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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Five o five a fifty five KRC, the talk station
Monday Happy one.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Some say will.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Vacation and that's the way the news going.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I guess it is. Brian's up is here. Glad to
be at least I'm awake above ground. It is Monday,
hit another week and we're hitting the ground running this
morning on the fifty five RC Morning Show, starting with
Chuck Ingram. Yeah, actually Chuck Ingram, mister Traffic himself is
going to be coming to the morning show here in
about fifteen twenty minutes to talk about the Fourth Street
Bridge closer. Yes, my friends in northern Kentucky, the thousands

(00:53):
of folks who normally travel across the across the Fourth
Street Bridge connecting Newport to Covington are going to be
dealing with a commute issue. Start set to close at
nine o'clock this morning, completely closed vehicle traffic and pedestrian traffic.
What does this mean? And how in the how do
you get from point A to point B? That's why
we have chocso Chuck will stop on in the studio.
We'll see if we can't work ourselves through that perfect

(01:15):
day for a Smith event. Every day is a perfect
day for a Smith event. But it's considering everything that's
going on on the heels of Signal ninety nine being
on the program on Friday, Boy, that was a fun
conversation and thanks to everybody who listened to it and
all the positive comments about the interview. I truly appreciate
the words and the kind words they are and all

(01:35):
the people who listen to it. Mistrkker told me that
in one day we got more people listening and downloaded
that podcast then we get in a week here on
any of the other segments on the morning show, And
may be a reflection of the popularity of Signal ninety nine. Regardless,
lots of folks listen to it, and she's got a
couple of words or two by way of corrective action

(01:56):
moving forward for our young people in the community. Of course,
a lot of information about the settlement agreement between the
Hinton family and the City of Cincinnati. Obviously, no one
knew about it until Signal ninety nine gave the information
to FOP President Kenkober, who announced it to the world,
resulting in some comical responses from the city manager and
the attorney for the Hinton family. Get to that in

(02:18):
a minute. If you didn't listen to the segment, I
strongly encourage you to head on here fifty five care
Sea dot com. And for those who want her on
the program every single week as a regular segment. And
a lot of people wanted that, and I agree it
sounds like a great idea. Signal ninety nine isn't able
to do that. She is willing to on an as
needed basis when hot topics hit the street, when there's

(02:40):
new information out there about shenanigans or police activity or
whatever it happens to be related to police, law enforcement,
or getting information out to you and I that otherwise
we wouldn't get. That's why she's so popular on Facebook.
She seems to have the inside info on literally everything,
including the idea that there's a settlement agreement going on
other having a discussion on that this morning, Yeah, closed

(03:05):
executive session discussion. I might underscore on the same day
that Alex Chervinsky, the man who was actually a victim
but it also identified as a suspect in a downtown brawl,
he scheduled to go to trial today on charges of
disorderly conduct. You may remember him. He is one of
the people that got that crap beat out of him
in the beatdown that happened last summer. Yeah, so stayed

(03:28):
over twenty eight blows to his head and face, brutally
beaten and being charged for disorderly conduct. Huh. Anyway, interesting
witnessless that one, and the timing couldn't be more interesting
or unusual. Smithman, I have a feeling in his smith
event might address some of this. He'll be out at

(03:51):
seven to twenty. The former vice mayor of the City
of Cincinnati follow Uy eight oh five. Only one segment
Money Monday's Brian James, because how did you describe it
to me in the text? Ten pounds in a five
pound bag in the eight o'clock hour, just Jackers beyond
your toes, channeling my dad beyond the You better be
on your time on Monday, Brian, because we have ten

(04:15):
pounds packed into a five pound bag. That means Brian James.
One segment. We'll find out how your retirement number has changed.
Vivek Ramas swimming Well, there's a reason to keep things
tight in the eight o'clock. He'll join us at eight
twenty to talk about Rob mccullayus, his running running mate,
his wonderful op ed opinion that I read on the
morning show regarding him just getting off social media and

(04:35):
letting his minions take care of social media matters while
he focuses on well doing the right thing for the
state of Ohio. As we move fast forward to November
and the big election for governor, he wants to focus
on the issues, not the chatter that's going online. Zach Haynes.
We heard from Zach for the first time. Americans for
Prosperities Donald and Neil announced that they were endorsing and
backing Ohio State Senate representative for District seven. Zach Haynes,

(04:58):
who phoned in the show, appreciated the endorsement and will
join the program this morning at eight thirty to talk
about his campaign, who he is, why we should vote
for him, and of course his dance on the issues.
So there's your lineup this morning. Five one, three, seven, four,
nine to fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
to three Taco with pound five fifty on at and
T funds. Yes Again. Councils meeting today in a closed
door session to talk about this mysterious settlement agreement. No

(05:20):
lawsuits been filed by the Hidden Family against the city
for wrongful death. Of course, the eighteen year old Ryan
Hinton got killed by a police officer in a justifiable shooting,
at least that's what the prosecutor said. Well, when you
point a gun at someone, you are in going to
be shot, or at least it's justified that the officer
shot him. Sadly, dad, then his dad goes and runs
over a sheriff's deputy within twenty four hours of that shooting,

(05:43):
obviously being prosecuted for that. So why would we be settling,
why would we discuss settlement? And the dancing around the
issue from Cheryl Long and you know, even the lawyer
hitting family lawyer, it's you know, they try to deny
that it's even going on, but it is obvious that
they have been talking about settlement. And don't get discouraged.

(06:03):
Don't distracted by the word massive in connection with ken
Kober's comments, because he came out and said out loud
that the city is negotiating a massive settlement. Well, the
attorney for the Hinton family, Fan and Rucker, I think
that's the word he hung his hat on. This is
news to me. A massive settlement with millions of dollars

(06:24):
My first statement was, well, that's news to me, right,
because they probably haven't been discussing settlement along the lines
of millions of dollars because it was a justifiable shooting. Anyway,
he didn't deny that they were discussing settlement. Cheral Long
tried to dodge that bullet to it made it sound
like that wasn't going on. But when you read her words,
you can tell damn well that they were talking about

(06:45):
a settlement. When asked whether his comments meant there is
there's no settlement being negotiated or on the table, Rucker quote,
I said what I said just to answer the question
yes or no, Just to answer the question so we

(07:05):
know the answer to that. Otherwise, why would there be
an executive session in Cincinni City Council to talk about
this issue? Exactly? And thanks again to Signal ninety nine
for coming on the program on Friday and giving us
all the details behind the scenes on this particular matter. There, Wow,

(07:27):
and where's the railway money? I understand Mayor Charlie Loukan
is gonna be joining of the Think You I Have
Casey Morning Show. At one point he came out not swinging,
but talking about the railroad money. He seems to have
a very logical and reasonable perception of what's going on.
City apparently has spent only four point five million dollars
of the eighty five million dollars that got socked away

(07:48):
from the railway fund over the last two fiscal years. Look,
and said Yester the other day, I would suggest that
somebody has got to boldly take charge of the promises
that I made and others made when we sold the
railroad and figure on how to get this money working
for the people. Of course, referring to himself as part
of the person pushing for the sale. He was on
the railway board. He's no longer there, But remember the

(08:10):
board was in favor of this sale. I know the
mayor was have to have purvoal And of course you
had Christopher Smith Amen coming on the radio telling me,
telling us generally all the time on why this was
such a bad idea. And that's a position that he
sticks due to this day. But it's sold, and where
is the money. It's a great question. Look, an express
disapployment that only five percent of the railway revenue from

(08:32):
this year and last year has been spent, and that
apparently is according to the city's own online dashboard, showing
four point five million spent out of the eighty five
million that was available from the fiscal year and this year. Now,
I know there's an argument to be made, and I
made the argument that, well, crime is part of the
existing infrastructure. Of course, the railway earnings can only go

(08:54):
toward existing infrastructure. And I believe that is a term
that will be debated forever on the future. Is that
existing infrastructure? So regardless of that, yeah, where is the money?
And pivoting over to another topic talking about with Signal
ninety nine, Ye, we've got all these resources. The state
of Ohio is offering the City of Cincinnati for free

(09:14):
by way of assistance for law enforcement, and yet there
doesn't seem to be any clear plan for Mayor Aftab
Purval on how much he is going to take by
way of assistance, while at the same time advocating that
the city's income tax needs be increased in order to
cover well, first order of business out of his mouth
for the city tax increase public safety. Huh. Now, I

(09:37):
didn't get a figure on how much money this additional
income tax might generate. He didn't even say how much
he wants to raise income tax but I think we
can collectively agree not exactly a post, a slogan or
a banner to get people to move into the city
of Cincinnati. I e. Here I'm raising income taxes. But

(09:59):
how much is the value of that if he does
raise it at whatever percentage he says, how much money
is that going to bring? In question? Mark keep that
figure handy. What is the value of the resources that
are being offered by the State of Ohio law enforcement
help assistance? We are down a whole bunch of police officers.
Ken Cober talked about that as well. I thought the

(10:19):
most amazing and troubling figure of that discussion was that
we keep hearing about lateral hires. It was something there
I have to have Purvol talked about last year after
the beatdown caused him to realize that public safety was
important to the citizens, and yes, we do have a
crime problem downtown. Hey, we'll get some lateral hires officers

(10:39):
that don't have to go through the whole police academy process.
They're already licensed officers elsewhere. What does hire them away?
They got thirty available spots open, and ken Cober pointed
out that only seven applied, So sounds like a at
least in theory and on paper, lateral hires will solve
our problem, not if you can't get someone to apply

(11:02):
for the job. So what is the value of what
the Ohio State, what the governor is offering. How many
officers might we receive. We've already had some additional assistance
with the helicopter and some drone issues. How about taking
it all and see how things go? Why not accept
them a couple of months worth of thirty, you know,
twenty four hour days, seven day a week, all month

(11:26):
long assistance to see if it helps, does it breach?
Does it fill in the gap that we currently have?
Can we manage to get the walking patrols and some
of the other ideas in place with the help of
the Ohio State government? Maybe seems to be an idea
worth pursuing before we run down the road of increasing
income taxes. My thought, your comments, your thoughts are also welcome.

(11:49):
Five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred eight
two three takyo with time five fifty on AT and
T phones stick around. Chuck Ingram's going to join the
program here in a minute. We'll talk about that fourth
Street bridge closure and how you're going to get from
pointing to point B. That'll be coming up next, so
you can stick around. Now that a forty three again
the highday right now, it's twenty six degrees the fifty
five KRC detalk station. A couple of segments from now,

(12:10):
I'll be saying time for first traffic, Chuck Ingram, but no,
we're gonna get first traffic at five twenty on a Monday,
Chuck ingraman studio. Good morning, my brother, and a happy
New Year to you. It's great to see you.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
The same to you, Brian, it's good to see you
in person.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
We're gonna get out of get some people out of
harm's way this morning by explaining, and I'm not sure
that this has been widely discussed I've even mentioned on
the Morning Show before, but the closure this morning at
nine a m. Of the fourth Street bridge connecting Newport
and Covington. It's gonna be a problem, but one that
you say, at least you told me in advance of
the mic coming on, that won't be a long term problem.

(12:44):
Let's talk about.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
This, okay, and that I mean it's until people get
used to it. I think this week is gonna be
really nasty, maybe even the first two weeks, because it's
just gonna take some time. But you're gonna be going
up to the eleventh Street or Martin Luther King Junior Drive,
and I also call it the Girl Scott Bridge on
eleventh Street. That's the one that you're going to have

(13:06):
to use as an alternative until twenty to twenty eight summertime.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
So people ultimately will figure this out and then plan accordingly,
and that's when of the problems that you expect today
and maybe through next week will subside.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Well ease just a little bit. Remember when we had
the four seventy one fire. Of course you remember that,
of course they do, but that took a while to
get people used to it. But it was then it
was like, okay, I can't go that anyway. Yes, the
jams are going to be I'm not saying that's going
to be any better or anything like that, but people
will find alternatives and what they're going to do and

(13:39):
how much extra time they're going to need for their
schedules too.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
All right, fair enough? I mean, has there been enough?
I just mentioned that we've been talking about this for
a while. I guess people haven't been paying attention enough
to the alternative roots.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
There's going to be that's going to happen. Yes, I
mean the education campaign. That's exactly right. I'll buy fire
Watch at nine oh one this morning. Yeah, we'll be
listening and see you this morning. So it actually really
literally shuts at nine, like right now, if I was
over there, could I drive across it? This is the
last commute you'll be able to use it. Yep, supposedly
they are going to Apparently, and I don't frequent it

(14:14):
enough to know this, but a lot of pedestrians use
that bridge, and also some bicycles bicyclist along the way. Well,
tank is going to set up a free ride around
the empty entire thing. Those free rides start at seven
this morning. That's how much they're playing in ahead for
all of this, and the closer at.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nine because you could get across it this morning, but
you couldn't get across it.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
You're going to go home that way, You're coming back home.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Hey, my bike.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Parked over there, all right. So at least in terms
of the future of this project, you see, it's gonna
be done by twenty twenty eight summertime.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, summer of twenty twenty eight. First they get the
bridge all torn down, completely torn down. They say that'll
take until about April of this year, and then the
rest is rebuilding time until the summer of twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because knocking it down is a lot more fun
and quicker than.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, it's putting it back together again that I have
trouble with.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
That's part about Homer modeling project, because breaking it doesn't
hurt anything. Just get it out and throw it away.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Breaking out the sweat just leaking.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Now have you seen the proposed new bridge design. It
is going to be a higher volume bridge, a.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Higher volume bridge, and it's going to allow for those
bicycles and things of other sorts. So I don't I
haven't seen one recently, but that's what the original drawings
I remember them having.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
All right, So I'm just waiting for hear about it.
You know, cost overruns and exceeding budget projections and everything else.
It seems to go along with one of these.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I was going to say, that's pretty much a given anymore,
I know.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
All right, Well, Chuck Ingram, we'll look forty first traffic
report of five forty, and we'll watch as things slowly presumably,
if you're right, deteriorate a little bit over the course
of the day and then the coming week until people
just figure it out.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
And by next week we'll say, oh, that's right, it's closed.
That's right, let's move on to the other bridge.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
And I don't recall anyone dying as a consequence of
the Big Mac Bridge being shut down quite some time.
So go about your daily life, and that's right. Maintain call.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's exactly just remain calm. We must remain.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Call panic, remain calm. Chuck Ingram, God bless you man.
It's again great scene in a very happy new year.
And look forward to your traffic reports throughout the year.
And of course I look forward to as he does.
And the Politana loves you. You say, we went about
Judseph Poulton. He always is just so tickled to death
to hear your commentary as we lead into the Wednesday
segment every morning. So I just use this as an opportunity

(16:36):
to pass it along. He always says to anger that.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Hey, that's very kind of him. I find it refreshing too,
to start it, to start the report a little bit different,
I should say, and the report.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
My report customizing it for him and of the five
Care seeing morning, Joe Chuck Ingram, thanks for what you do.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Man.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Appreciate the heads up from a listening audience on the
fourth Street bridge closure, and we'll look forward to your
reports throughout the morning. Happy New Year, Andy, you five
twenty five. Right now for five care the talk station,
Tom's on the line. Get your call Tom. Maybe some
local stories coming out of the gate right when we
get back. It will be shortly. This is you have
krc DE Talk station by nine on a Monday. Happy
Monday to you. We do have money Monday with Brian James.

