we right in looking at the bar as the
source of the problem or is it really And I
think it more fundamentally boils down to it's people that

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are the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
We are right to look at the bar problem. They
have a responsibility to hire off duty details outside of
that bar at eighty five or one hundred dollars an hour,
whatever they need to do to make sure if they
are attracting that population with whatever they're doing, they have
a responsibility to make sure everybody around there is safe.

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So whatever you're doing, right, the problem is if you've
got to hire three or four officers out there, but no,
they're not going to do that because they don't want
their margins. They don't want to pay two or three
thousand dollars whatever it takes in order to make sure
that people are saying so, yes, I think they are respired.
I don't think they say, well, they left my bar,
and whatever they were doing in the bar they go
out of the bar is no longer my responsibility. I
want to see heavy off duty details. I would have

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already had a plan in place with the establishment. I
would have voted for it on the floor of council.
So we sat, we met, We put together a community
plan and action plan, which at the top of it
would be hiring off duty details. Wouldn't matter to me
whether they were Cincinnati pl police or sheriffs to make
sure that as their bar let out, I was safe.

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There's so many people that have invested so much money
around there, they're living there, those are their homes. That
is what the city council wanted, so the people are
pouring out and then shots are fired. You're in your bedroom,
or you're hosting somebody in your living room, you're watching
and bullets are flying through your dog on window. So yes,
I think that that owner, whoever it is, I don't
know who it is. I'm not connected. I'm not even

(01:35:27):
trying to find out at this point. I'm just sharing
with you. City council and this mayor continue to have
the same problem over and over again. And I bet you,
if you and I look into this establishment, in some
way they're connected to this council.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
Oh really, I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
I bet you in some way they are connected through
some type of relationship financially making contributions to the campaign.
I don't know this for sure. I'm just saying I've
been around a long time. Guy. You don't have an
establishment like this where you constantly have the same problem
every single weekend and then all of a sudden, city

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council and the mayor are saying nothing about it. There's
something going on politically between these Democrats and whoever owns
this establishment. They're all connected. It's one big happy family,
is my speculation. And they care more about the criminals.
The owner and not the people that are living down there.
Brian Thomas, that's the ugly truth.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Yeah, it just seems strange that, you know, how is
it that this particular establishment is the one that draws
the criminal element?

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
You know, I don't know, brother, It's not my bars,
not my establishment. But guess what. All the people in OTR,
not all of them, voted for this council. But it's
very blue. And we go back and say elections have consequences.
They were complaining about this before the election. They went
in overwhelmingly as a community and voted for this mayor,

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this council and this manager anddministration. And you get what
you vote for. It's not that I'm upset or frustrated
by it. It's your life. Yeah. And so if you
want to go down and continue to vote for the
same people, guess what, you're going to get the same result.
All right, But since wee man, here's what I want
to talk about. Go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
Now, I'm just going to say, since we don't have
an upcoming election, we got to wait a little bit
for that next one to show up and give people
an alternative. Whether or not they choose a different path
remains to be seen because we've been down this road before.
But there is something that these citizenry can do in
spite of who they voted for, is organize and do
like a Hyde Park Uprising City Council does one thing.

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The residents of Hyde Park say, damn it, there is
no way we're going to abide by this zoning thing.
We're going to get a petition on the ballot. We're
going to go after them. That seemed to have worked.
So you know, if you're really worried and angry about crime,
elevating that to that kind of level, maybe the way
to go and force the administration to do something the
otherwise might not do. That seems to be the only
recourse right now.

Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
Christopher Well, I would say that after the election, that's
all they have. They had an election, right yeah, and
that is where the that's where you actually do that work.
What they did was they affirmed the direction of the
mayor and the council and said we like the direction.
You don't get eighty five ninety percent of the vote

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in an area and walk away going I'm doing a
bad job. The mayor like raising your children. If you continue,
you say, hey man, I'm going to reward the bad behavior,
which is what they did. The child continues to do
exactly what they were doing, and so there's no motivation.
This mayor is is what we call in the college world,

(01:38:35):
a tenured member of the institution. He's never going to
run for mayor again. He got four years. He is
termed out. He can do whatever the heck he wants.
It makes him even more dangerous because he's not even
thinking about the city. He wasn't thinking about it four
years ago and he's not really not thinking about it now.
Let me say this to you, brother, these Epstein files

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nationally that are coming out. I'm a person as an independent.

Speaker 1 (01:39:02):
You're changing topic. So let's just pause because we're out
of a past the break. We'll let you start on
that when we come back. More with Christopher Smithman on Fire.
He is at seven thirty six right now. If you
have KERCD talk station, this is.

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Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Seven thirty nine. Here about kerr CD talk station. Brian
Thomas with Christopher Smithman. I mean erupt you as you're
getting ready to go on another train of thought. But
I thought since the subject was moving over to the
Epstein file. So I did just go ahead and take
that much need to break, Christopher, so you have the
floor back, have at it, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Look, man, anybody who's out having sex with minor children,
you're a pedophile, yep. And I want to know who
you are. I don't care what your political affiliation is.
I don't care how old you were when you did it.
When you're having sex with twelve and thirteen and fourteen
year old girls and boys on an island, you're sick, right,

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And we've got to own this as a community, and
we want to out anybody and everybody. It doesn't matter
how much money they have, or what their power is
or what they're doing. And so what you see on
both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats are out
there trying to protect the elites. That is what I

(01:40:25):
believe is happening. And so I'm not speculating who's on
the list, but I can tell you, as the Democrats
were saying, all we've got to have this released, I
want to say a couple of things about it. So
we're real clear. President Biden and his administration could have
released this information during his term YEP. Period and he didn't.

(01:40:49):
He didn't do it for a reason. So this outcry
by the Democrats is all fake. Right, But guess what
I think the the Trump administration did the rope dope
on on the on the Democrats saying, okay, you guys,
I don't know if I want to, I don't know
this for sure. But Epstein was a Democrat. Epstein was

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a financer of the Democratic machine. That's where he spent
his money public right, So you're gonna find disproportionately most
likely his friends are what democrats. The first person when
the Epstein vote happened in Congress was Larry Summers. Who
is Larry Summers. Larry Summers is the former treasurer under

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Clinton and Obama, very powerful person, former president of Harvard
University and current faculty member at Harvard University. And he
sat on some AI board, on the on some publicly
traded company. As soon as that vote happened, Larry Summers
resigned a Democrat. Notice how the major news outlets, whether

(01:41:57):
it's CNN or MSNBC, really didn't deal with it. Right,
We're no different than Russia. Our media isn't telling this truth.
They hide information in politics is not just what you say,
it's what you don't say. So there are a lot
of people right now who are listening to you and
I talk or who is Larry Summers. Larry Summers resigned

(01:42:18):
related to the Epstein files. Yes he did. Harvard has
launched an investigation to try to figure out what his
involvement was with Epstein and why he said I'm gonna sell.
Didn't It wasn't like his information came out as soon
as the vote happened that I'm out. Now. This is
a guy who's been very vocal on CNN, on MSNBC.
He's been going after the Trump administration for a year,

(01:42:40):
for the last ten years, he's the first person to resign.
I'm sharing with everybody, hold your power. Let's wait and
see as a public no matter whether you're a Democrat
or Republican, please don't make this partisan. We have got
to know what happened with these pedophiles who are out
having sex with twelve and thirteen and fourteen year old girls.

