55KRC Monday Morning Show

Former vice mayor of Cincinnati Chris Smitherman gives his Smithervent, Money Monday with Brian James of Allworth Financial and KRC Cares with Ulysses Days of Affordable Imaging Services.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o five. I think you bought kr SN de
talk station. Happy Monday, end of the weekend anyway, Vation, Yeah,

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well you gotta shut it off right there. We're gonna
violate the FCC rules. Happy Monday, folks. Brian Thomas right here.
Good to see Sean McMahon covering for joe'strecker. John mcman
slept here last night. We're short on people, Sean. Is
that is this a reflection of the low numbers of
employment right now? Is that we sure? Yeah it is.
John had to sleep here last night. Okay, Joe's Trecker,

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if you're out there, I hope you have a d
day off. Joe's off to Marrow too. And you know,
speaking of off, I am off on Wednesday. So just
letting you know. I'm not sure who's covering at this point,
Joe Strecker. I guess either I didn't tell him or
he had forgotten. It doesn't matter. He's said, no problem,
we'll get somebody to cover for you on Wednesday. But yes,
so a bit of a disruption of the fifty five

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Cassey Morning Show this week, No big deal. We can
manage it. Coming up, it is Monday, the return of
the former vice mayor soon to be counselman Christopher Smithman.
My understanding is we'll find out from Christopher himself that
he has enough signatures now to well run for Sinsani
City Council. So we'll see what Christopher has to say

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about that, and at seven twenty get an update on
what's going on. And I always enjoy my conversations with Christopher.
I hope you do as well. Monday Monday, Brian James,
no idea we're going to be talking about today since
Joe's gone. Didn't get a list of topics from Brian James.
I'm sure we'll make do with Brian at eight oh five,
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Feel free to call love to hear from you this morning.
Sarah Herringer was in studio last Friday for a full hour.
You can hear that conversation. Of course, the widow of
Patrick Herringer, Patrick Herringer's Act, we're going to get that
through in Columbus, and why it isn't on as a
matter of law already just blows my mind. What the
hell is the point of putting ankle monitors on people

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on probation or on parole if you're not paying attention
to whether or not they cut them off, or whether
or not they violate the terms of their restricted travel
with an ankle monitor. And they don't took the death
of Patrick Herringer to make the rest of us where that.
So I'm glad she's out making the rounds. Explain it everyone,
because they're gonna have to tee that up this fall

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in Columbus, and let's hope they get it through. And
the thing it really irks me back and I think
it was twenty twenty three the House passed that law
requiring real time monitoring of folks on probation or on
prol with ankle monitors, requiring it ninety two. I think
it was ninety two to one vote, talk about overwhelming
bipartisan support only to have a die in the Senate

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in committee. They didn't advance it to this day. I
don't know why. Obviously very frustrating. Maybe Patrick Carringer would
still be alive today if it wasn't for them. Well,
it can't be for money. I mean, if we can
give six hundred million dollars to the Browns for a stadium,
I imagine it's within the budget to make real time

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monitoring a thing here in the state of Ohio. Rick
Green from Spirit Works wonderful man. He is wonderful message
doing these trying times we live in. Listen to the
podcast at five caresee dot com so and stream the
audio and get your I heeart media while you're there.
Moving over a crowded field. It is speaking of Christopher
Smithman running for Sincai City Council and good luck. One

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of the most competitive years, they're saying now. Documents from
the Hamilt County Board of Elections show that twenty five
candidates have filed the necessary paperwork to run. Of the
twenty five twenty two, I think it's actually twenty three,
because I do believe Christopher has the number of signatures
not yet proved by the Elections Board though so pending,
but at least twenty two have already had their paperwork

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approved by the board. Three petitions are still being reviewed.
Beyond that, talk about a crowded field. So you already
have twenty five basically crossing the mark. I mean a
little premature to say that, but they're already twenty five.
An additional twenty one of the people also gathering signatures,

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so we're approaching like fifty candidates. So you got eight
of the current council members among those who've already runn
I have had their paperwork approved. The only one, Victoria
they deserved the beat down Parks is the one that's
not up for re election. I think that's the right decision.
Of course, everybody's Democrat. And as let's see here give

(05:17):
credit where credits due. Who is this oh WLWT reporting
suggesting it's a significant test for Democrats because the field
is varied politically. You have Republicans running, you have Charter
Rights running Steve Gooden, and a number of independent candidates
like Christopher Smithman running. So and Christopher I'm sure we'll

(05:39):
double down on this. The top nine vote getters will
each win seats on council, and a single ballot held
at large number of votes a winning candidate receives over
the others makes no difference on the results among the
top nine. The top nine all entitled to seats during
the upcoming council session. So what does that mean? Don't

(06:04):
vote for nine candidates? Only vote for the top ones,
the ones that you absolutely want to win, Like vote
for Christopher Smithmen, vote for Steve Good and vote for
Liz Keating. Assuming the latter two both get get the
gathered or appropriate number of signatures gathered. They're still pending,
so Christopher can put some flesh on the bones of that.
Basically a short statement there, vote only for the top

(06:28):
ones that you want, not all nine. It waters down
the others, is the problem. So who do you got going?
The incumbents j Mishelman, Kearney and I'll be jeff Kremerton,
Mark Jeffery Scottie Johnson, Avan Nolan, Mika Owens and Seth Walsh.
If those names sound unfamiliar with you, to you just
because well, none of them say anything or do anything
in spite of the fact they're elected. Cincinnai City council people.

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I've heard that. I've heard a lot of people say
that out loud. You even know who's sitting on council, Well,
you just heard the list sans Victoria Parks. Of course,
others who crossed the line have gotten their their well certification.
They have enough signatures Adrecia Brooks, Lakita Cole. Some of

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the names will be familiar, some of them will not.
Jerry Corbett, Don Dreehouse, Kevin Farmer, He's been on the
program before, Gary Favors, Ryan James, Linda Matthews, Brandon Nixon,
Raphael Prophet, Stephen Pryor, Christopher Smithman, Donald Washington, and Aaron Wiener.
H So, actually they do have Christopher as crossing the
line already on the list. Apologies to Christopher. I didn't

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realize that it had already been certified. Petitions filed him currently
being reviewed by the Board of Elections. Don Johnson, saw
Kersey Dale Mallory gathering signatures for petition not yet submitted.
Sheila Andrews, Thomas Chandler, Sharena Collier, Leticia Cunningham, Ozzie Davis
the Third, Brian Nnick, Steve Goodden, Christopher Griffin, Autumn Hill,

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Ryan Holbrook, Travis Johnson, Liz Keating, John Not that one,
Ned Measel, William Wore, Michael Patton, Benjamin Press, Tyrone Robertson Senior,
Martin Rosenberg, Gwen Summers, and Quenton Taylor. How are we
going to separate the week from the chaff in this
race as we fast approach November? It's a good question.

(08:18):
I don't know, but certainly some really great names stand out.
And if we could only get Christopher elected. I oh,
and then there's the elephant of the room, Corey Bowman.
I really would love to see Corey elected. I know
what a tremendous, uphill battle and challenge that represents. But
if you had Christopher on there, Steve Gooden, Liz Keating,

(08:41):
maybe some of the other independent candidates, you know there's
some great options available. Why continue doing the same thing
over and over and over again. Is your city safer?
Are your roads repaired? Do you believe that there's been
a sufficient allocation of the well the limited number of

(09:02):
tax dollars that the city isn't responsible for that it
can allocate. Are you happy in Hyde Park that they
will ignored your will and decided to approve well connected
developers proposals for your neighborhood in spite of the fact
that you didn't want it to turn out that way,
bond Hill, same thing you could vote other people in.
And I say that to all the neighborhoods in the city.

(09:23):
Is since any with the connected communities being foisted down
every single neighborhood's throat, well with the exception of those
who want exceptions to the connected community's I e. Hyde Park, Bondhill.
I don't know out loud question, is it possible for

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non Democrats to win in the city of Cincinnati FI
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to chime in if you have a comment. I'd love
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Speaker 1 (09:59):
I have nineteen Happy Monday P five one, three, seven,
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firing on just a handful of cylinders out of all
of them this morning, because it's Monday, ah and not
there's anything wrong with Sean McMahon. Just Joe not being
here always throws me off. My game, so feel free
to help out give me a call. Beyond that, I

(10:20):
don't know what I want to dive on into, so
why not. This one of my favorite movies. I think
anybody who's been listening to the Morning Show for a
number of years and thank you if you have money.
Python's Life of Brian, not because of the name, just
because I think it's hilarious. And there's a scene that
Joe Streker regularly runs a SoundBite in where one of
the characters, Reg wants to be a woman. He keeps

(10:42):
chiming in about women, and it's like, well what are
you always going on about women? Redge? Because I want
to be one? Well why do you want to be
a woman? Reg? I want to have babies. You can
have babies. You don't have a womb. Where's the fetus?
Gonnajest date, You're gonna put it in a box, the
retort from John Clee's character in the movie, which makes
perfect sense. It's the logic and the reason, it's the

(11:05):
science behind it. You can't be a woman. You can
say you are, but you don't have a womb. You
can't have babies, period, end of story. It's a biological
fact and reality. You can be in denial if you want,
which is basically what they say. We're gonna fight for
your right to have babies even though you can't have babies.
It's symbolic of our struggle against oppression. Well, reg may

(11:29):
get his wish, get a load of this. Robots may
soon be able to carry babies. China working on a
designing a bot with an artificial womb which will receive
nutrients through a hose and it's abdomen that will soon
be able to carry a fetus for approximately ten months
before giving birth report from a chosen biz that will

(11:52):
be the website. The pregnancy robot that's in quotes conceptualized
by a guy named doctor j Jang Queen Fang, founder
of Kaiwa Technology, and they say if Ali goes according
to plan, the prototype will make its debut next year.
For those struggling to conceive, hiring a humanoid to carry

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their baby will cost about thirteen now just shy a
fourteen thousand dollars, which they point is a lot less
than a human surrogate, which apparently costs in the United
States between one hundred and two hundred thousand dollars. Wow.
According to the doctor. The artificial womb technology already at

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a mature stage, and now it needs to be implanted
in the robot's abdomen so that a real person and
the robot can interact to achieve pregnancy, allowing the fetus
to grow inside. I was reading, I was thinking, wait
a second, the technology exists. You have a artificial womb
that is not yet incorporated into a robot. Do you

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really need to incorporate it into a robot? Apparently that's
the plan anyway, say A lot of questions still an answer,
including how the egg and the sperm will be fertilized
and inserted into the womb, and how the bot will
give birth technicalities. Hey, living a strange and ever changing

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the world, don't we I don't know about that, but
and I guess I have to observe it's still not
going to turn you into a woman. For you men
out there who are desirous of being a woman, you
can't have a baby because you don't have a womb.
Where's the room. It's over there in that robot. Maybe
they'll have the technology that will incorporate a womb into

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your body someday. So far, we're not there yet. And
nothing in the article suggests that that's coming down the
path all right in other tech news, I feel like
it's tech Friday. This kind of thing really irks me.
A car. Shouldn't you even be able to just well

(14:01):
outrighte buy a car? Well, they're coming down with these
more and more of these subscription services. Volkswagen's got its
ID zero point three pro, and it's listed at two
hundred and one horse power, actually it's supposed to be
two hundred and twenty eight horsepower. How do you get

(14:23):
the additional twenty plus horsepower out of the thing. You
have to purchase a subscription followed by after a one
month free trial period where you can actually experience tw
hundred and twenty eight horsepower in your ID three pro
I think it's an electric car. Then you have to
start paying a subscription price for it, all right, two
dollars and thirty six cents per month, or two hundred

(14:46):
and eleven dollars and forty one cents per year, or
if you just want to buy it outright, eight hundred
and seventy nine dollars and fifty two cents. Now, since
the car apparently its fifty thousand dollars It was suggested that, well,
you know, people brought to end up rolling the purchase
price into the purchase of a car. But that doesn't
explain what least people are gonna do. Are you gonna
shell out nine hundred dollars to purchase twenty seven additional

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horsepower for a car that you do not own? Paywalls? Well,
some suggest unnecessary hurdles designed to nickel and dime customers. Yes,
automakers love them because it's an ongoing, continuous revenue stream.
There was a I guess a couple of years ago,
and I remember reading at BMW attempted to check charge

(15:32):
a monthly fee for heated seats. Users rejected that the
technology is already in the car. The seats can heat,
you just have to pay extra money for them. Mercedes
Bend offers acceleration increase in other words, horsepower increases for

(15:52):
its EQ models twelve hundred dollars a year. The volks
I can didn't come up with a concepts BMW did unbelievable.
Back in twenty three, Masa sent a season assist letter
to developer. A software developer who had made integrations connecting

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the Masa vehicles to home assistant which is an open
source automation software. While the automakers assumed the developer accused
them of writing code that infringed on its copyright ownership,
this software is still owned by the companies. You cannot
tinker with or otherwise tamper with autobile manufacturer owned software.
So you are stuck. I just hell No. Five twenty

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Be right back after these words.

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Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's five twenty nine. I'm a Monday and a happy one.
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All is right with the world. Tom's on the line. Tom,
Welcome to the morning show. Happy Monday team, my friend,
Good morning, Brian.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Hey, anyway we could speed this up so Sean can
go home.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
He told me I can see him on video screen
because of course he's in the studio. That's far away
from where I'm sitting, Unlike the old days where I
could look through a window he apologized, are right now.
He apologized in advance this morning for maybe nodding off.
He said, feel free to wake me up if I
start falling asleep in here.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
You gotta wake up button on your end.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I don't I have to yell at.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Him, the little talk back button, little talk All right, Well,
a couple of couple of things. You almost boarded it
out there yourself. But this whole City of Cincinnati council
race and any other elections going on that are coming

(17:58):
up where you have to vote for people that represent
us in whatever body they're going to be in, whether
it be a councilor or a commission, whatever they're in.
Ask yourself one question is are the people in there,
the makeup of the group of people that are in there,
is it working for you? Is it? Is it paying off?

