55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Judge McDowell

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five O five thirty about k r C the talk
station to Monday. How about them Bengals. Well we're yeah,

(00:32):
well we seem we are. That's a rather interesting selection
of sound bites there, Joe, because that's exactly what I
was thinking. Because of all the riots and the violence
and the anger and the disruptions in the streets, and
the inability of the presidents actually bring about some law
and order in various cities, court rules said no, you
can't go to Portland, so pull out law enforcement and

(00:52):
let local authorities cover it. Is this what people in
Portland want? Anyway? The rise of violence, antiphon, the anti
ice folks, and it's just a it's a horror show
going on out there. It really makes you think something
broader is in fact going on. Going back to that

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the rundown this morning? Oh God, remembering Bob Dulan World
War two veteran Robert Doolan Stalog three survivor it's the
Great Escape Movie with Steve McQueen. He says, the whole
movie was pretty damn acrid, with the exception of Steve
McQueen's motorcycle antics. He passed away on this date, October

(02:39):
of twenty twenty two, and I had the distinct pleasure
thanks to my friend Steve Murray, retired career military. He
was good friends with Bob, and in fact, Bob, Bob's
the one that got Steve into the military, started out
as his scout master. So impressed with Bob, and what
a kind of great role model Bob was inpacted Steve's life.
And of course Steve was the one that allowed me

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the opportunity to meet Bob. Just absolutely love that guy.
So rest in peace, Bob Doolan, you are not forgotten.
Christopher Smithman certainly not forgotten. He comes on the program
every Monday at seven twenty to do the smith Event
Today no exception. Got Money Monday with Brian James. The
government shut down continues. How you feeling out there? Stock
market is it impacted?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Not yet?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Socis security? How does that get impacted? Plus Snap and
Wick benefits. Christopher McDowell, Judge McDowell, He was a listener
lunch at Jim and Jackson the River, and he has
a Shenanigans declaration to declare against the Clerk of Courts.
My understanding from my brief conversation with the judge, there's
a secret docket. Felony murder cases are not shown on

(03:45):
the regular Clerk of courts docket, which I think that's
a violation of the open records meetings. And how can
you know what's going on? Local reporters might not know
that there is a felony murder trial going on. You
think they might want to report on that. Well, you
can't report on something if you don't know it's on
the docket. I actually part of me is hoping that

(04:05):
I'm wrong on my recollection of Judge McDowell's you know
comments me along those lines. We're going to hear from
him at eight thirty. So it seems like a pretty
decent guy from my perspective. So eight thirty for that.
What else is going on? Well, again, the government shutdown,
how are you feeling about that? And no progress is
being made? You heard at the top of the our

(04:26):
news Rakim Jeffricks. People are going to die, Well, people
are going to die. It's only because, well, you're going
to cause them to die. Who put the deadline for
the premium supplements in the original bill that was passed
because of COVID nineteen. And I think what the Democrats
are waiting for is because we're heading toward open enrollment

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with Obamacare, that people are going to finally appreciate and
see what it's like without these texts, without the tax
incentives that were given by the Democrats way when COVID
nineteen was around set to expire at the end of
this year, because that's the way they wrote it. Who's
responsible for death? If we're all going to die? One

(05:08):
could argue it's the Democrats, one could argue, but one
could also appoint to the position the Republicans are in.
Looking we're planning on extending twenty twenty four funding levels.
We've got it in the Continuing Resolution. Those are your
Democrats funding levels. What's wrong with is moving along as
we are on the status quo until we get things
worked out. Democrats are demanding the Republicans so either legislatively,

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which is their version of the Continuing Resolution, continue well,
these supplements apparently to the two of one point five
trillion dollars. See increasing federal allays one point five trillion dollars. Yeah,
that's not the direction we need to go. So they
made no progress at all, and they keep arguing in circles.

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Republicans are firming their position, and I think they have
a better argument. It's been well explained anybody bothering to
look at it that the language of the Democrats bill
specifically strikes out the one big beautiful provisions which prohibit
illegal immigrants from getting aid. It says it in black

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and white. And they keep going back and forth like
American people are going to lose their health care now. No,
we're just moving forward the original plan. Anyway. Kevin Hasse
had said yesterday that, well, you can expect layoffs to
start coming your way. Head of the National Economic Council.
I think if the President decides that the negotiations are

(06:38):
absolutely going nowhere, which i'll interject seen to be where
we are, then there will start to be layoffs. But
I think that everybody's still hopeful then when we get
a fresh start at the beginning of the week that's today,
that we can get the Democrats to see that it's
just common sense to avoid layoffs like that to avoid
the fifteen billion dollars a week. The Council of Economic

(06:58):
Advisor said, will harm g if we have a shutdown.
Talk about the power of the federal government as an
impact spending. If you believe the gross domestic product figure,
fifteen billion dollars of reduced gross domestic product because the
government isn't working at least not the full capacity, that's

(07:18):
a lot of that's a lot of impact on the economy.
Going back to that joke I've made time and time again,
you get the wide eyed I'm going to fix Washington,
DC politician, I'm going there. Mister Smith goes to Washington
and they take him in the back room and they say,
you know what, you think you're going to fix it.
You think you're going to drain the swamp. You think
you're going to reduce the size and scope of government.

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But in fact, government makes the economy go. We create economies,
we create new regulations and rules. Do you think there
really needs to be an accounting economy out there? You
could fix the irs. The income tax code. It's thousands
and thousands of pages, which ultimately results in the employment
of thousands and thousands of certified public accountant and entire

(08:01):
legal teams of corporations. Why because we got to figure
out what's in the tax code, and that takes time
and it takes money, which creates an economy. If you
could do the old simple play, just for example, I know,
fair tax, flat taxes, all kinds of proposals out there,
but we eliminate the tax code down a virtually nothing.
Fill out a postcard size tax return. You made X,

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here is fifteen percent of X. That's what you owe.
There are no ride offs done, end the story. There's
no need for an accountants. How much how many billions
of dollars do you think would be taken out of
the account of the economy if we just simplified the
tax code to that level, that minimalist level, right, I
guess that's the point of fifteen billion dollars a week
with the government shutdown. It's make work. It's like carbon capture.

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It didn't exist, flip the switch. It exists, and now
the entire world is creating this new economy because some
regulation on the book said we need to capture car
carbon dioxide plant food. Can you imagine the overall extent
and expense that that one little pronouncement carbon dioxide is
a pollutant. What that did to the world's economy. We've

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been at this for years. Industries have been built on that.
What if they didn't have that pronouncement, You think we'd
be okay? Economically speaking? Would people find something else to
do rather than creating a brand new whole cloth industry
based upon basically a boiled down to a single regulation.
Sometimes I really truly believe government is in the business

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of doing just that. I really do. That's how our
government's gotten so big. But going over to Hakeem Jeffords
on this shutdown, everyone is about to experience dramatically increased premiums, copays,
and deductibles because of the Republican healthcare crisis. Oh so

(09:59):
now we're responding for the health care crisis generally. Huh. Well,
behind that statement is Obamacare in and of itself. You
started to rely on, I suppose, supported by these well
insane COVID nineteen era assistance payments, you get people making

(10:19):
quite quite a bit of money. Sixty five hundred dollars
was the four hundred percent of poverty level cut off
and it didn't exist anymore. Wow, I can take advantage
of the tax credits up until the end of this year.
Now we're supposed to return back to what was prior
to COVID nineteen normal where mister Jeffries, I suppose people

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didn't die. Did people die before we got the subsidies
under COVID nineteen legislation? Yeah, I didn't think so. I
didn't hear anyone arguing that. And when they passed the
original legislation, wasn't it designed to save everybody, to get
people healthcare Obamacare?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Good?

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
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in the clerk records without further deal. Let's get over
to the phones. It's like Cleveland Owl's on the phone.
Welcome back to the program sir. It's pleasure to hear
from you. Happy Monday.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Brian.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
I apologize. Normally I speak off the cuff. But today
I woke up with you, probably around two thirty am,
with a lot on my mind, and I decided to
write it down. So I'm speaking from a script, and
I apologize for that.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Cleveland Owl. Did you use chat GPT's help in doing
your script? Sorry? God, good, good for you?

Speaker 5 (11:55):
Sorry about sorry? Sorry about that?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
You can say how well, It's okay. Ill knows.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
All rights. This weekend, my wife and I attended my
fiftieth high school reunion. Oh wow, one hundred Yeah, one
hundred and thirteen out of one hundred and seventy five
showed up. It was our largest reunion ever, and we
enjoyed an evening of fun, food, beverages of all stripes, laughter, reminiscence,

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and shared stories of life, work, and especially family. The
camaraderie and mutual respect that defined the event was palpable
and noted by to be special by the spouses who
had not experienced what my classmates and I'm sure many
other classes in the sixties and seventies possessed a true

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love for the people we went to learn with. A
significant part of the evening involved discussing how much has
changed in fifty years in the seventies. The seat of
progressivism planted in the early early twentieth century had only
just started to bear fruit. So we gained an education
in rather traditional manner while growing up in stable, two

(13:10):
parent home with rules and expectations. In the past fifty years,
progressives have successfully infiltrated all the major institutions of society
and destroyed everything that it touches. They have destroyed the
institution of marriage, the nuclear family, journalism, and made civility optional.

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They mock God and Christianity while defending barbaric religious fanatics
who had destroyed them for their beliefs. Education has become
a giant psio to create mind numbed robots to carry
on the destruction of societal norms. They have defecated on
the Constitution and tried to destroy those who defend it.

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Reagan's shining Light on the Hill has been relegated to
the asses of the Pacific Palisades and the war torn
cities run by the criminals put in power by the clueless.
Please people followed the wise advice of tommon friends and
don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Thank you. Al Well stated, well, you really must have
been tournamentally at two thirty this morning, but beautifully written.
I think I have no objection to what your observed
and observations are. How could I. I'm just behind you
a little bit. I haven't read reached fifty in terms
of class reunions. But of course I'll catch up at
some juncture. But you're right, and it may see me

(14:39):
moving faster and faster. And who do we have to
blame for that? Obviously it's social media, There is no
question about it. These thoughts and ideas, these leftists, the
rantings and ramblings of leftism, were you know, kept amongst themselves.
You had to actually engage in an ongoing effort to
reach out and coordinate that message. Of course, you had
the Vietnam War as an impetus to get people of

(15:03):
a variety of different political stripes to protest against the war.
There are a number of reasons that one could argue
and justify protesting against it, especially with hindsight. But then
at the same time, the green newt of the green
agenda was kicking off. That was back when we were
going to be frozen to death because the next ice
age was coming thanks to our pollution. Boy, the world's

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changed on that. But those forces joined and you had
a variety of other leftist forces going on that joined
in these movements. We've made them fear bigger, and of
course different ideas coordinating together in a general perception of
protest against the government. What's going on right now, it's
the same thing, anti Jewish, anti Israel, pro Palestinian, two

(15:46):
state solution folks joining in with the carbon alarmist and
the Greta Thunbergs of the world protesting. Yeah, and of
course you can protest the war going on between Russia
and Ukraine, and of course you can protest Israel and Gaza.
All these forces they don't have the same message, but
it's anti current status. It's anti anti anti fully funded, coordinated,

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and it's made it so easy with social media. You
get a couple of multi billionaires that are willing to
fund these efforts. They pay protesters. We know that that
gets more warm bodies there, giving the appearance that this
message is the popular message. It draws television cameras because
there's oh my god, the protesters, look at what they're saying. Yeah,
it's it's clickbait for the news media. They love when

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there's violence and distress and anger and dissent in the
streets gives them something fun to click on and report on.
Heavily coordinated. Heavily coordinated. It says, you can get the
entire nation into one room with one message at a
time through social media that never existed back in the
period of time Al's talking about. And yet look what happened.

(16:53):
It slowly, little by little work, the Left will take
their tiny baby step of victory going full long term
that the well, it's like the Chinese one hundred year
Plan or something. They're willing to wait for it. Ji
Jinping will be dead before his vision is realized, but
his vision is put on paper. That's the view of
Marxist Left, this socialist and has always been. They'll continue

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to fight capitalism and their message will continue long after
they're gone. As long as we get those baby steps
toward that unified global control over our lives vision that
they see, it's going to continue. It's up to us
to fight back. It's up for us to be the
Charlie Kirks of the world. You know, I would think,

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and we may see the pendulum swinging in the opposite direction.
Mississippi James is out there, you know, keeping track of
the pendulum, and I think we may be at a
no Moss moment at least in so far as what
we're seeing in the streets of this country. At least
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Speaker 1 (19:27):
It's the initial emergency communication. Reports state a female was shot.
CPR was in progress. Since it says fatal shooting, I
imagine that CPR is no longer in progress. They say
one person's been detained, no other additional information. Jeez, Louise,
let's go to the phone. See what Tom's got this morning.
Tom has always thanks for calling a happy Monday to you.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
Hey, good morning, and Wining Hill seems like such a
nice part of town.

Speaker 8 (19:50):
Yeah, oh man, yeah, it's a shame, man.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
I don't know what to say about it.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I don't either go back, idiot.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
You like Coconont better, don't you? Who there?

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Whatever, you know.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
And we talked about this few times. And thank you,
by the way, al greatly appreciated. Good morning, Good morning,
Christopher smitheman who says he listens from five to nine, so,
and good morning to your lovely wife Paulette.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (20:24):
We we talked about this thing with the money and
and and I absolutely believe that money is behind pretty
much everything that politicians do. And these people who quote
unquote represent us. But you're you talked about the health insurance.
As you know, I used the iHeart app to go

(20:45):
back and listen to stuff that I missed throughout the
week and and I caught your last week. Early last week,
he had a bit of a rant about, uh these subsidies.
I think it was right before the shutdown. Uh and
how these uh these subsidies are gonna go and oh
my god, everyone's gonna die as far as Democrats are concerned.
And they start thinking about if the Democrats got what

(21:07):
they wanted, if it went the way the Democrats wanted,
the government would pay a bunch of subsidies towards health
insurance premiums, is it? Do I have that right?

Speaker 5 (21:19):
So far?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah? On Obamacare, the cutoff is four hundred percent of poverty.
COVID nineteen shows up. They get rid of the cap
at four hundred percent of poverty, so everyone, including people
making a whole lot of money, can get a rite
off on that. So basically they're not feeling the pain
of the premium.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Well, and then, and what happens there is that since
these health insurance companies know that government money is being
pumped into the system, they check their prices up right, So,
and then the people who are being allegedly covered by this,
the policies are terrible. The out of pocket expense is ridiculous.

