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different than that money Monday with Brian James. It is Monday,
Brian James, Every Monday at eight oh five. Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs,
tariff tariffs. Also among other topics with Brian James, fed
says it's stay and put GDP Slow's four point twenty
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five four point five percent, more and more young families
unable to afford a home, which is a real sad
state of affairs, and that is just a practical reality.
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and that effort. So I also appreciate hearing from you.
You've got a comment, maybe something about the tariffs. I
do have a feeling that's going to impact all of this.
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at T funds. And in case you're looking for clarity
on why Trump is imposing the tariffs or has imposed
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the tariffs, twenty five percent additional tariffs and imports from
Canada and Mexico ten percent on additional teriffs from China.
It's all about and I got this statement from the
White House, all about illegal immigration and entanyl. And if
you stop for a moment, you think about the chaos
that's going to ensue, and oh my god, the price
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is going to go through the roof. And you know,
our relationships with Chai, with Canada and Mexico going to
be strained, already strained with China, hell, probably couldn't be
strained anymore. It's all about fentanyl and illegal immigration. And
they have to ask myself out loud, and I'll ask
you out loud, maybe even answer to this, Why in
the hell would in Canada and Mexico be interested in
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helping stop the production and in an importation of fentanyl.
Just ignore the migrant situation for a moment, because of course,
if we had really strong border security, and I recognize
the number of miles along the border between the United
States and Canada, the United States and Mexico make it
a little difficult to secure it one hundred percent. But
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the Biden administration didn't do anything whatsoever to secure the border.
In fact, facilitated people coming into the country CVP one
application where you could just apply for coming into the
United States and then get flown directly from your country
into the United States. That's not border security. But we
could do something about the border. And I don't think
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it's possible to stop the flow of drugs into the
country given that. I mean, hell, a drone can carry
quite a bit of a payload if you flew a
drone from Mexico over the wall, if one existed, then
you wouldn't have any problem getting drugs into the country.
But ignoring those practical realities, why wouldn't those two governments
want to help us stop that? I think it's an illustration,
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at least in Mexico, the fact that the cartels pretty
much run the country, and they of course make billions
of dollars. We obviously have a strong demand here in
our country. What is with everybody in the United States?
What you get all whacked out on drugs? For anyway,
it's cocaine for a long time, you know, the cartels
built the cocaine trade, and now it's fentanyl. Unbelievably deadly
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stuff that is anyway, Donald Trump calling in an emergency
situation international Emergency Economic Powers Act. That's what he asserted,
because of yeah, fentanyl and immigration. John taking bold action
to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable for the promises
of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous ventanyl and other
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drugs from flowing into our country. He said. Chinese officials
have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the
flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels, which they do.
They send them directly and the cartels put it together
and ship it off to the United States. Canada is
involved in that too. According to the release, a recent
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study recognized Canada's heightened domestic production of fentanyl and it's
growing footprint within international narcotics distribution. Doesn't Canada have a
vested interest in putting a halt to this? I just
don't understand the reason we have to go down this road.
I can't we all agree that fentanyl bad, fentan bad.
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I just don't understand. Tariff they said, we're remain in
effect until such time as drugs in particular fentanyl and
all illegal aliens. Stop this invasion of our country. It's
got an exclamation point out of it. It's statment from
Donald Trump. So what's gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Then?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Among other items that will become more expensive? Are you ready?
Jeene Well and Wall Street Journal reporting cherry tomatoes, And
I might add the Thomas household had a bumper crop
of cherry tomatoes over in the garden last year, so
much so that we have jars and jars and jars
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filled with tomato sauce made from cherry tomatoes, tomato juice
made from cherry tomatoes. You may think cherry tomatoes, Actually
they're really really good. You get the right brand and
they have that sweetness that you know full sized tomatoes have.
But cherry tomatoes on the list. Canada big supply to
the of cherry tomatoes. I guess us Canadian producers grow
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them in giant greenhouses near the United States border. Mexico
also supplies tomatoes. Economist warning the domestic producers will be
tempted to increase their prices to match price on imports. Yes,
we do grow them here and they're easy to grow, folks.
Will I will tell you that Tonka trucks, Joe, You're
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gonna be able to handle a ten percent increase on
Tonka trucks coming from China? Do you think so? Ten
percent import on tariff on Chinese goods will raise the
retail price of the Tonka trucks. With over a million
of those Tonker trucks sold in the United States each year,
every one of them made in Ohio. Currently priced twenty
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nine to ninety nine, they might rise to about thirty
four to ninety nine, according to a chief executive of
Basic Fund, the toys manufacturer guy named Jay Foreman. Interestingly enough,
it's not just Tonker trucks. More than eighty percent of
toys sold in the United States are manufactured in China,
data shared by the Toy Association, which is described as
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an industry group. Maple syrup just tapped the maple trees
in the Thomas Yard today. You can do that. It's
pretty simple to do. We've been making maple syrup now
for a couple of years. Tap the trees, get a bucket,
boil it down, and you've got unbelievably wonderful maple syrup.
So if you don't want to go to the store
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and pay a lot for the tariff Canadian maple syrup.
More than sixty percent of Canada's production is exported into
the United States. Canada and the United States are the
only two countries that produce commercial scale level maple syrup.
Now you don't have to go with commercial scale. You
got a maple tree in your backyard, tap it. It's
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not difficult. It's also fun. I mean, how many people
out there can say, hey, I made my own maple syrup. Tequila?
Uh oh yeah, we are the largest market for Mexican tequila,
apparently much more popular now than it used to be.
And uh oh, saygabydy or avocado toast. More than eighty
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percent of US avocados come from Mexico. Cord of the
US Department of Agriculture in Mexico provides about half. Here's
a more troubling figure. Mexico provides about half of the
United States fresh produce imports, and, notably, given the climate
difference between Mexico and the United States, described as a
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particularly important supplier of produce in the winter time. So
undoubtedly your grocery bill is going to get higher if
you spend any time in the produce department of your
local grocery, sport, smartphones from China. Of course, now you know,
Trump's not the only one. We have tariffs on the
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on industrial goods from China. Biden administration also plays tariffs
on industrial goods. However, most consumer goods like smartphones were
spared from the additional import tariffs in what the journal
describes as an effort to avoid the wrath of American
consumers and across the board. Ten percent tariff on goods
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made from China, which is what it is, will also
include smartphones for the first time, and maybe it will
cause price increases. I think you can say possibly or
maybe and strike that from the sentence and say they will.
This was a particularly funny reference because you know, you
could probably pick out a litany of fact thousands of
different products which are going to be impacted by the tariffs. Well,
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the Street Jaranoil identified sledge hammers made in China. Sledge
Hammers made in China already face an import tariff of
twenty five percent when they're imported here in the United States.
The additional tariff will of course raised the price even further. However,
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take a quick look there are several sledgehammer models made
here in the United States. You needn't rely on Chinese
made sledge hammer bless America all because of fentanyl and
illegal immigration. Does anybody think there's any other perhaps reasons
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to want to engage in this tariff war that we
now have going on between Canada, Mexico and China. And
of course Canada Mexico already renounced retaliatory tariffs over the
weekend in retaliation for the ones that Trump announced, So
nobody saw that coming. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on
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his way out of office. The actions taken today by
the White House split US apart instead of bringing us together.
They are placing matching twenty five percent tariffs up to
one hundred and fifty five billion dollars in US imports,
including alcohol and fruit. Kentucky bourbon producers probably a little
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upset about that. Trudeau, warning of economic pain due to
the tariffs, encouraged Canadians to choose Canadian products and services
rather than American ones. Right, It's gonna have real consequences
for people workers on both sides of our border. He said,
we don't want to be here, we didn't ask for this,
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but we will not back down in standing up for
both Canadians and for the incredible successful relationship between Canada
the United States. For her part, Mexican President and then
Claudia Scheinbaum also ordered retaliatory tariffs, saying, we categoryally reject
the Right House slander that the American government has alliances
with or that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations,
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as well as any intentions of meddling in our territory. Well,
I'm surprised she's able to say that through a straight face.
Nobody's paid attention to the situation deteriorating as it has
been deteriorating for decades. Has to recognize the Mexican cartels
pretty much had the upper hand when it comes to
who controls Mexico. If you're a politician running for office
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in Mexico, or if you're an elected official in Mexico
and you take a stand against the cartels in any way,
shape or form, you end up dead. It's like a
foregone conclusion. Shinebold says the United States government's agencies wanted
to address the serious fentanyl consumption in their country, they
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could fight the sale of drugs on the streets of
their major cities, which they don't do. And the laundering
of money that is illegal activity generates that has done
so much to harm its population. I can't disagree completely
with that. You know that whole defund the police movement
and the decriminalization of drug use, You think that's had
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an impact on increasing or decreasing the demand for drugs
in our country. If you defund the police and not
as many officers on the street, given that there's the
ratio of officers to humanity in any given city, even
in the most highest employment of officers point in history,
like if we had a full contingent, it would only
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be like eleven hundred cincin anty police officers to deal
with like roughly two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand people.
How could you possibly control all of the drug activity
in any given neighborhood with that ratio? You can't. Maybe
if our demand went down, maybe if we reflected on
ourselves as a society and realizing we're propping up all
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of this criminal enterprise and we're now in a trade
war with Canada and Mexico as well as China because
we just can't say no to the drugs. Five twenty
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about your Phone calls are always welcome, so feel free
to call up at the bright back with age a
lot of people. Is there a tax on this too,
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he said Chuck MANGIONI, well, I don't want you to
play more than twenty seconds. You're you're not You're not you?
You did avoid the tax. You know you're not old
enough to remember when you couldn't get away from that
damn song They played it like every five minutes on
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radio back in the seventies. God, I not gonna have
an earworm in my head coming off the heels of
a week of having fear as never boring run through
my head. Just full that song up from the Raisins, Joe.
I made a lot of people smile when I posted
that on Facebook, anyway, and that allows me to use
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up the balance at the time for this segment. Getting
back on time, local stories or phone calls, you can
feel free to call it prefer talking with you and
doing local stories, but hey, I'll take it either way.
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Apparently no one wants to talk to me, So I
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local stories. Look at that.
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In addition to Tech Friday interest, I t Dave had
results to the mayor of Fort Wright, Kentucky, and he
is aware of the speeding problem Amsterdam Road in Fort Wright.
Apparently everyone loves to speed on it. There's some stats
on it too, So I live very close to there,
walk in the neighborhood all the time, and I see
it firsthand. So recently the issue was brought up to
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him by multiple residents who live on Amsterdam Ron. He said,
a lot of residents in the area are frustrated. I
hear the complaints and I know they're legit because I
see it myself. Speed limit Amsterdam Road twenty five miles
per hour. Apparently everyone driving more than forty miles per hour,
and they've also notes that they blow the stoplights. Are
the stop signs off? Studied by the police department last
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year found that during one week in January seventy, roughly
seventy percent of drivers were speeding. Similar study conducted in August,
number of speeding drivers decrease, still showed nearly a quarter.
We're going over the speed limit. I just said, the
biggest people is people. The biggest problem is people during
the stop signs, says, people don't even tap the brakes.
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Sometimes they go right through the stop signs. Growing tired
of the problem, he is now working with police to
increase patrols in the area. So we just want people
to slow down and think about safety again for themselves
and others Fort Right Police, saying that there is a
heavy police presence now and it will be seen in
the area for the foreseeable future. So if you're getting
ready to drive down Amstein Avenue, keep your eyes peeled
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for the cops because they may be there. Potter City
wants to make it clear not to meet some of
a sort of quota. He said. The city doesn't benefit
financially from police citations, saying almost none of that money
comes back to the City of Fort Wright, simply a
matter of keeping people safe. Quote, let's not create a
situation where someone gets injured or killed simply due to
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bad driving behavior when it's something that's so simple to stop.
Sounds right. Peter Crabel sitting in the parking lot of
Coraine Township Walgreens when a bullet went through the back
of his van and into his liver stray shot fired
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by a publicly unidentified publicly unidentified suspect in the double
killing of two brothers across the street at Popeye'es over
a couple of weeks ago. He's been recovering since he's
picking up a prescription from Walgreens, apparently for a toothache.
He found himself needed to roll out of the car
and go inside to ask for help. I guess after
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his liver had been punctioned by the air bullet. Two
women came to his aid after he entered the Walgreens,
applying pressure to the wound while he waited for paramedics
to arrive. Grab told the women applying the pressure to
tell his wife, Sander he loved her, as he didn't
know if he was going to make it to the hospital.
Wow brought to the ICU at University of Sincinni Medical Center,
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where his liver and a cracked rib had been healing
from the gunshot, and his gallbladder had to be removed.
He said. After a couple of surgeries and a lot
of procedures, I become stable and getting better. So I
remember everything from the bullet to the operating room. I
woke up feeling blessed to be alive. Amen. Colerain Township
police call it just before one pm January sixteenth, to
the intersection of Cole Rain in Springdale, where Rashaan Robinson
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and his brother Willie Dishawn Robinson died at the scene
shooting in the parking lot of the Popeyes Louisi in
the kitchen, one of the brothers inside of Blue, Infinity
in the other just outside of the vehicle. According to
the Cornine Townships Plus spokesperson, Infinity had twelve gun shots
through the passenger window. Police haven't yet released a motive
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or announced any arrest in the shooting. However, court records
show that Rashawn Robinson publicly expressed his fears of being
killed in a court filing years before his death. Spokes
Version confirmed Crable was not an intended target in the shooting,
but he says he's facing months of rehab after he's
discharge from the hospital. No kidding, dangerous out there, good Amazewell,
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Kentucky or A body of a Mazell woman who was
reported missing for weeks found over the weekend. On Saturday morning,
court to the Maysville Police, They along with the Buffalo
Trace Search and Rescue, found the body of Eugena Harris Cooley,
forty seven years old, near the area of Walld Park
in Mason County. Not clear what happened to her or
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Dota daughter Jidjishaw West that her mom was last seen
walking out of her apartment complex December twenty first. Police
working with the Mason County Coroner's office to investigate the
cause of death. Boone County judge has ousted all Union
City commissioners, avoiding the commission's in tired November general election
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after claims of election fraud. Decision came out on late Friday,
Boon County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bruggaman granted former Union
City Commissioner Doug Bind's election contest. In December, Boon County
Judge Niner restraining order that would have prevented the newly
elected commissioners from taking their seats January first. The attempt
came after buying fout a lawsuit contesting the results of
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the November election. With this decision, all three newly elected commissioners,
John Mefford, Brian Garner, and Eric Delaney have been ousted
from their seats. The decision leaves Mayor Larry Solomon as
the only member of the city Commission. Solomon will now
hold a commission meeting. I guess today it is a third,
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isn't it. Yeah, sure is, and he'll likely begin the
process of appointing new members as the commission, as directed
by the court. BiiN has requested a new citywide election instead.
Of appointments because due to scheduling, the appointments will continue
until twenty twenty seven. Brugerman agreed with Byn's lawsuit claims
that hundreds of illegal votes in Boone County changed the
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outcome of the commission race, which he lost. Five candidates
running for four open seats. Buying lost by sixty five votes.
His lawsuit claims that more than five hundred people illegally
voted in Union Precinct one and Union Precinct four. EECE
Judge Bergermann and his judgment quote there could be as
many as eight hundred invalid votes between Union one and four.
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Some parties contend that nine hundred and thirty two ballots
were cast. It could be equally assumed that all city
ballots had been given to the twelve hundred and fifty
nine non city voters. In any event that disparity is
greater than five hundred and ninety nine votes, Find's attorney,
Steve Murgerley said after the ruling he plans to reach
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Rights Division and request a federal audit and investigation. Huh
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Comfortably one for about Fair City Talk station. Yeah, Rick,
I know that Trump's tariffs are the retalia and the predicate,
as he stated in this announcement over and over again,
is for illegal immigration and fentanyl, and I must observe.
You know, like I said, it would be really easy.
I would think, at least to take some efforts by
the Mexican government's, Canadian governments and the horse of Chinese
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if they were interested in it. I would expect cooperation
from Mexico and Canada. Mexico's got the cartel situation they
have to deal with prevents them from actually doing anything
about it. Canada, I don't know, but they say that
fentanyl production is increased in Canada as well. But as
far as Chinese is concerned, I mean, selling fentanyl precursors
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to Mexican cartels is an act of war. I think
they enjoy and are gleefully watching the damage that's being
done to our country with this massive amount of death
and destruction and dependence that fentanyl has created. Aug what
are the points it was made in Trump's announcement last
year Customs and Border Protection handed more than twenty one
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thousand pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough to kill
I'm just staring at all at this figure. Enough to
kill more than four billion people, and that's what they found.
A lot of it's making it into the streets. Yeah,
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it's is. It is a subtle, nefarious, that yet genuine
act of war. It's like the the info wars that
we're engaged with, and the gathering up of data and
the attacking of our computer systems and the installation of
nefarious software so they can flip a switch and shut
us all down a moment's notice. Anyhow, Yeah, I'm aware
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of that. Over the stack is stupid Detroit, a priest
who hosts an exorcism podcast. Thank you, Joe, That's exactly
what I was thinking. Facing charges after he allegedly took
a piece of hair from a teenage girl's head and
used it to floss his teeth. There's no flag for us, amen,
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and there isn't for this, one, prosecutor said January twenty second.
The criminal complaint about Michigan priest Father Carlos Martins of Detroit,
that he placed hair of a miner in his mouth
in an insulting or provoking nature. That's part of the complaint.
He's the host of and you can check it out
for yourself the exorcist files. Why you want to check
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that out beyond my understanding. Charged with mis demeter, battery,
and Illinois over the lleged incident happened November twenty fifth,
He says he's denied the allegations. Ledgend incident had happened
in the Diocese of Joliet, where Martin's ministry group was
there while on a nationwide American tour with the Relic
of Saint Jude Okay, teenage boy told police, who's waiting
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the line to see the relic when bald? And he is?
I see his head bald and Martin's made jokes about
what he used to have hair, and then he grabbed
the thirteen year old girl's hair and put it in
his mouth. Okay, I guess People magazine reporting on this
when the boy told police that Martin then allegedly proceeded
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to make a flossing motion with the girl's hair and
later that day sat behind the girl in the pew
and made growling noises. Diocese a Joli had released a
statement about the incident and said they ordered Martin's to
quote depart from our parish and out of our diocese
close quote taking it to custody January seventh, and charged
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floor courtyard of the Mont Blanc Apart hotel, described as
a four hotel. A four star hotel located in the
Nova Iguacu, Brazil, Wherever the hell that is. Don't know
court to the reporting. When questioned by authorities, the two
men offered conflicting testimonies, but police released the men after questioning.
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Foul play has not been ruled out, though, according to
the police spokesperson, the comp this is a complex case.
We don't rule out any possibility, from an accident to
possible crime. Was reported that her boyfriend I struggle with
that she's a pornographic actress. How do you maintain a
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relationship with a woman who is having sex with other
people for a living. Can't reconcile that. Maybe maybe I'm
just more of a traditionalist anyway. Pedro Henrique Pedro Enrique
went on social media to morning passing, writing as the
hours pass, it's starting to sink in and the whole phrasing,
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thank you, Joe. The hole in my heart is only
getting bigger. If someone is to blame, they will pay
and the culprit will be found. His hole's getting bigger,
Joe frazing, Bobby, Welcome to the five Caresey Morning Show.
Happy Monday to you, my friend.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Heats flags family of forty five seventies.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
My brother there you are, big boomstick.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
That dance as member but D and D.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, well, that'll it'll definitely cause that anyhow. What's on
it's on your mind today, Bobby.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Well, we've got all these deterrents and everything that President's
trying to implement, but you've got to look back on
history of true cases cases of deterrent. The grade Impaler
when he starts sticking pikes down the road to his kingdom.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Vlad the Impaler, Yes, as a warning to other people
who might consider doing him harm.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Yes, are you to stick heads on the top of
the pikes going down to each side of the road.
That is a deterrent to these cartels.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I suspect, but I'd like to think we have higher
moral ground than Glad the Impaler. My recollection is he
killed his own people and impaled them as a warning
to other would be invaders. Look, if this guy's nut
job enough to kill his own people and stick them
on post as a warning, he might do worse to us.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
It's just a deterrent. It doesn't matter if it's true
or not. It's just what they perceive it to be.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Okay, Bobby, I know you'd like to keep your tongue
in your cheek, and I'd like to think that's where
it is right. Now, be careful you might pop a
hole in it with comments like that. I can't abide
impaling people as a deterrent. It's both parallels to be
drawn with the the tariffs anyhow, Thank you, Bobby forty
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five seventy. We've got a brighton Colorado where a woman's
been charged with murder after she killed her boyfriend because
he expressed doubt about her chances of getting a job.
Twenty nine year old Ashley began having serious issues with
the relationship with twenty eight year old Cody Deleisa, largely
surrounding her difficulty in finding work. According to the press
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release in the District Attorney's office there, at some point,
White became so frustrated with the relationship that she attempted
to drown and burn his cat well While attended a
job interview eight August thirteenth, twenty twenty, and rode home
in a public bus while texting Deleise about how it went.
He apparently expressed skepticism about her chances of getting a job,
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which frustrated her. Or to the release, White met with
a man on the bus who called himself Scott and
asked if she was in a relationship with a man
and whether he raped her. This doesn't make any sense
to me. Wright responded that he had, and Scott then
said they must kill him. White and Scott got off
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the bus together. The pair shot a gun belonging to
Scott before making the way into White's home and confronting Delesa's.
Scott introduced himself to de Lisa as White's brother from Texas,
and at some point after the pair arrived at Delesea's
he was shot twice in the head.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
That does not make it it.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He literally does not. Joe, I just read the article
and I'm more confused now as a human being than
I was. I feel actually dumber for having read this.
I had no idea, so I needed to itally. It
is Monday, and it is in the five o'clock hour,
still a few moments remaining in it. Four minutes to
be specific, five fifty six. Stick around, got more to
talk about in the six o'clock hour, and yeah, please
feel free to call. Maybe you got something on your
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I'll be right back after the news.
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Brian James. Fast forward two hours. We'll hear from Brian
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James on tariffs, talk about a little bit about those.
In the last hour, four point twenty five to four
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to four point five percent reigns inflation a rather gross
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going to have the Cincinntiva to talk about four significant
Cincinnati VA facility improvements scheduled to be completed this year.
As I pointed out, a VIA takes great care of
the veterans and they're always trying to improve things. So
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thank God for the American veteran and I'm glad we
have a pretty gosh darn good VA here in the
city of Cincinnati. Not every city can say that anyway,
Ah that bump bump bum. I saw this Alisa Finley
article and I thought it was rather interesting. Now, I
remember the Trump administration paused federal grants, completely paused them,
and then of course withdrew that pause after the uproar.
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But it took a moment to I mean, did the
pause that kind of shook the framework of a lot
of Democrat states and Democrat cities, because well, they are
almost entirely dependent upon you and I working out here
in other flyover states to keep their their systems going,
and that's what her observations were in this Democratic States
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are wards of Washington subtitle There's a reason for the
panic over the Trump white House's temporary federal spending pause.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy was complaining, fifteen percent of
our workforce are funded by those dollars, and that in
and of itself is a frightening thing. Lawsuit brought by
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all twenty two states with Democratic attorneys general plus the
District of Columbia detailed a litany of programs funded by
you and your labor in your perhaps red state. Washington
said it received one hundred and twenty one million dollars
last year for allergy and infects his de's disease research.
(40:24):
Illinois claimed federal Medicaid funds made up sixty percent of
its twenty twenty three spending on critical health services. New
York Governor Kathy Hogel Washington, do you realize the consequences
of what you've done here and you really want us
to not fund law enforcement? Do you allow us to
(40:44):
not fund roads and bridges? Lissa Finley notably interjects, well,
what are New York state taxes for? Right the freeze
didn't apply to the most federal dollars of float of
states for social welfare, education, transportation, since those are based
on statutory formulas, although the administration's original memo didn't explain
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that clearly, and on Wednesday last week, the administration recinded
the memo after a judge blocked it. Democratic states and
their economies depend much more on Washington than Republican states do.
This year, New York received roughly four thousand, nine hundred
dollars per capita from the Feds California forty three hundred dollars.
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That's two to three times as much as Florida seventeen hundred,
Texas fifteen hundred. It's because Democratic states provide more generous
social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to
regulatory changes by yeah the Biden administration. Democratic states also
received a disproportionate served more than one trillion with a
(41:53):
te that Congress sent the state and local governments in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one as pandemic relief. Between
twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two, federal
dollars flowing to red states and local governments increased by
five hundred and fifteen billion dollars, more than the rise
in Social Security and medicare combined. And you know that
(42:18):
we're still spending money on COVID. It seems to be
kind of comical to me, says Most COVID funds are
running out, though the Biden Federal Emergency Management Agency planned
to hand out disaster relief funds to states and cities
for pandemic quote unquote emergency spending through August of twenty
twenty six. See this is a big scam, folks. And
(42:39):
I kind of made comments and was painfully or wherever
while it was going out. They were throwing money all
over the place. And a lot of these democratic cities
before COVID had run themselves into the ground with overspending.
Look at the pension problems that Illinois faces, and New
York and other cities the overwhelming nightmare that their budgets are.
