55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five O five fifty five KRC BET talk station. Happy Monday,
some sense.

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I'm the dude man.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Brian Thomas, host fifty five care Morning Shoot, and I'm
disappointed at the Bengals. How about the Bengals? Judge you
enjoy that wasn't that fun?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Deep down inside of me towards the end of that game,
though we thought we headed to the bag. There I
headed in the back of my mind, we're gonna lose.
We're gonna figure out a way to lose this game.
Guess what we did. Anybody see anybody getting fired as
a consequence of this nonsense? Anyway, try to have a
happy Monday. Appreciate tuning in fifty five care Sea dot
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hear it again. And last in studio segment with Corey Bouman,

(01:02):
a little bit to talk about on that today. Did
you know Tomorrow's election day? And I hope a lot
of folks in the city get out and vote. Opportunity
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device wherever you happen to be coming up this Monday.
Of course, Christopher Smithman, he is running to say city
Councilman Christman. I'd love to have to say that Councilman Smithman. Hey,
maybe even Vice Mayor Smithman. You never never know. Corey

(02:30):
Bowman gets elected. That's an option. So's Todd zins are
as city manager. Boy, I'd love that Todd doesn't need
the job, but it would be great anyway. We'll hear
what Christopher has to say. Last gasp of smither vent
before the election tomorrow Money Money with Brian James Status

(02:50):
quot here on a Monday eight oh five with Brian
James from Allworth Financial, we get the latest on the shutdown,
how it might affect stocks, benefits, social security, etc. And
I see a judges order the Trump administration to continue
funding snap. I scratching my head over that. We can
talk about that in a little bit. Is there a
social security loophole that can allow kids to also get benefits?

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That's a question that Brian's going to be answering. Large
part of me says, I hope not. And the price
of oil also with Brian James. So remember tomorrow's election day.
Joe Strekker on the Rundown says, vote or Die. I
remember that campaign. Wasn't that was that Obama? Yeah? It
was wasn't it Vo to Die? Go to Die? Who

(03:34):
was that? That's sang that Kanye Oh wow, taking me
back to a place that I'd rather forget. Joe Breitbart
and Daniel Davis theve time tomorrow on the Morning Show
as well. Hey, look, crime in downtown Cincinnati. It's an
issue on the ballot. I had quite a lot of
gun play in downtown Cincinnati over the weekend. Oh congratulations,
since I please investigate and reports of shots fired Saturday

(03:57):
morning in Coryville twenty sevenhund block a short vine about
three am Saturday morning, block away from the University of
SINCINNTY campus. Nobody hit, thankfully, at least not in this one.
At least as of yesterday's reporting, nobody had taken into custody.
Police radio indicated the witness at the scene saw a

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mail dressed in black clothing who fired three rounds into
the air well. I should be easy to find with
that description. Please continue investigate if you have any information crimestoppers.
I imagine three five, two thirty forty. Oh, look, more shooting
in downtown CINCINNY. This one four people actually shot outside
of nightclub and over the rhine early yesterday morning. Oh

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and look, council Member Seth Walsh, suggesting, well, this was
a preventable problem. I thought this rather curious props of
Fox nineteen doing the reporting on it. Anyway, about one am,
corner of Elman Finley Streets, right outside of nightclub. Privy
on ELM, Joe, you hang out there, don't you? Privy

(05:02):
on ELM. No idea what I'm talking about, since sinfully
said three men of one woman were shot. All four
expected were recover described as non life threatening injuries, which
is fine. Council Member Seth Walsh quote, We've been warning
the city administration that this is something we need to
get under control, and unfortunately, this is exactly what we

(05:23):
thought would happen.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Said.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
The coroner is known to have crime problems. He has
specifically warned city officials about it.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Said.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
He reached out to city manager Cheryl Long back in
April about his concerns. Wal said, speaking of Box nineteen eight,
it's been six months since I first raised this issue.
There's no pointing fingers, although it does sound like he
is pointing fingers. There's someone responsible who did not solve
a known problem, a preventable problem. How does one take

(05:52):
that statement. I raised the issue about this area in
April to the city manager. City manager who controls who
the chief of police is. We've just learned about that recently.
Although again, anybody who paid attention to the issue five
way way way back in the day knows the city
manager has made massive control over the police chief. I'll

(06:15):
let you decide if you think plee Chief Thigi was
responsible for it has any bearing in connection with the crime.
Or is it the low contingent of police officers? Is
it the city manager telling police chief THEIJI how to
run her job up until she was removed from command.
We know why she was removed from command. No, not
to this day, we don't. They're launch an investigation to
sort of, I guess, reverse engineer her time as police

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chief to figure out if they can find something in
her record, which so far appears to be unblemished, as
a reason to fire her, even though they already let
her go and put her on administrative leave. I know
we've done been down this road before, but I find
it preposterous that I'm having to go through it again anyway,
But I like this there's someone responsible. After saying there's
no pointing fingers, there's some one responsible who did not

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solve a known problem, a preventable problem. Now on the
heels of his saying he reached out the city manager
Cheryl Along back in April warning about this might be happening.
At it being a problem arier, is it possible that
he is pointing the finger at city manager share Along
as that's someone who is responsible, who did not solve
an own problem, a preventable problem. Don't know anyway. This

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one happened across the street from Brian Guys Brewery and
a block away from Finlay Market. Wall said there's been
a meeting between police and stakeholders about the nightclub because
problems were spilling into the community and resulting in car
break ins as well as other issues. Problem spot. Now

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look another shooting Carthage. This one one person dead after
his shooting overnight in Carthage Sunday morning early near Vine
Street and sixty ninth Street. So that's what seven people
shot in Cincinnati, and what did Corey Bowman have to
say about this since the silence is definitely from Provol's office.

(08:05):
So got this blast text Corey making a last stand
on the hill in an effort to get you out
to vote, to vote for him. He said, he just
came in yesterday. Shootings occurred in Cincinnati on Friday, Halloween, Saturday,
and Sunday with multiple victims throughout the weekend. I Corey
Bowman spoke with police officers in Cincinnati who stated that
there was not enough staffing to respond to shot spot

(08:26):
er notification and dispatch needs throughout the city. You know,
while you got shootings going on, you also have other
crimes being called in, maybe domestic violence calls and other
reports of prowlers break ins. All that police department is
working twenty four to seven, he said. I also spoke
with a representative from the Ohio Department of Public Safety
under Governor of Win's office. This is rather interesting, folks.

(08:48):
He stated that last Thursday was the final scheduled day
in October for the city of Cincinnati to receive help
from the Ohio State Patrol. This was canceled due to weather.
I am scratching my head over what he means.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
By that.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
All, the helicopter can't fly in the rain. But don't
we have other Ohio State Patrol resources. Joe, Oh, okay,
that's just all right. I don't know that answers all
my questions. Anyway, Corey goes on the next scheduled date,
and the first for the month of November is tomorrow.

(09:29):
That's today. I asked the representative from the state of
Cincinnati had requested any help for the weekend, which the
answer was no. I Corey Bummen suggested that a Friday
night Halloween holiday, combined with a fairly busy weekend in
the city would make it sensible to request state help
on those days to increase staffing levels and insurance streets

(09:52):
were saved. The representative responded that they are more than
happy to offer any assistance to the City of Cincinnati
if it is is requested with enough notice. Now stop
and contemplate that you are let's you're the Grand Pooba.
You're in charge of the direction to where the City
of Since Ana police resources go Halloween football game over

(10:14):
the weekend a lot of activity, one might anticipate that
over a holiday weekend with the football game in town,
there might be more criminal activity. Don't know, but scenes
that probably would be that way as opposed to a
random sort of off weekend. Apparently that wasn't enough for
the City of Cincinnati asked for the High State Patrol.
Back to Corey, we are currently twenty percent understaff of

(10:37):
our police department, with rising crime levels in our downtown area.
I Corey Buman, emerging all city leadership to accept the
full package of assistants offered by the Governor's office to
ensure people are safe on our streets for a long
term solution. I truly believe our city cannot continue with
its current leadership neglecting public safety. Well, seven people were

(10:57):
shot last nine May. Raft had was eating heitsa with
volunteers at the Board of Elections ensuring that he is
elected for a second term. These leaders are not only
interested in the rising political careers, rather than being public
servants to those who elected them. Vote accordingly, Corey Bauman, yep,
I hope you do, Hope you do. Hella can't get worse,

(11:23):
can it? Five sixteen fifty five The talk station five one, three, seven, four,
nine fifty five, eight hundred eight twenty three talk It's
forty degrees right now, fifty five car se Detalk Station
five point twenty on a Monday time change. I think
falling back is easier than springing forward. Can't we just

(11:45):
leave it the same? This conversation comes up twice a
year every year. Why don't we just lock it in
and call it a day? Does anybody have any objection
to that?

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Would you like to lock it in and call it
a day? Just pick pick one? Do you even care
which one we go with? You don't either. I was
talking to my wife about this, Which one you wont hunt?
She's like, I lamenting this stupid time, James. Which one
I don't care? Pick one and just stick a fork
in it. Let's see what Carl's got this morning. Carl,
thanks for calling the program. Happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Happy Monday, Fay. I've got a couple of public service
announcements for everyone. The first one can be a group project.
The City of Cincinnati is conducting a survey. I believe
it's The website is cincinnatisurvey dot org. I know people
may be driving into work right now, but they could
also search online for Cincinnati Survey twenty twenty five. And

(12:38):
I guess the survey is open to Cincinnati residents and
other people. Once they complete the survey, they can win
a five hundred dollars gift card. It's multiple choice questions,
no essays. It has to do with well. They ask
a number of questions. It would probably take about fifteen
minutes to take the survey. One is leadership. They want

(12:59):
to know what you say think about the overall effectiveness
of the leadership of Cincinnati. And they're talking about mayor
and the politicians. One of the questions is what do
you think about the effectiveness of the city manager? What
do you think about transparency of the city leaders? They
also want to know about potholes, snow removal. Where do

(13:24):
you get your information about the city? And I had
an interesting answer to that question. I put down the
website signal ninety nine. They want to know which Yeah,
they want to know which television stations you listened to,
what you think about the three to one one system.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
There was one.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Ambiguous question out there that I didn't know how to answer.
They said rate the traffic calming measures throughout the city.
And what they were talking about is a speech.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Rate.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yeah, and crosswalks dedicated on street parking.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
I don't know what they were I understand what they're
talking about, but I don't understand how I was supposed
to raid it. I would think that Chief Figi's family
and maybe Mike Washington and his family and would want
to fill out this survey. And I can't imagine a
more appropriate time to conduct a survey than right now.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
You know, don't you think it would have been nice
to have the results of this survey, maybe a month
or two in advance of the election, rather than probably
it will show up after the election.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yes, And I wonder if they will even release the
results of the survey, right, They've done this in the past. Well,
I never seen the results.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, the climate survey of the CINCINNT Police Department apparaently
has done several years ago and was never released to us.
So I thought that was obviously I maybe it was terrible.
I don't know, But that also that evaluated in part
the police officer was satisfaction with the with the hierarchy
and administration and executs, oversight and all of that, which

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of course included at least a component of Fiji. Because
she was assistant police chief at the time that last
survey was done to be appointed chief shortly after that
survey came out. But yeah, Cincinnati Survey. Look at the
site right now, Carl, I would have I would not
have known this was around. But for you, where did
you come across this? How did you realize they were
doing it?

Speaker 5 (15:21):
It popped up on Facebook about a week ago, and
I didn't think it was current because I thought they
did it earlier this year, and then I was going
to call your radio show and then they cut it off.
But it popped up on Facebook and a couple of times,
and I went out and I took the survey last week.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Good.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
And you can also rate where the city should be
spending or spending money or allocating money, whether or not
it's the police department, fire department, roads, et cetera, et cetera.
They asked you to list your priorities.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Far oh, in answer to the question where did you
come across this? Just Trekker volunteered. It was probably signal
ninety nine because she apparently did post this on her
widely viewed and shared Facebook page. But I would like
to think that you know, in a normal order of reporting,
you got Fox nineteen WCPO WLWT since they acquired to

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name a few that that might have popped up on
their reporting. So if you aren't a part of Facebook
and you don't follow signey nine signal ninety nine, you
could still have an opportunity to participate and at least
learn about the fact that this survey exists. Thanks for
bringing it, Carl. I have you to thank for bringing
it to my attention, regardless of where it landed on
your lap. Now my listeners, at least at this hour,

(16:33):
now know Cincinnati survey dot org is the place to
go and just begin all the questions that he just
went through, and so many more are right there. Chime
in feel Free. Let's see if we get the results.
Five twenty five. Thanks again, Carl. Fifty five k SIT
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Chesley's dead aluminum wiring stan Chesley. I'll refrain from being

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(17:17):
to the phones. So what Tom's got this morning?

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Tom?

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I always appreciate your call. Welcome to the morning, showing
a happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
Yeah, good morning. Did you have a good weekend?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, other than that game I watched yesterday, it's pretty
good weekend.

Speaker 6 (17:31):
And you were not involved in the shooting, So I
mean that's a good weekend.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I wasn't. Thankfully, Yes, that would be I should probably
knock well when I said, you know, sixty years plus
and counting and never been involved in his shooting, almost
had to be involved in one. But thank God, my right,
the Lord Almighty was there to keep me protected and
not forced me to have to use a firearm because
I never want to have to use one, because I

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never want to be responsible for killing someone. But no,
I will if I have to, if I'm threatened with
grievous bodily harm or imminent apprehension of death, giving rise
to my right to defend myself. So period agreed, we.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Should all We should all utter the phrase on a
regular basis.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
There.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
But by the grace of God, yo, I yep, so
he he is definitely good to us, well better than
we deserve. I wanted to dip into the stack of
stupid a little early. Uh, something that came to attention.
I don't know if you've covered this already. I'm guessing
you have.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Did we lose him?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Tom?

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Are you still there? Hello? You still there?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Go ahead? Do you start over with your Yeah, start
over with your point because you dropped off.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Yeah. The the dictionary dot com word of the year.
Did you get into this already?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
Six seven? The number six. It looks like the number
sixty seven, but you say it six seven, And apparently
it's all the rage with the kids, and you like
you put yeah, put your palms up in the air,
and you kind of go up a down with the palms,
like sixty seven sixty seven? What is that? What?

Speaker 4 (19:05):
What?

Speaker 6 (19:05):
Basically it's the kids saying whatever. But the stupid part
is that dictionary dot Com listed as the word of
the year and in their in their description, they basically
say that the word has no meaning. First of all,
it's not a word, it's a number. Secondly, if you
put it in there in a dictionary and you're saying
it has no meaning. That's stupid. So I mean and

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and not to be topped. Harrison Ford chimes in with
his wonderful opinion, and where where do these people come
up with us? Did you hear what Harrison Ford said
about Trump?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think, but what are you? What are you referring to?

