55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Tom Hester

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Speaker 1 (00:41):
That pretty much sums it up. Joe, I was sitting
on the edge of my seat waiting and figure out
what Joe. What's sound by? Joe is going to lead
the program off which I'll be Joe's Trucker Executi producer
at fifty five Carsy Morning Show'm Brian Thomas, host of
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Talk Pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Hope
you had a wonderful weekend. A very happy Monday to everybody.
Thanks for tuning into the program, and stick around because
it is Monday, meaning we're gonna hear from Christopher Smith
and former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati Every
Monday at seven twenty with the Smither vent no idea
what he's going to talk about. I never do, but

(01:23):
I always enjoy hearing his thoughts and his comments. A
man of logic and reason he is, and someone who
as a financial planner probably is interested in the Moodies downgrade,
and we're going to talk about that with Brian James.
It is Monday. We do Money Monday with Brian James
every Monday at eight oh five. We'll talk to the
Moody's credit rating down grade and the reasons for it,
which apparently the Republicans have no concept over. I'm so

(01:45):
so upset with the Republicans over this so called big
beautiful bill. It's kind of running off the rails anyhow,
it did come out of committee last night. But we'll
talk about the details of that coming up. The homes
starter home market in Cincinnati topic number two with Brian James.
And finally, big summer vacations apparently out of style considering
the cost of things and not shocking to me, but

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we'll find out the reasons behind that with Brian James.
Eighth five, followed by Tim Hester. He's a Cincinni native
and Air Force veteran served in Iraq. Thank you for
your service to our country, Tim Hester, he's promoting the
PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic tenth anniversary the
Field of Memory celebration honoring the brave men and women
who have made the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. Arlington

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Memorial Gardens obtained the exclusive rights of this premiere. The
PBS documentary documentary tells the story this is crazy four
man rowing team of Air Force veterans. They called the
team Team Fight or Die, or spelled oar with a
little but I'm bump. So Team Fighter Die embarked on

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a perilous three thousand mile ocean rowing race called the
World's Toughest Row. How about signing up for that, Joe. Anyways,
back in twenty twenty two, boat had capsized when they
were hit by a thirty foot twell ended up spending
eighteen hours in a life draft before being miraculously rescued.

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So that's the backstory behind the documentary. It should be
a rather interesting conversation with Tim Hester. So that'll take
place at eight forty anyhow, for we move on to
other things, like Moody's down, Gray, I see Luke's on
the phone. Let's see what Luce got to say? This morning, Luke,
thanks for calling the morning showing a very happy Monday
to you, sir.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah, happy Monday, Brian. I'm just here, you know of PA.
Public announcements remain every year about you know, the notchal
disaction at Kentucky, and they just had me thinking, you know, we're.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Dead or number pretty close to a number I can't
fathom mathematically realistically.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
But what I can a fat him is, anytime there's
a notch disaster here at home in America.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
There should be a part of the garment should be
there with the dag on silver platter to pick that
family up. We've given so much money, I mean, we
camorrhage money like it's nothing. But the minute there's some
real disaster here in America back like they can't find
the fund so they can't, you know, figure out how
to get it in the budget or some bureaucracy something
that just makes us all angry.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
We see it in our regular business in life. But
the government actually they can't figure out how to cut
a check. They should be there with freaking one hundred
dollars bills. NSAMI truck I get took in the Middle
East to take care of our citizens that have been
through the national disaster and lost their home.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, I hear the anger in your voice, look and
I share it. But let's face it, anytime you turn
to a bloated federal government for relief and efficiency, you're
barking up the wrong tree. They've demonstrated incompetence in every
single area of government. This is just one more where
they botch it. I mean, you can't anticipate when and
where a natural disaster will strike, but they seem to

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be able to find money for everything else on the planet,
and yet when it comes to the American citizens and
their well being, You're right, priorities seem to be out
of whack. I can't deny that. I can't deny it,
but I share your frustration generally. But my frustration with
federal government goes way beyond FEMA, and it's incompetence. And

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with that, let me give a plug for Matthew twenty
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the Midwest tornadoes. Respond to the devastating tornadoes across the Midwest.
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That's where your dollar is going to go. The farthest
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just know they do great work and they have practically
no overhead. So a donation Matthew twenty five is going

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to mean money and resources and supplies getting to the
people that actually need it, well oiled machine, unlike FEMA.
So we are the most charitable people on the planet
when it comes to things like this, And so maybe
we can keep that in mind, help fulfill Maybe you

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have a Christian responsibility to help your fellow men. Maybe
not Christian, and maybe it's just sort of general philosophy, ethics, morality,
whatever happens to be, whatever drives it. There are ways
to help out that don't involve the federal government. And
again this is why I feel so sorry for people
who are stuck and hooked up to the milical court
of federal government. More and more people every year as
we discuss medicaid and curbing the Medicaid dollars spent. One

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of the reasons Moody's downgraded US is because the growing
burden financing the federal government's budget deficit and the rising
costs rolling over existing debt amid higher interest rates. Yeah,
one of the reasons we've got a massive budget debt
is because they expanded medicaid to a whole bunch of
people that can work and should be working. And I

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can't believe the Republicans fighting against themselves and amongst themselves
someonet to keep the medicaid expansion. There that the work
requirement under the prior bill, and I'm not sure if
they've ratcheted back, although promises have been made to some
of the more conservative Republicans are fighting for sanity, that
they will move the work obligation back from previously twenty
twenty nine. Why do you have to wait so long

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to put a work mandate in therefore able bodied people. Anyhow,
you set to demonstrate that you're trying. And I keep
pointing out the trades. What a wonderful opportunity for some
folks who are hooked up to the Biblical court of government.
Dicey proposition that given the finite number of dollars we
have in the world and the fact that we keep
blowing through more than they actually take in. According to

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the statement for Moody's, this one notch downgrade and our
twenty one notch rating scale reflects the increase over more
than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios
to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns HM.
They say this lower credit profile will probably have to

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lift the yield that people demand in order to buy
US treasury debt to reduce to reflect more risk, and
could dampen sentiment toward owning US assets, including stocks. Now
apparently the other credit rategencies already done this to US.
Moody's described as a holdout in keeping our sovereign debt
at the highest debt rating possible or credit rating possible,

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but now brings Moodies in line with its rivals at
standard and poor. Downgraded US in August of twenty eleven.
Pitch Ratings downgraded US in August of twenty twenty three.
It just took Moodies a lot longer, Moody's analysts in
the statements. Successive US administrations in Congress have failed to
agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual

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fiscal deficits and growing interest costs. We do not believe
that material multi year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits
will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration. The big
beautiful bill. I think that's what that is in reference
to and no kidding headlines Wall Street Journal this morning,

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the stark math on the GOP tax plan. It doesn't
cut the deficits. The plan will not reduce federal budget
deficits and would make them America's fiscal hole deeper. Current
proposal projected buzzet it will increase projected budget deficits by
nearly three trillion dollars through twenty thirty four, walking in

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tax cuts and spending increases that outweigh reductions and spending
on medicaid and nutrition assistance. So they're getting some, but
they're not doing enough. Some Republicans are claiming that higher
economic growth is the growth is going to fill the gap,
but that's not exactly in line with many budget analysts,

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particularly given the murky landscape dealing with these tariffs that
are in place. So I don't I really don't know
what to say. There's more details on this, obviously, we
can get into them. But I'm so so thoroughly disappointed.
You got so called moderate Republicans clinging to their green

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energy projects because they happen to be in their state,
even though they never would have been there but for
that sort of inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to
do with reducing inflation but everything to do with with
funding these green new projects. You got other Republicans in
big medicaid expansion states that don't want to come medicate.

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They're afraid of losing their seats. And we could go
on and on and on, and of course the farms
are protected. I have nothing against the American farmers, matter
of fact, I have a profound respect for it. But
you know what, you don't need corn subsidies. We don't
need to be putting corn in our gas tanks, and
yet there they are. Farmers are capable of growing other

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crops that are in demand. Corn isn't the only one.
I'm sure it's far more complicated than that. But really
the subsidy is there, and the support for corn growing
is there because of the ethanol mandates. Let's just get
rid of those, shall we. The demand for ethanol will
go down. We won't have to put in our gas
tank anymore. It's not like we're short on oil. Five

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sixteenth and five kr s talk station. I got New Hampshire,
Gary and Jay on the line. You both are next
in the order in which they receee, which means Gary's
first Jay. Hang on, be right back after these brief words,
fifty good Monday, Happy Monday to you. Try to make
it so anyway, I gotta go over to the bones,
says Promise. I got two callers on the line five
one three seven two three talk in the order in

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which they're received, New Hampshire, Gary, welcome back to the
Morning show.

Speaker 7 (11:28):
Good morning, Brian. Hey, I gotta tell you you didn't
mention anything about the Supreme Court this week some Friday.
I have to tell you, I am, I am disgusted
with the Supreme Court, but I understand I wasn't shocked
of what the Supreme Court did. And I think what

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we see here with the budget and the courts, they're
just a bunch of political hacks. They get to their
nng os, they give to their the military complex, they
give to their teacher unions. They got the police and
fire they've got, and I just can go on and

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on with the environmental groups, the farmers and every and
even doge is plainly showing and it's only a fraction,
only a fraction. What's going on is all the waste
and the stealing, all out just flat out stealing and

(12:37):
the political hackery of these judges. They're political acts didn't
surprise me. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants came in,
not US citizens, came in over the last four years.
Now we're going to have to give each one due process.
They're not US citizens. They're not titled to all the

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rights that we are entiled to as civilians. Or you're
going to start handed all the illegal immigrants Second Amendment
rights and let them take up arms as much as
they want, you know, And then I see and no Napolitano,
God bless his soul, but you know he's standing up

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for NS thirteen people that have it symbolized on their knuckles.
And you know, you've got people like this that they're all, no,
we've got to give them due process. We everything, mark
my word, everything that's being done is going to be
undone just as fast in four years, if not faster.

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Because you can see this thing coming to a wind
own as we're going broke, you know you can. I
can see it. Sorry, I'm.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I was wondering how you saw this great undoing that
your reference in what way, shape or form is that
undoing going to occur? Because The problem is I see
it now. The Supreme Court did say that these illegal
immigrants were entitled to more due process than the administration
allowed them, more than just twenty four hours notice. They
have to have an opportunity to you know, have a

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hearing in court, you know, so there's some due process all.
The court didn't articulate specifically how much. But it's not
a full it's not they're not entitled to a full
hearing with you know, judge and jury and all that.
And so there's there's it's some sort.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
Of missed the state. Ryan, when they get that tangled
up in court, your white back where you're started, right,
because you know that's no matter what they do, that's
going to get tangled up.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
But how does this great undoing, How does this great
undoing occur that you're referring to, because we're talking about
literally millions and millions of people that are entitled I
guess some form of hearing. So how's that all going
to get undone?

Speaker 7 (14:54):
Well, you know, tens of billions of people made it
into this country and everybody he opened, they pore the
gates down.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
No, I know how we got here? How do how
does it? How does it get undone, you.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Undo it the same way that it was done. No
process in, no process, out, you're out, you're done.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, that's going to be that's going to require defying
the highest court in the land. So I can't see
that actually happening unless there's a revolution exactly.

Speaker 7 (15:23):
That's why I see an undoing here.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
So you're talking about rep you're talking about some sort
of internal revolution.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
No, no, no, I don't think it's going to be.
I think what is going to happen is exactly what
they wanted to happen. We're going to file bankruptcy.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh well yeah, they're going to.

Speaker 7 (15:39):
Create a new constitutional crisis and they're going to create
the new constitution and we're not going to have any
say in it whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well, that remains me seen. Now, there's a lot of
people out there in the world that would take up
arms and events something like that would happen. But yeah,
we face an existential threat. It's our spending and it's
our debt, and then we're we're not going to be
able to fund literally any programs, including like, for example,
the Social Security program. And you're gonna have thousands and
tens of millions of seniors that aren't going to have
a check coming in because well, we've wrecked the FIA currency. Yeah,

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that's I mean, the writing's been on the wall for
a long time. It's one of the reasons. Moodies was
very gentle, but did point out that we have a
massive spending problem, your credit ratings being downgraded. As scoch
we're still one of the best in the entire world,
and nonetheless here we find ourselves. It's a frightening position
to be in. Get Jay. Let's get Jay in here.
He's been kind enough the way, Jay, Welcome to the
Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hey, good morning, Brian.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (16:34):
I wanted to point out that with this medicaid expansion,
if you go back in time and I listened to
your podcast from last week, you had an expert on
he was talking about medicaid fraud. Yeah, which was excellent
and it really explains Mike the line and the behaviors
that we saw in Columbus where when he was running
for governor he was against medicaid expansion. When Obama administration

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was dangling the carrot out there that we were the
federal government was going to pay for just call it
medicaid fraud. We're just going to lower the bar and
let everybody in. And hey, I know you Red states,
because let's just say there's thirteen Blue states and thirty
seven Red states. Ish he told them, I understand you
don't want to pay for it. We'll pay for it

(17:16):
for the first three years, and then after that. Your
guest said, they make nine dollars. I think it was like,
for every ten dollars spent to get a healthy person
on Medicaid, the state gets to keep ninety or something
like that. Or the state makes nine dollars for every
healthy person. So huge incentive to get healthy.

Speaker 9 (17:38):
Peape one there.