(21:59):
You got, you know, five, six, eight, ten thousand or
more dollars deductibles before your insurance even kicks in. So
it sounds to me like the people that are being
allegedly covered are paying more money, a lot of money
for just basic health care. And then the companies who

(22:22):
are being benefited by these subsidies are making fat bank right,
Am I getting that right?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, you can make that argument, But my understanding of
the problem with Obamacare, it's become like the insurer of
last resort. You know, obviously there's no pre existing condition exclusion.
You can get insurance, and a lot of people that
are really really really really sick and up in Obamacare,
meaning their claims are a whole lot higher, so the

(22:49):
payout from government is rising. I mean, you might imagine
that that makes perfect sense. It's like, you know, if
you live in a hurricane zone, your insurance premium, your
home insurance is going to be a whole lot more
because your risk is a lot higher. But you can't
you can't deal with that with Obamacare because the premiums
are are kind of capped up to a certain amount, so.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, they're caps for as far as what the patients
are concerned or or totally. Because there's money. There's money
changing hands, Brian. Money is flowing and even even if
it's not actual green dollar bills, even if it's just
digital you know on the computer, money is moving around
and it's certainly not going to the patients. It's going

(23:36):
to these these corporations. A lot of it is going
to them and I and I'm guessing there may be
some kickbacks involved in these people who are making these
decisions But here's the irony for me. Democrats are worried
about the patients, the people, and and and and they're
also fewing hatred towards billionaires. Yet they're they're these system

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is making these rich people more rich. That's the way
it seems to me. I know that's very simplistic way
of looking at it, but that's pretty much what it
boils down to. And of course you have rhinos who
are involved in this too, and they're not gonna complain
about it because they or their buddies or pals are
getting rich as well, while we out here, us unwashed masses,

(24:24):
are forking over more and more money. My daughter, I
don't think she has a bobecue, but she has one
of those policies that doesn't cover a whole lot unless
you really have a problem. But if you try to
use it at an emergency room or something, man, it's ridiculous.
How much money you got to foreko Oh yeah, none
of these things are helping us. Whatever the Democrats are

(24:46):
screaming for are not helping anyone except for the people
who are getting richer. And they want to claim that
the rich people are the problem. They want to tax
the rich the rich are sitting back going you go
ahead and use you that slogan all you want, because
we know that behind the scenes we're getting richer and
richer and richer. We all we do is getting more money.
So keep up the good work, don't. We don't care

(25:08):
what you say. Just and this is what's going on.
It's it's a it's a smoke screen, and it's like
a little magic trick, like a little three card money.
And they want the Democrats want you to believe that
they give a crap about you, and they don't. They
don't care about you. And and thank you Al for
saying it. I'll say it again. Don't vote Rhino and

(25:31):
don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Have a great day, Brian, You do the same. It's
good to hear from you. Tom stick around, got a
call from Bobby. Your calls are always welcome. Five one,
three seventy the talk station by forty on a Monday
post football game Monday congratulations with Joe's tracker a post
from yesterday evening. I just saw this. The game is

(25:55):
more enjoyable if you turn the sound down and play
a loop of yeah, any sacks, Yeah hitting now on
the head right there, Joe, So go to the phones.
I got Bobby first, Chris, hang on your next, Bobby,
Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Happy Monday, Happy Monday, My brother, Faith Flag family. And
you know you got to keep the firearms if you
want to stay up there with the rest of them.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Uh. Yeah, I do believe more and more of these
days that is true.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, Cincinnati over the weekend, I mean we've got stabbing, murders,
killings and everything else handicapped it at about five and
a half. I don't know what's going to happen, but
if people keep voting for these Democrats, they're going to
get what's coming to them, because it's coming. If people
don't realize that we're in the midst of a culture revolution,
just go ahead, take your wife any evening and walk

(26:45):
down the streets of Cincinnati unarmed and tell me you
feel safe.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Well, I would know that I probably wasn't going to
feel safe before actually going into downtown Cincinnati. The fact
that I know that I may be unsafe would necessitate
me carrying my firearm there, and of course that I
wouldn't enter into that situation. But that that's me, Bobby.
But yeah, I think we are definitely in the throes

(27:13):
of a cultural revolution. Who could who couldn't say? Who
couldn't agree with that? Bobby, look at where we are.
We've entered the realm of batcrap insane.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I had an individual tell me, well, Bob, it's normal,
It's what happens all the time down Cincinnati. And I
told him one thing. The only thing normal about Cincinnati
is when you go into the utility room and you
look at the dryer and it says normal. That's it.
Nothing else is normal about it.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, there was certainly a period of time where I
never would have thought about and I don't think it's
a likely thing it would. If it was likely, we'd
be reading about it the whole time. But you know,
Holly getting punched in the face. That someone would beat
someone up and they have no connection with whatsoever. Someone
is rent aid. Out of nowhere, someone flies out and

(28:02):
punches them. We've seen other illustrations of this. Some people
are just mining their ows in business, walking down the street.
Next thing you know, out of nowhere, a left hook,
knocking them flat on the ground and knocking them out.
I mean, there was no connection with the person who
threw the punch. That's become a more frequent phenomenon, this
idea that it's just okay to kill somebody. Think about

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that woman who got stabbed on the subway train. She
was balled up, just paying attention to her cell phone.
She wasn't engaged in a confrontation with that guy. He
just stabbed her in the neck and she dropped ad
That's the kind of thing. And I know it makes headlines.
I know it's clickbait. It's because it's so outrageous that
we can't believe our own eyes. But you know, if
that's it seems to be happening more and more, or

(28:43):
maybe because going back to social media, the internet, the
instantaneous reality, everything that bad it happens in the world
is presented to us real time, so we think the
whole place is spiraling out of control. That's the only
counter narrative to your conclusion, Bobby. It's just that now
it's always been sort of like this, but we never
heard about what's going on in Poughkeepsie, Iowa locally when

(29:04):
someone got punched for no reason. Now it's right there
as the headlines in a national press. Look, so and
so got punched in the face for no reason. They're
in the hospital. They died to go fund me some
accountsmen set up. You know, it seems like it's literally
happening all the time. So you got to figure it
out for yourself. Is it really getting that much worse?
Or are we just seeing it more because of well

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the Internet. I think maybe a little bit of both.
Bobby could be quite honest with you. Let's see what I
gotta get Chris in here for this segment soever, Chris,
thanks for calling this morning. Welcome to the program.

Speaker 9 (29:37):
Good morning, Brian. Those two callers before it had given
put me in a phone call ready.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
This morning, so Cleveland House, enter here a little bit.

Speaker 9 (29:51):
There is an annual affair on near Veterans Day, Veterans
Day being November eleventh. There's a concert this year, and
it's every year at Memorial Hall, and it's on Sunday,
and it's at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it
is the Queen City Concert Band at Memorial Hall. It's

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a free concert celebrating our veterans. And I was hoping
that you could get the word to the organizations that
are in the different counties that support and do many
good things for the veterans that they could see if
they could transport some of these men women to the concert.

(30:36):
It is a rousing, patriotic celebration of our veterans. And
this Memorial Hall is just one fantastic place.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 9 (30:48):
It's right next to Music Hall, of course, and it's
very very historic. Anyhow, I think the people who care
for our veterans and like music would love this concert,
and I hope that you can engender some enthusiasm to
get as many veterans there as possible.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
I appreciate what you did to that end. So even
I know about it now thanks to your phone call today,
Chris spread the word five forty five got Fred and
Jay on the phone. Stick around, guys, be right back
and take your phone calls. But I want to first
mention Rhino shall begin your deep talk station five fifty
fifty five K see talk station Monday. Like it or not,

(31:32):
it is, deal with it. Try to wake up this morning, folks.
Bear with me. Let's see what the phone calls have
we got Fred first, Jay, hang on, Fred, thanks for
calling this morning.

Speaker 8 (31:43):
Very good morning.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (31:45):
Once again, one of the things I was calling you
about you to answered the guy prior to me, and
I keep saying that you can't keep making me like you.
I wanted to let you know that because once again,
once again, you're telling him, basically, look because you have
to look for yourself. And I'm the same thing I'm

(32:06):
saying about violence. And I understand what people say that
they look at TV and they think violence is going
on twenty fours a day, every minute, and every day.
It's not like that. You got a few individuals that's
causing the problem. It's not the whole community. It's not
a lot of black people. It's not a lot of
white people. It's not a lot of Mexicans or Africans

(32:28):
or are whatever. It's not. It's not happening like that.
I feel comfortable walking in any neighborhood in the city.
I don't carry a firearm. I got fourteen of them,
but I don't care etherne of them because I feel
safe now. I believe me, I know my surroundings, and
I know when the individual is not acting right. I

(32:48):
move myself from the situation right. And that's simple as that.
And I appreciate the way that you had worded it
and the reason I called you. I called to get
educated because I purposely listen over the last couple of
weeks at your callers and everything like that, and everything
I have heard was it was no solutions. Everything has

(33:09):
been a bit of anger of what's going on on.
I'm an independent. Let me say this, and I lean
more towards the Democrats act because of the abortion thing.
I'm gonna leave that alone. But my whole, my whole
thing is this. I always wanted to hear solutions. I

(33:29):
don't call if I don't have somewhat of a solution.
But when I hear that no one has a solution,
but you're angry at something that I've still trying to
figure out. What when I when I can hear what
a person anger at, then I can say, okay, I
have to understanding. I can go look for myself and
see why they're angry. But there's never a solution. And

(33:52):
all of my accidents for the callers to educate me,
educate me. I'm an independent leading towards democrat. Bring me
over to the Republican side. And about a week ago
you had said that you know, sometimes is when a
situation comes that you can bring a Democrat or independent over,
bring them over. This is the time I act some

(34:12):
people to do. Now, bring me over, give me something
that why I should not ever vote democrats are independent,
and let me hear this for myself, and I will
I will come to your station and say listen, I'm
coming over. But I haven't heard it yet.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, you're right, and you know, the the tougher the
quote unquote perceived problem, the more likely it is someone's
going to gravitate towards demanding the government answer that you
provide this so called solution. We got a problem with healthcare, Obamacare,
the solution. Now the Obamacare has become the problem under
the current argument over premiums. Premiums that were well, these

(34:51):
subsidies suspended because COVID nineteen became a problem. So by god,
we can't charge everyone the full freight for the Obamacare
on premium, so we're going to suspend that. People start
embracing that, and they get used to having the premium suspended.
It's sort of defying logic and reason. The premiums didn't
go away. It's just that fred U as a taxpayer
and me as a taxpayer, and all of the taxpayers

(35:13):
are now basically shouldering the burden of paying the premium.
The government solution to COVID was to get rid of it.
The problem now, the problem is getting rid of it
is the problem. I mean, we keep chasing our tails.
I go to it. Yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
go ahead, No, no, I mean interject. I mean we're
having a free form conversation here. Fred. I don't think
I have the other answers to what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (35:34):
But oh, okay, okay, to Obamacare. I'm not saying that
that's the greatest thing in the world. But my whole
thing is, once again, give me something to replace it
better than what it is.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
That's all.

Speaker 8 (35:47):
I'm accident. I don't like it, believe me that I do.
I don't like it, but something is better than nothing
at all. Then once we get to this, well, you know,
the government didn't shut down, and he's saying that the
Democrats want to. You have immigrants from New Zealand, New Zealand, Africa,
Asia all over the country. It's not just Mexicans, of course,

(36:10):
not yeah, no, no, yeah, And I'm not saying that
we should be affording to be able for of them.
But we've stuck on these Mexicans for some reason. I
don't know why, but we stuck on there. But we
got people from all.

Speaker 7 (36:23):
Over the world here.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
It is there calls and problems also, And here's where
I'll disagree. I think it is objectively any illegal immigrants anywhere.
It has nothing to do with Mexico. It is having
to be closer approximately to US than any other country.
And they also happen to have an economy that once
that suggests that their people would be better served in

(36:46):
the United States. One of the drivers of that is
that they are hooked up to the umbilical court of
the social welfare safety net. They are entitled to free education, apparently,
free medical, They get government services which you and I
are paying for. That's the line of saying that most
people say, I don't care if it's going to a
Mexican or someone from Africa, or maybe even a Northern
European person who snuck into the country illegally. It shouldn't

(37:09):
be that way. That carrots shouldn't be there. Our taxpayers
suggest that we are supporting the American population with those
government resources. But the minute you open that up to
the entire world, which we saw during the Obama administration,
we find out that the costs are overwhelming. So American
citizens with American taxpayer dollars supporting this are being deprived

(37:31):
of some of the various services they think their taxpayer
dollars are going for. Enter outrage, enter an awareness of
a problem that didn't exist before twenty million people just
flew into the United States. So yeah, this has nothing
to do with Mexico. Fred I agree with you completely
in the to the extent.

Speaker 8 (37:46):
Okay, I agree with you and the the last two
things and my whole thing once again, it's for education. Also,
when I was coming up in school, everyone wouldn't go
into college, and they knew they wasn't gone to college.
So we had block classes. You learn automotive, learn painting,
you learn anything dealing with uh, something that you definitely
wouldn't going to college. Trades basically a trade school basically.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
And so when they took that out of school, and
and and and they took and the made individual say, Okay,
you go through twelve years of school, they need to
put you out of school, but you've never learned the trade.
You're going to college. So now now they talking about
putting trade school back in schools when you should never
took it. Out from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Amen, Fred, I'm with you.

Speaker 8 (38:30):
They're going it wasn't happened back over stuff. I'm sorry,
I just say.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
And what happened when they took trades out of the school.
That's when everybody starts demonizing the whole idea of trade,
like you know, making belittling hard work. Oh you need
to go to college, get a college education. Now, no, no, no, no,
it's not for everybody. It's it's there's an opportunity out
there to not be in debt, get a job, hitting
the ground running. Why did they eradicate that ease with
which we made that concept with the trade schools, Diamond Oaks,

(38:57):
Scarlet Oak, some of the other ones, vocational training. I mean,
and you know it used to exist. You're right, Fred,
And I don't know why it disappeared, but at least
embrace the reality it's coming back. If for no other reason,
a lot of people realize their jobs are going to
be eradicated by artificial intelligence. AI can't plumb, AI can't
do wiring, et cetera, et cetera. Fred, I love hearing
from you, man. I appreciate your comments. I truly do.