Speaker 6 (19:43):
He's the greatest criminal that he He doesn't know of
a greater criminal in history.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay, when you asked me the question, Harrison Ford, I
did see that. But you know, in my preparation for
the Morning show, anytime I see a Hollywood celebrity, and
I will even say on both sides to the political legend,
not that there are too many conservative Hollywood celebrities out there,
I just ignore them.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
To me, it doesn't matter what Harrison Ford says. Harrison
Ford can well sec non compliant phrase, put a brake
on it, Thomas.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
I understand that.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
I agree, nobody cares. Well, it's not nobody cared. That's
the problem. Too many people care what these Hollywood stars think.
They hold their opinion in very high regard. And to
say something that ridiculously stupid that he never heard of. Oh,
I don't know Paul Pott, Adolph Hitler? Does he not
know of any of these other people?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Well, the problems are very what I was just gonna say.
You know, someone maybe screaming, well, you know, Tom's got
an opinion. We don't care what Thomas to say or
Thomas says an opinion when you know what, I'm inviting
at least discussion and debate on the whole thing. I
would be open for a follow up question. You can
call me out and say, Thomas, did you not factor
any the equation Paul Pott and all these other evil
people that make Donald Trump look like a pussy? Oh vote,

(21:01):
you're right. I acknowledge that I was wrong in my
overly broad, stupid statement. Please remove it from the record,
or let me apologize for uttering it. You know, that's
at least there's an opportunity to do that here in
the Morning show. And I welcome these kinds of discussions.
But to randomly quote some random stupid comment from some
guy that we only know because he was in a
Raiders of the Lost arc or something, it doesn't elevate

(21:22):
his opinion to anything worthwhile unless he's greased to sit
down and go through a back and forth on it,
maybe offer some specific reasons why he thinks he's right.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
I understand that, you understand that, but unfortunately there's a
bunch of brain dead people walking around following the lead
of these liberals, and whatever they whatever they spew out
of their mouth, it sounds to them like gospel truth,
especially if it's about that about Trump. Anyway, I'll end
it as usual. Don't vote rhyow, I don't vote Democrat.
Have a great day, bry Man.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
I guess, don't watch Harrison Ford movies. It's a possibility
to five four, nine, fifty eight, hundred eighty two to
three talk pound five fifty on eight and t founds. Yeah.
I can alluded to it going into the end of
the last break stan Chesley is that. Of course, you
may know from the fifty five Cars Morning Show. We've
had the folks that have written the book on the

(22:14):
actually what happened to Beverly Hills Supper Club fire, the
case that led him to fame because he sued the
entire aluminum industry, which, in my humble opinion, sued the
entire aluminum mystery held them accountable because of the large
settlement was the result of the mob murder. That place
was burned to the ground by the mob, and I'll

(22:37):
die on Matt Hill anyway. He sued the entire limitum
in electrical wire industry, won a forty nine million dollars settlement,
and Fox nineteen converted that into modern dollars. Thank you,
Maya Anderson, that would be two hundred and seven million
dollars adjusted for inflation, referring to that case, making him
what they described as a legal trailblazer and a person

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who coined the term enterprise liability. Yes, class action lawsuits
against entire industries. Fifty three year career got disparred back
in twenty thirteen because of his involvement when the fen
Fenn litigation, representing hundreds of victims who suffered as a
consequence of taking fen Fenn, which was two medications put
together which allegedly helped with weight loss. Heart problems ensued

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as a consequence though taking those drugs, so he won
a two hundred million dollars settlement. He and the other
attorneys were free to divide the money between themselves and
their clients, well, or at least left to divide it.
They were charged later with keeping millions of dollars for
themselves that were supposed to go to the clients. Ches
Lee five and the lawyers got disbarred. Two were sent
to jail. Chesley accused of defrauding forty two million dollars

(23:45):
from his clients. After being disbarred in Kentucky, he retired
from Ohio before being disbarred here in Ohio. Apparently the
Fenfen case lasted decade. Victims are still fighting to get
the money they were promised. It's reported here most recently
the Chesley Law firm of grief to give twenty three
and a half million dollars two hundreds of Chesley's former

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clients in October of twenty eighteen, though the settlement did
not directly involve Chesley himself. So anyhow, widely known attorney.
Say what you want about him. I only remember him
from remember him from the aluminum wiring litigation. He actually
came to my law school when I was in law
school and spoke to the group five thirty six right

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now fifty five ker CIT talk station stack is stupid
coming up? Five forty fifty five KERCD talk station five
forty one click great there five on three seven fifty
five hundred eight hundred ty two three talks over to
stack of stupid What do we got going on here?
We got an Arizona Superior Court judge had to resign

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after being caught urinating in public just a few steps
down from the courthouse where she sat on the bench.
Okay Prescott police respotted around one thirty in the morning
October fourth. Witnesses reported a woman relieving herself near Montezuma
and Gurley Streets, same blocks at the courthouse where she worked.
Bodycam video obtained by Fox Digital show Yavapai County Superior

(25:13):
Court Judge pro Tempore Christine schaff Olsen pulling up her
pants before quickly sitting on a bench. Responding officer quote,
this is disgusting. Close quote. Video shows the judge struggling
to spell her own name on the as the officer
attempted to identify her. Moments later, her husband, Jason Olsen,

(25:35):
also serves as the Parks and Record Recreation manager for
the town at Chino Valley, approached the scene try to
pull his wife away from the officer's repeatedly refusing orders
to step back bad idea. When asked why she was
being questions, officers replied, quote, because I just saw her
puking and urinating, exposing herself to several people close quote
her husband. No, if that wasn't her, what what me?

(26:00):
We got her on video? Man, may there you go?
Joe Husband continue to resist police commands. Officer throws him
on the ground. Get your a word on the f
wording ground, dude, said the officer. His response, I'm not
doing anything. Officer can be heard saying that several other

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officers working to restrain and handcuff her husband. Five one five.
We're fighting. The judge cited for urinating or defecating in public,
which is described as a misdemeanor offense. Video shows are
identifying herself as a judge, saying that's fine. I just
want to let you know my name is Judge Kristen Olson.
Do you know who I am. I'm Bob McDonald. I

(26:41):
went to West Point to Point. Thank you, Joe. It's
also said she seemed struggling to sign the citation, the
officer saying nope, right here on the screen. On the screen,
husband was cited for a resisting arrest, interface with the
crime scene investigation, and obstructing the government operations. Joe that

(27:03):
sounds like charges iris Rawley should have faced for interfering
with police officers during their business here in the Cincinnati area.
Oh that's right.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Who can argue that's how.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
She's a paid consultant on city taxpayer dollars. Forgot? In
a later statement, the judge, my resignation comes after careful
consideration of current physical, medical, and family circumstances. The community
deserves and has judges who are steadfast in their commitment
to serving the county. Considering current events in my life,

(27:32):
I believe it will be difficult to honor this commitment.
I have therefore decided to resign. And where are the
screams and cries and wailing and nashing and teeth to
ban baseball bats? Uh? I asked this because Cataba County

(27:52):
Sheriff's Office deputies responded to an incident about nine to
fifteen on a Wednesday, Charlotte Police or Charlotte Police person
involved in a disorderly conduct. Cops got there, the victim,
a guy named Jose Figuerreia unconscious. Detectives figured out from
witnesses the fifty one year old Robert Hernandez Ariola. Now

(28:15):
I know, I know. It's two rs. Not one r
I had to look that up anyway. He was the
person responsible for issuing the savage beating. Ariola so filled
with raids that he used a baseball bat to bash
FIGUREO in the skull several times. The man's head discovered
completely crushed. Police arrested Ariola, took him to custody Figuria.

(28:36):
We rushed to the hospital, but died. Ariola charged with murder,
remains in jail, no bond. How come we don't ban
baseball bats?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Who can argue with that?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Five forty five ifty five carsee the talk state five
fifty to fifty five KRSE detalk station.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
See here.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Let's go back to the stack of stupid. I thought
this was rather comical. I even looked it up. The
particular power tool this man attempted to steal from an
ACE Hardware phrasing uh huh, Evansville, Indiana. We got Henderson
man's will be spending time in jail certainly before noon
Saturday over the weekend. Wuty's called it the ACE Hardware

(29:18):
Dispatch Advise. The man later identified as Joseph Corbot, concealing
power tools down the front of his pants, frasing wait
for it, WTSA They stopped him as he was leaving
the store and noticed a in the report's words, noticeable
bulge at the front waistband area of his pants phrasing.
Sheriff's office said that they found a Milwaukee M eighteen

(29:40):
one and a quarter inch router inside his pants. How
hard is it? Well, let me explain to you, because
I looked it up cordless. It is the M eighteen router,
length four point seven nine inches, weigh three pounds, just
under seven inches in height with a three point twenty
three inch width. How do you think you're going to

(30:02):
hide something like that in your pants? Anyway, he tried it,
He got caught, arrested, booked into the Vanderberg County Jail
without bond. Charge with organized retail theft all other larceny.
That's a weird charge. Failure to appear in other agencies
charges plural happy to see you? Is that a router
down your pants? What Florida woman lested last month after

(30:26):
a fully nude marital spat in view of public ended
in violence against the spouse and law enforcement alike. According
to the Florida authorities, twenty four year old light Lanie
Sullivan accused of one kind of each and domestic violence,
battery by strangulation, battery on a firefighter, resisting an officer

(30:47):
with violence, resisting an officer without violence. October fifteenth, morning
of wuty showed up a domestic battery, called it a
residence in Cypress Trails. Their defendant's husband said that two
had been arguing when the dispute went up a notch,
taking it to the next level thanks to his wife.

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Victims said Sullivan was quote very intoxicated and started screaming
and cursing at him close quote. Nature of the argument
is unknown at this time, but when deputies got there,
the victims said his wife also intentionally choked him by
applying pressure to the neck point so he could not breathe.
Poul Caddy Sheriff Grady speaking with local news. Sheriff Grady Judd.

(31:32):
Actually he was talking on Facebook. Made a common on Facebook.
You might ask, how drunk did she get? Oh, brother,
she got a rip, roaring drunk, took off every bit
of her clothes and we found her. She was in
the front yard of the house after biting and slapping
around her husband, who dialed nine to one one, so
we tried to arrest her. And she didn't like that

(31:53):
at all. Apparently, at some juncture, the female deputy attempted
to help the defendant put her clothes on. Not welcome
by the defendant. Sullivant at that point allegedly fought off
the deputy I know well, attempting to take Leilani into custody.

(32:14):
She became very angry and aggressive, was actively tugging and
pulling it away while I was trying to lift her
up off the ground and put her in handcuffs. I
gave Leilani multiple lawful commands to stop pulling away and
put her hands behind her back. Pull Kenny, fire and rescue.
You shut up on the scene to de Leani being
in the ditch with no clothes on. Once out of
the ditch, she was swinging her arms at deputies in

(32:36):
ems after I told her to stop swinging your arms
multiple times. Sheriff Judd, how much do you have to
drink alcohol that is to rip off all your clothes,
slap your husband around, bite him and then lay down
in the front yard. I can't answer that, but Leilani

(32:59):
can detained held the pole kind of do on a
sixteen thousand dollars bond? Our next court date apparently November eighteenth.
Let's see here, well, iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff. I'm

(33:23):
at this point I'm going to ask everyone for some
prayers for Jay.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
Now.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
He is okay, but he's been diagnosed with Bell's palsy.
And if you know anybody who's had Bell's palsy, it
gives you the appearances if you've had a stroke, your face,
muscles relaxed, it's difficult to articulate. He's found a new
love for straws, so he won't be able to do
the Iheartmedy Aviation Report on Thursday. And I'm praying for
him speedy recovery because I really really enjoy talking with

(33:47):
Jay Rattliffe. So prayers for you, Jay, and I'll ask
my listening audience to include him in their prayers. And
as I pivot over to an airport issue, thirty six
year old man charge after making threatening statements at the
Kansas City the International Airport Prosecutors. Their charge Joseph of
Vealesquez was secondary eight terrorist threats Court. To the court documents,

(34:10):
the police officers showed up to a harassment complaint when
a Delta Airlines gates about nine am Friday, October twenty fourth.
They got to the scene, witnesses said he overheard a
suspect make several threatening comments, prompting him to contact the
airport police. Witnesses also said that because of the suspects comments,
Delta Airlines placed Velasquez on a Delta no fly list.

(34:30):
Putting a smile on Jay's face, Officers approached several other
passengers who reported that this guy made statements including quote,
I'm going to kill the Illuminati, and you guys know
what's in my check bag. Just wait until we're up
in the air close quote.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Keep your stupid mouth shut.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Amen, brother. Court documents save Velasquez stated to the police
officers that he thinks the Illuminatis should be dead and
that he will kill them. All said that they saw
Velaska's making a finger gun gesture and pointing it towards
several nearby passengers currently being held to the plaque Canna
Jay on a fifty thousand dollars cash only bond. You're

(35:11):
supposed to be in court tomorrow at nine am. If
you're in the area and you have nothing to do,
feel free to call five on three seven four nine
fifty eight hundred eight two to three talk pounds five
fifty on AT and T phone. Education missed the memo
tomorrow's election day. I'll be right back after these words
and the top of the hour, news and weather, today's
tough headlines coming up at the top of the hour,

(35:33):
and eat. Since I say it's here a fifty five
Kariseedy talk station, Happy Monday Election Day, eve to get
out and vote. We're hearing for Christopher Smith and I
have a feeling he might bring that up coming up
at seven to twenty with a smither event. Hopefully he
is council member Smitham. And again that's if you vote,
and I strongly encourage you to give Christopher smithm a vote.
Demonstrably a great guy, obviously proved himself worthy when he

(35:56):
was on council previously, and I do believe he's probably
one of the best choices you can make. Mike subjective opinion,
I know, but we'll hear from Christopher coming up seven
to twenty Money Money with Brian James. Fast forward to
eight oh five, we get the latest on the shutdown,
how it's going to impact stocks, benefits, sosas, security, everything. Question.
Is there a social security loophole that can allow children

(36:19):
to also get benefits. And then finally we'll talk to
him about the price of oil. That will be at
eighth five. In the meantime, always welcome to have phone
calls here. I do a Bobby on the phone for
a move on and pick something else. Let's se where
Bobby wants to go this morning. Bobby, Happy Monday to you.
Good to hear from you today. Happy Monday, my friend.
Any good news in Porkopolis today? We've had seven shootings

(36:42):
over the holiday weekend. Yeah, talk about that in the
last hour. That was great news. He also had the
Bengals great game yesterday. That was really wonderful, wonderful news.
And yeah, it just depends on where you look. Bobby.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
Well, Bo Jackson has a birthday at the end of
this month, on the thirtieth. I think we need have
a Bo Jackson Day to get the curse off the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
I asked out loud. In the last hour, we've seen
some maybe some personnel changes, like a whole brand new
defensive line.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
I agree with you. How about the election coming up?

Speaker 1 (37:16):
How about that elect what well?