Speaker 8 (17:39):
So that explains why the wine went from being against.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
It to being for it. And I can blame the
wine all day long.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
But evidently there was twenty seven Red states it took
the deal. So if we said, what's the true root cause,
the true root cause is the way that we currently
have this government structured. The federal government down in DC
is the parent and the states are acting like children.
Or let me say a little more harshly, DC is

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the pimp and the states are the whore. And until
we fix that, nothing's going to change. Because I understand
the Red States are saying, Look, if we don't take
this deal, these other states are going to take the deal.
So we might as well line up what good subservient
horrors and get at least our share, because if we don't,
it doesn't help us at all. So to build on

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New Hampshire, Gary, would I would I go back to it?
It can be a bloodlesh revolution. Let's do the national divorce.
Can we not agree that the biggest national security threat
to this country are the Blue States and the Democrat Party.
And until we see that and we tell them, we'll
be as close to you as we are to Canada
and Mexico. But your bad ideas are wrecking this country.

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And we got to get where this makes states great again.
Put a federal government back in its box if you can,
and make it only for defense and trade as it
was in the Constitution. Anything short of that is we
are going to just bet and hope that people that
have all the power and all of the control Washington,
DC is no different in Beijing, and this country is

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no different in China, where there's a thousand people that
have ninety nine percent of the power and control. That's
what has to change. And until that changes it's just
lip service. We're just asking humanity to do something humanity
has never done or only done once, maybe at the
beginning of this country. But we've got to get rid
of the We have to do this amicable separation. There

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is no compromise between life and abortion. There is no
compromise between huge government and small government, between freedom and tranny.

Speaker 7 (19:44):
And it's okay to have that conversation.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
It's almost seems taboo that we won't even go down
that path.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
I don't hear the conversation anymore.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, the devil's in the details on something like that, Jay,
How would we get from here to there and what
would it take? And that's where you're the big concerns
come in because absence something like a depression or a
major financial collapse with the Fiat currency or something like that,
I don't hear the will or see the will from
our elected officials. Appreciate the call, Jay, have a great

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Speaker 1 (21:06):
This week's marketers posted and it is a local story
since it talks about City of Cincinnati's financial state. Truth
in Accounting at the University of Denver published at twenty
twenty five what they call Financial State of the City's
report ranked seventy five of US cities according to their
financial condition. You know where we show up sixty seven
out of seventy five, earning us a D rating almost

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at the very bottom of the of the list. Columbus
got a see they ranked at thirty seven. Cleveland got
a B, coming in at number five. Gordon the Porta
calculated the taxpayer burden for each Cincinnati taxpayer thirteen thousand,
four hundred dollars per taxpayer, again sixty seventh, worst of

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the seventy five ranked accord to truth in accounting that burden,
that tax burn a thirteen thousand, four hundred dollars. That's
how much each Cincinnaia taxpayer would have to pay to
eliminate Cincinnati's non capital debt, which would be on top
of the taxes they've already paid this to the city.
So how long has the city been run by Democrats?

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Too long answer from Joe Streker. You're right, Joe. You
get a gold star for the right answer. H What
started out as a normal traffic stop and Sharonville ended
with a massive police chase happened Saturday evening. Routine stop
for a fictitious license plate violation about five point thirty
in the evening. According to Scharonville Police Department. Things got

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shaken up when the driver fled the scene, striking the
officer's cruiser, and they ignored multiple orders to stop. Police
pursued the suspect nearly thirty minutes before using stop sticks.
Suspect identified as Alicia Joyce Bryan, who's fifty four from Hamilton, Ohio,
charged with attempted to sell a police officer, felony, fer
to comply with a police officer, drug paraphernalia, driving under suspension,

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and a fictitious license plate. Also had an standing warren
from Butler County forty five year old Kevin Gabbard in
the vehicle. He's been charged with tampering with evidence. Gabbart
also had an open warrant through a high open parole authority.
No injuries, thankfully, and it's all v vake Ramaswami. Attorney

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General David Josh spended his campaign for governor. Made the
announcement Friday afternoon. This is one week after the High
Republican Party overwhelmingly endorsed the vake Ramaswami. Yos wrote an
email to his supporters, this is time to protect Ohio,
not a time for family squabble I've spoken at length
with many people whose advice and wisdom I respect, and

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having come to this decision quickly or easily, launched his
campaign in January, describing himself as a principled conservative, and
his campaign suspension announcements reported that Yos said the fight
to become a house next governor was more than an
uphill climb. Said is also apparent that a steep cli

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to the nomination for governor has become a vertical cliff.
I do not wish to divide my political party in
my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences
between my vision and that of my opponent. I am
simply not that important, wells, because his vision is his
platform was really pretty much identical to be vag Ramaswami.
And Ramaswami a widely popular guy, of course Cincinnati native.

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So I'm not quite sure if that's going to benefit
the city of Cincinnati if he becomes elected governor, which
appears likely at this juncture, but I think it's a
step in the right direction. I do believe that David
Yos made the right decision in backing out, basically seeing
the writing on the wall five one, three, seven fifty
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Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Gate of Heaven gave me some information about their Memorial Day.
A Monday, May twenty sixth Memorial Day presentation at a
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Speaker 1 (25:49):
Pudd and a happy Monday to you friend Thomas in
fviting phone calls. I appreciate hearing from folks. And we're
going to go to the phones right now. Five point
three seven four nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred and
eighty twenty three Taco with fifty on AT and T phone.
So before we get to the stack of stupid, let's
see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, Happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Happy Monday, my brother, Keep holding that flag of freedom
up high, trying to do it, trying to do it.
I want to go ahead and command the Republican Party
in the state of Ohio, making an early endorsement or
the fake yeah, because I feel and a lot of
other people feel that there's nothing but a shot across

(26:27):
the bow against Mike Dwan.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh yeah, this is the end of the old Guard
with a vvake Ramaswamy over it was like a sixty
to three vogue with the Ohio Republican Party. Don't quote
me on that, but it was so overwhelming the support
for Ramaswamy. I think it's definitely a shot at the
Dwine and the old guard.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well Man also, But look at his reluctant Stephen putting
somebody in the vice president's position right down here in Cincinnati,
waved till the last minute, and.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
They're just fed up with they're tired of it.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
And while the times people don't want to have to
step out on the bow of the ship to jump
off and use their opinions against the governor, but it's time.
It should have happened a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, I think your comments along those lines are probably
met with a lot of support among my listening audience.
That's the general theme that the callers have revealed over
the years during the Dwine administration. You can go back
and fault him for all the COVID edicts and mandates
and everything else that we had going on in the
state of Ohio, obviously in star contrast to Florida, for example,

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which managed to come out just quite nicely without having
to lock anything down. So yeah, there's a lot of
reasons to be upset with the Wine and maybe we'll
have some herding of cats under a new administration with
the Vega Ramaswami. Because lord knows, Columbus is a real mystery.
If you're a Republican or Republican leaning, you just wonder

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why they can't seem to get their act together and
why they do some of the things that they do,
like six hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns. Anyway,
let's go to the stack of stupid and go to
Los Angeles. Something's got to give. So we have a
Los Angeles business owner found what they describe as a
novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building,

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playing an annoying children's song called baby Shark on a Loop. Now,
I'm not sure if you've heard baby Shark, but once
that gets in your head, it's an earworm that has
a difficult time going away. It is annoying as hell.
I even asked Joe Strecker if you had it around
he could access it. He just looking. He goes, I'm
not playing baby Shark. Court to one of the women

(28:46):
who lives in the encampment next door to the building
playing Baby Shark on a Loop. Sad this they played
baby Shark all night long. They're doing everything they can
to make us move or drive us crazy, but it's
doing the last. It's driving people crazy. Well maybe that
is the point. It drives you crazy and then you move.
They started playing the song through a loudspeaker that was

(29:08):
pointed directly directly at this encampment. I see a photograph
of it, and I can't imagine a business staying open
with this type of encampment right in the front, basically
in the front door. She said it kept her and
others up all night. She also called it ridiculous. We
can't get any sleep, we can't get any housing, we
can't eat, and now they're trying to drive us crazy
with children's music. A guy down the street owns a

(29:30):
barber shop called Styles Barber Lounge Shalom. Styles, interviewed by
local news there, told the outlet that they aren't trying
to be mean or insensitive to the homeless, but have
businesses to run and are just trying to survive. Said
it's not always it's not always about being kind, because
when people are taking away from business and all the
stores are going out of business, we're still here surviving,

(29:53):
trying to put up for our family. Well, and those
businesses what pay the tax dollars that are supposed to
well provide you know, means and resources to get these
people out of the homeless encampments. Who wins in this
right when you think about Medicaid expansion, This whole, this

(30:14):
whole system that we have is collapsing on itself. The
ones who make money, the ones who create businesses, provide
job opportunities, are shouldering the burden for the ever growing
number of people who refuse to participate, who refuse to
get jobs. I don't know what the solution is with
the homeless crisis, but wow, the weight of it is

(30:39):
becoming just an insurmountable challenge, and the businesses go out
of business and the people flee and go to other states.
It's a downward spiral out in California among other cities
that are going down the same path. Forty five fifty
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around and be right.

Speaker 10 (30:55):
Back fifty five KRC forty nine.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Coming up at five fifty to fifty five KR ceed
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Money Money with Brian James at eight oh five and
Tim Hester. Since a Native Air Force veteran, and he's
promoting the PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic. We'll
get the details from Tim A A forty back over
to the stack of stupid. Got another one, Joe, I

(31:21):
don't get with teachers having sex with students anyway. This
one Desota County, Mississippi high school teacher they're accused of
making out with a student Gordon affidavit from the DeSoto
County Sheriff's Office. Thirty one year old in Natalia Wright,
another female teacher, former teacher Lewisburg High School, committed acts
of licentious sexual desires with a child under the age

(31:43):
of eighteen. She was a special education teacher at Louisbourg
during the twenty twenty four to twenty five school year.
While these happened or this happened, she was also the
student's tutor in addition to being the student's teacher. Wright's
husband allegedly obtained footage and audio recording of her admitting

(32:03):
to kissing the student on multiple occasions while tutoring the child.
Additional witnesses observed her kissing and making out with the
student on multiple locations, which included the parking lot of
a Taco Bell and the Longview Point Baptist Church. She
resigned from the school beginning of April due to inappropriate
contact with a victim, which included physical touching, communication, and

(32:23):
driving the child to school in her personal vehicle multiple times.
Arrested May twelfth at a two hundred thousand dollars bond,
charged with fondling by person of position or trust.

Speaker 9 (32:37):
Period.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
The biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies,
there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the job,
the pinnacle of douche dum good going doues. Your dreams
have come true. And here's one of the stories. When

(33:01):
you look at the mugshot, you think, yeah, that sounds
about right. Briefly describing this woman, a mother, Ashley Pardo,
facing criminal charges after authorities arrested her thirty three years old,
charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism. She's got
all kinds of face tattoos. She looks like she's got
straight lines for eyebrows that have been tattooed on there

(33:23):
and a giant nineteen ninety two tattoo on her neck
among other neck tattoos. Okay, authority say the Pardo's middle
school age son had expressed a desire to carry out,
in their words, in the arrest rey board, acts of
mass violence at his school. Officials alleged this woman bought

(33:46):
the items knowing that they would be used for a crime.
Please say the student, I know what. He arrived the
Roads Middle School in San Antonio Monday outfit with a
mass camouflage jacket and tactical plants or pants, but he
soon left school swept for potential threats, and the student
was later found off campus. Now facing terrorism charges, Pardo

(34:06):
posted a thirty five dollar bonds release from jail. Boy
was suspended last month after he allegedly researched the twenty
nineteen christ Church mosque shooting on a school issued computer.
Part of his son returned to school last week, which
point officials implemented a safety plan for fear of potential violence. Apparently,

(34:28):
she bought ammunition, magazines and the tactical gear the kid
was wearing. We'll just go ahead and include her in
the prior given awarded. Joe investigation underway after a Pennsylvania
school district said a kindergarten student gave jello shots to classmates.

(34:50):
Greater Johns School district said that a kindergarten student in
the elementary school gave out quote alcohol in the form
of small jello cups close quote to three hundreds other students.
Superintendent said. One staff learn about the situation, immediate action
was taken. Students taken to the nurse's office for evaluation,
and out of an abundance of caution, EMS called to

(35:11):
take the kids to a local hospital. Parents were notified
and met first responders there at the hospital. Not clear
how the student got the alcoholic jello cops, but the
district said it's looking into it and cooperating with authorities
I know. Stated said, we are currently a possession of
the jello cups in the matter is under investigation. We

(35:33):
are cooperating fully with local authorities to determine how the
students came into possession of these items and to ensure
the continued safety of our students and staff. Joe, you
think the jello shots now up over in the faculty
lounge not anymore. It really is kind of puzzling. How

(35:56):
old is a kindergartener, Joe, isn't that like five years old?
I bet mom and dad had a party over the
weekend and the kid grabbed him up and threw him
in his back. Went to school with us. Now you
skeptical about that anyhow? Coming up off top of the
air news play, more to talk about it, including the

(36:18):
actual reality of what the hell's going on with the
GOP tax plan. Oh, they've promised, they've promised, they aren't delivering. Also,
Joe Biden's health at issue here, and I have a
good friend of mine SYOP, former military SIOP, and so
anything coming out like this, he always has something to
say about it. This was a meme media cover up revealed,

(36:42):
which is all what's going on about Biden and his
failing and deteriorating cognitive state, which was well documented by
folks like you and me because we could see with
our own eyes and hear with our own ears that
he was deteriorating. At the media lied and lied and lied.
Everyone surrounding Biden lied and lied and lied. So that's
really a story that's got some legs right now. So
with that in mind, his comment was q the cancer announcement,

(37:06):
in other words, operating as a distraction from the broadly
reported information about the Biden cognitive cover up. Anyways, stick
around more to talk about in six o'clock hour. You
can feel free to call it love to hear from you.
I'll be right back at the top of the hour.

