55KRC Monday Show - Rick Greene, Smitherman, Money Monday, Suzy Conn

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five. If you've got KRC the top station.
Happy Monday. Yeah, a lot of people fall into that

(00:32):
category of late Happy Monday. Brian Thomas right here behind
the mic, and I'm glad to see Jude Derecory Blongs,
exac Kid producer Booth. I'm glad to see Rick Greens
on the program coming up at seven oh five. Started
a guest this morning on the Rundown. Rickmand on the
program quite a few times over the years. Amazing story
of transformation from a well imprisoned drug addled a futureless

(00:57):
hopeless individual to an immediate transformation to a sort of
I guess a god. He calls it a god's story.
God stepped into his life and in that moment in time,
he gave up the drugs, gave up the lifestyle, and
turned his life around. Impressive guy, So impressive that someone
decided to make a movie out of his life, and

(01:17):
that movie is finally coming out. March sixth is the
premiere of the movie about his life. And I had
the actor who plays Rick Green as a young man
in the studio at one point along with the director
and just I'm looking forward to hearing about its spirit
worksministries dot com. He basically feeds the homeless. You know,
every weekend he and his wife go downtown and after

(01:38):
making sandwiches and they go out and share the love
and the and I suppose, like many charities, it's an
effort to spread his transformation to those who might you know,
have a similar transformation and turn their life around. You
hand a sandwich out to somebody, it's an opportunity to
speak with them about maybe turning the life around because

(02:01):
they're in need of a sandwich. Interesting that Rick's a
good guy. Seven o five with Rick will learn about
the movie. I'm sure he's excited. Christopher Smithman always love
having him on the program. Former Vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati, with a smith event coming up at
seven to twenty. Don't know what he wants to talk about,
never do, but always enjoy what he has to say,

(02:22):
and I hope you do as well. Monday Monday, Brian James.
Trump's tariffs could lead to temporary inflation. I've heard that before.
Nissan may move the plant from Mexico, or may move
a plant to Mexico. No, I think that's wrong. Accord
to the reporting, Nissan making cars in Mexico, worried about
the tariffs, maybe moving that plant elsewhere. It was kind

(02:42):
of sketchy in the details about where that plant may go.
So we'll see. I don't know if it's here. In
the United States, more homes being pulled from the market,
don't know why that might be. And Americans find it
hard to pay off their debt. Yeah, that's a problem
going around. So those are the topics with Brian James
Monday Monday, followed by sus In Cohn, a local author

(03:03):
like swans Uh described as a gripping true story of love, courage,
and sacrifice set against the backdrop of communist Czechoslovakia. Hmmm.
Jack Athaman gave it five stars. Well, you know you
got to talk to Susan Kahn if Jack Adidan is
all about it. Enjoy having Jack on the program every

(03:25):
Wednesday at seven oh five. So we'll do that again
this week, I hope. So that's your rundown for today.
And you know I love talking to you. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
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T phone. Don't know where I want to start. So
let's start here in the City of Cincinnati. I guess
some are getting concerned. At least Sharon Coolidge from the

(03:46):
Inquiry is inquisitive about whether our council members are mayor
are concerned about losing federal funding because we've declared ourselves
a sanctuary city. That was done back in twenty seventeen,
described as a symbolic gesture, Joe, that means symbolic against
a symbolism of our struggle against reality. Yeah, this article

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illustrates the lunacy of that sanctuary city designation. So why
not start here locally? All right? So basically, as soon
as Trump gets done being sworn in in twenty seventeen,
the city says it's going to become a well sanctuary city,
declaring itself a sanctuary city. In February twenty seventeen, Walt

(04:29):
Trump was trying to crack down an immigration Remember the
build the Wall effort, you know, build a wall, build
a wall, ran on building the wall, and of course
the wall wasn't built, and the materials that were designed
to build a wall laying there on the ground end
up being sold by the Biden administration for pennies on
the dollar. But Trump's put a stop to that. So

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since Trump has worn the sanctuary cities, they may face
penalties like, for example, not getting federal money for transportation
projects and policing. Question asked Sarah Coolidge, so what should
this city do? What should Cincinnati do? And so she
reached out to the mayor and all nine council members
and actually got a response from all but one. None

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of them yet support rescinding the sanctuary city status. But
they're kind of sketchy on what that exactly means. And
apparently it turns out it doesn't mean a whole hell
a lot. I have to have provoal. Look, our policies
reflect the will and values of Cincinnatians. They'll continue to

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be our policies unless we are forced to make changes.
See there's your qualification. Unless we're forced to make changes.
But have they done anything to justify the Trump administration
from forcing changes, in other words, pulling federal money? Apparently not.
Provoll concludes in his point, we're proud to be a

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welcoming community and that is always going to be the case.
I don't deny that. Now the resolution, John Cranley signed
it past six to two. Here's the actual resolution, the
Mayor and the Council of the City of Cincinnati hereby
express a desire for Cincinnati to be a welcoming, inclusive

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city for all immigrants to live, work, or visit. By
declaring the City of Cincinnati to be a sanctuary city.
The Mayor and the Council of the City of Cincinnati
hereby request the administration to adopt policies that further the
role of the sanctuary as a sanctuary city. Now I

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read that, and I started laughing when I read it.
The Mayor and the Council of the City of Cincinnati
hereby request the administration to adopt policies. Isn't the Mayor
and the Council of the City of Cincinnati the administration
in this particular context. So they're asking themselves and requesting

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and expressing a desire to adopt policies to further their
role as sanctuary city without defining what furthering the roles
as a sanctuary city even means. They're asking themselves to
do something. Was anything done? No, That's what's so funny

(07:27):
about this. I mean, Jaron Cilly's points out, no policies
forever passed, the city never took any further action to
impede efforts by immigration and customs enforcement. They never said
they wouldn't work with them, and they have nothing, literally nothing. Recently,

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US A Trade General Pambodi issued a membus saying that
enforcing federal immigration laws is imperative and unless sanctuary jurisdictions
follow the law, they're not going to have access to
federal funds. Now Here in Cincinnati, officials say, well, they
haven't yet been asked to help us, but will follow
the law when directed. So so much for adopting policies

(08:18):
that further the role of sanctuary city, whatever that's supposed
to mean in the first instance, at least, we're not
going to stand in the way of Immigrations and Customs
officials doing their jobs.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
In terms of federal funding, apparently in twenty two the
city was awarded six point twenty five million in grant
funding through the Department of Justice to hire fifty police officers.
So much for defunding police, We accepted the money. City
also got twenty million for the West End Queen's Gate
lower Priceal neighborhoods for what is Sharon at points out

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is for street safety improvements like sidewalks, and calming measures
aimed at better connecting the neighborhoods. Joe, do you have
any idea whatsoever what calming measures are? Somewhere in the
twenty million dollar federal grant that's what money was spent on,

(09:14):
just asking because it isn't described. We got Brent Spence
Bridge Project money one point five billion dollar federal grant,
and that's not city money, though that money is going
to be it's it's Ohio and Kentucky money, so that's
not going to be impacted. And we move into what

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sanctuary city means, as Sharon notes, different things with different people.
In some cities, law enforcement discouraged from cooperating with federal
immigration officials, and others authorities just don't actively involve themselves
in immigration enforcement, which I think we probably fall into
that ladder category, but we're not going to do anything

(09:58):
to impede ICE. They point out areas like Chicago and
Frisco and New York prevent city resources from being used
to help with the rest and deportations, but others like
Cincinnati don't prevent cooperation with ICE and instead focus on

(10:18):
more symbolic wording like being welcoming to immigrants, which is
just a slogan. Cincinnati a welcoming community. That's all it is.
That's all their original resolutions said. And since they didn't
follow up with, you know, adopting measures relating to whatever

(10:39):
sanctuary city means, it's a slogan. Sharon Coolidge reached out
to all of the council members and the mayor Vice
Mayor jam Michelle lemon Kearny quote, let us stand firm
and not be bullied. I don't think the federal government

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has a to rescind our funds just because of an
act we took several years ago that was both legal
and moral. Well, let me underscore Ms. Lemon Kearney that
the act that you adopted sixty two on council doesn't
say a damn thing, and it was legal. We all

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live by our own moral principles. So I'll let every
one of my listening audiences decide whether it was an
act of morality. But it was literally a statement that
absolutely did nothing. Jeff cameronon the federal policy at this
juncture is unclear and confusing. I don't think we should
make any changes until there is clarity. You didn't make

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any changes, What are you gonna revoke we are a
welcoming community. We are a sanctuary city statement, which literally
means nothing. Go ahead, you can revoke it, you can
leave it in place until you've actually taken actions that
conflict with the Biden administration's policies. In other words, tell
the police department they have no right to cooperate with ICE,

(12:05):
that they should impede ICE's work, that they should not
notify ICE when someone's being released who has got an outstanding,
you know, a detainer thing from ICE. No, none of
that's been done here, Evan Nolan, counselmen. There's a lot
of uncertainty right now, but what's not in doubt is
that we must ensure Cincinnati is a safe and welcoming

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a city as possible. Well, safety does come into into
the conversation here because many of the illegal immigrant population,
not all of them, Brian underscores, are criminals who've been
let out of prisons in foreign countries, maybe terrorist organizations,
maybe members of the Chinese Communist Party who've been planted

(12:50):
here as sells to do us damage down the road.
A lot of speculation on that. But when you don't
vet and you have a wide open border, you invite problems.
I'm sure you've read a lot of problems that had
been brought on by the open border situation in the news,
most notably rapists. I saw some transgender illegal alien just
got arrested in New York for raping a child in

(13:11):
a public bathroom. Okay, yeah, safe city, we want to
trust since any is a safe city, Anna Albi, everyone
on counsel, the mayor, and the administration is fully committed
to living our values during this time of uncertainty. Yeah,

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you go ahead and try to figure out what that means.
With acts like this and many others over the past
few weeks, it's clear that for the new presidential administration,
the cruelty is the point. Really, Donald Trump, trying to
remove criminals who aren't here legally in the first place

(13:53):
from our country is an act of cruelty to whom
I would think that's an act of compared into every
community that's harboring the person who's a demonstrable rapist for example. Anyway,
I mean much ado about nothing. Perhaps five nineteen fifty
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Ohio River could reach flood stage. The word could in
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twenty two on a Monday. And a happy one too.
You try to have a happy one. I hope you
had a wonderful weekend. I got a lot of response.
I've posted pictures of the maple syrup sap on our stove.
We got like eight gallons of sap. We had an
original batch maybe six gallons, and made one pint of
syrup out of it, and then it started flowing again,

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so it was almost overflowing. It a big five gallon
bucket which is folded. Oh my god, it's so easy.
We had two trees in the backyard, four taps. I
got seven gallons or eight gallons, and the course of
I don't know less of a week. So if you've
got maple trees, sugar maples, primarily, here's a resource in
your backyard you can tap into and it's fun and

(15:44):
it's easy to do. Anyway, it's go to the phone's
pats on hold Pat, Thank you for holding and tolerating
my comments there. Welcome to the morning show.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh, I enjoy it. Brian, you're such a farmer.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
No, I'm surrounded by people with more initiative than me.
It's just my son's original idea. We started it last
year and just started doing it again. So anyway, I'll
give my wife and my son and most of the credit.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, anyway, Brian, I wanted to mention the cars that
you were talking about at moving from Mexico. It's going
to Flint, Michigan.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, that's see, that's what I thought. I got. The
article that I read on the Nissan plant didn't specifically
state what country they would move to, but obviously it
would have to be a country that is going to
suffer from similar tariffs. Which led me to believe it
was going to be the United States of America. So
they're not the only ones that are considering that. But
that's Nissan.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
And the other thing is remember when and this was
well that when that one guy said when they couldn't
get rid of Trump, they were he said maybe they
should shoot him, and then you had people who did
dry Yep. Well, now we've got a congressman Garcia and California.

