55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o five.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
At the July krc DE talk station every Monday. I'm
the dude man and I'm Brian Thomas, not the dude

(00:34):
Judge Juckers in there. Fun lines are open five one three,
seven four excuse me, fifty five d eight two three
talk with Pound five fifty on AT and T funds.
Coming up on the fifty five k SEE Morning Show.
It's Monday, Christopher Smithman at seven twenty, first of the guests,
and then yes, it's Monday, Monday, Monday with Brian James
every Monday at eight oh five. Today we talk about
the Dow futures dropping, on the tariff issues. Trump has

(00:58):
double down on the steel tariffs. That's another time we'll
talk about him. Well, price is apparently up a little bit,
although the price of the pump's been great and as
we are are we just learning to live with higher prices, inflation,
et cetera. Job as claims up, GDP contracted. Although I've
seen information the inflation is actually steadied, it's actually lower.

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So I guess depends on where you get your news.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And should any of this impact how we invest? Ultimately
the point of Brian James, how can you turn whatever
news is in the news into good news for your
investment portfolio, and hopefully you've got one heat to be
in a position where I'm going to rely only on
Social Security in my retirement, because that's on its own.

(01:43):
I won't say death spiral, but I guess I could
say that anyway. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
A happy birthday to my wife. She had her birthday
on Saturday. Now I gonna say how old she is.
She get mad at me, but had a nice time.
Went to Summer Fair. That was a good day, and
also to dinner and hello to my friends at the
turf Club. I was gonna take her out to his

(02:06):
steak dinner at a real nice place, had a reservation
and everything. She goes Brian, you know what, I'd rather
just go to turf club. So that's what we did,
straight from Summer Fair to the turf Club. Really enjoyable
day though, and got to spend the day at my
daughter's farm. Yesterday all eleven chickens out running around the yard.
Got a dozen fresh farm eggs we took home with us.
That is the coolest thing. Those are really good eggs.

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They are really doing a great job those two. It's
so impressive. It's nice to see your children achieve great things.
And I think that's exactly what's going on with her
and her fiance. So anyway, just getting that personal information
out there because I'm just really proud of what they're doing. Ah,
whatever is going on, I'm not quite sure where to start.
I thought it was interesting the Russian bombers that were

(02:52):
blown up by a Ukraine drone attack. Sure, this is
something we'll talk about with Daniel Davis deep dive tomorrow.
We talked to Daniel every Tuesday at eight thirty retired
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis on strategy, military strategy. But apparently
what they did they snuck the drones in, had them
placed rather close to the targets that they blew up.

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So they transport of these drones to Russia later on
on the territory of the Russian Federation. The drones were
hidden under the roofs of mobile wooden cabinets already placed
on trucks, and at the right moment, the roofs of
the cabints where cabins were opened remotely and the drones
flew to hit the Russian bombers and apparently forty or
forty one of the bombers were either destroyed or or

(03:38):
blown up, at least in part. I'm not quite sure
of the status of any given bomber. These may not numbers,
may not mean anything to you, but in terms of
the overall cost, it was extraordinarily expensive to the Russians
relative to the price of the drones they hit. The
A fifty, the Tu ninety five, the Tu twenty two,

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M three, those are the aircraft that among the ones
that were hit. So the drone operation caused approximately seven
billion dollars in damage to the Russian air fleet, disabling
thirty four percent of the cruise missile carriers in key

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Russian air bases. That's a sizable chunk for one drug strike.
Ukraine uses long has the real problem hitting interior targets
in Russia, and that's is something Daniel Davis and I
talk about all the time. You know, how much good
is it to hit some random target within Russia. Russia
had kept most of the hardware it was using in

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Ukraine against the Ukrainians beyond the reach of the drones
that they had well have, but also beyond the reach
of the military missile apparatus that we in other countries
had provided to Ukraine's so far, so they were struggling
to actually hit Mili targets in the interior of Russia.

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So since Moscow kept them out of the range of
the weapons KIV had been developing, they snuck them in
and got them closer to the targets, which, you know,
it's it's quite an accomplishment when you think about it.
Attack likely highly cost effective. It's written these FPV drones

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that the Ukraine's use. They say it could be bought
for just a few hundred dollars each, but going back
to the cost of the damage seven billion dollars. The
forty one heavy bombers run into the billions of dollars,
so the return on investment was pretty substantial. The A
fifty aircraft, they say, provide several critical functions for the

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ongoing war in Ukraine, detecting air defense systems, guide missiles,
and coordinated targets for Russian fighter jets. They possessed fewer
than ten of those. The Russians do. A fifty aircraft
have an estimated price of three hundred and fifty million
dollar each, so not sure how many were blown up.
In the drone attack. But you hit a few of them,
that's a sizable chunk if they only own ten of them.

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Going back to the other aircraft, the U two plev,
TU ninety five and TU twenty two, and the TU
one sixty, they're described as heavy bombers regularly used to
launch missiles at Ukrainian cities. The t U ninety five
the oldest at the Soviet aeroplane they started flying in
nineteen fifty two, usually used to carry nuclear weapons, but
they've now turned it into something to launch his cruise missiles.

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Each of those can carry sixteen of the cruise missiles.
TU twenty two also carries missiles which pose a particular
problem for Ukraine. The type of missile it carries it's
called in KGE twenty two, and I know there's a
lot of numbers and figures, but it's a supersonic missile
that travels around four thousand kilometers an hour. So getting
rid of the aircraft that deploys that particular missile, I

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suppose it's a pretty good thing. The only things that
can shoot those down to the US made Patriot air
defense systems and potentially this Italian French system called sam
T and the most modern strategic bomber that was hit
at TU one sixty started in nineteen eighty seven. It
remains the largest operational bomber in the world. Can carry
a total of twelve of those supersonic missiles, so that

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again quite an operation. And then there are also three
train crashes. Apparently they blew up some bridges just yesterday
as well. Seven people dead. A lot of damage though
to the railroad infrastructure in Russia. So they're still fighting.
I guess, you know, probably a well. I think the

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bomber is obviously actually a pretty strategic military accomplishment, but
it certainly must have It has to give some you
know plus to the morale side of the Ukraine since
they get in their butt kicks and more and more
Russians are advancing into the Ukraine's territory, so they keep
losing territory day by day. I also saw that the
Russians had a mass like fifty thousand additional troops along

(08:01):
the border there, so that does not spell good news
for Ukraine. And you know, the Russians are going to
retaliate against this. One just becomes a question of when
and to what degree. So I look very much. Looking
forward to hearing from Daniel Davis on this tomorrow, get
his thoughts and comments. What else I want to get

(08:21):
to the city of Cincinnati's issues speaking of damaged infrastructure,
But why not just go down this road to the
remaining minute we've got in this segment. Now it is
Corey Booker and Nazi. Joe is Corey Booker and Nazi. Now, yes,
that didn't take long. You didn't have to hesitate on
that one. He didn't have to do the Nazi salute

(08:49):
to tell you that Democrat Senator Corey Booker being mocked
by a lot of folks, mostly conservatives, weren't waiting for
the mainstream media to start calling Corey Booker a Nazi
because he too delivered an alleged Nazi salute to the
California Democrats while equipping that the New Jersey Democrat won't
get the same scrutiny as Elon Musk when he raised

(09:11):
his arm to Maggot supporters back in January. I'm sure
you've all seen that when you saw the reports, and
then it became Elon Musk Nazi, Elon must Nazi, Elon
must Nazi, Nazi, Elon Musk cutting this cutting that it's
all bad he's a Nazi, And I never did say
it was a Nazi salute. Didn't appear to be to me.
It was just like you know, when you're in front
of a crowd and you're talking and you're animated. If

(09:32):
you capture a photograph of someone at any given time,
you can probably turn it into a Nazi salut, if
that's what you want to characterize it as. It's just
it's a bunch of nonsense. Well, Corey Booker did the
same thing. So everybody's out on social media stand waiting
for the waiting for the Elon Musk treatment. One commentator

(09:54):
government scientist Matt von Swell on X here's the list
of all the news networks who have not covered Corey Booker,
New York Times, CNN, Washington Posts, MSNBC and PR, USA Today,
Reuter's Axios, ABC News. Every single one of them wrote
stories on Elon Musk's Nazi salute? Do you get it yet? Musk,

(10:16):
for his part, I think he summed it up quite nicely.
Legacy media is one big psyop amen to that anyway,
Concerns arising over house Cincinnati is using money from the
railroad line site. That's one we got to get to.
And the new Western Hills Viaduct. Much like the roads

(10:37):
that are in a dire state of in need of
repair in the city of Cincinnati, the new viaduct's got
a lot more expensive over time. H Gee, I wonder
why that might be stick around. We've got lot's talk
about you. Feel free to chime in. I'd love to
hear from you. If you've got a comment, I'll be
right back. Fifty the talk station bitchbobcarresee dot com. You

(10:58):
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get the podcast if you hadn't didn't get a chance
to listen to line podcast like today with Christomer Smith,
Smith and Smith Event. Okay, what should these cities since
said to be spending money on? We got allegedly fifty

(11:19):
six million dollars in interest from the one point six
billion dollars invested railroad money that has to go to
infrastructure existing infrastructure. Local twelve reporting that there are critics
questioning why more money isn't going toward repairing the Cincinnatis
damaged streets, which looked like they were in a war zone.

(11:40):
So what is the current Cincinni budget, which has to
be done by the end of the month. The budget
proposes nearly thirty five million for road paving and repair
out of the fifty six million dollars of cities getting
from the railroad investment, and as is reported, it's only
going to cover fifty under fifty miles. Thirty five million

(12:01):
dollars gets you less than fifty miles of repaving for
the whole year. That's all they're planning on doing now,
after years of leaving the roads in a state of neglect.
Who's been running the city now for the last four decades,
Oh that's right, Democrats. This is a failure of priority.

(12:21):
Aft have Purval Mayor pointed out the obvious higher costs
mean fewer roads can be paved. Okay, that's because you
keep kicking the can down the road. Inflation happens every year,
so every year you neglect it, the more expensive it's
going to be to pave a road mile dah. He
said the following, You know, the component costs for paving

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roads have gone up, the supply chain issues that we're seeing.
Are you ready because of the tariffs and the are
you ready uncertainty from the federal government to create more
expense for us. Really, huh, Tariff said that much of

(13:06):
an impact. Huh do we import asphalt from China or something?
I thought that was kind of a domestically produced item. Anyway,
he's probably gonna try to point the finger at the
Trump administration for literally everything, even if it doesn't make
any sense. Said. Road repairs account for sixty two percent

(13:27):
of the total fifty six million dollars from the railroad
payment this year. Tom Brakman, remember Ham citizens opposed to
additional spending and taxes. Talking with Channel twelve about this,
former state lawmaker advocated more of the funds to be
allocated to road repair given the poor condition of many
city streets. Quote to me, that to me is infrastructure.

(13:48):
That's what they should be spending their time on, and
not on what I would call frills. That if they're needed,
they're needed because irresponsible maintenance pur of all, for his part,
emphasized the city is adhering to the state's legal definition
of infrastructure, which is rec centers, police stations, and other

(14:11):
non road items. So yeah, it can have a whole
bunch of different things that might constitute under the legal
definition of infrastructure. But when our roads are falling apart,
don't you think you should prioritize the roads? And I
think that's Brickman's point. Purvall said, this idea that we
can just focus on one problem with resources. We have
road miles to the detriment of the status of our

(14:34):
rec centers, our parks, and our health centers. That's the
reason why this whack a mole approach. We're in this
problem in the first place. What about the street car?
What about all the environmental green projects you're spending city
dollars on. And speaking of police stations, Joe, didn't we
have some police stations that were literally dilabidated, falling apart.
Police been screaming and yelling about these terrible police stations

(14:55):
placed in the wrong. Ah, we could go on for
you go back years on that one. They didn't do
anything about it in prior years. Retort from Brickman. Infrastructure
to me is roads and bridges. Roads and bridges, not
fancy bike trails, not signs that say welcome to sird Aamsville.
Those to me are frills and compared to the needs

(15:16):
of the roads, I would have to agree with mister
Brickman on that one. Also, the Western Hills Viaduct has
got a lot more expensive. Three years ago they said
it was three hundred ninety eight million dollars to raise
the existing ninety three year old viatoc and build a

(15:38):
new one. Last year, when they had their hand out
to the federal government, they said the price would be
nine hundred million dollars. Now they're saying, well, since the
federal money was turned down, the final price isn't going
to be that high, but they won't know the new
total until they complete their next cost analysis, expected by
the end of the summer. We need another cost analysis.

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We've been talking about replacing the Westerns Violin of Harris
since two thousand and seven, and that's when the structure
was declared functionally obsolete. In twenty seventeen. Ten years later,
they hired a San Francisco firm to design the replacement
for the viaduct, which was unveiled in twenty twenty. Three
years later. Fast forward to twenty twenty one, city said

(16:32):
taking down the existing viaduct and erecting the new one
would cost three hundred and thirty five million. By twenty
twenty two, the price jumped to three hundred and ninety
eight million, aiming to build the new span of the
Queen's Gate rail next year and take down the old
one by twenty thirty two. Anybody have any any belief

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that those calendar years are going to hold, enquire reporting,
the city applied for a five hundred and one million
dollars is the Federal Multi Modal Project Discretionary. Last May.
Application showed the dollars would come on top of more
than one hundred and fifty seven million promised from federal sources.
Put in the funding it again nine hundred million dollars.

