55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Robert Malone

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Empty shelves for lease signs and layoffs, student loans are due,
and is there going to be a housing market correction?
And we'll go over with those topics with Brian James
and get his reaction to the news this morning involving
the tariffs on China and Chinese tariffs on US. Empower
You summitor doctor Robert Malone, injuries from the COVID vaccine

(00:21):
continuing kind of a theme we've got going here on
the fifty five care See morning show. This is the
final empower You for the spring. So I just you know,
props again to Dan Raganolld, the founder of empower You
and what just really great topics there have been all
over the place in terms of subject matter, but very
interesting education opportunities and not a penny out of your pocket.

(00:44):
So question which injuries did COVID mRNA vaccines cause? So
looking forward to having doctor Robert Malone on the program
at eight forty. Always enjoy hearing from you. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk
pound five fifty on eight T and ufhones And for
all the gloom and doom sayers, the world's coming to
an end because of our tariffs. It's like US and

(01:05):
China have agreed to substantial tariff cuts just announced this morning.
Details were unfolding over the weekend. Donald Trump came out
on Saturday expressing some optimism about the direction of the
talks and looks like they've borne fruit and you better
be invested. I hope you're invested in the markets this
morning because the nasdak s and P five hundred down
industrials all trending way up. At the specifics on that

(01:27):
in a second, but said this to released this. This
story broke this morning. They've agreed to suspend most tariffs
US and China on each other's goods, pending further negotiations.
There's a qualification built into this. Trump's reciprocal tariffs on
China down to ten percent from one hundred and twenty
five percent. So the ten percents in place for every country,

(01:51):
even if you've negotiated a settlement of resolution to the
trade of the tariff dispute, because the administration's currently engage
in conversations with one hundred and seventy countries. Of course,
Great Britain the other day announced it an agreement with
to reduce tariffs and allow more open, freer markets, something
Trump promised that would come about from the tariffs. So

(02:12):
down to ten percent separate twenty percent tariff the President
I posed over what he described as China's role in
the fentanyl trade, is going to stay in place. Beijing
cutting its retaliatory levies on US goods to ten percent
from one hundred and twenty five percent.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
So back just.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
So, what else do we have going on here? These reductions,
they're not permanent. They're going to stay in place for
apparently ninety days, while China and the United States continued talks,
talks led by Treasury Secretary of Scott Descent and US
Trade Representative jameson Greer on the US side, of course,

(02:56):
Vice Premier he Lifing is there on behalf of China,
And of course this is good news from a market standpoint.
I know the market's been reeling as a consequence of
and waiting for what is going to you know, unfold
with the tariffs in place. Oh, looky here, starting on
the low side of the futures markets, Dow Jones Industrials

(03:19):
up two percent, SMP five hundred north of two and
a half percent and the nasdac's way up at north
of three and a half percent, So looking rather good
for the markets this morning given the developments here with tariff, So.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Keep your fingers crossed.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Cooler heads may ultimately prevail and we may end up
getting some benefits out of this. I know we have
a tremendous trade imbalance one point two billion dollar trade
deficits specifically, so I know Trump is trying to put
an end to that and balance things out a little bit.
Of course, it's tough to compete with China given their
low labor standard and cheap manufacturing.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Costs and cheap energy.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, cheap energy because they continue to build coal plants
and don't care about global warming and cutting their personal
throats in the name of reducing carbon output. Let us
see here speaking of that kind of a red flag.
PJM Interconnection the largest power grid operator in the United
States and of course, well maybe not of course from

(04:23):
It includes Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, a huge chunk
of Kentucky, and some eastern seaboard states, so it's a large,
large power grid operator. They issued a warning this past
Friday extreme heat this summer could well deal with would
run right into record energy demand for a variety of reasons. Ever,

(04:46):
record energy demand extreme heat of course causes everybody's air
conditions to turn on and go higher, but also the
increase in electric vehicles and artificial intelligence on the grid
a lot of additional power demand out there core to
the grid operator. The season also marks the first time
in pjm's annual assessment, however, that available generation capacity may
fall short of required reserves in an extreme planning scenario

(05:09):
that would result in an all time PJM peak load,
specifically more than one hundred and sixty six thousand megawatts.
They're just basically issuing you a warning that you know
you may have your power shut off. Grid operator warned
that a perfect storm of here we go, retiring fossil
fuel plants, sluggish renewable energy growth, and soaring demand could

(05:34):
trigger shortages for the first time. In a quote from
PJMPGM continues to voice concerns about the supply and demand
imbalance driven by generator retirements and the slow build of
new resources in the face of accelerating demand growth. When
can't keep a steady power source and we'd keep putting
more and more and more and more demands on the grid.

(05:58):
It's a recipe for absolute outright disaster. So and they
do sub electric vehicles, AI data centers and other you know,
the rush to electrification of everything. So they're warning about
potential summer shortfalls a direct consequence of aggressive net zero

(06:19):
and green energy policies which have destabilized power grids and
driven prices higher, particularly here in the Mid Atlantic States.
And you know, Duke already announced you're going to have
an increase in your electricity charge. It's going to go up.
So reliability down, price up. Exactly what we all want
out of here, isn't it. It's crazy, gotting our own throats.

(06:47):
And another interesting news, and I don't know if he
can pull it off, but Donald Trump announced he's planning
on signing an executive order today heard at the top
of the ar news that will reduce the cost of
prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals almost immediately, in his words, by
thirty to eighty percent.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And that's what yesterday on truth social media. For many years,
the world has wondered why the prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals
in the United States of America were so much higher
in price than they were in any other nation, sometimes
being five to ten times more expensive than the same
drug manufactured in the exact same lab or plant by
the same company. It was always difficult to explain and

(07:27):
very embarrassing because in fact there was no correct or
rightful answer, he said.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Hmm. It continued.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
The pharmaceutical drug companies would say for years that it
was research and development costs, that all these costs were
and would be for no reason whatsoever, borne by the
suckers of America alone. Campaign contributions can do wonders, but
not with me and not with the Republican Party. So

(07:55):
we're going to do the right things sometimes that the
Democrats have fought for many years. Therefore, I I am
police to announce it tomorrow. That will be today in
the morning, at nine am. This morning, at nine I
will be signing one of the most consequential executive vorders
in our country's history. Prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will
be reduced almost immediately thirty to eighty percent. I will
be instituting a most Favored Nations policy, he wrote, whereby

(08:19):
the United States will pay the same price as the
nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world.
Our country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens'
health care costs will be reduced by numbers never seen
through the even thought of before. Additionally, on top of
everything else, the United States will save trillions of dollars. Well,

(08:46):
can he pull that off through an executive order? I
guess I'm just kind of wondering. I know there's a
lot of contracts out there. Last month, he signed an
executive vorder stand up using Medicare payments for prescription drugs,
including those used for cancer patients, no matter where a
patient receives treatment. Fact sheet said at the time the

(09:08):
order could lower prices for patients more than sixty percent
or also called to match Medicare payment for certain prescription
drugs to the price the hospital's pay.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
See.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh, there's the kind of a parallel you can draw
that's up to thirty five percent lower than what the
government pays to acquire the medications. So let me the
looking out into the world, going back to his executive
order for this morning, what's the lowest price out there?
We're going to be matched. That's what we're going to pay.
And it's noted that this will cause the price of
pharmaceuticals globally to go up because the pharmaceuticals aren't going

(09:40):
to walk away from profits. So assuming this is valid,
and then he can do this and he can lower
the price of pharmaceuticals here in the country to the
lowest price that they are sold out in the world.
Of course, I imagine the pharmaceutical company is going to
raise the price out there in the world so they
can again get some of the profit back.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
But isn't that.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
More fair? And it is kind of a mystery, how
is it?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I speak for John Roman to cover sensium. One of
the ways he can save folks money is because he
can arrange They have pharmaceuticals purchased from Canada, which is legal.
Why does Canada get them a lot cheaper than the
United States? What magic did they wield upon the pharmaceutical companies. Well,
apparently it's because the pharmaceutical companies can force us to
pay for them. You know, it's like global wealth distribution.

(10:31):
We have more money than some country elsewhere, arago, we
have to pay more to subsidize the purchase of pharmaceuticals
in other countries. Yeah, I suppose talk amongst yourselves on
that one, but I think it's a step in the
right direction. I'm certain that the pharmaceutical companies will will
take this thing to court, like literally everything Trump has

(10:54):
been doing, but with the American people can benefit from this.
And you're facing a really expensive monthly bill on pharmaceuticals
and you think, wow, if this works, that bill's going
to drop by thirty to eighty percent. That puts a
smile on so many people's faces. Let's face it, at
the vast majority of us are on some kind of
pharmaceutical So we'll see anxious to hear what the uh

(11:21):
the Democrats in the left have to say about this?
Are they going to oppose it because Donald Trump is
in favor of it. Even if opposition comes at the
cost of you continuing to pay far more for your
pharmaceuticals than any other country in the world, that's a
dangerous ground for them to be taken. I'd argue U
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Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm a happy Monday to you. Five on three seven
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to three talk pound five fifty. You've got an AT
and T phone. As we struggle with demands on the
grid and apparently potential blackouts over the summer because of
the extra demands on the grid and the reduction of
power generation given this global shift to green power generation,

(13:26):
which isn't reliable, that would definitely impact my decision whether
or not to purchase an EV and apparently, accord to
a new industry data compiled by Motor Intelligence, four point
three percent declining US EV sales in April, while automobile
sales jumped ten percent during the same time period. So
people aren't buying the evs, but they're still buying more automobiles.

(13:48):
Tesla model S down seventy one percent, Model X down
thirty four percent, Cyber truck down thirty percent, Model Y
down twenty two percent, Tesla Model three though jump twenty
four percent. Rivian electric cars declined thirty three percent. Lucid
did jump seven percent, so they sold more. Study from

(14:08):
last year by mackenzie and Company found forty six percent
of US EV drivers want to switch back to gas
powered cars. Galloped At a survey, nearly half forty seven
percent of Americans said they would not buy an electric vehicle.
That's up from forty one percent the prior year, so
not exactly well, you know, And here's the thing. If

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you're making an informed decision, you think, Wow. Pjam's the
largest power grid, the old largest power provider in the Midwest,
says it's going to have some problems keeping the lights
on this summer. If demand bumps, how are you going
to charge your car? Hey Pete, welcome to the Morning
Show and a very happy Monday to you. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Thanks Brian. How are we getting jabs on pharmaceuticals? I
had a situations where I needed to braces and I
checked to see if they were covered by Medicare, and
they said they were. They were a thousand dollars each
Medicare paid eight hundred and I was supposed to pay

(15:13):
two hundred each. And I googled them on Google lens
and that exact same brace is on there.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
For one hundred and thirty nine.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
So they're charging our government medicare me.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
They're trying to charge.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Us ten times.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, what that thing?

Speaker 5 (15:32):
And that's retail. I bet that thing doesn't cost fifty bucks.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Probably not.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
If Trump can do with the pharmaceuticals, he needs to
do it with all the appliances and all the because
they are literally raping us on that and our government
on that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yes they are, and they get away with it. That's yeah,
you're just the tip of the iceberg on that. There
are a million stories along the same lines how the
American taxpayers are getting ripped off along again paying too
much for any given item that goes through a government
payment program. Therein lies the challenge. Maybe we should unleast
doze on that. That'd be a great idea, wouldn't it,

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(17:52):
US and China green to these substantial tariff cuts ninety
day pause at least while they hammer out more details
and the markets continue to rise. Future's up s and
p five and three quarters percent. That was up a
little over two and the NASDAC geez up three point
seventy five percent right now at least that's the future,
so then those numbers have gone up since I mentioned

(18:13):
the story at the top of the hour after the news.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
After the news was over.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Let's go to the phones and see what Tom's got today.
Hey Tom, Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah, good morning. How you doing.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'm doing pretty well all things considered. It is Monday,
so you know, firing on just.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Less than eight it is.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
It's just it's just another day in the long line
of many as far as I'm concerned. So, but now,
it was good. Yesterday I had a nice little Mother's
day for the wife and a couple of your kids
with us. Took her out to dinner and uh so
we had a we had a good time.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's good.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Yeah, it was a nice day for it. That's good.
That's always that's always nice. When mom has a good day,
everything usually goes well.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
You know that. Man, You know.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
That, hey, this this this what Trump is trying to
do now what he's well been doing whatever, and especially
this thing where he's he's starting to get in into
these big pasta goal that these uh that the government
has at least that's the way everybody looks at it.
I agree. I've always had an issue with how much

(19:17):
money the government has to pay for things as opposed
to you know, normal private citizens or whatever stuff like that.
You know, being in the construction industry. Whenever you're doing
a government funded job, it's like everything just happens to
cost a lot more because because there's the assumption that
there's this big, bottomless pot of money that that people

(19:40):
could dip into, you know, and then right now, I mean,
I'm working at at the University of Cincinnati, so it's
not just you see, it's the state of Ohio and uh.
And they always seem to Hey, whatever you see wants,
they're going to get. They they they want this now. Granted,
a lot of the money for this facility is dotor uh.
You know, donors have paid into it. So you know,

(20:02):
that's fine. If people want to give hundreds of thousands
or million dollars or whatever to support athletics or whatever,
that's great.

