55KRC Monday Morning Show -- 9/22/25

Brian talks with Chris Smitherman to hear his Smithervent, Money Monday with Brian James, Ryan Walters of Empower U and his seminar on September 23rd on President Grover Cleveland plus your calls.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o five at the five k r C, the
talk station at the Monday end of my fifties will

(00:31):
no sound by John McMahon covering for Joe Strekker this morning,
and very happy Monday to everybody. Thank you from the
bottom of my heart to all the wonderful, wonderful birthday
wishes yesterday on Facebook, hundreds of them, and I was
overwhelmed by that, just really really truly appreciate it. Hit
a fantastic weekend thanks to my mom and my wife
and my family, did a whole bunch of family activities

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and actually got to go to the Concord de Vous yesterday.
Really cool event. I'm hoping they do that every year.
Amazing view up there. I can't remember if I'd ever
been to Davou Park before, my wife and I would
just really thoroughly impressed by it. But some awesome cars
of your car Fan, I'm gonna put that down on
your list of things to do for next year. Was
outstanding and of course a lot of money put together

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for charity. So thanks again for everyone who's involved in
my weekend. It was just absolutely wonderful. So without further ado,
what's going on today? Christopher Smith Aman. It is Monday.
Every Monday at seven twenty we hear from the former
vice mayor now candidate for Cincinni City Council. I helpe
you vote for him. Christopher Smitheman with the smither Van
follow my Money Money with Brian James. No idea what
Brian's talking about since Joe's gone, didn't get the topics

(01:35):
for Brian will manage through it. Sure there's some interesting
stuff going on. Plus Ryan Walter's empower You got a
seminar going on the twenty third, which is tomorrow Tuesday
on Grover Cleveland. Pretty interesting President and Ryan knows all
about it. So an opportunity to learn and get educated
for free in the comforting convenience of your own home.

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Just log in empower You America is how you register
for that and enjoy the classes and why you're over
to power Youoamerica dot org. Look at all of the
classes that are offered this semester. We had Dan Reagan
on reganald On about a week or so ago going
through the list some really really great topics, which has
always been the case. I love hearing from you. You
know that five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five

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hundred eight hundred and eighty two to three talk both
pound five fifty on AHT and T founds. Of course,
I'm forty eight to ten. Hey, Shawn, did you watch
that game yesterday? What about that? Huh? You worked it,
You couldn't leave. You were stuck. At least I had
the ability to jockey back and forth between the Charlie
Kirk Memorial in the Bengals game. Anyway, Yeah, I'm not

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looking good for the Bengals. Was that the the worst
deficit in franchise history? Yep? And I got to be
there for it, and you were there for a moment
in history, Sean, That's one way of looking at it.
I was at the Freezer Bowl. I left at halftime.
Never ever, ever, ever had any reservation about letting people know.

(03:02):
I honestly left it halftime.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know why?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Because it was miserable. I sucked and I couldn't feel
my extremities anymore. I was worried about frostbite. How badly
do I want to watch this game now? I don't
want to watch it that badly. So anyway, you were stuck, though,
because you had to work. Is there any hope for
the Bengals? A little bit of hope, a lot for
the Reds, though a little speaker hope. Anyhow, since I

(03:27):
don't know where I wanted to start, I do have
some thoughts in comments from the Charlie Kirk memorial. I
don't know if you saw it. I've seen reports between
two hundred and three hundred thousand people, and I know
what you know opinions are with regard to crowd size,
but no one can deny that that was not an
overwhelming crowd. And some really emotional speeches coming out of that,
and of course you heard the top of the air

(03:48):
and it was Charlie Kirk's widow forgives the killer. What
an amazingly Christian thing, and you know belief system that
young man I forgive crying, Yes, she was obviously extremely emotional.
Charlie passionately wanted to reach out save the lost Boys

(04:11):
of the West, noting that campus events are going to
continue and the turning point USA will continue to hold
debates and dialogue. No assassin will ever stop us from
standing up to defend those rights. And I said the
other day when they were pursuing the death penalty against
the murderer, I kind of suggested that Erica Kirk would

(04:31):
not want the death penalty, so leaning in that direction
based for her comments yesterday the top of the Iron News,
you heard Chucky Schimmer blaming the Republicans for the shutdown
government jobs. It's all Republicans fault. It's all Bob. When
I was doing the job, we always negotiated. And you
know I'm throwing a giant Barbi Sti sand flag on that. Anyway.
The payoff to keep the government opening, the Democrats are

(04:53):
demanding about one point five trillion dollars in new federal
debt over the next decade. This is your price to
keep the government opened for one month, according to the
Democrats and their demands. Hum, that's right to add one
single month of uninterrupted federal operations. According to Chuck you'sruming

(05:14):
of the Democrats, that the Republicans must agree to one
permanently extend Biden era Obamacare subsidies that sunset December thirty first,
to got the health savings just passed by the One
Big Beautiful Bill Act, and three unfreeze five billion dollars
in foreign a the Trump recently stop while Congress was

(05:36):
on yet another vacation. Total price tag one point five
trillion dollars again for one single month of keeping the
government open. Editorial board of the New York Posts recurred
to it as basically Vladimir Putin's approach to Ukraine talks. Surrender,
then we'll start negotiating now. Note the national debt already

(05:59):
is thirty six point true trillion dollars one hundred and
nineteen percent of GDP. Actually a little bit more than that,
and of course the level not seen since World War Two.
We spend one trillion dollars a year in interest alone.
I think we've got a spending problem on our hands.
Committee for Responsible Federal Budget referred to as far left

(06:20):
leaning anyway, regardless of the political leanings, they nonetheless said
the Democratic proposal a non starter that worsens our devastating
fiscal situation. Chuckie Schumer, for his part, says this is
all about protecting, in his words, vulnerable Americans. But again,

(06:40):
going to the post, interesting observation, what about future generations
to get stuck with the bill? Aren't they quite vulnerable
dealing with this massive deficit we've dug ourselves in, Which
allows me to pivot over to a smaller yet illustrative
problem brought about by the Democrats living in a perpetual
state of fiscal diner. Chicago is a lot like the

(07:02):
federal government, except it doesn't own a printing press. But
the attitude of the Democrats that run the entire state
of Illinois are really sort of mirroring those of the
federal government. The Chucky schumers of the world. I think
we can continue to spend recklessly and with abandon over
the editorial board of the journal. Chicago's fiscal mess is infamous,

(07:23):
but now it's pension funds teeter on the brink of insolvency.
And remember, in the back of your mind, Cincinnati has
a massive pension problem as well. We also have some
spending issues in the city of Cincinnati. We got roads
that are falling apart, We're down on police numbers, you know,
all the issues going on with the city. So a
few parallels can be drawn with the city of Cincinnati
the city of Chicago, and of course, going back to

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the federal government, it's over spending. Back to Chicago, the
crisis is created by a temporary computer cause delay collection
of property taxes. This left the Fireman's Innuity Benefit Fund
of Chicago. They didn't have enough cash to cover current
retirement checks. Current Johnson stepped in with a twenty eight
million dollars short term loan to save the fund from

(08:07):
having to sell assets to cover the shortfall. Quick fixed,
temporary band aid solution does not solve the broader problem.
Chicago has been carrying on as though no reckoning would
ever arrive for its chronically underfunded pensions. But is everyone
awake now? Remember try to keep your mind on the
federal government and other local governments like the city when

(08:29):
you're hearing about the issues of Chicago, because Chicago is
not unique here. Chicago's four public pension funds among the
nation's most underfunded pension debt at more than forty four
states combined, city carries more than thirty five billion dollars
in pension debt and a credit card and a credit

(08:49):
rating barely above junk status. Welcome to your future. You
know that increases borrowing costs tremendously. In July, it didn't
stop Springfield from throwing gas on fire and public unions.
Against the advice of budget watchers, Democrats passed the bill
to increase pension payments for Chicago police and firefighters, adding
billions of dollars to pension liabilities and tanking their funding ratios.

(09:14):
They knew what they were doing. An amendo email to
Deputy Governor for Budget and Economy and the Manar, Chicago
Chief Financial Officer Joe Jowarski explained that the proposed changes
and the pension benefits would reduce the funded ratio for
both police and fire to under twenty percent, which, in
her words, many actualis consider a funding ratio under twenty

(09:40):
percent to be technically insolvent. Oh, can you imagine if
you're a recipient of fire and police pension funds and
you read that, meanwhile you're clamoring for even more and
they haven't solved as they haven't provided a solution on
how to fund current benefits before your most recent end
increase in benefits. Is there any sanity related to this

(10:07):
budget economy person? Jaworski said the city contributions to the
funds would increase by an estimated sixty million in the
first year and add six point six billion two city
contributions over thirty years. The bill makes no provision for
funding the enhanced benefits. Missus Jaworski wrote, that's a bit

(10:29):
of a red flag if you don't have a source
of funding. How can you increase the benefits when when
the pot of money is disappearing, it's definitionally insolvent. Now,
they point out tab pritzkerg governor signed it anyway when
he when I asked about the trouble it would cause

(10:50):
the city, he said, Brandon Johnson, the mayor, never once
called me, or as far as I know, any legislators
to oppose that bill or ask for any changes to
the bill. So what do you do you want to
inside it? He knows about the problems. That's screw it.
They asked for it. Their problem, not mine. Oh no,
you are the governor of the state of Illinois. It
is your problem. Part Johnson's strategy for dealing with the

(11:13):
city's debt has been to take out more debt to
cover it. Sounds like the federal government, doesn't it. Ah
got to pay the interest on the people who are
owed interest. Now we don't have any money, so let's well,
I don't know. We'll run the printing press. We'll issue
more tea bills to cover the current payouts, leading to

(11:37):
additional payouts under the new sales. They also talked about
raising property tax in Chicago, although Johnson recently ruled out
a property tax increase, but the money has to come
from somewhere. Chicago has one point fifteen billion budget shortfall

(11:57):
in addition to pension debt. That's in addition to the
mentioned debt. Mister Johnson budget asked task force proposed everything
from taxes on bottled water and plastic bags to canceling
the city's mounted police unit. General concludes, this is what
happens when public unions essentially run city and state government,

(12:21):
or in the case of the federal government, when I
suppose the public unions may have that more unions for
the federal government, but also when Democrats run the government. Well,
Messrs Johnson and Pritzker campaign against President Trump like Chucky
Schumer doing right now amid the budget arguments their fiscal

(12:42):
houses are burning down. Yeah, Chicago, on a federal level,
City of Cincinnati. They're not about fiscal responsibility. They're about
kicking a can down the road that it heavily, inevitably
is going to lead us to ruin. No adults in

(13:04):
the room five eighteen right now fifty five k SE
Detalk station five one three, seven, four nine, fifty five,
eight hundred and eighty two three, Talk Time five fifty
on eight and t Funds Love to hear from. If
you've got something to say, feel free to call me
right back. It is five twenty one. I think you
about kra see these talks Yay. A week or so ago,

(13:29):
I talked about all these baby boomers thinking it's never
acceptable to commit violence. See we're talking about Charlie Kirk
and the non violent approach he took to life. Yeah,
only fifty six percent of geneers say it's never acceptable
for violence, meaning a sizable chunk of gen Z is
willing to engage in violence. And many articles on the
heels of Charlie Kirk's assass and we find out about

(13:50):
him withdrawn, isolated, surrounding himself in crazy social media, embracing
the far left wing ideology, living in his own social
media echo chain, and determines that it is an appropriate
thing to take another human being's life. Obviously, the backlash
has been profound. One of the other things we find

(14:10):
out from this murder. Since Charlie Kirk died, Turning Point
USA has received more than sixty two thousand requests from
high schools and college students all over This country to

(14:31):
start chapters or just get involved with an existing chapter,
which number has balloon since last week right out in
the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, when immediately eighteen thousand
requests to start turning Point USA chapters around the high
schools and colleges popped up. So it's a growing movement.
And when you saw the size of the crowd and

(14:51):
the emotion at that rally, the question I've got is
do you think this is going to be a lasting phenomenon?
Living this just immediate gratification like zero? I mean, the
issues come and go in a moment's time. I mean
there's something profound that happens, and then five minutes later,

(15:13):
we're never talking about it, like where's the follow up?
Whatever happened with so and so? Does anybody think this
is going to go away and fade like so many
short attention span issues of our day, or is this
actually going to bring about some sort of fundamental change?
And one can only hope that it is the latter,
and the cooler heads start prevailing and we reject this violence.

(15:40):
I'm struck by it, and it only seems to be
getting that much worse. And again, The articles about social
media being blamed for this are literally everywhere, more and
more research done. I saw this article this morning how
social media creates flabby young brains. They refer to something

(16:02):
called the gen Z stare. When you ask one of
these young gen zers who's on social media all the time,
they don't have an attention span. They just kind of
stare off into space. We were confused by the subject
matter of your question. They lack the intellectual cape cognitive
capabilities to even engage in some thought process to respond
to a question you ask them. Mean no good coming

(16:25):
from this at all? And amid all this, yes, talks
of legislation, we need to pass a law that fill
in the blank, and it usually relates to we need
to pass a law to stop this information from getting out.
We need to stop young people from being able to
consume this vile information. And I'm not here to tell
you it's not vile. And so much comes out in

(16:49):
the aftermath of one of these tragedies and you find
out what is floating around out there. There was some
some site that was site of this really really popular
lung among young people, something to the effect of watching
people die. There's a website out there, and it's just
video after video after a video of people dying horrifically.