(17:01):
Apparently the Gems are in a tizzy. But there he
was saying that people I think they want a riot.
He said people should actually bring a weapon. And then
I think he was I don't know, Tody was better
what however they put that on the floor. But to me,

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that is where you know, you got these idiots that
will go out and do whatever some idiot tells them
to do. And on the illegals, my mother came here
from Ireland and she was fifteen and she came in
through Alis Island, went to the physical and you had
to have a sponsor when you came to this country,

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and I don't know who the sponsors are for all
these illegals. That maybe the Democrats should get together and
they all should take a sponsor want to be illegal.
But anyway, Brian, you have a super day, honey for you.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Thank you very much, Pat, I appreciate it. I think
the sponsorships are what the non governmental organizations that received
millions of dollars of your labor via the tax system
are responsible for doing. They figure out who are going
to be sponsors and assign them accordingly. That's not the
case in all situations of immigration, but that's quite often
the case. So anyway, lots of developments in illegal immigration,

(18:28):
and there's more to talk about coming up in the
program and local stories coming up with the program as well. Alternatively,
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
On a Monday, A happy one to you, Oh to
the phones. Will go on his way to the airport
to go to Vegas. Mark, Welcome to the morning show.
Good to hear from you. Brother.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Good morning brother, a longtime listener, first time calling. How
are we going?

Speaker 1 (19:08):
That's going great? Man, enjoy Vegas.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah, it's every other week for work. And I
was thinking about something. I know it's a little divergence
from what you're talking about earlier, but when with all
the executive orders that Trump keeps filing and then the vidigationification.
But if we had, and I don't know if you'd
be the Attorney General or the solicitor prepared deck action
with each executive order. That way, you can't droll form

(19:35):
and jurisdiction that it's going to go down in. You
can have any subsequent vitication that gets filed joined into
the deck action, and now you're at least gonna be
in a court that's gonna be objective in the evaluation
of the executive work.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I suppose that's a possibility. I have to kind of
walked through it in my mind a little more thoughtfully.
Mark doing things on the fly on the morning show
gets me into trouble quite often.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
You're smarter than that. You're smarter than that, I mean,
right for the listeners. Right, A declaratory action is where
if the party goes into courts and hey, the action
that's being taken as flawful, please confirm this.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, so so you're you're suggesting by doing so, you
get to jump on the forum. Yeah, rather than the
left deciding which which which court they're going to choose
to file lawsuit and and and planeff lawyers are great
at this. They know which jurisdictions are the most likely
outcome and benefit for plaintiffs like personal injuries, so they

(20:33):
choose the file their action there. In this particular case,
the deck action, you could go in front of a
judge who might lean more favorably towards you from the outside,
at least from perception. Now, all judges are supposed to
be neutral. But ha ha ha, yeah, we all know exactly.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
And let's be honest, I haven't seen very many of
these uh Democrat led cases being cloud in front of
the republic. And there's a reason.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
You're right. They know full well in advance that they're
going to get favorable outcomes because they have left leaning
you know, for example, Obama porting or buy an important
appointed judges. Yeah, exactly, That's what the importance of the
judiciary is. And I mean, look at the balance of
the Supreme Court thanks to Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, and on cases like this where it's presidential authority,
it's probably fast tracked straight up to the Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Interesting, you know, interesting thought. And it kind of got
as I scratched my head wondering why they haven't tried
doing that yet.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
I couldn't think of a good reason. I either take
this going on. Yeah, I can figure out that good
reason why I haven't seen. I think be proactive. He's
certainly being proactive this term, getting stuff done as quickly
as possible, getting things started to control the er.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well, I sure appreciate the thought. Maybe someone out there
in the administration's listening to you, Mark, and perhaps somebody
got down that road. Hey, you have do me a favor.
Have safe travels, man. I know you're going there on business,
but just have safe travels. I know what happens in
Vegas stays in Vegas, but in your particular case, it
probably has to do with work, which means it's boring.

(22:14):
Love you, brother, five point thirty two, five one three,
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with Tom five fifty on at and T founds. I
guess the local stories here oh, look, energy prices are
going up. Homeowners in the tri State who are electric
aggregation program members could see a huge rise and energy
costs this year. Fairfield. My friends in Fairfield, eighty percent

(22:35):
of the residents have opted into the city aggregate electric program.
Connor Stephen WCPO reporting saying the price per kill a
lot of energy generated could spike up to forty percent. Oh.
According to Tim Myers, who's a councilman there, he said,

(22:56):
since electricity is core and having an increase like that,
it's a big My understanding on this is that there's
not enough supply and there's a huge demand out there. Oh.
Electric aggregation program occurs when a person organization brings a
group of customers together to negotiate for lower energy prices
and additional benefits for group members. In November of twenty three,

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Fairfield residents voted in favor of starting both electric and
gas aggregation programs. Those participating in the city's electric aggregation
program saved on average one hundred and fifty one bucks
over eight months. On the recommendation of Richard curras COO
of consulting firm Energy Alliances, the city signed a one

(23:41):
year contract with Die Energy in February of last year
to be the supplier for the program, allowing the residents
to opt out if they chose, and its presentation on
options for a new electric contract. This week I blows
up was last week. Actually this is a February fourteenth article,
so we're talking about last week. Sires said. Those enrolled
in the electric program collectively saved one point seventy two

(24:03):
million over an eight month period, averaging of one hundred
and fifty one fifteen per household. When Energy Alliance asked
for bids from four suppliers that received two responses, dy
Energy and Consolation, whose rates ranged between eight point seven
one and eight point seven four cents per kilowatt, comparing
to the current DI Energy rate of six point one

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seven cents per kilowatt, Meyers said, when we had a
presentation at the City manager briefing this past Monday, sticker
shock prices are up.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Duke default rate for June not known, but certainly suras
Guys said it estimated to be nine point seven cents
to ten cents per kilowatt. Said. The next auction for
electricity that Duke could participate in as March eighteenth, followed
by an April fifteenth auction. Those rates could be determined
whether it's in the city's best centrist to sign a
contract with a bidder or revert to Duke's default rate.

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I think the bottom line we can take away from
this as energy prices keep going up through the roof ponder,
why go ahead? What do you think that might be?
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Cincinnati fifteen project or whatever. Geez it sounds nefarious as hell.
Plus Tech Friday with Dave Hatter Slightly frightening but very
informative anyhow, over the local stories. I referenced this earlier
in Connects with the comment about illegal immigration and the
city of Cincinnati concerned about a safe city. Yeah, well

(26:33):
safe unless you got transgender illegal aliens arrested for raping
children in a public bathroom this New York on Saturday.
According to The New York Post, migrant transgender woman that
will be a guy pretending to be a woman. One
of my federal immigration officials allegedly stalked and raped a boy.

(26:54):
Fourteen year old boy happened to Manhattan Nicole she goed.
Nick Suarez lusily followed a fourteen year old into the
bathroom and Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlow on Tuesday,
attacked him. Boy left the bathroom flagged down. Witnesses who
alerted police. Suarez, thirty years old, originally from Columbia, arrested

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nearby the following day in charge with first degree rape.
He was wanted in New Jersey and Massachusetts at the time.
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had a detainer on.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
It says her Court of Law Enforcement sources. Nature of
the out of state charges not immediately available, but was
wanted on things other than being in the country illegally
in both New Jersey and Massachusetts. Safe communities Safe Let's

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see here yah Befengja wildlife Zoo. According to the South
China Morning Post, claimed Siberian tiger urine had medicinal properties
that could treat rheumatism, and they were selling two hundred
and fifty gram bottles of tiger urine for fifty one

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or six dollars and eighty six cents a bottle. Sixty
percent of the time.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
It works every.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Time a made with real chunks of panther. According to
The Independent, customers were told the mix was safe to drink,
but should stop drinking it if they experience allergic reactions.

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Do not take filling the blank pharmaceutical if you are
allergic to fill in the blank pharmaceutical Chinese media outlet.
The paper told The Independent that the urine was collected
from a container of Ti tigers, that the tigers urinated
in the zoo. Didn't clarify if any disinfection procedures took place.

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Is this homoginized? Oh you think it's just some guy
in the back urinating into a jar. Jo, Yes, I
swear it's tiger urine. Oh, Ludlow, Kentucky. You made it

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into the stack as stupid.

Speaker 8 (29:33):
Dear, what the hell?

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Let's see here? Rachel Hersheimer credit to WLWT for the
reporting on this. Thank you, Rachel. As she writes, controversy
bringing Ludlow, Kentucky ever, claims of a bizarre incident involving
a Ludlow City council member accused of licking a man
who's now the city administrator. There's no flag for us,

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not in this particular case. During the third and as
Ludlow council meeting, the city's attorney read a sexual harassment
harassment complaint made by Scott Smith, Smith's Ludlow former police
chief who now serves as the city administrator. He claims
Ludlow council member Abigail Miller licked his hand. After Smith's
formal interview for the city administration's position, why are you

(30:20):
doing no Idea apparently took place October of twenty twenty four.
The city's attorney, Todd mcmurdy read quote, Ms Miller took
my hand and placed it in her mouth and licked
the back of my hand. After the interview was complete,
I was think thanking each member of council. When I
went to shake Miss Miller's hand, she suddenly pulled my

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hand to her tongue, making contact with my bare skin.
Close quote you're right, Roger. Complaint states it was witnessed
by several members of council. Miller did not comment on
the allegations on Thursday, but some of her colleagues did.
For example, Ludlow council member David Ziegler quote, I don't
feel like it rises to the level of sexual harassment

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or whatever battery. That's my opinion one that might not
be held by law enforcement. We'll just see where this goes.
Love Little Council members Stephen Chapman Senior quote, whether we
discipline or we don't, I think it deserves a hearing
because we do have an employee that brought a complaint.
Reasonable Council decided how to move forward. Members voted to

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hold a removal hearing where Smith and Miller can address
the allegations. He reached out to Smith and Miller for comment.
As the time of a reporting, they had not gotten back.
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All right, back over to the stack is stupid? I
think I'm on record, fully, firmly, never wavering in my
opinion that I think the whole concept of Pokemon cards

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is absolutely backcrapping sanity, much like beanie babies. They can
make as many as they want. How do they have
a value after market? Oh my god, there's that's whatever.
There was an article about them being stolen was in
the stack of stupid several weeks ago. Anyway, we go
to Melbourne, Australia for this one. Thieves made off with
thousands of dollars worth of Pokemon cards and other collectibles

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from a store. Incident happened in southeast Melbourne Friday morning.
Under investigation by police. Footage from Ozsi Collectible so the
suspects shown up in cars at the store about ten
till three o'clock in the morning. Video captured the thieves
using crowbars to break in the store, filled bins with
collects and including Pokemon cards, and put them in the

(33:02):
vehicles and took off the third robbery in the area
within a week. Previous incidents occurred in Thomastown, Monday and
someplace called Mooney Ponds. Each store reportedly suffers loss amounting
to thousands of dollars, with the most expensive Pokemon cards
stolen valued at over six hundred dollars. Which is why

(33:24):
this is in the stack of stupid six hundred dollars.
It's a piece of paper, yeah, but baseball cards ounce yeah.
And Memphis woman has been banned from every Walmart in

(33:47):
the United States. Can you imagine that? It's like Jay
Ratliffe talking about getting banned off airlines for doing stupid things.
He wished there was some ability for all airlines to
ban everyone anytime someone does and something stupid on one airline.
Why not have a ban on all airlines, well partly
apparently Walmart put its foot down on this person. You

(34:07):
can't come into any of our stores. How high is
the bar for that?

Speaker 7 (34:12):
What?