(18:19):
Is it are they Are they going along with your
wishes or what you think is the right thing to do.
And if the answer is no, they're probably all Democrats,
like the City of Cincinnati. So don't vote Democrat like that. Okay,
I mean, I'm not ending ending the call just yet,
but you almost said it. You're like, don't vote for
nine people, but don't vote Democrat. If you're if you're

(18:41):
unhappy with them, and they're all Democrats, well don't re
elect them. It just makes sense.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
Don't just keep.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Voting for Democrats because you're afraid that the scary Republicans
are going to take all your rights away. That's exactly
what the Democrats have already been doing. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
And the other point you just made about the electric cars,
another reason why not to get an electric car? I mean,
gone through the days where you could just reach in
and replace.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Actually, I think honestly, although that article was focusing on
electric cars with these software upgrades, that you have to
pay for that technology, or that that subscription service applies
internal combustion engines to any car that has software, and
let's face it, all of them do the Yeah, the
BMW subscription for heated seats was for an internal combustion engine,

(19:31):
if I recall correctly. And who in the I mean,
what the hell kind of logic and reason is that
the car is equipped with heating elements in the seat.
They just don't work until you pay them extra money. What?

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Oh, yeah, it's just it's another way for them to
grab money out. It's capitalism, that's fineness. You know, so
just say no.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
And then.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
That's what people did. They said no to the whole
idea and people and they just quit doing it because
well it's just it's nonsense.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, it's crazy. Well, the reason I didn't call Friday,
we got some vehicle issues going on and my wife's
car is in the shop. To change the alternator. I
can reach in the engine and it's right there on
top the alternate. I could, I could grab it with
two hands, but I can't get it out. And I
checked out how to do it. It's like, it's crazy
what I would have to go through to change an

(20:20):
alternator that's right there on the top of the engine.
I gotta I gotta do something with the motor mountain.
I'll like forget that I'm somebody to do it. This
is this is insane, man, that's what they've done with cars.
So anyway, as everyone knows, don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Have a great day, Brian, Thanks Tom and you too.
Five one three two three talk pound fat fifty on
at and t phones. Oh let us see here in
transition to the stack is toupid. Anyway, go to Richmond, Kentucky,
where a woman's behind bars for allegedly causing twelve thousand
dollars or a damage to her ex boyfriend's car just

(20:56):
walk away criminal complaint. Richmond Police Department said Stephanie carl
Quiz totaled her ex boyfriend's car after the couple got
into an argument. Klinte says she poured salt into the engine,
glitter in the air conditioning events, slashed a tire, cracked
the windshield, cracked the review mirror, and shattered the car's
radio screen. Carl Quiz's ex boyfriend told police that she

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slashed one tire July sixth, but then did the rest
of the damage on July fifteenth. Car was damaged total.
Company took the car to Goodyear in Richmond, where the
car was deemed totaled after the estimate had cost the
damage added up to twelve thousand, four hun and sixty
four dollars ninety six cents. Was it worth it, please say?

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Carlquist told the driver the tow truck about damaging the
car when they arrived to take the car to Goodyear.
Driver then called the ex boyfriend's mom, who co owns
the car with them, to call her tell her about
Carlquest's admission. After learning the emission, Carl Quiz messaged her
ex boyfriend on Instagram, telling him she was stressed out
because of her pregnancy and that she was sorry about
the damage. Please say with the interviewer. She admitted to

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the glitter in the air vents and the damage of
the windshield, but she said he was overdue for the
oil motor and other damage. Held in Madison kind of
detention centered a twelve thousand dollars bond, charged with felony
criminal mischief. No, it was not worth it, was it? Missus?
Carl Quist sad day over the weekend. Saturday was the
last day for Listenman Brewery Company. The announced on Facebook

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on Friday that this past Saturday was their last day
of operation, saying We're deeply grateful to our amazing staff,
loyal customers, and community of support us over the years,
even part of our story, and it's been an honor
to share our beer and our space with you. They
didn't say why they were closing. Inquire asked them, didn't
receive an immediate response. Listenerman Brewery among several other breweries
and distilleries in the Greater Sinsinnay that have recently closed.

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March first Fountain Square location, Brew Dog sixteen lots, Humble Monk,
and Voodoo brew Pub in downtown. That's a shame. So
you got to have a shooting in here. It is
local stories. One person in critical condition after a shooting
happens Saturday night, Cole Raine Township, twenty eight hundred block
of Geraldine Drive, eight pm Saturday. Spokesperson said that one

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person was injured in the shooting and taking the UC
Medical Center with life threatening injuries. There's one person of
interest in custody and they say there is no danger
to the public. Believe them or not. Five thirty five
Right now fifty five KRCD talk station Stack. Oh stupid
coming up. You stick around for that or give you
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be smart app it is, and we're going to the
stack and stupid and this is frightening and really sad
at the same time. Artificial intelligence getting better and better.

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We learned from this. We learned this from Tech Friday's
Day of Hatter Every Friday. I mean, it's just crazy, insane.
So we go to New Jersey where we have a
cognitively impaired seventy six year old man died while trying
to meet an artificial intelligence chat bot that he thought
was a real woman that was living in New York City,

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in spite of please that from his wife and his
children to stay home. Work with me on the name
here Thong Boo Wong Bando. I don't make it up, man,
that's just read him. Thongboo Wong dan A Wong Bando,
the seventy six year old whose dad fatally injured his
neck and had after falling in a New York a
New Brunswick parking lot, rushing to catch a train to

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meet Big Sis Billy not a real person, but a
generative metabot that not only convinced them that she was real,
but persuaded to meet her in person. He'd been battling
cognitive decline after suffering a stroke back in twenty seventeen,

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surrounded by loved ones when taking off life support. Wong
Bando's daughter, I understand trying to grab a user's attention,
maybe to sell them something, but for a bot to say,
come visit me is insane. Yes, The bot sent the
senior emoji packed Facebook messages insisting I'm real in quotes

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and asking to plan a trip to the Garden State
to quote meet you in person close quote. They say
it was creative for the social media platform, in collaboration
with Kendall Jenner. Jenner's Meta AI persona likened as quote
your ride or die older sister close quote in offering
personal advice, but the bot eventually claimed it was crushing

(25:56):
on Wang Ban du suggesting a real life meet up,
and even provided the dupe senior with an actual address.
I'm real and I'm sitting here blushing because of you,
the artificial intelligence bot wrote in one message. Meta did,
in comment on the senior's death, assured that Big cis Billy,

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is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be
Kendall Jenner. I don't really get the Kendall Jenner connection
on this doesn't really matter, but she did say this.
AI bot said, my address is one two three Main Street,
Harman four O four, NYC, and the door code is
Billy for you should I expect to kiss when you arrive.
Isn't that creepy? Documents stand by the outlets showed that

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Meta does not restrict chatbots from telling users they are
real people. The company declined comment on the senior's death
or the outlet. New York Governor Kathy Hochel chimed in
on Facebook post on Friday. A man in New Jersey
lost his life after being lured by a chatbot that
lied to him. That's on Meta. In New York, we

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require chat pots that disclose that they are not real.
Every state should. If tech companies won't build basic safeguards,
Congress needs to act well. Again, cognitively impaired, that's a shame.
But you know, others not cognitively impaired are duped as equally,
as apparently as easily as those struggling with cognitive impairment.

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I don't know if there's what the answer is to
all this jeez, And it's not going away, that's for
damn sure. Let's see we've got Tom in there. Tom,
Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday, Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
So I haven't heard a whole lot about this property
tax reform bill. That bill site's supposed to be rationing
up here, and I don't really have much faith in
him after he worked for TAF law firm years ago
when they did that bangles buckle for Hamilton County taxpayers.
So what are your thoughts.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Going on this?

Speaker 8 (28:00):
And can we keep talking about it?

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, they're supposed to be talking about behind the scenes.
They've got you this special committee that they've formed to
discuss property tax relief ideas. All that work was done
last year and that's what really kind of made me
scratch my head over what the hell the wine was
thinking and vetoing the three tax provisions that they chose
from the twenty plus options that the committees previously had provided.

(28:25):
So I don't know why he thinks more work needs
to be done. I was a little confused by Sites's
comments when he was on the Morning show a couple
of weeks ago. So keep your popcorn out and wait
for it. We can't talk about something that we can't
read on paper. So I don't know where their ideas
are going or what they're going to propose. Ultimately we
will find out. The question is will they do anything
by way of property tax relief before you and I

(28:47):
get to vote on the whole constitutional amendment which would
abolish property taxes in the state of Ohio. Now, every
time I think about that concept, it sounds appealing, doesn't it.
You and I could say no property tax and vote
on it. They'll become part of the hot state constitution.
What would happen? Then? Look at all the things that

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property tax is funded. Look at how everything is like
hinges on property taxes. It's the logical solution is all
of that money, somehow is gonna have to make its
way into Columbus, where they'll have a giant pot of
money that used to be property taxes, which will have
to fund parks and recreations and schools and all of that.
And I don't know how you fight over who gets what.

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To deal with her.

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Early on this Monday morning, brus are working to clear
an accident downtown that's on Plump near seven Chuck Ingram
on fifty five krs.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
He talks station. I don't five fifty to fifty five
care see de talk station Christopher Smith and coming up
at seven twenty and he got the requisite signatures that
we running for council or he is running for council
this fall. Fingers crossed money money with Brian James A
to five and I don't know what we'll be talking about.
And kr Se cares with my friend Ulysses from Affordable

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Imaging Services that'll be on at eight forty so let
us go back to the stack. Is stupid and why not?
Language arch teacher Phil Secret, He's a Florida was a
Florida elementary school teacher now arrested after being involved in
a drunken car crash at the elementary school campus parking

(31:19):
lot second day of classes at Explorer K through eight
in spring Hill. Phillips. Secret arrested later charged of driving
under the influence. According to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, deputy
said they found the thirty two year old eighth grade
language arch teacher just before eleven forty five in the morning,
unconscious behind the whee of his vehicle in the aftermath

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of what they describe as a single vehicle collision. School
resource deputy first on the scene after Secret had driven
his car into a fence and the schools were a
parking lot. According to the Sheriff's Department, they found Secrets
surrounded by several empty single serve alcohol containers within his reach,
his vehicle still in gear transport a local hospital. One

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deputy claim that they could smell alcohol in the suspect's breath.
He allegedly refused the deputy's request to take a test
to measure a blood alcohol content or tot chemical substances.
After being cleared by the hospital, he was then taking
Lorenando to County Detention Center, held on a thousand dollars bond,
secret placed on administratively depending the results of the ongoing investigation.

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School District noted the crash was initially attributed to a
medical situation. Ain't married to Mart's expecting a child in Lhuly.
According to his own Facebook post, he had previously been
arrested in Duy and Broward County back in twenty fourteen.
So there you have it, okay, psycho, Yes, just walk away.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Courtland, Man featured in a twenty twenty two episode of
I Am a Stalker, has pleaded not guilty to eleven
counts of stalking, harassing, and violating an order protection and
a new case involving the same Ogle County woman that
was featured in the Netflix series I Am a Stalker.
The Guy John R. Anderson, the third, forty two, sentenced

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the six years in prison for aggravating stalking into Cobb
County back in twenty nineteen. The Netflix series included an
installment that focused on him and his case, his relationship
with a woman who fled to Illinois just to get
away from him, and his pending release from prison. Okay,
that's the former act now charging a new Ogle County

(33:36):
case for harassing the same woman. He pleaded not guilty
in court August sixth, two counts of aggravated stalking, five
counts of stalking, harassment by telephone, three counts of violating
order protection after waiving his right to preliminary hearing court.
To the court records, all of these new allegations occurred
in December of December and January, when he violated a

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twenty twenty four court order protection in harass the Roachelle
woman by placing messages and content on her cell phone,
writing a letter to her from prison, texting her, and
making repeated calls to using different phone numbers and apps
to hide his contact information. Also accused of repeatedly surveilling
her residence by parking in front of her home and

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her place of employment in Rochelle and a parking lot nearby,
repeatedly calling and texting her, and placing cupcakes on her vehicle.
Other charge accused him of emailing the woman, posting an
event on her iPhone calendar, and sending her Snapchat request
to call him. Also accused of gaining access to her vehicle,
placing a GPS tracking device in her vehicle, and gaining

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access to her Amazon Alexa device using it to ask
to talk to a child that they share. Woman found
the GPS tracker in the back seat of her car,
acclaimed Anderson, and put the tracker there and when he
placed their child in the seat, told police that he

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started blowing up the woman's phone when he became angry
with her and he felt that he was being treated unfairly.
Oh told the officers he and no woman had an
on and off relationship for several years and he can't
take it when she separates from him from his son,
that he didn't matter if it was a pro violation,
and called her thousands of time Okay Corner's public defender.

(35:25):
He acknowledges that this guy does have a drug addiction
and mental health issues to coming from what he described
as severe family tragedy that he experienced several years ago.
Does that answer the question?

Speaker 5 (35:34):
No?

