55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Cincinnati VA

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Five o five.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
If you're about KRC Detalk station, Happy Monday a vacation.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I had no.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Idea was Yeah, I kind of feel that way myself.
Brian Thomas wishing everyone day very happy Monday. Thank you
Joe Strekker for the SoundBite and for lining up Christopher
Smithman every Monday at seven twenty eight, the former vice
mayor of the city, since he joins us to vent
his spleen. The smither vent is what we call it
on the heels of my father doing it for a

(00:49):
long long time, and I know Christopher always says he's
honored to sort of step in the shoes and my
dad and giving them. Yesterday was Father's Day, and thank
you to my family for a wonderful, wonderful Father's Day.
Was enjoyable, spending time with my children and my wife
Peach Cobbler.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh man, it was so good. But just I missed
my dad. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I posted a picture on Facebook my dad, picture of
my dad and me. And of course Father's Day takes
on a sort of a different I don't know, tone
or something like that, looking for the right word when
you lose your father. So but Dad, up there, I
was thinking about you.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
A lot yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
So anyhow, I hope you celebrated Father's Day and in
a good way, and that for all the fathers out
there actually take the time and effort and set a
good example for their children. God bless each and every
one of you, because certainly that was my father. Today Monday, Monday,
Brian James comes up at eight oh five talk Futures,

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talking about price of oil. The Iran Israel bombings are
really impacting the futures in oil, fed interest rate announcement
and a record number of people claim social security shocking
no one who understands that all the baby boomers are
retiring and going on so's security. And we'll hear from
the since Adiva today Case cares at eight forty some

(02:11):
updates from the VA and some important information from my
veteran friends out there. God bless you, timber one of
you two five and three seven nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two three talk hit pound five
point fifty if you have an AT and T phone
anyway you the the shooting of these two Minnesota lawmakers.
Of course, there's a million things going on in the world,

(02:32):
most notably uh the conflict between Israel and Iran got
a lot of information on that to pass along this morning.
But this vance balter guy charged with murdering state Representative
Melissa Hortman and her husband and for shooting Senator John
Hoffman and his wife. He apparently had a manifesto. We

(02:52):
haven't seen that yet, didn't release it. Apparently had a
whole long list of other people who are on his
hit list. Batcrap and sane. I think we can all
agree on that.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
He was arrested yesterday evening, ending a two day man hunt.
They received a tip about a possible sighting of this
almost FCC non compliant utterance from me near a wooded
area of a place called Sibley County, sixty miles southwest
of Minneapolis. Officers closed in and he reportedly followed commands,

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crawling toward them, apparently armed too, but he gave up.
Police Chief Mark Burley of the Brooklyn Park Police just
down at the scene where he was taken it to custody.
There were twenty different SWAT teams over an extremely large
area hunting this individual down. So charged with murder, of

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course they were if she was an elected official. And
this is what's got me a lot of people all
wigged out. I guess I have to ask, are you
wigged out? I know Sarah herringers wigged out given that
a guy who should have been arrested kicked in the
door and murdered her husband. But let's pivot over to Congress.

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I saw this axious article summarizing the concerns expressed by
our elected officials on a congressional level. Long simmering fight
over congressional security roared back to the surface this weekend
following a pair of shootings against Minnesota state legislators at
their homes that left two dad and two others hospitalized.

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The shootings have deeply unnerved members of Congress, who feel
that any one of them could be the subject of
an unanticipated attack, particularly at home, in their districts and
while in transit. Now, congressional leaders don't enjoy personal security. Joe,
do you have personal security at your home? You have

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your own team of agents that are there to protect
you against kick ins and things like that.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know the answers. No do I.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Neither is any member of my listening audience unless they
have paid for that for themselves. Apparently, if you're the
CEO of a medical insurance company. You can get your
head blown off the middle of the street. A lot
of people are gonna run around and praise and celebrate
the person who murdered you.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Rank and file members of Congress renewing a push for
greater security, arguing for their own details, greater safety measures
at their homes and at airports, and more stringent measures
to hide their sensitive details. Details that you can't hide.
Anybody can know where you live. Just search on the
auditor's website. That's kind of weird, isn't it. And it's

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a public record. We have public records in this country.
Used to be in the old days before the Internet,
you had to go down of the Cameron County Courthouse,
but you could ask for the information and give it
that it would be given to you because it's considered
public information. Now, just in an elected capacity, you're going
to get greater security than every other American who struggles

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with perhaps security. How's your neighborhood in terms of safety.
I know there's many residents of the City of Cincinnati
certain neighborhoods with a massive increase in crime. Sarah Henderger
will tell you all about it, or Herringer other I
got a new statement from her, just issued a couple
of days ago over the weekend, talking exactly about that.
Apparently we've been lied to in terms of statistics on

(06:34):
crime in downtown Cincinnati. Something tells me the mayor and
city council is interested in well concerns over marketing. You
don't want to let the world know the city of
Cincinnati he's got higher crime. Oh my god, we won't
be able to get more urban hipsters and move down
into the city of Cincinnati. We won't be able to
have this walking community that we all law think about

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and want well, at least from their perspective. Axios right,
and the shooting sent shockwaves through Capitol Hill, which Center
majority leader Chuck Schumer said he's asking for increase in
security for Senators Amy Kloba Sharp Minnesota and Tina Smith Minnesota.

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She had this crazy guy in Minnesota killing two Minnesota lawmakers.
So Chuckie Schumer is asking for increased security for Minnesota
senators as if that's the only state where crime you
might be a concern for elected officials. Hakeem Jefferies, House
Minority Leader New York said he asked for security officials

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to ensure the safety of our Minnesota delegation and the
operative word in the sentence members of Congress across the country.
Representative Bernie Benny Thompson Mississippi, I call on the Capitol
Police to assist in providing real solution for increased security
for members. He apparently had a security detail of his

(08:07):
own back in twenty twenty two as chairman of the
January sixth Committee. So you get security depending on the
type of committee that you're chair of.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
He said.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
He expects full cooperation and resources from the Republican leadership.
We just, according to Representative Jared Moskwitz from Florida Democrat,
speaking of axios, we're just as exposed as Hartman was.
We have no more security than she does. You know,
Capitol Police is not equipped for four hundred and thirty
five members to keep them safe.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
He said. It's not their fault.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Things have changed, and as Congress becomes less functional in general,
we can't even function to keep ourselves safe. That's a
quote what's changed, and I think we all might fully

(09:11):
appreciate what's changed. I mean, I always go back to
social media. You can't even call it discourse, can you?
The elevated level of anger the No Kings rally over
the weekend, which largely peaceful, just raging against the machine.

(09:37):
And is it now out of the system. The folks
that showed up with the No Kings rally, I mean,
if they feel like they have made a point or
I mean it was I guess overall rather well attended
hundreds of thousands of people across the entire country, which
is made up of three hundred and fifty million people.
So I would like to point out you can get
a slice of the population to show up at literally

(09:58):
anything if you well, we have a well funded campaign
to get the message out. A lot of folks angry
out there. But are we going to have now professional
details of security for each and every member of Congress?

(10:19):
Are we going to pay for that as American taxpayers?
And they're supposed to represent us? So I pivot over
to Sarah Harringer, who obviously could have used her own
security detail at her home and her husband got stabbed
to death. She said independent data analysts that she's working

(10:46):
with well showing what's real, pulling data directly from the
Cincinnati Police Department records, calling the data staggering referring to
members of since a city council and the mayor. They
feel safe enough of their jobs, their beds, and their
pr teams to lie to you because the optics matter

(11:10):
more than outcomes. Let's talk about what the police union
told me, Sarah Harringer departments on hundred eighty officers. Short
city failed to hire a new police from eight twenty
eight to twenty fourteen, and we're never and have never recovered.
Leadership hasn't been able to recruit enough to keep up

(11:31):
with retirement. We don't even have a full time swat
team because someone's afraid it might look too militant. Officers
often don't know when violent offenders are released. She knows
first first hand on that one, doesn't She that communication
used to exist. It doesn't now. Morale is low, support

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is lower, and politics are getting people killed, she says.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Let me remind you.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
City council's funded public safety initiatives for years was zero accountability,
no money spent, or rather money spent with no follow through,
no proof of outcomes, just headlines and ribbon cuttings while
the city bleeds out. My husband was one of them.
And then she produces the statistics would show how bad

(12:24):
crime actually is in the city based upon the Cincinnai
Police Department records. Despite what you've been told, thirteen thousand
victims in twenty twenty five and climbing, she writes a
twenty five percent spike from twenty twenty four. It's a

(12:51):
dangerous world out there. I guess this is my conclusion
on all this. And who's entitled to security and protection
and safety? Our elected officials are going to get their
own already, details appears that we're moving in that direction
after the murder of these Minnesota this Minnesota lawmaker and
her husband. You can see that coming a mile away,
can't you. Meanwhile, we will live through this whole defund

(13:16):
police police are all bunch of evil, racist blah blah blah,
and our communities become less safe. And you know, the
practical reality is when seconds count, even in a fully funded,
fully staffed police department, they're at least minutes away, which

(13:46):
of course leads to the broader point. You need to
protect your own You need to be in a position
to protect yourself. You need to be less reliant on
those in elected capacity to protect your interest in literally
any topic. The dysfunction is on full display right now, folks.

(14:14):
It's just one of the reasons I call myself a
little little libertarian. I do not believe that others can
protect me or can make decisions on my behalf that
represent the best interests of myself or my family. Only
I have enough information to make those decisions. Five nineteen
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Feel free to call. Maybe you disagree, maybe you agree,
Maybe got something else you want to talk about. I'd
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Speaker 1 (14:46):
Fifty five KARC. The talk station five cares to the
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
Know.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
It sounds stupid, Jones. Why I'm laughing. Just take that out.
It's an admission that they have no idea, isn't it. Jay,
Welcome to the morning show. In a very happy Monday
to you, sir, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
I kind of feel bad about jumping line in front
of Tom. I feel like Tom's my hero and I
should be behind him in line.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
But I guess we'll take it.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I'll take it. I enjoy hearing from you, Jay, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Hey, wanted to bring up the deal that's going on
with US steel. I read last night that Trump was
over in Western Pa, over in Pittsburgh, talking about that
somehow this deal with US steel going to a Japanese
steel producer or some sort of arrangement with Nippon Steel,

(15:45):
that under what he's called national security, that the federal
government will have a quote golden share of US steel
in order to make sure that it doesn't leave the country.
And I'm looking at this and it's I'm not for this.
And here's why. Cleveland Cliff is a Cleveland based, highly

(16:06):
successful steel producer that made an offer on US Steel
back in August and gave them a offered forty five
percent premium over their existing stock price current stock price,
and it was turned down by US Steel, and it
was called unreasonable by US Steel. So the Japanese steel
producers came in. And now the federal government is stepping

(16:27):
in under a quote conservative which I think there's an
argument there to say, is a Trump really a conservative?
And now the US taxpayer maybe getting drug into subsidies
for a steel producer that could have sold to a
different steel producer. And now we've got the federal government
starting to control the means.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Of production, anticipating my comment, Jay, you just stole my
thunder right there.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, this is how's how's this different than Beijing? How
is moving towards communism, parting capitalism, free market economy and
conservative principles. And we ought to be pretty concerned as
we watch this as conservatives that we are, that this
is not the small this is not the party a
small government. Whenever the federal government can just throw down

(17:15):
the flag on the field and say national security, we're
going to get involved in. When I read this morning,
he's talking about he'll have he Trump will have the
control to say where this is going to be produced,
what the name of it's going to be. He's going
to point board holders or board members and appoint three

(17:36):
of them that it can out rank the two that
are there. Uh. Hey, if this is good for steel production,
why stop there. Let's get involved in control healthcare, We'll
control auto production. Um, we'll control everything. If if this
is good for one thing, then I guess it's good
for all things. And we are no different and we're
gonna we're gonna quickly get to where Beijing is.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Well, you can't call looking for an argument, Jay, I
know I used that phrase quite often, but I'm with
you one hundred percent. Yeah, it's not a question whose
ox is being Gord. I know he is enjoying support
from unions. But see, here's the reason. You have to
compromise principles in order to help particular industries. And I
note you know kind of a parallel that that Trump

(18:22):
is deciding that maybe ICE shouldn't be going after certain
industries like farms and meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants to
ferret out illegal immigrants. Why, well, he's concerned the industry
would collapse without the employment of illegal immigrants in those
particular industries. So pick and shoes, Pick and shoes, and