(17:14):
We do have Zach Haynes running for a house State
Senate District seven. We do have ev Ramaswami. He is
going to be the next cover of the State of Ohio.
Get the memo on that one, at least I hope so. Anyway,
he'll join the program at eight twenty. I love having
him on. Rob McCauley the running mate and Monday Monday,
Brian James with one segment considering the traffic in the
eight o'clock hour. Christopher's smitheman of course Monday, that's seven
twenty for the Smith event and right now. It's Tom's

(17:36):
on the phone. Tom, thanks for calling this morning, and
a happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Uh. I'm listening to all your stories that you started
with this morning, and they have a similar topic at
the core of them, and it's all money, money, money, money, Yes,
and everybody wants to get their hands in the cookie
jar and get some for themselves and their families and
friends and and all that stuff. And Uh, what I think,

(18:05):
what part of the biggest part of the problem is
is that we have we have people that as they're
growing up and and and becoming adults, they're learning that,
uh they're oh, they there's ways to get other people's money.
Uh you know, you get some too, and here's how
you can do it, and here's some you know what.
Weather It just comes to uh just outright stealing, breaking
the law that way, or or or get together with

(18:27):
some some people and and get a political office and
then you can have some kind of a scheme to
to take more money.

Speaker 7 (18:34):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
It all comes down to stealing. You're taking other people's money.
And that's that's kind of the thing that I wanted
to key on, is that we need people out there
to to teach their children and to let people around
them know, this is not your money. This is other
people's money. You can't just take it even though it is.

(18:54):
You know, it's a big pot of money that's not
your money, just to take for whatever you want. You know,
you're just gonna hire your friends and families so they
can make exorbitant amounts of money selling T shirts or
you know, that's just one example.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
You know, there's that.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
You know, you have the on the Republican side, of course,
you had the whole the Larry Householder thing, and and
everybody's out to try to get some money, yep, And
it's just it's it's outright fevery. What it comes down to,
Uh wow, look at don't look at all that money.
Let's get some. And then that's the attitude people go
into to go into office with is I want to
get rich. I want to make money. And when you

(19:30):
see these people come in to office and they don't
have a lot of money, and and yet not too
long after they're in office, and especial years later, there
all of a sudden you're rich. Gee, how does that happen? Yeah,
where is that money coming from? It's coming out of
your pocket. Listeners, that money is coming out of your pocket.
The taxes in this country, the cities, states, counties, and

(19:50):
and the country, the taxes are ridiculous. And if you
we just got rid of the amount of waste brought
and abuse, so it would it would be it would
be much more palatable.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Taxes.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Nobody likes it, which you got to have them, I mean,
things got to get paid for. But the I mean
we're just seeing millions and millions and millions of dollars
being taken. They're fraud I mean easy. People don't have
a right to your money. Oh but you know, when
it comes down to it, some of you people who
are listening, you are electing your people who are doing this.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
You're voting for them.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Let's keep them in office.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
Well that's your fault then, well, so it's your fault
that people are stealing my money.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Well, I would argue that built into the PI are
built into the equation, is there is no accountability after
the money is taken from the taxpayer. There's so much
that goes into government, obviously insufficient to satisfy the needs
of government, considering we're in debt for so much, but
that once it's in the door, they throw it out
the door, but don't follow up, and you created an opportunity.

(20:51):
It's I go back to the whole idea. If cameras
were in the neighborhood, I think most people agree it
does have a deterrence of fact because criminals know that
they're there and they will Well, I'll tell you what
it's like, a house with a dog. I'm not gonna
go to the house with a dog. There's a house
next door that doesn't have a dog. I'm not taking
my chances. You move out of the area with the cameras.
If there is no accountability, if that money can easily

(21:11):
be taken and stolen in any way, shape or form,
then people get the word gets out. There's no sunlight
of disinfect and following the money. And if there was,
I think there'll be a hell of a lot more
accountability with where our money is spent, fewer people who
attempted to steal the money. Right, Oh my god, there's
a camera there. Oh my god, there's an inspector general
like Todd z ins are staring at where the money

(21:33):
is going and how it's being used. I guess I
can't steal it.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Then, yeah, pay attention to the people who are having
a problem with the accountability even when it comes to crime.
Pay attention to the people who are having a problem
with more police in the area. You know, you're gonna
find that majority of these people who don't want accountability,
who don't want extra police on the streets, you know,

(21:57):
who don't want to have to answer for for their behavior.
They're they're on one side of the political spectrum, but
for more often than not, and that's Democrat. But don't
vote Democrat. Have a great day, Bryan.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Thanks Tom. Always looking forward to seeing how he dies
in any of the conclusion. Let's se what Bob's got. Hey, Bob,
thanks for calling. Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
Oh, happy Monday to you there, Brian. Okay, I just
wanted to make a comment. I noticed that on these
mayors and stuff in this city council and and I
noticed it with that with that, uh, Karen, I guess
their name is Karen Bass up there in LA. Have
you noticed that they have a hollow look or mayor

(22:37):
They seem like they don't actually they're almost like it's
some type of demonic that they don't really actually know
what's going on. It's kind of half half biblical. It
scares me because nobody on earth would promote lawlessness like this,
and now the criminals are going to see that.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Maybe you need to just assume, for the sake of discussion, Bob,
step back from the you know, whatever weird thing is
going on right in front of our eyes, and look
at the broader picture. Why would they want to get
rid of police generally speaking, Why would they seem to
encourage lawlessness, Why would they want to stop prosecuting people
for stealing less than nine hunt and fifty dollars. Maybe

(23:24):
ultimately that's exactly what they want, Bob. They want our
country destroyed, and the quickest way to have that happen
is lawlessness in the streets. And then, oh my god,
we'll have a declaration of martial law. And people are
suggesting Donald Trump it should have a martial law declaration
for whatever reason. Now, probably the wrong way to go,
because much like that woman who got killed interfering with ice,

(23:46):
they want a martyr, and Marxist philosophy goes down the lines.
And if you get a state to overreact and oppress
the people and engage in, you know, law enforcement tactics
in order to preserve its own longevity, the administration to
keep it alive and well, like the concept of the
United States, you want that undermined. And once the law

(24:07):
enforcement takes to the streets and you have people divided,
you have a success for the leftists. That foonments more anger,
and then you'll have more illustrations of violence by police
or law enforcement against the citizenry and oh my god,
I'm outraged, and it feeds on itself, and you get
more people into the streets, and then you have a
situation like that's unfolding it or on right now, where

(24:27):
the administration looks like it may very well be toppled.
That's what the left wants. So I'm thinking you just
keep it in a broad picture perspective, recognize that this
is exactly what they want, and that answers a whole
lot of the questions like who in their right mind
the right mind point being wanting to maintain what we have,

(24:49):
wanting stability, wanting to preserve our constitution. They don't view
that as the right mind that's the wrong mindset. We
need to undermine it. Five thirty six My thought anyway, Bob,
thank you very much for the comment. Fifty five care
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(25:33):
else breaks it, and of course backing up what she
has to say, revealing inside information. Uh, she's got the
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more appearances. To all those who listened, I really appreciate it,
and I know she does, and quite revealing it was

(25:54):
so fifty five car Sea dot com if you want
to check that out. Let's go to see what Tom's
got this morning. Another Tom, thanks for calling Tom, Happy
money Day.

Speaker 9 (26:01):
Happy Monday. So I want you to rehash this thing
that I asked you about six months ago. Why can't
we get a federal national ID badge which would prevent
all this you know, unnecessary rounding up and can't ship
back twenty five million people physically.

Speaker 10 (26:18):
But if they can't get a badge, they would leave voluntarily.
You can't use hospitals, schools, you can't get a driver's license,
you can't fly anything like that without a national ID badge.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well, our modern technology certainly makes that possible. I guess
is that going to be viewed as part of the
surveillance state? And we talked about tech Friday with Dave Hatter.
He says he will not buy alcohol from Kroker because
they scan your state ID that has all kinds of
information on it. You got that ID and it has
all the information on it. It makes it easy for
hackers perhaps and the various types to steal it. I

(26:51):
don't know, but I know that that's a number. And
then to my very very conservative, evangelical religious types, some
people view that as a numbering. You know, if you
recall I believe it was revelations about all that. So
they're against it from religious reasons. But Would that go
a long way to stopping fraud? Would that go a
long way to preventing people from voting in elections when
they don't have the right to. Yeah, I can't deny it, Tom.
The question is is it really a long term good idea?

(27:14):
Can bad things happen based upon the idea that we're
going to fix a lot of problems doing a national ID?
Don't know, man, but it's certainly a possible solution. I
just you know, honestly, I think cross referencing all of
the various databases we have, I know they can share information.
And I do believe there's a bunch of lawsuits being
filed because the Trump administration is trying to get some

(27:36):
voter or information from some of the states in order
to determine if there has been fraud. Isn't it good
to get rid of fraud? Going back to the last caller,
what is with some of these merits? Why are they
in favor of more crime, et cetera. Shouldn't everyone be
interested in getting rid of fraud. We've had this message,
this argument a million times, like, I'm sorry, you know
it's racist to require a photo ID. Who in the hell,

(27:59):
what kind of statement is that no, it's not, and
it's an insult to anybody of color who someone is
advancing on your behalf allegedly an argument that you're incapable
of managing getting a photo ID. Why do we want
photo IDs? Because we don't want elections to have fraud,
waste and abuse, or for it, we don't want elections
to have fraud. But pivoting over to the broader realities

(28:20):
you could cover, you could deal with a lot of
those issues via that kind of identification. Do we want it?
I think that's a question and a topic worthy of debate.
The sue of Pat's Guy This morning, Pat, welcome to
the morning, showing a happy.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Monday to you, Same to you, Brian.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
These commercials about these young people that are buying houses,
and I heard that corporations are buying houses.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well they have been once the housing collapsed back in
two thousand and seven and eight.

Speaker 10 (28:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
Well, the thing that I'm wondering is if corporations are
buying houses and young these young people that are in
advertising they'll buy your house, where do they get the money?
Are they getting it from the corporation?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well, I'm not familiar with your statement. These young people
buying houses. I'm not quite sure what that refers to,
but in so far as corporations buying houses like black
Rock again, they've been doing this now for going on,
you know, fifteen twelve or so years. They've acquired a
bunch of real estate. They rent those houses. Donald Trump
with a statement, a very populous one, saying we want
to stop that from happening and prevent massive investors from

(29:27):
buying homes and getting those homes off the market and
driving prices up. Yeah, that's true, but it's also a
capitalism kind of thing. They've got money. Well, there's go ahead.

Speaker 7 (29:38):
There's another thing. I remember, and I heard this years ago,
that you will own nothing, and this kind of stuff
kind of brings that into my head, and I'm thinking,
you're going to be renting. You won't be able to
own anything.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Right, that's the goal. Oh we're way past that, pas, Yeah,
that is this stated goal, the un goals and objectives.
Look what's going on with Zorhan Bandami in New York
and his housing person. They've come out right and said it.
I mean, no, this is no shock pad. I'm sorry
you just got the memo recently, but yeah, this has
been a phenomenon. I've been raging. That's ultimately what the
city of Cincinnati is moving toward, this connected communities thing,

(30:18):
small dense urban housing. You will not own it, You
will rent it. The state will own it. That's why
New York has the right of first refusal in real estate.
If you're a private home owner and you want to
sell your home, you got to give the city the
opportunity to buy it first. Why so they can put
some non governmental organization in charge of running and operating
the rental unit. It will become Yeah, it's going on

(30:39):
all over the place, frightening. Yeah, but that's the idea.
Leftist Marxists don't believe in the private property ownership. It's crazy.
For the average normal, clear thinking, logical, reasonable human being,
it's crazy. But for them, this is their belief and
their religion. Somehow it's magically going to transfer oversaw the

(31:00):
we're all gonna be singing Kumba y'ah because we live
in this collective community. No one has private property. That's
the dream. It's a moist one for the left, too,
very very moist dreaming. Five forty six right now, fifty
five KR City Talk station.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Stick around.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's five fifty year fifty five KR City Talk Station. Ay,
very Happy Monday to you. B bag Ramaswami returns in
the eight o'clock er, among other guests in the eight
o'clock hour and for Smither vent and Monday Monday's Brian
James coming up at the meantime. Let's get Brian. He's
got a comment, Brian, thanks for calling this morning. Happy
Monday to you.

Speaker 9 (31:33):
Uh, Brian, Hey, I'm a white man and last I
know white as a race as well. So if their
logic is it's racist to.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
To ask them to get an ID, then then that
means it's racist for me to have one. So then
why do I have to have one?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right? Well, you didn't call it for an argument. Brian
always thought the racism argument in as an objection to
the requirement to get an idea. He was always preposterous
and it is preposterous. And you say, you're you're a
white guy, so you're a race. What kind of race?
Are you? An Irish American or an English American or
a German American. We go down the list of traditionally

(32:12):
Caucasian looking white people and they all come from a
variety of different countries. Around the world. One of the
reasons this whole breaking it down into race is a
lot of nonsense too. But yeah, and going back to
the arguments that are made against a national idea. Thank you.
Brian turned the aclus on web page from the what
were You Thinking viiled twenty three year old man from China.

(32:33):
He dured what is described as excruciating pain after failing
or following rather for a traditional remedy. Don't use that
as a literal translation. I'm not sure if it is
a traditional remedy anyway. He found it online. Specifically, he
inserted a five centimeter long live leech into his bladder.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Viyeah his urethra, they say. It's unclear how long the
young and misguided man came across us the bizarre folk remedy,
but he was well in a lot of pain as
a consequence of it. It resulted in urethrael obstruction, causing
him pain made it impossible for him to urinate. The
leech did not remain there, however, it crawled into his bladder,

(33:14):
where it attached to the walls and began releasing anti
coagulants that resulted in excruciating pain. He then had to
go to the emergency room and admit what he had done.
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. And for those
who aren't in the know, the Eurology Department there performed

(33:34):
a transurethral bladder foreign body removal surgery and successfully removed
the leech, providing him with at least the ability to
urinate again. So big question mark swirling around why anybody
would do this? Yeah, Well, like I always say, Abraham
Lincoln said it. If you read it on the internet,

(33:55):
it's true. Five ifty five fifty five k seit he
talks to you. Stick around, We've got lots to talk about
this six o'clockation six or six opinion about Gari see
the talk station Bryan twas swish and everyone a very
happy Monday. I hope you had a great weekend too.
Looking forward to a little more than an hour from now.
Every Monday at seven twenty we hear from the former
Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smitheman. And

(34:16):
of course I'm not quite sure. I never do know
what he's going to talk about in advance, but maybe,
just maybe this executive session is since a city Council
to talk about the yes, apparently ongoing settlement discussions with
the city and the Hitton family. Of course, the eighteen
year old that has gone down because he turned a
firearm on police officers, justifiable shooting according to the Hamilton
County prosecutor. Why would they settle that? No one knows.