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Soon to be features in a follow up edition of
I am a stalker. I am a stoker. Two Get
a Life fifty five come up with a fifty six fifty
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o'clock Hourrophone calls are always welcome here on the fifty
five Krsee Morning Show, and Christopher Smithman will join the program.
The guests began at seven twenty. I'll be right back

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after the top of the art six oh fivety five
KR City Talk Station. Try to make it a happy
Monday if possible. My name's Brian Thomas, is fifty five
KR se Morris and normally I'm saying Joe Strekker it's
executive producer. He still is, but he's on vacation today
and tomorrow, and parenthetically, I am not going to be
here on Wednesday covering for the out Joe Strekker. Sean

(36:20):
McMahon doing the great job as he always does, only
half awake. He had his sleep here last night. I
just think that sucks. Sean. I'm sorry, man, short staffed.
We are so Sean's doing the work of three people.
So good to you. Good for you, Sean. Coming up
seven to twenty Christopher Smitheman, who'll be calling in as
he does every Monday at seven to twenty form or
Vice mayor now running as a candidate for Sincinni City Council. Again,

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let's wish him all the best in the world and
a total of it looks like forty six forty six
total if all of them get the signatures, twenty two
so far have their paperwork approved already by the Board
of Elections. We've got a handful that are pending, and
then a whole bunch of folks that are still gathering

(37:03):
signatures for the petition, including Steve Goodin for one, was
going to give him props and Liz Keating to excellent
choices for you in the City of Cincinnati. But if
all of them end up running, there's going to be
a total of it looks like forty six and separating
the week from the chaff. As we approach November, I
think it's going to be a rather difficult challenge. And
Christopher's going to speak to you about only voting for

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the top candidates you want elected, not all nine seats,
even though you have nine is an option. So that's
coming up at seven twenty money Monday with Brian James.
Don't know what we're talking about. Didn't get a list
of topics yet. Since Joe's out, I'm sure we'll be
able to manage things with Brian James from Allworth Financial
at eight oh five, and then we'll hear from Affordable
Medical Imagings Ulysses Days on how you can save literally

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thousands and thousands of dollars that will be our care
See CARES segment at the end of the eight o'clock
hour five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred eighty two to three Taco Tome five fifty
on at and T watching the Shenanigans out in California.
Of course, Governor Gavin Newsom wants to completely eliminate all
Republican seats in the House of Representatives through redistricting jerrymandering,

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and he's gonna have to have the Californians vote to
allow him to do this. Place the redistricting in the
hands of the legislative branch because they have an independent
committee that they voted in, so they need to change
the law. And this temporary legislative power will last until
twenty thirty, when they will return to regular order and

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the authority will go back to this independent body, which
is handling well redistricting. So it's in order to eliminate
these seats. It's kind of a you know, it's a
contorted effort that he's got to go through. Whether he's
successful or not, we're going to find out. But what
will it do in the long run? And I thought
this is a rather interesting op ed piece from the
editorial board of the Wall Street Journal on the future,

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and one can only hope that this future as they
predict it comes true. Get a load of this, And
isn't it a beautiful thing that you and I have
the freedom of choice and the freedom of travel in
this country that if you want to leave a state
that is mismanaged and goes someplace where it's better for
you for a variety of reasons, you can pack up
your bags and do that, much of the chagrin of

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the globalists who want a one size fits all approach
relating to literally everything, so there are no options for you.
But the reality that we currently live in not looking
good for the Democrats or states like California. Accord to
the editorial board, California Governor Gabnissm is promising a referendum
in November to Jerrymander five more Democratic House seats on

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top of the forty three out of fifty two they
already have in the state. Even if it works, is
victory may be short lived. The real problem for Democrats
is that progressive policies are driving population flight, which on
current trend could cost their state. Are you ready ten
ten House seats in after twenty thirty? The left wing

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states migration from blue to red states one of the
great stories of the age. It accelerated during the COVID
lockdowns of the Americans flood states with high taxes and
living costs, and as well disorderly streets and lousy schools.
Goodbye San Francisco, Hello Salt Lake City. Here's your raw numbers.
Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, California is down

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one point four to six five million people. New Jersey
is down nine hundred and sixty six thousand people. Illinois
off four hundred and eighteen thousand, the loss of population
equivalent to Kansas and other states. Texas up three quarters
of a million people, Florida up almost nine hundred thousand,

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gained the equivalent of West Virginia, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, North
Carolina also experienced a huge surge of new people moving
from left wing states into these more conservative states. Now,
they point out births and foreign migration have somewhat less
than the population losses in these Democratic run states, but
their populations are nonetheless aging as young people and families leave.

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Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, California's population under
the age of eighteen shrank by more than half a
million people, New York's off by a quarter of a
million people. Illinois one hundred and eighty six thousand school
closures during the pandemic no doubt contributed to the loss
of children, but maydy parents also don't want their children

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learning about the varieties of sexual experience in third grade,
are being taught that America was founded to preserve slavery.
Just to thought, Texas gained almost two hundred thousand children
Florida two hundred and nineteen thousand children in that same
four year period, while slowing immigration under President Trouble damp
and population growth in some Republican led states like Texas

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and Florida will steepened losses in many Democrat states, notable
many immigrants. This is Funny who initially come to New York, California,
and Illinois later leave for other states for the same
reasons that native citizens do. It's only about one third
of immigrants who came to California between twenty ten and
twenty twenty three on net stayed there immigration and rather,

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immigrants who showed up in Florida and Texas are more
likely to settle there. They don't even like it. California's
foreign born population increased by six hundred thousand between twenty
ten and twenty twenty three, versus roughly one point five
million for both Florida and Texas. What do you know?
Immigrants want good schools, affordable housing, safe neighborhoods, and cheap

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energy too. It's tough for day laborers to make a
decent living in Brentwood when they're paying five dollars a
gallon to fill up a truck and twenty five hundred
dollars a month for a one bedroom apartment to house
a family of four. Oh, and good luck trying to
start at tak Area or a McDonald's franchise in California
and New York with their regulations, taxes, minimum wage mandates,

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and laws aiding plaintiffs attorneys. Democratic governors may hold their
states out as sanctuaries, but their policies burdened immigrants who
come to American search opportunity. Despite their policy failures, Democrats
have used jerrymandering to entrench their power in state houses
like California, New York, Illinois, Maryland, and elsewhere. Population flight

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cost Democrats states several House seats during the last congressional
reapportionment repportionment after the twenty twenty census, but they lost
fewer seats than expected, partly because COVID lockdowns increased the
risk of miscounting college students and people with second homes.
They suggest Floridians with maybe condos and Manhattan were counted

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as New Yorkers. The Census Bureau in twenty twenty two
reported that New York's population was overcounted by three point
four percent, while there were under counts in Florida three
and a half and Texas one point nine percent. Such
inaccuracies may have cost Florida and Texas an additional House seat,
and given Rhode Island, New York, and Minnesota one each,

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they shouldn't have received tough for GOP. Senator Mike Johnson,
but if population trends continue, Republican states stand to gain
at least ten House seats in the twenty thirty reapportionment.
The left leading Brendon Center estimated that in December, Texas
and Florida would each gain four House seats, Utah, Idaho
and North Carolina and Arizona would each had one. California

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would lose four, New York two, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island will each lose one. GOP legislators will draw
favorable maps to give their new seats to Republicans, as
they did in the last redistricting cycle, and if partisan transhold,
Republican leaning states will gain ten electoral votes in twenty

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thirty two presidential election, about as many as Arizona currently has.
Republicans can thank mister Newsom and Illinois Governor j Pritzker.
Maybe if Democrats didn't so heavily jerrymander their state house
districts to prevent political competition, they might not be at
risk of losing representation in Washington. You know, as I
think about this whole gerrymandering thing, the Democrats perceive this

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as a foregone conclusion. That by merely redrawing the districts,
they're guaranteed to get their Democrat candidates elected. Now, isn't
that a bold pronouncement? Now, I recognize that the voting
trends are well documented in any given county or community
or area. They know generally speaking, how people are going

(45:38):
to vote. It's a heavy blue district, right. But going
back to the City of Cincinnati, the upcoming council election
of mayoral election, if you're looking at this miserable situation
that your politicians have created, if you know where the
overregulation and the extended or the extra costs associated with
literally doing anything because of say green new energy policies

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and that kind of stuff, over regulation, permit requirements, building restrictions,
If you know where all that's coming, it's coming from
the left. The Republican Party did not do that. So,
if you're in one of those districts and you listen
to your politicians talking about basically guaranteeing them another Democrat

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seat by redrawing a line, no one can make you
vote for anybody in particular. And if you really look
at your situation, are you being well served by this
Democrat candidate that they're insisting needs to be elected and
that you are going to vote for No. No one
can make you vote for that person. You'd think word

(46:43):
would get out. I mean, if you're miserable, you're miserable.
It's sort of an objective kind of thing. It's a
life experience. You are living in a terrible situation or
one that you know could be much better. Hell, if
it didn't cost five dollars a gallon to fill your
gas tank, wouldn't you be in a better position financially? Yes?
Why is it five dollars in California? Because they keep
shutting down refineries and keep I mean literally everything related

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to the Green New Deal is terrible for the price
of gasoline. Don't keep voting for that kind of stuff.
I don't know, but you still have choices. It's like
every person that's got a dollar and a couple of
nickels to rub together has already evacuated these left wing

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states showing up, and of course states that offer a
better opportunity, a more comfortable life, a better middle class.
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here at fifty five KR see the talk station one
hour from now. Smithland returns the meantime over to the
phones five one three, seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred
and eighty two to three talk or pound five fifty
on eighteen tee founds. Let's do what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby,
thanks for calling. Happy Monday to you, my friend Brian.

Speaker 10 (49:13):
Thanks for taking my call, and have a great day today.
It's a nice Monday for a change. We didn't have
a lot of violence in the city over the weekend,
and I think we alleviated that black Swam event, so
I'm real happy we didn't have a violence down to town.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Amen. Amen, I'm with you on that all day long. Bobby,
hate to read about violence in the city. You know,
I love the city of Cincinnati, and I wish it
wasn't such a dysfunctional place. I mean, you know, I
lived in Chicago for eight years, and what an amazing
contrast living there and then coming back here and just
thinking like, oh my god, we don't know how good

(49:51):
we have it here. You need to move away to
a dysfunctional city like Chicago for a few years to
appreciate all that we have here. We take I think
we take our our area for granted, Bobby, I really do.

Speaker 10 (50:02):
I think we need more diverse people in city hall.
It doesn't always have to be always Republican or Democrats
or independence. You know, we need to diverse people to
make decisions.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Yeah, a mix of ideas to foster and encourage debate,
not one size just immediately like it's a Democrat idea,
We're all going to vote for it, move on. I mean,
we need people to talk about alternatives to the proposals.
I mean, engage in thoughtful debate, and that requires people
of different political stripes. Bobby, I agree with you all
day long.

Speaker 10 (50:32):
Well, it gets old to be negative all the time.
But when you see negative things left and right, you know,
it's you're trying to figure out ways to make it
a positive. Yeah, hopefully all the things that's happened, and hopefully,
especially like in DC when the president's taken control, they
don't want that in a lot of the other cities
in this country.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
So that's where to turn around. Well, we can only
hope we can continue to talk about it until November
when we get to we get a whole host of options.
With four forty six, I still can't get over that
many people want to run for the Sincanei City Council.

Speaker 10 (51:04):
Bobby, just pick one, don't don't. They don't need to
list everyone nine or ten people. Just pick one or
two your favorite and leave it at that.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, maybe I would gore Christopher Smith and Steve Gooden
and Liz Keating my short list. Now that's not to
exclude some of the under folks that are running, because
I've interviewed some and I think some of them have
great ideas and are very enthusiastic about being a council member.
But if I had a limited to three right there,
there'd be those three plus Corey Bowman.

Speaker 10 (51:33):
Of course, Well remember faith flagging family, and we know
what else holds it all together.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
So yeah, right YouTube you two man hanging there six
twenty five, coming up a six twenty five real quick here.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Los Angeles Times announced yes or over this past week, huh.
Continuing my point about California, Playboy announced last Wednesday they're
relocating their headquarters from Los Angeles. Two drum roll Maestro Miami,
Florida described as the just the most recent high profile
company abandoning California. Bencom, chief executive of Playboy, described California,

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in his words, as being anti business, saying the state
is an extremely expensive place to operate. State of the obvious,
he said, we're excited to move the company of the
city of Miami Beach, which has been phenomenal to deal with,
very pro business when you look at the cost of
doing business in California against the cost of doing business
in Florida, and you combine that with the energy of

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Miami Beach and made all the sense in the world
for Playboy to move there. Close quote adding to a
growing list of well prudent companies going someplace with a
better business environment. I didn't Playboy was still around, but
there you have it. Six twenty five fifty five care

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It is your channel nine first morning Weatherford Gas sunny,
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night with a low of sixty eight Tomorrow. Got thunderstorms
in the evening they say, showing up after five pm.
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partly thirty Wednesday, just a tiny chance of rain and
a high of eighty eight seventy two degrees. Right now,
time for a traffic.

Speaker 9 (54:48):
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Speaker 1 (55:23):
Six thirty one. Here fifty five kr CD talk station
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Want to call me five one three seven four ninety
eight hundred eight two three talk CONFI fifty on AT
and T phones can Kentucky woman behind bars after allegedly
stabbing a woman and biting a juvenile girl during an

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argument Laurel County Sheriff's Office at Thirty seven year old
Melissa Rich arrested just before two am. Over the weekend
in an area hospital. They say she got into a
verbal argument with another woman that escalated to her stabbing
the other several times in the forearm and shoulder. Police
also say she bit a juvenile girl on the left
forearm at some point during the argument. Okay. Eighty eight

(56:11):
year old woman dead after a two vehicle crash happened
Sunday afternoon a Warren County corner of the House. State
Highway Patrol troopers responded to Dixie Highway south of Manchester
Road in Franklin Township just before twelve thirty Sunday afternoon.
After investigating, a high State Highway patrol found that an
eighty eight year old woman was driving a two thousand
and five Buick Lacrosse northeast on Dixie Highway when a

(56:34):
sixty year old woman was driving a two twenty fifteen
Kia southwest on Dixie Highway. Eighty eight year old woman
went left of center, crossed the double yellow wine, hitting
the Kia head on. Eighty eight year old woman identified
as one eat A Sebastian taken to Atria Medical Center,
pronounced dead at the arrival. Driver the Kia, as well
as her passenger taken to Kettering Health Medical Midtown with

(56:57):
non life threatening injuries Thank God. A high State Highway
patrol said crash remains under investigation. Middletown Police, Warren County Sheriff,
Middletown Fire and EMS lending an assist on that one.
One person in critical condition after a shooting happened Saturday night,
according to the city spokesperson from Cole Raine, twenty eight
hundred block of Geraldine Drive about eight pm on Saturday.

(57:19):
Colerain Townships postpersons said one person was injured in the
shooting and taking a UC medical center with life threatening injuries.
One person of interest in custody and apparently no longer
any danger to the public. Kentucky one behind bars after
causing twelve thousand dollars worth of damage to her ex

(57:40):
boyfriend's car. Richmond Police Department and the criminal complaint says
Stephanie carl Quist totalled her ex boyfriend's car after the
couple got into an argument. Happened in July. Complaints says
she poured salt into the engine. Glitter in the ac event,
slashed attire, cracked the windshield, and cracked the rearview mirror
well as shatter of the car radio screen. Her ex

(58:03):
boyfriend told police that she slashed one tire in July sixth,
but then did the rest of the damage after an argument.
On July fifteenth, tow truck company took the car into
Goodyear in Richmond. The car deemed totaled. After the estimated
costs the damage added up to twelve almost twelve five
hundred dollars. Thank you, Sean, please, said carl Quiz told

(58:31):
the driver the tow truck about the damage of the
car when they got it. When they got to the
Goodyear dealership, driver then called the ex boyfriend's mom, co
owner of the car, to tell her about her admission.
After learning of the admission, carl Quist managed mis messaged
her ex boyfriend on Instagram, telling him that she was
stressed out because of her pregnancy and that she was sorry,

(58:53):
sorry for the damage. Please interviewed her and she admitted
the glitter in the air vents and the damage to
the shield, but said she was overdue for the oil
motor and other damage like the salt in the engine.
She at least was being held with Madison Kind of
Detentions Center. A twelve thousand dollars bond and being in
charge with felony criminal mischief, just walk away. Simple advice.