(18:45):
in any case, it's all wrong. Excellent point, Jay, I'm
glad you called and raised it. I don't think he
necessarily still Tom's thunder. He may go in a different
direction if he calls this morning, but it's an excellent point.
Five twenty seven fifty five cares B Talk station. Feel
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Speaker 2 (19:13):
Reds Jen and I first one on the forecast, partly
cloudy day to day, chance of storms later this afternoon.
I have eighty three partly cloudy overnight slight chance of
showers in the wall of sixty five, some sun on Tuesday,
maybe storms. Eighty six overnight clouds dry sixty nine and

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partly cloudy day Wednesday. They have no idea about the
weather eighty six sixteen degrees right now that you have
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the line out which them acknowledges that they have no
idea about the weather. All right, unsettled weather throughout the

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week has now been stricken from the weather forecast. Three eight,
two to three talk before I get to Tom, who
has called in this morning. A hilarious post from one
of the protests rallies over the weekend. Thank you former
Anderson Township trustee Drew Pappus for posting this one. We

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have a wife beat her T shirt clad woman holding
up a sign that says Trump, no one paid us
to be here, We hate you for free. Three strides
back a man with a sign that says hate has
never made any nation. Great, I feel like I'm getting

(20:41):
mixed messages over to the phones. We go, Tom, Welcome
to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Well, good morning.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
How was your Father's Day?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
I had a great Father's Day, got spent time with
my children, and of course my wife got a beautiful
card for my wife and a beautiful card for my
daughter and son, and that just really put a smile
on my face.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
We did.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
We did a little something Saturday morning with several of
the kids, and then my daughter took me out for
lunch yesterday.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Just that's great.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
And there is there is something special for dads at
the relationship.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
With her daughter.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Amen.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
Not quite the same with the boys, but uh.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
It isn't you know, it is not it is.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I love both my children to death, but there is
some cool, neat different thing about the relationship with the.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Father and daughter. And you're you're right on that, without question.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, se Uh the car she gave me and said,
I love the fact that we don't have to say
out loud that I'm your favorite child. Why why do
you keep saying it out loud?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
That's great, that's great.

Speaker 7 (21:58):
Yeah, yeah, good time. And for Saturday, you know, being flagged.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
I just want to confirm, uh.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
That is the American flag we were celebrating, right, stars
is right, not some of the other flags that we
have seen waving at different rallies and protests and stuff.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
That is correct.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
I have no problem with people being proud of their heritage.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Great.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
I know I've got some some different heritage from uh.
I mean, I'm born here when many generations of my
family were born here. But you know, that's that's fine.
You know, let's let's let's celebrate some German heritage or
or whatever. But you live in the United States of America,

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you should assimilate to the way of life here. Doesn't
mean everybody has to do the same thing, but there
are definitely certain things that we all need to embrace
as reality. And it's it's just a shame that too
many people trying to get rid of some of these things.
And it's intentional. They're they're trying to bring about their

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own kind of society and they want certain things to
go a certain way so they can have power and control.
And the American way is it's very strong, but at
the same time, it's it's very fragile and you know
Reagan was right. It's only you know, it's only one
generation away from being gone, and so we've got to

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do what we can to protect it. And I appreciate
the words of Jay, although I will concern him if
I'm your hero, you've got some serious problems. But I
am quite certain that Jay would agree with me when
I tell everybody you want to protect this country, don't

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vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Have a great day, run you two time. Happy Monday
to you. I hope you have a great week. Five
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Speaker 2 (24:12):
That's FI thirty nine and a happy Monday to you.
Five one thirty seven four nine fifty five hundred eight
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your iHeartMedia app. And I hope you enjoyed the coulping
shooting the ships infest over the weekend. I hope you
went there as opposed to attending one of the rallies.

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I was a pleasure of being at the flag retirement
ceremony in Union Township. Really just a I just enjoy
this the ceremony itself. It's nice being a part of
it fifteen years in a row. Thanks to the Vietnam
Veterans Association for sponsoring that, and the shout out to
Steve Tam who started the whole idea about properly retiring flags.

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Take a look at your flag. I hope you display one,
but when it looks tattered, it looks faded, it looks worn.
If it's ripped, it needs to be taken down and
replaced with one that is new and suitable for flying.
There is an appropriate way to take it down. It's
an appropriate way of retiring it. And that's what we

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learned all about over the weekend. So an enjoyable celebration,
one filled with patriotism and respect.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Anyhow, let's get to the stacker. Stupid.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
We got a pure Arizona woman in Arizona sentenced after
facing charges for driving her truck through a park full
of children and running over a twelve year old girl.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
Do what the hell.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Maerkop accunty attorney Rachel Mitchell announced Saturday, thirty one year
old Brandy Gotch had been sentenced to ten years in
prison for an assault that happened in February of last year.
Thorty Say, Gotcha's kids were allegedly fighting in the park
with other children egging them on and recording the whole thing.
God showed up the pick of her children while walking

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them to her truck. A boy at the playground reportedly
called her a name, please say. Gotch grabbed the boy
by the hair, pulled his head back and forth into
the side and back and forth, yelling at him. Court
paperwork said that she then grabbed a sharp stick from
her truck and ran after another boy, yelling, I Am

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going to kill you and run you over. Just a man,
Joe the should say. Gotch and her kids got into
the truck while the second boy stood behind and mocked her.
Gotch then backed out of the parking space, revved her
engine and drove toward the boy and his sister. Boy

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jumped out of the way, but his sister's legs were
run over. Gotch continued to drive the truck through the park,
which had over a dozen children there. At the time,
some of whom had to get out of the way.
Part of the incident, of course, caught in a sad
hell phone camera. Police said they attracked her down to
her home and arrested her. During an interview with detective,

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she said it allegedly started because she saw preteens which
I think is an operat word here considering their little children,
throwing wood chips at three of her children, and believed
one of them punched her ten year old daughter, Joe.
Your reaction would be to run him over. It's just

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like a natural reaction. But to children throwing and having disagreement, hey,
let's get in the car run them over. She told
police she confronted the group and they called her a slur,
so she grabbed one of the boy and told him
not to call her that that would be the grabbing
him by the head and yanking his head back and forth.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
It was described any complaint.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
She did admit to getting a stick and walking toward
another boy who called her a slur, but claims she
never threatened him. Police said, got you admitted of putting
her truck quote aggressively into reverse and then in drive
before going through the park. She said she didn't think

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she ran over the girl and said, I hope I didn't. Yeah,
that would be the feeling as though you're driving over
a speed bump. Yeah, that was the little girl's legs.
She claimed her children being bullied by the group of
kids and had reported it to the school and police,
but she claimed no action was taken. Charge of three

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counts of evaggravated assault. According to the attorney, this could
have been much more trades of situation. Thankfully, the worst
injury in this was a sprain ankle and some bad
scrapes and bruises. Even when angry or frustrated, it's up
to adults to act like adults. It's never okay to
take a rage out on a kid.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Period.

Speaker 9 (28:56):
The biggest two sho of the universe, in all the galaxies,
there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top,
the pinnacle of douche them. Good going, Douce, your dreams
have come true.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
In an Analogus Stacker Stupid story, we go to Palm Coast, Florida,
where a woman was arrested after the Flagler County Sheriff's
Office said she drove her car on a multi use
path in order to chase a teenager riding on an
electric bicycle just fourteen year old boy gauge Ellis, speaking

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of local news, it was really scary because I looked
back at the headlights and like, that's not supposed to
be there right. Nine one month call said the woman,
sixty five year old Julia Calfoff, was chasing the teenager
on the e bike and the Pine Lake path used
for bicycles and pedestrians. Nine one one caller said that

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they'd cut off her vehicle in order to prevent her
from continuing to chase the teen Deputies responded to the scene,
where the caller said that he noticed the teenager attempt
to flag down passing motorists as her SUV was six
to ten feet behind him. Fourteen year old said, I
swerved over and onto the road and I waved someone down,

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but they later kept driving and another witness has stayed
and helped me out. That was the witness to cut
her off and let me go. Teenager's parents found out
about the incident of the next day, reported law enforcement.
Victim's mom. I'm furious as the mother and as an adult.
There's no way on God's green Earth that that's okay.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Or that's acceptable.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Gotthall told deputies she chased the teenager because she was
not happy with the teenager for riding his e bike
too fast and wanted to speak with the victim's parents
do what. Victim told deputies that kathoffa had screamed at him,
cut him off, and also nearly struck him. Deputies arrested

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Kathoff and charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
without intent to kill, and reckless driving. Also received a
uniform traffic citation for driving on the multi use path,
taken to the sheriff Perry Hall inmate detention facility, later
released on a three thousand dollars bond. Flagner County Sheriff

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Ricky Staley, in his statement, said she caused a dangerous
situation with a reckless aggressive behavior and could have seriously
hurt or killed not just the child that she was chasing,
but anyone who happened to be on the walking or
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at the tail end of the eight o'clock hour. Got
some information passed along to my veteran friends out there
and over to the Eastack is stupid.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
This is just so tragic.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Texas's mother accused of killing her eight month old baby
after plunging into a bath of scalding water because she
was frustrated because he soiled his diaper, leaving the infant
with burns and injuries that later led to his death.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I can't believe this actually happened.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Twenty one year old Jetoria Clemens facing charge of injury
to a child manslaughter connection with the death of her son,
Courtland Clemens. Happened in February, a coarn of the Hooks
Police Department. Police announced Saturday that they were looking to
take her into custody. If anyone sees Clemens or knows
or whereabouts, please call nine to one ones and advise
law enforcement. A corn to the press. Relief officers and

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deputies with Bowie County Sheriff's Office responded to the home
for a medic assist call that day, found medical responders
performing CPR on the baby. Upon their arrival. Clements allegedly
staying with a relative Justice of Peace J. Warman, ordered
that Courtland's body be sent to the Southwest Institute of

(34:18):
Forensics for an autopsy, which listed his cause of death
as thermal injuries i e.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Scalding.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Homicide Investigation Launch and Hooks Police Team double detectives at
the Texas Arcana, Texas Police Department to probe the questioned clements.
She allegedly admitted to giving her son an extremely hot
bath while living at the residence in Texarkana. According to
local news, she said she was frustrated with him because
of the accident a baby defecating in diapers. I don't

(34:57):
think that's an accident. Special place in Hell for people
like that.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Described as an eccentric name, taking eccentric names to the
next level and resulting in what is described as relentless
mocking on the internet. The baby's name in the announcement

(35:31):
chernyobyl Hope. What friend of the infant's mom or dad
or both of them posted on the Internet, and many
of which are calling it offensive and ridiculous. Baby Shower,
Join us to celebrate the upcoming arrival of a little

(35:54):
bundle of joy in honor of Chernyobyl Hope, Wait to
celebrate together, according to the online invitation, and according to
the article, it appeared as if the parents were unaware
of the nineteen eighty six nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Whatever,

(36:16):
thank you, Liam. That's enough of that one. And finally
we get local news. Brood fourteen out at about a Mason,
Ohio bringing some uninvited guests in one of the tri
States' biggest attractions, King's Island. Yes, they have cicadas in
King's Island. They're everywhere, and they're actually kind of dying

(36:39):
off now, Brood fourteen. Doctor Gene Kritsky from Mount Saint
Joe University said this brood BREWD fourteen first seen by
the Pilgrims in sixteen thirty four. There's a little bit
of American history involved with this particular Brood.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Said.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
They've been emerging a little later than we expected in
some places. Batavia just had an emergence last week, whereas
in Loveland they started two weeks ago. It seems like
a lot longer than that'd, be quite honest with you.
Over the weekend, several people shared their experience in TikTok
of cicadas at King's Island, telling people to keep their

(37:18):
mouths shut while enjoying the rides. Kritsky said, just enjoy
the cicadas, and while you're on the ride, keep your
mouth closed.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Keep your stupid mouth shut.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, I saw an article last week there was an
autobile accident because a cicada flew in the window of
an automobile. They don't bite, they don't sting, they don't
do anything. Really, They're just annoying. And yes, when you're
cutting the grass, they will definitely hit you right on
your T shirt. And I thought it was particularly comical.
I was enjoying my father's day. My daughter came over
and they have eleven chickens. She went around the yard

(37:55):
collecting cicadas in a plastic bag to take home to
feed the chickens, because they don't have cicadas ever in
our neighborhood.