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Anyway? This woman is arrested earlier in the week after
she allegedly used a self checkout scammed to shoplift packs
of ramen noodles and other items from one of the
retail stores. Romen Noodle's probably one of the most affordable
items out of Walmart. No, they're less than above fifty,
like ten cents a bag Joe. At least they used
to be. You could get ten for a buck. I

(34:34):
don't know what the price of ramen noodles is under
inflation and everything like that, but really, in the world
of food, that's your college student budget item. Anyway, if
that's what she stole. A Memphis police officer wrote in
the affid David. The thirty seven year old woman was
charged with criminal trespass and theft the merchandise of less

(34:56):
than a thousand dollars. Woman, who the officer said is
a known shoplifter, Yeah, arrested at the South Memphis Walmart
on February tenth. Women on the authorization of agency initial
cap on that list therefore is quote not to be
at any Walmart location in the United States due to

(35:16):
prior shoplifting encounters. AOIL lists for trespassers is a legal
document where the property owner formerly authorizes law enforcement agencies
to take action against individuals found trespassing on their property. Walmart,
in a statement obtained by local news, we value our
customers and associates and want them to have a pleasant

(35:37):
shopping experience. Though rare, there are instances when someone is
no longer welcome in our store, and it's not because
of fashion infractions. Let's see here. Witness of Walmart told
police officer that she saw two women stealing from the store.
Women banned from the store was caught on Walmart cameras

(35:58):
using an old watch bar code battery to scan all
of her items for one dollar while using this self
checkout machine. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. What so, Joe,
you're instructing my listening audience that you can get away

(36:19):
with that if you do once every several or ten items,
but don't do it for every single item, which I
guess I tend to agree with you. From a theft strategy, standpoint,
that's probably sage wisdom and advice. But I can't encourage
my listeners to, you know, go down that road. Do
you ever see My Blue Heaven with Steve Martin. He's

(36:40):
got the old stamp thing and he's putting a twenty
five cent stamp on like pounds and pounds of meat.
During the fraudulent transaction, the woman stole eleven packs of
Ramen noodles, a pair of women's boots, blue jeans, and
a T shirt total one thirty seven dollars and thirty

(37:01):
four cents. Apparently, the other woman who allegedly participated in
the scam is still a backpack, two bras and a
lash kit no idea, maybe that's an eyelash kit I
don't know, and an automotive accessory together total cost fifty
seven dollars and eighty six cents. She received a misdemeanor
citation for theft of property even apparently wasn't on the
your band from all Walmart lists. I don't know, Joe,

(37:29):
I'd say I always learned something every day on the
morning show. Maybe today I'll learn the actual price of
a bag of Ramen noodles five fifty five forty cents.
Joe says, Okay, do you just search that on the internet.
There you go. I always call you Internet research guru.
Joe appreciate that I'll be able to sleep soundly at

(37:49):
night knowing what a paga ramen noodles costs. Coming up,
got plenty to talk about in the six o'clock hour,
and then we get here from Rick Green on the
premiere of his movie spiritworksmistries dot com is his site.
Smith Aman at seven wy Money Monday with Brian James
and local author Susan Kahn at age forty. Hope you
can stick around, confused, happens fast, stay up to date.
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so I'll be a happy day if you stick around
for Rick Green. He's coming up at seven oh five
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movie coming Out, about his life transforming moment when he

(38:34):
immediately and in a moment's time, and his credit he
says God helped him do it. He went from a
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who's gainfully employed, married and helping out homeless people by
feeding them on the weekends with his wife. So movie
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several books. Christopher Smithman Every Monday at seven to twenty
for the smith Event from the former Vice mayor of
the City of Cincinnati. I always enjoy that it's a
dear friend of mine. I just get a kick out
of him. I think he is well, he's insightful. Monday
Monday with Brian James at eight oh five. Quite a
few topics where with Brian Trump's tariffs may lead to
temporary inflation. Nissan moving its plant from Mexico. Sadly, more

(39:22):
homes being pulled from the market, Americans finding it hard
to pay off their debt. I don't read any well,
maybe Nissan plant moving from Mexico here that that's good
news anyway. Susie Kahn, local author with a book like Swan's.
We'll hear from Susie at eight forty. Love hearing from you,
so you can feel free to call if you have
a comment something to say five one, three, seven, four,
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three talk go to town five fifty on AT and
T phones. We'll start. And I'm sure most of my
listeners don't rely on Rachel Maddow for their information. And
here's an illustration as to why, which it serves as
a nice springboard to go after those who are going

(40:05):
after Elon Musk. And you know, if you're sad about
Elon Musk not being an elected official, what about doctor Fauci.
No one complained about doctor Fauci not being an unelected official.
A lot of complaints about doctor Fauci, his edicts and mandates,
and we're learning more and more about doctor Fauci's nefarious
actions behind the scenes. That investigation ongoing. We have a

(40:27):
sub committee looking into that. Still, states attorneys generals might
be filing lawsuits against doctor Fauci to the extent they
believe he committed violations of state law with his antics.
You know, federal pardon from President only goes so far.
So there's that looming in the background. But pivoting back

(40:47):
over to Rachel Maddow, for a moment, attempted to set
off a conspiracy theory about Elon Musk, accusing Donald Trump
and Musk of corruption and self dealing over a four
hundred million dollar purchase of armored Tesla vehicles through a
State Department contract. In reporting on this, though, Mattow just

(41:08):
happened to omit what they call a crucial detail, and
it is of the story that plan purchase listed in
a procurement document published last December, which was for those
not paying attention under the former President Joe Biden's administration
before Trump even took office. So was President Joe Biden

(41:30):
dealing with Elon Musk? Was that self dealing when he
decided he wanted to do that under his administration? But
last Thursday, prior to Rachel mattach talking about this, the
State Department pushed back, saying that that plan originated in
the Biden administration with a goal to explore interest from
private companies and to produce more armored vehicles. The solicitation

(41:53):
this is in the statement is on hold and there
are no current plans to issue it. No government contract
has been awarded to Tesla or any other vehicle manufacturer.
To produce armored vehicle electric vehicles for the Department of State.
For his part, the ultimate troll in a good way

(42:14):
Musk posted on x I'm pretty sure Tesla isn't getting
four hundred million dollars. No one mentioned it to me,
at least Rachel Maddow. Sorry, it's a whiff at best. Oh,
and things going on so swimmingly for Tesla in something

(42:39):
the polar opposite of our federal government benefiting Tesla. Tesla
now a big loser under Doge. Remember the twenty twenty
one infrastructure bill, Yeah, everyone does. Five billion dollars and
that was allocated for states to install EV chargers. They
wanted five hundred thousand of these stations by twenty thirty.

(43:01):
That was part of that allocation. Biden administration didn't disperse
the money very quickly and it layered on a whole
bunch of mandates. Five hundred eleven million dollars has been
awarded out of five billion dollars allocated, and fifty eight
stations are now in operation. So not exactly fast tracking

(43:23):
that goal. But who would benefit from a federal government
purchase and payment for electric vehicle chargers?

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Right?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Tesla? Tesla Fritz part has received about thirty one million
dollars rolling out it's fast charging network. There's only one
entity that's gotten more loves travel stops. States warned in

(43:55):
their grant applications that Biden mandates and load of this
part of the mandates and part of the reason that
a lot of states didn't embrace taking the federal government
money on this because we all know if federal government
comes with massive strings attached. One of the strings attached
requiring one station be located every fifty miles along interstate highways,

(44:18):
accord to the Wall Street General. They pointed out at
least the states pointed out that could lead to stranded assets.
A dearth of customers in rural areas could make stations
unprofitable and require states then to spend tax payer dollars
maintaining them. That problem. And you can imagine that. Think

(44:40):
about a state like what Montana. How many people live
in Montana collectively, it's like half a million people. It's
a massive state, and you're going to require mandate every
fifty miles you have to have an electric vehicle charging station. Yeah,
I can imagine that might lead to stranded assets. But
the exacerbating problem is that EV sales are stalling, fewer

(45:02):
and fewer people are buying them. Trump also directed a
rollback of the BION auto admission standards, which won't benefit
Tesla will. It also directed a waiver for California's EV mandate.
Most automakers can't meet either, and would likely have to

(45:23):
buy regulatory credits from Tesla to comply. So Trump's pulled
the plug on that. Apparently, Tesla made two point eight
billion dollars from credit sales in twenty twenty four. If
EV mandates disappear, so do Tesla's credit sales, which comprise

(45:44):
a quarter of its profit. So apparently, or a Musk
not benefiting from the work he's doing at DOGE, or
the work that the administration is doing and rolling back
these pesky and ridiculous and hard to comply with mandates
making life more expensive for every single one of us.

(46:04):
Oh look, energy rates are going up. I love this line.
Thank you to the journal. Mister Musk's business conflicts need
to be policed, but there's scant evidence so far that
he's trying to make government smaller and more efficient out

(46:25):
of self interest. He's not another bubble burst for the left.
Screaming about Elon Musk. Hey, you got to credit them.
You know, the strategy heres so far with the Trump
administration is go after the low hanging fruit that has

(46:50):
that is impossible to support. Now the left is nonetheless,
you know, angry and in opposition to them farrening out
this fraud, waste and abuse. But every single day that
goes by, we find out money is laying around, has
been misspent, has been allocated to programs that don't accomplish
anything or do anything for the American taxpayer that funded

(47:12):
the damn programs that they're ferreting out. How is that
a possibly winning strategy just to scream and yell but
not pay attention to what you're screaming and yelling about
that that is actually benefiting in terms of the elected
officials on the left, their own constituents. Look, with energy
prices jumping forty percent, you know, if you could do

(47:34):
something about that, like, oh, I don't know, improve America's
energy independence. Go for an all above strategy rather than
standing in the way of something that's actually productive for
the American people, rather than go the way of Germany
and cut your own throat to undo that and go
after everything conceivable to allow the American taxpayer to keep
more of the money in their pocket. How is that

(47:55):
a losing strategy or conversely, how is arguing against it
a winning strategy for the Democrats. I just don't think
they hear themselves. I really don't. Anyway, we'll turn to
New York here in a moment. Apparently global climate change
not that important when you're concerned about well making sure

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Talk yeah over to the further On these energy policies,
which aren't going to benefit Elon Muskin's, Trump administration is

(50:39):
going the opposite direction, thankfully, New York Governor Kathy Hochele
administration seeking to boost natural gas production, which flies in
the face of their own green energy law. According to
New York Post reporting yesterday, facing criticism from her constituents

(50:59):
over signific thickened proposed increases in gas and electric prices.
Not the emphasis in my voice. The people are revolting
Democrats with higher energy prices, revolting Republicans with higher energy prices,
revolting anyone with an energy built revolting because what they
have done is forced thess electric and gas prices to

(51:21):
go up through the green energy law that they passed.
If you didn't pass it, the prices wouldn't go up,
at least not as much. That's the point anyway. Because
of the criticism. I'm sure they're getting a lot of it.
The administration approved permits to expand the capacity of four

(51:45):
hundred of the four hundred and fourteen miles Iroquois pipeline.
The Democrats have proved a pipeline which would pump more
gas into New York City as well as southern Connecticut
in order to maintain enough supply during the coldest portion
of the year. Yeah, if the gas ain't flowing, the
heat ain't on. Permission was given by their state Department

(52:05):
of Environmental Conservation, even though it admitted that it's inconsistent
in their words, inconsistent with and would interfere with the
greenhouse gas emission limits and would not adhere to the
plan to lessen New York's dependence on fossil fuel. John Howard,
who's described to the former commission of the state's Public

(52:26):
Service Commission, safety and reliability can't be compromised. A natural
gas system could fail under certain circumstances. Wow getting ahead
of a problem before it happens by unleashing the natural
resources that they have access to which they intentionally decided
not to use. Hm Is this an admission of failure?