Speaker 8 (20:09):
Good for you.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
That's your money. You do whatever you want with it.
But when it comes to the state money, that's our money,
that's our task dollars, and it is it is good
to know that there's somebody out there who's saying, well,
wait a second, we don't have to pay what peace say,
ten times more or however many times more for something
just because we're the government. That's not fair, that's not right,

(20:32):
because it's not like we are the government. Yes, we
can go print our own money, but it's got to
come from somewhere, you know, and it's coming off out
of our taxes and so. But he's walking on eggsdale. Now,
let me let me put this, let me put this different.
He's not walking on eggsdale. He's a pull in a
China job. But he's going into territory where now you're
starting to mess with these people's livelihood, these people who

(20:55):
are involved in all these contracts, these people who have
been getting the kick back to who are enjoying this
surplus of money, and he's going to be messing with that.
He's really going to start messing with people who are
in positions of power. So uh yeah, it's it's gonna
get disty here. But he's on the right track because
he's trying to save you and I and that's regular

(21:16):
taxpayers money, something that the Democrats don't seem to give
a crap about. They enjoy the pluff, but they talk
about it. They say all kinds of things about it.
And to your point, you know, it's dangerous for Democrats
to oppose this whole prescription drug thing, because haven't they
been clamoring about lowering prescription drugs, and now here's somebody
going to do it. Because it's not them, they might

(21:37):
oppose it. Yeah, this is gonna get real disty and interesting,
and I'm definitely going to make a bag of popcorn
to put my feet up and pay attention to. Yeah,
so Boote Democrats.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Thanks to Tom. But consider the money trail. You know,
you and I are funding the shouldering the burning of
these thousand dollars prosthetic things or knee braces or whatever
for Pete and ninety gazillion other people in the United
States when you can find them on the open market
for one hundred and fifty bucks. Scratch your head over
that one. But consider the money trail. Pharmaceutical companies make

(22:09):
a lot of money by negotiating those great contracts with
government programs like Medicare Medicaid, and it makes them heap
loads of money, money which they can funnel back into
the pockets of politicians and maybe kickbacks and bribes.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Some of it be illegal, but there it is, a
pot of money grows bigger for the pharmaceutical companies, and
of course they reward those who reward them couple that
with the fact that government doesn't have any incentive to
act like a real business and watch out for the
bottom line because they have an unlimited, well at least
theoretically unlimited supply of money flowing into their coffers that

(22:45):
they don't have to work for or earn taxpayer dollars,
zero incentive to control the bottom line. So yeah, this
is why I like Doze in the work that Doze
has done because it reveals this insidious relationship between government,
government officials, elected officials, and the American people that they
purport to represent, and we find out that no, they're

(23:09):
really not actually representing us. They just don't care. That's
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Over to the stack of stupid.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Go to Las Vegas where a Capo cake shop employee
said she was attacked by a customer over a disagreement
involving a custom cake topper. Thank you, jos Strecker, you
anticipated that one, the employee Astraman anonymous did. It happened
March twenty second, while she was walking alone in the
area of the cake shop, said his customer became upset
after seeing the size of the custom cake topper. Or

(25:27):
to the employee, sheh had her dog with her and
her daughter, and I told her that there were no
pets allowed in the shop, but she was visibly upset.
So the customer became increasingly agitated over the size of
the cake topper. Moments later that two ended up on
the ground. And yes, there, of course is surveillance video
which shows the customer and the employee violently fighting while
the woman's daughter and dog look on. Employee said she

(25:52):
suvered a bup in the head and whiplash, missed several
days of work, and later went to the hospital where
she was diagnosed.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
With next strain and hematoma.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Employee filed a police report that she's pressing charges against
the customer. Police there said a citation's not an issue,
but they are actively looking for the customer. Employee has
since left the cake shop, saying she no longer feels
safe there. The woman who attacked her is still hasn't
been found, which is upsetting to the former employee. Police
said the woman could face misdemeanor battery charges size of

(26:24):
a cake topper.

Speaker 9 (26:26):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I'll hold that thought, jos Jack.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Are we got to Cadwell Parish or Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
where a man there is facing charges after authorities say
he intentionally ran over his father after a dispute about
who would pay the bill at a Mexican restaurant. Sheriff's
office arrested thirty seven year old Lucas Stowe charges a

(26:51):
second degree murder in connection with the death of his father,
sixty four year old Luther Stowe. Sheriff's farman got a
call regarding a pedestrian being in the parking lot in
front of the Gonzales Mexican restaurant in Columbia. About the
same time, Official say reports also came in advising that
an ambulance was needed in the parking lot. Authorities arrived,
discovering a man who had been run over and appeared
to have an extreme trauma. Victim who did later die

(27:15):
at the hospital identified as Luther Stowe. Sheriff's office said
Deputy Maxwell, who was off duty at the time, heard
tires squealing nearby and looked up to see a body
on the ground in a white fort he believed ran
over the body. Leaving the parking lot. Authorities helped the victim.
Maxwell left the parking lot in his personal truck to
attempt to stop the vehicle. Deputy Lucas Stowe took Lucastow

(27:38):
into custody after stopping his vehicle in front down the
street transported a Callwell Parish annex. After interviewing witnesses, authority
say the incident stemmed from a disagreement between the father
and the son, but who had paid for the food
at the restaurant. Video footage as from the scene showed
Lucas Stowe getting into his car waiting for his father

(27:58):
to exit the rest before allegedly rapidly accelerating running over
the sixty four year old. Seriously, Perio is the biggest
douche of the universe, in all the galaxies. There's no
bigger douche than you. You've reached the top, the pinnacle

(28:23):
of douche dump.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Good going, douce.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Your dreams have come.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
True as they sit here in contemplate, is, Joe, how
much do you think a meal for two at a
Mexican restaurant had to cost me?

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Thirty bucks?

Speaker 1 (28:42):
He killed his dad over something that was probably around
a thirty dollars bill.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Well, let's add tipping that.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Maybe a couple of margaritas to take the I'll acknowledge that, Joe,
but we can agree probably less than one hundred bucks
go to Highlands County Florida, Florida man facing charges after
he offered a Highland County deputies and alcoholic beverage following
a bizarre pursuit three am or three pm. Rather deputy

(29:13):
said thirty nine year old Richard Christopher Smith, Miami stole
several items, including several alcoholic beverages, then walked out of
the spring Lake Market Shortland.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Four deputies arrived.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
They say Smith was in a black minivan driving circles
around the store, then sped off, launching a pursuit ending
several miles later in the parking lot of a business.
During the pursuit, deputy say Smith held a can of
Kettle I vodka sprits out the window as he drove
by a deputy trying to stop him, telling the deputy quote,
I was just going to give you a drink.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
As his tradition, Smith.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Then attempted to ram two police vehicles in the middle
of getting all four flat tires by spike strips, eventually tased,
charged with two counts evaggravated as sold on law enforcement officer,
battery and a law enforcement officer. Two councilors sisting arrests
DUI refusal to submit to a dui and petty.

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Speaker 1 (31:19):
Back over to the stack of Student, a brother of
a South Carolina petting zoo owner apparently beaten to death
by a kangaroo after going into the kangaroo's pen to
roughhouse with it. Eric Slathe's body discovered inside the facility
just before midnight Friday at the five Star Farm.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Somewhat close to Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
According to the reportings, fifty two year old Slate had
a history of stepping into the kangaroo's enclosure and roughhousing
with it, which apparently is what was happening at the
time of his death. That's according to local council member
Mark Cowsey, speaking with the local Channel thirteen News, he
said it just went south. Kangaroos still in the enclosure

(32:08):
at the family owned farm when Slat's body was found.
It's not clear which animal killed Slate, but he was
found with multiple blunt force injuries. They say an adult
male red kangaroo can weigh nearly two hundred pounds, grow
five to eleven with the powerful feet for kicking.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Back.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
In twenty twenty two, an elderly man was killed by
his pet kangaroo in Western Australia. That believed to be
the first time a kangaroo killed a person in nearly
ninety years. Five Star Farms apparently has an interactive petting
view with petting zoo with exotic animals, including kangaroos. Kangaroo
not aggressive and has not been euthanized, according to Kusey.

(32:48):
He said, it's not an aggressive animal. It's very sad.
It was not the animal's fault. Experts coming in to
ensure that the enclosure is safe and the animals okay.
South Carolina has some of the loosest restrictions in the
United States on the ownership of exotic animals. It's one
of only three states where kangaroo ownership isn't prohibited. I
guess we learn something here. Don't rough house with kangaroos.

(33:11):
We might have another word to give out, Joe, And
this is absolutely discussed in California. Former Teacher of the
Year sentence this past Friday to thirty years in prison
for sexually abusing two of her sixth grade students, Jeez Louiz.
Thirty six year old Jacqualine Mo pleaded guilty in February

(33:33):
two counts a forcible loot acts on a child, one
kind of loot acts on a child, and one kind
of possessing child sexual abuse material, accord to San Diego
County's District Attorney Office, District Attorney Summer Stuff and this
defended Violet of the trust that she had with her
students in the most extreme and traumatic way of traumatic
grade possible, and her actions are despicable. Her victims will
have to deal with a lifetime of negative effects, and

(33:55):
her thirty year sentence is appropriate. She taught at Lincoln
Acres Elementary School, Teacher of the Year for the twenty
twenty two to twenty three school year. She addressed to
the public and at sentencing, I abused my authority, I
exerted my power control over them. I deceived them boys
to sage should be playing outside, feeling carefree. I ripped

(34:17):
away their childhood. Yeah you did. She also admitted that
she disgraced the teaching profession. I lied to their faces
while secretly abusing their son. She said, I just pray
for extra protection and strength for those affected. Apparently groomed
the young boys with gifts, food, and special attention and
completed her homework for them. Court of the District Attorney's office.

(34:39):
Arrested in March of twenty three, the year she got
her award after prosecutor say she's the parents of a
twelve year old boy discovered inappropriate message on a family tablet.
Parents did not allow the boy to have social media
or his own electronics, yet she was able to communicate
with him through an unsanctioned after school program through a

(35:00):
school chat app. Groomed the boy for over a year
before she has sexually assaulted in the classroom over a
period of three months while his parents believed he was
participating in an after school basketball program. What are your
children out there doing?

Speaker 8 (35:15):
This?

Speaker 1 (35:15):
One was in a position of high trust in local
parentice under the law, That's why she got thirty years.
She has to serve the full thirty years before she's
eligible for parole, so she'll be sixty six before she
has a chance to get out.

Speaker 10 (35:32):
Peris the biggest doucheo secutiverse in all the galaxies. There's
no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top, the
pinnacle of douche dum good going doues.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Your dreams have come true.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
And I know we have the Internet now, and I
know you're gonna hear about stories like this because they
shock the conscience and you think to yourself. You know,
for years and years and years, it was always the
male teachers molesting, you know, it was always priest molesting
boys or whatever. It was always a male molesting whoever
the recipient of the molestation was. But all these stories
of late involved female teachers molesting younger kids and the

(36:16):
twelve year olds. It's thirty six, for God's sake. I
just can't trust anybody these days. I spect five afty
five fifty five kresit detalk station more to talk about
in the six o'clock hour. I'd love to hear from
you too. If you got something to say, feel free
to call me right back after the news.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Another update coming up.