(17:13):
You know, some isis al kindamember, cutting to somebody's head off,
people committing suicide, autobile accidents. I mean, this is something
that they're gravitating towards. Just one illustration is like, oh
my god, why does this stuff exist out there? But
amid all these christs for legislation, we need to stop.
When you stop? And I kept asking myself the same

(17:34):
thing I ask all the time in the morning show.
You know, we're talking about young people. We're talking about
people that are living at home with some you know,
authority figure, like a parent or a guardian. The first
line of defense is you, why would you think a
government and some piece of legislation passed either in here
in Columbus, Ohio or Washington, DC can prevent young people

(17:57):
from getting on those sites. They're smarter than the whole
collective of elected officials when it comes to workarounds, you know,
there's always a VPN which masks your IP address. There's
the dark web, there's all these you know, places where
you can go and isolate yourself on some independent server
over which nobody's got control. You know who has control
over that? The parents? Yeh, Dave hadas told us many

(18:24):
ways that we can keep track of what our children
are doing, and you know, just basically some moral and
ethic guidance, like regularly speaking to your children about the
horrors that are out there and how this can really
have a profound impact on their psyche and their mentality.
Maybe limit it to only a certain amount of time
their interaction on social media, take the device away from them.

(18:45):
I mean, are these not options that you and I
have that don't require legislation. I don't know. I'm searching
for solutions like anybody. If you've got one, I'd love
to hear it. Five twenty six coming up with five
twenty seven local stories coming up. Our phone calls are
preferred either way. I'd be right back after these brief words.

(19:05):
Five thirty on a Monday, like it or not? At Monday, Thanks,
happy one, see over. The phones would go five on
three seven eight hundred and eight two three talk Tom,
Happy Monday.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Good to hear from you this morning, as always, Good.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Morning, and I am glad to hear you had a
great birthday.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I did. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah, and how's mom doing.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Mom's doing great. We're were her house for dinner on
Friday night, celebrating my birthday. It was phenomenal, as it
always is. My mom is a phenomenal cook, amazing And as.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Garry Burbank would say, how's mom and them? I always
love that. It was pretty funny. Yeah, the Bengals game yesterday.
I try to get this in real quick work yesterday,
so we're getting paid double time. And a guy now
it's the first thing in the morning that he's leaving
at noon because he wants to get home to see
his Bengals. And I'm like, and I told, this is

(19:55):
six o'clock in the morning, and I'm telling them, who
are they going to lose to? Oh, they're gonna get
their I kicked. And I'm just I'm just trash talking
to guy. I don't really care either way, you know,
I'm just giving the guy a bunch of grief. And
and I said, I'm gonna call you about four thirty
tomorrow and then ask you if it was worth it
taking taking two hours offer of double time. Brian, I

(20:16):
didn't have the heart to call him. I couldn't do it.
So hey, any of you guys that I know, there's
guys down there that are gonna be working with them.
They're gonna work with pat Ball. Give him some grief,
but tell them I didn't have the heart to call him.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah, the the Vikings already rubbed a NML. But the
real goal the end of the first I mean, it's
not enough. You weren't winning by enough. So, uh, this
stuff with Charlie Kirk and uh, all this crap as
anybody as any audio or video surface proving that Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Is a racist everything in fact, a lot for sure.
By now, I thought it was rather interesting. A lot
of the postings, you know on Facebook. You know me,
I'm not on social media with the exception of Facebook,
and I know I trust me. I understand the limitations
of that. But yeah, a lot of memes posting from
a variety of different people saying, you know, I sat
and I watched you know, or listened to two hundred

(21:14):
hours of his conversations and blah blah blah. It couldn't
find a single thing and anything suggesting he was a
racist or whatever was was a context. It was something
that was taken completely out of context to make it
sound like that, But if you listen to the whole statement,
you don't come away with anything close to an expression
of you know, racism or white supremacy or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
But not only that, you would find the exact opposite true.
You would find somebody who is who is welcoming to everybody.
And it was trying to make the case that that
that blacks and other minorities were hurting themselves. You know,
it wasn't. It was trying to help them. So you
got you got people like Montel Now chiming in, and

(21:56):
you know, I'm going to agree that it was it
was emotion, but I'm not gonna say it was love.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
I mean, a hates emotion.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
You know. Uh, It just these they're liars, Okay, It's
it boils down to that. Liberals, leftists are liars. They
don't that's all they got left, Brian. They don't have
any truth to anything they're saying. So when Chuck, Hugh
Schumer and AOC run their mouth about anything, they're liars.
I mean calling calling Trump an autocrat because of the

(22:29):
whole Jimmy Kimmel thing. Oh so you were an autocrat
when you want to Trump off of Twitter back in
the day. They're just liars. That's that's all they can do. Uh.
I did see to uh add to what you said
about people are saying, hey, they watched all kinds of videos.
I watched a really good on A young black man
was saying, hey, you guys when he's talking to the

(22:51):
people who who were saying all kinds of hateful things
about about Charlie Kirk is like, you guys drove me
to this. I'm hearing all this stuff and I'm like,
if you're happy that he died, he must have said
something horrible and I can't find anything. And now I'm
obsessed with watching his videos. It's all you. It's all
your well, one really good one if you guys got time.

(23:13):
And I don't know if you've seen this or not, Brian,
but Charlie Kirk posted for somebody who posted something with
Charlie Kurt talking about what time is it? And I
don't mean like five point thirty four, I mean like,
is it time for tolerance? I think it was tolerance, acceptance,
celebration and participation. And when it comes to the left

(23:34):
and the things that you know, people champion and they
want you to accept and all that we are in
the we're in the phase of participation. It's mandatory participation.
If you don't have a Pride flag or LGPTQ friendly
on your business storefront or website, then it's assumed that
you're anti that if you know, it's like the Tampa

(23:55):
Bay Ray players that they didn't wear the patch, the
Pride patch, they weren't allowed to play. You have to
not only tolerate attempt the things that you disagree with,
but you have to cheer it on and participate or
you're going to be deaned a hateful person. And my
advice is don't worry about what they're saying because they're

(24:16):
all liars. It doesn't matter what they say. They lie
and they just to get their way, So get them
out of power. Don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Have a great day, bron Thanks Tom. Always good to
hear from you, especially on a Monday. Children the burden,
especially on a week when Joe Strecker's not here. Not
that Sean McMahon is not doing a great job. I
just feel a little less uh prepared when Strucker's not around.
But we've got lots to talk about today. I love
hearing from you so please feel free to call, but
I do have a stack of stupid, self created stupid.

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of them. Todd Zenzer for all of your city Shenanigan's issues, brilliant.
He is maybe the future city manager under a new administration. Yeah,
I've heard rumors Corey Bowman with city manager Todd zens
or what an dynamic combo that would be. Anyway, since
we're in the stack of stupid, let's talk about something
legitimately stupid. Not your normal naked guy arrested or running

(27:05):
a mock on drugs. The Baltimore City School District run
exclusively for the use of and for the benefit of Democrats.
And I got my tongue in my cheek when I
say that, but it is run by Democrats. He probably
heard statistics about the Baltimore City school districts. Forty percent
of public high schools have zero students that are proficient
in math. Let that sink in. There's a guy named

(27:27):
Chris Paps. He's Fox forty five news report. He's been
following these school numbers for years and years. He did
another investigative report on at least one particular school Achievement
Academy at Harvard City High School Northeast Baltimore. Core to
the data that they analyzed, Achievement Academy What's in a

(27:48):
Name has not had a single student test proficient in
math in four years. Over the last four school years,
one hundred and thirty four student that the school have
taken the state math exams, no one scored proficient. So

(28:10):
it's got to be money, right, This is not enough
money per student. That's all we need. Throw more money
at it will solve the problem. Get a load of this.
Calendar year twenty twenty one, Achievement Academy received twenty thousand
and change for each one of it's three hundred and
seventy two students. Fast forward to twenty twenty four, down

(28:32):
to an enrollment of two hundred and two. Maybe the
reasons evident to you or I since they haven't taught
math to any one of them, They're up to forty
six thousand, six hundred change per student. So for those
four school years, Achievement Academies per student funding more than doubled,

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and not one student over the same year as tested
proficient on the state math exams. Oh for change, Well,
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fifty five KRC detalk station. Christopher spend a minute seven
to twenty of course money Monday. Brian James at eighth
five and Ryan Water is doing a seminar empower You
summinar tomorrow evening at online. I believe it is empower
Youoamerica dot org. I know you can watch it online.
But Grover Cleveland, the subject matter that one should be
a fascinating conversation there. I'm some phone calls over to

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the stack of stupid. Don't serve porn while you're driving
a semi tractor trailer truck. It seems like sound advice.
We've got a veteran trucker and bridging Neil Platt. They
got video on the inside of his cab, sitting in
the driver's seat, wearing a purple t shirt and orange
safety vest covering pase after the fiery rack on a

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major highway in Lancashire, about forty miles east of Liverpool.
This happened May of last year. Forty three year old
Platt described as heavily distracted when he blew past to
stop traffic for striking a Hyundai Kona driven by the
late Danny Atchison, described as a married father of two
who just happened to be on the phone with his
partner at the time of the fatal crash. The trucker

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had naked photos flashing on his x feed second before
the collision, which the prosecutors described as he persistently viewed
on What's App, YouTube and TikTok during the three hour
journey he took from Scotland to Liverpool. The trucker Platt
insisted he only looked at his phone to check how
long the drive was taking. Sentenced to ten years in

(31:50):
prison for the crash. Court to the judge Ian Unsworth, casey,
your arrogant and selfish attitude to driving was quite bread.
You willingly, without any excuse, chose to ignore the laws
of the road. In short, you were a multi ton
accident waiting to happen. So well, there's no evidence applied
to have been actively searching for porn before the crash. The

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judge found the trucker head quote prioritized looking at social
media close quote over the safety of everybody on the road.
You were distracted by doing something so mind blowingly stupid.
You're not paying attention to what was ahead of you.
You were paying attention to your phone. Remorsefully, is you know?

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And I think do you ever think about that driving
down the road? One little brief glance at the phone
is all it takes. Some little toddler could walk out
of the street. That actually happened to me. And as
a group of kids in a car, my buddies Bernie
and Chrishiel's been in a car. We were skipping Barlin's
practice and just driving around, going down Knee Road, and

(33:01):
out of nowhere, I mean out of nowhere, a little
probably two year old maybe three year old kid just
comes bobbling into the middle of the road Nee Road.
Chris was driving the car locked the brakes up, Bear
I mean missed hitting that kid by just a moment's time.
It was absolutely amazing. I do remember, just like it

(33:21):
was yesterday. We were absolutely freaked out. It wouldn't have
been his fault. Kids out of the middle of the roadway.
Mom comes running out of the yards screaming her head off, like, well,
keep an eye on your kid. But see, just one
fraction of a second is all it takes and it's over.
So you learned something from that guy. And you know,

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don't get me started on these modern cars with the
video screens. We got a dashboard length video screen and
some of these new cars, how do you keep track
of that? Anyway? New Buffalo Police, this is Michigan report.
Officers respond to the area of CSX railroad tracks on
South Whitaker Street for reported naked guy walking a dog

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eight o'clock in the morning on Tuesday. Please stay. While
attempting to locate the man and officers receive further infro
the same man had broken into a residence and assaulted somebody.
Authority's got there to find a naked guy had barricaded
himself in the bedroom and refused to come out. Yeah,
Officers forced entry in the room, at which point the
suspect said to have violently resisted police, leading to him

(34:25):
to be tased several times. He was taken to the
Franciscan Hospital for treatment. No officers injured, thankfully. Victim in
the home suffered minor injuries, but fortunately did not require
medical treatment. That's a good way to get shot, speaking
of getting shot, a young child responsible for someone not

(34:47):
getting shot, but nonetheless getting held getting punished for it.
Good to Lansing, Michigan. A parent doing everything she can
to get her son back into school after he was
expelled for doing something that she and I also believe
was heroic. She said, I'm frustrated. I'm at wits end.
I don't know what to do. Her name Savitra McLurkin.

(35:08):
She said her son being punished after disarming and disassembling
a classmate's gun at Dwight Rich School of the Arts.
He took the gun apart and threw away the bullets. Sadly,
he didn't tell an adult until later. Mom said she'd
been trying to get into court with the Lansing School
District quite some time, not getting the response or contact.

(35:31):
Rather not court when court's coming next, She made an
appearance on the Lansing School Board meeting. He's eleven years old,
seventh grade, never been in trouble before. She pled Carkan
said he was able to disarm and disassemble the gun
because of his hunting background. She said in the moment
her son was scared and thought he was helping the
other students around him. She described it as devastating because

(35:54):
he's a bright kid and all he wants to do
is be a kid. No comment from the Lancing School District.
That's pretty amazing though, if you think about it, maybe
very well did save someone, but of course he will
be held accountable. Five fifty six fifty five Karcity Talk Station,
More coming up plenty and Donald Trump had a comment

(36:16):
about hate at the Charlie Kirk memorial. Interesting pivot over
to that and another opinion piece. We can get marry
together and talk about hate a little bit. Stick around.
Love to hear from you, though, so feel free to
call me right back after the news. Five fifty five
care Site the talk station and Bone Thomas here wishing
everyone a very happy Monday. Try to make it so

(36:37):
anyway if you can. We can lament the Bengals and
be happy about the Reds. I suppose to some degree
and what a terrible game that Bengals game was yesterday.
It's painful to watch. But again I started off on
wanting to show thanking everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes
and expressions of support and love sixty years old yesterday.
A lot of people showed their well their kindness I'll

(36:59):
put it in a ord that way on Facebook, and
got a bunch of phone calls. Of course, I just
it meant the world to me. Really is just such
a wonderful thing. It just kind of made it put
a tear in my eye on a certain level. We
had an allergy outbreak thinking about all that. So God
bless each and every one of you for those wonderful
birthday wishes. I did have a fantastic weekend thanks to
my mom and family generally speaking of course my wife.

