55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Mandy Gunasekara

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o five. I think about g r C. The
Dark Day jan happen Monday forty to twenty two, some
sense days.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We will.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Sure was a vacation from this. Let me hear you
all say, he oh.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Three.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Who never gonna let that one go? Oh what an embarrassment. Anyway,
I hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl last night. I
got to see it up to half time, went to
bed happily. When I went to bed, the Eagles were winning,

(00:57):
and apparently they ultimately won forty twenty two. Joe, did
you see any of it? I know you have the
strangest hours work hours ever. You watched the whole thing, Jeez, Louise,
so you saw it when Taylor Swift got booed and
Donald Trump got applauded, the whole thing start to finish.

(01:21):
You happy with the outcome? Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Dave Williamson, the Taxpayer Protection Line is also very Happy's
big Eagles fan. He was on a light post in
Philly last night. Oh that's good anyway. Now, it's pleased
to see the outcome of the game when I woke

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up this morning, or learn of the outcome of the
game when I woke up this morning. So anyway, ah,
what's coming up today? Well, it's Monday, so of course
Christopher Smithman joins the program, former vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati, with his thoughts and comments, which we
call the smither Vent every Monday at seven twenty looking
forward to Christopher out Christopher, Good morning out there, And
if you're tuned into the Morning Show, and quite often

(02:04):
he is, I occasionally will get a you know, a
text message from him on my phone. It's like chiming
in on some comment or another. It's a pleasure having
him as a listener. Dear friend, wonderful human being, and
I love his thoughts and comments on a Monday morning.
I also enjoy talking to Brian James Monday Monday with
Brian James every Monday at eight oh five. Coming up,
Trump announcing more tariffs on China steel and aluminum. Shocking,

(02:29):
no one insurance rates are going. Oh three ups, up,
up up. That's on my rundown. Thank you, jose Chrecker
for the rundown. And how much you spending on Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day's Day, I got engaged. Nothing. I haven't even
given it any thought. One of the smartest things I

(02:52):
ever did was asked my now soon to be thirty
three years of marriage wife to marry me. And it
didn't work out real well too. I mean I had
something planning, going to take her out to dinner, and
we ended up getting carry out Thai food, sat down
on the living room floor and eat Thai food. And
I knew it was the right thing because one of

(03:14):
my favorite movies of all time, Costablanca, was actually on television.
And so she accepted my proposal of marriage. So that
was it, and we got married the following June. So
it worked out really well for me. And don't spend
a lot of money on a wedding. I know people
are big on spending a lot of money on weddings.
We just got married in the lobby of the Ritz
Carlton Hotel. Management was not real happy about that too.

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I guess we didn't tell him it was going to happen.
But we had a judge there, a friend that was
a partner of the law firm I was working at,
was a judge in Naples, Florida, and he was happy
to show up and marry us. His wife acted as
a witness and the photographer, which we hired last minute
was the other witness. We told everybody we were leaving
to get married and ended up having a nice party.

(04:00):
Thank you to my mom and dad for putting that
party on. But you know, look, I call that basically
a zero dollar expend at your wedding compared to what
you can spend on weddings, and no one seemed to suffer.
Didn't want to cut and pick and choose who was
going to show up. People get pissed off about something
like that. How come I wasn't invited? How come you
invited that person? Mean, it's like, you know what, We're

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not going to deal with that, We're just going to
get married, you know. And some people get upset, like,
well there wasn't a priest presiding or a minister presiding.
He's like, no, my belief in the institution of marriage.
You know, you can just you could sit down in
a room with someone you love, and if you believe
in God and you have faith, you make a pledge

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to the Almighty that you were going to marry and
love and cherish and all that. It's a pledge to God.
I mean, what's a pledge to the state worth Seriously?
And I know. The point is he got paperwork in
his documented and that means you have an obligation. Then
you know child support and all that and division of property.
Though all the state involvements brings from people not fulfilling

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their obligations which are supposed to be obligations to God.
Here I am on a tear anyway, Valentine's Day, how
about you going to spend on it? We're going to
find out with Brian James and Mandy Gunna Sakara the
book y'all fired talk with her back in October. We're
going to find out what she thinks about Doge and
the well draining of the swamp which is going on

(05:28):
full on. So I've got an illustration to that. In in
spite of the fact that Elon Musk has been blocked
from access to the Treasury Department information, He's got some
good ideas there. Even the folks in the Treasury Department
have no idea where the money is going to the
tune of fifty to one hundred billion dollars five three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two

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to three taco with pound five fifty on at and
t phones well here what Mark has to say this morning. Mark,
thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday, and welcome to
the Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Good morning, Brian.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
So I wanted to rant here a little bit and
maybe slash psa announcement for people that are in certain
communities soever. I'm sure you're aware of Friday, there was
a group of so called Nazi white supremacists that had
manners over the top of by seventy five there in front,
twelve twelve of them, right, yeah, yeah. So I was

(06:23):
driving south on seventy five that day and I see
it and I started laughing, and I'm like, okay, so
this is going to start, right And then some of
the guys at work were talking about it and I said, wait,
I said stop, wait a minute. I said, now, think
about it. Think about where they're set up. Just you know,
they're going to so called protests, and they're carrying all

(06:45):
of them, not all of them. I don't know if all
of them did, but they had long guns. They are fifteen.
But like, so, we had some of the guys I
had a little short conversation about it, and you know,
I said, think about it. This is thee it it's
the same people that were hired to protest around the
country years ago, and so on and so forth.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So if you jump forward.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
To Sunday, I had to run to the office. When
to get through the office, I had to run down
Shepherd to down and I'm sorry, down Anthony Wayne. So
as I approached Shepherd, I see a guy standing there,
and there's a guy on the other street corner. They
were dressed alike. And the guys standing there with an

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AR fifteen. This is Sunday morning, about noon, and I
was on the phone with my wife and I said,
what in the hell? And I thought it was I
couldn't tell what color the guy was. He was fully
covered up, had a mask on, and you know, I thought, well,
maybe you know police are standing out here, But then

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it was obvious it wasn't at a policeman, and so
I couldn't tell what color the guy was. So I
went to the office, did what I needed to do,
turned around, came back up to Shephard. So I'm still
on the phone with my wife and I said, hold
on a second. So I pulled over and I rolled
my winded down because if it was one of the
little Antifa, I won't say the word. I want to,

(08:12):
but I was gonna just ask him, you know, what
are you doing? You're Paige, get the hell out of here.
But the guy pulls his mask down and he's a
black guy, and I said, can I ask you a question?
And he starts backing up, and again he's got an
AR fifteen and I'm pulled off. I'm in my company truck.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I pulled, you know, I.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Pulled off the side of the right of this rolled
I went to down. I said, can I ask you
a question? As I say that, he starts backing up
and he's raising the gun, okay, and he goes, are
you a Nazi? And I started laughing. I'd like what
He goes, are you a Nazi? And I said, I
just want to ask.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
You a question.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
The entire time he's backing up, he grabs a radio
that's on his lapel and starts radio and end a
white guy and a gray bit duft truck, on and
on and on.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
And as he's doing this.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
He backs up over an old cable in the lot
where he's standing and almost falls backwards with a I'm
assuming loaded AR fifteen. And I was like, oh my gosh,
this is ridiculous. So he catches himself before he falls completely.

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I just said, I laughed at him. I said, you're
an idiot, and I drove away. So I called an
officer at Lachlan and I told him what happened, and
he said, yeah. He said they've been out there about
an hour. And I said, he never fully pointed the
weapon at me. I said, but he was raising it.
He had his finger on the trigger guard, and he
never pointed it at me, but he.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Was raising it.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
And he was backing up the entire time like I
was a threat. And the officer said, yeah, they've been
out there about an hour. And I said, well, I
find it hard to believe that guys are allowed to
stand over on an overpass with AR fifteen's number one
on Friday, with all the things that have happened in
this country with shootings. And then he said, well, that's

(10:15):
they open Kerry Low in Ohio.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
You can open Kerry.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
I said, well, I get that, but I said, these
so backing up overall, I try to be quick people
in these communities. I don't care if you're in Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit,
Saint Louis, it doesn't matter. Any of the predominantly black
neighborhoods that there's a reason they picked that overpass to

(10:40):
do this, to provoke a reaction the way that they did,
and people in these communities, you got to be smart
enough to understand that Donald Trump made inroads into the
black vote and the Democrats and George Soros don't like it,
and they're going to do whatever they can to paint
this white supremacy crap. And there's probably not seven true

(11:01):
Nazis in the entire country.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, that was my reaction, mark the minute I saw that,
in the seemingly over reaction to these idiots stand on
the overpass. There were twelve of them, and I thought
the exact same thing. I think. I guess they found
every member, every white supremacist they could round up, and
they ended up in Lincoln Heights on the overpass. Because
I mean, I'll be sixty in September. I've never run

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into one in real life ever. And you know why
they don't project themselves because the entire world views them
as idiots. Their their ideology is stupid. This racism that
they expouse is not embraced by anyone who has an
ounce of intellect. I mean right, Yeah, but the.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Church on the church on Shepherd As I came up,
it's Lincoln Heights Baptist something. I don't know that place,
and maybe it's like at every Sunday, I don't know.
It was absolutely jammed to the point where people were
parking in the grass. Betram News was there and there
was a woodlawn officer sitting outside the church in the street. Yeah,

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so they and I think that may have been the
preacher that stood out there on the news and was
talking about all that. The thing is is that these
communities have to be smarter than this. Don't fall for
it and understand that. I was going if that guy
was one of the little hired ANTIFA actors, because I

(12:33):
can guarantee you that probably every one of those guys
were hired to do that. There were actors, it was theater.
But if he was one of those guys, I was
going to give him the what for and tell him
to get the hell out of there. Nobody wants to
see your stupidity here, you know. I was going to
stand up for that community. Yeah, and I'm a white guy,
but warning the white guys that are driving through Lincoln Heights,

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don't be surprised if you get asked if you're a Nazi.
I mean, that was one of the dumbest questions I've
ever been asked.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
In my Lifeunderstood, Mark, I mean understand.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
It bothered me so bad.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I can hear it is going to happen.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
It's going to happen across the country.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
In fact, I spoke with somebody.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
That said that it's already happening down south as well.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
So it is. Well, I I feel very confident that
it is theater. But what really struck me is the
most bizarre thing is somehow a group of twelve let's
say they are the twelve Nazis that you could round
up if you were looking for them, that somehow Donald
Trump had a connection with them being on an overpass

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in Lincoln Heights. Like, uh, what, okay, that's an onione.
That's an unhinged leftist reaction. People who have the Trumps
arrangements under him, with Donald Trump living rent free in
their head and he's responsible for every evil in the world.
Appreciate it, Mark, appreciate it very much. Good hearing from you.

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also makes me feel good when you call. Anyhow, what
let's see here? Pivoting over to nothing in particular except
the fact I saw a couple of articles about how
outrageously expensive it was for stuff and things to buy
at the Super Bowl one hundred dollars for a salad,
seventeen dollars for a beer like okay, And I was

(15:07):
thinking about the problem we're having with the Brown family
and the negotiations over the stadium improvements, and they're sort
of veiled threat to take the team and leave, okay,
And how much it costs to buy a beer over
at the stadium, And I keep thinking, well, wait a second,
isn't the future of football people like watching it on
their jumbo trons at home and drinking in relatively early,

(15:31):
comparatively inexpensive beer of your own choice. And a clean bathroom,
assuming you keep your bathroom clean at least it's not
a public bathroom. Food's probably better at home when you
prepared it home, so you know. And the literally insanity
the money that public money that is spent on these

(15:53):
privately owned football teams. Pivot over to Utah. This is
pretty funny Utah taxpayers, maybe, and much of the chagrin
of Riverton, Utah mayor trans Stags spending more than a
billion dollars to build a gondola project that'll ferry skiers
up to some elite ski resorts. Mayor tran Stags says

(16:17):
unfair subsidy and waste and abuse of taxpayer money. Criticize
the use of public funds for this massive skila project. Quote.
Government's job is not to pit winners. And losers spending
over one billion dollars in taxpayer funds that transport skiers
the two resorts does just that. In no stretch of

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the imagination. Is that the role of taxpayers to foot
the bill to help two ski resorts? Good? Well stated Amen.
Apparently the Utah Department of Transportation recently approved this project
will build the world's largest gondola to take steers skiers
up to snow Bird and Alta resorts in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

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Total cost one point four billion dollars in taxpayer money.
Does that make any sense? Does that sound justifiable? According
to Breitbart reporting, while some have defended the plan, sighting traffic,
congestion and environmental concerns in the canyon, the project just

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face growing pushback from local businesses and residents who argue
it's a misuse of taxpayer funds and primarily benefits private resorts,
which it does. How does something like this even happen? Meanwhile,

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Trump is going to be looking into that California railroad
boondoggle project, another multi, multi, multi, multi billion dollar project
you and I'll be paying for so they can have
a QW two train that takes people from point A
to point B, and really the first line of that
particular segment we can talk about it later, is between