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Total figure reflects six hundred and twenty million dollars to
build the new bridge ninety six point nine million to
take down the old one. Last October, the city officials
learned that, well, you're not getting federal dollars now. They
don't believe the project will actually be nine hundred million dollars,
So why did they seek more? Ask the Enquirer, are

(17:41):
you ready to absorb anticipated inflation? The rising prices steel,
other building materials in labor are among the quote main
factors for the cost increases. That's the core of the
city's application for federal bucks. Here you go to pay
for quote potential future light rail or street cars. And
on the new bridge, well that's where your additional costs

(18:07):
might show up. Right, They still are longing for additional streetcars.
DC's giving up on that. They went with buses this
time around. They wanted to expand the streetcar lines. They
use buses or planning on using buses, which can be
purchased at a fraction of the costs of the streetcars.
Those street cars in DC were priced at eleven million

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bucks a pop. I think it was West Side Jim
who's on the phone, who's calling going to take after
the break here said he learned and knows that the
price of a bus is more like a quarter of
a million dollars, so you get much more bang for
your buck, and it's flexible. Five twenty six fifty five
kres to Detalk Station west Side Gym hang on, looking
forward to hearing from our talking with you. Got to

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take a break.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
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Speaker 3 (18:56):
Five twenty nine on a Monday, and a happy one
to you. Five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five
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hear from you. Thanks for holding over the breake there,
my friend.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Good morning, Brian Thomas. How are you this morning, sir?

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm awake.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
That's about the way I think about it too. You know,
I won't even touch the viadoc because that's been a
joke since actually two thousand and two when Chris Monzel
started pushing for that. But on the streets, you know,
they should have subcontract this thing out a long time
ago and we'd be driving on nice paying streets. There's

(19:34):
that seating project up at up there on Go High Pike,
and within the year they tore down five houses, cleared
the land, and this thing is going to be an
incredible sports complex for the seat and girls, and it's
going to be open within a year. And it's seventeen
million dollars and you should see that. The earth movers

(19:57):
and everything else that goes along with this. The city
went through Republican councils and Democrat councils and they, just
like you said, push it down the road. And nobody
wants to touch this because they don't know what the
hell they're doing. And nobody can approve anything down there
without seventeen different studies, and they're afraid to, you know,

(20:18):
put the pen to the paper on this thing.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Well, can they bound something off your head? Clearly the
work can be done if they put their hearts and
minds to it, if they allocate the dollars and just
say start here and let's just get going on it.
So like the seat and project, it can be done.
Do you think given the what we know about aftab
pervol and the left leaning Democrat councils all being all
about green and fifteen minute cities, that they're just intentionally

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letting the growths go to crap because they don't want
people driving around in cars. I mean, just the theory.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
That might be part of it.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
I think that's kind of a stretch because of the
complaints that they're getting. Plus, one of these days the
voters will wake up and actually get people in there
that might not be politicians or career politicians and actually
get something done, you know.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Building type people.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
If somebody would run on that and get a slay together,
I think that they could actually you know, put put
together a nice conglomerate of people to get something done.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah. Maybe I only throw that out there because this,
this is just getting out of hand. The neglect of
these roads has been going on for decades. I mean,
this isn't just a new phenomenon brought about by Trump's
tariffs and federal policies, as Burwall wants to suggest.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's an excuse.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
But yeah, they got streets terrible things, the stupid street
calling things that they put up within like six months everywhere.
And also it does is back up traffic.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, it may.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
Calm a couple of cars down from flying up and
down with no mufflers on it somewhere, but that's because
the mufflers have been knocked off on the street calling things.
But my god, I mean, if you drive on the
western side of town, I don't know how it is
on the east. But there are the stupid plastic things everywhere.
And I don't know what the cost of one of

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those little pump things are, but they're not calming anything down.
If you know how to hit those things right, you
can just go right over it, you know whatever. Thirty
five forty miles an.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Hour, I know, those are popping up all over the place.
And just because people drive like idiots. I mean, if
people just paid attention to the speed limits. We wouldn't
have to deal with those damn things.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Hey, Brian, I know I'm running out of time here,
but Sam Beltos from Prycell Chili passed away side. I
thought of your father because he died of Alzheimer's. But
you know, this man had this thing for like three years. Yeah, yeah,
and he hasn't been around. But that's the first thing
I thought of a long time ago, as was your
dad on this stuff.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
But yeah, he did pass away, and.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
I just want to throw that out there and my
condolences to the family. And it's a sad side, sad
story for the West Side.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
He was eighty eight years old, yes, sir, So we've
been there many times, only once or twice found a
priceal Chili September nineteen sixty two. So his I guess
his kids are running the ship and they can plan
on continuing carrying the torch for the family run business.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yeah, the youngest son had died years ago from cancer
and there's the oldest son running it.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
And it's going to continue.

Speaker 6 (23:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
The rumors that have moved to the East Side is
not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
But that's just a skit for the radio talking personalities,
but it's going to run and you know, no funeral
arrangements have been made yet, but it's going to be
opened up until probably that day because you know, people
over here they respect Sam and he did a great
job of handling everybody in the dignitaries that I've been there.

(23:49):
I knew that man for forty five years.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, I guess he spent a lot of time at
the restaurant too, according to the reporting from Fox nineteen
that I ready with the.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Exception of the morning until whenever.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yep, that's a committed, dedicated man. He had a successful
business and it's a sorry, sorry thing that he ended
up having to do with Alzheimer's. But eighty eight, that's
a ripe old age. Quite a right.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Thank you for letting me throw that out there.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Happy to do it, man. It was in my local news.
I probably would have gotten to it anyway, but you
brought it up and we got the information out there.
So rest in p sim Beltzoz, founder of Price Ill Chili,
died yesterday. Thanks Jim. Always a pleasure hearing from you.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
Ma.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
You're gonna be at lunch on Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
I'm sure, dag on try. I haven't the last two,
so I'm missing out. I just want to see you
get your butt picked well.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
I always enjoy seeing you at lunch if you can
make it. Mad Tree at Summit Park looks like a
pretty facility.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I think I can make this one.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
I don't have a thing on my calendar, so I
think I can actually make this one good.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Well. I hope to see and I won't hold it
against you if you can't make it, but it'll be
nice to see and also provide me with an opportunity
to remind my listeners. This one at Madtree in Summon Park.
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The Medal of Honor is the highest military If it's
about KCV talk station epy Monday time for the Stack
of Stupid.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
But you can feel free to call if you prefer
five hund three seven four nine to fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two three five. Joe, you had
the story and the stack of stupid. I had mine
the same story in a stack that I was going
to get to during the main content. But it's perfect
for the Stack of Stupid. And this is just a
scary thing from my standpoint, And we are doing our

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children such a huge disservice in public schools. Most notably,
we turned to San Francisco. I can't believe this is
actually a thing. San Francisco's public school system rolling out
a what they call Grading for Equity program, which will

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exclude homework or weekly tests from final grades. It allow
students to pass with scores as low as twenty one
out of one hundred. Last week, Superintendent Schools Maria Sue
rolled out the program, taking effect this fall at fourteen
public high schools, affecting more than ten thousand students. This

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was reported the Voice of San Francisco. Undergrading for Equity
semester grades depend entirely on a single final exam that
can be retaken multiple times, even if students skip assignments
or failed to attend class. The superintendent didn't seek approval
from the San Francisco Board of Education before announcing this overhaul.

(27:31):
Court of the Voice or staff has told board members
that they have no authority to reject the plan. She
made the announcement the final week of spring semester. His
parents were weighing whether to keep their children in San
Francisco's public schools this fall and probably not. It's reported
the district is facing over one hundred and ten million
dollars in budget cuts amid declining student enrollment and mounting

(27:55):
concerns about academic standards, Well they just got increased. District
faced backlash last year after then Superintendent Matt Wayne paid
a Stanford University professor thirty thousand dollars to create an
equity centered formula for deciding which schools to shutter. Parents
argue that the formula rewarded poor performing Black and Hispanic

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schools while targeting low income, high achieving Asian children. That
from a report from the Washington Free Beacon that prompted
him to resign in October last year. Superintendent sues grading
for equity system will allow students to earn an A
with a score of eighty, a C with a score

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of forty one, and you get a D if you
get just twenty one out of one hundred. Under the
current grading system, students need at least a ninety for
an A and at least a sixty one for a D,
which is more in line with the grading system that
I had when I was younger. I think you needed
a ninety three for an A when I was in school. Regardless,

(29:01):
you get a D for twenty one out of one hundred,
that's scary. That's sad too. The dumbing down of America.
You create a bunch of useful idiots with no logical
or critical thinking skills. Go to Maryland with the police

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chief is calling for greater accountability. In the case of
a group of teens, ah teens did probably graduated with
the twenty one They were accused of breaking into one
hundred and twenty one cars one night what Laurel police
arrested a sixteen year old boy in connection with the
car break ins, which happened in the night of May fifth.

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He and two other teens smashed car windows to old
items from fifty four cars and Laurel and sixty seven
more in Prince George's and Arundel and Howard Counties. According
to Laurel Police Chief Russ Hammill speaking with local news,
they were just simply going through neighborhoods and targeting for
opportunity breaking into cars. If there was something in there,
they'd steal. If there was nothing in there, they'd moved

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to another car. Video from the night shows two suspects
walking car to car in a parking lot, using flashlights
to look inside. Thirst suspect driving a car close by
in case they needed to escape. A corner to the
chief that car was a stolen car. Investigators found the
keys of the stolen car in keys to twenty five

(30:27):
other cars during a search warrant at the sixteen year
old suspects home in Beltsville. They also found several stolen items.
Five hour after resting the teen, police had to release him.
Chief said, no, this isn't Hamilton County, but it was
a good guest. You might lean that direction, Joe said
during a news conference. He was released back into the community,
back into the environment that allowed him to be out

(30:49):
roaming streets in all of these counties late at night
and in the early morning. Why are you doing that?
No idea. Maryland Department of Juvenile Services did not i
the the request the detectives in the State Attorney's office,
saying the team didn't have a prior record and the
crimes weren't violent. Whatever admonished by the police chief. We

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don't do this lightly. We don't ask for young people
to be held on a whim. We do so to
help the protect the community and them. I have little
hope there will be any further accountability for him due
to this broken system, he said. Other Some might consider
the car break in's lower level crime and greatly affect
the victims who often have to pay hundreds of dollars
on their insurance deductibles and miswork because they don't have

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So stupid got a high. Guy landed in the stack
of stupid this morning. Austin Township. Austin town Township, I
should more properly. State man accused of posing as a
Dwault sales rep and attempting to leave home depot was

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stolen good. According to the Youngstown area news station WFMJ
Joshua T. Hughey, thirty seven years old, Warren taken him
to custody after he allegedly attempted to roll a flatbed
cart load of with tools out of the home Depot
in Austin Town without paying. Authorities responded to the home
depot after receiving a shoplift and complaint lost Prevention employee

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and formed responding officers that he had seen the suspect
cut open multiple boxes of Dwault tools. He said that
hue had entered the business posing as a Duault sales rep.
They said Hughey was accused of taking bolt cutters from
another aisle and breaking a lock on a gate containing
the power tools, of course damaging the gate. He then

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loaded up an entire flatbed cart with twenty three pieces
of merchandise including Dewault made batteries, grinders, blowers, saws, then
try to walk out with that pain total value the
gathered merchandise four and ten dollars and forty nine cents.
Authorities impounded Huey's jeep, took several items into evidence, including

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the bold cutters, and he used a tool bag with
parts and tools, clipboard with papers, book bag, knife receipts,
a broken lock. He's been charged with theft, which is
a felony, possession of criminal tools, and vandalism. The aristocratic
pretty much go to Fort Myers, Florida, where the Cape
Coral residents have been dealing with what they described as

(34:43):
an unwelcome visitor, a muscovie duck. US fish and Wildlife
Service to the Muscovy ducks are known for being aggressive
and damaging property, as well as transmitting disease not native,
though thousands can be found to hold across the entire
state of Flow, Orlando, the largest population. A neighbor who

(35:05):
moved there in ninety eight, James Seblvita, interviewed, showed the
hand that the duck had been. He guess I set
up my porch between seven and seven thirty this time
of a year to catch the sunset, you know, some
sun I had my eyes closed. All of a sudden,
I felt a jab on my hand and it was bleeding.
Wildlife Service issue to control order allowing the management of

(35:25):
muscovy ducks their nests and eggs in areas outside of
the natural range. Another neighbor also attacked by the duck.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
What the hell?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
So they stood up and made some noises, thinking it
would go away, like go away, duck. You know, next
thing you know, it's wings come out, like it's going
to attack me. Commissions said the ducks can be humanely
killed or donated for educational purposes. What's that supposed to mean?
I think I show up at a school with a

(35:56):
captured duck. Yeah, go to Hawaii. Badcrap and saying they
are legislators in Hawaii implementing a hefty tax on tourism
that they believe will help the state government take action
against climate change, because we all know that little state
of Hawaii has a profound impact on the climate, and

(36:19):
if they reduce their emissions, they're going to save the
entire world, notwithstanding China and all the other countries that
don't pay. At witsworth of attention to this courted to
widely released press announcements on multiple outlets. Hawaii Governor Josh
Green signed the bill Tuesday, May twenty seventh, increasing the
tax on hotel rooms, vacation rentals, and cruise ships to
raise money to be used for issues such as eroding shorelines, wildfires,

(36:43):
and more. It's called a Green Fee Act ninety six
raise the state's current transient accommodation tax zero point seventy
five percent, making the taxes on nightly lodging rates eleven percent.
Travelers will have to pay a fee based on the
nightly rate of their travel accommodations. For example, if you're

(37:04):
staying at a hotel room that's three hundred bucks, you're
gonna have to pay a two dollars and twenty five
cent fee. Green said in a statement, once again, Hawaii
is at the forefront of protecting our natural resources, recognizing
their fundamental role in sustaining the ecological, cultural, and economic
health of Hawaii as an island chain. Hawaii cannot wait
for the next disaster to hit before taking action. We
must build resiliency now, and the Green fee will provide

(37:26):
the necessary financing to ensure resources are available for our
future idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. You know
what this is just using the so called a climate
change agenda for them to exact more money out of well,
in this particular case, tourists who visit there because they
apparently don't have the finances in line and their state

(37:47):
government budgets to deal with any other issues that they
might encounter. It's convenient that way, isn't it. Five to
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Dow futures dropping on more tariff issues, steel tariffs increases,
oil prices apparently have gone up, higher prices, inflation, jobless
claims are op GOP contracted. All this bad news. Should
this affect how we invest? The ultimate point of Brian
James trying to maximize the return on our investments, and

(39:17):
I have forgot some. Let's see here since I mentioned
the Hawaii implementing a climate change tax, as if Hawaii
could have any impact on global climate change. Again just
an excuse and a mechanism do exact more money out
of people, but also leading us to a potentially night
marriage situation because renewables aren't reliable, so all learned when

(39:42):
can't handle it? And I found this off at Peace
and I thought it quite remarkable. Puts a big, fat,
giant exclamation point of the point I just made. Gary
Abernethy is a commentator headline reliance on renewables makes widespread
blackout nightmare more likely, and it is an interesting exclamation point.