(01:43:04):
This is something that we deserve to know. I want
to know.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
I agree completely, and look what the discharge petition is.
It almost was completely unanimous across both the House and
the Senate. When it finally pushed came to shove. Everybody,
with the exception of one representative, voted to release the
damned documents. Interesting question for you, Christopher Smithman, what the
hell's with Trump changing his mind? You're right, Democrats had
four years to release these documents. They obviously didn't want

(01:43:30):
to do it. We all kind of wondered, I wonder
what's in them that the Democrats are afraid to release them?
Pivot over to Trump campaigning on releasing them, only to say, nah,
there's nothing there. DJ looked at it. There's nothing there,
there's no list, there's nothing to see, there's nothing to release.
Where did that come from?

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
And of course I think that he I think he
has friends that are on that on that list. He's
a New Yorker, he's a New Yorker. Wouldn't he have
known probably some of those people.

Speaker 1 (01:43:57):
Wouldn't you have known that when he was saying he
wanted to release him I mean, his buddies calling her.
I'm saying quick campaigning on releasing these documents, you know,
damn well, my name's in there. You're gonna get me
and brought in a controversy. And I never touched the
fourteen year old or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Yeah, the reality of it is they didn't know whether
he was going to be elected, and so many people
didn't even see the landslide that was coming in the
last election. So he's out there saying I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, and then
he got elected. And so I don't know all of
the details around it, but my speculation is that some
of his allies are on this list, and they're Democrats,

(01:44:30):
are Republicans, and both Biden and Trump were trying to
protect the list. What I want to also say, and
I'm gonna go into this with Trump and just say,
I don't know who this representative Marjorie Taylor Green is,
and the woman who was saying, hey, I want these
Epstein files to come out, I just know that she
was an ally of his. It was something she was saying.

(01:44:52):
And I don't understand why President Trump then turns and
starts attacking her. I think that's where you're getting. That
was a part of the narrative, right, and so you
try to destroy her, you say all these horrible things
about her. She's been loyal to you. So if somebody
stands up and they're loyal to Trump, and Trump can
just turn on a dime and just say, no, you've

(01:45:14):
lost your way. I'm going to try to destroy you.
I don't know what that is about his emotional intelligence,
but I can tell you it is incredibly frustrating for
me for any president. Look, whoever gets elected, whether it's Obama,
whether it's Clinton, you know, whether it is a Trump,
whether it's Bush, I'm voting for America. I'm voting for
our executive to be successful in this world. Right. This

(01:45:38):
world is very ugly. We've got some bad characters out here,
and I'm rooting for America, whether it's a Democrat or
Republican in that office. I don't understand this president at times,
with his emotional intelligence so low, that he's so emotionally
charged that whatever comes to that brain of his, he
just starts opening up his mouth. And whether you're a
supporter of Trump or not, be call this president out.

(01:46:02):
Would he lacked discipline with that mount?

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
I agree. He went after Congress and Massey again too,
the same thing, beloved Congress from Massey folks in northern Kentucky.
I mean, they keep voting him in regardless of what
Trump says, I mean Donald Trump spends and these other millionaires,
billionaires spending all kinds of money trying to primary Thomas Massey.
Why because Thomas Massey was behind the discharge petition, among others.
I mean, he's at least on solid constitutional ground with

(01:46:26):
what he says. Is there uniformity in the Republican Party,
of course not. Is there uniformity in the Democrat Party
of course not. They don't even know which direction they
want to go. There's a lot of different stripes within
each party. And you know, I would argue that Marjorie
Taylor Green I think had some sound points she was making.
I'm a little upset about him focusing on foreign policy.

(01:46:46):
I'd like for him to be here and focus on
domestic issues. I was behind releasing the Epstein files, and
that apparently is what set Trump off, and he had
some outrages and outlandish statements about her. And I agree
with the points you're making on that. But does he
expect one hundred percent fidelity among the Republicans for the
Strump specific agenda? And I think that's what he is

(01:47:08):
demonstrating by going after til Marjorie Taylor Green, going after
Congress from asking others promising the primary them if they
get out of line.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
Yo.

Speaker 1 (01:47:16):
This feeds into that whole dictatorial narrative the Democrats are peddling.
I don't think it's a good look. Honestly, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
And I'm a girl dad. You know, four boys, rub girl?
If this was one of my babies, right, I want
to get to the bottom of it. I want people
to go to jail. And I think sometimes as men, right,
we missed the point of Marjorie Taylor Green is a woman.
She's saying, I want to get to the bottom of it.
She understands this innately as a woman. This is what

(01:47:46):
I believe. I'm obviously not a woman. Trump needs to
learn to take advice from everybody around him. He campaigned
on it. He said, this is what I'm going to do.
She took him literally on his face and did not
understand why he was going in about face about these
Epstein foulets. But ultimately, guess what happened. He had to
submit to the power of the people who probably inundated

(01:48:09):
his office, saying what in the heck is going on? Right?
So now he's shutting his mouth about it. But the
woman has already been harmed because she's been saying, I'm
gonna primary you. He's been saying all these outlandish themes
about her, and I'm saying, if you're a Trump supporter,
you cannot support blindly any leader. You've got to be
able to call him out when they're wrong and they're

(01:48:31):
off step. And I say, right here, he was wrong,
he was off step, And I'm just so frustrated with
why his emotional intelligence is so low. Why can't he
just preside as the president. You're the president of the
free world.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
Act like it, Christopher Smitherman. Always enjoy your thoughts and comments.
Agree with you on this one completely A little embarrassed.
But let us see if we can't find, uh, well,
a little greater sanity in.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
Those follow me people can follow me brother on at
vote Smitherman right. I want to stay connected. People who
are listening, they can follow me there. I'm going to
continue to put my voice out there so people can hear.
And obviously, Brian, happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,
and thanks for giving me a voice.