Speaker 4 (37:19):
I saw I saw a bunch of them down there
early voting yesterday. It was a sad sign, my brother.
A lot of people around the corners and everything, but
it was a sad sign for prosperity.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Lots of Democrats from your perception there, Bobby.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
A lot of left wing Marxist there hanging around the
corner talking about what they're going to do.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Well, were they actually there to vote? Were they're hanging
out trying to spread their their agenda, I mean trying
to convince voters. Where they were standing in line with
their with their flyers and their posters, or were they
actually standing in line to cast votes.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
They had it jammed up and jelly tied on their protesting.
It was. It was a sad day. It's okay, Well
this guy send me to our window. My friend thereby
quit talking about the Bengals. The election will be over
and maybe we won't heavy shootings or anything next couple days.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
So well, I don't know, you start talking about that
seventy two hour window, Bobby, and when I hear it
coming at your lips, I think that would be more shootings.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Well three days from now, it's going to be on Thursday,
so it'll start Thursday.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
You know, are you anticipating some sort of chaos in Cincinnati, Bobby,
is a consequence of the election.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
No, I don't think there'll be anything for the consequence
of the election. There's always problems in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Well, maybe what's Thursday. I mean, it sounds me like
you had some inside baseball or something, Bobby. What are
you forecasting or predicting or what little birds tell you
about Thursday.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
We always like to handicap the shootings on Thursday. We
put it at three and a half to four this
last week, but it was seven, so we try to
keep it low.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Hopefully, you like Jimmy the Greek when it comes to
odds on shootings.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Bobby, they got a lot on the election. They got
out on football, so we got handicap it.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
I don't know that you should have said that out loud,
because all those sports books out there, it may have
a new category they're going to implement to get more
people to vote or more people to place bets.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Well, a lot of people don't want to bet on
the under.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
So well, that's true. You have a good day, you too, Bobby,
cracking me up. Five three seven hundred two to three
dog con fifty on at and T fund. Yeah, look
at it. Corey put a post up yesterday. Here's what
his agenda is and it he's given you an indication
what he prioritizes. Number one, public safety. You want to

(39:37):
know what priorities are. Do you feel as though the
current administration has prioritized public safety? My straight answer is
that'll be no, at least not have until recently when
it became the focus of attention given the impending election,
that they might have to start taking things seriously. Of course,
we had a weekend full of shootings. Cory Bowman running
as mayor. Public safety number one, that's my first goal.
Increase lateral hiring of police were currently twenty percent of

(39:59):
the staff, allow officers to enforce the law, low level
for de escalation and prevents, and high level. Put pressure
on judges to hold criminals accountable. Tomorrow's election day, you
can put pressure on judges by voting for tough on
crime judges. Josh Burker, Wits and Betsy Sunnion immediately come
to mind. But you know there is an option for you.
Infrastructure coming into number two his priorities city roads worst

(40:23):
condition they have ever been. He said that the city's
current pace, it would take forty years to repair everything.
I've heard that figure many many times. He said, we
prioritize the paving a roads and routine maintenance. Sounds solid.
Who in the Cincinnati area doesn't struggle with one of
the deteriorating roads. And then finally budget, I look safety,
infrastructure budget. As far as the budget is concerned, he says,

(40:46):
it's not going toward the needs of Cincinnati. It's being
funneled in a nonprofits NGOs, contractors, Irish Roly consultants, and
those who are connected to city hall. Iris Early, he said,
we reprioritize the budget to ensure the practice goes toward
the basic needs of our city, not just feel good
initiatives and social agendas that do not help our citizens.

(41:07):
Sounds sold to me. Joe just Jacker responded some, well,
I will declare idiot, subjective opinion mine whose points to
the fact that Corey Bauman is a well he's a
minister at a church, hum and taking a stab at
him talking about how he thinks that he's going to
try to turn Cincinnati I suppose into some sort of theocracy.

(41:29):
We cannot have a Christian nationalist as mayor. Right on
the front page of the River Church, it says, Cincinnati
is for Jesus. No pastor bomb in this city is
for its people, not your religion. I didn't read anything
in Corey's agenda which suggests that he was going to
try to bring the peace of God, the grace of
Jesus Christ, or any other religion to the citizens. His

(41:50):
church is open, You're free to attend it if you want,
but he can't force you to go there made this
point a million times. I keep going back to V. V. Ramaswami,
the man's Hindu. I'm not worried about him trying to
turn us Hindu, and our founding fathers made sure that

(42:12):
that wasn't going to happen. Hence the free exercise and
the establishment clause in our Constitution, so we shouldn't have
worries about this. But when I see comments like that,
just the stupidity that it reveals that you can't even
read the Founding Documents, the state Constitution as well as
the Federal Constitution to realize we do not live in
a theocracy. I mean, you can live in the most

(42:33):
Muslim neighborhood in Minnesota and they can't force you to
worship Islam right anyway, Your snap benefits may be restored.
I think this may have saved Donald Trump in the
administration from the Democrats who are responsible for the shutdown.
I don't think anybody can convince me that it's not
the Democrats responsible, given that the Republicans are prepared, willing,

(42:56):
and able, and have voted fourteen or fifteen times to
continue funding levels at last year's level Biden administration levels,
which would include funding the SNAP program. One out of
eight people in America here is on the SNAP program
coming in at a cost of eight billion dollars per
month for one month. Two federal judges on Friday said
he has to fund it using emergency reserve funds. During

(43:18):
the shutdown, Massachusetts judge and a Rhode Island judge gave
the administration some leeway on how to restore the funding.
Partially funding, but they're saying it must be done. So
administration points out, and we've heard this before, talked about
it last week, there's about five billion dollars in contingency

(43:41):
funds floating around in some pile back in the background,
and the administration said it was not going to use those.
USDA had previously said out loud that well, if we
go into a shut then we can use this five
billion dollars, which would fund partially one month's worth of benefits. Now,
somewhere it's been reported that there's a separate fund with
around twenty three billion dollars which may be available for

(44:03):
the cause, and the judges were commenting about that, not
really quite sure because they issued the order which said
you must fund it using the five million dollars. There's
these contingency funds we're not quite certain about. So we're
going to have another hearing today to provide additional guidance.
And that's what the administration said it needed. Trump's posted
on social media on Friday, so he wasn't happy with

(44:25):
the decisions. Well, actually wasn't happy with the Democrats for
causing this shutdown. Said the government would comply with these rulings,
but it needed more clarity first, saying, if we're given
the appropriate legal direction by the court, it will be
my honor to provide the funding. So now, remember the
Republican's advanced to build a continued funding snap of standalone provision.

(44:48):
It didn't deal with the entire government shutdown, but it
was sort of like, Okay, we're going to carve out
this one program that apparently so many people need. It's
going to create mass starvation, so it will vote and
the Democrats wouldn't vote for that. So since they won't
vote for that, and this set, this SNAP thing seems
to be the thing with the most urgency and creating

(45:10):
the most problems, maybe for the Republicans, but if everybody
looked at this through a clear lens, the only people
that would be struggling and suffering is a consequence of
all the SNAP folks who aren't going to get their
benefits will be the Democrats. Sadly, we don't live in
a crystal clear world where everyone's paying attention, so to
the extent the Republicans are going to get blamed by this,
these two court orders will continue the funding at least

(45:32):
through the next several weeks of November, so they won't
be feeling this pain that parenthetically they shouldn't be feeling anyway,
because the Democrats couldn't open the government at their prior
funding levels. So I'm thinking there's a little maybe a
silver lining in on this, and we'll find out whether
the judges have this authority. I kind of questioned the

(45:54):
scope of this because they are intruding directly into the
power of the purse. That's Congress's exclusive authority. So keep
your popcorn out on this one, folks. But again, I'm
trying to view it through a positive lens. This may
have just bought the Trump administration some time. If you
can pop the bubble of anger despair, screams of I'm

(46:17):
going to starve or I am starving. I can't pay
my rent because I have to pay money for food.
We at least bought ourselves a few weeks maybe away
from that. The Trump administration has not said whether or
not they plan on appealing those rules, and again in
both courts, they'll be back in court today six seventeen.
Right now fifty five KRC the talk station looking forward
to the seventeenth November, because that's when the galaxy concrete

(46:40):
a big relative to the local residents here. But I
keep looking at this Zorhan Mandami race, the foregone conclusion
he's going to be elected, and this guy's crazy. It
really really hates the police. He's on record of that
his budget boondoggles. He's going to be given free stuff
and things that everybody like free buses, which they suggest
is not going to be just the set seven hundred

(47:00):
million dollars he claims going to cost annually. Who's going
to pay for that? City's already in the whole. The
Metropolitan Transit Authority there said no, it's going to be
like a billion dollars a year free grocery stores, well,
at least city run grocery stores on city property. I mean,
they won't pay taxes offering something at no profit. At
least that's the way it's supposed to be set up.

(47:20):
And it's never worked before. In fact, it's failed in
places where they've tried it before. Plus there's a big
concern that these small business bodega owners will be priced
out since they have to pay rent and taxes and
electric bills and all that they don't get the benefits
of free city property to run their bodegas. Just a
couple of points. You know, planning on taxing the rich
even more, the rich that have not yet fled. It's

(47:43):
pretty amazing. The top one percent of New York's city
tax bearers paid forty eight percent of the city's personal
income tax. There's your wealthy. If you're planning on piling
on even more on those wealthy people, the ones that
haven't already left, like during COVID went down to Florida
and Tennessee and elsewhere Texas. I think the rest of

(48:04):
them leave maybe in advance of these programs being put
into place. He is going to need cooperation from the
State of New York to raise these taxes. Not yet
given a green light on that one yet. Apparently Reason
Foundation looked at the budget New York City total liabilities
of three hundred billion dollars last year, four times out
of Los Angeles, Chicago, in Atlanta. Of course, New York

(48:28):
City Council has refused to cut anything at all, already
spending ten point six percent of the tax revenue in
New York on debt service, and that schedule to increase,
much like the national debt here more and more every
year we spend now north of a trillion dollars on
debt service. And notably, he didn't have any experience. This
is the thing that's been bothering me. Not that I mean,

(48:48):
I suppose, and there are a lot of people reaching
the conclusion let New Yorkers hang themselves, which is what
they're going to be doing. Go ahead, put this thirty
four year old guy who's never held a real job
in his life in charge of the largest city. You're
one of the biggest cities and biggest economies in the
planet in terms of city revenue, in size and scope.
How is this going to work out? I'm thinking with

(49:10):
a mass exitus of people who still make money in
New York, which is a death spiral for everything this
guy is proposing, you need a revenue stream. Oh and
on top of that, he's going to make thirty dollars
the minimum wage. It's a thirty four year old who's
never held a job and of course lacks anything by

(49:32):
way of an economics education. Jamie, you're on the phone.
I see that. I want to take your call, but
amount of time I looked up at six twenty five
right now with Ryan James eighth five, preceded by Christopher
Smithman coming up at seven twenty in the next hour.
Over to the phones, Jamie, hel Dwayne your next, Jamie,
thanks for holding over the breake. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (49:49):
Morning, Brian, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
Hey.

Speaker 9 (49:51):
I just wanted to give our Lakota School District folks
heads up about voting for Ben Win. He is the
twenty two twenty five graduate of Lakota he's sharp, he's conservative,
he's got some fresh eyes, and his mind has just
got some really creative education ideas to help us out

(50:12):
here in Lakota. He's also against the levee that Lakota
has on the ballot tomorrow, which is the largest tax
levee in the state of Ohio and their history. So wow,
he's been knocking doors. My husband and I have gotten
to know him very well. He's actually surprised us and
how ready he is, and he's just really got a

(50:35):
good head. And it would be really pretty amazing to
have a young kiddo like that on the school board
to bring about some good change for the kids.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Do you get any impression of which direction people are
how people are feeling about that levee given how large
it is, Jamie, I mean, there could be great justification
for it, but I haven't been following that one very closely,
so I'm just kind of wondering if you get a
sense of where people are on it.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
Yeah, I don't think it's going to pass this time.
There's been a lot of great education out there about
the dollars and cents about it, and they're wanting to
tear down ten buildings that's part of the plan, and
it's the money is not for teachers, it's not for
operation costs. It's strictly to tear down buildings and build
new ones, which is really hard to swallow, especially when

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the buildings, some of them are forty years old.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (51:23):
Well, and not even you know I needed to be
torn down. They need to be maintained.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
I think about the university that I went at the
university since a before they polished it up and turned
it into the you know, the Generica land that it is.
It was pretty rundown and slummy when I was there.
It had no problem getting an education. We didn't have
all kinds of amenities and things. In fact, one of
the classes they parked a trailer outside del High Junior
High School. Itself not in great condition when I went

(51:49):
there back in the in the mid seventies, but they
put a trailer out. We needed extra space. They parked
a trailer. It worked out. It took health class in
there fine. At least it was the one area of
the building that was air conditioning. Nobody else had air conditioning.
It's amazing how much perception we think we need our
kids have to have all this stuff and things by
way of amenities, now you need a room and a
teacher in front, being too minimalist.

Speaker 9 (52:13):
No, not at all, And to be honest, I mean,
the whole community is for the kids, like there's no
question about that. And it's frustrating because you know, people
who might not be for this levee are scene is
like demonizing and not for the whole district and not
for the kids, which is so not true. And it's
frustrating to not be able to kind of bring everybody's

(52:34):
voices to the table about you know, like you're saying
what actually matters at getting a child, you know, a
good education. And so I really think the community is
tuned into that. They of course will come back for
another levee, and I'm hoping that just more people can
get involved and we can talk about what matters and
that's the kids in the classroom.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Well, Jamie, I appreciate you calling in on that one issue.
There's a lot of other communities that are facing the
same thing, and you know, we got one more day
to talk about these things. So if there's somebody else
out there going, yeah, but what about my school, love
in my neighborhood, we don't need it or we need it,
feel free to chime in. It was a candidate you
want to steer people toward. This is the last opportunity
to do it. Election is tomorrow. Thank you Jamie for
the call. I appreciate it. And Duayne, you're next, Dwayne,

(53:17):
thanks for calling this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 8 (53:21):
Hey Bryan, thanks. I wanted to chime in on a
one point for Jay Ratliff, potentially to help with his
belt policy. There's a doctor who wrote a substack, a
Midwestern doctor. He does be forgotten side of medicine. That's
when all the same doctors got kicked off as social
media during COVID. Yeah, so he started the substack talking.

(53:46):
He did a nine or ten month study on called
the MSO dime methyl softbox size. Oh yeah, and there
may be yeah, there may be some good treatment options.
Since Bell's palsy is irritation on the facial nerve, which
is a cranial nerve that topically be rubbed on around

(54:08):
the crowdit arteries and it does cross the blood brain barrier.
So you'll find no FDA approved treatments. However, the dirty
secret is a lot of these cancer immunotherapy drugs are
using it to get into cancer cells and actually cross
that blood brain barrier. So what that may be a

(54:29):
good help. You could look that up. They had an
October thirty first article on twenty twenty four that went
through a lot of facial issues ninety sitis, tonitis, facial paralysis,
and the use of DMSO, effective use of.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
It well to the extenting's listening. You just gave me
the information. I will shoot him an email and let
him know that you had mentioned that. I've been hearing
about DMSO for years and years. In fact, back in
sometime it was late or early eighties or seventies, sixty
minutes did a special on I remember them talking about it.
You rub it on your skin and you have a
It gives you this distinct oyster taste in your mouth.