(37:19):
We certainly enjoyed ourselves over the weekend thanks to the folks.
I had another shout out for the Concorde de Vous
really cool car show, and it was only one day.
It was yesterday, but hopefully they're going to be doing
a year after year after year. Beautiful park and gorgeous,
gorgeous cars, So perfect day for that. So another great
way to spend a birthday really something unusual. So thanks

(37:42):
again to everyone, really truly mean it. But if I
have care, see dot com I as you remember, head
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Todd zends are absolutely amazing our citizen watchdog last Friday,
along with a former Congressman private citizen Brad winsterup on
a whole bunch of topics. Really love having him in studio.
Boy Todd Zenzer is a brilliant guy, just brilliant. You

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can just listen to him for yourself. You don't have
to take my word for it. If you can get
a chance to hear him live, speaking alive. Your phone
call is live. Uh call five one, three, seven, four
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talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones if
you got a comment or two. I did watch some
of the Charlie Kirk memorial. Amazing showing wow, and the
figures are all over the place. The number of people
had showed up. I understand there's one hundred thousand inside,

(38:27):
maybe another one hundred thousand outside. I saw a figure
up to three hundred. I know how people can get
a little exaggerated with the figures, but hundreds of well
tens of thousands of people at minimum, and that was
an amazing thing to behold. I hope it sticks. I
hope it stays. I hope this isn't a short attention
span theater reality. And I was so pleased to read

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in the reporting on all of this that, as I
mentioned in the last hour, turning point, USA has received
more than sixty two thousand requests from high schools and
colleges nationwide to start a chapter or get involved with
an existing chapter. And that number is quadrupled I think
since last week, right after he was murdered, eighteen thousand
requests came pouring in. So those are opportunities all across

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this land where we can engage in substantive debate, nonviolence,
non screaming at each other. I didn't realize Jady Vance
was the first key endorsement for Kirk was the first
key endorsement for jd. Vance. Found that out this morning
twenty twenty one, when Vance was running for Senate. They've

(39:33):
been friends ever since, and so jd Vance of course
spoke yesterday and he said, I think he would. He
would encourage me to be honest, that evil still walks
among us. Vance said, he would tell me to put
on the full armor of God and get back to work.
Erica Kirk, for her part, very emotional as she is

(39:54):
wont to be, but brilliant and amazing. She said, to
all the men watching around the world, except Charlie's challenge
and embrace true manhood, referring to her marriage, Be strong
and courageous for your families, pointing out that Charlie perfectly
understood God's role for a Christian husband, a man who

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leads so they can serve and something else may seem
trivia to you, but I think it spoke volumes to
the man's character. She said that Charlie Kirk left her
love letters every week ending with the phrase, please let
me know how I can better serve you as a husband.

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Do you know anybody like that? I try to live
my life that way with my life, but I don't
out loud express it every day. How can I better
serve you as a husband? I think my wife's mouth
would fallow up. And I started saying that regularly. But
what a beautiful sentiment. My husband, Charlie, he wanted to

(40:58):
save young men, just like the one who took his life.
She said that young man, I forgive him, and I
said that was last week, and I put out the
last hour. I think she's going to say she does
not want the death penalty for this guy. I think
they'll be totally consistent with the Christian lifestyle that they live.

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They walked the walk and talked the talk. And I
know everybody in my listening audience knows someone who does
talk the talk but does not walk the walk. So
this is the kind of man that people are holding
up as evil, vile, racist, misogynistic, just this awful, awful
scumbag of a human being. If you hear the left
talk about him, they have not listened to a word

(41:42):
he had to say during his life. And pivoting over
to Trump's comments, they praise Kirk, said nice things about him.
But here's the thing that I stumbled upon it that
it was rather interesting he did not hate his opponents.
Trump said he wanted the best for them, fair enough.

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But then Trump said, that's where I disagree with Charlie.
I hate my opponents, and I don't want what's best
for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry Erica to Charlie's widow,
there's that hate part. And I found this thing from
John Ellis, an opinion commentary a contributor to the Journal,
America's campus left is hateful to its core, and I

(42:25):
thought it was an interesting pivot point to focus on
this on the heels of Trump's statement that he disagrees
with Charlie's philosophical being forgiving. You know, that whole concept
of turning the other cheek, and John Ellis writes, in
the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirkts often said
that people with different political opinions must learn to disagree

(42:49):
respectfully with one another. A sensible admonition, except that it
doesn't begin to get at what political hatred on college
campuses is all about, or what it's doing to us.
And I think this article transcends college campuses and this
concept of hate. If all it was involved were doctrinal
political differences, say, free markets as opposed to central planning,

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it might be enough to say that two sides of
that argument should learn to be more tolerant of each other.
But politics that dominates college campuses and elsewhere is a
different kind of beast. It begins not with traditional issues
of governance, but instead by pitting different groups of people
against each other. This is a concept that I've been

(43:32):
talking about on the Morning Show for years now. It
starts off by identifying a group of people who are
wronged and another who are the wrongdoers, the oppressed versus
the oppressors. The former group are innocent and praiseworthy. The
latter are evil and wrong. Mistreatment of the oppressed means

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that the other side must be condemned, hated, vilified. The
radicals who dominate college campuses adopt Karl Marx's oppressed versus
oppressor groups of workers and capitalists, but they also add
others of their own making, such as people of color
oppressed by white supremacists and homosexuals by heterosexuals. Conservatives are

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evil enough to be labeled fascists and Nazis, which makes
them an oppressor group worthy of hate. See it's the label.
Apply the labels say it thousands and times over and
over again. It becomes a default mentality. When you hear
the word Republican or conservative, you immediately think nazi, fascist,
and someone who's deserving of death, if not just mere

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hate this kind of politics. Hatred isn't a matter of style,
of making arguments to aggressively or of carelessly insulting people
who think differently. No, campus radicals make hatred part of
the substance of their political thought. Hatred is at its core.

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If you ask a campus radical to give up hating,
you'd be asking him to give up his political framework,
and that will be equivalent to telling him to give
up his beliefs and his radicalism. You can't ask radicals
to seek common ground with intellectual opponents when the whole
point of their political thought is to alienate people from

(45:20):
one another. It's commonplace that in recent years our national
politics to become more divisive and hateful. The hate that
is central to the politics of college campuses is largely
responsible for that change. Democrats, the party more closely aligned
to campus political activity, now rarely engage the other side

(45:42):
in a discussion of policy differences. They don't bother to
tell Republicans what their alternatives are to closing the borders
or to ending big city crime. They concentrate instead on
their loathing of President Trump, opposing anything and everything that
he does. Assassinations are made more likely by the politics

(46:04):
of hate that has been so slowly spreading from college
campuses to national culture. How much longer can we tolerate
a system of higher education that is poisoning America? When
will we take our campuses back from the destructive radicals
who now control them? Again focusing on this political division,

(46:25):
but that idea that it's alienating people from one another,
not just in the political realm, but literally everything, most
notably the social realm as well the whole LGBTQ thing.
And as I pointed out a millions of times, I
don't care if you were in that category of letters, Salad,
I don't care. I don't care. I can live next

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to you. You cannot make me adopt your values and ideas.
You can't. I'm entitled under the flag to have my
own independent ideas and thoughts. But you see there's division
right there. I won't acknowledge that it's okay for me
to be scientifically based in my decision whether someone is
a male or a female. That doesn't necessarily my scientific

(47:10):
based reality X and y X and and X doesn't
mean that there aren't people who struggle with gender ideology issues,
that they're not psychologically burdened by that that they truly,
truly wish, desire and would love to be a member
of the opposite sex. But you're desiring that and you're
labeling yourself with that. Doesn't change my perception of scientific reality.

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I'm entitled to that. But you would argue that I'm not,
that I'm hateful and I'm a transphobe or something because
of my deeply held belief systems in science, you would
be mistaken. I have no hatred. I try to say
I have no hatred for anyone, and I may say, oh,
I hate that guy, but I don't mean it in
the true hate sense. Definitionally speaking, I don't hate you

(47:53):
for being transgender at all. I may feel a little
bit sorry for you and wish you didn't have those struggles,
but it doesn't come from a position of hate. But
you would stir that and you would recharacterize it as
one of hate. Therein lies the fundamental challenge we're facing.
Everything is steeped in division, born of this political philosophy

(48:15):
of hatred toward the opposition, not logic, not reason, not
Charlie Kirk debate, but merely shutting down what might be
a constructive debate in the name of you screaming vile
and hatred at me or someone else for their political position,
apparently for which you have no logical, reasonable political solution.

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Straight to the phones as we go. Got a couple
of callers online. I want to thank Cleveland Al first
for holding over the break there and Ron you're next,
Cleveland Al. Welcome to the program. Good to hear from

(49:44):
you today, sir.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Good morning, and happy birthday too.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Thanks man, I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Yeah, we are blessed to have you on the airwaves,
and I hope you are with us for decades to come.
That well, I just wanted to let you know that
I believe the seeds of hate are being planted not
only on the campuses, but at county fairs this over

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the past week, the Ashland County Fair actually had to
shut down the Democrat booth for handing out eighty six
forty seven pins. He also is he dead?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Is he dead yet? Yeah? With a Donald Trump red hat.
It doesn't say mag on the hat, but you know,
damn well, they mean Donald Trump with the hat. I
saw those man. That was awful, Yes, Al, that was
just awful.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
They gave them the chance to quit, but they continued
to do that and it ended up getting shut down.
So I will echo Tom's sentiment and say, just don't
vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
You have a good day.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Thanks, Al appreciate it. And if you're a member of
a Democrat party and you like Democrat whatever philosophy you
believe they hold, that you advocate for and that you
vote for, will you stand for that kind of thing
being associated with your party. It's like the vile people
who are losing their jobs for making awful statements about
the death of Charlie Kirk and the celebrating his murder

(51:25):
losing their job. They're only a handful of Democrats that
I would argue that are responsible for putting those buttons
in your booth. The Democrat banner represents you, so those
buttons are going to be affiliated and associated with you,
and I would say no, Moss. I would stand up
and absolutely go after the party officials, leaders, or anybody

(51:47):
else who is responsible for engaging that vile behavior to
protect the reputation of my own party. Help me help
you on that one. Ron, Welcome to the Morning Show.
Thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday to you, Oh.

Speaker 7 (52:02):
Happy Monday, and I guess happy birthday as well. Thanks
great to hear and why this topic is unbelievable. In
the last two weeks, the events and actual actions have
really shown us where the home of hate lies. And
unfortunately it's in that left wing of the Democrat Party.
And unfortunately do we hear any Democrat leadership talking against it.

(52:24):
So therefore hate has found its home, and it is
the Democrat Party at least for now.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
And let's hope it doesn't stay there. Let's hope it's
gets driven away.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
I'd like to think so, ron, but maybe the hatred
is what will destroy the Democratic Party. I mean, you
have to look for some measure of optimism at all.
This this just awful political reality we find ourselves in.
And yet you know, there are a couple of Democrats
that have poked their head up and have spoken condemned
the whole idea of this hatred. The problem is there
are just so few of them you can count them

(52:54):
on a handful of fingers, and sort of suggests that
the rest of what you would think would be the
same logical rational response to this, which is be to
say no to hate, will be the dominant thing among
the female among the Democrats, But sadly they are almost
uniform and the rejection of that is a concept six

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Speaker 3 (54:37):
Do that?

Speaker 1 (54:37):
And in the meantime, though, let's find out what's going
on locally before we dive back into some of the
broader issues going on in the world. Since I Police
say that a SWAT team had to be called out
to an apartment complex in East probably Hill. This happened
on Sunday, Kingsview Apartment, Layman Road. Incident took place throughout
much of yesterday evening. Police didn't specify when the incident
first began. The officers confirmed they took a man suspect

(55:00):
in the custody at the apartment building about eight thirty
pm yesterday. Police said the incident appear to stem from
an altercation occurring the day before between the suspect and
a female victim living the apartment complex, too, said to
have been involved in an argument on Saturday, they turned violent.
According to police, female sustained in their word, serious injuries

(55:20):
as a result of the physical altercation, and that the
male suspect is now facing felony charges as a consequence.
Officers that they believe the victim may have been possibly
the suspect's girlfriend. However, yesterday evening, Yesterday evening, police say
they were called out to the victim's apartment complex after
a second altercation was reported the same guy proceeded to

(55:43):
refuse to let her leave her apartment. Police also said
they believe the man may have been armed while issuing
the threats. Consequence, SWAT team called in managed to successfully
remove both of them from the department. Suspect to be
taken into police custody. Although identifying information about the suspec
not released by the police, he's at least as of
the time of reporting this morning. Credit to local channel

(56:06):
five WLWDT from where I got my information. Female victims
safe evaluated by paramedics at the scene, not knowing whether
or not she was taken to the hospital. That investigation
remains open. I think it's better off you just walk
away from a relationship like that. Just walk away. Are

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you happy together. Do you look forward to going home
and being with that person, just asking out loud, these
kind of things sort of festering the back of my mind.
Shooting him Ount Adams happened Sunday morning, left a thirty
nine year old man critically injured, as well as residents
worrying about police as they continue the investigation into what
is described as an unusual act of violence Court of

(56:52):
City since ani crime database, the shooting is the first
to take place in Mount Adams since April of twenty
twenty three. We have ruining a decent record there anyway.
Cell phone camera captured the sound of gunfire two little
after two am. Emergency communications reported respond with police nine

(57:13):
two Hatch Street between Loudon Street and Belvedere Street for
a male shooting victim. Dispatcher also added three gsw's one
to the chess gunshot wounds. Victim later found a loud
Street directly across the street from the Hookah Corner lounge
beneath the sign welcoming people to Historic Mount Adams. Currently
listed as being in critical condition at UC Medical Center.