Speaker 1 (01:49:16):
Brother, love hearing from you. I'm happy to provide the
voice for you, and I look forward to next Monday.
In another edition of this particular segment. Enjoy your thanksgiving,
much love to you and your family. It's coming up
at seven forty nine right now if you have ker
Cite talk station, Money Monday with Brian James, got some
interesting topics to talk with him. Middle class buckling under
almost five years of persistent inflation. There's that I word again.

(01:49:39):
That's one of the topics with Brian James coming up.
I hope you can stick.

Speaker 3 (01:49:42):
Around fifty five KRC Hi, it's Brian Thomas with.

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
Seven fifty three if you have Kerseite talk station. Yeah, Alan,
I don't know instant message. I think all this Epstein
STFF is just this shiny object. They're trying to distract
us from something. What do you think that might be
good point? Allen chaos, general chaos. I don't know it's
an important issue as a standalone one, but yeah, I

(01:50:11):
do believe you're right. It is a major distraction that's
going on right here in America. We're going to hear
him from Brian James after the top of the our
news all with Financials. Brian James question, in the middle class,
is it buckling at her almost five years persistent inflation? Probably?
You know, I've seen a bunch of articles about this,
and you're not going to get any traction with me

(01:50:31):
complaining about inflation, which is a worthy complaint, when part
of your complaint talks about how much your Starbucks coffee
has gotten. I saw one article woman complaining about meeting
her financial needs and then was grumbling about an eight
dollar cup of coffee at Starbucks. I know coffee's gone
through the roof for a multitude of reasons. Yes, there
are tariff implications that may increase the price, of course

(01:50:52):
it can, but you also have a problem with the
growing season and issues with regard to the available coffee
on the Marketplying to mankicks in regardless of tariff. So,
but are we focusing on what's truly important? And another
topic America's happiness at a record low? Are we just

(01:51:13):
using our money the wrong way? Ah? That's topic number
two with Brian James kind of going to a point
that I just made there. And then finally, is Thanksgiving
dinner actually twenty five percent less this year? As Donald
Trump suggests his numbers are misleading according to the headline. Anyway,
Brian James on those topics from Allworth Financial, He'll be

(01:51:34):
up next, and we're gonna hear from the VA. Chris
Clue is going to join the program. The KRC Care
segment at eight forty about the new two outpatient clinics
and the Eye Center where they are, what they're going
to offer, and also other benefits that you veterans can
get when you roll in the Cincinniva and take advantage
of what you earn thanks to your military service. God
bless the American veterans. Stick around Brian James. Up next,

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the events.

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Of the day, Portland, Chicago violent crime.

Speaker 1 (01:51:57):
Every day is Peace. Fifty five KRC the talk station.
Hey o five fifty five krs DE talk station. Happy Monday,
Christopher Smithman and the Smitherment. If you five KRC dot
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(01:52:19):
to all Worth Financial Loan and you out every Monday.
It's good to have you on the show. Happy Thanksgiving
week to you, mister Thomas.

Speaker 12 (01:52:25):
And let's not start this week by talking about stuff
that happened at Peycourse Stadium unless we're gonna talk about
the Instant Classic. Not yesterday, but Friday night, between Santax
and Elder What an awesome game. I love my Santex Bombers,
but the pit is one of the awesomest places to
go see a game, only left out by the fact
that the clearview no longer exists, so you can get

(01:52:46):
a fish log and a plastic picture of Hoodie any clearview.
Tamer and we used to go there after Little League
baseball games. They buy us a picture of cooker coal
and a and at a bowl of pretzels and chips,
and the and the dads would sit around the table
and chug down pictures of beer, so memories, plastic pictures. Absolutely,
that was a great place. And you could order some
gastro and Tessina regrat for the next day. Yes, I
ended up missing it unfortunately though, because we could. We

(01:53:07):
were going to go to the game, but the weather
screwed up traffic and all that, so we ended up
up at Liberty Collective up in Liberty Township. That's another
great place to watch a game on the big screen.
They've been putting high school games on there all all
seasoned long. So if you get a chance, come up
here to Lakota East High School and give it a
watch oh starting off on a positive note and happy things.

Speaker 1 (01:53:24):
I don't want to talk about the Bengals. I know,
I know, I know, although I did. The defense did
show up for a while there during the game, Yeah
they did. I was impressed. Man, they held them at
the line a couple of different times, and I kept think,
what's a foregone conclusion. We've got another touchdown coming our way?
But now so anyway, there was some positive light in
that game, but obviously a sad overall outcome. So we're
just gonna have to live with it. And we're gonna

(01:53:45):
have to live with inflation too. I don't know where
you want to start. I know where you got the FED.
Maybe maybe not cutting the interest rate this fall. We've
got middle class buckling under persistent inflation. Maybe we should
start with that one, then segue over to whether we're
using our money the right or wrong way. But yeah,
we have persistent inflation. It's going on for years now.
Everything's more expensive than Brian James. How likely is it

(01:54:05):
that prices are going to be rolled back to, say,
nineteen ninety nine at any time in the future.

Speaker 12 (01:54:11):
Well, I wouldn't be holding our breath on that particular topic.
Mister Thomas, I don't think that's the way it works.
But yeah, So what we're seeing now is we're really
starting to see the strain of inflation. So after five
years of being the way it is, lots of middle
class households are really showing some concern about it. Headline
inflation has fallen from twenty twenty two, so we're not

(01:54:31):
at the nine percent crazy inflation that we used to be.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
But it's still up right.

Speaker 12 (01:54:35):
So the inflation doesn't generally go back to the way
it was, It just stops increasing at the same rate.
So where we did have nine percent inflation, we've dropped
back to three. We would very much appreciate if we
could get back to two percent, that would be nice,
but that's probably not in the.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
Cars anytime soon.

Speaker 12 (01:54:51):
So households earning sixty six thousand to maybe two hundred
thousand or part of this survey and just lots of
them claiming that they know purchasing power has declined and
really starting to see the numbers come through in their
checking accounts.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
Well, doesn't this serve as a moment of reflection to
pause and really think about whether or not this is
the way I've lived my life, Brian James. Do I
really need it now? I occasionally bend the rule and
give myself a little paut of the back or gift
as a consequence of my hard work, But a lot
of times, you know, while stand there, it's like, no,
don't need it. I don't really need to buy that.
It's an impulse by If I wait five minutes, I'm

(01:55:25):
really it's gonna clear my head. I'll move on with
my wife and I won't regret not buying whatever it
is I'm contemplating. But it's been a real check on
managing money over the years of my wife and I.
I'm lucky enough to have married a very frugal woman
who kind of goes through life the same way. Do
I really need it? The answer is not really? Then
you just do it out. It's like Starbucks coffee. Anytime
I read an article about someone complaining about inflation then

(01:55:46):
turns to their eight dollars a cup Starbucks, I'm sorry,
I've got no love for that. You buy aunt two
pounds of coffee at costco. Yes, it's now eighteen ninety
nine for the two pounds, but you can make fat
tons of coffee pots pot's worth of coffee that are
less money than the eight dollars one single cup at Starbucks.
It's just one of many things to get into my skin, Brian.
But then again, you choose what you want to spend

(01:56:08):
money on. But there are ways that we can all trim.
Do we need to reflect on what's important? Brian James?