(39:20):
And let us all reach our own conclusion, politically thinking
about it ourselves and analyzing the problems and issues of
the world. Stick around. We got more to talk about
coming up the top of the our news, Jay, I
will take your call right out of the gate. I
apologize couldn't get to it, but I'll be right back today.
It's tough headlines coming up fine fifty five eight hundred
eight two to three talk pound five fifty on AT
and T phone and real quick to Fred's point before

(39:41):
I get to Jay, Marine, one of the listeners communicating
me with an instant message that she is often prone
to dud. It's like solutions. Looking at just the city
of Cincinnati. Insofar as problems, you might say, well, crime's
a problem, infrastructure is a problem. You know you have
a makeup. Since they say a counci one hundred percent Democrat,

(40:02):
are you happy with the direction the city is going?
Do you think there's been an appropriate allocation of finite resources?
Are they attending to the needs of the residents of
the city of Cincinnati. Are they pursuing something like a
green agenda, an anti police sort of perception or mentality?
You know you heard mayor I have to have per
of all his response to the violence in downtown Cincinnati.

(40:22):
Who has offered help from the governor. He took two
days out of a month to get additional research. Is
that sufficient? Are you satisfied with his response? We are
short on officers and unlike waiting around for Donald Trump
to unilaterally decide to put troops in the cities, and
we could argue about that all day long. We can

(40:43):
immediately replace the number of officers that were down in
the city of Cincinnati. That takes time. That is a
long term project. If you can get an immediate solution
by taking governor to wine up on his offer for
law enforcement resources, perhaps every day of the month until
we get to the point where we can satisfy ourselves
that we have had with cin Saint police officers to
produe patrols. Well, maybe there's a different choice you got

(41:05):
Corey Bowman. If you're unhappy with aftab provoll, He's like, oh,
I can't vote for a Republican. Ask yourself, why are
you happy with the way things are? Okay? If not,
then why not try? Corey Bowman is mayor is a
finite period of time. Give it a shot. Let's see
if it works. He's surrounding himself with great people. We
might have city manager Todd Zinzer somebody else you mentioned,

(41:29):
and he will be perfect for the job. And he's
amazingly experienced, being a former Inspector General for the United
States government. Steve Gooden Charter right. You don't have to
vote Republican. Vote Steve Gooden. He's brilliant, he's got a record,
he was appointed on council for a while, and I
think he is certainly not a third rail by any
stretching the imagination. So replacing Dems may, she says, is

(41:50):
the solution. I say, at least maybe the solution. You
may not be satisfied after, you know, let's say a
Republican at least presence on council. Maybe if you even
give them complete control. You got more Republicans and Democrats
on council, you got a Republican mayor. Get your popcorn out.
Let's see how things unfold. Things clearly, at least from

(42:11):
my perspective, are not on the right track in the city.
So you have an alternative to try. We do this
all the time in the in matters political. We try
and sometimes it doesn't deliver, and sometimes it does deliver.
And it delivers in spades. I mean, think about where
we were under Jimmy Carter and then look at where

(42:32):
we were after or after even four years, but eight
years of the Reagan administration, well on the right track.
Maybe a profound shift in a right direction. Let's see it. Jay,
Thanks for indulging me there. Thank you so much for
holding Always appreciate your calls. Welcome back and happy Monday.

Speaker 10 (42:48):
Hey, Happy Monday, Bryan.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Hey, love your program.

Speaker 10 (42:51):
Whenever you get a collar like Fred, I think that's
the first time in my life that I have been
I'm blessed to talk radio for years and years when
somebody said, hey, educate me, make your point. What are
you angry about? Uh So, kudos to Fred to throw
that out. Let me in a very short amount of time.
Give you a couple of recommendations.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Fred.

Speaker 10 (43:11):
One is and this is humbly. I do not have
all the answers. Only one person has all the answers,
and that's Lord, save for Jesus Christ. So I would
recommend fits Everett Ellison's book The Iron Triangle. A former
Democrat turning Republican. Maybe in a similar spot Fred to

(43:34):
where he started trying to figure out what was the difference,
and it was an awakening for him of what is
the difference? High level, here's what I would say. A
conservative is somebody who says, I am good with me.
I got me, I don't need the government, I don't
need anybody else in my on my back or in

(43:57):
my wallet.

Speaker 7 (43:59):
Leave me alone.

Speaker 10 (44:00):
I don't want anything to do with you. I'll follow
the laws. That's it, that's all I want. A liberal
and so a conservative says, we have these God given rights,
and only God can give us these rights and will
allow me to pursue any life that I want, any
opportunity that I want to pursue. The liberals, on the
other hand, I adopted the philosophy that came out of

(44:24):
Germany in the late eighteen hundreds. It says, no, no, no,
God doesn't give you rights, Government give you rights. And
famously LBJ President LBJ. Johnson. And remember the Democrats were
the party of the Confederacy. They are the party of slavery.

(44:45):
They are the party of keep people in change and
take away their power and we'll make all the decisions.
And not much has changed. The Democrat Party has had
power and control over every Innerton for decades. Maybe one
hundred years. And the output of their philosophy is what

(45:06):
you see with the crime that's going on in all
the major cities that have been run by Democrats for decades,
which is, here's the deal. The deal from the liberals
the Democrat party is if you, if you vote Democrat,
we're going to give you a little bit of something,
something which means we're going to steal from your fellow Americans,

(45:28):
legalized theft, and we're going to give it to you.
It won't be enough for you to ever get ahead,
it won't be enough for you to ever really be satisfied,
but you won't really have to.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Work that hard.

Speaker 10 (45:40):
But we'll keep you in poverty, and then we become
your slave masters again. And all you have to do
is follow our plan. And that goes for people of
all colors, that's all races. And Vinzebratt Ellison lays that
out in his book beautifully that what they started with
the black community is going on across all communities. And

(46:01):
that's their plan is socialism and communism, where there's central
planning that's going to take care of everything. You just
have to turn all of your.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Power, all of your rights, all of your money over
to them.

Speaker 10 (46:12):
You're no longer a citizen, you're now a slave. Yeah,
that's the difference between conservatism and liberalism. And so don't
vote Democrat or rhino.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Go ahead, Well no, I would say in that latter position,
philosophy is really predicated and relies almost exclusively on waging
class warfare and telling people it's not fair. Someone's got
more than you, we should take from them and give
it to you, which to me is immoral and unethical
just as a starting point, but that's where it all
comes from. It's that anger and resentment because you're out

(46:42):
there in the world and you're not winking a whohole
lot of money. Your life didn't turn out the way
you thought it was going to be. It's not fair.
I haven't gotten the American dreams. So you latch onto
these people who are redistributing wealth. That's what the whole
system of government is based on.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
From their perspective, well correct, And they have to make
you believe that you were the victim, right.

Speaker 10 (47:01):
But as soon as you wake up and you figure
out that you're not a victim and you're a citizen
and you have eddy, you can pursue any opportunity you want.
Now you're no longer a slave, and it's unbelievable what
you can accomplish well.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
And I also have to observe Jay, your description of
conservatism actually sounds like a description of a libertarian philosophy,
which you know, considering you summed up conservatism as you know,
stay the hell away from me. You do what you want.
I can live under the umbrella. I'll follow the law.
You follow the law, we'll I'll make our own decisions
for ourselves. For quite often, the dividing factor, and Fred

(47:37):
even said it, abortion was one thing that caused so
many even people who might be otherwise quote unquote conservatives
safe from a fiscal standpoint, didn't want the government saying
whether or not a woman could have an abortion. That
was embedded in the Conservative slash Republican party platform, and
it served as a great foil to Republicans making inroads.

(47:57):
I've always been to the mind, I trust you with
your wallet in your zipper. Don't come after my wallet,
and don't come after my zipper. We're capable over here
in the Thomas household of making your own decisions about
where we spend our money and how we choose to
engage in sexual activities. I'm cool with you doing your
own thing. Just do it behind the damn door and
enjoy your life. But that wasn't the case up until

(48:18):
fairly recently, and more and more folks subscribe to what
you were saying. What I've always said. My goal was
always to be Republicans, should be more little L libertarian,
little L libertarian. And look, abortions no longer a federal issue,
Federal office holders are no longer running on that it's
a state's issue. And has abortion gone away? No, if

(48:39):
last reporting, there are more now than there were before
Roe v. Wade was overturned, more people and more states
decided to enshrine the right of abortion because well, I
guess the population wanted it. So strike that from the
party platform unless you're in a state where you think
you can do something about it. Also, you know, conservatives
quite often advocated for religion in schools, but only conservative.

(49:00):
I only am a Christianity. We don't live in a theocracy.
I mean that's in the constitution free exercise of religion,
not free exercise of Christianity alone. So that was a
dividing thing. And find that offensive if you will, it's
still a political reality. More and more people aren't touching
that aspect. They're just looking at dollars and cents. They're

(49:21):
looking at exactly what you're talking about, Jay, And I
think that's personally. I believe that's healthy because we get
rid of all this effort to control our lives, that
one element, whether the left is doing it or the
right is doing it. Maybe governments shouldn't be controlling these
personal issues in our lives, right, No, they shouldn't. They shouldn't.

(49:44):
That's not what elect officials are in a position to do.
Do they know what's going on in your home, in
your neighborhood? No, not at all. Six sixteen fifty five
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I'm preceded by, of course, Christopher Smith and coming up

(50:06):
in one hour with the Smith event us an opportunity
to here, Judge Christopher McDowell should have been listening to
lunch and made a Shenanigan's declaration at listener lunch to me,
we're gonna hear about that Shenanigans declaration E thirty without
further ado, Let's see what Tom's got hand hold on.
We'll get you next. Tom, thanks for calling.

Speaker 9 (50:21):
Brian.

Speaker 11 (50:23):
So over the weekend or last Friday, I was reading
they got the twenty point property tax uh relief? Yeah,
buddy done. I read it like twice and still don't
understand where the money.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
God bless you, Tom. Tom. I have three articles in
front of me about the Republican's plans to override Governor
Mike Dwines Veto and looking into what the Property Tax
Group had released by way of its twenty point plan.
I was confused as hell man the reporting on it.

Speaker 11 (50:54):
Say what I said, it looks like a bunch of
lawyers wrote that document.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
It's designed to confuse.

Speaker 11 (51:04):
It seems like the more money we give them, the
more waste and abuse we have.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
So well that goes with that.

Speaker 11 (51:10):
Say so, you know the old saying death and taxes.
But we're gonna have to get some kind of relief here,
and I don't think it's that complicated.

Speaker 8 (51:19):
We just need to.

Speaker 11 (51:21):
Pull up our sleeves and reach in there and yank
the guts out of the situation. Because these schools are
really taking them both of this money. And I think,
you know, get those tax vouchers for any school you
want to go to, and you get better education. And yeah,
I don't know if you have anything to fill in on.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Well, that's see, that's one of the ways I've always
commented on, Okay, if we get rid of property taxes,
it's not just schools. And of course, going back twenty
years ago, the Supreme Court in Ohio so that the
current funding mechanism is unconstitutional. Let's ignore that court order.
But you would solve presumably that problem if you got
a vouch you for the kids. The money goes directly
to the kids, and money obviously then would have to

(52:01):
come from Columbus. That takes the way this county local
funding mechanism right now, it's going to be alchemy to
figure out how much per student goes to any individual
student unless they just make it equal across the board.
It's more expensive in some areas than others, and we
can discuss the reasons why that may be. But at
least the money would come from a uniform source. It

(52:22):
would go to the kids. That would take that out
of the local levy situation. And of course it'd be
one less item. We needed to figure out how to
fund how do you fund local parks, how do you
fund local police? How do you fund local fire? That
is a complicating issue. If you eradicate property taxes, all
that money apparently is going to have to have its
roots in Columbus, and you can only imagine the Charlie

(52:43):
foxtrot reality of elected officials and Columbus arguing over who
gets what and how much. Very complicated.

Speaker 11 (52:49):
But yeah, we might have commissions on the study for forever.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Twenty years. Again, Tom, we've been under the Supreme Court
decision that's being annoyed now for twenty years. So yeah,
I can see the road going down that road and
it probably won't result in anything. At least they're trying.
Thanks Tom, appreciate that. Yeah, go ahead and read up
on that. It is confusing. Do we have time for Hank,
Joe Henk, Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Well, good morning, Brian. I hope I can get through
all of this. I've had a Tom's or Tom Fred's
comments kind of got me going, So I'm going to
try and go through this belt fed. The problem with
the Democrats is basically they're divided pretty much between anarchists
and status and the problem with that they cause is

(53:41):
Democrats increase crime by tolerating it. Now you can point
to January sixth, but with Donald Trump said, let's go
to the Capitol and make our voices known peacefully and patriotically.
So that's basically the argument is is that it's on
both sides.

Speaker 7 (53:59):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Another thing is abortion encourages their responsibility. Now, you keep saying,
you know, you trust people with their own zipper, but
quite honestly, there's a lot of people out there that
are just going wild and with you know, you say
that's their choice. But to me, it seems like it
hardens people when you start making abortion come and it

(54:22):
makes death cheap. Now, also when when you have too
many immigrants with another one of Fred's points is they
don't assimilate. They come into the country, they set up
their own little enclaves, like what's going on in Detroit,
and you wind up, yeah, and you wind up with

(54:44):
people that basically are they're settling, they're not they're colonizing,
they're not just joining America. And also you run into
the problem, as you mentioned, where they hook themselves up
to the umbilical cord and don't seem.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
To get off right.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Go back to where Tom was or Fred was asking
about you know why they took shop class out of school. Well,
they took it out because it was sexist. It was
boys went to shop class and girls went to home mack.
And we can't have that kind of crap going on.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Well, Hank, when I was in high school, I took
homemack and I learned how to make peanut brittle. I
still make that recipe to this day. We're going back
fifty years, man, I think roughly, so maybe a little longer,
I forty five years. But no, I mean could always
take home back. It's just a question of society's acceptance
of it. It took a while for us to get
over to the point where, yeah, men women can take shop,
men can take shop. The traditional roles of men and

(55:38):
women have changed and shifted over the years. And in
so far as people, you know, going back to your collective, like, yes,
Minneapolis has large Muslim communities. Yes, in New York, and
it's been this way for a long time. There's always
been heavy concentration of Jewish people living together, and in fact,
they have their own system of governance, self governance. They
have Jewish law and they and of course it doesn't

(56:01):
supersede local laws. You can still go to the prosecutor's
office if you've been wrong. There are still laws in
the books that do apply. But quite often they choose
to resolve their problems amongst themselves. And who am I
to tell you you can't do that. The fact that
people who are of like mind, that look alike, that
think alike, to practice the same religion all want to
congregate together, that makes sense to me. I mean, that's

(56:23):
exactly the way we are. I mean, I've always said
I'll be friends with anybody. I don't care what color
they are, what religion they practice. If they like the
same kind of stuff that I like to do, we're
probably going to get along great. So that's normal. It's
always been that way, so I don't find a problem
with it under this big umbrella we have. But I
don't know that you necessarily need to assimilate into the culture.