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Monday Monday.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
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friends in the listening audience. Turning to the comments and
brilliant observations of Alyssa Finley over the Wall Street Journal,

(39:56):
you know I do this. I stand on the sholder
of giants from time to time, and with good reason
and some really well thought out comments. She has in
her column how progressive government set the stage for the
la riots. Now go back to the Saturday night before
Memorial Day and she writes, more than a thousand revelers

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took over an abandoned warehouse just south of downtown Los Angeles.
When police tried to break up the illegal party, the
troublemakers spilled into the streets and spray painted graffiti on businesses,
police cars, and light rail trains. As police attempted to
restore order, the delinquents turned violent. Police and riot gear

(40:39):
eventually moved in and fired rubber bullets to disperse the mob,
though no arrests were made. Court to Americ Karen Bass,
it was just pandemodium. Everybody just you know, went bisark.
We cannot do this in our city and it has
to be stopped, Karen Bass, pro law and order. Two

(41:02):
weeks later, pandemonium broke out again as agitators used the
cover of protest against ICE and the raids to create mayhem.
Mayor Baths tweeted we will not stand for this. This
was the afternoon of June sixth, this time referring to

(41:24):
the ICE raids as opposed to the pandemonium. Ruffians then
grew more aggressive, vandalizing federal buildings and assaulting ICE officers.
Local police took nearly an hour that evening to respond
to a call for help by officers under attack. That
will be Ice, saying local law enforcement. Please come help us.

(41:47):
We're being attacked as demonstrations spread on Saturday, I'll be
less violently than the day before. President Trump federalized the
California National Guard to protect federal property and personnel, not
enforced local law, but to protect the ice agents and

(42:07):
federal property. You can understand why Governor Gavin Newsom would
be picked by the President's assertion that the state and
city couldn't be trusted to protect peace. It's human nature
to take more offense at slights grounded in truth than
those that aren't. Mister Newsom accused Trump of inflaming a

(42:28):
combustible situation. Why was the city prone to ignite a
lessa asks because progressive government policies, which ironically harm immigrants
most of all, created a tinderbox. If mister Newsom and
his bast cared for about the welfare of the immigrants,

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they'd clean up Los Angeles lawless streets, fix its atrocious
public schools, and stop their assistance or assault rather on businesses.
Start with public safety. Los Angeles Police Department has about
thirteen hundred fewer officers than a decade ago, at about
half as many per capita and nearly ninety percent fewer

(43:14):
per square mile than New York City. You know, as
I read that, initially, I was thinking about the city
of Cincinnati. We're down on officers in terms of members
of officers on patrol as opposed to those in administrative
capacities or doing work behind the scenes. There are hardly
any officers in any given neighborhood welcome to defund the police,

(43:39):
she writes. An overstretched police force almost certainly explains why
I took officers so long to respond to the call
from Ice. Officers blame city leaders. The mayor of this
spring proposed eliminating another four hundred police positions to close
the city's eight hundred million dollar budget hole caused by

(44:01):
ballooning pension costs and lawsuit payouts. The LAPD has struggled
with low morale and recruitment owing to lax enforcement policy
to let lawbreakers run free. That sounds a little bit
like the City of Cincinnati to you. Crimes such as shoplifting, vandalism,
disorderly conduct, and trespassing are rarely prosecuted. How many of
the rioters have a history of looting businesses and vandalizing

(44:24):
buildings With impunity, the police recruiting pool has also shrunk
alongside LA's working class, as blue collar families leave for
locales with better schools and lower cost of living. Los
Angeles County HA has lost some one point four million

(44:44):
people due to domestic out migration since twenty ten, which
parenthetically has been offset in part by an influx of
five hundred and thirty thousand presumably illegal immigrants, but many

(45:05):
of those immigrants lack the qualifications high school diploma and
legal authorization to work to serve in the city's police force.
Many immigrants find work as day laborers, bus boys, or stockhands,
but high minimum wages are pricing unskilled workers out of jobs,
to the detriment of immigrants, young people, and public safety.

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Minimum wage in LA seventeen dollars and twenty eight cents.
The state requires fast food restaurants to pay twenty dollars
an hour. The Employment Policies Institute's Michael Saltzman calculates the
California's unemployment rate for teens with twenty one point two
percent in April, double the nationwide figure, and nine point
seven percent for adults twenty to twenty four versus only

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seven point two on average for the rest of the country.
How many of the rioters were unemployed or underemployed. Young
people have been failed by the city's union controlled public schools.
Nearly a third of students in this is insanity. Nearly
a third of students in the Los Angeles Unified School

(46:14):
District last year last school year were chronically absent, which
is missing one in ten school days or more, from
ten percent in twenty eighteen. A third worse, Only twenty
one percent of the city's eighth graders scored proficient or

(46:35):
higher in reading last year in the nation's report Card,
only nineteen percent in math.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Let that sink in.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Twenty one percent proficient or higher, nineteen percent proficient or
higher in math, and sadly, the scores were lower among Hispanics,
who make up three quarters of the students. Parents are
expressing their displeasure with the schools by moving, causing district

(47:13):
enrollment to fall by a third since twenty ten. While
Los Angeles County's population has declined by about sixty thousand
since twenty ten, the number under eighteen has plunged by
five hundred thousand, according to the Census Bureau data. Population
flight presents a problem for LA's profligate politicians because federal

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funding for schools and sundry programs is based on population.
I wonder why they're protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants.
I mean, you know, she she sort of presents the
obvious here, doesn't she? Oh my god, everyone's fleeing California.
We need to replace our population. How the hell are
we going to do with that? Open the borders up,

(47:56):
and then protest deporting illegal immigrants, many of whom are
island criminals. We need the numbers. We can't keep our
own people here, the nation, citizenry, the legal people, people
born here in the United States, people who are validly
in our country. Don't want to live in California anymore.
Let's give them all free stuff and things in order

(48:18):
to lure them here and take over our communities. And
then we'll scream and yelling riot in the streets when
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement seeks to enforce the law. That
would be me interjecting over Elisa Finley's interesting and wonderful
comments here, she concludes, a cynic might wonder if the

(48:42):
underlying goal of LA's sanctuary policy, which prohibits local law
enforcement from cooperating with federal federal immigration enforcement is to
boost population in federal funding. Huh, a cynic might wonder,
No matter that immigrants are often victims of the criminal aliens,
the cities shields from deportation, and there'll be the criminals
of Donald Trump seeking to prioritize in terms of removing

(49:03):
from our country, the vile, evil criminals, the rapists, the murderers,
those that shouldn't have stepped foot in our country in
the first instance. She concludes, mister Trump's raids may be
unduly harsh, but democratic policies are cruel to immigrants in
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comments of Alicia Finley in that op ed piece, the
House of cards. It is California's entire economy, I suppose,
predicated and built on illegal immigrants, and you deport them
and the whole thing falls apart. Mayor Karen Bass complaining

(51:23):
to President Trump about the financial cost of sending ICE
agents into the jurisdiction. She is concerned about the expenditure
of taxpayer dollars for ice agents. I'm concerned about the
expenditure of taxpayer dollars on like a multitude of things,

(51:45):
but on X she posted just an absolute shameful use
of taxpayer dollars that could be used to actually help people. Despicable.
That's the post help people. I guess you left to

(52:12):
fill in the blanks on that one. It's like my
puzzling over the No Kings rally over the weekend. What
were you there protesting? We're protesting the enforcement of immigration law.
You're protesting Donald Trump as a concept, as a human being,
Trump arrangement, so syndrome, Trump living rent free in your head,
prompting you to go out on a beautiful Saturday to

(52:34):
protest for what reason. For his part, Governor Gavitussm with
his own post on X one hundred and thirty four
million dollars. Are you ready for this? That should be
going to Los Angeles' fire recovery, ah, because of your

(52:54):
incompetence and the mayor's incompetence, and your refusal to clean
up brush and otherwise take care of the various forests
around the region, allowing your infrastructure to collapse, allowing the
electric transmission lines to spark fires. All of that we're
supposed to pay for it, And the money allocated for
ice and customs and immigration enforcement should go to you.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
I guess that's what Bass meant by helping people help
Los Angelinos deal with the with the with rebuilding. Social
media blew up over Newsom and Bass posts White House
Deputy chiefs of Staff for Policies Stefan Miller, wait till

(53:44):
you find out how many trillions we have spent on
illegal immigrants. Another post by campaign strategiest Andrew Clark, Now,
do the nine billion dollars you drained out of our
state treasury to fund your free health care for illegal
immigrants scheme? Real money, real dollars. Recent studies reviewed by

(54:05):
Fox News Digital show that California spends at least tens
of billions on illegal immigrants every year. Far more than
the one hundred and thirty four million dollar costs sending
in troops to respond to the rioting. Now that was
really what the point was a National guard sent in
because the local law enforce it wouldn't protect ice from
criminal actions, it wouldn't protect federal property. So somebody's got

(54:28):
to spend some money to bring about law and order,
at least in so far as protecting federal assets are concerned. Meanwhile,
the predicate for all this, the illegal immigrants and notably
the criminal element among them, are the purpose and reason
that all this kind of came unglued. Federation of Army
Immigration Reform fare cost analysis promoted by the House Budget

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Committee back in twenty twenty three in a press release,
found that benefits and services provided illegal alliens in California
alone in calendar year twenty twenty two more than twenty
two billion dollars, and a more recent cost analysis fair
calculated the services for illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers thirty

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one billion dollars annually, incarceration costs for illegal immigrants going
through the court process and being housed in jail two
billion dollars annually. That's a twenty nineteen study. You can
only imagine that's gone through the roof. Governor k Newsom

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earlier this year asked for an additional two point eight
billion dollars in loans to address the state's deficit in
the medicaid program, which has blown through budget expectations, largely
due to you know what's coming, coverage for illegal immigrants,
and the figures just continue. All these expanding programs obviously

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act as lures for the illegal immigrant population. Let's go
to sanctuary state California, where we can enjoy medicaid at
no cost to us, among other things, all for the
purpose of California trying to keep that house of cards
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Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 11 (57:56):
Backwise, Brian, a little bit off the subject that you've
been on. I was watching the news over the weekend
and they were talking about upcoming Juneteenth celebrations. Yeah, and
I know a lot of conservatives tend to lean towards
that as being sort of an appeasement type holiday. But
you're looking at it all wrong. This is I take

(58:17):
great pleasure in pointing out the people that it's the
celebration of the last of the slaves finding out that
they'd been freed from the Democrats by Republicans.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Now, you know what, It wouldn't shock me if Christopher
Sprithman brings that up, because he has talked about Juneteenth
and his family regularly and for a many, many many
years celebrating that very point. I mean, I'm with you
a hundred percent on the interpretation of the celebration. That's
the point, isn't it. Democrats are the Party of the Klan,

(58:51):
Democrats with the Party of Slavery, Democrats of the Party
of Jim Crow Laws if it wasn't for Republic. Yeah, exactly,
we should all be celebrating.

Speaker 11 (59:00):
Not to mention, don't forget the Welfare Act of sixty four,
which pretty much destroyed the black family unit.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Yes, yes, you know.

Speaker 11 (59:08):
I mean there's there's a lot of there's a lot
of reasons why. It's kind of funny because I work
with some black guys and one of them is kind
of a political and the other two are pretty much
strong Trump supporters because they looked around. They work for
a living, and they're tired of paying for people that.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Don't they work for a living.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 11 (59:35):
So anyway, if you're a conservative and they start, you
start getting irritated about Juneteenth, No, remember to point that
out on top of that. Not that it matters, because
it's just personal. But I have an ancestor that was
killed in the Civil War fighting for their freedom, So
to me, it's an extra special holiday.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
There you have it. That's a great point. I'm glad
you made it. I really am.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
It's a question for perspective, and sometimes our perspectives are well,
perhaps not exactly accurate anyhow.