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No arrest of them made as of last night. Mark
Jefferies' councilman said that the incident is tragic and concerning,
calling it tragic anywhere this happens in the city, but
very unusual in Mount Adams. He noted the neighbors in
multiple neighborhoods, including Mount Adams, being frustrated with hookah bars
after a string of crime complaints have been tied to
them over the past month close at least three other

(57:56):
shooting incidents that have been tied to hookah bars across Cincinnati.
Jeffrey said, neighbors are fed up with it. They've had enough.
He said, we want to know is what happened after
they were before? What were the circumstances leading up to it?
Garbled sentence. Anyway, it's interesting that the hookah bar is

(58:16):
right there and it's essentially the only thing attracting people
to that neighborhood at the time. Reached out for comment.
Man at the Hookahs Center Lounge decline comment, noting that
the owner was not present expected to close to when
the lease expires, though, according to Jefferies and several neighbors,
so they're going to lose their license.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
You know.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
This kind of reminds me of the firearm conversation. If
you leave a firearm laying on the table. Does it
get up and start randomly shooting people? Is it the
hookah bar where you smoke hookah pipes? I guess is
it the hookah pipe and the hookah bar that's responsible?
Or is it the people who are showing up? They
aren't committing acts of violence after the place closes. Are
they otherwise leaving late hours in the night? Huh? Who's

(59:00):
related to blame here? And I still have to ask
out loud thinking of Anthony's cigar bar many many years ago,
did commercials for it. The man spent millions of dollars
putting money into a cigar bar but also serve food,
only to have the state of Ohio determined that no,
you cannot have any smoking at all. He loses his
entire investment, gone closed up history. All he wanted to

(59:22):
do is serve a small slice of the population that
smokes cigars hookah bars they're okay, though you parently can
know on hooka bar and smoke depends on whose smoke
is being gored or something crazy like that. Never have
been able to figure that out. Why is there exemptions
for that? You know? First off, why are any places

(59:43):
prohibited from allowing people who exercise the discretion to do
what they want to do smoke. But more fundamentally, if
you can't do it elsewhere, why can you do it
at a hookah bar? I guess it's a cultural thing
or something that I don't get five three seven hundred
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Try to have a happy Monday if you can. All
right talking about hate this morning, hatey hate. And part
of the concept of hate is this repetition over and
over and over and over and over again of fascism.
The Republicans Donald Trump fascist fascists. They failed to read

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the definition of fascism. They fail to appreciate that Donald
Trump is nothing close to a fascist. He isn't interested
necessarily in taking over the means of production your entire life,
dictator to the terms of conditions. He is an anti
regulatory guy, which means less government control. So you know,
you can go ahead and scream it all day long.
That makes it so in your mind, but for folks
of logic and reason, it never makes it so. But

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this is the kind of thing you're dealing with, the
hatred that springs from that you are a fascist, period
in a story. La la la la la l. I'm
not going to entertain any discussion about what fascism means.
You are a fascist, which means I'm allowed to hate you. You're,
in essence Adolf Hitler. You're a Nazi and they're arming themselves,

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and you know, I'm a Second Amendment guy. If you
feel that your life is in parallel that you are
otherwise threatened, then I'm a firm believer. And you having
the right to keep the barums and defend yourself against
act of violence which would result in grievous bodily injury
or perhaps death of you and your loved one. That's
when you can use deadly force. What's with the armed
queers and their Marxist founder? Daily Wire reporting on this

(01:02:40):
reporter Nick o'luke rather Rosiak. We're talking about the Socialist
Rifle Association, which reportedly has ten thousand members nationwide and
is quote planning for war against the fascists. Just consider this,
considering you are probably considered a fact among the member

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the ten thousand members strong group Socialist Rifle Association. Court
to the reporting by this guy, they've been conducting weapons
training for transgender and Marxist Leninist extremists, which makes me
ask a lot. If you're neither transgender, nor you're nor
Marxist Leninist extremists, can you take one of their Socialist
Rifle Association classes? Will they let you in? Or will

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they have a litmus test before membership? I'm joking anyway.
According to the reporting, the members have been linked to
at least four major crimes, including the fire bombing of
Tesla dealerships. Reporter says members have been stopping stocking up
on assault rifles tactical gears like gas masks to receive
membership cards bearing an image of ready Carl Marx along

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with the quote any attempt to disarm workers must be
frustrated by force if necessary close quote, Hey, maybe Karl
Marx got a took ahead and understanding what our founding
fathers knew when they preserve the Second Amendment right to
keep in bare arms and inalienable right in our Constitution Huh.
How did we gain independence here in the United States? Right?

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We took up arms against our oppressors. Well, the Marxists
are at it too. You're just the oppressor in this
particular case, and history determined who is the victor and
who is on the right side of history after history
is rewritten. Right? Can you managed if we lost the
Revolutionary War and how British history would record those evil rebels,

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those radicals, those chig Gurovara types, hoisting their muskets and
launching an attack on the pure British. Now, the Socialists
Rifle Association said their interest is to defend against fascists
and Nazis. Hmm, but apparently they apply the labels loosely,

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citing incidents like January sixth Capital protests. No guns there,
but that's a reason for them to prepare for war.
They have a chapter in Utah where Kirk was shot.
It advertises quote inclusives, fire inclusive, firearm education, along with
rainbow colored target and the tagline quote women friendly, BIPOC friendly,

(01:05:15):
queer friendly. One of the posters reportedly says, I will
die fighting for this cause. Of course, they've been spreading
disinformation about Charlie Kirk as well, along with the general
overall existence for their organization predicated on disinformation that you

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are a fascist, and that label alone justify them taking
up arms, preparing for an inevitable conflict, and maybe launching one.
I hope that's not the case. I don't mind being prepared.
It's the predicate for their existence, which truly has me

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and see what Jeff's got this morning. Jeff, welcome back
to the Morning Show. Good to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:15):
Good morning Brain. As always, you and Joe are true patriots, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Thanks brother, I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
Yeah. Well, I just wanted to maybe try to explain
to anyone out there that's whorling willing to listen. I
lost my oldest brother at forty seven, and I lost
my middle brother at forty six.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
Oh my and.

Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
When this young man of thirty one was murdered, it
just hit me really, really hard.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
I'm sitting there thinking of I'm thinking of my brothers
and how they got to at least see their kids
get to be, you know, and their teens and stuff,
and it just really hit me hard. And I didn't
even know anything about this guy. I mean, I've heard
of Johnny Kirk. I'd never watched any of his events
or anything like this. And then of course I get

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to hear all these people laughing and hollering and saying
horrible things about him, and I said, well, you know what,
before I start to argue, I'm going to actually do research,
you know, I'm going to actually look up things and
actually try to see if he is truly a racist, homophobe,
you know, sexist, all this stuff. So I start listening

(01:09:32):
to his videos and watching him at his events. I
couldn't find a single thing. I mean not a single thing.
And every time they would show him talking to these people,
half the time they're insulting him to start out, you know,
you're a racist, blah blah. And he's really calm, he's
very nice to them, and he actually tells them, Okay,

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could you give me an instance of when I was
a racist, a homo, or whatever. And then they would
come back and they would just look at him, and
then they'd go, well, you're a racist or a homophobia.
I mean, nobody had any any examples at all. And
then when you saw how he was nice to him,
I mean he even thanked them, even if they were

(01:10:18):
horribly mean to him. As they were walking off, he goes, thanks,
thanks talking. I mean, he's I just couldn't believe it.
I mean, he was just the apex of a nice
and really good guy. And then I listened and watched
some of the memorial yesterday, and the amount of love

(01:10:41):
that thousands upon thousands of people apparently cared for him
and his teachings and stuff. I was just blown away.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
I was.

Speaker 6 (01:10:53):
I mean it was beautiful. I mean, it was the
It was just unreal. And I just wanted to tell
people that I understand you think that many things have
been said about him, but please do your own research.
I mean, open up your heart a little bit, okay.
I mean, he wasn't a hater, he wasn't a homophobe,

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he wasn't an racist, he wasn't any of that stuff.
And this is from people that have known him ever
since he was eighteen years old, and people were coming
out of all races, women, everybody was kind of gay people.
I mean they were coming out and saying, you know,
Charlie always treat respect. He was an awesome guy. And

(01:11:37):
yet what MSNBC knows better than they did. I mean,
I just.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
I hear the passion, the emotion, the frustration in your voice,
and I appreciate you going out into the world and
listening to the words he actually used. So many people
have been doing that, and your comments have been echoed
regularly across what I've been able to read online over
the past week. And I think, what is illustrative and
what is backing your conclusion? Jeff? Have you run out

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into the world. Have you seen any articles with the
compilation of all the racist things that he said. What
an easy piece of low hanging fruit for any one
of these vile people to grab a hold of. Here
it is, this is the definitive statement. Here is proof
that Charlie Kirk was And fill in the black with
your favorite derogatory label you want to place on fascist, homophobes,

(01:12:28):
xenophob raised, whatever that does not exist. Not one person
has gone out into the world and done that. It
certainly if someone had done that, I have to presume,
based upon my experience being on this program now for
coming up in twenty years, it would make wide circulation
if that list, that compilation of Charlie Kirk's vile comments

(01:12:51):
actually existed. That's part of the lie. Label him and
just let the sit. This goes to that hate element
we were talking about earlier. Label someone a fascists, don't
have any basis to call them that definitionly incorrect fascist, fascist, fascist.
That just equals the right and ability to hate because

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of the label that you can't prove applies. Works perfectly
as an illustration with Charlie Kirk's entire life and body
of work. Called up in six fifty seven and I
cannot wait to talk with Jay and Drew Fellas. Are
you gonna have to hold on them out of time here?
And I got a run, but I do want to
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coming up in an hour. In the meantime, over to
the phones, as promised, we're gonna take the order in
which they receive. Jay's got you beat by just a
few seconds, Drew, hold on, Jay, Welcome to the Morning Show.

(01:14:31):
Thanks for calling.

Speaker 9 (01:14:33):
Hey man, Happy birthday. I think I'd rather hear Drew
than made it tell you the truth, but I saw
I'll make it quick. Hey couple comment you a pet
earlier this morning, especially with public schools and the dismal
results down in Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Oh my word, can you can you believe that? Hold
on real quick? Jake, because if you weren't listening this morning,
I couldn't believe it was in the stack of stupid.
I couldn't believe it so much it should have been
a regular news topic. There's one school there four years
in a row. Not a single pupil is proficient in math,
not one four years running. And the school funding per

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student went from twenty thousand and change in twenty twenty
one to forty thousand in change last year per student.
So it clearly is not the money. They are just
failing those students. I'm sorry I had to get that out.

Speaker 9 (01:15:18):
Go ahead, Jake, No, I'm glad you provided to context.
It's and what I was going to do. The comment
is that a blue state like Maryland, it's communists and
what you see as communist ideas like we are going
to throw more money because how do you say it,
each according to their means, so money will solve everything,

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except it doesn't. And if you are a underperforming school, well,
let's say you're a mediocre school, and you know how
metrics work. Metrics drive behavior. So if I am a
communist teachers union and I want to get more money
in my pocket, then what should I do?

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Double states, trying to get.

Speaker 9 (01:15:59):
Students short up, our student scores down.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Well, if the funding structure rewarded excellence and rewarded outcome,
then it will be the exact opposite of what it is,
which is your point is, don't teach the kids, make
it look like they're failing, and then say it's because
of lack of money and resources. Please give us more
money and we'll change it. Well, doubling the amount of
money over the last four years has done the polar opposite,

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or at least it resulted in the status quo. Things
have not changed at all with more money, shooting that
theory down to the toilet.