(40:05):
He puts on this using a real life illustration from
Spain and Portugal back in late April. Imagine taking the
subway to work, and then the train comes to a
sudden halt halfway between scheduled stops. You pull out your
smartphone to go online to see what the problem is,
but you have no reception, no cell signal, no Internet.

(40:26):
Hours later, rescue workers show up to extract you and
your fellow passengers from the stalled train. You make your
way to the street in hopes of taking a taxi
or an uber. Without your phone apps and with credit
card machines inoperable, you are forced to search for an ATM,
only to discover that those aren't working either. You soon
realize that everyone else is in the same predicament. Hospitals

(40:47):
operating on emergency backup systems, people trapped inside elevators. God,
that's a freaky reality, isn't it. Traffic snarl do to
inoperable stop lights, gas station pumps not functioning, airport terminals closed,
people in darkened homes desperately searching for candles and battery
operated radios to learn what's happening. On April twenty eighth,

(41:09):
the residents of Spain, Portugal and parts of France didn't
have to try to imagine this nightmare scenario. They found
themselves prisoners of it for hours when an unprecedented blackout
impacted at least fifty five million people after the Iberian
Peninsula electric goods system failed. The outage, described as one
of the worst ever in Europe, disrupted businesses, hospitals, transit systems,

(41:32):
Cello networks, another critical infrastructure, according to the well local
news there specifically in this case, France twenty four News.
Many news agencies, particularly in the United States, insisted for
days that it was too early to say what had
caused the massive blackout. Others, though acknowledged the obvious. The
Reuters news agency reported early on Redia, which owns Red Electrica,

(41:57):
had warned in February in its report that it faced
a risk of disconnections due to the high penetration of
renewables without the technical capacities necessary for an adequate response
in the face of disturbances. While many observers did their
best to point fingers at an alternative cause, others were

(42:18):
more straightforward and identifying the culprit. Raoul Bajo Buenstado, a
non resident energy scholar Rice University's Baker Institute for Public
Policy in Houston, got a Fulbright Scholarship graduate student grant
for young researchers from Spain's Ministry of Education PhD in
economics from Rice, primarily working on generation, investment incentives and
capacity markets in the electricity sector. Also conducts research on

(42:43):
gasoline retail markets. That's according to his biography, anyway. After
this guy studied the April twenty eighth blackout data, he
authored a commentary, including that mere minutes prior to the
grid collapse, renewable sources accounted for seventy eight percent of
the ELECTRICICYD generation in the Iberian Peninsula grid system, with

(43:05):
solar alone contributing to nearly sixty percent. By contrast, conventional
technologies like gas fired and nuclear power plants comprised only
fifteen percent of the total generation mix. This configuration is
not unusual in Spain or Portugal, where high shares of
renewable generation are common, particularly during the sunny and windy days.

(43:28):
He added, What sets April twenty eighth apart, however, is that,
according to Spain's National Electricity Grid Opera Radar red Electrica,
two consecutive generation loss events occurred in southwestern Spain, likely
involving large solar installations. He noted the risk of a
large scale blackout in electricity systems with high shares of

(43:50):
renewable energy is well established. However, the Iberian blackout of
April twenty eighth brings these long recognized vulnerabilities into sharp
focus that, unlike conventional power plants, solar and wind installations
depend on a stable grid to function correctly and can't
autonomously support grid stability during disturbances, which of course demonstrated

(44:14):
by that blackout. Before Donald Trump reversed the previous administration's
war on fossil fuels, Biden had committed the United States
through reaching one hundred percent clean electricity by twenty thirty five,
a goal that seriously imperiled our own infrastructure. Biden's corresponding
attacks on affordable and reliable energy sources like natural gas,

(44:37):
were unrealistic and unpopular with many consumers, who preferred gas
appliances and heating sources over those that would be allowable
under federal mandates. Likewise, Spain is currently aiming to phase
out fossil fuel and nuclear generation in favor of renewables,
with the goal of renewables comprising seventy four percent of
the total output by twenty thirty Under their plan, the

(45:01):
insistence of replacing affordable, dependable energy with more expensive and
unreliable alternatives is both illogical and impractical. Natural gas remains
the most cost effective, reliable, and increasingly clean fuel choice
in the world. It's telling that, despite the Spanish government's
anti fossil fuel rhetoric, the US recently became the main

(45:23):
supplier of liquefied gas to Spain. Much of Europe, mimicking
extremist climate change rhetoric publicly decry as America's continued production
and use of the traditional energy while simultaneously gobbling it up.
As long as it's the point I've made that before,

(45:44):
as long as they're not the ones pulling it out
of the ground, they'll go ahead and use it. It's
like they think that somehow virtue signaling that they're not
getting their own gas out of their own region and
using it for their own purposes. Now, what is buy
from the United States and claim that we have clean
hands anyway? Author questions will the disaster of April twenty

(46:05):
eighth make European leaders think twice about abandoning their most
reliable energy sources. Hardly following the devastating blackout, Spanish Prime
Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government would not quote deviate
a single millimeter close quote from its plans of transition
to so called renewables. That's unfortunate. In the meantime, it

(46:26):
is worth noting that one of the primary sources of
energy used to restore electricity to tens of millions in Spain,
Portugal and parts of France who lost power was the
one that officials claimed to abhor, natural gas. The point
being how did they get their lights back on, how
did the subways start running? How do people trapped in

(46:46):
elevators ultimately get out of the elevators when the power
came on. Is because they did have access to natural
gas power plants, just not in sufficient quantities. This is,
you know, and I don't have to go into the
details of it, but I've always suspected, you know, because
the Chinese don't give a damn about the environment, at
least in terms of belching out you know, coal fired

(47:08):
production of electricity. But they'll sell us all the green
stuff that we can gobble up. Based upon edicts and
mandates from the federal governmor refer you back to Joe
Biden's you know, limiting the type of stove you can
have in your house. Good ideas don't require force. But

(47:29):
there's a nonprofit funded by Chinese government that was written up.
Where did I find this? A Daily caller wrote it up.
Chinese American Planning Council, and they advocate for this green crap,
and specifically New York's super Fun Climates, super Fun requiring
energy companies, the energy producers of the world, the gas

(47:51):
and the oil companies, to cough up seventy five billion
dollars to fund YEP green initiatives. And all this money
flowed into this from various Chinese Communist Party affiliated entities.
They're pushing for the money. That money will go for
more green projects, it will go to creating a situation
like they experienced that I just mentioned from in Spain,

(48:14):
in France and Portugal, and they tell you this bill
of goods, like well, this isn't going to cost the consumer,
this is going to cost the energy companies. They're going
to want to pay the billions of dollars into this
program so we can get green stuff. But don't you

(48:35):
think that that's a cost that would be passed on
to those of us And the vast majority of us
are still use gasoline and natural gas, etc. Of course
it will be. So I just keep viewing this as
there's this nefarious component behind it. Chinese Communist Party dominates
the Internet, They're on TikTok, they're on Facebook, They're everywhere,

(48:55):
and they can propel and perpetuate this nonsensical thing that
carbon diete side is bad for us, it's bad for
the globe when it happens to be plant food and
then we bend over backwards to avoid producing carbon dioxide
in our energy production and everything else, taking away our
fertilizers for food, all the things that help us live efficient,
comfortable and cozy lives and also create more instability in

(49:19):
our grid when we pursue them. And we recently find
out that Chinese Communist Party has installed remote listening and
connection devices operated through the grid the solar panels themselves
that we buy from them. Flip a switch and they're off.
You don't have to wait for some nightmares situation like

(49:41):
happen in Portugal and Spain where the grid got overwhelmed
and two separate events happened at the same time. And
have they gotten to the bottom of those two separate events?
Could it possibly be since we know now the Chinese
Communist Party has a way of communicating and connecting with
and otherwise disturbing the solar panels that maybe, just maybe

(50:01):
that they're behind that. It's certainly a possibility, given that
that technology exists. I've always said it, now say it again.
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Scott was listening talking about as Hawaiian climate taxes they're implementing.
Excellent points, guy, He said, maybe those taxes will enable

(51:49):
Hawaii to install some scrubbers on that volcano they have there. Yeah,
install a carbon capture system on a volcano. Remind me
of the comment that many people, the scientists are I've
died after the California wildfires that they endure. This is
prior to the Los Angeles wirefire. But same kind of
thing that the amount of carbon and pollutants belched out

(52:09):
by those fires negated all of the carbon capture efforts
that we had engaged in to date. Mother nature plays
an interesting role in that, doesn't she anyway? Speaking to revolt,
this is sort of a tied end to it. If
you speak up loudly and tell you're elected officials you're
not going to have it, sometimes they'll actually listen to you.

(52:30):
France wanted sixty six percent new car sales to be
electric by twenty thirty, and earlier this year they expanded
their low emission zone scheme to restrict older gas power
vehicles from driving in any city with more than one
hundred and fifty thousand residents, with violators facing hefty fines.
So you can't drive your old car in the city. Period.

(52:55):
Editorial board of the Journal q the public backlash. Not
everyone in France can afford a shiny new low emission car,
and most still have to get around town. National Assembly
got the message and last Wednesday voted ninety eight to
fifty one to scrap the low emission zones. A victory
for the regular guy and for common sense, not the

(53:19):
only thing that they're trying to do in France, driving
restrictions among the many coercive components of France's brought a
climate agenda. Tell me if these don't sound familiar. They
want the French to carpool more, take fewer trips abroad,
eat more vegetables and less meat, use less air conditioning
in the summer. And they conclude with expect more political

(53:41):
reversals as the public discovers the real life consequences of
their leader's climate control ambitions. Yes. Amen, you fight back
hard enough against this nonsense, you may get your elected
officials concerned about their future enough that they turn their
back on it. Plus it is nonsense. Feel free to call.

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I'll just wait until he puts them on hold, since
I please say they're investigating five overnight shootings. Jennifer Edwards

(55:48):
Baker of The Fox nineteen reporting victim being treated for
non life threatening injuries at UC Medical Center uh Avondale, Thursday,
eight forty six pm. Twenty five year old man shot
in the back eight hundred four Ka Hutchins over the Rhine.
Twelve twenty six a m Friday, forty year old man
shot in the left high sixteen hundred block a Walnut
over the West End. Thirty five year old man gun

(56:10):
shot wind was left knee, had to walk to Christ
Hospital twelve forty five am. Police determined he was shot
in the fourteen hundred block of Lynn Street. Taken to
UC Hospital after that. Winton Hills twenty eight year old
man shot in the upper Torso, forty eight hundred block
of Winnest Avenue about one am. Mount Airy, thirty four
year old man shot in his right leg in the

(56:32):
fifty four hundred block of Bahama Terrace, won sixteen am.
They don't know if those shootings are connected. Joe Strekker
throwing the barber streisand flag on the reporting that shootings
have been down in the city of Cincinnati. Although what
is up a what is described as a concerning rise
and stolen firearms, particularly from vehicles. Between May and August

(56:54):
last year, stolen guns shot up fifty four percent, and
there's a five percent increase in car thefts by juveniles
compared to the prior year. You might want to consider
locking your firearm up. Let's see what Tom's got this morning. Tom,
thanks for calling the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 12 (57:12):
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
I think on this Western Hills Viaduct, well we get it,
get the thing built, and then put a toll charge
on that thing, and maybe like.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Don't you go.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
Out on the east coast and you cross over that
Bay bridge that's like seven bucks or something across that.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Well, how about the city of Cincinnati more responsibly direct
spending so that we don't have to tax the people
that are going over to the West side. I mean,
I don't have to pay don't have to pay any
money to get up into Hyde Park or into downtown
Cincinnati or any the other areas I go.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
Paint in the streets with murals.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Oh there's an idea. Hey, every little bit counts, Tom,
every little bit counts. I wish they'd steer clear of
all these nonsensical Green New Deal projects too, that they
pursue with neckless abandon that comes at a significant cost.
All these non governmental organizations being funded with taxpayer dollars
and god knows what we get in return for that money.