(52:50):
DEEC Department of Energy Conservation spokesperson called the permits essential
to keep up the gas supplied downstate. A cord to
the spokesperson, there as a condition of the permits, Iroqois
wild invest five million dollars in mitigation efforts to address
greenhouse gas emissions and make investments to reduce environmental burdens

(53:14):
within disadvantaged communities, such as heat pump program and evy
charging stations. Now, if you're a person standing in a
disadvantage community, can you afford an electric vehicle? And will
an electric vehicle charging station in your disadvantage communities better
the situation? Spokesman said. This investment is in addition to

(53:39):
other measures Iroquois will implement to minimize emissions. Now I
have to kind of chuckle. I'm sure this four hundred
and fourteen mile Iroquois pipeline probably costs literally billions or
maybe billions of dollars to create and invest in, and
I'm sure that the investment will yield tens and hundreds
of million dollars in profit by providing gas to the

(54:03):
greater New York City area or the Greater New York
area generally speaking. So a five million dollar investment in
well reducing environmental burdens within disadvantaged communities, the heat pump
program and ev charging stations, I'm sure that translates into
a very very infinitesimal amount climate active. This of course,

(54:26):
had to disrupt the PSC meeting to protest the permit,
saying that the gas supply expansion flies in the face
of the state's green energy goals and hurts the environment
and public health. In spite of that, Hokal's office declared
that the boost in production does not violate her clean
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That's you guys are the best. Anyhow, we just talking
about energy problems. Look at good Governor Hockle Inc. He's
seeing the natural gas and approving a four hund and

(57:02):
fourteen mile Iroquois pipeline to make sure the lights stay
on of the heat stays on. In New York City. Gee,
there's a thought in spite of the fact that they
have well cut their own throats to reduce their carbon output.
I mentioned this before and earlier in the program Last Hour.
Gerdier Loin's most notably fair Field, where countsman Tim Myers

(57:22):
has warned the residents to expect a eighty percent of
them to hit a forty percent increase. Price per kilowott
energy generated could spike forty percent. It's part of the
aggregation plan, he said. Since electricity is core and having
an increase like that, it's a big deal. My understanding
is on this is that there's not enough supply and

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there's huge demand out there. It's amazing, in spite of
what our government tells us, they cut the opportunity to
have gas while the amount of gas in demand increases,
just the way of the world. When Energy Alliance is
asked for bids for four suppliers, they got two responses,
dy Energy and Consolation. Those rates average between eight point

(58:05):
seventy one and eight point seven cents per kilowatt. The
current rate from die energy. I guess it's set to
expire six point seventeen cents. That's where you get your
forty percent increase in energy prices. So get your real
real estate tax bill out too, and take a look
at that one. City of Cincinnati struggling over at Sanksbury

(58:29):
City resolution considering the Trump administrations planning on cutting federal
funds to those cities who do not cooperate with Immigrations
and Customs officials, or rather comical analysis Sharon Coolich from
The Quire providing the high comedy, although I don't think
she intended to be high comedy. Back in twenty seventeen,
Mayor Cranley signed the resolution. It passed councils six to two.

(58:52):
Note that none of the current council members nor the
current mayor were in office at the time. The resolution
declaring City of Cincinnatia sanction Y City reads, the Mayor
and the Council of the City of Cincinnati hereby express
a desire for Cincinnati to be a welcoming and inclusive
city for all immigrants to live, work, or visit. By
declaring the City of Cincinnati to be a sanctuary city,

(59:15):
the Mayor and the Council of the City of Cincinnati
hereby request the administration to adopt policies that further the
role as a sanctuary city. That's the entirety of declaration. Now,
Sharon Cooleidge note she looked into this. There were no
policies ever passed. The city never took any further action
to impede efforts by Immigration and Customs enforcement. Law enforcement

(59:35):
here locally has said they would cooperate with ICE. So
it means really nothing. And I love how the resolution
itself asks the administration to adopt these policies. So the
resolution passed by the administration asking itself to do something

(59:55):
which it never did. Much ado about nothing, it seems
so in the final analysis, under the Trump administrations, well
quote unquote threats, we're not in any trouble of losing anything, unless,

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of course, the city wants to implement policies pursued to
the twenty seventeen suggestion that it do so and decide,
for example, to direct law enforcement not to cooperate in
any way, shape or form with Immigrations and Customers officials,
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and turning back to the left, pulling as haear out
over the what doge is doing revealing fraud, waste and abuse.
F word, the fraud word. It's not all fraud. Melissa
Finley over the Journal pointed this out last week The
New York Times and I talked about this one said

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mister Musk offered no evidence for his sweeping claims that
officials have approved money for fraudsters fraudsters, and she notes
New York Times, it just depends on whose ox is
getting goored, because while they say that in one breath
and another breath. Last Friday, after making that statement, the
New York Times itself reported an Nevada woman who pleaded

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guilty to filing more than twelve hundred tax returns to
fraudulently claim COVID nineteen tax credits nearly one hundred million dollars.
She apparently used the money to gamble that casinos take
vacations and buy luxury cars, purchase designer clothing from Dulce
and Gabana, Gucci, and Louis Vutan. The story said, specifically,
government investigators have struggle to keep up with pandemic related fraud,

(01:03:50):
focusing their efforts and limited resources on large, multimillion dollar cases,
pointing to an estimate by the Small Business Administrations Inspector
General that more than two hundred billion dollars seventeen percent
of the pandemic loans distributed awarded to potentially fraudulent actors. Apparently,

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after the White House pushed back on the Times No
Fraud Dispatch, Washington Press Corps retorted. Specifically, Washington Post reporter
Aaron Burke wrote what he called or described as an
analysis trying to debunk mister Musk's fraud claims. They keep
saying they've uncovered fraud. When pressed for evidence, they don't

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seem to have much or any. But, as the journal observes,
and this is an actually important point, must can be
sued for defamation if he publicly announced specific findings of
fraud before those those things have been investigate investigated in charge,
there are elements to fraud, and it's difficult to prove
actual fraud in court. It's pretty high bar. But fraud

(01:05:04):
is different from waste and abuse as well. Now, this
reporter in the Washington Post dismissed a Government Accountability Office
then a report done under the Biden administration, which projected
two hundred and thirty three billion to five hundred and
twenty one billion in federal fraud each year, which he
claimed it's just a modeled estimate. There's no firm evidence,

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but THEJO actually based that estimate on fraud that had
been uncovered. They can chart a trajectory based upon known
cases of fraud, but most of the fraud isn't uncovered,
which is why the auditor recommended. Under the Biden administration,
the auditor recommended waste for the government to prevent and

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identify fraud. Guess what dog is trying to do, right,
identify fraud in addition to waste and abuse. This is
the program that the Biden administration's own auditor recommended be done.
And also pivoting isn't an interesting as the journal notes,

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the Democrats love to site models that support their political narrative.
Biden's IRS estimate for example, that at one trillion taxes
are being unpaid each year, using as a justification for
eighty billion dollars to hire more agents. Anybodying the liberal
press question that one, go ahead and look for it.

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The Aaron Blake, reported from the Washington Post, lectures that
most examples of government waste and abuse that the Trump
administration sites, for example, two million dollars for sex changes
LGBT activism in Guatemala doesn't meet the legal definition of fraud.
And that's exactly right. That's the legal standard. Fraud requires
a showing of bad intent by the perpetrator and financial

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harm to the government. And as a list of finly
point out, didn't stop Blake and others in the liberal
press from really supporting Jack Smith questionable January sixth prosecution
of Donald Trump himself for allegedly conspiring to defraud the

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government with his stolen election claims. Now, let's Philly acknowledges
that Blake is right on one point. There's far more
government waste and abuse than fraud. Federal emergency management agencies
reimbursing New York to the tune of three hundred and
seventy seven dollars a day for sheltering asylum seekers at
hot at Posh hotels twice as much as the average

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US household spends it a year one hundred and thirty
seven thousand, six hundred and five. Until now it's noted
by her and many others. Fraud and abuse used to
be a bipartisan caused champion by all the politicians and
even the press, And that same Washington Post last summer

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took credit for exposing a massive of Medicare fraud scheme.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden introduced a bill called the Insurance
Fraud Accountability Actor, cracked owned insurance brokers who have gained
Obamacare subsidies to the tune of tens of billions of
dollars annually. It was only last month Elizabeth Warren screaming
about how the fraud written her words pandemic employee retention

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tax credit, the one exploited by the Deviada woman that
I mentioned earlier. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the government
implemented controls to stop fraud before it happens. This is
what DOGE is trying to do, but the media doesn't
like it. For some reason, the Democrats no longer embrace

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ferreting out fraud, waste and abuse like they used to do,
used to trumpet it and parrot it. Maybe it was
just a campaign election promise. Maybe it's just to make
them look good and noble because they were supposed to
be responsible for the taxpayer dollars. But the minute someone
has the courage and the ability to stand up and
stand in its way, ferreting out fraud, wasted abews, any stupid,

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Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
Your and ros is on the line and we got
just a couple of minutes, Roz, So mind the time
and welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.

Speaker 9 (01:10:55):
Oh, good morning, Grin. I just wanted to suggest to
be in the audience that since today is President's Day,
that we really rededicate ourselves to teaching our children and
grandchildren more about our first than sixteenth presidents George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln and what their leadership meant to this country.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
I can't argue with that, and I.

Speaker 9 (01:11:18):
Think that it's also an occasion for us to pray
for the safety of our president and his wife and family,
our vice president, and the leadership team, including mister Musk,
because I think that what they're doing is very much
in the tradition of all of our great leaders in
this country who've held us together.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
Well certainly so, although you know in many circles it's
not holding us together, it's dividing us. But at least
in the great tradition of electing officials who are supposed
to represent their constituents and be mindful of where our
hard earned labor went in the form of tax dollars,
and how it's spent. That's the thing that I appreciate
Musk and the Trump administration for so much. They're at

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least shining bright light on what both Republicans and Democrats
have done with our money, funneling it to the goal
it's coming to our state. We can't cut that. Oh
we got an omnibus bill. I'm going to go ahead
and put my pet projects in there, because well, omnibus bill.
It's what Congress from Assey warned us about. You know,
they could do budget reconciliation and get a whole lot accomplished,
including locking in the lower Trump tax rates, which they

(01:12:23):
had an expiration date on, which really just frankly pisses
me off. But there it is. It's going to end.
And no, it's not just tax cuts for the rich folks.
The middle class is going to find themselves having more
of their labor in the form of tax dollars taken
from them, and they too are equally angry about what
the Doge group is ferreting out and showing the rest
of America that are elected representatives don't care a whit

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about funneling your money to ridiculous projects on the four
corners of this globe, and they don't care a wit
about stopping the waste and abuse that our Department of
Defense can't pass an audit multiple times in a row.
My listeners know me. I love the American veteraniics. I'm
a big support of the American military. But come on,

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eight hundred and fifty billion dollars and they can't pass
an audit. How about we stop that. Appreciate the Carl Rose.
You have a wonderful week, six fifty five coming up
on Rick Green at the top of the hour News
and then Christopher Smithaman at seven twenty. Fast forward eight
oh five with Money Monday's Brian James and a local
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Here at fifty five KRCV Talk station, Brian Thomas welcoming back,
who's been on the fifty five Carsey Morning Show quite
a few times over the years, to talk about his mission,
which you can find online at Spirit Worksministries dot com.
Welcome back, Rick Green, my friend. It's always good talking
with you.

Speaker 11 (01:14:12):
Hey, good morning, Brian's always good to hear the best
radio boys around.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
You're the best man. I appreciate that. And listen now
for listeners that aren't familiar with your backstory. And it's
pretty amazing. You had a troubled youth involved in drugs
and alcohol, you were in prison, and you turn your
life around. I'm summarizing your amazing transformation. You had a
moment of clarity and God he reached out to you

(01:14:37):
and touched you in some way. And it is at
that one moment in time that you quit drugs and
you quit your life of grime, and you said you
were going to be You're going to transform your life
for the better, and you obviously have. This has been
years and years ago. And you got a ministry. You
help feed the homeless, You take sandwiches out to the
people who don't have a meal every weekend with your wife.

(01:14:57):
You've got a job. I mean you you just reconnected yourself.
So I got a question for you. And I met
the young man who played in the movie that's coming out,
which we're gonna talk about here. About your life. Now,
if you rewind Rick Green and put yourself back into
that prison cell before you had your moment of clarity,
and someone walked up to you and said, Rick Green,

(01:15:19):
you know there's gonna be a movie made about your life.
What do you think your young man's reaction might have
been to that.

Speaker 11 (01:15:27):
I probably think there was crazy as Satan trying to
make me believe I was, But that wouldn't sound real.

Speaker 6 (01:15:33):
At the moment, like what are you talking about? But
you know, I really learned. I'm really good.

Speaker 11 (01:15:39):
At get myself in the message. I'm just horrible getting
myself out of me. That's why I look at my life.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
You know, just talks in on life. It's horrible.