Speaker 9 (36:34):
The day's top story's at the top of the hours Important.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Issues that are facing this country.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
On fifty five krs the talk station six six to
about the rc DE talk station, A very happy Monday,
to you by time it's opening. Everyone had a wonderful
Mother's Day and salute to all the moms out there.
I know we had a wonderful time hanging out with
my mom, and of course my wife appreciate what she's
done in terms of raising our children. Couldn't have done

(36:59):
it without her. Matter of fact, I've often joked, I
don't know if my children will be alive if it
weren't for my wife. Yeah, I'm that critical of myself,
at least in terms of, you know, healthcare. Most notably,
I'm married a nurse. He Yeah, she was a lawyer,
but also previously served as a nurse. So that's a
smart that's a smart move. I always give myself credit

(37:20):
for marrying outside my element out kicking my coverage. You
can find yourself a nurse. Let me tell you what
that is an outstanding thing to do. Coming up fifty
five car see Morning show Christopher Smith been every Monday
at seven twenty for the Smith Event, former Vice Mayor
of the City of Cincinnati. Fast forward two hours Money
Money with Brian James and some topics which may change
in a lot of the really important announcement that's released

(37:42):
about us coming to a tariff cuts with China. We've
reached an agreement to at least pause some of the
really really significant tariffs for at least ninety days while
they hammered out additional details. Brian Jane's gonna be talking
about global shipping down, empty shelves, four lease signs and
lay off, moving away from that student loans now do

(38:04):
and is there going to be a housing market correction.
So that's with Brian James again coming up in a
couple of hours, followed by doctor Robert Malone, who's going
to be doing the final empower Use seminar for the
year injuries from the COVID vaccine and what particular diseases
and problems of COVID nineteen vaccines have cost. More and
more information coming out about that every single day. Feel

(38:25):
free to direct the topic of conversation. We got something
to say five three, seven, four, nine fifty, five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two to three talk and pound
five fifty on AT and T phones. Yeah, the substantial
tariff cuts we agreed to with China have really had
a profound impact on market futures. Uh, it's a good
day to be invested in the market. If the trend
continues during trading hours, just shy a four percent Nasdaq increase,

(38:49):
more than two percent for the Dow and right now
just under three percent increase for the S and P
five hundred and so indication that people are happy about
these the pause and these tariffs. Both sides are going
to cut retaliatory levees then to ten percent, although there's
a separate twenty percent tariff. The President opposed on what
he described his channel's role in the fentyl trade, and

(39:10):
that will remain in place. But the one hundred and
twenty five percent reciprocal tariff now down to just ten percent,
and Trump's leading a ten percent flat tariff across all countries.
And they're currently still negotiating with a variety of other countries.
And of course last week we reached an agreement with Britain,
which was, you know, a step in the right direction.

(39:31):
And this is what Trump promised to do. You know,
you throw these tariffs on everybody, and trust me, I
kind of little concerned about him as a strategy. But
if they are harmed or their economies are going to
be harmed by them, then it forces them to the
negotiation table where maybe we can come up with something
a little bit more practical that benefits both countries, and
that's all Trump was trying to do. So anyway, the

(39:54):
markets really have reacted favorably to this, and I think
you and I will react favorably if our pharmaceutical prices
come down, and that's one thing that Trump has promised
to do today with this executive order. Now I have
to qualify it and say, I'm certain that we're going
to see litigation over this. Can Donald Trump unilaterally declare
a most Favored Nations policy? So after a long witted

(40:16):
ramp up to why he's doing this, with our pharmaceutical
prices will far in excess of what the rest of
the world pays, up to five to ten times more
than what pharmaceutical companies starts for the exact same pharmaceutical,
as he pointed out, made in the exact same plant.
Why are we all paying that much more? So the

(40:39):
executiveorder is supposed to be signed today, it will be
instituting a most Favored Nations policy, whereby the United States
will pay the same price as the nation that pays
the lowest price anywhere in the world, saying our country
will finally be treated fairly in our citizens' health care
costs will be reduced by numbers never before even thought
of before claiming a thirty eighty percent reduction almost immediately,

(41:03):
So keep your popcorn out and keep your fingers crossed
that this actually works. Now, it's going to be much
of the chagrant of the other nations in the world,
who presumably are going to having to pay more. I
can't see pharmaceutical companies walking away from their profit margins,
which have been bolstered by what we pay on the
price of medications. But apparently drug prices have jumped significantly

(41:25):
in recent years. Between January twenty two and twenty three,
prescription drug prices rose more than fifteen percent and reached
an average of five hundred and ninety dollars per drug product.
That's courting the Department of Health and Human Services information Shoosh.
Of the four thousand, two hundre prescription drugs included in

(41:48):
the list, forty six percent of the price increases exceeded
the rate of inflation. So you think there's something nefarious
going on out here and the price of pharmaceuticals. I
know we all have had that sort of feeling for
years and years and year, But we have been subsidizing
research and development for the pharmaceutical companies, and why did
the other countries always get the benefit of well us

(42:08):
carrying the water. So I like the idea, and I'm
really anxious to see how the Democrats react to this.
Now you can imagine the pharmaceutical companies wanting to run
into court to try to stop this from happening. But
what are the Democrats going to say? Is this something
that they're against? Are they going to make some sort
of socialist wealth redistribution argument in favor of the other

(42:31):
countries getting the benefit of us paying so much more
for pharmaceuticals ergoes subsidizing their low cost I mean, that's
the only road I can see them going down, because
everybody's clamoring for lower prices in pharmaceuticals. Democrats get pharmaceuticals,
Republicans do. Everybody does, and with inflationary pressures we're all facing.
This seems like a win win sort of bipartisan perhaps outcome.

(42:58):
Who could argue with that? In as well, Democrats always
figure a way out. If Trump does something, then they're
against it, period, end of story. So I'm waiting with
my popcorn out. There's sort of a grin on my face,
wondering how they're going to wrestle with this one. What
would you say to that? No, Trump, don't, don't. Don't

(43:19):
lower pharmaceutical prices for American citizens. We need to subsidize
the rest of the world. I don't know that that flies.
So I think that's going to be the more interesting
component of it. Democrats reaction. Uh, let us see here. Oh,

(43:40):
this this is fantastic. So last Friday, the Ohio Republican
Party Central State Central Committee endorsed Dave ek Ramaswami for
governor and Senator John Houston for well his Senate bid.
He's got to get re elected or he's got to
get elected because he was appointed to that Senate position.
So VvE went, I mean he walked away with it

(44:03):
secret ballot. He needed forty four yes votes. Vive got
sixty to three. And that's in spite of Governor Mike
the Wine's efforts to try to well to tank support
for vivik Ramaswamy. What he was trying to do in

(44:25):
the lead up to the vote. He was lobbying hard
to block this vote from happening. The governor apparently himself,
making calls claiming it was too early to endorse anyone,
just ahead of Tressel's Thursday night statement that he was
going to run for the for the Governor's office Lieutenant governor.

(44:48):
Jim Trussell football coach. I love how they add that
in there. It's like every time you mentioned Elon musk
you gotta mention billionaire Elon musk Well football coach Jim
Trussell appointed by governor to Wine for lieutenant governor with
the shape he hadn't yet formerly endorsed, And so Dwine
was running around trying to make the arguments that declarations

(45:09):
of candidacy aren't due until February fourth of next year. Oh,
it's too early, it's too early, many claiming that he
wanted a delay on this vote so he could sort
of go around and argue why Tressel was a viable
and more and better candidate than the very very popular
check out your polls Viva Ramaswami Dwaine saying regarding an

(45:33):
endorsement being premature, as far as who I endorse in
the Republican primary for governor, it's much too early right as.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
We do not know who all will be in the race.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
One of the Essential Committee members speaking with the Ohio
Press Network, unidentified individual making the statement, Dwain is trying
to buy time as a man in Ohio politics for
almost fifty years, his connections would afford him the chance
to make party members knuckle under and bowed his demands
in the long run, claiming this effort exposes Dwine's delay

(46:10):
as a power grab and not a procedural concern. Well,
you know, I dewines fading from the limelight. Yeah, fifty years,
it's not his night. It's time for him to move on.
Why would he want to struggle to maintain some sort
of power in the form of Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussel?
And would you vote for him for governor? Youvey Gramma

(46:31):
Swammy polling huge in the state of Ohio seventy one
percent poll recently conducted surveying the Ohio GOP primary landscape
vvik Ramaswammy grabbing seventy one percent of the Republican vote,
sixty five percent net favorability rating, and of course Donald
Trump's endorsement didn't harm him in that regard. So I

(46:55):
think this is a significant indication again sixty to three
supporting Ramas. I mean, the wine apparently no longer carries
any power in Columbus. I know, Joe, That's exactly how
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t Bump. So as I contemplated how the Democrats are
going to try to navigate Trump while slashing drug prices.

(49:06):
If he can get away with it with an executive order,
you and I will pay the same price as the
nations out there in the world that pay the lowest
price anywhere in the world, most favored nations policies what
this executive order basically is boiled down to. So as
I contemplate how the left is going to react to that,
because anything Trump does is bad, I was drawn to

(49:27):
this survey Rasmusen poll Maybe which reflect the level of
well Trump and Musk derangement syndrome. Survey found that eighty
percent of Americans identifying as liberal would like to see
Elon Musk thrown in prison because of his involvement with
the Department of Government Efficiency. Now contemplate that for a moment,

(49:52):
the guy who's responsible for enlightening all of us about
the fraud, waste, and abuse in government, the guy that
is responsible for letting us know that they had hundreds
of thousands of literally dead people on the Social Security
active ranks. The guy that discovered USA and all the
batcrab crazy programs that you and I were funding while
we dig ourselves in a deficit hole. Bigger and bigger

(50:13):
and bigger and bigger. Nothing nothing, I guess should be
cut according to these crazies. Poll found that almost three
quarters of Democrats want Musk in jail. When extended to
those describing themselves as liberal, the amount rises to eighty percent,
So Democrats three quarters of Democrats generally speaking, and the

(50:34):
far liberal ranks of the Democrats eighty percent. Question quote,
would you support a hypothetical law that would imprison Elon
Musk for his role in Doge?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
That's it was.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
A telephone and online survey one thousand and sixty seven
US likely voters found that fifty four percent of likely
voters would support a hypothetical law I'm prisoning Musk fors
rolling Doge. Thirty nine percent who would strongly support such
a law. A more moderate sixty eight percent say with
a support of law banning Musk from being involved in
any way with government. And they basic it they presumed,

(51:16):
and I guess it's safe for them to presume. It's
because well, he is supportive of President Trump. Trump appointed him,
and therefore it's bad really, that's all it takes. Going
back to my comment about slashing the drug prices, because
if Trump is successful in slashing your drug prices eighty percent,
they're going to argue it's bad because well, Trump did it,
Trump apported Elon Musk. Elon Musk has done valuable work

(51:37):
on behalf of trying to save our hard earned taxpayer dollars.
Whether they came out of a lefti's pocket or a
conservative person's pocket or anybody in between, all Americans pockets
are paying for this wasted abuse, and somehow that's bad.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
How do you justify claiming that it's bad.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Justicin Haskins, Senior fell at the Heartland in Stude, who
co conducted the pole with Rastus, He said, the fact
that a majority of Democratic voters would support imprisoning Musk
for trying to make government more efficient is a shocking
indictment of the modern left, which has become increasingly more
tyrannical in recent years. Yeah, so we've reached a point
where many Americans would rather unjustly punish innovation that fixes

(52:21):
the broken systems Musk was trying to reform. This is
the hill that they want to die on. It seems
like an odd place to die. And I think the
work that Elon Musk is doing it doesn't bear a
partisan stripe. Yes, he is an appointee of Donald Trump,
but you know that's where your fault with him should end.
Look what he has accomplished and how you can find

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(53:51):
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If if you have KERCD talk station, hope you're having a
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eight oh five and doctor Robert Malone doing an empower
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stories since at police officer taken to the hospital after
driver collided with the priests police cruiser. Happened at Walnut
Hills early on Sunday morning, three point thirty am, near
the Marathon Gas station on Gilbert Avenue. Officer was responding
to another crash FOX nineteen reporting at the time of
the collision. The officer was inside the cruiser and was

(55:17):
subsequently taken to the hospital dispatcher said the officer is
expected to be okay, Thank God. Dispatcher say officers not
currently searching for a suspect, as the driver of the
other vehicle remained on the scene. Not clear whether the
driver is facing any charges or if anybody's taken into custody.
Prayers for the officer and his family.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
First.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Local sightings of brewed fourteen cicadas have been spotted, according
to report on a free app called You Ready Cicada Safari.
That app created by doctor Jean Kritzky, author and biology
professor Mount Saint Joe University to map where certain species
of cicada has been reported.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
See here.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
At a large emergence, you'll see a million and a
half cicadas per acre, he said. That's acreage under trees.
Cordinga to doctor Kris Kritsky, that's a million and a
half cicadas. Let us see bottom this food, Jane. They
are beetless and spiders feasting on nymph cicadas. I guess

(56:23):
as we speak, the average tree will have probably forty
thousand eggs and it and probably only five thousand to
seven thousand, one thousand eggs will have nymphs come out
of the ground, according to doctor Krinsky, so the mortality
underground is very intense.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Said.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Cicadas are not necessarily past They don't hurt gardens, they
won't carry disease, they don't bite, But the impact the
ecology around them that homeowners need to know about, He said,
I would advise any homeowner this year, especially on the
east side of Cincinnati, who is planning on replacing some trees,
do it after the first of July. If they have
to be in an area where there's a large emergence,

(57:00):
all these cicadas will fly in and start laying eggs
in the few branches they have, and this will kill
the small tree. May twelfth, he generally forecast the day
for cicadas to start emerging from the ground or emerge
I guess.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
In earnest.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Man arrested after hours long swat stand off in Berlin
and Burlington started late Saturday night at corner Major Phillip A. Rigil,
a spokesperson with the Boom County Sheriff's office, he said
twenty nine year old Kyle Wilson arrested in a charge
of one kind of strangulation to one kind of assault.
Deputies called about quarter to ten pm to the eighty
two hundred block of East Bend Road for domestic violence call.