(58:09):
But I'd rather be put to something like either the
Brent spent really the viaduct project or repairing the roads.
Clearly the roads need it. Let's see what New Hampshire
Gary's got. New Hampshire, Gary. Happy Monday to you, my friend.
Always good to hear from you.

Speaker 12 (58:26):
Happy Monday to you too, Brian. Hey, I got to
tell you, I'm really impressed with this Ukraine attack. I
think this is a game changer for throughout the history
of warfare, because everything in the military has always set
up dress, right dress. I was aviation and all our

(58:51):
aircraft were always part well spread apart. You know, these
new drones for you know whatever, they cost one hundred
bucks and I don't know, have you seen the video
footage of them. They're just like ducks in a row
with swarm technology on the thrones. Yeah, and they didn't

(59:12):
have a chance. No, they didn't have a chance.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Well, you know, you would reminded me of a little
bit Gary was Pearl Harbor. All our ships are all
wind up in a row. Convenient, I mean, and we
didn't have modern technology and the Japs didn't have modern
technology with bombs back then. You stay there. They all
were in concentration, and so a swarm of drones obviously
can go to a larger area of land and even

(59:36):
if you move them, you know, I guess somewhat more
significantly apart, it makes it easy to hit. And the
idea that they were able to sneak all these inexpensive
drones in and get them very close to the airfields
they attacked. I don't know how they operated that, but
that was amazing.

Speaker 12 (59:53):
Well, the thing that gets me, it's not just aircraft,
it's the barracks where we are, it's the fuel tanks,
it's everything, it's your civilian everything is now able to
do this. And I don't know, did you hear how
they got the little drones there with the little connexes

(01:00:14):
and they parked them right next to the airport. They've
been planning this for a year and a half now,
the Chinese, the giant, all these foreign people in our
country or even domestic people who hate our country. You know,
it doesn't take much for an attack like that to

(01:00:37):
the wide scale. While you're too busy over here putting
out the fires, and they're going to attack over here.
And you know, this changes the word in my mind,
this changes the world.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Drones period and the story of change the world. But
this is the greatest illustration to prove your point, and
there's no protecting yourself. I mean, doesn't have to fly
very far to hit its target. You're not going to
have time to operate one of these anti miss or
anti drone defense systems, it would seem, you know, fly

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at low altitude, hit it in mass quantities. Maybe you
lose a few of the drones on the way over
to the to the target of the attack, but most
of them get through apparently.

Speaker 12 (01:01:20):
I seem to remember a couple of years ago that
the first mass drone attack that I can remember was
a hooties. They threw some drones into an oil refinery
made out of cardboard and plywood at the Saudi Arabia,
and they did great damage to many of their refineries.

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And it's just like you can see this coming. I
can see this coming, yep, and it's like, what do
you do well?

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
You know, I do not know, and you know this
this this sort of your comments, along with prior comments
that I've made an observation which aren't necessarily astute or unique.
With the ten to twenty million illegal immigrants that came
across our country, many of them on the terror watch list.
Yet nonetheless we're allowed a mission to our country. They're
all out there, and they're all embedded somewhere in our society.

(01:02:14):
They haven't been deported yet. Now, if they have nefarious intents,
they get their hands on one of these inexpensive drones,
which you can buy on Amazon. I'm sure they figured
out how to rig them with an explosive. They can
keep those drones anywhere near any really critical target, like,
for example, our electrical grid, targets, maybe an oil refinery

(01:02:35):
or factory. Like you say, get close by, launch it
from a van, and next thing you know, we've got
a massive problem on our hands. I'm equally worried, my friend,
equally worried. You got to get I'll tell you what though.
What surprised me the most about this, This was four
thousand kilometers one of the airbase that got hit by
these drones, four thousand kilometers into Russia from at least

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Ukraine's border, and they hadn't been able to reach distances
like that with any of the technology they had, so
by getting them very close to the target, they were
assured of hitting the target. But isn't it amazing that
they were able to pull this off. You think the
Russians would be more aware of what's going on. But

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you know, if Russia can't catch this, and they're able
to put all these you know, these buildings that they had,
the roofs that popped off, and the drones were here
to be launched from them right there, really close to
these air bases and they didn't catch it. Going back
to my point, it very well could be going on
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Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Is just wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Apologies. If it is five one three, seven, four nine
fifty five hundred eight hundred two three talk and you know,
put as much confidence the weather forecasting as you like. Yeah,
but here's the fun figures on the bombers that were
blown up, the multiple aircraft that were blown up, and
the drones. The newspaper reported that those FPV drones that

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the Ukrainians were using, the ones that were moved close
to the targets, can be bought for just a few
hundred dollars each. The forty one heavy bombers that were
either damaged or destroyed went up to like seven billion dollars.
So there's your return on investment. And I guess you

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have to factor in considering the points that New Hampshire
Gary made and the follow up comments and the observations
about you know, these drones could literally be anywhere and
are literally anywhere. Whether they're ones that are capable of
doing damage and carrying explosives, I guess it depends on
the intent of the actor. But you know me, I'm
a huge fan of these modular nuclear reactors. Donald Trump

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is as well, In fact that he just made an announcement
the other day I think it was on Friday about
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putting more energy and effort into nuclear power. White House
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here by twenty thirty, while expanding domestic nuclear fuel supplies.
That's s according the executive or to resigned, so along
with accelerating the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews and getting rid
of some of the regulatory hurdles. Now as much as
I embrace that, think it's the answer to everyone's problems.
An abundant supply of electricity built on and produced by

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a very small footprint, easy to build compared to the
old ways. Do we worry about that? Do our construction
methods have to? Now? Consider that we have nefarious actors
literally everywhere in the world that could have a drone
with an explosive on it that could blow up a

(01:07:06):
nuclear act reactor. Is this something we're going to have
to factor into the design. That problem certainly didn't exist
that long ago. It's not something I think you had
to really care or concern yourself about. Your only concern
was maybe some foreign power China, Russia launching a missile
that somehow decided to target our nuclear power plant as
opposed to a city or a manufacturing facility, that kind

(01:07:28):
of thing. The nature of war has changed overnight. Am
Scary made a great point on that. So I really
worry about the future along those lines, because hell, if
you only need a few hundred dollars and somehow to
a rigged drone, anything that currently exists that hasn't been modified, fortified,

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It's by KRS talk station. Looking for to Christopher Smith
Minue at seven twenty smither vent Maybe he too will
talk about since anti budget don't know, we always find
out together at seven twenty the meantime, over the phones
to see what Mississippi James has got today. Happy Monday
to you, James. Always a pleasure hearing from you.

Speaker 7 (01:09:24):
Good morning, Come in peace, love everybody, and there's nothing
you can do about it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
I love that message, James. What's ay now?

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
I had I had the clear this is what Joe?
Was it okay for me to talk about the Nazis
salute supposedly coming from Cory Booker?

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Yeah, brought that up this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:09:45):
Yeah, yeah, I went back on went and looked at
it and they showed the two compared compared. But like
we say, hey, what's the content that was with it?

Speaker 6 (01:09:56):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Yeah, whether it's salute or not, I just people get
bent out of James. I'll stay on the record. I
don't believe that it was a Nazi salute. Almost like
I said Elon Musk, you know, when you're in front
of a crowd and you're all ginned up and everybody's
roaring and cheering and responding to what you're saying, you're
in a political rally, your hands are going to go
all over the place. I've been there in front of

(01:10:17):
an audience and done crazy things, and I'm sure at
some point someone could have taken a picture where my
hand was outstretched like that as I was waving to
the room, for example, Was I saluting in a Nazi fashion?
Did I intend anything political by it? No, just waving.
So I don't think Corey Booker's a Nazi, and I
don't think he was doing a Nazi salute. He was
just the fun and games that's going on over Corey's

(01:10:39):
in the fact that they had a photo cap of
him looking like he's doing a Nazi salute. It's just
an illustration of comparison of the mainstream media's treatment of
Elon Musk versus Corey Booker, and they're all either defending
him or they're not even reporting on it, So it
stands out just as one of those illustrations of disparate treatment.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
I agree, I agree, all right, guy, I have a
good day.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
I just want to see what was it okay to
speak absolutely James. You know, the only thing you can't
speak about is when you're using FCC non compliant language.
And I've never heard you even utter an FCC non
compliant word, even when we're a listener lunch. So I
don't expect that from you. Am I going to see
it lunch on Wednesday, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Yeah, we're looking to make it cool.

Speaker 7 (01:11:22):
Oh I did, I did utter one word when I
was talking about that cow. Oh yeah you have.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
I know, I know, and I could that was kind
of right on the margins. But other than that, no problem.
I'm not holding against you, James mad Tree Brewery. I'll
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(01:11:56):
they don't have anything. I guess, I say as an
initial comment before I mentioned what Tim Walltz is saying
the other day, and may you may have heard it.
What are the Democrats going to do in Trump's gone?
They they haven't come up with a platform to run

(01:12:16):
on their their business, just scrambling to find an issue
that resonates with America. Their position on you know, men
playing in women's sports and gender transition surgeries and all
the other batcrap and saying stuff open borders. I mean,
we could go on and on and on all the
reasons Donald Trump got elected. They haven't given up on

(01:12:40):
those issues. They're still advocating for them, not as loudly
because they know they're not winning solutions, but they haven't
rejected them. They haven't come out with a new platform
saying no, no, no, we were wrong about that. And
we think, you know whatever, they're just running around about
evil Orange man and Governor Tim Waltz is still at it.

(01:13:01):
Maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner,
he said, speaking in a rally Columbia, South Carolina. Maybe
it's time for us to be a little meaner. We
need to be a bit more fierce because we have
to ferociously push back on this without elaborating necessarily what

(01:13:27):
this is. And he was a teacher, so that's the
context of the following statement. The thing that bothers a
teacher more than anything is to watch a bully. And
when it's a child, you talk to them and you
tell them why bullying is wrong. But when it's adult,
like Donald Trump, you bully the S word out of
him back. This is a cruel man. Donald Trump is

(01:13:52):
the existential threat we knew we knew was coming. It's
going to be a challenging few years here. We've got
the guts and we need to have to push back
on the bullies and the greed. Not a whole lot
of substance built into that. But considering Donald Trump was
well attempted assassinations at him twice, the victim of all

(01:14:15):
of the crap that they threw out him during his
first administration, unrelenting use of the government resources to go
after a politician that they disfavored because I guess, you know,
draining the swamp kind of attitude. But where's your policy,
mister Waltz. What are you going to use to push

(01:14:38):
back on Trump other than bullying him? Silence on that
one's deafening. But this world which becomes angry or and
angry every single day, and people resorting to violence more
and more often these days, this is not helpful in
any way, shape or form. I legitimately truly believe that

(01:14:59):
the folks liked Waltz and others within the Democratic Party
want harm, and I mean significant harm to befall the
President of the United States of America. And that is
not something I have ever ever hoped for in any administration.
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eight oh five with a big list of gloom and doom. Jeez, Brian,
anything good going on out in the world anyway? With
all the bad news? How should this affect how we invest?
Ultimately getting some investment advice from the financial planner himself.
Let's see here, I was talking about the violence and

(01:16:32):
air in the system, and it keeps me getting more
and more violent. You got Walt urging democrats, the bully,
the S word out of Trump. You know, feeding adding
fuel to the fire, although not coming up with any
you know, articulable reason why people should be in favor
of democrats. We had this most recent attack by the
Egyptian national came into our country a couple of years ago,

(01:16:54):
overstaying his visa and attacking proan. This Run for Their
Lives grassroots groups organizes run and walk events calling for
the release of Israeli hostages held since October seventh by Hamas.
That's all they do. They're advocating to free hostages, and

(01:17:17):
what's wrong with that? They do it in a peaceful
way anyway. Mohammed Sabre Solomon forty five, the guy that
overstated his visa, attacked people with a flamethrower and molotov cocktails.
Injured quite a few folks, one of them is in
I believe, reporting critical condition. Victims range in the age
from between fifty two and eighty eight and moving over.