Speaker 12 (01:56:13):
Yeah, I think it's been a few decades really since
we've had since the country as a whole has been
really forced to choose this. But not that because we've
been so successful economically that we've many people really just
haven't been forced into that situation. And like you just raised,
you're not either, and neither am I, except that we
notice it. So you know, in the conversations I have

(01:56:34):
with my clients, you know, there's really two worlds out there.
There are people who are forced and have to cut
back and it's just the way it is, and there
are people who are just annoyed by it. It seems
like everybody is in one of two groups. And unfortunately,
we're just in a situation where the country has been
so successful economically that we can afford to get away
with it for now, and that hurts a lot of
people that are on the lower end of the economic spectrum.

(01:56:56):
Those are the ones that are getting hurt. The rest
of us are just annoyed. So be said, if you're
in that ladder group, be thankful on Thursday that that's
the case for you. If you can choose not to
do something because it annoys you that it's too expensive,
that's one thing. If you have to do it and
you have to sacrifice something else important, that is another thing.

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
Entirely. Well, Yeah, and your last word is the most
important thing, an operative word in the sense if it's important.
Very surely we are priorities about what is truly important.
I think are kind of out of whack. And I
agree with you completely for the reasons that you stayed.
We've just had it so wonderful in this country for
so long you really pretty much have to go back
to I don't know if whether it was the tech

(01:57:34):
bubble to burst and the housing bubble to burst, but
I think more fundamentally, the entire decade that was the
nineteen seventies to get to a point where things were really,
really crappy and everyone pretty much felt it, including the
house I grew up in.

Speaker 12 (01:57:46):
Yeah, And I would say all all of the different
things that have happened. And I've mentioned this before, but
over the last say fifty years, like you mentioned, the
seventies touched everybody, not a lot of you know, you
couldn't really find corners of the economy they were doing
well Versus two thousand, in two twenty eight, and twenty
twenty two. All of those came along with crazy stock
market and economic swings, but those each one and each

(01:58:07):
one of those became a catalyst.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
Right.

Speaker 12 (01:58:09):
So so two thousand and two we had the tech
bubble burst that cleaned up the tech industry and then
it went on to the great heights that we've seen now.
Two thousand and eight we saw the financial backbone of
the country almost collapse, cleaned that up and went on
to greater heights too. Twenty twenty two was the COVID pullback,
and that ended up becoming a tech boom because everybody
had to go get a second desktop worth of technology

(01:58:30):
to bring it home. All those things drove the market higher,
and I would say, I agree with you. In the
seventies that really wasn't the case. We had ten years
of stagnancy. Even if you were doing okay, it meant
you were treading water. The rest of the country was
kind of occasionally bobbing up and down below the surface.
So yeah, it's been a long time since we've had
to sacrifice. And when I look back, I feel like
the eighties and the nineties were the anomaly because really,

(01:58:52):
nothing bad, nothing crazy happened. We had twenty years worth
of solid markets, and there's I think there's a whole
generation of people who feel like that every pullback has
been since then has been a mistake, something went wrong.
But if you look back over history, that's not the case.
It's the opposite. There's usually chaos. The eighties and the
nineties were too quiet, and that led a whole generation
plus of people to think that that was the norm.

(01:59:13):
So that gave us kind of a bit of a
mistaken underpinning of what we think the economy is supposed
to be. But I believe over the last quarter century
or so, we've been reminded that it don't work.

Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
That way all the time. Yeah, And you know, one
of the points it was made in this American Happiness
is that a record low are we just using money
the wrong way? Article that's kind of served as the
impetus for this discussion. Some degree. Anyway, and you know,
back to my complaint about Starbucks coffee. I love this
woman who's quoted in the article. You know, she cried
every day after buying a five thousand square foot house
in Brooklyn, and she's lamenting that, Oh, it was my

(01:59:47):
dream to have, you know, grow up in a big
house or you know, raised my family in a big house. Well,
maybe the dream was misplaced. I mean, I think about this.
She reckonized. Okay, we had cleaning the house was a big,
massive undertaking that her mom showed up and says, you
don't have any window treatments. You need window treatments. So
she's like, okay, now I spend my time doing window treatments.
You know, Furnishing a big home like that is expensive,

(02:00:07):
cleaning it, heating it, you know, a cooling of the summertime.
What are you using it for? Is this? Keep up
with the Joneses? Are you a victim of so much
marketing that you feel that unless you have something that
is extraordinarily large, too large for your even your basic needs,
that that's the right way to go. Do you need it?
That's going back to my fundamental question do you really

(02:00:28):
need it?

Speaker 2 (02:00:29):
Right?

Speaker 12 (02:00:29):
And I think that's where we've convinced ourselves that we
deserve certain things, and then certain things are just expected
to be. As you said, it was always her dream
to raise a family in her you know, in a
large house. So I think back to the books that
John Steinbeck wrote about the Great Depression.

Speaker 1 (02:00:42):
It was somebody's dream to raise a family in a house.

Speaker 12 (02:00:46):
I don't think anybody's going to be writing any classic
American literature about not being able to get the window
treatments you want.

Speaker 1 (02:00:52):
I know, that's exactly my point. I mean, we need
to step back and just adjust a little bit. I
know we have a consumer driven a me, but come on.

Speaker 12 (02:01:02):
Really, you know, a great week to do a little
introspection and make sure that you're you're focused on the
right things. And that goes for me too, right, We're
we're fortunate to not have some you know similar I know,
I know I not havet too many concerns, but at
the same time, that also causes me to gripe about
things that I really should be thankful about.