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We had the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, as we do
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and looking forward to it because of course, we had
this failed peace negotiation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
didn't go anywhere. And it doesn't shock me at all because,
as we've been talking about with Daniel Davis, now what
seems like forever the Russians won't concede anything. Peutin doesn't

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has not conceded anything, and he's demanding control, of full
control of the down boss reason, offering to freeze the
front lines elsewhere in exchange for ending the war. But
he wants land, he wants control, and Zelunsky and the
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no and he's making a line in the sand demand,
it's not going to go anywhere. And that's kind of
what I expected. The the outcome, which is, guess what,
nothing happened. Now Democrats seem alt giddy with excitement, and
I don't understand their glee. Oh, Donald Trump failed. He
promised the end the war on day one. Yeah, I know.
He talks a big game. Sometimes a little more difficult
considering you have to deal with other people and their

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demands and negotiate some sort of control over the situation.
I don't know how we the United States of America
always end up being the one responsible for negotiating a piece,
but that's our role in the world, I suppose. But
Pewtin isn't interested. He's winning on the battlefield, and it
seems as if he's got everyone over a barrel on that.

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And you can scream and yell into the wind all
you want, but it isn't going to change the dynamic.
Pewtin apparently has all the cards in his hand.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
I thought it was a rather interesting omission by Vladimir Putin.
One of the good things that come out of this.
Donald Trump was right, Pewtin said, I liket to remind
you that in twenty twenty two, during the last contact
with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous
American colleague, Joe Biden, the situation should not be brought
to the point of no return when it would come
to hostilities. And I said it quite directly back then

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that it's a big mistake today. He went on when
President Trump saying that if he was the president back then,
there will be no war. And I'm quite sure that
it would indeed be, so I can confirm that. How
about that Trump's been saying all along, if he had
been president, there never would have been a war. Putin's

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basically back in Trump. Does that make Donald Trump an
agent of Vladimir Putin? Does that suggest some sort of
close ties between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? That's what
the left wants you to believe. So we all know
that was all made up. And more and more information
coming out about the uh well, the effort to basically
render Donald Trump impotent when he was president by lying

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about Russia and the Russian collusion russa Russia, russa Russia.
The Steele dossier was all made up. Whole cloth lettered
agencies were lined up against Donald Trump in a coordinated
effort to undermine his presidency. This makes Watergate look like nothing.
But they're still trying to convince you that Donald Trump
and Vladimir Putin are like best buds or something something

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behind there. Yeah, well, anyway, it's sad that they didn't
reach a resolution. But until Ukraine's ready to roll up
some land and hand it over to Vladimir Putin, it
does not look like it's going to happen. Let me
ask you this now, there was a big protest in
Manhattan on Saturday. Thousands of anti Israeli demonstrators reportedly flooded Bentown,

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Manhattan calling for global into fada. Of course, many of
you that is an incitement of violence against Jewish people,
Jewish communities and potting over on the heels of that
one protest, and there's a lot of protests, and of
course anti Semitic violence has soared in this country over

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the last several years, and I scratched my head in
wonder over how that could possibly be. Doesn't anybody remember
the Holocaust and what hatred toward a particular race of
people means. Bipartisan legislation has been recently introduced in Congress
US Representative Josh Gottheimer, Democrat from New Jersey, and Rudy Yakim,

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who's a Republican from Indiana. This legislation would denounce the
term global into Fada as a call to violence against
Israel and Jewish people across the world. That's part of
the legislation. Has read the language there Yakim speaking with
fuction news condemning it should be common sense, but some
would rather play politics than tell the truth. The violence
and hatred director towards Jewish and Israeli people is reprehensible.

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No one, especially in America, should have to live in
fear for their safety or even their life because of
their religion or ethnicity. Fine said the Intafada refers to
the wave of terror attacks that killed thousands of Jews
globalising and he said it's a direct call for violence
against Jews, saying it must be condemned. I am against
hate speech targeting anyone, and everyone should be It's insane

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and unacceptable to me that this anti cinematic rhetoric is
spreading rampant across our country. Agreed. The legislation mentions the
violent attacks against Jewish people, including the fatal burning of
pro Israeli demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, deadly shooting the Israeli
embassy staffers in DC, so we can all observe and

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make note of the various anti Semitic actions that have
gone on, the violence against Jewish students, for example, on
college campuses. But if passed in the House, they say
this regulation resolution would denote global into Fada as a
call for violence against Israeli and Jewish people throughout the

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world put in their safety at risk. It would also
discourage leaders from supporting or partaking in the chance global
into Fada. I'm thinking, well, wait a second, is this
gonna have any teeth? Is this global into Fada phrase
gonna become the new N word, which you can say
if you're gonna get you in huge trouble. But we

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have a First Amendment.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
I think it's a horrific thing that people are screaming
about global into Fada, and I do perceive that as
an attack or at least inciting or directing violence against
Jewish people. How much more or what else can you
read into it? But you're allowed to advocate for that.
I mean, that's that Brandenburg case out of the Supreme Court.
You can stand in front of a group of people
wearing your stupid clan outfit and scream for violence against

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black people. But that's protected speech. So if you want
to run around and screaming attack and attack, you know,
global intra fada against the Jewish people, I think you're
allowed to do that. I listened to that and immediately
in my mind condemned that as a concept and condemn
the people who would go around and utter it but
I had the same feeling about it clan guy who

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would run around talking about how terrible black people are.
It's a stupid message. I can hear it and see
it and interpret it for what it is. It's stupid.
That's the beautiful thing about free speech. You know who
the people are who are uttering it and clamoring for
this type of activity. So go ahead and screen global
and too fado, we know who you are. What bothers me?

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And I think what worries people and what is this
knee jerk legislative reaction is that that is a growing phenomenon.
If we had a bunch of KKK folks out there
running them up in cities and organizing mass protests that
people actually showed up to in support of that vile message,
wouldn't you be freaked out. We've been through that period

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of time in our country. Thankfully it's past. And I
don't know the genesis of this hatred towards Jewish people.
That does not make sense to me either. It's like
hating black people because they're black, you hate Jewish people
because they're Jewish. It's a terrible, terrible message. But from

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my legal perspective, I don't think you can legislate the
phrase out of existence. This sounds like more like a resolution,
like you get out of city council, you know, condemning
some global affair or making a statement about something over
which they have no control. Yeah, okay, they're gonna condemn it.
They're going to identify it as you know, a terrible phrase,
or you know that it denotes violence against Jewish people.

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minute left here, I thought this was amazing. Now I
like to shoot, I like going out to the range,
and I thank you to Bob Katire, my retired Colonel Bobktire,

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friend of the show. He does training and he also
is responsible for training Navy seals and how to operate
and use the fifty caliber. He owns his own Barrett
sniper rifle, and I've been out to that training class
with him. What an extraordinary experience. And in that class
I astounded myself because I was able to hit a
very large, kind of like a tank sized vehicle fourteen

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hundred yards, which I'd never shot at a distance that
far before. Well, that pales into comparison. A Ukrainian sniper
unit last Thursday reportedly broke the world record for the
longest confirmed sniper kill, eliminating two Russian troops from a
distance of more than thirteen thousand feet Ukrainian produced rifle.

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I looked it up. It's an alligator. I'd never heard of.
What as Snipeck's alligator. It's got a forty seven inch barrel,
says record breaking shot made August fourteenth, twenty twenty five,
using artificial intelligence of the guidance of an unmanned aerial
vehicle complex with a fourteen point five millimeters alligator rifle.
Previous world record belonged to fifty eight year old Ukrainian

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sniper who eliminated a target from a distance of around
twelve four hundred feet. That is that's insane. I don't
know how you hook up artificial intelligence because this is
a a I don't want to say standard, but it's
a bolt action rifle. So two miles effectively two miles

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and got two soldiers. That is truly amazing new world record.
Go ahead and try to beat it. Come up a
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Happy Monday. Brian Thomas here, Jeff Jacker not here. Sean
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it every Monday at about seven twenty uh Obviously, he's
got a huge field he's dealing with. He's got enough signatures.
He's gonna be on the ballot in November, along with
what looks like to be if all of them get
the signatures they need, forty six total council candidates forty six.
Has there ever been a field that big? You got

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a whole bunch of different parties to choose from. You
got Republicans, you got Democrats. Of course, you got Independence,
Christopher Charter, right, Steve Gooden, So let's keep our fingers across.
Steve Gooden and Liz Keaton all get the signature. They
both get the signatures they need, but they're on a
long list about twenty looks like twenty four or five
additional folks who are in the process of gathering signatures

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to run for counsel. So popular job, I guess. Fast
forward to eight oh five, We're gonna get money Monday
with Brian James got the list of topics. Inflation alarm
bells went off again, prices rising, Just how bad is
it going to get? Retail sales notch another strong month
in July. Wall Street was depending on it, And finally
the rich I already know how private equity mints money.

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It's not all from a four oh one k. Those
are three topics of Brian James. Fast forward one hour
from now, let's go to the phones. I got Ken
on the line. Ken, thanks for calling this Monday morning,
and a happy one to you. Well, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:54):
And what I'd like to say Brian, is that this
Saturday at un there will be a citizen's prayer for Cincinnati.
We're going to gather on the steps of City Hall
on Central Avenue. It's non denomination. It's just a prayer
gathering asking for God's blessings to bring our city together.

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We have a great city and I know all things
are going seems like haywire, but if we put it
to God first, he will solve our problems. And we're
just asking people, if you can't come out, just say
a prayer for our city because it's time for our
city to come together and we want God's intervention.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
The message I love the message Ken. Is this organized
by a particular church or religious organization or anything, just
grassroots prayer effort.

Speaker 6 (01:16:42):
Yes, it's just people that know God and love God,
and we just we're not affiliated with any church or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Wonderful. Yes, indeed, well I love the message. It's uplifting,
which is something we certainly need right now. Is thinking
about my conversation last week with Rick Green of Spirit Works.
He's that spiritual guy. And Rick, if you're out there,
show up at the meeting. What time is it? And
again where can It's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Going to be?

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Noon?

Speaker 11 (01:17:09):
Noon, noon on on Saturday at City Hall Steps, City
Hall Steps, be there at noon and engage in some
some uplifting positive messages for the city.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Since St Ken, thank you so much for calling in
and spreading the word about that. I love the idea.
I need a lot more of that these days. Five three,
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Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
In other city related news, I got a message from
west Side Jim Keeth for my favorite little bird out there.
He told me this morning. Jim Burns, remember share Jim
Burns blocked while driving his entry in the Black Family
Union parade two times he got blocked, and according to
Jim Keefer, strictly because he was promoting Republican candidates and

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he paid to for a spot in that Black Family
Union parade. So I had an SCC non compliant way
of summarizing that type of behavior. But there you have it.
The Black Family Reunion isn't a political event, is it?

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You know, going back to this whole idea that you
know black people vote for Democrats. Really, really, you ain't
Democrat if you don't vote for you, or you ain't
black if you don't vote for Democrats, utter to Joe Biden.
I honestly, I guess keep going back to the fact
that I consider that insulting, you know, as going back

(01:18:40):
to the gerrymandering thing I talked about earlier. Just because
they read district you, does that mean they're guaranteed to
have a Democrat elected. If you're not being served by
the Democrat Party, you can they force you to vote
for someone? Yeah, they can redraw your districts. Yes, you
could live in a primarily blue area, but that doesn't
mean you have to vote for a Democrat. Buck the
trend go a different right, try a new path, Geez Louise,

(01:19:03):
Looking at the City of Cincinnati race, If again forty
six total candidates, that they all get this number, if
they all get their five hundred signatures, you got a huge,
huge opportunity to change the dynamic in the direction of
the city. How do you feel about where the city
is right now? Why would we need a prayer vigil
on the steps city Hall steps on Saturday if things

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were going great. I appreciate his efforts along those lines.
I think it's a noble thing to do. But yeah,
we all feel like a lot of tension. We feel
like crime is going through the roof. Sarah herringers on
the program last week talking about her husband getting stabbed
to death and Over the Rhine and all of the
crime that she and Patrick, her late husband, had to
deal with throughout the eight years they lived in Over
the Rhine. Gunfire happened so often it just becomes the norm.

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You don't even notice it anymore. Her husband had to
dive onto the floor of their home because bullets whizzed by,
to the point where that ex military combat veteran knew
exactly what a close range bullet sound like when it
zooms past your head on the floor. He went Sarah's like,
I didn't really understand what he was doing because I

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slowly got down. My reactions weren't that quick. Every week,
the sound of gunfire, you get desensitized to it. Isn't
that a sorry state of affairs? Yes, with changing the
makeup of council and perhaps the mayor's office change the

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dynamic in downtown. Maybe you're gonna have to give it
a try, though, to find out if you're very happy
with the current situation, if you think your road looks great,
if you think a resource has been properly allocated, and
I guess go ahead and continue the norm. But I
don't think most people can really say that. I really don't,

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and I wish the city looked better on paper. I
wish the city was, you know, a thriving community where
everyone wanted to move in. That'd be great for everybody
in the entire tri state area here. But it's not,
So why not choose a different direction? See what Jay's

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got this morning, Jay, thanks for calling this Monday morning,
and a happy one to you.

Speaker 7 (01:21:18):
Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey.

Speaker 12 (01:21:19):
First of all, I want to thank the previous caller
for that uplifting message, because he's absolutely right. If God's
not in it, if it's if we're not moving towards him,
then he's not moving towards us. So I would would
I apply his message to encourage everybody to support that.
But the building on what you just said, I think

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that Ohio taxpayers are paying the Ohio National Guard to
go down to a city called Washington, d C. To
clean up the crime there. And my question is, does
that mean that we don't have any need for the
National Guard in any Ohio cities? Maybe one to start
with c would be a good place to start.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Columbus Cleveland at Cincinnati.

Speaker 12 (01:22:08):
Well, yeah, I would think maybe we'd start there before
we would start spending Ohio tax dollars to go clean
up Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
D C.

Speaker 12 (01:22:15):
And if we're gonna go clean up the federal government city,
can we put hooks in that money to where we
can say, like they always do whenever every time we
get federal money, there's there's you know, there's uh, there's
significant hooks uh the federal government puts in there, like
maybe we get them to pay for a couple of
stadiums if we send the National Guard down, are we

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just are we just giving it away for free? Maybe
it's part of that three billion dollar Randy Day.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Fund and the wine sitting on could be could be.
Do you think it's appropriate for the truth to be
sent into Washington d CJ or you you think that's
rather controversial and and and shouldn't be done. I mean,
I I feel as though that Donald Trump is saving
the Democrat d C from itself. I mean, they are
the ones that created a crime problem. They're the ones
that allows crime to run rampant. They're the ones that

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have you know, light sentencing and you know, low prosecutions,
and of course that breeds violence. So are we should
we just not let them wallow in their own stupidity?
Or is it the right thing to do to send
in the troops to give them some sense of peace,
calm and security.