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One moment, CJ, let me folks know what's coming up.
Seven to twenty with Christopher Smithman every Monday at seven

(37:53):
twenty with the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
And the Smither vent eight oh five with Brian James
Monday Monday on Moody's atitg grating, which I referenced in
the last hour It dropped and the reason is we
are on a terrible physical trajectory. Deficits keep getting bigger,
and Republicans, even hammering out this big, beautiful bill can't
find more than one and a half trillion dollars over
ten years, while we rack up two trillion dollars in

(38:16):
debt each and every year additional debt. It's just it's
a downward spiral. There's nothing more that you can say
about it. We'll talk about the starter home market in
Cincinnati and big summer vacations apparently out of style, says
Brian James, and then go to eight forty with Tim Hester.
He's a Cincinni native and Air Force veteran. Thank you
for your service, Tim. He's going to be promoting any
PBS documentary defying death on the Atlantic, so we'll hear

(38:37):
from Tim at eight forty CJ thanks for calling this morning.
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 11 (38:43):
Happy money to you as well.

Speaker 12 (38:45):
On this Biden health issue, it is really easy to
come up with conspiracy theories because so many people lied
within that administration and those who are around him.

Speaker 9 (38:55):
Yes, there was a speech.

Speaker 11 (38:56):
Given by him, I think it was in twenty twenty
two or twenty twenty three where he did the whole
moonshot for cancer, which is a great thing.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
But in the middle of that speech he says.

Speaker 11 (39:08):
Something that says there are millions of people like myself
who have been diagnosed with cancer, and then the administration
came out and said, oh, that is just Joe being Joe.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And it was just a slip.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
The question is was that really a slip.

Speaker 11 (39:23):
Granted, a lot of people can get into stage four
from prostate cancer because.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Of screening, and they don't do the screenings.

Speaker 11 (39:30):
But this is the President of the United States who
gets an annual physical and has a doctor on him
twenty four hours a day, especially at his advanced age
and his apparent a mental declinanted intake, you know, Sherlock
Holmes ord Larry Holmes to figure out that he had
some mental capacity issues, and so they had doctors on

(39:53):
him constantly.

Speaker 12 (39:54):
If this administ if that administrations.

Speaker 11 (39:56):
Led about this, which they probably did, this, this is
another reason why those people should be nowhere near power,
whether it is dog catcher or the President of the
United States.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
No offense to dog catchers. Didn't call looking for an argument.
See Jay, I agree with you completely. Yeah, leaves everything
go open to question mark. I mean, you know, Cash
Mattel came out the other day they said that the
FBI actually really legitimately ran a bait and switch in
connection with the Hillary Clinton shenanigans. He put to the

(40:31):
FBI's handing a Hillary Couldn't Email investigation as example of
political bias and institutional failure, claiming senior officials within the
Justice Department hijack their constitutional responsibilities, selectively declining which cases
are deciding which cases to pursue. Said, apparently he's got
a whole although the statute of limitations expired, he's got
a whole room full of documents, and he's gonna let

(40:54):
them out. So the good news, the good thing here
is we're now to clean it up, meaning the FBI's reputation.
You're about to see a wave of transparency. Just give
us about two weeks. Hum he said, he referring to
the crossfire hurricane cover up Donald Trump's ties to Russia
and working with Congress to put out information surrounding it.

(41:15):
He said, this is how vindictive and vicious the former
leadership structure here was FBI. Not only did they bastardize
the FISA process and led to the American people, they
withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where
people weren't supposed to look.

Speaker 13 (41:31):
Hum.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Well, he had a whole lot more to say about
that in his interview the other day with Maria Bartromo. So,
but yeah, there's a problem right there. But then pivoting
over to the whole Trump, the whole Biden cover up thing.
There's a good op ed in the Wall Street Journal,
a Reckoning for the Biden cover up, and they talk
about all the politicians that lied, all the ones that
surrounded him, pointing out that they were with him all

(41:54):
of the time. And more and more informations coming out
with these books that have been published than the most
latest one, Original Sin President Biden's decline, its cover up,
and his disastrous choice to run again, by none other
than CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios. I
guess they're trying to cover their tracks since they were

(42:15):
some of the apologists for Biden during the period of
time that we are own eyes and the journalists in
Americans could see with their own eyes for years that
Biden was going downhill, fast, stumbling, he following, He couldn't
remember names, looked lost in public appearances, had to be
let off stage. Remember the bunny rabbit. He'd wander off
to one side. Your exit is on the other side,

(42:36):
mister Biden. Here let's step this way. We all saw it,
and of course that leads us to the whole idea
of Joe Biden running for reelection. And it wasn't until
that debate that the jig was up and they had
to pull the plug on Biden metaphorically giving Democrats no
opportunity to select who the nominee might be. Let's coronate
Kamala Harris. That's what the cover up led to. That's

(42:59):
what got done. Ronald Trump elected well, plus he ran
on policies that a lot of the American people were hoping,
like closing the border anyway. But focusing on the media,
and it's worth reading the Bidens finility cover up is
also a media reckoning. Whenever someone dared to point out
that mister Biden wasn't up to the jobs, the praetorian
media guard assembled to deny it. We could quote chapter

(43:21):
in verse from many media sources, but one example worth
signing is none of them. Mister Jake Tapper Grabian the
TV clip service, has compiled a montage of Jake Tapper
casting doubt on those who cast a doubt on mister
Biden's mental fitness. Wall Street Jeneral reported in a detailed
piece June fourth last year, that those who observed Biden

(43:43):
in person were concerned about his decline. Mister Tapper quoted
a White House dismissal of the story, including a sneer
that the journal is owned by News Corp, which is
run by the Murdochs, as if that rebutt of the story.
He then interviewed a Democrat who dismissed it. A Democrat
dismissed the journal's reporting. A more curious journalists would have

(44:07):
explored it, explored rather if it were true, and maybe
even done some of his own reporting. Only now does
he tacitly admit that the journal was right. The cover
up of mister Biden's mental decline will go down as
one of the greatest scandals of modern politics. By refusing
to admit what voters could so clearly see, Democrats denied

(44:29):
their party in open primary once Biden imploded. They handed
Kamala Harris the nomination without debate that mister Biden bowed
out in twenty twenty three. Republicans might also have been
more open to nominees other than mister Trump. Instead, Democrats
turned into a turn to lawfair in attempt to disqualify Trump,
which solidified his hold on the GOP voters. Democrats in

(44:52):
the press are now appalled by mister Trump's second term.
They would do better to think upon and seek contrition
for their own role in making it possible. And I
guess I have to ask out loud, does anybody, I mean,
can you really legitimately trust the mainstream media after all
of the lies I mean, in this is just one

(45:13):
area of the lies. We regularly joke about the talking points.
I went through a little montage on my own last
week about the new talking points. We're looking forward. We're
just looking forward. We're not going to talk about the past.
Oh in the context of this, Well, that's what the
mainstream media is parroting, and the Democrats are parroting it
as well. But you know, you can get back to
the Hunter Biden laptop story. New York Post broke that

(45:36):
and they were ridiculed for breaking it. Out comes the
fifty one you know, former intelligence agents signing onto the
letter suggesting it looked like Russian collusion or Russian interference
or Russian propaganda, whatever the words were they used, yes,
in advance of the election, and that was parroted all
over the media. They wouldn't even acknowledge that it was

(45:57):
a possibility the Biden laptop was or the hunterapp was real.
And yet we now find out later the FBI knew
it was real, and they had known about it for
a long time, meaning that letter was legitimately outright fabrication lie,
a lie perpetuated by the mainstream media. So your government

(46:17):
lies to you again. The Biden administration and the prior
administration lied to you and perpetuating this fabrication. They wanted
Trump out. They wanted Trump to lose. Every lettered agency
in DC wanted Trump to lose. And now you got
coll me with the eighty eighty six forty seven. They're

(46:39):
still at it writing stuff. Well, Sai, Jim, get you
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that book, a local author. Over to the phones, we
go Westside, Jim, Thanks for holding over the break, my friend.

(48:25):
Always good to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
Good morning, Brian Thomas. How are you some warning? Sir?

Speaker 1 (48:30):
I'm doing okay, I guess good luck tomorrow tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (48:37):
Don't you having your your eye done tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
I haven't it done this afternoon. I have to take
tomorrow off because last time I am I'm getting to
glau coma.

Speaker 9 (48:44):
Sir.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
It's not a surgery. They just blast a bunch of
holes with a laser in your eye to help her
lieve the pressure. So I had my right eye done.
It's been like two months now. But when I woke
up the next day, I couldn't read. It was so
blurry that I was struggling to read. So I anticipate
that's going to be the case. So I've taken tomorrow
off out of an abundance of precaution. Gary Jeff Walker

(49:05):
is going to cover for me in the morning.

Speaker 14 (49:07):
Gotta do what you gotta do, buddy.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Yeah, I know. Hey, it runs with the family. Yeah,
ot coma, I know it just it runs in the family.
And you know, folks out there are pro tip see
an eye doctor regularly and have your pressure check because
you can end up going blind if you have glaucoma,
it goes undiagnosed and you're not placed on medication or
otherwise have this laser procedure. Yeah, you run the risk

(49:31):
of blindness. So you know, it's not something that's impossible
to cure or solve, but you got to know you've
got a problem ahead of time to deal with it.
So we'll pro tip there.

Speaker 7 (49:41):
And may can lead to other things.

Speaker 14 (49:43):
But on Biden, you know, I don't rarely talk I
do rarely talk about my health issues, especially on radio.
But seven years ago, when I retired and found out
that I had the evil see I can, I can
really kind of feel sorry for him because when I
had I didn't know what I had and I got tested.

(50:07):
But what happened was they told me I had stage
four prostate cancer, and I didn't know what the hell
I was. So I came home and found out that
stage four is not a death wish immediately and then
within the next month it traveled to the bones. So
this must be a notoriously bad thing that happens. And

(50:27):
that's what my doctor told me. To the one from OHC.
There's the plug that it came in and then travels out.
So the prostate right now is in basically remission. It's
not progressing, but the bones. That's this one thing because
of all the bones in your body. If not, you're
a jellyfish. And it's not a fun thing to go through.

(50:52):
And I really feel sympathy for Biden getting well, getting
back to the health screening. He only has a unless
something that comes up. He only has a screening once
a year, and you know, that's all they usually do,
and with mine it was about every six weeks to
twelve weeks, and that's when they found out that it

(51:15):
traveled to the bones.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
So he can be tested in January.

Speaker 14 (51:19):
It can hit him in February and they might not
find to find out about it for a ten months,
so as.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
A cover up, they probably did.

Speaker 14 (51:28):
But I give him the benefit of a doubt on
the progression of this and we'll just see what happens.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
You talk about the screen of the PSA test.

Speaker 14 (51:38):
Yeah, the PSA yeah, yeah, and plus the one where
they knock you out and actually take samples if they
feel that there's something wrong with it. But the bone
cancer doesn't show up on the PSA the way it
does for the prostate cancer. It's a whole different, whole
different ballgame.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
That go through and the bone. The bone cancer is painful,
if I understand Mike prior conversation.

Speaker 14 (52:03):
Fun for you, it's not fun. It makes you feel
older than what you really are. I mean the pain
that goes through different parts of the body. It's it's
almost like you you did what Joe did years ago,
was running a marathon. You feel that way every day
when you get up, and you hate to say that
you're taking pain meds because that's.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
What it is.

Speaker 7 (52:23):
But you got to tell you got to do what
you got to do.

Speaker 14 (52:26):
And again with the OHC doctors, they treat you pretty well.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
I haven't had any issues so far, but I just
figured I thought that in relating to the fact that
you know, he's had this and it's progressing. He might
he might still live well, not mentally, but he still
might live for two or three years or more.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Well. The reporting that I read about this particular aggressive
form of prostate cancer, it says five years survival rate
of thirty to forty percent.

Speaker 14 (52:57):
Yeah, so I mean it's not like pain Graddy cancer.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
No, no, no, that's a short term window right there.
And you know, let's face it, you and I can
agree Westside Jim. Cancer sucks, sucks, and we wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (53:11):
Find one more thing.

Speaker 14 (53:13):
This morning's paper on the front page, the enquire Man
Charged and Deputy's death finds fame and support. That totally
disgusted me. I mean to have that, and I know
that they're just reporting news.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
But this just really pisses me off.