And oh my god, look here's COVID money from the
(43:00):
federal government. Let's pay off our debts. And that's what
was done. And here we are talking about additional pandemic
spending through twenty twenty six, She writes. This year's Los
Angeles City budget includes two hundred and eight point two
million in FEMA COVID funds one city, including housing vagrants
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in hotels. What's that got to do with COVID? New
York State's budget this year includes nearly three and a
half billion dollars in FEMA dollars for COVID quote emergency
protective matters close quote like home test kits? Are people
still using those home test kits? I mean, by this
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point in time, I think we're all painfully aware that
the COVID pretty much like a regular, good old fashioned
cold unless you're in a comorbid category three. Only five
billion dollars after blowing through federal pandemic, largest states and
localities are tapping FEMA to backfill their budgets. Congress and
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Turns keeps back filling FEMA rents and repeat. Government Accountability
Office last summer projected that the COVID disaster quote unquote
disaster will be the most expensive in FEMA history. Bretherident
Trump is right to call for shifting more FEMA responsibilities
to the states. Federal spending on disaster relief creates a
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moral hazard by reducing the incentive for states to invest
in disaster preparedness and mitigation see Los Angeles sam goes
for social welfare. States have lessons center to help lift
people out of poverty, since they receive more federal dollars
if people stay poor. When you're spending someone else's cash,
there's hardly an his center to spend it prudently. Medicaid
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state's biggest source of federal dollars in courages. In efficient spending,
states receive one to three dollars from Washington for every
dollar they spend on Medicaid nine dollars for lower income,
able bodied individuals covered under Obamacare's expansion. Democratic states provide
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more expansive benefits and easier eligibility, and writing more money
out of Washington. Some are ringing more money out of Washington.
Some thirty six percent of Californians are covered by medicaid.
Compare that to Florida, where it's nineteen and in Texas,
where it's fifteen. Thirty six percent federal share of California's
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Medicaid spending nearly one hundred and twenty billion, is more
than Florida's entire budget. America's Welfare Queen New York federal
dollars make up roughly forty percent of the state's budget.
Let that sink in. Some forty four percent of New
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Yorkers are covered by medicaid or quasi public option for
lower income people, including migrants. Thanks to a Biden regulatory waiver,
they've fed foot about ninety five percent of this public
options cost, translated to eleven point seven billion dollars this
year alone. Government social assistance and healthcare account for nearly
all new jobs added in such Democrat run states as California,
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nearly all also in New York, Minnesota, in Illinois, nearly
all new jobs from your taxpayer dollars. Their high taxes
and excessive regulation of suppressed job creation by private businesses,
so that government spending is now the main engine of
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employment and growth. How long can that last? Soaring pension
bills I mentioned in a moment ago for government workers
or crowding out public services. Lawmakers have in turn hiked taxes,
but the resulting population flight has shrunk their tax This
is a total recipe for disaster, and it's unfolding before
our very eyes. All this has made them more dependent
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on Washington spending. Why should taxpayers in Houston and Jacksonville
and Cincinnati subsidized mismanaged government in Sacramento, in Albany, that's
a rhetorical question. They shouldn't. By slashing federal spendings, Republicans
in Washington could give progressive governments an impetus to reform
and escape their welfare trap. Call it tough love. Yeah,
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all painfully a whare of the LA's of the Pacific
Palisades or every place else burning to the ground. They
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apparently he was on a phone call with Hollywood talent
executives and he was telling them, do not accept the
low ball offers, the receiving on their properties house burns
of the ground, and no end in sight in terms of,
you know, getting the home rebuilt or no idea insight
(50:49):
when the home could possibly be rebuilt. He said, whether
you're broke or you're old, don't sell now, because in
one year we're going to be putting billions of dollars
in your neighborhood of improvements. Now, going back to the
article by Elysa Finley, does anybody think that one billion
dollars or more is going to come from the state
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of California or do you think you and I are
going to be shouldering that bill? He said, you'll get
triple what these guys are offering you. Now, it's like
William Morris Agency and these other talent agencies, you know
folks that represent One was identified Jake Tapper, United Talent
Agency of Beverly Hills was on the meeting, so all
the movers and shakers in the Hollywood area, I suppose
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During the call, he said half hour labor could get
deported before the Palisades is rebuilt, which he said could
be extremely expensive. Also warning the folks on the call
not to take the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power testing at face value, not reassuring this one, saying
don't bathe your baby in their water. All right, he
(51:57):
said on the call, construction costs are going to be
as high, going to be high because the demand for
commodities is going to be high, the demand for labor,
whether or not half our labor is deported before this happens.
Obviously a shot out of the ballot Donald Trump and
rather insulting to the construction labor for suggesting that they're
all made up of illegal immigrants. He says, it's going
to be high. We're going to be recruiting people from
(52:18):
around the country to come and live at Motel sixes.
Like the Alaska gold Rush. It's going to take a
long time. So on one hand, don't sell because ultimately,
at some point way down the road, when taxpayer dollars
are going to be injected and fused into the area,
we'll finally be able to rebuild and you won't have
to sell it at a no pun intended fire sale price.
(52:39):
You're just going to have to wait for it. In
the meantime, if you don't have any money, and you
maybe inherited your home or has been in your home generations,
where are you're going to be living? Pacific Palisades not
presently inhabitable anyway. Back over the water situation, referring to
the Los Angeles Department or to Water and Power. Just
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because the DWP says your water is safe, have somebody
tested before you move back in. And when they say
drinking water, use bottle water, Well, it's easy for him
to say, isn't it, And maybe easy for the executives
on the call to say, I imagine that they probably
have money and maybe their houses didn't burn to the ground.
(53:28):
What they don't say? He went on, and they're starting
to say it now. Don't bathe your baby in their water,
don't take a bath in the water, don't take a shower,
don't do your dishes, don't do your laundry. You don't
want to do anything with that water until it's deemed safe,
and then personally, if you can afford it, I would
get an independent agency or maybe there's a kid at
CBS that can tell you if your water is safe. Yeah,
(53:52):
but the CVS burned down too. Sober Off said it
could take as long as ready five years for people
to rebuild the destroyed homes. Said, I thought you said
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it wasn't going to be political. Now I want you
on the I want you on the bus to yes
hit this analogy. You're either on the yes bus or
the no bus. Criticism is a bus to know what
he's on the yes bus, he says. He acknowledged that
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only about five percent of Palisades residents can afford their
house now, given that many are generational owners or bought
their houses before construction costs in real estate products for
the skyrocket and ready for this, he predicted the cost
would be in his words, nuts, explaining that we'll probably
cost one thousand and to twelve hundred dollars per square
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foot to rebuild. Said there's no one in Polisades that
won't have a gap between what their insurance policies will
pay out and the costs to reconstruct their homes. As
he doesn't know what kind of aid will be available
to make up the shortfalls. Still, he told these Witzy
executives on the call, the best thing for people to
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do is ready they're building plans, hire legal help. There's
another cost many people might not be able to meet.
Hire legal help to negotiate with insurance companies and hold
onto their watts rather than accept low ball offers from speculators.
Some things are easier said than done. Got a couple
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Happy Monday.
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Hey.
Speaker 13 (58:00):
I just wanted to come in concerning Donald Trump firing
these igs. There's one of them who's going around and
he's sitting in the different media television, these news shows,
and I just say to myself, man, I'm glad that
Donald Trump has done this. To leave certain people in
these positions is like leaving Comy in for another year.
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You know.
Speaker 13 (58:26):
The one thing that I wish somebody would ask is
these igs ask these igs did Comy spy on Donald
Trump illegally? And then after he became president, did Comy
and others go after a sitting voted in president, but
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nobody wants to address any of this stuff. I think
I think Donald Trump is a quick study and he
learned the hard way that there's certain people in government
you cannot ever try us, and you have to get them.
Speaker 8 (59:02):
Out well and or wing to get your comment on.
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Yeah, maybe they're not doing their job. Inspectors General is
supposed to mind the store and find out where the
money's going. And if you saw that announcement from Elon
Musk the other day, they just basically rubber stamp literally
every check that's amanded out of federal government. Just pay everybody,
pay everybody. So many trillions of dollars flowing out of government.
No one can keep watch over it. Well, it's part
of the job they're supposed to do. We had Todd
Zenzer on the phone. He was Inspector general for what
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like thirty years, and he knows exactly what the job's about.
You can go back on the podcast pages and hear
what he had to say. But yeah, I got no
problem new sheriff in town, you know, and who among
us hasn't been victim of some sort of reorganization. They
used to reorganize the legal department of my prior employer
almost like every three years, like, well, here comes gonna
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reorger again. They're gonna drop people and people get fired.
Thankfully never happened to me. I did quit on my
own accord, but god knows whether I'd still be there.
I had stuck it out in Anthon, Blue Cross and
Blue Shield, and you know what, there is no guarantee
that I'm going to be able to keep this job either.
But thank God for my listeners, which I take that
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concern off of my lap. But you know what, times
change and new shriffes come into town and people get
people lose their jobs. And I'm quick to point out,
you know who has any pity for folks in the
coal industry. You know, this whole global warming thing resulting
in so many coal jobs just being completely deleted. I
sucks to be you. You're in a dirty industry. We
don't care about you. But when you go ahead and
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you start firing government employees, it's like, well, you can't
do that. Why not everybody else's face is being fired
at some point. You know, I'm not gonna weep over
And I have accountants that are friends of mine and
I get an accountant to help with my taxes every year.
And honestly, I'm sorry if a complete industry gets if
wipe if the industry completely gets wiped out, because we
come up with a saner system of taxation, fair tax,
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flat tax, whatever, but one that does not require a
team of accountants to manage your your income taxes. That
would be a welcome change for me. And I'm certain
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Fifty five KRCD Talk station five hundred, Day two three
talks straight to the phones, will go. I got Dwayne
on the line and was kind of enough the hold
of the break, Dwayne, welcome to the morning show. Good
to hear from this.
Speaker 14 (01:03:15):
Morning lording Brian, how are you this great Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
I'm still trying to get my engine fired up, Dwayne,
but I'm feeling pretty good. No complaints. I can't say
him out loud because nobody'd care.
Speaker 14 (01:03:29):
Hey, I wanted to talking about kind of piggyback on
your COVID comments and the wayte abuse and wrong decisions
that leads me into the newly declared subernatorial candidate on
the Democrat side doctor Amy Acton. Yeah, mister Dewayne puts
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ahead of the Apartment of Health. I want everyone to
remember the wrong decisions after five confirmed cases in Ohio,
close schools, after one hundred confirmed cases in Ohio, close
restaurants and bars, and the kicker is and this should
be the campaign slogan, CNN come through the Buckeye State's
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version of straight talking Anthony Falci. And my last little
tidbit to leave you with is are the voters in
Ohio going to pardon her as well?
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
No, I don't think she's a snowball's chance in hell. Hell,
we can all just remember remind everybody that she's responsible
for dwine saying you can't drink at a bar after
ten pm, as this that was going to do something
to stop COVID. You don't have to leave, but you
can't drink. Oh okay, Yeah, that's that. There's the lynch pin.
That's the key to stopping the spread of COVID. What
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the hell?
Speaker 14 (01:04:53):
And we just want the media to remember that. We
want to bring that to front of mine.
Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Yes, well, well, if she's still in the race next year,
when we have the goodernatorial race in twenty twenty six.
Trust me, you'll be hearing that type of message on
the fifty five care Ce Morning Show. Here, let me
remind you and the On the Republican side, declared candidate
Heather Hill, former president of the Morgan County School Board,
Robert Sprague, High State Treasurer, David Yost, High Attorney General
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announcement pending VVA Grandma Swammy. On the Democrat side, the
only declared candidate is Amy Acton, former director of the
High Department of Health. That's it, you, amster Gary. Welcome
to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.
Speaker 15 (01:05:38):
Good morning, Brian. How are you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
I'm doing that, hey.
Speaker 15 (01:05:45):
I was just going to piggyback off of your comments
at California and the Palisade fires and all the fires
going on out there. I think the majority of the
people who have money or want to leave southern California
for other places in the world. I mean, they got
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more than enough money. They can go anywhere. I mean, really,
do they want to sit on a neighborhood where they
might be the only house that's not in Amber Shambers?
You know that's not burnt to an ash to look
at that For the next five years, and then you've
got to wonder what that's going to do to everybody's
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the tax space, right and you know, so the tax
space is going to have to decrease, which means that
they're going to have to rely on the people that stay.
Same thing with the workforce for rebuilding everything, which is
going to be extra high. Same thing with supplies are
going to be extra high. So you've got high taxes.
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There's really unsafe water. And you know how they environmentalists
out there, they won't even bathed in the water now,
you know, probably for just cause now and they'll just
they'll spread. They don't have to put up with that.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
No, they don't. And it's an excellent point you make
that you know, does Hollywood even need to be in Hollywood, California?
If you want to make movies, you can literally make
them anywhere. How they make movies in Cincinnati. Now, all
that talent out there and they've got money, they can move.
And you're right, I agree with you completely. Who would
really seriously want to wait around for between one and
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five years to have their house rebuild when the next
door neighbors and most of the people across the street
didn't even have enough insurance to do a rebuild, they're
going to have to sell, and that land is going
to go to a for a low ball offer for
a long time, because only I would think some sort
of corporate investment entity could sink the kind of money
you need in to acquire a bunch of land out
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there and then afford to be able to wait around
until the conditions are ripe to have the homes rebuilt
in their own image or vision, right. I mean, everybody
was talking about this thing having so many parallels to
the Lahina fire that they're now having all the restrictions
on rebuilding. Those houses were in people's families for generation
after generation after generation, and they don't meet modern building codes,
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so they're not going to have their homes rebuilt the
way it used to be in the line, and it's
going to be pursued into some grand strategy and probably
a walkable community type phenomenon, like they're trying to shove
down everybody else's throat out here. Oh yeah, and you're right,
you know what, didn't it be interesting question to have
answered Gary The total taxes that the collective communities that
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burned in the ground paid in Los Angeles area like
how many tax dollars were collected from the people who
used to live in the now burned down Pacific Palisades.
I bet it is an outrageous amount of money and
it's gone.
Speaker 15 (01:08:49):
And one billion dollars and one billion dollars that they're
going to throw into the community is nothing compare what
they need. I mean, hell, they don't even have a
fire department, no less water system that's adequate, and hop
out medical and rebuilding bridges, water systems and everything else.
Don't eat one billion help bridges alone. Don't eat that
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up nothing flat.
Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Yeah, there's no question. Well, I mean what you saw
the figures. Even early on they were talking about forty
to fifty sixty billion dollars in property damage, and I
bet that figures a lot more than that now once
they calculate it all up. A billion dollars is a
drop in the bucket for the damage that's been concurred
down there. Good points, Gary, You're right, I can't argue
with any of them. Place is going to be a
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every Monday at seven twenty today, no different. And you know,
and in the remaining time, why not go here? I
saw this headline. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
I thought it was a bunch of right wing extremists
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that were the real problem in this country. So say,
with the Biden FBI anyway, trans Vegan terror cult, check
the right boxes, you too could be remember of the
trans vegan terror called Zi's cult blame for a string
of what they call brutal murders as well as mayhem
in the United States, including the recent fatal shooting of
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a Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Nationwide manhunt underway for
Michael zecho Z A Jko described it as a trans
non binary person. They say he's the one that bought
semi automatic weapons used by two other excuse me trans
individuals to shoot and kill Border Patrol agent David Maylon
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back in the twentieth of January during a traffic stop
in Vermont. Several of the associates now in custody for
various violent crimes, while the leader, Jack ziz La Soda,
described as a vegan who also goes by the name
Andrea Phelps, is at large after he faked his own
death to escape prosecution. Jacko, connected with the group an
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online posts also a person of interest in the double
murder of her parents in connection with the slang of
the Vallejo, California landowner named Curtis Linde alleged cult tied
to a string of killings which they say are reminiscent
of the murders carried out by Charles Manson and his followers.
Lesota himself currently not charging any of the killing. Some
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members of this ziz group charged with gravely injuring and
later murdering that Curtis lind landowner, who they attacked with
a sword after he tried to kick him off from
squatting on his property. He was eighty two years old,
shot and killed one of them in self defense, lost
an eye. The January seventeenth in attack, he was poised
to testify against these jailed assailants when he was stabbed
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to death outside his home. They arrested a guy named
Maximilian Bentley Snyder, who has connections with his trans vegan cult,
in charge him with murder. Prosecutor said Lynn was intentionally
killed for the purpose of preventing his testimony in the
criminal proceeding. Andy No, writer for The New York Post,
described Losodas group known as the Zizians, as a highly
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educated trans vegan rationalist to hold fringe esoteric ideological beliefs
about transhumanism and animal rights. Brian Thomas, hosted the fifty
five Care Morning Show, calls them cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Lysoda was at the scene of Lynn's first attack and
was squatting on that property. Please let him Goole Go.
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Though all the skipped court appearance on unrelated charges, police
records show a pattern of violence among members associated with him.
Felix Ophelia Buckholt University of Washington, Teresa Milo Consuelo young Blood,
two trans individuals fired at Maryland fired at Mayland during
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the traffic stopped, killing him, according to the complaint. As
for mister Delsoda, his whereabouts are currently unknown. Arrested in
twenty nineteen while protesting and then barricading a workshop put
on by Berkeley based Center for Applied Rationality. And I
read that and I go, oh, there's one of those too, huh.
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His mother and associates claimed he later died in a
boating accident and produced an obituary. Coastguards, however, conducted a search,
never found a body, and police later made contact with
Lysoda at the scene of Lynn's first attack, but again
he wasn't arrested or charged. So we have those trans
vegan terror cults. Five six fifty seven. Don't go away.
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Oh six fifty five krc DE talk station. It being
Monday in the seven o'clock hour. Fast forward to the
next segment. Christopher Smithmen, former vice mayor of the City
of Cincinnati, with the smither event. Never do know what's
going on in his mind, but I always appreciate his
thoughts in common. So we'll join and we'll get our
popcorn out and enjoy that together. Monday, Monday, Brian James,
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Fast forward an hour. We're going to talk about tariffs,
talking about the gross domestic products slowing uh. More and
more young families are unable to afford a home and
that just breaks my heart. Us cares return of the
cincinni Via. Got a whole bunch of improvements coming in
this calendar year at the Cincinniva. We're going to learn
all about that together at eight forty five three seven
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eight hundred eight two to three Taco with pound five
fifty on AT and T phones. And one of the
things Trump did he got rid of gender pronouns employees
and all the federal agencies in order to remove pronouns
from their email signatures by last Friday afternoon. This according
to internal memos citing two executive orders signed by Donald
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Trump his first day in office seeking to curb diversity,
equity and inclusion programs. Accord to the one message sent
to the Center for Disease Control staff, and any other
information not permitted in the policy must be removed from
employee signatures by five pm Friday. Employees instructed to remove
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the pronouns from everything from government grant applications the email
signatures all across the departments. Plays of the Department of
Energy received similar notice were told this was meet to
meet requirements in the executive order, including removal of all
DEI language and federal discourse communications and publications. The result
of Trump administration's pushed to do away with all DEI
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efforts and it's rolling out across the board. And this
is just one little illustration of it. But you know,
how did we end up in this bizarre, weird, crazy
idea that these and I pulled it up because l
g b t q I a UC Davis dot edu.
They have a department. It's the LGB T t QI
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a Resource Center. And in case you're wondering what all
those they stay for at Lesbian gets Bisexual, which we
all understand and can understand that quite clearly, all of
which relate to one's sexual proclivities. Then transgender queer intersection
asexual and I get kind of fuzzy on that. If
you are a transgender woman, it means you're a guy
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biologically you could still be attracted to, at least from
a you know, sexual proclivity standpoint, to women you just
like dressing up black a gal. I think ed Wood
Glenn or Glenda is a movie you can check out
on that one right if you get done watching Plan
nine from Outer Space. But they have examples of pronouns
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on this list, and I never heard of a lot
of these. We're supposed to keep track of this, which
is why I'm so happy to see the federal governments
getting rid of them. CO co, O, N E N.
And they put it in context like co laughed or
you know, you would say normally he laughed or she
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laughed CO or N laughed, E y and he. They
actually have he, she and they on there. But then again,
some people refer to themselves collectively as they more than
one person roaming around on their head. And I've made
that observation many times before. But if you go around
telling me that you want me to meet to call you.
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They when I'm referring to you with the pronoun, I'm
going to laugh at you and suggest maybe you need
some psychological counseling, because apparently you've got more than one
person roaming around inside your head. G X I E
y O y O z E. And then the final
one they have here is v V E. They also
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admonish you try to avoid using the phrase preferred pronouns
or preferred name, as these suggest an element of flexibility
or that someone's identity is less than valid. Someone's name
and pronoun are not suggestions and are not preferred over
something else. They are inherent to who we are. YO
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said that, I guess maybe Sanity's finally returning to the world.
I don't know, I'd like to think so. Federal agencies
and departments were given a deadline of five pm on
Friday to implement Trump's order mandated the US government recognize
only two sexes that are, in Trump's words, not changeable.
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Memocent Wednesday to agency heads detailed the launder lists of
tasks required to comply with the order, including sweeping directive
to withdraw all relevant documents directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements,
and plans, along with far more specific requests to change
gender to the word sex on government forums, disable any
email prompts that ask users for their pronouns, and cancel
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any employee resource groups that include or promote ideology. I
wonder if the UC Davis website will soon disappear. It's
still up as of this morning. I do believe they
receive federal funds. That's why I kind of uttered that
out loud. Agencies also ordered to take down any what
they call outward facing media that could be interpreted as
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promoting a view of gender that isn't in liign with
the current administration's policies on gender. In other words, there's
two jack, two genders, period, end of story. It's what
you were born with. So apparently, by Friday afternoon, search
results for gender on the US Center for Disease Control
and Preventions website all dead links, which had been active
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even earlier in the day. On Friday, websites of the
Department of Health and Human Services scrubbed all the pages
on gender affirming care and LGBTQ plus rights. CDC representatives
didn't respond to her quest for common Trump said such
actions were intended to defend women's rights and protect freedom
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of conscious by using clear and accurate language in policies.
Which take me over to the former Lea Thomas swimmers.
Lea Thomas a man pretending to be a woman. We've
all probably familiar with her. Georgia State Senate Committee passed
the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act last Thursday after
testimony for multiple female athletes who have been complaining about
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sharing locker rooms with transgender athletes. So this bill requires
athletes to participate on teams that align with their biological
sex at birth. It's anticipated it will be signed into law.
Former North Carolina State women swimmer Kaylie Alans, thirty one
time All American a two time NC two A champion,
spoke about the experience of competing against and sharing a
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locker room with Thomas. Quote, this is a great statement
from her. We are were sorry. We all were just
guinea pigs for a giant social experiment formed by the
NCAA regarding how much abuse and blatant disregard women would
be forced to take in silence, said she recount of
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the emotion she felt when competing in areas with Leah
Thomas and how much sadness she felt watching women lose
out on chances to compete fairly at the event, claiming
she wanted to cry and leave the event after seeing
Thomas win the five hundred meter freestyle. It all just
felt so off and wrong. Did I go to the
locker room in that day to see Thomas and realize
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there is no escaping this nightmare no matter where I go.
I had no idea he was going to be allowed
in the women's locker room, as we did not consent
to have a man in our locker room. And I'm
immediately on every time I enter a locker room afterward,
knowing any moment a man can walk in, walk on
enemy while I'm changing, said she felt so uncomfortable that
she started abandoning the locker room and instead began to
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change in a storage closet behind the bleach. One other
University of Kentucky summer, Caitlin Wheeler said young women teenage
girls were forced to undress next to a fully intact
biological male who exposed themselves to us while we were
simultaneously fully exposed. We were never asked, we were never
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given a choice. In another option, we were just expected
to be okay with it, to shove down our discomfort,
our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would
have been being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
And one doctor, because some people were opposed to this,
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then get over it. Doctor Jody Greenwald, described as a
pediatrician in Roswell, speaking to this panel that was discussing this,
told the panel that transgender girls are not predators and
warned that transgender youth are more at risk for suicide.
And I circled that. Now she can't say on a
quivocally that transgender girls are not predators. They may very
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well could be, and we know from the news that
some of them are, notably the guys that go in
the women's locker room and pleasure themselves in front of
the other women in the locker room. I would call
that predatory behavior. I don't know what your definition of
it is, but it certainly falls into mind and I
can understand. And it's a sad thing that transgender youth
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probably more to risk for suicide. If you really truly
believe in your mind, and I believe that many do,
that you are really deep down inside a gender that
you're not born with. You look down, you got twig
and berries, and yet you identify as a woman, and
you really believe in your heart of hearts that you
are a woman. I can understand how that might be
a massive psychological burden for you, recognizing as any sane
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rational person would, that there is nothing any doctor or
scientist or surgeon can do to transform your chromosomal reality.
They might be able to change the exterior a little bit,
and part's not going to work like the originals do
when you're born that way, but you know, you got
to go through your life recognizing that that is an
impossible thing to accomplish. Period, end of story. Might that
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lead to suicidal ideation? One can make a logical conclusion
that it might, but that they are more of a
risk to suicide, should imperil the hearts and minds and
create an unfair competitive reality for some of them and
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for the women in sports. We're gonna turn the entire
world upside down because some percentage have suicidal ideation, much
like sadly, a pretty substantial percentage of the former folks
in uniform serving our country proudly, sadly their numbers are
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There are two types of pain in the world.