Speaker 12 (01:23:18):
I'm a stickler for what was what's the rule of law?
And when I first heard that he was doing it,
I kind of geeve, that doesn't sound exactly right. But
then when I heard it the federal government has jurisdiction
of a Washington DC. Yes, Then I said, okay, well
then fine, But I don't understand why states have to
send resources. The federal government doesn't have enough money and people,

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and they can't hire private security to go in there.
Why did the states have to send their national gun
to go figure out a federal problem? I thought the
federal government was had had plenty of money and resources
to handle.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
It well, one could easily make that argument.

Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
I'm not quite sure of the number of resources they
have in DC in terms of National Guard, but you
make a good point in terms of who's paying for it. Yeah,
and in so far, you know, Donald Trump have talked about,
you know, putting them in Chicago and New York and
in Los Angeles and one I don't think he has
authority to do that, but ignoring the law on that,

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going back to my point, you know, why would you
want to say these democrats cities from themselves? And you know,
as they started out the program this morning, everyone who
can has already moved out of those states. It's creating
a terrible landscape moving after twenty thirty in the new
census because those blue states are going to lose representative
slots and they're freaking out about it. But why It's

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because people have fled, businesses have fled. The numbers are
amazing when you see them. They're failing states and failing cities.
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of week because we always get to hear from the
former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati soon to
be counselman again, Christopher Smithman. Welcome back to the program,
my friend. Congratulations on getting the signatures and approval from
the Hamilton County Board of Elections.

Speaker 7 (01:26:40):
You are on the ballot, yes, but you know it's
not over, Brian, And first of all, thank you, but
it's not over. We're still collecting. And the reason is
we know that their lawyers out there like your wonderful self,
who might try to challenge challenge our petition, and so I.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
Would never challenge your petition.

Speaker 7 (01:27:03):
You not you, sir, not you. But what happens is
if you come in light, which we are light, what
it does is it leaves an opening for someone to
challenge signatures. And we don't want to leave any doubts.
You know, we're still gonna We're still going to file tomorrow.
And there are a lot of people out there who

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have petitions that will have signed and we'll be submitting
those tomorrow in a very big way, in a very
very big fashion. I can tell you, Brian, you're very
popular and so a lot of people love you out here.
And I'm very very appreciative of the time that you've
given me on your show and the nice things that

(01:27:45):
you said. And it matters. It mattered because of just
how people were responding to me. So you are are.
You're a big shot, buddy, and I and I thank
you for it in a big way.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Well, I have the best listening audience and radio that
people are small art, they're informed and they keep me
on my toes and sometimes I struggle to stay up
with them. So you're a real. I think inspiration to
a lot of folks, Christopher, and you think have great ideas,
and you're logical and reasonable and sensible, and you call
them as you see them, And I think those are
all wonderful things for a candidate as we approach November.

(01:28:18):
And of course you're an alternative voice to the lockstep
Democrat voice that we've had for so long. Christopher, I mean,
you've lived through this before. It has to be kind
of frustrating being in a position of like a minority,
not in race minority, but as a political minority.

Speaker 7 (01:28:33):
Yeah, it's key that that city hall, I mean forever,
it doesn't matter. You know what term it is that
you have a diverse political views out of the nine
and so right now, so if a Democrat is listening
to me and you're saying I want to keep it
all democratic, that is not good for our local government.
You know, we want to have diverse people there because

(01:28:55):
what it does is creates that check and balance. Yeah,
like we won't end up been a situation where we're
even moving forward to sell our railroad, which was an
absolute devastation to me. What a terrible decision to put
that on the ballot before voters and say to sell
our entire railroad that we had owned for hundreds of years,

(01:29:16):
and we were bringing in thirty six or so million,
and would have been bringing in forty three or forty
five million soon enough. And so this notion of selling
that money that was coming in in perpetuity was just
a terrible decision. All that land three hundred miles all
the way to Tennessee is gone.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
It is terrible decision. But you know, honestly, Christopher, I mean,
it's like voting for council members and the mayor at
least the city voted on it. That they were misinformed
or ill informed. There was a massive influx of cash
on the part of the railroad to get that thing
through and make it sound like it was a good idea.
There was no financial, financially backed opposition to that. There
wasn't an organized campaign to say vote no on the

(01:29:55):
sale of the railroad. So, I mean, most people are
not weed dwellers. They couldn't see the week through the
chaff in terms of the downside of selling the railroad.
They voted for it, you know, I mean, at least
in that particular case, I just have consequence they do
and unlike say Hyde Park getting stabbed in the back
by elected officials in terms of zoning. The citizens of

(01:30:15):
the Cincinnati went that direction. So they own that one.

Speaker 7 (01:30:20):
We definitely own it. And it looks like, you know,
the High Park issue will be on the on the
ballot too. And again, you know, city council decided not
to follow their own laws and to do a variance
and you know, really just surrender to the developer, you know.
And every person that I've spoken too in High Parks
is they want the development. They don't mind the development,

(01:30:43):
They just want the height in particular. They don't want
it to change the entire landscape of you know, High
Park Square. Very rational people are on that side. But again,
council didn't listen, you know, And that's the frustration I
think that community is like Hyde Park, haf bond Hill
is going through the same thing. Price Heal is going

(01:31:04):
through the same thing. You can name the neighborhood. They're
all going through it. So that's a big part of
this election and the reset that people in neighborhoods just
want to hear or know that counsel is willing to
listen to them. But I will tell you the big
issue is crime. I mean, I don't care where I go,
white or black, whatever neighborhood I'm in, Liberal or conservative,

(01:31:28):
They're all saying the same thing. They don't feel safe.
Crime is out of control. You know, we're talking about
the murders and which are horrible, but we're not talking
about the petty stuff. And Council has kind of allowed
that to go and it just ins fester, meaning somebody
breaking into your car in a neighborhood in their driveway, right,

(01:31:49):
So someone does that, then they end up breaking into
your house, right. And so the notion that you know,
the members of council have allowed this, these low level
things to go on addressed and the judges have just
been letting them out, has created this environment where criminals
think they're running our city. And if we do not
elect members of council that put this issue as number one,

(01:32:13):
we will continue to have the same problems next year.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Yep. That could be the defining issue in the campaign Christopher,
and that lends some sense of optimism for me, who's
a little jaded and cynical that the city's going to
choose a different path this November. Let's bring Christopher back
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Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Seven thirty Here fifty five KR City Talk Station Brin
Thomas with Christopher Smith. Aman not too late to get
some signatures, So put Christopher to ensure Christopher's got all
the signatures he needs and avoids that pesky challenge. Some
people may not live in the city of Cincinnati. He
had sign a petition anyway, So you need more than
just the five hundred. You need a nice fat little
padding there. Christopher. Are you still at Jim and Jacks

(01:33:59):
throughout the wheel when they're open because it's Monday, so
they're not open but tomorrow and up and through well
you have until what the.

Speaker 7 (01:34:07):
We have until Thursday. We yeah, we plan to finish
this off tomorrow. And I would just say anybody that
has a petition just bring it back to Jim and
Jackson and the owner here will and the owners will
take it in and they'll take care of it. Let me,
let me, let me say this to you, Brian and
I and I I know that you care very deeply

(01:34:30):
about Cincinnati, and I have said that many times.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
Right, oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:34:34):
This woman, the woman Krishanda wins right. She was murdered
on August to sixth at nine to fifteen pm in OTR.
I had the opportunity to speak to miss Wind's mother
this weekend. Her first name is Ronda, and the pain

(01:34:58):
in mom's voice is just over the top. You know,
any death is hard, but the death of a child
is the worst.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
Cannot imagine.

Speaker 7 (01:35:11):
So this is a very difficult conversation that I had
with her mom. And she wants one thing, the man
who shot up Otr to be arrested. She supports the police,
She supports the detectives that are working on her daughter's case.

(01:35:34):
She supports the judges, she supports the prosecution. She said
she wants no negotiation from the prosecution none. She wants
the crime and the penalty to fit. And so this
is a person. When I said twenty shots, eighteen to twenty,
she corrected me and said thirty one shot. Lots of

(01:35:57):
shots went out and her daughter shot in the back.
Five children walking across the street, bill light outside at
nine o'clock doing nothing. And so I want to just
make sure I continue to keep Koshonda Win in the
public eye because we now have a suspect. And so

(01:36:21):
if you're out on your social media and you see
that photo, so one thing you can do, whether you're
white or black, or Latino or Asian, male or female,
is repost that on your page and say we're looking
for this guy. Meaning we can come together as a
community and say we want justice for her and use

(01:36:43):
social media for good and say that we support our police,
we support this person to be arrested. Here's the other message, Brian.
If we don't catch this guy, the possibility of him
killing again in his lifetime is really hot. Anybody that
would strayed bullets out there like that in broad daylight

(01:37:05):
and kill somebody will most likely kill again. And so
this is incredibly important for me in this moment to
raise her up and say we've got to find her.
There's a woman by the name of Hope Dutley. She
is absolutely just an awesome person for victims in our community, mothers,
fathers who have lost loved one. She's a great person

(01:37:28):
to have on your show. She's very well respected by everyone,
particularly law enforcement. But if we can't catch a guy
that we have a picture of, meaning if the FBI
is listening, we've got a problem. And I just want
to say, if anybody is harboring this guy, arrest them too,
if you're providing any kind of cover, you know what happened,

(01:37:49):
arrest them to and whoever he was shooting at, because
mom said he was shooting at somebody. Arrest them to
find everybody involved that played any part in Krishonda Win
losing her life at the age of thirty four with
five kids.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Yeah, you know the fact that there was an actual
target and he unloaded thirty one rounds and didn't hit
his target and killed some little girl. I mean, that's
just the horror of that. And again you talk about
losing a child, I can't imagine. But you mentioned the
one you talk about, the woman who's got so much

(01:38:27):
respect in the community. She's the ones that circulates the
decks of cards with the open cases on him. She does,
and that's what the Hamilton County Sheriff will not allow
to be circulated in the jail. Now correct, correct, that's
see and that's insane. You know, Christopher, I had her
on the program. I've seen those decks of cards and
you know there's the photograph of the of the victim,

(01:38:50):
and you know you're in a criminal population in the jail.
They're the ones that are usually connected with other criminals.
They know the neighborhood, they know who the good guys
and the bad guys are. They're playing cards. They see
that like, oh, I got a tip, maybe it'll help
me get my sentence reduced. I'll drop a dime on
this guy because I know who killed them. That's a
great thing for law enforcement. It's a wonderful tool. It
didn't cost anybody anything. You hand them out, and she

(01:39:10):
didn't charge anyone. She handed them out for free. Why
wouldn't you let that go on? I don't understand it, Christopher.

Speaker 7 (01:39:17):
I don't understand it either. And Hope Dudley is a
very honorable person. She's the person that connected me with
Krishanda Wynn's mother. And I don't understand it. I can't
explain it. I can just say that I'll work on it.
If I'm elected, I'll work on that. Working with the
Sheriff's department, working with the sheriff and trying to fence

(01:39:41):
her or her administration or whoever's making that decision to
get those cards into the jail so that we can
continue to solve these cold cases. What Mss Rohnda Win
doesn't want whose daughter was murdered, and she doesn't want
her case to become a cold case, right, and we
know that the further we get out right and we
don't have that arrest, we know that it's a problem.

(01:40:04):
And by the way, any judge listening, and this is
why the judge races are important, Like Judge Burkerwitz, who
I support, Judge Burkerwitz, anybody listening, Judge Burkerwitz. You want
to put judges down there that when those cases come
before him or her, that we actually get justice. And
so miss Ronda was saying, meaning I'm talking about the

(01:40:25):
mother of the mother of Treshonda Win is she was
seeking justice. It didn't matter whether the judge is black
or the detective is white. The only thing that this
mom wants is the person who murdered their daughter to
be brought to justice. We lose track of that. There
have been so many tough conferences that have happened down
at City Hall, which are about nonsense, right, meaning each

(01:40:48):
one of them have basically been about nonsense. But those
press conferences about these victims that have been shot down
in our streets, no matter what the neighborhood, whether it's
rawn at Hills, whether it's wrong, whether it's OTR, we
don't get that same energy anymore where we have a
body down there that's saying we've got to we've got

(01:41:08):
to cooperate, work with our detectives, make sure we hire
enough police so we can get the bottom of this,
meaning our cops want to solve these Yeah, it's not
like the cops are sitting on their loins. They want
to make sure that they are doing their job, but
they need the help and cooperation of the community, and
they need the resources which they currently do not have.

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on the ballot this November. Along with that, looks like
it could be as many as a total of forty
six people running for council. Christopher smithm And of course
we need to very very very carefully consider our judicial votes.
But I guess I gotta ask you, Christopher, how are

(01:42:56):
we going to separate the weed from the chaff with
that many people running for council?

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
Well, I think the citizens out of the fifty two
neighborhoods one is as we've talked about, they have to
know how to vote, like, never vote for nine people.
Like once you vote for nine people, you're making a
big mistake to the public. We have a nine X system.
You probably shouldn't vote for more than five people that's
a majority of council, because then you put you make

(01:43:24):
those extra four votes compete with the five people that
you want to get elected. Usually when I vote, I'm
voting for three or four people. I typically don't get
to five out of forty period because all I'm trying
to do is get representation from my interest. I'm not
trying to advance anybody else's agenda when I'm in their voting.
So that's very important in a nine X system. Never

(01:43:48):
vote for nine people. And that's where the Democrats they
push forward this vote for nine, vote for nine, vote
for nine. That is how they continue to keep control
of the body. If the fifty two new neighborhoods understand, hey,
I could just vote for one person if I want to,
I could vote for three people. I could vote for
four people. It is up to nine and the more

(01:44:09):
votes you cast, the weaker your ballaty is. That's an
important thing and if we just master that in our heads,
there would be a revolution at city Hall.

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Period.

Speaker 7 (01:44:20):
A lot of members of council would lose their seats.
Let me also say this to you, Brian, kids are
going back to school, our public school. I'm a public
school person. I graduated from the School for Creative and
Performing Arts, and my mother taught in the school system.
My late wife taught in the school system. So every
time I give these disclaimers, you know, I don't want

(01:44:41):
people to say, all this guy's against public education.