(56:46):
And what does that mean. I think if we all
had some reasonable ethics and norms about respecting each other's
rights and freedoms and our ability to go in the
direction we want we'd be in a better place. Just
that a lot of people out in the world are
trying to force you into doing something you don't want
to do. Again, going back to looking at communities, like
minded people congregate together. The Left's always been about stirring

(57:08):
that pot up. We need to have representation from all
racist creeds ethnicities. There must be a percentage of people
that are this color and that color. Why well, because
all right, but we mentally and we I think, crave
to be around like minded people. That's how you end
up with neighborhoods that are of like mind. It was
a choice that was made by the people that live there.

(57:31):
Fifty five Kiracity Talk Station. You feel free to chime in.
Maybe you see it differently. I don't mind that at all,
difference of opinion. They're welcome here on the since I
police identified a man killed after our shooting in Roselawn
that happened on Saturday, Kenny Townshend, thirty five, died as
a result of being shot sixteen hundred block a Summit.
Rogue officers called area to the area about twelve thirty pm.
That's where they found towns In with a gunshot wound.

(57:53):
Initially suffering life threatening injuries, according to Lieutenant Jonathan Cunningham.
Police have not stated if they have a suspect still
under investigation. Again Crime Stoppers three five, two thirty forty
just two of the stories involving violence in downtown Cincinnati. Yeah,

(58:14):
I don't know what I got out of it along
those lines, but I certainly got a good peanut brittle recipe.
I also took woodshot. I also took typing. I also
took sewing. Yeah, that was part of home act. I
made a dog a bet. Yeah, one of those beanbag
kind of things is basically a giant ball filled with
fluffy you know. Yeah, I made one of those. My

(58:36):
only accomplishment in sewing class. But you know, do I
know how to thread a sewing machine?

Speaker 7 (58:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (58:43):
I don't know. I'd be hard pressed to do it now,
it's been too many years, But I did learn a skill.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
There.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
We're a lot of women in that class too. I
was looking at this meme someone sent them Shocking things
liberals believe, and it's all, of course, things that liberals
believe that you're supposed to think are great ideas. Like,
for example, here's one, everyone should have access, equal access
to equal education. What does that mean in going back

(59:12):
to what liberals believe. Apparently they believe in one single
solitary public school platform, the public school, and they will
not give you choice. I think you have a greater
opportunity to equal access to equal education if you're given
the freedom of choice to choose. And here's another one
that I thought rather interesting. There should not be subsidies
for profitable corporations. Yeah, I agree with that, but there

(59:35):
also shouldn't be subsidies for unprofitable corporations. Like the whole
green energy thing, it's coming to collapsing around us. If
you have no subsidies, no one wants it. It can't compete.
It's an inferior energy source. But what about the climate, Yeah,
carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant. Just take that element out
of the whole global warming argument. Let the plants eat

(59:57):
the food that we give them with our exhalation. Carbon
dioxide is, in and of itself, nothing that is going
to kill the planet. It's not like mercury where it
causes cancer or other problems. And you know it exists
as a natural component of our world. Ergo, it's not
a pollutant. Yeah, lobbyists should not be allowed to bribe

(01:00:19):
our representatives. I'll agree with that. The question is is
funding their campaigns a former bribery? And if it is,
then both liberals and conservatives are equal opportunity offenders when
it comes to that. So I guess it's a question
in the hearts and minds of liberals whose ox is
being goreed when it comes to campaign funding from lobbyists.
No child should fear being shot at school, I agree,

(01:00:42):
but it's a breakdown of society, not the firearm itself,
because the firearm, while being protected as an inalienable right
under our constitution, the firearm does not get up on
its own and start shooting people at schools. Crazy people
do that. Can you get rid of crazy? Is there
a peace of legislation you can pass? And is going
to get rid of crazy? The answer is obviously no.

(01:01:07):
Wall Street gangsters should go to prison when they steal. Well,
calling them gangsters is one thing, it's a label unsupported
by facts. But if they are stealing, definitionally, that is
a crime, and they should go to prison when they
are stealing. I guess it depends on what your definition
of steal is. Hmm. And then there's a whole idea

(01:01:27):
of equality, equal rights, and equal pay should be a
benchmark for all Americans. Welcome to the the just the
bare bones reality of Marxism or Communism. From each according
to his ability, to each according to his need. Yes, you,
as a barista at the Starbucks are entitled to equal pay. Yes,
even that of a CEO at a fortune five hundred company,

(01:01:48):
which they complain about in this meme as well. CEOs
should not receive three thousand times the pay of their workers.
Oh that's a market force driven I might agree conceptually
with you with his statement. Are they really worth that much?
Apparently the big corporations think so. They're chasing after the
same groups and individuals that are on various boards of directors,
many of whom serve on multiple board of directors, and

(01:02:09):
are handsomely paid for it because I guess they have
the qualifications that maybe a frontline worker does not have,
thus justifying their well increased salary. I could go on
and on on this. You know, you look at them
and immediately they appear to be appealing as an out
loud statement, But then you peel back the veneer of
what they're saying and the fallacy of the statements are

(01:02:30):
revealed in full six forty six at fifty five KRC,
the six fifty one if fifty bout KRC detalk station
have Ay Monday, trying to make it so anyway, Well
so Trumpson's in Portland, the National Guarden in Portland, where
the place is falling apart. Now going back to a
common thread made earlier. You know, you believe your eyes,

(01:02:52):
believe your ears, or believe what people are telling you,
a little healthy dose of perception reality. Yes, there are
a thousand protesters or however many given protesters throwing rocks
and bottles and basically being violent because ICE is trying
to do its job. Those laws are on the books.
ICE is. They are just trying to do their job.

(01:03:12):
You don't like that, then he changed the law. In
Donald Trump's case, he wants to send the federal troops
in for the purpose of protecting federal property, and they
justified in doing that within certain parameters. And this lawsuit
that the Trump administration loss lawsuit brought by the State
of Oregon City of Portland, arguing that the deployment was

(01:03:34):
unlawful and exceeded the president's statutory authority and that's what
the judge decided. Two hundred Oregon National Guard members showed up,
tried to put a lid on things, and despite the
increased violence and what we witness with our own eyes.
So pick a number of violent protesters, what segment of

(01:03:57):
society do they represent? Person? Percentage of the population thought
it important to show up at the ice facility and
raise hell? What was their motivation? Were they being paid
to do that? Are they just basically anarchists who don't
believe in law and order? Could be a whole collection
of those, But we've got those. Yeah, there's a You
may have one next door to you. Are they the

(01:04:18):
majority of people? Well, that's what elections tend to determine.
You know, people have had enough and they say no
Moss and they want something done about the crime, or
they want something done about illegal immigration. They vote for
the side that is, you know, making their point. What
do you do in the meantime with the violence going
on there? Judge Immigrant ruled on Saturday that Trump's federalization

(01:04:39):
exceeded his authority because the law only allows the president
to call on the National Guard under exceptional services circumstances, invasion, rebellion,
inability to execute federal law using regular forces. And the
court determined, at least in Portland, Oregon, that none of
those conditions existed. Does that mean they don't exist in Chicago?
If you're wondering why Trump is sending three hundred troops

(01:05:01):
to Chicago, because this decision does not govern what's going
on in Chicago, would another judge in a case filed
in Chicago, and yes they've been filed, to find that
the president exceeded his authority in Chicago as well, that
these these extra these these circumstances, invasion, rebellion, inability to
execute federal law do not exist there as well. Certainly

(01:05:21):
a judge could find that. But a judge could also
find something to the contrary. It's a question of fact
that you look at any given circumstances to determine. And
so since you have people ramming ice agents with automobiles,
maybe the circumstances are different in Chicago. I guess I
always keep going back to, you know, if you had

(01:05:43):
a legitimate poll, if you could check the pulse of
say Portland, oregators, now a lot of them may give
you a knee jerk reaction. No federal troops being here
is wrong. But if you know you're paying for the
property that they're protecting, and of course you're paying for
the life of the officer being pre they get shot at,
they get docks, then they do get docs. And that's

(01:06:05):
one of the things that I'm so offensive about California's
mask law and makes it a lot easier. Parenthetically. The
cartels are now setting ten thousand dollars bounties when you
kill US immigration officials. Yeah, so California made that task
a lot simpler. Go ahead and collect your reward from
the cartels kill US immigration official. Yeah. But at some

(01:06:27):
point the people are going to have a say in
this matter. I'm just of the mind that the people
would rather have law and order that they aren't taken
in by and duped by this evil federal troop thing.
If it's federal property, you protect federal property. If local
law enforcement won't do it and they're not, somebody should
go in and rescue them. I should we go in

(01:06:49):
and rescue them and protect the property. Crazy world we
live in, folks, Crazy crazy world. Anyway, chime in if
you like. We're gonna hear from Christopher Smithman as we
do every Monday at seven twenty with the Smither Vent
again Money Money with Brian James coming up at eight
oh five on the stock market, social security snapping Wick
benefits which are not impacted by the shutdown, plus Judge

(01:07:09):
Christopher McDowell a Shenanigan's declaration from the new judge. He'll
be in studio. I just found out that's coming up
at eight thirty. I'm sure hope you can stick around
and be right back today. It's tough headlines coming for
the importance events of today, control of Capital city check Yeah,
summit with Potland.

Speaker 8 (01:07:26):
We can make a deal.

Speaker 11 (01:07:27):
Events in my day to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Day fifty five cars the talk station it's seven oh five,

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Epigy fove Care CB talk Station Monday. Like it or not,
I always enjoy Mondays. If you hear from your Christopher
smith Man. That'll be in the next segment seven twenty
for the Smither Van followed by Money Monday at eight
oh five Today with Brian James and Money Money, we'll
talk about the government shutdown and how it affects stock markets,
so security snapping Wig benefits if at all, And then
in studio I'm looking forward to having Judge Christopher mcdowellan

(01:08:09):
to make a Shenanigan's declaration on the Clerk of Courts.
Apparently there is a secret docket. I think we've been
down this road before felony murder cases, at least as
I understand it. We'll get the details at eight thirty
from the judge. If there's a felony murder, it's not
on the regular docket. So local news, for example, reporting
on such matters, and they are important as we discuss

(01:08:30):
crime and the increase in crime in the city of
Cincinnati and how our current elected officials are responding to it.
Wouldn't it be nice to know if there's a felony
murder trial going on, Yeah, you might want to cover that.
How would you know if it's not on the docket,
is a good question, he asked. He was at listener
lunch and that's how I found out about this. I said,
you got to come on the show to talk about it,
So he'll do that at eight thirty. If you want

(01:08:51):
to come on the show and talk about something, feel
free to call me right now. Five one, three, seven, four,
nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
three Talk found five fifty on at and T phones
are real quick quickly. Here I pointed out that the
judge out in Portland, Oregon said, no, Trump exceeded his authority.
Can't call on the National Guard under except under exceptional circumstances,
which the court determined did not exist there. There was
no invasion, rebellion, or inability to execute federal law using

(01:09:14):
regular forces. None of those conditions exist in Portland. So
local law enforcement federal enforcement are capable of maintaining order.
I'll let you decide whether that's an accurate conclusion or
not based upon what's been unfolding in Portland. But local
circumstances dictated that this decision, at least in the mind
of the judge said Trump, you exceeded your authority. The

(01:09:34):
court held the public interests favored restraint, emphasizing the importance
of maintaining civilian control and avoiding military intrusion. Now pivoting
over to Chicago, it's the same thing exists there. We
had ICE agents that were boxed in by ten cars
on Saturday. Anti US Immigration and Customs enforcement crowds have

(01:09:55):
been gathering there for days. A dozen people have been
arrested in this practice. Melee one are the drivers is
accused of ramming into the law enforcement vehicle and was
also armed with a semi automatic weapons. So much for
peaceful protests. Assistant DHS Assistant DHS Assistant Secretary of Tritia McLoughlin,

(01:10:19):
commenting said officers were unable to move, were forced to
deploy their weapons and fired defensive shots, and an armed
US citizen. The armed woman described as a citizen identified
as someone called Marmar Martinez named them the CBP Intelligence
Bolden DHS, writing in a statement she allegedly docked agents

(01:10:40):
and posted online, Hey to all my gang lets f
those compound word mfor up. Don't let them take anyone.
Fortunately no law enforcement officers seriously injured. But oddly enough,
the problem exacerbated because the Chicago police, speaking of local

(01:11:01):
law enforcement and civilian control and maintaining local order, maybe
it doesn't exist in Chicago, providing perhaps a justification for
Trump deploying the troops, which apparently is doing this week.
I know the presidents of the National Fraternal Order of
Police and the Illinois State FOP a little upset with
the reports that are widely circulating the Chicago's police. Chicago's

(01:11:23):
Chief of Patrol directed the officers not to assist the
ICE agents as they were being surrounded by protesters on Saturday,
Court to the FOP President Patrick Yoes, the National FOP President.
Details are still emerging, but it appears that officers from
the Chicago Police Department were ordered not to assist a
group of ICE agents while they were physically threatened by

(01:11:45):
what appeared to be an angry mob. Let's be clear,
both the National FOP and the Illinois FOP believe that
when an officer calls for assistance, you answer no matter what.
The officers were victims of criminal activity, as defied by
state law. How about that. Now, it is a federal

(01:12:06):
law if you accost a Federal Police Department agent, but
it's also a state law. Those people are well members
of the community, and if you beat one up, according
to Illinois law, as there is a law in every
state of the books, you can't do that. It constitutes
a crime under state law. That's what the police department
is supposed to be doing. It shouldn't matter whether you're

(01:12:27):
a federal agent or just some grandmother walk walking down
the street to the grocery store. If you get beat up,
punched rammed into by a vehicle. You should be arrested,
and Chicago police should be arresting. But if they don't
come to your aid, they've been specifically directed to not help. Period.
End of story. Read the memo, it's circulating everywhere. That's

(01:12:48):
what it said. So maybe there's an extra element in
Chicago given that local isn't helping. They're not helping protect
federal property, but they're also not helping protect the lives
of human beings. Somebody's got a force state law there.