Speaker 1 (02:01:18):
Exactly, but you see, and you're right, I'll acknowledge my privilege.
My wife and I worked very, very hard to get
to a point where you know, we're comfortable and I
don't see any envision any problems. But then again, I
never was I went I never went down this road.
I wouldn't be where I am today if I had been,
you know, uh, captivated by keeping up with the Joneses,

(02:01:38):
or it's just m we did. Maybe this is a
good time to readjust maybe start reflecting on priorities, being
thankful for what we have, and maybe saying, you know what,
I don't care what that guy on the street's got,
what he's spending it on. In fact, I remember that
my favorite commercial was the guy driving the lawnmower and
he's in this front of this massive, gorgeous house and
you know, brand new Lahmer and he's driving. He's had

(02:01:59):
this big we're in on his face, and all he's
thinking about is how underwater he is for all the
stuff that he had cut acquired.

Speaker 12 (02:02:06):
Probably can't fit that long more back in the garage
because of all the other craft that's in there.

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
Exactly your possessions will own you. Maybe we need to
start thinking about that little bit. Brian, All right, let's
be thankful for what we have and let's move on
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Speaker 1 (02:03:28):
Be hey twenty I pick you about KARCD talkstation Brian
Thomas with all our financials Brian Jane's doing what we
call money Monday. Here's a rhetorical question for you there, Brian,
as it was waiting for the commercial break to be over,
would you turn down a proposal from your true love
for want of the diamond that you had in mind
that you wanted.

Speaker 12 (02:03:48):
Oh, and we'd be looking at lab diamonds all day
every day because I'm a financial planner and she is
extremely frugal too. See lab diamonds there.

Speaker 1 (02:03:57):
They'll pick the frugal woman that's what you need, or
frugal mete.

Speaker 12 (02:04:02):
He just pick somebody who's yeah, who isn't who is
doesn't have a wing it mentality?

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:04:07):
You know you can always upgrade down the road too
when you get more money. If you're financially you're talking
about the diamond or the spouse. No, the diamond, Yeah,
I forgot you well, because that's what I did. I
bought the diamond of the day. We just I decided
I was going to ask her to be my wife,
and went out and bought it. And I went to
the you know, the jewelers row there in Chicago, and
that's where I went, and I got what I could afford.

(02:04:29):
But it was a plain simple you know, I think
the setting where it was like one hundred dollars for
the gold band, that's all. It was a diamond in
a band. Well, several years later, you know, things have
gotten a little better for us financially. I bought her
a new setting and it's got diamonds in it and
all this kind of stuff, so it acts censorring and
she loves it. You know, didn't get it all at
the first. That waited a little bit.

Speaker 12 (02:04:49):
That's ironic. That's the exact same place that that we
did our kidding working up there at the time. And yeah,
she she the only thing she gave me was she
had there, was she had a shape that she wanted.
Nothing else mattered, and we talked about upgrading it down
the road, but by the time time we got there,
the other things just had become more important that we
were working on together, family and house and all that
other stuff, and so she still got the same one
that she used.

Speaker 1 (02:05:07):
That and you know what it has now sentimental value.
There you got that. I didn't get everything I wanted.
But you know what, here we are today after all
these years, and I have something to look at and
reflect on and think, you know what, it isn't the
ring that matters? Right, we are still here. Heymen, brother
over to the Federal Reserve. Now, one thing I have
to observe. If the Federal Reserve cuts rates, that's fine.

(02:05:28):
People may get a little giddy with excitement. It would
be fine because presumably interest rates for home purchases would
go down, but that does not alter the supply landscape.
And it doesn't mean the price of homes. Mean is
going to be more affordable. I would argue maybe less
so since more people might be in the market.

Speaker 12 (02:05:43):
Yeah, and we've actually had some conversations on our with
with other experts in the real estate space, basically saying
that we we could swing back into the seller's market
a little bit with this because of that just yeah,
I mean not a whole lot just but it's just
not the steady march you know, downward in terms of
pricing and all that, because of what you just said,
there are people who have been sitting on the sidelines

(02:06:04):
who don't have to buy a house, maybe would really
really like to, but we're pausing waiting on interest rates. Well,
we've had some interest rate cuts and that is bringing
people back in the fold. If you've got a mortgage
a few years ago, then you might be looking currently.
We've had some upticks too, but over the last several
weeks you might have been able to get in it,
maybe a full one to one and a half percent
a lower refinance rate to knock down that close to

(02:06:25):
eight percent mortgage you were forced to get a few
years ago. So we're still on that path, but it's
not as likely than it was for another rate cut
here in December. So we've got some of the comments
that came out at the end of October from the
various Fed governors basically are indicating a completely split opinion.
There are those who want to go ahead and cut

(02:06:45):
because of the labor situation. That's we want the lower rates,
and the other half things that we need to remain
at current levels because inflation is still a little higher
than we want. Like we said earlier, we're way down
off the nine percent peak but we would very much
prefer to be closer to two percent currently a little
above three. So it depends on what camp you're in.
We may or may not be looking at a rate

(02:07:05):
cut here in December, but it's not as likely as
it once appeared.

Speaker 1 (02:07:09):
Well, I know the labor report was was pretty good,
but what is this, this persistent inflation. It seems to
me that at some point employers are going to have
to start, you know, ratcheting up the salaries so people
can afford to buy things, because again, as you point
it out, the prices are never going to come down.
They're just going to either just increase by less if
the if the rate of inflation drops.

Speaker 12 (02:07:30):
But well, I mean, I don't I don't know if
you meant it this way or not, but you kind
of said that what you what I heard you say,
was that employers will have to look at raising wages, well,
not necessarily, as long as people keep showing up to work,
and if they've got the option to start using AI
to wipe things out. So I think over the long
over the longer homes, Yeah, opposite, So it's going to
be a little harder to hang on to that job
for all those reasons. But at the end of the day,

(02:07:52):
if they can make the same profit or heaven forbid,
actually raise it a little bit and hide the profit
margin under the blame of inflation, then they're absolutely going
to do that because we are the United States of
profit margin.

Speaker 1 (02:08:02):
We are, indeed, and another reason you just chimed in
there artificial intelligence versus so maybe a career in the trades,
which I don't see artificial intelligence replacing anytime soon. Brian Nould.

Speaker 12 (02:08:13):
I would absolutely agree with that, and that's that kind
of work and working with people healthcare, you know, in
home care, those kinds of things, dealing helping people, aging,
those kinds of things. I think where you are truly
have a personal connection that is absolutely there's great opportunities
there and that should not be overlooked. Maybe you had
a dream of something larger, but be real careful and
understand what artificial intelligence is going to be doing to

(02:08:36):
a lot of different industries. Doesn't mean don't pursue it,
but go in eyes wide open, Turkey dinner as an
indicator of inflation, among other things. We're going to one
more segment here with money, mondays Brian James, Brian hang On,
get right back with you just a.