Speaker 11 (01:15:50):
Well, you don't care about you. You can't care about
anything or nothing else because you don't love yourself. And
I wasn't bringing anything positive to the world. I had
to reach out to him and you and Holy God
to save me. I couldn't say myself, I don't want
to die at it a turn time off for I
didn't want.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
To die at it. That's amazing. And you know the
other component of this is and I saw a brilliant
article written the other day by a black preacher from
the city of Chicago. Corey Brooks is his name, and
I'll encourage my listeners to look out for it. It's
Trump's colorblind messages energizes black Americans and boiled down, and
I'm really boiling it down. His point is, don't turn

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to government. Rely on your self. Self reliance, stable families
and education can lift neighborhoods like mind untold heights, he writes.
And but that's the point. Quit looking outside, look to yourself.
And if you can rely on God as an inspiration
and say, listen, I Rick Green will not die an

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addict and change your life. That is something that no
other human being can control. That's you controlling your own destiny.

Speaker 6 (01:16:59):
That's just one time.

Speaker 11 (01:17:00):
I didn't want my kids to hear that I died
an alcoholic and the addic that's sur bothering me probably
more than anything. I didn't want nobody becoming my children.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
That's how I died.

Speaker 11 (01:17:12):
I don't know to mean that, just that's an avoidable death,
in my opinion, because your choices can save you or they.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Can all go.

Speaker 6 (01:17:20):
The feature.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Well, actually.

Speaker 6 (01:17:25):
Is you and your choices.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Yeah, exactly. I think that's why I love having you
on the show. It's it's that message is so it's
fundamental to my being, you know, like I always say,
I'm going to start trying to control your life for
somebody else's life when I'm done fixing my own. You know,
look at the man in the mirror every morning, and
you know, I got problems with my own. And when
I'm done perfecting myself, which will never happen, then I'll
come calling for you. But in the meantime, there ain't

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nobody out there that can tell me how to live
my life appropriately, and I don't think it would work
if they tried, And in fact, I would probably try
to reject it if someone engage in those efforts. But
in any of that, how did you What was your
reaction to the movie when you finally I got to
assume you've seen it already.

Speaker 11 (01:18:05):
Actually, I just looked at it Friday for the first time.

Speaker 6 (01:18:08):
All the way through.

Speaker 11 (01:18:10):
I like it because I know what it took to
get here. There was a probably two or three hundred
no's and one yes changed everything. But I never let
nos stop me or deter me. Oh they do push
me forward. No, it's not a bad word. We all
need knowing our life. Yeah, it's just how you take it. Yeah,

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that's true. And who the message can.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Take what God placed in my heart from me?

Speaker 6 (01:18:37):
Because no man placed it in my heart. God did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
And you're a firm believer in the power of prayer too,
aren't you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
I have to.

Speaker 11 (01:18:46):
When Joe called me this morning, I just got done
praying because I saw.

Speaker 6 (01:18:49):
Him my dad.

Speaker 11 (01:18:49):
I think what I call my God time is god
Rick and coffee. That's why I think God like coffee,
because we drink coffee every morning and we have our time.

Speaker 6 (01:18:58):
We communicate.

Speaker 11 (01:19:00):
Then I read my Bible. Then I saw it my day.
I can't start my day without my Gune time. I
can't go to bed without my Gune time. I prayed
before I would have dead. Means God we spend our
time then not going to sleep, and I sleep wonderful.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
It's sounding a great name for a podcast, god Rick
and Coffee. Consider that one man. Anyway, I think you
like coffee.

Speaker 6 (01:19:23):
He showed up very morning.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
That's good. Anyway. I was fortunate enough to have the
director and the young man who portrays you in the
movie in the studio with you the last time you
were here. What do you think of his performance. How
did it all work out in your mind?

Speaker 11 (01:19:43):
I think he did great, Stepty. He didn't know when
he walked in he was going to be the lead.
And everyone of them said, just humble me, Brian, because
everyone sewed up no Rick didn't have no bund and
I couldn't pay nobody. All I could do with feed them,
and that humbled me. They gave me their talent and
their time and their effort, and I say.

Speaker 6 (01:20:02):
God, you love me that much.

Speaker 11 (01:20:04):
Well, you know, I'm talking with somebody who did some
for they don't have to, and they get nothing in return.

Speaker 6 (01:20:09):
It bothered me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Well, I wouldn't think they got nothing in return. I
mean what they got is to help you spread this
inspirational message and the hope. And I think your movie
will provide hope to people because your story provides hope
to people that you know, this isn't a death sentence.
It doesn't have to be the way your life is
going to continue. You have the ability within yourself to
transform yourself. So what they get out of it is

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spreading this message, which I have to imagine that everyone
involved in this movie shares your message of faith and belief.

Speaker 11 (01:20:43):
You know, I'm not so because someone I never met
before and we didn't really talk a lot. But I
tell you what, they showed up and they did their job.
They showed up every day and they did their job,
and they humbled me. How you just show me no
matter what they mean, anyone want to Pertory does a
lot of good people in the world. It's just am

(01:21:04):
I to you. Seemed like nobody want to interview him.
There's a lot of good people in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Yes there are, and you know that, and you're one
of them. You gave your kidney to a guy you
didn't even know.

Speaker 11 (01:21:18):
You know, that definitely was a god thing. Because I'm
just as human as anybody else. You know, I can be.

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
You're in the bowl. I actually be aggravated. I could
be mean. I'm just human. But God told me the help.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
This man, Well, that was amazing. That man happened to
be what is the son of Marvin Gay, wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:21:39):
Marvin gave his third April twenty ninth, twenty fourteen, and
I can't forget that day.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Neither can he. You saved his life just because he
heard a news story about him. He reached out to him.
Next thing, you know. Guess what, it's a match. So
there you go. Rick's giving his kidney over to him. Man,
he didn't know. That's really cool. And every weekend you're
feeding the homeless and you have a charitable mission along
this guy along that we're along this line Spirit Worksministries

(01:22:06):
dot com. Joe put the link on my blog page
fifty five car Sea dot com. So if he can
help Rick, he could sure use the donation because this
is coming out of his pocket. But ultimately we need
to double back to the movie. When is it coming
out and where should people be to see the release.

Speaker 11 (01:22:23):
We're going to er a March sixth at my home
church of Springdale Nazarene. That's one one one seven seventh
Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two four six. There
will be two showing six pm, a seventh thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
It's only an hour long, our long flick six pm
and seven thirty Star Times again Springdale Nazarene Church on
Springfield Pike. That will also be on my blog page
fifty five Caseea dot com. Rick Green, True inspiration love
having you come on the show. And I hope everyone
gets a chance to see the movie. And I hope
everyone stops by your website and helps you fulfill your

(01:23:01):
mission at Spirit Spirit Worksmistries dot com. Rick, my dear friend.
Best of luck for the movie. I hope it's a
huge success. And thank you for what you're doing in
the community each and every day, and thank you for
the inspiration that you provide My listeners.

Speaker 11 (01:23:14):
You're welcome, and Brian, thank you for always for kinguncial
Spirit Works.

Speaker 6 (01:23:18):
From the first time we met.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
Happy listen man, That's what the show is all about.
You know, you got such a great message. I mean,
I would be an idiot if I didn't try to
spread it along with you. I mean, it's just it's inspirational,
it's uplifting, and again it represents kind of what I'm about,
the self determination. You have proven it to everyone who's

(01:23:40):
facing challenges that you can overcome them, and I appreciate
that so much. Rick Green. We'll talk again soon and
maybe get a post debut assessment from you after the
movie debuts. I hope everyone shows up. Rick, take care
of my friend. We'll have you on Real again, Real
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friend Christopher Smitheman. Welcome back for the Smith event. My
good friend Christopher. It's always great having you on the program.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Brian, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
On this very cold and snow snowy day, it is
snowy week. It looks like we're going to ask.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
I think most people are over it. I am still
over winter. It's about time we get kicked into springtime.
Wait for it. It'll be here in a matter of moments. Anyhow,
always something on your mind, Christopher, So let's launch into it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Well, I have to tell you we are not in
a constitutional crisis. I have heard that all week I've
heard it all weekend. It seems like the mainstream media
all got together in a room and decided that that
was the phrase of the weekend or the phrase of
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awesome that you're listening audience understands that we are not
in the middle of any kind of constitutional crisis. That
the president is using his power, his executive power, to
make changes, and by the way, the majority of the
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done with his own executive action. And so it's just
amazing how and it's almost scary how this this phrase
constitutional crisis is being used by so many different uh
mainstream media personalities that they have to all be working

(01:27:28):
together because it doesn't matter whether you're watching CNN or
you're watching MSNBC, they're both saying the same thing. That's
been my experience. And I just say, you know, are
we living in this country because we say we're not
socialists and we're not communists, But it seems like sometimes,
you know, when I turn on turn on my TV,

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that this, you know, at this this drum beat constitutional crisis. Now,
before it was Russia, Russia, Russia. Before that was no laptop,
no laptop. I mean, it just seems like they're right
back in the same bag again. And did they really
learn anything from the previous forty to eight years.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Well, I would like to say they didn't, but yeah,
you know, you think about constitutional crisis. Honestly, if we
actually followed the wording of the Constitution, none of this
stuff would be happening right now anyhow.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
But it's just frustrating to me that they're getting together,
going together, and they're back at it again. I really
thought after the election there would be this reset to say, Okay,
that didn't work, we're not going to try that again.
But they're right back at it. They've all decided that hey,
the word the phrase of the week is constitutional crisis.

(01:28:47):
We're not in it. We're not in a constitutional crisis.
And there are people out there who watch this stuff
who actually believe that we're in a constitutional crisis. There
were people, if you talk to them during COVID that
they weren't watching any other station. They didn't even believe
a laptop existed. There was no laptop. The laptop was

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some type of conspiracy. Then all of a sudden, let's
remind everybody that the laptop surfaced, and everybody starts saying, oh,
that laptop is real. The hunter Biden did have one,
there was a lot of stuff on it. And then
we move into a part and because there are a
lot of people that didn't even understand what the parting

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was about or any of the cases that he had,
because some of the mainstream media stations were not covering
any of the subject matter, I think that puts us
and presents a bigger constitutional crisis than what they're talking about.
We're not in a constitutional crisis. And I just am
amazed at yet again we're back to the same playbook.

(01:29:51):
Constitutional crisis. That's the phrase of the week. Mainstream media
is pushing that upon American Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Well, the laptop is prime iministration of an outright absolute
lie from the Biden administration. I mean, then there's fifty
one people with security clearances and some noted notables on
the list saying it was it had all the earmarks
of Russian collusion. When the FBI had already verified the
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in the Biden administration knew damn well that it was real,
that it was Hunter Biden's, that it was not Russian collusion.
And yet look at the lie they churned out, and
it was perpetuated by the mainstream media. That is Russian collusion,
which gave Joe Biden a talking point to lie to
the American people during the debate, even though he failed
well during the debate. And we of course know what
happened that gave Joe Biden the election. So let's give

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City Cincinnati, doing something we call the smither Vent every
Monday in honor my dad's Monday morning spleen Vent. God
Rest the soul, Christopher, what else is on your mind today?

Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
Look?

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
Brother, I thought the Kennedy confirmation was going to be
the most difficult for the cabinet of President Trump. It
looks like it's Patil over the FBI. And I know
your office, your your studio was right there by the
by the by the FBI headquarters for our region. First,

(01:33:43):
I want to say that the everyday FBI agent out there,
they wake up every day, do their job. They're not
connected to all of this craziness, the political politicization of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But I think that he's
going to get the common information, and I think they're
going to be major changes at the top with the FBI.

(01:34:06):
I'd look for a lot of information to come out
about how the Biden administration was weaponizing the FBI, and
heads are going to roll in the first week or
two when he takes over power. So I think he
gets the confirmation. Not everybody thought he wouldn't make it through,

(01:34:27):
just like they thought Kennedy wasn't going to make it through.
It looks like he's going to get all of his
cabinet in place, and it looks like that's going to
happen between Wednesday and Thursday of this week. So that's
an exciting footnote when people thought many of these confirmations
would wouldn't make it. I don't know what's happening with
Mitch McConnell. He's seems to just be no, no, no

(01:34:51):
on all of these confirmations, or the majority of them.
So I don't know exactly what's going on in his head.
But Kentucky has to be scratching their head, right because
I would say a lot of people a Kentucky voted
for this president, so he's probably in an area that's
pretty pro Trump, and so it's very interesting why he's
holding these perspectives and saying no.