Speaker 14 (53:30):
If I can use that word on the air, which
I just did. You did, fame and fame and support,
I mean those people that support this guy and make
him look famous and donate to his cause. I noticed
a place in hell for them.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Also. Yeah, I have to agree with you on that,
but the world's filled with crazy people, and the Internet
allows each and every one of those crazies to get
together and sort of echo chamber each other and make
it seem like what they are doing is a good,
decent and right thing to do. You're always going to
find someone who's sympathetic to your insanity these days. So
thanks for thank you, and God bless you.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Jim.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
You're always in my prayers. You always are. Eight six
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Uh excuse me over the local stories since I please
investigate after a man got shot inside of a vehicle
having a bond Hill early Saturday, nineteen hundred block of
Langdon Farm Drive about one twenty in the morning. Twenty

(55:59):
nine year old man undergoing treatment for the gunshot wound
to his left calf. He's at University since medical Center.
According to Captain Stephen Bauer at the police He's expected
to recover, which is good. Victim told police he didn't
know why they targeted him and could not provide a
description of the shooter, according to the captain. Let us

(56:20):
see human ring remains found in Claremont County last month
identified as a Felicity man who was reported missing more
than three years ago. Coroner's Office at remains were found
in fifteen hundred block of Barger Road in Washington Township
April nineteenth. DNA testing results confirmed the identity of the
remains Roger Schantz. Bruce family reported him missing in January

(56:42):
of twenty twenty two. During an investigation to Bruce's death,
Clama County Sheriff's Office said Washington Township resident Zachary Scott
called nine one one a couple of days before Bruce
was reported missing, claiming he had overdosed on drugs. And
was unresponsive in a vehicle. Scott said he administered narcan
than disconnected the call on a callback, Scott told dispatches

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Bruce drove away after regaining consciousness. Detective searched the area
tried to find the vehicle Scott describe it never located
Scott or Bruce. When detectives interviewed Scott one day later,
they said he changed his story. Clarimont County Grand Jury
indicted him on one kind of involuntary manslaughtered, gross abuse
of a corpse, corrupting another with drugs, and tampering with

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evidence in Bruce's death. Now his remains have been recovered.
According to Claimont County corner Brian Treon, this identification brings
a measure of closure to a tragic and prolonged period
of uncertain Their thoughts are again with Bruce's family and
as they navigate this difficult time. Sheriff's office still investigating
the death. Anybody with information please call the Investigative Investigations

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Unit JEEZ Greater since they bus service, they say making
a significant advancement the introduction of bus rapid transit system.
They say the line Cincinnati with approximately forty other cities.
Who've rolled out BRT systems which are designed to enhance
the efficiency of bus travel, and I underscored this without

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the need for tracks or permanent infrastructure. Now hold that
thought for a minute. Chris Hauser, WKRC and MSN dot
Com article. According to Brad Mason, Metro's director of Communications,
they aim to improve the speed and efficiency of bus service.
My favorite feature of this is the traffic signal priority,

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where if a bus is coming to a traffic light,
the light knows that the bus is coming and it
will give priority to the bus. Cities like Columbus and Cleveland,
Indianapolis have experienced economic development, he said. With this BRT system,
he said, they're seeing economic development from it happen. They're
seeing people move through their region differently than they used to,
so it's really expanding transportation options for people within the region.

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Mason said Metro is experiencing ridership growth currently at one
hundred ten percent of the pre pandemic level, attributing this
to reinventing Metro program the shifting perceptions of bus transit
beyond commuting to work or school. Now here's why I
said underscore that point about without the need for tracks
or permanent infrastructure. Article concludes by saying construction on the

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first BRT route along Renting Road is slated to begin
next year, with an expected opening in twenty twenty seven,
and they say the Hamilton Avenue cord Or anticipated to
begin service the following year, though the design of bus
only lanes is still underway, So maybe construction means bus
only lanes. I don't know. But if it's a bus

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Sex forty here at fifty about KRCD talk station, Happy Monday,
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Speaker 13 (01:02:30):
A good morning, and just wanted to let you know
that the BRT does require a significant change in the
configuration of whatever street the BRT is being instituted. Cleveland
did this in the early two thousands with Euclid Avenue.

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Euclid used to be the Avenue of Millionaires and for years.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
It had good on down.

Speaker 13 (01:03:02):
The tubes as far as the appearance and the safety
between downtown and the University Circle, and they instituted a BRT.
It took him about four years to build the special
lanes and the bus stops for the buses to be

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able to institute what's called the Health Line that connects
downtown to both Cleveland Clinic and University hospitals. And it
really has turned the street around one hundred and eighty degrees.
It went from being a blight to an area of

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significant economic and has returns to its former not the
heights of glory of when the millionaires. Yeah, the Guild
of the date's correct, but it has transformed the east

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side between downtown and University Circle significantly.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Well that's great. I listen, you know, I always kind
of it's cynical and skeptical that anything the City of
Cincinnati does by way of trying to transform itself is
gonna work. You know, I give you the street car,
but and I imagine the traffic light sensors is part
of the construction process that the bus can communicate with
the traffic lights. And I understand the need for bus stops.
But I'm happy here Cleveland, al that it's done. Wonders

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for that community. So we'll keep our fingers crossed it
they don't screw it up down here. Al all right,
you have a good well, thanks for the call man enlightening.
It was all right, okay. And here I got a
thought question for you, Donald Trump on his exec or

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his truth media account. Walmart should stop trying to blame
tariffs is the reason for raising prices throughout the chain.
Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than
expected between Walmart and China. They should eat the tariffs
all in caps and not charge the valued customers all
in caps anything. I'll be watching, and so will your customers.

Speaker 14 (01:05:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
When I first saw that, I was like, wait a second,
price controls, you're demanding they eat something? I mean, they
compete out in the open world. If they raise their prices,
somebody may choose to go to someplace else. This is
a Walmart decision, but on the heels of but previously saying,

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after causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade common Law announced that she
wants to institute socialist price controls. Her plan is very
dangerous because it may sound good politically. This is communist,
this is Marxist, this is fascist. So how can you
reconcile those two points? And the profit margin at Walmart?
You know, say what you want about Walmart. They are

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not centers of fat profit margins. Wall Street Journal reporting
it's three percent, actually below three percent, pointing out there's
not a whole lot of resumed room to absorb higher
costs in the tariffs. And then they point to the competition,
because of course Walmart's got competition, and one of the
things that made it so successful is that it's well
comparatively lower prices over the years. That's what built the

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empire quantit large quantity of small profit margins. So now
Donald Trump's telling Walmart how to run its business, and
in a pretty bold statement too, I will be watching,
and so you're, yeah, let the customers decide. I just
found it impossible to reconcile that, and it doesn't sound

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like a very conservative thing to do. I just think,
you know, it's the reality is is what everyone who
pointed out tariffs will do. It ends up raising the
prices on things. Now, whether we have a good outcome
in the final analysis from the tariffs or a bad outcome,
I'm willing to wait around and find out, because there
they are. Nobody consulted Brian tom before the tariffs went on,
and he did promise them campaign pledge he was going

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to put impose tariffs. So we're getting what we voted
for in that regard. And he's already made some headway
with various countries negotiating deals to eliminate the tariffs or
otherwise come up with something that's palatable to both countries
China for one. He's negotiating with China with the with
the tariff pause. So it's playing out and I've seen

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other articles talking about, well, the Trump tariffs aren't bearing
fruit in the form of additional investments in business, and
how quickly do you think you can build a giant factory?
You know, the decision to build the factory is one thing,
but it actually starting and starting to employ construction workers
and ultimately workers who will be working at that any
given facility. That does take some time. So people looking

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for instant gratification quite often disappointed. And I'm still got
my popcorn out waiting to see where tariffs go. But
I thought a little bit, I don't know what the
word is ridiculous that he would demand the Walmart not
raise its prices. Does seem have been inconsistent six forty six.
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I'm off tomorrow, Gary Jeff Walker's covering former. I'm getting

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my glaucoma laser blast this afternoon. So last time I
did that, he had a difficult time reading with the
eye that got blasted. So since I do read for
a living, I'm gonna take tomorrow if out an abundance
of cautions. So Gary Jeff, thank you for covering for
me tomorrow morning. I thought this was a joke, but
apparently it's not. And I got a tremendous amount of
respect for High Republican Warren Davidson. He's a good man,

(01:09:39):
but I did get a chuckle out of this. He
introduced legislation to direct the National Institutes of Help to
investigate the psychological and social roots of Trump Derangement syndrome,
presented the Trump Derangent Syndrome Research Act of twenty twenty five,

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which it's reported, is intended to shed a light on
what has been a serious cultural affliction, described as an intense,
irrational hysteria triggered by the mention of Donald Trump's name.
The mere mentioned TDS become a catch all for unhinged
reactions of his critics, whether it comes from a form
of spittle flecked blue hair rants, protest effigies, or social

(01:10:21):
media meltdowns. Props to Stephen Watson overt Modernity News for
that verbage, but it is a real thing. Apparently co
sponsored by Alabama Representative Barrymore, Apparently, this research will look
to explain why leftists lose their collective minds over Donald Trump.
Legislation identifies teds as quote the acute onset of paranoia

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in otherwise normal persons reacting to Trump's policies, presidency, or
even very existence, manifesting in quote verbal expressions of intense
hostility close quote and even quote overt acts of aggression
and violence close quote against his supporters. Let's explain here

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the evil points the real world consequences. For example, the
two assassination attempts on Trump. Davidson in a statement, this
isn't just about hurt feelings. TDS has divided families, fueled
nationwide violence, and turned dinner parties into screaming matches. The
NIH needs to study this so we can find solutions. Well,

(01:11:27):
I think the problem is primarily one of the Internet
and social media and the echo chamber that people find
themselves in. I mean, if you got one crazy person
screaming about Donald Trump's going to end the world, there
are an other crazy, crazy people out there in the
world who might share that, and then they run into
each other and they hang out together and feed this
this this, well, we'll call it TDS. And how many

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and you know, this is a reflection of how many
years that evil orange man has been ingrained into the
hearts and minds of so many people via the mainstream media,
who we find out has been lying to us over
and over and over and over again about a variety
of topics. But do we really need to pay for

(01:12:14):
the NIH to study this. Apparently they tried this in Minnesota.
March of this year, five Minnesota state Republicans pushed the
build to classify TDS as a mental illness in the state,
defining it as quote Trump induced general hysteria close quote.

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The effort didn't work. Democrat has called it possibly the
worst bill in Minnesota history and an affront to speech.
Now Warren Davidson bill apparently that takes a different look
at it, framing TDS as a public health issue and
worthy of scrutiny by the NIH, and exists calling for
reallocating existing NIH funds i e. Note, New taxpayer dollars

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away from what Davison described as ludicrous studies like giving
meth to cats, towards something relevant to everyday Americans. It
also tasked the NIH wood probing the media's role in
amplifying this syndrome, analyzing its impact on political polarization, and
hunting for patient zero of the phenomenon. I'd like to

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have Congress and Davidson on to see if this is
he's if he's really serious about this, or this is
just one of those legislations to illustrate something and make
a point rather than actually getting it passed, and since
it's not part of the reconciliation process, he's going to
have to get a sizeable number of Democrats that go
along with it. Symbolic probably six poin fifty five fifty

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to be wishing everybody a happy Monday. I hope you
had a wonderful weekend. In finding phone calls, we have
time before Christopher Smithman joins a program at seven to
twenty for the Smith Event. Fast forward an hour Monday
Monday with Brian James Moody's credit rating. UH Finally Moody's
got around dropping our credit rating here in the United
States with good reason. Starter home market in the Cincinnati

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we'll talk about that with Brian and apparently big summer
vacations are out of style. It can only imagine why
that might be the case. Then we go to eight
forty Tim Hester, who's a Cincinni native and Air Force
veteran served in a rock. Thank you, Tim for your
service to our country. There's a PBS documentary that's coming
to town, Defying Death on the Atlantic, which is a

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really kind of wild story. If you asked me to
sign up for a three thousand mile ocean rowing race,
I would be a definite no on that. But the
documentary is the story of a four man rowing team
that participated in that event. The World's Toughest row is
what that race is called. Air Force veteran the team
they call themselves Team Fight or Oar Die. Twenty twenty

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two race got hit by a thirty foot swell, a
boat capsize and they were left stranded eight hundred miles
from the nearest land. So that's it tells the story
of that. So we'll hear about the details on that
from Tim at eight forty back over to you know,
the first story we're going to be talking about with

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Monday mondays Brian James. The fact that Moody's downgraded our
credit rating. The reason we are spending ourselves into oblivion.
It's our debt. It keeps growing and growing and growing.
And sadly, the GOP big beautiful bill it passed out
of the House Budget Committee apparently does little to do
that does not cut the deficit at really at all.

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In fact, it makes it bigger. Current proposal will increase
projected budget deficits by nearly three trillion dollars through twenty
thirty four, locking in tax cuts and spending increases that
outweigh reductions and spending on Medicaid nutrition assistance. Now there's
a bunch of stumbling blocks going on, and they remain.
Now this did get advanced out of committee. The four

(01:16:46):
Republican holdouts, the fiscally responsible for just voted present, so
that it was seventeen to sixteen speakers. That he expects
they have productions reductive discussions with various factions of the House,
because there are moderate factions, so called moderate Republicans, who
are all in favor of the big spending that has

(01:17:09):
been implemented for a long time. They wanted to continue us,
notably in the areas of Medicaid and the Green New
Deal crap from the so called Inflation Reduction Act. It's
in my state. My state's going to benefit from it,
so I want that project to remain. Anyway, the four
people that I mentioned, the fiscal hawks, cratered the whole

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thing on Friday because of the twenty twenty nine kick
in date for work requirement for Medicaid. That was one
of them. Why is it so far down the road?
Of course, they're all worried about the work requirement would
be removed sometime between now and then with follow up
legislation or action. Green energy subsidies also a subject matter

(01:17:51):
of their concern because again these so called moderate Republicans
that keep pushing to keep those green energy subsidies in place.
So they say, lawmakers have signal that some of the
changes that are being pressed on by these conservatives will
be introduced as amendments in the House Rules Committee, so
they're not in this current framework that was voted on

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last night. Chip Roy among the fiscal Hawks, along with
Ralph Norman Roy from Texas Norman from South Carolina. They're
also in the Rules Committee where these amendments will be introduced. Now,
just because you're going to introduce some amendment the same,
you know, numerical realities exist. If you've got a bunch

(01:18:32):
of moderate Republicans going along with the Democrats, they might
vote noah any given amendment to help write the ship
of fiscal disaster that this bill continues, they say it
on the bill will now move. Apparently they did get
somerect some concessions, at least I get this impression from
Roy's statement. He said tonight, after a great deal of

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work and engagement over the weekend, the Budget Committee advanced
a reconciliation bill that lays the foundation for much needed
tax really border secured, important spending reductions and reforms. Importantly,
the bill will now move Medicaid work requirements forward and
reduces the availability of future subsidies under the Green New Scan.
That's all the details that were provided. But since some

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of these I guess, Fox News reporting that they got
assurances about these I guess amendments being introduced in the
Rules Committee in writing, but that doesn't mean that they're
going to be included in the ultimate Big beautiful bill.
House Committee passed the framework earlier this year with instructions

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to these various committees to get Trump's agenda in line
and legislated. Then the House committees began crafting their policies,
which is how you end up with them being packed
in together into this massive bill that they have to
pass by reconciliation. So reconciliation requires the subject matter to
be limited to federal spending, tax and the national debt.