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Ordinate It is seven twenty one if you've got krcdtalk station,
and it is that time of week we get to
hear from the former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
Christopher Smith Aman with d smither Van. Christopher, I hope
you had a wonderful weekend. Welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Hey, thank you Brian for having me on and I did,
and my heart just went out, I'm sure like yours.
And you're listening to audience on those two plane crashes,
Oh you know what we saw happening in in in
d C. And Pennsylvania. And you know, it's as shocking
as it is to our conscious. It's just you pray
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for the families and you know, particularly you know, for
all of them. But to think waiting in an airport
a plane is arriving and you see it explode, I
just it just it just messes up your mind. So
my love goes out to those families. And uh, you know,
we still have the safest transportation with plane travel, you know,
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even when you see things like this happen. Obviously, they're
going to have to deal with things at that airport
with with the military doing exercises there and commercial planes
landing and taking off, they're going to have to change
what they're doing there, obviously. But what a tragedy on
both in both cases.
Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Yeah, no question about it, no question about it. I
just you know, I'm not a huge fan of flying anyway, Christopher,
and has nothing to do with safety. It is everything
with the hassle of it, you know, getting to the
airport two hours before the head of the flight, going
through the you know tsa uh sphincter probe and you
know the it's it's just it's a hassle. And then
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you're stuck on a tin can and you can't get
out of go any place. I love. That's why I
love driving so much, Bud. Now you're gonna have to
factor in the the idea that it scares the hell out.
I mean, to get on a plane, the Boeing seven
thirty seven Max, the door flies off. You got all
kinds of equipment problems if you're on a Boeing airline.
And now air traffic control, we learned about how bad
things the situation are with air traffic control, the shortage
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of air traffic controllers, the lowered standards for air traffic
controller and like she's the wheeze. Not exactly great marketing
for the airline or the airline industry.
Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
Well, Secretary Duffy's gonna sort it all out. You know,
certain things we've had, Yeah, he will. Certainly. We've had
our former mayor footage edge, you know, over over transportation,
which made no sense to me at all.
Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
What his experience was to serving that capacity, and he's
left things probably uh messed up, and uh it's going
to take the secretary of the new Secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 8 (01:31:05):
To clean it up.
Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Look, man, I very rarely talk about well Cincinnati politics
in my in my events, but you know what caught
my eye was was our mayor meaning mayor pure vol
indicating cutting the you know, cutting the balogney, very thin
on whether they're going to cooperate with ICE or not. Look,
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this is this is to anybody who lives in Cincinnati,
in our fifty two neighborhoods, this is completely outrageous. Right,
It's one thing to turn on MSNBC and listen to
them talk about ICE is separating families, which is just
a lie. This administration has only focused on gang members, criminals,
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drug drug dealers, I mean a rapist. Those are the
people that are being thrown out. And I think that
they're talking points, whether it's the View or CNN or MSNBC,
they don't understand that what they did over the last
call of ten years, people have now caught up with
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them and they understand that they're lying, right, and so
this note they keep coming back with the same sound bite.
We're separating families, and we're putting mothers and we're taking
them out of the people who are legally here. They're
being handcuffed. I heard it all this weekend and it's
all nothing but lies. And so to hear our mayor
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say that he would not cooperate with ICE to remove
criminals who are in our country illegally, meaning they've already
broken the law to come here illegally. And you're talking
about a gang member that might be in one of
our fifty two neighborhoods that you're directing in some way
that Chief Fiji of the Cincinnati Police Department doesn't cooperate. Man,
(01:33:00):
this is where insanity and no common sense his the role.
This is where he thinks as a Democrat, a liberal Democrat,
that is somehow he's gonna win. What do you think
University of Cincinnati is gonna think, Cincinnati State? Right? What
do you think that that the Xavier University is gonna think?
You know when Mount Saint Joseph if one of their children,
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Because we have a mayor that says, hey, I was
unwilling to cooperate with ICE, right, But it's so serious,
meaning the mindset is so serious that we've got to
deal with it because he's down there clownings right, and
the reality of it is I don't blame the police chief.
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I blame all nine members of council because they have
the power to check the mayor. They should be passing
a resolution today saying we're cooperating with Ice. Yeah, and
we're gonna hold the mayor accountable.
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I agree with that. They do have voice and if
they do disagree to any to any extent, or they
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you know, maybe a little bit too broad in the
sense that he wasn't going to cooperate. They should come
out on their own and make their own statements, and
I think they will be good for them, and it
may very well well put mayor. I have to have
Purvole in his place in that issue. It's so important.
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in the City of Cincinnati, we get him every Monday
for the smither Van Smithman. Mister Smithman, what else is
on your mind this morning, my friend.
Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Well brother, the January sixth pardons. You know, I've been
approached a lot about President Trump's decision to pardon those
involved with January sixth, and I just want to dig
into this. I want to remind your listeners that President
Biden partened just about his whole family on the way out.
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And this matters because no one has ever seen the president,
you know, pardon his son and then come back and
pardon his brothers and their spouses and obviously Fauci and
others in such a broad way. And so this notion
when people approach me, it's like it's like they're having
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no conversation with me about the context of what is
going on. And they say, man, I'm so worried about
this protester that hit a police officer and he was pardoned,
and I'm and I'm thinking in my head, I'm going,
when when did Democrats discover the police? I mean, this
was this clearly was the party that wanted to defund
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the police, reimagine the police department. They have been so
unsupportive of law enforcement, peace officers across the United States
and the world. They've been shutting down entire highways by
walking on them with flags and and taping themselves to
the high way so traffic can't get by gluing themselves
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to the road. This is what the Democrats have been doing.
So it's been so strange when I'm looking at the
mainstream media Brian Thomas, and they're there trying to make
me think that they care about law enforcement now and
what's happening here as it relates to January sixth, But
they never mention President Biden's parton of his entire family.
(01:38:25):
They haven't learned anything from the previous election. They're right
back on their talking points, whether you're listening to the View,
whether you're listening to MSNBC, whether you're listening to CNN.
It is so outrageous how they continue to put out
lives about what's happening, whether we're talking about immigration or
whether we're talking about the pardons. And it's just under
(01:38:47):
my craw I couldn't take it this weekend because they
kept coming back talking about January sixth, as if they
gave a damn about law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
Wells in it's student observation, Christopher, I agree completely with you,
and you know, I would say there was something to
be said about certain members of the entire collective of
Jay six ers who are being prosecuted. And we know
many of them were nonviolent, merely walked into the building,
which could be viewed as a technical trespass. But you know,
(01:39:17):
under the circumstances, I don't think it's worthy of the
resources and expenditure a time the federal government went through
to track every single one of them down. Can you
imagine they put that much effort into tracking down I mean,
true genuine criminals. And I understand the point that he
can be made because FOP president made it on this
program and he made it in the Inquirer. I believe
(01:39:37):
it was inquiring but local news that you know, it
was only only the people who violently attacked police that
he had a problem with. And I don't abide attacking
the police, but in the broader scheme of things, you know,
you look at the state of California. You got people
going in and shoplifting and cleaning out and looting buildings.
There never brought it to criminal justice, and and you know,
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there's this weird double standard that exists, and you can
highlight it if you want, But if you know, if
you want to go ahead and say he shouldn't have
pardoned the January sixth ers, and you can pivot over
and say, well, how on the hell did he end
up partnering a bunch of people who were not subject
to even prosecution, like his family members with the exceptional
Hunter Biden. You know, they hadn't been accused formally on anything.
(01:40:21):
How did they get a pardon for literally everything that
they had done for the prior ten years.
Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
I no one's ever seen anything like it, No, Brian Thomas.
And by the way, when we look at presidents who
did you know deporting people who came to our country illegally.
You go back to some Democratic presidents, whether they're talking
about President Clinton or we're talking about President Obama, they
they deported more people than President Trump has in his
(01:40:51):
and it's back four years. So I don't know what
he's going to do over these four years. But the
reality of it is people who come to this country illegally.
And by the way, if anybody listening tries to go
to another country illegally, figure out what will happen.
Speaker 8 (01:41:05):
To you.
Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
I mean, we're the only country out there that has
open borders that he'll be in jail five years. And
and and let me just say also that the partner
of those those Americans who this is under Trump, who
were who were praying in front of abortion clinics. These
things just kind of go under the radar and they're
not discussed a lot. But but he's been partnering other people.
(01:41:27):
He just partnered a congressional member, he and his wife
that was that was being targeted by the dj and
they said they were dropping charges against them. That was
just this weekend. And so the reality of it is
what what what President Trump has learned is that the
criminal justice system at times can be weaponized because he
went through it. See I'm a believer in God, and
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see what happens here is that people were looking at
President Trump is said if they can do it to him,
they can do it to me. And so he understands
that now, and so he's looking at the justice system
a little differently, and he's looking at these cases saying, man,
I know what they did to me, I can see
what they did to you. You know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna use my power to relieve the system off
(01:42:13):
of you. That's one of the things that you're gonna
constantly see a drum beat through these four years with
President Trump. He's going to continue to go and say, no,
the DOJ went too far here, No, this judge went
too far here. I understand what they did to me
in Manhattan, New York. I understand what they did to
me in Florida. I'm not gonna let it happen to
somebody else. And I think that's a positive.
Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
Thing I do too. And don't forget the folks who
are protesting in school boards over you know, woke policies
being taught at schools. Isn't it a parent's prerogative to
raise their voice at the appropriate meeting, the school board
meeting where people do have the opportunity to speak their
mind to the school board so the school board can
understand and learn what the parents that have children in
the school have on their minds, only to be shut down,
(01:42:57):
thrown out, or otherwise gone after by law enforce horsman.
It's just, it was, it just, it was It's just
it was a crazy, crazy period of time, Christopher.
Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
I mean, they almost made them the enemy of the state.
They say, parents, we want you involved, We want you
to come down and advocate for our children. So then
the parents show up, and what do you do arrest them?
You make them the enemy of the state. Yeah, I
mean it was. It's absolutely absurd. And by the way,
we saw the report cards from the school system. Let's
not walk around like an ostrich with our head in
(01:43:29):
the sand. Our public school system needs reforms, we need help, right,
we need to have vision. And it's not just in Cincinnatians.
Across the United States of America. We've got babies that
are graduating that cannot read and write. This is very serious.
And by the way, we've got third world countries that
are beating us in the space of education. We're spending
(01:43:51):
more per pupil than than any country in the world,
but we have our young people getting further, further and
behind in the areas of math, in the area of English,
in the area of reading. So we've got to wake
up and hold these school boards accountable. We've got to
hold our teachers. And by the way, let me shout
out to our public school public school teachers across the
(01:44:14):
United States of America. They have a very hard job
because the families are not where they are where they
were fifty to one hundred years ago. So they're asked.
Our teachers are being asked to be mom and dad.
Our coaches are being asked to be uncle and aunts
and all that kind of stuff because our families. The
families are being blown up across the United States of America.
(01:44:35):
So the Cincinnati public school kids, whether it's Toledo, whether
it's la whether it's Chicago, have really hard jobs out
here trying to teach our babies or are who are
struggling at home, who are underpaid and overwork. So I
give that to them, but it still means that we've
got to educate our babies. We cannot have kids, you know,
(01:44:56):
who can't read and write, graduating from the twelfth grade
and think they're going to make get in our society.
It just is not going to work. Thomas.
Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Yeah, And you know, I don't know what the school
system that you went through as a young man, Christopher
was like, but you know, we I went through public
schools over on the West Side, you know, John Foster,
Dulles and dull High Junior High School and No Kills
High School. And I reflect on the amenities that we
had and you know, compared to today pretty lean ship.
I mean, it wasn't the one room schoolhouse with everybody
(01:45:24):
in one room of all different grades. But you know,
the bells and whistles that people have this expectation should
exist at a high school level like these grand facilities
and these brand new, massive complexes with all this taxpayer dollars.
Is that necessary to educate a child? Really? I mean
you really need all those extra bells and whistles. And
(01:45:46):
the answer is clearly no, you know, I mean, it's
not more money that's needed, it's it's maybe a different
approach at how children are taught. Perhaps that's the fit,
the focus, and of course an involved yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
I think it's a county. I think you know, you
can't have a kid, you know, beating up a teacher
and then coming back to school the next week. You
can't have them throwing a computer out a teacher and
then having them come back to school the next day.
And so the teachers need backup when kids are disruptive
in classrooms. If you talk to teachers, they'll tell you that, look,
(01:46:20):
i've got thirty kids in here, and let's say say
twenty five of them are great, but five of them
disrupt my class every single day, and nobody gets those
five kids out of the classroom so that the other
twenty five can learn. That's what we've got to do.
Our public school system is broken because they have this
notion of no child left behind. I don't want to
(01:46:41):
leave a child behind. Nobody wants to. But if you're
unwilling to hold those five children accountable so that the
other twenty five can learn, right, what you're going to
have is pandemonium. And that's what we have in our
public school systems across the country. And by the way,
this is not about black and white anybody listening. These
are about American children, no matter where they are. People
(01:47:01):
try to separate us about public education around race. And
by the way, I graduated from public education the School
for Creative and Performing Arts in downtown Cincinnati. The reality
of it is is where we are now is everybody
wants to divide everybody around race. This is about teaching
our American children, who are our future, and we can't
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have these kind of bad kids in schools disrupting classrooms
for these teachers and think everybody's going to learn. Brian Thomas,
we have a weak system around accountability. If the kid
doesn't want to learn, you're give them one or two
or three or four chances, whatever it is, and you're
out of here. You're out of here because I've got
twenty five other kids here who want to learn, who
want to read, who want to get their algebra done
(01:47:45):
or their geometry done. I'm tired of it, Brian Thomas.
If we don't turn our public education around in a
serious way, this the United States of America as we
know it is going down the toilet.
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That's a smith event right there, Christopher smith Man. Appreciate
your words and your passion. Look forward to next Monday.
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Welcome to the Morning Show. Good to hear from you today.
Speaker 12 (01:49:43):
Good morning, Brian. As always, you and Joe are true patriots.
Speaker 1 (01:49:46):
Buddy, truly appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 12 (01:49:50):
Yeah, I just wanted to talk to you about another
word that President Trump could have said during the next
forty years is We're going to go back to and
sense And that would have been a great replacement for
Golden Age, because let me tell you, you and I
both know when you use common sense, you definitely bring
in a gold page. I mean we've been going against
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that for a lot more than four years. I mean
it's been it's been psychotic. I mean it's everything you
and I have talked about in the past. Everything has
to do with common sense. I mean, if you see
something done wrong, then use common sense to fix it.
And for some reason, our government has been one of
(01:50:35):
the biggest advocates of using insanity instead of common sense
for quite a few decades now.
Speaker 8 (01:50:42):
And I'm just so.
Speaker 12 (01:50:45):
Happy that we're going to hopefully get back to common sense.
And like you and mister Smithman, was saying, there is
so many things that you could use common sense to fix.
I mean, education, legal, aspects of our society. I mean,
there's so many things that common sense will fix. And
I just hope that both Democrats and Republicans get together
(01:51:10):
after these four years to actually sit down and understand
that if we use common sense, we can actually work
together to better the country.
Speaker 8 (01:51:19):
And I just it would just be so nice to
have that happen.
Speaker 1 (01:51:23):
It would indeed, you know, the problem is that common
sense isn't common anymore. I think at least that's kind
of the catchphrase people quite often use as a retort,
you know. And on the education thing, one thing I
absolutely do not understand, Jeff is letting kids move forward
to the next grade when they have not yet mastered
or even coming close to mastering the skill sets in
the grade that they're in. How can that possibly be
(01:51:45):
a service to that young person. If you cannot read
at grade level and you get moved to the next grade,
you're just going to be that much further behind. And
that makes absolutely no sense none. All in the name
of the little Johnny is going to feel badly because
he's not moving along with the rest of his classmates. Well,
you know, if I was a parent along those lines,
i'd say, good, you can't move forward. We need to
(01:52:07):
get you at the grade level you're in first, then
you can move on. So anyway, I appreciate it, Jeff.
I can't argue with you. I know you didn't call
looking for an argument. Let's do it, Chuck, Scott, Chuck,
thanks for calling the Morning Show, and a happy Monday
to you.
Speaker 6 (01:52:21):
Hey, Brian, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
I'm doing fine. Hope you can say the same.
Speaker 8 (01:52:24):
Good good.
Speaker 16 (01:52:25):
You're a gentleman and a scholar. I appreciate everything you do.
From time to time, I jump on Cincinnati dot Com
and it just makes me chuckle. How the information that
they're trying to spread. So it's good to have someone
like yourself. That's so refreshing.
Speaker 1 (01:52:38):
Well, that's very kind of you. I appreciate it. I
enjoyed my time here in the Morning Show, and I
certainly love when my listeners got the greatest audience out there.
Absolutely so.
Speaker 16 (01:52:47):
The one thing I wanted to comment on was just
the fact that we have actual leadership and sanity coming
back into the US and through our administration, and it's
just it blows me away.
Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
And then I stay with me on this.
Speaker 16 (01:53:00):
Because you know, it's a little deep in the woods.
But you know when you hear people like Adam Schiff
try to argue about protecting Capitol police, which I'm all
for one hundred percent protecting our police.
Speaker 1 (01:53:11):
Force real quick because we're out of time.
Speaker 16 (01:53:14):
But with all the GEO, with all the advanced technology
that we have, and they've tracked all these people on
January sixth, it just blows me away that we haven't
pinned those same people down to the ones that were
all summer long working with Antifa to you know, to
to destroy our cities. And I guarantee if we really.
Speaker 17 (01:53:35):
Found Joe and John and all these people that were
in prison, that they were probably the same ones that
were destroying our cities in Minneapolis and across Seattle and
so forth.
Speaker 1 (01:53:49):
Anyway, you're not the first person to make that observation,
my friend. It is rather curious, isn't it. Hey, brother,
thanks so much for the calling the kind words, Chuck,
I truly appreciate it. Don't go away, folks. Brian James
and Money Monday coming up right after the news.
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We talked money, money Monday with Brian James from Allworth Financial.
Got some good topic to talk about and of course
number one on the list there tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. Brian James,
welcome back to the morning show. It's always good having
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you on the program.
Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
Yeah, and it's always good to be here with you.
And it's always good to have a batch of headlines
from the weekend to discuss, don't we Isn't.
Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
That the truth? And we were talking about gross domestic
product and four point twenty five to four point five
percent in terms of the FED and its rate, and
sadly the third topic really is so concerning to me.
Young families can't able, can't afford to buy a home.
But let's dive on into the terraffs. And if you
look at the White House dot gov fact sheet in
(01:55:11):
case people aren't really aware, of exactly why Donald Trump
put tariffs on Canada and Mexico and China. He cited
fentanyl and the borders, the illegal immigration. Those are the
two main things that he is he's promoting these tariffs for. He's,
you know, shut down the borders or help us with
border security and quit shipping fentanyl into our country. Declaring
(01:55:34):
a national emergency based on that under the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act. I guess I have to ask out loud,
not knowing really anything about the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
is this something that could be subject to legal charger
illegal action or Congress could step in and take them away?
I really, I really don't know that. I'll stay out loud.
Speaker 4 (01:55:53):
Brian, Yeah, I know, And I think that there's a
lot of us who aren't clear exactly on what the
what the legal implifications are of these decisions, because sometimes
we hear that decision was made and executive order was issued,
and somebody else will say, wait a minute, that's completely illegal.
In some cases they've been declared unconstitutional, but nobody has
stepped up and actually acted on any of those perceptions
(01:56:16):
of these executive orders. So this is a president we've
seen before. Obviously, we know he's willing to push the envelope.
He certainly is this time around with kind of nothing
to lose as a basically a lame duck under current
rules because he can't run for election again. So yeah,
that's what we've been seeing. And everything has come fast
and furious since inauguration.
Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
Well, and it's going to be across the board. I
don't know how anybody can say that this will not
have an impact on prices. I mean, you're raising you're
putting tariffs on these goods. I think necessarily the price
is going to be passed along to the consumer. And
it's a huge swath of goods. I got a kick
out of some of the ones that the Wall Street
Journal identified, like cherry tomatoes, Tanka trucks. They mentioned this
(01:56:58):
specifically because they're all in China, but they also pointed
out that more than eighty percent of toys sold in
the United States are made in China. Maple syrup, you know,
tap your own maple trees in the backyard like we did,
I guess, tequila, avocados, smartphones from China subject to a
ten percent increase in tariffin in the last one. I
really got to kick out of sledge hammers made in China.
(01:57:21):
Sledge hammers are already subject to a twenty five percent import tax,
although we do have some sledge hammer manufacturers here in
the United States. But it goes way beyond those ones
that were identified, it does.
Speaker 4 (01:57:33):
Now, hold on one second while I check sledge hammer futures.
Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 4 (01:57:37):
But I think know that that's that is a fascinating list.
And you and I could go find another article right
now that'll have twenty seven other products that you didn't
just mention. So I think that's that. This this is
what what you know, what we've been calling it. You know,
over the weekend you're starting to hear the words trade war.
Other countries are now calling it a trade war. So this,
this is very much so the present, delivering on the
(01:58:00):
the promises that he made. Now, one thing he didn't
seem to have mentioned until now is that, oh, by
the way, this is going to cost us. As you
were hinting, prices are going to go up. There's no
way to avoid that. Over the weekend he said, yeah,
price must be paid, but the end result will be
all worth it. But there could be some pain in
the near future here so he didn't really mention that
during the campaign. That's obviously not something you expect to
(01:58:21):
gain any votes by really shining a light on. But
there is no way to slap tariffs on companies who
are looking to make a profit and force those companies
to only take it out of their profits. They're going
to raise prices. This is the United States of profit
margin companies who are having to deal with these costs.
And it might might it might be a company that
you perceive is an American company, but they may be
(01:58:44):
bringing parts in from to build. Cars are a great example.
For one, part inside of a car may literally go
back across the border of Canada and or Mexico several
times before it lands in its final car. So it
may be an American brand, you may beying it from
what you feel in American dealership, but the parts in
it could be coming from multiple countries that will all
(01:59:06):
add up and wind up on that windowsticker.
Speaker 1 (01:59:08):
Well, and to some effect, the threat of tariffs has
kind of worked, I know in terms of repatriating some
of the illegal immigrants. Some certain countries have said, okay,
we'll take them back under threat of Donald Trump retaliating
against him. And is that really the impact he's looking for?
And again going back to the fact sheet, this is
purely based upon FENTONYL and illegal immigration. Now, we, I think,
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to a large degree, can control the border because obviously
they're cracking down on it already. We did have a
more secure border in prior administrations, but more resources went
down there for walls and security and warm bodies in
the form of ice agents. I think you could curtail
one of the two identified problems to a large extent.
(01:59:55):
Now Canada represents a more sizable challenge considering that is
pretty much a why open border, and it is a
big one. But I guess I'm just wondering what resources
the Mexican government could even bring to bear since their
country is largely controlled by and feel free to disagree,
but it's been my conclusion over the years that the
CAR tells they have a substantial amount of power in Mexico,
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and here's Trump trying to take away one of their
primary sources of income, which is drugs and varying illegal
immigrants to the southern border.
Speaker 4 (02:00:27):
Right, And I think you raise a great point in
terms of there's there is a lot of enforcements or
at least much more on the south side than there
is on north side. So I think when when when
we when we uh lay a levy energy tarists, for example,
against Canada, and not a lot of people know this.
I think it's becoming a more popular news item where
people are going, huh, I didn't know that Canada is
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the largest of among the countries the United States brings
in oil from Canada is the largest one, so that
that's so obviously we were trying to poke them in
the eye. Of course, that's maybe maybe there's better ways
to handle up. That's effectively what we're doing to get
their attention on the fentanyl issue. But I think also
what's underlying this. To me, this is the first shot
across the bow of we want to be producing much more.
(02:01:10):
We want to import less and produce more domestically. So
first off, let's just make domestic oil more expensive. However
we can do it, and we'll call it fentanyl, and
we'll call it illegal immigration or whatever. But let's just
slap oil tariffs on Canada. That will force us to say, hey,
imported oil is more expensive. It's going to drive the
price up. That will get the attention of the domestic
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drillers and the drill baby drill thing. Right now, domestic
oil companies don't really want to drill so much. They're
not super excited about it because oil prices are not
that high. If we drive it up, this is Trump's thinking.
I believe if we drive that price up, they'll be
more attracted to go drill. And take into account the
executive orders he has put out there over the past
few weeks to make drilling easier. Right now, the profit
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isn't there for them, but based on oil futures from
last night that bounced about two percent to the upside,
it looks like it's going to go more attractive for him.
Speaker 1 (02:01:59):
Well, and doesn't this sort of fly in the face
of you know, rebuilding or going back to build the
Keystone Xole pipeline because that brings oil from Canada into
the United States right correct?
Speaker 4 (02:02:13):
And now I haven't heard him mention that in a
very very long I know, I know, so I think
I don't think that's a major priority for him. It
was a hot point because I think that was a
poke in the eye to the to the liberal side
that wanted that shut down because of it for environmental reasons.
And so forth. But that was never really his objective.
I think his objective is for more domestic oil. So
that's why we haven't heard the word keystone all through this.
(02:02:35):
I haven't heard that since the since the election.
Speaker 1 (02:02:37):
Yeah, and I get in terms of and I understand
maybe the motivating force behind increasing the price of Canadian
oil in the United States is exactly what you said.
But those projects don't come online very quickly. I mean,
it takes a while to ramp up a drilling project,
doesn't it exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:02:54):
And that's why that's the pain he's talking about. He
can't talk about pain when he's trying to win an election.