Speaker 3 (01:44:43):
I'm not.

Speaker 7 (01:44:44):
The reality of it is, we have to get a
better public education system in Cincinnati. Period. We're paying a
lot of money our property taxes. Anybody listening to this
and prying property tactores in the city of Cincinnati. They
are massive, and the majority any of those property taxes
are going to Cincinnati Public school whether you have a
kid in the school system or not. And so the

(01:45:06):
reality is we have it's okay for us to say
we want better accountability. And so as kids go back,
we want to know what the truancy is. We want
to know where the kids are. Hey, parents, you are
responsible for your child. We want you to know where
your child is. That's been a big problem this summer,
and you're seeing municipalities now across the country say we're

(01:45:27):
going to start holding parents accountable. You're a thirteen year
old or your twelve year old is not at your house,
they're in the downtown Cincinnati on the banks with a
gun breaking curfew. We're not going to just hold that
child accountable. We're going to hold you, the parent accountable.
So people in the system are tired of parents who
are just not involved in their kids' life to know

(01:45:48):
where they are. And so as these kids go back
to school, Brian, all I'll say is we are looking
for good schools. We want to support Cincinnati Public schools,
but we have to demand our tea are doing their job.
But when you have a kid that's trying to beat
up a teacher, or you have a kid that's saying
he wants to fight somebody, and guess what the school does.
Let me let you back in the school. That is

(01:46:10):
humiliating for the teaching staff. Our teachers deserve to be
protected in these schools. If you put your hands on
a teacher, you should be expelled. This notion of no
child left behind. Guess what, there are students that are
in our system that are putting their hands on our staff,
on our teachers, and the system allows them to come

(01:46:31):
back to the system. That's wrong. We've got to send
a very strong message and get control of the discipline
inside of these public schools, which means we've got to
empower our principles, empower our teachers, and make sure the
school board down there and the superintendent back up those
teachers and back up those principles. Because if you go
on some of these schools, Brian, right now, the kids

(01:46:54):
are trying to run the school and these principals are
doing everything they can in their to remain have control
of the classrooms, have control of their hallways, have control
of their cafeterias. But once they then punch a teacher,
put their hands on another kid, assault somebody, stump them down,
why in the world does that kid get to come back?

(01:47:16):
Forget it, move them out, because that is humiliating to
the teacher, It terrifies the other students there, and it
fosters this environment that the system is just out of control.
And I just want to say, I love our teachers.
I want to lift them up as they go back.
They've they've had a summer break, and some of them
are going back to really tough classrooms, really tough situations

(01:47:37):
because parents aren't on their job, and the broader, not
the teacher, not the principal, but the upper echelon of
Cincinnati public schools. They are not appropriately backing up our
principals and our teachers when these kids are acting up
in the classroom. If you put your hands on a teacher,
you're out of here. But that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:57):
Now, where would that.

Speaker 10 (01:48:00):
Men?

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
I you know, I you know, I reflect back on
my childhood and going to school that that that thought
never would have entered anyone's mind to punch a teacher,
to lay hands on a teacher, I mean now never,
I mean, you didn't even use profanity in front of
a teacher. Back then, you'd be straight to the principal's
office and probably suspended for a weekend or so, or
have to do a weekend school or or or go

(01:48:22):
through a suspension for a few days. I mean that
whole concepts come by the wayside. But you know you
mentioned the teachers, the risk.

Speaker 7 (01:48:28):
And the and the pro and the problem Brian is
these parents will come up to these schools and back
these kids. I know, I know, I know, you know
in our lifetime, never did we have that. If I
if I, if I came and my father and mother
heard and I was disrupting a classroom, it was over. Yeah,

(01:48:49):
the way I never did. It was over. These parents
show up in their pajamas, Buddy, cussing out the administration,
cussing out the secretary, cussing out the teacher because the
teacher trying to get control of the kids.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
I mean, do you suppose if we had some parental accountability,
in other words, for recidivous young people who punch teachers
or otherwise engage your criminal activity or break the curfew,
that the parents themselves should be held accountable on some
level and face some sort of penalty.

Speaker 7 (01:49:17):
Yes, that's a yes, absolutely. I mean we've got resource
officers inside of our schools, Thank you Jesus that they
are there. You know, we Greg Lansman when I was
serving with him with introducing motions to get rid of
resource officers out of our public school system. That is
a terrible idea. Meaning those resource officers are kind of

(01:49:39):
that line where you know that presence in the school.
Now they're they're building community relationships between the students, and
that's all great, but they're also a present making sure
that students understand. This is a hard target. The bottom
line is that I don't believe that we have a
system that is currently in place that holds kids a

(01:50:00):
for their bad behavior. And that's a problem. And then
when they when they get away with it at school,
they get away with it at home, they then pour
out onto the banks. And now our police officers are
trying to be parents and uncles and that's not what
they're in the job to do. Yeah, you can't, We're
gonna we can't do that. That's not our job. No.

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
Clearly, no individual out in the world that isn't a
family member can substitute for a family member that cares
and loves and has concern and discipline and will enforce
the you know, basic societal guidelines.

Speaker 11 (01:50:32):
Boiling it down. You know, Christopher, you worry about the futures.
The second God, let me give you two more seconds
to say this to you, two more seconds to say this. Look,
the majority of our kids that go to public schools
want to get a good education. The problem is that,
let's just say five percent ninety five pers but the
five percent are so disruptive in the classroom. Brian Thomas,

(01:50:55):
You've got to witness this. You've got to see it,
throwing books, throwing computers, teachers cussing them out, trying to
fight teachers, fighting other kids. They and then the teachers
can't get control of that classroom. It makes it impossible.
But then to teach math and reading and history and
science in English and foreign language, it makes it impossible.

(01:51:18):
Brian Thomas, We've got to draw a line in the
sand and tell Cincinnati Public these bad kids that are
in our schools, we want them out so we can
teach the kids that want to learn.

Speaker 1 (01:51:29):
Sounds like a great message, Chrisopher, run on it. As
we get to a certain November we'll have you on
again next Monday. As always, Christopher, You're always welcome on
the program. You brother, love you too, Man You hang in.
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Big Topic Number one inflation headline inflation alarm bells went
off again, the prices are rising. Just how bad is
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(01:53:30):
Article number two retail sales not another strong month. How
can you reconcile these anyhow, We'll do that reminds me
of Kevin Bacon an animal house. All is well, yeah right,
so yeah, they're scary headlines. There's good headlines.

Speaker 13 (01:53:43):
So this first batch we're talking about here, producer price
index in July twenty five, so it's biggest jump in
three years. And surprise shocker, that's coming from tariffs. CPI
consumer price Index. Now that's the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
Of course.

Speaker 13 (01:53:56):
The producer price index is companies buying stuff so they
can make others stuff that consumers can buy. Consumer price
index is what we see on the back end of
all of it. So CPI Consumer Price Index was a
back above three percent. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy,
is three point one percent annually. That's about the highest
core rate since February. Now, whenever we say things like that,

(01:54:16):
and I've mentioned this before, weked about the highest rates
since whenever. February was what five months ago. This isn't
the end of the world. It wasn't that long ago.

Speaker 1 (01:54:23):
It's just simply saying that we're slightly back on the
upswing a little bit. Well, you mentioned the consumer price
index is it three point one percent. That's the that's core,
that's excluding food and energy. But yes, okay, antally, and
I always scratch my head over that one, because if
you're excluding food and energy, those are the two things.

Speaker 13 (01:54:42):
All of us have to buy, right, So think about that.
I think what we said though, the CPI does include
food and energy. That's above slightly about three percent. Core
CPI excluding food and energy, meaning stuff other than food
and energy, is rising slightly rapidly, more rapidly than everything else.

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
Everything's going on, things going up. Now, going back to tariffs,
we haven't yet felt the tariffs, at least according to
this article, most companies have been reluctant to raise prices.
They point out they front loaded a lot of the
purchases from abroad in beginning of late November when Donald
Trump started talking about imposing all these tariffs, so they
pre ordered others just sort of taking await and see effect.

(01:55:20):
And finally others have well eaten some of the costs
of the tariffs. There's only so much they can eat though,
till it eats into their profit margin and they start
raising the prices.

Speaker 13 (01:55:29):
Right, Yeah, this has to get passed through. So that's
the thing we can never lose sight of. The drum
beat from this administration has been that other countries are
going to pay these tariffs, They're going to write the checks,
and that completely ignores the fact that that this is
the United States. There is freedom to do whatever you want,
including if I'm a company, to not eat those charges
and simply pass them through in the form of price increases.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
And that is what we're starting to see.

Speaker 13 (01:55:52):
So you're starting to see imported goods, smartphones, laptops, they're
seeing a lot of increases there, anybody, anybody, of course,
we're imported Chinese or anything from Southeast Asia. Supply chains
is getting hit a lot. Furniture is a bigger thing
there as well. And we're also seeing of course raw materials, steel, aluminum,
those kinds of things.

Speaker 1 (01:56:10):
Everything's trickling up a little bit.

Speaker 13 (01:56:12):
That all gets filtered through into the prices at which
you are buying the stuff that is made from them.

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
So this is going to be a bit of a
bumpy ride for months.

Speaker 13 (01:56:19):
We're just seeing the beginning of really the impact of
the of these tariffs, and I would I would anticipate
you and I'm gonna be talking about a lot over
the next few months.

Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
Well, and puzzling to the author of the article, what
the hell's with service increases? The increase in consumer prices
in July was twice as high for services as it
was for goods. You don't buy something with a tariff
if you're providing a service, So why the hell is
that increase twice as high.

Speaker 13 (01:56:42):
Well, that's where I'm going to wave the American flag
a little bit. We are the United States of profit margin,
and somebody in a boardroom somewhere will Will has decided that,
you know what, there's a lot of talk about prices
going on.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
By way we can sneak ours up just a little bit.

Speaker 13 (01:56:55):
Nobody's gonna really notice, because we're already in the kind
of mental space of, you know, of prices going on. Now,
that's that's that's overly. That's way too easy. It doesn't
work work quite that simply. However, you know, there are,
of course components these companies that do provide services. Obviously
they still have to buy their own resources and things
like that to run their businesses. So everybody's impacted by inflation.

(01:57:16):
I'm simply saying that I'd be shocked if there wasn't
some opportunistic pricing going on to take advantage of our
current mindset.

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
All right, Well, the in spot of the fact, they
note that most food consumed in the United States is
actually produced here. The cost of food one of the
biggest contributor to the rise and wholesale prices and inflation
in July. I could not believe this figure, Brian James.
Vegetable prices, we're thirty nine percent up, Yeah, thirty nine
percent up. And that's coming from tarr that.

Speaker 13 (01:57:42):
Remember, we import a lot of these, So we import
stuff from Mexico and South America, tomatoes, peppers, avocados and
other staples. You know, the vegetables aren't always coming from
that farm we drive by on the highway. We import
them like any other product. And then, of course we
also have that there's always the Avian flu. Right behind
all of this, we have the crazy economic headline, and
then there always seems to be an avian flu outbreak.
So egg prices are up seventy percent this year because

(01:58:06):
of that. Chicken and turkey supplies simply because we have
less of them. They're dying of flu, and therefore less
supply in equal demand means more price.

Speaker 1 (01:58:14):
Oh so we're not done with egg increase, but with
prices of eggs increasing, well.

Speaker 13 (01:58:18):
Well, this is the summer Avian flu. I'm sure the
chickens are all going to get the flu around Christmas too.
It just kind of seems to come and go. That's
always the headline. The subheadline behind this is something we
cannot control. It's mother nature keeping us entertained.

Speaker 1 (01:58:30):
Well, And they point out in the article higher tariff
should result in following trade margins if retailers have to
pay more to buy imported goods and they end up
swallowing the cost. But that's not what's happened, and they
see trade margins have actually gone up. Yeah and again.
And that's got to do with all of the activity.

Speaker 13 (01:58:44):
And I think there's just so much distraction being created
by all of the fighting that's going on between the
various trading partners involved here that again, there's no way
there isn't an opportun tunistic profit taking from the idea
that you know, what, prices are going up this much
because because chicks are sick.

Speaker 1 (01:59:00):
I'll bet we can bump on an extra ten percent.
Nobody's gonna notice. I'm glad my daughter has eleven chickens,
and we are the beneficiary of a dozen of eggs. Now,
if she comes to you with a price increase, then
you better look twice. She knows better than to charge
me my wife, and I put her through college. Damn it.

Speaker 5 (01:59:15):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:59:15):
One of the bright spots in all of this in
terms of energy prices, the price of gasoline is actually
down average, and the entire state of high is three
dollars and nine cents or three dollars and five cents.
And I just randomly pulled up nine O two one
zero Beverly Hills five dollars and thirty nine cents a
gallon of gas in California. That's a huge difference. But

(01:59:35):
overall we are generally experiencing a much lower price of fuel. Yeah,
we are.

Speaker 13 (01:59:40):
Unlike in twenty twenty two, that's when we had the
rush of Ukraine Shock, when that first when Russia first
invaded Ukraine, and that created some concerns that because a
lot of oil does come from Russia. Of course we've
absorbed that and the supply chain has shifted to exclude
Russia to the extent we can. So at this point
oil market's pretty well supplied. US production did hit record
high twenty four and twenty five, so we're just good

(02:00:02):
at it. OPEC plus has not been as aggressive with cuts.
That's in response to the idea that the US can
kind of maintain itself a little better. But there's just
been plenty of oil flowing and crew tariffs haven't really
touched energy very much. Tariffs are mostly occurring onto stuff electronics, furniture, metals,
produced things like that.

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
We haven't really talked about oil or refined fuels.

Speaker 13 (02:00:21):
So oil and gas just simply haven't been hit by
all the things that are raising prices everywhere else.

Speaker 1 (02:00:26):
Well, and I realize that oil is a global commodity,
but I mean, doesn't the fact that we produce it
here kind of alleviate the notion that we might have
to deal with tariffs and in terms of fuel. Oh no,
that's the whole point. Yeah, absolutely, And that's what I'm
saying there.