Speaker 3 (02:08:47):
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Speaker 1 (02:08:49):
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and we'll do for the American veteran. God bless each
and every one of them. Brian James flipping over to

(02:09:11):
Thanksgiving dinner, Donald Trump said it is gonna be twenty
It's gonna be twenty five percent less this year. Some
raising a John Desci of skepticism. Where are you on
the realities of Thanksgiving? At least it doesn't usually involve beef.

Speaker 2 (02:09:25):
This is true.

Speaker 12 (02:09:26):
We can we can not talk about beef and eggs
aren't the star of the show either this time around.
So yeah, it's the time of year where we talk
about how much it costs to lay out a table
for your loved ones for Thanksgiving, And the survey we
normally talk about comes from the Farm Bureau and.

Speaker 1 (02:09:40):
To me, that's the one that counts.

Speaker 12 (02:09:41):
If you're gonna look at data, you know, over a
long period of time, it really kind of has to
be the same data, or you're just kind of making
stuff up. So the Farm Bureaus one is, this is
forty years old now. In their estimate is that the
Thanksgiving feast for ten will be about fifty five dollars
and eighteen cents. For twenty twenty five, now that is
about five percent lower than twenty twenty four. So I
think it's fact to say that, yes, costs have declined,

(02:10:02):
and this is the third straight year of declines after
previous record highs. Go figure the Farm Bureau survey peaked
about three years ago when we had crazy nine percent inflation.

Speaker 1 (02:10:12):
Well the way, didn't the bird flu have an impact
on that as well, because all everything does.

Speaker 12 (02:10:16):
Yeah, the bird flu comes and goes. You know, we
hear about it every few years. So absolutely that was there,
plus just a cost of hauling cranberry goop across the
you know, in.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
A truck coop. Maybe being a little cynical, but it
is what it is.

Speaker 12 (02:10:30):
So we're contrasting that though with what you mentioned, which
the White House wanted to latch onto a claim that
the Thanksgiving dinner basket is going to be about twenty
five percent less this year compared with last. Now, that's
not untrue. They're not making it up. But what they're
looking at is the promotional basket from Walmart, which at
that point of that's forty bucks for ten people. Last

(02:10:50):
year was about fifty six dollars for eight people. But
that itself is not apples to apples. The Walmart twenty
twenty five basket only had fifteen things in it. We're
in twenty twenty four had twice as many.

Speaker 1 (02:11:01):
So there's laxflation.

Speaker 12 (02:11:04):
You can eat less for half the cost.

Speaker 1 (02:11:06):
It's in size basket. It's just got less stuff in
Look at the size of the basket. Everybody focus on that.

Speaker 12 (02:11:12):
So you know, again it's not untrue that the costs
have come down, but it is also not true that
it came down twenty five percent.

Speaker 1 (02:11:19):
That's not a thing. Well, and you know you can't
get things on sale. And here's a fun fact. It's
a money tip for everybody who has a dog. Yams.
Yams were like forty seven cents a pound, which is
a significant drop from the normal price of yams. Plain
old uncooked yams in a back. I think they were
even maybe less than that. My wife bought like twenty pounds.
Why because if you slice them up thin and you
dehydrate them, the dogs love them. It is the most

(02:11:42):
inexpensive dog treat you can buy. And your dogs will
be happier eating the dehydrated crispy crunchy yams than they
would anything you could buy from a manufacturer. Wholesome, nutritious,
no preservatives, no additives. There's your money tip for the day,
Brian James.

Speaker 12 (02:11:56):
And up thirty seven percent according to the Farm Bureau.
Sweet potato spiked last year. So you're you're you're gonna
need to kind of sacrifice some things. You want to
keep that tradition going.

Speaker 1 (02:12:08):
Hate to burse your bubble sat Me Thanksgiving eighteen dollars
a bag dog treats from the manufacturer. No thank you,
no thank you. This makes us a great tip. Oh
and I passed along to the youthful Sean McMahon who's
covering the show for Joe's Tracker, And I wanted to
ask you this because this is a point that came
up back in the day. I basically thought them to
Mary smart, right, I mean, if you got a good spouse,

(02:12:28):
your life will be more stable. You're on the same
page in terms of finances. It's easy for two incomes
to afford than one, obviously, so getting married to me
has always been a valuable thing from a financial stability standpoint.
But Nathan and Ed used to say, you know, if
you want to, you know, get a nice nested egg
and be comfortable and happy in life, then get married,

(02:12:48):
but never ever get divorced, because that'll send you the
exact opposite direction. So ultimately you're left with the choice
of making sure you find the right person up front
or never get married.

Speaker 12 (02:12:59):
Yeah, that very much. You want to get that decision
right to begin with. And it's a team sport from
start to end. And I would throw out the most
awkward client situations I have, or where maybe only one
of the two will show up to a meeting where
we review their finances. That means one person has absolutely
no idea what's going on, and I just assume that
there's little to no conversation. Those are the ones that

(02:13:19):
I know I'm going to be coming back three, four
or five years ago and we're going to be splitting
up the assets.

Speaker 1 (02:13:23):
It's a shame to see that, or alternatively, try to
be a little positive in it. The other person trusts
the spouse so completely that he or she is making
the right financial decisions, there's no need for the other
person to show up, particularly if they're not interested in it.
Although trust me, I see the pitfalls associated with that.

Speaker 12 (02:13:40):
Yes, that is true, and the pitfalls you're referring to
is we don't get to call all of our shots
in life one day. If you are the spouse who's
been trusting, then that's great, except you may need to
make the decisions.

Speaker 1 (02:13:49):
You've got to have an idea roughly of.

Speaker 12 (02:13:50):
Where things are or who the advisor is that's going
to help you through it, at least be able to
pick them out of a crowd.

Speaker 1 (02:13:55):
And I would argue most people are not capable of
going through that exercise, which is exactly why you need
to help of a financial planner who has a fiduciary
obligation to you. And that's what Brian does each and
every day. And I appreciate you coming to the show
every Monday and indulging me with my ramblings Brian James,
but also passing along some great information will do this
again next Monday, and again Happy Thanksgiving to you and
the family and everybody at all Worth and.

Speaker 12 (02:14:16):
I appreciate you tolerating my ramblings. Thank you for that opportunity,
and we will talk to you next week.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
Mutual exchange of ideas, that's what it's all about. Here
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but also involved in combat operations overseas. Yeah, here, move

(02:15:03):
that mic up there, you go right into that. He's
on four there, Sean. Make sure you got a number
four on Anyhow, I can't thank you enough for your service.
And as I was talking with you about that, I mentioned,
since we're talking about the VA and the benefits you
have to offer there, and we're gonna talk about the
new outpatient centers and the iclinic, which are a great
development for the VA. But I said that something effecting.