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places that no one really wants to go back and forth.
Roses on the phone, take your call as soon as
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forty right now thirty time fifty five pairs to Detalk
stations five twenty nine. Happy Monday, three seven nine, two
to three talk. That's who what Roz has got to say. Roz,
thanks for calling, holding over the break there, Welcome to
the Morning Show.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh, thank you so much, Brian, and thank you for
taking my call. I listened to you every morning. By
the way, and I remember the morning, I think it
was last week where you wondered if anybody was listening
at five o'clock, and I'm always listening at five.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Thank you so much, Ros.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
It's a wonderful show. In any event, I really do
agree with much of what Mark had to say, because
my first impression when I learned about the incident was that,
you know, it could be genuine, although it also could
be Antifa and Black Lives Matter, because you don't know

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the race of these people because they're totally covered. Now.
You know my take because I talked with a friend
of mine at length yesterday about this, and he and
I are both very strong supporters of President Trump now
and going all the way back to twenty sixteen, so
he had not a ray. But I know that this
incident is having an effect on black people that I know,

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and I can appreciate that, and I'm very sensitive to
that because among my family and friends there are people
who have been victimized, not in recent years, but decades
back and having to flee the South because of the
threat of the clan. Now, my idea is that there
needs to be an investigation of these incidents because they

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are proliferating, and I believe that it's incumbent on our
local authorities. You know, I kept thinking yesterday if Countie
Pillage was an office as our county prosecutor, there probably
already would be some kind of statement or Joe did,
or some kind of statement about an investigation, or maybe
a contact with BCI and our Attorney General in Ohio,

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or even all the way up the line to the FBI.
And I remember during Cash Betel's hearings that you know,
he said that he wanted to get people out in
the field to do their job. And I think that
an investigation would serve two valuable purposes. One if it
is authentic. These two organizations have records of being deadly

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terrorist organizations, and I find it very, very difficult to
dismiss what they have done because they've been strategic in
doing their demonstrations, first near Lincoln Heights, which is the
largest predominantly African American municipality north of the Mason Dixon line.
And then they have been strategic in terms of the

(21:36):
Shepherd Avenue location that Mark was talking about. There is
a prominent African American church in the city of Cincinnati,
and also one in Lincoln Heights. And I don't know
what end of shepherds that Mark was talking about, but
all of this is very chilling to me. If it
is fraud, and if it is pantomime, then it's not

(21:56):
good for the president or the country. And where we
at the being so divided right now, Well, I ask.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
You this, I'm just kind of curious in terms of investigation,
what what would be your hope, what type of investigation,
what would the purpose of the investigation people.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Are and what and they need to be monitored because
we are an open cary state and I do support
the Second Amendments, but there are people who are going
to push back against this threat, whether it's real or proceived,
and so I don't know. I'm not an attorney, so
I don't know what the limits are. But there needs

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to be a contact by our elected officials to say this,
and I think that that I don't know that the
sheriff has said anything about the security of our citizens,
our fellow citizens in Hamilton County who live in Lincoln
Heights or who live in predominantly African American areas like Woodlawn.
But something needs to be done, because you know, if

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we can be outraged about terror across the ocean called
hamas as I have been since October seventh, and even
before then October seventh of twenty twenty three. We need
to be outraged about real or play acting terrorists, and
actually Antifa and BLM, as far as I'm concerned, they

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are terrorists organizations because they've burned down Minneapolis and they
have protested violently. So we need an investigation to find
out who these people really are. If they are bona
fide members of the Klan and the Neo Nazi Party,
they need to be investigated. And you know, if you

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can send hundreds of innocent people to jail for months
on end at the Capitol, then I think that this
is something that needs to be investigated to expose whether
they're real or authentic. And I think the benefits would
be great for the President and for the conservative movement
and the Republican Party, and I think it's really past

(24:03):
time for our leadership to really speak out. I think
that Mayor Purevolve was contacted by CNN and got a statement,
but I'd like to know what the mayor of Lincoln
Heights and Woodland have to say and what our law
enforcement people have to say county wide, and our new
prosecutor what she has to say, and go right up

(24:25):
the line to the Bureau of BCI at the state
level and the FBI, because I remember as a child
the FBI going down South after the murders of civil
rights workers to investigate these organizations.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
See, and here's you got a lot to unpackage on this.
First off, anytime there is criminal behavior by any group,
whether it's the Nazis or the BLM, if they're burning things,
breaking things, harming people, than those are acts of criminal
behavior which can be investigated and prosecuted. Now, as to
the Azis, if they are if they weren't Nazis and

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they were fake actors, didn't they invite themselves to perhaps
have an entire community of black people attack them and
give them the beatdown that they might deserve because they
embraced Nazism, But then backing away from that just because
you expouse Nazism. I mean, it's we live in a
country with free speech. If you want to be an
idiot and voice your opinion in support of racism, you're

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going to reveal yourself to be the idiot that you are.
That's what the that's what the exact point of free
speech is. Free speech you can expouse the dumbest things ever,
and the public will judge you accordingly, and you're not
going to get a whole lot of people supporting your
stupidity when you talk out loud. It's one of the
reasons they probably covered their face, assuming they were real Nazis,

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they didn't want to reveal to the world who they
actually are. They may have jobs and they would lose
them if they're out expousing racism. I mean, the whole
thing is it's just you know. I got to also
point out one of the most profound support of the
free speech was in fact a free speech opinion in
the Supreme Court of the United States of America, which
upheld the rights of Nazis to go out and say

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the stuff that they say. I mean, that's the good
thing about free speech. You know where the idiots are.
So I don't know what's to investigate. I don't know,
and I haven't heard anything about them engaging in criminal behavior.
That you might fear the Nazis if they are because
of their ideology. I understand the fear and the concern

(26:32):
someone of the black community might have for them. But
twelve or thirteen, I think you outnumber them like a
gazillion to one, and you know what, you'd have the
support of the vast majority of every citizen in the
United States of America in your efforts to well tell
them they're morons and their ideology is stupid. But I

(26:57):
personally have political opinions. Everybody knows in Ro's I can't
thank you for listening to the show. I'm a little
ill libertarian and I expouse small government and the right
for you to decide where you want to spend your
money and who you want to sleep with. Should I
be investigated, I haven't committed any acts of crime. Just think,

(27:21):
you know, think about it. Five thirty eight, call into it.
We can further discuss this. I know it's a real
hot topic this week because of the idiots that gathered
on the bridge in Lincoln Heights. Stick around, be right
back after these brief words.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
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Speaker 1 (27:40):
About krcity Talk station, and try to have a happy Monday.
Before I get stuck and stupid. Going to go over
to the phone. It's got Dennis on the phone. Dennis,
thanks for calling this morning, Welcome in the Morning show.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
Yeah, I work in trucking in the Cincinnati area and
we're watching on the camera. One of our drivers told
us about this over effort, and I would about guarantee
about ninety five percent that those quote unquote Nazis, if
you're following them back to where they were coming from,
probably the FBI building over off on the guvernment, probably

(28:14):
the holdovers that don't want to get fired by cash.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
To tell.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Honest, leave that sit out there, Dennis. It's easy for
people to come up with conclusions like that given the
stuff that we actually know has happened at the FBI
and other of our government agencies. Yeah, I mean it
lends itself to create to come up with these hypotheses,
these theories. These some say conspiracy theories, some say pattern
of observations. Yeah, no one knows. And you know what's

(28:43):
with the whole idea of completely covering and masking oneself
truly truly believe in something. Aren't you able to just
go out into the world unmasked and voice your opinion.
We got bad actors on all sides of the ledger.
They have to cover themselves up completely all my god,
facial recognition software is literally everywhere. Cameras are literally everywhere. Anyhow,

(29:11):
I'd just like to observe that. You know, if you
want to walk into a neighborhood like Lincoln Heights waving
a Nazi flag and talking about white supremacy, I think
you might invite a beat down. And honestly, I think
I mean and Joe Strecker did say they were engaged
in criminal activity. Said the following day apparently they tore

(29:32):
down some signs that people had placed up talking about
damage cars. That was it. I did not see that
in the news. Thank you Joe Strecker for paying closer
attention to what's going on locally than I have been.
But damaging cars equal arrest. Standing around screaming nonsense about
your political ideology is part of free speech. Read your

(29:53):
First Amendment and look at the case law supporting it.
Not to say their message is welcome, but opinions are
like sphincters. Everybody's got one. Let's see here real quick,
here I get to the one of the stackers. Stupid.
You can call in and chime in. I love to
hear from you. Left winging, vampire obsessed after school program

(30:15):
teacher accused of sexually abusing two young girls for years
at a Harlem school in New York and filming the
child sexual abuse material. According to the new lawsuit report
of the New York Post, Amen, twenty six year old
Miles McNeil, after school program teacher whose online alter ego
pushed communist propaganda and fetishized vampires if that's not enough,

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allegedly touched and photographed young students naked bodies, had them
assume sexual position, and showed them pictures of the genitalia
of other kids while threatening them to stay silent, according
to victims and core papers. Lawsuit further alleged the staff
and supervisors at Public School one eighty five in this
after school program failed to follow rules requiring staff to

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never be alone with children for empty classrooms to remain locked.
They alleged these failures enabled McNeil to abuse the young
girls for three years. Complaint also alleges the administrators didn't
properly punish McNeil after he was discovered by another staffer
alone in an empty classroom with a second grader straddling
his lap. McNeil reportedly suspended for a one day. Child's

(31:26):
father was told that his child was at fault. I
can't believe I just read those words. The child was
at fault. Arrested February first, last year. Charge was sexual
abusing an eight year old girl. Court document's alleged police
found fifty two electronic devices in his possession. He pleaded
not go to the criminal charges posted. Bail. Case is

(31:48):
still pending. One of the girls reportedly suicidal. Both nine
year olds are traumatized, according to their families. They said
they're deeply concerned the child sexual abuse materia could follow
all of the girls for the rest of their lives. Okay,
we're just gonna go ahead and give them the biggest douche.

Speaker 9 (32:05):
Oferies, the biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies,
there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top,
the pinnacle of douche. Dum good going, Does your dreams
have come true?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
More stack of stupid or phone calls coming up?

Speaker 10 (32:29):
Stick around me right back fifty five krs.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Five fifty one fifty five kr city talk station back
to stack is stupid. We can do an also mention
follow up sort of a winner of the Biggest douche
Universe to this guy. Roland Edward Brown is sixty three,
described as a pervert, was caught stealing and sniffing children's

(32:59):
socks at a Utah fun fun plex, now facing numerous
felony charge yeah I know, after police said a search
of his residence and electronic device turned up multiple files
of child porn. Probe that this guy began last year
after an employee of the Rush Funplex called police to
report that a suspicious guy was stealing socks at this

(33:22):
children's complex. Court a probable cause avida of police investigation
revealed that Brown stole multiple children's socks and the Rush
Funplex in West Jordan Salt Lake City suburb. Additionally, Roland
seen sniffing the stolen snocks, socks and taking multiple pictures
of children playing. Obviously alarmed by the concerning behavior, cops

(33:44):
secure to warrant to raid his home. During the search
of his electronic devices, who was found they had multiple
files of child sexual abuse material. They also discovered several
images of children around the area trying on shoes or
just the children in his feet. Brown arrested charge with
ten counts each of aativated sexual exploitation of a minor

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sexual exploitation of a minor. He also is accused of
tampering with a witness of felony after it was found
that Roland attempted to have a witness lie to the court.
Ruling that there was quote substantial evidence close quotes against him.
The judge ordered to be held without bail, noting that
if released, he would constitute a substantial danger to any
other individual order the community who is likely to flee

(34:27):
the jurisdiction. What is with people? There's no flag for us,
you know, and you're right, there shouldn't be. Let's go
to Forsyth, Georgia, where a man allegedly barked like a

(34:48):
dog in an autopart store for over an hour. Why
are you doing that? Police made a well what they
say is a not so shocking discovery and searching his vehicle.
Court to the incident of report. Police responded to a
call from the owner of Advanced Autoparts location regard a
man who had been at the store for over an
hour and was barking like a dog. That's actually in

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the report. Officers showed up found twenty nine year old
Jonathan Navis. One question, said he had no idea that
he was causing any issues, please, said, They asked him
for his identification, he told it was in his car. Okay.
Officers said that when they've approached the car, they found
quote a clear baggie containing syringes close quote the passenger seat,

(35:28):
which prompted a search of the vehicle, during which they
found a bag of clear crystal subjects, which the officers
ultimately confirmed was drum roll meth amphetamine as this tradition.
Uh for his part, and Vos allegedly told police the
syringes were full of blood. All right, we'll end with

(35:56):
this one. Two married police officers who had sex in
front of their children were arrested. New Jersey police landed
in what they say, hot water after allegedly shared naked
images of themselves with their children of the background. According
to authorities, Officer Brian Dibiasse fired from the Hamilton Police

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Department January thirty first, following allegation he used a messaging
app to distribute quote image and video files of suspected
child sexual exploitation and EVA, why you're doing that? No
idea thirty nine year old Obasi and his wife, Mercer
County Sheriff's Office officer Elizabeth Debassi forty two arrested. Both

(36:43):
arrested January twenty ninth. Investigation of the pair began a
week following the report from the National Center for Missing
Your Exploited Children about the images. Authorities claimed Debossi shared
thirty six media files containing explicit photos and videos of
his wife with children in close proximity. Also access chat
logs in which the Bossi has claimed to have quote
mentioned children being present while he and his wife had