(34:38):
And that's why I was so pleased to have Signal
ninety nine in the program this past Friday. She was
the one that got the inside information about these settlement
discussions that no one has claimed aren't happening. They've danced
around the idea about the monetary mouth the millions of dollars.
I don't know what you're talking about, million dollars settlement,
says their attorney, by the hitting family attorney. But he

(35:00):
doesn't deny that the settlement discussions are ongoing. Of course,
some council members got win to that. It's widely reported,
as Signal ninety nine pointed out here, what wait, what
settlement agreement? So consequently they're going to go behind closed
doors with no notes and no reporters and talk about
it today. Somebody hopefully is speaking with Signal ninety nine
as a whistleblower that has access to that discussion, so

(35:22):
we can actually find out what's going on, wait for it,
given the outlawed expressions by some of the council members,
though I I don't know, I hate to say it
out loud if I was a betting man, Maybe they
won't settle. Maybe they'll force the Hitting family to actually
file a lawsuit to justify they're claim that they're entitled
to money. And as Signal ninety nine pointed out here

(35:44):
on the program, apparently the Hitting family friends with Iris Rowley,
who we discovered apparently runs the entire city of Cincinnati. Yes,
that's a broad brushway of boiling down an hour's worth
of discussion with her. You draw your own conclusions. Check
out the podcast and thanks to all the folks who
chimed in on it. We're thankful for the discussion and
glad to hear the information, and of course asking she

(36:05):
joined the program on a regular segment weekly basis, not
going down that road. She's got some health issues and
would rather just keep this kind of discussion ongoing, but
on an as needed basis. So when Signal ninety nine
gets more information about that kind of Shenanigan's going on,
should me more than please to come back to the
morning show and talk about it. So God bless you.
Signal ninety nine. We all wish you the best of

(36:26):
health and quick recovery for your current issues. Check the
podcast out after Smithaman, we're gonna hear from Money Monday
one segment, how has your retirement number change? That's what
Brian James will be talking about because v vike ramaswam
is going to join the program after that at eight twenty,
we'll talk about Rob McCauley, the selected running mate. The
op ed I read from vvike ramaswamming appearing in the

(36:48):
Wall Street Journal. I read that last week early and
it's a great one too. His observations about why he's
jumped off social media. A bunch of chatter out there,
a bunch of influences going on in some really massive
of negativity. That is a way of distracting politicians from
doing what is right. You've seen it recently with the

(37:08):
organized ice protesters. You get one thing that's that divides
people who are going to have a whole bunch of
people chime in on it. That is a way of
distracting politicians. What do the constituents actually want or who's
the squeakiest wheel out there. He's not going to be
listening to the squeakiest wheel anymore. Vivig Ramaswami at A
twenty Zach Haynes. Zach Haynes is running for the seventh

(37:29):
District Ohio State Senate seat, got the endorsement from Americans
for Prosperity Donovan Neil on last week talking about Zach,
Zach chimed into the program at the end, and of
course I promised him an opportunity to speak with you
here on the morning show. Today's the day for that,
at least for the first time. Eight thirty with State
Senate candidate Zach Haynes five three, seven, four, nine fifty
five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk
Time five fifty on AT and T phones. Hm hm, Well,

(37:57):
not quite sure which direction I want to go. You
think the signal ninety nine's planned for dealing with our
young people, Joe, or should I dress further Pat's Reality
Waking Up Signal ninety nine. Yeah, it's kind of the
direction I was going to go. Oh and by the way, Pat,
the article I was tempted to dive on into Alyssa
Finley January eleventh, op ed piece how Mom, Dommy and
ce A Weaver plan to end private housing. Yes, this

(38:22):
is by design. Yes, they do want to eliminate the
concept of private home ownership and go full on socialism.
So if you want to break down how that works
and what their motivations are, Lyssa Finley did a great
job in that op ed piece. Anyway, Signal ninety nine
rights this was just a couple of days ago. Our
kids are dying city parks and on corners that have

(38:43):
become battlegrounds for gang territory. We all see it, we
all feel it. Since Ida has fifty two neighborhoods, she writes,
proud working neighborhoods with too many of them, especially where
opportunity thins have become places where kids are so bored
and unsupervised no my emphasis on that word, so unsupported,
so unprotected, that the street becomes the only thing that

(39:04):
feels like structure, and gangs are happy to step in
and provide the rest. Now, before I pivot over the
balance of her op ed piece and her suggestions on
how to deal with this, also keep in mind you
folks out in lower crime communities that unsupervised, unsupported, and
unprotected children are being manipulated in this particular case, beyond gangs,

(39:26):
it's by any pervert or crazy person, or perhaps someone
with a political chip on their shoulder on social media.
Keep that aspect in mind. The entire world has access
to your children. Now. She is focusing on neighborhoods that
are overwhelmed with gang activity and with unsupervised teens. Clearly
that's a pathway to them getting involved with gang activity anyway,

(39:50):
she writes, gangs offer what so many kids crave, bonding, belonging,
perceived protection, self worth, and an opportunity to earn real money.
Keep those parallels with the internet in mind. This is
not about skin color, political ideologies, is not about religions.
This is about whether we are willing to build a
lifeline for kids who are currently have none, or whether
we are comfortable watching them get recruited, armed, used, discarded

(40:14):
and buried. Because that is exactly what's happening. Since he's
dealing with the surgeon and juvenile involvement in serious crimes,
teens stealing cars by the hundreds, police report. The large
portion of autothest suspects are under eighteen, many as young
as ten years old. Groups of kids are breaking into
vehicles downtown and across neighborhoods in co ordinated crews. Twenty

(40:35):
twenty three alone, fifty five teenagers between thirteen and seventeen
were shot in this city, six of them killed. Two
children under the age of twelve murdered within two years
near the same West End park. Violent crime remains elevated.
Guns are easy to find, social media beef turns into
real funerals, and the ages keep dropping. Kids are recruited

(40:57):
into the gang life as young as eight in cities
like La. Recruitment has been documented in elementary school age
children as young as six years old. Gangs know exactly
what they're doing. They know juveniles rarely do real time.
They know the system is designed to rehabilitate kids, not
warehouse them. They know a fourteen year old carrying a
gun or slinging dope is a low risk employee, so

(41:19):
they use them. These kids move drugs, stealing cars, carry
weapons to commit shootings. Why Because when those kids get caught,
adult gang members stay free to keep running their criminal enterprises.
Children become the shield. This continues. What comes next is
not a mystery, more cars stolen, more armed teenagers, more

(41:40):
drive buys, which means more mothers planning funerals, or officers
responding to scenes involving children with bullet wounds. We can
keep reaching to the aftermath, or we can disrupt the pipeline.
And yes, this has been done before. Now here's where
she comes with a program, idea, and then you can
feel free to chime in on whether you think it's
a good idea or not. But remember the root of

(42:02):
this problem, and I think she astutely observes, is the
unsupervised reality of children. That's why I said you need
to view this more broadly. Well, my kid isn't in
a neighborhood that's overrun with gangs. Yeah, but your kid
is in a neighborhood that's got access for all these
criminal types and these evil forces directly into their lifeline,
that social media app or the smartphone or the computer anyway.

(42:27):
Cities that invest she writes, instructured youth spaces, mentoring and
mental health across consistently, I'm sorry, and mental health access
consistently reduced file and crime, gang recruitment and repeat victimization.
Not with slogans, with infrastructure So here's the proposal. Plainly,
she writes, neighborhood bathed use youth safety and development centers,

(42:48):
not a charity, not a feel good nonprofit, not pandering
for ribbon cutting photo ops, an honest public safety project
to save kids most at risk in forgotten communities. She says,
we need an early intervention violence prevention system built directly
into the neighborhood's most impacted. City Hall doesn't fund nice ideas.
City Hall funds crime reduction. So let's call this what

(43:09):
it is, a violence prevention and early intervention public safety
infrastructure project. If you recharacterize it, you might get people
around it.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Anyway, same way we fund fire stations, stop fires before
buildings collapse, same way we fund bridges before they fail
or fall. Invest early or pay dearly later. These centers
would operate after school and into the evening year round,
expand in summer when violence strikes. She says. They provide
real structure, supervised hours between three a three pm and

(43:39):
nine pm. I thought of the Wesley Chapel mission and
over the rhyme when I thought about this. They've been
doing this for years and years for a religious element,
providing children with a safe space, free and away from
gang activity in the violence in downtown worked there where
it works there anyway? That mean that was me interjecting
that they would offer sports and fitness, homework help, tutoring,
life skills, money management, conflict resolution, job readiness, says on

(44:03):
site licensed counselors weekly social workers who can quietly help
kids access food, clothing, and transportation, emergency support without shame
off didy, police officers who choose to mentor and protect,
not just respond after tragedy. Community volunteers who know the kids'
names instead of their case numbers. All this sounds wonderful
and glorious. Could we get all of these folks to

(44:23):
volunteer and commit to doing this from three up at
pm to nine pm every day? A number of ideas
go along with this. I needn't dive on into all
of them. In the interest of times, She claims the
budget would only be two hundred and sixty five thousand
dollars per center per year, fully staff, fully insured, and
fully accountable three centers seven hundred ninety five thousand dollars. Now, again,

(44:45):
I don't know where the money came from, but that
sounds remarkably low compared to normal government solutions. Hell Iris
Rollie's contracts six hundred and forty grand are roughly thereabouts, right.
How can you run three centers providing all of this
on that little money? She says, They're all all kinds
of places the money can come from, DOJ burn, JAG grants, unspend,

(45:05):
ARPA funds, Violence Reduction Initiative budgets, Youth service levy money,
community development block grants. So take all this money that's
being thrown out into the wind all desperately and focus
it on these three youth centers. Will that work? Don't know,
it hasn't been tried.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
She said.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
It's not about inventing money, it's choosing where we spend it.
And she concludes, here's the blunt truth. You do not
save kids with speeches. You don't save them with hashtags.
You don't save them with press conferences and social media rants.
We were asked last year to put our money where
our mouth is. This is us doing exactly that. If
we work together, replace being belonging to gangs with belonging

(45:45):
to community, protection from gangs with protection from adults, money
from crime with opportunity, identity built on fear with pride
built on purpose, chaos with structure. Gangs recruit where nobody
is watching, nobody is waiting at home, nobody is investing in,

(46:05):
nobody is present. Yeah, there's that family structure breakdown that
I see in that sentence. Nobody is watching, nobody is
waiting at home. Are you keeping and watch out over
your children moving away again from the gangs in any
given neighborhood and keeping your eye out for what they
are being recruited to do online? Are they being influenced

(46:26):
by the anti ice protesters or Antifa or Black Lives
Matter or any of the left wing organizations out there
that are so well oiled and well organized that they
dominate social media. Are you talking to your children about
that evil force that's out there? Sorry Signal ninety nine
for interjecting my own political and sort of realist observations

(46:46):
about how dangerous are the children's lives are these days?
But this does transcend gangs, It does transcend broken homes,
And these are I think outstanding ideas you've got there.
But I'm trying to get the people children out there
were broadly interested in what their children are doing every
single day, because, as she points out, unsupervised children end

(47:07):
up doing bad things. I'll encourage everyone to get Signal
ninety nine follower on Facebook. Read the entire statement in
her ideas. You may be able to elaborate on them,
you maybe be able to improve on them, but it
does get the juices flowing in terms of how we
need to view our young people in this crazy world

(47:28):
we find ourselves.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
The talk station.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
At six twenty four if do you have carecy Detalk
Station are very happy Monday to you. Try to make
it so anyway. I don't know why they call it
the girl Scoutbridge. Matter of fact, I think it's the
first time I've ever heard that from Chuck. This morning
he came in and I said, is this going to
be a difficult thing when the fourth Street bridge cuts
down because of the is there another way to go?
Is basically the straight way I put He goes, yeah,
the girl Scout Bridge, and I looked at him like, huh,

(47:57):
girl Scout Bridge. That it's probably because we had the
Dan Beard Bridge, which was he was the founder of
the Boy Scouts. So in the interest of fairness, we
got to call something the girl Scott Bridge. Let's call
that one. I don't know if it's fair to the
Girl Scouts since it's apparently a dilapidated bridge they're going
to tear down beginning. Oh, I guess at nine pm
this or nine am. That's not fair. It's sexist, isn't it.

(48:20):
Joe of course.

Speaker 11 (48:22):
Six twenty five and fifty five KR City Talk Station
Local Stories or phone call sixty year vide five KRC
City Talk Station, and it's Chuck talking about bridges.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
I did misspeak. Apparently the Girl Scout Bridge is not
the one that's falling apart. That's the Fourth Street Bridge. Oh.
In my confusion and having to react to Joe's comment
to me about the Girl Scout Bridge, which was a
new thing for me, that I guess is the eleven
Street Bridge, which is not falling apart, at least not yet. Anyway,
What up? What do I know? Just nine am is
the day. It's the first day for the fourth Street

(48:54):
Bridge closure. My friends in Newport and Covington and those
who typically drive a Frosted five one three, seven, four,
nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two
three Talk fifty five CASA dot com for podcasts when
you can't listen live. It's really thankful the signal ninety
nine came home in the program. Lots of folks listen
to that one and chimed in on it. We will
get her back at some point. Restore Wellness with George

(49:15):
and Keith giving you some great information in the new
year about maybe trying to keep your resolutions in so
far as health and wellness are concerned. Ken Kober on
the city paying off the hint and family breaking here
on the fifty five caresee Morning show. Of course that
information given to Ken Coober from signal ninety nine, so
he was able to bring into even council's attention. We
are doing what what settlement agreement? Keep your popcorn out

(49:38):
of what happens today in the executive session, which we'll
be discussing the settlement agreement that the city manager tried
to dodge around. Yeah, it's going on North College Hill.
Please searching for a person whocus robbing a gas station
happened late Friday. Shell excuse me the Shell station at
the Hamilton and Westcalbreth courded to ten. Please hit. A

(49:59):
man wear a black sweatshirt and ripped black jeans went
into the gas station. Please think the guys in his twenties,
he pointed a gun at the store clerks demanded money
from the register. Suspect ran away from the scene remains
at large. You have any information crime Stoppers the number
three five two thirty forty five one three three five
two thirty forty If you have any information, your tip
leads to an arrest to be eligible for a cash

(50:20):
reward and you will remain anonymous. Speaking of cash rewards,
we have a Bureau of Alcohol tobaccuom in Firearms offering
a five thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
rest of the suspect accused of carjacking in Blue Ash
December eleventh, thirty eight hundred block Bellevue Avenue. Victim told
police the suspect pulled out a firearm and stole the vehicle.