Speaker 13 (02:00:40):
With US production, like I said, that's record highs now
from last year, and that is because we made decisions
in the past to continue producing, to increase production here
in the United States, and that reduces the risk, of
course that anybody's gonna slap a tariff on something that
we can't get anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
Well, considering these key measures of consumer prices have advanced
and gone up three percent or a little bit more,
depending on which one you're looking at, what does this
say in terms of the anticipated rate reductions we were
expecting from the Fed? Brian James. I know a lot
of people are looking at the mortgage rate and hoping
that that drops. Yeah, and a rate cut is basically

(02:01:15):
priced in at this point. It'll be kind of a
shock if we don't get oh it is September. Yeah,
at least maybe a quarter point. The quarter point is
pretty confident that's going to happen. Maybe a half point
we will kind of remains to be seen, but yeah,
the thinking is we are going to be entering a
declining rate environment. So if you are somebody who's considering
some kind of a decision based on that's going to

(02:01:36):
be impacted by interest rates, then yeah, I would be
ready to make that move, whether that is buying that
home you had your eye on, or maybe refinancing the
one you.

Speaker 13 (02:01:44):
Bought over the last two years at a really high
interest rate. You might get an opportunity to back off
on that. Now that's going to have impacts elsewhere as well,
don't forget that four percent rate you've fallen in love
with in your money market account.

Speaker 1 (02:01:54):
Assuming you took advantage of that, that's going to go
by bye as well. We can't have our cake and
eat it too now. But they always talk about the
Fed's rate is a design to deal with inflation, and
if inflation is on the current rate increase, it's on
the rise than it clearly is based upon these numbers,
it doesn't sound like it's logical for them to lower
the rate.

Speaker 13 (02:02:14):
Remember who's pulling the strings here though, right, So, we've
got a lot more political pressure being exacted on the
Federal Reserve than we've had in decades. And the market
I'm talking about the market, bro, the market is anticipating
a rate cut. In other words, the market is saying that, yeah,
President Trump is probably going to win this round over
Jerome Powell. But but some of the Fed governors themselves,

(02:02:36):
remember it's a committee. There are different opinions out there.
They all vote on what they're going to do. And
if you remember a few weeks ago, we talked about
how some of those Fed governors are kind of departed
from Jerome Powells thinking and then started to say, I
believe there were three of them, started to say that, yes,
it is time for a rate cut. So we're maybe
getting a waif a little bit from the past decade,
several decades notion that two percent is the happy place.

(02:02:58):
We might be okay with two and a half to
three percent, which is where we've been for a while,
And they're just kind of looking to goose the economy
as some things are slowing down.

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
Okay, as some things are slowing down, so maybe the
right thing to do. But of course the flip side
is if they lower the rate, inflation jumps and it
makes things worse. That is a possibility, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:03:17):
Absolutely, And that's why there's a big debate about it.

Speaker 13 (02:03:19):
That's why it's interesting enough that you and I are
talking about it first thing on a Monday morning. We
don't know what's going to happen. It's just the daily
soap opera. Yeah, but the general public does seem to
want an interest rate cut. Now, what the general public
wants does not necessarily translate to what we should do.

Speaker 1 (02:03:33):
Right, well, what Donald Trump once doesn't necessarily translate to
what the Fed is going to do.

Speaker 13 (02:03:36):
Is exactly but we do know this is an administration
that will do what it doesn't, will do what it
can for votes, So we'll see whether it's worth it.

Speaker 1 (02:03:44):
All right, keep your popcorn out. We'll find out together
as it hits the fan. Brian James pause, will come
back and see if he can reconcile. The next headline,
retail sales notch another strong month. Wall Street was depending
on it with the prior inflationary numbers, which should suggest
that people are buying luck because things have gotten more expensive.
Stick around more with Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:04:02):
James coming up next, fifty five KRC at.

Speaker 1 (02:04:06):
Poe about Patras Me talkstation, Brian Thomas, we're all worth financials,
Brian James getting Well, it's money Monday, so we're talking
money issues. And before we get to the retail sales, Brian,
I guess I'm just kind of curious to know, with
all these inflationary numbers and you know, people pulling their
hair out, Oh my god, we're all gonna die. Well,
how are your clients reacting? Because quite often you if
you have these massive market swings, your phone will be

(02:04:28):
ringing off the hook, people all panicked. We're just kind
of wondering. You get a sense of where people are
and based upon your client inquiries.

Speaker 13 (02:04:35):
Yeah, I think that's that's a great question, and it's
a very fair one to hear from a financial advisor,
you know, because most people out there just know what's
in their own head what is in other people's heads?
And that's the question I get from them.

Speaker 1 (02:04:44):
How do I look? How do we look against other people?

Speaker 3 (02:04:46):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:04:46):
Look the same? Different.

Speaker 13 (02:04:47):
Whatever it's been, it's honestly through this chaos, Brian, it's
been a very quiet year. And I'll be very honest,
the last couple of years, despite the crazy, it has
mostly been quiet because COVID, the COVID drops scared the
Bejesus out of every buddy. And I'm talking about that
March twenty to or I'm sorry, February twenty to March
twenty drop while we were all hiding in our basements
waiting to die at the extreme point of it, and

(02:05:09):
then it was headline crazy forever. But that to me,
those kind of shocks if handled properly, if people understand
the entire cycle, if we understand that the headlines will
come out, scary things will happen, and then the dust
will settle. We'll realize it's really not as bad as
we thought it was, and then things kind of slowly
recover and that has been the cycle for centuries. The
last five years have been a microcosm of the absolute

(02:05:30):
best the market can be and the absolute worst. So
anybody who has made it through that, you've seen it.
This is how the game works. Don't let it panic
you at any time. So to answer your question, though,
it's been pretty quiet because when I sit down with clients,
we build a financial plan, we stress test it too.
I'm going to show you your numbers with here's what
happens if nothing bad ever happens. Again, that's the goldilocks
out there. Yeah I love that number. Yeah, you guys

(02:05:52):
do that. It's like, oh yeah, let's have that happen. Yeah,
then here's what happens. Here's reality. Let's pretend we all
get punched in the face and somehow you're twenty five
percent of your financial network disappears.

Speaker 1 (02:06:01):
Today.

Speaker 13 (02:06:01):
Run all the numbers again and see what the impact
really is. And usually the answer is if you don't panic,
and you let the process play out, let the cycle
complete and start again, you'll be fine. But you've got
to understand that and see how many times it's happened
over history to truly get.

Speaker 1 (02:06:15):
Comfortable with it. Yeah, I think a lot of people
in the news or have a vested interest in making
us all think we're going to die and the world's
going to come to an end. But I reflect back
on all the headlines and oh, my god, blooming doom,
the market's going to crash. It's right around the corner.
Indicators show that we know the hell's going to breakless. No,
it didn't. It doesn't. And if you just stick with it,
everything ends up turning out okay, at least over time.

Speaker 13 (02:06:35):
Deuce put a good plan together and ignore it for
thirty years, and you'll have all kinds of wonderful quote
unquote problems such as how should I convert my millions
of dollars to a roth or something like that.

Speaker 7 (02:06:44):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (02:06:45):
I still love that the best case scenario, and then
you get the apocalypse scenario and you're like, holy crap.
But it's nice to see the chart though, that you
run like a thousand different scenarios and you cover all
these options. It really kind of gives you at least
some understanding of the best and the worst that come.
And if you do it right, even when the worst comes,
you might be you might nonetheless be okay. Now, how

(02:07:05):
do you reconcile this retail sales strong in spite of
the increase price of things, Brian.

Speaker 13 (02:07:11):
Yeah, so we've got good numbers coming out of the
retail sector. July retail sales up a half a percent,
and this was in line with expectations. Remember, Brian, All
that matters is that the analysts were right. The analyst
expected something and it happened.

Speaker 1 (02:07:22):
So that's happy news.

Speaker 13 (02:07:24):
But anyway, that so that signals consumer resilience, even though
we've got a lot of economic crazy happening out there.
June got revised upwards two point nine percent. Remember the
month ago we had a similar revision to the Unemployment Night,
and we were all up in arms over that because
it looked like it was fake and the head of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics got fired and all that.

(02:07:44):
I don't think anybody's going to lose a job over
happy news June. June being revised upward two point nine percent.

Speaker 1 (02:07:50):
Yes, I definitely doubt that. Apparently the labor market is
softening though.

Speaker 13 (02:07:54):
Yeah, so we are starting to see that that's business
is responding and again again that comes from tariffs. Businesses
are going, all right, it costs this much more to bring,
you know, our things that we need to build our products.
We have to pay more for those. We got to
find some savings somewhere. So this is where we're going
to start to see the impact of those tariffs. As
we've talked about many times, it didn't happen immediately as
soon as the tariff was levied against the country. It

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was going to take a while for that to trickle through.
That is starting to happen, and businesses are looking to
cut cost to offset it.

Speaker 1 (02:08:20):
I guess some of this has to do with artificial
intelligence too, And I've seen a number of articles like
if you were what was described by one computer science graduate,
if you were sold a bill of good, that coding
was the way to a successful future. Artificial intelligence has
basically taken out off the table because it does it automatically.

Speaker 13 (02:08:38):
Yeah, things that have a black and white outcome that
I think that those are the kind of jobs that
you should be really, really careful. You might be better
off figuring out how to use the AI tools to
produce those outcomes than producing those outcomes yourselves. I believe
that AI use add that layer, and I think that's
a great opportunity for whatever field you know, become the
expert in that, whatever that is for your chosen field

(02:08:58):
of expertise. But don't focus on the on the end product,
because that's what's going to be targeted.

Speaker 1 (02:09:04):
Yeah, it's a scary future we face here, an uncertain
future at minimum. So more with Brian James. It's coming
up at eight twenty five. If you have KSNY talk
station Private equity, you may have heard about it. Talk
with Brian James about I'm not quite sure I still
understand or how it works for our retirement plan, but
we're going to dive onto that one coming up next.
Stick around you right.

Speaker 2 (02:09:21):
Back fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (02:09:25):
Imagine what it would feel like a twenty nine on
a Monday, and a very happy one to you money
Monday's Brian James on the line, pivoting over to this
this it's like the peace of God for me, Brian James.
It passes whole human understanding private equity and I guess
they've now opened up your investments in private equity to

(02:09:46):
edd to your four to one case. You're gonna have
to go back over and explain this to me, because
every time we talk about it, I'm I'm kind of
puzzled on how you track and that you know, gains
and losses and how it's reported and all that.

Speaker 13 (02:09:57):
Yeah, that's and that really did that. That's the core
it right there. So let's define turns. We're gonna be
talking about this probably a lot, Yeah, a lot. It's
the new thing anyway. Private equity isn't just about what
your Wall Street billionaires. It's about these main street services.
So these are the vets who are treating your dog,
the dentist who's putting cavities in your mouth, your urgent
care shop, maybe even funeral homes, and Brian, you can

(02:10:17):
tell this.

Speaker 1 (02:10:18):
I see a lot with vet clinics. For whatever reason.
I noticed this most frequently here.

Speaker 13 (02:10:21):
If you're driving around the street and you notice that
the you know, the main street vet clinic that has
been there for bazillion years, suddenly has a snazzy looking
new logo, you can be darned sure that that vet
may not have even known that sign was going to
be installed because he sold to a or she sold
to a private equity company, and this is what they do.
So they're pulling together. They're basically pulling together all of
these businesses. The phrase that I heard it makes sense

(02:10:43):
is unsexy but steady businesses that have predictable cash flow.

Speaker 1 (02:10:47):
So why washes, self storage? You know, these little things
we ignore. I heard commercials, you know advertising. If you
if your business makes between we'll millions of dollars a year,
you can sell it and we're here to help you.
Maximum is the sale of your business. And that's that's
be a private equity firm out and just reaching out
into the world and offering to buy businesses. That is

(02:11:07):
exactly what it is.

Speaker 13 (02:11:08):
It's it's people who are in or investment firms that
are buying up these companies that, again, steady cash flow,
steady demand, veterinarian services are always going to be needed.
That's pretty pretty well insulated from recession. That kind of thing,
self storage, parking, car washes, some childcare centers. Sometimes these
things that we kind of ignore, We assume they're their
own standalone businesses, but there are corporations behind them, and
there are often corporations behind those corporations because we have

(02:11:31):
no soul anymore, and everything has to be some kind
of profit chain. So the reason this is coming up
is because very recently there was an executive order that
was signed that basically opens up four oh one k's
your retirement plan dollars to be able to invest in
these things. The reason we're doing this is because there
is twelve trillion dollars across all of our four one

(02:11:53):
case four or three b's company employer retirement plans, and
these private equity firms obviously see a huge opportunity. This
is an evil by definition, it's just the evolution of
how we invest in those kinds of things.

Speaker 1 (02:12:04):
But you already called it out.

Speaker 13 (02:12:05):
Some of the concerns are how visible is it If
I'm going to invest in Bob's artismal dog biscuit company,
how do I know that's not publicly traded. I couldn't
tell what it was worth this week versus last week,
so you would see your four oh one k kind
of appear to freeze, even though the market might be
doing great. But you're only gonna get evaluation on these
firms every now and then, so you know, it's an
interesting opportunity, but it is definitely not something that everybody

(02:12:27):
should be stampeding to take advantage of.

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
I just don't get how that translates into improvement in
your four O one K value. Well, there's still.

Speaker 13 (02:12:35):
Businesses, right, so these businesses can be just as successful
as anything else. And if you look at the numbers
of the S and P five hundred versus the private
equity firms, you can see differences over time. So eighties
and nineties private equity average about fifteen percent. Remember, nothing,
nothing bad happened in the eighties nineties, Everything was pretty
much wonderful, right. You can't even find nineteen eighty seven
on a chart anymore. But S and P five hundred

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avers about twelve percent. In the two thousands, it was
very different that private equity averaged positive eleven percent. The
S and P averaged about six that's inclusive of the
of the crash of two thousand and eight, which would
have impacted private equity firms, but they didn't have to
report their valuations maybe only once a year, so you
don't see the impact versus the S and P, which

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of course is all day every day. Since then, however,
it's been roughly equivalent, So private equity and the S
ANDP have been pretty close thirteen or anywhere from eleven
to thirteen percent.

Speaker 1 (02:13:25):
You haven't been able to see as much of a difference.

Speaker 13 (02:13:28):
But what I would point out is it's not the
private equity firms that are attractive here. What they're attracted
to is the is the money that's in the twelve
trillion dollars out there. The end result isn't necessarily going
to be the same. And I'm thinking back to like
the gold Rush. Who made money in the gold Rush
of eighteen forty nine. It wasn't the prospectors. It was

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Wells Fargo who took the gold and put it in
the banks. And it was also Levi's who created stuff
that people could use, genes that people could wear while
they were digging in. And then the Studebaker autumn of company,
which started out selling wheelbarrows to prospectors.