(37:06):
sex clothes quote. Faces charges including allowing a child to
partake in a sexual act for photograph filming filming purposes,
engaging in sexual conduct harmful to child's morals, possessing less
than a thousand items of child's sexual abuse material, distributing
sexual abusement to imagery, and possessing such materials with intent
to distribute. His wife charged with engaging in sexual conduct

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that would corr up the morals of a child. Wow,
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Coming up on six O sex A fifty five Garricy
the Talk station, Ryan Thomas right here, wish you never
went a very happy Monday. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Congratulations to the Eagles forty to twenty two. I laughed
out loud quite a few times during the first half,
of course, went to bed at the at halftime, so
I didn't watch the halftime show? Was it as bad

(38:30):
as I see all the reports telling me it was bad?
Joe that you said you watch the whole thing. If
I was over twenty five, I probably hated it, Okay,
that I didn't miss anything. Your kids did like it? Okay,
fair enough, Joe quote. I did not understand it, although

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his children enjoyed it. Anyhow. If you feel like Colin
got something to talk about, feel free to call five one, three,
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founds and uh. Joe provided me with an update, and
I guess at Local twelve hit a little more information
than I was aware of. After that neo Nazi group
or alleged neo Nazi group was up in Lincoln Heights

(39:16):
on the bridge. You know, idiots doing idiot things because
they're idiots. Of course, a lot of people don't believe
they really were Neo Nazis. You do have an open
carry law in Ohio, and it doesn't matter what political
affiliation you are, You're allowed to carry open And I
know some people don't like that. And personally, as a
huge Second Amendment fan and someone who gets great thrills

(39:36):
out of going to the gun range and shooting paper
or steel targets or clay pigeons, I don't like open carry.
I don't, but you can have it. Of course, Supreme
Courts on record saying even if you are a Nazi,
you can go out and spew Nazi crap to the world,

(39:58):
which is I always loved the point out. That's the
good thing about free speech. You know who the idiots are. Anyway,
some local guy apparently the following day, was trying to
spread the message of love, countering the message of hate
obviously promoted by the neo Nazis, if they were Last

(40:20):
Name's bone cutter, which I thought was rather interesting. So
you can only fight hate with love. So I felt
like it was important of the message out in place
where Lincoln Heights, where I know is feeling scared, putting
up love signs, promoting love, promoting unity. Concerned citizen boarded
into the group that their cars were being damaged. Now
here's where crime comes in. You can't arrest people for

(40:42):
their idiot's speech, but you sure can arrest them if
they're committing damage to automobiles. He said, he was warned.
He said, Hey, they're damaging you guys cars. They're smashing windows,
he said. He continued to hang the signs. He discovered
that his SUV and another couple vehicles that had their
cars smashed by rocks. Apparently this neat so called neo
Nazi group arrived in a U haul on Friday, and

(41:04):
apparently a U haul was seen near the vehicles where
the vandalism occurs. Was it the same one? Somebody got
a license plate down, that'd be a helpful piece of
information for law enforcement, the license plate of the obviously
rented vehicle to be able to track it down figure
out who rented it. That would answer a lot of
questions that are spiraling around out there. So they got

(41:28):
back to the parking lot, he found dozens of Lincoln
Heights residents and thank God for them giving their support.
He said, they were taping up my windows, vacuuming out
my car where the glass was broken, giving me hugs.
I just couldn't say enough about that community. He said,
that's family. And apparently, during the initial Neo Nazi rally
on Friday, and this was something I wasn't aware of,

(41:49):
the Lincoln Heights residence demanded the group leave and broke
through law enforcement barricades and set fire to one of
the Neo Nazis flag, forcing the Neo Nazis to depart,
which is the kind of reaction I would expect from
the residents of Lincoln Heights if they're invaded by a
bunch of not well, it was even a bunch of
Nazis with twelve or thirteen of them, which, as I

(42:10):
mentioned in the last hour, was probably every single one
if they were Nazis, every single one that actually exists.
They're idiots. Their philosophy is batcrap insane. I have an
entire stack of failure in front of me, and it

(42:32):
all relates to green projects. Let's start with the ev buses.
Biden administration awarded some Canadian electric bus company called Lion
Electric one hundred and sixty million dollars of your hard
earned taxpayer money to manufacture hundreds of battery powered buses
for school districts across this great Lion of Bars part
of its climate agenda. Sorry, Lion initiated bankruptcy, proceeding laid

(42:56):
off almost all of its employees, the ones that at
least were building the buses, and stopped its manufacturing operations. Hmmm,
leaving dozens of school districts questioning whether they're going to
receive the buses that the Biden administration promised them. I
think the answers pretty much know. Lyon has yet to
deliver ninety five million dollars worth of electric buses to
fifty five districts that were promised it across the country.

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Don Wallace, superintendent of Ohio Valley School District in Adams County.
At this time, we were working through the proper channels
and keeping our attorneys abreast of the situation. They ordered
buses from Lyon, and they said, no buses have been
delivered to our district. Were on hold, and you're going
to stay on hold. Too, because the company went belly
up sort of points out, raising questions about whether the

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recipients of literally billions and billions of dollars of your
money on green spending were vetted properly hmm, or whether
federal officials looked the other way when doing out funds
to Lion, which had been apparently struggling financially for years.

(44:06):
And of course, green energy companies like Line dependent on
government funding and fail even after winning lucrative government contracts.
Remember Soleindra. Yeah, there's a great illustration of it. Between
October twenty two and May twenty four, the Biden administration
awarded Lion a total of one hundred and five one
hundred nine fifty nine million dollars, which was supposed to

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manufacture four hundred and thirty five bus buses. This under
the EPA's five billion with a Big Clean School Bus program.
Lyon the third largest beneficiary of the program created by
Democrats twenty twenty one Infrastructure Bill. Do you remember that one?
Don't you? Lyon got the funding became Biden administration's favorite

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while struggling to turn a profit. You had took in
millions of dollars of loans less than two weeks before
the EPA gave Yan eighty two point seven million dollars.
That was in October. At twenty two, the company reported
it to investors that had lost seventeen point two million
dollars in the prior three months alone. Since twenty twenty

(45:14):
lions losses three hundred and one point six million dollars
get a load of its stock price. Since January twenty
twenty one, the stock price went from thirty three dollars
and forty eight cents per share to eight cents. Apparently,

(45:38):
the company stopped reporting at share price on its website
back in December, and they said, I think the free
beacon on this one. Give credit where credits due. Lion
got a slap on the risk from the Securities Exchange
Commission last year after misreporting several key figures. March twenty
twenty four, group of investors hit Line with a class

(46:01):
action lawsuit, ledging the company withheld the truth about supply
chain problems and misled investors using grossly unrealistic financial projections.
Amid the struggles, though the company assured investors during a
November earnings call, I love this statement. It remained quote
well positioned to benefit from continued strong regulatories tailwinds. Close

(46:28):
quote referencing the clean school bus program in the EPA's
three billion dollar Clean Port Program regulatory tail ones. You
know what that means. We're in good financial shape because
the government is dolling out moneys to our failed company
thanks to regulations which if regulations did not exist, this
company wouldn't have in a dime, would never have made

(46:52):
any money in the first place. We're supporting failed entities,
failed institutions, and propping up businesses that produced products that
know every one wants to buy in a real world.
A month after that November earnings call, that's when Line
filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada. They started a bankruptcy

(47:15):
proceedings in an Illinois federal court weeks after. It laid
off all of its employees, with the exception of one
hundred and fifty of them who were tasked with customer
service and maintenance duties. They halted production at their nine
hundred thousand square foot manufacturing facility in Joliet, Illinois, opened
only eighteen months earlier, amid a huge ceremony including Governor JB.

(47:39):
Prinzker's Senator Dick Durban and Tammy Duckworth, at which Pritzker
said of the ceremony, the future of Illinois relies on
dependable clean energy jobs. Local officials said that plant would
bring fourteen hundred jobs to the reason and not. That's

(48:01):
just one of about ten articles I have on failed
green energy products projects rather failed billions. And you know,
all of this is unrelated to the work that this
DOGE department is doing. And if I hear another person
complain about Elon Musk not elected in not explaining doctor

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Fauci wasn't elected or wasn't elected, this is the government
is filled with unelected officials and maybe therein lies the problem.
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eight hundred eight two three talking to go straight to
the phone and welcome all callers, and we'll go in
the order in which they'll receive, which means Bobby is first. Bobby,

(49:29):
welcome to the show, my brother.

Speaker 12 (49:32):
A simple thank you can't express our true feelings with
appreciation you carring that torture, freedom, high and bride every day.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
My brother.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Thanks man. I do appreciate the kind words.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Hey.

Speaker 12 (49:44):
I believe in in peaceful protest. But these boys from
California and Tennessee driving these vehicles down there, and they
just don't have any experience. They need to get us
some glowed sticks. Go down the East Price Hill about
mid nine, start looking down the sidewalks. That is a
good piece or protest.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
You talk about the Nazis whatever.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Do you think they were?

Speaker 12 (50:08):
But they were not Caucasian wrapped up in those outfits were.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I don't know. I did not see them personally. I
just saw the overhead view and it looked like there
was maybe twelve or thirteen of them, which is I've
pointed out several times this morning probably represents the entire
quantity of clan members in the country, and they cover
themselves up completely. Why is that? You know, are they
afraid to reveal who they are and the message that
they're spreading. They leave people to invite speculation as to

(50:36):
whether they're really Nazis or not. I mean, I don't know.
You know, the only time I've ever heard of a
black Nazi is that Dave Chappelle comedy routine, the blind
guy who's black who hates Black people. I mean, it
was just it was side splittingly funny. He got a
little controversy over it, but he made some pretty comedic
points about it. But beyond that, they typically, at least

(50:57):
I've understood him, a bunch of stupid, racist white people.
So why would you cover yourself up if you don't
really truly embrace them believe in your message. How come
you're not out in public talking about it more often?
Because no one embraces your message or or their plants
designed to stir the pot of division. And somehow Donald
Trump gets blamed for that little demonstration. I mean, what

(51:20):
the hell is that all about?

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Go?

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Yeah, Trump put them there? What God, Bobby, thank you
for helping me again further reveal the absurdity of this
entire situation. But you know what, they had a big
anti rally over faith leaders in Lincoln Heights. I got
a whole bunch of people together to protest the Nazis.
And fine, I welcome that that spread the message of

(51:45):
love exactly, but maybe maybe just raise a jaundiced eye
of skepticism that those were really Nazis showing up in
your neighborhood. And how I mean, maybe you can say, yes,
they had to be Nazis, because first off, only Nazis
would embrace that stupid concept of a philosophy. It will
be dumb enough to go into the most predominantly black

(52:08):
neighborhood that exists in the greater Cincinnati area. Thirteen of
them or twelve of them outnumbered much potential beat down perhaps,
And you know, juries don't have to convict you, like
if you beat down a Nazi and you were tried
for beating down a Nazi. I mean, the jury doesn't

(52:29):
have to convict you. They can just say, you know what, no,
how about not guilty, Mississippi James. Good to hear from you, man,
Welcome back to the Morning Show. Hey, good morning, brother Brian.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
No Lincoln, Heke got some pressure issues out there. But
this is a question that I've been pondering the last
couple of weeks now, speaking of de firm in action,
consit to create all those programs that was established for
a certain reason, Adam beginning to ask the question do
you think they was necessary? And I'll tell you why.

(53:06):
I expect portion after I hear you am.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
No, I don't. I've been regularly pointing out because I'm
coming to grips with my own mortality lately, Mississippi James,
coming up on sixty years old in September. While we're
nine months away from that, I still feel like it's
creeping up. But in my existence, I have encountered racism.
But you know what, over my entire life, during my
working career, I have worked with many people of varying backgrounds, ethnicities, colors, creeds, races,

(53:36):
the whole nine yards. I have worked with extraordinary, competent
people of color. I never looked down on them, thought
anything about it. Everything seemed to be working on Fine.
I've worked. I have lived in states that were you know,
had senators that were black and Asian, and we've had
governors and Ken Blackwell was the mayor of the city
of Cincinnati in nineteen eighty. I mean, I haven't I

(53:57):
just know, I don't think DEI mean the problem with
DII is the equity part diversity cool inclusion. Fine, yeah,
I don't care what sexuality somebody is. I want the
best and brightest. I want merit to rule the day.
Equity is the antithesis of merit. It's when you hire
people based upon some racial checkbox or some sexual checkbox,

(54:20):
not because they're the best in the group of people
applying for the job, but only because they fit some
social expectation created by a bunch of I don't know
sociologists in college. I have no idea your your comments.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Okay, and it's come out of you know, seeing these
growing up and seeing these white only signs are either
colored waiting area.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yeah, you know, Jim Crow and.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
That stuff put it there. So a lot of program
prevented people from moving forward.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, but sixty four Civil Rights Act ended all of that.
Litigation ended all of that. It is absolutely outright illegal
to discriminate or say whites only and serve only white
people or forced black people to sit in the back
of the bus.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
So that was a part of it. Yeah, you know,
it ended on the leglation side. Then you had to
do a physical part to make it better.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
The Civil War was the original act of defiance, and
a lot of white people fought for the liberation and
freedom of slaves in the South. That's where it starts.
But it takes time to change the hearts and minds
of people. And that's when Jim crowch showed up and
you started having laws enacted locally that ultimately were overturned
by the Supreme Court of the United States of America
because they were fundamentally at odds with the Fourteenth Amendment

(55:42):
and other amendments the United States Constitution. I mean time
changes hearts and minds, and I appreciate and embrace the
efforts of folks like doctor Martin Luther King Junior. But
even he was against equity, content of character, not color
of skin. So over time change hearts and minds, and
I'm part of that group of people whose hearts and

(56:03):
minds were changed over time. I didn't grow up in
a racist environment. I didn't grow up in a family
that said black people were somehow inferior to anybody else.
I grew up in a household that said, get your
butt into school and study and learn something so you
can eat and pay for yourself. Thankfully it worked out,

(56:25):
I've always said many times, and here it comes yet again.
The greatest gift my parents gave me after the existence
my existence life was their insistence that I get an education.
Appreciate your call, James, always do six twenty fifty five krs.
The talk station looks like I got Gary and Mark online.
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Thanks for calling. Gary, always good to hear from you.