(50:43):
That's blue Ash Police reporting on that one victims vehicle
later found the thirty eight hundred block of Yearling. Since
that initial report, Blue Ash Police have been trying to
identify and find the suspect now atf partnering with police
to find the responsible those responsible for the crime. Anyone
who provides information it leads to the identification, arrest and
conviction of that suspect, we'll get a five thousand dollars

(51:05):
cash reward. The number to call eight eight eight ATF Tips,
eight eight eight ATF Tips or just chime into Blue
Ash Police Department. As for Police Department Detective Jason Huff,

(51:25):
we got to Hamilton. Members of Lynnwood Neighborhood Council met
Saturday talk about traffic safety conditions after a deadly crash
that killed three people right at Hoover and Avenue River
Road December. Crash report from the Hamilton Police Department of
the vehicle that struck The car had a sphinometers stuck
at eighty miles an hour when the investigation. When they

(51:46):
conducted their investigation, which is ongoing. Residents the meeting. At
the meeting discussed potential solutions to present the city to
enhance safety in the area. One Lindwood resident identified as
Tom Schindler lives right there, said ideas and include rumble
strips to help people slow down, signage and physical barriers.
What other person, Frank Downey Dowie Downey oversees a group

(52:10):
called Protocol in Lynnwood or Lindenwald focusing on neighborhood needs
that he wants a collaborative safety effort with the city
that brings together police, fire and engineering departments. Speeding and
generally said, in the violation of all traffic laws, speeding
through stop signs. They are a problem not only here
in Linden Walld, but citywide. I'm concerned for the whole community,

(52:33):
in the whole city as far as that goes. I
think we collectively have a problem with people just driving
like idiots, not just this neighborhood, but all over the place.
Don't be that guy. How many problems would be solved
if we all just acted like responsible, decent human beings.
Is that too much of an ask? You talk to

(52:55):
folks like Western Jim Kieffer and others where they've installed
these speed humps everything, Apparently people just can just continues
speeding right over them. Not good for your car. But
I guess if you're more interested in getting to point
A to point B fast as you possibly can, disregarding
the laws, generally speaking, you'll disregard what might be happening
to your car while you're speeding over speed bomb six

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(53:37):
you mentioned it was been ten years since David Bowie
passed away, hence that bumper music right there, and it
was one of those wow, my god, has it been
that long kind of things. Hate those revelations. God, I
feel like I'm getting old anyway. Also apparently the forty
fourth anniversary of the Freezer Bowl. I always like to
make fun of myself. Yes, I was at the Freezer Ball,

(53:59):
but unlike Wood, I didn't stay for the whole thing,
not being able to feel any of my arms or
legs and certainly feet and hands. By halftime, we all
got up and walked out. So I do not regret
that moment in time. Yes, I missed a historic game,
but you know what, watch the balance of it would

(54:19):
have got home. It's only you were seven. Thanks Joe,
appreciate that seventeen for me anyhow. Interesting geopolitical reality is
kind of going on here, and I'm on record as
having some big swirling question marks over the extent to

(54:42):
which Donald Trump can wage war without the well inclusion
of congressional discussion. At least congressional approval would be I
think beneficial, would end the swirling question marks and at
least providing with the stated authority. But what we argue
behind the scenes about that. Let's just move over away
from legality in the constitutional implications of this and just

(55:05):
look at the practical results. You start with Venezuela. Yeah,
it was a rather successful elimination of Nicholas Manduro. Right,
the oil is no longer flowing, and it's certainly not
going to Cuba. Already struggling Cuba was we apparently have

(55:27):
now shut off because the Venezuelan leader, currently Delsi Rodriguez,
has agreed to redirect oil deliveries to the United States, ie,
not going to Cuba, which relies almost exclusively on well
relied past tense, almost exclusively on Venezuela and oil. Apparently
they're one source of oil now is Russia. Between January

(55:49):
last year and November last year, Caracas said about twenty
seven thousand barrels per day to Cuba about fifty percent
of the island's oil deficit, a quarter of Cuba's total
energy demand. Where are they replacing that? They can't, So
we're seeing an already perilous economy perhaps spiral out of control,
much in the way Iran is spiraling out of control.

(56:10):
That's the other reality you have to factor in. Of course,
some people upset that we joined with the Israelis and
blew the hell out of the Iranian nuclear ambitions. A
thorn in our side they've been I mean, remember Barack
Obama sitting down with the Iranian government negotiating terms and conditions,
no uranium richment beyond this, and know that we'll need

(56:33):
inspectors and no, you can't have inspectors in they admittedly
wanted to build a bomb. We know that you don't
have to enrich uranium beyond a very small level in
order to create energy with it. You don't need the
high levels of uranium enrichment that they were doing with
their centrifugas. Why are they a problem because they hate
us on record wanting to eliminate us in most notably Israel,

(56:54):
and they were working toward a bomb. H wonder of fact,
what happened if there was a if there was regime change. Well,
given the global sanctions have been in place against Iran,
that having a profound effect on their economy, the limits
of their ability to sell their oil on the global market,
then you have US literally evaporating the nuclear aspirations US.

(57:17):
That would be the israels in the United States. Yeah,
unilateral military action. It worked. Again, moving aside from the
legality of it, Now they're scrambling and their economy is
in such peril that they are literally rioting in the street,
something you don't expect from Iran unless you're overthrowing the
Shah and to install the Ayatola. I'm old enough to

(57:39):
remember that. You may remember the hostage situation. They've been
a thrown on our side for a long time. Look,
in a short period of time, Donald Trump's been sworn in.
Now it looks like Iran is on the brink of
absolute and total collapse. And Donald's made threats. He said, well,
Iranas starting to cross US red lines. The civilian deaths
widely reported for one hundred and ninety six protesters have

(58:01):
been killed. At least as of the most recent reporting yesterday,
thousands arrested. Ten six hundred people arrested as they try
to crack down on the ever growing anti administration Iranian
ruthless dictatorship. So the Ietola may pull out and leave

(58:26):
so effectively. I don't think Cuba represented much of an
existential threat to the United States, but that one looks
like it's in a state of collapse. Venezuela is already there. Iran,
what three down and two to go? I would say
that you know you can boil all this down and

(58:47):
make a good argument that Trump's foreign policy is bearing
fruit six forty five. Feel free to chime in and
dissent or agree. I'd love to hear from the station
here a fifty five krose the talk station and time
of swishing everyone a very happy Monday, trying to make
it so, and feel free to give me a call

(59:08):
if you can. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty
five hundred and eight hundred and eighty two to three
Talk Top five fifty on AT and T phones. Christopher
Smithman joined the program in seven to twenty. Probably get
a reaction from him on Signal ninety nine's conversation on
the Morning show this past Friday. Again, I think more
hits on that one from a podcast than any other
before it. Joe struck her overwhelmed by the number of

(59:29):
responses he received while I was talking with her in
the studio, and of course more podcasts downloaded on that
interview than any other at least in the period of time.
So thanks to her for joining the program and welcome
to the Morning Show. Perhaps the new listeners have decided
to tune into this show as a consequence of her
being on the show. She will be back again, but
not on a regular basis. We had that car Joe

(59:51):
had that conversation with her. She's not going to be
capable given her current situation, health and otherwise, but certainly
expressed a willingness to join the show and the things
that she revealed on Friday, that type of issue, the
behind the scenes settlement negotiation. Yeah, she'll come back on
to talk about things like that, and an open invitation
for you to give her a call if you're involved

(01:00:11):
in city government or government generally, if you have the
inside information, we'd like to get it out. If you
want to be a sort of a whistleblower along the
lines of Signal ninety nine. She needs her information from somebody,
She'll take your call. She said it here on the
Morning Show. Anyhow, what else is going on?

Speaker 7 (01:00:28):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
It really irks me. We've got a lot of Republicans
have defied Trump's goal and joined with Democrats. Remember the
reason we had the government shut down? Right, the extension
of the Affordable Care Act subsidies red flag. Guess what
the subsidies will expire in December of twenty five. We've
known this for several years, the subsidies put in place

(01:00:50):
because of COVID nineteen. How did the world operate under
Obamacare prior to the subsidies going in place. I don't remember.
What were you doing before they showed up? All gonna die? No,
But once you put subsidies in place, even for people
who make some really handsome salaries, they get used to
that and they forgot about what life was like before
the big government program and the handout showed up. The

(01:01:12):
handouts which masks the true cost of medical care, which
is the problem. The premium reflects the cost of the
medical care, and if the cost of medical care goes up,
the premiums are gonna go up. Do I need to
go over an economic lesson?

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Again? How simple?

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
This is insurance companies pay claims. You got a high
claims exposure, either because a whole bunch of people should
you know, make their file claims, or for medical coverage
or and or the cost of the medical care goes up. Hey,
we're running out of dollars. We don't have enough cash
on hand to cover the claims. I guess we're gonna
have to raise premiums. Right, So the root cause of

(01:01:50):
this is the underlying medical claims themselves. How come they
haven't come up with a solution. Well, you know, going
back to political divisions in the reality, Democrats, being the
social they are, want everyone to have quote unquote free
medical care in like a Medicaid program for everyone. There
will be going back to the getting rid of the
idea of private home ownership. There will be no private insurance.

(01:02:13):
You'll get what we hand you. That's what their goal is.
That's why they don't want to fix the medical health
care problem. What's a cost which is a well, it's
a reality of the cost of the medical care underlying it.
Why is it so expensive? What does it cost you
tens of thousands of dollars a show? An emergency room
at a hospital can we fix that underlying problem. How

(01:02:36):
about just getting rid of pharmacy benefit magic managers. Now,
if you know how those work, you know it's a
stupid middleman that is costing you and I a ton
of money in terms of our pharmaceutical expenses. There's an
easy fix. They won't do that. I don't know why,
but you've got at least three Republicans from the Ohio
here in Ohio among these seventeen Republicans that bucked the
trend about extending and decided they were voting to extend

(01:02:57):
these healthcare subsidies. Why would that be? Republican US Representative
Dave Joyce from Ohio's fourteenth All we're doing is kicking
a failed system down the road for a little bit longer.
But we can't punish the people at home just because
the people in DC can't come up with a decision
to fix the problem. So reward your own failures. I

(01:03:22):
go back to the fact that we've known these things
we're going to expire for years now. You didn't do
anything to fix the system for several years. Hey, what
are we gonna do when the Obamacare subsidies expire? People
get used to those they're gonna be angry. They're gonna
feel like they've got something taken away from them when
it was only supposed to be a temporary measure to
get them through COVID nineteen oh we forgot about that.
Like every government program, once it's in place, you can't

(01:03:44):
take it away from Ohio Republican US Representative Max Miller
from the seventh and Mike Carey from the fifteenth also
broke ranks. Carrie quote, the partisan Obamacare system as it
exists has raised costs for everyone. But I want to
give a hiouans certainty as we can work to unravel

(01:04:05):
the higher cost Americans face from the failed policies of
the past, failed policies that have been going on since
these subsidies went in place, Sir, failed policies that nobody's
acted out of the past several years, in spite of
the time that was bought to cover up the failure
of Obamacare via subsidies. Maybe we should get ahead of
that now, Max Miller, Obamacare has failed, but pulling the

(01:04:34):
rug out from under Ohio families without an alternative would
be irresponsible. Where's that alternative that you had so long
to put in place. I'm just asking for a friend.
Sixty six. Jay's on the phone is the biggest wow.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
In all the galaxy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
You're giving the award to All three of those are
high for Republicans, Huh? Or is this for all sets
venteen that voted to for all the Rhinos? Joe says,
good going.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Do your dreams have co true?

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
It's an insightful and great exchange between Jay and myself. Jay,
hang on, May We'll take your call after the top
of their and it is if you choose, so choose
to stick around your phone calls are welcome as well.
And Christopher Smithman Smitherman of course at seven twenty with
the smither Van. It'll be right back. Today's top headlines
coming up at the top of the hour, the New
York station. It's seven o six your Pitty five k

(01:05:48):
Seed He Talk station. Got some great stuff coming up
with the Pitty five Case Morren Show. Before we get
to Jay's call, we got Christopher Smithen coming up. Smitherman
coming up at seven twenty. Uh, gonna be talking about
I don't know what, because Christopher has his own agenda.
But Alex Dravinsky, he goes on trial today charges a
disorderly conduct. He's that poor man and got beaten twenty

(01:06:09):
five or six times in the quote unquote brawl in
downtown Cincinnati, that one that Holly got punched in the
face on. She's the one that stopped the punch with
her face. But he's going on TRU for disorderly conduct today,
and I thought a rather interesting that chief, any the
interim police chief is going to be called by both
the plan or the prosecution and defense. He's the one
that was ordered to issue the citation to Alex Dravinski

(01:06:33):
since the officers that were there didn't think there was
anything to charge him with. Did politics creep into that equation?
One might think so. After Signal ninety nine's revelations on
the program this past Friday, Yeah, that may have happened.
Maybe Christopher knows something about that. Anyway, a lot to
talk about with Christopher coming up. Thank you Jay for
holding over the breake there. Welcome to the morning showing

(01:06:54):
a Happy Monday to you, my friend.

Speaker 12 (01:06:56):
Hey, happy Monday, Brian. To let me start off, as
we used to say on your Rushling Boss show, Mega
Dittos on the Signal ninety nine interview, that was fantastic man,
I was blown away.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I really was. I mean, people could tell how excited
it was to talk with her, but just what she revealed,
I just I was beside myself almost with disbelief that
we are talking about since a council generally speaking. So yeah,
there's uh, those claims, you know, sort of didn't surprise me.
And that's sad.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:07:25):
Well, and and a quick reminded me of the listeners.
I heard it on the on the on your broadcast,
give send go. You can buy her, buy her a
cup of coffee, and help her out with whatever she's doing.
And that's that's maybe a campaign we could start, as
you know, five bucks three bucks every if every one
of us gets on gifts give send go dot com

(01:07:45):
in the search bar. I did it this morning. Just
type in signal and you'll come up. It's a it's
a weight. It's an on site online way to help
people that need help. And I would encourage all the
listeners get on here and every day, let's buy a
cup of coffee a few of us five bucks at minimum.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
I'm glad you brought it up. She did not want
to talk about her own personal trials and tribulations, some
of which were a consequence of her reporting on the
signal ninety nine page. In other words, she lost her
job because it had nothing to do with her her
ability to do and perform her job, but she did
lose it as a consequence of her being such a
predominant figure or a prominent figure on social media. But

(01:08:23):
she also has some significant health issues, and I think
that's generally or at least exacerbates her financial issues. So
she did not want to go into that, but I
knew about it, and of course you know about the
site where people can help her, So if you choose
to do that, it would be a very nice thing.
Go ahead, Jake, you have another comment, Yeah, well, in.