Speaker 9 (01:00:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Sarah Herringer, in another post talking about AFTAB Purvoll showing
up at the No King's rally, which he apparently did,
and there's a photograph of him speaking with a bullhorn
to the crowd. Since I mayor rallies with crowd at
anti Trump protest. Sarah Herringer, so we all know whose

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husband got stabbed to death in there over the right
home wrote this in a recent post. I believe in
civic engagement. I believe in calling out injustice wherever it is.
But when your house is on fire, you don't run
to protest someone else's mayor purval. You were elected to
govern Cincinnati, not to campaign on national stages, not to
chase headlines. Well, you gave speeches about protecting us from

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the federal government. My husband was murdered in our home
by a man who was supposed to be under state supervision,
a man who absconded from post release control, a man
who should have been found and stopped. That is not
a federal issue. That is your lane, and you weren't
in it. I don't care if you're a Democrat or
a Republican. I care whether you are present, I care

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whether you're competent. I care whether the families in this
city can trust you to do more than perform grief
after the fact, because the truth is, you can't protest
authoritarianism while ignoring dysfunction in your own backyard. You can't
call yourself a protector of democracy while communities in your
care are being left unprotected. You were given a city,

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start acting like it, because while you're focused on Washington,
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I'm pivoting off of the reality of what's going on
in California, the fact that their entire state is pretty
much built and predicated on illegal immigrants being there and
staying there, otherwise work wouldn't get done. And Trump, I think,
is echoing that concern. Trump administration has directed immigration officers

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to pause arrest at farms, restaurants, and hotels, this following
President Trump expressing alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement,
at least according to officials speaking with the News hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Official with ICE Homeland Security Investigations Unit, Tatum King, wrote
regional leaders this past Thursday to halt investigations of the
agricultural industry, including meat packers, restaurants, and hotels. As reported
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jobs most Americans won't do. Actio's describing it as an
economic calamity that result from the mass deportations. If you
go after every illegal immigrant or unauthorized immigrant, I guess
it's easier to get free stuff than work for Americans
because Americans won't do these labor intensive jobs. American Immigration

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Council estimated unauthorized immigrants make up about four point six
of the nation's total employed labor force. Ready for this one, though,
according to the Department of Agriculture, a recent study that
they put out estimated that about forty two percent of
America's farm workers were undocumented. That's county years twenty twenty

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to twenty twenty two.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Hmmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
And it's a legitimate question to ask who's going to
do the farm work, who's going to pick crops? Apparently
Americans are too damn lazy to do it themselves. Tricia McLaughlin,
Homeland Security spokesperson, said, we will follow President's direction and
continue to work to get the worst of the worst
criminal illegal aliens off American streets, of course, pivoting off

(01:05:57):
of We're not going to go after the agricultural workers,
the ones that haven't committed crimes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
We let them stay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
An illustration that mass deportations of every single illegal immigrant
in our country threatens industries that rely on them. Truth
social media posts from our own president, our great farmers,
and people in the hotel and leisure business have been
starting as stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration

(01:06:27):
is taking very good, long time workers away from them,
with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. Many cases,
the criminals allowed in our country by the very stupid
Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
This is not good.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
We must protect our farmers, but get the criminals out
of the USA. Changes are coming, so, you know, even
Donald Trump recognizes the limitations of a you know, wholesale
one dent crackdown on this and I bring this up,
you know, to kick you to reflect on the reality
that we are dealing with here in the country. We've

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raised a whole generation or five generations, how many how
long has this been going on of young people who
are here and are lawfully here, Because there are kids
that won't do work and We got people coming from
countries that their country suck so much that they're happy

(01:07:30):
to do that kind of work. I mean, talk to
the kid down in your basement, play an Xbox, so
I get a job?

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Would uh picking berries? Hmm?

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Now go to some place that's just economically devastated, or
you know, just an awful, awful, awful country, so much
so that you're willing to walk thousands of miles and
pay drug cartels the smugging you into our country. You're
willing to pick the berries that the kid in the
basement won't do. It's just a real odd thing to behold,

(01:08:13):
isn't it. Which And I had the guy from Breitbart
talking about basically it's a guilded age out in California.
We have all these really really really rich people that
have all of these folks that are here illegally doing
the work for them for very little wage at all.
Why because well, you'd have to pay an American citizen

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young person a whole hell of a lot more than
you would pay any illegal to do the work.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Well, isn't that kind of America at large? I don't know.

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Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Part of the problem with this sanctuary cities and state
policies is that they don't alert Immigrations and Customs officials
about criminals in the court system. We've seen this time
and time again. They don't cooperate. You got a guy
that's committed to crime, and you don't let ICE know
when you're letting them out in spite of the fact
they're an illegal, illegal immigrant. And if you did that,

(01:10:35):
you would get rid of the bad element that Donald
Trump is trying to focus on, which would not then
thereby prevent ICE or eliminate or alleviate the need for
ICE to go into. Yeah, the farming industry or other businesses,
meat packers and things. That's part of the problem is
because you know, as the article pointed out another's note,

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some of the criminal element will in fact go and
do these jobs. So you got a bad guy in
working as a meatpacker person or a fruit picker, let
out of the criminal justice system to go back out
on the streets because of the sanctuary policies, and then
ICE says, well, we know where that guy is. They
go in there and then find out there's a whole
bunch of illegal immigrants and end up rounding all of

(01:11:17):
them up. So while Trump and I am going to
pair back, I guess that happening. I presume that that
means that I, well, I s will have to pick
them up elsewhere as a post on the job. Then
if you know someone's on the street illegal alien who's

(01:11:38):
a criminal, then they'll try to find them someplace else.
It's obviously a very complicating factor that goes on.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Borders.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Our Tom Homan repeatedly said ICE is going to send
officers into communities and workplaces, particularly in sanctuary jurisdictions that
limit the agency's access to local jails. He said, you know,
sanctuary cities will get exactly what they don't want, more
officers in the communities and more officers of the work sites.
We can't arrest them in the jail, we'll arrest them

(01:12:09):
in the community. If we can't arrest them in the community,
we're gonna increase work side enforcement operation. We're gonna flood
the zone. And then Trump ends up having a backpack
on that concept because of course, apparently none of us
will have any food to eat if we go ahead
and get all the illegal immigrants off the farms. This
is an extremely complicated situation, is it not, And if

(01:12:41):
you're opposing ICE agents, you run the risk. I'm moving
over it to more comical element, although it's not comical
for the victim. Here man protesting against ice raids in
downtown Los Angeles with Los Angeles KTLA after an officer's

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close range rubber bullet shot hit him in the groin, dear,
what the hell, severely bruising one of his testicles and
shattering the other. Thirty three year old so called demonstrator
Martin Santoyo quote it sucks to sit down close quote.

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
Now who can argue with that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Home from the hospital but still in recovery, unable to walk.
Incident happened last Monday, Temple Street, just after he got
out off his bicycle within the crowd of protesters among
law enforcement. He noted that before this happened, he did
not hear any officers declaring an unlawful gathering. Okay, that

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Brian Thomas right here, wishing everybody a very happy Monday,
and uh, you know, a post Father's Day, happy Father's
Day at all. The dad's out there just reflecting on
and missing my father on Father's Day yesterday. So I
understand a lot of people in that position, and I

(01:15:08):
get it. But I hope you had a wonderful day.
And I want to thank my wife and my children
for making the day extra special for me, had a
wonderful meal, enjoyed their company, and I got two really
nice cards.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
My wife did a beautiful job of my card. It's
always nice when you do personal thoughts. Wasn't even a
Father's Day card. It was just like a you know,
a you know, flowers and stuff on the front and
just a blank space that she filled in completely. So
thank you very much, Paul, and I really appreciated those
kind words. Nice to be loved, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
Uh?

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look forward to talking to Christopher Money money at Brian James,
fast forward to one hour. We'll talk futures. We'll talk
to the price of oil, giving the Iran Israel bombing
campaign that's currently in progress, federal interest rate and out

(01:16:00):
will the interest rates drop? And Donald Trump's been pushing
for that record number of people claiming Social Security again
pointing out the obvious A lot of baby boomers are
in retirement age.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Now, big chunk of folks.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
That's the World War two veterans coming back and having babies.
Karris Cares. Speaking of veterans, we got Cincinniva on at
eight four who got some information passed along to my
veteran audience members. And God bless each and every one
of you. Anyhow, Yeah, speaking of these the conflict going on,

(01:16:34):
it's more of the conflict.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
It's out outright war and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
It looks like I tell you, uh, Israel has really
done a number on Iran, and now apparently they own
the airspace Israel flying in and out and hitting more
targets in Iran. I guess free of the concern they're
going to get shot out of the scot They've blown
up quite a bit of the Iran's arsenal, and yet

(01:17:01):
over the weekend they claimed to operate almost freely in Iran.
Third day of air strikes yesterday killed more high ranking
security figures, and some Iranian missiles did slip through Israeli's
air defenses. I've seen a number of reports hypersonic missiles
and I was not aware that Iran had those, not

(01:17:24):
even sure if we've got them anyway. As an indication
of how far Israel was prepared to go amid fears
of all out war, US official told the Associated Press
that Donald Trump that President Trump in recent days vetoed
and Israeli planned to kill Iran's supreme leader, Ayatola al Khameni. Now, meanwhile,

(01:17:47):
Trump was sing over the weekend, just yesterday, we had
nothing to do with this, this this war campaign. US
had nothing to do with the attack on Iran. But
he pointed out, a if we are attacked in any way,
shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might
of the US armed forces will come down on you
at levels never seen before. However, we can easily get

(01:18:10):
a deal gun between Iran and Israel and end the
bloody conflict. So here he is attempting, and you know,
Iran kept walking away from the table. I mean, it's
almost like the situation with Russian and Ukraine. Russia says, listen,
we are not going to negotiate peace unless you agree
to completely disarm and denazify, whatever the hell that's supposed
to mean, as well as give away the certain you know,

(01:18:33):
areas of Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Right, and Zelensky won't.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Come to the table because he won't concede to those
initial demands. Well, that's exactly what Iran has been saying
in so far as you know the the nuclear processing.
They're not going to give up their nuclear programs. So
don't come to the table telling us that we're going
to have to give up our nuclear program as a
predicate for sitting down and negotiating peace. So I suppose
we're to stalemate such that you know, Israel says, listen,

(01:18:59):
they're like five seconds away from getting a nuclear bomb.
We are going to take them out in a wildly
successful campaign. Hell, it even surprised the Israelis that they
were able to kill so many of the top commanders
in that meeting, which apparently got orchestrated by the Israeli
government itself. And isn't an amazing thing to realize that
Israel has infiltrated the Iranian government specifically red flags for

(01:19:26):
us here in the United States of America during protest
weekend and on this long term discussion we've been having
about the illegal immigrant population, all the known godaways think
about it. Ukraine was able to sneak in drones into
Russia to hit Russian targets deep within Russia that were
out of the reach of the Ukrainian military. Obviously that

(01:19:48):
took place over a long period of time, but that
they were successful in doing that. Israel able to get
Hamas to pick up a bunch of cell phones and
walkie talkies and communication devices and carry them around for like,
I guess that's in a campaign that went over a
multi year or more, and then activated the blow up switch,
eliminating a whole bunch of the Hamas members blow them up.

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And then did the same thing in Iran. Infiltrated the government,
snuck in Dernes and we're able to hit a whole
bunch of targets from within Iran itself. Anybody notice a
trend coming here? Meanwhile, across the United States of America,
the Chinese Communist Party busy buying up vast quantities of
land near military bases. Hmm, anything to see there. I mean,

(01:20:39):
we live in a world where it is literally impossible
to protect yourself from every single threat. As I joked
this morning about members of Congress now demanding more security,
personal security for them because this nutcase dvance bolter killed
State Representative Melissa Hartman and her husband while posing as

(01:21:01):
a police officer. Yeah, we live in a violent world,
whether it's just on this local, individual state basis with
I have no idea what his political motivations are, but
they caught him. But you know, the broader point is,
I mean, there's no way to protect yourself from all

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forms of violence out there in the world. Some are
posed a greater threat than others. It's a question of
where you focus your resources, which is kind of the
joking point about congressional members. Four hundred and fifty plus
members of Congress. Are we gonna pay for each and

(01:21:42):
every one of them to have twenty four hour day,
seven day week security because that's what was being suggested.
Oh my god. Elected officials in the state of Minnesota
got murdered. Yeah, talked to a whole bunch of people
down and over the Rhine or elsewhere in the city
Sincinnati to get murdered almost every single day. Yeah, well,
we can't provide personal protection for them either. Dangerous world

(01:22:09):
we live in, isn't it. So I'm a fan of
the Second Amendment, Bobby, someone else is a fan of
the Second Amendment. Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday
to you, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
Happy Monday.

Speaker 12 (01:22:20):
My friend I'd like to thank you and all the
three letter agencies, and they did an awful good job Saturday,
And I tell you where it was, right up in Dayton,
a Rwanda national he was arrested and for his participation
in that ninety four genocide in Rwanda.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Oh really, Oh yeah, picked him up right up there.

Speaker 12 (01:22:43):
He was one of the ones that orchestrated the murder
of all those Tucsi rebels.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Oh my god, that was hundreds of thousands of people
that got slaughtered, wasn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:22:51):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Yes, and he was up in dates.

Speaker 12 (01:22:55):
Yes, I don't think it's on the news or anything.

Speaker 11 (01:22:58):
Really.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
Yes, I have not seen it anything about that.