Speaker 11 (58:05):
Good morning, Brian.

Speaker 13 (58:06):
Hey, I was just talking to Joe. I've seen these
guys around, and you know, it just strikes me very
obviously that most conservatives I know are always fighting the
battle of the bulls. If these guys were skinny, athletic looking,
you know, I'm thinking they could have gone to you know,

(58:27):
back to the FBI. I mean, you know, just saying that,
you know, did I say that out well?

Speaker 1 (58:35):
And Gary, Gary, you'd believe they're real neo Nazis if
they were fat? Is that is?

Speaker 8 (58:40):
That?

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Is that the takeaway?

Speaker 13 (58:43):
Well, no, I'm saying if they were conservatives, real real conservatives,
they would have been fat.

Speaker 7 (58:50):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Most of them have.

Speaker 13 (58:53):
They have a tendency to fight the battle of the bulls. Really,
you know, I know, I fight it myself, you know.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Well, I'm you know, I'm glad we could find some
levity in this controversial subject. Gary, and I say that honestly, honestly,
maybe they were on ozepic. Jeff, Welcome to the show.
Happy Monday morning, Brian.

Speaker 14 (59:19):
I ended up I had no interest in the Super
Bowl last night, but my daughter wanted to watch it,
so I ended up watching a little bit of it
before I put her to bed, ended up seeing the
halftime show, and I was actually a little bit happy
with the halftime show with what looked like the message
was all red, white and blue, and he looked very patriotic. Yeah,

(59:41):
but and looking at it, I'm just curious it was
intended to be racist because I didn't see a single
white person performing.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Hmm. Well, I could be wrong, and I don't know,
and I can't comment on it because as soon as
the after the two minute warning in the first half,
I packed up went to bed. Thankfully, the Eagles were ahead,
and when I woke up this morning, I found they
had clobbered about It's forty to twenty two. As to

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the halftime show, Jess Drecker said his kids liked it,
but he didn't understand it. I've also seen regular cost
several comments online and I don't know whether this is
true or not that one of the acts actually used
the N word in singing a song. Oh there was
only one act, Okay, well, see Joe. I don't know.
I know there's more than one person involved in the

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Stick shitty talk station. Christopher Smithman coming up at seven twenty.
Maybe he'll have a comment on the Lincoln Heights neo
Nazi demonstration.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
I never know what Christal wants to talk about. I
always love having on the show. Good Man, he is
Brian James Money Monday, eight oh five, and a return
of Mandy Gonna sec rob with the book Y'all Fired.
We had her on the show last October and we're
gonna get her insight about what she thinks about Doge
and the draining of the swamp. Mark, thank you so
much for holding over the break. Welcome to the show.
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 15 (01:02:07):
Hey, Happy Monday, Brian, Good morning. Joe missed the opportunity
on the phrasey button during Jarry's call.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Any anyway, Yeah, I let it go all that other balls.

Speaker 15 (01:02:21):
Oh never mind. Well, the reason for my call is
uh I just wanted to give a shout out to
the VA and uh I was back in the fall.
My primary care noticed that my PSA levels were starting
to elevate, and uh, so he ordered an MRI and
then unfortunately, uh came down with cross day cancer. So

(01:02:44):
I mean, I followed your recommendations along a couple other
you know, tender care, fireplaces, stoves, a free group. But
you know, AC, I'm not going to be doing OEC.
But my care at the VA has been phenomenal good.
Uh MRI, MRI. They did a blood marrow scan, came
back negative. Good, and I'm scheduled for surgery on the

(01:03:08):
twenty seventh. So everybody that you know you're listening audience,
if you work at the VA, you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Guys are awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
I am so pleased now you you know they got
ahead it. You got on this right away because you're
watching your PSA levels. Yeah, my doctor neff over at
Claremont County. Good well and see. And that's words of
encouragement to other listeners out there to stay on top
of that, because you can get ahead and you can
beat prostate cancer if you catch it early enough before

(01:03:36):
it metastasizes them before it gets in. I mean, Lord,
almighty man, I'm praying for you, but and I can't
I am so pleased you're getting good care of the VA.
That's kind of what I expect from what I hear
from my listeners. Now, obviously there are bumps in the
road from time to time, but you know that you're
getting really good quality care. I mean, you know, that's
that's that's the final analysis point there, right right right.

Speaker 15 (01:03:59):
I don't notice too, they don't you know, they might
have something personal going on in their life and stuff
like that, they're having a bad day, but it never
reflects on their care for the veterans. I have never
encountered a rude you know, nurse doctor, just volunteers.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
So I just want to let you know I'm keep
you updated, Im.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
How end, I'm really happy for you, and I'll pray
for you, and I'm glad you got out ahead of
this thing. And I'm very confident with you know what
we've got going on in terms of cancer research and treatments,
that you're going to kick its butt. And I think
we can all collectively agree cancer sucks, right, Jim Keefer. Yeah, Yeah, Amen,
Thanks Mark, God love you and best of health you.

(01:04:42):
Let's see what Linda's got this morning. Linda, thanks for calling.
Welcome to the fifty five RC Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Let's all pray for him.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
I just wanted to know if you remember when Obama
first came into office, all of a sudden, they were
giving out free phones to all these people. Some girls
stood there and said, look what I got. She was
so excited, and they said, well, where did the money
come from? And she said, I don't know. It came
from Obama's stash somewhere. And my husband the other night said,

(01:05:14):
guess what, we just found Obama's stash. That's all I wanted.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Elon Musk has figured it out for all of us.
Linda unelected it. Oh my god, he's not. Gonnacted said
like everybody about every other person in government who's unelected. Man,
he's sparreting out all kinds of stuff. I love this
one real quick. Here I go over to the DOGE
outlined the list of what he called, in his words,

(01:05:42):
super obvious changes that Doge plans to make at the
US Treasury Department over the weekend, in spite of the
fact that now they've been blocked out of getting access
to the US Department of Treasuries documents. He said, officials
that Treasury are working to make the government books more
simple to audit, bring more accountability. Changes also require treasure

(01:06:03):
employees to more frequently update the congressional quote do not
pay close quote list highlighting fraudsters and legal fronts must said.
Nobody in treasury management cared enough before. I do want
to credit the working level people in Treasury who have
wanted to do this for many years but have been
stopped by prior management. Everything a Treasury was geared towards

(01:06:25):
complaint minimization. People who receive money don't complain, but people
who don't receive money, especially fraudsters, complain very loudly, so
the fraud was allowed to continue. He said. The above
above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing,
longtime career government employees, not anyone from DOGE. DOGE has

(01:06:46):
no ability. It only is a light shiner, the sanitation
of light shining on things the disinfectant that is much
needed in government given all the fraud, waste, and abuse
they've uncovered in a short period of time time, he said,
it's ridiculous that these changes didn't exist already. Yesterday, I
was told that there are currently over one hundred billion

(01:07:09):
dollars a year of entitlement payments to individuals with no
SOCIS security number or even a temporary ID number. If accurate,
this is extremely suspicious. Stating it lightly. When I asked
anyone if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for
what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud,
the consensus in the room was about half. So fifty

(01:07:31):
billion dollars a year or one billion dollars weekly. This
is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately. Amen. No
criticism came just after a federal judge blocked him and
the Doge group from the access to the Treasury Department systems.
It's an interesting timing on that, isn't it. I mean,

(01:07:54):
he's only been around a couple of weeks, and here's
one hundred billion dollars, maybe fifty billion. But I'll take
either one fraud wasted abuse identified almost in a moment's time,
one area of government. And this is all independent of
all the fraud wasted abuse we've discovered over at USAID.
And he's creeping into every area of government, coming next

(01:08:16):
and coming soon and welcome by the Trump administration and
Pete hegsat a thorough deep dive into military spending, something
I've been advocating for years since they failed seven or
eight audits. They can't even audit their own books. And
you know me, I love the American military, and I
love those veterans who proudly served their country. And I

(01:08:37):
support all those young people who enlisted. What will we
do without him? But do I support eight hundred and
ninety billion dollars going to America's military when we have
so much massive fraud, wasted abuse, or presumably so given
that they can't even get audited. Bring it on, Bring

(01:08:59):
the accounts in ring Alon Muskin. Bring a nineteen year
old that is smarter than everyone in the room. But
you love that. People complaining about nineteen year old computer
hacking capable individuals, code writers, they are people who are
capable of ferreting out this kind of thing, even at
that young age. What's his name, David Hogg? Joe who's

(01:09:19):
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I hope it's happy anyway. Christopher Smith is coming up
at seven twenty. That always puts a smile on my face.
I hope you enjoy hearing from the former vice mayor
with this smither event. Monday Monday with Brian James, Ada
more tariffs. Trump's announced tariffs on China steel and aluminum

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and surprising nobody and stayed in the obvious topic Number two,
ensure rates are going up, up, up and up is
on there three times. And finally, how much are you
spending on Valentine's Day? My wife, who is tuned in,
knows the answer to that question. And again that was
the day we got engaged. Smart move on my part,

(01:11:18):
and Paulette, I can't thank you enough for saying yes.
Coming up on thirty three years in June anyhow, married
out of my element, I'll kick my coverage and congratulations
of the Eagles for putting a smile on my face.
I had to go to bed before or I had
a halftime at forty twenty two. I woke up this
morning and found that out also, I guess Taylor Swift
found out that not everybody loves her. Well, how you feel,

(01:11:42):
you know if you you know, you sell out concerts
and people are willing to spend three thousand dollars or
whatever for a scalp ticket to get into your concert.
And then when you go to the Super Bowl and
show up and stick your head out or show up
on the jumbo tron, everybody booze. Donald Trump had a
much better experience. So apparently he got a standing ovation
or a man massive round of applause from the fans
that were there. So apparently doing something right for somebody. Ah,

(01:12:06):
let us see here, uh oh, I was doing these
energy projects and a bunch of them getting canceled. Another
one in New Jersey Offshore Wind Developments is out of
business last week, the largest of three such projects to
fail in spite of the fact that they got a
lot of tax dollars Shell Energy Giant Shell. Yes, that

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taking a one billion dollar impairment. Instead of completing the
twenty eight hundred megawatt wind farm, New Jersey Board of
Public Utilities canceled its request for the wind energy provider,
leaving an unfinished project with no prospective customer. Now, why

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the market price for the power it generated, that, according
to a review by White Strand Consulting, would have raised
electricity rates by eleven percent for residents thirteen to fifteen
percent for businesses, forcing them to overpay by forty eight

(01:13:14):
billion dollars for the wind farms lifetime. Again, a project
that had no demand tax dollars, supported the concept and
had it moving forward, and then smarter people like Shelle decided,
you know what, we're not going to do this. We're
not going down that road. It's just an ever growing
pile of articles and stories about this exact same outcome

(01:13:37):
for these so called green energy projects. It's fake. Six
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the smith Event, former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
I don't know if I have had anything to say
about the so called neo Nazis that were hanging up
in Lincoln Heights, just obviously it got a lot of reaction,
and I've seen the reaction. I heard reaction from a

(01:14:44):
lot of my listeners this morning questioning whether those were
really Nazis or not. So you can't tell when someone's
completely covered up head to toe. And we have been
made aware of prior events which included people who really
weren't advocating what was being advocated in the protest. So
were they plants designed to well elicit a response. They

(01:15:08):
certainly got the community Lincoln Heights up, and aren't They
had a big counter protests, and good for them and
I and I've been saying all morning, you know they're
there if you truly believe in that ideology, I can
with a straight face and firm in my convictions call
you an idiot. Obviously not a widely embraced concept Nazism.
You'd have clubs and chapters all over the place. They

(01:15:30):
would advertise and they wouldn't be afraid to show their face. No,
it's an unpopular message. It's a message widely well discouraged.
If i'll just be light light put that lightly, and
I just got to observe if you're a real Nazi
and you want to go carrying around, uh, you know,

(01:15:52):
a white guy's rule kind of message in Lincoln heights,
be prepared to get a beat down at minimum, and
for the general public to applaud those they've given you
the beatdown. Anyhow, I'll leave it to Christopher address that
if he chooses to. I never know what he wants
to talk about. So Christopher, if you're out there, you

(01:16:13):
go in any direction you want five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three talk top
five fifty on AT and T phone. Senator John Kennedy, Republican,
I Love of Louisiana, responding to DOGE the Department of
Government Efficiencies revelation of what usaid was spent on pointing
out something that I agree with him, wholeheartedly on Musku

(01:16:34):
is doing what the American people have wanted for years,
he said, But in Washington, common sense is illegal, and
I just see the Democrats screaming and yelling about taking
this money away, like seriously. Courrty's Senator John Kennedy found
that the USA, it has ten thousand people, ten thousand employees.
Every year they give away forty billion dollars, sprinkling it

(01:16:55):
all over the grobe. Usaid gave money to support electric
vehicles in Vietnam. Vietnam, that's your earnings. He found that
the USA gave money to a transgender clinic in India.