Speaker 1 (01:35:15):
Well, I made this point last week, and you know,
McConnell's most of my listeners label him a rhino. I mean,
whatever your definition of rhino is, he just he seems
to be only interested in himself and his own power.
But it's to that point, or that remaining empower part
that I kind of wanted to point to, which I
did last week. Why why as the man in his

(01:35:38):
eighties and who has millions and millions of dollars socked
away staying in that job, why doesn't he just go
out and enjoy the balance of his life. There can't
be that many more years left in the man's life,
does he. Why is it that he feels such a
need to maintain this position of power? And I know
it's the Kentucky voters who keep re electing him, but

(01:36:00):
you know, it just troubles me to know when I
even called it a DSM five diagnosable brain, the fact
that you don't want to just sort of call it
a day after a while, especially when you're that agent.
And plus the plea sees me having health struggles.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
I think it's just power. Some people can't give it up.
I know, Thomas, They just got to have the power.
It's not about the money, it's about We're not talking
about him anymore. It's probably about his relevance in his
own mind, and it's definitely overdue. And I think that's
why you hear so many Americans saying term limits, term limits,

(01:36:35):
term limits, Like we need to figure this out, and
I hope we can't over the next four years, looking
at congressional members and people who are serving in the Senate.
Let's get some term limits out here, whatever that is.
Maybe that's two terms, maybe that's six terms. But there
needs to be a point where people are like, you've

(01:36:57):
got to move on. You can't just stay here for
forty fifty years. I mean Maxine Waters as an example.
I mean what we saw, you know, ten days or
twelve days ago with her, you know, out in front
of the Department of Education. We've got kids that are
failing tremendously there. You know, they're teachers that are home
now they get a break today, they've got to show

(01:37:19):
back up to these classrooms where a lot of these
young people they're there, they're living tough lives and they
bring that right into the classroom. And we don't have
a system that allows us to hold our young people
accountable for their behavior. So you've got teachers in there
that are trying to teach, but they've got disruptive kids.

(01:37:41):
You've got thirty kids, and I've said this before. Five
of the five of them might be giving that teacher
a tough time. The other twenty five want to learn,
Brian Thomas, But how do you teach with those five
kids in that classroom, every single bill bringing that kind
of disruption, and the school cannot with their system of

(01:38:03):
no child left behind, can't say I'm gonna get you
out of here so I can teach the other twenty
five calculator or.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
More fundamentally, Christopher, what is within their power and control
is to not advance them to the next grade level
when they haven't demonstrated the skill sets necessary to complete
the materials and pass scores and the grade that they're in.
What you end up as you produce graduates who are
illiterate and enumerate. They can't read, and they can't perform
mathematical calculations. So go ahead and advance. I'm given a

(01:38:33):
decree a college diploment like you've been, like you've actually
served that child. Let's the pause, Chris, are out of time.
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City of Cincinnati. Love getting your thoughts, Christopher or anything
else on your mind. We can talk about this morning.
I'm sure there is.

Speaker 4 (01:40:17):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Well, look, brother, I just want to tell you I'm
very interested in the executive order around the Epstein files.
I know people have talked about MLK and and Senator
Robert Kennedy and JFK those assassinations. I'm very interested in
the e Fsteain files. I hope every piece of that
is released, every name, all the details, everything that they have.

(01:40:40):
I have no idea why it's even classified. I can't
even get my head wrapped around why would the Epstein
files be classified. So they're being declassified, and I'd love
to you know when that when that information comes out,
I can't wait to get on on a Monday and
talk about what was released. And then the last thing

(01:41:01):
is this whole notion that we have sanctuary cities that
are not cooperating with ICE. Even the city of Cincinnati
is a sanctuary city, and the question is going to
be will authorities cooperate with ICE? And to emphasize here
because I heard some of this in the backdrop of

(01:41:21):
this weekend, that ICE is going into cities and they're
going after, you know, people who are in our countries
who are not breaking laws. Meaning I'm not talking about
breaking the law of coming into the country. I'm talking
about a murderer, a rapist, a fief or robber, whatever,
a gang member. The people that are being targeted by

(01:41:45):
ICE are the worst of the worst. Their hands are
full and the notion that any official would tip them
off that ICE is coming is so dangerous for those laws.
I was the chair of Law poll with Safety for
the City of Cincinnati for many many years. I mean,
there's nothing more dangerous than the gang member knowing that

(01:42:08):
ICE is coming and what you know. It puts their
lives on the line in such a serious way. And
I think anybody who is not cooperating with Ice, Brian Thomas,
or anybody who's tipping bad guys off as ICE is
coming into our community, I think all of them should
be arrested and put in jail. It is absolutely way

(01:42:30):
too dangerous for them and local law enforcement to deal
with the issue than to have somebody say, hey, hey,
the ICE is coming to your front door. You better
get out of there. You better be prepared.

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
Yeah, I couldn't. It is absolutely unbelievable, and most notably
in connection with the tip offs to the gang members.
Those folks are the most dangerous people on the planet,
I could argue. I mean, they murder and kill people
all the time. Their money flow is at issue for them.
And if you know that you're gonna that the ICE

(01:43:03):
agents are coming up and they're going to stop you
from your drug transactions and your your human trafficking, money
making schemes and everything else you're involved with. You may
very well take a militaristic type stand in that and
start shooting at the police officers. That's crazy, my friend,
That's absolutely crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
It's really crazy. And I'm saying there are cities you
hear the alarm bills are saying, hey, Chicago isn't cooperating.
You know, we saw that the apartment building in Colorado
that people were saying, hey, we got gang members here.
That ICE showed up and somebody had tipped them off,
and people were across the street telling Ice to get out,

(01:43:41):
get out, we don't want you here.

Speaker 6 (01:43:44):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
This is the propaganda on mainstream media that that ICE
is separating family members when they're really targeting the worst
of the worst. And you would think that local law
enforcement Cincinnati, Dayton, wherever you are, La Chicago would want
these people out of your community. Right, you have a

(01:44:07):
major university. You saw what happened in Georgia with Lake
and Riley out taking a job. No one wants these
people as neighbors. You want ICE in there. You want
to remove these criminals, You want to give them back
to their own countries. And anybody on TV saying anything
differently happening with this is just lining And I just

(01:44:27):
saw that again this weekend between constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis,
and they're targeting family members and people should be scared
to go to work. People are showing up the school now,
they're not targeting. They're not showing up the schools unless
you have a gang member that's in that school. And
by the way, if you do, I want Ice to
go in. Yeah, separate my child is studying to get

(01:44:50):
the gang member out. It reminds me of what Vice
President Advance say. Can you hear yourself when you say
there are only a couple of gangs in a couple
of apartment buildings. What you're saying, It's like, oh man,
there's a gang member in a school, and I don't
want ICE to show up and get them out of
the school where.

Speaker 1 (01:45:06):
My kid is I know, And the same thing and
doubling down on the gang. I mean, how who wants
one of these cartel gangs anywhere near them that someone
would tip off Ice to keep a gang in the
neighborhood or keep their gang activities alive and well in
the United States because they've gotten out of Dodge because

(01:45:26):
Ice is coming over temporarily. Presumably that's just insanity, absolute insanity.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
And remember and remember what ICE is saying. If you're
in the apartment and you are hanging out with the
gang members, we're gonna deport you too. Yeah, okay, this
notion that, oh man, she just happened to be in
the wrong place at the wrong time. No, you're in
there with the drugs, the money, the guns. We're getting

(01:45:55):
you out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Those those people, those people are being removed. But I
just can't believe there's a mayor out there, there's a
city manager out there, there's an elected official out there
on the planet that's saying that they don't want ICE
to remove these really bad people from their communities to
make them safer. And I'm saying Cincinnati is a sanctuary city.

(01:46:18):
And Mayor pure Ball is really quiet on this notion.
Is he going to cooperate with ICE or not? I'd
like the reporters to ask the question, so I know
whether I'm safe in Cincinnati. Will they at City Hall?
Nine members of council have been talking about what's going
on in Israel. They've been introducing motions on Israel and Hamas.

(01:46:41):
I want to know are they going to cooperate with
ICE and allow ICE to come in here and get
criminals out of our community if they're here. That's all
I want to hear about.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
I check out Sharon Coolage article caption. Cincinnati's sanctuary resolution
could cost it federal funding should the city repeal it.
The gist of the whole thing is city officials probably
are going to cooperate with ICE because they are worried
about federal funding being withheld. And if you see the
if you actually read the original resolution, it doesn't say
jack squad and they haven't ever acted on it. In

(01:47:13):
the original resolution, the mayor said hereby requests the administration
adopt policies that further the roles of sanctuary city. But
since twenty seventeen, when this past sixty two, no single
policy has ever passed, and the city never took any
further action to impede them ICE efforts. So so far,
so good, but you got to read the words of
some of the council members are rather comical. But ultimately

(01:47:35):
I don't think we are going to do anything to
stand the way of ICE doing its job. Christopher Smithman
always appreciate you being on the program. Brother, have a
great week, my friend. We'll talk next Monday.

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his initial order right after being sworn in. I appreciate
the assessment. And at least if you have the information
in hand and we get all the problems perhaps that
are identified that maybe have been withheld from you, you
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Speaker 13 (01:52:25):
Thank you and good morning and Happy President's Day to you.
I hope your family got you something nice.

Speaker 1 (01:52:31):
Yeah right, My wife and I don't need to get
you give it's all right. My wife and I his
anniversary of our our engagement is Valentine's Day, and we
don't even bother getting each other something for Valentine's Day,
so less less likely that something's going to show up
on President's Day. But stranger things have happened in this world.
Do you get a president for President's Day?

Speaker 6 (01:52:52):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:52:52):
No, I don't. I was really hoping that you maybe
maybe the Thomas family had something going so we can
steal it and start it up here. But now we're
kind of the same way. We really just celebrate whatever
we bought together last well, Happy Valentine's Day to us.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
There you go at that time.

Speaker 13 (01:53:06):
That works for anniversaries too.

Speaker 1 (01:53:08):
Just as he puts up an inflatable William Henry Harrison
in his front yard to celebrate President's Day. All right,
that's a small fan club, that is, you got that right,
and maybe everybody's now curious to where wants to know
where Joe got that particular inflatable item. Anyway, Pivoting over
to money matters and something a lot of people economists

(01:53:29):
of different stripes are saying Trump tariffs could lead to
some temporary inflation. I mean, if you just do the
numbers on it, it kind of makes sense, doesn't If
if you increase the price or the tariff on something
by twenty five percent, and it's important into the United States,
that cost is going to be passed along to the
consumer on some level.

Speaker 13 (01:53:47):
Brian, Yeah, it absolutely is. A tariff is literally nothing
more than making stuff cost more. That's the definition of it.

Speaker 6 (01:53:54):
Now.

Speaker 13 (01:53:54):
We hope, of course that that will be absorbed by
the manufacturers over but again that's hope, and you know,
hope in one hand and you know what and the
other Literally what happens is is this just gets passed
through to the end consumer. That's literally the why we
call ourselves consumers. We are not the ones who get
to control anything. We have to consume whatever is put

(01:54:17):
out at whatever price it is produced. So yeah, generally speaking,
prices will be going up. We're already seeing it anyway,
And you can look at what happened in twenty sixteen.
Not only have we done this in the past over
over the you know, centuries, we've done it very recently
in twenty sixteen. So for example, the cost of a
car went up about three thousand dollars back then when

(01:54:37):
we increase the cost of steel and the other components
that go in. So it's not going to be a
shock at all. Will What would be really surprising to me, honestly,
Brian Thomas, is if when we get the effect that
we desire, will we pull those prices back down or
will manufacturers continue to do what they've done in the
past and hope that Americans don't notice that the tariffs

(01:54:59):
have gone away, and we're just going to leave the
prices alone and just consider that as part of our
profit market.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
Yeah, and it would really be insightful to know what
the profit margin is, you know, Like obviously you point
to grocery stores and you think, oh my god, they're
gouging me. But grocery store profit margins, like restaurant profit margins,
are always in the single digits. You know, they they
got a lot of waste, and they've got a lot
of problems, they have a lot of theft, and price
of groceries just go up, but you know, the margins

(01:55:26):
really don't go up. But insofar as automobiles are concerned, hell,
you can't find what I would call an inexpensive car anymore.
It just seems to me that they're not manufactured. Even
the cheapest car has gone through the roof. A lot
of reasons why they have all of these obligations, you know,
for an install safety feature this, and you know, electronic
that or whatever. But ultimately, what is the margin? And

(01:55:50):
have the margins for these manufacturers changed over the years.
And if so, let us see it in a chart.