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Your body absorbs it almost immediately. Don't remember the application
they were using it on them, but it was not
approved for whatever they were selling it for or pushing
it for back then. And I've had multiple people over
the years recommend it for other ailments, including friend Bob,
who recommended it for something related to my health issues.
So I'm apparently either it's a cure all or it's

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being sold as a potential cure all for a lot
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(56:11):
the phones we go. Storied career in law enforcement. He
has John Newsom. It is a real pleasure to hear
from him this morning on the morning show.

Speaker 7 (56:20):
Good morning, my friend. I've been listening for a while.
Some really interesting calls this morning.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Yeah, I think you called. I really am John. I
just said, by by way a background, John, a successful
crisis insant law enforcement officer, retired from there and then
ended up going to the Warren County Sheriff's Department. How
many years did you serve in Warren County, John?

Speaker 7 (56:37):
I was there almost fifteen years and it was chief
the last seven.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
And that was on top of the twenty five you
put it into this in Saint Police Department.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
Right, right? Correct?

Speaker 7 (56:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:45):
How old are you about one hundred and seventy five?

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Now?

Speaker 4 (56:47):
John?

Speaker 7 (56:48):
Some days it feels like, no, I know beter than
that of stuff I hear on the news and stuff
like that. I'm thinking, Man, I just woke up in
a different world.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Yeah, well that's I made it a fascinated I mean,
the point of of letting folks know about your police
background because you have so you've seen it all. You've
lived through Issue five, you knew everything that happened. Then,
you were through other chiefs, You've witnessed the since Police Department,
obviously Warren County Sheriff's Department experience. So a great background
and informed he is so with that. I don't even

(57:18):
know what you called to talk about, John, but I
wanted to make sure people were clear on your background.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
Well, I like you, and you and I have had
these discussions privately and over dinner and stuff like that.
But the political process, and if good or bad, I
think our political process is amazing the United States. It's
just it bottles the mind sometimes, but it sure is
good food for your brain. And the thing in New
York with Mondani, it is it is a foregone conclusion.

(57:45):
There is no way. And they said they went about
Curtis Sliwa. He has every right to run up there
and if he pulled out, there is no way that
Cuomo would win. It just still wouldn't happen. It's Mundani.
It's going to be the people in New York. There's
a block for that part of the picket well, and
that's all.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
It was going to be.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
And there was an article this morning I read, I mean,
I think, aren't there eight million residents in the city
of New York that are capable of steering the direction?
They said there was going to be a record turnout
this year with about two million people voting, so a
lot of room for other people to impact and sway
the election. I say that out loud because same thing
in the city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (58:22):
John Well, Yeah, yeah it is. And that's that's said
in the city. I mean, I think the last Republican
or Republican there we have was what June seventy.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
One, Uh was that Eugene Ruhlman, Rooleman. I think I
made the mistake of saying Ken Blackwell, but he was
a charter right candidate. He was, He was a Charter
right then.

Speaker 7 (58:43):
Yeah, Ken, Yeah, Ken's a friend, He's a good man.
Oh my gosh. And we just got to hope that
there's going to be some change because I'm like you,
I love downtown Cincinnati. I love going into the city.
I know I can tell I can tell you less
and less. I don't like going to city. It's just
I don't like being uncomfortable with different places in this city.

(59:04):
And Cathy and I go to church downtown and I
carry my pistol in church, and I hate that. I
hate that I have to think about that in a
house of worship. I just hate it. So but what
I want to call about and we're thinking about Mondanni
and all this stuff that he wants to do in
New York and you had a great statistics, and I

(59:27):
was going to quote it because I read it in
Wall Street Journal about one percent pays forty eight percent
in New York City. Well, you know that used to
be the one percent paid about seventy percent. You got
to go back a few years, and that's how many
people have left. Okay, but if if they keep that
up up there and the Blasio, they didn't see that failure.

(59:50):
Here we go again with Mondannie very quietly except in
business circle. You know, I follow this stuff. Texas, the
Texas Stock Exchange got approval to open January first in Dallas,
and with Texas pro business and very favorable taxas structure

(01:00:13):
in that state, you watch. I just think it's going
to be You know, if I was, if I was
a billionaire, I'd start buying money or of buying land
in downtown Dallas because I think it's going to be
big in a couple of years. May take a little
longer that what's going to be.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
The new financial capital of the United States may very
well be there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
It's like you have Silicon Valley dominating out in California,
but more and more Wittich Californians are moving because they realized,
you mean, I can build a data center in Ohio
or Tennessee or I mean the freedom of travel is
a beautiful thing, and it's points in these in these times,
we realize how effective it can be and maybe changing
political dynamics because New York City is going to starve

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to death is what is what I predict.

Speaker 7 (01:00:58):
Oh and with the electric the way it is an
AI you know that that very you know the vintage
floor trading in New York. Okay, it looks good on
the news with people having the trades in the air
and things like that. They don't need to do that anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Yeah, I don't think they need to do that anymore,
do they?

Speaker 7 (01:01:16):
No? But I mean they like to show that now
everything and there's some of that that goes on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Stock foot stock footage.

Speaker 7 (01:01:22):
Yeah, everything is electronic.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Look, the Chicago Board of Exchange used to watch them
do that, all those traders out there. You get these
twenty something something's all spun out on cocaine trading twenty
four cellars then throwing the paper all over the place.
It's kind of funny.

Speaker 7 (01:01:38):
And if you talk to Jerry Ratliff some of his students,
they'll make ten or eleven percent on their money in
twenty seconds and they're out of the market. I mean,
it's just nuts. It is just crazy. I mean, certainly
it's a style and technique and a skill, but still
it's you don't need anything but your compute in front

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of you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
That's right you, and a willingness to just walk away,
take your winnings early, forget about what happened after you
sold the stock, and make quick quadruple. But you got money,
so to just walk away and be thankful for that.
That's that's well boiled down to Jay Ratler philosophy.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
It's it's true. You know, we used to go on
a guy's trip, a bunch of cops and some of
the prosecutors out the to Vegas every year, okay, which
stayed a nice hotel. And you know, my first day
out there one year, I got real lucky on a
blackjack table and I won about twenty five hundred dollars
two hours.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:02:39):
I started college as a math major, so I knew
all that stuff. I was able to play house odds
and things like that. Yeah, well I was done. I
paid for my trip. I was done, and a couple
of guys that I was with or in the trip, said,
you're playing with the house money. No I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
That's my money.

Speaker 7 (01:02:57):
They're not going to knock on my door. My hotel
room will want their money, thank you. It's just dumb
to think like that, you know, you know, it's like
a politician in office, you know, Oh, you know it's
and that's money we can pay play with. No, it's
not as tax player treasure. It's the treasure of the taxpayers,

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and you have to be a good steward of that.
And you know, when I'm a chief deputy at Warren County,
the two sheriffs that I worked under up there, Heiris
and Simms, they were hawks on the budget and watched
every dime and they treated that they treated that like
their own money, to watch every dime. And I was

(01:03:40):
so impressed with those guys up there doing. And I
know the current sheriff of there, Barry Riley, is exactly
the same way. And they don't take that for granted
that that's harder and money coming from the tax fear.
And I wish there was a lot of other and
Democrats and Republicans. I'm not just saying it's just Republicans
doing it. They're Democrats that they used to be able
to do that. You know, I'm not sure it's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
A sense of ethics and propriety and morality, you know.
I actually I practiced law that way. I hated building
a client for something I knew there was a shorter way,
a cheaper way, and then run around it. Why would
you force someone out there to pay for something if
you really knew a way where they weren't going to
have to pay for it. Others play fast and loose,
you know, I just build them for it. Screw it,
Let's move on. So yeah, the question of ethics and morality,

(01:04:23):
and sadly most politicians don't have that perspective. John really
is just no no.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
And it goes right back to our education system, lack
of CIVIX classes and things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Oh yeah, and look as dumb as our children may be.
Right now, Kamala Harris is now pushing to lower the
voting age to sixteen. Huh, oh my god, what's that
all about?

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
I'll give you the info on that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
I wouldn't want to have the vote when I you know,
I got the vote when I was eighteen. I'm not
sure sure enough eighteen. Yeah, you know it was around it, yeah, sixteen,
who was nuts?

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
I think it was around the Goldwater presidential election when
they changed it from twenty twenty one down to eighteen. Anyway,
John Newsom, God bless you and thank you for your
service to our community for all those years. And I
appreciate your your comments this morning again. All right bye,
we need better people. Thank you, brother. Six forty nine
fifty five cars, de Talk station, station six fifty four

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fifty five car Cedytox station. Christophersmineman coming up at seven
twenty one the Smith event.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
I mentioned to John there about Kamala Harris pushing for
sixteen year olds to vote why climate change, climate crisis.
I'm like, gob, we're all going to die. She hasn't
gotten a memo from Bill Gates saying, hey, this is dumb.
We keep talking about this existential future one hundred years
down the road. We need to do things right now
that actually help people. We're not going to die of

(01:05:40):
climate change. He points out. Of course, the European Union's
waking up to this reality. They're starting to lose business.
The speaking of cities like New York losing people because
of maybe Zoran Mamdammi's election, or just generally because it's
outrageous to live there. Expense wise, people have options and choices,
and in the name of European Unions global warming, climate crisis,
a lot of business is are pulling out of the EU.

(01:06:01):
Germany's economy has gone down to the toilet, as has France's,
most notably Germany. So with the background of that, and
recognizing that all of our exhalation is negated immediately by
anything China does in a moment's time, she goes, I
think we should reduce the voting age of sixteen. I'll
tell you why. Gen Z, their age is about thirteenth
to twenty seventh. They've only known the climate crisis, and

(01:06:26):
I hung my word. I saw it like, well, maybe
it's because you keep peddling it to them. They miss
these substantial parts of their education because of the pandemic. Yes,
in whose hands you want to place the power to vote?
They believe in climate crisis exclusively. That's all they've known.
They have climate anxiety to describe their fear, because why
the adults who've been in front of the room teaching
them have just hammered this into their heads. Twenty four

(01:06:48):
to seven rather than teaching the mathematics. I love this line.
If they're in high school or college, especially in college,
it's very likely that whatever they've chosen as their major
for study may not result in affordable wage. Whose fault
is that you're the one pursuing an art degree. They've

(01:07:10):
coined the term climate anxiety to describe fear not only
of being unable to buy a home, huh, but fear
that it'll be wiped out by extreme weather, or fear
of having children Again. I go back to who's perpetuating
these ridiculous fears in our young people who are not
capable of listening to you and saying you know what
that doesn't make any sense?

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Because they're well I two words sixteen year olds. And
this isn't a diss on all sixteen year olds. I've
met some really, really really smart ones, you can see
through the fog of this crap. But for the vast
majority of them, go ahead interact with them. Two words
useful idiots six fifty six. They also believe socialism actually works.

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Sitting around a little time between now and seven twenty
when we get to Christopher's with him, and I hope
you can stick around and feel free to call up
you right back. Today's top headlines coming seven oh six

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I can and I always like it because coming up
next Christopher Smith event. Every Monday at seven to twenty
you have the Smither event, former vice mayor of the
City Cincinnati, hopefully going to be counselman Smith Aman got choices.
Today or tomorrow is the day. It's election day eve
here in well Hamilton County, state of Ohio, most notably
the city of Cincinnati. Huge election for the residents of

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the city. So figures crossed, please fingers crossed. We'll hear
from Christopher. Have a feeling he might mention the election
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gonna hear from Money Monday's Brian James come up in

(01:09:04):
an hour. Some great topics of Brian, including the shutdown,
how it might impact stocks benefits. So sas security, etc.
And then topic number two is kind of scratching my
head over it is there a social security loophole that
can allow children to get benefits? And then finally we'll
be talking about the price of oil. Tomorrow it is
election day. Voter die, says Joe Strecker. And of course

(01:09:25):
the bright bird inside scoop and the Daniel Davis deep
dive tomorrow morning in the eight o'clock hour. Let's see here,
since I was having to go a Kamala Harris pushing
the voting age down to sixteen, get the desperate young
people who apparently are scared out of their wits. In
her perception, they've only known climate crisis. They've missed a
substantial part of their education because of the pandemic. They're worried,

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they don't want to have children. They have climate anxiety
because she said, not only of being able to unable
to afford a home, but fear that they'll be wiped
out by extreme weather having children. Now, this fear of
having children because they evendoctrinated our children into believing that
we hear the human population of the globe are actually
cockroaches and we're responsible for environmental damage. Therefore we should

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not reproduce and pro create. But in so far her
comment fear that it the home that they were able
to buy would be wiped out by extreme weather. Why
don't you look at what Barack Obama did? Was it
Martha's vineyard? And did he have one of his many
homes there like on the ocean? One of many politicians
who live under those circumstances. Apparently, even the ones that

(01:10:31):
are perpetuating this nonsense don't believe that they're house is
in fear of some sort of climate disaster absent you're
normally ocurring events which have happened since the dawn of
the globe, a hurricane, we have tornadoes out here in
the Midwest. Nobody seems to blame climate change on those,
just rising sea levels. We're all going to die anyway.
With that pivot over to Homan Jenkins Junior, brilliant and
perfectly timed, Bill Gates apologizes for Earth's survival and I

(01:10:54):
brought this topic up before, but staying on the shoulders
of giants Homan Jenkins, that person today and on the
heels of Kamala Harris ridiculous stupid station state statements. Bill
Gates jumped off a bandwagon that existed in the first
place only as a complete and utter canard. Climate change
doesn't point to humanity's demise, the Microsoft philanthropist says in

(01:11:17):
a splashy memo addressed to a forthcoming climate jamboree in Brazil. Quote,
people will be able to live and thrive in most
places on Earth for the foreseeable future clothes quote I'm
gonna give Gates more credit than Kamala Harris for intellect
on this topic. That last statement was mine, not holand Jenkins.

(01:11:38):
He goes on, but this only comports with the science
as we've known it for decades. Has mister Gates experienced
an epiphany and falling away from in falling away of scales, No,
not possible in this case, since he already knew the truth.
The reputational gravy train is simply coming to an end.
Our elites have been getting off for a while. In fact,
mister Gates may rank two and forty seven eleventh than Bravery,

(01:12:00):
behind David Wallace Wells, authors of twenty nineteen's Uninhabitable Earth,
who later that same year was already moderating his rhetoric
in a less alarmist direction, as he put it, without
offering refunds, but Bump or the New York Times Ezra
cline that harbinger of the obvious becoming sayable to liberals.