(01:17:17):
Quote I didn't know that, that is, Senator John Kennedy.
I didn't know that. I bet you the American people
didn't know that. Now he's in a position to at
least have access to this information. How in the hell
did that money get awarded to a transgender clinic in India?
USA gave one point five million dollars to a Serbian

(01:17:38):
LGBTQ group, he said, anyway, they got one point five
million to quote advanced diversity, equity inclusion in Serbian workplaces
and business communities. I just scratched my head over this.
They Doge found the USA ustate spent one hundred and

(01:18:02):
sixty four million dollars to support radical organizations around the world.
He so we're not talking about cub Scout troops, We're
talking about radical organizations. They gave one hundred and twenty
two million dollars to group aligned with foreign terrorist organizations,
our taxpayer money. According to the report from the Dodge Group,
USA had given millions of dollars to organizations in Gaza

(01:18:24):
controlled by Hamas. Why, senator asked, why aren't my colleagues
talking about those recipients of money? Good question. Senator Cynthia
Lumins also a gassed at finding out where our taxpayer
dollars have been going. And you gotta wonder where how

(01:18:45):
come these people won't be more proactive about this For
the past how many decades? John F. Kennedy signed USAID
into by executive order created at whole cloth back in
what early nineteen sixties, and for whatever purpose it was
it was put to, it been funded ever since. Didn't
anyone ever take a little moment in time to look
at this. We had to wait for Donald Trump to

(01:19:07):
be re elected president of the United States of America
to tap the brilliance of Elon musk Oh. I know,
not everybody really loves or embraces the Guy's a bit
of an oddball, I'll grant you that, but he's a
proven genius. I got into my son the other day
about this. Who's read most come? It's like government is
filled with advisors. People are tapped for their expertise, knowledge

(01:19:27):
and experience. He has run successful companies. He's gotten rid
of a bunch of employees in various companies he's owned
because they didn't provide any value to the company. That's
what he's doing to government. That's a target rich environment.
Apparently hasn't taken him any moment in time to discover

(01:19:48):
all of this. How many weeks has Donald Trump be president?
How many how many hours has Elon musk be at
work on this? And look at what we find? Twenty
million dollars for a sesame street show rack, twenty five
million dollars to promote green transportation in the country of Georgia,

(01:20:08):
eight million dollars to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to
avoid binary gender language. Senator Cynthia Lomas, binary gendered language
in Sri Lanka, You've got to be kidding me. She's
quoted as saying right. And of course, in the money

(01:20:31):
that went to EcoHealth Alliance so we could create bat
coronaviruses that infected every one on the planet. Thank you
very much for that contribution, Carl, Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 17 (01:20:46):
It's a wonderful Monday morning in Cincinnati. My four seventy
one bridge of aka the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge aka
the Big Mac Bridge is open.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Amazing, isn't it. And that's ahead of schedule.

Speaker 17 (01:20:57):
Yes, and I would like to give everybody some public
service announcements about the bridge. It's our duty as drivers
to keep this thing, keep the bridge safe. We don't
want to lose any more time or money being stuck
out on the bridge or having to take detours. The
speed limit on the bridge is fifty five miles per hour.
There's nothing more scary to me than to becoming across

(01:21:18):
the bridge at night and finding a disabled vehicle in
my lane due to an accident, and have drivers driving
seventy miles an hour on either side of me, not
allowing me to make any emergency maneuvers. Now, a question
of jurisdiction comes up. If you do see an accident
on the bridge, call it in. Don't assume that anybody's
called it in. Here are the rules. If the accident

(01:21:42):
occurs over the water, then it's Kentucky yeah to the accident.
If the accident occurs over land, then it's Cincinnati's duty
to respond to an accident. As you can see in
this situation that we had where the bridge caught on fire,
there was a fire underneath the Bride Bridge. It's Ohio
that is having to foot the bill on the expenses

(01:22:04):
because that part of the bridge. Yes, Now, when you
call nine one one and you get nine one one
in Cincinnati and you tell them I'm heading northbound on
the bridge and there's been an accident, don't be surprised
that they will tell you that No. I four seventy
one does not run north and south. It runs east
and west. Boy, what a surprise. Yes, Now, I did

(01:22:27):
some research on this, and actually, if you look at
the map, it does run kind of east and west. However,
if you listen to the traffic reports, which I do,
SORWLW and Schuck Ingram does a wonderful job. The whole
team does a wonderful job. They always announced that it
runs north and South. Yesterday I spent some time on

(01:22:48):
the computer and looking at Wikipedia. Wikipedia does say that
it is a north south connector. So and as you're
calling nine one one in Cincinnati, you're going to have
dificulty talking to the nine to one one call taker
because you're going to be going under overpasses on I
seventy one North.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
Call it. It sounds like you've got a lot of
experience with this.

Speaker 17 (01:23:11):
Yes, I'm on the bridge. I'm not on the bridge
all the time, but I've been on there way too
many times and seeing way too many accidents. And if
you listen to the traffic reports, you will hear about
accidents on the bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:23:24):
And you know if Cincinnati and Newport do cooperate police
departments and that fire departments do cooperate. For example, if
there is a bridge accident on the bridge over the
land on the northbound side, Cincinnati nine to one one
will try to call Newport and see if they can
dispatch an officer out there to turn on his emergency lights.
It's going to take a while for the Cincinnati ambulance

(01:23:46):
to get to you because they are the ones responsible
for responding to the accident. And I guess they have
to go all the way over to Kentucky and then
come northbound on the bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
Well and going back to your prior point. Drive carefully
and we can avoid the accidents in the first place.
We won't have to worry about reaching emergency services regardless
of which section of the bridge it happens to fall on.
Appreciate the info, Carl, I do stay safe out there.
It's the same thing with the Towers of Kenwood. You
know we're on We're in the Towers at Kenwood and
there's an east tower in a west tower, which always

(01:24:15):
confused me because to me, in my mind, Montgomery Road
is a north south road. So when you tell somebody
we're in the east tower, and they quite often will
pull them like, wait a second, that looks like north south. Anyhow,
crazy world we live in. Anyway, seven fifteen, we're gonna
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Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
Seven twenty one if you have cares the Talk station
A very happy Monday to you. Always extra special time
to be tuned into the morning show because we are blessed,
at least I feel that way. To hear from the
former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, venting his
spleen for the smith event, Christopher Smithman, Welcome back, my friend.
Love having you on my show.

Speaker 8 (01:27:18):
Oh brother, thank you so much for having me each week.
And there's so much going on, like most we can't even.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Keep up with it.

Speaker 8 (01:27:28):
Oh, I know, I've never felt like this before. Like,
where do you even start, Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
I know, well, welcome to my world. I'd regularly joke
at the end of the week, and last week was
particularly thick stack of stuff that I didn't get to.
You know, I got a realm plus beyond a ream
of paper of stories that I couldn't even talk about
I get in here in the morning, I bring fifteen
twenty maybe more stories that I print off from the
day before as I'm doing research for the show, and

(01:27:57):
then I show up in the morning about an hour
and a half before the show begins to find out
what happened after I went to bed last night, and
then ended up printing like fifteen or twenty more articles
during that period of time. It seems like it just
keeps building and building, and I never get it all
in anyway, so it goes Well.

Speaker 8 (01:28:14):
What I want to talk about is this notion that
the President of the United States had to sign an
executive order that stated that boys can't compete against girls
against sports. That common sense to say that the President

(01:28:38):
of the United States had to sign an executive order
that said boys can't compete against girl in sports in
the United States of America and then have the NCAA go, oh, yeah,
we'll follow what the executive order said. Well, if you

(01:28:58):
cared about girls, if you thought about fairness, you could
have responded first and had the courage to stand on
your conviction and not wait for the President to walk
in with common sense that say, hey, boys can't compete
against girl in sports. What an amazing week to have

(01:29:22):
the president sitting there surrounded by girls who are dancers, gymnasts, swimmers,
probably in some sport of karate wrestling, whatever the sport was.
They're surrounding him looking adorable. He has a pen, He's

(01:29:43):
giving the pins out to all the little girls, saying,
I just protected you. So if you go in the
boxing ring, you're not going to get knocked out by
a dude.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
Yeah, And you hearing you say it like that, Christopher,
You know here we are or in this we're in
twenty twenty five, and we have been living with this
reality that boys were competing against girls now for the
past four or five years, that somehow that was supposed
to be normal. Christopher, do you think that has anything

(01:30:15):
to do with the fact that Donald Trump got overwhelmingly
elected anything at all? I mean gone, the open borders
and the national debt, everything else you can throw in
any of the equation, just the mere concept that people
refused the scientific fact that there's a chromosomal and of
course genital difference between men and women, and that men

(01:30:36):
have a biologically built in advantage from a physical standpoint
over women. Like we didn't all know that going in.

Speaker 8 (01:30:45):
It's this remarkable moment where you know the LGBTQ plus community,
by the way, I support I.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Know I do too. Listen, I think you know, I know.

Speaker 8 (01:30:59):
Crazy about I just has nothing to do with being anti.
This is common sense, you know. And you know I
have a son who's openly gay, and so this notion
that if you're listening to the audiences out there like
baul Man, Smitherman doesn't support the LGBTQ.

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
No, I have a daughter.

Speaker 8 (01:31:21):
I have a beautiful daughter who swims for a phenomenal
school in Cincinnati by the name of Seaton. And let
me tell you something, guy, we commit our life from
September until now. All weekend we've been swimming. I want
you to hear this, brother, We've been in the pool

(01:31:42):
all across the state of Ohio. Any parent out there
who shaking their head like we have been in swim
meets all day Saturday, all day Sunday with our girls
and they are literally making the decision of whether they
can make it to regionals by a tenth of a second.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Hit of a second, Yes, sir, hey.

Speaker 8 (01:32:02):
You're telling me you're gonna put a man or a
boy in that race. That could knock out one.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
Of our girls.

Speaker 8 (01:32:10):
So she's been swimming three years. Some of them are
seniors four years. They're trying to get scholarships to colleges.
This is their life, man. They wake up in the morning,
swim in the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
They swim.

Speaker 8 (01:32:21):
If their diet is their sleep, is their school is everything?

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:32:27):
A young lady, her name is Sarah, and hope she
can hear.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
Me from Seaton.

Speaker 8 (01:32:31):
Right. She's swimmed the five hundred, which are twenty laps. Look, man,
she won a slot at regionals a tenth of a second.
That's all it was. So the President signing that executive
order saying boys can't be swimming in pools or boxing
rings or wrestling or karate or whatever it is, frack

(01:32:54):
with our girls make all the sense of the world.
And politically, Brian Thomas, he's bringing the suburban women home
who were saying, you know what, we didn't know how
we could deal, how what we thought about Trump. But
the reality was is they got in these worlds with
their soccer balls, and all of a sudden, they've got

(01:33:15):
boys out.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
There playing against their girls.

Speaker 8 (01:33:18):
Or they got they've got girls and pools and They've
got boys.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
In there swimming against.

Speaker 8 (01:33:23):
Their daughters, and people woke up and said, listen, we've
lost our common sense, and we had to have a
President of the United States this week sign in executive
order telling the NCAA and the Olympics that girls get
to get to participate in their sports and we're going
to protect them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Coming through liven career, Christopher pause, We'll bring you back.
You give me Vietnam flashbacks thinking about my time on
the Marlins in high school swimming with all that talk
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Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
Five Karsity talk station, and Happy Monday talking with Christopher
Smithman doing the smith Event. I spent too much time
in a pool, Christopher. I didn't even want to swim
in college. There could have been a college out that
the wo'd offer me a scholarship. I would have said no.
I hung my suit up. After I graduated from my
high school, I was captain of the swim team. The
year I graduated, I hung my suit up and I
just looked at it and thought, there is no blanking

(01:36:26):
way I'm putting in another ten thousand yards swim practice day.
I'm done. So anyway, parted company was swimming.

Speaker 8 (01:36:35):
All you're doing is telling your listing audience that you
are a complete stud na.

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
Your walking around the pool. Baby.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
No, I owe it to my parents. If I had
my way, I wouldn't have been on Marlins and I
probably wouldn't have been a swimmer, you know. But my
parents insisted that I do something with my life and
that I exercised, and it also helped me to stay
out of trouble. Christopher, how much trouble can your dog
getting given how much time she spends in the pool
and its swim meets zero zero sport?

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
Where where is your daughter?

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
She's in the pool.