Speaker 12 (01:23:01):
Yeah, sure is. So I like to thank everybody involved
in that to getting that food off the street and
anybody around him.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
No kidding. That was Bill Clinton.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
I think he said that was his greatest failure as
a president, that he wasn't able to do anything at
all about that genocide in Rwanda. That also illustrates kind
of further the point that I made earlier and the
ineffective reality of the United Nations. You were going to
scratch your head and wonder where the hell they are.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
It's like, what is the point of the United Nations.

Speaker 12 (01:23:33):
He's been here since.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Nine That's crazy, man.

Speaker 12 (01:23:40):
I can't put it in any other way.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Yeah, I can't either. Just one of how many that
we will never know the number of extraordinarily dangers and
in this particular case, murders. Mass murders are in this
country right now, which is why I say take stock
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Spleen and what we call the Smith Event. Welcome back,
Christopher Smithman. I hope you had a wonderful Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
I did, and Happy Father's Day to you. You're an
awesome father. Well I know, I know you got awesome love.
I got awesome love.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
And yeah I a then I got awesome love, Christopher.
And you know, I'm really self deprecating when it comes to,
you know, my father being a father, and you know,
my daughter always kind of rises to the challenge of
me feeling like for in some way, shape or form,
I've kind of let them down. And my wife like, Brian,
come on, man, you know it's like I look back

(01:26:18):
and I focus on things and maybe I should have
done or should have done better, or could have done
And overall, apparently at least they think they think that
I've done a good job.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
That's what matters. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Well, you know it's that Monday morning quarterbacking. Even for fathers.
Oh yeah, do the best we can. It's the hardest
job in the world to be a parent. I like
to tell my siblings who have dogs and no children,
there's a big difference. I had a dog, I've got kids.
I got to tell these uncles and ats and cousins

(01:26:55):
around me, Hey, it is totally different being a parent.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
No kidding, Lord Almighty, you know, and I gotta be
honest with you. I will admit, and I know you
experienced this, and you know, God bless your late wife.
What a wonderful, wonderful woman. When you know, when you
marry right and you stick together, it makes that concept
of parenting a lot easier when there are two people
involved in raising the children and both care and have

(01:27:23):
a concern over their well being. That's it's It just
makes being a parent an enjoyable experience. I can't imagine
being a single parent and have to take on the
job of you know, the disciplinarian, the person providing love
and food and shelter and all that, without the benefit
of a spouse who's there with you and dealing with
the challenges itself. I mean, that's the joy of having

(01:27:45):
two parent families, you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
Know, Brian, What I will say to you in public
honesty is that I didn't get being a single parent
until Pam died. I know, so I got I got
both sides of it right, and so my appreciation for
single parents and what they have to manage on a
daily basis, no matter the circumstances, whether it's divorced or

(01:28:11):
did bedad, whatever the scenario is, it is a tough
job trying to be mama and papa at the same time.
You know, you don't don't you don't get that break
that you normally got, Like you know, it's like that
that wrestling on TV. You go in and somebody tagged
in and you're like, hey, come in, I need a break.
When you're a single parent, you don't get that. It's

(01:28:33):
real time all the time, and it's and it's really
really tough. But I but my hat goes out for
all the dads out there, and I think it's one
of those public policies, uh that you know, police officers
and teachers and uh firefighters whoever, those those professions are
what we're seeing happening across our country and our cities.

(01:28:56):
You know, they can't take the place of parenting and
fathers in households. They just can't. And until we get
that together, I mean I'm talking about as a culture,
not something some legislator can do as a country. Until
we get our arms around fatherhood and what that means

(01:29:16):
for our country and how we hold dads. We're talking
about Father's Day because we can hold moms accountable too,
but today we're talking about dad. How we hold these
dads accountable for their involvement or lack of involvement in
these kids' life. It's going to be difficult to make progress, indeed.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
And you know, I'll say, I may have all fathers
out there who may not be, you know, as engaged
as other fathers. If you're there and you're working, and
you're doing a job, and you're putting food on the table,
that alone is important in the hearts and minds of children.
They at least see you being responsible for taking care

(01:29:58):
of the family. You're getting up, you're going to work
every single day, and then you're coming home in the evening.
You're coming home to them, And that alone is an
important lesson and illustration of the importance of fatherhood in
and of itself.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
And let me add to that to say, dads out
there who are listening to us, right, who are I'm
just going to say, who are marginal to poor? Remember
how you treat the mother of your children when you
have a daughter, When you have a daughter, right, it's
what she learns what she knows, and it's what her

(01:30:35):
expectations are.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Amen, So understand.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
That there are ramifications, whether it's a son and how
he treats a woman, but your daughter and her expectations
of how she's treated. So treat mama bad and do
all that stuff, and then don't get all bent out
of shape when she selects somebody like you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Oh that's awesome. And as a shout out to Eric,
my daughter's fiance, because he is a good man, a
good protective, responsible man, and you know what, I'm glad
you brought that up. I feel even better about my
daughter getting married to Eric cart hang On, bring you
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with Christopher smith Man always going to smith event every
Monday beginning at seven to twenty. Christopher, what else is
on your mind? Since we got our Father's Day well
wishes out of the way.

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
It's this dance vault fifty seven year old Minnesota guy
who shows up dressed like a police officer and guns
down the house speaker Melissa Hortman and her and her
husband in their home and I heard you talking about
this this morning. Yeah, then goes and tries to target
another elected official, shoots him and her husband. We our

(01:31:52):
hearts go out to them because and the great work
of the of the police who like pulled it together
real fast. He's probably going door to door here because
they saw the hit list in the car and responded,
found them shot, and gave them life saving help that

(01:32:13):
got them into surgery. But the point is, is all
of this rhetoric that we see going on, cars burning,
Brian Thomas, Rocks being thrown at police officers, bottles being
thrown at police officers. They're they're doing their jobs and
to see the mass media fall right back in the trap.

(01:32:38):
Right they're on TV. Cars are on fire, bricks are
being thrown, cops are being hit and punched, and they
say there's no violence. These are just peaceful protests, like
don't believe your eyes, don't believe what you're hearing, don't
believe what you're seeing. However you want to dress that
pig up. I am amazed at the mainstream media right.

(01:33:00):
They don't understand how they are playing a major part
in what just happened in Minnesota. Even the governor there
and his behavior, the things that he has said, his
own rhetoric. Yeah, I think, and this is speculation, Brian Thomas.
I think we're going to find out that this person
did not like a recent vote of the House speaker

(01:33:21):
there and decided to take things into his own hands.
I think we're going to find out what his motivations were,
and they were about votes that these Democrats taking with Republicans.
And this notion of compromise has left the public space
meaning to say, I'm trying to compromise with my colleague

(01:33:42):
and I'm trying to move some type of public policy forward.
In today's world, it's viewed as you are some person
that has gone against us. You know, you're now a trader,
and I'm going to announce try to take you out.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to take you out.

(01:34:03):
And I just my hearts go out to those families.
Bryan Times. I just wanted to say that I'm watching that.
I'm glad they called him. I hope they hold him accountable.
But it's unbelievable and these are the things I have
to be honest with you, I worry about, Brian Thomas,
your friend me personally. I worry about this. You know,
I'm on I'm on red alert most days, and I

(01:34:24):
encourage people, and I've said it on your show that
you've got to be prepared to defend yourself. Yeah, and
you have these same liberal bodies like City Hall in Cincinnati,
you know, passing resolutions and saying you want to get
rid of all legal guns and illegal guns. Like it
makes absolutely no sense. If you're not gonna protect me,

(01:34:47):
why can't I take it under my own to protect
my family and my house. I just don't understand it.
Brian Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
Well, you know, and you got members of Congress now
talking about getting personal security for themselves. Of course, Uh,
you know, House of Representative members and senators don't have
their own personal security unless they're in some lofty elevated position.
And you know, after these shootings in Minnesota now they're
screaming and yelling about getting their own law. You know,
I guess taxpayer funded private security. I mean, you and

(01:35:15):
I don't get that, Christopher, And we live in a
far more dangerous world than they live in.

Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
Look, Brian Thomas, public, they don't even realize what you
personally went through when somebody with their truck tried to
run you off the road right, and that that was
a very close call for you, my friend Brian Thomas,
meaning it was a close call what was happening on
that highway when that guy was trying to run you
off the road, and he didn't realize that within seconds

(01:35:44):
that guy was about to lose his life. That Brian
Thomas wasn't gonna play with him when he got out
of that car now.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
And he did the right thing by walking away from
where the cars ended up. And that's what saved his
life because he was at my door when I opened
my door up. I've said before and I say it again,
I'm sorry. I was in a position where I was
feared for what I feared for my life legitimately so
and it's nice to have the ultimate great equalizer, because

(01:36:09):
that guy towered over me in terms of his size.
You know, that's the point of having a firearm. You
could be a slight of build, elderly woman of ninety
pounds and you can still defend yourself against a six
foot four to four hundred pound guy. And if you don't,
if you don't take it upon yourself to be in
a position to be able to do that, not that

(01:36:31):
in all circumstances you are going to be able to
do it. I'm just I'm not saying that owning a
firearm alone is going to avoid all situations. World's in
a perfect place, but having access to one certainly should
provide you a measure of comfort and at least the
ability to stop something like that from happening to you
or especially coming up. He was a father's day. More fundamentally,

(01:36:53):
your family. Let's bring Christopher back seven thirty six. If
you have care, see the talks dam seven forty one
almost and went I think about Kresy Talk Station. Enjoying
my conversation with Christopher Smith and always enjoy hearing from
every Monday. We're gonna hear from Brian James Monday, Monday,
after the top of the arn is Christopher?

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
What else is on your mind this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
Look? Look, Brian, this segment that I'm gonna have is
going to feel a little boring. I just want to
share to your listening audience. But it's the foundation and
it will set up further conversations that you and I
will have on Monday mornings. There are three books or
historical points that every American should understand about our country.

(01:37:36):
One is the dread Scott case. Number two is juneteenth.
I heard you talking about it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Yeah, I know you're going to bring that up.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
And they should understand the Tuskegee Syphilist study. Right, these
are three major things historically that happen in our country,
and particularly conservatives should go out. Republicans should go out
and find out about the dread Scott case. June teams
understand it, and the Tustigee Simpli studies. No, I'm gonna

(01:38:06):
jump into dread Scott. So, Dred Scott is a American
who was a slave who had traveled to a free
state and said, hey, I'm now free. This case went
all the way to the Supreme Court and seven to two,
which were seven Dixiecrats, seven activists, Supreme Court justices said,

(01:38:31):
Dred Scott, you are a slave. You will always be
a slave. It doesn't matter where you live, where you travel.
You are not an American and you will never be
an American. Pred Scott, you are property. This was the
United States Supreme Court. These were seven Dixiecrats. Look it up,

(01:38:54):
who are Supreme Court justices. This case, many historians will say,
was the beginning of the Civil War. This was the
beginning of the war which ultimately elected Lincoln as President
of the United States of America. And through all of
that you had the birth of Juneteenth. On June nineteenth,

(01:39:16):
eighteen sixty five, where major which is this is an officer,
a major General, Gordon Granger, ordered the final enforcement of
the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, which was the end of
the Civil War, which African Americans in this country say
that was the day of our freedom sold the birth

(01:39:37):
of Juneteenth. But Dred Scott and Juneteenth are absolutely linked together.
And in all of that were the Dixiecrats, were the
Democrats who were oppressing African Americans, enslaved people in this country.
And it was the Republicans who were fighting for those freedoms,

(01:39:58):
who were voting like overwhelmingly for the civil rights legislation
to come through the Civil Rights Act. So many Republicans
and Conservatives do not know the role they played in
the freedom of African Americans, colors, the negro whatever you

(01:40:18):
want to call us, through the history of the United
States of America. If it were up to the Dixiecrats,
we would still be slaves today. If it were up
to the Dixiecrats, we would not be Americans. Why is
this important? Right now? The dread Scott case is being
used by liberals in the Supreme Court right now for

(01:40:40):
birth rights for those who have come to our country
illegally who are giving birth and saying those citizens are
now Americans. And they're now using the dread Scott case
right now with seven to two, with a Supreme Court
that said dread Scott wasn't a citizen, you will never
be an American. Now you see the President of the

(01:41:01):
United States who say, hey, listen, you can't just come
to this country illegally. That's the key. We didn't say legally,
you come to the country illegally, give birth to a child,
and that child be a citizen of the United States.
African Americans who are listening to me, do not understand
that when this is being argued in front of the

(01:41:21):
Supreme Court, they're gonna say dread Scott, dread Scott, dread Scott,
dread Scott constantly because it's the foundation of it. And
so it's amazing the hypocrisy where the Supreme Court got
it wrong in eighteen fifty seven dred Scott versus Sanford
in eighteen fifty seven, and now the liberals are now
using on the back of an enslaved people, a man

(01:41:44):
who fought for his freedoms, saying, now we're gonna use
this case for those who came here illegally, who have
a baby, We're gonna call them Americans. But we didn't
want to call you one, dad and put it in
your pipe and smoking.