Candidate Trump doesn't have to talk about that. President Trump
has to give us a heads up that hey, this
might hurt for a little while, so that six months later,
when a little while is still happening, because we haven't
started much of this domestic production yet, he can say
I told you about this way back in February. It
was going to hurt. We got to pay the price, good, bad,
(02:03:15):
and different. That's the reality that we're curry in currently.
Speaker 1 (02:03:18):
In And going back to my question about you know,
legal challenges, I mean, we currently have a trade agreements
or trade agreements in place with Canada and Mexico. Didn't
Trump negotiate that when he was president the first time around. Sure,
there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (02:03:30):
Of things he did when he was president the first
time around that don't seem to hold any bearing. Now,
look at all the people he appointed that now he's firing.
A lot of the firings you're hearing are his own
people from six eight years ago. So I don't know
that history necessarily means much of anything. It's just the
reality of you know, his his window he looks at
is what do I see right now? What do I
need to do about it?
Speaker 1 (02:03:50):
The history is irrelevant, it sure is. And going back
to the whole idea about drugs, you know, drugs have
been coming into this country since before I was born.
It's the demand that is the problem. I mean, if
we weren't a nation of a bunch of addicts and
cravers of drugs, then this wouldn't even be an issue.
I know that's a simple statement to make, but Lord Almighty,
(02:04:12):
it's just I don't get it. That just seems to
be should be another way to skin a cat, if
you know what I mean, Rather than going down this road,
but here we find ourselves.
Speaker 4 (02:04:23):
Yeah, when I step back and look at the biggest
of big pictures, you know, I always use the term
the United States a profit margin, and we've seen that
is our number one focus, and it always has been
how much more money can we make? And the wider
we spread that the profit margin range, the more people
get hurt on the bottom end of it. If you're
born in the top two thirds of wealth in this country,
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you're gonna be okay. But if you're in the bottom third,
you're gonna struggle. And we tend to, unfortunately take advantage
of that group of people. And I think that has
a lot to do with the addiction issues that we've seen.
I don't know how to fix it. And if you
and I could push a button right now this morning,
we do it. But right now, profit margin Trump's everything.
Speaker 1 (02:05:00):
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the third segment, get to the sad reality of lack
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Brian James A Federal Reserve holding interest rate to four
to a quarter to four and a half percent, plus
we have a new gdpeak final quarter review figure. So
what's this all mean.
Speaker 4 (02:06:27):
I'm not going to say the R word. I don't
want to jinx anything, so fair enough, but we would
not not looking so bad at the moment we do.
We do seem to be slowing down. So so fourth
quarter GDP came in at two point three percent. That's
a deceleration from last quarter, which is three point one percent.
These are all annualized numbers. So we do is we
get the number for a three month period, we multiply
it by four, and we declare that to be what
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the what we think the economy would do over a year.
So we're falling a little bit short of the economists
want two point tanted two point six percent, So we
fell a little bit short of that. Things seem to be.
I do think some of that could be accounted for
by the idea that, especially toward the end of the quarter,
companies may have been backing off a bit on investments
that they were going to make, waiting for this inauguration
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to occur and to see what's coming here in the
first quarter. In darn it all, we sure are seeing
it here in the short run. So Federal Reserve as
for their position, they held the interest rates, and we
want to keep an interest rates in the target right
now four and a quarter four and a half percent.
This wasn't a big surprise. We kind of expected this
pause really for the same reason Jerome Powell has said
(02:07:32):
he wants to see how the economy is going to
respond to the different changes coming out of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (02:07:38):
Like tariffs.
Speaker 4 (02:07:39):
Yeah, such as the things we've been talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:07:42):
Almore, Well, let's get that and let's just se see
we can't tie those two together. If as you and
I kind of expected, and I think logical thinking people
will expect the same thing. Prices is going to go
up at least for quite a few goods and services.
What will that be, by way, what would the Fed's
response to that price increase in terms of interest rate?
Speaker 4 (02:08:02):
Well, the Fed is going to wait to see inflation.
I mean that that's their goal is to control inflation.
Inflation isn't that bad right now? Certainly not where we
were a few summers ago. At nine percent, It's slightly
higher than what we've wanted it to be. Core Core
PCE came in at two point eight percent, which was
right around the expectations, but a lot higher than what
that committee shoots for at two percent. Jobless claims were okay,
(02:08:25):
and new home sales are a little better than anticipated.
So we're not seeing the kind of things yet that
the Fed would indicate or are going to be inflationary,
and therefore we need to react at this point. Though
the market bonds are trading as though we're going to
see a cut in June. That is a very very
short term here's what's happening right now type of an update.
Let's keep an eye on out of the next few
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weeks and see if that holds true.
Speaker 1 (02:08:48):
And if it does, about it to be more like
a quarter point, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:08:52):
Yeah, We're not in a situation where we've got raging
inflation and raging deflation. Nothing's raging, So I would anticipate
more tapping of the brakes, tapping of the gas pedal
if we do anything at all in the short run,
but much more likely a very much wait and see approach.
Jerome Powell is not even reacting to how he's being
disparaged by the president who actually appointed him in twenty seventeen.
(02:09:12):
So Donald Trump would like to see lower rates sooner
rather than later, but he does not appear to be
ready to get rid of Jerome Powell to the extent
that he could at at this point.
Speaker 1 (02:09:22):
Isn't it kind of a weird faw and ignoring whether
you're a foe or against Donald Trump's decision to tariff
that we expect it's going to increase the prices prices, Well,
that's an inflationary thing done because tariff's have been put
in place, and the Federal reserves job is to manage
inflations through its interest rates, so that's a completely separate function.
(02:09:44):
It's like there's a strange connect slash disconnect that's going
on here between one side and the other.
Speaker 4 (02:09:51):
Well, I think the good news for Trump is that
people are sensitive to inflation. We just had that nine percent,
as I mentioned, and people still talk about that as
if it's still here. Not the case anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:10:01):
I'm still at the grocery store. But that's I mean
that has there's a lot of layers in the grocery
store prices.
Speaker 4 (02:10:07):
I understand that absolutely absolutely, But what I think that
gives him is some headroom to say, well, yeah, prices
have gone up here. You know this hasn't happened yet,
but I could see it playing out this way. After
we do see some inflation resulting directly from the tariffs
in the coming months, he could easily say, Yep, this
is the price we have to pay that I told
you about back in February. But at least it's not
(02:10:27):
nine percent like it was under the Biden administration. That's
how that's going to be positioned. So I'm pretty sure
Trump looks at this as though he's got some headroom
to work with.
Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
Well, let's keep our popcorn out. We'll find out together.
Brian James pause and bring us I'm to talk about it. Yeah,
I know, I know. And one more thing we'll be
talking about, and I just I just just so badly
for young people these days, home affordability, American dream kind
of out of their reach at this point. Can anything
change this current landscape? It'say twenty five fifty five cars
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And I guess, in addition to lack of home affordability,
(02:12:17):
probably young people can't afford to put money away for
the retirement either. Brian, this is a sad reality settling
in here, lack of affordable housing and the American dream elusive,
a lot of kids still living at home with their parents,
and I understand that it's just an Is there any
end in sight on this and what would it take
to change this landscape?
Speaker 4 (02:12:38):
Well, they say that you only dream during rem sleep,
and I don't think Americans are getting as much rem
sleep as we used to, So I'm not sure that
the implications of the American dream are all that wonderful
right now. It is right, You're right, it's very tough
out there. Anybody who's got young, young adults trying to
launch themselves into the world and be independent. It's a
challenge even if they can afford the house payment that
(02:12:58):
almost always comes direct in the face of oh yeah,
by the way, don't forget you're gonna have to fund
your own retirements because social Security is probably not going
to look much like it does right now. So don't
forget that mortgage payment and retirement all by the way,
got by lunch too, So it's a tough challenge right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
And energy bills and repair cost. You know, the furnace
is going to go out at some point, the roof
is going to have to be replaced at some point.
It's just you know, I've owned a homes since nineteen
ninety and I know exactly how much it can cost.
Speaker 4 (02:13:28):
Yeah, and then the problem is not too much avocado
toast either. That's the fund Sully headliner sledgehammers exactly. Young
people can't afford sledghammers. However, will they make it now
that these are real issues? And I don't mean to
make light of them.
Speaker 1 (02:13:41):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:13:41):
Since since nineteen seventy nine, middle wage workers have gone up,
have seen their wages increase only about sixteen point eight percent.
That's an annualized growth rate of zero point four percent
per year. Now, if you look at home prices, one
hundred thousand dollars home in the late seventies would be
something like three quarters of a million eight hundred thousand
dollars right now. So wages have simply not come up
(02:14:04):
with homes. Homes stopped being the American dream. They became
an investment, just like anything else, a speculative, commoditized investment,
sometime in the past, well really slowly over the past
several decades. So the economy as a whole doesn't really
care that it costs young people an awful lot more
as a percentage of their paycheck to own a home.
All we really care about is, hey, that's an investment
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I can throw money at and it will grow, and
I don't really have to worry about the side impacts
on other people because I'll just blame them on spending
too much on avocado toast. Well that's our philosophy right now.
Speaker 1 (02:14:36):
Yeah, but there was a time, and I know there
always have been big houses being built, But I remember
my grandpa marsh my mom's dad, and grandma. They had
a little house on Cooper Drive in Lexington, and I
don't know how many square feet it was, but it
was not a very large home. Three boys, she had
three brothers. They all swept in one room in the roofline.
Speaker 18 (02:14:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:14:58):
It was a walk up, but it was one big room,
three beds in it. You know, nobody had their own bedroom.
My mom had a separate one downstairs, but very modest.
And and you know, I never remember my grandfather being
upset or unhappy. He always had a you know, contented
view of life. And you know, just work for IBM,
and I just I think our expectations on what we're
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supposed to have by way of house has changed dramatically,
and they just they start churning out these big houses,
these mega mansions, and even the smaller homes are much
much much bigger than they used to be, and of
course that's going to directly impact affordability. You see some
sort of perhaps sea change in how we perceive housing,
like the smaller houses being becoming more popular. Obviously they're
(02:15:40):
cheaper to build.
Speaker 4 (02:15:42):
Yeah, I absolutely do. Smaller houses are becoming more popular.
Not because people go, hey, I want to live in
a smaller house. People go, hey, I can't afford a
bigger houses. This is the best I can do. And
I think that drives a lot of conflict really between
the generations. I don't ever remember I'm fifty years old,
so I've been around a couple of blocks. I don't
ever remember there being conflict between generations like there is now.
(02:16:04):
I think what you're referring to, though, is that some generation,
at some point is going to have to be the
one to capitulate and say, you know what, we simply
will not have it as good as our forebears did.
We're going to have to take the hit before we
get to move forward. And if I'm fortunate not to
be in that situation, and I'm trying to guide my
kids away from getting too hung up on that because
the world is just plain changing, but I can see
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where I would be extremely frustrated and bitter if I
was the one told you know what, it's just not
going to be as good as what you grew up watching.
Speaker 1 (02:16:32):
Yeah, or maybe the perception of what equals good. Going
back to the cost of maintaining and up keeping a home,
you know, you have to furnish it, you got to
clean it, and you know, the smaller you have, smaller space,
you have to deal with, the less there is of that.
So comparatively speaking, the cost of voting a smaller home
is less than a big home, you know. I mean
there's some pus sides to it all.
Speaker 4 (02:16:54):
There absolutely are but I think that doesn't really settle
in until somebody is truly in that situation. But them
putting themselves and I'm guess I'm picturing for a young
family that first trip around with the real estate agent
looking at what they can afford versus what they had
in their heads before they got in the car that morning. Yeah,
I think that is a cold water shock.
Speaker 1 (02:17:15):
It is. And my wife regularly points back to the
eighties with lifestyles of the rich and famous, which she
thinks was a turning point and what really between what
truly really matters and what people just get envious of
and look to and believe that they are not going
to be happy unless they have what the Joneses have
down the street, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:17:34):
Yeah, And it's so much easier to see what the
Joneses have nowadays, and this is harder. Obviously, we've got
social media, so you can't get away from it even
if you want to, and you're trying to do the
same thing that This is how we drive profit profit
in the United States of profit margin. Get people excited
about something, whether they can afford it or not, and
take advantage of it, of the rush when it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:17:53):
And here's one other thing I've observed over the years,
you know, this the idea that we're all going to
live in a house and have our own stuff and
things like that. If everybody in China, and I know
they have a housing issue in China of a different type,
but if every one of the one point two or
four billion people in China had felt that they had
to build a three thousand and four thousand, five thousand
square foot house, I think that would cause a problem
(02:18:14):
in terms of like natural resources and the ability to
even accomplish that. Yeah, I've thought of that a lot
recently too, as we you know, because the big pushback
here can be against suburban sprawl, because you know, every
year there's a new call to sat going up in
a cornfield somewhere.
Speaker 4 (02:18:30):
That's especially happening around here, and there are people who
object to that and say we shouldn't be doing that,
We should be conserving, conserving, And I'm always thinking, wherever
that person lives, do you do you want to live
in a skyscraper with five thousand other families? You should
we all stay inside some little pasture somewhere. So, I mean,
I think there's logic to both sides. Yeah, but I
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don't think the extremes are ever going to play a
role here.
Speaker 1 (02:18:52):
Complicated it is, and we can only hope that at
least the home interest rates go down at least to
provide some measure of affordability for you young people. I
don't know, Brian. Always a distinct pleasure having you on
the program. I'll look forward to next Monday, another edition
of Monday Monday, and you best to you and everybody
at all Worth.
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Yes, sir, stay warm out there in fake spring. We'll
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It's always great having you on the show. Yeah, Bran,
it's always great to talk with you.
Speaker 18 (02:21:01):
And as you said, share this, share the motivation to
make sure our veterans are connected with what they need
to know here in Cincinnati. Yes, indeed, So what is
coming to the VA this year, Well, many of our
veterans that are listening know that we've we've been under
a lot of construction for a very long period of time,
and so there are four significant plan completed projects for
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twenty twenty five, and I just wanted to point those out, Brian,
because two of them are really going to be phenomenal
for us, and they involve two of our community based
out patient clinics where we are expanding, we continue to expand,
So those veterans out in Claremont County, the Eastgate area,
Milford and Mount Orb and Georgetown and the East side
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of Cincinnati will be moving to a new new location
this fall.
Speaker 1 (02:21:53):
It's over there.
Speaker 18 (02:21:54):
I call it the TQL land over there in East
Cape where they've kind of taken over over there by
the TQL location. We're expanding our new clinic in the fall.
And what's significant about that move. We're also doing the
same thing with our Hamilton clinic out in Butler County,
and both of these facilities are doubling in size, so
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both of them are going from Yeah, so both of
them are going from approximately like Claremont for example, they're
going from a sixteen thousand square foot facility to a
twenty six thousand square foot facility. And then Hamilton the
same way. So both of these facilities brand new, first floor,
state of the art, plenty of parking, great expansion of it.
Speaker 1 (02:22:36):
And if I think of our veterans, want.
Speaker 18 (02:22:38):
To take a take a trip to see what the
new clinics will look like in Hamilton and Eastgate. We
opened up a very similar clinic like this in Dearborn
over there in Larnsburg, Indiana, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:22:52):
Brian.
Speaker 1 (02:22:53):
So with the larger expanded facilities, what comes along with
that it just more space, more doctors, more offices, or
the additional services are going to be offered for the veterans.
Speaker 18 (02:23:03):
Yeah, it's well, the some of the services, well, we'll
expand a little bit more because of the physical size
of these things. But what it does is it is
more space and the design of it is very interesting.
So if you think about these two facilities being like
a just a normal shoebox size, the providers do all
their work in the middle of the building and on
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the between the two sides the right and left, there
are doors that access from like this inner inner circle
or inner working hub, and the provider goes from room
to room instead of the patient or the veteran going
room room to room for different specialties, so it's a.
Speaker 1 (02:23:38):
Different flow operation.
Speaker 18 (02:23:40):
Some of the things like our physical therapy and occupational
therapy sections will definitely expand and make things better for us,
as well as more office space for some some different
very different specialties that happen, like mental health and the
dietary and things.
Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
Okay, Well, in addition to the expanded size of those locations,
anything else coming to the vice facilities by way of
improvements to share.
Speaker 18 (02:24:02):
Yeah, the main hospital, the other two I wanted to
mention where primary care. Our primary care section has been
under construction that's located right off the first floor. That'll
open up again here in twenty twenty five, which again
is just making it more space, easier for veterans to navigate,
and just a very much of an update. When we
put that expansion on in the early nineties. Obviously we've
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outgrown it. And then every veteran knows who comes to
the facility come through this big, large revolving door we have.
Our lobby's been under renovation and it's starting to show
glimpses of what that's going to look like. And we're
very excited about how that's going to look where things
are just more serviceable, it's not chopped up and more inviting,
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with a really really nice main lobby, piece of piece
of marble that's in the middle of that's going to
be very attractive.
Speaker 1 (02:24:51):
Well great, well, and I know the number of veterans
who now signed up for vacare has increased, and that's
the goal over the VA's to get those veterans to
take advantage of their VA benefits, which is literally healthcare.
Speaker 8 (02:25:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (02:25:04):
Absolutely, And so our fiscal year runs very differently than
a normal calendar season. We ended our twenty twenty four
fiscal calendar year September thirtieth of twenty twenty four. And
to your point, Brian was the most number of veterans
we've seen in one given year. And so I think
veterans are starting to understand about how and through your
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help and the different stuff that we do, about how
to take advantage of these benefits and how to make
a VA healthcare part of their healthcare portfolio. And I
think some of the myths and misconceptions about who's eligible
for VA healthcare is really coming to place. So we're
really excited about our efforts and how we're reaching folks,
and we're looking to expand that as well. And I've
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always said, what not a better place to be served
every day by a staff who know exactly what veterans
are looking for and the different things that they deal with.
And it's so Treely he absolutely the hearing loss and
the prosthetics and the the eye here, and but particularly
the toxic exposure stuff, which we're really high on here
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over the past two years. Well, let's pause, we'll bring
Todd back talk about enrolling and what types of healthcare
services are there and how veterans can apply and all
these good fun facts more with todd Sledgem the Cincinniva.
After these brief.
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Speaker 1 (02:27:20):
Hey forty nine people have rc DE talk station Happy
Monday Deep Dive with Daniel Davis and the bright Part
inside Scoop tomorrow in the morning Show among other topics,
and in the meantime Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTI of
the A. All right, you let everybody know about the
improvements coming to the various facilities making it easier to navigate,
expanded room for the veterans to get their healthcare there,
and let us pivot over to getting even more of
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the veterans enrolled in the VA health system. How can
enrolling in the VA health services improve a veterans over
all health and well being?
Speaker 18 (02:27:49):
Todd Well, Brian, you know, one of the things I
like to focus on with this is that there are
so many, so many different things that we can do
that's more financially efficient, easier for veterans to do, and
a lot of less wet, a lot of less way times.
As you're probably well aware, there's a lot of different
specialty type services in the community that are very hard
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to get into the dietary dermatology sometimes you know, seeing
an audiologist, some different folks and these are things that
we by mandate, we have to get you a scheduled
appointment within thirty days to be seen or find some
other arrangements for you to be seen. So that's you know,
that's one of the overall health and well being. But
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one of the main things is is our preventative medicine model,
where you know, we can do things with different specialty
tests and prevention measures of things that the private sector
really can't offer or they're going to run through your insurance.
So I always encourage people to do that. And you
know this when it comes to again, I'm going to
repeat myself when it comes to the eyeglasses and hearing aids. Yeah,
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cost efficient measure of that, but more particularly, you know,
and I think of services like mental health helping that
you know, with with with all the mental health services
that we have, our home care programs that we have
in house care of things, and just you know, an
overall really old family medicine style. You know, you know,
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your provider's my name, you know your nurse is by name,
which is a very different relationship when it comes to
I think people going to the doctor, especially stubborn people
that avoid the doctor, like myself, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:29:27):
So much, Like I have my own primary care physician
who I've been going to for years and years and years.
It's the same type of thing going on with the VA.
You're just not assigned a primary care physician randomly when
you go in. You get to see the same doctor
every time. Oh yeah, we have what's called we have
what's called PAC teams, Brian. They're patient aligned care teams,
so you're always seeing the same primary care physician as
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well as that same team, so every time when you
walk in. So for example, the clinics that I mentioned
that are expanding, they all have their same assigned person
that walks in and not nine out of ten times.
Speaker 18 (02:30:01):
I mean, they know these people by their first name,
they know their pet's name, they know whether the grandkids
go to school. So it's a very relationship style relationship
with us.
Speaker 1 (02:30:11):
That's good. I think, you know, my perception is on
some level and I haven't experienced THEA services that didn't serve,
but that it might be a more sterile environment less
you know of that sort of familial relationship. So you've
satisfy my curiosity on that. That's a wonderful thing to hear.
So how DoD veterans apply for the VA healthcare benefits
or any eligibility requirements for veterans to rule in VA
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healthcare services.
Speaker 18 (02:30:35):
Yeah, so the minimum requirements for VA healthcare services twenty
four consecutive months. That's the minimum requirement. That's you know,
that's just your normal twenty four consecutive months of service
starting from your basic training on forward. And there are
some other specialty factors for guard and reserve personnel that
served on some executive orders. But there's many, many, many
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resources that people could take advantage and find out what
they're eligible for. And first it starts with us by
calling five one three four seven five sixty four ninety nine.
That's a direct dial number two or Eligibility office. Anybody
can call that and find out what their veteran Level
one would be entitled to and how to enroll in
doing that. So you know, again that's five one three
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four seven, five sixty four nine nine.
Speaker 8 (02:31:23):
That's directly to us.
Speaker 18 (02:31:25):
Now, you also, veterans can also take advantage of their
county Veteran Service Commissions, which we have, you know, many
of those here right here in the tri States. So
in Claremont County there's the Veteran Service Commission, there's the
Butler County Veteran Service Commission at Hamilton County.
Speaker 8 (02:31:39):
They can also help.
Speaker 18 (02:31:40):
You get enrolled by starting the paperwork for you or
telling you exactly or tolling veterans what to do exactly
to get enrolled and apply with us.
Speaker 1 (02:31:49):
Yeah, you know, veterans. I talk to those guys all
the time, the Claimont County, butter and Hamilton County Veteran Service,
whichever one you're trying to, they strongly encourage you to
have them help you because, as I've had it explained
to me, going to the government via website and navigating
that can be a bit of a challenge and confusing.
Speaker 8 (02:32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (02:32:09):
Absolutely, you know, any any big robust organization that has,
you know, an online system is always going to have
its complexities. And I'm still very old school, you know,
I pick up the phone face to face, you know.
I know we're in a world of teams meetings and
zoom meetings, but I'm still an old school guy to
when it want to be face to face, and I
encourage people to do that because VA healthcare eligibility is
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very complex. It's not just cutter drive whether you know.
You know, it's not about that you get hurt in
active duty. It's there's more things to it that makes
it complex, and we want to make sure we have
all those boxes checked and the people that know eligibility
you know how to navigate the series of questions based
upon a veteran's responses or a spouse's responses to Thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:32:56):
Fair enough, Todd, Sledge and Snavia get in touch with
the Enrollment Office direct five one three four seven five
sixty four ninety nine. And don't overlook the benefit to
your Veteran Service commissions in your county because they can
be very very helpful and also have additional resources, including
some of them that'll transport you to the VA facility,
which is a nice extra service that may be available
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for you. Todd as always thank you for what you're
doing for the American veteran each and every day. I
always enjoy our conversations and I really do enjoy spreading
the word about what is available at the VA for them.
Speaker 8 (02:33:27):
Yeah. Absolutely, Brian.
Speaker 18 (02:33:28):
We appreciate your kind words all the time and our
support and supporting us and what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (02:33:35):
And as I always say, you know, if we're not.
Speaker 18 (02:33:38):
Doing something that's the way that the veteran sees, please
reach out to us, talk to patient advocates to it,
don't put it in your pocket. No, as my grandfather
used to tell me, he said, don't put that frustraction
in your pocket and walk away, because somebody else might
experience that too.
Speaker 1 (02:33:53):
Yeah, and you may bring about a transformative change to
the benefit of the rest of your veteran friend. That's
that's right. And you're always open to hear' segians and
comments and even criticism. Todd, thanks again my best to
everyone at the VA. Keep up the great work, my friend.
I know we'll talk again real soon. It's eight fifty six.
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I'm Brian Thomas. I'm not the dude. Happy Monday to
you folks. If you had a wonderful weekend. Hey, I
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we get to hear from him, and today is no
different than that money Monday with Brian James. It is Monday,
Brian James, Every Monday at eight oh five. Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs,
tariff tariffs. Also among other topics with Brian James, fed
says it's stay and put GDP Slow's four point twenty
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five four point five percent, more and more young families
unable to afford a home, which is a real sad
state of affairs, and that is just a practical reality.
Karrisee Caris Sincidiva and the studio at eight forty or
on the program at eight forty, always enjoy helping out
the cincinnti VA spreading the news and the information about
the benefits of signing up for you your VA coverage.
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So it's more than just medical. It's especially medical care.
People kind of view it as medical insurance, but no,
it's actual care. So VA does good things for our
local veterans. And not all vas are built the same.
Not al of them as well oiled a machine. And
I know the Cincinniva is not perfect, but it really
is striving to do the best it can for the
American veterans. And I truly appreciate him for that work
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and that effort. So I also appreciate hearing from you.