(02:15:24):
I think I understand post traumatic stress disorder or just
post traumatic stress is well I like to call it.
I don't think it's a disorder. I think it's just
a reality if you've got to get up every day
at a moment's notice and go around kicking indoors where
there are in many cases terrorists behind them waiting to
start shooting at you. And I've heard enough stories from
men that did this, you know, kicking indoors of Falluja's

(02:15:47):
what I used to kind of call it, stories about
guys getting shot at with anti aircraft guns from underneath
the floor right when they walk in. And then you
got to do it again. Once you leave that place,
clear that place, you move down the road, do it again,
do it again, do it again. Get up the next
they do the same damn thing. The weight of that
on your melon has got to be overwhelming, the idea
that you have that much adrenaline flowing at all times.

(02:16:09):
It's just how do you go back to normal if
you can even call what we're living in this world normal.
I think that's the issue. And I didn't have the issue.

Speaker 13 (02:16:17):
Like while you're over there, going through that experience is
one thing, like you don't really think about it.

Speaker 1 (02:16:22):
It's just your day to day life.

Speaker 13 (02:16:24):
But once you get home and not adrenaline stuff, that's
that's where the PTSD kicks in and you start to
think about it, like all that.

Speaker 1 (02:16:31):
Type of stuff.

Speaker 13 (02:16:31):
And yeah, mental health is the most important thing, and
I think talking about it is the most helpful thing.
That's what's helped me over the years. And the VA
has a phenomenal mental health program, and I encourage all
veterans to come in and just if you even need
somebody to talk to.

Speaker 1 (02:16:48):
You don't have to go through the full program.

Speaker 13 (02:16:50):
Just come in and talk to somebody if that's going
to help you or someone in your family exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:16:54):
And that's fundamentally really the reason I brought it up,
because you know, over the years, I've learned about all
the programs you have and who knows better about that
type of scenario, the scenario the American veteran deals with
after service than the American veterans and the folks of
the VA.

Speaker 13 (02:17:11):
Yeah, the VA has some like the best mental health
care program in the world because that's the majority of
our patients that we see, and so we've recruited the best,
do the best research, and come up with the best
solutions to help our veterans.

Speaker 1 (02:17:24):
And you do every single day. And I was so
so sad to learn that how many men did you
have in your in your was it platoon? In our platoon?

Speaker 13 (02:17:32):
I don't know the exact number, but I would say
it was roughly thirty five thirty six guys in our platoon.

Speaker 1 (02:17:37):
And fast forward to right now. You know, six of
them committed suicide. Six of them committed suicides. We can't
let that happen. You know, every veteran out there, I'm
sure has at least someone in their world who has
close connection with them, knows how they are, can see
these signs of perhaps mental stress and maybe steer them
in the right direction, get them signed up for the
VA benefits. D two to fourteen discharge is all you're
gonna need.

Speaker 13 (02:17:58):
Yeah, just talk to them, ask them if they need help,
ask them if they want somebody to talk to you,
even if they don't want to go to the VA,
ask them if they'd like to talk to you personally.

Speaker 1 (02:18:07):
Well, just let them get whatever they need to off
their chests. And a shout out over to my friends
at Patriots Landing in northern Kentucky. It's the wood shop.
They make these wonderful craft products, but they serve as
exactly that that lifeline for connection among the American veterans.
They go, they commiserate together. It gives them a safe space,
they can talk about their trials and tribulations, what's on
their mind, and it benefits everybody. Yeah, I know Pete

(02:18:28):
over there, that's a great program. It is really an
awesome program. So Patriots Landing folks, all right. Didn't mean
to take you down that road right out of the gate, Chris,
but I thought was really important to bring it up.
I know a lot of people struggle with depression and
sadness around the holidays too. Stating the Auvius, Now, what
is going on the VA. I hear you're in the
process of relocating the two outpatient clinics as well as

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the Eye Center. What's this all about? Yeah, the Eye.

Speaker 13 (02:18:52):
Center is we're supposed to have a new opening that
is now slated for December twenty sixth of this year
at twenty ninety Florence Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two
zero six. And now that's going to have optometrists to
just offer routine nine exams, preventing, preventative screening, glaucoma. Ophthalmologists

(02:19:17):
can diagnose and provide medical and surgical care for conditions
like cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration.

Speaker 1 (02:19:25):
And a lot more.

Speaker 13 (02:19:27):
That center is also going to offer general optomet optometry
and ophtalmology, low vision and traumatic brain injury services to
go into the mental health, contact lenses, retina and cornea services,
medical surgical glaucoma. I mean, I've taken a tour of
this facility. It's more than doubled the footprint of the

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old one. They're going to offer a lot more and
it's we're looking forward to this place opening now. Are
these vision services is just a new feature for being
a first sighting for VA benefits or have you always
done it? Just outgrew the demand the space. Yeah, We've
always offered it. We've just outgrown the space because we recently,
I would say over the past two and a half years,

(02:20:11):
our veteran population of the VA has gone from forty
three to close to fifty thousand people. So veterans are
recognizing the care we offer it the VA and they're
starting to come in.

Speaker 1 (02:20:21):
I am so glad to just play a tiny little
part in that, Chris, I really am, because I listened
when I remember when Bob McDonald was running things. They
couldn't keep appointments and people were they felt like they
were getting the backstab. You know, I served my country
and look at how I'm being treated. Boy, it's just
dramatically turned around.

Speaker 13 (02:20:38):
Yeah, things have really changed in the VIA over the
last I would say five to ten years. I mean
even for the CINCINNATIVA and the last I would say,
if you haven't been to the CINCINNTIV in the last
nine months, you should come in and check us out
because we have just revamped the whole VA. It's new everything.
We're building a new primary care center in there. It's
just we've we've gone far and above to try and

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create the best space for veterans to feel the most comfortable.

Speaker 1 (02:21:04):
Giving them what they deserve. Yep, exactly. Chris Klube will
continue right after these brief words. Don't go away.

Speaker 3 (02:21:10):
Fifty five krc hey forty eight.