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Victim reported Wilson at assaulted ear and strangled her outside
the home corner. Major Rigel shared a video shared a
victim mentioned Wilson might have been armed. Concerned for the safety,
the victim quickly left the home with her children, who
were inside during the incident. Deputies corroborated with the victims
that she had injuries consisted with assault and strangulation. Deputies

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arrived that he spent several hours trying to negot with Wilson.
Major Rigel said Wilson remain uncooperative. However, during this time,
deputies obtained and arrest warrant. Sheriff Hill called the SWAT
team in and everybody worked together to keep negotiations going.
Once they got on site, Rigil said Wilson eventually came
onto the porch didn't surrender, though during this period, SWAT
team discharge a less less lethal munition, which Rigel said

(58:21):
provided proved effective. Wilson placed underrest held the Boon County
Jail on a one hundred thousand dollars cash bond.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Apparently, there was a two point eight magnitude earthquake registered
in central Kentucky May eleventh. Prior to that, at four
point one magnitude earthquake in Tennessee also felt in Kentucky,
so Central Kentucky's where it happened early hours May eleventh.
Corner of the report from the US Geological Survey. Day

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after that, other larger earthquake in Tennessee said a late
of Kentucky earthquake originated at three forty one am near
the Gerard Jessamine County line, twenty five miles south of Lexington.
To the rupture eighteen and a half miles deep, which
is considered shallow according to reporting here on the enquire
Reports of weak shaking we're submitted from Lexington, Georgetown, and

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cities in Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, and Georgia. No reports
of injuries or structural damage from the earthquake. Earthquakes under
five point four magnitude are only expected to cause minor damages,
according to research from the Michigan Technological University. It's kind
of strange you get earthquakes in this area of the
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and you know, speaking of issues of tech, I'll pivot
over to the tech component of this because it's something
I've been warning about. And oh lo and behold here
it is. So we start with House Democrats from New
Jersey went to an immigration and customs enforced detention center
and it evolved into a scuffle with federal agents. Now
they may be facing arrest. One of them did get arrested.
Part of the Department of Homeland Security. Lawmakers Lamanica Macuiver,

(01:02:47):
Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Rob Menendez broke into the Delaney
Hall Detention Center along with Newark Mayor Razbacara. Razbacara arrested
in charge with tres passing. Now authorities are claiming an
ICE agent was assaulted in the confrontation and that it
was caught on camera. Noticed my emphasis there on that

(01:03:09):
component of the reporting. Department Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia
McLaughlin said, if it was a typical US citizen and
they tried to storm into a detention fill facility that's
housing dangerous criminals, or any person at all, they would
be arrested. Just because you're a member of Congress or
just because you're a public official does not mean you're

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above the law. Giver escalated her claims during a press conference,
claiming she was assaulted by multiple ICE officers while regional
directors of ICE watched it happen. DHS footage posted on
X on Saturday appeared to show mcgiver barreling unprovoked through
a law enforcement near the gate. DHS caption watch US

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Congresswoman Laura Lamonica mcgiver, wearing red blazer, storms the gate
of Delaney Haul Attemp Center, assaulting an ICE agent. Watson
Coleman accused an ICE agent of shoving her, claiming to
be exercising or oversight authority as members of Congress, DHS

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did confirm that many of the folks that are being
helded in that detention center are murderers, terrorist child rapists,
and MS thirteen gang members, which makes you scratch your
head and wonder why our elected officials, who are supposed
to be re representing the interests of their constituents, would
care so much about the rapists and murderers and other
well criminals that are being housed in the facility. They

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also accused Elina Habba, us attorney for New Jersey, of
repeatedly making interaccurate, inflammatory, and unfair public statements. Haba, the
US attorney for New Jersey, wrote on Friday, the mayor
of Newark, Rosbakara, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from
Homeland security investigations to remove himself from the ICE Detention
Center in New York. His willingly chosen distant, he willingly

(01:05:04):
chosen to disregard the law that will not stand in
this state. He's been taken into custody, so they're now
talking about maybe arresting the other three elected officials. Here's
where I thought, this is where the tech part comes
in and something I've commented on before. Bonnie Watson, one
of the ones that broke in, claimed on Saturday that

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ICE officials would use in his word or her word,
manufactured footage to make it appear as though law enforcement
agents were body slammed during the arrest of Newark Mayor
roj Pacara.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Bonnie Watson Coleman said, we were there for a tour.
ICE was giving us the run around. We finally got
into a facility, we heard some noise, We came out.
We found that the mayor was there, and they were
and ICE was having conversations with him. They asked him
to lead the facility. He left the facility. Oh makes
it paint such a vanilla picture, doesn't it? The host
on the show, So your interpretation, you know, your use

(01:06:02):
of words is very different from the spokesperson for DHS,
who was on CNN. She used the words body slamming,
saying that the major and the mayor rather and other
members of Congress were body slamming, and we're being rough
with ICE officials. You're disputing that response to Watson Coleman, Yeah,
so how ridiculous does that sound? There are two hundred pounds.
We've got about thirty five pounds worth of stuff around them,

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including a gun on their arms. Can tell you what
I think about what they're saying. President of the United States,
here we go, pivoting over to Trump. President of the
United States opens his mouth every day and lies. He
can can't breathe without lying. He's given permission to his
cabinet and those who work for him to lie. And
she's lying too.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Hmmm.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Spokes are the interviewers. The d spokesperson I mentioned who
was on the air earlier, is saying that the videotape,
the body cam that would be released later would show
the violent nature of the mayor and others body slamming.
We don't see that on this videotape, Watson Coleman.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Here we are.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
This is going to be the default defense for anybody
who's being accused of a crime. No, if there's any
such body, any kind of footage, it is footage that
is manufactured for this purpose. Because I said it before
and I'll say it again, they are lying. So Trump
administration is incapable of telling any form of truth whatsoever.

(01:07:27):
Ergo anybody within the ministration who has evidence of a crime.
Don't believe your own eyes. They made it up in
the world of artificial intelligence. Like I've been warning, this
is where I see the breakdown in the criminal justice system.
Reasonable doubt. You go to court and you claim it's fake,
even though you have no evidence that it's fake. It's
hard to tell AI created footage from real footage, But
there it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
My retort to that would be, what of the other
people who are witnesses there? What are the other people
who are standing around and can confirm the accuracy of
the video footage itself to the extent they can. So
you'll have video footage, and then you'll have all this
witness testimony saying Yep, that's exactly what I saw. That's
not fake, it's real. It's consistent with my own eyeballs

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and what was going on that day. I'm just worried
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at seven twenty and doctor Robert Loan, which what will
prove to be a very interesting last empower you seminar
for the spring semester injuries from the COVID nineteen vaccine.
He'll be on the program at eight forty to talk

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about that. Get a little tease of information. You'll be
finding out which injuries did COVID mRNA vaccine cause, of course,
the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed. Public didn't understand
the COVID vaccines being developed were not traditional attenuated virus vaccines.
It's experimental mRNA biotechnology. And we've learned a lot over

(01:09:54):
the years about the significant downside that I've had quite
a few guests on the more should have talk about
the research they were doing and people who were metaphorically
crucified in the medical field lost their license because they
spoke truth to power and that what they were saying
at the time ends up being accurate. Just disturbing. I

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feel like you're being lying to. I think there may
be something to that real quick here, I thought this
was rather interesting. If your state is having a budget issue,
then sue Meta if you've got a law that protects
privacy for the state residence. Google agreed to pay one
point four billion dollars to the State of Texas to

(01:10:37):
settle allegations that they violated the data privacy rights of
State of Texas residents. Announcement by Attorney General Ken Paxon
on Friday. Fax And sued Google in twenty two for
unlawfully tracking and collecting users private data, something Dave hat
Or warns about all the time. Do not use Meta
products period into story. That's advised from Dave Hatter Take

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it or leave it. This is kind of proof of
what Day's been talking about for years on this program,
Tourny General said. The settlement, which covers allegations in two
separate lawsuits against the search engine giant, dwarf the past
settlements by other states with Google for similar violations at
ten months. This settlement ten months after Packston obtained one

(01:11:18):
point four billion dollars settlement for Texas from Meta, parent
company of Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims of an
authorized use of biometric data by users on the social
media platforms, saying in Texas, big tech is not above
the law. That for years Google secretly track people's movements,
private searches, and even their voice prints and facial geometry

(01:11:40):
through their products and services, so that I fought back
in one calling it a major win for Texans privacy
and tells the companies that they will pay for abusing
the trust. And I always puzzle over this. Do you
think any of the residents of the state of Texas
are going to get a slice of the one point
four billion dollars since it was individuals privacy rights that

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were violated. I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.
So anyway, that's a nice windfall for the state of Texas.
Maybe taking maybe maybe they'll just offer some tax relief
for the Texans. That wouldn't count on that either. Six
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In the meantime, big story this morning, and it's really
impacted the market. Futures going crazy this morning. Uh US
and China agreed to the substantial tariff cuts periminary agreement freezes.
The Trump tariffs are going to go down to ten percent,

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although the twenty percent tariff on China is because of
the fentanyl trade that's going to stay in place. But
the balance of them, they get rid of the one
hundred and twenty five percent tariff, so down to ten percent,
which is the default tariff on all countries, I mean
pending some negotiation to resolve them further. The one hundred
and seventy countries out there, and the administration is haggling

(01:13:54):
with them. Of course, we edited an agreement with Britain
last week, which is a great milestone to be crossed.
So if you build them, they will come to the table.
I guess that's the idea and Trump. That's what Trump
predicted would happen. So in the meantime, if you are
invested in the market, it looks like a good day
to having been invested in the market, and they've been
rising all morning. Futures as a consequence of this revelation.