You've got a comment, maybe something about the tariffs. I
do have a feeling that's going to impact all of this.
Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight
hundred eight two to three talk found five fifty on
at T funds. And in case you're looking for clarity
on why Trump is imposing the tariffs or has imposed
(02:45):
the tariffs, twenty five percent additional tariffs and imports from
Canada and Mexico ten percent on additional teriffs from China.
It's all about and I got this statement from the
White House, all about illegal immigration and entanyl. And if
you stop for a moment, you think about the chaos
that's going to ensue, and oh my god, the price
(03:07):
is going to go through the roof. And you know,
our relationships with Chai, with Canada and Mexico going to
be strained, already strained with China, hell, probably couldn't be
strained anymore. It's all about fentanyl and illegal immigration. And
they have to ask myself out loud, and I'll ask
you out loud, maybe even answer to this, Why in
the hell would in Canada and Mexico be interested in
(03:30):
helping stop the production and in an importation of fentanyl.
Just ignore the migrant situation for a moment, because of course,
if we had really strong border security, and I recognize
the number of miles along the border between the United
States and Canada, the United States and Mexico make it
a little difficult to secure it one hundred percent. But
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the Biden administration didn't do anything whatsoever to secure the border.
In fact, facilitated people coming into the country CVP one
application where you could just apply for coming into the
United States and then get flown directly from your country
into the United States. That's not border security. But we
could do something about the border. And I don't think
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it's possible to stop the flow of drugs into the
country given that. I mean, hell, a drone can carry
quite a bit of a payload if you flew a
drone from Mexico over the wall, if one existed, then
you wouldn't have any problem getting drugs into the country.
But ignoring those practical realities, why wouldn't those two governments
want to help us stop that? I think it's an illustration,
(04:39):
at least in Mexico, the fact that the cartels pretty
much run the country, and they of course make billions
of dollars. We obviously have a strong demand here in
our country. What is with everybody in the United States?
What you get all whacked out on drugs? For anyway,
it's cocaine for a long time, you know, the cartels
built the cocaine trade, and now it's fentanyl. Unbelievably deadly
(05:04):
stuff that is anyway, Donald Trump calling in an emergency
situation international Emergency Economic Powers Act. That's what he asserted,
because of yeah, fentanyl and immigration. John taking bold action
to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable for the promises
of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous ventanyl and other
(05:24):
drugs from flowing into our country. He said. Chinese officials
have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the
flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels, which they do.
They send them directly and the cartels put it together
and ship it off to the United States. Canada is
involved in that too. According to the release, a recent
(05:44):
study recognized Canada's heightened domestic production of fentanyl and it's
growing footprint within international narcotics distribution. Doesn't Canada have a
vested interest in putting a halt to this? I just
don't understand the reason we have to go down this road.
I can't we all agree that fentanyl bad, fentan bad.
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I just don't understand. Tariff they said, we're remain in
effect until such time as drugs in particular fentanyl and
all illegal aliens. Stop this invasion of our country. It's
got an exclamation point out of it. It's statment from
Donald Trump. So what's gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Then?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Among other items that will become more expensive? Are you ready?
Jeene Well and Wall Street Journal reporting cherry tomatoes, And
I might add the Thomas household had a bumper crop
of cherry tomatoes over in the garden last year, so
much so that we have jars and jars and jars
(06:56):
filled with tomato sauce made from cherry tomatoes, tomato juice
made from cherry tomatoes. You may think cherry tomatoes, Actually
they're really really good. You get the right brand and
they have that sweetness that you know full sized tomatoes have.
But cherry tomatoes on the list. Canada big supply to
the of cherry tomatoes. I guess us Canadian producers grow
(07:21):
them in giant greenhouses near the United States border. Mexico
also supplies tomatoes. Economist warning the domestic producers will be
tempted to increase their prices to match price on imports. Yes,
we do grow them here and they're easy to grow, folks.
Will I will tell you that Tonka trucks, Joe, You're
(07:46):
gonna be able to handle a ten percent increase on
Tonka trucks coming from China? Do you think so? Ten
percent import on tariff on Chinese goods will raise the
retail price of the Tonka trucks. With over a million
of those Tonker trucks sold in the United States each year,
every one of them made in Ohio. Currently priced twenty
(08:08):
nine to ninety nine, they might rise to about thirty
four to ninety nine, according to a chief executive of
Basic Fund, the toys manufacturer guy named Jay Foreman. Interestingly enough,
it's not just Tonker trucks. More than eighty percent of
toys sold in the United States are manufactured in China,
data shared by the Toy Association, which is described as
(08:31):
an industry group. Maple syrup just tapped the maple trees
in the Thomas Yard today. You can do that. It's
pretty simple to do. We've been making maple syrup now
for a couple of years. Tap the trees, get a bucket,
boil it down, and you've got unbelievably wonderful maple syrup.
So if you don't want to go to the store
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and pay a lot for the tariff Canadian maple syrup.
More than sixty percent of Canada's production is exported into
the United States. Canada and the United States are the
only two countries that produce commercial scale level maple syrup.
Now you don't have to go with commercial scale. You
got a maple tree in your backyard, tap it. It's
(09:14):
not difficult. It's also fun. I mean, how many people
out there can say, hey, I made my own maple syrup. Tequila?
Uh oh yeah, we are the largest market for Mexican tequila,
apparently much more popular now than it used to be.
And uh oh, saygabydy or avocado toast. More than eighty
(09:39):
percent of US avocados come from Mexico. Cord of the
US Department of Agriculture in Mexico provides about half. Here's
a more troubling figure. Mexico provides about half of the
United States fresh produce imports, and, notably, given the climate
difference between Mexico and the United States, described as a
(10:00):
particularly important supplier of produce in the winter time. So
undoubtedly your grocery bill is going to get higher if
you spend any time in the produce department of your
local grocery, sport, smartphones from China. Of course, now you know,
Trump's not the only one. We have tariffs on the
(10:21):
on industrial goods from China. Biden administration also plays tariffs
on industrial goods. However, most consumer goods like smartphones were
spared from the additional import tariffs in what the journal
describes as an effort to avoid the wrath of American
consumers and across the board. Ten percent tariff on goods
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made from China, which is what it is, will also
include smartphones for the first time, and maybe it will
cause price increases. I think you can say possibly or
maybe and strike that from the sentence and say they will.
This was a particularly funny reference because you know, you
could probably pick out a litany of fact thousands of
different products which are going to be impacted by the tariffs. Well,
(11:05):
the Street Jaranoil identified sledge hammers made in China. Sledge
Hammers made in China already face an import tariff of
twenty five percent when they're imported here in the United States.
The additional tariff will of course raised the price even further. However,
(11:26):
take a quick look there are several sledgehammer models made
here in the United States. You needn't rely on Chinese
made sledge hammer bless America all because of fentanyl and
illegal immigration. Does anybody think there's any other perhaps reasons
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to want to engage in this tariff war that we
now have going on between Canada, Mexico and China. And
of course Canada Mexico already renounced retaliatory tariffs over the
weekend in retaliation for the ones that Trump announced, So
nobody saw that coming. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on
(12:11):
his way out of office. The actions taken today by
the White House split US apart instead of bringing us together.
They are placing matching twenty five percent tariffs up to
one hundred and fifty five billion dollars in US imports,
including alcohol and fruit. Kentucky bourbon producers probably a little
(12:31):
upset about that. Trudeau, warning of economic pain due to
the tariffs, encouraged Canadians to choose Canadian products and services
rather than American ones. Right, It's gonna have real consequences
for people workers on both sides of our border. He said,
we don't want to be here, we didn't ask for this,
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but we will not back down in standing up for
both Canadians and for the incredible successful relationship between Canada
the United States. For her part, Mexican President and then
Claudia Scheinbaum also ordered retaliatory tariffs, saying, we categoryally reject
the Right House slander that the American government has alliances
with or that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations,
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as well as any intentions of meddling in our territory. Well,
I'm surprised she's able to say that through a straight face.
Nobody's paid attention to the situation deteriorating as it has
been deteriorating for decades. Has to recognize the Mexican cartels
pretty much had the upper hand when it comes to
who controls Mexico. If you're a politician running for office
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in Mexico, or if you're an elected official in Mexico
and you take a stand against the cartels in any way,
shape or form, you end up dead. It's like a
foregone conclusion. Shinebold says the United States government's agencies wanted
to address the serious fentanyl consumption in their country, they
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could fight the sale of drugs on the streets of
their major cities, which they don't do. And the laundering
of money that is illegal activity generates that has done
so much to harm its population. I can't disagree completely
with that. You know that whole defund the police movement
and the decriminalization of drug use, You think that's had
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an impact on increasing or decreasing the demand for drugs
in our country. If you defund the police and not
as many officers on the street, given that there's the
ratio of officers to humanity in any given city, even
in the most highest employment of officers point in history,
like if we had a full contingent, it would only
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be like eleven hundred cincin anty police officers to deal
with like roughly two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand people.
How could you possibly control all of the drug activity
in any given neighborhood with that ratio? You can't. Maybe
if our demand went down, maybe if we reflected on
ourselves as a society and realizing we're propping up all
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of this criminal enterprise and we're now in a trade
war with Canada and Mexico as well as China because
we just can't say no to the drugs. Five twenty
fifty five case detalk stations stick around more to talk
about your Phone calls are always welcome, so feel free
to call up at the bright back with age a
lot of people. Is there a tax on this too,
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he said Chuck MANGIONI, well, I don't want you to
play more than twenty seconds. You're you're not You're not you?
You did avoid the tax. You know you're not old
enough to remember when you couldn't get away from that
damn song They played it like every five minutes on
(16:04):
radio back in the seventies. God, I not gonna have
an earworm in my head coming off the heels of
a week of having fear as never boring run through
my head. Just full that song up from the Raisins, Joe.
I made a lot of people smile when I posted
that on Facebook, anyway, and that allows me to use
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up the balance at the time for this segment. Getting
back on time, local stories or phone calls, you can
feel free to call it prefer talking with you and
doing local stories, but hey, I'll take it either way.
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Canadian band tribute day to day, but only twenty seconds.
I know, because you don't want to pay the additional
twenty five percent tariff. Awesome lyrics. That song has awesome lyrics. Anyhow,
Apparently no one wants to talk to me, So I
do local stories. Dave had or making it into the
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local stories. Look at that.
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In addition to Tech Friday interest, I t Dave had
results to the mayor of Fort Wright, Kentucky, and he
is aware of the speeding problem Amsterdam Road in Fort Wright.
Apparently everyone loves to speed on it. There's some stats
on it too, So I live very close to there,
walk in the neighborhood all the time, and I see
it firsthand. So recently the issue was brought up to
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him by multiple residents who live on Amsterdam Ron. He said,
a lot of residents in the area are frustrated. I
hear the complaints and I know they're legit because I
see it myself. Speed limit Amsterdam Road twenty five miles
per hour. Apparently everyone driving more than forty miles per hour,
and they've also notes that they blow the stoplights. Are
the stop signs off? Studied by the police department last
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year found that during one week in January seventy, roughly
seventy percent of drivers were speeding. Similar study conducted in August,
number of speeding drivers decrease, still showed nearly a quarter.
We're going over the speed limit. I just said, the
biggest people is people. The biggest problem is people during
the stop signs, says, people don't even tap the brakes.
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Sometimes they go right through the stop signs. Growing tired
of the problem, he is now working with police to
increase patrols in the area. So we just want people
to slow down and think about safety again for themselves
and others Fort Right Police, saying that there is a
heavy police presence now and it will be seen in
the area for the foreseeable future. So if you're getting
ready to drive down Amstein Avenue, keep your eyes peeled
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for the cops because they may be there. Potter City
wants to make it clear not to meet some of
a sort of quota. He said. The city doesn't benefit
financially from police citations, saying almost none of that money
comes back to the City of Fort Wright, simply a
matter of keeping people safe. Quote, let's not create a
situation where someone gets injured or killed simply due to
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bad driving behavior when it's something that's so simple to stop.
Sounds right. Peter Crabel sitting in the parking lot of
Coraine Township Walgreens when a bullet went through the back
of his van and into his liver stray shot fired
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by a publicly unidentified publicly unidentified suspect in the double
killing of two brothers across the street at Popeye'es over
a couple of weeks ago. He's been recovering since he's
picking up a prescription from Walgreens, apparently for a toothache.
He found himself needed to roll out of the car
and go inside to ask for help. I guess after
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his liver had been punctioned by the air bullet. Two
women came to his aid after he entered the Walgreens,
applying pressure to the wound while he waited for paramedics
to arrive. Grab told the women applying the pressure to
tell his wife, Sander he loved her, as he didn't
know if he was going to make it to the hospital.
Wow brought to the ICU at University of Sincinni Medical Center,
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where his liver and a cracked rib had been healing
from the gunshot, and his gallbladder had to be removed.
He said. After a couple of surgeries and a lot
of procedures, I become stable and getting better. So I
remember everything from the bullet to the operating room. I
woke up feeling blessed to be alive. Amen. Colerain Township
police call it just before one pm January sixteenth, to
the intersection of Cole Rain in Springdale, where Rashaan Robinson
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and his brother Willie Dishawn Robinson died at the scene
shooting in the parking lot of the Popeyes Louisi in
the kitchen, one of the brothers inside of Blue, Infinity
in the other just outside of the vehicle. According to
the Cornine Townships Plus spokesperson, Infinity had twelve gun shots
through the passenger window. Police haven't yet released a motive
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or announced any arrest in the shooting. However, court records
show that Rashawn Robinson publicly expressed his fears of being
killed in a court filing years before his death. Spokes
Version confirmed Crable was not an intended target in the shooting,
but he says he's facing months of rehab after he's
discharge from the hospital. No kidding, dangerous out there, good Amazewell,
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Kentucky or A body of a Mazell woman who was
reported missing for weeks found over the weekend. On Saturday morning,
court to the Maysville Police, They along with the Buffalo
Trace Search and Rescue, found the body of Eugena Harris Cooley,
forty seven years old, near the area of Walld Park
in Mason County. Not clear what happened to her or
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Dota daughter Jidjishaw West that her mom was last seen
walking out of her apartment complex December twenty first. Police
working with the Mason County Coroner's office to investigate the
cause of death. Boone County judge has ousted all Union
City commissioners, avoiding the commission's in tired November general election
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after claims of election fraud. Decision came out on late Friday,
Boon County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bruggaman granted former Union
City Commissioner Doug Bind's election contest. In December, Boon County
Judge Niner restraining order that would have prevented the newly
elected commissioners from taking their seats January first. The attempt
came after buying fout a lawsuit contesting the results of
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the November election. With this decision, all three newly elected commissioners,
John Mefford, Brian Garner, and Eric Delaney have been ousted
from their seats. The decision leaves Mayor Larry Solomon as
the only member of the city Commission. Solomon will now
hold a commission meeting. I guess today it is a third,
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isn't it. Yeah, sure is, and he'll likely begin the
process of appointing new members as the commission, as directed
by the court. BiiN has requested a new citywide election instead.
Of appointments because due to scheduling, the appointments will continue
until twenty twenty seven. Brugerman agreed with Byn's lawsuit claims
that hundreds of illegal votes in Boone County changed the
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outcome of the commission race, which he lost. Five candidates
running for four open seats. Buying lost by sixty five votes.
His lawsuit claims that more than five hundred people illegally
voted in Union Precinct one and Union Precinct four. EECE
Judge Bergermann and his judgment quote there could be as
many as eight hundred invalid votes between Union one and four.
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Some parties contend that nine hundred and thirty two ballots
were cast. It could be equally assumed that all city
ballots had been given to the twelve hundred and fifty
nine non city voters. In any event that disparity is
greater than five hundred and ninety nine votes, Find's attorney,
Steve Murgerley said after the ruling he plans to reach
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out to the Assistant Attorney General nominee for the Civil
Rights Division and request a federal audit and investigation. Huh
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Comfortably one for about Fair City Talk station. Yeah, Rick,
I know that Trump's tariffs are the retalia and the predicate,
as he stated in this announcement over and over again,
is for illegal immigration and fentanyl, and I must observe.
You know, like I said, it would be really easy.
I would think, at least to take some efforts by
the Mexican government's, Canadian governments and the horse of Chinese
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if they were interested in it. I would expect cooperation
from Mexico and Canada. Mexico's got the cartel situation they
have to deal with prevents them from actually doing anything
about it. Canada, I don't know, but they say that
fentanyl production is increased in Canada as well. But as
far as Chinese is concerned, I mean, selling fentanyl precursors
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to Mexican cartels is an act of war. I think
they enjoy and are gleefully watching the damage that's being
done to our country with this massive amount of death
and destruction and dependence that fentanyl has created. Aug what
are the points it was made in Trump's announcement last
year Customs and Border Protection handed more than twenty one
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thousand pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough to kill
I'm just staring at all at this figure. Enough to
kill more than four billion people, and that's what they found.
A lot of it's making it into the streets. Yeah,
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it's is. It is a subtle, nefarious, that yet genuine
act of war. It's like the the info wars that
we're engaged with, and the gathering up of data and
the attacking of our computer systems and the installation of
nefarious software so they can flip a switch and shut
us all down a moment's notice. Anyhow, Yeah, I'm aware
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of that. Over the stack is stupid Detroit, a priest
who hosts an exorcism podcast. Thank you, Joe, That's exactly
what I was thinking. Facing charges after he allegedly took
a piece of hair from a teenage girl's head and
used it to floss his teeth. There's no flag for us, amen,
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and there isn't for this, one, prosecutor said January twenty second.
The criminal complaint about Michigan priest Father Carlos Martins of Detroit,
that he placed hair of a miner in his mouth
in an insulting or provoking nature. That's part of the complaint.
He's the host of and you can check it out
for yourself the exorcist files. Why you want to check
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that out beyond my understanding. Charged with mis demeter, battery,
and Illinois over the lleged incident happened November twenty fifth,
He says he's denied the allegations. Ledgend incident had happened
in the Diocese of Joliet, where Martin's ministry group was
there while on a nationwide American tour with the Relic
of Saint Jude Okay, teenage boy told police, who's waiting
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the line to see the relic when bald? And he is?
I see his head bald and Martin's made jokes about
what he used to have hair, and then he grabbed
the thirteen year old girl's hair and put it in
his mouth. Okay, I guess People magazine reporting on this
when the boy told police that Martin then allegedly proceeded
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to make a flossing motion with the girl's hair and
later that day sat behind the girl in the pew
and made growling noises. Diocese a Joli had released a
statement about the incident and said they ordered Martin's to
quote depart from our parish and out of our diocese
close quote taking it to custody January seventh, and charged
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Let me get this one more status Tuba story before
we get to Bobby. Bobby, hang on one moment got an
OnlyFans model fell to her death while filming a pornographic scene.
What New York Post reporting twenty seven year old adult
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entertainment star and she'll love that word, so she's only
a started the extent she's known by people. Anna Beatriz
Pierra Alves is known online as to her fans as
Anna Polly. Died after four long from a hotel balcony
in Brazil January twenty third. Court to the reporting, she
was in the middle of filming a pornographic scene with
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two men and that's when she fell to the ground
floor courtyard of the Mont Blanc Apart hotel, described as
a four hotel. A four star hotel located in the
Nova Iguacu, Brazil, Wherever the hell that is. Don't know
court to the reporting. When questioned by authorities, the two
men offered conflicting testimonies, but police released the men after questioning.
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Foul play has not been ruled out, though, according to
the police spokesperson, the comp this is a complex case.
We don't rule out any possibility, from an accident to
possible crime. Was reported that her boyfriend I struggle with
that she's a pornographic actress. How do you maintain a
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relationship with a woman who is having sex with other
people for a living. Can't reconcile that. Maybe maybe I'm
just more of a traditionalist anyway. Pedro Henrique Pedro Enrique
went on social media to morning passing, writing as the
hours pass, it's starting to sink in and the whole phrasing,
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thank you, Joe. The hole in my heart is only
getting bigger. If someone is to blame, they will pay
and the culprit will be found. His hole's getting bigger,
Joe frazing, Bobby, Welcome to the five Caresey Morning Show.
Happy Monday to you, my friend.
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Heats flags family of forty five seventies.
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My brother there you are, big boomstick.
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That dance as member but D and D.
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Yeah, well, that'll it'll definitely cause that anyhow. What's on
it's on your mind today, Bobby.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Well, we've got all these deterrents and everything that President's
trying to implement, but you've got to look back on
history of true cases cases of deterrent. The grade Impaler
when he starts sticking pikes down the road to his kingdom.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Vlad the Impaler, Yes, as a warning to other people
who might consider doing him harm.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Yes, are you to stick heads on the top of
the pikes going down to each side of the road.
That is a deterrent to these cartels.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I suspect, but I'd like to think we have higher
moral ground than Glad the Impaler. My recollection is he
killed his own people and impaled them as a warning
to other would be invaders. Look, if this guy's nut
job enough to kill his own people and stick them
on post as a warning, he might do worse to us.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
It's just a deterrent. It doesn't matter if it's true
or not. It's just what they perceive it to be.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Okay, Bobby, I know you'd like to keep your tongue
in your cheek, and I'd like to think that's where
it is right. Now, be careful you might pop a
hole in it with comments like that. I can't abide
impaling people as a deterrent. It's both parallels to be
drawn with the the tariffs anyhow, Thank you, Bobby forty
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five seventy. We've got a brighton Colorado where a woman's
been charged with murder after she killed her boyfriend because
he expressed doubt about her chances of getting a job.
Twenty nine year old Ashley began having serious issues with
the relationship with twenty eight year old Cody Deleisa, largely
surrounding her difficulty in finding work. According to the press
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release in the District Attorney's office there, at some point,
White became so frustrated with the relationship that she attempted
to drown and burn his cat well While attended a
job interview eight August thirteenth, twenty twenty, and rode home
in a public bus while texting Deleise about how it went.
He apparently expressed skepticism about her chances of getting a job,
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which frustrated her. Or to the release, White met with
a man on the bus who called himself Scott and
asked if she was in a relationship with a man
and whether he raped her. This doesn't make any sense
to me. Wright responded that he had, and Scott then
said they must kill him. White and Scott got off
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the bus together. The pair shot a gun belonging to
Scott before making the way into White's home and confronting Delesa's.
Scott introduced himself to de Lisa as White's brother from Texas,
and at some point after the pair arrived at Delesea's
he was shot twice in the head.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
That does not make it it.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He literally does not. Joe, I just read the article
and I'm more confused now as a human being than
I was. I feel actually dumber for having read this.
I had no idea, so I needed to itally. It
is Monday, and it is in the five o'clock hour,
still a few moments remaining in it. Four minutes to
be specific, five fifty six. Stick around, got more to
talk about in the six o'clock hour, and yeah, please
feel free to call. Maybe you got something on your
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mind other than impaling people as a deterrent to outsiders.
I'll be right back after the news.
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Happy Monday. Like it or not, we are here. Good
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Two things usually on the agenda, and they're on today
seven twenty with the former Vice Mayor of the City
of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman, and this Smither event with Monday Monday,
Brian James. Fast forward two hours. We'll hear from Brian
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James on tariffs, talk about a little bit about those.
In the last hour, four point twenty five to four
point five percent to the Feds, at least insofar as
Federal Reserve holding interest rate to four point twenty five
to four point five percent reigns inflation a rather gross
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domestic product group two point five percent slowed slightly in
the final quarter. We talk about that home affordability crisis
is taking a toll on America's young adults. Sad reality
that knows the topics of Brian James. I just appreciate
hearing from Brian, I always appreciate hearing from U two five, three, seven, four,
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talk and does care and the charsee cares section which
takes place at eight forty. When we have it, We're
going to have the Cincinntiva to talk about four significant
Cincinnati VA facility improvements scheduled to be completed this year.
As I pointed out, a VIA takes great care of
the veterans and they're always trying to improve things. So
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thank God for the American veteran and I'm glad we
have a pretty gosh darn good VA here in the
city of Cincinnati. Not every city can say that anyway,
Ah that bump bump bum. I saw this Alisa Finley
article and I thought it was rather interesting. Now, I
remember the Trump administration paused federal grants, completely paused them,
and then of course withdrew that pause after the uproar.
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But it took a moment to I mean, did the
pause that kind of shook the framework of a lot
of Democrat states and Democrat cities, because well, they are
almost entirely dependent upon you and I working out here
in other flyover states to keep their their systems going,
and that's what her observations were in this Democratic States
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are wards of Washington subtitle There's a reason for the
panic over the Trump white House's temporary federal spending pause.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy was complaining, fifteen percent of
our workforce are funded by those dollars, and that in
and of itself is a frightening thing. Lawsuit brought by
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all twenty two states with Democratic attorneys general plus the
District of Columbia detailed a litany of programs funded by
you and your labor in your perhaps red state. Washington
said it received one hundred and twenty one million dollars
last year for allergy and infects his de's disease research.
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Illinois claimed federal Medicaid funds made up sixty percent of
its twenty twenty three spending on critical health services. New
York Governor Kathy Hogel Washington, do you realize the consequences
of what you've done here and you really want us
to not fund law enforcement? Do you allow us to
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not fund roads and bridges? Lissa Finley notably interjects, well,
what are New York state taxes for? Right the freeze
didn't apply to the most federal dollars of float of
states for social welfare, education, transportation, since those are based
on statutory formulas, although the administration's original memo didn't explain
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that clearly, and on Wednesday last week, the administration recinded
the memo after a judge blocked it. Democratic states and
their economies depend much more on Washington than Republican states do.