(01:13:09):
The Feds aren't a position to do it. So anyhow,
let's do what Paul's got on this. Paul, thanks for
calling this morning. Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
Hey, good morning, Brian.

Speaker 12 (01:13:18):
I just wanted to ask you, how is it that
a citizen can ascertain or you know, make with confidence
the identification of ice officers if they don't have badges
and they're just accosting people off the street.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Well, I don't know that they don't have badges, because
every time I read they don't have badges, someone from
the federal government shows up and says no, they are
labeled as ice officers. So I don't know the answer
to the question. Because the fog of reporting is a
bit murky on this one.

Speaker 12 (01:13:45):
Well, except for the plenty of videos out there, and
you've got people like Benny Johnson, you know, right wing
activists Benny Johnson and Christy nom out there wearing ICE things.
And I mean Benny Johnson is not an ICE officer.
And that's just one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:13:59):
The it's become just a public spectacle.

Speaker 11 (01:14:02):
To go out.

Speaker 12 (01:14:03):
And again, if I see one of my neighbors being
a costag just because their skin is brown, how am
I supposed to know that those people are acting in
an official capacity?

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Well, how would you know that someone's are costing your
neighbor because of their skin being brown. That's kind of
a conclusion we've reached on your own without any information
supporting that conclusion.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Well, so why was the.

Speaker 12 (01:14:22):
Guy who arrested twice in South Carolina in a construction
an American citizen twice just because his skin was brown.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
I don't know that that's the case, But then again,
I don't know which guy you're talking about. Again, the
fog or reporting on all this, there's so many isolated
incidents reported on across this country every given day. I
can't keep track of the people, honestly, or the facts
behind each one. Are there atrocities being committed by law
enforcement sometimes absolutely are Often they're doing their lawful job

(01:14:50):
and trying to enforce the law. Of course they are.
Are these problems going to crop up from time to time?
Of course, there are bad eggs among all law enforcement officers,
much in the way there are bad eggs among the
ro testers thinking that they're just merely supporting human rights
and people's right to live in a free society. There
are always bad actors and bad eggs trying to clean
it up.

Speaker 12 (01:15:08):
Those are great points, Those are great points. But again
that just the fact that you have these people out
there right now. There are impersonators just as you mentioned,
there's characters everywhere, right and it just seems like a
there's a lot of chaos going on to your point,
the fog of the news reporting and support. But there
there's plenty of videos, there's plenty of facts, there's plenty

(01:15:30):
of court cases. The one I mentioned in South Carolina
is file a lawsuit against the government. There you go again,
we think twice, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
See now the ultimately, if there was a law broken
in connection with that, law enforcement officers picking that guy up,
picking on him. Whatever, that man's going to have his
day in court, and you got to wait for it.
You can't draw a conclusion right now and say it
is this way or that way. It was right, it
was wrong. Neither you nor I really are fully aware.

(01:15:58):
We weren't there at the time. We don't know was
that guy being accosted because of the color of his
skin or did they have a legitimate reason to pick
him up. I don't know. But if they didn't have
a legitimate reason, they violated his civil rights. They did
abuse a US citizen. Trust me, he'll get paid out.
He's gonna have to wait for it. Will the money
compensate him for the hassle, his reputation, the perhaps online

(01:16:19):
comments about him. I doubt it, But that's the system
that we have here. At least you get something, you're
allowed to go to court and fight over it. You're
allowed to prove your case in front of the tryer
of fact, and if you win, you've won. And if
you didn't win, maybe there's a legitimate reason why. And
we've been confused on what led to the arrest. It's
got to wait for it. And so what I'm all about,

(01:16:39):
do we have time Joe real quick, Matt, thanks for
calling this morning. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 13 (01:16:45):
Yeah, Brian, I got a little bit of lovity here.
I saw a movie over the weekend that reminded me.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Of you and Joe and the show.

Speaker 13 (01:16:53):
Yeah, used to have a lead ind where Jeff Bridges
came on there and said, I'm the dude.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Well listen to this. Did you hear it?

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Yes? I heard it?

Speaker 13 (01:17:08):
Big Lebowski, Dude, that was an old movie. Chuck Connors
said it, and he was talking about Gregory Peck being
the dude. You had a Trumpian moment in the movie
where he got shot by this Chuck Connors and it
grazed his head. And this Gregory Peck character was all

(01:17:29):
about courage and character and.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Character. But anyway, thanks for us.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Appreciate that. Maybe a different conclusion can be drawn about
The Big Lebowski, which is where our SoundBite comes from.
Maybe the Cohen Brothers saw that movie and then decided
to incorporate the reference in their movie. I tend to
doubt it, though, but I appreciate the call. I have
a great day. Stick around. Christopher Smithman will be on
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Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
I feel like I'm not firing on all the cylinders.
Thankfully I have Christopher smithm and former vice mayor of
the City of Cincinnati, running for CINCINNTI City Council, hopefully
victorious in November. Welcome back, my friend. It's time for
the Smith event, and thank you for taking the weight
of the morning show off of my back for a
little while.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
Ryan is always good to come on.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
I love your listening audience, and they love you immensely.
You know, I want to start with some joy, you know,
because and I'm not a big sports person, but you know,
elder beat Moler.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
You were talking about at the Bengals game.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
No, no, it isn't an amazing that high school football
brother is driving our market. Is not the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
It's not red right, Well, it's that age word hope.
At least with high school football, regardless of which team
you're rooting for, you have some measure of.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
Hope exactly exactly. But you know, they won their their
GCL championship, which is a big deal. So I know
they're going to as a students are showing up today
there if that's their super Bowl. They're fired up, and
I think it's a good thing to mention their coach,
coach Ramsey, and their principal, Principal Roughing. So congratulations to

(01:20:14):
elder and and and each more success for the rest
of the three games of the season they have left.
But I think it's important to say that because people
are walking around with their heads down a little bit
thinking about the Bengals and thinking about the Reds as examples.
But we had a it was a great game, and

(01:20:35):
you know, my hat's off to those those young people.
And you know, at the end of the day, you know,
we sometimes are wondering where's the hope, you know, what's
going on with our kids and all the chaoses out there.
So it's also nice to highlight, you know, young people
doing the right thing at the right time, with the
right attitude. So congratulations to them now, little brother. Absolutely no, Look, brother,

(01:20:58):
I have been doing a lot of door to door work,
as you can imagine, right, and I can tell you
it doesn't matter what neighborhood I'm in. I've never seen
anything like what I'm talking about this morning, whether it
is in Bond Hill or Roselawn, or whether I'm in
Price Hill, whether I'm in Hyde Park or out Lookout,

(01:21:22):
whether I'm in Spring Growth. I'm telling you here's the message.
We are concerned about crime in our neighborhood and city
Hall is disconnected from our reality.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
That's what you're hearing. That's what you're hearing from the
people on the after you knock on their door, and
that's what they're telling you. That's a consistent message from
regardless of what neighbors.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
That's right, sir. And I'm saying black, white, young, are
old Latino. This is what they're saying. Like they lead
with it, Smithamn, what are you going to do about crime?
Crime is the number one issue I'm concerned some neighbors.
Some people will say, man, I don't feel safe going downtown.

(01:22:07):
So they say it all kinds of different ways, but
they lead with that. And so when you have a
mayor that keeps saying we're safe, we're safe, we're safe,
it's your perception, not your reality. Crime is going down again.
There is this big disconnected You've been talking about it

(01:22:28):
all year because the reality of it is we know
that violent crime is up and people are very concerned
about their safety. I was doing a door to door
in Roseland on Saturday. So here I see a police
police cruisers. I see the tape. This is no exaggeration.

(01:22:51):
I go to the officer, the detective. He says, former
Vice mayor, there's a dead body in there. Young man
got shot. He's in the stairwell right now, dead. And
I'm there in Roseline dropping literature. And this is two
blocks down from Reverend Damon Lynch's church in Roseland. And

(01:23:13):
this particular, this particular location, Brian has had at least
three shootings in there this year, meaning this is a
very active location. Obviously a very poor landlord, and clearly
city Hall has their eye off the ball because it's
a menace to a really nice neighborhood called Roseline. My

(01:23:37):
point is that that's me just walking around. And so
every neighbor who talked to me as I went door
to door, because they heard the sirens, they knew that
something bad had happened. That's what they were talking about,
which makes sense. And so my message to city Hall,
or my message to those who are running like Corey

(01:23:58):
Bowman who I am supporting because he has an upcoming
debate this week is focused on what citizens are talking about,
not what the mayor is talking about. Citizens want to
know how are we going to deal with crime? For them,
that includes supporting our police. I didn't have one African

(01:24:18):
American voter now a key, not one African American voter
tell me they don't want the police. They didn't say
I want to defund the police. I want to reimagine
the police. They said, Smitherman, we gotta support our police.
We need more police. I don't feel safe. And it

(01:24:39):
didn't matter whether I was talking to an African American
citizen in Cincinnati or whether I was talking to a
white citizen. So that is where they are. And this
notion that African Americans don't want cops or don't support
the police. I'm letting you know, I'm going door to door.
It is absolutely a lie. If we have our loud voices,

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voices out there that are making people think that that's
where African Americans are, and it's not where African American
voters are, and I'm going to suggest it's not where
the super super super majority of the African American community
is we want good policing. They believe we have good policing.
What they now want is the police.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
I love that message and I'm glad to hear it,
and that just confirms what I suspected all along. Obviously
you didn't knock on Iris Rollie's front door. Let's continue
with Christopher Smith Amen coming up plumb type blumbing and
is plumbing done right? I've been pressed. It's seven point
thirty three here fifty five? Care see the dark station
were little along the last sevend with Christopher Smith Aman

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doing the Smith event. But that's okay. We're going to
continue now, let's go Christopher. What else is on your mind? Look?

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
Brother, we have an election. Early voting starts tomorrow today.
It's the last day to register to vote to participate
in that election.

Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
And I think it's.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Important to underschool or that you should not vote for
nine people when voting for city council. There are still
thousands and thousands of voters out there, no matter what
neighborhood we canvassed who do not understand how the nine
X system works in Cincinnati. And so if you want

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to flip council, you want to vote for those four
or five people that you want to see get it,
get elected and stop. Don't vote for anybody else. You're
only voting for those people you want to win. So
don't fill out nine flops. If you do that, you're
doing nothing but diluting your ballot. So that is very

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very important. I like Linda Matthews, Keating Good and Smitherman,
but somebody else might like something else. But it still
doesn't have you go beyond four or five people that
are running for city council. And if this is critical
because if they're nine members of council briand and if

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Cincinnati can get control of that body, that is another
check to the mayor, meaning the mayor cannot do these
wild initiatives without the consent of council. And so what
you're trying to do is get a majority of council
members that support our police. If you're in your mind
you support the police, how could you vote for the

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current council members who are defunders, who are reimaginers, who
are hiring consultants that are undermining law enforcement every other day?
Why would you then cast votes for that collective body.
So you're looking out there for new people that can
come in and make a sizable change to move a

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direction that we are currently not in in a different direction.
And then, of course Corey Bowman, who's running for mayor,
and as I walked in, I want to state this
case for him. Look when he has this debate this week,
I know that this mayor is going to start talking
about who his brother is. I don't know who the
mayor's brother is. I know who his mom and dad is.

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It's none of my business and it doesn't matter in
the race, but that's a deflection for the mayor. If
the mayor starts going down that road, it's because he
doesn't want to talk about crime, public he doesn't want
to talk about roads. He doesn't want to talk about
picking up snow and how horrible it was for all
of us. I couldn't get my daughter to Seaton, not
because the main roads weren't clear, It's because our side

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roads weren't touched, and so many other people experience that.
Whether it's a pothole of getting our garbage up. My
bottom line to that is watch how the mayor this
week's pivots to these things that don't matter, like who
Christopher smither Man's brother is. My brother is herb Smitherman
or James or Albert or Joe who cares. It doesn't matter.

(01:28:54):
Focus on what's going to make the Cincinnati residents their
life better. Just want to make that case as people
are going in. Brian Thomas, I think is one of
the most important elections we've had in a long time,
just based on what we see happening with crime, how
law enforcement is being treated. I spoke to officers. They

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are humiliated out here. They're morale Your sister, bless her soul.

Speaker 7 (01:29:20):
Bless her.

Speaker 4 (01:29:21):
She is a retired Cincinnati police officer. She absolutely understands
morale is absolutely low. We've got to elect people who
are gonna support cops to go out there do proactive policing.
This doesn't mean, Brian, that we're not going to support
the collaborative Agreement or we're not going to do community
based policing. These two things can happen at the same time.