Speaker 1 (01:42:01):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Yeah, I you know, I just the horror of that case,
that the idea that a person a human being, is
not considered a human being but is considered a piece
of property. It's just it's so abhorrent. But see that's
the power of the law. See that dreads Scot's case

(01:42:23):
is one of the reasons why I don't believe in
the death penalty, that the state can take your life
from you, perhaps in error. And there have been a
whole bunch of cases where people have been convicted of
murder and sense of the to the to the to death.
I want to find out that, oh, I'm sorry, we
got it wrong, that they could take a life, so
that the power of the justice is just absolutely amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
Now let me say to you, Brian Thomas, we agree.
See I agree in that with the death penalty. What
problem is that the system is broken, meaning meaning the
flaws of the system because of the human beings involved.
Got You got nine Supreme Court justices seven to two, right,

(01:43:07):
who are saying that dread Scott was not a human being.
This is an important point I'm trying to make. So
as the Supreme Court has been making all these decisions
based on what these local federal judges have been doing,
meaning you got Democrats who are shopping judges across the
United States trying to control the White House. It doesn't
matter to me who's in the White House by Democrat

(01:43:28):
or Republican and independent. It's wrong to shop these cases
to liberal federal judges and them make rulings across the
entire United States. But then when it gets to the
Supreme Court, Please don't ever tell me that the Supreme
Court gets it right all the time. All you have
to do is look at the dread Scott case and

(01:43:49):
see where the Supreme Court rules seven to two that
dread Scott, an American who was a slave, is never
ever going to have the rights of an American. You
will always be property seventy two, which actually started the
Civil War and the birth of a man called Abraham
Lincoln who became the President of the United States, which

(01:44:12):
ultimately ended with the Emancipation Proclamation June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five,
which was the birth right of Juneteenth. Every Republican should
understand Juneteenth. You should embrace juet You should say I
love Juneteenth. You should go to the Juneteenth celebrations. You
should put your money behind Junetee. June tenth is your day.

(01:44:34):
It's your day that you stood up against Dixiecrats who
are trying to keep Africans Negroes enslaved as properties forever
in the United States of America. If the only reason
we don't understand this is that our school systems, which
are liberal, do not teach this history to the children.
They don't want the children to know because they're trying

(01:44:55):
to continue to indoctrinate them so that they come out
as Democrat, not charged with the information to understand. Hey, man,
Republicans do a lot of great things for African Americans.
All these things are true.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
Yeah, well, and you know it's interesting because in the
past you brought up to in teens, and it seems
to be only a fairly recent phenomenon that it is
widely celebrated.

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
You grew up in a home that celebrated Juneteenth.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
Absolutely. My parents are from the South, right, My father
from Birmingham, Alabama, my mother from Montgomery, Alabama. They could
not go to white institutions. They went to Tuskegee Institute,
which is now called Tuskegee University. My mother who I'm
bragging on with Miss Tuskegee because we always tease my dad,
how could you date our pool in fraying terms? How

(01:45:46):
did you get the well? How was your rap game
so strong that you could land Miss Tuskegee. That's a
very big deal. Anybody who goes to an HBCU understands
what I'm saying. But the point that I make it
you is, yes, we celebrated Juneteenth, and what's happening right
now is people. I want people to understand that Juneteenth

(01:46:07):
and July fourth are not in conflict. These two things
are not in conflict. And conservatives need to understand Juneteenth,
the dred Scott case, and they have to understand the
Tuskegee Syphlis study. And these things should be books and
all of their homes that they all read to all
of their children. So they understand those three things, it

(01:46:29):
will it will change their life if they understand those
three those three pieces of history. Forgiving these things, you
know what I mean, you know, I know this this this, yeah,
this vent might be a little bit, you know, not
not as like other things. But we have to build
on these historical things. So people understand when I say, hey,

(01:46:50):
dred Scott is being discussed right now for birthright for
people who came to the country illegally gave birth to
a child. And now on the backs of ways they're
trying to say that child is free. When the Supreme
Court said, no, dred Scott, you'll always be a slave.
We're never And by the way, he died like like

(01:47:12):
they made him a citizen, but he almost died essentially
in that in that fight, and didn't that struggle. And
by the way, dred Scott's lawyer was a Republican. I'm
gonna say that again. Dred Scott's lawyer who fought for
him was an open.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Republican, Christopher Smith. And always a pleasure getting the event
from you, my friend. Appreciate your walking through history. Those
who do not study history are destined to repeat the
mistakes of the past.

Speaker 1 (01:47:39):
Anytime, take your info to go.

Speaker 3 (01:47:42):
I'm listening powered.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
By fifty five cars. He's the talk station Ato six
on a Monday, and a happy one to you, Brian Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
Always looking forward to this time we get to talk
about money matters with allver financials. Brian James, It is
time for money Monday. Brian will come back to the
morning show and happy money to you, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:48:02):
Good morning, mister Thomas, and back at you, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Looking at the headlines of the Wall Street General futures
up just slightly, but across the board in the Green
I guess the situation in the war with Israel and
Iran not impacting the markets too much. I guess since
Israel's dominating Iranian airspace and knocking off targets one by one,

(01:48:25):
it looks like that's not going to blow up to
World War three or something. But at least the markets
aren't reacting to it.

Speaker 13 (01:48:31):
Yeah, the mark market seems to be taking it in stride.
Futures right now are up about anywhere from a half
to one percent, depending on which one you're looking at. Friday,
when this all kind of blew up, we had about
a one to one point seven percent drop in the
various market in disease, which that's to be expected because
the market, as we always talk about, the market doesn't
like unknown stuff. We don't like the unexpected, and we

(01:48:51):
certainly don't want wars period, end of story. But at
the end of the day, the world does keep on
turning in the face of war, even if you if
you look at and I don't want to go down
this path at all, but just to give a little
bit of historical contact, and again not implying that this
is happening, but even World War two, most of the
years of World War two.

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
Were positive with regard to the stock market. We don't
want any of this.

Speaker 13 (01:49:10):
But if you're sitting there going thinking, well, I can't
do any about the war anyway, so I'm gonna worry
about the stuff that they do control, which is my
own situation. There's nothing going on right now that should
cause you to rush to the computer or rush to
the phone, to dump everything you have or put it
all in gold or any of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:49:23):
It's just more painful.

Speaker 1 (01:49:25):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:49:26):
Let's focus more on the human sacrifice that's occurring than
the financial because that's not really happening. Anyway, oil prices
are moving around as would be expected. We did see
a surge from sixty eight bucks to seventy eight dollars
a barrel right after the Israel's struck or ins nuclear facilities,
but then settled back down to about seventy two. You know,
headlines do fuel this volatility, but history shows us that

(01:49:47):
these disruptions for these smaller conflicts are typically pretty short lived.
Markets pretty have been pretty resilient, so let's not rush
to any conclusions.

Speaker 1 (01:49:55):
Fair enough on that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
And I guess the military industrial complex is always something
put your money in.

Speaker 1 (01:50:02):
Yeah, raytheon.

Speaker 12 (01:50:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
It's like maybe that's one of the reasons the markets
were stable in World War two, because everybody was churning
out military hardware.

Speaker 13 (01:50:11):
Yeah, And I wouldn't say stable, I just mean not
down for four years straight, you know, of a world war.
And the reason for that is because generally speaking, anything
that happens that surprises the world will eventually become a catalyst.
The catalyst in World War two was, as you just mentioned,
we became a military industrial complex. General Motors started making
tanks instead of cars, and the Rubber company started sending

(01:50:33):
rubber overseas to the you know, to support the military.
The end of the day, there's still money moving around.
There are still consumers who become the government and the military,
and there are still producers, so the money still flows.
So that's what keeps economies afloat. And I would even
throw out, you know, not that long ago with COVID
in early twenty twenty. COVID made us all think the
world was going to end. And if you look at

(01:50:54):
what the stock market did between February and March of
twenty twenty, it went off a cliff. But we don't
remember that because we were all learning that we needed
to go live in our houses and not come out
for a while, and that was scarier than looking at
financial statements. So by the time the dust settled on
the market panic, then it had become a catalyst. That's
where Zoom came from. Nobody had really heard of zoom
much before. We all had to go home and learn

(01:51:14):
how to use it. But now it's part of our
lives and I know that, and I've said this on
these airwaves before. You know, we all Worth itself had
to make sure that all of our advisors were able
to communicate with clients we needed similar desks setups at home.
That means I have you know, I have a couple
extra monitors, and you know, all of our employees are
able to do that. And we're obviously not the only
company that did that. I know, iHeart had to do

(01:51:35):
the same thing as well. So anything that that that
causes a curveball usually becomes a catalyst for somebody. Somebody's
going to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money.
And that's kind of what we're seeing right now.

Speaker 1 (01:51:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
Well, it's like artificial intelligence is changing the world as well,
and we're all just going to have to roll with
it and figure out where we are going to be
in the you know, with with with this new concept
and this new technology, it's going to change the world.
Some people are going to lose jobs and others are
going to be fine and safe and they're in I
don't know, the impact is going to be far ranging.
But we tend to adapt, right, I mean, isn't that

(01:52:08):
the point We tend to adapt regardless of circumstances.

Speaker 13 (01:52:10):
Yeah, think of it as an opportunity if if you
are super close to something that that AI that you
feel like AI could easily replace you then it might
be whove you to figure out how to use it
in your environment to at least stave off what may
be inevitable. But at the same time, yeah, these these
it's going to be an opportunity for somebody. So if
you're if you're if you're again just off to the
side worrying about AI changing things, well, then look look

(01:52:31):
for what the opportunity is going to create. Where is
it going to drive industry? And you can look at
any period in the last couple decades and figure out
what the catalyst was. Goes back, you know, going, I'm
just going back to you know, twenty five years to
when the Internet first became a thing and Yahoo and
America Online were the big things. Well, that changed everything
that we did. Then it became for a while it
was real estate, and then that ran us to two
thousand and eight. We ran that into the ground, and

(01:52:52):
then it became mobility, mobile devices, so on and so forth.
Everything is a catalyst. It creates an opportunity. Don't always
look at everything the end of something. Look at it
as the beginning of something as well.

Speaker 3 (01:53:03):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
I understand that in terms of market, we're going to
get the US retail sales figures out.

Speaker 1 (01:53:09):
Is that tomorrow?

Speaker 13 (01:53:11):
Yeah, so big announcements said that that's coming tomorrow. But
the highlight of the week is gonna be the Federal
Reserve meeting we've got coming up on June seventeenth, eighteenth.
This is where char Powell comes out and tells us
whether he wants higher lower interest rates or no change
at all. But yes, we've got a number of reports
coming out this week that will help us with that.
So we've had some recent soft inflation prints. That's a
good thing we want that, meaning that, you know, a

(01:53:33):
soft inflation print simply means that we were not looking
at inflation. We're looking at it in a relatively benign manner.
That has not, however, fundamentally altered what the Fed thinks.
And there are there are actually a couple Fed governors
out there who are advocating for no rate cuts at
all this year. But overall the stance from the Fed
seems to be we really want to cut rates. It's

(01:53:55):
not happening this week, but we do want to drop
rates a little bit by the end of the year.

Speaker 6 (01:53:59):
So hopefully we'll st on that pattern. We'll find out
more later this week.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
Well, I mean I think most people want the rate
cut just because it's going to mean lower mortgage rates.
That's typically the one ripple effect that we all feel,
plus the amount of money we pay on our treasury bills.
Lower is better because we of course continue to borrow
and borrow and borrow and have to pay off at
a higher interest rate.

Speaker 1 (01:54:19):
So a lot of reasons to want it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
What's going through the Fed's mind in so far as
them not cutting rates because you know, inflation has been
comfortable at what two to two point three percent last
several reports, which is about where they want it. Are
they afraid that it's just going to go through the
roof again?