(01:12:22):
He admitted three years ago that mainstream climate models men
quote your kids are not doomed to a grim life
close quote Laughably. Mister Gates links his conversion to a
victory for environmentalism in the form of new less dire
emissions forecasts. The victory he cites, as documented even by

(01:12:44):
the Austere Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in twenty twenty one,
was only over a bad, propaganistic forecast that was never
rooted in the science in the first place. I can
make a boring reference to the Emperor New Clothes, but
consider an estimate of the Population Reference Bureau, which holds

(01:13:04):
that one hundred and ten billion humans have lived and
died in the past two hundred thousand years. That's a
lot of unattractive apes huddling together learning how to mimic
the attitudes of their social leaders. After all, what makes
elites is partly an acute sensitivity to the risk of
being out of step, saying the wrong thing at the

(01:13:28):
wrong time. You might recall the Hillary Clinton staffer who
stormed performatively out of a meeting after her twenty sixteen loss,
weaving I'm going to die of climate change, or the
Bloomberg contributor who said Exxon makes a product that quote
threatens the continuation of human life on Earth. He quote,

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And it was Joe Biden routinely raspingly insisting that climate
posed an existential risk to the Earth. The New York
Times was especially notorious for its climate can Gets dereliction
in a nutshell, only investigating whether the sentiment was right,
not whether the policy, at the cost of trillions, did

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what it said it did it didn't. Democrats spent millions
in tax payer money in twenty ten to have the
National Research Council affirm that their passil of subsidies and
tax breaks for green energy were a poor tool for
influencing greenous submissions. The data has since arrived these policies
stimulated more energy consumption, not less emissions. Now the existential

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climate risk bandwagon is coming to an end for the
deceptively simple reason known as running out of other people's money.
This deniweman has many factor of fathers. Germany's effeckless energy
transition and its contribution to the Ukraine War, China's continued
coal spewing trillions spent in the West while having no

(01:14:57):
effect on warming or allaying the hysterics. Greta Thunberg. The
result is palpable. There's no longer an electoral base in
the West willing to be conned out of additional trillions
for climate change. Hallelujah, interjected Brian Thomas. Donald Trump may
be President of the United States, but even Britain's labor
rights are running away from net zero in practice, if

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not in word. Mister Gates deserves minuscule props for using
his reputation to try to stop the peddling of a
fice false climate doom as a way to hijack resources
from programs and initiatives it would actually help people. He'll
get brick bats for it. That's the real important of
his actions. It should be appreciated. I'm still not permitted

(01:15:42):
to name the Biden Obama official who visited the Wall
Street Journal and privately lamented his party's turn card green
pork and away from carbon tax tax reforms. In the
industrial world's future one way or another to deal with
with its debts, not soon enough now to make a
difference in the client midfuture. There's no use crying over

(01:16:02):
might have bins, But this was an opportunity to climate
lobby missed. Crying over might have been. I'm sorry through
its vastly stupid and dishonesty, from its constant overplaying of
climate doom to its hysterical denigration of anyone who raised
a question, to its shoddy money grubbing lawsuits against big oil.

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If anyone deserves to be strung up for their eco sins,
it's Drusilla clacks of climate activism who were traitors to
their own cause. Words gotten out, folks, you know, and
I can. I can bring this around like the City
of Cincinnati. We've been we've all learned over the last
four years, may have to have. Purpole loves to shell
out since a tax paramonney to non governmental organizations, community

(01:16:47):
activists out there doing left wing propaganda work in the
streets and presumably supporting his cadre of council members and him,
of course for reelection as mayor city dollars going out
into the world world for alleged projects that you and
I don't know if it has had any impact whatsoever.
Because apparently they don't follow up on it. As long
as the money went to the NGOs that are friends

(01:17:08):
with the administration, that's all that mattered. This whole climate
thing is on a geometrically increased scale, you know, it doesn't.
I mean, how many years ago was it when we
found out cylinder in a one to twenty three or
five or whatever, those companies that got hundreds of millions
in American taxpayer dollars for these Obama era green projects

(01:17:31):
went belly up. The people who ran those organizations, I'm
sure got the money. The organization was a failure. The
business was not a business. It did not make money.
It only consumed taxpayer dollars based upon a hand picked
selection by administrative officials on who was going to get
the money. You can't imagine that that would create leeches

(01:17:54):
and people who would be going after the money simply
for the money's sake and not because they were really
trying to bring about some positive change in the lives
of well US cockroaches out.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
Here in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Christopher Smithman's online rated Rock and Roll seven sixteen. Right
now if you have k CD talk station Quick Work
for USA, and it's on Monday, Tomorrow's election day. If
you didn't get the memo, join the program. He's running
for since City Council. He was formerly the vice mayor
of the City of Cincinnati. Christopher Smithman, Welcome back for
the smith event, my friend. I'm glad to have you
on the program.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Thank you so much, Brian for having me on. And
you know, I would say today is closing arguments. You know,
I'm shocked, but not surprised that seven people were shot
over the weekend. Four people shot in one shooting incident,
and I think that's a mass shooting incident. And that's

(01:18:50):
what people have been talking about in downtown. They're incredibly
concerned about the violence. Developers have been investing money there,
seeing what Jeff Ruby has been saying and his daughter,
you've seen what Taste of Belgium has been saying and doing.
We are on that right or left turn on millions

(01:19:12):
and hundreds of millions of dollars that have been invested
in the downtown going up in smoke because we have
an incompetent collectively counsel and a mayor that just has
taken his eye off the ball. And so this is
a very serious election. You know, Sometimes politicians come on
and they say, man, this is this is a consequential.

(01:19:32):
Election is really important. Look, this is one of those moments.
I don't want to I don't want to live in
a Chicago. I don't want to live in the Detroit.
And right now we have a mayor that seems to
want to defund, reimagine, rethink, allow Attrician to hit our
police department, not letting our cops out there do their jobs.

(01:19:53):
And right now we've got to elect a majority of
council members that will support comm unity based policing, but
proactive policing. Like your sister, you get in your car,
you see something happening, you get out and you start
asking questions. And when you do that, you know they're

(01:20:13):
gonna be critical incidents that occur. You gotta back your
police officers up. They've gotta know that the next day
you're not going to be throwing them under the bus.
We're talking about the electeds and so right now there's
this feeling out there that our police officers don't have support.
And so in my closing arguments, look, voter turnout is low.

(01:20:34):
We know the traditional voter is going to vote tomorrow.
I've heard that on the campaign trail a lot, very frequently,
and so the ball now for the jury is in
your hands. It's their decision. As you've said, Brian Thomas,
elections have consequences, so people can decide because we know
that coming out of a national election that people are

(01:20:57):
registered to vote not an issue about registration. It's really
about participation and will people from the west side, the
east side, the south and the north on election day
show up and say I'm not in the party, I'm
not in the race, I'm not in a gender, I'm
not into sexual identity. I just want to elect a

(01:21:19):
collective council that puts Cincinnati first, a mayor that puts
Cincinnati first and gets our city back on track. That's
what this election is about for me and is why
I decided to get in the race and hoping that
people will cast at least one of the votes tomorrow
for Smithramy Well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
And of course Corey Bowman's top three items in terms
of agenda, safety, infrastructure, and budget, it sounds me like
a similar list that you might come up with, Christopher Smith. Aman,
are you in accord with Corey Bowman's list of priorities?

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Look absolutely, Corey Bowman has a really good chance to win.
People have been counting them out, and I'll just share
with the public. I can't tell you the number of
doors that I've knocked on where people said to me,
I can't put a sign up because I'm worried about
my neighbor. You know, there's a silent majority of people
out there who aren't putting a sign up, but they're

(01:22:12):
going to vote for him tomorrow, and so I don't
know what's going to happen. This could be an upset tomorrow,
but it's going to be dependent upon turnout. And so
there's so many people out there who believe that their
vote doesn't count. I think it takes maybe I don't know,
less than ten minutes to vote, you know not. You
know you walk in there. You know they're not long lines.

(01:22:34):
I wish there were. You cast your vote and you're
in your car ready to go to work. The polls
open at six point thirty right around your house, and
they close at seven thirty tomorrow. And so this is
about sending a message, I tell you, and I know
we've got to go from this segment. What has happened
to not just Chief Fiji but what's happened to Chief Washington.

(01:22:56):
It is a is a terrible situation and a terrible
look for a fire and police because these are the
two very important critical parts of the city of Cincinnati.
The people who run into burning fires, come into the house, ems,
pull you out, you know, get you back, get you
to a hospital. And then those who come there with

(01:23:17):
their firearm if they have to to protect your life.
How do you have both of these organizations at the
same time in disarray? That is absolutely I've never seen
anything like this so chaotic, and so my point to
you is that we can do We can do a
majority of council. You talked about Corey Bowman pre mayor,

(01:23:39):
but let me say Gooding, Keating, Matthews, Cole, Dreehouse, Smitherman.
Now I'm not saying vote for all of those people.
I'm suggesting to the public that there are a number
of good people that are running that we could change
the face of council and the mayor's office at the
same time.

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Well, at least change the face of council if you
don't change the mayor's office, because we need an infusion
of an alternative point of view, which we do not
have right now into the one hundred percent democratic Sincini
City Council will bring Christopher Smithman back at seven twenty
five right now at fifty five k CD talk station,
I get a recommendation.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
See the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Seven nine fifty five kr CD talk station. So let's
say you don't want to vote for Republican, you can
vote for an independent Christopher Smithment hawpens to be one
of those Charter Right candidates like Steve Gooden. You got
those to choose from. And then of course some really
decent Republican candidates running in the city of Cincinnati. It
sounds unusual, but we've had Republicans before. Liz Keating is
running again. She was elected previously, right Christopher.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Yeah, I mean councilwoman Keating. I served with her, solid person,
does her homework, easy to work with, great mom, great wife,
great family. I mean, this is a Cincinnati family, the

(01:25:02):
Keating family, who's given a lot the Cincinnati in our region.
You know, if you don't know the Keating family, you
should google the name and and see what their contribution
has been to our community. So a phenomenal family. Linda
Matthews who's running, solid person, uh, hard worker, common sense.

(01:25:26):
I have not served with her on council, but would
look very much forward to her because I think her
voting would line up with my own values, and I
think the majority of the values of the city of Cincinnati.
And I could go on and on, you know, identifying
whether it's good in or whether we're which you've talked about.
A great lawyer I serve with with uh with good

(01:25:49):
in and you know we could always count on him
for sound legal advice. Now this is really important community
because when you're dealing with the city solicitors all office,
sometimes you get hog wash out of there, and it's
really nice to have a lawyer there because I'm not
a lawyer who can unpack things. That was Kevin Flynn

(01:26:11):
was another great lawyer that we served with who had
a great gift of understanding around real estate transactions which
have to be dealt with in our city because we
have so much blight, and so we were able to
get control of properties from bad landlords out of town.
You know, good and serves in that kind of capacity.

(01:26:32):
And I could go on and on. The key thing
that I'm trying to identify to those who are voting
in my closing argument tomorrow. One is we need you
to show up, and we need you to call and
make sure your children that live in the city and
your friends that live in the city that they vote.
That's number one, and number two, that you vote strategically,
that you don't vote for more than four or five

(01:26:54):
people for council. This is a very important thing to
understand in the nine x system that we have in
the City of Cincinnati. So I give a lot of
names because I'm trying to cover everybody's interest, right I'm
an independent, you know, vote for me. You know I've
identified people who are Republicans and Charter rights and even

(01:27:14):
a Democrat. My point is you can change the complexion
of council where we get our arms around crime. And
the reason I say that, Brian in this event is
that if we don't deal with crime, which by the way,
is a non partisan issue, like no one should be
out here debating whether we need to deal with crime

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and get our arms around this violence that we're seeing.
So if we're able to do that, we can then
attract conferences and guests and businesses and money into the
City of Cincinnati. If we don't and we're unable to
do that, we keep marching closer and closer to the
cliff of Chicago and Detroit. That's what we don't want

(01:28:00):
to do, right.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
And that's also places where they've experimented with this defund
rethink reimagine the police, and it hasn't gone real well
for them. I mean, that's about something I look back
on the uh, the the current administration, the parole administration.
I think he kind of ran on that reimagine the police.
We all know about iris role in her involvement with
the City of Cincinnati. She's no big fan of the
police department. So they would argue, oh, we do care

(01:28:22):
about crime. There's solutions for dealing with crime. Don't work though,
you know, rewarding criminals for showing up at their at
their uh there, oh gosh, parole parole meetings. Yeah, I
mean paying them essentially to show up at a parole meeting.
When it used to be that, well, if you didn't
show up your parole meeting, you meet your your parole officer,

(01:28:45):
you would be thrown back in jail because the condition
of the parole is that you met with them on
a regular basis. Now we flipped it over to well,
rather than just going down that road. We're just going
to give them a candy bar or some you know,
some positive reinforcement for doing something we're ordered to do
when they got out on parole. That is a mechanism
that they think is a positive one for dealing with crime,
and we all know it doesn't work. So I means

(01:29:08):
have thing's gotten better over the last four years. Have
the number of police officers in the police since a
police department contingent gone up over the past four years, Christopher,
I think they've at best remained static, So there's been
no improvement on retaining laterally or either or by way
of new classes. Additional police people are police officers to
patrol the streets. That's not something obviously the administration wanted

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to do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
That's true, and they've done it. That's how they've been
reimagining and defunding the police is through that attrition. They
know they're two hundred officers who are who can retire
right now, who are in drop eight years in they're out,
but they could leave in the first year, the second, third,
or fourth they can leave right now, and so they're
ready for retirement. And how we treat those two hundred

(01:29:52):
officers will determine whether they leave. Right now, you'll see
me working very hard to try to reassure those two
hundred officers in drop. Maybe it's one hundred and eighty
today because twenty of them have already bailed on it.
But the reality of it is is I'll be reaching
out saying we want you to stay. I also want
to speak directly to African American voters out there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
All right, hold hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
I takes we're bumping up against a break. So with
that as the setup, we'll bring Christopher back, who can
speak directly to my black friends in the listening audience.
Say seven thirty five, seven thirty nine, fifty five kre
CD talk station. Not the last time he's gonna be
on the fifty five Karosee Morning show, New New, New New.

(01:30:34):
Hopefully continue to get smith Event's on into the future.
I'm asking that of you, Christopher, because I appreciate what
you have to say. But hopefully I will be talking
to Councilman Christopher smithment after tomorrow's election, maybe even ooh,
vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati again, Christopher. I
don't know which direction Corey is going to go but
we will have a new city manager. And I was
thinking about, Oh, wouldn't it be great with like a

(01:30:55):
guy like Todd Zenzer's city manager, someone who understands Finance's
former Inspector General for the United States, the one who
spends his free time in retirement sifting through the craziness
that goes on in city council every single day. That'd
be a good guy. But you were mentioning the black listeners,
the African American folks, and the listening audience. You wanted
to speak directly to them, what's on your mind as

(01:31:16):
far as my black listening audience or Christopher.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
So disproportionately, disproportionately, the gun violence is impacting our community.
And when I say our community is not just Brian Thomas.
White voters that live across our fifty two neighborhoods care
deeply about the bloodshed of American citizens who are defined
as African American in our communities, and so we're all

(01:31:43):
concerned about it. But for African Americans, you've got to
think about our nephews and our children who are being
murdered on a weekly basis. And so the question is,
we can't continue to have this kind of bloodshed in
our community with out an appropriate response from city hall.