This year, New York received roughly four thousand, nine hundred
dollars per capita from the Feds California forty three hundred dollars.
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That's two to three times as much as Florida seventeen hundred,
Texas fifteen hundred. It's because Democratic states provide more generous
social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to
regulatory changes by yeah the Biden administration. Democratic states also
received a disproportionate served more than one trillion with a
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te that Congress sent the state and local governments in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one as pandemic relief. Between
twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two, federal
dollars flowing to red states and local governments increased by
five hundred and fifteen billion dollars, more than the rise
in Social Security and medicare combined. And you know that
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we're still spending money on COVID. It seems to be
kind of comical to me, says Most COVID funds are
running out, though the Biden Federal Emergency Management Agency planned
to hand out disaster relief funds to states and cities
for pandemic quote unquote emergency spending through August of twenty
twenty six. See this is a big scam, folks. And
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I kind of made comments and was painfully or wherever
while it was going out. They were throwing money all
over the place. And a lot of these democratic cities
before COVID had run themselves into the ground with overspending.
Look at the pension problems that Illinois faces, and New
York and other cities the overwhelming nightmare that their budgets are.
And oh my god, look here's COVID money from the
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federal government. Let's pay off our debts. And that's what
was done. And here we are talking about additional pandemic
spending through twenty twenty six, She writes. This year's Los
Angeles City budget includes two hundred and eight point two
million in FEMA COVID funds one city, including housing vagrants
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in hotels. What's that got to do with COVID? New
York State's budget this year includes nearly three and a
half billion dollars in FEMA dollars for COVID quote emergency
protective matters close quote like home test kits? Are people
still using those home test kits? I mean, by this
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point in time, I think we're all painfully aware that
the COVID pretty much like a regular, good old fashioned
cold unless you're in a comorbid category three. Only five
billion dollars after blowing through federal pandemic, largest states and
localities are tapping FEMA to backfill their budgets. Congress and
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Turns keeps back filling FEMA rents and repeat. Government Accountability
Office last summer projected that the COVID disaster quote unquote
disaster will be the most expensive in FEMA history. Bretherident
Trump is right to call for shifting more FEMA responsibilities
to the states. Federal spending on disaster relief creates a
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moral hazard by reducing the incentive for states to invest
in disaster preparedness and mitigation see Los Angeles sam goes
for social welfare. States have lessons center to help lift
people out of poverty, since they receive more federal dollars
if people stay poor. When you're spending someone else's cash,
there's hardly an his center to spend it prudently. Medicaid
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state's biggest source of federal dollars in courages. In efficient spending,
states receive one to three dollars from Washington for every
dollar they spend on Medicaid nine dollars for lower income,
able bodied individuals covered under Obamacare's expansion. Democratic states provide
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more expansive benefits and easier eligibility, and writing more money
out of Washington. Some are ringing more money out of Washington.
Some thirty six percent of Californians are covered by medicaid.
Compare that to Florida, where it's nineteen and in Texas,
where it's fifteen. Thirty six percent federal share of California's
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Medicaid spending nearly one hundred and twenty billion, is more
than Florida's entire budget. America's Welfare Queen New York federal
dollars make up roughly forty percent of the state's budget.
Let that sink in. Some forty four percent of New
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Yorkers are covered by medicaid or quasi public option for
lower income people, including migrants. Thanks to a Biden regulatory waiver,
they've fed foot about ninety five percent of this public
options cost, translated to eleven point seven billion dollars this
year alone. Government social assistance and healthcare account for nearly
all new jobs added in such Democrat run states as California,
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nearly all also in New York, Minnesota, in Illinois, nearly
all new jobs from your taxpayer dollars. Their high taxes
and excessive regulation of suppressed job creation by private businesses,
so that government spending is now the main engine of
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employment and growth. How long can that last? Soaring pension
bills I mentioned in a moment ago for government workers
or crowding out public services. Lawmakers have in turn hiked taxes,
but the resulting population flight has shrunk their tax This
is a total recipe for disaster, and it's unfolding before
our very eyes. All this has made them more dependent
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on Washington spending. Why should taxpayers in Houston and Jacksonville
and Cincinnati subsidized mismanaged government in Sacramento, in Albany, that's
a rhetorical question. They shouldn't. By slashing federal spendings, Republicans
in Washington could give progressive governments an impetus to reform
and escape their welfare trap. Call it tough love. Yeah,
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thank you, Listen Finley, more people were aware of this reality,
more people would rebel against it. Six sixteen fifty five
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all painfully a whare of the LA's of the Pacific
Palisades or every place else burning to the ground. They
have a wildfire recoveries our. His named Steve Soberov, and
(50:28):
apparently he was on a phone call with Hollywood talent
executives and he was telling them, do not accept the
low ball offers, the receiving on their properties house burns
of the ground, and no end in sight in terms of,
you know, getting the home rebuilt or no idea insight
(50:49):
when the home could possibly be rebuilt. He said, whether
you're broke or you're old, don't sell now, because in
one year we're going to be putting billions of dollars
in your neighborhood of improvements. Now, going back to the
article by Elysa Finley, does anybody think that one billion
dollars or more is going to come from the state
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of California or do you think you and I are
going to be shouldering that bill? He said, you'll get
triple what these guys are offering you. Now, it's like
William Morris Agency and these other talent agencies, you know
folks that represent One was identified Jake Tapper, United Talent
Agency of Beverly Hills was on the meeting, so all
the movers and shakers in the Hollywood area, I suppose
(51:33):
During the call, he said half hour labor could get
deported before the Palisades is rebuilt, which he said could
be extremely expensive. Also warning the folks on the call
not to take the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power testing at face value, not reassuring this one, saying
don't bathe your baby in their water. All right, he
(51:57):
said on the call, construction costs are going to be
as high, going to be high because the demand for
commodities is going to be high, the demand for labor,
whether or not half our labor is deported before this happens.
Obviously a shot out of the ballot Donald Trump and
rather insulting to the construction labor for suggesting that they're
all made up of illegal immigrants. He says, it's going
to be high. We're going to be recruiting people from
(52:18):
around the country to come and live at Motel sixes.
Like the Alaska gold Rush. It's going to take a
long time. So on one hand, don't sell because ultimately,
at some point way down the road, when taxpayer dollars
are going to be injected and fused into the area,
we'll finally be able to rebuild and you won't have
to sell it at a no pun intended fire sale price.
(52:39):
You're just going to have to wait for it. In
the meantime, if you don't have any money, and you
maybe inherited your home or has been in your home generations,
where are you're going to be living? Pacific Palisades not
presently inhabitable anyway. Back over the water situation, referring to
the Los Angeles Department or to Water and Power. Just
(53:02):
because the DWP says your water is safe, have somebody
tested before you move back in. And when they say
drinking water, use bottle water, Well, it's easy for him
to say, isn't it, And maybe easy for the executives
on the call to say, I imagine that they probably
have money and maybe their houses didn't burn to the ground.
(53:28):
What they don't say? He went on, and they're starting
to say it now. Don't bathe your baby in their water,
don't take a bath in the water, don't take a shower,
don't do your dishes, don't do your laundry. You don't
want to do anything with that water until it's deemed safe,
and then personally, if you can afford it, I would
get an independent agency or maybe there's a kid at
CBS that can tell you if your water is safe. Yeah,
(53:52):
but the CVS burned down too. Sober Off said it
could take as long as ready five years for people
to rebuild the destroyed homes. Said, I thought you said
(54:18):
it wasn't going to be political. Now I want you
on the I want you on the bus to yes
hit this analogy. You're either on the yes bus or
the no bus. Criticism is a bus to know what
he's on the yes bus, he says. He acknowledged that
(54:40):
only about five percent of Palisades residents can afford their
house now, given that many are generational owners or bought
their houses before construction costs in real estate products for
the skyrocket and ready for this, he predicted the cost
would be in his words, nuts, explaining that we'll probably
cost one thousand and to twelve hundred dollars per square
(55:05):
foot to rebuild. Said there's no one in Polisades that
won't have a gap between what their insurance policies will
pay out and the costs to reconstruct their homes. As
he doesn't know what kind of aid will be available
to make up the shortfalls. Still, he told these Witzy
executives on the call, the best thing for people to
(55:25):
do is ready they're building plans, hire legal help. There's
another cost many people might not be able to meet.
Hire legal help to negotiate with insurance companies and hold
onto their watts rather than accept low ball offers from speculators.
Some things are easier said than done. Got a couple
of callers online, Ten and Dwayne, You guys, don't mind
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Speaker 8 (57:58):
Happy Monday.
Speaker 12 (58:00):
Hey.
Speaker 13 (58:00):
I just wanted to come in concerning Donald Trump firing
these igs. There's one of them who's going around and
he's sitting in the different media television, these news shows,
and I just say to myself, man, I'm glad that
Donald Trump has done this. To leave certain people in
these positions is like leaving Comy in for another year.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
You know.
Speaker 13 (58:26):
The one thing that I wish somebody would ask is
these igs ask these igs did Comy spy on Donald
Trump illegally? And then after he became president, did Comy
and others go after a sitting voted in president, but
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nobody wants to address any of this stuff. I think
I think Donald Trump is a quick study and he
learned the hard way that there's certain people in government
you cannot ever try us, and you have to get them.
Speaker 8 (59:02):
Out well and or wing to get your comment on.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
Yeah, maybe they're not doing their job. Inspectors General is
supposed to mind the store and find out where the
money's going. And if you saw that announcement from Elon
Musk the other day, they just basically rubber stamp literally
every check that's amanded out of federal government. Just pay everybody,
pay everybody. So many trillions of dollars flowing out of government.
No one can keep watch over it. Well, it's part
of the job they're supposed to do. We had Todd
Zenzer on the phone. He was Inspector general for what
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like thirty years, and he knows exactly what the job's about.
You can go back on the podcast pages and hear
what he had to say. But yeah, I got no
problem new sheriff in town, you know, and who among
us hasn't been victim of some sort of reorganization. They
used to reorganize the legal department of my prior employer
almost like every three years, like, well, here comes gonna
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reorger again. They're gonna drop people and people get fired.
Thankfully never happened to me. I did quit on my
own accord, but god knows whether I'd still be there.
I had stuck it out in Anthon, Blue Cross and
Blue Shield, and you know what, there is no guarantee
that I'm going to be able to keep this job either.
But thank God for my listeners, which I take that
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concern off of my lap. But you know what, times
change and new shriffes come into town and people get
people lose their jobs. And I'm quick to point out,
you know who has any pity for folks in the
coal industry. You know, this whole global warming thing resulting
in so many coal jobs just being completely deleted. I
sucks to be you. You're in a dirty industry. We
don't care about you. But when you go ahead and
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you start firing government employees, it's like, well, you can't
do that. Why not everybody else's face is being fired
at some point. You know, I'm not gonna weep over
And I have accountants that are friends of mine and
I get an accountant to help with my taxes every year.
And honestly, I'm sorry if a complete industry gets if
wipe if the industry completely gets wiped out, because we
come up with a saner system of taxation, fair tax,
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flat tax, whatever, but one that does not require a
team of accountants to manage your your income taxes. That
would be a welcome change for me. And I'm certain
that those accountants out in the world would find some
other form of employment like everybody else has to when
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of the break, Dwayne, welcome to the morning show. Good
to hear from this.
Speaker 14 (01:03:15):
Morning lording Brian, how are you this great Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
I'm still trying to get my engine fired up, Dwayne,
but I'm feeling pretty good. No complaints. I can't say
him out loud because nobody'd care.
Speaker 14 (01:03:29):
Hey, I wanted to talking about kind of piggyback on
your COVID comments and the wayte abuse and wrong decisions
that leads me into the newly declared subernatorial candidate on
the Democrat side doctor Amy Acton. Yeah, mister Dewayne puts
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ahead of the Apartment of Health. I want everyone to
remember the wrong decisions after five confirmed cases in Ohio,
close schools, after one hundred confirmed cases in Ohio, close
restaurants and bars, and the kicker is and this should
be the campaign slogan, CNN come through the Buckeye State's
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version of straight talking Anthony Falci. And my last little
tidbit to leave you with is are the voters in
Ohio going to pardon her as well?
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
No, I don't think she's a snowball's chance in hell. Hell,
we can all just remember remind everybody that she's responsible
for dwine saying you can't drink at a bar after
ten pm, as this that was going to do something
to stop COVID. You don't have to leave, but you
can't drink. Oh okay, Yeah, that's that. There's the lynch pin.
That's the key to stopping the spread of COVID. What
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the hell?
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And we just want the media to remember that. We
want to bring that to front of mine.
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Yes, well, well, if she's still in the race next year,
when we have the goodernatorial race in twenty twenty six.
Trust me, you'll be hearing that type of message on
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only declared candidate is Amy Acton, former director of the
High Department of Health. That's it, you, amster Gary. Welcome
to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.
Speaker 15 (01:05:38):
Good morning, Brian. How are you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
I'm doing that, hey.
Speaker 15 (01:05:45):
I was just going to piggyback off of your comments
at California and the Palisade fires and all the fires
going on out there. I think the majority of the
people who have money or want to leave southern California
for other places in the world. I mean, they got
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more than enough money. They can go anywhere. I mean, really,
do they want to sit on a neighborhood where they
might be the only house that's not in Amber Shambers?
You know that's not burnt to an ash to look
at that For the next five years, and then you've
got to wonder what that's going to do to everybody's
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the tax space, right and you know, so the tax
space is going to have to decrease, which means that
they're going to have to rely on the people that stay.
Same thing with the workforce for rebuilding everything, which is
going to be extra high. Same thing with supplies are
going to be extra high. So you've got high taxes.
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There's really unsafe water. And you know how they environmentalists
out there, they won't even bathed in the water now,
you know, probably for just cause now and they'll just
they'll spread. They don't have to put up with that.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
No, they don't. And it's an excellent point you make
that you know, does Hollywood even need to be in Hollywood, California?
If you want to make movies, you can literally make
them anywhere. How they make movies in Cincinnati. Now, all
that talent out there and they've got money, they can move.
And you're right, I agree with you completely. Who would
really seriously want to wait around for between one and
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five years to have their house rebuild when the next
door neighbors and most of the people across the street
didn't even have enough insurance to do a rebuild, they're
going to have to sell, and that land is going
to go to a for a low ball offer for
a long time, because only I would think some sort
of corporate investment entity could sink the kind of money
you need in to acquire a bunch of land out
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there and then afford to be able to wait around
until the conditions are ripe to have the homes rebuilt
in their own image or vision, right. I mean, everybody
was talking about this thing having so many parallels to
the Lahina fire that they're now having all the restrictions
on rebuilding. Those houses were in people's families for generation
after generation after generation, and they don't meet modern building codes,
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so they're not going to have their homes rebuilt the
way it used to be in the line, and it's
going to be pursued into some grand strategy and probably
a walkable community type phenomenon, like they're trying to shove
down everybody else's throat out here. Oh yeah, and you're right,
you know what, didn't it be interesting question to have
answered Gary The total taxes that the collective communities that
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burned in the ground paid in Los Angeles area like
how many tax dollars were collected from the people who
used to live in the now burned down Pacific Palisades.
I bet it is an outrageous amount of money and
it's gone.
Speaker 15 (01:08:49):
And one billion dollars and one billion dollars that they're
going to throw into the community is nothing compare what
they need. I mean, hell, they don't even have a
fire department, no less water system that's adequate, and hop
out medical and rebuilding bridges, water systems and everything else.
Don't eat one billion help bridges alone. Don't eat that
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up nothing flat.
Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Yeah, there's no question. Well, I mean what you saw
the figures. Even early on they were talking about forty
to fifty sixty billion dollars in property damage, and I
bet that figures a lot more than that now once
they calculate it all up. A billion dollars is a
drop in the bucket for the damage that's been concurred
down there. Good points, Gary, You're right, I can't argue
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every Monday at seven twenty today, no different. And you know,
and in the remaining time, why not go here? I
saw this headline. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
I thought it was a bunch of right wing extremists
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that were the real problem in this country. So say,
with the Biden FBI anyway, trans Vegan terror cult, check
the right boxes, you too could be remember of the
trans vegan terror called Zi's cult blame for a string
of what they call brutal murders as well as mayhem
in the United States, including the recent fatal shooting of
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a Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Nationwide manhunt underway for
Michael zecho Z A Jko described it as a trans
non binary person. They say he's the one that bought
semi automatic weapons used by two other excuse me trans
individuals to shoot and kill Border Patrol agent David Maylon
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back in the twentieth of January during a traffic stop
in Vermont. Several of the associates now in custody for
various violent crimes, while the leader, Jack ziz La Soda,
described as a vegan who also goes by the name
Andrea Phelps, is at large after he faked his own
death to escape prosecution. Jacko, connected with the group an
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online posts also a person of interest in the double
murder of her parents in connection with the slang of
the Vallejo, California landowner named Curtis Linde alleged cult tied
to a string of killings which they say are reminiscent
of the murders carried out by Charles Manson and his followers.
Lesota himself currently not charging any of the killing. Some
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members of this ziz group charged with gravely injuring and
later murdering that Curtis lind landowner, who they attacked with
a sword after he tried to kick him off from
squatting on his property. He was eighty two years old,
shot and killed one of them in self defense, lost
an eye. The January seventeenth in attack, he was poised
to testify against these jailed assailants when he was stabbed
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to death outside his home. They arrested a guy named
Maximilian Bentley Snyder, who has connections with his trans vegan cult,
in charge him with murder. Prosecutor said Lynn was intentionally
killed for the purpose of preventing his testimony in the
criminal proceeding. Andy No, writer for The New York Post,
described Losodas group known as the Zizians, as a highly
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educated trans vegan rationalist to hold fringe esoteric ideological beliefs
about transhumanism and animal rights. Brian Thomas, hosted the fifty
five Care Morning Show, calls them cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Lysoda was at the scene of Lynn's first attack and
was squatting on that property. Please let him Goole Go.
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Though all the skipped court appearance on unrelated charges, police
records show a pattern of violence among members associated with him.
Felix Ophelia Buckholt University of Washington, Teresa Milo Consuelo young Blood,
two trans individuals fired at Maryland fired at Mayland during
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the traffic stopped, killing him, according to the complaint. As
for mister Delsoda, his whereabouts are currently unknown. Arrested in
twenty nineteen while protesting and then barricading a workshop put
on by Berkeley based Center for Applied Rationality. And I
read that and I go, oh, there's one of those too, huh.
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His mother and associates claimed he later died in a
boating accident and produced an obituary. Coastguards, however, conducted a search,
never found a body, and police later made contact with
Lysoda at the scene of Lynn's first attack, but again
he wasn't arrested or charged. So we have those trans
vegan terror cults. Five six fifty seven. Don't go away.
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Oh six fifty five krc DE talk station. It being
Monday in the seven o'clock hour. Fast forward to the
next segment. Christopher Smithmen, former vice mayor of the City
of Cincinnati, with the smither event. Never do know what's
going on in his mind, but I always appreciate his
thoughts in common. So we'll join and we'll get our
popcorn out and enjoy that together. Monday, Monday, Brian James,
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Fast forward an hour. We're going to talk about tariffs,
talking about the gross domestic products slowing uh. More and
more young families are unable to afford a home and
that just breaks my heart. Us cares return of the
cincinni Via. Got a whole bunch of improvements coming in
this calendar year at the Cincinniva. We're going to learn
all about that together at eight forty five three seven
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eight hundred eight two to three Taco with pound five
fifty on AT and T phones. And one of the
things Trump did he got rid of gender pronouns employees
and all the federal agencies in order to remove pronouns
from their email signatures by last Friday afternoon. This according
to internal memos citing two executive orders signed by Donald
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Trump his first day in office seeking to curb diversity,
equity and inclusion programs. Accord to the one message sent
to the Center for Disease Control staff, and any other
information not permitted in the policy must be removed from
employee signatures by five pm Friday. Employees instructed to remove
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the pronouns from everything from government grant applications the email
signatures all across the departments. Plays of the Department of
Energy received similar notice were told this was meet to
meet requirements in the executive order, including removal of all
DEI language and federal discourse communications and publications. The result
of Trump administration's pushed to do away with all DEI
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efforts and it's rolling out across the board. And this
is just one little illustration of it. But you know,
how did we end up in this bizarre, weird, crazy
idea that these and I pulled it up because l
g b t q I a UC Davis dot edu.
They have a department. It's the LGB T t QI
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a Resource Center. And in case you're wondering what all
those they stay for at Lesbian gets Bisexual, which we
all understand and can understand that quite clearly, all of
which relate to one's sexual proclivities. Then transgender queer intersection
asexual and I get kind of fuzzy on that. If
you are a transgender woman, it means you're a guy
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biologically you could still be attracted to, at least from
a you know, sexual proclivity standpoint, to women you just
like dressing up black a gal. I think ed Wood
Glenn or Glenda is a movie you can check out
on that one right if you get done watching Plan
nine from Outer Space. But they have examples of pronouns
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on this list, and I never heard of a lot
of these. We're supposed to keep track of this, which
is why I'm so happy to see the federal governments
getting rid of them. CO co, O, N E N.
And they put it in context like co laughed or
you know, you would say normally he laughed or she
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laughed CO or N laughed, E y and he. They
actually have he, she and they on there. But then again,
some people refer to themselves collectively as they more than
one person roaming around on their head. And I've made
that observation many times before. But if you go around
telling me that you want me to meet to call you.
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They when I'm referring to you with the pronoun, I'm
going to laugh at you and suggest maybe you need
some psychological counseling, because apparently you've got more than one
person roaming around inside your head. G X I E
y O y O z E. And then the final
one they have here is v V E. They also
(01:19:47):
admonish you try to avoid using the phrase preferred pronouns
or preferred name, as these suggest an element of flexibility
or that someone's identity is less than valid. Someone's name
and pronoun are not suggestions and are not preferred over
something else. They are inherent to who we are. YO
(01:20:08):
said that, I guess maybe Sanity's finally returning to the world.
I don't know, I'd like to think so. Federal agencies
and departments were given a deadline of five pm on
Friday to implement Trump's order mandated the US government recognize
only two sexes that are, in Trump's words, not changeable.
(01:20:33):
Memocent Wednesday to agency heads detailed the launder lists of
tasks required to comply with the order, including sweeping directive
to withdraw all relevant documents directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements,
and plans, along with far more specific requests to change
gender to the word sex on government forums, disable any
email prompts that ask users for their pronouns, and cancel
(01:20:57):
any employee resource groups that include or promote ideology. I
wonder if the UC Davis website will soon disappear. It's
still up as of this morning. I do believe they
receive federal funds. That's why I kind of uttered that
out loud. Agencies also ordered to take down any what
they call outward facing media that could be interpreted as
(01:21:20):
promoting a view of gender that isn't in liign with
the current administration's policies on gender. In other words, there's
two jack, two genders, period, end of story. It's what
you were born with. So apparently, by Friday afternoon, search
results for gender on the US Center for Disease Control
and Preventions website all dead links, which had been active
(01:21:42):
even earlier in the day. On Friday, websites of the
Department of Health and Human Services scrubbed all the pages
on gender affirming care and LGBTQ plus rights. CDC representatives
didn't respond to her quest for common Trump said such
actions were intended to defend women's rights and protect freedom
(01:22:05):
of conscious by using clear and accurate language in policies.
Which take me over to the former Lea Thomas swimmers.
Lea Thomas a man pretending to be a woman. We've
all probably familiar with her. Georgia State Senate Committee passed
the Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act last Thursday after
testimony for multiple female athletes who have been complaining about
(01:22:27):
sharing locker rooms with transgender athletes. So this bill requires
athletes to participate on teams that align with their biological
sex at birth. It's anticipated it will be signed into law.
Former North Carolina State women swimmer Kaylie Alans, thirty one
time All American a two time NC two A champion,
spoke about the experience of competing against and sharing a
(01:22:49):
locker room with Thomas. Quote, this is a great statement
from her. We are were sorry. We all were just
guinea pigs for a giant social experiment formed by the
NCAA regarding how much abuse and blatant disregard women would
be forced to take in silence, said she recount of
(01:23:12):
the emotion she felt when competing in areas with Leah
Thomas and how much sadness she felt watching women lose
out on chances to compete fairly at the event, claiming
she wanted to cry and leave the event after seeing
Thomas win the five hundred meter freestyle. It all just
felt so off and wrong. Did I go to the
locker room in that day to see Thomas and realize
(01:23:35):
there is no escaping this nightmare no matter where I go.
I had no idea he was going to be allowed
in the women's locker room, as we did not consent
to have a man in our locker room. And I'm
immediately on every time I enter a locker room afterward,
knowing any moment a man can walk in, walk on
enemy while I'm changing, said she felt so uncomfortable that
she started abandoning the locker room and instead began to
(01:23:57):
change in a storage closet behind the bleach. One other
University of Kentucky summer, Caitlin Wheeler said young women teenage
girls were forced to undress next to a fully intact
biological male who exposed themselves to us while we were
simultaneously fully exposed. We were never asked, we were never
(01:24:18):
given a choice. In another option, we were just expected
to be okay with it, to shove down our discomfort,
our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would
have been being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
And one doctor, because some people were opposed to this,
(01:24:41):
then get over it. Doctor Jody Greenwald, described as a
pediatrician in Roswell, speaking to this panel that was discussing this,
told the panel that transgender girls are not predators and
warned that transgender youth are more at risk for suicide.