Speaker 12 (01:08:43):
The power of prayer for her and you before I
get in my final comment. But the reason I'm calling
is I was shocked and disappointed to see on Breitbart
that our Senator Bernie Marino, Rock rib Conservative is teamed
up with Olympia Snow from Maine Rhino, and he's leading
the charge on trying to figure out a bipartisan agreement

(01:09:04):
now for extending the Obamacare subsidies for two more years. Yep,
and with really strict I mean they're saying year one
we're going to cap this thing at two hundred thousand
dollars a year. Two hundred and grand a year is
their cap, and that's conservative. And then and then it
was also you got to pay a twenty five dollars
a month minimum. Yeah, for a premium. Yeah, this is nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
No, I guess real quick. I'm not I know where
you're going on this, And that's fine. The original subsidies
were capped at what sixty two thousand dollars roughly. That
was before the COVID era subsidies kicked in, which a
lot of people making several hundred thousand dollars a year
to get some substies, I mean significant six figure incomes. Now,
Bernie's point is, well, we can cap that. It's going

(01:09:48):
to be more than the sixty one or sixty two thousand,
but we'll cap it at two hundred. So people making
two hundred and one thousand dollars a year can't cut one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
So fine.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
I don't know where that cap comes from. It sounds
rather arbitrary, and it does sound like a pretty darn
good salary to make a year to get a government
subsidy designed primarily to help those that are truly struggling financially.
But moving away from that, the point of mandating that
everyone makes some nominal payment is an effort to deal
with fraud because it requires you to have a connection

(01:10:15):
with the program. So if you're having to pay a premium,
as nominal as it may be, apparently that is one
mechanism to get rid of some of the fraud that
exists in Obamacare, and like all the government programs, apparently
there's a whole lot of fraud. That does not solve
the underlying problem though, does it? Jay, which is outrageous
expensive medical care.

Speaker 13 (01:10:33):
I think capital is also you know well, and also
twenty thirteen, when Obamacare came out, the federal government told
the states that you lower the bar and take this
medicaid extension.

Speaker 12 (01:10:45):
We'll pay for it for three years. My mask says
that should have ended in twenty sixteen. This is twenty
twenty six Burni Marino, And again, are the Republicans the
supermajority or not? How common always feels like when Democrats
are in power, they get everything they want. When Republicans
are in power, they get seventy five percent of what
they want. Well, government like the Republicans are in power

(01:11:06):
Bernie Marino, you don't need to partner up with the
Democrats or Olympia snow kill this thing.

Speaker 8 (01:11:12):
Right.

Speaker 12 (01:11:12):
However, I don't want it reformed. I don't want to
replace kill it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
I understand where you're coming from. Like all big government programs,
I feel the same way beyond Obamacare. But here's the
political reality, which I know you know, as we approach November,
everybody's worried about the Democrats taken back over the House
and maybe Senate. They need arguments to Democrats do to
get people to vote for them. This is their number
one thing. This along with protesting ice agents and are

(01:11:36):
protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants. How that gives them
any traction, I don't know. But this one's going to impact,
you know, a decent number of people. They're not going
to get their subsidy anymore, and it's going to be
a great political fodder for them, the Democrats, to use
against Republicans. So the idea is, well, let's just kick
the can yet again down the road, and we'll come
up with some measures to stick in there as well

(01:11:58):
as a lower cap or maybe a mandated premium or
something else. We'll get a little bit in return for
extending them, but we'll knock the wind out of their
sales before November, so they can't make the argument that
the evil Republicans wouldn't extend the tax credits. Sounds like
a win for the Democrats to me, Jay.

Speaker 12 (01:12:14):
And then and we continue to slide to the left.
And this is the same argument that we've heard. I'm
about your age, maybe a little younger. This is what
we've heard all of our life. Is well, we can't
really push it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
Back to their rest right.

Speaker 12 (01:12:25):
We just have to slow down to slide to the left.
That way we can stay in power and win. You're
not winning if you can't kill Obamacare after all these years.
Barack Obama is clinking champagne glasses somewhere. It's saying, I
can't believe it's still around after you know, all this time,
and he's all the time that Republicans have been in power.

(01:12:45):
They still can't get rid of it because they don't
have the managerial courage. Bernie Marino and Republican Party central
planning is there, all the shadow people, this is yours,
well in your time to either stand up and fight
or go away, and we'll go get better candidates to
know how to get stuff done and really don't care
about having to have be a reelection.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Okay, going back to my criticism. You knew the tax
credits were going to expire for years after they were
first put in. Then they had the deadline date. The
Democrats knew about it. We all knew about it. Nothing
was done between the moment the extension was made and
this moment in time. And I know I was critical
about Republicans. Where were the strategies to deal with this?
How come you didn't get ahead of it? How come
you didn't fix the system before we had to deal
with this highly charged political issue. Well, Biden was president,

(01:13:30):
Democrats had a very sizable chunk of the House. You
can't pass anything, and that situation exists today. Bernie Mourno
in or out, you got the same Charlie Foxtrot reality.
The Democrats won't agree with anything the Republicans want to
do by way of reform because anything moving toward reform
ends their pipe dream of Medicaid for all, which is
ultimately what Obamacare was supposed to be. So they're not

(01:13:51):
going to budge on that. They liked the fact that
it's collapsing and it's a real issue for Americans.

Speaker 12 (01:13:56):
They could have planned Brian I had all those years
of Biden. Didn't it think that they were going to
be able to Biden? They had four years to put
together a plan.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
They did beat him. Donald Trump won a twenty twenty
four We got the House, and we got it.

Speaker 12 (01:14:07):
They and they walk into the plane.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Hey day. The numbers still don't add up. They could
do they could every single Republican could uniformly embrace just
make up one set of goals that would fix the problem.
Or theoretically they came up with a set of goals
that would fix the problem. They passed it in the House,
they passed it into the Senate if they could. They
don't have sixty votes in the Senate, right, how can
you get it passed in the Senate?

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
You can't?

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
So you know, I I is it an exercise worth
going through? Absolutely? Can we use some ideas on how
to fix the real problem, which is the expensive of
medical bills? Yes, I guess we could come up with something.
But if the Democrats are locked up against it, you
get a sixty vote threshold on the Senate, you're screwed.
Should you go down the road and do it. Yeah,
but you do it just to serve as an illustration

(01:14:53):
of why the Democrats are obstructionists and won't let their
pet project Obamacare get fixed. In other words, its repealed.

Speaker 12 (01:15:02):
Augreed, and we smoke out the Rhinos when we do
that too.

Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
And that's my point.

Speaker 12 (01:15:06):
Is it least step up to the beach, to the
plate and swing Burnie Marino instead of capitulating, its surrendering.
This is yet another Republican victory, which is a Democrat win.
They don't get everything. We're in control of everything, but
they only got seventy five percent of what they wanted.

Speaker 14 (01:15:20):
Re elect me.

Speaker 8 (01:15:21):
I think not.

Speaker 6 (01:15:22):
I'm tired of saying that.

Speaker 12 (01:15:23):
I'm sure you are too over our lifetimes.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
I get where you're coming from, and it is frustrated.

Speaker 12 (01:15:28):
Don't vote, don't vote Rhino, don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Have a good one, brother, Appreciate what you do.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Thanks Jay, You take care man. Christopher Smitheman up next.
How about you're looking for a really truly world class
smiles just in his offices past Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Fifty five K the talk station on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
Always look forward at this moment in time, get to
hear from the former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
Christopher Smitheman, who's still has still heavily active and engaged
in matters political, especially with downtown Cincinnati. Wow, Christopher Smithman,
Welcome back to the Morning show, my friend. What a
real eye opener on Friday with the information from Signal
ninety nine and FOP President Ken kober.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Well. I listened to the whole show. It was very powerful,
and I thank people like her. You know, she doesn't
have to do that, she doesn't have to spend her
time doing it, and she's giving accurate information out and
it's why the inquirer outed her. You know, you know
who is this writing this? We demand to know. They

(01:16:29):
don't do that for anybody. It's because of the fear
of the factual information that she was putting out. So yes,
I enjoyed her immensely. Of course, I always enjoy the
president of the FOP, and I hope that she will
continue to come on and continue to provide, you know,
the information that she has. You know, I want to

(01:16:51):
piggyback off that interview on Friday to talk about today,
and so as counsel goes, it makes the decision of
whether they're going to go into executive session. Every member
of council should vote. Know, Brian Thomas, this is going
to have me fired up next Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Okay, now hold on that roll call, vote yes real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
One of the big burning questions in my mind in
Sign ninety nine and can cover certainly didn't know the
answer to this, and I'm wondering whether you know. Does
the city manager, Cheryl Long have the authority to enter
into settlement negotiations? Does she have the authority to bind
the city into a settlement agreement to the extent she
comes up with?

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
One?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
City council have any say in matters that involve money
in the city taxpayers, the allocation of city taxpayers dollars? Christopher,
Can she even do this?

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
Law? The law department can, And because the law department
is its own entity, right, the legal team can. Now,
there are situations, and this is one of them where
council should intervene and say yes or no. But I'm
letting you know the law the law departments in most cities,

(01:18:07):
but the law a department here has a lot of
power to negotiate things and say yes or no to them.
And she's the city manager and the city solicitor reports
to the city manager. Now having said all that, Brian, look,
they don't have to go into executive session. So that's

(01:18:28):
a role called votes. And so all the accolades to
any council member about how they feel about this, will
know it today if they say, we're going to hide
this discussion from Brian Thomas, from Signal ninety nine, from
Christopher samite Men and others.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
And that's what executive session means. I've heard no reporters
know that that council members can't even take notes during
those executive sessions.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
No, it doesn't make any sense to me. And why
would they put such a highly charge thing behind closed
doors when we just it was only revealed because of
whistleblowers like Signal ninety nine and whoever talked with her,
that there was even a settlement discussion going on. It
sounds to me like counsel wouldn't even have known about
it but for the whistleblowers.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
That is absolutely true. And remember the city manager came
out and said, what this wasn't true?

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Well, they refuted.

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
What Signal ninety nine would say, and I think they're
going to have to back away from that, because if
they go into executive session, it means that what Signal
ninety nine communicated to the public was actually true and
the city manager wasn't being truthful.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
They did not deny when you read the words from
the city manager, when you read the words from the
Hinton attorney, none of them denied that discussions were ongoing.
They just describe it differently, this massive settlement, you know,
the hinting lawyers. So I don't know anything about any massive,
multimillion dollar settlement, Yes, sir, but do you admit to

(01:20:00):
engaging in settlement discussions with the city manager. My statement
just stands as it is. I mean, so that's obviously
a dodge dip, duck dive and dodge five d's a
dodgeball kind of thing. The same thing from the city manager.
Long she didn't deny that there were settlement discussions.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
She didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
She has denied the characterization of them, which is a
nonsensical way of trying to dodge the bullet and deny
when you're really not denying.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
So well then we'll at least call it a white lie.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
The But the bottom line here is a Signal ninety
nine exposed something that was happening. And this is on
the back of the eight point one million dollars settlement, right,
This is on the back of that. So the city
is saying we're going to raise your taxes, but they're
engaging in giving money. Now, let's just rewind for the public. Now,

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this is the young man who had a gun in
a stolen car running for by law enforcement. My absolute
heart goes out to this family. But that is a
recipe for an officer, unfortunately, to use deadly force. The
father then turned around the next day identify the sheriff

(01:21:10):
over at UC doing traffic control for their graduation, and
ran him over with a vehicle. That's the discussion we're
talking about, right, because my heart goes out to that
family today. For this council to go into executive session
is a smack in the face of all law enforcement

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across the United States of America period. We deserve to
know what they're talking about, because we have a sheriff
and a family still grieving because his father ran him over.
He had nothing to do with it. Brian Thoms, and
that is what is so frustrating to me.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Well, another component of the frustration, you know, moving aside
from the tragedy that befell the sheriff's family, the sheriff's
deputy family, it's the city taxpayer who's going to be
on the hook for an increase in their earnings tax
why in an interest of public safety? This seems to
be you know, steeped in public safety related issues. And uh,

(01:22:11):
maybe one more place that the city tax dollars are
going to be spent settling a lawsuit that never he
has even been filed for an action that didn't even
justify prosecution. See Connie Pilach about that one. We'll bring
Christopher Smitheman back at seven twenty seven right now fifty
five Kercity Talk station. Let me speaking of shooting. I mean,
that's seven thirty on a Monday, and a happy one
to you. Brian Thomas with Christopher smith Aman we do

(01:22:32):
every Monday that Smither events what I like to call it,
former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, just giving
you an opportunity to get out of your system here
in the morning show. Christopher and I love it.

Speaker 10 (01:22:41):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:22:41):
Listen, brother, we have a culture of no accountability, a
culture of no common sense in America, and I'm going
to tie. First of all, I love all the local
news you're covering. I turn on your show and I
encourage anybody listening. You know, Brian comes on at five am,
and he goes off at nine am, and we get
a breath of information about what is going on in

(01:23:04):
our city. But let me let me say this to you, brother,
that what I'm seeing nationally like ice and I stem
my condolences to Renee Good, that's the woman who is
shot in the head at Minneapolis. But here again, it's
a recipe, just like I spoke about the recipe for
the young man, mister Hinton, the recipe of trying to

(01:23:27):
run down an ice officer with your vehicle. Okay, And
the context of this is it's been happening all over
the country. Ice officers don't know anymore. You're boxing them in.
You boxing a federal agent, a police officer, an FBI agent,
a DEA agent. Expect that agent to assume that you

(01:23:50):
are there to harm them. Brian Thomas, I don't know
what in the world is going on all these videos
that I'm seeing out here on x with with these
with these people across off the country who think they
can follow an agent. They can block the agent in,
They can get in front of their vehicle and stop them.
They can in the middle of an arrest, they can

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pull the officer. You can't arrest them. You can't do
what you're doing. Look this, you, You and I knew
and anybody listening with any common sense knew that one
day this was going to end up in a deadly
forced situation. Right. The reality of it is is that
person I'm talking about, Renee Good, was blocking the road

(01:24:31):
with her car. They don't even talk about that. She
pulled out in the road and was blocking the federal
officer in their vehicle. They got out of their car
and said move your car, kady, you can't block the road.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Yeah, interference with an officer performing his duties and enforcing
the law. Interfering with that is in and of itself
criminal activity. You can be cited for that. I mean,
that's probably why they were screaming on her to get
out of the car, because she had already committed the
crime of interfering with lawful law enforcement officers. So period
end of the story, you don't listen of the police officers,
he might get shot. I mean, And to the fact

(01:25:04):
that she got shot the left was waiting for that Christopher,
you know, damn well, they wanted a martyr out of
all this, and much like George Floyd, maybe he got
the wrong one, considering there's so much video evidence of
her literally hitting the police officer. Whether you think deadly
force was justified, it was legitimate under the circumstances, because
the man reasonably felt for his or thought his life