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But I want cops walking up to you in downtown
saying why are you here? If there's not a reason
I'm detaining you and I'm taking you to another location.
I'm not gonna let you just run around and destroy
our core, our destroy parts of Clifton are destroy parts
of High Park and so we've got to We've got
to elect people that are willing to stand up to

(01:30:04):
these people, these bullies. And right now I think the
mayor has been acting like a bully and he has
nine members of council who just do exactly what he says.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
We'll bring Christopher Smithlman back for one more seven thirty
seven right now fifty five seven one fifty five Karrosit
Talk Station. Another segment with former vice mayor of the
City of Cincinnati, soon to be counselmen again, Christopher Smithman.
Vote Smithlmen in November and only a couple more of
Smithman plus a couple more, don't vote all nine. That
said Christopher at the outset sound advice if you want

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to flip the council and go in the right direction.
Christopher Smithman, what else is on your mind this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
This this government shut down, elephant in the room. You know,
this is why so many people are defecting from parties
and they're moving and declaring that they're an independent because
of this lack of compromise, lack of leadership. Sometimes that
both on both sides. But what I will share here
in this situation. This is just bad politics for the

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Democratic Party right here, and I hope that they understand that.
As I go door to door, I can't tell you
the number of people that said to me, I used
to be a Democrat. I am no longer that because
the party left me. I promise you I am not
exaggerating when I tell you that. So there are a

(01:31:26):
lot of people that are very concerned about the condition
of their party. They don't like this conversation about defunding police,
and they don't like this discussion about shutting down the government.
And many of them believe that this is Senator Schumer
who is attempting to not be flanked in the primary
by the AOC, meaning this is about his political career,

(01:31:49):
not about the country. And so they act as if
we're dumb. I mean, the elected sometimes often act as
if we don't understand what's really going going on out there.
We absolutely do understand what's going on out there. And
once you know, I'm a financial planner, right now, the
market isn't taking it serious. Once the market starts taking

(01:32:12):
this thing serious, there are going to be differences in
how the market starts to react to what's happening here,
So the window is closing on opening up our government
and things like our tsa you know, being being you know,
if there's a if there is some type of crisis,
Brian Thomas in the middle of all of this, and
I'm not calling for that. I don't even want to

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even say it out loud. This will be absolutely devastating
to the Democratic Party. So they've got to come to
the table and if if the if the block is
we meaning this country is saying, are many of the
Republicans on the other side who are currently controlling the Congress,
and the and the and the Senate are saying, Look,

(01:32:55):
I want you to reassure me that anybody who came
to this country illegally, that we're not going to provide
healthcare benefits that we should be providing for Americans and
veterans and poor people no matter where they are. We're
not going to give those benefits to anybody who's here
in our country illegally. Why not just explicitly say that

(01:33:19):
they think we're dumb, meaning at the end of the day,
if you're saying that's not what this is about, then
just explicitly say.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
Well, you know, they can't Christopher their continuing Resolution version
which does it deletes the one Big Beautiful Bill provision,
which especially prohibits illegal immigrants from getting his aid. It
says it in black and white if you read, and
it's very difficult reading because all legislation like this is
but I've got all the resource material and the reference
material all stacked up together. That's what it boils down to, period,

(01:33:48):
And they can't argue anything of the contrary. That's why
you don't hear them rejecting that notion, because it literally
what they want literally does just that. And you know
the other I agree with you, yeah, I know with you.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
I'm saying in negotiations, I want Democrats, Republicans and independence
to just think about this if that if the Democrats
are saying, that's not what it's about, and the Republicans
are saying that's not what it's about, Okay, I'm saying.
If I'm on the Democratic side, what I say is
I'm going to take that away from you by just
making sure I say clearly I re emphasize in writing

(01:34:25):
that none of these dollars are going to go see
anyone who is coming to the country illegally, and we
open up the government. You and I both know that
that's not the truth. Their agenda is just the opposite
of what you and I are discussing, right, and.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
So they're shutting down the American government. That serves well,
just work with me and don't start arguing me. That
doesn't serve us, But I get your point, but serves
all American people. They're shutting it down over the extension
of healthcare benefits, where I think only roughly one point
five million people are impacted by this, this four hundred
percent of income cap that was in the original legislation

(01:35:00):
that they only got rid of because of COVID, which
doesn't exist anymore. That the original provision ended at the
end of this year under the Democrat's own hand when
they wrote at the outset, they knew this day was coming,
but they figured, we get used to these incentives, these
tax right off things that basically have the American taxpayer
covering the cost of the premiums for everybody that's on it.

(01:35:22):
They wrote that into the equation. Now it's the chickens
have come home to ruized. People got used to that
and see that it's disappearing. It would have disappeared anyway.
I mean, so.

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
They can't. We can't pay for all of this.

Speaker 1 (01:35:34):
No, we can't.

Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
What I'm what I'm paying in federal taxes is insane. Right,
we can't cover all of this public. This is not
about whether we're we don't have a heart or not.
Lots of people have hearts. That's why they're charities out here.
They give money to charities. But the United States of
America has to look out for its own citizens, and

(01:35:58):
that's what we're having this discussion about. We have veterans
that are homeless, that have fought in wars, lost a leg,
and they're out there sleeping in a tent in your community.
They're not getting the benefits that they need. But we're
talking about providing benefits for others who are who have
jumped the fence, jumped the line. See what they try

(01:36:19):
to do is make you and I and others think
like we're not for legal immigration, and they try to
call us racists, our uncle Tom's or people that are
not connected. You and I and others. All of us
support legal immigration. Most people, if not all of us
in this country came from somewhere else other no matter

(01:36:41):
what the circumstance was, we support legal and those people
that are in the country legally, who are citizens, this
has no impact on them. The discussion we're having is,
if you jump the fence, you jumped over the line,
and now you're here. Why do we have a party
that seems to be focusing on protecting criminals, protecting people

(01:37:03):
that are here illegally. And that's when I knock on
doors and so many Independents and Democrats are telling me
their party has left them. Brian Thomas, I didn't leave
my party. They left me. And I'm not understanding their
direction that they are going in. I'm not getting all
of this because every time they turn the TV on

(01:37:23):
you and I see and it sounds like their language
is we're protecting criminals, We're putting them first, not those
of law by the law abiding citizens. And they're talking
about providing health care benefits for those who come to
the country illegally when we have so many Americans that
don't have health care themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Amen, preaching the gospel there, Christopher Smithlan as always a
couple of people chiming in how much they enjoy your
logic and reason as you were speaking this morning, and
I thoroughly agree. I love you brother love imreiate you
so much. Brian's going to impact the stuff on what
will it impact? Sois security? Will it impact Snap and
Wick benefits Brian James on that, followed by a judge

(01:38:07):
Christopher McDowell. He's going to show up in the studio
to let you know about the Shenanigans declaration he made
against the Clerk of Courts to me at listener to
lunch of Jim and Jacks. Real good guy. He's only
been on the bench a short period of time. But
we'll hear what that is coming up at eight thirty
in the meantime. I'm not sure if it's true, but
on the heels of Christopher Smithman talking about the well
the residents of the city of Cincinnati being very concerned

(01:38:30):
about crime, apparently none of them talked about climate change.
And I hope this is accurate. I'm going to read
it because I trust the source. Laura appreciate you forwarding
the tweet. The post and it's attributed to aftab for
mayor where he was at Avondale Town Center and this

(01:38:51):
is what he posted. I'm guessing it's accurate. Someone out
there who received this may be able to confirm or
deny quote. Climate change hurts everyone, but it hurts our
black and brown communities the most. Pause for a moment.
You go ahead and decide whether you believe that to
be true or not. Anyway, he goes on, that's why
local leaders need to step up and confront systemic racism.

(01:39:17):
We here in Cincinnati are proud to be the first
city in Ohio to pass comprehensive zoning reform connected communities,
I interjected that legalize housing is housing illegal? I suppose
only if there are regulations that micromanage whether or not
there could be housing in any given neighborhood. Talk to
Corey Bowman about that. Apparently there are significant impediments to

(01:39:38):
well building what you want to build in any given
neighborhood in the city of Cincinnati, a problem that wouldn't
exist if there weren't so many heavy handed regulations from
the City of Cincinnati, like oh I don't know connected
communities for example. Anyway, So past comprehensive zoning reform, he says, HM.
Legalizing housing increasing density In other words, no single family

(01:40:01):
home for you. You must live in an apartment my interpretation,
expanding public transportation, this is just the beginning now among
the things that have to have pur of all believed
to be prominent in the hearts and minds of the
residents of the city of Cincinnati, as evidenced by this text.
AH contrast that with what Christopher Smithman is hearing with
his own ears as he walks around the various communities,

(01:40:23):
and there are a variety of different ones in the
city of Cincinnati. Everyone seems to be worried about crime,
and I imagine some of them may be commented on
infrastructure problems as well. We have a priority problem that
can be addressed. It can be you just have to
think a different way and trust that maybe a different

(01:40:44):
direction for the city in November will help. Right now,
you know what you're getting. Are you happy with it?
If you're unhappy with the current administration, is it so
bad that you say, well, hell, I'm going to take
a flyer and give Corey Bowman shot. What has Corey
Bowman's suggested in terms of the direction of the city

(01:41:05):
of Cincinnati that you find specifically erroneous, wrong or offensive.
I'm trying to be objective about this. You know how
I feel about the priorities of a toab purvol I
disagree if his priorities were crime and infrastructure. I'd be
encouraging you to vote for him if he was delivering
on that. Help have to have purvol continue delivering on

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crime and infrastructure. But that's not what he's running on.
In fact, as Christopher pointed out, as you and I
both know, he's trying to convince you that you don't
believe your own eyes or your own ears, and that
you need to think about climate change. Huh. One big
world we live in. We're all breathing the same air,
and we breathe what China belches out into the world

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every single day. Think about that in the context of
can the city of Cincinnati really impact climate change with
its dense housing? No, of course not seven fifty six.
Right now, if you have KCIT the talk station Money
Money with Brian James X follow by Judge Christopher mcdall
at eight thirty, I hope you can stick around today.
It's tough headline on the country.

Speaker 11 (01:42:06):
I need to know the weather in traffic.

Speaker 8 (01:42:08):
Listen then you'll know.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
On fifty five KRC talkstation eight'll five the fifty five
kr C DE talk station, Happy Monday. Thanks to all
we're financial for loaning al Brian James talk Money Matters.
It's time for Money Monday with Brian James. Welcome back, Brian,
Hope you in a wonderful weekend. Just ignore the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:42:30):
We usually start with sports, don't we. But I'm lost.
I'm just kind of wandering.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
I don't know what.

Speaker 14 (01:42:33):
How do we kick this off here today?

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
Yeah? Did you have any did you have any hope
with the so called late game rally? I mean, oh,
my god, the Bengals just got a touchdown. They're going
to think they had like three minutes left in the game.
My wife looked at me, she goes like, they're gonna
be able to come back from this.

Speaker 14 (01:42:46):
Wow, the Bengals have figured out to prevent defense and
we're able to score twice when they were down by
four scores. Yeah, just somehow that's not exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
And thank god the opposing team does commit some penalties
resulting in or nearing to our benefit. Otherwise, you know,
you don't even have a glim anyway, Brian James.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Who day?

Speaker 14 (01:43:02):
Brian who Day? Is what we're really trying to say here.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
It is it is all right Now I'm looking at
the start, at the front of the wall, Street Journal.
Right now, Dal Jones futures up a scoch SMP up
a scosh, Nasdaq futures up a scosh. Looks like everybody's
ignoring the government shutdown. I guess it doesn't impact the
stock market, or does it?

Speaker 14 (01:43:20):
Brian James, Well, and any headline like that is you
can't say it doesn't have an impact, because these are
things that do trickle down eventually, but these aren't immediate impacts.
We've had shutdowns shutdowns before.

Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
This is not a new thing.

Speaker 14 (01:43:34):
It's just a it's a temper tantrum that happens pretty regularly,
like clockwork. Once we get in certain political situations. We
got to run the football back and forth. But no,
this is not something we're overly concerned about having a major,
major impact on the overall government so that the overall
stock market rather. The longest shutdown we ever had was
in twenty eighteen, and that lasted about thirty five days.

(01:43:55):
The rest of them average about five to seven days,
So who knows where we're going to be. We're already
several days into this one, and there doesn't seem to
be any much willingness to come to the table. But
it does not benefit anyone to permanently shut down the government.
That doesn't help either side, no matter what, where, which aslier,
or which side of the aisl you're on. But so
so the anticipation is that eventually we're going to sort
ourselves out and come to some kind of begrudging agreement

(01:44:17):
and move on with our lives.

Speaker 1 (01:44:18):
Well, I've seen the cost of the government shutdown translated
into like impact on the economy that grow GDP like
fifteen billion dollars a week. I mean, part of me
wants to suggest that I did earlier in the program
that well, you know, there's the make work that the
government creates. In other words, you know, they they create
opportunities and create new businesses from a whole cloth. I mean,

(01:44:43):
you know, tell people you have to capture carbon. The
next thing you know, there's a whole bunch of businesses
popping up that are serving the purpose of capturing carbon,
which wasn't even an issue five minutes prior. So they
do impact what we do and how we live our lives.
And Brian I was arguing about the tax code, how
many accountants are employed becau as the tax coat is
so blank and complicated.

Speaker 14 (01:45:02):
Yeah, it was three presidential elections ago on that specific topic.
I believe that we were all going to be doing
them on index cards. He did kind of go away.

Speaker 4 (01:45:09):
It did.

Speaker 14 (01:45:10):
The Into It lobby had an awful lot to do
with that Into It being the company behind TurboTax.

Speaker 1 (01:45:14):
There you go and an entire multi multi Can you
imagine how much impact of the gross domestic product if
you got rid of accountants and the need for them,
because you well turned the tax coat into something it's
easy to do by yourself without any assistance. They can't
do that. Oh my god, we all die.

Speaker 14 (01:45:30):
The federal government is the largest customer of everybody's business
on the face of the earth. It simply is. There's
just that much money that circulates through the United States
federal government. So yes, as these as we slow things down,
then you know, we have a lot of people who
are now unemployed because the departments were shut down. Some
of them are coming back to work because courts are
ruling that they shouldn't have been unemployed in the first place.

(01:45:52):
I'm referring, of course, the federal workers here just during
this year as we've shut things down. So yeah, there's
definitely an impact there. And so this government shutdown started
on October first, and it has already silenced that most
consequential release of this month, that is the September employment report.
So if this lasts for three more weeks, the September
CPI inflation numbers are also going to have to be withheld,

(01:46:13):
and the October labor survey is not going to get
announced either, because we don't do these things anymore during
a shutdown. So we're thinking this is pretty much transitory.
We've been through this before, and prior episodes of shutdowns
suggest that these furloughed workers will come back with back pay,
so that is what has happened in the past. So
you're exactly correct. A call out if we're not doing
things and that means money is not circulating the way

(01:46:35):
it normally does.

Speaker 1 (01:46:36):
That is absolutely true.

Speaker 14 (01:46:37):
But historically speaking, we've brought these workers back and given
them their backpay, so that should settle itself out well.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
And you know, I know the blame game is being pointed,
and I think at least in so far as US
keeping continuing funding levels from last year's budget levels, those
were the Democrats numbers. That seems to be the right
step for the Republicans dude, we're giving you everything you
wanted last year, and we're going to continue that until
and here's my problem, we finish up the twelve appropriations bill.
So both sides are blameing because they don't do their

(01:47:05):
damn job. They haven't done the twelve appropriations bills since
like nineteen ninety seven or something crazy like that, so
you know, damn all of them.

Speaker 14 (01:47:13):
Yeah, I completely agree. I think I think we've just
had a point of just just absolute dysfunction. The necessity
of moving forward will force a break at some point.
Somebody's going to have to blink, because this is just
one gigantic game of chicken. We can't shut down the
federal government for months upon months or years upon years.
It simply isn't going to work that way, and it's
going to hurt everyone, which means nobody gets reelected. That's

(01:47:35):
what we're doing right now. I think we're in the
phase of this where we have to fight fight, fight, fight,
fight so that and give no ground whatsoever so that
we will get reelected. We haven't hit the point yet
where voters demand, hey, get together and sort this stuff
out so we can all move on with our lives.
Right now, everybody is simply posturing themselves for their own reelections.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
Well, and going back to the word, eventually the markets
will eventually start to react to this shutdown. Obviously it
hasn't happened yet. I don't know what they're going to
do this week. But assuming for the sake of discussion,
we have to look back to that longest government shutdown period,
how long did it take, if you recall, for the
markets to actually reflect the shutdown in the numbers.