And I circled that. Now she can't say on a
quivocally that transgender girls are not predators. They may very
(01:25:04):
well could be, and we know from the news that
some of them are, notably the guys that go in
the women's locker room and pleasure themselves in front of
the other women in the locker room. I would call
that predatory behavior. I don't know what your definition of
it is, but it certainly falls into mind and I
can understand. And it's a sad thing that transgender youth
(01:25:25):
probably more to risk for suicide. If you really truly
believe in your mind, and I believe that many do,
that you are really deep down inside a gender that
you're not born with. You look down, you got twig
and berries, and yet you identify as a woman, and
you really believe in your heart of hearts that you
are a woman. I can understand how that might be
a massive psychological burden for you, recognizing as any sane
(01:25:47):
rational person would, that there is nothing any doctor or
scientist or surgeon can do to transform your chromosomal reality.
They might be able to change the exterior a little bit,
and part's not going to work like the originals do
when you're born that way, but you know, you got
to go through your life recognizing that that is an
impossible thing to accomplish. Period, end of story. Might that
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lead to suicidal ideation? One can make a logical conclusion
that it might, but that they are more of a
risk to suicide, should imperil the hearts and minds and
create an unfair competitive reality for some of them and
(01:26:27):
for the women in sports. We're gonna turn the entire
world upside down because some percentage have suicidal ideation, much
like sadly, a pretty substantial percentage of the former folks
in uniform serving our country proudly, sadly their numbers are
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There are two types of pain in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Ordinate It is seven twenty one if you've got krcdtalk station,
and it is that time of week we get to
hear from the former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
Christopher Smith Aman with d smither Van. Christopher, I hope
you had a wonderful weekend. Welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Hey, thank you Brian for having me on and I did,
and my heart just went out, I'm sure like yours.
And you're listening to audience on those two plane crashes,
Oh you know what we saw happening in in in
d C. And Pennsylvania. And you know, it's as shocking
as it is to our conscious. It's just you pray
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for the families and you know, particularly you know, for
all of them. But to think waiting in an airport
a plane is arriving and you see it explode, I
just it just it just messes up your mind. So
my love goes out to those families. And uh, you know,
we still have the safest transportation with plane travel, you know,
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even when you see things like this happen. Obviously, they're
going to have to deal with things at that airport
with with the military doing exercises there and commercial planes
landing and taking off, they're going to have to change
what they're doing there, obviously. But what a tragedy on
both in both cases.
Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Yeah, no question about it, no question about it. I
just you know, I'm not a huge fan of flying anyway, Christopher,
and has nothing to do with safety. It is everything
with the hassle of it, you know, getting to the
airport two hours before the head of the flight, going
through the you know tsa uh sphincter probe and you
know the it's it's just it's a hassle. And then
(01:30:10):
you're stuck on a tin can and you can't get
out of go any place. I love. That's why I
love driving so much, Bud. Now you're gonna have to
factor in the the idea that it scares the hell out.
I mean, to get on a plane, the Boeing seven
thirty seven Max, the door flies off. You got all
kinds of equipment problems if you're on a Boeing airline.
And now air traffic control, we learned about how bad
things the situation are with air traffic control, the shortage
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of air traffic controllers, the lowered standards for air traffic
controller and like she's the wheeze. Not exactly great marketing
for the airline or the airline industry.
Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
Well, Secretary Duffy's gonna sort it all out. You know,
certain things we've had, Yeah, he will. Certainly. We've had
our former mayor footage edge, you know, over over transportation,
which made no sense to me at all.
Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
What his experience was to serving that capacity, and he's
left things probably uh messed up, and uh it's going
to take the secretary of the new Secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 8 (01:31:05):
To clean it up.
Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Look, man, I very rarely talk about well Cincinnati politics
in my in my events, but you know what caught
my eye was was our mayor meaning mayor pure vol
indicating cutting the you know, cutting the balogney, very thin
on whether they're going to cooperate with ICE or not. Look,
(01:31:29):
this is this is to anybody who lives in Cincinnati,
in our fifty two neighborhoods, this is completely outrageous. Right,
It's one thing to turn on MSNBC and listen to
them talk about ICE is separating families, which is just
a lie. This administration has only focused on gang members, criminals,
(01:31:53):
drug drug dealers, I mean a rapist. Those are the
people that are being thrown out. And I think that
they're talking points, whether it's the View or CNN or MSNBC,
they don't understand that what they did over the last
call of ten years, people have now caught up with
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them and they understand that they're lying, right, and so
this note they keep coming back with the same sound bite.
We're separating families, and we're putting mothers and we're taking
them out of the people who are legally here. They're
being handcuffed. I heard it all this weekend and it's
all nothing but lies. And so to hear our mayor
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say that he would not cooperate with ICE to remove
criminals who are in our country illegally, meaning they've already
broken the law to come here illegally. And you're talking
about a gang member that might be in one of
our fifty two neighborhoods that you're directing in some way
that Chief Fiji of the Cincinnati Police Department doesn't cooperate. Man,
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this is where insanity and no common sense his the role.
This is where he thinks as a Democrat, a liberal Democrat,
that is somehow he's gonna win. What do you think
University of Cincinnati is gonna think, Cincinnati State? Right? What
do you think that that the Xavier University is gonna think?
You know when Mount Saint Joseph if one of their children,
(01:33:22):
one of the kids on those campuses comes up dead.
Because we have a mayor that says, hey, I was
unwilling to cooperate with ICE, right, But it's so serious,
meaning the mindset is so serious that we've got to
deal with it because he's down there clownings right, and
the reality of it is I don't blame the police chief.
(01:33:45):
I blame all nine members of council because they have
the power to check the mayor. They should be passing
a resolution today saying we're cooperating with Ice. Yeah, and
we're gonna hold the mayor accountable.
Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
I agree with that. They do have voice and if
they do disagree to any to any extent, or they
want to clarify the extent to which Purvol's comment was,
you know, maybe a little bit too broad in the
sense that he wasn't going to cooperate. They should come
out on their own and make their own statements, and
I think they will be good for them, and it
may very well well put mayor. I have to have
Purvole in his place in that issue. It's so important.
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Station seven thirty one. Here in fifty five car CDE
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in the City of Cincinnati, we get him every Monday
for the smither Van Smithman. Mister Smithman, what else is
on your mind this morning, my friend.
Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Well brother, the January sixth pardons. You know, I've been
approached a lot about President Trump's decision to pardon those
involved with January sixth, and I just want to dig
into this. I want to remind your listeners that President
Biden partened just about his whole family on the way out.
(01:36:58):
And this matters because no one has ever seen the president,
you know, pardon his son and then come back and
pardon his brothers and their spouses and obviously Fauci and
others in such a broad way. And so this notion
when people approach me, it's like it's like they're having
(01:37:18):
no conversation with me about the context of what is
going on. And they say, man, I'm so worried about
this protester that hit a police officer and he was pardoned,
and I'm and I'm thinking in my head, I'm going,
when when did Democrats discover the police? I mean, this
was this clearly was the party that wanted to defund
(01:37:39):
the police, reimagine the police department. They have been so
unsupportive of law enforcement, peace officers across the United States
and the world. They've been shutting down entire highways by
walking on them with flags and and taping themselves to
the high way so traffic can't get by gluing themselves
(01:38:04):
to the road. This is what the Democrats have been doing.
So it's been so strange when I'm looking at the
mainstream media Brian Thomas, and they're there trying to make
me think that they care about law enforcement now and
what's happening here as it relates to January sixth, But
they never mention President Biden's parton of his entire family.
(01:38:25):
They haven't learned anything from the previous election. They're right
back on their talking points, whether you're listening to the View,
whether you're listening to MSNBC, whether you're listening to CNN.
It is so outrageous how they continue to put out
lives about what's happening, whether we're talking about immigration or
whether we're talking about the pardons. And it's just under
(01:38:47):
my craw I couldn't take it this weekend because they
kept coming back talking about January sixth, as if they
gave a damn about law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
Wells in it's student observation, Christopher, I agree completely with you,
and you know, I would say there was something to
be said about certain members of the entire collective of
Jay six ers who are being prosecuted. And we know
many of them were nonviolent, merely walked into the building,
which could be viewed as a technical trespass. But you know,
(01:39:17):
under the circumstances, I don't think it's worthy of the
resources and expenditure a time the federal government went through
to track every single one of them down. Can you
imagine they put that much effort into tracking down I mean,
true genuine criminals. And I understand the point that he
can be made because FOP president made it on this
program and he made it in the Inquirer. I believe
(01:39:37):
it was inquiring but local news that you know, it
was only only the people who violently attacked police that
he had a problem with. And I don't abide attacking
the police, but in the broader scheme of things, you know,
you look at the state of California. You got people
going in and shoplifting and cleaning out and looting buildings.
There never brought it to criminal justice, and and you know,
(01:40:00):
there's this weird double standard that exists, and you can
highlight it if you want, But if you know, if
you want to go ahead and say he shouldn't have
pardoned the January sixth ers, and you can pivot over
and say, well, how on the hell did he end
up partnering a bunch of people who were not subject
to even prosecution, like his family members with the exceptional
Hunter Biden. You know, they hadn't been accused formally on anything.
(01:40:21):
How did they get a pardon for literally everything that
they had done for the prior ten years.
Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
I no one's ever seen anything like it, No, Brian Thomas.
And by the way, when we look at presidents who
did you know deporting people who came to our country illegally.
You go back to some Democratic presidents, whether they're talking
about President Clinton or we're talking about President Obama, they
they deported more people than President Trump has in his
(01:40:51):
and it's back four years. So I don't know what
he's going to do over these four years. But the
reality of it is people who come to this country illegally.
And by the way, if anybody listening tries to go
to another country illegally, figure out what will happen.
Speaker 8 (01:41:05):
To you.
Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
I mean, we're the only country out there that has
open borders that he'll be in jail five years. And
and and let me just say also that the partner
of those those Americans who this is under Trump, who
were who were praying in front of abortion clinics. These
things just kind of go under the radar and they're
not discussed a lot. But but he's been partnering other people.
(01:41:27):
He just partnered a congressional member, he and his wife
that was that was being targeted by the dj and
they said they were dropping charges against them. That was
just this weekend. And so the reality of it is
what what what President Trump has learned is that the
criminal justice system at times can be weaponized because he
went through it. See I'm a believer in God, and
(01:41:50):
see what happens here is that people were looking at
President Trump is said if they can do it to him,
they can do it to me. And so he understands
that now, and so he's looking at the justice system
a little differently, and he's looking at these cases saying, man,
I know what they did to me, I can see
what they did to you. You know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna use my power to relieve the system off
(01:42:13):
of you. That's one of the things that you're gonna
constantly see a drum beat through these four years with
President Trump. He's going to continue to go and say, no,
the DOJ went too far here, No, this judge went
too far here. I understand what they did to me
in Manhattan, New York. I understand what they did to
me in Florida. I'm not gonna let it happen to
somebody else. And I think that's a positive.
Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
Thing I do too. And don't forget the folks who
are protesting in school boards over you know, woke policies
being taught at schools. Isn't it a parent's prerogative to
raise their voice at the appropriate meeting, the school board
meeting where people do have the opportunity to speak their
mind to the school board so the school board can
understand and learn what the parents that have children in
the school have on their minds, only to be shut down,
(01:42:57):
thrown out, or otherwise gone after by law enforce horsman.
It's just, it was, it just, it was It's just
it was a crazy, crazy period of time, Christopher.
Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
I mean, they almost made them the enemy of the state.
They say, parents, we want you involved, We want you
to come down and advocate for our children. So then
the parents show up, and what do you do arrest them?
You make them the enemy of the state. Yeah, I
mean it was. It's absolutely absurd. And by the way,
we saw the report cards from the school system. Let's
not walk around like an ostrich with our head in
(01:43:29):
the sand. Our public school system needs reforms, we need help, right,
we need to have vision. And it's not just in Cincinnatians.
Across the United States of America. We've got babies that
are graduating that cannot read and write. This is very serious.
And by the way, we've got third world countries that
are beating us in the space of education. We're spending
(01:43:51):
more per pupil than than any country in the world,
but we have our young people getting further, further and
behind in the areas of math, in the area of English,
in the area of reading. So we've got to wake
up and hold these school boards accountable. We've got to
hold our teachers. And by the way, let me shout
out to our public school public school teachers across the
(01:44:14):
United States of America. They have a very hard job
because the families are not where they are where they
were fifty to one hundred years ago. So they're asked.
Our teachers are being asked to be mom and dad.
Our coaches are being asked to be uncle and aunts
and all that kind of stuff because our families. The
families are being blown up across the United States of America.
(01:44:35):
So the Cincinnati public school kids, whether it's Toledo, whether
it's la whether it's Chicago, have really hard jobs out
here trying to teach our babies or are who are
struggling at home, who are underpaid and overwork. So I
give that to them, but it still means that we've
got to educate our babies. We cannot have kids, you know,
(01:44:56):
who can't read and write, graduating from the twelfth grade
and think they're going to make get in our society.
It just is not going to work. Thomas.
Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Yeah, And you know, I don't know what the school
system that you went through as a young man, Christopher
was like, but you know, we I went through public
schools over on the West Side, you know, John Foster,
Dulles and dull High Junior High School and No Kills
High School. And I reflect on the amenities that we
had and you know, compared to today pretty lean ship.
I mean, it wasn't the one room schoolhouse with everybody
(01:45:24):
in one room of all different grades. But you know,
the bells and whistles that people have this expectation should
exist at a high school level like these grand facilities
and these brand new, massive complexes with all this taxpayer dollars.
Is that necessary to educate a child? Really? I mean
you really need all those extra bells and whistles. And
(01:45:46):
the answer is clearly no, you know, I mean, it's
not more money that's needed, it's it's maybe a different
approach at how children are taught. Perhaps that's the fit,
the focus, and of course an involved yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
I think it's a county. I think you know, you
can't have a kid, you know, beating up a teacher
and then coming back to school the next week. You
can't have them throwing a computer out a teacher and
then having them come back to school the next day.
And so the teachers need backup when kids are disruptive
in classrooms. If you talk to teachers, they'll tell you that, look,
(01:46:20):
i've got thirty kids in here, and let's say say
twenty five of them are great, but five of them
disrupt my class every single day, and nobody gets those
five kids out of the classroom so that the other
twenty five can learn. That's what we've got to do.
Our public school system is broken because they have this
notion of no child left behind. I don't want to
(01:46:41):
leave a child behind. Nobody wants to. But if you're
unwilling to hold those five children accountable so that the
other twenty five can learn, right, what you're going to
have is pandemonium. And that's what we have in our
public school systems across the country. And by the way,
this is not about black and white anybody listening. These
are about American children, no matter where they are. People
(01:47:01):
try to separate us about public education around race. And
by the way, I graduated from public education the School
for Creative and Performing Arts in downtown Cincinnati. The reality
of it is is where we are now is everybody
wants to divide everybody around race. This is about teaching
our American children, who are our future, and we can't
(01:47:23):
have these kind of bad kids in schools disrupting classrooms
for these teachers and think everybody's going to learn. Brian Thomas,
we have a weak system around accountability. If the kid
doesn't want to learn, you're give them one or two
or three or four chances, whatever it is, and you're
out of here. You're out of here because I've got
twenty five other kids here who want to learn, who
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Good morning, Brian. As always, you and Joe are true patriots.
Speaker 1 (01:49:46):
Buddy, truly appreciate that. Man.
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Yeah, I just wanted to talk to you about another
word that President Trump could have said during the next
forty years is We're going to go back to and
sense And that would have been a great replacement for
Golden Age, because let me tell you, you and I
both know when you use common sense, you definitely bring
in a gold page. I mean we've been going against
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that for a lot more than four years. I mean
it's been it's been psychotic. I mean it's everything you
and I have talked about in the past. Everything has
to do with common sense. I mean, if you see
something done wrong, then use common sense to fix it.
And for some reason, our government has been one of
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the biggest advocates of using insanity instead of common sense
for quite a few decades now.
Speaker 8 (01:50:42):
And I'm just so.
Speaker 12 (01:50:45):
Happy that we're going to hopefully get back to common sense.
And like you and mister Smithman, was saying, there is
so many things that you could use common sense to fix.
I mean, education, legal, aspects of our society. I mean,
there's so many things that common sense will fix. And
I just hope that both Democrats and Republicans get together
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after these four years to actually sit down and understand
that if we use common sense, we can actually work
together to better the country.
Speaker 8 (01:51:19):
And I just it would just be so nice to
have that happen.
Speaker 1 (01:51:23):
It would indeed, you know, the problem is that common
sense isn't common anymore. I think at least that's kind
of the catchphrase people quite often use as a retort,
you know. And on the education thing, one thing I
absolutely do not understand, Jeff is letting kids move forward
to the next grade when they have not yet mastered
or even coming close to mastering the skill sets in
the grade that they're in. How can that possibly be
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a service to that young person. If you cannot read
at grade level and you get moved to the next grade,
you're just going to be that much further behind. And
that makes absolutely no sense none. All in the name
of the little Johnny is going to feel badly because
he's not moving along with the rest of his classmates. Well,
you know, if I was a parent along those lines,
i'd say, good, you can't move forward. We need to
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you can move on. So anyway, I appreciate it, Jeff.
I can't argue with you. I know you didn't call
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I'm doing fine. Hope you can say the same.
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The one thing I wanted to comment on was just
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But with all the GEO, with all the advanced technology
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January sixth, it just blows me away that we haven't
pinned those same people down to the ones that were
all summer long working with Antifa to you know, to
to destroy our cities. And I guarantee if we really.
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Found Joe and John and all these people that were
in prison, that they were probably the same ones that
were destroying our cities in Minneapolis and across Seattle and
so forth.
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Anyway, you're not the first person to make that observation,
my friend. It is rather curious, isn't it. Hey, brother,
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We talked money, money Monday with Brian James from Allworth Financial.
Got some good topic to talk about and of course
number one on the list there tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. Brian James,
welcome back to the morning show. It's always good having
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you on the program.
Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
Yeah, and it's always good to be here with you.
And it's always good to have a batch of headlines
from the weekend to discuss, don't we Isn't.
Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
That the truth? And we were talking about gross domestic
product and four point twenty five to four point five
percent in terms of the FED and its rate, and
sadly the third topic really is so concerning to me.
Young families can't able, can't afford to buy a home.
But let's dive on into the terraffs. And if you
look at the White House dot gov fact sheet in
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case people aren't really aware, of exactly why Donald Trump
put tariffs on Canada and Mexico and China. He cited
fentanyl and the borders, the illegal immigration. Those are the
two main things that he is he's promoting these tariffs for. He's,
you know, shut down the borders or help us with
border security and quit shipping fentanyl into our country. Declaring
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a national emergency based on that under the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act. I guess I have to ask out loud,
not knowing really anything about the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
is this something that could be subject to legal charger
illegal action or Congress could step in and take them away?
I really, I really don't know that. I'll stay out loud.
Speaker 4 (01:55:53):
Brian, Yeah, I know, And I think that there's a
lot of us who aren't clear exactly on what the
what the legal implifications are of these decisions, because sometimes
we hear that decision was made and executive order was issued,
and somebody else will say, wait a minute, that's completely illegal.
In some cases they've been declared unconstitutional, but nobody has
stepped up and actually acted on any of those perceptions
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of these executive orders. So this is a president we've
seen before. Obviously, we know he's willing to push the envelope.
He certainly is this time around with kind of nothing
to lose as a basically a lame duck under current
rules because he can't run for election again. So yeah,
that's what we've been seeing. And everything has come fast
and furious since inauguration.
Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
Well, and it's going to be across the board. I
don't know how anybody can say that this will not
have an impact on prices. I mean, you're raising you're
putting tariffs on these goods. I think necessarily the price
is going to be passed along to the consumer. And
it's a huge swath of goods. I got a kick
out of some of the ones that the Wall Street
Journal identified, like cherry tomatoes, Tanka trucks. They mentioned this
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specifically because they're all in China, but they also pointed
out that more than eighty percent of toys sold in
the United States are made in China. Maple syrup, you know,
tap your own maple trees in the backyard like we did,
I guess, tequila, avocados, smartphones from China subject to a
ten percent increase in tariffin in the last one. I
really got to kick out of sledge hammers made in China.
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Sledge hammers are already subject to a twenty five percent import tax,
although we do have some sledge hammer manufacturers here in
the United States. But it goes way beyond those ones
that were identified, it does.
Speaker 4 (01:57:33):
Now, hold on one second while I check sledge hammer futures.
Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 4 (01:57:37):
But I think know that that's that is a fascinating list.
And you and I could go find another article right
now that'll have twenty seven other products that you didn't
just mention. So I think that's that. This this is
what what you know, what we've been calling it. You know,
over the weekend you're starting to hear the words trade war.
Other countries are now calling it a trade war. So this,
this is very much so the present, delivering on the
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the promises that he made. Now, one thing he didn't
seem to have mentioned until now is that, oh, by
the way, this is going to cost us. As you
were hinting, prices are going to go up. There's no
way to avoid that. Over the weekend he said, yeah,
price must be paid, but the end result will be
all worth it. But there could be some pain in
the near future here so he didn't really mention that
during the campaign. That's obviously not something you expect to
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gain any votes by really shining a light on. But
there is no way to slap tariffs on companies who
are looking to make a profit and force those companies
to only take it out of their profits. They're going
to raise prices. This is the United States of profit
margin companies who are having to deal with these costs.
And it might might it might be a company that
you perceive is an American company, but they may be
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bringing parts in from to build. Cars are a great example.
For one, part inside of a car may literally go
back across the border of Canada and or Mexico several
times before it lands in its final car. So it
may be an American brand, you may beying it from
what you feel in American dealership, but the parts in
it could be coming from multiple countries that will all
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add up and wind up on that windowsticker.
Speaker 1 (01:59:08):
Well, and to some effect, the threat of tariffs has
kind of worked, I know in terms of repatriating some
of the illegal immigrants. Some certain countries have said, okay,
we'll take them back under threat of Donald Trump retaliating
against him. And is that really the impact he's looking for?
And again going back to the fact sheet, this is
purely based upon FENTONYL and illegal immigration. Now, we, I think,
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to a large degree, can control the border because obviously
they're cracking down on it already. We did have a
more secure border in prior administrations, but more resources went
down there for walls and security and warm bodies in
the form of ice agents. I think you could curtail
one of the two identified problems to a large extent.
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Now Canada represents a more sizable challenge considering that is
pretty much a why open border, and it is a
big one. But I guess I'm just wondering what resources
the Mexican government could even bring to bear since their
country is largely controlled by and feel free to disagree,
but it's been my conclusion over the years that the
CAR tells they have a substantial amount of power in Mexico,
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and here's Trump trying to take away one of their
primary sources of income, which is drugs and varying illegal
immigrants to the southern border.
Speaker 4 (02:00:27):
Right, And I think you raise a great point in
terms of there's there is a lot of enforcements or
at least much more on the south side than there
is on north side. So I think when when when
we when we uh lay a levy energy tarists, for example,
against Canada, and not a lot of people know this.
I think it's becoming a more popular news item where
people are going, huh, I didn't know that Canada is
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the largest of among the countries the United States brings
in oil from Canada is the largest one, so that
that's so obviously we were trying to poke them in
the eye. Of course, that's maybe maybe there's better ways
to handle up. That's effectively what we're doing to get
their attention on the fentanyl issue. But I think also
what's underlying this. To me, this is the first shot
across the bow of we want to be producing much more.
(02:01:10):
We want to import less and produce more domestically. So
first off, let's just make domestic oil more expensive. However
we can do it, and we'll call it fentanyl, and
we'll call it illegal immigration or whatever. But let's just
slap oil tariffs on Canada. That will force us to say, hey,
imported oil is more expensive. It's going to drive the
price up. That will get the attention of the domestic
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drillers and the drill baby drill thing. Right now, domestic
oil companies don't really want to drill so much. They're
not super excited about it because oil prices are not
that high. If we drive it up, this is Trump's thinking.
I believe if we drive that price up, they'll be
more attracted to go drill. And take into account the
executive orders he has put out there over the past
few weeks to make drilling easier. Right now, the profit
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isn't there for them, but based on oil futures from
last night that bounced about two percent to the upside,
it looks like it's going to go more attractive for him.
Speaker 1 (02:01:59):
Well, and doesn't this sort of fly in the face
of you know, rebuilding or going back to build the
Keystone Xole pipeline because that brings oil from Canada into
the United States right correct?
Speaker 4 (02:02:13):
And now I haven't heard him mention that in a
very very long I know, I know, so I think
I don't think that's a major priority for him. It
was a hot point because I think that was a
poke in the eye to the to the liberal side
that wanted that shut down because of it for environmental reasons.
And so forth. But that was never really his objective.
I think his objective is for more domestic oil. So
that's why we haven't heard the word keystone all through this.
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I haven't heard that since the since the election.
Speaker 1 (02:02:37):
Yeah, and I get in terms of and I understand
maybe the motivating force behind increasing the price of Canadian
oil in the United States is exactly what you said.
But those projects don't come online very quickly. I mean,
it takes a while to ramp up a drilling project,
doesn't it exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:02:54):
And that's why that's the pain he's talking about. He
can't talk about pain when he's trying to win an election.