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The Nasdaq is up four percent, a little over four
percent this morning, the Dow up two point four five percent,
and the S and P five hundred north of three.
So you get three point one percent futures increase, which
according to the reporting, takes us back and we get

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all the gains that we lost after Trump announced the
tariffs in April. So what we lost then we recovered
is April second, on Liberation Day, when the tariffs sent
to the market's into a well bit of a tail spend.
So that's positive information, and you know there may be
some light at the end of the tunnel here, so
keep your fingers crossed. Cooler head prevail and we end

(01:15:01):
up with a better deal, which is all Trump was
looking for in the first instance. And the other big
story this morning, and we'll wait for the executive order
to be signed, but he announced yesterday he would be
signing one to lower pharmaceutical prices here in the United States.
He said almost immediately, thirty to eighty percent reduction, because
he's implementing what he's calling the Most Favored Nations policy. Now,
all the other countries in the world pay a fraction

(01:15:22):
of what we pay for pharmaceuticals. It's always been argued that,
you know, we have to pay the cost of research
and development. Without the United States pharmaceutical prices being so high,
no one would have these valuable drugs. But how is
it that other nations can negotiate a sweetheart deal and
to the exclusion of the United States. Well, Trump's seeking
to put an end to that, and I know there's
going to at least I anticipate litigation. I will be

(01:15:43):
instituting a most Favored Nations policy, whereby the United States
will pay the same price as the nation that pays
the lowest price anywhere in the world. Our country will
finally be treated fairly, and our citizens' health care costs
will be reduced by numbers never thought even, numbers never
even thought of before, pardon me. Additionally, on top of
everything else, the US will save trillions of dollars. Well,

(01:16:05):
it's gonna be great if it works out. And again,
all morning, I've been sort of commenting on how the
Democrats going to react to this, because you know, evil
Orange Man. If Trump does it, it's bad. But this
is good for everybody if it works out. And it's
gonna result in other countries having to pay more for pharmaceuticals.
It has been noted in the reporting. So they're gonna
have to get their profits somewhere. There's no way they're

(01:16:26):
going to walk away from it. Maybe they'll start charging
maybe put my friends in Canada more for pharmaceuticals. Apparently
you can get a sweetheart deal by getting your pharmaceuticals
through a Canadian pharmacy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
How is that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
We'll see how it works out. I'm still the Democrat
reaction is really what I'm waiting for on that one.
But I wanted to give props to my friends in Indiana.
I saw this op ed piece, and you know, charting
the path for maybe states like Ohio to give students
choice in education, which does boost their overall scoring. It's

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better education when you have a choice. Indiana a leader
is Wall Street Journal op ed piece. Indian has been
a leader in expanding a school choice for K through
twelve students, and better student achievement results have followed. Now,
Indiana lawmakers are building on that success by expanding access
to private and charter schools. Governor Mike Brown last week
sign a budget that opens school choice to every Hoosier

(01:17:25):
girl and boy. State's voucher program already generous, covering about
six thousand dollars of private school tuition for most families
earning less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
the new law eliminates the limits beginning next year. Like
traditional public schools, the voucher program will no longer turn
away students based on their family's income. Lawmakers also putting

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charter schools on par with traditional district schools by giving
charters full access to local property taxes. Journal observes it
today's school districts in nearly every state have a different
a direct claim on property tax money, while charters are
funded through special appropriations. Indiana's reforms will let nearly all
tax dollars flow or follow students to whichever school they

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choose by twenty twenty nine. Let the money follow the child.
That's what I have been advocating for for a long time.
These reforms may save school choice from being smothered down
the road. Indiana first launch vouchers and expanded charters during
a period of an enthusiastic reform under Governor Mitch Daniels
in twenty tens. Mister Brown pledged to push further during

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his campaign last year, but even in a Republican led state,
these programs face pressure when funding gets tight. The private
and charter schools tend have stronger records for student achievement.
Traditional public schools have entrenched constituencies read unions that lobby
for scarce funds. Allowing more students to attend non traditional

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schools will increase support for choice. More than twenty percent
of the state students attend a school other than the
public one for which they're zoned, and that shift is
accelerated since twenty twenty, and here you go. The difference
for students is clear. Indiana eighth graders ranked sixth in
the nation in reading scores in the twenty twenty four

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National Assessment of Education Progress, up from nineteenth in twenty
twenty two. Fourth graders in the state jumped eleven spots
in the same assessment now are also ranked sixth nationwide.
Delayed school choice reforms almost collapse in the legislator. State
senators objected to lifting the voucher limits, afraid that the

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one hundred and sixty seventy million dollar cost of expansion
would strain the budget, but House Speaker Todd Houston struck
a deal to delay the change the next year and
to reduce funding for programs such as virtual education to
offset the cost. The result from expanded choice should be
enough to protect it from political attacks, but the opponents

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never sleep. The key to choice, the key to choice
success in the long run, is letting the money flow
that follow the child, no matter the school, public or private.
Indiana has taken another step toward that ideal, and I
love that point that they observe. You know, the expanded
school choice should be enough to protect it from political attacks.

(01:20:17):
Political attacks from who Now, I would say a family,
regardless of political strife, might embrace this as a concept.
You get the benefit of the six thousand dollars, You
get better schools. At least you get to choose what
schools your children go to. Maybe you have a farm
feeling and like the public schools your children attend, go there,

(01:20:38):
send them There nothing wrong with that if you're satisfied.
But if you're in a district that isn't up to snuff,
where the children are behind academically, then you might want
an option. Republican House, Democrat House.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
You have an option. So who's the only people standing
in your way?

Speaker 8 (01:20:57):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
Teachers' unions. The it's going to force competition, It's going
to force them to step up to the place to
improve these reading and mathematics scores. But you know what,
Indiana number six in the nation. I consider that pretty
gosh darn good. And you should all be proud of yourselves,
and you should be very happy you live in a
state where education choice is now established and enshrined in law.

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So I'm jealous on behalf of all highlands here. Maybe
we can go in that direction, and maybe we can
start calling our elected officials and say, hey, did you
see what's going on in Indiana? Their scores improved dramatically.
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my friend, I hope you had a pleasant Mother's Day,
I'm sure as a bit melancholy considering the circumstances.

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Yeah, Mother's Day is tough for our family, has to
be honest. I mean it's a it's a combination of
celebrating my mom, who were blessed to have, Yeah, but
also my kids, you know, remembering that they lost their mom.
So it includes Spring Grove and it includes you know,
my mom's my mom's dining room table with her home.

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So but I you know, I said, my love, I
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Square on.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
Two or three occasions.

Speaker 8 (01:24:38):
But tying into this notion that you might have the
black panthers in town downtown protesting ie for an eye
and tooth for a tooth during this week in particular,
and on the backdrop of of of Sheriff Larry Henderson
being murdered being assassinated by someone, is absolutely outrageous and

(01:25:01):
over the top. I don't even know Brian Thomas where
they're even coming from. Because Sheriff Larry Henderson had nothing
to do with what occurred between a Cincinnati police officer
and a young man who had a gun running from
a car car having been involved in stealing a car.
I don't know what Sheriff Larry Henderson has to do

(01:25:22):
with it. So I don't understand these social posts of
I four an eye in two for tooth. This was
a man who was a dad, a husband, and uncle.
Sounds like I've he heard he was a foster parent.
He had retired after thirty three years. He was out doing,
you know, a traffic for the University of Cincinnati's ceremony

(01:25:44):
for their graduation. What did he have to do with
any of it? And I don't understand the connection. I
really don't. Is one of those things that I sit
back Brian Thomas and go there is something missing missing
in our leadership, because we have leadership in Cincinnati that
is quiet. We have leadership in the county that is quiet.
What they should be doing, as a former vice mayor

(01:26:06):
of Cincinnati, they should have resolutions already submitted on the
Council on the calendar, going through committee and voting on Wednesday,
honoring Sheriff Larry Henderson. And this should be coordinated with
the three county commissioners. This should already be happening. If
we had a functioning body that had any cahunas, had

(01:26:27):
any sense of humanity, these things would already be happening.
Because people will ask me, well, what do you think
council and the mayor, and what do you think the
county commissioners could do? They could introduce resolutions because they
introduced them about Israel and Hamad all the time. They've
been doing it for the last year. So I'm saying,
why wouldn't you go name a street? Why wouldn't you

(01:26:47):
be naming a highway, Why wouldn't you be honoring the family,
Why would you allow the Black Panthers to come in
town protesting your downtown. And you have no reaction as
a body in some part of this family where this
man gave us life, his service, his whole everything for us,
and you have a council and a mayor and even

(01:27:09):
the county commissioners who are all quiet on the issue.
So that's where I'll start, and I'm sharing with everybody.
Please don't ever ask me or say what could they do?
What the body could do is speak this week, this
week and say we honor this man, and do it
in a way that you're not putting any disclaimers that
you're talking about the life of the other child or

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what happened in the city. Honor the sheriff who got
run over doing nothing and wasn't involved with anything. Good
place to start.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
It is good place to start.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
And of course it just reflects the broad brush perception
of the Black Panthers that anyone in any uniform that
is a public servant in terms of law enforcement are
treated equally. They're all the same, They paint with the
same broad brush all of them are racist, all of
them need to be defunded, and of course the city
council has been. I mean they're on record as either
bring quiet and silent in connection with the argument about

(01:28:02):
defunding police or supporting the idea that police is somehow
institutionally racist and defunding them was a good idea. So
it will be a shift in direction for them to
actually come out in favor of law enforcement. Under the circumstances,
I can't see any other way to approach it other
than what you just pointed out. At least a resolution,
although having no weight of law or anything, would at

(01:28:24):
least relate to a local issue of significant importance and
that support a local law enforcement. Let's bring Christopher back.
I know he's got more on his mind for this
morning's smither Vent a Monday talking with Christopher Smithman in
this smither vent, Christopher, what else is on your mind?

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
Brother?

Speaker 8 (01:28:43):
I'm going to be a little partisan this morning. I
don't know what is going on with the Democratic Party.
I'm lost in their efforts to provide leadership for our country,
and so, like you and I've been listening to your show,
I don't understand the mayor and the congressional member, you know,
storming a location where gang members and rapists and thieves

(01:29:08):
are being held who have come into our country illegally.
People might not even know the story to know that
that mayor was arrested, but it just looked chaotic and
for them to be pushing you know, law enforcement, it
just sends a terrible, terrible message to people and citizens

(01:29:31):
in the country. If they wanted to tour the site,
you just schedule it. Why are you running behind a
bus that's bringing you know, people that have been arrested
into the facility and creating such a ruckus. I absolutely
think that they should be prosecuted to hold them accountable,

(01:29:51):
because we just can't have that kind of craziness. And again,
there are people that are listening to you and I
talk about it. They can go out there and find
it so easily. I don't understand what they were doing.
There's so many other issues that I'd like to see
them speaking on, Like you were talking about school choice,
you know, making turning around our public schools across the
United States of America would be one of those things

(01:30:14):
as it relates to education. You know, I don't understand
what they're doing, and I just don't I'm trying to
figure out what they were doing and what their purpose
was that of that Brian talks, well, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
A legitimate question, and I think they're on the losing
side of the open borders, and that's one of the
reasons Trump got elected. I think we all can widely
agree on that. Millions and millions of illegal immigrants let
into the country and encouraged by the Biden administration to
come in here, and of course a lot of countries
we've found out emptied their prisons, sending us the worst
of the worst who end up on the streets of

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America and do in fact commit violent crime, sometimes against children.
Human trafficking, the fort of child smuggling increased dramatically, and
as someone last week referred to Biden as the biggest
human trafficker that ever lived, because he facilitated that business
model that cropping up, hmm, open borders. We have an
opportunity here to ferry some young people in to use
as sex workers or slaves in America. That happened. The

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drugs that were flowing over the border.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
That happened.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
So Americans are like, well, WHOA, WHOA something's got to
be done. Trump's in office, like five minutes he shuts
the border down down to like I mean, the almost
completely stopped the flow of humanity over the border. Now
we're dealing with the aftermath, and I think most Americans
would wish that the elected officials that they put in
office would prioritize domestic issues and quitting so much time

(01:31:30):
with their number one priority defending illegal immigrants, sometimes criminals,
and doing things like invading that ice space without just
calling and requesting an appointment, which has been widely reported.
Had they done that, they would have been welcomed in.
But you know, you got to deal with safety and
security issues. These are elected officials. Maybe one of the
inmates might try to attack them or something. I don't

(01:31:50):
know what the logistics are there, but that was a
proper course to do it, and they chose to do
otherwise this disruption.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Yes, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:31:58):
Well, let me just add when I was the vice
mayor of the City of Cincinnati and I was chairing
Law and Public Safety, I wanted to tour the Hamilton
County jail, and so I just simply called up Sheriff
Neil and said I'd like to schedule a tour of
the Hamilton County Jail. I didn't go down there with

(01:32:21):
a team of people saying i'm processing, let me in,
and it was very orderly. We were protected by the sheriffs,
which I still to this day thanked them. We went
through each of the pods and we were specifically trying
to understand overcrowding. You're trying to deal with what were
the mental health issues, meaning who.

Speaker 6 (01:32:38):
Are we jailing.