Speaker 14 (01:48:12):
So it really wasn't that big of a deal. In
back in twenty eighteen when the federal government shut down
for just a few weeks, well thirty five days or
so it was. So that was the longest one in history,
and it did have a real impact, but it was
pretty temporary. So the shutdown started December twenty second of
eighteen and ended January twenty fifth of nineteen, and this
was over. We were already in a broader market sell

(01:48:35):
off that was happening due to trade tensions and federal
rate hikes in December of twenty eighteen. That month, the
S and P five hundred had dropped nearly ten percent,
and that was the worst December since the Great Depression.
At that time, but that was before the actual shutdown, right,
So by late January of twenty nineteen, when it was over,
the market had come back sharply. The S and P
five hundred rebounded about eight percent within two weeks, and

(01:48:55):
it just looked more it looked at that time more
like a temporary market could swing. Where we always talk
about the market can handle bad news.

Speaker 1 (01:49:03):
It loves good news.

Speaker 14 (01:49:04):
What it can't handle, what it absolutely hates is no news.
So while we're wondering exactly what's going on, the market
will wander and money will find its way to less
risky assets until we can tell exactly what's coming, until
we can kind of see.

Speaker 1 (01:49:16):
Through the fog a little bit. So once the government
shutdowns over, that quote unquote threat to the economy is
alleviated and things return to normal. Once the government opens
back up under the twenty nineteen law, every federal employee
is going to get their back pay. They're not going
to be deprived to pay. So that's over with. When
we reflect back on all the government shutdowns that we've
lived through, and even knows that we haven't personally lived through,
we see that the world did not end, and everything

(01:49:38):
kind of came back to status quo, So there's no
I mean, to the average my average listener, they're like,
screw it. I don't care that the government shut down
because it always goes back to the way it was
beforehand and nobody ultimately gets hurt.

Speaker 14 (01:49:53):
Yeah, and I am your average listener. I am my
own client. And that's the way I think about my
own family and my own dollars. There's nothing going going
on in the headlines right now that causes me to say,
you know what, I really need to go deal with
my portfolio or do something different change my financial life
around that. That's just not the case. This is no
fun to go through and it's gonna hurt. There's no way,
there's no sacrifice that's going to be made. So, for example,

(01:50:13):
in that year, the estimate is that by federal workers
missing those paychecks, even though they got backpay, that still
pulled about about eleven billion dollars out of the GDP
that quarter, but about about eight billion of it was
recovered when those paychecks finally went out again, meaning the
net loss was three billion dollars worth of economic activity.
That is nothing when we talk about trillions. So I'm

(01:50:36):
not holding my breath that there's really gonna be anything
all that momentous. Don't run around and change your four
o one K based on these headlines.

Speaker 1 (01:50:41):
Well, and I suppose it suggests to politicians who think
they're going to get some sort of leg up based
upon the government shutdown being someone else's fault. We don't
care enough out here about the government shutdown to make
that resonate as a political message. I know it's politics
brought out money, Brian, but that's kind of what I'm
concluding here.

Speaker 14 (01:51:00):
Yeah, I would. I would say that's the case.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Now.

Speaker 14 (01:51:01):
If this drags on and on and on, then absolutely
it will start to trickle through. That's when people are
going to start to notice. But right now and then,
I think the first people place people would see that
is in therefore in case, because the market would start
to say, you know what, this has gone on too long.
We're going to pull back here a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:51:15):
But that is not We're nowhere near that stage right now,
but we may be near the cost of living adjustment
and social security and maybe, just maybe this shutdown may
have an impact on snapping Wick benefits. Brian's going to
answer those two questions in the next segment stick around.
It's just shy of eight fifteen right now, and it's
opportunity for you to mention wolve Zimmer Heating and Cooling.
Who's been the trusted name, Ay Monday with all the
financials Brian Jane financial planner he is, and someone who's

(01:51:38):
going to tell about this, tell us about this government
shutdown is going to impact Social Security, is going to
impact SNAP and work benefits. Let's start with Social Security.
The Social Security recipients are eligible for a nice sizeable
cost of living adjustment. Unlike Joe Strecker, they get one,
but the Buerau of Labor Statistics has to do some
number crunching before that can happen. I guess the BLS
is kind of shut down during the shutdown, so we

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aren't going to get the stats needed to do a
COLA adjustment.

Speaker 15 (01:52:02):
Yeah, go figure right.

Speaker 14 (01:52:04):
So as soon as we need the we need some
new numbers here. We don't have them because we did
choose to not report them here very recently.

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
So this is good.

Speaker 14 (01:52:13):
So this is shutdown that began October first, that could
delay the announcement of the twenty twenty six Social Security
COLA cost of living adjustments. That normally happens right in
the middle of October, and like you said, it's a
bureau Labor statistics. They were told to suspend data collection
until we can sort things out, supposedly, and the specifically
for the September CPI. That's the last piece we needed

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to finish off that COLA calculation. Now importantly, I want
to make sure that that nobody is hearing me saying
that checks aren't gonna go out. That's got noohing no no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:52:41):
No, no no no, yeah, yeah, very important qualification. You
will get your Social Security check, it just may not
be increased for the COLA. But how much money. Let's
just cut to the chase on this one, Brian, because
I saw the article that you provided in connection with this.
You know I seniors are entitled to this. It's going
to be delayed. It'll probably come up eventually when the
government opens back up. But can you live without maybe

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fifty four dollars additional money in your payment each month?

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:53:07):
Let's recall that this this wasn't a whopper that was
coming anyway. So analysts had already been projecting about a
two point seven to two point eight percent increase in
social security, So it wasn't going to be a huge
change too. And now now that's a lot for some people.
I don't mean to say that, no, no, no, every
nickel counts. But at the same time, this isn't going
to put somebody on the street instantly. It would be
nice if we could get our stuff together as a

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country and figure out exactly how we're going to move
forward on these things. But I guess we're going to
go through some convulsions before we get there.

Speaker 1 (01:53:33):
But fundamentally the check will come a question be how
much it is. So now moving over to some critical
service release for some folks, the SNAP Supplemental Assistance Program
and WICK benefits. How about these because I know some
people are suggesting they're not going to go through, but
in other places I've read now they're going to continue
just like this a security Yeah, so.

Speaker 14 (01:53:54):
There's two different programs happening here. So there's SNAP and
WICK is the one that's more at risk because the
way it works, so WICK stands for women, infants, and children,
and that basically is very specific to single women and
children up to age five. This is a discretionary program,
so this means that it has to be voted on
yearly from Congress to stay funded. So as soon as

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the government shuts down, it goes away immediately. That could
run out of funds within one or two weeks according
on this is from that's from the White House's own
budget office. That will affect food assistants for about six
million mothers and young children nationwide. Now, the other one
is SNAP. That's the Supplemental Nutritional Program and all the
different states. It's federal money, but the states administer it.

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Some states have their own program called something else. So
for example, California calls SNAP CalFresh, Ohio simply chooses to
call SNAP SNAP to keep it simple. So October's payments,
so these are EBT cards. You see signs at the
cash register reflecting ebt cards. That's the SNAP program. October's
payments were already loaded onto those ebt debit cards. So
it's not gonna affect this month. But if Congress doesn't

(01:54:58):
act soon, then November's SNAP ben if fits could be
delayed or reduced. So if you're on WICK then you
might be you might want to start paying attention to
the headlines here. If you're on SNAP, you've got a
few more weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Well, that's fair enough. So ultimately we don't care. In
the real world, most people are not going to be
completely impacted by this, probably won't even realize the government
shut down until it opens back up again. You're a
little about your life so the way you went about
them before the government shut down, So.

Speaker 14 (01:55:24):
That is a true statement. Again again, I'm not seeing
anything here that should cause somebody out to run out
there and go run their lives differently, to make different decisions.
These are simply headlines as we go through, everybody getting
their say in Congress, and hopefully we will get through
this sooner rather than later.

Speaker 1 (01:55:39):
Hey, real quick here in a completely different direction, the
catchup provision of four to one K that changed this year,
didn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:55:46):
Yeah, So there was a new rule put in place
to allow for more people to put in to put
in more money. So there's now the catch up. The
way it always was was anybody over fifty could put
a little more into the program. That's currently an extra
seventy five hundred dollars if you're over fifty, So that
basically means that you can put in thirty one thousand

(01:56:06):
dollars if you're simply over fifty that's not new, that's
been there for a while, right, the super catchup this
is for if you're between ages sixty and sixty three.
This is a part of Secure Act two point zero
basically says that you can put in another eleven two
hundred and fifty dollars on top of it. So that's
the big change that came through there.

Speaker 1 (01:56:27):
I've always scratched my head over why there was a
maximum contribution to four oh one K in the program.
Is that so they ensure that we continue to spend
money in the economy as opposed to socket away for
our future.

Speaker 14 (01:56:38):
My best guess on that, Brian, is that, well, I mean,
I'm just not a guess. This is why because if
you're somebody who has that much cash flow and there
was no limit on it, then we would be sheltering
billions of dollars, if not trillions via four oh one
K retirement plans. So it's there to affect the super
wealthy from being able to benefit too much from tax
planning and starving the government of revenue that needs I.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
Think the latter point a little bit more, starving the
government of revenue it thinks it needs. Ah, we are
financial planner tell you to live within your means. At
least that'd be my guests. We don't have those at
the federal guide. Brian James. I had to take a
cheap shot at the federal governments reckless pending Brian James.
All with financial appreciate them leading out you every Monday
at this time to talk money matters. And of course
we know there's that secret group of women who'd listen

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intently every Monday, hanging on your words.

Speaker 14 (01:57:27):
We are going to we are going to do it
and say we got a listener request. We're going to
put a segment together on credit unions we're interested in
and some Social Security updates. So look forward to that
in the near future.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
They are anxiously awaiting it. And good morning ladies, even
though you do remain anonymous, Brian James. Thanks man. We'll
talk next month of September eighth of this year, and
because he was appointed, has to run for re election
next year, but we'll see if we can't accomplish that,
and of course we'll be talking to him about his
election next year in the calendar year. But in the
meantime A Shenanigan's declaration. Judge McDowell told me at Listener lunch.

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He was at Jim and Jackson the River. I'm not
sure appreciate opportunity to meet him and have him come
to lunch, but it was my concern over what he
told me at Listener lunch, and we're boiling it down
here in the morning show lingo as a Shenanigans declaration
before we get to that, Judge McDowell, it's a pleasure
of having you here. Oh my god, You and I
are basically about the same age, at least based upon

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your legal resume and what an impressive career you have.
I feel like a piker. You are what I and
the litigant. I was a litigation attorney. I guess theoretically
I still am considering. I have my license, but I
don't practice anymore. You are what we lawyers call a
true trial attorney.

Speaker 15 (01:58:38):
Yeah there's a difference. Oh huge, there's a difference.

Speaker 1 (01:58:41):
See.

Speaker 15 (01:58:42):
I've spent a lot of time in courtrooms, both as
a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. Also in civil
cases plaintive side and defense side. There is a big
difference between someone who pushes paper and somebody who goes
into a court room.

Speaker 1 (01:58:56):
I acknowledge where I was on that side of the ledger,
a paper pusher. But you tried literally hundreds of cases successfully.
So and of course I want to give you props
for serving your country. I know you enlisted when you
were seventeen. Yeah, I did.

Speaker 15 (01:59:11):
I grew up in poverty in southern West Virginia and.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
The way that's real prov poverty.

Speaker 15 (01:59:16):
Oh yeah, it's the kind of poverty where you don't
have food, and the army was my way out. And
I enlisted in the Army when I was seventeen. And
I can tell you everything that I am today is
because of the opportunities that were afforded to me by
the United States Army. I went to college on the
GI Bill, I received an ROTC scholarship, I got an
educational delay to go to law school, and I got

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all that great trial experience in the army.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
And you did a lot of trial work in the
army judge advocate general, and you were in court all
the time I was.

Speaker 15 (01:59:47):
I was a military prosecutor in Korea. I was a
military prosecutor in Stuttgart, Germany, where I was in charge
of Southern Germany, Northern Africa, the former East Bloc countries.
Then I was a defense attorney, and then I was
a I've finished out my time as a senior defense
attorney at Fort Riley, Kansas. Then I came to Cincinnati
and I became a partner at Densmore and Shoal, and

(02:00:08):
then I was a partner at Straustroy.

Speaker 1 (02:00:11):
They got you to deflect defect. Huh, Strauss and Troy
got you to effect from Dinsmore.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:00:17):
No, it's impressive that you were a part of both
of those in a decade at both before being appointed
by the governor to the Hemlon County Court of Common Please,
where you do hear criminal cases as well as civil.
But going back to your your time as a judge
devocate general, this is an illustration of the reality of
being an America's military. They put twenty somethings behind the
stick of multi multi million dollar aircraft and equipment. Young

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people are given responsibilities that no response they use the
word responsible private corporation would give a young person. No
law firm at age twenty two would allow you to
go in and try multiple trials. You have to work
your way up to that role. That's maybe why you
hit such great success as a consequence of the American military.

Speaker 15 (02:01:02):
One hundred percent. One of the problems you find in
litigation today is so few cases go to trial, that
so few attorneys have that courtroom experience. And in the military,
we were thrown into the crucible right away.

Speaker 1 (02:01:18):
Well, in a comment you made off air before we started,
anybody who's practiced law and done courtroom work, you want
a trial lawyer as opposed to a litigation attorney or
someone who never was involved with courtroom work. You want
someone like that on the bench. They've dealt with motions.
They have been the attorney advocating on one side or
another in front of judges. They know the civil rules,

(02:01:40):
they know evidentiary rules. If you put someone on who
maybe was a tax attorney, you never saw time in court,
and you appoint them to a judge or they're elected
as judge, they don't have the necessary foundational experience.

Speaker 15 (02:01:52):
That's absolutely correct. And with my resume, I've been both
a prosecutor and a defense attorney, done both plaintiffs work
and defense, so I can see it from all sides,
and I know when somebody's pulling my leg and when
it's a real motion.