Speaker 1 (02:21:13):
Fifty got KRCV Talk station. Hope you're having a decent Monday,
big show schedule for tomorrow thanks to Joe Strecker's on
vacation this weekend. Thank you Sean McMahon for filling in.
We're gonna have tech Tuesday tomorrow Day've had our Congressman
Warren Davidson from the Hudson Institute bring him account talking
about latest on energy policies, built the Inside Scoop with
Bright Bart News and the Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Thank

(02:21:35):
God for that lineup as I segue into a long
Thanksgiving week, and best and happy Thanksgiving to Chris Klug
from the cincinni VA who was in studio talk about
some updates and what's available there. And thank you to
all those folks at the CINCINNIVA serving the American veterans
and doing such a great job with it. Chris, you
had met, you were talking about the Vision program, lots
of services. I want to double down on the glau

(02:21:57):
coma thing because he's Brian Thomas Glaucoma head of surgery
for that, it'll make you go blind. And do you
have high eye pressure right now? If you haven't seen
a doctor, do you know the answer is no, you don't.
It's not something you can feel. Do you want to
go blind?

Speaker 2 (02:22:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:22:11):
So this is great because a lot of people don't
take care of their vision. They just kind of let
it go. Yeah, something pesky could be lurking behind the scenes,
like glaucol something serious happens and then brother, so let's
double down on that and a freebie. Yeah the VA.

Speaker 13 (02:22:24):
If you, I would say, the majority of veterans that
use our I Center, we'll qualify for free eyeglasses as well.
So come into business check it out. I mean, what's
the worst that could happen? You get to walk away
with a pair of free glasses. But also hearing aids
that's something else. Hearing a's are also free through the
VIA as well. So if you're at home and you
know your husband or wife is spending seven thousand dollars

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on hearing aids, check us out at the VA.

Speaker 1 (02:22:48):
See if you can't get them for free. That's why
you serve for that little bit of money. While you
were there getting all these extra benefits, so take advantage
of them. Pivoting back over to oh, telehealth. I asked
you off air about the mental health services that you
offer at the VA. Obviously very popular and thankfully so.
But you do telehealth with mental mental health?

Speaker 13 (02:23:09):
Yeah, we telehealth since COVID has become extremely big through
the VIA and the majority of our veterans that see us,
a lot of them want to see like for mental health,
want to do telehealth. They don't want to come down
to Clifton, they don't want to find parking or whatever
the case is, so they opt to do it from home.

Speaker 1 (02:23:26):
And that's a big program we offer.

Speaker 13 (02:23:28):
So if you don't want to leave the comfort of
your home and you want to talk to a mental
health provider, we can do it over the computer or
over your phone with you.

Speaker 1 (02:23:35):
Can't check for glock hoom over the phone though, can't
do that. I have to come in in person for
that one. All right now. The other you'd mentioned focused
on the I Center and the new one obviously bigger
and it's AID twenty ninety Florence Avenue. What about the
outpatient the other outpatient clinics, what's the story on these.

Speaker 13 (02:23:52):
Yeah, so we're getting too brand new standalone outpatient clinics.
The Hamilton VA Clinic is going to be new and
that they're building that now I've toured out.

Speaker 1 (02:24:01):
It's a beautiful facility.

Speaker 13 (02:24:03):
That one's going to be at seventy two fifteen Gateway Avenue, Hamilton,
Ohio four or five zero one one. It's kind of
right off Route four next to Trihalth and Bethesda. This
location is going to offer primary care, mental health, optometry
as well, pedietary physical therapy, lab services, nutrition, pharmacy, consultations, telehealth,

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and then we're also going to expand the amount of
primary care providers we have at that location as well,
so we'll be.

Speaker 1 (02:24:34):
Able to serve even more veterans. You know, I'm glad
you have a nutrition program. I say, we want to
about OURFK Junior. I think at least he is bringing
it to our attention the importance of diet and nutrition
and how much of an impact it has on our
overall health. I mean, if you want to stay the
hell away from a doctor, really focus on what you're
putting in your bodies, what it boils down to anymore, Yeah, for.

Speaker 13 (02:24:55):
Sure, especially around this time. You know, with New Year's
coming up, everybody wants to lose some way and all
that's you know, it is the worst the food. Yeah,
but if that's something you're interested in doing going into
the new year, you know, you don't have to buy
all those apps and pay monthly fees. You can just
come into the VA speak with a nutritionist. They'll create

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a meal plan, an exercise program for They'll do all
that for you for free.

Speaker 1 (02:25:20):
That's griest thing to come talk to one of us.
There's a lot of people out in the world that
are charging for that service, a lot of money for that. Yeah,
I'm so good good nutrition as well. All right, now,
let's make it easy. There's a lot of veterans out
in the listening audience, and I'm God bless each and
every one of you, and I'm I'm just honored to
have you among my listening audience. How do you get
sign up for your VA benefits? It's pretty easy. But

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there's also the Veteran Services Commissions that are in every
county that also will help to the extent you run
at any difficulties. But in the final analysis, you can
do it. It's pretty easy to do. Generally, it's super easy.
All we need is a copier your DD two D
D two fourteen. Just give us a call five one
three four seven, five six four nine nine and one

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of our three enrollment specialists we'll talk to you over
the phone. They can enroll you over the phone and
get you signed up. Probably takes less than thirty minutes
to get signed up for care less than thirty minutes.
And they have some online services as well. And this
I understand can be a little bit complicated, which is
why again mentioned the various Veteran Services Commissions out there.
I mean I speak for the Claremont County Veteran Services

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quite often. They'll help you with that process.

Speaker 13 (02:26:25):
Say well, the Veteran County Service offices are great Hamilon
and Claremont Butler.

Speaker 1 (02:26:30):
They'll do a fantastic job.

Speaker 13 (02:26:32):
I highly recommend if you want to sign up for
disability benefits or anything like that, contact one of your
local commissions and speak to them.

Speaker 1 (02:26:40):
Right why, plenty of resources available for the American veteran
And again thanks to the Veteran Services Commissions and again
every one of the since ANYVA. Chris Kluge, you're doing
a great job there. I know you've got your eye
out for your fellow veterans, and you'll continue to do
more and more on behalf of the American veterans. And
as I've always I've learned you have a problem. If
you run into a challenge, they're there to solve the problem.

(02:27:02):
You must bring it to their attention. To do that,
it's like a dropping off of you know, in a
complaint box. Make sure they know about it, and I
assure you they're going to work to fix whatever problem
you encounter.

Speaker 13 (02:27:13):
Yeah, we will because we get We asked veterans to
rate us after their appointments, and if there's something that
veterans are having an issue with, we will work as
fast as we can to fix that issue. But currently
we're sitting in a ninety six percent of SATs action
rate among all the veterans that come in, So ninety
six percent of veterans think we're doing a pretty great job.

Speaker 1 (02:27:31):
I let you walk right into that. That was intentional.
My friend, Chris Coolip, Thanks for what you're doing you
and your family. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving
and the same thing to all the vetter all the
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