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A golden opportunity to pairback are spending. It seems to
me though it's being squandered. Now what stick? What are
the sticking points? Most notably, the salt cap is one
of them. You got blue states and you have Republicans
in blue states where the taxation rate is off the

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charts now back in twenty seventeen or the Trump tax cuts,
they capped that deducting interest and local taxes at ten
thousand dollars. So naturally in a state the taxes the
hell out of people New York, New Jersey, California, and
the Republicans are there they want the salt tax cap
to be increased, and substantially feeding the fire of the

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Democrats argument that these are all about protecting the wealthy.
Members of the Salt Caucus have floated a sixty two
thousand dollars cap for single filers and one hundred and
twenty four thousand cap for joint filers as it's currently drafted,
I have read that hasn't been confirmed. They raised it
to thirty thousand dollars for individe jewels making four hundred

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thousand or less, and then decreasing the cab for those
who exceed the income ceiling. Now who among us has
sixty two to one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars
worth of deductions to tack on in your federal filing?
And most notably, the Salt cabs primarily benefit wealthier filers
and does nothing more than subsidized Blue states, removing any

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incentive for them to lower their own tax burdens. That's
the solution to it, Blue States, Quit taxing the hell
out of your citizenry. Lower those taxes. They don't have
to worry about. Where the salt tax are cut is
And why should we hear no hire anybody else out
in the United States be subsidizing these folks, giving them
a write off for their state taxes. Of course, the

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fiscally responsible and conservatives of pushing GOP leaders to speed
up the start date for the work requirement for Medicaid
as written, or at least up until yes yesterday, may
have changed based upon what chip Roy had to say.
The work requirement kicks in in twenty twenty nine, a
forty year delay. That provision requires childless adults age nineteen

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to sixty four years old to prove that they work,
go to school, or volunteer eighty hours a month. It's
a pretty small ass considering the typical work week for
the regular Joe out in the world or Jane as
the case may be forty hours a week, So eighty
hours for an entire month, and you can go to school,
trade school. That's part of the equation, and you'll have

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a career opportunity after that. And then, of course, the
green energy tax credit is a subject of disputes between
again I'm infighting between the Republicans. Document passed by the
Ways and Means Committee phases out tax credits for solar,
winter and nuclear projects that come online between twenty twenty
nine and twenty thirty two. Products that start producing energy

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in twenty twenty nine can get an eighty percent of
the credit of those that join the grid in twenty
thirty one forty percent. But all this is brought about
by the Inflation Reduction Act, and are just bothered because
these cuts, these terroriffs, these incentives all mean that the
business model itself, this whole concept of green and green
energy would not be something anybody would embrace because of course,

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well the math just doesn't work out. But of course
those reds are those those red state Republicans, even in
red states, are beneficiaries of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives.
So they're willing to turn their back on the typical
Republican platform in mantra, which is, no, we shouldn't be
funding these green boon doggles. But if the boon doggles

(01:23:39):
in my backyard, oh, I'm gonna fight tooth and nail
over it. Publican party can't get its act together. I
feel like I'm watching something that would go on in
Columbus as I watch these arguments unfold. Stick around Christopher
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Seven twenty coming up at seven twenty one of it.
If about CAERCB talk station, a point in time during
the week I always look forward to because now we
get to hear from the former vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati, dear friend of mine and the listening audience,
Christopher Smith Aman for the Smither event. Welcome back, Christopher.
How was your weekend, my friend?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
My weekend was okay.

Speaker 7 (01:25:30):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
I think I've been open that I provide a lot
of care for my mom, but you know, I'm honored
to do it, and you know I share with I'm
sure you have many listeners out there who are doing
or have done the same thing. So just a part
of part of my life.

Speaker 13 (01:25:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Well, ma, I did have I had a nice had
a nice weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
Good to hear that. And I'm not going to ask
how old your mother is. I know she's getting up
in years. But you've always had such you know, great
stories about how blessed you were to grow up with
your mother and your father. I mean the fact that
you were so lucky that you have a mother is
loving and caring and supportive that she was over the years,
and so I guess it's time to pay it back, man,

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at least to the extent you can.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
No one hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
I mean I promised. I can't speak from other siblings,
but they're they're helping too. But you know, I promised
my dad that, you know, as he said, please take
care Barbara, you know, in the in the last call
it days of his life where he was conscious, and
you know, we do this. It's about paying it back.

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And and I encourage anybody there. You know, you don't
want to have any regrets, and so you don't want
to be that sibling that doesn't carry their weight.

Speaker 13 (01:26:49):
You know, you just will be.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
It will just haunt you for the rest of your life.
So I love and again I'm sincere. I'm honored to
be a part of it. Brian Thomas, I know you are.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
I know you are.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
So what else I want to start off by just saying,
you know, my heart goes out to anyone who has cancer.
So the announcement that President Biden has cancer, that it
has metastasized and has bones. I heard your interview with

(01:27:22):
Westside Jim and him providing insight. So my heart goes
out to the family and I just want to say
that publicly, but it still will not take away from
me discussing what I think in my lifetime was the

(01:27:43):
greatest cover up about the health status of a president,
a sitting president. And what is mind blowing for me,
Brian Thomas, is the media's cooperation with it. So you
have a vice president, you have congressional members, you have senators,

(01:28:04):
and then you have the media. And when you have
those White House briefings, no one is asking why the
president is falling down. There's nothing there. He just falls down.
Why can't he keep his sentence structures or his thoughts together?
His mumbling, you know, the bunny rabbit thing that we

(01:28:27):
all saw, you know, him falling down the steps coming
out of Air Force One. It was like the media
continued to say, your eyes, don't believe them, don't believe
your ears. He's absolutely healthy. And Brian Thomas, you talked
about this for years and for years, Brian Thomas, you
talked about it. It wasn't like, oh, one off, You're like,

(01:28:49):
here's something serious going on. And in the middle of
all of this, I remember you talking like, hey man,
I'm caring. I'm caring for my own dad. It's not
like you personally only weren't in it yourself. And I
remember one morning you were like, listen, I'm telling everybody
I know what's going on with President Biden, and so
to hear you know, these different media people write books,

(01:29:13):
talk about them, act as if they're revisionists on their history.
For me, at the beginning of my event, I just
want to say that is hypocrisy at a level that
I've never ever spoken or seen before in my life.
And I really think that there should be congressional hearings,
you know, because the vice president had to know period staffers,

(01:29:37):
chief of staff, they had a responsibility to our constitution
to whistle blow read alert there's something not right here,
and it is that serious to me, we can never
let it happen again. It was a conspiracy to cover
up the health status of a sitting president, who have
launched codes, who has launched codes well, who was running

(01:30:01):
the United States of America for the last four years
exactly the fair question.

Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
That is a fair question.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Who was running the country.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
I know seven thirty fifty five KR City talk station
right time I was with former Vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman. And he's doing this smither event.
Get it out of a system, Hey, Christopher. The other
thing is on that Biden's mental decline. You know, isn't
an interesting special counsel Robert Hurr. The audio from that
interview was finally released. We had the transcripts previously released.
But he did that interview over the his Biden's retention

(01:30:35):
of classified documents, keeping him in his garage and all
over the place. Found enough information to prosecute him for that,
but decided not to because he said he was obviously
struggling cognitively had some mental issues. That interview took place
in October of twenty twenty three. I mean, you think
about that if you had any question up until that

(01:30:58):
point in time about whether or not he was having problems.
They decided not to prosecute him because he'd be viewed
as a feeble old man with a bad memory that
speaks volumes. And yet they still ran him to for
re election as president. And then it took that terrible
debate with Donald Trump to finally haven't pulled the plog
on him. And what was.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Amazing is when the special prosecutor came out with the
finding of I don't think I can prosecute his older
man because of his memory or as hell, the Democrats.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
Destroyed them, Yeah, they did. They did this, destroyed them,
the same Democrats who could see for themselves every time
they were around the president that he was struggling on
a number of ways, and then ask this, we just
recently found out that they used the auto pen on
just a multitude of occasions. Joe Biden didn't actually sign

(01:31:56):
executive orders. They had a machine that signed it for him.
Going back to your question, who was who was calling
the shots? If Biden's sitting over in a corner, drooling
on himself, not aware of what's going on, and he
kind of gave us an indication that's pretty much what
he was doing. Who made the decision to pen his
name there? And isn't that really kind of forgery if
that directive didn't come directly from the United States President?

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
One hundred percent? And their lives conspiracy, all the pardons,
all the discussions that were happening around student loan forgiveness
as just these low hanging fruits things that he continued
to announce. Who was actually running the government. Congress should

(01:32:38):
have acted. They didn't. They didn't. They were they were
absolutely absent from their responsibility, and there needs to be
a deep investigation and people need to be held accountable.
It can't be just like let's sweep fit under the rub.
If you heard Democratic leaders Brian Thomas over the weekend,

(01:33:00):
they all have the talking point, let's just move forward,
let's just move forward. How can I move forward? And
I'm not exaggerating that. Even in my own family, when
I would raise the issue about the health status of
President Biden, I had family members that wanted to cancel

(01:33:22):
me just because I would. I mean, you were taking
a big risk, Brian Thomas, at the time when you
were saying, hey, there's something wrong with the president, let's
not forget that the world was not on board. And
remember the g seventh trip when the President just wandered
off and the French president had to go over and

(01:33:43):
pull him back, like where you going? People were like,
oh that really, that really didn't happen. He was really
over trying to see the person who parachuted. In My
point to you is that families were destroyed because there
was someone in the family that had the gall to
question the health status of Biden, and they viewed it

(01:34:03):
as a political attack, not people who were saying, I'm
concerned about the presidency, not the person. I'm concerned about
the constitution. And I think it's fair for any of
us to go back and review all those four years
to figure out when and where was the president impaired

(01:34:24):
and who exactly was running the United States of America,
because we know it was in President Biden.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
You're right, and you know as you as one contemplates
the idea that family members, blood relatives refuse to speak
to each other and otherwise severed ties based upon someone's
comments about how fragile Joe Biden came across, or someone's
maybe even pro Trump comments, going back to that Trump
arrangement syndrome, that is that that's a sorry state of

(01:34:53):
familiar relationships right there. That's just how shaky a ground
they are that you were going to just ignore and
otherwise ast your size a family member because of a
random political statement you're gonna let Donald Trump get under
your skin that much, or a statement that maybe suggestive
of your support of Trump by making a comment about
Joe Biden's frailty, that's going to cause you to alienate

(01:35:16):
someone that's sad, that is really sad.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
And it happened all over the current And imagine what
those family members are thinking now. It was all a lie.
CNN was lyne to me, MSNBC was lyne to me.
Bloomberg News, Financial News, they were lying to us, telling
us that if you even questioned it had you were

(01:35:41):
a racist, you were a narcissist, that you just had
to be supporting Trump. If you said, hey, man, what's
going on with President Biden? It didn't matter who the
Democratic nominee was. And by the way, that is ultimately
what destroyed Vice President Harrick. There were people out there
that said, one, she lounched her campaign way too late

(01:36:04):
because the Biden family, led by probably Jill Biden, the
first lady, kept her husband in the race too long,
and the Vice president didn't stand up like she was
in a very tough spot. I want to say that
from a politician, like it's like saying John Cranley is
really sick. I'm the vice mayor and for some reason,

(01:36:26):
and he's the person that has given.

Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
Me the power.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
My power comes through the presidency, and now I'm in
this tough spot where I'm going. Oh my god, if
I tell the truth that the president is impaired, the
Democrats are going to destroy me just like they did
her or I'm talking about the special prosecutor or. She
turns around and says, no, I'm just going to ignore
this and try to run. I believe that the tension

(01:36:50):
between the Hearents camp and the Biden camp was centered
around this conspiracy that President Biden really wasn't running the
country and she knew it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
I agree with you. The Vidybob KARRECD talk Station Brian
Thomas with Christopher Smithan Smith Event's what we call the
segment What else is on your mind today?

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Christopher Smitheman, Well, I'm going to end by just saying,
you know, I think about somebody like Nancy Pelosi, who
had full access to President Biden, and I think we're
getting a better picture of why she started saying in
the eleventh hour he couldn't serve and shouldn't run the

(01:37:33):
problem with the speaker who is actually inligned to be
the president herself in a in a catastrophic situation, she
should have disclosed many many years ago in that presidency
that there was something wrong with him, and I'm just
I just prayed that Congress has the courage. I don't

(01:37:54):
want them to be distracted on the big things that
they're doing, but as soon as they passes this tax bill,
they should pivot and give the transparency. I mean, that
take that we're talking about is so revealing, and I
hope everyone will take the time this week to listen
to some of it or listen to all of it.
It's out there for anybody to see that interview between
the Special prosecutor and President Biden. It'll give you great insight.