Speaker 9 (01:16:30):
Well, and my last point is this, I understand the
communists down in Maryland. The sad thing is the Republicans
here in Ohio have the same damn system in place
for a supposed red state that I will say, we're
purple on our best day. And is there nobody on
Central Committee or can we not get three Republicans that
are in office to go after this and say enough

(01:16:53):
is enough. You are driving performance the wrong direction and
financially incentivizing piss poor performance. It's in the public school.
So whatever you know, I'm not a big fan of
the Republicans, but whatever you do, don't vote Democrat. Have
a happy birthday and have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Right, thank you, Jay, thank you. Jy over to Drew. Drew,
welcome to the Morning Show. Can't thank you enough for
holding there. Welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (01:17:18):
You know what, it's a hard call to follow up.
I agree with the sentiment there as far as don't
vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
Belated Happy birthday to you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Thanks man, old man, Old Man, I know, but I
don't feel old. That's the thing. I even wanted that
on face. So I was thinking the hundreds of people
who were so kind to wish me birthday wishes, and
I was like, but I don't feel old. I should
shouldn't that because I'm sixty. I'm sixty. I've been sixty
for a day now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Man, You're saying.

Speaker 10 (01:17:44):
You don't feel old.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
Reminds me of the Monty Python skit.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Where good yet?

Speaker 10 (01:17:51):
Listen regarding the Athlan County Democrat fiasco at the fair.
You know, does it take really? Where are the reporters anymore?
Jack Windsor just all he did did some great reporting
on this on the Windsor Report.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I sent it to you.

Speaker 10 (01:18:08):
Regarding the leader of the Aceland County, one of the
leaders of the Ashland County Democrats, and what statements Heather
Sample reportedly and what statements she has made on her
personal Facebook page. And one of them, actually one of
the pictures, and I sent.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
It to you.

Speaker 10 (01:18:27):
I think requires a visit from the Secret Service because
Trump needs to go. I no longer care how And
it's within the picture of.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
A scope, a scope, yep, a rifle scope, the crosshairs
and a rifle scope. Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:18:44):
Yeah, So here's my point, and here's where I get
really irritated. Yes, you cannot control everything that volunteers or
people that are in positions of lower positions in your
in your party. But the silence from the Ohio Democrat
Party is deafening.

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
Why this woman.

Speaker 10 (01:19:05):
I have no doubt that miss Sample will retain her position,
whatever it is within the Democrat Party. They will not
come out with a formal statement. They came out with
a very tepid statement regarding the meat. I remind everybody
that the let's remember Attorney General candidate for Ohio and
the Democrat sign was made news this weekend with his

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f F what was it, f Charlie Kirk. I think
that's what is posted. Yes, he and the Democrat Party.
You know, here's my problem. If a Republican did that,
I have no doubt that the Republican Party at the
state level would condemn it and would distance themselves from it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
I have no doubt.

Speaker 10 (01:19:51):
And yet the Democrats are like, oh, well, that's just
Bill's opinion or John, we won't say anything.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Yet the person will.

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
Retain their positions.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
So Jay's exactly right.

Speaker 6 (01:20:03):
Until you know, we.

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
Hold these parties responsible for the rhetoric that not only
they are pushing, but they're people that they continue to use.
The radical base that infests the Democrat Party, the lurks
to the left that has seized control of the Democrat
Party not only at the state level, but the local

(01:20:25):
level and even the national level. Nothing's going to change.
We need to reject this violence. We need to reject
this celebration, this call to violence, and dismiss this this
typical or this Oh well, you know, if we don't comment,
maybe nobody will notice and wink wink, it didn't really happen.
It's passed it complicity. And I just rejected and I

(01:20:48):
asked everybody else. You know, Jay, You're exactly right. Whatever
you do this election cycle, don't vote Democrats.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
Thank you, And as you say that, I certainly am
thinking of the Umer election for the city of Cincinnati.
Let's see what Mark's got this morning. Mark, thanks so
much for calling. Welcome to the fifty five Guarric Morning Show.
Good morning, Brian, Happy birthday. Thanks man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Hey, I just wanted to give you a little chuckle.

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What is the number of people that have fled California?

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What's that number of two? Do you have any ideas? Oh,
I won't remember, but it's their net out migration is
I think net meaning you know, illegal immigrants have moved in,
and I think it's more than a half a million.
I please don't quote me on that, but it is
a sizeable chunk. And of course within that sizable chunk
are they are a lot of very, very wealthy people

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living generally. Well, I'm Friday.

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Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
So I got up right behind him and it said f.

Speaker 6 (01:22:01):
L E D space DA.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
I had a little conversation, got up beside him, had
a little conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
I'm like, I love it, man.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
He goes, we love it here.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
That's so great.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
Oh, that's great too.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
I love it. I love it. I'm surprised that the
Bureau Motor Vehicles actually let him have it, because you know,
I imagine they gave politics too. But it isn't offensive,
It isn't sort of FCC no compliant green light, awesome
sence of humor. If that guy's out there, I salute
you for speaking the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
He probably listens to you.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
I'm sure he does.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Okay, he's welcome to call. And thanks for bringing up
Mark put a smile on my face this month. That's great. Oh,
I just sort of reminds me of my experience. But
like I said before, I said it many times. We
lived in Chicago for eight years, and moving back to
Cincinnati was enlightening, eye opening. We had no idea what
we left until we experienced eight years in Chicago, and
then we were opened up, reopened up to a beautiful

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beautiful Greater Cincinnati area where it is a lot less
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literally an hour to get from point A to point B,
where you can actually get tickets for events that don't
cost you nine thousand dollars. And I know that's changed
a little bit, but you know, it's just it's a
wonderful experience to have a profound appreciation. And we're going back,

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you know, a long time. We moved back to the
Greater Cincinnati area ninety eight, and I still am painfully
aware of the way it was in Chicago compared to
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It's always great having you on my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Oh, thank you, Brian. First, let's start off with the
most important thing. Happy belated birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Thanks you know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
And one of the things that you said last week
going into your birthday was how you were embracing it.
And it is amazing how when we get older and
I'm right behind you on turning sixty, I've got a
couple more years, but the reality is I'm right there
is you know, you're comfortable in your own skin. Yeah,
and it really changes. And I used to, you know,

(01:26:04):
be on a beach and I'm looking over at an
older dude, I go like, right, why are you wearing that? Now?
I am that older dude, And I'm like, you just
don't care, Like I don't care what you think about me,
Like you think whatever you want. I can have hair
all over my back, all over my belly, you know,
I can put on a speedo and walk right into

(01:26:25):
the ocean, and I really don't care what you think.
I mean, as you get older, you just get so
much more comfortable with your body and who you are
and what your positions are.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
No, no, you're no longer a slave to fashion, and
you know your you know, hopefully you know your mind,
and you're in touch with your convictions well enough that
you're you're you're solid in those as well. And I've
been there for a long time. But in so far
as the other things are concerned, Yeah, it takes a while.
I called it. I figured out at one point I
can exhale. I don't. I don't walk around with the
intention of a younger man anymore. You know, worried about

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what you're worried worried about your future, worried about if
you're going to be able toford to your kid, get
your kids through school. You're going to afford to be
able to retire all that, you know, all that worry
of noriy and warrion. If you've done it right, you
get to a certain point you're like, you know what,
I'm good. I'm content contentment, having an embracing contentment.

Speaker 6 (01:27:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
It's like, just like, I don't want anything else. I'm
just happy the way I am. We just want to
call it a day, so it lets me just sort
of enjoy my life in spite of the fact that
you know it's not everything's always perfect, but I just
care so much less about it. And yes, you make
fun of me for wearing birkenstocks. I wear them all
the time. I know it looked like an idiot, but
you know what, They're comfortable. They're comfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
But that's what happens, man. But anyway, happy eclated birthday
to you. And I know your family, your kids, and
your wife and your mom and everybody just spoiled you.
I know you you got a lot of love and you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Yes I did. I got spoiled big time. My son
even cut my grass, so I was really happy about that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
Oh wow, I know it's a little things. You're like, man,
just you know you just like you cout my grads.
I don't have to do it like I just on
your birthday. You just want to wake up and just
have Pete. That's it. I just want pete.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
I did. Thanks man, It's great. That's great, it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
Look, Brian, my heart is just it continues to go
out to what happened, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and
the world is talking about it, and he's deserving of
me to talk about it. And I've heard I've been
listening to your show and you've been.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
Talking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
But I just want to reflect on a couple of things,
and I just want to say in publicly because I
think it's important in being one of many leaders in Cincinnati,
it is never acceptable to make fun of the assassination
of another person. It's never acceptable. There's nothing funny about it.
It doesn't make sense. You're not embracing humanity. And so

(01:28:51):
if you're a person that has posted something on social media,
or you've told a friend privately that somebody had what
was coming to them, or you you liked something that
was that was bad, there's something wrong with your heart.
It's not a reflection of Charlie.

Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
Kirk or Erica Kirk, or Erica Kirks.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
And Charlie Kirk's two children, or any of the people
around him that loved him, his mom and dad, is friends,
et cetera. It's it's a reflection on you. And so
there might be somebody listening and saying, hey, you can
turn your leave today when you can unlike something, you
can say something positive, you can turn your life over
to God. You can do any of those things. But

(01:29:35):
I just wanted to denounce anybody who thinks the assassination
of anybody, but particularly an American citizen by someone who
is this deranged thinking that it's okay. I want to
I want to denounce it. And there is a connection,
in my opinion, on something directly at city Hall. And

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that's when the President pro tim made the comments about
Holly and those others that were ambushed in our downtown
where the person said, hey, this member of council City
council said she was begging for it. They were begging
for it, and then doubled down on it. And see,
we don't understand on this continuum of dehumanization that you

(01:30:19):
start doing stuff like that and then you get the assassination.
That's the warning that people are trying to make when
you say, hey, this person is Hitler, right. One of
the things I can absolutely say with certainty is that
the President of the United States of America is not Hitler,
has never been Hitler, has nothing in common with Hitler.
And someone saying that right makes a person out there

(01:30:42):
that's deranged to say, well, what would I what do
I need to do to stop Hitler?

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
That's the problem with what's happening with those who are
making those comments, and it's enough is enough. I'm tired
of it. I'm tired of listening to it, I'm tired
of watching it, and I'm tired of in the media
who are trying to make excuses about it. I thought
that Erica Kirk her speech, everybody should take the time

(01:31:09):
doesn't matter. This is not about politics. It's about humanity.
It's not about politics, it's about humanity. Just listen to
the widow's speech that she said, I stand my forgiveness
to the man who assascinated my husband, she said, which
is very hard for someone to say, you know what
I mean. Also, also, oh yeah, she also said, we

(01:31:31):
got to take the next step forward. I mean you
have a beautiful wife, Paul Atte. You know something crazy
like this happens to you, not calling on it to
your listening audience. Brian is a public figure. He's up,
he's a public figure. But my point is I'm a
public figure. I put myself in the bubble. No one
is going to feel good and no one should should
relish in anybody's assassination. That's Brian Thomas My first rant.

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I don't understand that. Can you help me?

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Speaker 3 (01:33:20):
Look, brother, you know I just went away in on
a national story and I rarely do it, but you
know this whole thing with Kimmel, and you know him
being removed from this show.

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
Look, let's speak.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
Let's be clear. The reason he's being removed has nothing
to do from what I'm seeing, is his ratings. That's
a kind of a second story. And I don't know
anything about his ratings, by the way, so I don't
even want to speak about it. But it was his
comments about the assassination of Charlie kirk And so you
you have your first Amendment right to your listening audience

(01:33:54):
and anybody else who's tuning in. I'm one of the
regulars to your show. I listened from five to nine
and love your show, love you, love your points of views.
But guess what, Brian Thomas can't say whatever he wants
to say under his first Amendment and expect to have
his job on Monday morning. There are boundaries for all
of us. And so making this mockery of this man's

(01:34:16):
assassination is what got him in trouble. And then saying
he lied about the person who shot him. I don't
even like saying his name because I don't want to
bring notoriety to the shooter. But the reality is that
the person who assassinated Charlie Kirk Kimmel lied about it.
And he said that the person who did it was
a MAGA person, a MAGA supporter, which is absolutely another lie.

(01:34:40):
And I think that ABC and their affiliates just said
we can't take it anymore. I mean, half of the
country are more so many young people, right, we're so
engaged with Charlie Kirk. People who are listening right now,
you might not have ever heard of Charlie Kirk, but
your children knew Charlie Kirk. Your young adults knew Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 4 (01:34:58):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
So the reality of it is for ABC probably it
came down to business. They said, listen, we can't have
half of America or all of these young people who
are probably independent and they're trying to figure out their
political positions, that you're here saying he almost like he
deserved to die like everybody else, he had it coming
to him. And then you are basically saying something about

(01:35:20):
MAGA and in relation to who actually assassinated Charlie Kirk.
That's why he was removed and anybody listening. Brian Thomas
has a dump button there, dump button which mean that
you just can't, you just can't come on this radio
show and say whatever you want to say. He has
a big button there that he can say no, that

(01:35:42):
can't go across the air Why do you think he
has that there public? Because you have your right, your
First Amendment right. But he has bosses, he has regulators
who are listening to the show at CC. You can't
say anything you want to say across these airways. Am
I correct? Brian?

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
You are correct? And you know the only time I've
ever used the dump button, it hasn't been for some
some utterance that I disagreed with. It's been only because
someone dropped an F bomb or an S word or
something that violates the SEC's rules. So I got this
like minute delay and you hit the button and you
lose a minute's worth of content. But that's the price
you pay on the morning show when you use foul language.
But beyond that, you can articulate some sort of political

(01:36:22):
position I disagree with. But I'm like Charlie kirk Man.
I take all comers. I know people know where I
stand from. I'm in favor of freedom, freedom, freedom, freedoms.
That's where I fall down on the word freedom, and
that means that I have to embrace and live among
people who I disagree with. But I can, and I

(01:36:43):
am capable of doing that because we live in a
free country where I'm allowed to believe and assert my
positions and engage in conversation and support of my positions,
and you can feel free to have yours, and if
we can engage in a healthy debate, walk away at
least not angry with each other. That's a beautifling.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
Yes, But what you're saying is there is no place
for a political violence.