Speaker 13 (01:55:57):
Yeah, that's right. And I think you can look at
the stock market and figure out they used the stock
market and figure out when those margins widened, which when
when they narrowed, because that's literally the definition of the
stock market. The opinion of shareholders of any level as
to how profitable these companies are, and more importantly, how
profitable do we anticipate they're going to be in the
very near future. If I'm an investor and I feel

(01:56:18):
like things are moving in the direction of increased profitability,
then that's a good sign for the stock market. But
if I'm going to if I'm concerned that those profit
margins are going to be narrowed, that doesn't mean we're
going over the cliff. It just means it's going to
be harder. And the industries that will survive better are
the ones with arguably with wider profit margins. But at
the same time, those are the ones who may have
to sacrifice the most of that profit margin versus the

(01:56:40):
grocery stores, as you mentioned, which are already razorsin to
begin with.

Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
Well, you know, and the other component. I just have
to raise this because every time I read another article
about how much any particular automobile manufacturer is losing per
vehicle that they produce that are evs, and how much
money they're actually making on the say the internal combustion
engine trucks, for example, I guess the salvation of Ford
because Ford trucks move like crazy and their evs and

(01:57:04):
lose millions and millions of dollars annually, so the price
of the truck goes up to cover the losses for
the evs. Now Trump may end up saving the automobile
industry by get rid of these ridiculous cafe standards and
eliminating this obligation to become carbon neutral, giving people a
choice and maybe ultimately bringing down the costs of ices
if they don't have to manufacture evs.

Speaker 13 (01:57:25):
Yeah, and I think that that's part of the political argument.
You've got those kinds of things should be put in place.
And remember that the other weird thing about this that
he has been particularly quiet on is the second in command,
Elon Musk, some say first in command, is obviously directly
connected to this, and he hasn't said a whole lot

(01:57:46):
at all about the political rhetoric that goes directly after
one of his companies. And I think that's very telling
in terms of what are we really after here?

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
Well, and it was observed, I know Rachel Maddow argue
the other day on her program that somehow Musk has
gotten a four hundred million dollar armored Tesla vehicle State
Department contract that actually went in place during the Biden administration,
so it didn't have anything to do with Trump, but
it didn't go through period. End of story that there

(01:58:15):
and there are no current plans to issue a request
to Tesla to make these vehicles or any other manufacturer
for that to that end, and then I pivot over
to another one. Tesla is a doge loser article from
the Wall Street Journal which I brought up this morning.
Trump putting a pause on this mandate for electric vehicle
charging stations. That's not going to work to Tesla's benefit

(01:58:37):
at all, and it certainly would in your to its
benefit if that mandate went through. So anyhow, everybody's beaten
up on Elon Musk for trying to ferre it out fraud, waste,
and abuse. He's doing the job for free, and he
has obviously no vested interest in it other than helping
us out. But speaking of tariffs making prices go up,
it looks as though it may result in Nissan moving

(01:59:00):
manufacturing from Mexico to maybe the United States.

Speaker 13 (01:59:04):
Now maybe, But I don't know reading through this article
that this is another case of re read the article,
not the head of a top auto maker. Yeah, top
automaker could move some production out of Mexico mid Trump
tariff talks, according to the CEO, but reads to me,
yeah exactly, that reads to me. If you read that
too quickly, you go, hey, cool, they're going to pull
those jobs back across the border. But in reality, some

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other sources are indicating that they they they may just
reduce production. So in other words, Nissan is simply making
possibly making a business decision that this isn't the best
time for us. Things are not going as well as
they could be. We're not going to shut things down,
but at the same time, we're just not going to
produce as much. We're gonna kind of wait it out.
Nobody has said that they're building that Nissan is building

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a new factory in you know, some farmtown in the
middle of nowhere. That's not on the docket at all.
All they've said is that there's going to be fewer
jobs in Mexico. So if your goal is to poke
Mexico in the I over the immigration issues, then maybe
this helps. But on the other hand, this is not
at this point a job creator in the US.

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
Well, and I had I listen. I know where the
source was from because I read the same thing you
had read, which is silent on the where the plant
might move the jobs to issue. Still some speculation swirling
about it. One of my listeners called this morning and
said that it was moving them to Flint, Michigan. Now
I don't know where that source came from, but I
suppose it's a possibility.

Speaker 13 (02:00:22):
Brian, Yeah, anything is possible at this point. But you
would think if that was the goal, if the goal
was to orchestrate, you know, these tariffs to drive that
exact activity, then that would have been tied to the
initial announcement. Of course, we can't force Nissan to do
or any company to do anything. All we can do
is make them uncomfortable in directions that so that they'll

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start behaving the way we would like them to. But
we can't force the absolute outcome. This is where tariffs
can kind of blow up on people. And if you
go back in the you know, throughout history, and this
is this is a flashback from Ferris Bueller. If you
remember ben Stein talking about the holy smooth tariffs.

Speaker 1 (02:00:58):
Oh yeah, he was talking of terrorfact.

Speaker 13 (02:01:01):
Did they work? No, they did not, and the United
States saying further into the Great Depression, so they don't
always work.

Speaker 1 (02:01:09):
Well, it's going to be an interesting economic experiment we're
all going to be living through. Keep your popcorn out.
It may hurt, it may help. We have no idea
at this point, but to speculate, including where Nissan might
or might not move its manufacturing facilities from Mexico. Brian Javes,
let's pause for a briefly a little bit early in
this segment because we got two more topics to go over.

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More homes are being pulled from the market, which is
an interesting development in the real estate area. And then
Americans are now finding it harder to pay off debt.
So those two topics coming up. More with Money Monday's
Brian James. Stick around. I'll be right back fifty five
the talk station for more information about contests. Eight seventeen.
Here fifty five KRCD Talk Station, A very happy Monday

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to you, doing Money Monday with Brian James from all
Worth Financial. This is a curious development, Brian. I thought
the real estate market was on fire and your house
was getting buyers lined around the corner, bidding wars going
on all over the place. And I see that this
article says, no, that's not the case anymore. What's going on?

Speaker 13 (02:02:13):
Yeah, So the Walster Journal is reporting that seventy three
thousand homes were pulled from sale in December of twenty
twenty four, meaning that some people said seventy three thousand
people said, you know what, the heck with it, I
don't want to deal with it. We're just either going
to stay here or we will come back and try again.
That's a sixty four percent increase compared to December of
twenty three when there were only forty some thousand homes

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that were pulled. So basically this is this could be
the sign of the beginning of a pullback in the
housing market. It does indicate a lack of buyers, right
if you're not going housed in your home, that means
the buyers aren't there. But usually what it really means
there are always buyers there. It's not about the buyers,
it's about the price. Buyer's price range has decreased from

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where it has been in the past. That could be
the first sign of a pullback that we know is
inevitably going to happen. It has been anticipated for a
long time, it just hasn't happened yet. This could be
the first shot across the bow.

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
Well, that would be actually a good development, more of
a sort of a shaking out or a settling of
these ridiculous prices. I know that the demand was so
high that you could get crazy amounts for your home.
But the whole idea that maybe your expectations in terms
of your home value a little bit too high. So
if you really want to sell your home, you're going

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to have to adjust the price downward. That would be
I think a good development.

Speaker 13 (02:03:30):
It would be just like anything else, though, it's going
to be a catalyst that will come along with other stuff,
both good and bad. So some people bought houses in
November December something like that and paid whatever market that
the market rate was at that time. Those folks, should
they have to move, they're gonna have a problem because
prices will have dropped. They could be underwater on their mortgages. However,
I would not start running around worrying that this is

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going to be something like two thousand and eight all
over again. Two thousand and eight was far more about
the infrastructure the mortgage business is. The mortgage lending market collapsed,
which prevented basically the entire market from buying houses and
the way we had done in the past. This, as
we're sitting here right now, would appear to be nothing
more than a price adjustment. Basically, the way to think

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about it is that there are fewer buyers at the
price range where we are currently asking. However, those buyers
are still out there because we know the economy. The
economy is in pretty solid shape, regardless of your politics.
Conomy has been pretty solid shape for a few years,
and there's not really any reason to think that's going
to fall off the cliff, although there's plenty out there
that have been saying looking for that next leg down
since twenty two. But at the same time, so what

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that leads me to believe is that we will find
the buyers. The buyers are just at a range lower
than the sellers right now that will equal out at
some point, because that's how markets work.

Speaker 1 (02:04:44):
Well, when you pull your house from the market, doesn't
that suggest that you really didn't need to sell it.
I mean you you just maybe wanted to tap into
this over zealous price house market and get that equity
out of there. Why you can get it to this
premium rate. But if you pull it off the market,
I guess you're staying put.

Speaker 6 (02:05:05):
And that could be.

Speaker 13 (02:05:05):
That could be some people who just sat down at
the dinner table and say, you know what, we've always
talked about moving, Maybe this is a little sooner than
we anticipate. Yeah, so let's go ahead and throw it
out there on the market at a crazy price and
just see if we can get it. Some of them
got it over the past couple of years. Others maybe
asked just a little bit too high and the interest waned.
And of course the if you talk to any realtor,
they'll tell you that a house that sits on the

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market for a very long time starts to get a
little bit of a of a stigma to it. Yeah,
nobody wants to touch this. It's been listed for six months.
I don't want to. I don't want to even look
at it.

Speaker 4 (02:05:35):
Let it, let it go.

Speaker 13 (02:05:36):
And so you do have to kind of pull it down,
let let some time pass, and then and then repost it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:41):
Well, it seems to me that rather than having an
air of negativity about it, that represents an option or
an opportunity for a buyer to go in and maybe
lowball it a little bit and get a better deal
than they're asking. It never hurts to ask.

Speaker 13 (02:05:53):
Brian, Absolutely, Yeah, So I think this might just be
an more of an optimization than a Yes, it's a pullback,
but it's a pullback from an extreme. I think our
society and our economy does just fine as long as
we left the pendulum swing back and forth without too
much panic. They can only swing so far before we
have to anticipate in opposite reaction.

Speaker 1 (02:06:12):
Well, I can only hope this represents an opportunity for
some of the younger buyers who have been priced out
of the market. I just did the home costs. I've
seen closings on houses and you'd read be like, you
got six hundred grand for that thing. It's like how anyway?

Speaker 13 (02:06:27):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I talk to my client's children,
adult kids all the time, and it is amazing to me.
I put myself back in their shoes and I wrote,
I'm their age, mid twenties or so. This was the
next thing I know. I'm gonna be here. I've got
my career here in Cincinnati. It's time to put down roots.
That's really not a consideration. They're still renting, and they
anticipate they're gonna rent for another seven or eight years,
even though they know they're not leaving town. It's a

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scary time for that, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:06:49):
And double down on that by pivoting over to the
other topic we're talking about this morning before we part company,
Americans finding it harder and harder to pay off their debt.

Speaker 13 (02:06:58):
Absolutely, so go figure we owe money. So total household
debt in the United States rose by about a half
a percent in the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four.
These numbers sound tiny, but they're really not. That gets
us to eighteen trillion dollars. You know, we say the
word trillion a lot more often nowadays. It used to
be the word billion was an attention getter. Billion has
become the new million. Now we talk about trillions when

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we're worried about it. So this has covered all loan categories, mortgages,
auto loans, credit cards, homewke, we lands of credits. Everything
saw increases. Credit card balances themselves are at one point
two trillion dollars. That's a seven percent increase over the
previous year. That's how much less people are able to
pay their bills with their normal cash flow. We're rotating
these balances on a much more frequent rate than we

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used to.

Speaker 1 (02:07:43):
So the solution, Brian your financial planning advice to deal
with this type of thing or prevent this type of
thing from happening. The credit card interest rates are just
sick crazy, they are.