(01:17:46):
Of course, always controversial Israel Palestine. Obviously, we've heard a
lot about Harvard not protecting their Israeli students, or rather
they're Jewish students, and sort of coddling the Palestinian testers
who are entitled to protests, but not engage in taking
over campus facilities, otherwise interfering with others who are working

(01:18:07):
on getting the value of their hourly credits, learning something,
getting an education, and violence in connection with the trans
athletes men competing against women. Ady Hernandez, described as the
transgender shooting student athlete for Jurupa Valley High School in California,

(01:18:32):
got first place in the high jump over the weekend
and triple jump at the state championships on Saturday at
Veterans Memorial Statement or Stadium. Also finished second place in
the high jump at a place called Woodrow Wilson High Schools.
Lauren Webster was the only female to finish ahead of
the transgender Hernandez in any competition over the weekend. Hernandez

(01:18:59):
he I Guess, previously took first place in all three
events at the preliminary round on Friday. Female competitors who
finished behind Hernandez in the weekend's events get a load
of this. We're all bumped up one spot and receive
the medal they would have earned had the transathlete not competed.
This is the solution from the California Interscholastic Federation. So

(01:19:23):
Donald Trump sent a warning to California saying, hey, look,
you're gonna lose your funding if you allow men to
compete against women. This is an ongoing battle, you know
about that Title nine and whether or not it protects
men to and allows them to play against women. So
they made a series of rule changes recently the California
Interscholastic Federation to ensure that any females who be finished

(01:19:47):
behind a biological male will be appropriately rewarded a medal
based upon where they placed among just the female competitors.
Does that make any sense? So the transgender female, the
guy can go around saying I got a first place medal,

(01:20:08):
and then the person he beat out right behind him,
the female gets a first place medal as well, and
goes and I said, well I actually won. Who gets
more credibility with their first place metal? I mean it
just I mean, why go down this road? Fox News

(01:20:30):
reporting Conflicting protests plagued these championships, starting on Friday, with
pro elg this is where your violence comes in. Pro
LGBTQ protesters and pro female protesters wielding signs, flags, clothing
expressing their respective messaging. The conflict between the protesters at
one point became violent of course it did. Who became violent?

(01:20:58):
If you haven't seen the reporting on this, who do
you think became violent? The pro women's side of the
argument of the pro LGBTQ side well. In this particular case,
the LGBTQ protesters struck a local conservative actis named Josh
Fulfer with a flagpole. Footage obtained by Fox News shows

(01:21:18):
the LGBTQ protester Ethan Kroll attacked Fulfer through a car
window and ultimately got arrested. Kroll mail arrested for assault
with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, obstructing public
officer in vandalism. Police Chief there Chris Hutchison, speaking with
Fox News said no other criminal acts occurred at the

(01:21:41):
track meet Friday. Our stance is always to allow people
to exercise their constitutional right to free speech and protest.
They have the right to do it in a matter
that isn't enticing, inciting violence, or causing other problems. We
don't have room for violence or property damage or anything
like that. No kidding, however, California Family Council Outreach Director

(01:22:03):
Sophia Lori, this is the following day taken out a
Veterans Memorial Stadium Stadium by these CIF officials, the California
Interscholastic Federation, the ones that made the rule change because
she was passing out save girls Sports wristband. HM, that's speech.

(01:22:27):
That's not violent. That's not hitting someone with a flagpole,
is it here? Would you like a risk band?

Speaker 11 (01:22:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
Thank you, I wouldn't. Oh, thank you very much. I
support women's sports. So it just depends on who's speaking.
I guess whether they actually honor free speech rights or not.
She also pointed out that she passed out these messages
and these wristbands at prior events didn't have any issues,

(01:22:55):
so we handed out half page flyers at the prelim event.
I'm not told anything that we couldn't do that she
was thrown out of the venue. Laurie and other conservatives
there that unlike previous events, a man on a megaphone
at this event where she was thrown out repeatedly ordered

(01:23:16):
spectators not to make disparaging comments about any competitors, officials,
or other spectators on Saturday. So you can't even speak.
In the country with free speech, you can't speak. I
suppose it just depends on whose ox is getting gord.
But going back to the rule, change. I mean, can
can someone explain that to me? Why that is you

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get the first place metal even though you came in second.
Under their rules and in their hearts and minds, this
person that got the first is a girl. This is
what they firmly believe they should be treated like a girl.
They are considered a girl. They're in all ways shapes
and forms of a girl because they say they are.
Er Go, Why if that's your belief system, and that's

(01:24:01):
what the law of the state of California currently holds,
why would you give the second place metal a recipient
a first place medal? You're obviously recognizing the biological distinction,
defeating the whole notion that what that person says they
are by way of sexual identification is actually truth, which

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look forward to this time of morning on a Monday.
You have to hear from the poor Vice Mayor of
the City of Cincinnati for this smither event. Welcome by
Christopher SMITHAM and my friend. Pleasure to have you on
the program.

Speaker 6 (01:26:22):
Hey brother, thanks for having me on. I tell you
I saw yesterday this Egyptian person who's in our country illegally,
you know, setting people on fire. Eight people on fire
who are Americans. They're there peacefully exercising their First Amendment

(01:26:46):
right to say I want the hostages released from Hamas. Yeah,
and they're firebombed by somebody who is in our country illegally.
One of the people eighty eight years old, which is
my mother's age, and setting her on fire where she's
laying on the ground burning to death. I'm trying to

(01:27:08):
figure out how to make kids and tales of the
Democratic Party that just won't stand with this administration on
one issue. If you've committed a crime, you've killed somebody,
you've raped them, you've robbed somebody, you say, whatever the

(01:27:29):
crime is, and you're in the country illegally, we can
deport you. I don't understand Brian Thomas what they're fighting.
They're not talking about dreamers. I'm not on board with that.
I mean, the reality of it is, if you come
to this country illegally, you've jumped the fence, you've jumped
the process. Because there's so many people that are listening

(01:27:51):
to this radio show who came here legally and they're
not tolerating somebody here setting eight people on fire.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
Well, let's cut to the chase. No one should tolerate
anyone sending paper eight people on fire. For any political
cause or anything else. For that reason, this is what
terrorists do. That's why they're calling it a terror attack.
Terror is the actions of the week. Those with few
numbers try to commit horrific, horrific acts in the name
of trying to make themselves look more powerful than they

(01:28:22):
are and an effort to prevent people from peaceably exercising
a message that runs contrary to what these terrorists want.
So people are then afraid. If you're a Jewish person,
you were planning on tending a run for their lives
rally in support of getting the terrorists or getting the
hostages out of the hands of Hamas. Now you're thinking
to yourself, geez am, I going to be the victim

(01:28:43):
of a firebomb attack by one of these looney tunes.
Maybe I shouldn't show up at the event.

Speaker 6 (01:28:50):
And this is what ties into what we're seeing at
these universities, YEP, where you have people there that are
saying free Palestine, Free Palestine. They're calling for the end
of the Jewish state, and they're in the country as
a guest. They're here as our guests. They're not here,

(01:29:10):
they're not Americans. And I just can't imagine going to
somebody else's country and then turning around and fire bombing
their citizen and thinking I'm going to get out of
their lives. Meaning why don't we set him on fire today?
If that was the reason we don't is we're a

(01:29:31):
civilized country. We have rules, we have laws, we follow them.
But the reality of it is what makes sense to
me this morning. If that was my mother, who I
have a mother that age, I would want to set
this person on fire today. You've come into our country
illegally and then set my mother on fire and walked away.

(01:29:54):
And you know as a concealed carry that if I
was in that situation, I the shot that guy. There's
no way you're standing there with I don't even understand
how he's getting away with it with his shirt off,
walking around with the canister like he's about to fire
bomb somebody else and nobody shoots him.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Yeah, you know, that's a good point, Christopher, because if
someone else is harming someone violently or trying to kill them,
you have the right to defend the other people with
your firearm. You can use deadly force under those circumstances.
The best that I understanding under the law problem is
it's California. How many people out there actually had a
gun on them? Colorado, Colorado, Colorado.

Speaker 6 (01:30:34):
Let me let me tell you to the brother, you're
my friend. If somebody has set me on fire and
they're walking around with their shirt off and you have
your firearm and you don't take them out, I'm gonna
be disappointed. Brian Top, I'm not worried about what the
law is. Let's shoot to that Christian blater. He's burning
up everybody around them. I mean, that's what's so crazy
about it. And they continue meaning every time the president

(01:30:57):
says I'm going to take a criminal who has rape
somebody's child, who's murdered somebody who's robbed them, you have
Democrats and people who are following this might not know
that this is happening, traveling to other countries saying, hey man,
I want this MS thirteen gang member back into the
United States of America. All of these things are connected,

(01:31:17):
they're not disconnected. What's happening at Harvard is this is
connected to this in Columbia, what's happening at Northwestern, what's
happening at MIT? That big speech that was given a
last week by the MIT at the commencement speech, what
the President said at the Harvard graduation. All of these
things are stoking what we're seeing happening around the country,

(01:31:38):
and they are responsible. Your language at times are weapons,
and they're giving people the power to say it's okay
to go out and set eight people on fire, who
are Americans who are assembled their First Amendment. Right. They're
saying Harmas has these hostages and I want them back.

(01:31:58):
And by the way, as I can clude, because I
know you're about to go to break, let me say
that Israel isn't attacking quote the Palestinian people. They're attacking Hamas,
which is a terrorist organization. This notion that Hamas isn't
using the Palestinian people as shields, which is what they're doing.
They're using their people and putting their missiles or their

(01:32:21):
tanks or whatever. They're doing their rockets in hospitals, in schools,
on playgrounds, around the general population. This is their goal
as a terrorist organization. So no one is out here
trying to kill Palestinian people. We love the Palestinian people, right,
we support the Palestinian people. We're talking about Harmas. And

(01:32:41):
so when you get on these college campuses and you're
saying I support Harmas and you're supporting a terrorist organization.
You should be deported to your country.

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
October seventh, that was Hamas and think of how horrific
that day was for the Jewish people. If you have
Karosite talk station Bright Timos with Christopher Smithman, smither Ben Christopher,
have at it.

Speaker 6 (01:33:04):
Hey, brother, look a sensitive subject matter and I have
not spoken about PG Sittenfield since he was arrested, So
this is probably my first commentary publicly about PG Sittenfield
since his arrest. I was shocked by the pardon. Like
many people in Cincinnati. You know, I served with PG Sittenfield,

(01:33:29):
So you're listening audience should know that. You know, as
an elected official, as a member of council, the vice
mayor of the City of Cincinnati, I served with him,
so I have a good understanding of how he operated,
what he said as a member of council, how he
conducted himself. And he was a person first of all,
that I never wanted to associate with. Let me just

(01:33:51):
be clear about it. And it was just his aggressiveness,
his his way of talking about mansplaining, or the way
he treated Children's hospital, calling them racist because they were
expanding their four hundred million dollar facility, and that was
that was for his political, uh political expedient in his mind,

(01:34:13):
but for the for the real heart reason was the
text messages from the Gang of five related to my
dying right. And so I'm not this, I'm not this
neutral person about him. I don't wish bad upon anybody,
including him because because that's that's against where I am, Morley.
But let me address just one or two things about this.

(01:34:35):
It's really clear clear as it will. So first of all,
I want to thank the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They're
right there by your by the radio station. They did
a great job. They went out and did their jobs,
and they rooted out corruption at city Hall first. So
those FBI agents, I'm sure feel a certain way this

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morning seeing that he was exonerated or pardoned by the
present in the United States of America. But having said that,
they caught him dead right, meaning he was not found
guilty on a variety of charges Brian Thomas. But the
one he was found guilty guilty on is when he
was in that hotel room and he literally said, not verbatim,

(01:35:18):
because I don't have the text in front of me,
I am taking this money from you, and I will
deliver votes. I will deliver not even my vote, other
votes on whatever your issue was. Whatever those developers were
saying that they were doing. That is illegal, and that
is what he was found guilty on. So the reality

(01:35:39):
of it is is it's not like PG. Sitting Field
is innocent. If we allowed every elected official out here
to exchange money for votes, we'd have a major problem. Right.
People say that corruption is too high now in local government.
I'm hoping that something like this doesn't embolden people to
do things to get away with them. But the reality

(01:36:00):
of it was, I'm not questioning the president and his
desire to pardon him. I know that PG. Sittenfeld hired
one of Trump's lawyers. I found that very interesting, and
you have right. And at the same time, he's on
the floor of Council when I'm serving with him, dogging
out President Trump in his four year first four year term,

(01:36:21):
so he's verbally trashing him, using him as a rod
going after Amy Murray, who at that time left City
Council and then started working for President Trump, meaning working
for the administration. But he made her a pariah for
doing that. Now here where he's his life is on
the line. He pursues and successfully gets a pardon by

(01:36:43):
hiring one of Trump's lawyers, and ultimately successfully lobby and
getting a pardon from the White House from President Trump.
As a Democrat, the hypocrisy of it all politically catches
my eye in a very, very big way. So at
the end of the day, I believe that you sit
and feel will run for office again. I don't know
when he'll run, where he'll want, what he'll run for,

(01:37:05):
but I believe he will. He's gotten a full parton
which gives him a full green light to put his
name on the ballot and run for office. But I
would tell you that when he runs, particularly in a
head to hit race, I'm not talking about a field
race like city council a head to hit race, those
audio tapes of him discussing taking money directly for votes

(01:37:26):
will be on your TV screen every single day, and
I think it's going to be very difficult for him
to get reelected under that kind of fire. And the
FBI right now, I just want to salute them for
doing a very good job of investigating City Hall and
rooting out corruption.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
All right. I don't know if he's going to run
for anything else. I think he probably wants to keep
his head down, wants to find a job someplace in
the one of his well connected private sector friends businesses,
and avoid exactly what you're talking about, because you're right
in a head to head race. He was convicted. Christopher convicted.
Just because he got a pardon later doesn't negate the

(01:38:03):
reality that he was convicted by a jury of his peers.
We'll continue with Christopher seton and.