Speaker 13 (01:54:33):
Well, yeah, they're afraid of setting up, you know, lighting
that fuse because it can go quickly. As you just mentioned,
there are plenty of people out there who really, really
super want rate cuts. And the definition of that is
anybody who bought a new house in the last three
years and had to get a mortgage against it. Yeah,
because they're paying six to seven percent. But the Federal
Reserve is still looking at it won't take much to
pop this off again, because there's enough unrest and enough

(01:54:56):
crazy in the world. I mean, look at what we
just got done talking about there's conflict in the world
that we'll directly impact oil prices, and it is a
little bit, you know, not to the point where we
have to be alarmed yet, but at the same time,
that's something that obviously will drive inflation. If we have
this conflict spreads and we wind up with inflation in
oil prices, that's going to trickle through to everything else

(01:55:16):
and compound what has already been going on for five
years as a result of the of the COVID pandemic.
So yes, the Federal Reserve is super, super super cautious.
When they say they want two percent, they want two.
They don't want two point three, they don't want two
in a quarter, they want two percent inflation. If we're
not there, then their concern is anything we do to
possibly trigger it to go the wrong direction is dangerous.

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
Okay, help me understand this.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
I would think that higher prices and of course everything's
connected to oil. I means stating the obvious everything we
buy has been shipped somewhere through a semi tractor trailer
or or something else. So we're enjoying you know, I
saw the sign on the door Kroger over the weekend.
You know, if one thousand products lower prices and maybe

(01:55:58):
the result the reason we've getting we're going to lower
prices at the grocery store because it's causing Kroger less
money to ship things. That suggests more consumption. I mean,
the prices are lower, aren't people engaged in more economic activity?
I mean, I don't know. I'm just trying to walk
through this. How this impacts in the inflation rate?

Speaker 13 (01:56:15):
Well, I think, but I think we're all on edge
a little bit, right because because not just the FED
is concerned about the current economic situation, it's just people
in general. So you know, I think Kroger is somewhat
taking advantage of that and any anything, anytime you can
shine a light on, hey, we are working to reduce prices.
I've never I saw one of those banners yesterday for
the first time. I assume they're on all the Kroger's

(01:56:37):
out there. But I think you can figure out right away,
you know, that they haven't found a way to suddenly
produce everything they do, you know, cheaper. They just perhaps
have found an opportunity here and there to lower some prices,
and they're going to shine a bright light on that.
Maybe they do that all the time, but they don't
hang banners on the building. The banners, to me are
a different approach, right, So that just tells me that
they that they're they're they're looking at their customer base,

(01:56:58):
which is all of us, and they're saying that, you
know what, these people are really really super hypersensitive to
inflation right now. So any positive step we can take,
let's shine a very bright light on it. They've probably
cut prices like this in the past, but haven't hung
the banners or done the commercials because it wasn't a
focus of the buying public.

Speaker 6 (01:57:13):
Well now it is.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Yeah, and I think we're all painfully aware of how
much more food and groceries costs generally speaking, and over
the last several years. I mean we still it just
boggles my mind because I go grocery shopping with my
wife every single weekend and I'm still just amazed at
the cost of like, for example, beef.

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
It's just like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
So anyhow, maybe it's just a marketing thing going on
at Kroger's.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
Let's pause. Bring Brian James back.

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Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
But back to the FED cutting or not, as the
case may be, the interest rate. I know you seem
to suggest that it's unlikely that it's gonna happen, and
I understand your point behind that. Clearly, it's not going
to be a point. I know Donald Trump was screaming
about them cutting the rates a full point. I mean,
if there's any cuts, I mean we're probably talking like
maybe a quarter, right.

Speaker 6 (01:59:30):
Yeah, if we're lucky at that.

Speaker 13 (01:59:32):
So right now, there's a handful of people out there
who believe there might be a modest cup. But I
think I think those people aren't talking about this meeting
or this week's meeting. They're talking about the next move
will be down. We just don't know when it is,
So that is generally accepted. There's not a whole lot
going out there with trigger the opposite. So I don't
think that's exactly worth shattering to say. But the vast
majority of folks, though, I really don't believe that that's

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coming anytime soon. And whenever we've got scary headlines, that's
going to cause everybody to pause.

Speaker 6 (01:59:58):
And there's certainly enough going on in the middle EA
right now that's going to.

Speaker 13 (02:00:00):
Make everybody say, you know, let's take a breath and
just kind of watch and see what comes of this.

Speaker 1 (02:00:04):
Then we'll make decisions. So if we were at.

Speaker 13 (02:00:07):
A full two percent, like like the FED truly truly
really wants, then we might be having a different conversation.
But I think we're close enough now that I think
the risk that they sort of perceived that the risk
is in screwing out the progress as that has been made,
not so much in being a little late for that
final couple of rate cuts.

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
All right, fair enough, and with regard to the oil
oil prices, are up merely because of what might happen
in the Middle East. More broadly speaking, I mean, there
are a bunch of OPAC nations. We all know where
that oil comes from, and because they're in the area
of the conflict between Israel and Iran? Is that it
because the amount of oil that's in the market hasn't changed,

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has it because Irani and oil I thought that were
subject to sanction, not supposed to be able to sell it.
So even if you took Iran completely offline, would that
have an impact on supplies globally?

Speaker 13 (02:00:56):
I mean, and anything's going to impact, right, you've changed
any of the pipelines there, any of the prem missions
that who you know of who who gets to work
with whom, then then yeah, that's going to have an impact.
But I think that the larger issue is that people
aren't focused on it as much. I mean, think about this.
We oil prices have been really have really been benign.
And what I'm really talking about is the price at
the pump, because that's the first thing we all see, right,

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that's right in your face. At least once a week,
you have to look at it, You are required to
look at it. Versus if I grab a loaf of
bread off the shelf. I'm not necessarily going to look
at the price tag there, but we all see gas
prices immediately. That has been pretty benign, and frankly it's
the last couple of years. This wasn't an issue last year.
This is usually the time of year where politicians point
across the aisle from whichever side and blame the opposite

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side for whatever's going on at the gas pump. Right now,
there's nothing going on at the gas pump, so nobody's
really talking about it. And I think there our past
history of looking at the Middle East as the only
area that can swing oil prices in one way or another.
It doesn't have the same impact that it used to,
and I'm not diminishing it. It's certainly the biggest, you know,
the biggest organization and in the world, with Opak and

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all those countries out there, But with the progress that
has been made in fracking in the United States, yeah,
US is one of the largest producers of oil now,
so we're able to moderate that as now that we
are a bigger participating producer in that oil market, so
those smaller regional conflicts don't have the huge impact that
they used to still big, but not as big.

Speaker 2 (02:02:18):
Well in Canada also fracs as well. I mean, it's
amazing what fracking is done, and it's amazing when you
talk about it along those lines. The United States is
now the biggest oil producer. I mean, I live most
of my life through the whole idea that we've reached
peak oil and that we no longer have and it's
a diminishing supply. The vast majority of the concept of
diminishing supply was brought about by well regulation and just

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simply outright refusal to allow us to drill on our
own land.

Speaker 1 (02:02:44):
I mean it used to be I think.

Speaker 13 (02:02:46):
No, I'm no oil expert, but my understanding and my
tiny monkey brain here of how I understand this is
that when I grew up, I believe that that oil
existed as giant lakes in holes in the ground, and
it was just a pure, big puddle of oil, and
we sucked it all out. Yeah, now, and so that
was the concern. Those pockets were going away, we were
going to deplete them. But then you know, as as

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soon as we figured that out, then once we figured
fracking out, now we can suck it out of the
cracks a little more efficiently. And if you read the
stories of how fracking came to be, there's one guy
behind all of it who didn't make an extra nickel
for coming up with this idea. But in any case,
the originally had to pump chemicals down into the ground
to flush this stuff out. Then they had to process

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it and get those chemicals back out, and then they
tried to decided to try, well, let's just do this
with water because it's cheaper, and so that was a
cheaper process and a better process. Then they found a
way to do it without any extra anything. So progress
and technology always are moving us forward, and that has
literally changed what we know as the.

Speaker 2 (02:03:46):
Oil markets amen to that and have entthusians out there.
You know, we were able to create more food through
use of technology and advancement in fertilizers and things of
that nature too. So technology does play an amazing role
in shifting the reality is of what people claim is
an absolute crisis at any given moment. Brian James, I
understand more people are claiming social security. Getting back over

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Speaker 1 (02:06:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
My initial reaction to the topic more people claiming social
security is like, well, that makes sense because the baby
boomers are all reaching retirement age. But the key point
I think in this whole article is now people are
claiming it earlier than the retirement age, because you and
I both have talked about this many times, and anybody
who's paid attention interestingly enough, Brian, I got my you know,
the Social Security note you get which tells you what

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you should anticipate at retirement age, and you know if
you wait longer, the amount of money you can get
if you delay it till like seventy two, increases pretty substantially.
But notwithstanding that, more people are taking it earlier.

Speaker 3 (02:06:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (02:06:49):
Quick correction there, it's not seventy two, it's seventy is
the oldest seventy I'm sorry. Yeah, thank you, appreciate that
you're here for job security for me.

Speaker 6 (02:06:56):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 13 (02:06:57):
Put food on my table for a while, one more
night anyway. Yeah, so this article comes from the San
Francisco Chronicle. Obviously, social security is a federal ban, meaning
it applies to everybody, but the San Francisco Chronicles one
who did the homework this time around. They looked at
a period from October to April and saw a thirteen
percent year over year increase in claims. Many of those
individuals are opting to claim benefits before having reached full

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retirement age of sixty seven. So full retirement age is
sixty six to sixty seven, depending.

Speaker 6 (02:07:25):
On the month and year in which you were born.

Speaker 13 (02:07:27):
But their point is most people are a lot more
people are claiming it a little bit earlier.

Speaker 3 (02:07:31):
Now.

Speaker 13 (02:07:31):
The interesting thing that caught my eye on this is
the timing. So from October to April, think about what
has happened then that during that time period we got
the most rhetoric we've ever gotten out of DC about
potential changes to Social Security. So my uneducated opinion, which
comes from sitting at this table doing financial planning and
answering questions basically all day every day, is that a

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lot of people out there went, you know what, Social
Security has a hole in the bucket. It doesn't work anyway.
They I'm sure they're going to be changing it at
some point. So people decided have decided to turn on
this bigot a little earlier. Again, I can verify that
with conversations with my clients themselves.

Speaker 6 (02:08:07):
You know, and we always run a financial plan.

Speaker 13 (02:08:09):
To see is it going to hurt them to sacrifice
that eight percent increase that you get if you don't.
And in a lot of cases they've decided, you know,
what the heck with that bird in the hand versus
two in the bush, I'd rather turn on this bigot
now than take the risk. I am not yet jumping
up and down telling people you need to go do
this now because they're gonna.

Speaker 6 (02:08:25):
Take it away. That's not gonna happen anyway.

Speaker 13 (02:08:27):
I still feel like there's going to be time to
figure out what changes might might be coming.

Speaker 6 (02:08:32):
So I not quite a crisis.

Speaker 13 (02:08:34):
But again, it is interesting to say that more people
are willing to fire file earlier than there have been
in the past.

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
Well, and the panic that people have is a consequence
of something happening to social security. I mean, I get that.
I think it's a big royal scam. We've all been
led to believe that we're going to be comfortable in
our retirements thanks to the government and our paying into
so security across our entire lives. But that leads people
into a false into security, and it sort of suggests

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that you don't need to prepare for your own retirement
independent of Social Security. That's where your job comes in.
But I mean, I talk about panic in the streets.
If social Security went away, how many people would be rioting?

Speaker 13 (02:09:17):
Yeah, And that's why I'm really not worried about that happening,
because at the end of the day, we still live
in a republic where where everybody who makes the decisions
that impacts people's daily lives, those folks have to run
for reelection at least every two years, sometimes six years,
depending on what you're talking about. But so I still
have to assume that if they decide to punch the
voting public in the face, they are realizing that they

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could be ending their political careers.

Speaker 6 (02:09:40):
Maybe that's their intent.

Speaker 13 (02:09:41):
Who knows, Maybe they just want to get their shots
in and move away based off of their their political
belief I don't think that's gonna be the case. Though
pretty lucrative to be a congressional leader here. So I'm
not overly concerned that we are going to have an
environment where there is no social security because that is
the one of the largest chunks of our population. We
have an aging population, so the people who are receiving

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those dollars in real time are the ones who are
going to get out there and vote. Because they're paying attention,
you can probably do more damage to the younger generations. Unfortunately,
that's not a good thing. But I think that if
we have to sacrifice something, it's probably going to lean
that direction. However, realistically, I think we're going to eventually
we're going to realize that, hey, this just doesn't work.
We can get away with it a few more years. Right,
We're not in dire straits yet, but if nothing else

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is done, then the only change that needs to be
made is benefits need to be reduced by about thirty percent,
which is a chunk, don't get me wrong. However, it's
not one hundred percent. That's the tweet you see. That's
the headline. Social Security is going bankrupt. No, that's not
the case. There is simply in about seven or eight years,
there will be less coming in than is going out.
That's the issue. But that doesn't mean there'll be nothing

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coming in. I guarantee you your paycheck will still have
a fight a line on it in twenty thirty three.
You'll still be paying payroll taxes.