Speaker 8 (01:37:17):
And let me and let me give a real shout
out for the coach, Jody Shaffer. And I know you
know as a swim of your coaches are just phenomenal
for seating, So I just thank her for all.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
Of the great work.

Speaker 8 (01:37:29):
That she does with all of the girls on the
seat and team. And let me just say this to
you in my in my screen that this morning on
what I think is a very serious matter, and you
were talking about it earlier, and that is identifying the
waste and corruption at the federal level. And I've been

(01:37:50):
watching congressional members and have so many different tentacles try
to kill the messenger.

Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
Yeah, so you're trying to kill Eli. Musk keeps the messenger.

Speaker 8 (01:38:00):
But what I didn't hear any of them say is
that what he's communicating is alive. Are all the things
that you're talking about that you've been listing this morning,
that you were listing last week of all of its
wasteful spending that most people would say, I didn't even
know my tax dollars. We're about to file our taxes
in April, sub will file in October. But the reality

(01:38:23):
of it is that we're all filing our taxes, getting
our ten ninety nine, our W twos and all of
its money we see that we sent to the federal government.
The timing could not have been better, and listened to
you in the morning just lifts off these.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
Things, just sends you into just a complete rage.

Speaker 8 (01:38:42):
And so to see congressional members protesting that for in
support of UFA the organization and then going to the
Department of Education instead of going to your neighbor public
school that's failing, You're going to the mothership that We're saying, Hey,
what's happening here, what's the accountability? We're paying a lot

(01:39:05):
per student. We know our teachers are working hard, we
know their overwork. But the reality of it is, we
know that students are suffering across the United States and
our public school system. What are we going to do
about it? I was baffled, even ashamed to see congressional
members marching and acting like they were having some civil

(01:39:27):
rights movement against the Department of Education. And we need
to fix the system so that our children are getting
a good education.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Well stated Christopher. It really is a sorry state of affairs.
We spend more on a per student education in this
country than any other country in the world, and yet
we are so far behind other countries. It's embarrassing. It's
a disservice to our children, our young people. The eradication
of critical thinking skills, the eradication of phonics, the eradication

(01:39:56):
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Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
The talk station seven thirty nine took about krc DE
talk station Happy Monday doing that Smithman smith event thing.
Christopher Smithman, I appreciate your venting this morning. I sharing
your thoughts and comments. We got fellow swimmers out there

(01:42:33):
who been through the same thing. I just got an
email from a guy named Jeff who sends me stuff
all the time. He swam for the Dayton Dolphins, he said,
Later for wsu Geez, he said, Kodles, kudos to My
parents were sitting through endless hours of swim meets just
to see me compete in a few events. Day long event,
I mean two three days of of of swim you

(01:42:54):
know day long swim meets where you had these you know,
invitationals with with teams coming from all over the place.
I remember I had to go to Canada, for a
swim meet once jeez, you sit around and sit around
and stew in your own juices until hey, you're up
for your fifty meter freestyle. You swim, you know, you're
in the water for like twenty eight seconds, and then
waiting around for another three hours for your next event.

(01:43:17):
Vietnam like flashbacks for me, Christopher.

Speaker 8 (01:43:20):
And the place is the place is so hot hot, yes, unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
It is unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (01:43:26):
The building is like on fire. And in high school,
everybody is stripping down into their shorts right, layered up,
and then you just everybody's like all their jeeans are off,
they got our shorts, they have a T shirt on, right.

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
And think about this too, Christopher. I bet it's exactly
the same as it was back when I was swimming,
because none of the student body would show up like
they do in football games or basketball games and every
like we go to the game. Yeah, let's go to
the football game this Sunday whatever, and you no one
from the student body would to watch a swim beat.

Speaker 3 (01:44:02):
That's true.

Speaker 8 (01:44:04):
And just the parents, the grandparents of the off those
and friends. I mean it's that's that's.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
What it is. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:44:15):
Well, you know, one of the things I want to
end with Brian, and it's serious, and this is the
neo Nazi stuff that we saw in Lincoln Heights is
an African American neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
One of the one of the.

Speaker 8 (01:44:29):
One of the citizens that the Americans that they approached
is a good friend of mine. His first name is Eric.
He's a small business owner, beautiful wife, Marla, a girl, dad,
three three daughters. His small business is right across that bridge.

(01:44:49):
He worked seven days a week and I know he
was going into work and to have those guys approach
his truck with their weapons mostly might not understand that
these guys were approaching vehicles. Well, they approached my friends
and they're screaming. They're screaming the N word at him.

Speaker 18 (01:45:09):
Now, you have to know my friend, who's nothing but
a country boy, hard worker every day, built this business
with his wife and his daughters, worked many of them
in that business with them.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
But he is a.

Speaker 8 (01:45:22):
Second Amendment gun carrying dude.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
He's the wrong truck to walk up on.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
And I'm telling you, you guy, he's the.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Wrong guy to pick a fight with.

Speaker 8 (01:45:32):
And but my point to you is that we have
to as Americans and I'm using that word. All of
us must stick together against that craziness. It has no place,
It has no place in our society.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
And also it.

Speaker 8 (01:45:50):
Has nothing to do with any politician. Right, So, these
kinds of organizations have been around for hundreds of years,
they probably because of hate, will stay around for another hundred.
We just have to as Americans, because we are the
great experiment, we just have to know how to respond

(01:46:11):
without creating greater violence and making sure that they understand
that you and I, as brothers, we stand against that
craziness that has no place in America.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
Yeah, exactly, I mean, you know, and Christopher, I just
really well, obviously you can call them to question the
wisdom of someone who embraces that ridiculous philosophy. But they're
what twelve or thirteen of those fill in the blank
with the sec inappropriate language that I can't use to
describe them. And they're in and all virtually all black,

(01:46:48):
with the biggest all black community in the greater Cincinnati area. Right,
that's Lincoln Heights.

Speaker 8 (01:46:53):
Yeah, that's right, Lincoln Heights Baptist Church, one of the
historic African American Baptist churches in our region, and its pastor.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
Pastor was on TV responding, I mean.

Speaker 8 (01:47:05):
It's the wrong place to be and it could have
been gone really bad. It's I give my kudos out
to the Lincoln Heights, Lincoln Heights community, the pastors there,
you know, the community for not responding with violence, because
it's easy to do when you've got guys walking around

(01:47:26):
with assault rifle and they're actually approaching vehicles and calling
you crazy things. Anything could have happened this weekend, and
I just want to be that one of those voices,
like you've already went your voice to say, listen, this
is not the best of America, and it doesn't matter
what our race is. We can just call that out

(01:47:46):
as craziness and keep it moving.

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
Well again, you didn't call me looking for an argument today, Christopher.
I just you know, I just don't understand them. I
really don't, you know, And and and you know the
other thing I don't understand Christopher, And he kind of
alluded to it already. This is nothing with a politician
that someone had the audacity or people have the audacity
to say this is somehow connected with Donald Trump, the
presence of Nazis. Anybody can organize anybody. We have the

(01:48:15):
right to the free exercise. We have the right to
free speech, even protect even Nazi speech is protected with
there's a Supreme Court, huge Supreme Court case on that.
So they're allowed to say what they want. But I
embrace the idea of these idiots come out of their
holes and say it out loud so we know who
the idiots are. The only problem is they were too
afraid to show their faces. They're all covered eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:48:38):
That's right, that's right, they're masked up. They don't want
people to know exactly who they are, which tells you
that they're cowards, because if they really believed in what
they were saying, they would show us who they are.
Let me in by saying to you, Brian that the
Super Bowl was okay. I really couldn't get into it

(01:48:59):
for a lot of the swim meet is at the
top of the list. But but let me say this
to you. To have the President of the United States,
which I didn't know was the first time a president
had ever attended a Super Bowl was phenomenal. And to
feel that American drum beat going through what most would

(01:49:22):
say the most important game are sport of the of
the year was just a wonderful, wonderful thing of bringing
us together and uniting us. And my heart went out
to all of those young people and older people who
lost their lives in that terroist attack. The story about

(01:49:45):
the brothers, because you know, you don't hear a lot
about those who lost their lives, So when you start
hearing about these stories about two brothers, both of them
were athletes. The older brother was there, lost his life,
the other brothers up for the draft. Asked his mom
and dad there, Lady God, that did a beautiful job singing.

(01:50:06):
What a beautiful voice she has. I don't anybody who
hasn't heard Lady Gaga that she really can sing. There's
some artists out here who can't sing. She's not one
of them. She really can sing. But to bring everybody
together with that kind of tone with our military was
really a wonderful thing. I was more into that piece
of it than what was happening on the field. Quite frankly,

(01:50:28):
we need more unification around our flag, around patriotism, which
has this notion that if you love our flagging, you
love our country. You and I can't say that our
country is imperfect, and we're still working on it. It's
still an experiment, but I can still stand for the

(01:50:49):
national anthem. I could take my hat off for the
national anthem. I can do the pledge of allegiance, and
I can bring honor to the greatest country in the world,
and that I'm so honored to be here, to be
able to participate in and do well in with all
of its shortcomings, it's still the greatest place in the
world to be And that's what I felt with the

(01:51:11):
President being there. And I love hearing the players say
I am honored to play in front of the President
of the United States of America because they are honoring
the position. Has get out of the personality and get
into respecting the position. The President of the United States
is here.

Speaker 1 (01:51:30):
Yeah, it's a great observation, Christopher, and I might pivot
back over to the Nazis showing up on the bridge
in Lincoln Heights. Look what happened the next day, A
whole group the pastors met. They had a whole group
of people coming out to protest that joining together in
an anti Nazi message, which is something that we can
all support. So maybe there's a little positive that came
out of the negativity of those filling the blank people

(01:51:52):
hanging out on the bridge, the big, strong, massive contrast
showing of support the following day against the message that
they were allegedly spewing.

Speaker 8 (01:52:03):
Good see, well, look at us when people come to
the listener lunch.

Speaker 11 (01:52:07):
It's diverse.

Speaker 8 (01:52:08):
I mean this notion that your listening audience is diverse,
the people that listen. And so, you know, all we
do is keep spreading truth and love and support common
sense whatever those words are to this craziness. And you know,
and I agree with you. I'm glad that the Lincoln
Heights community came out and they did a piece peaceful protest,

(01:52:33):
you know, in in response to the neo Nazis.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
But I just want to be real.

Speaker 8 (01:52:38):
Look, hate is going to stay in the hearts of
some people for the for a hundred years, is never
going to end. All we can do is know how
to live around it, through it, over it, pray for them,
and keep it moving.

Speaker 3 (01:52:55):
What we don't want to.

Speaker 8 (01:52:56):
Do, right is respond in the same lafel of violence
that they're doing. That's that's what they want. They win
when we do that. Love all of those responses, and
I love the people that can drive by them and
say sticks and stones, you know, but their words aren't
going to hurt me at all.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
We're going to keep We're going to keep it moving.

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
But I appreciate you, Brian Thomas, Man we are I
think that this week is going to be a week
of terifs.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
I don't care what China thinks.

Speaker 8 (01:53:28):
China could be mad at us from here until the
next three hundred years. America better wake up and understand
that China is coming and they're thinking about the long game,
and we better have elected officials that are honed in
on what China is doing. So we are prepared. Recruitment
for the military is up for a reason, and we

(01:53:49):
better prepare this generation for what we are headed for,
which eventually.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
Will be a war.

Speaker 8 (01:53:55):
This is an economic war, it's a political war. But
at some point, Brian Thomas, world War three will happen.
It Free Pills, is that we just have to be
prepared for, Brian Thomas, That's the truth. It might be
one hundred years from now, it might be fifty, it
might be two hundred years.

Speaker 13 (01:54:12):
Got it. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:54:13):
The reality of it is, world War three will happen.
The question will be will this great United States of
America be ready for it? If we spend on time
fighting each other, focus on things that aren't important. They
will forget who the real enemies are.

Speaker 1 (01:54:29):
Well, what have brother? I'm done a positive note, got
to run though, Christopher from you again Monday. Take care
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Speaker 19 (01:55:53):
And and you two, and welcome to NFL off season.
We need to officially start hearing what the Bengals may
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Speaker 19 (01:56:24):
Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs. It just seems to me,
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about tariffs.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
You know what, next week, at this moment, we'll probably
be talking about them too.

Speaker 19 (01:56:36):
It seems to be the theme of twenty twenty five
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did talk about last week. So last week, the announcement
was that we'd announced the United States announced new tariffs
against Canada. That was twenty five percent tariffs on most imports,
just just just a wide range of everything. And you
and I went through a list of weirdness of stuff
that was on there. And then also it's only a

(01:56:58):
ten percent tariff on Canadian energy products. That was there
was an announcement there that Canada was going to come
back and slap some tariffs back.

Speaker 11 (01:57:06):
On the US in exchange.

Speaker 19 (01:57:08):
And then everybody decided, hey, wait a minute, let's chill out,
let's give it a month, and let's just kind of
see how things go.

Speaker 11 (01:57:13):
Let's just all be friends.

Speaker 19 (01:57:15):
So today the news is that the United States is
going to oppose a twenty five percent tariff on all
steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico. And by
the way, let's not forget why are we targeting Canada
and Mexico because there are friends, right, we want to
target our enemy.