Candidate Trump doesn't have to talk about that. President Trump
has to give us a heads up that hey, this
might hurt for a little while, so that six months later,
when a little while is still happening, because we haven't
started much of this domestic production yet, he can say
I told you about this way back in February. It
was going to hurt. We got to pay the price, good, bad,
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and different. That's the reality that we're curry in currently.
Speaker 1 (02:03:18):
In And going back to my question about you know,
legal challenges, I mean, we currently have a trade agreements
or trade agreements in place with Canada and Mexico. Didn't
Trump negotiate that when he was president the first time around. Sure,
there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (02:03:30):
Of things he did when he was president the first
time around that don't seem to hold any bearing. Now,
look at all the people he appointed that now he's firing.
A lot of the firings you're hearing are his own
people from six eight years ago. So I don't know
that history necessarily means much of anything. It's just the
reality of you know, his his window he looks at
is what do I see right now? What do I
need to do about it?
Speaker 1 (02:03:50):
The history is irrelevant, it sure is. And going back
to the whole idea about drugs, you know, drugs have
been coming into this country since before I was born.
It's the demand that is the problem. I mean, if
we weren't a nation of a bunch of addicts and
cravers of drugs, then this wouldn't even be an issue.
I know that's a simple statement to make, but Lord Almighty,
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it's just I don't get it. That just seems to
be should be another way to skin a cat, if
you know what I mean, Rather than going down this road,
but here we find ourselves.
Speaker 4 (02:04:23):
Yeah, when I step back and look at the biggest
of big pictures, you know, I always use the term
the United States a profit margin, and we've seen that
is our number one focus, and it always has been
how much more money can we make? And the wider
we spread that the profit margin range, the more people
get hurt on the bottom end of it. If you're
born in the top two thirds of wealth in this country,
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you're gonna be okay. But if you're in the bottom third,
you're gonna struggle. And we tend to, unfortunately take advantage
of that group of people. And I think that has
a lot to do with the addiction issues that we've seen.
I don't know how to fix it. And if you
and I could push a button right now this morning,
we do it. But right now, profit margin Trump's everything.
Speaker 1 (02:05:00):
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the R word going to come up in our conversation today?
Brian James A Federal Reserve holding interest rate to four
to a quarter to four and a half percent, plus
we have a new gdpeak final quarter review figure. So
what's this all mean.
Speaker 4 (02:06:27):
I'm not going to say the R word. I don't
want to jinx anything, so fair enough, but we would
not not looking so bad at the moment we do.
We do seem to be slowing down. So so fourth
quarter GDP came in at two point three percent. That's
a deceleration from last quarter, which is three point one percent.
These are all annualized numbers. So we do is we
get the number for a three month period, we multiply
it by four, and we declare that to be what
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the what we think the economy would do over a year.
So we're falling a little bit short of the economists
want two point tanted two point six percent, So we
fell a little bit short of that. Things seem to be.
I do think some of that could be accounted for
by the idea that, especially toward the end of the quarter,
companies may have been backing off a bit on investments
that they were going to make, waiting for this inauguration
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to occur and to see what's coming here in the
first quarter. In darn it all, we sure are seeing
it here in the short run. So Federal Reserve as
for their position, they held the interest rates, and we
want to keep an interest rates in the target right
now four and a quarter four and a half percent.
This wasn't a big surprise. We kind of expected this
pause really for the same reason Jerome Powell has said
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he wants to see how the economy is going to
respond to the different changes coming out of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (02:07:38):
Like tariffs.
Speaker 4 (02:07:39):
Yeah, such as the things we've been talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:07:42):
Almore, Well, let's get that and let's just se see
we can't tie those two together. If as you and
I kind of expected, and I think logical thinking people
will expect the same thing. Prices is going to go
up at least for quite a few goods and services.
What will that be, by way, what would the Fed's
response to that price increase in terms of interest rate?
Speaker 4 (02:08:02):
Well, the Fed is going to wait to see inflation.
I mean that that's their goal is to control inflation.
Inflation isn't that bad right now? Certainly not where we
were a few summers ago. At nine percent, It's slightly
higher than what we've wanted it to be. Core Core
PCE came in at two point eight percent, which was
right around the expectations, but a lot higher than what
that committee shoots for at two percent. Jobless claims were okay,
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and new home sales are a little better than anticipated.
So we're not seeing the kind of things yet that
the Fed would indicate or are going to be inflationary,
and therefore we need to react at this point. Though
the market bonds are trading as though we're going to
see a cut in June. That is a very very
short term here's what's happening right now type of an update.
Let's keep an eye on out of the next few
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weeks and see if that holds true.
Speaker 1 (02:08:48):
And if it does, about it to be more like
a quarter point, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:08:52):
Yeah, We're not in a situation where we've got raging
inflation and raging deflation. Nothing's raging, So I would anticipate
more tapping of the brakes, tapping of the gas pedal
if we do anything at all in the short run,
but much more likely a very much wait and see approach.
Jerome Powell is not even reacting to how he's being
disparaged by the president who actually appointed him in twenty seventeen.
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So Donald Trump would like to see lower rates sooner
rather than later, but he does not appear to be
ready to get rid of Jerome Powell to the extent
that he could at at this point.
Speaker 1 (02:09:22):
Isn't it kind of a weird faw and ignoring whether
you're a foe or against Donald Trump's decision to tariff
that we expect it's going to increase the prices prices, Well,
that's an inflationary thing done because tariff's have been put
in place, and the Federal reserves job is to manage
inflations through its interest rates, so that's a completely separate function.
(02:09:44):
It's like there's a strange connect slash disconnect that's going
on here between one side and the other.
Speaker 4 (02:09:51):
Well, I think the good news for Trump is that
people are sensitive to inflation. We just had that nine percent,
as I mentioned, and people still talk about that as
if it's still here. Not the case anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:10:01):
I'm still at the grocery store. But that's I mean
that has there's a lot of layers in the grocery
store prices.
Speaker 4 (02:10:07):
I understand that absolutely absolutely, But what I think that
gives him is some headroom to say, well, yeah, prices
have gone up here. You know this hasn't happened yet,
but I could see it playing out this way. After
we do see some inflation resulting directly from the tariffs
in the coming months, he could easily say, Yep, this
is the price we have to pay that I told
you about back in February. But at least it's not
(02:10:27):
nine percent like it was under the Biden administration. That's
how that's going to be positioned. So I'm pretty sure
Trump looks at this as though he's got some headroom
to work with.
Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
Well, let's keep our popcorn out. We'll find out together.
Brian James pause and bring us I'm to talk about it. Yeah,
I know, I know. And one more thing we'll be
talking about, and I just I just just so badly
for young people these days, home affordability, American dream kind
of out of their reach at this point. Can anything
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A twenty eight I fifty bout CAIRCD talk station. Happy
Monday Any money with Brian James. I'm all worth financial.
Appreciate being loaned out every Monday for a few segs,
but talk about money matters and get yourself a certified
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fiduciary obligation to you and you can plan for your retirement.
And I guess, in addition to lack of home affordability,
(02:12:17):
probably young people can't afford to put money away for
the retirement either. Brian, this is a sad reality settling
in here, lack of affordable housing and the American dream elusive,
a lot of kids still living at home with their parents,
and I understand that it's just an Is there any
end in sight on this and what would it take
to change this landscape?
Speaker 4 (02:12:38):
Well, they say that you only dream during rem sleep,
and I don't think Americans are getting as much rem
sleep as we used to, So I'm not sure that
the implications of the American dream are all that wonderful
right now. It is right, You're right, it's very tough
out there. Anybody who's got young, young adults trying to
launch themselves into the world and be independent. It's a
challenge even if they can afford the house payment that
(02:12:58):
almost always comes direct in the face of oh yeah,
by the way, don't forget you're gonna have to fund
your own retirements because social Security is probably not going
to look much like it does right now. So don't
forget that mortgage payment and retirement all by the way,
got by lunch too, So it's a tough challenge right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
And energy bills and repair cost. You know, the furnace
is going to go out at some point, the roof
is going to have to be replaced at some point.
It's just you know, I've owned a homes since nineteen
ninety and I know exactly how much it can cost.
Speaker 4 (02:13:28):
Yeah, and then the problem is not too much avocado
toast either. That's the fund Sully headliner sledgehammers exactly. Young
people can't afford sledghammers. However, will they make it now
that these are real issues? And I don't mean to
make light of them.
Speaker 1 (02:13:41):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:13:41):
Since since nineteen seventy nine, middle wage workers have gone up,
have seen their wages increase only about sixteen point eight percent.
That's an annualized growth rate of zero point four percent
per year. Now, if you look at home prices, one
hundred thousand dollars home in the late seventies would be
something like three quarters of a million eight hundred thousand
dollars right now. So wages have simply not come up
(02:14:04):
with homes. Homes stopped being the American dream. They became
an investment, just like anything else, a speculative, commoditized investment,
sometime in the past, well really slowly over the past
several decades. So the economy as a whole doesn't really
care that it costs young people an awful lot more
as a percentage of their paycheck to own a home.
All we really care about is, hey, that's an investment
(02:14:25):
I can throw money at and it will grow, and
I don't really have to worry about the side impacts
on other people because I'll just blame them on spending
too much on avocado toast. Well that's our philosophy right now.
Speaker 1 (02:14:36):
Yeah, but there was a time, and I know there
always have been big houses being built, But I remember
my grandpa marsh my mom's dad, and grandma. They had
a little house on Cooper Drive in Lexington, and I
don't know how many square feet it was, but it
was not a very large home. Three boys, she had
three brothers. They all swept in one room in the roofline.
Speaker 18 (02:14:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:14:58):
It was a walk up, but it was one big room,
three beds in it. You know, nobody had their own bedroom.
My mom had a separate one downstairs, but very modest.
And and you know, I never remember my grandfather being
upset or unhappy. He always had a you know, contented
view of life. And you know, just work for IBM,
and I just I think our expectations on what we're
(02:15:19):
supposed to have by way of house has changed dramatically,
and they just they start churning out these big houses,
these mega mansions, and even the smaller homes are much
much much bigger than they used to be, and of
course that's going to directly impact affordability. You see some
sort of perhaps sea change in how we perceive housing,
like the smaller houses being becoming more popular. Obviously they're
(02:15:40):
cheaper to build.
Speaker 4 (02:15:42):
Yeah, I absolutely do. Smaller houses are becoming more popular.
Not because people go, hey, I want to live in
a smaller house. People go, hey, I can't afford a
bigger houses. This is the best I can do. And
I think that drives a lot of conflict really between
the generations. I don't ever remember I'm fifty years old,
so I've been around a couple of blocks. I don't
ever remember there being conflict between generations like there is now.
(02:16:04):
I think what you're referring to, though, is that some generation,
at some point is going to have to be the
one to capitulate and say, you know what, we simply
will not have it as good as our forebears did.
We're going to have to take the hit before we
get to move forward. And if I'm fortunate not to
be in that situation, and I'm trying to guide my
kids away from getting too hung up on that because
the world is just plain changing, but I can see
(02:16:26):
where I would be extremely frustrated and bitter if I
was the one told you know what, it's just not
going to be as good as what you grew up watching.
Speaker 1 (02:16:32):
Yeah, or maybe the perception of what equals good. Going
back to the cost of maintaining and up keeping a home,
you know, you have to furnish it, you got to
clean it, and you know, the smaller you have, smaller space,
you have to deal with, the less there is of that.
So comparatively speaking, the cost of voting a smaller home
is less than a big home, you know. I mean
there's some pus sides to it all.
Speaker 4 (02:16:54):
There absolutely are but I think that doesn't really settle
in until somebody is truly in that situation. But them
putting themselves and I'm guess I'm picturing for a young
family that first trip around with the real estate agent
looking at what they can afford versus what they had
in their heads before they got in the car that morning. Yeah,
I think that is a cold water shock.
Speaker 1 (02:17:15):
It is. And my wife regularly points back to the
eighties with lifestyles of the rich and famous, which she
thinks was a turning point and what really between what
truly really matters and what people just get envious of
and look to and believe that they are not going
to be happy unless they have what the Joneses have
down the street, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:17:34):
Yeah, And it's so much easier to see what the
Joneses have nowadays, and this is harder. Obviously, we've got
social media, so you can't get away from it even
if you want to, and you're trying to do the
same thing that This is how we drive profit profit
in the United States of profit margin. Get people excited
about something, whether they can afford it or not, and
take advantage of it, of the rush when it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:17:53):
And here's one other thing I've observed over the years,
you know, this the idea that we're all going to
live in a house and have our own stuff and
things like that. If everybody in China, and I know
they have a housing issue in China of a different type,
but if every one of the one point two or
four billion people in China had felt that they had
to build a three thousand and four thousand, five thousand
square foot house, I think that would cause a problem
(02:18:14):
in terms of like natural resources and the ability to
even accomplish that. Yeah, I've thought of that a lot
recently too, as we you know, because the big pushback
here can be against suburban sprawl, because you know, every
year there's a new call to sat going up in
a cornfield somewhere.
Speaker 4 (02:18:30):
That's especially happening around here, and there are people who
object to that and say we shouldn't be doing that,
We should be conserving, conserving, And I'm always thinking, wherever
that person lives, do you do you want to live
in a skyscraper with five thousand other families? You should
we all stay inside some little pasture somewhere. So, I mean,
I think there's logic to both sides. Yeah, but I
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don't think the extremes are ever going to play a
role here.
Speaker 1 (02:18:52):
Complicated it is, and we can only hope that at
least the home interest rates go down at least to
provide some measure of affordability for you young people. I
don't know, Brian. Always a distinct pleasure having you on
the program. I'll look forward to next Monday, another edition
of Monday Monday, and you best to you and everybody
at all Worth.
Speaker 4 (02:19:08):
Yes, sir, stay warm out there in fake spring. We'll
talk to you next.
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Todd's gonna be talking about that coming up next. For
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Fifty five krs the talk station. It is eight forty
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Speaker 8 (02:20:35):
You know me.
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I love my veteran friends and enlisting audience and their
families and do anything I can to help spread the
love and do anything we can to help the American
veteran and someone who shares my opinion in that regard.
Todd Sledge and the Cincinntiva is returning for our KRC
Care section to talk about some what are described as
significant changes coming to the VA facility. Welcome back, Todd Sledge.
(02:20:57):
It's always great having you on the show. Yeah, Bran,
it's always great to talk with you.
Speaker 18 (02:21:01):
And as you said, share this, share the motivation to
make sure our veterans are connected with what they need
to know here in Cincinnati. Yes, indeed, So what is
coming to the VA this year, Well, many of our
veterans that are listening know that we've we've been under
a lot of construction for a very long period of time,
and so there are four significant plan completed projects for
(02:21:25):
twenty twenty five, and I just wanted to point those out, Brian,
because two of them are really going to be phenomenal
for us, and they involve two of our community based
out patient clinics where we are expanding, we continue to expand,
So those veterans out in Claremont County, the Eastgate area,
Milford and Mount Orb and Georgetown and the East side
(02:21:48):
of Cincinnati will be moving to a new new location
this fall.
Speaker 1 (02:21:53):
It's over there.
Speaker 18 (02:21:54):
I call it the TQL land over there in East
Cape where they've kind of taken over over there by
the TQL location. We're expanding our new clinic in the fall.
And what's significant about that move. We're also doing the
same thing with our Hamilton clinic out in Butler County,
and both of these facilities are doubling in size, so
(02:22:15):
both of them are going from Yeah, so both of
them are going from approximately like Claremont for example, they're
going from a sixteen thousand square foot facility to a
twenty six thousand square foot facility. And then Hamilton the
same way. So both of these facilities brand new, first floor,
state of the art, plenty of parking, great expansion of it.
Speaker 1 (02:22:36):
And if I think of our veterans, want.
Speaker 18 (02:22:38):
To take a take a trip to see what the
new clinics will look like in Hamilton and Eastgate. We
opened up a very similar clinic like this in Dearborn
over there in Larnsburg, Indiana, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:22:52):
Brian.
Speaker 1 (02:22:53):
So with the larger expanded facilities, what comes along with
that it just more space, more doctors, more offices, or
the additional services are going to be offered for the veterans.
Speaker 18 (02:23:03):
Yeah, it's well, the some of the services, well, we'll
expand a little bit more because of the physical size
of these things. But what it does is it is
more space and the design of it is very interesting.
So if you think about these two facilities being like
a just a normal shoebox size, the providers do all
their work in the middle of the building and on
(02:23:24):
the between the two sides the right and left, there
are doors that access from like this inner inner circle
or inner working hub, and the provider goes from room
to room instead of the patient or the veteran going
room room to room for different specialties, so it's a.
Speaker 1 (02:23:38):
Different flow operation.
Speaker 18 (02:23:40):
Some of the things like our physical therapy and occupational
therapy sections will definitely expand and make things better for us,
as well as more office space for some some different
very different specialties that happen, like mental health and the
dietary and things.
Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
Okay, Well, in addition to the expanded size of those locations,
anything else coming to the vice facilities by way of
improvements to share.
Speaker 18 (02:24:02):
Yeah, the main hospital, the other two I wanted to
mention where primary care. Our primary care section has been
under construction that's located right off the first floor. That'll
open up again here in twenty twenty five, which again
is just making it more space, easier for veterans to navigate,
and just a very much of an update. When we
put that expansion on in the early nineties. Obviously we've
(02:24:24):
outgrown it. And then every veteran knows who comes to
the facility come through this big, large revolving door we have.
Our lobby's been under renovation and it's starting to show
glimpses of what that's going to look like. And we're
very excited about how that's going to look where things
are just more serviceable, it's not chopped up and more inviting,
(02:24:44):
with a really really nice main lobby, piece of piece
of marble that's in the middle of that's going to
be very attractive.
Speaker 1 (02:24:51):
Well great, well, and I know the number of veterans
who now signed up for vacare has increased, and that's
the goal over the VA's to get those veterans to
take advantage of their VA benefits, which is literally healthcare.
Speaker 8 (02:25:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (02:25:04):
Absolutely, And so our fiscal year runs very differently than
a normal calendar season. We ended our twenty twenty four
fiscal calendar year September thirtieth of twenty twenty four. And
to your point, Brian was the most number of veterans
we've seen in one given year. And so I think
veterans are starting to understand about how and through your
(02:25:29):
help and the different stuff that we do, about how
to take advantage of these benefits and how to make
a VA healthcare part of their healthcare portfolio. And I
think some of the myths and misconceptions about who's eligible
for VA healthcare is really coming to place. So we're
really excited about our efforts and how we're reaching folks,
and we're looking to expand that as well. And I've
(02:25:49):
always said, what not a better place to be served
every day by a staff who know exactly what veterans
are looking for and the different things that they deal with.
And it's so Treely he absolutely the hearing loss and
the prosthetics and the the eye here, and but particularly
the toxic exposure stuff, which we're really high on here
(02:26:09):
over the past two years. Well, let's pause, we'll bring
Todd back talk about enrolling and what types of healthcare
services are there and how veterans can apply and all
these good fun facts more with todd Sledgem the Cincinniva.
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Speaker 1 (02:27:20):
Hey forty nine people have rc DE talk station Happy
Monday Deep Dive with Daniel Davis and the bright Part
inside Scoop tomorrow in the morning Show among other topics,
and in the meantime Todd Sledge and the CINCINNTI of
the A. All right, you let everybody know about the
improvements coming to the various facilities making it easier to navigate,
expanded room for the veterans to get their healthcare there,
and let us pivot over to getting even more of
(02:27:42):
the veterans enrolled in the VA health system. How can
enrolling in the VA health services improve a veterans over
all health and well being?
Speaker 18 (02:27:49):
Todd Well, Brian, you know, one of the things I
like to focus on with this is that there are
so many, so many different things that we can do
that's more financially efficient, easier for veterans to do, and
a lot of less wet, a lot of less way times.
As you're probably well aware, there's a lot of different
specialty type services in the community that are very hard
(02:28:12):
to get into the dietary dermatology sometimes you know, seeing
an audiologist, some different folks and these are things that
we by mandate, we have to get you a scheduled
appointment within thirty days to be seen or find some
other arrangements for you to be seen. So that's you know,
that's one of the overall health and well being. But
(02:28:33):
one of the main things is is our preventative medicine model,
where you know, we can do things with different specialty
tests and prevention measures of things that the private sector
really can't offer or they're going to run through your insurance.
So I always encourage people to do that. And you
know this when it comes to again, I'm going to
repeat myself when it comes to the eyeglasses and hearing aids. Yeah,
(02:28:54):
cost efficient measure of that, but more particularly, you know,
and I think of services like mental health helping that
you know, with with with all the mental health services
that we have, our home care programs that we have
in house care of things, and just you know, an
overall really old family medicine style. You know, you know,
(02:29:16):
your provider's my name, you know your nurse is by name,
which is a very different relationship when it comes to
I think people going to the doctor, especially stubborn people
that avoid the doctor, like myself, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:29:27):
So much, Like I have my own primary care physician
who I've been going to for years and years and years.
It's the same type of thing going on with the VA.
You're just not assigned a primary care physician randomly when
you go in. You get to see the same doctor
every time. Oh yeah, we have what's called we have
what's called PAC teams, Brian. They're patient aligned care teams,
so you're always seeing the same primary care physician as
(02:29:49):
well as that same team, so every time when you
walk in. So for example, the clinics that I mentioned
that are expanding, they all have their same assigned person
that walks in and not nine out of ten times.
Speaker 18 (02:30:01):
I mean, they know these people by their first name,
they know their pet's name, they know whether the grandkids
go to school. So it's a very relationship style relationship
with us.
Speaker 1 (02:30:11):
That's good. I think, you know, my perception is on
some level and I haven't experienced THEA services that didn't serve,
but that it might be a more sterile environment less
you know of that sort of familial relationship. So you've
satisfy my curiosity on that. That's a wonderful thing to hear.
So how DoD veterans apply for the VA healthcare benefits
or any eligibility requirements for veterans to rule in VA
(02:30:34):
healthcare services.
Speaker 18 (02:30:35):
Yeah, so the minimum requirements for VA healthcare services twenty
four consecutive months. That's the minimum requirement. That's you know,
that's just your normal twenty four consecutive months of service
starting from your basic training on forward. And there are
some other specialty factors for guard and reserve personnel that
served on some executive orders. But there's many, many, many
(02:30:58):
resources that people could take advantage and find out what
they're eligible for. And first it starts with us by
calling five one three four seven five sixty four ninety nine.
That's a direct dial number two or Eligibility office. Anybody
can call that and find out what their veteran Level
one would be entitled to and how to enroll in
doing that. So you know, again that's five one three
(02:31:20):
four seven, five sixty four nine nine.
Speaker 8 (02:31:23):
That's directly to us.
Speaker 18 (02:31:25):
Now, you also, veterans can also take advantage of their
county Veteran Service Commissions, which we have, you know, many
of those here right here in the tri States. So
in Claremont County there's the Veteran Service Commission, there's the
Butler County Veteran Service Commission at Hamilton County.
Speaker 8 (02:31:39):
They can also help.
Speaker 18 (02:31:40):
You get enrolled by starting the paperwork for you or
telling you exactly or tolling veterans what to do exactly
to get enrolled and apply with us.
Speaker 1 (02:31:49):
Yeah, you know, veterans. I talk to those guys all
the time, the Claimont County, butter and Hamilton County Veteran Service,
whichever one you're trying to, they strongly encourage you to
have them help you because, as I've had it explained
to me, going to the government via website and navigating
that can be a bit of a challenge and confusing.
Speaker 8 (02:32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (02:32:09):
Absolutely, you know, any any big robust organization that has,
you know, an online system is always going to have
its complexities. And I'm still very old school, you know,
I pick up the phone face to face, you know.
I know we're in a world of teams meetings and
zoom meetings, but I'm still an old school guy to
when it want to be face to face, and I
encourage people to do that because VA healthcare eligibility is
(02:32:33):
very complex. It's not just cutter drive whether you know.
You know, it's not about that you get hurt in
active duty. It's there's more things to it that makes
it complex, and we want to make sure we have
all those boxes checked and the people that know eligibility
you know how to navigate the series of questions based
upon a veteran's responses or a spouse's responses to Thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:32:56):
Fair enough, Todd, Sledge and Snavia get in touch with
the Enrollment Office direct five one three four seven five
sixty four ninety nine. And don't overlook the benefit to
your Veteran Service commissions in your county because they can
be very very helpful and also have additional resources, including
some of them that'll transport you to the VA facility,
which is a nice extra service that may be available
(02:33:16):
for you. Todd as always thank you for what you're
doing for the American veteran each and every day. I
always enjoy our conversations and I really do enjoy spreading
the word about what is available at the VA for them.
Speaker 8 (02:33:27):
Yeah. Absolutely, Brian.
Speaker 18 (02:33:28):
We appreciate your kind words all the time and our
support and supporting us and what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (02:33:35):
And as I always say, you know, if we're not.
Speaker 18 (02:33:38):
Doing something that's the way that the veteran sees, please
reach out to us, talk to patient advocates to it,
don't put it in your pocket. No, as my grandfather
used to tell me, he said, don't put that frustraction
in your pocket and walk away, because somebody else might
experience that too.
Speaker 1 (02:33:53):
Yeah, and you may bring about a transformative change to
the benefit of the rest of your veteran friend. That's
that's right. And you're always open to hear' segians and
comments and even criticism. Todd, thanks again my best to
everyone at the VA. Keep up the great work, my friend.
I know we'll talk again real soon. It's eight fifty six.
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