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
No, there is no.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Place for a political censorship. We're not the UK. We
don't want the police showing up saying, oh I saw
you like something on social media, I'm here your phone,
I'm here to arrest you. It's not the world that
we live in, in this great experiment called the United
States of America, where there's a democracy. But at the
end of the day, there is no place for political violence. Right.

(01:37:27):
And so there's notion that I'm watching here with the
with the Democrats and the Republicans, you know, some of
the debates that they're having even in Congress. I mean,
I couldn't imagine calling for a moment of silence, right,
And you have fifty something people Democrats who say we're
not even going to have a moment of silence for this,
for this man who is assassinated, Like that's how far

(01:37:49):
gone we are a lot of people don't even know
what I just said. Yet. Members of Congress recently voted
no on a moment of silence for the assassination of
Charlie Kirk. Person out there listening to me and you
think that that was okay, there's something wrong with your heart,
there's something wrong with your mind. You need to get
yourself together, because you know there's no harm in extending

(01:38:14):
a moment of silence. One of the biggest lies that
I keep hearing about Charlie Kirk, and that was he
was a racist, or was he engaged in and he
didn't like women all that kind of stuff. And you
heard what his wife, yeah, widow said yesterday, right, he didn't.
I mean, that's one of the things that I think
she's getting out about their relationship because one of the
big lies that you've heard over the last eleven or

(01:38:36):
twelve days is that he didn't like women, misogyny, or
that he was a racist, And that word racist and
misogyny and not liking women is being thrown around, and
that's why it's losing its power. It's losing because because
racism is real, misogyny is real, and so you don't
want to just walk around calling everybody you don't like

(01:38:56):
women or you're a racist because they have a different
political perspective that you have.

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Christopher Smith Avan do what we call this Smither event
at vote Smith Aman on x in bide Christopher, Christopher,
where can people get a yard sign for your campaign
for Cincinni City Council before we move on with your
other comments this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:40:40):
They can come to our office at seventeen o three
Dale Road and pick up a yard sign, or they
can come to Jim and Jacks fifty pick up a
yard sign, or they can inbox me on that at
vote Smitherman with their addressing will deliver one. Right. But
let me share some good news with you. You know,
out of this crisis, this assassination of Charlie Kirk, the

(01:41:02):
interest in my campaign has accelerated dramatically. And I don't
know if that is true for other campaigns. And for example,
my daughter who goes to see high school, got five
or six requests last week from her friend saying I
would like your dad's My mom and dad want your

(01:41:25):
dad's yard side. Will you bring them to school to
give to me? That has never that has never happened.
And so what is happening right now is the way
people are going and taking action like for turning point
is they're saying, this is a turning point, and I'm
no longer going to hide my perspective or my politics

(01:41:47):
or my positions. I'm gonna tell everybody where I am.
And so what happened last week is we're almost running
out of yard side. I mean they're just going off
the shelf like in this extraordinary kind of way, signs,
small signs. I want to get involved. What do I
need to do? And I'm just sharing with you. I
know that energy is coming from the assassination of Charlie Kirk,

(01:42:10):
and I'm sharing with everybody. This was really a turning
point in our local election. I think we're gonna see
a tick up with young people who are registering to
vote in their families. People who might have said I'm
gonna stay home because you know, voter turnout tends to
be doesn't even tend to hit the teams in the
city of Cincinnati, like eighty percent of people stay at

(01:42:32):
home who are registered to vote in local elections. I
don't think that's gonna happen right now. I think you're
gonna get a tick up and people saying, no, I'm
going to go out there and vote based on what
happened in this assassination with Charlie Kirk. I'm going to
turn something negative into something positive. I'm gonna make lemonade,
I'm gonna do something. I'm gonna take an action. And
one of the things my late wife used to say,

(01:42:53):
love is a verb. I'm just sharing with you. I
don't know if that is actually true. It could be
that we're just getting closer to the election in early
voting on October the seventh, Brian Thomas. But I can
tell you there has been an energy kickup in interest
around my campaign and it is directly correlated, unfortunately, with
the assassination of Parley Kirk.

Speaker 8 (01:43:15):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
People are pissed off and they're saying, what can I
do to get involved in I don't care what my
neighbor think. My neighbor can have whatever perspective they want
to have. Matter of fact, I was doing a door
to door and the guy said, I have my American
flag up. If people are running around calling me a
racist because I have the American flag up, oh you
know what, I'm going to put a second American flag up.
This was just this we get and I'm saying people

(01:43:37):
out there are saying, no, I have the right to
express myself under my First Amendment right. I love my country.
I'm putting the American flag up. But yes, there are
people still, there are people in our country who think
if you fly the American flag in some way, it
makes you a bad person. Brian Thomas. We've got to
move away from some of this crazy and I think
it's going to show up in the upcoming election.

Speaker 1 (01:43:57):
Well, I think it will too, Christopher. But maybe maybe
divine intervention here in terms of timing, if you want
to put it that way. But yeah, I certainly appreciate
that Charlie Kirk's assassination and this response to it, as
exhibited by the vile comments from the left and people's
pointing to Charlie Kirk's actual message as opposed to some SoundBite.

(01:44:18):
They sounded a meme suggesting he's a racist engaging in
thoughtful debate. All these illustrations out there of this thoughtful
debate he engaged in. And I think there is a
desire across our country to end this this vile division
we have. So you got that. But then also city
issues have come home to roost for city management right now,
the real estate problem bond Hill, Hyde Park Square, the

(01:44:41):
one size fits all approach until it doesn't fit all,
and then they offer, you know, waivers for well connected developers.
The roads were four hundred million dollars behind in road repairs.
Everybody's got a road they drive on that is in miserable,
miserable state, like Sunset for example, which has been that
way for deck more than a decade the police and
situation which impacts every person regardless of political stripe. They're

(01:45:04):
not happy with the response from the administration. You know,
you've got Ted Purval coming out saying he's accepted all
this love from Columbus, and it terms out it's only
two days per month that he's accepting additional law enforcement
resources in spite of the unlimited nature of the offer.
People are upset about that. So you know that maybe
the timing is perfect for this, as sad as that

(01:45:24):
reality is, maybe it's just one more thing the urge
City of Cincinnati voters to choose a different.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Path, yeah, and to get off the sidelines. And they're saying, hey,
there's something that I can do. And I heard Corey
Bowman indicating that turning point. You know, if you go
look at his page, you know they're getting involved and
they're starting to engage his election. You know, that's that's encouraging,
but very dangerous for the mayor because you know, the

(01:45:53):
reality of it is, if young people wake up and
I'm talking about young people who love God, are families
who love God? And let me also say this, because
this notion of racism is also being thrown around or
you're a racist. But Uncle Tom is also being thrown
around as it relates to Smitherman, and I want to
speak to it. You know this notion that because I
speak out against fatherless homes, meaning I say, I don't

(01:46:16):
care whether you're white or black or Latino. If you
have a baby and you're not taking care of your child,
I have a problem with that. Right. If you're way
behind on your child support, I have a problem with
that right. And so that's an example. If I say, hey,
it's great to go to church. I love God. I
think it's great that you say the pledge of Legiance,
which is what I had to do when I was

(01:46:37):
in school. Or you take your hat off and you
stand when someone is when the national anthem is on.
And I love my country, And if you don't like
the country and you hate it so much, get the
hell out of our country. You don't have to be here.
Nobody's asking you to be here. I'm just saying this
word you're a conservative, and they're trying to connect that
with conservative being racist or conservative being and Uncle Tom,

(01:47:01):
I'm just sharing with you, like the things that I
talk about are like common sense. I'm saying, I don't
want dudes in the locker room with my daughter or
anybody else's daughter. That doesn't mean I'm against the gay community.
It means that I don't want dudes in the locker
room with my daughters. He just moved away from period.
We just moved away from common sense, and people who

(01:47:22):
speak common sense and have experience are now called conservatives.
I just don't know how to define it. But you know,
I walk up to people and I'm like, you say,
you know you're not going to go for me, Like,
what do you mean? I got five kids, I got
four boys, are all doing well. You know I would
I stay engaged with my children. You know, I've raised them,
every child that I've ever had, I've taken care of them.

(01:47:43):
You know, I loved my wife. I support my community.
You know I'm a small business owner. I pay my taxes.
You know, I don't know what more you want from me?

Speaker 1 (01:47:54):
All that you have represent you.

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
To represent you, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
No, they just want to take what you've got from you, Christopher.
They don't want to elect you. They just want to
take your stuff and things. Maybe at the bottom of
this all, Christopher, as you talk about your situation, the
positive life that you've lived and the results of that positivity,
all the success you've had as a father and a
businessman and as a politician. I think they're just jealous, Christopher.

(01:48:20):
Maybe that's what it all boils down to, just outright
flat greed or envy and greed for what you have
that they want to take away.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
Well, Brian Thomas, you're successful. Your listeners, many of them
are successful in the world. But it's hard work, right,
It's not making excuses. Racism is real public right, but
it's it's just a way to cheat and and and
in a game of life, you got to get around
people who want to cheat. But to act like with this,

(01:48:48):
with this broad brush that white people are waking up
every day trying to figure out how to destroy black
people is insane because they're not right. If that's not
what's going on, the reality of it is is when
you get up every day, you go to work, you
save your money over a long period of time, you
participate in your four oh one K or four or
three D or I RA whatever it is, that those

(01:49:09):
are self choices that you have to make to make
sure that you're ready for your retirement. In your life,
you coming home to your wife and making sure as
as Erica Kirk said, I heard your commentary earlier saying,
what a beautiful thing. How what can I do for you?
How can I make your life better? As as her
husband in the Love notes her as a husband right

(01:49:33):
in the Love Notes that he was leaving her, it
wasn't that a great example? These aren't concerned principles in
my mind, this is just basic common sense of how
to stay married, how to love your wife, how to
love your children. My point to you in conclusion with
this is I am very connected to my community as
anybody else is. I want to be a positive role model,

(01:49:55):
not a bad role model. I want to make sure
that I am in the life of my children and
that I am vest in them, even though many of
them now are adults. Except my daughter, I don't want
I don't think that's as negative in the election, but
guess what, there are people out there who believe that
it is.

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let other people do it for me. But go ahead,
Brian James.

Speaker 11 (01:52:49):
Yeah, I myself. I'm not an active investor either. I
let Andy Stout our chief investment officer. He's my active investor.
I don't care what he does. I trust him. We
do well so.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
But anyway, so.

Speaker 11 (01:52:58):
Last week's big headline, the reason we're talking about this,
the FED just cut the benchmark interest rate by a
quarter of a point. That was the first cut we've
had in nine months. And this is happening despite a
cooling labor market. Slow, slower job grows from the increases
in unemployment is usually what we're trying to cause these things.
Usually when we cut interest rates, we're trying to prompt
these things to happen. But the broader US economy is
still resilient, so it doesn't seem that we've had a

(01:53:21):
negative impact yet. The market didn't panic or anything like that.
The Fed's projections, this is what we call the dot plot.
The dot plot is, hey, if you're a FED Board governor,
then what do you think is coming? And they plot
everybody's opinion on this on a board here, and what
they're the Fed Board governors are not anticipating a recession scenario.
It seems like we're still looking for a soft landing.

(01:53:42):
There's that word we keep saying. Soft landing simply means
we just start ignoring things until we stop talking about it.
But so that that seems to be the projection coming
from the FED that we feel pretty comfortable that this
is not going to give us some kind of recession.
We'll see remains to be seen. Have we crossed this
bridge before?

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
With the numbers line up the way they are, I mean,
one suggests raising interest rates and other ones suggests lowering
interest rates. It seems like they're stuck between a rock
and a hard play. So is there any historical reference
we can point to where we have gone down this
road before and this is what worked or didn't as
the case may be.

Speaker 11 (01:54:14):
Well, there's a big one, unfortunately, and it's called stagflation
from the seventies, where we had inflation, which normally would
mean we have economic activity heating up, but that didn't happen.
Prices went up without the economic activity going with it. Normally,
you would think if prices arising, well, then at least
for a little while companies are making money, there's more
profits to be passed around and so forth. That did

(01:54:35):
not happen in the seventies. That is the buzzword that
we're hearing for. There are things that look like that,
there are also things that don't look like that. So
I don't see any huge cause for alarm. Definitely cause
for curiosity, because there's a lot of stuff going on
that really hasn't happened before in terms of the decisions
that we're making in the political will with which we're
doing it. So there's not a whole lot of stuff

(01:54:58):
to look back on to say when ahapp b will follow.

Speaker 1 (01:55:01):
Well, I'm old enough to remember things being bad in
the mind of a you know, a ten, twelve, thirteen
year old in the seventies. You know, you had this
sense of things being bad based upon how your parents
were talking. Yes, oh, just scooge. But going back to
the the economic genesis behind how bad things were from
an economic standpoint, wasn't that really driven by the oil

(01:55:26):
embargo and the price of fuel going through the roof
and the scarcity of fuel.