Speaker 11 (01:57:30):
That seems to have changed. Right.

Speaker 19 (01:57:33):
Canada and Mexico are by far the largest trading partners
of the United States. So in twenty twenty three, we
had eight hundred billion dollars worth of goods and services
exchange with Mexico, seven seventy three with Canada, and then
it starts to drop off. China was five hundred and
seventy five billion, then Germany at two hundred and on
down from there. So we are basically slugging our best

(01:57:53):
friends right in the mouth to see how they react.
This is a trade war. It's what it looks like,
it is what it feels like.

Speaker 11 (01:57:59):
And we'll we'll.

Speaker 19 (01:58:00):
See if President Trump is able to get what he
wants out of this, will we stick to it.

Speaker 11 (01:58:03):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:58:04):
Well, the original tariffs that we were previously talking about
that got put on hold for thirty days, President Trump
specifically stated it was an effort to get them to
pony up some help on border security, and in response,
both Mexico and Canada said, yeah, we will, and they
allocated resources and troops to go to their various borders
and help us control the illegal immigrant population. And so

(01:58:25):
that's why pausive tariffs. This don't isn't connected with any
specific announcement that I saw in Caes like, we are
doing this because fill in the blank. It's just because
we're importing the steel and aluminum from other countries, is it.
Do you think has it been expressed somewhere that has
Trump's hope that this will bring back the manufacturing of
steel and aluminum in our country.

Speaker 19 (01:58:47):
Yeah, I think that underlies a lot of the decisions
you're going to see this administration make at the end
of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:58:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:58:52):
Yeah, we want to stop the bad stuff from flowing
across the borders, and this is a great way to
get attention and do it. But another goal, and I
don't want to call it a secondary goal, it's just
another goal, is to impose the United States a little
more in the world order of how these goods and
services get traded. So we are we are an expensive nation.
You and I talk about this all the time. It's

(01:59:12):
expensive to produce things here because of all the rules
and regulations we have. Some are good and should be there,
some are a little probably a little overdone and maybe
need to be reviewed. But currently all we're trying to
do because it's going to be harder to get all
the all the regulation and all that stuff out. It's
going to take more time, a lot more time to
reduce the impact of that. But we're simply making it

(01:59:33):
more expensive form for other countries to compete with US. Uh,
And that to me, that's a band aid, right, that's
simply saying, in the short run, we can just make
it more expensive for other countries to push their goods
into the United States while in the background we're trying
to reduce That's why you're hearing about this department's gone
and this one's under review. Whether this stuff is constitutional.

(01:59:53):
Who knows, uh, not a constant constitutional law expert here.
But the goal there would be to reduce the long
term cost of producing these goods in the United States.
In the short run, we're going to increase our competitiveness
by just making it more expensive for other countries to
compete here.

Speaker 1 (02:00:10):
Yeah. And I don't know if to get to point B,
which is making it easier to manufacture here, I mean,
do we have to go through the pain? I don't know.
Trump's got that you know, if every one regulation that's implemented,
you got get rid of ten. It used to be two.
But maybe the ten regulations that we're getting rid of
might impact the cost of doing business in the United States.
I mean, we've created this expense here. We've got OSHU,

(02:00:33):
we've got EPA, We've got all these rules and regulations.
We've got you know, union mandates in terms of contracts
they negotiated for, you know, really expensive hourly wages and
mandatory work conditions and everything just makes it more expensive.
Of course, if you can use slave labor like in
China to manufacturer steel, of course it's going to be
a lot cheaper. I mean, you know, we have kind

(02:00:53):
of done it to ourselves in many respects. Not to
negate your legitimate point that some of these rules and
regulations are important. It's just there's too many of them.

Speaker 11 (02:01:02):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 19 (02:01:02):
And we've never really had at least I can't think
of in my adult memory. I'm about fifty years old,
and I cannot think of my adult memory of any kind.

Speaker 11 (02:01:10):
Of major review or overhaul.

Speaker 19 (02:01:13):
Whenever the idea surfaced in Congress to get some of
these things cleaned up, then it would be quickly shot
down from the other side. I look at the social
security argument we talk about that doesn't work either, and
bills hit the floor every year, several times a year
to actually address that problem, but they're very easily shot.

Speaker 11 (02:01:31):
Down by either side.

Speaker 19 (02:01:32):
Well, now all of a sudden, there appears to be
a third side that doesn't really have to cowtow to
the other two sides. Now again, whether this stuff holds
up in court, that's going to be the challenge, because
there's some things coming out of DC right now that
have nothing to do and go completely counter to the Constitution.
Whether they're good moves bad moves, somebody is going to
stand up and say, hey, this does not go go

(02:01:54):
with the words that are in our constitution that we
all agreed was a pretty good idea a few hundred
years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:01:59):
Yeah, And like all things, ultimately, litigation will result and
we'll finally get some answer when it finally ultimately reaches
the Supreme Court if it goes out high. But you know,
you're talking multiple years for any of these things to
see the light of some final decision.

Speaker 19 (02:02:14):
Absolutely, and I think that's why Trump's taking the approach
that he is, which is just let's just slam the
door on these things. Whatever happens, maybe the glass in
the door breaks, who cares, We'll clean it up. I'm
not waving the flag saying this is a great idea.
It is definitely a different idea, and it's a different
approach sort of that scorch and burn. Let's burn everything down,
tear it all apart, and we will rebuild the stuff
that we have to rebuild and leave alone the stuff

(02:02:36):
that apparently wasn't necessary in the first place. A lot
of that comes from Elon Musk. That that is Elon
Musk to way. If you read his biography, if you
see how he built those businesses, he would he had
very strict rules about same as you just mentioned. If
we're going to put one rule in place, we're going
to get rid of five others. Every rule he creates
must have somebody's name attached to it, so that ten

(02:02:56):
years from now we can go back to that person.

Speaker 11 (02:02:58):
To say, why does this rule exist and do we
still need it?

Speaker 19 (02:03:01):
Versus like you said, regulations that have been in place
for decades that may or may not have any application anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
Right, and many of them redundant. Many of them, you know,
just outlandishly expensive too. That's saying that's the key. You
got to pay a legal department to pay attention to
the CODA FED federal regulations. And for every hour spent
by a lawyer, that is profit that's being taken away
from the company and time spent on something that most
prudent businesses really wish they didn't have to spend any
time on.

Speaker 19 (02:03:26):
Yeah, and that's the American way legal companies and now
they realize this is a huge opportunity. The more the
messier this is, the more confusing it is, the more
profit can be made. You know, look at look at
the TurboTax people. Oh, I know the biggest lobbies in DC.
Let's like people confused them unable to do their own taxes.

Speaker 13 (02:03:42):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:03:42):
If I could lay hands on a problem, I think
that would be the first place I go. The United
States tax code. It's insane and all it is used
for as a vehicle for the federal government to manipulate
businesses into doing things that they otherwise wouldn't do as
prudent in businesses. Any pause, We're going to take an early,
slightly early break eight four. Team will bring him back
and we'll talk about your insurance rates are going up,

(02:04:03):
stating the obvious, but why also how much you planned
on spending on Valentine's Day. One more segment with Brian
James this morning, be right back fifty five KARC the
talk station eight eighteen fifty five KRCD Talk Station Brian
Thomas with Brian James from Aulworth Mancher doing Money Monday, Wow,
Insurance r. I know insurance rates are going through the roof, Brian,

(02:04:25):
and one might think immediately that it's because of the
natural disasters. You got wildfires in California, you got hurricanes
hitting the Florida and you know, running through in the
flooding in North Carolina, and all this obviously has to
be paid for by insurance companies, assuming insurance companies are
actually insuring these these these dwellings. But as I understand,
it's large part the growing insurance rates are because of

(02:04:49):
litigation lawsuits, at least the corner of this article from
Fox Business, I have Brian there you are, yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 11 (02:05:02):
There, we are sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (02:05:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:05:04):
So they're calling it the Torque tax.

Speaker 19 (02:05:07):
The average American household is going to pay about forty
two hundred dollars a year through their premiums due to
these litigation costs, which is simply that that's just how
we've grown as a Society's we've always been a litigious
society because at the end of the day, in the
good old United States, a profit margin Suing people is
a great way to make money, right, we all kind
of know this, but it's gotten worse and worse. Just

(02:05:27):
like anything else anywhere, it is recognized that a profit
can be made, a profit will be made, and it
will be maximized and optimized. So there are companies out
there who solely exist to take on lawsuits for people.
For example, if you're if you're involved in some kind
of a medical malpractice suit, there are plenty of law
firms out there that have investors behind them who are

(02:05:49):
investing in the research of that lawsuit. The person who
was wronged by it will financially benefit, of course if
there's a win, but obviously getting a much smaller percentage.
These are literally like they're starting to look like little
startup companies. Right, something happens to somebody and there's and
there's a somewhat clear you know, medical malpractice type of
a suit. Well, let's not just sue the medical provider

(02:06:11):
behind it. Let's get as much as we possibly can,
regardless of the impact. This is just skyrocketing, and it's
literally raising your and my insurance premiums because the insurance
companies have to react to that as well as of
course they have their own profit motivations as well. So
there's a lot going on out there that is going
to continue to raise these costs.

Speaker 1 (02:06:29):
Yeah, and I was really you know, I was a
litigation attorney for sixteen years. I involved I did defense work,
you know, towards liability, a product liability that a lot
of those defended companies like Cooper Industries for injuries that
were claimed to be as a consequence of something that
their product did. But this idea that that attorneys are
are expanding the expectations of the basically the jury pool

(02:06:53):
by advertising My client got twenty million dollars from this
auto accident and then going into court making wailed outlandish
claims for damages because you know, you got to start someplace.
It's like a negotiation. It's like Trump start now. You know,
I'm gonna buy Greenland. Maybe you just get this. The
conversation started about how we can improve relations with it
or whatever you got to start somewhere. But they start

(02:07:15):
these crazy amounts and juries get it in their mind that, well,
that's kind of normal. But it's not. There's no connection
with these wild claims of damages to the reality of
the injury that that person allegedly suffered.

Speaker 19 (02:07:28):
Yeah, but you're right, those eight and sometimes nine digit
jury verdicts are becoming normalized, and that's why you have
these signs shoved in your face. You're just trying to
drive to work or run to the grocery store, and
you're seeing billboards that advertise this, We're seeing it on
social media. It's just a way that this industry. Then
I'm gonna go ahead and call this an industry. It's
little cottage industry, I would say, Yeah, is affecting how you,

(02:07:50):
as a potential juror might react. So, in other words,
when you finally do land in that jury box, as
all of us will probably once in our lives, you
won't blink at the idea of a ten million dollar
verdict that itself has a has a nickname. Nuclear verdicts
is what they're calling jury verdicts of ten million dollars
or more. The top one hundred of these have increased
by about three hundred and fifty percent in the last

(02:08:10):
six years. Overall personal injury verdicts since twenty ten are
up three hundred and nineteen percent, so we're seeing a
huge increase. Again, it's just a place, it's just a
new business. There are literally investors here, yeah, supporting law firms,
just like you would you would raise funds for a
technology company or something like that. They're supporting law firms
who will go chase and prosecute these quote unquote opportunities.

Speaker 1 (02:08:33):
You know what, this seems to me just a screaming
cry for some ethics reforms and some rules governing the
practice of law, because this article points out that foreign parties,
for example, the Chinese Communist Party are some of the
investors who finance these lawsuits. I mean the idea of
some outside person financing and then glombing onto some chunk

(02:08:55):
of the award which should have either gone to the
planefs lawyers who did the legal work, or or to
their client who they represent, but that they have to
shell out a chunk of this jury or you can
give to some third party investor. That just seems to
be just completely unethical. But who am I but a priortigation.

Speaker 11 (02:09:12):
Rationally thinking American.

Speaker 19 (02:09:14):
Unfortunately, we just put an administration in place that is
not going to lift a finger to do that. Because
to fight that, because that's going to be more regulation,
we're going to be going the opposite direction.

Speaker 11 (02:09:24):
You're going to hear more and more about this.

Speaker 1 (02:09:26):
Well, I don't know that it requires federal legislation. This
requires like state bar associations to enact rules that say
you just can't do that. As a lawyer in the
state practicing here, that is prohibited period. It could be
done grassroots efforts have to get the plaintiffs bar behind it.
Ha ha. Good luck with that, all right, Brian, The
answer for me is nothing. I may buy a card

(02:09:46):
to celebrate the day of our engagement, but you know,
Valentine's Day is just like any other day of the
week from my perspective, and it's just an excuse for
people to feel like they've got to go out and
spend a lot of money, and apparently they do.

Speaker 11 (02:09:58):
They do.

Speaker 19 (02:09:58):
Indeed, so we're expected to spend twenty five point eight
billion dollars eh in this Yeah, that's a lot a
lot of money.

Speaker 11 (02:10:05):
That chocolate just got expensive.

Speaker 19 (02:10:07):
Uh, And we'll spend an average of one hundred and
eighty five dollars on gifts and experiences.

Speaker 11 (02:10:12):
Now this, this, this blows my mind.

Speaker 19 (02:10:14):
I hope Michelle James is not expecting one hundred and
eighty five dollars worth of gifts and experiences if you
take She would flap me straight across the face if
I did that anything.