Speaker 6 (01:38:08):
Let me and when we come back, I just want
to lift up or talk about Jeffrey Pastor and Tamya Dennard.
These are two African Americans that I served with who
were charged with similar charges and aren't parton went to
jail and served their sentence. That's also incredibly interesting from
the Democratic Party's position, very interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Maybe maybe it's because they didn't hire Jones. Day seven,
if if I have kr CD talk Station Money, Money's
Brian Chains up on the top of the r NWS speaking
of financial planners. Christopher Smith have been financial planning edition
being the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
You were going to talk about jeff Pastor and Tamia Denard.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
Christopher, Yeah, I guess we have two African Americans, one Republican,
which is Jeffrey Pastor or a Democrat to myidnar both
of them were my colleagues.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
Like PG.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
Sittinfill. They both were arrested and convicted. Tomisnard just you know,
said I'm guilty, went to jail, served her time, came
back out, has moved on with her life. But it's
just so intriguing for me because of the nuances of
how the Democratic Party with PG. Sittenville, because he was

(01:39:21):
their poster child, he was their guy, he was the
guy that was going to be the mayor, was going
to be the governor. He's out saying using language like
I'm man spleening you, or you're a racist like he
did Children's Hospital for the expansion, but he would do
that to a lot of different people. My point is
that he used all of his privilege to get off

(01:39:41):
the hook using loose language. But Jeffrey Pastor and Tamaya,
who do not have the connections, they do not have
the trust fun they don't have Trump's warrior on retainer
to lobby the White House. They're going to serve their
complete time and most likely remain a convicted felon and
there is just something that rubs me wrong about it.

(01:40:02):
And to listen to the mainstream media try to parse
that Jeffrey Pastor and Tamaya are some way different than
what PG. Sittenfeld did is absolutely insane to me. Meaning
we have three people and the only difference I see
is a white guy who's privileged with money, who's a Democrat,
who sits back and uses African Americans, and when it

(01:40:24):
was for his benefit, he got off the hook and
left Jeffrey Pastor and Tomya Donnard to their own demand.
And African Americans should be looking at this case through
that lens. It is not Republicans who did it. Is
this Democrat who went to the Republican meaning the person
that they say is their greatest pariah, which is President

(01:40:45):
Donald Trump. He went there and kissed his ring to
get his butt off the hook, leaving Tamaya Donard and
leaving Jeffrey Pastor in prison with a felony where they
can't ever run for office ever again. And I want
to make sure that everybody understands it. So when Democrats
are coming to you saying, oh, I'm just gonna look
past it, and I'm going to vote for him anyway.

(01:41:07):
This is why so many African Americans are leaving the
Democratic Party because they're saying the Democratic Party left me,
like they're not saying I left the Democratic Party, saying
the Democratic Party left me. And why so many African
American men went out and voted for Donald Trump in
the last election because they see crap like this. You
see a privileged white guy with millions of dollars who

(01:41:31):
hires a lawyer from Trump's air from his from his
arena lobby. Successfully, the White House gets off and leaves
the two African Americans out there on their own. There's
nothing he's saying about Somaya and nothing he's saying about
Jeffrey Pass I'm talking about the PG sittingfield case. They
just left them out there, Brian Thomas. And this is

(01:41:53):
the kind of stuff as an African American man, right
who runs as an independent, that really burns me because
so many African America's outre said I'm voting Democrat, I'm
just voting for them, I'm just voting blindly. It doesn't matter,
And I go, wow, look at what this guy just
successfully did. He got off the hook and left his
own colleagues who are both African American who, by the way,
Tamia Dennard was his campaign manager, was his chief of staff,

(01:42:18):
worked very closely with PG SimPEL. This is about somebody
that he doesn't know. I want to understand why he
didn't lobby to get them off the hook first. It's
because he focused on himself. That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Doesn't it illustrate just the absurdity of the pardon process.
I mean, if you can buy a pardon, which is
kind of what you're suggesting. And I know Steve Gooden
was on the program last week talking exactly about this,
that he hired jones Day, that ec law firm, very
very well connected. That's how you get the president's ear.
I don't think Donald Trump knew who PG Sittenfeld was

(01:42:52):
before jones Day reached out to the administration and started
pressing him for a pardon. You know what I mean.
It's just like, wait a second, money and the Democrats
are running around screaming about oligarchs. Well, you know, PG
may not be an oligarch, but he's sure one well
connected presumably very wealthy guy uh or at least has
access to money. Because jones Day doesn't call it come

(01:43:15):
at an inexpensive hourly rate. Man, you're talking four figures
an hour at a at a DC law firm like
that of that caliber.

Speaker 6 (01:43:24):
So uh, And I'm just saying own it. I'm not
even I want people to be successful, right, I'm not
and I'm not and not and I'm not suggesting that
you are, Brian Thomas. I'm saying PG. Sittenfield didn't own it.
He attempted to send the message to the African American
community with these kind of worn shoes is kind of

(01:43:45):
the way. He kind of really didn't put on nice
suits and draw this American made kind of escort car
that he wasn't this multi multi multi millionaire well connected,
that he would hire somebody from the Trump team in
order to lobby for him successfully to get off the hook.
And I'm saying they're not going to do that for

(01:44:05):
Tomy Dinar. They're not going to do that for Jeffrey Pastor.
And all I'm suggesting is to the Democratic Party, I
see you, I know what you do, I know how
you roll. And guess what, Jeffrey Passer, who's a Republican
and to my dinar, will most likely be listed as
felon for the rest of their life, while PG sitt
and Field goes free. Well, that is absolutely insane to me.

Speaker 3 (01:44:30):
I still think you can call theocracy of it, and
I still think you can call pgs sit and Felt
a felon, a felon who was pardoned. It didn't he's
his conviction hasn't been expunged. I don't believe you know,
when you expunge something, it's removed. It never existed, It
isn't there. But a pardon is you were convicted, you
are in prison, or you are serving your time. I

(01:44:51):
am going to, you know, pardon you. We're going to
pretend like it didn't happen. But it did. That's why
you pointed out during any campaign, ads are going to
be hearing the language of PG Sittenfeld asking for money
in return for political favors. You can't unwring that bell.

Speaker 6 (01:45:06):
But my brother, I agree with you about that. But
when PG Sittenfeld is applying for jobs, right, let's say
he decides to move to Florida and reset, it's like
he doesn't have to disclose that somebody might research it
and find it. But everywhere Jeffrey Passer goes everywhere to
my dinar, goes when they're applying for jobs, they're gonna
have to disclose it. And I'm saying to you, this

(01:45:29):
is why when I was on council, right, we had
ten thousand people the Democrats put forth when I was
a member of Council this draconian law around low amounts
of marijuana. That had ten thousand people with these low
amount convictions of marijuana. I'm talking about small amounts. I'm
not talking about they had marijuana in a gun, they

(01:45:50):
had marijuana and rob somebody. These were people that just
had very low amounts of marijuana. Ten thousand of them
who couldn't get a job at Subway, couldn't go get
a job at FedEx, can't get a job at Amazon
because they have these low level convictions. Why in the
world does PG sitting fell get off with a pardon

(01:46:10):
and those low convictions those people that are out there
every day working trying to get a job, those convictions
continue to stay and they have to continue to disclose
it to those employers. I'm saying, that's the hypocrisy for me,
Brian comes it is and why I'm highlighting it. I'm
highlighting it to your listening audience. This is the stuff
where I see Democrats doing it and they're so quiet

(01:46:32):
about it. It's not what politicians say, it's what they
don't say.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
Well, and going back to whether or not PG actually
runs for another office or pursue something in the private sector,
we go back to the fact that he is very,
very well connected. His family is a family of very
well comfortable means, from what I know about them or
what I heard about them, and I suspect that through
his connections, he will land a very comfortable job in

(01:46:58):
a firm or an org organization that doesn't care a
wit that he was convicted. Our campaign brothers, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:47:05):
I totally agree with you.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Brother.

Speaker 6 (01:47:08):
Now, look, I know you're gonna cut me off, and
I just want to say one thing before we go.
The weather is changing, Brian Thomas. It's going to be
a hot summer. We already had a police involved shooting
between an officer and a young African American who stole
a car, had a gun and was shot. Look, we've
got to lift up our law enforcement all across the country,

(01:47:32):
right because we understand that these kids now are out
of school right many of them are unsupervised, and the
reality of it is when they're engaging our officers. Our
officers are not dads, they're not uncles, right, They're not
somebody's aunt. They're out there trying to do their job.

(01:47:54):
It's incredibly dangerous. We should be enforcing the curfew. We
should be holding these young people and their parents accountable
this summer, right, which I support. We need a mayor
with a voice that will lend his voice to support
our law enforcement as they hold these young people accountable.

(01:48:14):
As this weather starts to warm up, so as we
go through Juneteenth, or we go through the Black Family Reunion,
or we go through the July fourth weekend, I'm letting
everybody know, listen, there's going to be a hot summer.
We're going to have problems out here. And I don't
want the Monday morning quarterbacking. When you've got a young person,

(01:48:35):
whether they're right or black or Latino, with a gun
pointing at one of our Cincinnati police officers are law
enforcement person anywhere in the country, expect that officer to
return fire. That's what they're trained to do. They get
to go home to their families. Brian Thomas and I
just want to highlight that and when we come back
next week. I'm going to talk about this Dawn school

(01:48:57):
that closed down, a charter school run by African Americans.
You probably probably hasn't even hit your radar, but it's
something that's worthy of discussion because so many young people
were impacted by it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:12):
Always loved talking.

Speaker 6 (01:49:13):
Allowing me to have my brother.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
I appreciate it. I love your passion.

Speaker 13 (01:49:16):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
We'll talk again next Monday. Have a great week with product.

Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
Take care.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
What thing makes you say?

Speaker 12 (01:49:21):
What social Security accounts belonging to people listed over one
hundred and twenty years old.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
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Speaker 10 (01:50:00):
Good morning, Miss Thomas hope you had a good weekend
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Wonderful weekends My wife's birthday celebrated that, and also got
to spend time with my daughter and her fiance out
at the farm at a comfortable, meditative day watching the
chickens roam around the backyard.

Speaker 10 (01:50:15):
That sounds absolutely heavenless.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
It was great. Their place is so cute and they've
done so much with it. I brought I brought up
this morning I started the show off. I'm so proud
of them and what they've been able to accomplish at
that place. They work, They work hard on making that
place just right. But it's so quiet. And I also
got to bring home a dozen eggs at no cost
to me because they've got chickens that are putting out

(01:50:37):
well quote unquote free AIGs.

Speaker 8 (01:50:39):
I know, and they could be gouging you for inflationary
prices here.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
Too, they could.

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
Eggs is kind of on the short list because we're
all still kind of really with the price of eggs.
But let's start with Dow futures dropping on more tariff issues.
I'm looking at the Wall Street journalists right now. Dowdown's
futures down point twenty six SMP down point thirty nine
and NASDAC down point five to five, so down but
not multiple points down. So it might be a bad day,

(01:51:07):
but it's not going to be a horrific bloodbath. He
kind of day, at least as of right now.

Speaker 8 (01:51:11):
Yeah, I mean that the headlines we have headlines every
single day most days nowadays, are boring, and this I
don't know if I don't know what qualifies as boring.
We've elevated the word boring. This is a quiet day
amid a hurricane, if that makes any sense. So, but anyway,
where the market reaction is coming from. President Trump floated
an idea of a sixty percent teariff on all Chinese
imports and deeming that a necessary step to protect American

(01:51:34):
industry quote unquote. So this kind of revives trade war
anxieties that's reminiscent of his first term despite all this
global economic interdependence, and so that is driving futures down
right now.

Speaker 10 (01:51:46):
We'll see if we stick.

Speaker 3 (01:51:47):
To it right well, and we all know how Trump is,
you know, quote unquote art of the deal or whatever.
They're sitting down with the Chinese trying to hammer out
some sort of you know negotiated settlement or resolution of
the tariffs and saying going to raise him to sixty
percent what they wore one hundred and twenty and it
went down to nothing and suspended it for thirty days
or ninety days or whatever. I mean, He's all over

(01:52:08):
the board on this, So god knows if he's using
this just as sort of a and negotiating table threat,
and then as the other component is these trumps, these
tariffs are being challenged in court as beyond the executive
branch's authority, and it could be that the court ultimately
concludes that no, this is Congress and the power of
the purse. There isn't a true emergency that would even

(01:52:30):
authorize them to do this. So it's in a state
of flux.

Speaker 8 (01:52:33):
Yeah, and even the headline Trump floats the idea of
a sixty percent tariff, Well, he has actually put tariffs
in place and pulled them back, so floating the idea
is not going to make me sweat a whole lot.
We've also got some tensions resurfacing between the US and China.
A ninety day tariff pause that was agreed to in
Geneva is at risk now as China is playing games
again with the rare Earth mineral exports, and to be fair,

(01:52:54):
we play games too.

Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
The whole thing is a great, big game, right. So, yeah,
So there's just.

Speaker 8 (01:52:58):
A lot of things, but none of these are concrete
facts yet. So that's relevant to why the market's doing
what it's doing this morning. There's more slightly negative than
slightly good out there right now.

Speaker 3 (01:53:08):
Okay, And you're the one that always likes to remind
everybody that the markets typically factor in to their actions
the sale price or the activity on the stock market
in advance of something actually kicking in. So is that
an element of what's going on right now?

Speaker 8 (01:53:28):
Absolutely, that's always an element that happens on the good
side and the bad side. The market likes to anticipate.
And if you look at any line graph of the
S and P five hundred, or frankly, any stock market
index out there, you'll see a whole bunch of peaks
and valleys. Not just the big peaks and valleys that
catch our eye that we always pay attention to, but
I'm talking about the little week to week, day to
day ones that's simply the market trying to guess what's

(01:53:49):
coming next.