Speaker 1 (02:02:06):
Oh, I'm certain of that and your level of experience.
There's no way you could have gone that long and
been so successful without that acquiring that knowledge. So impressive background.
It is and a salute to you for your service
work to our country, especially on a day as we
part company here for a moment and come back and
let him, Judge McDowell do the Shenanigans declaration about their
Clerk of Courts. It just so happens to be World

(02:02:28):
War Two veteran Bob Doolan's anniversary of his death. Bob
Doolan was installog Lo three that was the site of
the Great Escape movie with Steve McQueen. I got to
interview him here in the studio. I got to have
lunch with him. Thank you Steve Murray, who also served
his country as a career military man. He was such
just a wonderful human being and I just wanted to
honor his passing and his service to our country. Bob

(02:02:51):
Doolan passed away this day in twenty twenty two. We're
all better people for having been able to know Bob
Doolan's eight thirty five right now more with Judge Christopher McDowell,
Shenanigan's declaration coming up next, don't go away.

Speaker 6 (02:03:02):
This is fifty five karc an iHeartRadio station with Judge
Christopher McDowell.

Speaker 1 (02:03:08):
He is on the Hamilton County Court of Common please bench.
He was just recently appointed, as indicated in the last
segment September eighth when he took the bench thanks for
a deployment by Governor Mike DeWine. Will be voting for
him next November. Hate to know that there's an election
you have to face it within one year being appointed
at bench, Sir, I just la oh, well, take what

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you can get. We're glad you're on the bench, especially
in these trying times. We can talk a little bit
about the criminal justice system, crime and punishment and maybe
bond settings in a little bit, But let's first talk
about what you told me at listener lunch at Jim
and Jackson. I was obviously very troubled by this, so
much so that I said, we've got to get you
here on the morning show to talk about it. So,
what is going on with the felony murder dock at

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Judge McDowell.

Speaker 15 (02:03:51):
Yeah, let's start off with the concept that the sixth
Amendment to the United States Constitution makes our trials public,
and part of them being public is the people need
to know when those cases are going to be heard.
Anybody has the right to come and sit in my
courtroom and watch what's going on, and that's enshrined in
our constitution because of things that were going on in

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England with the star Chambers where people were being tried
in secret. Well, what I discovered about a week and
a half ago is that I had a murder case,
an aggravated murder case in my courtroom, and it was
very interesting, but there was no media there. And I
saw one of my go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:04:31):
You and I'm not going to go into the details.
You know the details, and whether you need to offer
them or not is immaterial. But I got the impression
base moment you told me it was a particularly heinous
felony murder. Oh, it was one that would be very
newsworthy if you try to be objective about what's reportable
and what's not, or what's newsworthy what's not. This was
clearly a newsworthy murder.

Speaker 15 (02:04:51):
Right, And I think if you think about all the
murders that happened in this city, and then think in
your mind as well, how many times have I what
happened to those murderers. How many times have I heard
the sentences compared to the number of murders, And there's
a huge disconnect in my mind much And this is
one of the reasons why literally half or over half

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of the aggravated murders on my docket have been removed
from the Clerk of Court's website.

Speaker 1 (02:05:19):
By what authority is that under any circumstances appropriate? And
if so, under what circumstances.

Speaker 15 (02:05:25):
Yeah, there are reasons why the documents and even cases
could be removed from the public records, but not that
I can determine in this case, And and each time
that that occurs, a judge should have to sign off
on it. So let's say, for example, you have a
drug case and somebody's been arrested and they're working with
the police. Well, you want to remove that case from

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the public records, so all these friends don't know he's
working with the police. And a murderer doesn't work with
the police, he's incarcerated. And this is a case that
had gone on for over a year and a half,
as are all of the murder cases that are on
my DOCA. They've been going on for more than a year,
but these cases have been removed. So if you know
the name of the defendant and you were to go

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to the Clerk of Court's website put it in, it
would not come up. If you happen to know the
case number and you put it in, it would not
come up. And so that is one of the reasons
why these cases aren't being covered. They've been removed from
the public record. The media and the people don't know
when these sentencings are occurring.

Speaker 1 (02:06:26):
Do we have any judges signing off on the removal
or is this just a blanket removal.

Speaker 15 (02:06:32):
Yeah, it's very interesting. So when I started to do
my investigation into this, one of the older bailiffs in
the courthouse pulled a record for where Tracy Winkler, the
last Republican, was a clerk of courts, and on that document,
a judge had to sign off if a document or
a case was going to be removed from the public
docket or the public records.

Speaker 4 (02:06:52):
There.

Speaker 15 (02:06:53):
We've looked at the cases that have been removed from
the Clerk of Court's website and we can find no
judge on off so far on any.

Speaker 1 (02:07:02):
Of these cases, which leads one to guests that someone
is behind the scenes in the Clerker Court's office is
unilaterally determined this should not be on the public's docket
or the docket I mean somebody there's a looming phase
it the clerker courts himself.

Speaker 15 (02:07:17):
Well, the Clerk of Courts is responsible for me.

Speaker 1 (02:07:19):
Yeah, and the buck stops there.

Speaker 15 (02:07:22):
In other words, right, and also judges need to be
looking at this. The thing of it is when I
look at my docket. When I look at I can
see all these records, so I wouldn't know that it
has been removed from the public record.

Speaker 1 (02:07:36):
Because you have to try a case. Obviously you're going
to be given the information related to it, but you
have to look at the regular docket to see if
that case it's right literally on your desk, is there.
And as you determined in that fellow murder case, the
heinous one, you went over and looked, it's not there.
You're like, wait, where is this on the docket?

Speaker 15 (02:07:51):
Right, which then calls me to tell me. Ask my
bailiff look at all the murder cases on my docket
and see how many of them have been removed from
the Clerk Court's website.

Speaker 1 (02:08:00):
And it was over half.

Speaker 15 (02:08:02):
And then I went to some other judges and discovered
similar things on their dockets as well. It's very curious,
very curious. But in considering the case where there is
a legitimate basis, you have a drug dealer who's working
with authorities, they've got suppliers. Clearly you want to get those.
That person's life could very well be in jeopardy if
it's known that they're in front of you and their

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case is going to be tried, their names out there
and you know they're working with police. So there's in
a murder case. Sadly the victim, which is the one
that would need to be protected, is no longer in
need of protection. They're not going to be threatened, that's right.
So yeah, I asked my clerk at the same time
because I had the same thought. I said, look at
the rape cases that we have next week and see

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if those rape cases have been removed from the public docket.

Speaker 1 (02:08:48):
And they had not, And so they've got a victim there.

Speaker 15 (02:08:52):
There, you have a real victim, and that real victim
is those cases have not been removed from the public record.
But just these aggravated murders, so far as I can
I know, so far, aggravated murder cases Now, when I
talk to other bailiffs in the courthouse, they tell me
they've seen this in some of the renew cases in
the past, which is the drug cases, which is a

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good reason I potentially remove it there. Another reason might
be that the police early on in a case, they
have an arrest warrant for somebody and they don't want
it to be out in the public that they're out
looking for somebody. But as soon as they picked that
person up, the case should be put back on to
the public docket well.

Speaker 1 (02:09:33):
And to be in front of you in a case
that means it suggests obviously they have been picked up,
they have been issued a citation, they've probably been through
a bond hearing already. This is way way beyond the
time when this information should be maybe legitimately held from
the public.

Speaker 15 (02:09:48):
Yeah, the case in question was over a year and
a half old.

Speaker 1 (02:09:53):
Judgment mcdo am, I right in understanding that the current
clerker courts has been down this road before.

Speaker 15 (02:10:00):
Yeah, hundred percent. What he was doing before was removing
the eviction docket cases. So if you'd been evicted from court,
he was just removing those And so the municipal court
judges had to sue him to get those records put
back on to the public docket. The Clerk of Courts
does not have the power to unilaterally remove documents from

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the public records.

Speaker 1 (02:10:23):
Let's pause, will bring Judge McDowell back for one more
Shenanigan's declaration. Be the talk station in say forty eight
or fifty five KERCD talk station Brian Thomas with Judge
Christopher McDowell appointed by Governor de Wine, and thank god
for Governor to Wine for at least something. We've got
this great judge on the bench, unbelievably experienced and calling
him as he sees them. Clerk of Courts is apparently

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hiding a lot of the fellowy murders from you and
me knowing about them. I believe you summed it up
this way. You know, if you got a problem with crime,
then maybe one of the ways you try to deal
with it, it's just covered up and prevent like it
doesn't exist. And that's the problem that a lot of
people are saying the City of Cincinnati has. They want
to tell you that everything's safe, everything's fine, and yet
we keep hearing about the murders, the gunshots, the violence.

(02:11:08):
No follow up as you pointed out, no one tells
you what happened to the purpse after they're arrested. But
one of the reasons, then what do you do to
try to change the narrative? You don't put them on
the felony murder dockets, so local news doesn't know that
they're actually in front of a judge being tried and
maybe convicted. So what is the next step on this?
I thought of maybe one of these lawyers out there,

(02:11:30):
maybe like the Chris Finney's of the world, or someone
would file suit on this. This is what they do
all the time. Is there any legal challenges at play
here going after the Clerk of Courts for hiding these
records or what are you planning on doing next? By
way of steps, judge.

Speaker 15 (02:11:42):
Yeah, Well, what I'm going to do is, I'm going
when these cases are coming before me, now the law
come before me within the next month for a report
or for some other matter, I'm going to require I'm
going to give an issue in order to the prosecutor
to tell me why this case is not on the
public docket, why it is not on the Clerk Court's website,

(02:12:04):
Because I don't know why there have been removed. So
I don't want to just unilaterally remove it and then
there could be somebody in danger, for example. But I
want to give them an opportunity, and then if they
don't provide me with a good explanation for why the
sixth Amendment seems to be curtailed in this case, then
I want to order and put back on the public
docket back on the clerker Court's website where they belong,

(02:12:27):
so everybody knows and can come to court and see
how that case ends.

Speaker 1 (02:12:32):
And because we have a sixth Amendment, and because the
clerk has been down this road before and ordered to
put these records back on, you're on firm legal ground
in directing that, you would think so, yes, sir, well,
I suppose it would end up in court. Kurt Hartman's
name came up too.

Speaker 15 (02:12:46):
Yeah, I've known Kurt for a long time. Kurt's a
great lawyer, so is Chris Finny. There are a number
of great lawyers in the city who I'm sure would
love to take up this case. And also you would
think the Inquirer Fox News Channel twelve they also would
want to take up this case because they're the ones
who don't know when the cases are going to be
in court.

Speaker 1 (02:13:06):
Prior to today, Judge McDowell, they probably didn't know that
these were being removed. You just discovered it by virtue
of you being on a bench, Yeah, for a month.

Speaker 15 (02:13:15):
For a month, I found it out right away, and
you would think other people would realize it too. But
we'll see. I'll take it to take I take them
matter very seriously because I think that for our judicial
system to work best, the people need to have full
access to know. There needs to be full transparency and
also people need to know if igmated murders are going

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to prison for life, that should act as a deterrent.

Speaker 1 (02:13:39):
Thanks for the people. Well, and you just hit the
nail on the head of the direction I was going.
We're all worried out here, my listening audience. Anyway. You know,
the prosecutors seemed to want to do their job on
the heels of the police, who seemed to want to
do their job. Bad guy commits crime, police issue citation,
pay it over to the prosecutor's office. They needed a
grand jury indictment or not as the case maybe, but
they're happy to go to the court. The court seems

(02:13:59):
to be the weak link in the chain. The criminal
justice system works because it acts as a deterrent. One
of other reasons we have one punished the bad guy,
gives some satisfaction to the victim, the victims' families. But
more fundamentally, you offer an out loud message to those
who might commit crime. If you do, you're going to
be dealt with harshly. Well, modern judicial theory is no, well,

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it's not their fault. They went out and shot somebody
in the head. They had a tough life while and
they let them out either on low bond, no bond,
which sends a very out loud message, much like an
open border sends a message that everybody can come into
the country, everybody can commit crime, there's not going to
be any consequences, most notably for the juveniles out there.

Speaker 15 (02:14:40):
And you also see the repeat offenders. You see the
people who are out on bond or out on probation
who then commit the same offense or similar offense, another
violent offense, who are then still out on the street,
hurting the people of Cincinnati Hamilton County. And we just
cannot continue to live that way. Everybody should feel like

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they can go anywhere in the city that they want
and you can't. There are areas of the city that
you can't go because you fear for your life. And
a lot of the people that you fear are people
who are out on bond, out on probation, and it
should not.

Speaker 1 (02:15:17):
Be that way, and they've demonstrated willingness to break the law,
and they gleefully do so again knowing that apparently there's
not gonna be any consequence as well, if they're in
front of you, Judge McDowell, then I imagine there might
be consequences. Appreciate your service to our country and military service,
work of the JAG, of course, your storied legal career,
all the cases you've tried, and I'm glad you're on

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the bench. You have a responsible, intelligent official on the bench,
one who is obviously willing to look into Shenanigan's going
on in the Clerk Court's office. Judge McDowell, you know
you got an open form here to give us a
follow up and where things are if you find out
the reason why the specific person responsible for this was
it somebody within the Purval administration directing the clerk on

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what to do and not to do. Don't know, but
I'm looking forward to finding out. He seems like you're
the man.

Speaker 8 (02:16:02):
To do it.

Speaker 15 (02:16:02):
I'll get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 1 (02:16:04):
I have a confidence that you will, Judge Rick doubt's
a real pleasure. We'll be looking forward to supporting your
campaign for election in November of next year. Keep up
the great work on the bench. In the meantime, best
of health and loved you and your family. Oh I
got to ask. I know you've only been there for
about a month, and I know judges get threats regularly.
Have you experienced any of that if you even want

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to say out loud, because I just worry about that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 15 (02:16:29):
Well, the first thing is I exercised my second amendment,
right I figured you did. The second thing is the
Hamilton County Sheriff has been out to my home and
they've conducted a full analysis of my home good in
my area. They provided me a report as to the
weaknesses and the strengths of what I'm doing. And this
weekend I was busy installing a home alarm and security system.

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And you know it's my wife is the one who
often bears the burden of it. Of course, you know
she could be home alone, and my wife is a
west Point graduate. I met her in the military. She
also exercises her she does.

Speaker 1 (02:17:10):
Don't mess with missus McDowell. Judge McDowell, great, heaving you on.
I'm sorry to put you on a spot like that,
but ahead of note, because we live in a very
very very dangerous world generally speaking, and social media and
docsing really makes it that much worse psychologically at minimum,