Speaker 1 (02:14:03):
Those are the companies that survived. This is going to
be similar. It's the middleman, Okay, how do you sell?
In other words, if I have a share of stock
it's publicly traded, I know what the current value is.
It goes up, it goes down, pe ratios, whatever, profitability,
all those kind of standard traditional things that factor in.
But I got what amounts to a physical share of

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stock that I can buy and sell at any time,
and I can gauge my progress and my investments by
how much that stock or that collection of stocks goes up.
I don't understand how private equity since there is no
publicly traded share. I mean, are they just how is
my valuation determined? It's the puzzling thing for me. Brian James.

Speaker 13 (02:14:40):
Yeah, it really is a couple questions in there. How
do I sell it? While you wait until they say
you can. All these private equity deals will have some
kind of a lock up because Bob's veterinary clinic doesn't
have the capital. Of course, head and cast you out
because you need to make your make a distribution or something.
So this portion of your four kay, if you take
advantage of this, it is going to be locked up somehow,
some way. Now what they're going to do, it's going

(02:15:01):
to act like a mutual fund. So this will be
one gigantic fund that owns a bunch of these different things.
They'll all have lock up periods that are spread out
over time, so that will mitigate some of it. It
will never ever ever come anywhere close to being as
liquid as like an index mutual fund or something that
trades all day, every day.

Speaker 1 (02:15:18):
My bigger concern, tho'brien, is there are there really.

Speaker 13 (02:15:20):
Twelve trillion dollars worth of investable opportunities out there? Like
I said, artisanal dog biscuits are great, but I'm not
sure I want a huge A bunch of companies like
that make it up my entire portfolio.

Speaker 1 (02:15:31):
Yeah, yeah, And I suppose does this make your life
as a financial planner more complicated? Ironically makes it easier.

Speaker 13 (02:15:37):
Anything that causes people to question the process, to look
for other opportunities and potentially take more risk in things
they don't understand that all of it makes my job
easier because it gives me something to contrast against. Here's
history I want. If you want to bet the farm
on this, you need another advisor. If you want to
do it on the side and take a flyer on something,
let's do it and let's learn from it. I'm fine
with that, fair.

Speaker 1 (02:15:58):
Enough, real quick. Here, just as a person issue, are
these private equity firms buying up large practices like for example,
I will cite my eye doctors who will remain unnamed.
But someone told me they got bought out by some
what I thought sounded like a private equity investor, and
they changed the dynamic there, and it seems to me
more like a churn and burn operation. You know, it's
all focused on as many possible people in the building

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and as many services rendered as possible in order to
maximize profit. Is that happening. I think you just define
what it looks like after that happens. Because it's now
being run by spreadsheet.

Speaker 13 (02:16:28):
There are there are MBAs behind all of this saying hey,
we can buy these companies, smash them all together. We
can combine this expense and get economies of scale and
all that kind of thing and do more business. And
when it starts, just to feel a little less human, Yes,
and that's it. Probably when it happened, that's exactly the experience. Yes,
it's less human and more churn and burn. So all right,

(02:16:49):
I'll have an answer to my question. Brian James. Thank
you again all we're financial for learning out. I appreciate
the opportunity to speak with you every Monday. We'll do
it again next Monday. I hope you have a great week,
my friend.

Speaker 1 (02:16:58):
Thanks for the microphone talking next week. Take aye, brother,
I'm gonna save you thousands and thousands of dollars. Speaking
of money, let's continue the topic. My friend you liss
these Days from Affordable Imaging Service is going to join
the program next our KRC care segment. You two can
save thousands and thousands of dollars you listens, will be
up next. I hope you can stick around.

Speaker 4 (02:17:17):
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Speaker 1 (02:17:21):
Hey forty here fifty five kr CD talk station about
Happy Monday to you, opportunity for you to save huge
amounts of money. Welcome to the fifty five r SEE
Morning Show. My friend you listen these days from Affordable
Imaging Services listens. Good to have you on the show
this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:17:37):
Hi Brian, thanks for having us on the show. And plea,
let's speak about our company.

Speaker 7 (02:17:42):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (02:17:42):
Man, I was just gonna tell you right out of
the gate. I am pleased as I can be to
be in a position to recommend affordable imaging services to
my listeners. I've had lots and lots of folks get
back me about all the money that they saved. One
of my listener friends, Jeff, he say thirty one hundred dollars.
Fred called me a couple of weeks ago, you saved
him six thousand dollars over what his images would have

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cost it at the hospital and my own personal experience.
I mean I've had like three CT scans done and
an MRI done at your facility. I mean, you know,
I say more than ten thousand dollars at least in
getting my images at Affordable Imaging Services. I got three
CT scans and an MRI.

Speaker 3 (02:18:20):
Oh, that's that's amazing. Yeah, that's kind of what are
the basis of our company and what we're kind of
built on. You know, obviously the cost savings. You know
that you know now that we're getting towards the end
of the year, patients deductibles might be might be met
at this time or getting close to being met, So

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patients have a big decision on whether or not to
use a facility like us or go with their insurance.
But I think that as long as we have awareness,
and that's again another thing that our company has built
on is kind of the choice, the choice that the
patients have a choice and have the awareness to go
look for those choices because there's other reasons other than

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money that they could actually or the cost of the
procedure that they could actually utilize our facility. For other
reasons other than that, even though money probably is one
of the bigger things, but choices out there for our patients,
and they got to know it's.

Speaker 1 (02:19:14):
There, well exactly. I mean, you use the same kind
of equipment CT scans done with a CT machine and
the same thing they got at the hospital. And you
have been doing this for what decades. You're a certified radiologist,
you know, licensed and registered and all that. I mean,
it's it's just, you know, as a matter of principle,
I wouldn't want to pay five thousand dollars for something
I can get for four hundred and fifty bucks from you.

(02:19:36):
It's just, you know, I've even made the point, Ulysses,
your company, Affordable Imaging Services, is profitable. Even though you
charge so little comparatively speaking to the hospital imaging department,
you're still making some so you just still have a
margin of profit in there. This is why it's so
insulting when I read these prices that hospitals charge.

Speaker 3 (02:19:54):
It. Yeah, yeah, that's always there that I've been a radiographer,
a imaging specialist for you know, twenty seven years. I've
gotten a chance, you know, even working for people, really
good people that that gave me good advice and kind
of watching and seeing. And from the business point of view,
I've been told that there's two ways to make money.

(02:20:16):
Either you do a lot for a little or a
little for a lot. And in these cases, we we're
trying to do a lot for a little. You know,
bigger organizations than us, like hospitals and and you know,
large organizations than what we are, they can do a
lot for a lot, you know, and we just you know,
we think that you know that if we provide this

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kind of thing for patients and they can kind of
stay away from their insurance in some ways or at
least have the choice to do so when it probably
when it benefits them, that you know, that we can
we can build a good business and provide something that's
well well worth it for people out there.

Speaker 1 (02:20:52):
Well, going back to the idea that a lot of
people don't realize they have a choice. You know, they're
in their doctor's office. The doctor says, well, we really
have to get you an MRI. I got some concern.
Here's a prescription. Got down to the hospital imaging department.
Pick a hospital that's the one that owns the physician practices.
So they're instructed to keep the money in house. I've
never had a doctor let me know that there's a
choice out there that I could have. I get an

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image for a fraction of the cost, So they have
incentive to keep it in house. But you're talking about
speaking of business Moneent, you're talking about hospitals charging a
lot but also getting a lot of volume because they
aren't folks aren't aware of affordable imaging services out in
the world.

Speaker 3 (02:21:29):
Sure, sure, and you know, I mean, with that being said,
there's not a lot of that. There's not a lot
of our imaging that just they benefit directly into their pocket.
But like let's say an echo cardiogram, if you're a cardiologist,
you sometimes might interpret those kind of things too. So
a five thousand dollars echo cardiogram, which ours is five

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hundred dollars, they might actually even get more of a
stake in it because they might be interpreting it too.
So there's there's that kind of say situation as well.
For other imaging, usually that's ordered by a provider and
the radiologists is the one that's interpreting it. Right, we
have an in house radiologist as well, just like we
have an in house cardiologists, and in those cases, those

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cardiologists actually might be the ones benefiting from those referrals
as well by being the ones that actually do in
the interpretation.

Speaker 1 (02:22:18):
Ah ah. And that just sort of provides a little
background on the fact that the radiologist report is included
in the price of the imaging because you, I mean,
you've let me know, and as part of the talking points,
I use that those radiologist supports quite often are separate
line item an additional charge when you have it done
at the hospital.

Speaker 3 (02:22:37):
Yeah, anytime you're build for any kind of imaging, there's
usually a technical portion and a professional portion, and there's
a billing of globally or you can break them out
and everybody builds there separately. In a hospital setting, the
hospital builds for the technical portion and the physician reading it.
Either the radiologists or cardiologists will build there separately because

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ever guy makes more money if they build it separately.
So that's why sometimes patients will get a bill in
the mail two and three months down the line when
they think they've paid for everything and there's some sticker
shop going on with it, when they might get a
two hundred, three hundred, four hundred up to seven hundred
dollars bill from the interpreting position that they think that
they've already sown.

Speaker 1 (02:23:19):
All that up. That's insane.

Speaker 3 (02:23:21):
Little buyers remorse when that comes.

Speaker 1 (02:23:22):
Well, it's crazy when you talk about a hospital, are
a radiologist report costing as much as the entire thing
and affordable imaging? I mean you just seven hundred dollars
for a report. I mean you don't even have a
scan that costs more than that. That can get an
MRI for four ninety five or a CT scan with
a contrast for six hundred. I mean, these prices don't
even reach the cost of an independent radiologists report. That's crazy, Ulysses.

Speaker 3 (02:23:46):
Yeah, yeah, but you know, I mean they and unfortunately
you're not told that they're going to break it right now,
so you don't you're not able to make those decisions.
That why, that's why we try to be as transparent
as we possibly can be. You know, this is what's
going to happen with us. You're not going to get
a second bill. We build this together, so there's not
a second cost to it that you're going to be

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accounting for after you've already had this done, when it's
out of your mind completely two and three months down
the line.

Speaker 1 (02:24:14):
Well, having gotten scans at hospital imaging departments in the past,
I'm familiar with what the actual cost is, but is
it I imagine. Although there have been some reforms and
efforts to require hospitals to be more transparent in pricing,
it's not the easiest thing in the world to actually
fun up a hospital and say, hey, how much is
it going to cost for an echo cardiograph for example?

Speaker 3 (02:24:36):
Well, and to their the sense, a lot of times
they tell patients that they won't know until they build it. Yeah,
and unfortunately they they kind of have their hands tied
as far as being transparent as well. But they should
tell you that that there's amount of transparency is I
can't tell.

Speaker 14 (02:24:54):
You that way that you at least know that that
you know that that prices might go up for that
price might change down the line, and then you can
make an informed decision with I'd rather go someplace else
where I know exactly what that cost.

Speaker 3 (02:25:08):
Is going to be up front.

Speaker 1 (02:25:09):
Right, I'm on your on your website, it's Affordablemanimaging dot com.
There's a little tab it says pricing. Click on it.
The prices are right there. Yeh, I don't understand how
hospitals can't provide that kind of information. We won't know
until after it's all over. Great, who buys anything when
they don't know what the price is going to be? Yeah,
that's true.

Speaker 3 (02:25:27):
Yeah, you wouldn't buy a car, you know, ten thousand
and twenty thousand pre used car, or you know fifty
or sixty thousand for a brand new car and get
hammered with other costs later and down the line. So
you know, why would you ever do that with this?
But you know, that just shows how much sway your provider,
your physician has to say, Hey, I want you to

(02:25:48):
schedule this at this place, and you know you want
to trust that person because obviously you might have something
big going on and they wouldn't steer you the wrong way.
But unfortunately they might.

Speaker 1 (02:25:58):
Not know either exactly. Now your original location forty four
to twenty four I Colts Road, That's where I've gone.
You have a new location open? I understand ulysses.

Speaker 3 (02:26:07):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (02:26:07):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (02:26:09):
Back in May we came into a situation where we
had somebody call us up and say, hey, just want
to get out of the game. You know this is
I'm not an imaging person, we would I would love
for you to come and operate in my facility. So
we have a new facility that's opened up in Richmond, Indiana.
We provide mri CT much like what we do at
the estate facility, but they also do X ray here.

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And for some people that don't that that are in society,
this might not be the place of them because of
the travel. But those places that your listenership still reaches,
like in like in Dayton, you know, the west side
of you know, Dayton and those you know, those areas
might might be a shorter trip here than to go
all the way down to our estate facility.

Speaker 1 (02:26:52):
Well, I've talked in the past, you've had people come
from other states to get their images. I mean, if
you're going to save three, four or five thousand dollars,
that's worth a little extra drive, you listen.

Speaker 3 (02:27:03):
Well, I think the furthest that we've had one is
I think my partner Matt said that we had somebody
come all the way from California. But that's because that
they had like seven different imaging you know, exams to
do and they wanted to get it all done one day,
where nobody else would let them do that now. As
far as I know that, I've had people come. I've
had people come as far as like Colorado, but they

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had ties to the city. So there's an amount of
feather that you can put in your cap with that.
But yeah, we get people because we're an outpatient center
that provides certain things that some of our outpatient centers
don't provide. Here in the Cincinnati area. We'll have people
come from like Charleston, West Virginia, all the way down
to all the way to Indianapolis, all the way to

(02:27:46):
Lexington and Louisville and upwards of Columbus, you know, especially
like our echo cardiograms. We're the only ones that provide
echo cardiograms from outpatient bases in that whole area that
I'm talking about, and that's pretty large suite.

Speaker 1 (02:28:00):
It's amazing. Plus you can get people in very quickly
at affordable imaging services. I know quite often people have
to wait several weeks to get into a hospital imaging department.
So exercise your choice to reach affordable imaging services. It's
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(02:28:20):
Affordable Medimaging dot com you list these days from Affordable Imaging.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Not
only have you saved my family lots and lots of money,
all my listeners who've taken me up on my advice
to go see you have done so as well. Never
had a doctor complain once about the imaging you know,
it's it's the same damn thing you listen. Keep up

(02:28:41):
the great work, my friend, and sadly I'll be seeing
you again real soon. Get another skin.

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Well.

Speaker 7 (02:28:48):
We love seeing you.

Speaker 3 (02:28:49):
We wish we didn't have we'd like being there for you.
But yeah, thanks again for letting us speak on our behalf.

Speaker 1 (02:28:56):
I just enjoyed having you on you listenes. Take care
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Daniel Davis on that tomorrow, of course preceded by the
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