Speaker 10 (01:53:50):
Is this good news? Is this bad news, and it's.

Speaker 8 (01:53:52):
Wrong ninety percent of the time, and it's not a
very big move either way, but eventually it will be right.
We simply won't know when it has hit.

Speaker 1 (01:54:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
Is this does the individual little man who's day trading
and the collective all put together a faction that are
doing something like that. Do they really have much of
an impact on these market fluctuations or is this all
institutional sized traders that have the impact.

Speaker 8 (01:54:15):
They certainly have an impact in the very short term
swings the day to day stuff right now. So in
other words, we're you and I are looking at futures.
Futures are what the market thinks the market is going
to do today, and there are people moving their money
around based on that. But eventually that's going to be
known fact here in about an hour and twenty minutes
when the market opens.

Speaker 10 (01:54:32):
In the long run, I.

Speaker 8 (01:54:33):
Don't think they have a great huge impact, but in
the short run they absolutely drive swings. They can cause
stampedes in one direction or the other. But at the
end of the day, if you are a long term investor,
all that really matters is what are the prospects for
a publicly traded company to make to make money by
selling its products. That's all that really matters. The short
term stuff is nothing more than the wind changing direction

(01:54:54):
here and there.

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
And one of the things that Donald Trump just recently
announced he was doubling the steel and a loone them tariffs.
I seem to think that this has a lot with
the Nippon Steel US Steel merger. He promised that, you know,
the work going to the layoffs here, the United States
was going to be controlling the United States steel output
and we're bouncing back. You know, well, this is going
to be a renaissance for US steel production. Is that

(01:55:19):
maybe the sole reason for it? So, I mean, because
you know, if you wait long enough and these these
do have an impact, the impact would likely inure to
US steel manufacturers benefit. But that takes time. It's like
trying to get others to invest in the United States
and moving away from China. You know, you can say
it and they might make announcements like yeah, we're going
to invest fifty billion dollars in a new factory, but

(01:55:40):
the new factory is going to be built for a while.
It's going to take a long time for those jobs
to hit home.

Speaker 8 (01:55:44):
Yeah, that's right, And so we can. There's not a
ton of history to rely on here. A lot of
the history in this environment comes either from his first
term in which we imposed about three hundred and sixty
billion dollars worth of tariffs on Chinese goods and the China,
of course responded retalatorially, and that led to a bunch
of global market volatility, the supply chain issues we had,

(01:56:05):
and then there was a this is ancient history now,
but we had a Phase one deal in early twenty twenty.
Do you remember Phase one, Brian Thomas? I don't, because
there wasn't a Phase two, phase three. So I think
the point is that I don't know that we're in
a world anymore where we're gonna come up with a
quote unquote global trade deal and then the dust is
gonna settle on this. I think everybody's gonna be holding
their cards and deciding precisely which which individual cards to

(01:56:28):
play at precisely that moment, rather than agreeing that we
have an agreement and everybody just playing in the sandbox nicely.

Speaker 10 (01:56:35):
I think where there's gonna be tweaks pretty much from
here on out.

Speaker 3 (01:56:37):
Well in every country who hasn't like we had, we
negotiated a some out of a deal with the UK,
and that was you know, applauded. I guess good, we
figured it out. But all the other countries with whom
Donald Trumps said he's gonna be sitting down at the
table to talk with fine if the tariffs were within
his control. But every one of those countries can also

(01:56:59):
make you know, look at the observation I just made,
which is, you know, it's possible the Supreme Court and
say Donald Trump can't unilaterally do this or go the
tariffs won't be in place anymore, which would mean it
would require congressional action. And since you can't get Congress
to do anything, that means the likelihood of tariff's remaining
in effect become well, they disappear.

Speaker 1 (01:57:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:57:21):
I think sometimes we do get a notion that here
in the United States, because of American exceptionalism, everybody has
to do what we say that they have to do.
They have to follow our lead because we are the
biggest economic stick in the you know, in the box.
But that's not really the case. Countries can agree to
work with each other outside the United States, of course.
I don't think that's that's too shattering or shattering to hear,

(01:57:43):
but at the sometime it's big reminder of it right
now because if the United States is going to take
the steps that it's going to, the options that another
country has is well, I can either play the game
and negotiated with the United States, or I may be
able to find some of these resources elsewhere. And you're
starting to see that among some of these smaller countries
that are finding themselves with China and or Russia. Yes,
you know, we would look at that and kind of go, whoa,

(01:58:04):
what are you thinking, But they're looking at it in
the very short term. What benefits me now, not ten
fifteen years from now.

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
Yeah, I agree completely. I mean the situation with the
Russia Ukraine War is kind of driven Russia and China
into each other's arms, along with North Korea and Iran.
Of course, the Israel situation too, you know, encourages ran
to work more, play more nicely with our foes China
and Russia. And we're just creating this this larger collective

(01:58:34):
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the quote fingers where quote signs on my fingers, you know, enemies,
we're driving them into a more consolidated relationship.

Speaker 8 (01:58:42):
Yeah, and so some examples of us we're seeing So
Argentina and Brazil are starting to explore trading denominated in
the Yuan. I mean, these are places where you rule
the street if you show up with dollars in your hand.
But that is lessening a bit. They're more and more
willing to accept the Yuan. There, Africa and country are
installing Chinese built digital infrastructure, and so they're working around

(01:59:05):
the ciscos and the ibms of the world that in
the past have been kind of the backbone for all
this kind of stuff. So these are little signs that
the rest of the world is perceiving the United States
a bit differently than it has in the.

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We get a few segments out of them and pivoting
over two oil prices. I thought oil prices were coming down.
I knew what price of the pump has come down,

(02:02:47):
Brian James, and I also saw, at least I thought
I saw an article about Saudi Arabia increasing oil production
in spite of the fact that the barrel of crude
was down, So what's the story on oil price is
claiming to be jumping here?

Speaker 8 (02:03:01):
Yeah, so this is coming from OPEK plus, right, Remember
when everyone was just OPEK and they of OPEC plus. Well,
so OPEC plus just a little bit of background of
the OPEC plus is all of the countries out there
that aren't necessarily the oil producers themselves, but there are
supporters of it. The original OPEC Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran,
Venezuela and the UAE. Now the plus means Russia, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Malaysia,

(02:03:25):
and Sudan and a handful of others. In other words,
the mousketeers for the United States are biggest fan club. Anyway,
OPEC plus agreed that they're gonna phase out. Now this
is a little bit labored the way the article phrases,
but they're going to phase out. There two point two
million barrels per day of voluntary cuts. That's a lot
of words to say they're going to start producing more
oil that started in October twenty four and they're gonna

(02:03:46):
be unwinding these cuts again, meaning producing more oil by
unwinding fully by June twenty fifth. So Saudi Arabia, for example,
is going to increase their output from nine million to
ten million barrels per day per day over the next
nine months. So this is, of course, you know, supply
and demand working op direction. So oil prices fell modestly
after the announcement, and the Brent crew dropped to just
below eighty one bucks a barrel. This is interesting because

(02:04:07):
it comes at travel time. Normally, this is the time
of year where we're all talking about how expensive gas
is because you know, they move to the summer mix
and all, we're all driving a Disney World and all that.

Speaker 10 (02:04:17):
Other fun stuff.

Speaker 8 (02:04:18):
So well, there's OPEK is certainly working in its own interests,
of course, but at the same time, this could be
a little bit of good news for the American consumer,
at least for a little while.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
A little while. I suspect this might have an impact
on demand for Russian oil.

Speaker 8 (02:04:34):
You could, yet it depends on the of course, the
geopolitical stuff. We'll have a huge impact there, and the
US is still producing. We're producing about thirteen million barrels
per day and that's about record highs there, and that
could offset We do have a bigger stick now than
we used to because of what we've discovered with fracking
and all that over the past twenty years, United States
has a much bigger oil player than it used to be.

(02:04:57):
So maybe this will be a summer where we don't
talk about oil prices a whole lot.

Speaker 3 (02:05:01):
Well, you know, I just have to observe. It's always
been a problem with me, and that a thorn in
my side. OPEC OPEC plus, if those were all United
States oil producers, then they would be guilty as hell
of a Sherman anti trust violation because they coordinate the
price of oil. They regulate the price of oil by
coordinating their collective output by agreement. So I mean, if

(02:05:23):
they all decided they were going to tighten their belts
and not produce another ten billion, ten million barrels of
oil a day, the price would necessarily go up. And
I mean, I just find it. It seems fundamentally unfair
that they even exist as an organization although they're outside
of the United States laws relating to anti trust.

Speaker 10 (02:05:41):
Yeah, no, I mean I think that is a great point.
It really is.

Speaker 8 (02:05:43):
It's it's collusion at the highest level. But time, when
you have all supply, you can do whatever you want
with it. Imagine how far, how far behind we would be, Brian,
if we hadn't figured out how to frack our own
oil out of the shale here, you know, for pluses
and pluses and minuses to that, but at the same time,
we would really be behind the eight ball without that.

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
It really did get us out from under the thumb
of Opak to a large degree. So anyhow, let us
see here, let's talk unemployment before we change gears in
the next segment and talk about the inflation and what
this all means to our investment. So I see unemployment

(02:06:21):
claims hit a three year high, although we aren't we
still at what effectively is full employment by statistics. Job
was straight four point two percent in April. I thought
like four percent was considered full employment here in America.

Speaker 1 (02:06:34):
It is.

Speaker 8 (02:06:34):
Yeah, And we tend to tap dance right around the
you know, most of the time things are fairly stable
in over history, we tend to tap dance right around
that area. We don't want you know something, my out
there might be thinking, well, that's that's ninety six percent employment.

Speaker 10 (02:06:47):
That's not full employment. We don't want full employment.

Speaker 8 (02:06:50):
We don't want literally one hundred percent employment because that
means we can't grow. I don't know if you might
remember if you think back to that's probably twenty years ago,
but remember when McDonald's in a fast food in these
sort of entry level jobs, they were all paying really
really significant signing bonuses for the kind of jobs that
we don't normally associate with with that kind of thing.
And the reason was because at that point we had

(02:07:10):
I don't know, two percent unemployed or something like that.
Things were just going great guns. So we don't really
want to get to that, that's not a goal. But
most recently, initial jobless claims rose by about twenty two thousand,
up to two hundred and thirty four thousand. That's the
highest level since August of twenty three, and that that
is a sign of a bit of a softening labor market.
So what that means is that economists feel that the

(02:07:30):
job growth is cooling off, meaning that all the stuff
we've been talking about forever, high interest rates and slow
in consumer demand might finally be taking hold. No, remember,
we had a little bit of a spike in imports
in the first quarter because of everybody anticipating tariffs and
kind of getting ahead of that game a little bit
so that could be a bit of a distraction, but

(02:07:52):
now we might be getting to the point where we're
actually seeing the impact of this.

Speaker 3 (02:07:56):
All right, Well, I wouldn't mind the interest rates going
down little bit making homes slightly more affordable, although until
we get the supply and demand issue, or the supply
issue worked out, I can't see even lower interest rates
helping much at least in terms of the price of homes.
Eight twenty five continue with Brian James. Are we getting
used to inflation at this point as it all settled in?

(02:08:17):
And also everything we've been talking about this morning might
have an impact on our investments. Brian James is going
to offer some thoughts on that topic as well. Eight
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Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
The talk station A thirty on a Monday, Brian Thomas
with Brian James Money Monday. All right, so kind of
a mixed bag of quasi bad. It's none of a
gloom and doomy. But in terms of inflation, it looks
like inflation's kind of tapered off under the FED usually
looks for about two percent annually. I think that's what

(02:09:50):
it's desired. Inflation goal is for a healthy inflation rate,
which apparently doesn't register with people out in the day
to day world. We can all manage two percent, but
there was some there was a period of time where
it was going through the roof. And I mean, obviously
we mentioned the price of eggs earlier now free for me,
but that's a real that's still kind of a sticker shot,

(02:10:12):
because I think people will still remember what eggs used
to be before bird flu showed up and some of
the other issues showed up. But what about overall, where
consumers relative to their views of inflation relative to where
inflation actually is right now.

Speaker 8 (02:10:25):
Brian, Well, in the some of the news articles we're reading,
as well as just in my day to day conversations
with clients where we've got financial plans and we both
knew what they spent five years ago. We know what
they're spending now because it's my job to help them
understand that. But in any case, consumers are really starting
to get used to it. We're kind of acquiescing to
the idea that stuff is just more expensive now. And

(02:10:46):
the prior fifteen years was a great run where we
didn't have inflation at all. Industrates were really really low
and that was fun. But this is reality now. So
so the interesting thing is, as you mentioned, the numbers
aren't that bad right now. If you're just looking at
year over year inflation, uh, it's about three point four
percent as of May of twenty five.

Speaker 10 (02:11:05):
That's not bad.

Speaker 8 (02:11:05):
We normally want it to be in the high twos,
maybe right around three percent, So it's slightly higher than that.
That's that Even that itself is somewhat manageable. But we're
still suffering from those couple of years a few years
ago where we hit as high as nine percent, yeah,
twenty two. So if you think about it, if if
we say three percent is our you know, average kind
of inflation expectation, well we pulled together three years of

(02:11:27):
that all in one year, just in twenty two, not
to mention the years around it. So people are still
suffering from that, and that's what's in our heads. But
at this point, people are just really just kind of
making the assumption that we are now in what's called
a disinflationary environment, not deflation. Every time we have inflation,
we have to invent a new word for it. Disinflation
means it's still going up, just not as quickly as
it was before.