(01:38:19):
As Brian Thomas said years before. I mean, Brian Thomas,
you had never heard the audio and you were talking
about who's running the United States of America. It didn't
take the audio for you to go, aha, there's a
problem in the White House and there is a conspiracy.

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
To cover up.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
Well, I mean, listen, all I can do is look,
I mean, see the video and listen to the audio
and the video together and draw my own conclusions. And
there were so many illustrations of this going on, that's
the only conclusion I could reach. So I think it
was a fair one. And oh look I was right.

Speaker 9 (01:38:51):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
Okay, So for all those people out there that you know,
didn't Thomas is wrong, He's crazy. You know, he's a
conspiracy theorists. This reminds me a lot of things that
were said about COVID and masking and lockdowns and social distancing.
They were just like, this isn't going to do anything,
and they were ridiculed and belittled and berated, and doctors
who stood up and spoke truth to power would lose
their license or get ostracized by the medical profession and

(01:39:15):
low to hold they were all right. So you know,
the other thing about this is you mentioned Nancy Pelosi,
but also a guy like Chucky Schumer, the press, the
various press secretaries, all of the cabinet members that had
to interact with the president over and over and over again.
You know, Pete budda judge and others would come out
and tell you that everything is just aoka and they're

(01:39:38):
all now held out to be liars. And my question
to you, Christopher Smithman, from a political standpoint, I guess
I'm just kind of wondering how the Democrats, how Democrats
in the Democratic Party feel about what their party and
their party officials did to them in perpetuating this lie.
So they first off back when Bernie Sanders one of
the nomination, they pulled a plug on Bernie Sanders, who

(01:39:58):
looked like he was going to win it in favor
of the quote unquote moderate Joe Biden. That wasn't exactly
a democratic process, and they pulled the same shenanigans, telling
Biden he's going to run again, and then realize, in
spite of everything that they were aware of, continue to
run him until the debate, at which time they deprived
the Democratic Party of a choice on who they wanted
to be the nominee, just dubbing and coordinating Kamala Harris,

(01:40:22):
which didn't sit well with many people. And then you
got the mainstream media complicit in all this. I mean,
if I I'm critical of the Republicans in Columbus and
what they've done in the past, like with Larry Householder
and Governor de Wine, and I'm you know, I can
be critical of him and think we hit a changing
of the guard. Thank god for VV. Ramaswami getting the nomination,
But you know, I just wonder how the Democrats feel.

(01:40:43):
Do they they really believe they have been betrayed? And
don't you think they should.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
Well, remember, the Democrats nationally had a campaign using Now,
I know, it was just a slogan constitutional crisis, right,
I mean, think about them using that knowing that the
White House is impaired. The constitutional crisis was President Biden

(01:41:11):
himself because he has dementia or Alzheimer's. He has dementia
or Alzheimer's. And everybody knew it. Brian Thomas, you knew it.
There were media people who knew it. And it had
nothing to do with being a libertarian or a conservative
or a liberal. It had to do with caring about

(01:41:31):
the country. And if they're willing to cover up something
like this, what else are they covering up? And so
that's what frustrated me that the Democrats were using this
constitutional crisis campaign destroying American family, right, because there were
family members that were saying there's a problem with the president,
and all of a sudden, it made you a pariah.

(01:41:54):
Those people need to be rehabilitated in the family, they
need to be rehabilitated in the mets. They need to
be rehabilitated as local and national and statewide politicians. Because
they all were right, and that's why we have to
take time to discuss it. And why the Democrats who
were saying let's just move forward, is just not going

(01:42:15):
to work with me. I want to know what the
heck was going on over the last four years with
President Biden. Who knew what, when, and why didn't they,
under the constitution of the United States share that information
with the American public. We deserve to know what happened
in our government so it never happened again. Even the

(01:42:38):
doctors who were saying he was help me, Hey, the
doctors are supposed to go and give the health check.
The doctors were coming out saying, under their responsibilities of
being a physician, how were you passing President Biden for
four years saying nothing was wrong? The candidate his name

(01:42:58):
was President Trump. If you remember saying, hey, I'm going
to go have my doctor check me. Here's what he said.
What was going on with the White House physician? That
person failled Americans by not coming clean about the president self.
That's why he's in the position, That's why she's in
the position to tell us the health status of the president.

(01:43:20):
For God's sake, they have the latch codes. This is
a person who's making huge decisions about the about the
removal or the pull out of Afghanistan to the basic
Germaine decisions they're making on a daily basis about Ukraine
and what's happening with Russia or what's going on with
Israel and what's going on with Harman. This was a

(01:43:42):
great conspiracy of great magnitude, with the media absolutely being
involved in it, and we need to know what happened.
Bryan Thomas, that's my spleet vent for the for the week.

Speaker 1 (01:43:55):
That you did, and I guess it may go a
long way to explain, Christopher, why Joe Biden didn't turn
out to be the so called moderate, rational, you know,
as'll crossing kind of guy that they touted him to be,
the one that the American people selected to be the nominee.
I suppose maybe it's because he wasn't in charge. Maybe
it's because the leftists that obviously have taken over the

(01:44:17):
Democratic Party got their way with the auto pen or
you know, whispering in his ear or otherwise driving policy
to the far left extremes of the political spectrum. Obiden, Yeah,
Biden not paying attention. So anyhow we could have to
speculate at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Thank you so much for the time, Brian Thomas, and
people can follow me at Boat Smith Aman and I
look forward to being back with you next Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:44:42):
I will. I look forward to it as well. Christopher,
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Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR seat the talk station
seven fifty four fifty five R see talk station. Yeah,
the other thing that's coming back up to the top.
And Donald Trump brought it back up at the top. Okay,
we've got all this, you know, uh, cover up from
within the government, the cabinet position as the press secretaries,

(01:46:02):
the Chucky Schumer and Nancy Pelussi, everybody who spent any
time with Biden's now him to come up and admit
that we got Yeah, he had a problem on our hands.
All the books that are being written about it by
people who used to deny it, Jake Tapper most notably,
you know, profiting on what they're now saying we all
knew about and document it with all these quotes and interviews.

(01:46:23):
But you had this media complicity, So you had the
people lying about his health and immedia that would parrot
it and not look into the veracity of what they
were being told. In spite of people like me who
could see with their own eyes and hear with their
own ears. An obvious cognitive decline going on. But now
Trump's bringing back up the whole idea of the stolen election.
And you know we heard that before. That's been discredit

(01:46:45):
The election wasn't stolen, but that's what the mainstream media
kept saying, right, So if you're going to be objective
about it and realize the mainstream media obviously in the
bag for Democrats and all things democratic, and particularly Joe Biden,
you got to have a John Deciah of skepticism about
what they told you about that, don't you. They're the

(01:47:06):
ones responsible for fact checking and looking into matters and investigating,
and there wasn't a whole lot of that done. And
Trump just over the weekend on Saturday put a truth
Truth social media post up so that the presidential election
of twenty twenty was rigged and stolen. He mentioned the
auto pen, He mentioned a larger scandal going on here,
and the campaign of inoculation and innocence of Democrats wage.

(01:47:29):
None like that had ever been waged before. So he's
now going back to the well on the election being
stolen in twenty twenty, Maybe some fact checking will be done,
maybe there will be a true investigation on that. There's
been a lot of evidence and a lot of investigations
and a lot of you know, voting voting irregularities have
been and pointed out since the mainstream media and the

(01:47:50):
Democrats concluded that no, there is nothing to see here.
Fifty five k SE Detalk Station Money Money with Brian James.
First topic Moody's credit rating looking good and the motivations
behind it are seemingly obvious. Yes, we spend too much
and our deficit is too big. Don't go away, be
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the top of the hour, not can it be complicated?

Speaker 7 (01:48:12):
It's going to go very fast.

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all Worth Financial. Brian, I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 17 (01:48:34):
Welcome back to the show as always, hope you did too,
and thank you for the time to once again hang
out with you on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:48:41):
Always enjoy it. And of course I've been railing about
this all morning. Moody stripped the US of its top
credit rating, knocked us down a notch, of course, catching
up with the likes of Standard and Poors, who did
that back in twenty eleven, INFIT Ratings, which did it
back in August at twenty three. But the markets reacting,
futures are down and of course treasury yields have jumped
because the poorer you're credit rating, the more you have

(01:49:04):
to pay people to invest in your well. In this
particular case country, I mean, and they spelled it out
in black and white, Moody's pointed it out. It's the
growing burden of the financial and federal government's budget deficit
and the rising cost of debt service on it.

Speaker 13 (01:49:19):
Duh.

Speaker 9 (01:49:20):
Yeah, this isn't too big of a shocker, is it.

Speaker 17 (01:49:23):
So what the credit rating is, of course, is a
way of comparing one country or really anything. Just about
anything has a credit rating, governments, corporations, frankly, people do too.

Speaker 9 (01:49:33):
That's what those credit bureaus are for.

Speaker 17 (01:49:35):
But the whole point is to compare one entity to
another in terms of how likely are they to pay
their debts. And Moody's is the last of the three
major rating facilities to cut the United States down from
a perfect rating, and that that started in twenty eleven,
so in the aftermath of two thousand and eight, S
and P was the first one to cut us and

(01:49:56):
kind of say, maybe we're not so good as good.

Speaker 1 (01:49:58):
As we used to look.

Speaker 17 (01:49:59):
So yeah, in this this isn't too big of a
shock because we are putting ourselves. We are proactively deciding
to present ourselves to the as a country, to the
rest of the world in a different manner where that
necessarily has an impact on the economic output of the country.
And what are the what's the outlook of how can
we be going forward, you know, as we have in

(01:50:19):
the past, And so for sure that's now having an
impact on the market. The futures are down one to
two percent depending on what you're looking at. This is
But again, this can't be too much of a shock.
We've consciously decided to do things differently. We talk all
the time about how we can't afford ourselves, we're living
beyond our means, and it is starting to surface here
just a little bit in terms of the rest of
the world's perception of the United States as a credit

(01:50:41):
worth the facility.

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
Well, I suppose the timing couldn't have been better, considering
they're talking about this reconciliation package, which deals with the
debt and spending, and I know there's some moderate Republicans
who are standing in the way of advancing some steeper
cuts because oh, it's my green energy product, you're not
our project. You're not going to cut it in my state,
or it's I'm in New Jersey and I wanted one
hundred and twenty four thousand dollars per couple salt tax

(01:51:06):
because well, the taxes of my state are outrages. I mean,
we just subsidized the high tax states, high taxation, and
the people that should be paying that by cutting their
federal income tax. I mean, you know, the point of
capping the salt tax at ten thousand dollars would so
we wouldn't be subsidizing those outrageous states.

Speaker 9 (01:51:26):
That's right.

Speaker 17 (01:51:27):
What we're doing is taking active steps to hopefully, you know,
reduce that. But there's no way to do all this
kind of stuff without pain. That that's the one thing
that we have not been able to drag across the
finish line here. Both parties recognize and have for decades
that there is a problem, and we are moving in
the wrong direction. However, there has never been an effort

(01:51:47):
where on one side has successfully reached across the aisle
to actually do something about it, and that's really not
even happening now. We just have a situation in eituation
where the Republicans obviously dominate both both parts of Congress,
and that's the closest we're going to get to putting
all this in place to make the fixes.

Speaker 9 (01:52:03):
But it's gonna have to survive, Brian, the midterm elections.

Speaker 17 (01:52:07):
Right So, right now, Donald Trump effectively has you know,
pretty much carb bloc to do just about whatever he
wants to do because he's got control of Congress for
the most part, and he's ignoring a lot of the
rules and regulations that were in place anyway. But if
a lot of the stuff doesn't get done before the
midterm elections, I can't think that dependulum is not going
to swing back the other way, well back the.

Speaker 1 (01:52:26):
Other way, toward even more reckless spending. I mean, we're
I mean, I hate to use the phrase existential threat again,
but we're already paying a trillion dollars a year in
debt service and that's only going to get worse and worse,
and that takes away from literally anything else that's I
don't care what side of the political spectrum're on. If
you want the government to pay for something, the more
money we have to allocate to debt service, which is required.

(01:52:48):
You can't just ignore that. You're not going to have
money left over for expanding this or funding that. Whether
it's military or one of the social welfare safety nets,
they're all going to be deprived extra dollars.

Speaker 17 (01:53:02):
Yeah, that's absolutely right, and that's why it's been so
important that we actually get people in the same room
to talk and agree on something. We haven't been able
to do that because the American people have not been
willing to.

Speaker 9 (01:53:13):
Sacrifice what they need to.

Speaker 17 (01:53:15):
Because if your congress person is out there trying to say, hey,
we're living beyond our means, we have to stop doing that,
what they're actually saying, if they're serious, is we need
to give up something.

Speaker 9 (01:53:25):
And that has not been a politically tenable stance to take.

Speaker 17 (01:53:28):
If you are somebody whose career and livelihood depends on
getting elected again.

Speaker 1 (01:53:32):
Well, and there lies the problem. As far as I'm concerned.
You should do what's right, what's fiscally responsible. What is
going to save the country from itself and not just
to pease people see and get re elected. I could
campaign if I cut back medicaid well, simply requiring people
that are able bodied without families to engage in some work,
training or work. I mean to the tune of what

(01:53:54):
twenty hours a week is really a small, small ask.

Speaker 17 (01:54:01):
That's not unfair to say, but that has to extend
to the person who might take advantage of the opportunity
to take down an incumbent representative. Because that person told
the country the truth, it leaves them to being a
sitting duck. Hey, this person told you had to sacrifice something,
I'm telling you the opposite. We're gonna keep giving you money.
Nobody has to resist that urge. But it's been the
American way for several hundred years.