Speaker 6 (02:07:54):
They are.

Speaker 13 (02:07:54):
So there was a bill, there has been, and this
was something that Trump talked about on the campaign trail
and he has still talked about to the day. There's
a bill that has been introduced. It's going to cap
credit card interest rates at ten percent. Now, again, it's
just a bill. So guess who is out there fighting
against it? The banks and the lenders really are They
love their twenty seven percent credit card rates. So there's
going to be lobbyists, There's going to be pushed back

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against all this. What I find interesting, though, is that
this is this one came from some strange bedfellows. So
this came from Bernie Sanders and Josh Holly. These are
not guys who go out and have a beer together.
To my knowledge, normally don't see eye to eye on
a whole lot of things. But the bill that they
introduced would cap credit cards at ten percent, and which
matches something that Trump talked about during the campaign trail

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as far back as September. So whether we can get
it across the finish line, who knows. But what I
tell my clients, if you are in this situation. Matter
of fact, I had this conversation last week. If you're
in this situation, you've got a credit card balance that
you have kind of forgotten about. It's probably charging you
twenty plus percent. That's what their credit card companies want.
A lot of times these come from an initial offer

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of zero percent or three percent or something that feels
like nothing. The banks don't make a dime until you
forget about it. They're waiting for you to push it
into the seventh month of a six month bonus. So
as soon as that happens, you're gonna start paying high
interest rates. It is okay in that situation. If you've
got good credit scores, go get one of those zero
percent balanced transfer offers. If those are showing them to

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your mailbox, take advantage of it. That will buy you
some more time. But don't forget about it again.

Speaker 1 (02:09:23):
Now, does that impact your credit score? By doing that?
Transferring to it will?

Speaker 13 (02:09:27):
So yeah, yeah, if you're gonna apply for a new
line of credit, yes, there will be a hit that.
That's of course a hard credit pool. You're literally proactively
voluntarily asking for credit. But at the same time, what
it will do assuming you get approved, you gotta have
a good credit score for this to work. But assuming
you get approved, there will be an opposite reaction, because
now you will have extra credit available to you that

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will drive your score up. It's a little counterintuitive, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (02:09:52):
It's so counterintuitive. It's just like the It's like alchemy,
you know. I just don't understand how they really say
that you go ahead, ahead and get more uh option,
more opportunity to get more line of credit available, and
that will make your score grow up. I just I
don't know. Just see that as a risky proposition. But whatever.

Speaker 13 (02:10:12):
Do they if they ever recourse it does one plus
one equals potatoes. That's exactly how.

Speaker 1 (02:10:16):
The credit card indusrty Yeah, Phase three profit Brian James.
Appreciate your insights on these topics every Monday. We'll do
it again next Monday. And thanks again to all Worth
for loaning you out. We'll talk. Have a great week,
my friend.

Speaker 13 (02:10:30):
All right you tube, we'll talk to you next Monday.
Enjoy that President's week.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
Yes, stay warm too. Eight twenty six Right now fifty
five KRC the talk station, joking over the phone lines.
We have a little time to talk between now and
my next guest eight forty with Susi Kahn, local author
of the book Like Swan's really interesting subject matter of
that book. And I love having the local authors on
the program, so we'll do that at eight forty. Otherwise,
local Stories coming up next fifty five KRC dot. I'm

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pleased to welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Book you can get on my blog page fifty five
kr se dot com like Swans by our local author,
Susie Kahn. Susie, welcome to the program. It's great to
have you on this morning.

Speaker 9 (02:11:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (02:11:08):
I'm honored to be here. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:09):
Well, I'm honored to have you on. And you know,
you could be quite an inspiration to some other folks
in the listening audience. And I would like to put
a plug in for Peter Bronson because his Chili Dog
Press is a local publishing outfit and he is an
extraordinary author in his own right. But let me first
ask you what part of town are you and since
you are described as a local author.

Speaker 7 (02:11:28):
Susie, I live in Sharonville.

Speaker 1 (02:11:31):
Okay, great, and you got a bit of a Brady
Bunch situation going over your place.

Speaker 7 (02:11:39):
Well, our kids are all grown, so they actually never
grew up together. Oh okay, but they get along great,
so we have. I have twin boys and my husband
has three daughters, so we're one short of the perfect
baby bunch.

Speaker 1 (02:11:54):
That's great. I saw the description of your in your
in the outline, and I just was chuckling on my
self about that. You're also a flight attendant.

Speaker 7 (02:12:03):
Yes, doing that from Doha last night? Actually, Oh, And
I was so nervous because you know, at the airport
in Philadelphia is a mess. There were so many delayed
flights and I was like praying that I would get
on the six o'clock because otherwise it would be a
very late arrival, and with the jet lag and all that,
I was like, I just want to feel good in

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the morning.

Speaker 1 (02:12:24):
You know, I understand that. And props to you and
all of the flight attendants I talked to iHeartMedia aviation
expert Jay Ratliffe every Thursday, and he is always reminding
people that you're not stewardess is you're highly trained folks
who are designed to deal with, you know, potentially terrible
problems that need to be treated with much greater respect.
So I can put in a word a positive word

(02:12:46):
in for you and other flight attendants for the work
that you do. All right, pivoting over your book, like
Swan's what inspired you to write the book? We can
dive into the details of it and tell my listeners
all about it.

Speaker 7 (02:12:57):
Well, my parents always actually my mom talked about how
they escaped and life over there, and I wrote a
short story about it in like nineteen eighty six, and
my professors like, oh, that, you know, that's pretty good.
You should expound on that. Well, you know, then I
had twins and got really busy and I was, you know,

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flying full time. And my mother, though, was always like, no, physy,
what are you going to write that book? And it
was a lifelong dream. And when COVID came about, the
silver lining of COVID for me was having an eighteen
month leave where I could sit down. Michael, my husband, said, Okay,
you know, you can write your book now, and I

(02:13:40):
knew I had no more excuses, so I sat down
and worked, you know, very hard. It was really a
labor of love. It was the hardest thing I've had
to ever do because when I was writing it, you know,
we had so much censorship going on, and it just
reminded me of what my parents talked about.

Speaker 1 (02:14:01):
Well, you said over there, the over there you were
talking about, is Czechoslovakia with post communists when when the
communists were in charge.

Speaker 7 (02:14:09):
Yes, it was like in nineteen sixty six was one
day escaped.

Speaker 1 (02:14:14):
So sorry if we got that.

Speaker 7 (02:14:16):
Small detail, but that's okay. Yeah. So they, you know,
told me about how everything was still controlled, and that's
how I felt that everything was controlled, you know, information
about COVID, and then how we could live, what we

(02:14:36):
could do, you know, we had to wear masks. Uh,
it was just it was just really weird. I can't
even but see that's the sea.

Speaker 1 (02:14:47):
I found a whole lot of positive about COVID, and
know you're illustrating one of them. I think the people
will be less inclined to just sort of prostrate themselves
before whatever directed from some random governor says about where
you can be, what you can't do. In spite of
the fact that we have amendments of the Constitution which
project protect these liberties and freedoms, it's as if the
Constitution was eradicated. And it did feel a lot like say,

(02:15:09):
Czechoslovakia are under the under the Soviet Union, because I've
read a lot of Mulan Candera, and I believe that's
where he is from, and he's written about it one
of the one of the books of the note he
made or the joke I think was the name of it.
He made some sort of random joke about one of
the Soviet leaders and ended up getting unemployed and ostracized
just pri merely uttering a joke.

Speaker 7 (02:15:33):
Ran My mother got called into the local police station
for wearing a sweater that was bright and colorful.

Speaker 4 (02:15:45):
Oh my god.

Speaker 7 (02:15:46):
They accused her of you know, advertising Western propaganda. Uh.
And that was really a blessing because my father had
spoken for years about you know, he's, you know, we
need to leave. Things are getting worse and they're they're
not going to get better. But she didn't want to

(02:16:08):
leave her family. You know, they waited two years to
get an apartment, she had to get an extra part
time job, and to you know, furnish it. Everything was difficult.
I mean, there was just no easy path for food,
for furniture, and so she's like, you know, I don't

(02:16:28):
want to leave. But that showed her that someone in
the neighborhood. There was every neighborhood like a had a
watch person. Yeah, so you never knew who it was.
And so she got called in because of this sweater
and that's the turn that was the turning point for her.
You know, she knew that they had to get out.

Speaker 1 (02:16:49):
Wow, that's that's just frightening stuff. Now, is the book
about their story? In other words, for work of nonfiction
about theirs and tribulations and experiencing wife under communist Czechoslovakian
and then ultimately leaving.

Speaker 7 (02:17:06):
Yes, it's it's I really wanted people to see why
you would want to leave a place like that. I mean,
you know, waiting in line for food. People would get
in line if there was a line. They didn't even
know why, but they got in it because it might
be something good that they could sell. I mean, it
was just like a weird sci fi that we're living

(02:17:29):
in almost, but it was. The book is a love
story and a thriller because you know their escape. I mean,
of course you know they did make it, but just
the way it all happened, it was really God's intervention,
I believe, because just the way everything I don't want
to give too much away, no, no, but you know

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how it all came about, that they were actually able
to get out, Well, it's really amazing because many people
weren't able.

Speaker 1 (02:17:58):
To well in an oppressive reason like Czechoslovakia during the
Soviet days. You mentioned the emotional struggle of deciding to leave,
because in spite of how bad things are, you have
all these emotional ties not just to the land, but
also to your community and your friends. But once they
made the decision to leave, was it was it difficult?

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Did they have to you know, steal out of the
country under cover of darkness or be snuck out or
could they Did they work through some approval process.

Speaker 7 (02:18:26):
No, they tried to get approval. I mean, my dad
had approval you know, put in for years, but they
never got it because my father, my mom's dad, was
a capitalist. He had a trucking company and so he
was on their like blacklist, and so my mother wasn't
allowed to go to college. She was She actually wanted

(02:18:48):
to be the flight attendant. That was her lifelong dream,
which is so ironic because I never that wasn't in
my you know of you at all And I got
it by just sheer chance and so my I don't
know where was I. They escaped because my mom got
permission to take me out of the country to Yugoslavia

(02:19:13):
because I had a lot of ear issues, and the
doctor was like, oh, you need to go by the
sea because the air is much better. And then my dad,
last like a last minute thing, got a trip to Milan.
He was an engineer, and so he had a business
trip to Milan because one of the boss's sons was ill.

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I mean, you know, usually only the people in the
party were allowed to travel, but this was some big
job and my dad was given permission to go normally
because he would not sign on the communist party line.
He refused, and so he knew that, you know, something
was going to give. I mean, they weren't going to
let him just get away with that forever. And that's

(02:19:58):
why he knew he had you know, they had to
get out of their wow.

Speaker 3 (02:20:00):
So they were on.

Speaker 7 (02:20:01):
They took the same train out of Prague, got to
Austria Vienna, and did not go on their separate trains
to their final destinations. They stayed there and my dad
had had family there that they actually didn't even know
if they were still alive because they never got the letter,

(02:20:25):
a letter, you know, in response to their letter. But
you know, it just worked out for them.

Speaker 1 (02:20:31):
That they were I'm so glad you wrote this because
this may give people something they truly need, is to
pause and consider the freedoms that we enjoy in the
face of a country that won't let you leave. I
just can't imagine being in that environment. And I've heard
a lot of stories like this over the years. Think
of the people who tried to get out of Berlin
and had to, you know, go through the wall or

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under the law or or law at risk getting machine
gunned down for even endeavoring to leave. This is a
great story.

Speaker 7 (02:20:59):
And I guess you're and communism was so great, why
would people want to go? Right?

Speaker 1 (02:21:06):
I know I was gonna say earlier in your in
your breadline comments like whatever happened to from each according
his ability, each according to his need? Huh, how come
it's so hard to get an apartment in a communist country?
This is all summed it up like Swan's my local
author guest today, Sussy, It's been a pleasure talking with
is Susi Khan. Like Swan, you can get it on
my blog page fifty five cars dot com. I encourage

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people to do that and then pause and reflect on
what we've got here that so few countries in the
world have. Susi, thanks for doing this for everybody,