(01:25:27):
was in peril. He'd already been through this once someone
drugg him theim three hundred feet or so down the
road in a car previously while he was trying to
enforce the law. So you know he's on high alert
for his life being in peril, and that may have
prompted him to use a firearm. But it's interference with
law enforcement. They just believe they can get away with
whatever they want. They've got this high moral authority, and

(01:25:47):
then you're belief that it's some high moral authority does
not trump the law.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
Why do I have to, as a peace officer, be
drugged down the street before I use deadly force? I mean,
is what are we thinking? You You bring your car
to a gunfight, right, expect to be shot. That is
a weapon. You cannot run me down in the roads

(01:26:15):
and the The other part of it is what is
going on in our mindset in American culture that all
of us have been watching on TV. If you're watching
independent news stations, you're watching these protesters constantly do this.
And the reason I'm bringing it up is is directly
tied to the culture of the settlement that city council

(01:26:37):
is talking about on today, meaning meaning meaning there's no
accountability here again. They're about to literally trash all law
enforcement by saying that in some way we owe Hinton
some money. We didn't give a point one million dollars
away to protesters in downtown, for these are taxpayer, not

(01:26:58):
their money, our money. We're gonna go away. We're gonna
give that eight We're gonna give eight point one million
dollars away with them. And on the same time, we
see this national stuff happening with no accountability. Brian Thomas,
guess what our mayor says, We're gonna We're gonna increase taxes.
I don't want to pay for this crap. I don't
want any money. I work incredibly hard as a small

(01:27:20):
business owner to do what I do. I don't want
to give the city any more of my money. I
am tired of them, and that is what is happening.
People are deciding I want to leave the city of Cincinnati.
I'm gonna move my business, I'm gonna move my house.
I don't want to be a part of this because
they continue to do craziness like this. This, the hint

(01:27:42):
In's craziness is absolutely crazy. What we saw was Renee
Good and guess what there will be a lawsuit related
to Renee Good. Yeah, somebody's gonna sue the federal government
and you and I. There are a lot of different
camera angles on this. Those who want to know, there's
a camera camera ankle that clearly shows the officer in

(01:28:03):
the front of the vehicle being struck. Now, you can
make up and show whatever video you want out there, right,
but the reality of it is there was an officer
in the front who was struck, who had his weapon
and discharged it, and that officer, that ice officer is
going to absolutely be cleared, period. But you're still going
to see the family turn around and sue the federal government,

(01:28:26):
just like the Hintons, just like the eight point one
million dollars settlement, We're going to continue to see this
lack of accountability and common sense in our culture.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Brand Thomas, Yes, we will well, at least under the
Trump administration Justice Apartment, probably unlikely to settle or enter
into a quick settlement agreement with the family with a
good family. Let's bring Christopher back for one more seven
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talk stations. Rye Thomas with Christopher Smith and doing the
Smith events at Christopher. I know it was baked into
the cake of what you were saying with regard to
the local issues we have in the city of Cincinnati
on crime, this whole hint and settlement thing that's going
to be talked about today, as well as the overlapping
with the Minnesota issues and the shooting of that is
goodwoman who was interfering with officers doing their their proper

(01:29:21):
appropriate law enforcement role. A lot of people are taking
the cues from elected officials. What do the mayor up
there say, get the hell he used a different word
than hell out of my city Ice. They think they
have the moral high ground, thinking that saying Ice are
the modern day Gestapo and their jack boot thugs, and
oh my god, you know, really they're only trying to
get the worst of the worst out of our country.

(01:29:42):
But when you've got elected officials and prominent political figures
egging people on pivoting back over to local Iris Rolli's
on video interfering with police officers doing their business, And
according to Signal ninety nine, she was actually at the
remember when the sheriff's dead, but he got ran over
the other day. You just mentioned that. The day after
the hinting kid was shot, his father ran over and

(01:30:03):
killed a SHARE's deputy. Civil ninety nine said she was
on the scenes there telling people witnesses to it not
to cooperate with police, and ended up being put in
the back of a police car herself. Wasn't cited. The
video camera evidence from that incident's apparently locked in a
safe to be seen by us down the road, she says.
But there she is prominent local figure Iris Rowley, very

(01:30:24):
politically connected and very prominent in impacting election out comes,
doing exactly what you and I believe is the wrong thing.
Putting officers lives in jeopardy as well as their own life.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
First, I agree with you and the judge in the
case should release the video definitely in light of this
discussion about a settlement. But of course we won't have
that transparency, just like we didn't have the transparency and
the beatdown that happened in the middle of the city
where the gentleman clearly was punched first, and most Americans

(01:30:57):
don't know that. They still are looking at the old video.
So this city has a problem with transparency. I e.
With Signal ninety nine was sharing with us is executive
session today. I want to share two quick points with
you before we get off. I was at my daughter's
swim meeting. I know you were a swimmer, and it
was at Princeton High School. Thanked them for hosting. Seaton

(01:31:19):
has a phenomenal team, and my hat goes out to
coach Jody Schaeffer. But I was sitting there watching the
five hundred being swim by all of the different girls.
The difference between first and second place was less than
a second most of the time. Oh yeah, right, very
very close. Look did you hear Brian Thomas here? Listen?
Hoddie this is a swimmer. I couldn't imagine a dude

(01:31:43):
in that pool swimming against my daughter. This again goes
back to the lack of accountability and common sense that's
coming from the Democratic Party. And that's why so many
Democrats are saying, I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The
Democratic Party left me. I couldn't I agin a dude
swimming in that pool a seat and swim meet against

(01:32:04):
any of those girls as where they're cheering and they're
trying to get scholarships to go to college. It doesn't
make any sense, Brian Thomas, and this is what is
wrong right now in the Democratic Party. And I'm trying
this directly to the governor's race, where we see David
Pepper now is the running mate for Amy Acting. Look,

(01:32:25):
let me share it be really clear. I'm on the
other side of that. I support the Vekswami and I
have supported him almost from day one. That gubernatorial race
is critical because it's the check and balance to all
these local municipalities around us. If we lose the governor's
office this year, we in Ohio we are in serious trouble. People.

(01:32:49):
You cannot stay home from that election like you just
did in this local election. We need every single body,
every eighteen year old register to vote, making sure you're
address matches the Board of Elections, and we need everybody
at the polls rocking it because the other side, when
you're watching these videos Brian Thomas of people obstructing ice officers,

(01:33:12):
obstructing police officers, right, all of these settlements that you're
seeing coming out of these liberal cities. If we don't
have a check and balance in that governor's office, shame
on us. This is a very important race. And I
have been shocked by mister Pepper and all of his
tweets over the weekend trying to shame Vivek Ramaswami for

(01:33:34):
being financially successful. He's a billionaire. I get it, I
understand it. He's self made. But David Pepper got his
money from his family. He's a trust fund baby. And
I'm sitting there going would I want to trust fund
baby in the governor Gubernatorio or the Governor's office? Or
do I want a self made billionaire who knows how

(01:33:55):
to make money run budgets? Pull this dog on Ohio,
this great state into the twenty first century. Whether it's education,
whether it's economics, whether it's jobs, whether it's housing, you
name it. We need a fresh set of eyes on Ohio.
And Brian, I am really worried about this race, that
people are getting lost in the sawce. There is no

(01:34:16):
way when she picked the two of them together, to me,
are like, I got one who locked us all down right,
and I've got the other one here who doesn't know
anything about business, that's just been handed with a silver spoof,
and we want to turn over the entire state of
Ohisle to them. This makes absolutely no sense, Brian Thomas.
And I'm telling you, whether it's Leah Dinkin Locker who's

(01:34:37):
running for the judgeship, we're always talking about the judges
and we're worried about people being let out where you
better vote for Leah Dinkin Locker. You're worried about Winkler.
Winkler's running here locally, we better elect him. My point,
Brian is the penicilin you know it. Elections have consequences.

(01:34:58):
We'll see it today with the Executive session and who
will vote to say no. Executive Session, I'm going to
shine a light on hinting and whether we settle the
case or not. I'm going to have the courage to
tell the public who will pay the bill, Brian Thomas,
We're the ones paying the bill, not them, that they
get a chance to listen to the dialogue around whether

(01:35:19):
we should give this family any money at all. I
extend my deepest condolences to this young man and his family,
but we do not in this city should not be
giving them any money for a young man who had
a gun and a stolen car running from an officer
and turning that weapon towards that officer, or that officer
to take the unfortunate decision to take his life. Brian Thomas,

(01:35:42):
we are moving in a world here, brother, where it
is complete insanity. It's not black, it's not white, it's
not Latino. Brother, it's values and my values to saying
what is right and wrong. We've got to go back
to common sense. I love you, Brian Thomas, and said
you who allowed me to have a voice on your show.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
It's always a pleasure. I appreciate your common sense words.
And I'll look forward to another segment on this on Monday,
and maybe even another one before then. We find out
they do an executive session, or we find out what
goes on behind the scenes. In one we get some
details on that. Maybe you have a chime in during
the week on that. So however, it's like.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
At boat Smiman at please followed me there, please follow me?
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
Take care brother, Take care seven forty eight right now
if you have care Seed Talk station and you bake
rock and Happy Monday, Money Monday with Brian James at
one segment, followed by v bay Ramaswami and Zach Kynes,
who's running for Ohio State Senate seventh District, got the
AFP Americans Prosperity endorsement. Donovan and Neil talking about that
earlier in the week. And of course we know about

(01:36:43):
the mayor's proposal to raise income taxes in the city
of Cincinnat to help deal with, among other things, job
number one public safety, and had comment about this earlier
in the program in the five o'clock hour. I would
love to know, and it's still a moving target, how
much of the Ohio state resources he is willing to
accept resources along the lines of law enforcement that were
offered to the mayor and the city for free from

(01:37:07):
Governor to wine big array a sohole slate of services.
So what is the what would be the cost of
those If we had to pay for what we are
being offered and the city took everything, which we don't
even know what they're willing to take, what would that
translate into in terms of the value of the state resources?
Imagine it's probably a pretty much. And while we don't
know what the income tax kick or increase is planning

(01:37:29):
is planned to be, we know that he wants to
raise it, and that's not a great marketing tool for
the city of Cincinnati. If you want people to move in,
you got a crime problem, then you're going to raise
income tax. Oh great, No, I didn't want to move
there first, but now you've made it even less likely
than I'm going to move there. Well, Todd Zinzer brilliant.
He is former Inspector General, and boy, couldn't we use
a lot more inspectors general out there in the world

(01:37:51):
to find out what's being done with the taxpayer dollars.
He's got to do podcasts out it's the proposed income
tax increase. It's episode forty two of the Citizen Watchdog podcast,
produced by executive producer j Just Tracker. Todd's on the
program regularly here on the fifty five Casey Morning showd
doing a wonderful job. He is, and he's not paid
for the work that he does, but brilliant it is.

(01:38:12):
And trust me, he can follow the dollars. So check
it out. Where you get your podcasts. I heard media podcasts.
Just search for Citizen Watchdog and get the latest episode
of that man speaking truth to power. But speaking of
money matters of course. Brian James coming up your retirement number,
just change and have you adjusted it? What is the

(01:38:32):
retirement number? Brian James on that five ak Ramaswami after
Brian James. And we're gonna hear from Zachkynes again in
Ohio State Senate District seven campaign tomorrow in the fifty
five Casey Morning Show'll be airing the interview I'll be
having with former mayor Charlie Luken, who was talking about
where the hell the railroad money is. How come they're
not spending it? He says, the city's not spending it
fast enough. There's another source of revenue. Apparently they're sitting

(01:38:55):
on the vast majority of the money that's been earned
in that investment account. He used to be on the
board for the rail road board, so informed he is
on that hoping we were gonna be. I'm gonna be
interviewing him after the show this morning for replay tomorrow,
so we'll have the answers to those questions tomorrow morning
with Charlie Luken. Stick Around Money Monday with Brian James
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Ohio State Senate candidate for District seven, earned the Americans
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the meantime, Brian James, Smallworth Financial give it us some information.
I guess our retirement number change. Welcome back, Brian James.
It's always great talking with you on the morning show.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Absolutely, we'll do a minuscule money Monday this morning to
make room for some other voices as well. But yeah,
happy new year to you and everybody out there in
the listening world. Here, we kind of thought it would
be a good year to or a good time at
the beginning of the year here to just kind of
layout what does it look like nowadays with inflation for
people who are thinking big picture around retirement.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
All right, well, we did see reduced inflation. We're no
longer at eight percent I guess last year, as you
point out in your notes, three percent. Not so bad.
A little bit higher than I guess the two percent,
which is the ideal figure, but not so bad.

Speaker 3 (01:40:42):
Yeah, it's tolerable, right, So so with the Federal Reserve
would very very much prefer we want to be around
two percent. That's the goal to get to get the
interest rates down and inflation down to a level that
is sustainable over time. We've been stuck at three percent
for a long time. But as you point out, we're
not at nine percent. I do not have people anymore

(01:41:02):
talking about, oh my gosh, we have to change our
portfolio drastically because this nine percent inflation rate is going
to hang around forever. That was transitory. The overall inflation
was not, as we learned different different from what the
Biden administration told us for a very long time. Inflation
did hang around, but not at those ridiculous levels.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
Well, as we've had many conversations before, and what you
can expect on average over the life of your long
term investments, isn't it like eight percent is really kind
of where you end up over time.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
Of course, it all depends on how aggressive you're going
to be with your investments. I mean, realistically, if you
look at the stock market, it's averaged ten percent over
thirty years, and these are real numbers they do take
into account. Of course, you know, the last thirty years
include some of the scariest years we've ever had, three
of them in fact, thousand and two, two thousand and eight,
and twenty twenty two, and as well as some of

(01:41:52):
the best years we've ever had. But if you smush
it all together. The stock market itself has average in
the neighborhood of ten percent. That doesn't mean you should
throw all your money in the stock market. That said,
you know, if you have a long term time frame,
sure that's an okay thing to do, as long as
you understand the roller coaster. Now, on the other hand,
what we're really talking about today, if you are in
a situation where it's time to start drawing on that
nest egg and hopefully you'll all be there someday, then

(01:42:15):
you don't want to ride that roller coaster as much
because you'll be sitting in a situation where the market
may have taken taken ten percent from your portfolio. Plus
you need to withdraw four maybe five percent to pay
the bills, and that can dig us into a hole
that sometimes we can't get out of, frank.