(01:32:03):
It's one thing to put a mural in the middle
of the ground and say, man, I really can I
really am concerned about Black lives matter. There's another thing
to say, We're actually going to put the resources that
make sense, which starts with a well trained police department
in order to get the shooters, in order to do
the investigations, and for us to get our arms around crime.

(01:32:27):
And so that's what saves lives. It's not sending counselors
out and and us reimagining a police department is saying
listen and when I go do order door and bond
Hill rolls on and everything. I'm not talking about just
African Americans. I'm talking African American voters. They want the police,
they support the police. Even members of their their their

(01:32:50):
family members are costs. The police department in Cincinnati is
one of the most diverse by race, by gender, by age,
as far as as far as is a city department
that we have in the city. My point to African
American voters is we've got to vote our interests, not
our party. We've got to vote our interests. We've got

(01:33:11):
to get off this democratic sample ballot where we're voting
just down a d and not thinking about what is
in the best interests of our family, what is in
the best interests of bond Hill. And by the way,
if you're a person that lives in bond Hill, what
they decided to do for Villages and Daybreaks is put
this low income housing facility right there in near the

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villages of Daybreaks, which is absolutely tearing down the equity
in that community. People have a five hundred thousand dollars house.
Most Americans, most of their wealth is stealing their homes
in this country. Why would a democratically controlled council and
a mayor do that to the seventh Ward? Why would
they do that to bond Hill and rose Limb by

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the way, because it's not just bond Hill that's impacted
by that, it's also Roseline that's import to that by that.
And so if bonn Hill just wakes up tomorrow and
they just vote down the same Democratic ticket, you're gonna
get the same results, You'll get the same consequence. And
so this notion out here where I've got to continue
to educate African Americans vote your interest, not a party

(01:34:20):
I am so frustrated at times in our community where
Democrats can just they were yelling us at the Board
of Elections yesterday. You know, smiling Mien is this and
smilll Min is that, and vote down the Democratic ticket.
Just vote for the Democrats.

Speaker 10 (01:34:34):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
They're like, we're like sheep, and they're trying to hurt
us into a corner as if we don't have interest
and we don't have independent thoughts. I'm trying to communicate
to our community. I am a person that says they're
good Republicans, Independents, Democrats all in this race. Do not
take the sample ballot tomorrow, go in prepare to vote

(01:34:59):
for four or five people for council. I suggest that
you vote for Corey Bowman and let's turn this city
around together.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Christopher, You've been knocking doors now since your campaign started,
and I've been really intense lately. I mean, I'm very
serious when I ask this question, because I know there's
somebody out there who thinks we're on the right path
in the city. Have you run into anyone who says, no, No, Christopher,
things are good in the Cincinna in Cincinnati because of
filling the blank something this mayor in this administration has done.

(01:35:30):
Because honestly, and maybe it's my political bias, I'm hard
pressed to come up with really something that's great about
the Pervoll administration. Has anybody defended it to you and
cited a specific example they have it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
What they say is to me, I'm disappointed in council collectively.
I'm even disappointed in this mayor. But I'm concerned about
Corey Bowman and who his brother is. And so we've
had to unpop this this narrative where they're saying I'm
not going to vote for either run of them, and
I think that's the wrong position for our community. And

(01:36:04):
so yes, I haven't run into anybody who said, like
in Hyde Park or Mount Lookout or Mount Washington, or
whether we were live dropping in California or Colddale, I
don't care where we've been. I haven't had anybody come
out and defend this administration, defend this mayor, or defend
this council. They're very neutral to negative on it. The

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issue here is that their party affiliation is blinding the
voter to the local election, and what Mayor pure Val
has been trying to do is bring the national politics
to the local, and people don't understand that there is
no connection. When you're electing your local politicians, you're thinking

(01:36:47):
about a snow removal, You're thinking about potholes. You're thinking
about your stop sign, garbage, your police, your fire, the
operation and running of your city. This is not about
who the president is. This is not about who the
governor is. Is it about your local I mean, these
are the elected officials that put your life on a
daily basis, and you want to make sure that you

(01:37:09):
put a collection of people down there that put Cincinnati first,
not trying to go to DC, not using us as
a launching pad to go somewhere else. And so when
I think about elected officials, I go, Okay, what is
this person trying to do? I don't Gooden has no
interest in going anywhere other than trying to be a
great council person. I feel the same way about Keating, right.

(01:37:32):
I feel the same way about Corey Bowman, like you know,
I feel the same way about Linda Matthews. I feel
the same way about a cold I mean, three houses
lived on the West Side forever. He's not trying to
be a state repert. He's not trying to go up
and be a senator, be a congressional member. These are
people that are just wanting to make Cincinnati better. And

(01:37:54):
we keep electing people based on brand and name ID
and whether I think they're cute and all that kind
of mess. And at the end of the day tomorrow
at seven thirty, when those polls closed, elections will have consequences.
You will either go another four years of this bloodshed
and craziness, or you'll say I want to change. I
say let's make a change tomorrow, which means that we've

(01:38:15):
got to get off our dufts. We've got to walk
over to those polls tomorrow. We've got to call on
neighbors and our friends and make sure that they vote
tomorrow like their life depends on it, because it does well.

Speaker 1 (01:38:27):
And I cannot recall specifically at atab provol campaigned on.
I don't remember him prioritizing public safety, infrastructure, and budgeting.
Those are the three things that Corey is all about,
and those do not bear a political stripe. Christopher, as
far as I'm concerned, you know, is your road fixed now?
Was it fixed when he took office? And I think
for a lot of people the road looks the same

(01:38:48):
as it did four years ago. It still needs to
be repaved. That's been a failure demonstrably. So you can
show objectively on paper that we're behind forty years worth
of road paving or whatever, any hundreds of miles in lane.
That's a failure. So maybe he didn't campaign on that.
Maybe he can say, well, I never promised better roads.
Well wait a second, that's one of your primary duties

(01:39:10):
as mayor's part of of the administration is to make
sure our roads are okay.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
So that's one of the worst things that I think.
One of the worst things this mayor did, right is
he pushed the sell of our three hundred miles of
rail down to Tennessee, where we were getting thirty six
million dollars in perpetuity, which would have been forty to
or forty three million in the next few years per
year in perpetuity. You don't give up land, people, It's

(01:39:38):
hard to get land. Our forefathers had this vision. We
were the only city in the United States of America
that had three hundred miles of land. This guy takes
on the mayorship and in four years pushes to sell
at all. And what Brian Thomas is talking about is
our infrastructure, which is directly connected to the sill of

(01:39:59):
the It was a terrible decision, meaning air rights are
going to be huge for Amazon and Google and those things.
I'm talking about air rights above the three hundred miles
of land that we have. And I'm not even smart
enough to understand all the technology around air rights. All
I know is land doesn't come around every day.

Speaker 11 (01:40:22):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
It is, and you don't give it up the way
the city gave it up, and it only passed by
a few thousand boats one way or another. But we've
got to remember that this mayor was out pushing that deal.
It was a terrible deal for us. This mayor should
have said, no, I'm not going to sell the rail.
You know how many council members and mayors have come
and said, hey, man, I think we should sell the rail.

(01:40:43):
I think we should sell our water. I think we
should sell our sanitation department. I mean, I think we
should sell our parking system. This guy actually pushed it
and successfully did it, and there were people who just
followed him because they followed down the ballot, the simple
ballot that said vote for the sale of our rail,
and the voter didn't even know what they were voting for,

(01:41:06):
and we have now lost an asset community that we
can never get back. Just on that one point, I
would say I can't support this mayor. His public policy
is wrong for the city, and I would tell you
whether he wins or he loses tomorrow, it won't be
on my vote. I can look him in the eyesight.
I didn't vote for you, and there were good reasons

(01:41:26):
I didn't vote for you, and it's why I support
Corey Bowman. And I just said Corey Bowman can win tomorrow.
Brian Thomas, the voter turnout is low enough. If the
West Side shows, if Hyde Park and Mount Lookout shows,
if places like Mount Washington show up right to vote,
I'm letting you know Corey Bowman will be the next
mayor of the City of Cincinnati. If they decide to

(01:41:49):
stay home, then almost sixteen thousand registered voters in Hyde Park,
but only three or four thousand of them vote. If
ten thousand of them show up, if eleven thousand of
them show up. Based on what this mayor did to
hide parks and even during the debates that I know
better than you, connected communities is what we need. The
zoning thing we did for all our fifty two neighbors

(01:42:10):
was would basically destroy us all. This guy pushed that too.
I'm saying, if those neighborhoods are mad enough and they
actually show up, Corey Bowman will be the next mayor
of the City of Cincinnati tomorrow at seven thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Christopher Smith and hopefully Councilman Christopher Sivethlan tomorrow after seven
thirty as well. Christopher love Pot.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
Thank you for all the time, man. I appreciate you, brother.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
We'll talk again, hopefully after you're elected in seven to
fifty one visition. Happy Monday, Oh, he's made extra special,
extra happy and good morning to the uh covert group
of ladies who wait patiently for this moment in time
every Monday for Brian James, mw or Financial to join
the program and talk about well, money Monday, Money Monday matters,
and we've got some cool topic to talk about.

Speaker 11 (01:42:51):
Welcome back, Brian James. Thank you if you love our
ladies' support group out there. I haven't heard from them since.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that we nailed their
questions there a few weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:42:59):
I liked it. I think they're out I like you
can just stop it, you know. You like ladies period,
doesn't matter whether they're a sport group. Listening to you,
Brian James, But uh yeah, I'm pretty much full on
record with the concept anyway, Brian James. Scott to asked
you about that gang yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
I was there.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
I was there, you were there. Yeah, Yeah, I thought,
let's give him a chance. We'll see how this goes.
And the offense is amazing.

Speaker 11 (01:43:23):
It's like they haven't missed a meat without Burrow, which
just sounds like sacrilege to say. But oh my gosh,
the defend on defense on the other end of the
spectrum completely absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
Yeah, it's funny you mentioned Burrow. My wife brought that
up a couple of times. He goes, I wonder if
Burrow's sweating bullets about his job. So I don't think
they're gonna get rid of Joe anytime soon, but glassdraw
he is, and if he gets injured one more time,
I think the writing's on the wall. Of course, we've
been well taken care of on an offense perspective, but wow,
that defense was just a total letdown. Maybe we'll get
some personnel changes coming out of that.

Speaker 11 (01:43:52):
One, you know, we look at this and we spend
Monday and Tuesday every week just looking for those headlines
and they just never come.

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
So apparently it is ex down there on the river
for this kind of performance.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
Nice segue, because the headlines we're going to talk about
starting out of the gate here on Money Matters is
our money Monday issues, the latest on the shutdown, and
it's varying impacts on stock markets and benefits and social Security.
And I observe something this morning, one of the you know,
the ringing of hands and the nashing of teeth brought
about by the end of snap benefits. And there were
two court rulings on Friday which said the trumpet or

(01:44:24):
the Trump administration must use emergency reserve funds during the shutdown.
So there's five billion dollars in funds that are sitting
behind the scenes. The USDA had originally planned to use
those in the event of a shutdown. The Trump administration said, no,
it's not allowed to use them. But now they have
illegal to legal opinions saying you have to do it,

(01:44:44):
and they haven't said they're going to appeal yet, and
they just said something along the lines of when we
need more clarity First, if we're given an appropriate legal
direction by the court, it will be my honor to
provide the funding. Now, I think, politically speaking, and I
know we normally don't dwell dwell on politics, but Snap
shutdown bad, and people are going to start looking for
folks to blame. And while I do not believe the

(01:45:04):
Republicans are to be blamed for this shutdown, given that
they want to keep funding at the original last year
Biden level funding, which includes all the programs that Democrats love.
Democrats wanted to use this to increase the government spending
and include a lot of folks in regard to these
supplements that they've been getting to make Obamacare appear palatable.
But these two rulings would allow the Trump administration to

(01:45:29):
go ahead and continue to pay at least for the
never next several weeks without the Snap folks feeling the
pinch of the shutdown that buys the time. I would think,
well you would think, but I.

Speaker 11 (01:45:41):
Think the fact that the federal judges came out we've
now had two legal rulings saying that yes, you must
use these dollars for this purpose. Well, that has nothing
to do with what's going to what the reality is
going to be that the Trump administration generally ignores those
kinds of rules anyway, and those kinds of ultimatums.

Speaker 1 (01:45:55):
No, but it's suggests that it would follow them. I mean,
I trust me, I understand where you're coming from from.
Generally speaking, that's what we might expect an appeal A no, no, Moss,
I'm not going to do it. But I mean he
did say I'm happy to follow the court order. Just
show me the guidance. I'll be I'll do it. But
like I said, I think that will be politically advantageous
for Trump because the government remains shut down, but they

(01:46:16):
are using the funds that are parked in the back
somewhere to pay the Snap folks.

Speaker 3 (01:46:20):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 11 (01:46:20):
And there are forty two million people out there, about
one in eight people are olden SNAP and they're looking
at that's who is of course looking at disruptions to
their families. And when are we going to see you
know that we've already seen the headlines of the lines
outside the food pantries and.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
All that kind of thing.

Speaker 11 (01:46:34):
Right, when are those places going to run out of food?
If they're not already? So there will literally be no
option where how close are we to that? And you
got to think that some good chunk of these forty
two million people did actually vote for Trump a year ago,
so I would I think it would be politically expedient
for him to do so. He just seems to be
waiting for more and more information or more. I'm not

(01:46:54):
sure what the different outcome is going to be other
than making it a much much louder when it actually
does happen.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
We'll all wait and see. But again, I think they're
trying to just just wait it out. See how if
there is pain out there we're all going to experience.
Who ultimately gets blamed for this? We go back to
that ridiculous blame game when I think the answer to
that question is pretty obvious anyway. What about its impact
on the stock market? What about its impact on social security?
I mean, because the market still seems to be plowing

(01:47:21):
along doing quite nicely, hasn't really reacted to this shutdown much?
Is that going to happen soon?

Speaker 11 (01:47:25):
Brian James, Well, I mean, I don't see it happening
anytime soon, because the end of the day here, all
we really care about in the stock market is profit
margin period.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
End of story.

Speaker 11 (01:47:34):
That's all we've ever cared about. I think that's all
we will care about. So these kinds of things, and
I don't mean to be little for the people who
are stuck in it, but as far as the stock
market goes, this is a sideshow. And at the end
of the day, there's still an awful lot of catalysts
and things out there that are moving the market in
a positive direction. We are seeing a lot of earnings reports.
We're in earning season now, so we're seeing earnings come
out very positively, and there just doesn't seem to be

(01:47:57):
much signed, as you said, of any real pullback.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
So we've talked before about.