Speaker 1 (01:54:22):
Well, they need to just hold up the Moody's reports. Say, look,
we've already been downgraded. Why because our national debt is
so big it's sucking up all the life out of
the room. This is what we're talking about. So yeah,
you can tell people there don't have to be any cuts,
but it's just gonna get worse and our borrowing costs
are just gonna get that much greater, and our debt
service is gonna get that much greater. I mean, explain

(01:54:43):
to my listeners if you can, Brian James, what would
a default look like? How would that play out? If
we couldn't make the debt service on our national debt?

Speaker 17 (01:54:53):
Nobody comes out of a US default looking pretty The
entire world will be impacted because, whether they like us
or not, we are by far, far, far, far far
the largest economy on the face of the Earth. American
economy is twenty two to twenty three trillion dollars something
like that. China is somewhere around nineteen twenty trillion, and
it goes rapidly down from there. So if all of

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a sudden, the rest of the planet basically being the
entire universe, loses faith in the faith in the United
States ability to pay its debt, then all of a sudden,
all those countries and the rest of the world is
going to lose a substantial customer base from which to sell,
and that's going to have a domino effect. So nobody,
even those who would prefer that we get knocked off
our pedestal, will not benefit from that.

Speaker 9 (01:55:34):
Disruption to that level.

Speaker 17 (01:55:35):
Now I'm looking at I think these ratings, it's important
to understand what the ratings actually mean, because some people
might say, well, we're still since we're the largest economy,
that means the ratings aren't as important because you know,
we're just so gotsdarn big. Well, just to give some comparison,
there there are nine other countries now that have perfect
credit ratings. You still can buy government debt that has
perfect credit rating. Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Australia,

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Singapore or in Luxembourg all have better credit ratings in
the United.

Speaker 9 (01:56:03):
States and subsequently have lower yields.

Speaker 17 (01:56:05):
If you want to buy those countries treasury bonds, you're
going to be getting about two percent on a ten
year bond in compared to the United States, which is
currently about four and a half percent. The yield on
a bond is directly reflective brian of the of a
country's ability to pay its debts. If you are a deadbeat,
then you're not getting a credit card. If you do,
you'll be paying thirty percent. The rest of the world

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is saying the United States needs to pay four and
a half percent, while these other countries need to pay
about two to borrow money.

Speaker 1 (01:56:32):
Well, it is illustrative of the problem. And I don't know.
I guess at some point we may get junk status.
What is junk considered? What nine percent and above or
something along those lines.

Speaker 17 (01:56:42):
Well, the junk status has to do with the credit
rating itself. It's not the yield directly, but that's triple
Triple B is the last investment grade generally speaking, and
below that you get labeled as junk, which doesn't mean
you can't pay your debts. It just means you've kind
of moved into a territory where it's a little more
likely that anybody who owe that you owe money to
ought to be paying attention to to make sure.

Speaker 1 (01:57:03):
That you are good for it. Fair enough, if we're
going to find out about starter homes and Greater Cincinnati,
are there any even out there more of Brian James
Walworth Financial, Hey nineteen If you have fair CD talk
Station Money Monday. Brian James Allworth Financial, Hey, real quick here,
since you talked about credit rating and the Moody's downgrading
at United States credit rating, I just checked my credit

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score the other day. I get a notice from LifeLock saying, hey,
your credit score is changed, or I check it out.
You know, I still have excellent credit, And at one
point I actually had a perfect credit store. It didn't
last very long, so it dropped two points. And the
reason is because I have excellent in every single category
except one. They say I don't have enough accounts that
I should have more available credit. I'm thinking, how bast

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awkward is that? That doesn't make any sense to me.
I'm dutifully and timefully paying off what credit cards I have.
I don't need any additional credit. Why in the hell
would I want to go out and get more. It
doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 9 (01:57:59):
Yeah, it is kind of counterintuitive.

Speaker 17 (01:58:01):
What they're basically saying is that you're such a good
credit risk that we think you should have more. I
think there's a little bit of an ulterior motive in
there that to help you encourage you to do that.
I've noticed that the biggest spikes I've gotten in my
credit score is when, you know, if we do something
for the house or whatever, and there's some kind of
promotional zero percent rate, Sure, I'll take that. I don't

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really care about the credit, don't really need that. But
all of a sudden A month later, my credit score
spikes because I have an extra line in place, off
of which I'm not paying anybody any interest.

Speaker 9 (01:58:30):
It just gave me a better price.

Speaker 17 (01:58:32):
But yes, they do want you to have more if
you take it, if you want to take advantage of
those things, it will give you a higher score.

Speaker 1 (01:58:37):
All right. I'm not interested in it, because I'm still fine.
It just it just drives me crazy when I read that,
I'm like, damn it, why would I want to go
out and get, you know, a more opportunity to borrow
that I wouldn't use. To your point, I wouldn't need it.
I don't need it. I wouldn't use it. So anyhow,
moving back to your topics that you provided. Sorry for
the curve ball there, Brian, I just found that very frustrating.

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Starter homes Are there any around Cincinnati? I saw the
article from Randy Tucker and from the Enquirer, and apparently
they're in very short.

Speaker 17 (01:59:06):
Supply, very much so. Yeah, so if you look around there,
there's still plenty of building going on. Right, We've been
talking about this housing crash that's supposed to be coming
for years now. Maybe we've given up on talking about
it we found a new shiny object, but that simply
hasn't happened. But no, there's not many starter type homes
being built in Cincinnati, you know, the kind of homes
one or two, maybe three bedrooms at the most. But

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obviously to allow a young family to kind of get started,
really struggling for buyers to find a home for under
three hundred thousand that doesn't require major work or isn't
a neighborhood that's not quite ideal.

Speaker 9 (01:59:38):
The demand is there. Of course, there are people in
the situation.

Speaker 17 (01:59:41):
We probably all know young people who would prefer to
get out of their apartments and their condos and get
into something different.

Speaker 9 (01:59:47):
But the supply is not there, and the reason is
it's just not as attractive for builders.

Speaker 17 (01:59:51):
Builders are prefer larger homes because there's more profit margin,
that's more scalable. If you think about fixed costs like
permitting and comply and all the stuff that they have
to do that has nothing to do with putting two
by fours together, those fixed costs are the same no
matter the size of the ultimate home, and their preference,
of course, is to make as much money as they
possibly can, so they're focusing on the larger homes still

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in this area.

Speaker 1 (02:00:14):
Well, it's always puzzled me because unless I've got the
whole concept wrong, it seems to me the trend is
for people to pursue a smaller home. Now, that doesn't
mean you have to sacrifice on quality. You could really
build a superior quality with all the amenities, much smaller home.
You don't have to build some mega mansion or mini mansion.

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And when you do, you've got so much additional you know,
like heating and air conditioning expense, you got to furnish
their rooms. It seems to be stupid to have that
much space, most notably if you don't have a really
big family, and with an aging population, the demand for
smaller homes is probably increased because you don't want as
much place to have to clean. Maybe you don't want
to go up and downstairs, and you're looking for ranchumps.

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That just sounds to me like an ideal opportunity for
a smart dev to build small err homes compared to
what they've been building, but make them at higher quality
to increase that profit margin.

Speaker 9 (02:01:08):
Yeah, but I think the higher quality part.

Speaker 17 (02:01:10):
If you're increasing the profit margin, you're increasing the price,
and that's one of the non starters for a young
family getting started in and we've addressed.

Speaker 9 (02:01:19):
That too with patio homes.

Speaker 17 (02:01:20):
Patio homes are popping up everywhere, but a starter family
is not going to want that because they need somewhere
to let the kids run around and storage of all
the old baby stuff and all that other things, and
those neighborhoods tend to be fifty five and older anyway,
So we just haven't filled that gap here in this area.
Other cities have, the cities with real real estate spikes
that are really truly issues, such as Austin, Denver, Portland

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to Minneapolis.

Speaker 9 (02:01:43):
These are places that have changed how they do zoning laws.

Speaker 17 (02:01:47):
So, for example, Minneapolis in twenty nineteen started to allow
duplexus and triplexus city wide to at least let off
some of that some of that demand. Those kind of
steps have not been taken around here yet because it's
still arguably affordable for a you know, somebody who's looking
for a quote unquote starter home to get into that
three hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand. But we're getting
to the point where it's just not gonna be feasible
for somebody to take that.

Speaker 1 (02:02:08):
Step unless you're willing to buy one that needs maybe
quite a bit of work.

Speaker 17 (02:02:13):
Correct or in a neighborhood that is hopefully going to
turn around in the next decade or so. But yeah,
you have to kind of you're taking a risk there
if you really need that house with more bedrooms, you
are looking to again pick up something that's gonna need
a lot of work, or in a neighborhood that you
may not want to be raising your kids in.

Speaker 1 (02:02:30):
Understand tough challenges out there in the world these days,
Is there do you see anything that might turn this around?

Speaker 17 (02:02:38):
Honestly, we've been talking about this for years. Haven't we
been talking about this ever since two thousand and eight? Really,
you know, I would have thought it would have happened
by now. When is the bubble gonna pop where people
just say, you know what, I just can't do it.
I can't buy these houses. I'm talking to my clients
who are retiring and some of them are still buying
three and four bedroom houses, And I scratched my head, Brian,
why are we doing this? It's all almost like it's

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become ingrained that I just have to live in a house.
That's just all there is out there. So I'm going
to have a couple empty rooms just the way.

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
It is fair enough. Brian James will continue one more
of that topic. All right, you know, I admit and
you know I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've said
it so many times. Regular listeners know that I do
watch shows like Wheel Fortune to wind down before I
go to bed at eight, Brian, and it always blows
my mind to see the cost of some of these
vacation trips that they put together. I'm like, Lord almighty,

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how does any kind of regular, average American family spend
that kind of money to go someplace like that? And
I was never a big guy when it came to travel,
certainly not global travel. I've always enjoyed spending time here
in the United States of America, where there seems to
be an endless supply of destinations. But I understand that
the big summer vacation plans are being put on ice

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this summer.

Speaker 9 (02:03:52):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 17 (02:03:53):
So when I'm doing financial plans for clients, what we
always budget for vacation and used to be that we
would throw in. If somebody didn't talk about travel, like
it wasn't a retirement goal, I'd throw in three thousand bucks,
because everybody would go down to Myrtle Beach or Hilton Had,
you know, once or twice and three thousand bucks would
cover it. That minimum has now become five thousand for
my folks who don't bring up travel. For the ones

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who say, yes, we've always wanted to travel, we can't
wait to do it. Now we're putting in ten to
twelve thousand at an absolute minimum. For the ones who
want to hit it hard, we're budgeting twenty thousand dollars
per year, and so there's stories in here about of course,
if you're going to budget out a trip to Europe,
that's going to be in the twenty thousand dollars range
to go make it worth your while.

Speaker 9 (02:04:32):
Nobody goes for a long weekend. You're going to make
it at least ten.

Speaker 17 (02:04:34):
Days or so twenty thousand dollars. Now, we budgeted one
for the James family. We didn't end up going because
it was twenty twenty and you can remember what happened then.
We were very close to swiping the credit card, but
it was going to be about thirteen thousand at that
point to get all five of us through Scandinavia and
then that was through cost Co, which is about as
reasonable as you can possibly get. But yeah, so we're

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hearing stories about forty one percent of people this year
plan trips of three nights or fewer, meaning you know,
we're taking long weekends. That's up from thirty seven percent.
So we've seen a ten percent increase year over year
in the people who are saying we're not going to
take as big of a vacation as we've as we've
done in the past. Americans who are planning vacations period
it dropped below forty percent this year.

Speaker 9 (02:05:18):
That's still lower than twenty twenty four In about.

Speaker 17 (02:05:21):
Twelve percent of travelers say they've changed their plans because
of the tariffs, which have spooked him enough to say,
the heck with it, We'll just we'll stay in this summer.

Speaker 1 (02:05:28):
Well, I saw this one guy that's quoted in the article.
He said the tariffs sort of got everybody around the
world mad at us. He was worried about being treated
poorly if he showed up at his original destination because
the locals would frown upon us tourists. Is that really
a thing?

Speaker 9 (02:05:47):
Yeah, I think some of that stuff is overblown. As
for sexy headline.

Speaker 17 (02:05:50):
So, I have a good friend of mine who's a
federal employee, and he was sent to Europe for about
three months during all this stuff. He just got back
and we asked him that question, are you getting grief
from anybody? And most of it was good natured ribbing,
you know, just kind of saying, hey, the United States
isn't playing nice in the sandbox anymore. But he had
no point faced any kind of true, you know, adverse
consequences because of those headlines. I wouldn't worry too much

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about that part. People know the reality that the average
person wandering around the streets, you know, from the United
States doesn't have control over this and may may not
agree with Oh that's I'm not too worried about that.
That's the practical bottom line is. Listen, I'm not Trump.
I didn't do it, for sure. I hurried him to
the extent it's going to even do anything anyhow. Has
tourism dropped off from foreigners coming into the United States?

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I know Canada had a fairly sizable double digit drop
in Canadians interested in visiting the United States because of
tariff'sligiously generally speaking, but how about generally the US tourism industry.

Speaker 1 (02:06:46):
Has it dropped off for a similar reasons?

Speaker 9 (02:06:49):
Absolutely? Yeah, for political purposes.

Speaker 17 (02:06:51):
Yeah, So international travel the United States is down about
five percent in twenty five compared to twenty four. That's
despite earlier forecasts that were predicting close to nine growth. Now,
those forecasts, of course, did not take into account what
the United States was going to be doing politically here
in the first quarter of twenty twenty five. So we're
now estimating that visitors spending is going to fall by
about eleven percent, and that's going to cost US about

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eighteen billion dollars in money that is no longer coming
over from overseas in the handbook or in the purchase
of travelers.