Speaker 8 (01:32:39):
So there was just a purpose of it, and we
learned a lot from that visit in order to help
us deal with the costs that the city is paying
to jail people, meaning we're paying a cost when someone
is arrested in the city, we pay Hamilton County to
house those people in our Hamilton County jail. My point
was of just sharing that is through this process. Brian Thomas,

(01:33:01):
So I'm watching this on TV going I know that
they would have just complied if they just said, hey,
I like the schedule of digit. All of this profience
was for them to get on TV. And I just
don't understand politically why they think trying to break into
a facility where people who have been arrested have great

(01:33:22):
people have murdered, people who are thieves, and who are
being deported out of the United States of America. I
don't think they realize that there are people that have
come to this country in the most orderly way, followed
the process. They are supporting the deportation of people who
came illegally because they went through a process. Brian Thomas, So,

(01:33:44):
I don't even understand what these congressional members are doing.
I think they should be prosecuted.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
Well, and that looks like what's going to happen. I
know the mayor there that was arrested for trespassing, and
it's widely reported that the three representatives who are there
for that invasion, if we can call it, that may
be subject to prosecution as well. It's trespassed. I mean
if you or I did it, we would be probably
locked up or at least we'd be out on bail
by now, but would have been arrested and order to

(01:34:10):
appear in court. So how they can be treated differently
from anybody else's beyond me. But I think politicians are
used to special treatment and that maybe what they get.

Speaker 8 (01:34:19):
Let me be clear, I support the First Amendment right,
I support a peaceful protest that's what makes our country
this great experiment, the great experiment. It is what I
don't understand, and people can watch the video themselves, is
trying to break into a high security facility a jail,

(01:34:41):
demanding access that you have access to with just making
an appointment. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Yeah, I don't either, Christopher. I think just the idea
of them just encouraging civil disobedience period, any form of
civil disobedience. Get out in the streets, you know, violate
the law, protests, break things, throw frozen water, bottles of police,
whatever it happens to be, for any given issue that
seems to be the order of the day. Man, it
is a terrible direction for the country to go in.

(01:35:10):
I think they all sort of fantasize about being you know,
those nineteen sixties political protesters, you know, fighting for free
speech or anti Vietnam or whatever. They just seem to
grab issues that I believe the vast majority of the
American population is not in favor of, so that it
doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
We mean that.

Speaker 8 (01:35:31):
When we come back, brother, I'm going to talk a
little bit about Representative Crockett.

Speaker 6 (01:35:36):
She's hit my radar.

Speaker 8 (01:35:37):
She hit my radar. Again, I don't know what she's
talking about, but she said a lot in the public
of most recent and she seems to get a lot
of clickbait out here, But I don't think she understands
if not for.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Good stuff, well, and maybe you hit the nail on
the head clickbait. You know, they're under the mind that
any press is good press, even if well they're clicking.
People are clicking because they think she's batcraf insane or
he is the case. Maybe we'll bring Christopher back for
that event thing with the former vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati. So pivoting over to Representative Jasmine Crockett, Christopher.

Speaker 8 (01:36:10):
Look, Brian, all of us are out here as parents,
as Americans trying to raise our kids. Being a member
of Congress is a tremendous privilege. Representative Crockett has attended
the best grade schools and high schools and colleges that

(01:36:30):
money could buy. And I mean like seventy one thousand
dollars a year for where she studied and law degrees
all of that. Right, So this woman is incredibly educated.
I don't understand. And let me share with you raising
four boys and one girl. You know there were certain
rules in our house that you just couldn't cross, Like

(01:36:53):
you had to wear a belt, you couldn't walk around
with your pants hanging down off your butt. You had
to wake up and say good, I'm gonna type these
things together, like being respectful, being dignified, being classy. You
can be, you can have a difference of opinion, but
how you represent yourself is incredibly important, and particularly in
the days we're living in now where young people, white, black, Latino,

(01:37:17):
Asian need good role models, good examples of how to
conduct yourself in business. And so to watch your dropping
f bombs, meaning people have to watch this stuff. You know,
I'm talking about when she's in her official duties as
a congressional member on the floor, off the floor, and
so to see her dropping this this is this weekend.

(01:37:41):
You know, her most recent is dropping the word white boy.
So this in quotations, this is what she's saying. And
so I'm going, you know, hold on, now, that's racially charged.
I don't care what you're talking about. Why are you,
as a member of Congress using that kind of language.
And by the way, if you if centered, her crews
had done the same thing, but said black boy right,

(01:38:05):
we would be they would be up in arms. Are
you are you following me? If we just flip the
script and we say, you know, a senator from Louisiana,
Senator Kennedy is talking somewhere, giving a formal speech and
starts talking about grown men, grown African American men and
calling them black boys. I don't understand what she's doing right,

(01:38:30):
what her purpose is, and why other congressional members Democrats, Republicans, Independence,
whatever the AOC is. I don't know. If they're socialists,
why are they not coming out and saying, listen, Representative Crockett,
you must represent your seat with dignity and respect. We

(01:38:52):
did that when I was on the floor of Council.
When I'm chairing a meeting, if one of my colleagues
got too emotional, they were disrespectful to again, I called
him out in a very respectful way. Look, a council member,
I'd like you to take a deep breath. I'm gonna
I'm gonna give you kind of a minute here to recover.
I don't like what I'm hearing. You can you can
say whatever you want to say, just do it in

(01:39:13):
a respectful way. We're gonna We're gonna We're gonna move
to another council member. I just don't understand why we
have a person who is representing our country and the
state of Texas where she's mocking the governor who is
in a wheelchair, which a lot of people don't know
that the governor of of of of Texas is in
a wheelchair, and there she is mocking him and his

(01:39:35):
disability of being in a wheelchair. I'm lost here, Brian Thomas.
How is somebody like this elected to our Congress and
they are not being censured. I don't understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
Uh, well, I don't either.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
She was talking about this in the context of a
woman running for president, and she said it is the
fear that the people within the party, within the primary systm.
She's referring, of course, the Democrats will have about voting
for a woman, because every time we vote for a woman,
we've lost so far. And I think that that's a
natural fear because we just want to win. So there's
a lot of people that are like, you know what,
let's just let's go find the safest white boy we

(01:40:09):
can find. I mean, I'm just saying again, I'm just
reading her words. She said, no, for real. It to
be clear when we talk about them. I can tell
you there's one specific candidate. I had a donor on
the phone with me telling me that all the donors
are lining up because behind that candidate. So I can
tell and I can tell you it's not a black
person nor a woman.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
And I thought to myself, well, she wants to check
these these deiboxes, so she fails to appreciate that maybe
the women that didn't win not because they were women,
because they were less qualified. And the American people believe,
maybe in some measure of merit, or the American people
liked Donald Trump in terms of policy more than Kamala

(01:40:51):
Harrison her word salad, is Kamala Harris really the finest
candidate that Democrats can run. I don't know they ran her,
but she lost. I know, I don't believe in a
minute because she lost because she was a woman, because
she was black, because she was ditzy and word solid
filled and didn't have any really issues to stand on.
She just stand up in man's playing or female ex
playing things on these boiled down second grade level education

(01:41:13):
comments and it didn't make any sense. So we judged
her on her merit. Is there anybody in the Democrat
Party that can run for high office motally the president
of the United States that check marks the boxes, woman
and black, that can run an adequate race? And if
there was one, I think one would have emerged by now,
or maybe one will emerge between now and when people

(01:41:35):
start declaring their candidacy for president. But to just say
that we need a black woman, period, end of story,
and that should be enough. I just don't find her
being logical or reasonable. Do you want to win or not?

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:41:49):
I would say, if I could give them a hint,
the person that they would be looking at would be
somebody like Governor Shapiro out of Pennsylvania. He is he
he would perform well coming out out of the Midwest.
But I can't even go to her like analysis of
what she's talking about because she's so racially charged, and

(01:42:09):
the hypocrisy of it, meaning this is coming from a Democrat,
the hypocrisy of her using it, and there are people
that are listening to this, going what's the problem.

Speaker 6 (01:42:17):
There's no issue.

Speaker 8 (01:42:18):
She's a member of Congress. When you accept that, oh
you're something other, You're not just this person walking down
the street. So the standards are high. That's the problem.
We continue to have this apathy and she continues to
degrade the institution, and the Congress is going to wake

(01:42:39):
up and go why and how did we get here
where members of Congress think is okay to cuss each
other out while they're in their official duties in the
member in the meet, in the middle of a congressional meeting.
This is how we end up in a bad place
because we allow people like this to go unchecked. Brian Thomas,

(01:42:59):
it's a big issue. It's a problem, and I'm saying
that that kind of apathy has voters showing up at
nine to ten percent in the primary. Meaning the point
is that we all just continue to have this apathy
and anything we want to do, anything goes. It's not
we want dignified people. If I want young people to
walk around with their pants up and wearing a belt,

(01:43:21):
if I want a young people to say good morning,
yes sir and no sir. If I want them to
be in a mall and not fight each other, right,
if I want all those things, I want my congressional
members that are representing me to not use profanity and
cuss each other out and certainly not use racial slurs.
Using that term is a racial slur. It is beneath

(01:43:44):
the dignity of a member of Congress, and I'm going
to call her out on it this morning. There are
people listening Brian Thomas that think it's okay. It's not
okay because she's a member of Congress. It's not okay
if she wasn't a member of Congress. But she is
a member of Congress and she was saying that in
her official duty.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
I agree with you completely about the language. And you know,
there are people on a lot of sides of the
political ledger. It doesn't matter just not just Democrats that
are dropping F bombs left and right, And it really
is just it's a de evolution. They are elected officials,
as you point out, they should be serving as an
example of what is right and good and keep the
level of debate at a friendly level and not so

(01:44:27):
vitriolic and just I don't know, man, there was a
time when you you rarely use the F bomb for
really anything.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Christopher.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
It seems to become a something in the modern lexicon
that people are willing to use all the time. Great
points that they can.

Speaker 8 (01:44:43):
Look in conclusion, I couldn't get away with that this
radio spot with you, right, Brian, You would hold me
accountable if I did it. You'd call me up after
the show and say, if you do it again, you
can't come back on you because I'm going to lose
my license. That's why you have a dump b Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
But it's more important than Christopher.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Even if I didn't have FCC compliance, which I joke
about all the time. But it doesn't serve you. And
you've got a future maybe in politics, but you've got
to You've got your own business as a financial planner.
I would call you up as a friend and say, listen, man,
don't do that. It's not serving your interest. Take the
higher road. Keep the curse words out of it. When

(01:45:21):
you're hanging around with buds at a bar, you can
use them then, but don't don't use them in public
when you're speaking as well. A prominent member of the community.

Speaker 8 (01:45:29):
Love to hear from you that that's what Congress, Thank
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Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
I'm very happy Monday to all by Thomas. Always enjoyed
this time of Monday because you get talked to money Monday.
Brian James from Allworth Financial going over the issues that
impact our our savings and our monetary situation and of
course our retirement plans. Welcome back, Brian James. Great to
have you on today.

Speaker 11 (01:46:05):
Thank you very much as always in Happy belated Mother's
Day to all those mothers out there.

Speaker 1 (01:46:10):
Amen to that. I've been doing that all morning. Got
to love your mom. And the landscape of the stories
we're talking about today, I mean, at least a couple
of them may start to change. I'm sure you know
that US and China agreed to the tariff cuts over
the weekend. Was announced this morning. We're going to keep
recivical tarafts at ten percent. We got that additional twenty
percent because China's role in the fentnel trade. But the

(01:46:33):
one five percent retaliatory trade loveies on US goods and
Chinese goods apparently has been put to rest, and we've
got at least a ninety day pause in those tariffs,
which got the markets really soaring this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
Futures are up across the board.

Speaker 11 (01:46:49):
It's going to be a good day according to futures.
And that's what happens when we get the good news.
So that this is the one thing, Brian that that
that kind of keeps keeps should hopefully keep everybody a
little bit more calm about what happens is this is
self inflicted. The United States is choosing to represent itself
differently to the rest of the world in terms of
being a trade partner. But underneath this, as we're sitting

(01:47:10):
here right now, is still a pretty strong economy that
is ready to roll on once the fog clears. And
this has happened. This seems to happen about every week
and a half two weeks. We'll get a snippet of
good news and the market will bounce up. Right now,
we're looking at really really high futures. S and P's
up three percent and everything's up something like three to
four percent. And that's not because things got wonderful overnight.