Speaker 11 (01:48:02):
The impact of a shutdown on the overall stock market,
and it generally doesn't seem to be all that impactful.
We are at the point of, depending on who you
talk to, this may be the longest shutdown or it
will be shortly, depending on whose list of days that
you're looking at. There's a bit of a question as
to how long the last one was, but the thirty
four days is the number I'm sticking to. We're about

(01:48:24):
at that now, and there doesn't appear to be any
on the horizon, any end to it, So we'll see
if we can make one long enough that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
It actually has an impact on the stock market.

Speaker 11 (01:48:33):
But I'm not holding my breath too much that this
should be too impactful for people as far as their
investments go.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
Obviously, that's one tiny part.

Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
Of all of this stuff, right, is that to say
that the folks that would be most impacted by a
protracted government shutdown, let's say SNAP is impacted, or some
other social welfare program might get impacted, or some other
peripheral form of the twenty five percent, you know, discretionary
expenditures of government. Is it that they don't impact the

(01:48:59):
economy much by way of their buying decisions, or is
there something that I'm missing?

Speaker 11 (01:49:03):
Well, yeah, I mean that this is this is a
group of people who are you know, benefiting from the
the the ability to get food and sustenance from the
federal government. Uh, and not that's not going to surface
very much in our companies making money or not quite frankly,
because there's not a lot of money left over in
those households to do the kinds of things that drive

(01:49:24):
the economy. So that's not pulling a significant amount of
dollars out of the economy. That's why it's not really
having an impact.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
If it was.

Speaker 11 (01:49:31):
The market always likes to anticipate these things. Market would
have come down weeks ago in anticipation of some kind
of massive change in consumer spending.

Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
Yeah, and that's exactly what I would have expected. Doesn't
take a real rocket science to come to that conclusion.
But I guess prior shutdowns have had a comparable lack
of market impacts. So you saw that kind of as
a prior guide, right.

Speaker 11 (01:49:48):
And frankly, I think that's what what this administration is
relying on, that these things that we that we have
that have been kind of laid into bedrock by the
Democrats are not as impactful to the overall health of
the country versus obviously they're extremely impactful to the groups
of people that they benefit. But in terms of the
overall health and success of the company of the country,
I think the Republican side just says, look, this isn't going.

Speaker 3 (01:50:09):
To hurt the country in the long run.

Speaker 11 (01:50:11):
Let's go ahead and fight it and see if we
can't change things around kind of more fundamentally than we
have in the past.

Speaker 1 (01:50:17):
All right now, in so far as social security is concerned,
without diving into the loophole we're going to talk about
to next, talk about next. I know it's been an
odd revelation for a lot of folks that the government
shutdowns means that there are certain areas of government that
aren't there to do the work they do. For example,
numbers crunchers. You know, we can't do this without the
CBO doing their job, or we can't do this because

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such and so bureau behind the scenes is not doing
its number crunching job anything. In so far as social
Security is concerned, I have many listeners out there who
are receiving Social Security or anticipating receiving it soon. Is
that is the government shutdown impacting them. I know, we
just recently got the cost of living adjustment. That was
everybody who's waiting.

Speaker 11 (01:50:56):
For Yeah, no, I am not hearing anything obviously. I've
got a lot of clients that are getting from Social Security.
We're not hearing a single word about that now. I
do think that the Republicans that are pushing this, that
are wanting to hold onto the shutdown on. Frankly, the
Democrats too. Nobody's really talking about social Security. I think
everybody knows that that is the third rail because that
is the largest group of people we have in this country.

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They all vote, and they have time to pay attention
to the headlines. So if you affect those checks, that
the backlash from that is going to be swift and fierce.
So I have not heard anything about changes coming to
Social Security program impacted by the shutdown itself, other than
it's always a little bit tougher to get any information
out of the government that we wasn't quick and efficient anyway.

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So I don't know that that's going to have all
that much of an impact on the general day to
day operations.

Speaker 3 (01:51:45):
Of Social Security.

Speaker 1 (01:51:46):
And I know a lot of the shutdown is based
in premised upon the Democrats wanting to continue these extensions
of the Obamacare supplements that are scheduled to end at
the end of the year. So the new Obamacare premium
numbers are rolling out, which if none of the shut
down happened and there was no legislative change, this would
have happened as a matter of logic and reason, because

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they were set to shut down at the end of
the year. So what we're seeing now is the reality
of the cutoff date. People are angry, I suppose about
not getting the supplements anymore. But I don't see that
as being this like Snap benefits being cut off having
the same sort of outcome in terms of rage. Where
are we on that one, Brian.

Speaker 11 (01:52:26):
Well, I think it's going to take longer for it
to sink in what that actually means to people versus
you know, the Snap benefits that means I can't get
food this week from right right, that's going to get
my attention right away, versus these premiums that I ever really.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
Understood to begin with. It's going to be a while down.

Speaker 11 (01:52:38):
The road that they actually filter through and help people
and people realize exactly what that impact is of those
costs going up out of pocket. But it's going to
be the same reaction at the end of the day
if the ends don't meet. The ends don't meet. We
started it with food and we're going to move into healthcare,
and eventually there's going to be a pretty loud hue
and cry over that from somewhere hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 1 (01:52:58):
Though it hasn't happened yet, Well, don't put your heart,
in your faith, in your future in the hands of
a politician. It will never work out, regardless of who
you're relying on eight sixty more with Brian James gonna
it's eight nineteen here fifty five Karsini Talk station, Brian
Thomas with money Mondays Brian James or financial loans them
out for a few segments every week at this time,
and diving on and sosas security. I'd never heard that

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children could get So's security benefits. And I suppose there's
a couple of hoops you have to jump through on this,
but some big ones if you're sixty two years or older.
I'm thinking there's not a lot of them that have
minor age children or children that will be eligible for
some slice of the pie. Break this down for my
listeners and me. Brian, So, yeah, So you called this

(01:53:42):
a loophole a couple times this morning. I'm not sure
I'd go there. Somebody heard that and said, oh cool,
here's something I can go do. Okay, okay, Okayney, since
you brought that up, you know, as a lawyer, and
my first dog, I named him loophole because there's a
joke that behind that. But these loopholes don't exist. If
it's in there, they intended it to be there. I'm
thoroughly convinced that the people who write the tax code

(01:54:05):
are writing in what you and I might proceed to
be loopholes for the intended benefit of some person that's
well connected with the tax law writers. Just me being
jaded and cinecal Brian James.

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
Fair enough, fair, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:54:16):
So yeah, I just did want somebody to think, oh, hey,
here's a new thing, a trick I can play and
get myself some free money.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
Does that a pretty big hoop you got to jump
through for this?

Speaker 11 (01:54:24):
So really this information is for people who may already
be in this situation and weren't aware of this benefit.
What we're talking about is social security benefits for dependent
children of people who are social Security age and are
actually drawing on Social Security. Now you might think, do
the quick math on that. That might be you know,
that's somebody who had kids in their mid to late forties,
if not fifties.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
Yes, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:54:45):
But we're also the other.

Speaker 11 (01:54:46):
Benefit here, or the other group of people were talking
about it is people who you know, maybe grandparents who
adopted a child from their own adult children.

Speaker 1 (01:54:52):
Because the men well, okay, fair enough, fair enough on
that one. I know I personally know some quote unquote
grandparents who are now raising their children's children because of
well drug issues and some of them passed away. So
there's always that possibility.

Speaker 11 (01:55:08):
Absolutely, and that's why this is out there, So I
wouldn't call it a loophole, just kind of a safety
net for these situations to be particularly challenging. So right now,
only about one percent of soci Security beneficiaries or children,
so that's not this is not a huge amount of
people that we're seeing here. However, now with with economic
situations kind of dictating, current generations are having kids later
and later and later. So we'll see how this pans

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out over the next fifteen twenty years. There may be
that percentage may go up, so the checks can be
good size Brian about eight hundred bucks to one thousand
dollars per child per month, and which oftentimes that the
income gets used to, you know, boost college savings or
offset childcare costs. That's kind of the whole point of
making sure that these older families can get benefits for

(01:55:49):
or can get the lifestyles they need for their children.
This can start as early as age sixty two, same
as Social Security. But that also because remember the whole
trigger of this is that you have to file your self, right,
So that means you're filing earlier to tap into these
benefits that are available for you and your your dependent children.
That means you're not waiting till seventy anymore. You're gonna
go ahead and you know, and get that going. And

(01:56:11):
then if you file it's so sixty two, that's gonna
knock down your benefit brought probably twenty five to thirty
percent less for life. Right, it's just the math behind it,
that's not you know, sometimes it can make sense to
do that, sometimes it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
It's the whole purpose of financial planning, right.

Speaker 1 (01:56:24):
You break the numbers down and you do the math,
and you figure out whether it's better to take it
at sixty two or to wait off because you can't.
I suppose it's unlikely the older you get, moving towards
seventy two. I suppose that you're going to have a
minor age child. I'm living in your home.

Speaker 11 (01:56:38):
Right, yes, yeah, that's the something is then you've got
challenges anyway if that's happening, So don't rush.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
Out and have a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:56:47):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
There's a bunch of multi multi millionaire geriatrics, you know,
octogenarians that are marrying twenty something, so don't say it
can't happen.

Speaker 11 (01:56:55):
They good very well and that's why this benefit exists.
So if you're having trouble making ends meet, you are
this situation. And this is not new by the way,
this has been around since like the thirties, but just
be aware that that benefit is out.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
There for you to help you out well.

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
And I understand this money is tax free for the
children because you know they probably aren't making enough to
pay federal taxes in any way, right.

Speaker 11 (01:57:15):
Correct, Yeah, and you can still claim them as dependents
as you would have anyway, and then you can turn
around if if you don't need the money to kind
of fill the gaps, then you can invest it in
a five to twenty nine or some kind of custodial
account and use it for college benefits down the road.
But you have to just make sure that that money
stays in the child's name to avoid Social Security repayment issues.
That word custodial is very important with that topic.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
We a little opportunity to maybe put the money away
for the kid for the future if you don't need
to spend real time.

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
Yeah, it could be. And remember there's there are new
rules over the last couple of years with.

Speaker 11 (01:57:46):
Five twenty nine plans where they can actually you can
actually turn it into roth Ira contributions.

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
Way down the road, there's moving parts to that.

Speaker 11 (01:57:55):
But yeah, if you put money in a five to
twenty nine now this came out in twenty four, if
you've got money left over, then for that same beneficiary
it can become up to currently about five years worth.

Speaker 3 (01:58:05):
Of roth Ira complutions.

Speaker 11 (01:58:07):
Yeah, that five twenty nine has to be in place
for fifteen years though, so if it's invested, I actually
I just had a conversation at the Bengals game yesterday
with a friend of mine about this. Who's gonna He's
in a situation where he's got money left over in
his five twenty nine. Yeah, and I said, just leave
it alone, but make sure it's not in the graduate fund,
because that's an extremely conservative fund, because the plan is
assuming you need it right now for college. If it's

(01:58:28):
gonna sit and grow for that roth Ira game later,
get it reinvested in something that's gonna grow and has.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
A little bit of risk attached to it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:34):
Always say I learned something every day. Sadly it's a
little too late for me. To take advantage of that.
I love the concept of being able to convert that
leftover money, because we did have some money left over
in the five twenty nine for my daughter's account. Brian
James will continue Price of oil. Peace of God passes
all human understanding. How does one calculate the price of oil?
How does one understand what OPEC does and does not do.

(01:58:56):
We'll continue on that topic one more. With all our financials,
Brian change, it's say twenty five right now, fifty nine
to fifty five KERCD talks nation Brian James, money Monday,
doing that money lend day thing from all with financial
and over to something that's always puzzled me and I
guess obviously OPEK mean different countries coordinating together to determine
how much oil is going to cost. So if that

(01:59:17):
happened among a coordinated group of domestic companies, they would
be sued under the Sherman Anti Trust Act. So they're
constantly and have always been manipulating the price of oil.
We can go back to the seventies, remember how bad
things were back then when we didn't produce our own
But fast forward to today. We are the largest exporter
of oil on the planet. I think we're out producing
everybody because of modern technology, fracking, drilling, and permitting. So

(01:59:38):
I don't know whether we're impacted by OPEC's decision to
the extent we used to be. But they decided they're
going to quit this. I guess they boosted production one
hundred and some odd thousand barrels per day up until
the end of the year, but they said first quarter
next year, we're gonna pair that back. What's behind all this,
Brian James, Well, same thing.

Speaker 11 (01:59:57):
They're always looking at was just supplying demand. Just like
every other country, every other company out there that's trying
to make a profit, they're always going to try to
predict supply and demand so they know what to have
on the shelves so that it can be demanded. So
the news headline here is that eight member countries of
OPEC plus are gonna raise oil production by about one
hundred and thirty seven thousand barrels per day. So that
sounds like the opposite, right, we're gonna we're gonna push supply.

(02:00:20):
But afterwards, and here's the really big part of the headline,
the media part, they're gonna pause any further output hikes.
For Q one twenty twenty six, so they're going to
back off on all of it between January and March
and next year. So this, of course, any any hint
that we're going to reduce supply will of course push
prices up. Brent crude moved up to about sixty five
bucks a barrel, and then the West Texas flavor sixty

(02:00:41):
one nineteen or thereabouts. So now that concern is that
the new market may face a supply surplus here and
by weaker demand expectations for twenty twenty six. So that's
why are they doing this again, trying to match up
supply and demand and so just just something to pay
attention to in the back of an otherwiseer relatively healthy economy.

Speaker 3 (02:01:02):
But that's certainly going to have an impact somewhere along
the way.

Speaker 1 (02:01:04):
Well, I know we've been messing around with sanctions on Russia.
They are still a big supplier of global oil notwithstanding
our sanctions. Obviously there are other countries out there that
are willing to gobble up rushes like it may perhaps
cheaper oil, but are they wrestling at all with our
sanctions on Russia or Russia's supply on the open market
is that something that's been factored into this decision making, Brian, Everything,

(02:01:27):
especially with oil.

Speaker 11 (02:01:28):
Oil is the same no matter where you dig it
out of the ground, so wherever you get it from,
and that's why everything's so connected. You mentioned earlier the
US market, we pump about thirteen million barrels.

Speaker 3 (02:01:38):
A day, and that's historically high.

Speaker 11 (02:01:40):
But those just because we pump it at home does
not mean that our oil prices are not impacted by
what is being paid elsewhere, because again, it's all the
same product that comes out of the ground. So if
other large entities change the prices, that's of course going
to ripple through and the brint prices that's basically out
of the UK West Texas, of.

Speaker 3 (02:01:57):
Course is here. All that stuff moves in Tan.

Speaker 11 (02:02:00):
So whenever OPEC signals it's going to tighten or loosen supply,
those traders react instantly and they move the price accordingly.