Speaker 11 (02:10:22):
That's why I married her the first place.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
Night She's prudent, she's frugal. She knows the value of
a dollar, and she has low expectations that you're gonna
go out and shot a boatload of money for well,
just another day.

Speaker 19 (02:10:34):
She is so frugal that the first time I bought
her flowers a million years ago, she yelled at me
because flowers are expensive and they die, and we've got
more important things to spend money on.

Speaker 1 (02:10:43):
Sounds like you, very well the same kind of woman
as mine. My wife is very frugal and prudent. And yes,
that's that's wonderful. So maybe reflect on that. And if
you get yelled at for not spending a whole bunch
of money on Valentine's Day, you might want to reflect
on that too, Brian.

Speaker 11 (02:10:59):
I really am not. I'm too worried that that's gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:11:01):
Be a You have e buff, brother, you have e buff.
That's why I'll be married thirty three years in June.
It's a lot of the big reasons anyway, Brian James
always appreciate our conversations. And we'll do it again next
Monday for another edition of Money Monday. And thanksgeting to
all word for loading you out.

Speaker 11 (02:11:15):
You bet enjoy it. Every week we'll talk to you them.

Speaker 1 (02:11:17):
All right, look forward to it eight twenty five right now.
Coming up next Mandy A Gunna Sakara with the book
Y'all Fired, Southern Bell's Guide to Restoring Federalism and Draining
the Swamp. We talked with her last October, bringing her
back on to talk about what she thinks about Elon
Musk and the Doge Department and the draining of the swamp.
I hope he can stick around fifty five KRC the
simply sh eight thirty fifty bout KRCD Talk Station. Very

(02:11:39):
Happy Monday too. You made you an extra special happy
because the return of Mandy Gunnas Sakara, author of Y'all Fired,
A Southern Bell's Guide to Restoring Federalism and Draining the Swamp.
We had he around in October when the book first
came out. She's spent at the center of the US
energy and environmental policy for a full decade from the
Senate cloak room of the Oval Office of veteran environmental attorney,
energy strategist, and communicator, served during President Trump's first term.

(02:12:01):
Is Chief of Staff at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Currently a visiting fellow the Heritage Foundation, and welcome back.
It is a real pleasure to have you back on
the show, Mandy.

Speaker 16 (02:12:11):
Yeah, good to be with you.

Speaker 3 (02:12:12):
Brian.

Speaker 1 (02:12:12):
I mean, can I just sort of sum up what
I think your perception is that this Doge Department is
like the answer to your dreams?

Speaker 16 (02:12:21):
Yeah, I think you summed it up. Well, it really is.
And man, it's such a.

Speaker 20 (02:12:25):
Beautiful thing to see because having been on the inside,
even in my position as chief of staff and the
access to the information that I had, it was hard
to paint the whole picture. You could pinpoint specific types
of waste, fraud or abuse or redundancies and efficiencies. You
could pinpoint those sorts of things, but it really is

(02:12:47):
a beautiful thing where you have someone like Elon and
his really talented team of software engineers going and looking
at the data and then painting a big picture in
ways that all of us can understand and all of
us can see. Is an absolute misuse of taxpayer resources.
So yeah, it's an answer to a lot of prayers.

Speaker 1 (02:13:04):
Actually, well, sunlight, it's a great disinfect and lord ness,
we're getting a lot of it. And you one of
the problems that I'm sure you probably during your period
of time in the administration were as frustrated as anybody else,
the obstructionism that comes when when people that are responsible
for the oversight of our dollars, subcommittees, committees, the congressmen,
the congress women, the senators, when they're told basically go

(02:13:25):
to hell when they ask for information.

Speaker 20 (02:13:28):
Yeah, really, I know, I know, it's it's really frustrating,
and it's you know, that is part of their responsibility.
Their responsibility is to report back to the public how
they're using these funds and what it's actually doing. But
it's not just the members of Congress. I mean, it's
also these bureaucrats, these entrenched deep state bureaucrats.

Speaker 16 (02:13:48):
And here's the truth. There is a there is a crisis.

Speaker 20 (02:13:52):
Of expertise on Capitol Hill, Frankly, you have a lot
of people there that don't really know what they're doing,
so they're wholly depending on deep state bureaucrats who've been
working at their job for thirty years to give them
information they don't otherwise know how to get.

Speaker 16 (02:14:07):
So that's how the deep state works.

Speaker 20 (02:14:08):
They don't give them all the information. Maybe they give
them a little drip drip here. But it's been many
decades of this type of imbalance between an agency funded
to eight at the tune of eight billion dollars and
as EPA is an example, with that oversight staff of
less than two million.

Speaker 16 (02:14:27):
Dollars trying to perform oversight, and.

Speaker 20 (02:14:29):
So you just have this massive mismatch and the resulting
consequences is just decades of layers of complexity and us
not knowing how our resources are spent well.

Speaker 1 (02:14:39):
And it's also seemed to be very obviously a just
simple lack of care of how money is spent. I mean,
Musk over the weekend was talking about, you know, over
looking at through the Department of Treasury, right Treasury Department,
and he says, you know, I was told that there
were currently over one hundred billion dollars a year of
in time went payments individual with no those social Security number,

(02:15:01):
even a temporary ID number. And see, you know, he
pulls the room and Treasury he says, what percentage of
that is unequivocal obvious fraud? And the consensus in the
room was at least fifty billion dollars of it. That's
something that's simple to fix. Look, no social Security number,
no ID, you don't get any money. How hard is that?

Speaker 20 (02:15:20):
It shouldn't be difficult at all. But that's what these agencies,
they've just become all about, constantly asking for more money.
There is no incentive for the everyday bureaucrat to find
ways to be incentive to find ways to cut costs
and to be truthful about the expenditure.

Speaker 16 (02:15:38):
Of those costs.

Speaker 20 (02:15:39):
And there's this this mentality, this culture in DC that
people are almost entitled to these taxpayer resources. And when
you come in and you ask questions, they like to
pretend like they're these global do gooders and they're saying, oh,
but this poor person is going to lose access to
these resources.

Speaker 16 (02:15:56):
That they really need.

Speaker 20 (02:15:57):
Meanwhile, that person isn't even getting the fund to the
extent they're getting any it's barely enough to actually live.

Speaker 16 (02:16:03):
But you know what's coming off the top.

Speaker 20 (02:16:05):
A fair amount is coming off the top and going
to nonprofits that either pad them personally or their relatives
or just grow the power of the left, which is
ultimately what they want.

Speaker 1 (02:16:14):
Yeah, non governmental organizations NGOs, you know, and quite the
old we're five oh one c three, we're not for profit. Yeah,
but you're making a salary of four hundred and five
hundred thousand dollars a year, is president or CEO the
five o' one C three. I mean, that's what's happening.

Speaker 16 (02:16:30):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And it's it's so discussing.

Speaker 20 (02:16:34):
It's so many of them is going to the spouses
of people. Yeah, you know, just just look at the
net worth of someone like Samantha Power. She was the administrator,
that head essentially of USAID, and her net worth grew
five times. I think that's right. It's around that it's
a significant number, grew five times. Her salary has been

(02:16:54):
the same salaries for bureaucrats are typically capped out around
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Yeah, somehow, Well, she
has a mass a multi million dollar fortune, and it
just leaves you scratching your head, huh, where did that
money come from? And it's most likely because it was
funneled to nonprofits of what she or her family was
sitting on the board and they get to reap the

(02:17:15):
benefits of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds going into
their back pocket, and they cover it up by saying, well,
we're helping the poor in the world, We're giving people
in Africa access to water and food. But really they
are just patting their own personal coffers.

Speaker 1 (02:17:30):
Well, and as I read through the list of these
things that the Doge has revealed and the comments from
the senators that you know, I had no idea that
this money was being spent this way, And I said,
wait a second, aren't she responsible for the power of
the purse? Mean, you go ahead and you allocate forty
million dollars to USA, but then you stop. Somebody had

(02:17:50):
to approve the project. But ultimately, you know, twenty million
dollars goes to a sesame street show in a rock
And then how much of that twenty million dollars really
went to the sesame street show in a rock fort.
Actually it didn't land in some corrupt officials pocket. They
don't follow the trail of the money, and so it
just stops once the aid's been allocated to the general
collective us AID fund.

Speaker 20 (02:18:12):
Yeah, that's right, and it's there's no accountability and no oversight.
And that's why you see the people who are screaming
the most, or the ones who have the most to
lose in terms of this personal racket or money laundering scheme,
if you will, that that is what it is. These
people are using their positions of trust and consequence to
siphon money off to the side to their benefit. And

(02:18:35):
they use stories of people that most people would say like, yeah,
they could use some help, or of course we would
want to take care of these vulnerable populations.

Speaker 15 (02:18:44):
They use that.

Speaker 16 (02:18:45):
As a cover for their own sick game.

Speaker 20 (02:18:48):
And those are the people who are sitting outside of
USAID or some of these other areas that are throwing
up their hands, and the Democrat members of Congress who
are at the front of the line because they are
recipients of campaign donations from these people who are putting
taxpayer resources.

Speaker 16 (02:19:05):
In their own pocket.

Speaker 1 (02:19:06):
Yeah, and that's the to me, that is the most
I don't want I want to call it comical that
they're screaming at the top of their lungs over these
funds being identified, these outlandish, outrageous programs that no American
could find straight faced legitimate. They're not saying that the
money didn't go to these stupid programs like shrimp running
on treadmills. They're just screaming about the general focus on

(02:19:31):
USA and the fraud, waste abuse and defending it for
some reason. Just there's there's no denial here. There's no
that didn't happen. That's a lie. Elon Musk is making
that up.

Speaker 20 (02:19:41):
It's yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's just frustrating to see.
And I will say though, it's it's frustrating to see
some of the reaction, but you know, those people are
in the minority now and that is a really wonderful feeling, and.

Speaker 16 (02:19:57):
The cats out of the bag. I mean, again, those
of us who are on the inside.

Speaker 20 (02:20:01):
Some of it was the fact that we didn't really
understand the links the deep State would go to cover
their tracks, and they had decades to figure out ways
to cover up their tracks, and they're very very good
at it.

Speaker 16 (02:20:12):
So we were all in there. You know, you're drinking.

Speaker 20 (02:20:15):
From a fire hose is the words people often used
to describe what it's like to go into these positions,
and a lot of us went in not knowing that
the tricks that the Deep State would use not just
to confuse, but to try to undermine and to hide
what they were actually doing.

Speaker 16 (02:20:31):
All that's over. So it really is.

Speaker 20 (02:20:33):
Great to see Elon Musk, his team, Department of Government Efficiency,
and most importantly, the American people see this and they're
behind the President and his work one hundred and ten percent.

Speaker 1 (02:20:43):
Yeah, and you know it as well as I do. Yeah, Mandy,
that they've only scratched the surface. I mean, Elon Musk
has identified some real low hanging fruit just in one
USA department. I mentioned the Treasury Department. He's worked there
as long as he can get his access back centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Department
of Energy, and Lord Almighty, nobody wants me more, that

(02:21:07):
wants the military spending to be audited more than me.
They can't even pass an audit seven or eight times
in a row. Mandy.

Speaker 16 (02:21:15):
I know, and I'm sure I'm sure you've seen.

Speaker 20 (02:21:17):
There was an interview not too long ago of one
of the uh, one of the heads, one of the
people who was responsible for these types of audits, and
you know, she was just incredulous that.

Speaker 16 (02:21:30):
People would wouldn't trust them.

Speaker 20 (02:21:32):
Yeah, we felled audits, but you don't understand what an
audit is is essentially her response, and it doesn't really matter.
Like again, this goes through there's this culture of people
in DC that are so arrogant and so flippant about
their very real responsibility. And when people come around asking
basic questions that they cannot answer.

Speaker 16 (02:21:51):
Uh, they just they try to belittle you to.

Speaker 20 (02:21:54):
Say that, well, you don't really understand it. If you were,
if you were like me, you would understand. So yeah, look,
Elon Musk is scratching the surface.

Speaker 16 (02:22:02):
This type of.

Speaker 20 (02:22:03):
Misuse and miss expenditure of funds.

Speaker 16 (02:22:08):
It permeates every single agency.

Speaker 20 (02:22:10):
So there's a lot more to come and I'm excited
to see it, for it to finally be exposed.

Speaker 1 (02:22:14):
A lot more to come and maybe even I'll keep
my fingers crossed some criminal investigations into where this money
has landed. Manny gives the car author of Y'all Fired,
A Southern Bell's Guide to Restoring Federalism and draining the swamp.
She had an advance on Doge. This is what the
book's about. And I'm sure, I said, I know she's
seeing it just come all to fruition with it being
ferreted out. Mandy. I got your book up on my

(02:22:36):
blog page, but if I have cares dot com so
people can get a copy of it to the extent
they haven't done it already, and I'll encourage them to
do so. It's been great here talking with you. Keep
up the great work and looking forward to another volume
maybe uh something like along the aftermath lines.

Speaker 20 (02:22:52):
Yeah, what it's like after y'all fired. Yeah, well we'll
come up with a goods out. But thank you, thanks
for having me and thanks for the support.

Speaker 1 (02:22:58):
Well pleasure, Mandy. It's been a real true he