Speaker 11 (01:55:32):
There was, Yeah, there was a lot of that. So, yeah,
there was high inflation, high unemployment. There was another factor
back then, slow and no growth in the economy.

Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Those are all the hallmarks of stagflation, right.

Speaker 11 (01:55:42):
So the oil crises of the OPEC embargo in seventy three,
there was an Iranian revolution in nineteen seventy nine. Those
things pushed up global energy prices, so that that and
then that pushed inflation of course on everything else because
the companies that are delivering products for you to buy
in the stores, of course are paying more for oil
and gas and so forth. All also a loose monetary
policy that led up to this late sixties and nineteen

(01:56:04):
seventies that the FED kept interest rates way too low
for way too long.

Speaker 1 (01:56:07):
Some of this was politically driven.

Speaker 11 (01:56:09):
Nixon wanted this because he wanted to make a good
showing at midterms so that he could himself could get
re elected in nineteen seventy four. That of course did
not happen because we took a different path with him.
But that came from and that's the part that kind
of rhymes a little bit. We have some a lot
of political pressure on the Federal Reserve, and we're seeing
that again.

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
So there are parallels well, and there are a lot
of people being critical of Trump putting pressure on the
so called independent Federal Reserve and their decision making. And
I look, somebody's going to criticize Trump all the time
for whatever he does. That's fine. How is Nixon able
to accomplish it. Accomplish it in the face of the
more prudent and presumably more knowledgeable folks over at the
FED saying no, no, no, no, we need to raise

(01:56:51):
interest rates because they've been loaded for way too long,
and that's what's driving all this.

Speaker 11 (01:56:54):
Well, then Nixon just just browbeat the chairman of the
Federal Reserve. It was the same thing, except he capitulated it.
So but it was really the same approach. It was
just a lot of pressure coming directly from the White House.
We hadn't This is the second time in modern history
that we've seen the pressure at the level that it
is right now politically.

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
Speaking, well, and we all know that the FED ultimately
didn't relent with Jimmy Carter's demands to lower interest rates,
and so that's the difference between who's running the FED
and who's not. That's true. And this is also where
we got Paul Vulker from.

Speaker 11 (01:57:26):
So this is why Paul Vulkar is a bit of
an economic superhero, because he did force us to take
to I don't want to call it it's austerity, but
he did force us to make some tough decisions and
live that way for a little while, which gave us
something known as the Paul Vocal rule and also set
the table for when the political will changed in nineteen

(01:57:48):
eighty when Reagan came in and we became a much
more business friendly environment. All these things are connected. The
through line runs, you know, directly from Nixon pushing for
low interest rates for election purposes, all the way through
the issues and the inflation stagflation that that caused, and
then fixing it gave us the eighties and the nineties, which,
in my opinion, Brian, that's the anomaly. A lot of
people who have money now, maybe in their sixty seventies,

(01:58:10):
made the bulk of it when they started saving in
the eighties and nineties, because really, nothing bad happened in
that twenty year period.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
That's the anomaly.

Speaker 11 (01:58:17):
A lot of us have convinced ourselves that the market
has made so many mistakes over the last twenty years,
but honestly, the last twenty years looked like the prior
two hundred, eighties and nineties where the anomaly were. Really
we just didn't have any shocks at all.

Speaker 1 (01:58:29):
Yeah, I'm lucky for me to be alive during my
investment years during those periods of time, Brian, because now
I can retire.

Speaker 11 (01:58:36):
Young people are screaming at the end of their radios
right now saying it must be nice Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
Yeah, no, no, I will agree. And this is not
me rubbing it in. It's just me getting the benefits
of a decent market and actually tightening the belt and
putting money in when we could have used it for
other things. My wife and I thought we needed at
the time, So just got to learn to say no
now real quick here. And I don't want to put
you on the spot because I don't know if anybody
can know this. Is there any historical precedent for understanding

(01:59:01):
when the results will show up from the interest rates?
I understand the interest rates may be dropped again by
another quarter or half point. That's kind of what they're
saying in the background, which sounds mean more like the
political environment in the NIX years, So they lower the
interest rate. Now, since there is inflation going on out there,
are we going to see some sort of how long
will it take to know whether or not the inflation

(01:59:22):
is going to go through the roof or we're going
to have a good outcome on this, or I mean,
is there any way of knowing how long it's going
to take to result or to react.

Speaker 11 (01:59:29):
Yeah, there's lots of history we can look at there.
So this is called monetary policy lag. Usually takes about
six to eighteen months to really see the full impact
of a rate cut to fold through the economy. So,
but there are immediate effects. You'll see things markets, mortgage rates,
and some loan products will respond right away. If you've
got a home equity line of credit. Congratulations, your payments
just went down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
Good.

Speaker 11 (01:59:49):
Don't don't make the minimum payment. Keep making the same payment,
but you're going to pay it off quicker. More medium term,
you'll see consumer spending and businesses pick up over over
the next several months, and then longer term, ideally we
see job growth and fl and investment flows. But again
six to six months to a year and a half
is usually where we see that. All right, well, we
will pause. We bring Brian James back to talk about
the one hundred thousand dollars fee to get at h

(02:00:12):
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Speaker 8 (02:01:34):
Fifty five KRCANE if about KRCD talk station Brian Thomas
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Speaker 1 (02:01:40):
Brian James doing what we call money Monday every Monday,
being at eighth five. Hey, we're gonna be hearing from
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That's tomorrow night. Log in from home. We'll get the
details from Ryan after the segment here with Brian James
is going on Brian James one hundred thousand dollars two
for per H one B visa substrict to subject to

(02:02:02):
some loopholes and exclusions. But by way of background, there's
illegal immigration. That's when you come across the border uninvited,
without without authorization, without a green card, without a visa,
without anything. That's okay. But if you get an H
one BVS, so that is an employer bringing you over
into the United States of America under a visa so

(02:02:24):
you can work at the job, right.

Speaker 11 (02:02:26):
Correct, You may or may not have the intent to
become a citizen. That's It's really got nothing to do
with that. This is just, hey, this person has special
skills that we want. We can't find in the United States,
so we're bringing somebody in from overseas. That's what the
H one B visa is. It's known as the Special
Skills visa. Usually jobs in tech, healthcare, research, higher higher
skilled jobs that require college degree, software engineers, AI researchers,

(02:02:49):
and so forth.

Speaker 1 (02:02:49):
All right, cutting to the chase on that point, can't
find in the US. Is that really even a true statement?
Or do we lack enough educated, college educated people who
can do this work. Or is it more the price
of bringing in an H one B versus a bvs.
A person they're coming from Let's say, assume a second
world country or someone with a lower standard of living

(02:03:10):
where they're more than happy to work here in the
United States for a salary that you'd have to pay
much more for a well a domestic grown worker. You
just nailed it.

Speaker 11 (02:03:18):
So sometimes, yeah, go figure, right, So we are the
United States of profit margin, Brian. We can make more
money by selling more products and finding new markets, or
we can sell the same stuff and squish the costs
out out from underneath of it to expand that profit margin.

Speaker 1 (02:03:32):
So yeah, this is It's not always this way.

Speaker 11 (02:03:35):
It's not fair to paint anything with a broad brush,
but a lot of times some of these workers are
ten to thirty percent cheaper than workers who come from
the United States, and they tend to have maybe a
different set of expectations, different set of demands, not so
demanding of their employers in terms of what the different
perks they're looking for to work for these companies, the
salaries and so on and so forth. So yeah, you're
exactly right there. That is a big factor here. So

(02:03:57):
Trump is trying to wipe that out by tacking one
hundred thousand dollar price tag on this. So right now,
employers pay by the way, yeah, this is an employee.
Let's be really clear. This is the employer who says,
I want this employee from whatever country, I'm gonna have
to write a check for one hundred thousand dollars. The
current situation is that costs between five and ten thousand
dollars for a new H one B and we bring in.

Speaker 1 (02:04:17):
About eighty five thousand workers every year.

Speaker 11 (02:04:19):
So if that stays the same, and I can't imagine
it will, but this could have an eight and a
half billion dollar price tag on it if we're going
to keep bringing in that number of workers and employers
are going to write hundred thousand dollars checks for each
of these visas. So ibouldly there's a lot of money
at stake here, and that money has not been said
where it's going to go. Presumably it would go right

(02:04:40):
into government coffers. But the battle Brian is going to
be is this does this get labeled a tax or
is it a fee? It looks you know, you can
make a legal argument that it's a taxed therefore Congress
should have to approve, But the fight back will be Nope,
this is just a fee. It's just no different than
your driver's license.

Speaker 1 (02:04:55):
But in the final analysis, the way you characterize it,
it's a penalty for wanting to hire h one B visa.
I mean, the one hundred thousand dollars multiplied by any
number of foreign visas there would be it would be otherwise,
you know, getting it under that ten thousand dollar fee.
This isn't a huge amount of money in the world
of thirty six point seven trillion deficits and trillion plus

(02:05:16):
dollar overspending every five months. I mean, so we're not
demanding this fee to sort of offset our deficit or anything, right,
it's just the penalty.

Speaker 11 (02:05:24):
Yeah, basically, Yeah, the goal here is to make it
less attractive to bring in workers from the outside who
presumably will earn their money here. You know, it's still
reasonably high salaries, even if they are lower than American
born workers. But the concern is that they earn those
salaries and send those dollars straight back home to their families,
and that those dollars do not circulate. Then in the
United States, So yes, it's not to keep. I think

(02:05:46):
that the goal is less of eight and a half
billion dollars of revenue going into a pile and more
American workers getting jobs. But at the same time, if
American workers continue to demand the same things that they do,
I'm not sure where we go there because is the
competitive nature?

Speaker 1 (02:06:03):
You know? Can we even get away with that? Right?
And I guess the other part is, as we talked
about earlier about the employment situation, the market's not really
good right now. So the demands that let's say one
of these engineers might be able to make in really
a tough market for employers, that's kind of waning that
coupled with one hundred thousand dollars they're going to have

(02:06:24):
to pay to hire somebody from out of the country
to do the job. Or maybe the stars align right
enough that the salary demanded by a domestic produced American
citizen with a degree will be more affordable, right right, right.

Speaker 11 (02:06:38):
And I think the other thing that's interesting to look
at too is, Okay, so if the United States is
charging this much, what else is happening out there? Well,
Canada charges about seven hundred dollars the UK is around
two thousand bucks. Germany is right around one hundred and
fifty bucks. So this is obviously a shot across the
bow and it's going to where it's probably going to
be a make or break type of situation if we
can stick to it and still maintain the same level

(02:06:59):
of product out of these companies.

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Brian James one more segment here.

Speaker 1 (02:08:21):
I will not say out loud my initial reaction to
this article regarding children asking parents to unlock their wealth
early or stop spending it. What kind of nerve does
a child have to ask their parents to do something
with the parents' money that their parents saved up over
their life in order to provide for their comfortable living
in retirement.

Speaker 11 (02:08:41):
Brian James, Yeah, it's kind of a ridiculous. Scenario, but
there are we're hearing more and more stories. I'm not
going to say widespread. It's not that, but this is
what we've gotten pushed to where people are discouraging their
their parents from spending their nest eggs because for some
people who haven't been able to put away their own
money for whatever reason, then then their own parents and
nest egg becomes theirs. And you know, obviously this is

(02:09:03):
causing a lot of family conflicts because what if mom
and dad need some help in.

Speaker 1 (02:09:07):
Their later years exactly.

Speaker 11 (02:09:08):
So, yeah, it's it's kind of disgusting, frankly, and again,
this is not widespread, but it's just another sign of
the times as to where we are right now.

Speaker 1 (02:09:17):
I just maybe this brings from this entitlement mentality exactly.

Speaker 11 (02:09:22):
So yeah, well so one of the stories out of this,
it comes out of Australia. Just one example, somebody lost
their entire seventy thousand dollars pension because family members convinced
her to build this backyard unit so that somebody could
move in because they couldn't afford a home on their own.
And eventually the project fell apart because the contractors didn't
follow through and she got evicted and ended.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
Up with no money out there. So the reason this
is a thing.

Speaker 11 (02:09:46):
So the World Health Organization is projecting that about three
hundred and twenty million older adults are going to face
some form of abuse as the population over sixty doubles
to two billion. This totaled about twenty eight point three
billion dollars here in the United States. And we see this,
I mean as a financial advisor. Every now and then
we'll get a weird phone call or a weird email

(02:10:07):
from somebody just say asking about their parents, that kind
of thing. So just be vigilant because there are scammers
out there, and sometimes they're in your own families. So
be vigilant, know what's going on, and if you are
somebody who's worried about your parents, will get as close
as you can and make sure that you understand what's
going on. This is where durable powers of attorney can
come in handy because that will give you the ability

(02:10:29):
to kind of monitor what's going on. It is also
the key to the treasury. So if you are someone
who suspects you have a family member who is offering
to help and they're talking about this, then you've got
to be careful the same tool can be used for
good as it can for evil.

Speaker 1 (02:10:43):
Well, yeah, and I suppose I'm kind of curious to know,
is there's sort of an age group that these people,
these children fall into where they're starting to make these
types of demands. Are they in their adult years, in
their thirties or forties, looking back on the real life
and realizing that they hadn't bothered saving it, or are
these younger people who have their life in front of
them that may be used as a learning exercise, like

(02:11:05):
how about no, and how about we use this as
an opportunity to sit down with you and talk about
financial planning so you have money in your future.