(01:47:31):
It's because some of the fog clear. That's all the
market ever wants is some clarity. It wants to be
able to predict. Here's how companies are going to be
able to operate, and here's roughly what they're going to
be able, what kind of profits they're going to be
able to make, and when we are we're throwing these
tariffs back and forth at each other left and right.
There's no way to do that calculation. So at the
moment the market is saying, okay, cool, I can see

(01:47:52):
at least ninety days into the future because we know
what the tariff situation is going to be with our
largest trading partner, and a smaller headline was we it
come to an official agreement with the UK. Now they're
not a huge trading partner, and I was kind of
googling this and it basically said we're gonna save hundreds
of millions on Jaguar and land Rover, so you know,
some help for the little guy. Finally, the cavalry is coming.

(01:48:12):
Pin Thomas, Well, all.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
This on the heels of yes, shipping demand has dropped precipitously.
Of course, the tariffs have a large role in what
we're going to be shipping from China to here, and
of course global shipping apparently it's dropped off a lot.
Is this all directly related to the tariffs or is
there some other economic reality lurking behind the scenes on this.

Speaker 11 (01:48:34):
Brian James, Well, there's always other economic reality, right, There's
lots of little things pushing and pulling on the overall situation.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
That's always the case.

Speaker 11 (01:48:42):
But this is all tariff driven, and it's starting to
feel to me like I don't know if you remember
December of twenty nineteen, early twenty twenty when we heard
about a thing called COVID and it was going to
be coming ashore in the next few months. Well, now
five years into the future, what we're hearing about is
the fact that shelves are going to be empty. That's
what we're starting to see.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
Not the shelves. I mean, I've been to the stores too,
and don't I don't see it yet.

Speaker 11 (01:49:04):
However, ports like Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York, New Jersey,
they are experiencing large drops in cargo, especially from China.
Import booking volumes down thirty five percent since March. Shipments
from China down forty three percent. That includes electronics, plastics, vehicles, steel,
textiles down by more than half. This is going to
surface eventually. We have yet to see it, but it's coming, well.

Speaker 1 (01:49:28):
Isn't part of this drop in shipping demand because a
lot of these businesses and industries front loaded larger orders
in anticipation of the tariffs ultimately kicking in.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
So you have direct that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
You have a large increase in shipping followed by a
drop in shipping because I guess there's limited storage space.
There's only so much that any given company that buys
Chinese goods, for example, can buy at any one time,
even if they're trying to front load. So and plus,
you know, it really is kind of a tea leaf
reading kind of thing because you don't know, as we
kind of alluded to a moment ago, I don't know
what's going to ultimately happen. And Trump's been busily negotiating

(01:50:03):
with one hundred and seventy different countries to come up
as like Britain, some satisfactory a level of tariffs that
we can all live and work with, and something that
might expand the American markets. But that's an ever evolving,
ever moving landscape. So how much extra stuff do you
buy anticipating tariffs are going to cause you a financial problem.

(01:50:23):
It's like if you own a restaurant, how much meat
do you buy at the beginning of the week. How
many people are going to order stakes you know you're
going to have losses. Are you gonna overbuy and have
to throw things out? It's a complicated thing.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
It really is.

Speaker 11 (01:50:36):
And that's why a lot of smart financial brains get
paid a lot of money to understand exactly what their
companies need. Unfortunately, the average American doesn't really have the
ability to do this, with the exception of toilet paper,
which is the first thing to go whenever it snows
and whenever we have pandemics apparently. But yeah, so this
is simply a business decision where they're just saying, Okay,
it looks like it's going to get a little crazy

(01:50:57):
in the next few months.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
We really need to.

Speaker 11 (01:51:01):
Stock up on this, that, and the other, but we're
going to ignore these other things. And so what you saw,
that's what triggered the economic poolback in the United States
are our most recently reported economic quarter was negative. We
don't call that a recession until we have two quarters
in a row. But that was kind of self inflicted
from a standpoint of because these tariffs were in place.
For the exact reason you just mentioned, companies and businesses

(01:51:22):
started buying a lot more from overseas therefore a lot
less than the United States. So arguably as possible, you
could be looking for a bit of a perk up
in the United States domestic purchases as long as those
products that these businesses need are available from the United States.
Nothing magical happened in the first quarter to suddenly create
factories where there were none. There are things we can't

(01:51:43):
get from anywhere else. That's why there's a lot of
businesses out there suffering. And I'm assuming there's somebody screaming
at their windshield right now saying, hey, that doesn't help me.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
I can't buy domestically.

Speaker 11 (01:51:51):
I have to I got to kind of take it
in the pants here until we get these tariffs cleared up.

Speaker 1 (01:51:56):
And I keep thinking of going back to COVID about that.
That's when we sort of all came to the realization that,
you know, we don't manufacture a lot of things that
you know, are critical to our even our nation's security.
Pharmaceuticals came into mind immediately when like, oh my god,
we rely on China for all of these, including the
pharmaceuticals our members in uniform have if we had been

(01:52:18):
sort of conflict, China just flips the switch and doesn't
sell them to us anymore. So there are reasons other
than tariffs for US to have some measure of incentive
to start manufacturing either with countries with whom we have
no conflict, or at least start manufacturing them in here
in the United States. But as you illust as you
point out, it takes time to ramp up, and it
also comes as that it is at a significantly higher

(01:52:40):
cost because of the imbalance in labor between US and China.

Speaker 11 (01:52:46):
Yeah, a lot of this comes from the fact that
the United States was founded and grew to its current
size based on the idea of being the United States
of profit margin. Everything we can possibly do, everything we
can squeeze profit out.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
That's just the way that we roll. So you talk
about we.

Speaker 11 (01:53:03):
Want to bring pharmaceuticals on shore somehow, some way, someone
is looking at that as Okay, I can do that.
I can build a factory that's going to do that,
and here's on what profit margin I want to make
out of it. Nobody here in this country who waves
a red, white and blue flag looks at that and says,
you know what, I'm going to do that for the
good of the people. I'm not saying that's a good thing,
but that is how we make decisions, and everybody does it,

(01:53:23):
include I'll throw the unions in there too. It's expensive
to build stuff here because of the protections we have
in place for workers. There are union leadership out there
who they of course they get paid to kind of
bring these deals to fruition just like anybody else. People
who make profits by creating products and services are really
no different than the people who create a long running

(01:53:44):
positions for themselves by leading a group of people in
a union. Not good, bad, or in different, but all
of it winds up costing more and that trickles all
the way back down to the consumer. That's kind of
the whole point of the United States. We are here
to make a profit.

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
Yeah, And in spite of the true you illustrate, you know,
we are kind of a global economy anymore, which gives
us options of manufacturing in places like China where it's cheaper.
But over the last several years we've seen a lot
new a lot of new investment in very large businesses
in industry, and a lot of it does seem to
be taking place. So in spite of those challenges, apparently
there is still some profit in building something here in

(01:54:20):
the United States, like these battery manufacturing plants or these
artificial intelligence plants and other things.

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
Right there is And that's the thing to bear in mind.

Speaker 11 (01:54:30):
If we were in truly in the seventies where we
had stagflation, but it occurred kind of organically, and I
mean that. What I mean by that is that there
are plenty of catalysts right now that are happening. Technology
has been a catalyst for fifteen twenty years. It kind
of changes with regard to what the technology is it's driving.
You know, twenty years ago it was mobile devices and

(01:54:52):
the move to kind of move being able to be
anywhere and do your job and so on and so forth,
and that has cycled forth to now to what you
just mentioned article official Intelligence, which I can't imagine that's
not touching absolutely every industry very very very rapidly. But
that's a catalyst for companies to become more efficient, increase
their profit margin, and lots of companies are going to
want to invest in supporting it because there's a lot

(01:55:14):
of money to be made in So underneath all of this,
when we stop smacking each other around, there is a
strong economy and the dollars are still moving around in
a circle. It just depends on how much longer we
want to It's a big game of chicken. How much
longer are we going to have these fights with our
various trading partners.

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grinding down is and I've seen these red flags wave
and you know, whaling and gnashing your teeth, Oh my god.
And a lot of it's driven, I think, by Trump
arrangement syndrome. But there is something to be said that,
you know, if you're going to have these massive tariffs,
the idea of having empty shells is certainly a possibility.

(01:57:36):
But I suppose it depends on what you're looking for.
So are we going to see a bunch of empty
shells and four lease signs the headline headline opinion, empty shells,
four lease signs and job layoffs point to a recession
by summer? Geez, you and I've been talking about a
possible recession now for quite a few years.

Speaker 11 (01:57:51):
Brian, Well, I think we're always talking about the possibility
of a recession, right, We're never We're we are never
not on our way to the next recession that's always
coming up, right, So it's also going to rain, maybe today,
maybe a month from now.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
But by god, one of these days, I'm going to
be right about it.

Speaker 11 (01:58:08):
So, yeah, we're currently if when you look at the
current situation, which is about as fluid as it can be,
things are changing, you know, they change over the weekend,
they go from black to white. So if you look
at the current situation, then yes, it does look like
we're on our way to a recession that is triggered
by this. But I think the reference you were making
there earlier is that that up until very recently, everyone

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was looking for the second leg down from COVID. We
only recently stopped talking about that. And I think I've
kind of learned the definition, Brian, of a soft landing.
I think a soft landing is at some point you
realize you haven't talked about it in months, and therefore
that was a soft landing. We never declare that, Okay,
it's all over. You know, everybody back and pull, everything's great.
We just stopped talking about it until the next one

(01:58:49):
comes along, and here we are.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
Yeah, that is a funny way of looking at it.
But you're right, it's right around the corner, maybe a
little bit further down the road when you hit that corner.
But something bad is always going to. But but then again,
something good will always happen too. Like I mean today,
you know, if the futures are indications where they are
right now turn out to be true, it's going to
erase all of the losses when since the day Donald

(01:59:12):
Trump announced the tariffs kicked in place. At least that's
what I read this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:59:16):
Yeah, we are clawing our way back to back to zero.

Speaker 11 (01:59:19):
Really, the S and P five hundred is only down
as we're sitting here right now about four percent.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
That does not yet reflect the futures.

Speaker 11 (01:59:25):
So if futures kick in, you know, if this market
kicks in where the futures are, then yes, we'll be
back to even ish at least at the open. Let's
see what happens, you know, around ten thirty when we
all get our second cup of coffee'll the out comes right.
But at this point the market is recovering. And again
you mentioned Trump arrangement syndrome. The market hates question. It
doesn't necessarily hate any politician or any political beliefs. It

(01:59:46):
simply hates lack of clarity. And we have for sure
had lack of clarity over the past several months. And
that's what as we start to get these deals across
the finish line. That's what seems to be clearing up.
The other thing, too, is we're starting to hear some
pretty strong political voices say, hey, don't forget me, I
have to run for reelection here over the next few years.
Ted Cruz, Grassley and Ram paulse of being some of

(02:00:09):
those big voices who are going to remind the president
that they themselves are up and available to be re
elected and would very much like to win those elections.
So we can't keep smacking people around, right.

Speaker 1 (02:00:18):
And then they're doing that budget reconciliation thing, and you've
got all everybody on the Republican side of the ledger
and they're hoping you have one hundred percent uniformity in
terms of a yes vote on that. They're all fighting
for turf and some of them want to keep the
salt deductions as they are. Some of them are saying,
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We're not going to vote yes on this. Others are
pushing to keep the Green New Deal stuff flowing to

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their states other than saying no, we get rid of
all of it. So there's a whole lot of uncertainty
sewed into that particular thing, which includes whether or not
Donald Trump's tax cuts will be made permanent. So I
suppose those things might cause some market on stability for sure,
because somebody's going to win these arguments. Right now, we're
just in the shouting. Maybe we're starting to exit the
shouting stage and move toward the Okay, what are we

(02:01:03):
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going to gain something as well as lose something. That's
the only way these things ever get resolved. But we're
going to have the willingness for that to actually happen.

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
Again.

Speaker 11 (02:01:14):
We've seen that with UK. Apparently we're going to get
it with China here at least for the next ninety days.
And it does appear that all these tariffs and things
are more of a negotiating tactic than an intended, real
permanent type of a situation.

Speaker 2 (02:01:26):
Which if that's the case, then so be it.

Speaker 11 (02:01:28):
And I hope we'll come through this a little bit stronger,
but a little more bumpiness to come from the short
run for sure.

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All right, real quick, I guess the writings on the wall.
Student loans are due. You knew they were going to
be due at some point when you sign on the
bottom line and promise to pay them back, but some
people think they were going to get a free pass
things to the Biden administrations ever to buy votes. Never
understood how this was so popular. I mean, majority of

(02:03:54):
people in America do not have college degrees, yet it
was on their shoulders. College degrees were going to be forgiven.
This is kind of common as a cost of the
American taxpayer, which just never seemed quite fair to me. Brian, Hey,
you may have got a degree and allows you one.
It didn't provide a return on investment, but you did it,
eyes wide open, and time to pay the piper.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
Yeah, it's coming around.