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
Doesn't matter where it came out of the ground.

Speaker 1 (02:02:08):
All right, real quick, I don't know how much could
possibly exist at sea, but I've seen quite a few
articles about these tankers that are just floating around out
there in the world that are just filled with oil,
and there's just idly sitting by. Are they waiting for
the price to go up before they bring that in
or what's what's the story and does that really have
a global impact given the finite amount of tankers that

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could possibly be filled.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
Oh yeah, and that's why, you know, think about it.

Speaker 11 (02:02:32):
Oil is priced every single minute of every single day,
just like the stock market, you know, So therefore there
are there's a reason to make it, bring to bring
it into port today versus tomorrow. And so absolutely they'll
they'll kind of change their routes or slow things down
a little bit if they think that if they bring
it on Tuesday versus Monday, it'll squeez.

Speaker 3 (02:02:50):
Out a little more income. So absolutely that has an impact.

Speaker 1 (02:02:53):
One more question I got for you, Brian James, because
you know, I've been waiting patiently and hopefully for the
future when we finally wake up they'd given our energy
demand needs that we finally will start building what they
call small modular reactors, which are safe and only you
need five percent of rich uranium, which don't have any Ways,
military has been running on these things for a long time. Anyway,
more and more people talking about it. Once you get

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the AI facilities and the multi billionaires who own them
to step up and start demanding that we want our
own miniature nuclear plants. It sounds to me like OPEC's
future maybe on the rocks a little bit. And I'm
sure they think about this. But if you can get
nuclear power as opposed to see gas power or oil
power or any other form of power, it's efficient and
it's abundant. This is going to impact the oil market

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down the road.

Speaker 11 (02:03:36):
Absolutely it will. And so that's why you know, you
commonly hear you know the oil companies. I go back
to the who killed the original electric car? This thirty
years ago when this story came out, and it actually
happened earlier than that. But yeah, of course they're going
to defend their needs there, and I don't think we're
going to see a lot of public outrage or public

(02:03:57):
demand for it until, as you mentioned, all these data
sets and things are going to start sucking energy.

Speaker 3 (02:04:01):
Yeah, that is going to filter through.

Speaker 11 (02:04:03):
So they're building somebody's building a big data center up
in Trenton, and that's going to have a pretty significant
impact on the local power grid up there, and it's
probably going to have an impact on the prices people
are paying in that area and that's happening all over
the country as these data centers are becoming more and
more important, with AI becoming more prevalent. So I think
when that starts hitting electric bills, you're going to start
to see more and more demand for you know.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
Maybe let's worry less about what nuclear.

Speaker 11 (02:04:26):
Stuff has meant in the past and worry about the
future because and the benefits that it can provide for us.

Speaker 3 (02:04:30):
Right now, I don't think we're there yet, and it's
too easy politically to just say let's keep pulling oil
out of the ground.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
People will wake up to the reality we're not building
three mile island type plants anymore. The concerns and challenges
faced by those are no longer existent with modern technology anyway.
Brian James, always great having you on. Appreciate your willingness
to talk about these great topics with my listeners me
and how they might impact the retirement in future. And
always recommend, right Brian, get a financial planner sitting on
your side of the table so you get sound advice

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with a fiduciary obligation.

Speaker 11 (02:05:00):
Yep, absolutely, that's what we say every day. And keep
an eye on the Bengals headlines and we'll stet in
next week.

Speaker 3 (02:05:05):
Yes we will.

Speaker 1 (02:05:06):
Thanks Brian, take care of a great week. Eight thirty
five fifty five Carsit talk station phone lines, well, they.

Speaker 3 (02:05:11):
Will be open if you want safe.

Speaker 1 (02:05:14):
Hey, thirty nine fifty five KARROSD talk station Monday. How
about them Bengals last night. I'm gonna go over to
the phones. I got Gen on the line. You can call.
I'd love to hear from you. Five one three seven
four nine fifty eight two three talk Gene. Thanks for calling.
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 10 (02:05:30):
Hey, Happy Monday, g toos. I've been around, I've living
a Cincinnatio all my life, and I grew up in uh.
I still think, and I've always said this the only
way to handle the June juvenile crime situation Cincinnati is
to start making the parents responsible. If you have a

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some type of a curfew to where you have to
come pick your child up and they warn you, look,
you know, just to strike one, you know, if you're
if we catch your son out again, next time you come,
we're gonna say we're gonna you know, we're gonna find you,
We're gonna charge you, We're gonna give you a.

Speaker 7 (02:06:09):
Ticket or whatever for that. Making sure child is.

Speaker 6 (02:06:14):
Home or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
In other words, penalize parents into doing what they should
be doing anyway.

Speaker 10 (02:06:22):
Exactly because sometimes that's the only way you And then now,
don't get me wrong, I grew up with parents that
couldn't control their kids once they got fifteen sixteen, and
we're scared of them, and we're scared of them, yeah,
you know, And and that's people don't realize how prevalent
that is.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
Or these parents.

Speaker 10 (02:06:39):
Man, they're afraid of these kids when they get to
be when they're when their kids standing there staring.

Speaker 7 (02:06:44):
Them in the eye, they had to head you know.

Speaker 10 (02:06:46):
And it's the only way it's going. It's the only
thing that's going to change, because these are a lot
of these kids. And then my second thing is once
these juveniles actually give them the trouble, you know, we
gotta you gotta do some type of of programs that
really work, don't reward them, but teaching that there's a
better way to go. That's I mean, we had a

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program I'm gonna I'm gon time saying here, but I
grew up in the neighborhood. We had a we had
a program down there in the day called West c
where they took an old abandoned building, and they taught
young guys and young girls how to do different trades.
And I know people their own businesses to this day
that are carpenter's electricians, and they all got to start

(02:07:28):
back then right doing that and made money, but they
learned the trade. Those are the kinds of things.

Speaker 4 (02:07:34):
So I'll let you.

Speaker 7 (02:07:34):
I'll let you go, let your well.

Speaker 1 (02:07:36):
And that's a good point, Gene, And I'm glad you
brought that up because more and more people are rediscovering
the trades because college education has proved to be outrageously
expensive and quite often completely worthless given the types of
degrees that the young people do. It's four years of
you know, one hundred thousand dollars or whatever it's going
to cost to go any given college, and do you
have anything to show forward? On the other side, trades

(02:07:56):
welcome a wonderful opportunity to make money while you're learning.
It's the ultimate answer to artificial intelligence as well. Is
AI ever going to be able to fix your plumbing
or build a house or fill in the blank. So yes,
it's a future that you're buying without having a deal
with the indebtedis of college education. So props for that reference,
But insofar as holding a parents accountable, you mentioned parents

(02:08:18):
who might be afraid of their children. Now I've got
to imagine that.

Speaker 4 (02:08:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:08:20):
I first off, when I was in high school, that
was the moment in time I realized that I was
stronger than my father. We arm wrestled or something, and
I beat him rather quickly and handling, and I think
he was really just it was like a moment in
times like, oh my god, my son's now stronger than me.
I remember the look on his face and just sort
of realizing that, now does that mean from a disciplinary

(02:08:43):
and respect standpoint, and who's the who's on top of
the pecking order priority? That I no longer was going
to listen to my father or parenthetically my mother.

Speaker 4 (02:08:52):
Hell no, the.

Speaker 1 (02:08:54):
Respect that was built into my growth and my growing
up transcended physical abilities. At no time that I think
my dad would ever be afraid of me, And at
no time would I ever give either of my parents
a reason to be afraid of me. So there's something
that's missing all the way up to that moment in
time where that young person in any given family could

(02:09:15):
represent a threat to mom and dad lost opportunity that's
the problem right there, And then in a nod as
some of those parents out there, they might have children
out on the street of late night hours. You know,
there is such a thing called the late shift, and
there are single parents out there, and I'm a little
reluctant to want to hold them accountable unless, for example,

(02:09:35):
they have been in front of the juvenile court system
and involved multiple times, there have been multiple curfew violations,
they're on notice of it. It's happened in times when
they did have control or an ability to control their children.
Perhaps under those circumstances could come up conceptually with an idea.
But quite a few people can't be home. We've all

(02:09:56):
known the concept of latch key kids. Maybe you grew
up as one, and maybe there was a time or
two my mom was home all the time. But you know,
when I came into the house and there was no
parental authority figure there, I didn't make me want to
go out and commit crime or break curfews or break
the law or anything. But it's a very complicated thing
we're talking about here. But who among us doesn't believe

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in the final analysis, if you had a mom and
a dad at home, or even a mom and a
mom and her dad and a dad. If you have
two parent household, you got the bases covered when the
children are around, when the children can be controlled, that
you can keep an eye on them. A loving family,
providing the support and nurturing that a young person needs
in and of itself, is going to solve the vast
majority of the crime problem. People at home that care,
people at home that are demonstrating work ethic. Maybe yeah,

(02:10:43):
you're a latch key kid, but you've got respect for
mom and dad. You come home alone, and you come
home to an empty house, but they're not there because
they're working. I was fortunate to grow up in a
great household. I was fortunate enough to live in a
nice neighborhood. Weren't always perfect, But inspite the fact that

(02:11:04):
I ended up on radio, I knew that there was
no way I was going to be able to take
over the family business. I lived in a neighborhood of
people who had that option. Grandpa built the family business,
or Dad built the family business. I'm planning on working there,
but I didn't work out. For everybody who was planning
on that. But the fear of having to take care

(02:11:24):
of myself after being afforded such a wonderful lifetime in
a wonderful childhood, I grew accustomed to that. I wanted
that for my own family down the road. You know
what was going to lead me down that path. Paying
attention to school and getting a good education busted my
hump a little bit so that I could achieve something
by way of, you know, getting a job and proving

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myself to be valuable in the face of other people
who on a meritocracy were trying for the same job.
That kind of stuff. I was afraid circumstances worked out
differently than what I anticipated. How I could still be
practice in law right now, so, you know, a little
curveball in my direction. After sixteen years of practicing law,

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I ended up in a place that I never thought
I could be. But when I was young, I realized,
there's no way you're ever going to be where dad is.
You can't do what he's doing for a living. You
better damn well choose a life path that's going to
put food on your table. A little bit of fear
goes a long way. At least it worked for me.
So that work ethic that you latch key kids are

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seeing and witnessing and living. That may be enough to
put you on the right path. So and so far
as criminality is concerned, I don't know, very complicated my observations. Anyway,
you can feel free to chime in, give me a call.
We got one more segment to go, be right back.
It's eight forty six.

Speaker 8 (02:12:45):
Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (02:12:47):
Five KRC detalk station. I don't write the local news
and the national news, and I do read them occasionally
when we get some time at the bottom of the hour.
It was not mentioned this morning on the recorded news
top of the hour. I want to mention Bob Trump.
He's died yesterday, Bengals announced yesterday former tight end Bob
Trumpy also obviously a very successful broadcasting career after his

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his great effort as a football player. So anyway, I
do remember the seventies he played between sixty eight and
seventy seven, then off to the broadcasting booth for NBC
among others, and of course w CKY andw here locally.
So God rest you, Bob Trumpy. I know stan Chesley
sort of bumped you in the obituaries. I'll let you

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decide whose career is more storied and less controversial. Anyhow,
I been sort of making fun of New Yorkers. It
looks like they're headlong into mom Dommys mayor. And I know,
of course, we have this big election tomorrow. Been talking
about that all morning leading up to today. It is
election day eve, and you heard Christopher Smithman his strong suggestion.

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I recommend you heed what Christopher suggested doing. But we
got mom Domi and maybe running like the biggest, if
not one of the largest cities on the planet with
no experience thirty four years old. Previous rapper worked as
a foreclosure prevention counselor for some short period of time,
basically a volunteer for socialist causes. Beyond that, I don't

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think it was the requisite skill sets is where I'm
going here. But he's planning on raising taxes, and since
so many of the cities millionaires and billionaires have already
fled post pandemic, the top one percent of the city
taxpayers pay forty eight percent of the entire personal income
tax in New York, and many of them go ahead
and read the reports. The areas outside of the confines

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of New York cities geographical limits areas like close by
yet out of New York, Connecticut. I read a couple
of articles about bidding wars that are going on in
housing outside of the New York for very wealthy houses.
You have people standing around the block waiting to get
their chance to view the house and maybe bid on
it because it's not in New York, riding on the wall.

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Same thing's gonna happen in law in California. California as well,
they're planning on a one time wealth tax as if
they haven't lost enough of their multimillionaires. It's a ballot measure.
It needs eight hundred and seventy thousand signatures to be
on next year's ballot five percent tax on their net worth,

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a one time five percent net worth levey that would
include all their unrealized capital gains. So if they're sitting
on like a one hundred billion dollar stock market portfolio
and a bunch of a big real estate portfolio, I
suppose to write a five percent check on all that,
they're gonna have to do some liquidation. Question, if you
are in that lucky position, enviable enough that you're gonna

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have the laser shot focus of wealth class envy on you,
and you live in California, and this is a ballot
initiative that's going to be on next year's ballot. It
is called the twenty twenty six Billionaire Tax Act. I
think you have to come to the conclusion that you're
gonna lose that one class war warfare is built into

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the pie or built into the equation in California, So
you're gonna have to write a big check if you stay.
How many billionaires are going to be left in California
if this gathers enough signatures to make it to the ballot,
decks fall Just ask him, and then one more reason

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to not want to live in the City of New York.
This is hilarious street snitches. They actually pay people to
rat out folks who are sitting in their cars in idling.
Oh my god, we're all gonna die. The Big Apple
Citizen Idling Complaint programs been around since twenty nineteen. Enforcers

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that would be you, if you choose to go down
this path, are awarded. Twenty five percent of the fines
are that go after that are gone after by something
called the Department of Environmental and substantiated by the New
York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. It's abbreviated
oath anyway, these two entities working together. If you rat

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out a person that you see idling in their car
and there's fines associated with it, those fines range from
three hundred and fifty dollars to two thousand dollars for idling,
ninety five percents of the complaints are substantiated. So if
you get a substantiated complaint, as one of these citizen
watchdog a street snitch, you get half of the fine.

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Fine well or okay, as in fine. Some folks out
there making some serious coin doing this. This guy identified
as Ernest Weldy, East Village, Manhattan, getting video camera evidence
of some bus idling or some car just idling more
than one minute at a time, he made eight hundred
and ninety five thousand dollars ratting people out. Program of

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all simply taking phone videos of trucks idling for more
than three minutes or school buses for more than one minute.
You submit the footage to the deep of the oath
area and you are in for a check. Again. Ninety
five percent of those complaints are called substantiated. So that
was video evidence that person's idling. We're going to write
the Citizen Watchdog a check, and of course the rest

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of the fine gets paid by you, who are well idling.
Chinese Communist Party negated all of the efforts that this
idling program brought about. I have to interject that coming
up at eight fifty six fifty five K citytoxation election
day tomorrow, I hope you got the memo. Breitbart Inside
Scoop and Daniel Davis Deep Dive still on this