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
So, how does one assess that withdraw raid? I note
that you mentioned four percent That apparently was the rule
of thumb. So how do you reassess or currently assess
that if you're at this place right, So let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
Let's do a little history on that four percent rule
that came from a study that went from the studied
thirty year periods, assuming that's kind of the average retirement
length of time before end of life expectancy, thirty year
periods starting from the nineteen thirties, so nineteen thirty to
nineteen sixty, thirty one to sixty one one, thirty two
to sixty two, and on and on and on all
through that time period. And the conclusion was, if you

(01:43:05):
withdrew four percent of your portfolio and the market did
what it did over those thirty year periods, that's historical information.
The four percent would never There are no thirty year
periods where that four percent would have bankrupted you, even
in all with all the crazy stuff that happened in
those thirty year time periods. So that's where that comes from.
A lot of people have been hanging their hats on that.
It gets attacked every now and then because of inflation

(01:43:28):
concerns or concerns that the stock market is running too hot.
We're relying too much on history. But it still seems
to be holding true. You know, some people want to
come back and say, well, maybe I need to back
off to three percent just to be on the safe side. There's,
of course nothing wrong with that, bearing in mind that
lifestyle is lifestyle, and that really does mean true sacrifices
that you will see, touch and feel in how you

(01:43:49):
live your lives. But at the same time, the whole
point is, let's sit down, most people haven't even figured
out what the lifestyle is let alone, but the withdrawal
rate does to it well.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
And how long is any given person gonna live too,
because the idea, of course, you want this money to
last you through your retirement, and retirement quite often is
the time when people get hit with, you know, the
biggest medical bills, the biggest complications, the problems. You don't
have any money coming in the door, and how many
years am I going to be around on this planet
to need to be able to tap into my savings.

(01:44:19):
So it's the levels of difficulty and coming up with
the accurate numbers seen to be almost insurmountable. Bride, Yeah,
it really does. And that's why I have a job, frankly.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
Because we have to simulate an awful lot of different
you know, I always walk people through that here's the
hunky dory outcome, here's everything you ever wanted to do,
and nothing bad ever happens. Again, that's our baseline, and
then next to that, we can put in Okay, well,
let's pretend we have instead of three percent inflation, let's
pretend it's four percent or five percent something like that.
What happens there, and all we're doing is we're playing
with spending and time. Any financial plan is only looking

(01:44:51):
at those two things. When you truly boil it down,
there's a million different buttons to push and levers to
pull to illustrate that. But again, it's only spending and time.
That's all we're dealing with. So then right next to it,
we'll do a stress test, which could be maybe we
have four or five percent inflation, or it could be
let's pretend the market punches us in the face right now,
that happened to anybody who retired in twenty twenty one.
They thought things were hunky dory, but then twenty twenty

(01:45:14):
two came along and took away, possibly up to a
twenty percent of their portfolio for a brief period of time. Now,
for those who panic and sell out when that happens, yeah,
that's a permanent hit. You're not getting it back. On
the other hand, if you keep your head and you
understand market history, then you can ride those things out.
And still stay retired. You might not like it, that's
a different scenario, but it doesn't mean you can't afford

(01:45:35):
to take that hit. But the important thing is to
know what kind of hit you can take in the
first place. And most people don't well.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
And one of the other choices people have to consider is,
you know, delaying retirement rather than when taking socis security
on the earlier side, you do end up with a
lot more by way of monthly pain. And if you
can kick it off to say seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:53):
Oh absolutely you do. And yeah, so financial planning is
easy if your only goal is to poke the government
in the eye. Right. Some people come in this hey,
by god, my plan revolves around me not taking social
security until seventy because I want as much money as
that government is ever going to give me. That's great.
I will say that in my thirty years of doing this,
I have a lot more fifty five year olds who
say that versus sixty five year olds. Our thoughts tend

(01:46:14):
to change over time, and I just I want my
life back. It's less about punching the government in my face,
and I just want my life. I was laughing about
that so hard because it seems.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
To me a moment in time ago, I wouldn't even
entertain the idea of discussing retirement, Like what the hell
am I going to do? And no, I'm probably gonna
die behind whatever job I'm gonna do, is always my
philosophy at this particular point, die behind the microphone. But no,
I think about retirement all the time now, bro It so.

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Look a little different, you know, the more we age,
the more we think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
It looks kind of cool, really is. And then real
estate and liquidity I understand, and that makes perfect sense.
A lot of your clients have a significant amount of
money tied up in real estate, but can you actually
access it? And is it something that you should factor
in terms of your overall investments, Like you've got a
million dollars invested in the markets and distributed them mutual

(01:47:00):
funds and bonds and all that. And if you've got
a million dollars in house, you really don't have two
million to play with, do you?

Speaker 7 (01:47:06):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
Exactly, because that's hard to get to. You got to
keep the rain off your stuff, so you have to
have a roof over your head. There are ways to
do it. I mean, you can there are ways to
access that via home equity lines of credit. By the way,
I think those are a good idea, even if it's
a just in case, because debt against your home is
probably going to be the best debt you can ever get.

(01:47:26):
Most people aren't comfortable with this, but when it comes
down to you, I'll give an example. So let's say
you figure out you need to buy a car, you know,
sooner than you thought you would, or something like that,
and you don't have the cash or what more happens.
More commonly happens is you know what, I don't want
to take any more Let's say youre at the end
of the year. I don't want to take any more
tax heets. I don't want to cause any more taxation.
I really want to push this into the next year. Right,

(01:47:48):
you could borrow fifty thousand dollars against your home. Let's
pretend that that's you're getting charged maybe six or seven
percent on that borrow fifty thousand dollars against the home
in you know, the November December timeframe to get this
situation fixed, and then in January February, when we're in
a new tax here, that's when you take the distribution
and cause the taxation. You know, we don't want that.
But at the same time, all you will have done

(01:48:10):
in that case is borrowed fifty thousand dollars and you
pay again currently six to seven percent interest on that,
but only for a few months. So you're really talking
less than one or two percent true hard dollars worth
of interest. And that beats the heck out of needing
to finance things, you know, with a credit card or
you know, or borrowing from the dealership for a fixed
amount of time. So there are ways to tap into that.

(01:48:31):
I think it's a good idea to have a home
equity line of credit in your back pocket, even if
you never draw on it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:35):
Well, isn't that how the uber rich manage their money
and avoid paying income taxes?

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Yeah, don't sell your assets, borrow against them, right, If
you want to play that game, then don't sell anything.
Figure out how you can borrow against them. If you
have a portfolio of securities outside of an IRA, you
can do margin loans, you can do portfolio loans, you
can borrow against those. Yes, there have to be payments made.
You are jumping through financial hoops to do this, of course,
but there's a reason that rich people get.

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
Rich, Brian James. Very interesting and informative discussion we've had here.
As we end of the new year, consider that. And
of course, as I always point out, it's great to
hang think half a financial planner sitting on your side
of the table, one that knows you a produciary obligation.
That way you don't have to fret and worry about
these issues day to day. You let somebody like Brian
do it. Brian James, appreciate all worth loading you out

(01:49:19):
every Monday. We'll do this again next Monday. I hope
you have a fantastic week, my.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
Friend, you bet have a good week.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
We'll talk to you Monday eight fifteen. Right now fifty
five krsee the talk station. Other quick word for my
friends at zimmer A twenty one and fifty five Carse
the talk station. A very happy Monday to you made
extra special. Welcome back to the fifty five Carse Morning Show.
A very happy New Year to the next Governor of
the State of Ohio. V. V Ramaswami vvike Rama saw me.
It's a pleasure to have you back on the show, sir. Welcome.

(01:49:45):
Good to talk you. Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
Heany you do it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:47):
Mom, doing great, Lisa, as great as I can be.
I thought we might have, you know, hit the ground running.
It a little bit slower encountered your twenty twenty six.
But I keep joking. I've got like six months of
flood of breaking news stories that you know normally would
take place over a long, long period of time, all
crunched into a tiny little amount of space. There's a
whole lot to unpackage. I hope the whole year isn't
this complicated. But I'm looking forward to November because I'm

(01:50:08):
looking forward to you being elected as Ohio as next governor,
way ahead and all the polling for everything I can tell,
and you've kind of solidified that the team. You've selected
Rob McCauley as you're running mate. What led you to
choose Rob over the others who were under consideration, Vivek, Well.

Speaker 14 (01:50:25):
Look, there was, first of all, a lot of great
people in office and running for office and even not
running for office who I considered. But it's going to
be a team effort. But the reason I selected Rob
as lieutenant governor is think about it, Brian, is I'm
an entrepreneur, I'm a businessman. I'm not a politician and
I come from the outside, and we're going to shake
things up where necessary. Right, I'm going to tax reform,

(01:50:46):
regulatory reform, you name it. But in order to actually
turn that vision into reality, I wanted a governing partner
who does have the experience of passing laws, understanding the
effectiveness of working with the led and in that department,
I think there's nobody better than Rob who, by the
age of forty, got to be Senate President in Ohio.

(01:51:08):
He had served in both the House and the Senate.
But at the same time, he isn't somebody who's off
his peak, and you know, in the Rocker, I should
say he's a young man still, he's about the same
age as me. He's of the next generation, and so
I think he brings that youthful perspective and energy while
still actually having legislative experience that I don't have. But

(01:51:29):
I do bring the outsider experience to the business executive
and an entrepreneur, and I think that's going to be
a powerful one two punch combination. Not just to talk
about policy changes, not just to make noise on social
media right, which the too many politicians focus on these days, but.

Speaker 1 (01:51:45):
To actually deliver meaningful change.

Speaker 14 (01:51:48):
That lifts up the lives of allolands, that puts more
money in your pockets, and also equally importantly improves the
quality of our schools.

Speaker 1 (01:51:57):
That's what I'm focused on, fair enough, And I guess
what I'm hearing is you are demonstrably successful as a businessman.
You know how business works, and you work that to
your own personal success. You plan on bringing that to
the state of Ohio. Having that keen understanding McCauley, I
guess understands the sausage making process. Can I put it
that way, sir?

Speaker 14 (01:52:17):
Absolutely, that's exactly right. And you know there's a famous
man born in Ohio by the name of Thomas Edison
who famously said a vision without execution is a hallucination.
All right, So I'm bringing the vision and I'm also
going to be able to execute, but I want a
governing partner who helps me execute with the legislature because
a lot of what I want to do, some of

(01:52:37):
it we can do through executive power, but a lot
of what I'm going to want to do is going
to require legislation. That's going to be Rob helping me
work with our legislature, which he knows in and out
that's the sausage making that's required, and he's able to
do it while still being young and energetic. And I
like that about him. And look, let's talk about the goals,
not just talk about sausage making. Let's talk about why

(01:52:59):
we're in this, which is, not only do we want
to bring costs down, and this is the focus across
the board in the country, but I want to also
be the state that actually makes you wealthier, increases your
after tax take home pay by rolling back property taxes.
I want to deliver the biggest property tax rollback we
have seen in the United States of America. And I

(01:53:20):
want to make Ohio zero income tax state while we're
at it, and you able to roll back both income taxation,
property taxation, and even regulatory taxation. Yes, and the reason
your electric bills are seventy eighty percent hiring some parts
of the state is because of the regulations that inhibit
energy production.

Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
With a tax off his platform, he's promising a reform
and energy And I'm laughing out loud because I'm still
walking funny since the last Duke Bill I got. I
couldn't believe my eyes. We need to do something about
that control. Yeah, lowering the price of energy, money in
our pockets.

Speaker 14 (01:53:55):
Absolutely, I've been talking about this is the day I
launched the campaign. Now, I launched the campaig in Fibruary
of twenty twenty five, now right, and so I already
twenty second Fember of twenty twenty five. I said that
our electric bills are going to continue to go up
because of the supply demand imbalance, and a lot of
people told me that, I don't think people believe you

(01:54:16):
on that. Well, then summer last year rolled around, and
then fall last year rolled around, and what do we see.
We saw that spike. And so I do think we
need a governor who is an entrepreneur, who's a businessman,
who's able to see where the puck is going, even economically,
and make those decisions in a calculated, thoughtful way for islands.

(01:54:37):
I've built successful companies. I'm proud to say it because
of the opportunities I've been given in this state. The
education that I gained in Cincinnati, went to public school's
three eighth grade, went to Saint X for high school.
So I'm so grateful for the opportunities I've been given.
But to be one of the most successful businessmen probably
in the last several decades coming out of this state.
I know how to solve the problems that this state

(01:54:59):
faces too. And with Rob at my side, working with
the legislature, we're just gonna get things done, not just
talk about it, but actually act. And I'm looking forward
to starting next January so it can actually deliver on
bringing down those electric bills, bringing down those property taxes,
and eventually bringing the income tax down to zero.

Speaker 1 (01:55:17):
Check out the platform, help him out. His vision for
Ohio is an outstanding one, and that is a confident
man I've got on the phone today. Vvig Ramaswami. You
can help him online, learn about the campaign strategy and
maybe donate some money. V vague vi v e k
v V four Ohio dot com. That's the word for
not the number VIVG for Ohio dot com. Get over there,
help them out and help him out with a campaign trail.

(01:55:39):
Knock some doors. Mister Ramaswami. Thank you so much for
joining my program. It's always a pleasure to hear from
you of an open venue right here to talk anytime
you want about the issues as we move fast toward November.

Speaker 4 (01:55:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:55:50):
Brian Good talking to you.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
Oh, it's a pleasure. Height twenty seven right now, stick around.
Zach Haynes, speaking of elections in November, got Ohio State
Senate candidate for District seven, Zach Haynes, wildly successful businessman
and da Romaso, I mean, running for governor of the
state of Ohio. We have some options here in the
state of Ohio as we fast approach November in terms
of state Senate races. One of those receiving the Americans
for Prosperity endorsement just last Tuesday with Donald O'Neil joining

(01:56:13):
the program, Ohio State Senate District candidate for numbers District seven.
Welcome to the program, Zach Haynes. It's a real pleasure
to you. Have you, I should say back on because
you did chime in on the subject of your endorsement
last week. Good to hear from you, Zach.

Speaker 5 (01:56:25):
Happy Monday, Brian, Happy New Year. I got to tell
you and your listeners last night was rough. I woke
up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.
It's just like the worst nightmare I have ever had.
That Amy Acton and Juvid Pepper were in the Governor's office. Yeah,
I mean, my gosh, it was terrible. The whole place
was shut down. Everybody was wearing masks again, So I mean,

(01:56:48):
let's not do that. I hoy support BVEC and my god,
is refreshing to have an entrepreneur and an outsider running
for governor in Ohio at this pivotal crossroads in our state.

Speaker 1 (01:56:58):
Well, and an entrepreneur also running for district's seven Senate set.
Apparently you have quite a business and very successful business background.
That's such an important thing for an elected official. I
get so frustrated, Zach Haynes, when we have elected officials
who literally have had no connection with independent business, private business.
They don't understand how it works, and yet they get
elected to higher office and then are expected to come
up with brilliant ideas about how we can better run

(01:57:21):
and manage the state. I think it's only people who've
had direct experience with business and leadership and industry that
really have any concept on how to fix problem because
they've had to deal with those problems.

Speaker 5 (01:57:31):
Yeah, one hundred percent, Brian. Look, I'm a father two boys,
a CEO, lifelong conservative from Southwest Ohiom, not a career politician.
I grew up in a family owned business. So I
know what it means that work hard me to pay roll,
balance a budget. And Brian, when you overspend in business, newsflash,
you don't get a bailout. All right, you fail, all right.