Speaker 2 (02:10:56):
Yes, indeed, But you know the panic and concern over
it might end up getting more people to start, you know,
preparing for their own retirement on using their own means
and allocating more of their salary to a retirement program
and investing it so they have something they can independently
have in their corner when they get to retirement age.

Speaker 13 (02:11:18):
Oh yeah, no, hopefully, I hope so, I hope that
will be the reaction. And Social Security was never intended
to be. It's not comfortable retirement security. It's social security
meaning a way to put a meal on the table.
That's really all it was ever intended to be. It's
now become something that can supplement a comfortable retirement and
make it even more comfortable. And yeah, it's got a

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different role than it did it originally had when it
came out, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Well in the world when Social Security was created, there
are a whole lot more pensions out there with the
employers providing you know, that independent means of money in
senior years, and those have all gone the way of
the dead, or at least the vast majority of them have.

Speaker 1 (02:11:57):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:11:57):
Brian James always a wonderful conversation. Appreciate all financial loading
you out every Monday for a few segments and I'll
look forward to another edition of Money Monday next Monday.

Speaker 6 (02:12:04):
Have a great week, have a good week, stay in
the air condisting.

Speaker 2 (02:12:07):
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Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
Hey if you're forty I fifty five KARROSD talk station. Happy,
Happy Monday. Returning. We've been talking to Todd Sledge from
the sinc ANIAVA for years and I'm going to miss
when you retire, Todd. But welcome back to the morning show.
And you got some information from my veteran friends. And
let me start with a question from Patrick, who's a listener.
Ask the VA folks if they have an et A

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for the Vine Street Hospitals main elevators repair slash replacement.
I don't want to catch you off guard, Todd, welcome back,
but do you know the answer to that question?

Speaker 15 (02:13:54):
Well, I wish I had an answer. Brian the project's
taken a little bit longer than we expected to relate
it to parts, oh that we can't get. Yeah, these elevators,
you know, these elevator shafts date back to the nineteen
fifties and so you know they've been maintained and repaired
over the many, many years. But yeah, it's a it's

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a part issue because of the uniqueness. Yeah, the uniqueness
of these elevators. But hopefully we'll get those back up
and run. And we had a we had some flooding
to go through some of the shafts several weeks ago. Yeah,
still we're maintaining the other We got other elevators that
folks can use, but they're not as uh, they're not
as convenient for our veterans as they need to be.

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But yeah, we're aggressively working on that issue.

Speaker 1 (02:14:38):
Okay, now I'm sure you are.

Speaker 2 (02:14:39):
It's just you know, I'm I don't know that I'm
shocked to find out that, you know, parts aren't available
for something that was built that long ago. Is that
just may guess that makes sense, but repair they must.
So anyhow, we have two things to talk about, because
they sound similar, but they're completely different. The Compact Rack
and the packed. So let's remind my listeners in the

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veteran community about the Compact Act what it's all about
and what they need to know.

Speaker 15 (02:15:08):
Yeah, I'm glad we start with that when first, Brian,
because I know, I know you've always stressed the importance
of veterans to seek out their mental health needs amen
from us, you know, when it's needed. And so the
Compact Act was a major legislative change, one of the
two that we're going to talk about today, that occurred
roughly about over a little over a year ago, where
at any time when a veteran is in distress, suicidal ideation,

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having to do some mental health issues that are just
you know, disrupting their life, instead of needing to get
directly to a VA for care in that immediate time
and urgency, they can go anywhere in the community to
get that care and get stabilized to where they are
more comfortable, they're out of the situations that they're in,
and then that community hospital, that private hospital, or that

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health agency will work with us to get the veterans
transferred over to the right VA care. All of that
is at no cost. So that's the big that's the
biggest change. So the two biggest changes under the Compact
Act are the convenience of getting the kindly care that
you needed no cost to the veteran. And to date,
since this legislation went in, we've helped closely over eleven

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hundred veterans in doing that. So that's that's been a big,
big boat bonus for us and also our veterans in
the community when they need to care at the right time.

Speaker 2 (02:16:25):
That's great, and that's the opportunity to remind folks. I
interviewed a guy named Taylor Gray, veteran, and he apparently
was a Delta Force just constantly adrenaline filled in doing
all kinds of dangerous combat missions, and he got severely
wounded in one of his operations, and of course he
wasn't able to continue service. He could not deal with

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what you and I deal with on a day to
day basis, which is a low key, for comparatively low
stress environment. So he had to kind of work through
his problems and figure out why he was what he was.
But self destructive behavior, your substance abuse, issues with you know, relationships,
and so he really told a great story about exactly
what so many veterans are experiencing, so you've got the
help there at the VA with the Compact Act. You

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of course have the Veterans Crisis Line which is ninety
eight eight and then press one when you get connected.
That's an instant opportunity. But you know, understanding the Compact
Act and knowing that the good people at the VA
are there for your mental health is just a great thing.
And I'm glad you're able to bring that up and
can get a copy of Forged in Chaos by Tyler
Gray on my website. All right, let's pivot over to

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the Packed Act. Something completely different.

Speaker 15 (02:17:35):
Yeah, something completely different. And then it was out before
the Compact Act. And this relates back to a couple
of years ago where we really were stressing veterans to
the It changed enrollment number one for certain level of veterans,
but also the toxic exposures that veterans had been exposed to,
whether you were in combat or not in combat, you know,

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the different exposures that are military folks Brian are exposed
to on a daily basis. This is what the VA
wanted to focus on. You know, you're talking not beyond
the big ones, the burn pits, the oil fires and
agent orange. There's pesticides, diesel fuel, jet fuel, the different
cleaning solutions things on Navy ships. So all these things

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you know, could have a result into some future medical
condition that you know. There's no family history too, it's
not tied to anything other than your exposure in the military.
So that healthcare piece of it getting a toxic exposure
screen which is a simple questionnaire type screening that goes
through your primary care physician at the VA, and then

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the other side of that is sitting down and talking
with a certified veteran service officer. I focus a lot
about going to the county offices Hamilton County, Claremont County,
and Butler County as well to talk to those folks
about filing for any type of level of disability compensation
that could be related to that toxic exposure. And for

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some veterans who are who unfortunately don't become eligible because
of various things, a PACKDACK submission, a new rating of
some sort can get that veteran the care in the
VA that they get the result to. So again it's
a little complex. This is why I wanted to focus
on these things. But come and talk to our experts
about those, particularly a pack deck, because I have seen major,

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major influences, major changes happen with veterans changing their life,
not also you know, monetarily with their compensation and disability,
but the healthcare that's related to that's very important. And
two of the big major ones a lot of veterans
I've learned as a result of toxic toxic exposure is
ryaniis and cyanidis. Oh, you know, just totally out of

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the blue. You know, it's like, never had these problems
before I went in. There's no family history to it,
and it's a lot of that's related to the toxic exposures.

Speaker 2 (02:19:52):
Oh about that, and you know that's obviously something that
would not come immediately to mind, right exactly.

Speaker 15 (02:19:57):
Well, and that's that's the point of the packed Does
a lot of these i'll call secondary or they call
associated conditions you would never think would be related to
just normal stuff. You just think, God, I'm getting older,
you know, and the allergies or whatever in the air.
But a lot of these things could be related to
that veteran's military experience based upon the territory they were in,

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the chemicals that they were possibly exposed to, relate it
to their military service or their daily mos job that they.

Speaker 1 (02:20:26):
Had fair enough.

Speaker 2 (02:20:27):
Well, coming up, we'll take a break care bring Todd
Sledge from the Sincinntiva back talking about a new pilot effort,
technology based pilot effort plus phone number and information about
how you can apply for your VA benefits or sign
up for them if you're eligible. Eight forty seven. Right
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Speaker 2 (02:21:45):
Hey fifty one if you have KR City talk station
Bright Thomas with since ava's Todds led talking about veterans
benefits of what's available for you with the VA. You
earn these benefits and take advantage of them, and for
those that haven't taken advantage of enrolling in the get
to get their VA benefits. I understand you got a
new pilot program to try to track them down.

Speaker 1 (02:22:07):
Yeah, we do, Brian.

Speaker 15 (02:22:09):
You know you and I together have collectively worked on
trying to make sure we all of our veterans aware
of their benefits. And I've always appreciated that relationship with
you and I love it so for the me too,
absolutely me too. So for the last two years, this
is nothing new to the to the new to the
marketing world, but for the last two years, I've been

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trying to find a company that specifically could give me
data on households of veterans here in the Tri State
area through a through a customer resource management system, which
is every business uses, and we finally found one and
they were able to identify veteran households here in the
Tri State area, which we serve fifteen counties Brian that

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you know, through three different states, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.
And with this program, with that veteran data, we're able
to now and text messages directly to veterans that are
not enrolled in VA and ask them if they would
like to be contacted about their benefits, and if they
press one, we get that data back and then we

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will be reaching out to them and scheduling them appointments
to see in eligibility specialists at the closest community based
out patient clinic that we have. This is a game changer.
I didn't really realize how much possible data was out there,
but our first round of this pilot, that was close
to thirty thousand pieces of data of veteran households that

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we could reach and there's about fifteen thousand, or almost
half of that data of veterans who are not enrolled
that are interested. So you know, our current marker of
treating forty three thousand veterans. We have the potential of
finding those veterans that are not using us, engaging them
and getting them into the healthcare system for various kinds
of things that they can use us for. Because I'm

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always talking about how the VA can fit into that
personal healthcare portfolio. Benefit non insurance has a benefit to them,
and we're really excited about this. So if veterans, if
you're received a text message it seems suspicious, we all
get those, Brian, we all get these.

Speaker 2 (02:24:10):
Really, that's exactly what I was thinking of, Todd Tech Fridays, Dave.

Speaker 15 (02:24:16):
Yeah, yeah, so we we're what we've done, We've taken
this a step further. If you've gotten a text message
that talked about being a veteran and talking about the
Cincinnati VA, you can go to our website and on
our eligibility section you will see that we are validating
that yes, this is coming directly from us, and this
is real, and we wud love for you to respond.

Speaker 2 (02:24:35):
Well, and you know, the impetus to get to the
VA's website. If you get a text message, you always
can't trust that it's actually coming from the original source,
but you're reminding them that you're eligible for VA benefits,
and that might prompt them to go directly to the source,
which is the VA website, which address you're going to
give here in a second when I shut up, that
will be a benefit even if they choose not to

(02:24:56):
click the one on the link. I mean, that's just
putting them in contact with you directly.

Speaker 15 (02:25:02):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Our website is very simple with Cincinnati
dot VA dot gov. The three top things that folks
are very interested and looking on our website as where
locations of our care are and and our healthcare services
and also the eligibility. So all of that's wrapped into that.
But we wanted to make sure because I've got veterans
in my office, They're like, tod I'd get these messages.

(02:25:24):
I don't know if they're real or not exactly, So
we wanted to take the take the extra step the
valid data to say, yes, we are reaching out to
do we want to hear film med you, and.

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
We're excited to continue. I'm still about the personal touch,
and this is why we'd have live people will be
following up with these veterans that press one and a
live person is going to be scheduling you with a
live person on another end to talk with you about
your eligibility.

Speaker 1 (02:25:49):
That's that's great.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
I know you're all about personal service, Todd Sledge, and
I truly appreciate what you do on behalf of the
veteran community, a lot of whom in my listening audience
since a VA dot go get your benefits. And I'll
just put a shout out to the various Veteran Service
Commissions in the various counties because they can help you
navigate any challenges you might come up with with enrolling
for VA. But I know Todd and the team they

(02:26:10):
are trying to make it as easy as possible. Todd,
always a pleasure talking with you. Thanks again for what
you're doing for the veteran community.

Speaker 15 (02:26:17):
Yeah you too, Brian appreciate the relationship. And if I
get an update on the elevator status between now and
our next time, I will definitely let you know. Sir
Patrick also gets his question answered.

Speaker 1 (02:26:27):
I know you well.

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Thanks brother, have a great week. Say fifty five fifty
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You do a fantastic job, my friend.

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