Speaker 11 (02:11:12):
Yeah, and you're sounding a little triggered there, and I
am triggered.

Speaker 1 (02:11:16):
I am very very triggered by those because it's because
that's exactly what's happened.

Speaker 11 (02:11:20):
It's mostly people on the older end, thirties and forties
and are kind of in their their routine and they
know that they have not put themselves in a position
to put away their own money and do much more
than living paycheck to paycheck, and so they're starting to
see that the only out for them. As they're hearing
more and more about social security possibly needing to be
adjusted during their retirement. These people who are currently in

(02:11:41):
their thirties and forties are just looking under every stone. Again,
this is not I don't want to incent any or
incite any panic here.

Speaker 1 (02:11:47):
This is not widespread.

Speaker 11 (02:11:48):
We're just hearing about it more and more as people
get pushed to the limit in their own financial situations.

Speaker 1 (02:11:52):
Well, you know, sometimes there's a thing called tough love. Brian. Absolutely, yes,
we'll be paying attention.

Speaker 11 (02:11:58):
Vigilance is key here, whether you are you are the
parent who may be asked to do this kind of thing,
or if you are a sibling who suspects you got
other people in the orbit we may be asking for things.

Speaker 1 (02:12:08):
Just be vigilant, very very prudent piece of advice on
that one one that I wasn't really all that familiar with,
Brian James. That's why we have you every Monday to
come on the fifty five Cassy Morning Show and enlighten
us on these important money topics. And as I always
like to point out, you know, get a financial planner
that's phoebase, so they have a fiduciary obligation to you.
So everybody makes money and there's incentive to do that
across the board. And if you start early, you won't

(02:12:29):
have to ask mom and dad for money, right Brian.

Speaker 11 (02:12:32):
Exactly, do your own planning, put your own money away,
and everybody has a happy.

Speaker 1 (02:12:36):
Christmas till next Monday. Brian James, have a great week,
and thanks for your time. Who day and whatever you say,
go Reds right there you go. At least you got
that left sort of kind of It's day thirty five
fifty five cars to Detalks days and let's learn a
little bit about Grover Clevel. We're gonna have Ryan Walter's
doing the program. He's doing the seminar tomorrow night empower
You America dot org to find out all about that

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and the rest of the Empower You Seminar series. There
are fantastic ones in there, and again props to Dan
Reaganold for creating the concept and continuing it after all
these years. Ryan Walters is up next a thirty eight
if you have Caresey Detalk Station, A very happy Monday
to you. Really looking forward to this one. Ryan Walter
is joining the program he has been doing, going to
be doing an empower Youth seminar tomorrow evening. That is

(02:13:19):
the twenty third, and it's a virtual class only, so
it's really easy to go to empower You America dot org.
Make sure you register ahead of time. Kicks off at
seven pm. I'm going to go to eight fifteen pm.
The subject matter Grover Cleveland, the last President to uphold
Jeffersonian values. Ryan Walter is originally from evans Ellsville, Mississippi.
He is an independent historian currently teaches American history at

(02:13:42):
Collin College in North Texas. Author of a whole bunch
of books, including The Last Jeffersonian, Grover Cleveland, and also
a different one, The Last Jeffersonian pro Grover Cleveland, The
Last Jeffersonian President. I'm a slew of other books. He's
been on c SPAN, Bright Bart Radio, Dennis pre among others.
Welcome to the fifty five Carsey Morning Show, Ryan Walters.

(02:14:03):
It's a pleasure to have you on today.

Speaker 2 (02:14:06):
Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (02:14:08):
Well, and what makes Grover Cleveland so fascinating, It's seen
to me. I was talking to Dan Reaganold the other day,
and I'm sure you know Dan, he's the one behind
the whole Empower You summinar series. I think if I'm
remembering his words correctly. When I talked to him about this,
he said, Grover Cleveland is one of Donald Trump's favorite presidents.
Is that is that accurate?

Speaker 2 (02:14:27):
I haven't heard that. Okay, all right, of course, cause
see Trump likes Andrew Jackson, people like that.

Speaker 1 (02:14:35):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
Cleveland's been back in the news because he did. Trump
has done something that I didn't think would ever happen.
As you know, Grover Cleveland's was the only president to
serve to not on consecutive term, right, and Trump duplicated that.
And that's something I never thought i'd see in my
lifetime or ever again. But he was able to able

(02:14:58):
to pull that off. And so that's why Cleveland has
been back of the news. And there are some similarities
between the two. But Cleveland much more of a Jeffersonian
than Trump. Trump's much more of a nationalist and and
things like that. So there are some decided differences. There's
some similarities in foreign policy and things like that.

Speaker 1 (02:15:20):
What do you mention Jeffersonian, you're talking about you the
the true liberal in the traditional political liberal sense. JEFFERSONI
had a very broad mind, more of a what I
would call libertarian perspective, at least if I can personally
some up my perceptions are by JEFFERSONI but how is
Grover Cleveland the last Jeffersonian president? Springing from what you
understand the Jeffersonian mold to be, sir.

Speaker 2 (02:15:43):
Right, Well, Jeffersonian is a meaning that going back to
Thomas Jefferson right and the Jeffersonian ideals, which is limited government,
states rights, restrict adherence to the Constitution, those kind of things.
Cleveland was the last one to hold all up to
all those ideals. I mean, obviously, looking at our situation today,

(02:16:07):
that's not exactly what we believe with the government that
spends the kind of money that they spend and is
involved in the kind of things that they're involved in.
I mean, that kind of that would horrify Grover Cleveland
if he was here. He believed in staying strictly within
the balance of the Constitution, that the government maintained a
balanced budget and low taxes and things like that, and

(02:16:28):
and non interventionist foreign policy. I don't think that exactly
describes anything that we're doing now, and we have we haven't.
We haven't seen those ideals. And since Grover Cleveland. And
when you look since Grover Cleveland left office in eighteen
ninety seven, presidents after that have spent more money, been
more involved in the affairs of the world, and things

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like that. So he's the last one that embodied all
of the ideals of well Jeffersonian government government. And that's
not to say presidents didn't have some of that. What
I mean is he's the last one that embodied all
of it in a complete sense.

Speaker 1 (02:17:05):
Well, how is it, if I may ask Ryan Walters
that we went off I will say went off the
rails post Jefferson, our post score over Cleveland, because you know,
we are on this unsustainable trajectory. And you know I
lamented every day. I talked about it this morning. It's
a regular subject.

Speaker 6 (02:17:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
I'm all about fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.
That's the way to live a free life. That's the
way to keep yourself out of debt. You can pay
back your creditors without having to worry about it. I mean,
it was a much more sensible way of running the
government back in the day. What the hell happened?

Speaker 2 (02:17:40):
Well, it went off the rails right after Cleveland. I mean,
starting with William mckinnley, who was late in eighteen ninety six,
and a lot of people asked me, when did the
Democratic Party go off the rails because Cleveland was a Democrat.
Oh and you're talking about limited government and that is
certainly not anything to the credit more than today stands for. Well,

(02:18:02):
I started an election of eighteen ninety six when they
nominated William Jennings Brian. When jings Brian was a little
bit more was left, and that was something that Cleveland lamented.
He said, you know, the party's going the wrong way,
and of course you get Woodrow, Wilson and FDR and
it just gets steadily more and more to the left
over time. And of course the Republican Party, and people
don't understand this Republican Party was always a big government

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party going back to Lincoln, and in the establishment of
that party it's still that way. The issue is Jeffersonians
people that think like that, and I do. If you're
a Jefferson and we're rare. Now you know that we
don't have a we don't have a party, and that's
just the base we vote Republican, but we know there's

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a big battle in the Republican Party. There always has been.
There's always been a battle in the Republican Party between
big government and more limbited government people. I wrote a
book on Warren Harding. I mean Harding and Coolidge are rare.
I mean in that Harding and Coolidge were like Cleveland
in a fiscal sense, trying to limit the government spending
and things like that. So, uh, since since since the

(02:19:10):
eighteen nineties, really the turn of the twentieth century, it's
the growth of both parties have pushed for more for
the most part, for more government and certainly more intervention
in the affairs of the world. So it's just steadily uh,
you know, lurks to the left.

Speaker 1 (02:19:26):
It certainly has now in terms of the world affairs.
I'm kind of curious what the Grover Cleveland slash so
called Jeffersonian approaches to world affairs. You know, at some
point you want to on some level there was a
much more complex place. Of course, we're a lot closer,
a lot more connected. We have, you know, we a
lot more trade among nations. So there's difficult to it's

(02:19:47):
difficult to draw parallels between now and Grover Cleveland's presidency
ins far as foreign affairs is concerned. But A lot
of people accused Donald Trump of wanting to be a
bit of an isolationist versus the interventionist policies of the past,
you know, the book Wish administrations and even you know
Obama and others a certain degree. So was he an
isolationist in terms of foreign policy.

Speaker 2 (02:20:10):
Compared to today? Probably so, But what.

Speaker 1 (02:20:15):
Was his philosophy? What was this philosophy important foreign policy
to sort of live and let love. You know, you
want to play with us, we'll play nicely. If you know, fine,
we won't play with you. But I mean, I'm just
kind of curious what his what his take was, given
the nature of the circumstances when he was president.

Speaker 2 (02:20:29):
Well after the Civil War, the whole country was pretty
much up. We didn't get involved in the affairs of
the rest of the world. He won for reasons coming
out of a civil war reconstruction. There was a whole
lot of internal things going on through the eighteen seventies
eighteen eighties that we were involved industrialization and immigration and
labor disputes and those kind of things, and we had

(02:20:50):
turned inwardly. But beginning in the eighteen nineties, things started
to change and gently. What were we point to as
a Spanish American war. We really, as someone said, that's
when we first bid into the forbidden fruit of imperialism
when we took the Philippines and things like that. But
Cleveland was a throwback to Jefferson, which was what I
would call non intervention UH. In his second term, for example,

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the issues with the Spanish American Watch was Cuba.

Speaker 6 (02:21:18):
UH.

Speaker 2 (02:21:18):
People are wanting to invade Cuba at the time in
our Spain because of the Cuban War for Independence and
things like that, and Cleveland refused to do it. I mean,
he had a meeting with members of Congress. Members of
Congress said well, we'll just declare war on on on
Spain right now, and he said, well, if you do,
I'm the commander in chief and I'm not going to
mobilize the military and we're not getting involved in that.

(02:21:41):
So that's one example. That's not to say he did.
And there was some there was some disputes. There was
dispute with Great Britain over Venezuela, uh over over borders
down there, and he got involved in but that went
to arbitration. So he was he was he was more
for staying out of particularly foreign wars. And he was

(02:22:01):
even after even though he was out of office, he
opposed the Spanish American War and enjoyed something called the
Anti Imperilest League, which had both Democrats and Republicans, and
people like Mark Klain and others were involved in that.
So he was, he was, and that was sort of
the anti war group of his days, right. And uh

(02:22:21):
so his his foreign policy take course, as you mentioned,
I mean, the modern world's a little different. We are
most more closely tied together, and things like that, and
and things are different today. I wouldn't say they were
easier or harder than what he had to deal with.
But his philosophy was to was to keep America out
of the affairs of the rest of the world, particularly

(02:22:44):
Europe and the squabbles and things over there. He would
have he died before World War One, but I can
assure you he would not have been in favor of
us getting involved in that.

Speaker 1 (02:22:53):
Indeed, Ryan Walter is a fascinating conversation within this brief one.
We're going to have a longer conversation, or you are.
When you tune in empower America dot org from the
comfort of your own home, make sure you register and
be there on the computer or your your device by
seven pm. Uh just I'm just kind of wildly curious
not to put you on the spot to make you
do it. But are you gonna be entertaining any questions?
I don't know how the interactive process works online with

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this seminar.

Speaker 2 (02:23:17):
Yes, the last time I was on it, I did
something on the Vietnam War. So yeah, from my understanding, yeah,
people will submit their questions and then they'll let me mean,
and of course I'll I know there's a time limit,
but I've always said I'll stay as long as anybody
wants to talk.

Speaker 1 (02:23:33):
Wonderful, Ryan Walters can't thank you enough for doing the seminar.
It's Grover Cleveland, the last president to uphold Jeffersonian values.
Maybe this could be a battle cry for a different part,
a new party, a Jeffersonian leading party. Ryan, I think
I'd be in favor of that anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:23:48):
Well, we don't have a as I said, we don't
have a home, so.

Speaker 1 (02:23:51):
I know, well, you know, for a minute there, maybe
Elon Musk was the one that was going to start
at all. That just seems gone the way of the
Dodo bird. Right. Walter's good heaven. Good to have aving
you on the program today. Good luck with the seminar
tomorrow night. I appreciate the time.

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
Thank you, sir, I appreciate it.

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Eight fifty two here fifty five Kersen talk Station. Thank
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Joe Strecker, So, Shawn does oneerful job. Muddy's shooting buddy too.
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rolled up in what Charlie Kirk stood for engaging in
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Kimmel got canned for the vile comments he made, and
some are suggesting that's why he got fired, and he said,
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(02:26:25):
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I think because his ratings were down so far and
he irked if I could use that word enough people
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(02:26:46):
let it go, but they use it as an excuse
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ratings dropped down that low and compare comparison, you wouldn't
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