Speaker 11 (02:04:14):
So there's five million borrows out there whose loans are
in default, and about two hundred thousand of them are
going to start receiving notices from the Treasury Department notifying
them that benefits and tax refunds are going to be
withheld pretty soon, starting in the next month.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
So we're just getting to the.

Speaker 11 (02:04:29):
Point where, remember it was almost two years ago that
the Supreme Court struck down Biden's idea that we were
going to wipe away student loans. I did have a
lot of clients, I shouldn't say a lot of it,
enough that I remember talking about it who were helping
their kids with student loans, or perhaps had student loans
themselves only just recently with maybe this year or Q

(02:04:49):
four last year, who kind of gave up on the
notion that this was ever going to come around. So
people were still kind of hanging on to even though
the Supreme Court shot it down. Maybe politically, somebody else
is going to come forward with a well, we are
at the We're about as far away from that as
we can be. The people who are hearing today are
the ones who are getting payments from the federal government
for various reasons benefits, tax refunds, of course, and if

(02:05:12):
they are federal employees themselves, some of that is going
to start being withheld starting next month to make student
debt repayment a big priority for the Trump administration.

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
In a form of what wage garnishments correct.

Speaker 11 (02:05:24):
Oh, yeah, lots of way you have the wage garnishments,
or if you are on another federal benefit pension, some
people are, believe it or not, Some people have student
loans and are also on a federal pension. They've let
them roll for years and years and years. If you're
getting payments from the federal government and you're in default
or near default on your student loans, you can rest
assured they're going to make that connection. That's part of
what DOGE has been doing, trying to connect the entities

(02:05:45):
that pay that send outgoing payments to people with the
other entities that are receiving payments.

Speaker 2 (02:05:51):
From those people.

Speaker 11 (02:05:51):
If you're on both of those lists, then they're going
to kind of net out the math and say, you
owe us this, so we're not going to give you
that payment.

Speaker 2 (02:05:58):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:05:58):
I hope ultimately this results in some changes at universities
and that they have some somewhat of a fiduciary abligation
to sit young people down before they engage and embark
on this borrowing, to point out the value on the
real market of what that particular subject matter they plan
on majoring in.

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
Has.

Speaker 1 (02:06:16):
I mean, is there a job before an art major?
Are you planning on going into debt one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to get an art degree? I don't
want to pick on that particular degree, but I had
to imagine in the world, and I always us Southey's
as an example. There are only so many jobs available
at the at Southeast, and where are you going to work?
A lot of people work for free as docents in museums.

(02:06:38):
They don't get paid for it, So then the university
have some sort of obligation to point that out up front.

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
Yeah, and you would hope, but I don't think they do.
And I think back too.

Speaker 11 (02:06:49):
So I went to a high university out in Athens,
and when I was finishing up, they were building what's
called the Ping Center, which is a nice student building
where you can exercise and all kinds of stuff. And
early on, before it even opened, they started hitting everybody
with a search charge on your tuition because somebody had
to pay for this. It wasn't going to open until
after my wife and I graduated, but we were paying
for it, and I remember there being articles in the

(02:07:12):
local paper about the fight that OU and every other
school has to be in to attract students. They have
to be able to say we have cooler facilities than
these other places. Good, bad are indifferent. People will pay
for it and that's what universities have done for twenty
and thirty years and longer than that. In one of
those articles was a story about one of these schools
that had a giant student hot tub, which just sounded

(02:07:33):
like the most disgusting thing. Even I, as an idiot
college student, was grossed out by that. Yeah, but that
was touted as an attraction. That's the environment that we've
been in for a long time.

Speaker 1 (02:07:42):
It is, But I would think that them advertising their
success in getting people employed at graduation would be the
biggest dangling carret of incentive to go to any given university,
pivoting over market correction for housing? Is this a positive
market correction? Oh well, we'll see. So this is coming
out of Texas.

Speaker 11 (02:08:00):
Texis is a little bit of a microcosm here undergoing
a significant correction, oversupplied, declining demand, and affordability issues listings.
Housing listings reached one hundred and twenty three thousand last April,
which is fifty three percent higher than normal. It's the
fourth most oversupplied housing market in the US. And I
remember I have a lot of people of friends of

(02:08:20):
mine who ended up moving to Dallas for job purposes.
There was a ton of jobs out there because that's
just the better tax situation, and also the idea that
there is so much land down there, it doesn't cost
much to just build a new neighborhood. So nobody, none
of these folks, I'm thinking over the past fifteen twenty years,
none of these folks were buying used well, old existing houses.

(02:08:42):
They were all building because it was just so cheap
because there is so much land and so much space
to build out there.

Speaker 2 (02:08:48):
Well, Texas leaned into that. Now we have an oversupply,
so they're expecting the impact is going to be potential
four percent drop statewide in the value of houses looking
for affordability challenges are going to last throughout twenty twenty five,
and it's still going to be about overvalued by about
ten twelve percent by the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:09:04):
Well, at least it's getting closer to the realm of
affordability for notably the first time buyers. I would argue,
but I think interest rates are going to have to
drop before some of these houses become really within the
grasp of financial reality for a lot of people. And
if that happens, of course, the market could flip then,
couldn't it.

Speaker 11 (02:09:22):
Yeah, absolutely, and then it could turn pretty quickly because
that the forces that drove this migration to Texas. Remember
a few years ago, it didn't matter where we live.
We all got the idea, I can live wherever I want.
Some people said, the heck with it. I don't want
winter and I don't want taxis. I'll just go to Texas.
And that created a boom, and the builders overran the
boom and just kept building, building building until the actual

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demand stopped.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
Demand stop when people realize when they moved there, Damn,
it's hot here. It's really really in the right. Why
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Speaker 2 (02:10:02):
Have a good week. Talk to you next week.

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(02:14:35):
human immune system, which basically is our main defense against cancer,
particularly cellular immunity. And I don't want to get too
deep into the science here for Radio Hit, but it
turns out that things are a lot more complicated than

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Wall Street investors are often sold on. But it's a
reliably the potent strategy to try to pitch these cancer
vaccine companies. So that's where Maderna started, and predictably that
business model failed and they really only got rescued when

(02:15:19):
Tony Fauci, largely with the NIH Vaccine Research Center, together
with backing from DARPA Defense or Reduction Agency, and a
number of others. Now we know us A, i D,
pushed forward these mRNA products I'm going to call them

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for ostensibly preventing COVID disease. And unfortunately those products were
promoted without adequate pre clinical or clinical studies that normally
would take up to a decade, and not too surprisingly

(02:16:09):
a number of unexpected consequences let's say, you know, the
technical term would be adverse events which include death by
the way ensued and nobody was allowed to question it,
and nobody was provided informed consent. I think the most

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powerful statement I've heard come out of d C about
all this was a Secretary Hegsworth, the Defense Secretary of Defense.
Hegsworth's comment that these were never licensed, the products that
were deployed in the d D, and these mandates were illegal.
So that's that's where things stand right now. DC remains

(02:16:57):
in deny, denial over what they have their fingers all over.
I mean, Tony Fauci didn't do this in a vacuum.
It was actively enabled by many powerful people in both
houses in it.

Speaker 1 (02:17:14):
I'm troubled by so much of this information, and I
have been for a while. But as you point out,
and you're going to talk about this again tomorrow night,
seven pm in Poweroamerica dot org, they had tried these
RNA based treatments on a variety of different things, maybe
cancer is one of them, as you're suggesting before, at
the animal testing phase, and they had to stop them

(02:17:34):
because they were far too dangerous to test on humans.
Is it the RNA type of vaccine that in and
of itself poses these challenges or that just that they
didn't get it right as to whatever particular disease state
they were working on. Because if all this information suggests
mRNA based treatments are dangerous, why in the hell would
they push to advance them on the general population.

Speaker 3 (02:17:58):
So, in terms of your question, it's kind of all
of the above, and particularly in a case of COVID,
because clearly the spike protein is E toxin and that's
another thing that was suppressed, considered controversial, not allowed to
be said. But it's true. It's another unfortunate truth. But

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you ask why why all the impetus for this is
a number of them, and one of them is that
this represents a whole new domain for product development, which
basically creates a gold rush for pharma because they can

(02:18:41):
circumvent prior art and prior patents by using this new
technology or composition of matter, which is now freely available
because the patents that I worked on back in the
late eighties and early nineties have all expired. So the
fundamental underlying tech that underpins all of this is now

(02:19:08):
public domain because the patents have expired. So for pharma,
this is a gold rush. And the positioning has been
from the let's say, by defense industrial complex that this
technology will scratch there it solve a major pain point,

(02:19:29):
which is that it takes up to a decade to
develop a new vaccine, and that it's the combination of
those two things, the gold rush and pharmacy perception that
this represents a whole big area of commercial opportunity, and
the logic that this solves this huge problem that it

(02:19:51):
takes a decade to develop a new vaccine and we're
constantly bombarded by all this fear promoted fear from the
industry that we're going to get overwhelmed by highly pathogenic
infectious diseases coming out of the jungle because of global warming.
I mean, the narrative just goes.

Speaker 1 (02:20:11):
On, Oh yeah, I've heard it all before. Or you
build them in a in a wuhan instead of virology
and you unleash them on the globe by accident or
by intention. Now, but if these mRNA vaccines are inherently
dangerous or post them inherently dangerous risks based on the
technology is being used, they're not necessarily going to get
emergency use authorization for any new vaccines they roll out.

(02:20:31):
Those will be subject to obligations to do clinical trials,
and if history is any guide, then they'll probably fail
in the clinical trials and never be rolled out.

Speaker 2 (02:20:38):
Isn't that sort of true?

Speaker 3 (02:20:41):
Well, so this is why all of the uproar over
the HHS and Bobby Kennedy and Martin McCarty initiatives that
all new vaccines are going to have to be tested
against a true placebo or negative control. Right. The industry

(02:21:01):
hates this because they have been masking some of the
adverse events associated with a wide variety of vaccines which
are intrinsically inflammatory by comparing them to other vaccines rather
than comparing them to a true control This is the
book Turtles All the Way Down, is just a fantastic

(02:21:23):
discussion of how this has been built and what the
modern consequences are. It's kind of a house of cards
that's been built up over decades. And I got to
admit I bought into that. I bought into the logic
that it was unethical to test a new vaccine against
a true placebo. This is what I've been taught again

(02:21:45):
and again and again. It was all drilled into you.
But I've come to recognize that that was wrong, that ethically,
that logic is flawed.

Speaker 1 (02:21:57):
I certainly understand that that's where the control population is
supposed to come from, so you can compare it against
the general public who have not gotten the new vaccine.
Oh my god, doctor, you know I could talk to
you for hours. I think, Doctor Malone, we're going to
get an hour and change tomorrow night, seven pm. And
I know, for example, red flag for you have to
address it. A lot of my listeners believe this this
was rolled out for the purposes of population control. I've

(02:22:20):
talked to some physicians who know about thousands of patients
who lost their babies in utero and mothers of head
at menstrual problems and things along. So is perhaps something
is there a connection there?

Speaker 2 (02:22:30):
Perhaps?

Speaker 3 (02:22:32):
So my position on that is, at first, you know,
like I used to say that the Great Reset, I
used to think the Great Reset was a conspiracy theory,
and then I read Klaus Schwab's book called the Great Reset. Yeah, right, Okay,
so it is population control a conspiracy? If you read

(02:22:53):
the Henry Kissinger report that is now a fundamental aspect,
it is integrated into American foreign policy that talks about
population control, you'll realize that this is a real thing. Okay,
that the connecting that federal policy position about really depopulation

(02:23:19):
to what happened here is speculation.

Speaker 1 (02:23:24):
Its speculation, but it's but it's a it's a logical
leap for people out there.

Speaker 3 (02:23:28):
And I wish I can fully understand why people make
that connection, but uh it, it has all kinds of implications,
and uh until personally, until I see you know, some
email proof, right, Uh, then then I'm going to kind

(02:23:49):
of hold hold, keep your.

Speaker 1 (02:23:50):
Power, keep your powder dry. I wish you had more
time doctumn. We are way out of time. We'll listen
to you tomorrow night, seven pm and power you America
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