Speaker 1 (02:07:21):
Well, but how does the dollar fare? And so far
as you know, one's a spending ability, I mean, are
we is a foreign national in good shape coming here?
Do they get more value let's say, for their euro
here than they otherwise would? Where's the currency stand?

Speaker 17 (02:07:36):
Yeah, so the US dollar is weakening, of course, because
in what that means is that it is cheaper for
foreigners to come to the United States.

Speaker 9 (02:07:44):
In the United States should be.

Speaker 17 (02:07:45):
Looking like a more attractive, attractive option because mathematically, speaking,
it's cheaper for them to come overseas. I remember when
the opposite was true. This is probably about twenty years ago, Brian. Yes,
and I remember seeing ads in the paper of all
this is how so I'm dating myself now, but ads
in the paper for how cheap it was to go
spend a long weekend shopping in Europe.

Speaker 9 (02:08:03):
Because the opposite was true.

Speaker 17 (02:08:04):
The dollar was so strong and the euro was so
weak it would cost next to nothing for you to
fly overseas and do that. The opposite is it's not
quite the same here but at the but it hasn't
had the impact in terms of the travel demand because
of all the geopolitical stuff going on. So people right
now are focusing on their passions, not the numbers.

Speaker 1 (02:08:23):
Brian James another edition of Monday Monday. Thanks to all
Worth for loaning out every Monday for a nice chat
and helpful information. Brian. I'll look forward to another audition
next Monday, and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Speaker 9 (02:08:33):
You too, have a good week. Talk to you Monday.

Speaker 1 (02:08:34):
Thanks brother. It's eight thirty nine, almost e thirty nine
here fifty five car City Talk Station, A very happy
Monday to you. Oh, I have been intrigued by this
since I saw him on the rundown. I'm happy to
welcome to the fifty five Carssey Morning Show. Since any
Native an Air Force veteran he did servicing Iraq, he
is well also kind of crazy. I will tell you

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that Tom Hester welcome to the program. By way of background,
he's currently the vice president and co founder Heroic Expeditions.
It's a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower veterans
to reclaim their sense of self and help them find
healing and unearth the boundless possibilities that await them after
the years of military service. Programs offered by Heroic Expeditions
dot org include mental health counseling referrals, group recreational activities,

(02:09:18):
and a mental health first aid course. Let me start
off by thanking you for your service to our country. Tim,
it's a pleasure to have you on this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
Thank you very much for having me something I've been
looking forward to for a while.

Speaker 1 (02:09:32):
Now, And I said, kind of crazy. You're going to
be at the Lunch with a Veteran event on Sunday,
May twenty fifth, and this takes place at Arlington Memorial Gardens.
Have I got that correct, Yes, and Arlington Memorial Gardens
has obtained exclusive rights to something I'm sure near and
dear to your heart at the PBS documentary called Defying

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Death on the Atlantic, and you're a crew member on
the team that's featured in this PBS documentary.

Speaker 4 (02:10:01):
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
That is correct, and probably why you and many other
call me crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:10:07):
That's that, okay? How many of us would sign up
for what is described as a perilous three thousand mile
ocean rowing race called the World's Toughest row. I mean,
that's bad assery or craziness right there, My friend tell
us all about what this race involves before we get
to the details of what happened to you on that

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team in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 16 (02:10:32):
Well, I think you're absolutely right. Not many people would
sign up for that amount of craziness a three thousand
mile row, no sales, no engines, just you and your team.
And if you ain't rowing, you ain't going three thousand
miles from Lagamra and the Canary Islands to Antigua in
the Caribbean.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
That was the goal to help motivate fellow veterans to.

Speaker 16 (02:10:55):
Get out of their little bubble out of their own world,
go do something cool like you got to while you
were in the military, overcome your challenges.

Speaker 3 (02:11:04):
We set out to help guys get over trauma, and
we came home with just a little bit more of
our own.

Speaker 1 (02:11:10):
Yes, you did. How many men are on the team?

Speaker 3 (02:11:13):
You've never cooperated the way we needed it too.

Speaker 1 (02:11:15):
Well, it's the ocean. You don't have no idea what
you're going to run into out there in the ocean.
How many men are on your team? We're on your team.

Speaker 16 (02:11:24):
We were all deployed together in two thousand and eight,
so by the time the race started in twenty twenty two,
we had known each other and become lifelong friends, were
ready to go do some badassery together.

Speaker 7 (02:11:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:11:38):
And there were a total of how many of you?

Speaker 3 (02:11:41):
There were four of us four?

Speaker 16 (02:11:44):
Yeah, So there were always two guys rowing, and there
were always two guys resting, rotated in two hour shifts
twenty four to seven.

Speaker 1 (02:11:52):
So how long, okay, how long did you anticipate this
three thousand mile because I know you didn't make it
in twenty twenty two, and we're going to get to
that the moment. I'm keeping my powder dry on on
what happened to you. But the expectation of the time
it would take to complete when you started out, Oh,
it's going to take us about how many days to
complete this?

Speaker 16 (02:12:11):
We were shooting for under fifty fifty days.

Speaker 18 (02:12:17):
Yes, unsupported. So we had all of our own food
packed in the boat. We had solar panels, so we
had energy on the boat, and we also had a
desalinator on board so we could drink fresh water made
right from the ocean.

Speaker 1 (02:12:30):
Now, in terms of the size of the craft, how
many feet was it and was did it come with
some form of shelter because you get inclement weather, as
we're going to find out. So what does a general
description of the boat look like.

Speaker 16 (02:12:43):
The boat was twenty eight feet long by five feet wide.
The rowing portion the deck of the boat was completely open.
There was no overhead shelter or anything. But each end
of the boat had a cabin in it and that's
where you would spend you off shift, so you were
enclosed on either end of the boat.

Speaker 1 (02:13:03):
Okay, Now, the name of your team, which I got
a big chuckle out of, and I know it was done.
It done tongue in cheek, but let my listeners know.

Speaker 3 (02:13:15):
The team an organization that we rode for was called Fight.

Speaker 1 (02:13:18):
Or Die or is oar right? All right? So that
makes perfect sense considering you're going on a three thousand
mile ocean rowing race. So in twenty twenty two, when
you embarked on this at the outset huge challenge, let
my listeners know what happened. What's depicted in the Defying
Death on the Atlantic documentary.

Speaker 16 (02:13:39):
Sure, so, like you had said, the race started in December,
I don't The reason it starts at that time frame
is because the trade winds off of Africa should have
formed by then. Well, what had happened to us? Right
around Christmas Day? There was a giant storm that passed
over Buffalo, New York. I think it dropped like eight

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feet as no wantum, and then the jet stream pushed
out to the North Atlantic. Well, that storm generated thirty
forty foot swells, sustained thirty nine winds, and on the
morning of the twenty eighth our boat that was supposed
to self right in the event of a capsize, our

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boat capsized on top of a wave.

Speaker 3 (02:14:22):
We got hit by a giant got.

Speaker 16 (02:14:24):
The wind flipped our boat over in the middle of
the night, and never self righted the way it was
supposed to, so effectively ending our race right at that moment.

Speaker 1 (02:14:36):
And so this is the middle of the night and
you're out in the middle of the ocean. Obviously there's
no light going on around there. Can I just ask you,
because I know exactly if I would, that would be
a I have to change my shorts inducing moment in time.
What were your emotions like at the time that that happened.
And I know you were out at sea for a
while thereafter, We'll get to that in a minute, but
what were your emotions like at the very moment that

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that happened.

Speaker 16 (02:15:00):
I was in the cabin and I'm very grateful that
I was inside when it happened.

Speaker 3 (02:15:06):
I was kind of in between sleep and total fear
at that moment. Yeah, we knew we were in probably.

Speaker 16 (02:15:14):
Not the best of situations, so we were all kind
of on edge the whole day. The moment the boat
flipped over, there was probably a split second.

Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
Of oh my god, we're upside down. This is not good.
But right after that training kind of kicked in.

Speaker 16 (02:15:31):
This is a race and a moment we had been
preparing for for a couple of years at that point,
so I was in a position where I knew the
boat was supposed to flip back over, but it was
totally dark and all I could see was.

Speaker 3 (02:15:43):
The waterline in the window of the hatch and it
didn't move.

Speaker 1 (02:15:48):
Oh my, Now you swam out then from the hatch,
I presume.

Speaker 16 (02:15:55):
So, kind of like a car accident. Time slowed down
a lot while I was in the cabin.

Speaker 4 (02:16:01):
I had to.

Speaker 16 (02:16:01):
Grab all of our gear that we were going to need.
I had heard one of my teammates will, yeah, we
need to get to the life raft. The boat's not
flipping over, So at that moment it was time to
go to work. I knew I needed to grab a
lot of stuff for us. Turned out I had been
in that cabin for about forty to forty five minutes
before I left the cabin and get to the life raft.

Speaker 3 (02:16:25):
Wow, and well, I had no idea it was that long.
It felt like maybe five to ten.

Speaker 1 (02:16:32):
Oh my. And was all of your your crewmates were
safe in the quote unquote safe sense under the circumstances,
Maybe not so safe considering the storm raging around you.
In the fact that your boat was flipped over but
you had the life raft. Did any point in time
any of the crewmates like lose track of the boat
or the craft I get washed out that they were

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concerned that they might not be rescued or get get
back to the life raft.

Speaker 16 (02:16:57):
So two of us were in the cars and two
of the teammates were actually on deck still in the
rowing position.

Speaker 3 (02:17:06):
So when you are not in a cabin, you are
required to be harnessed and tethered.

Speaker 16 (02:17:12):
So when the boat did flip over, two of the
teammates were actually ejected opposite directions.

Speaker 3 (02:17:18):
The other two of us were still in.

Speaker 16 (02:17:20):
The cabin right, So them being tethered to the boat
was paramount to everybody making at home.

Speaker 1 (02:17:28):
Well, that's that's reassuring to know. I was kind of
wondering how that worked out. So thank god for safety
equipment and portable radio. Did you have an opportunity to
communicate you weren't flying blind out there in the middle
of the ocean before the vote boat cap size? Did
you have a portable radio or something that went with
a lifeboat or the lifeboat have one built in?

Speaker 3 (02:17:46):
So we had a satellite phone that we actually had
to use and keep on every day.

Speaker 16 (02:17:52):
We were part of a race hosted by Atlantic Campaigns
and they have very strict safety requirements, and one of
those is you talk on a satellite phone with their
safety officer at least every other day. And we had
just spoken with him on the satellite phone the day before,
so you know, we had the satellite phone on a charger.

Speaker 3 (02:18:14):
When I was drabbing gear to go to the life raft,
that was one of the things I grabbed.

Speaker 16 (02:18:18):
I grab the satellite phone, a VHF radio, and a
handheld GPS.

Speaker 3 (02:18:26):
That's about all we had. Now by the time we
got to the life raft, though, the satellite phone.

Speaker 16 (02:18:31):
Had gotten wet and it didn't work. Oh no, So
our only communication devices were two cell phones that weren't
going to work in the middle of the Atlantic, and
a VHF radio that works by line of sight. So
that's actually not very far when you're still in thirty
foot waves.

Speaker 1 (02:18:48):
Jeez. So how many days were you on the or
how long we were on the how long I should
say we were on the life raft before you were rescued,
and how did you get rescued.

Speaker 16 (02:18:58):
Well, we had been in the life raft for approximately
sixteen hours before ever making contact with anybody.

Speaker 3 (02:19:09):
On about our.

Speaker 16 (02:19:10):
Sixteen and a half we made another May Day call
on that VHF radio and we received a reply via
two Mike clicks from who We had no idea who
could hear us, but at that point we didn't care.
About an hour later we were able to communicate with somebody,

(02:19:32):
still didn't know who it was, and then an hour
later we were picked up by a six hundred foot
cargo ship out of the Netherlands.

Speaker 3 (02:19:41):
Wow, from a deflating life raft.

Speaker 1 (02:19:44):
Oh my, And I'm sure all of this is in
the PBS documentary to Fine Death on the Atlantic. Again,
it's Arlington Memorial Gardens has got the exclusive rights to
premiere this. You will be at the premiere if you
show up at Arlington Memorial Gardens May fourth, that's Saturday
one is the first showing. You got a four pm
showing on the twenty fourth, and then on Sunday, May

(02:20:06):
twenty fifth is a two pm showing. And that's the
day when you'll be speaking at the annual luncheon with
a veteran That's the twenty fifth of May. Right, Yes,
I am very excited for that, I guess, and you know,
I thank god you're alive and able to talk about this.
Just amazing story.

Speaker 3 (02:20:21):
Just.

Speaker 1 (02:20:24):
Proving again why I would never volunteer to do something
as crazy as this Sunday.

Speaker 3 (02:20:29):
Maybe people would not.

Speaker 16 (02:20:31):
I believe more people have been to space than have
rowed a boat across an ocean.

Speaker 1 (02:20:35):
And that sounds about right to be a Heroic Expeditions
dot org for my veteran friends in the audio, in
the audience doing great things, Veterans united in resilience, bonded
forged in adventure like the one we just talked about.
It's been a real pleasure having on the program, and
thanks again for your service to our country and your
continued service to our country with your organization Heroic Expeditions.

Speaker 3 (02:20:56):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:20:57):
The pleasure has been all mine. Crazy man got respect,
There's no doubt about it. Eight fifty one fifty five
KRC Detalk.

Speaker 10 (02:21:05):
Station fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (02:21:08):
What if you had an extra doub