Speaker 10 (02:11:47):
Still inflation y, but not inflation well.

Speaker 3 (02:11:49):
And it takes time for us to forget what we
used to pay for something, you know, after a while,
you know, like you'll ever want So you see a
meme post, you know, gasoline twenty nine cents a gown,
and like, wait, is there? When the hell was that?
I don't ever, I've always been whatever since my lifetime.
But you know, since inflation doesn't ever retract necessarily, I mean,

(02:12:10):
I know we have periods of deflation, but that's a
rare occasion. We experienced that six eight nine percent inflation,
but the prices haven't come down since then. They've just
gone up by much less. So we're all still struggling
with the fairly dramatic increase in prices of a few
years ago.

Speaker 8 (02:12:28):
That's disinflation our new word for the day. You're right,
that's that's exactly what has happened now. For those who
might be hoping for prices to decrease and for this
inflation to unwind as if it were kind of an
accident on oopsee if you will, that's not gonna happen,
because remember what has come up. If you're a business
then you have borrowed money, you have had to give
your employees wage increases just to keep them. You've got

(02:12:49):
fixed costs now that are basically permanently higher for you
as the business. That means you have no choice but
to pass throughs through to the ultimate consumer. Maybe there's
a little flexibility, but there's not going to be a lot.
So those out there who might be rooting for price declines,
careful what you wish for.

Speaker 3 (02:13:03):
All right. And finally, all that factors into our long
term investment strategies. Some people have longer term than others.
So should we be paying any attention to this or
just maintain with our financial planner of diversified portfolio and
a good mix of investments around the globe.

Speaker 8 (02:13:22):
Basically, well, I think we're in this is enough of
a life changing event, a watershed period, if you will,
that I think it's probably time to adjust our budgets,
at least mentally, and just plan for permanently higher prices
on things and just make sure you are first of
That starts with knowing what you're spending. To begin with,
a lot of people who are in a solid financial
position have absolutely no idea what they're actually spending. They

(02:13:45):
just know they're not running up debts and they're not
piling up cash. Therefore they must be equilibrium. Well, make
sure you've built in some higher prices into your overall
financial plan so that you can handle what's coming over
the next one, two, three, four, five years. Even if
it is just moderate increases, it's still an increase you
need to be able to handle fair enough.

Speaker 3 (02:14:02):
I just I'm at the point of my life, Brian,
where I just I don't need anything.

Speaker 10 (02:14:09):
That does free eggs, right your shit, that is.

Speaker 3 (02:14:12):
But you know, a house is done, we don't. We
don't have any We wanted to buy more furniture, we
don't have any room for it. You know, we got
the stuff that we like that we've had for decades.
It's just like it's eternal from its stylistic standpoint, and
you know, the house is paid for. I just just
don't have anything to spend money on.

Speaker 8 (02:14:30):
Yeah, that's that's actually for somebody out there who's a
little younger than the two of us and maybe not
in that same position. I think it's okay to think
differently about housing than than the the current older generations
have thought about it. It was it was dirt cheap for
us to buy houses and pay down debt and all that.
It's okay to rent for a little bit longer. Make
darn sure that you are where you want to be,

(02:14:51):
that you're in the town you want to be, the
part of that town that you want to.

Speaker 10 (02:14:54):
Be for the long haul.

Speaker 8 (02:14:55):
Don't rush to buy a house just because of some
antiquated wisdom that says houses are a great savings.

Speaker 10 (02:14:59):
Be they are not.

Speaker 3 (02:15:00):
That's you know what, That's an outstanding point. I hopefully
get some people take some comfort to that because you know,
being in that older generation and having that mindset that
you have to own a home, and that's what you
really strove to hurry up and accomplish. I mean, it
wasn't necessarily a challenge for my wife, for me, but
you know, it is a weight. But you know, there
ain't nothing wrong with renting. It gives you flexibility too,

(02:15:22):
because you get tired of a place, you can easily
pack up and move on to some place else.

Speaker 8 (02:15:27):
A house is a terribly inefficient investment when you account
for taxes and repairs of all other stuff.

Speaker 10 (02:15:32):
It keeps the rain off of your stuff. That's that's
its job.

Speaker 3 (02:15:34):
Good point Brian James. Always a pleasure talking with you,
all Ware and thanks again to all Worth Financial for
loading you out. I'll look forward another edition of Monday
Monday next Monday. Have a great week, my friend.

Speaker 10 (02:15:42):
Talk to you in a week. Have a good day, sir.

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more like a prayer that we need to support our
CINCINNTI police officers. It's going to be a hot summer,
he pointed out. We've got all these events coming up,

(02:16:19):
and what a terrible last several days in the city
of Cincinnati, and you know, God bless the City of
Cincinnati Police department. I certainly have their backs and do
everything I can to at least outwardly support them and
say positive things on their behalf. My sister, of course,
was a life you know, worked her entire life for
the police department twenty five years before retirement. I've heard

(02:16:41):
terrible stories, but things have gotten worse for the Cincinni police.
She had to, you know, defund the police movement. The
police are all races taken to the streets and not
all are you know, have clean hands, but the vast
majority of them do. But as we were talking about that,
uget Reker had pointed out, it's okay, we're not going
to have any violent in the streets this summer because

(02:17:02):
Sawyer point we'll be offering free roller skating for teens
every Friday this summer, right, Joe. He even wrote on
the news article from this morning, this will stop this
shooting anyway. Not to make light of the shootings, because
I mean, get a load of this reporting from Monday,
over a five day period. Over a two day period,

(02:17:24):
there were five shootings Ammonel over the Rhine West End,
wentin Hills Mount Airy, and you pivot over to a
more recent reporting, a two year old was shot a
two year old and the villages of roll Hill. Happened
Saturday Nottingham Road around noontime. Unclear how the child was

(02:17:47):
shot local police since the police sport Lieutenant cunning In
so the child was taken to since Saint Children's is
currently stable, so we can at least thank God for that.
In Norwood, we had two people taken to the hospital
after shooting outside an Norwood home on Saturday afternoon five
thousand block of Road Island Avenue, taking a UC Medical
Center in serious condition. And we had a man fatally

(02:18:11):
shot crashing into a house in Forest Park on Saturday.
According to Sargant Jackie Dryer with the Forest Park Police Department,
twenty six year old man suffered a gunshot wound Edmund
identified pronounced dead at the scene. So oh, he should
have been skating, Joe. That may be a little harsh.
But then I saw this article out of New York

(02:18:33):
which really kind of as an exclamation point some of
Christopher's points since I put New York City Police Department
officers have reported a sixty three percent rise in assaults
over the past six years. This is assault on police officers,
nine hundred and seventy assaults on uniform police officers in

(02:18:55):
the city so far this year and as at this
time last year, five hundred and ninety five, so there
was five hundred ninety five is way too many, but
nine hundred and seventy number of assaulted cops, which includes
all city law enforcement officers, is up fifty seven pair
to data in the same period last year. They have

(02:19:23):
reports of the trained are Aragua gang teenagers, young people
fighting with police officers in Times Square after robbing two people,
one off duty police officer. They've identified a person of
interest that police officer beaten, held at nine point and

(02:19:46):
robbed in the Bronx. And to Christopher's point, they had
a retired New York Police dessarge and adjunct professor at
Penn State University, Joseph Giacalone, speaking with The New York Post,
and he said, you have DA's like Alvin Bragg who
don't even want to prosecute felony assaults against cops. So

(02:20:08):
where is the deterrence. You have a criminal justice system
that's a revolving door, and people are getting arrested forty
fifty sixty times. Cops are dealing with people out on
the streets who are really bad and therein lies the challenge.
This is, you know, the cry for our elected officials
and our prosecutors and our judges to hold these violent

(02:20:30):
people accountable. Word gets out. It's like the open border.
You announce to the world you got an open border,
and that you're not holding people, you're not keeping them
out of the country. You're gonna off from all kinds
of free social services. Guess what, it's a blank and magnet.
When you got a revolving door. In the criminal justice system,
you can get arrested this many times and there's never
going to be a moment or measure of accountability. You're

(02:20:50):
going to be out on the streets and no consequences whatsoever.
In many cases no prosecution, so not even an arrest record.
This is aminal justice system just falling apart. One of
the key legs of the criminal justice system is prosecution punishment.
As a warning to others who might engage in similar conduct,

(02:21:12):
don't do it. We need to write the ship in
this country, and who among us would want a career
in law enforcement with statistics like that, most notably in
a place like New York City. Just heartbreaking from my standpoint,
But we can do something about it. We can be
more out loud about our support for the police. We

(02:21:34):
can be better about electing judges, as notably here in
Hamilton County and well, I guess we'll give Connie Pillach
a little time on the job. But we can be
better at electing prosecutors. I think we really missed out
in a golden opportunity to keep Melissa Powers in that position.
At least she demonstrably went after bad guys and tried

(02:21:55):
to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. In
spite of the fact that she these criminals quite often
would end up in front of a very liberal judge
with a different view of the criminal justice system, who
would not prosecute them to the full or would not
hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
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Fifty fifty five KRC ME Talk Station, Borrow bright Bird
inside Scoop at eight O five and the Daniel Davis
Deep Dive. Of course, we'll have a lot to talk
about with Daniel Davis. It just was so surprised that
Ukraine was able to get those drones in close proximity

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to the various era various military bases where Russia had
these large scale bombers and these drones that they used
they called f p V drones. They apparently can be
brought for just a few hundred bucks a pop, but
did seven billion dollars reportedly in damaged disabling thirty four
percent of the cruise missiles cruise missile carriers at a

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key Russian air base. See, they got all these hundreds
and hundreds of thousands, if not million dollar aircraft, million
plus dollar aircraft, and a handful of very inexpensive drones
blew them up and that'll curb brushes ability to launch
some of these missiles that these airplanes carry. So what
impact they'll have on the war? I think the one

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impact we can all count on it having. That's why
I'm looking forward to having Daniel Davison to discuss this
is you're probably going to see a pretty profound retaliation
for this. But since they were planning on this for
apparently well over a year, the Ukrainians were they were
able to sneak these drones in and set up these
little what they referred to as houses with roofs that
popped up roofs, popped up drones were launched in in

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a matter of a few minutes. They landed on their
targets quite successfully, it appears, so anyhow, Daniel Dave was
always giving us a Ukraine Russia update, So keep your
popcorn out on that, if I can say it, uh
trying to think, well why not? Why not end on

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a little lighter note. I actually chuckled out loud on
this one. I'm not a fan of a fan of
driverless cars. Like you know, if I ordered an Uber,
I'd want a driver behind the wheel of the car.
I don't want to buy a Tesla for its driverless features.
I'm just not comfortable with that, and I don't think
I ever will be. I enjoy the active driving. I

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enjoy the engagement of driving. I like paying attention to
the road, and I really do have a fond appreciation
for the well the chess game. That's driving a lot
of crazy people out there. So if you stay engaged
as a driver, it can make you drive a little
bit more interesting when you're trying to well keep yourself alive.
So that's part of the pleasure of driving for me.

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If you don't have your hands on the way. You
have to pay attention. It's just I don't know, I
get wigged out by that anyway. Moving aside from my
personal opinions about it, there's a driverless ride hill in
company out there. You may have heard of it, called
way Mo, apparently now operating in multiple states. They have
a rotating sensor on the top of the vehicle. Pretty
goofy look and think, But residents out in Santa Monica,

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California have headed up to their eyeballs with these driverless
Waymos because they are equipped with a backup noise. The
beep beep, beep beep you get from large truck large
trucks and the charging lots where these Waimo driverless cars go.
I guess there's some sort of automated recharging systems. You
got all these residents around it and are now hearing

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constant beeping sounds. LA Times reported to hear it from residents.
The beeping never seems to stop, largely due to the
state regulation requiring vehicles to audibly reverse. Likedri delivery trucks,
they beep as they back out of charging spots, they
beep as they reversed to navigate around each other. They
beat in the morning as they head out to pick
up early passengers. They beat late at night as they

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returned to charge up. Yeah, that would try to drive
you backcrap insane, wouldn't it. Times reported city officials and
a judge and even police have been forced to intercede
after residents who say the self driving cars are a
nuisance have banded together against the fifty six vehicle feet
that's locally anyway reached out to the city. They've called weimo.

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Now some are trying unconventional tactics, which is what happens
using cones, cars and sometimes themselves. Residents have taken to
blocking the weimos from entering the company funded parking lot,
so much so that the company has then had to
call the cops. I said at least a half a
dozen times. They say WEMO is trying to make some

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efforts to reduce the noise, including quote limiting hours that
staff members work at the lots, purchasing quiets or vacuums
to clean the cars, and installing fast growing bamboo stands
to try to absorb some of the noise. One local
resident said, come on, it's lipstick on a pig baby.

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The issue here, according to the Mayor pro tem Carolyn Truris,
is speaking with the La Times. Hey, the issue here
is they are sounds that the vehicles are required to make.
I'm totally sympathetic the quiet enjoyment of property. So we're
trying to get this under control. Yeah, well, repeal the
law that says the damn things have to beat. Seems

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to me that that's the actual source of the problem.
My card doesn't beep when I go and reverse eight
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