(01:57:52):
Government needs to start working like a business. I'm not
running for office for the state Senate to join the
club and Columbus, we've got to shake things up. I mean,
I've seen government from the inside. We've seen it from
the outside. It wastes money, it grows too big, and
it loses sight of the people who it's supposed to serve.
So my vision, and I think it's probably very similar

(01:58:12):
to Eves, is I want to Ohio to be the
most competitive and prosperous state in the country for the
average family and worker. And we're doing some good things,
but at the same time, families are getting crushed by
property taxes. Spending keeps going up. These budgets have gone
up by billions of dollars over the last couple of years,
very little accountability. Parents are losing control of children's education.

(01:58:36):
Small business. As you mentioned, small businesses are buried under
regulations written by people who've never owned a business, and
Columbus is more focused at times a grown government than
protecting tax payers. And you know, as a father, that
hits home for me, and probably like a lot of
your listeners, you know, I want my kids to have
more opportunity than I had, not less. I want them

(01:58:58):
to be able to actually afford a home, to raise
a family, to start a business if they want to,
and to stay right here in Ohio. But what we're
seeing is people in the state are moving away to
get ahead. So that's why I'm running for the Ohio
State Senate District seven. I want to keep that American
dream alive attainable for the next generation here in Ohio,
and I think the voters are responding to that message. Brian.

(01:59:19):
I'm going to file with over four hundred thousand dollars
cash on hand. I've got more than eighty endorsements from
conservatives at every level, from Congressman Warren Davidson, Congressman Dave Taylor,
Steve Shabbtt, brad Winstrip, Jim or Nacy, Bob McEwan, county
wide local elected officials, grassroots activists, groups like Ohio Value Voters,
which is a pro life, pro family organization, and as

(01:59:41):
you mentioned, Americans for Prosperity so I'm ready to shake
things up and we need more business people in office.

Speaker 1 (01:59:49):
We're going to continue. We'll bring Zach Haynes back and
just so by way of assistance for Zach's campaign. And
what an amazing crew of endorsements you've got there. You're
in good company. My friend that speaks volumes Haynes Ai
n e s the number of the word for Haynes
for Ohio dot com. It's all right there. It can
help him out, learn about him in the campaign. Let's
bring Zach back and find out about maybe why is

(02:00:12):
it that we don't have an appealing state right now?
We've got Republicans in leadership, we have Republican governor. Let
me remind people of the obvious. We run the herb
Republicans around the House and the Senate in Ohio, and
yet seems to be like herding cats. Where's that property
tax relief that we've been promised? Where's the energy relief?
More with Zach Kines stick around. It's eight thirty five
right now. If you about krcit Talks, he is.

Speaker 7 (02:00:31):
Fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
Man, it's the new year and for many of KRS
the talk station.

Speaker 1 (02:00:40):
A thirty eight thirty five krs the talk station bron
Thomas with state Senate candidate his named Zach Haynes. He's
already seen AFP's endorsement. If you listen to the number
of folks endorsing Zach Kynes for the seventh district seat
here in the state of Ohio. He's got all the
right people on his side. When you say Warren Davidson
out of the gate there, I know you're in good company.

Speaker 5 (02:01:00):
That's strong.

Speaker 1 (02:01:01):
That's like the good housekeeping stamp of political approval right there,
so real quick here a regular topic of conversation, most
notably dominated by the state of Minnesota. All the fraud,
wasted abuse in various government programs that we've been hearing
this for a long time. We have it in the
state of Ohio as well, perhaps on that not on
that epic level, but areas where we could ferret out
what sounds like billions of dollars of potential potential fraud, waste,

(02:01:22):
and abuse. Notably like the Medicaid program. Well it's okay,
we're getting federal dollars reimburses. Well, that's our taxpayer dollars too.
I mean, at least as a concept, Zach, Are you
desirous of making a priority getting rid of fraud, wasted abuse,
and these modern times we have with computer technology. I
don't think that's a big ask these days.

Speaker 5 (02:01:44):
Yeah, Brian, it is absolutely absurd the amount of waste,
the amount of fraud, and frankly, the sheer level of
bureaucracy we have at every level of the government government
with respect to boards, agencies, commissions. So we need more
stringent auditing, we need more meats testing, We need to
qualify everybody who's receiving a single dollar of our taxpayer money.

(02:02:06):
And that's my number one job if I get in
the state Senate, is to protect our taxpayer money. This
is your money, this is not the government's money. Just
on the topic, I don't know if people realize this,
but there's over one hundred and ninety government agencies, boards
and commissions in Ohio. If I'm elected, the first thing
I would do is push for a review of every

(02:02:27):
single state agency to make sure it's actually serving a
clear purpose that is providing real value to Ohio taxpayers.
Governments should not continue funding offices simply because they've all
always existed, and when agencies overlap or they drift beyond
their original mission. They should be consolidated, eliminated, sunset it.
Budget decisions should be based on results and outcomes, not

(02:02:50):
automatic increases year per year. There's so much fraud in medicaid.
When Governor Kaiseik expanded medicaid under his term, you know,
one of the things no one was talking about. And
as a business guy, I'm just kind of throwing my
hand up in there, like, wait a second. Okay, so
the federal we're gonna get money from the Feds, but
that money is not federally guaranteed. Okay, so what they

(02:03:14):
What if it dries up, what if they stop stop
sending that money, then guess what, We're on the hook
for it. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
So it is absolutely ridiculous. I was talking to a
doctor the other day who has a neighbor who lives
across the street in a in a huge kind of mansion,
and uh, he was talking about nursing homes. Every nursing
home has to have a like a registered physician on

(02:03:35):
the books. And this guy's never even seen anybody in
the nursing home, never steps in, and just collects his
checks okay, and and and gives lends's name, so there's
a you know, an official license physicians associated with that
so they can receive their handouts. I mean, it's absolutely
absurd what's going on. And you know what, it starts with.
It starts with caring. We got to have people who care,

(02:03:56):
and we have to have people who are competent, you know.
And an other thing, Brian, and people don't talk about
this enough. I'm a big believer in the dignity of work.
I think every o'hiland should have a chance to earn
a living, support their family, contribute to society with their
God given talents. But with that being said, the first

(02:04:17):
rule of a leader, in my mind is do no harm.
And we have policies on the books right now that
discourage marriage, family information, and work ethic. Too often our
laws create perverse incentives that penalize people for doing the
right thing. I talked to a supporter of mine and
he wanted to give one of his employees a raise,

(02:04:39):
and she declined because if she makes over a certain amounts,
she would lose her her government handouts and subsidies. We're
talking about people who are cohabitating instead of getting married.
I will fight to ensure that no government program undermines
the role of family, faith, personal responsibility. We have an
identity crisis in this country, and if we're going to
solve it, we need strong families, strong churches, strong communities,

(02:05:03):
not as strong a bureaucracy. So you know, I'm not
just about passing legislation. I want to start repealing legislation.
I think government has way stepped outside the lines.

Speaker 1 (02:05:12):
Well, and you know, honestly, sir, I don't need to
boil down what you've just got done saying is you know,
traditional Republican platform kind of concepts. And this goes back
to my frustration that I commented on as we went
into the break. You know, the Republicans control Columbus, and
you would think that some of these brilliant ideas you have, Gee,
we have one hundred and ninety independent agencies. Why aren't
we looking at them to see, you know, if we

(02:05:33):
can get rid of them. It sounds like a bunch
of extra fat in government overlapping areas. There's no need
for the overlap. That's a sound, simple, easily sellable concept
that hasn't been advanced yet. But why haven't these types
of policies as great as they are been advanced by
Republicans in Columbus. I'm ah frustrated by this.

Speaker 5 (02:05:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Brian. I wish I could tell you,
or else I wouldn't be running for the state Senate.
I mean we I think the one answer is we've
got to have more business people, because I think business
people are problem solvers. And you know what, We've got
a lot of attorneys. We've got a lot of career politicians.
But I'm not running I say this with all humility.

(02:06:14):
I'm not running for a paycheck and to get a pension.
I believe. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but you have to
earn a living in the private sector, and you provide
for your family. You get back to your community locally,
and then you take the skills and take the lessons
that you've learned, and then you run for office to
give back, to serve to help your state. And Ohio

(02:06:36):
is the heart of this country. We are blessed with
so many resources, but we're strangling ourselves. I mean, you
mentioned it. With energy, we could just open up lines
and empower the free market. We empower the consumer, and
increasing supply will drive down costs and make things more affordable.
But you know, I don't know this is unique to
people who have owned or run a business. It seems

(02:06:58):
like common sense to me. You know, It's just I think,
like anything, you've got a certain number of people that
are willing to do the work, and you've got a
certain number of people that are just kind of, you know,
kind of there. But I won't know that until I
get there. You've got to have enough votes to pass things,
and you know that's kind of that sausage making process.
But you know, I've got a lot of ideas. A

(02:07:19):
lot of these seem like common sense, and I just
think it takes conviction. And as I said, I'm not
running to join the club in Columbus. I'm running to
shake things up. And I think with someone like Vivek
as our next governor, he's going to need folks in
the state legislature that will help him get his agenda
across the line.

Speaker 1 (02:07:38):
Well, he mentioned the idea of ultimately eliminating income tax,
great idea. Other states have done it and we're able
to survive. How about property tax relief? Another frustrating element.
We had the budget that was presented to the governor
for his signature. Oh no out comes the line at
in veto vetoing or vetoing the property tax reform that
the legislative brand should put in there. I'm not I

(02:07:58):
mean some miners toward fixing the property tax Well, that's
one of the biggest thing that vexes the Ohio tax fairers.
You know, you don't really ever own your home, and
the bill keeps going up, and sometimes by huge amounts
most seniors can't manage.

Speaker 10 (02:08:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:08:13):
So look, I've called hundreds and hundreds of voters in
my district and I asked them, at this point point,
what are your top priorities, what are you most passionate about?
Get a magic wand what issues would you solve and fix?
Property taxes was always among the top three. And I
think it's absolutely disheartening that someone who's worked their whole life,

(02:08:36):
owns their home outright, can be forced out of their
home because of rising property valuations and taxes. It's not right.
And so I am one hundred percent for reform, one
percent for caps and frankly, if we get to a
place where we can do more, I want to do more.
The thing nobody wants to talk about, and this is
where you really get into untangling the Christmas lights and

(02:08:59):
fixing the problem is that K through twelve school funding
is primarily based on property taxes and that is unconstitutional.

Speaker 1 (02:09:08):
Bro the last year.

Speaker 5 (02:09:11):
And every time someone does a lawsuit, the new year happens,
things changes get thrown out of the courts. Nobody wants
to touch it, nobody wants to take it up. So
if you really want to talk about solving this thing,
you have to decouple property taxes with K through twelve funding.
It's unconstitutional. So what do you do instead? That means
the state allocates money per student, per pupil, and it

(02:09:34):
creates parity. Actually, so the schools up in Cleveland aren't
getting more money than the schools in Warren County, Ohio.
But that's that's the nasty thing nobody wants to talk about.
We have a funding model that is based on property
taxes and it's unconstitutional. And by the way, you know,
I'm a I'm an advocate. I'm a strong believer in
improving our public schools. But I'm also a strong believer
in choice. I think that children need to learn in

(02:09:58):
an environment that is best for them. I support parochial schools,
I support private schools, charter schools, and parents right to homeschool.
But I also support improving public schools. And you know,
I'm sick and tired and voters are sick and tired
of these levees on the ballot all the darn time.
And right now, how we fund K through twelve funding

(02:10:19):
is unconstitutional has been ruled that, but nobody wants to
step up and try to discuss how we fix it.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
Yeah, you would have thought the declaration by the High
Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional twenty or so years
ago would have been what puts us over the edge.
But no, no, we'll just ignore that. I do not
get how that's sweeping under the rug Zach, And I
guess finally, well again, I'll give you the website again
attains h A I N E. S. Hanesfo Ohio dot com.

Speaker 5 (02:10:44):
Well let me and let me just say this, Brian,
as a business guy, you can spell Hanes anyway you want,
with an I, with a Y, whatever, I put a
redirector so you'll find me. Okay, that's called entrepreneurial out
of the box thing right. Our government needs more of that.

Speaker 1 (02:10:56):
But anyway, amen, amen to that, And I guess what
I'm hearing. You know, market forces really truly work, and
we are and governments typically don't treat the world that way.
They have you know, your tax paya money, don't have
to be responsible or accountable for it. But we are
in a market force against other states. We are not
as competitive as we could be. That's that capitalistic entrepreneurial

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element that I hear in your voice and in your proposal.

Speaker 2 (02:11:20):
Sir.

Speaker 1 (02:11:21):
We need to run the state like we are in
active competition with Kentucky and Indiana and New York and California,
at Texas and Florida, which seems to be the magnet
for everybody. So run it like an operation. You need
to watch your pennies and your dollars and well bring
some prosperity to the citizens to pay the taxes. Zach
Haynes Hanes for Ohio dot Com. It's been great having

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you on. Congratulations on those great endorsements you've got. That's
wonderful hitting you hitting the ground running, and I'll look
forward to having you on the program a lot between
now and November.

Speaker 4 (02:11:51):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (02:11:52):
Brian in the district is all of Warren County from
Springboro and Franklin of Carlisle, Lebanon, all the way down
to Mason, Deerfield, Taut and then northeast Hamlin County. So
if you live in sim Sycamore, Blue Ass, Montgomery, Sharonville, Evendale,
Deer Park, that's District seven. So have an election on
May fifth. Would appreciate everybody's support. And yeah, Brian, other states,

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you know what, I'm a big believer and federalism at themendment.
There's things that we can learn from other states. But
I also agree with the VVEK that we need to
look at our own ingenuity and come up with ideas
and solutions. And I think between the two there's a
lot of things we need we need to implement that
we can fix in Ohio. So look forward to serving.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:12:30):
I'm looking forward to calling you my senator. Since I'm
in the geographic territory you just described District seven. We'll
talk again, Zach. Have a great week, my friend eight
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(02:12:50):
just what a distinct pleasure was to have Signal ninety
nine on revealing this behind the scenes negotiations to settle
the hitting matter, and that's going to take place today.
Talk with Christopher Smith about that earlier during the during
the Smith event and executive session. If they do vote
to go into executive session to talk about this, it
means you and I and reporters and anybody else that's

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interested in this will not be able to listen and
hear what they have to say, and they don't even
keep notes, So Christopher's calling them out ahead of times.
Council members should not vote to go into executive session.
This needs the sunlight of disinfect in particularly since council
members were apparently unaware that the city manager was discussing
settlement with the Hidden family. And upon what basis are

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they talking about settlement a lawsuit hasn't even been filed.
Asking the question right out of the gate, does the
city manager have the authority to settle this will? Apparently,
according to Smith, aman yeah, it's all driven by the
legal department. And if the legal department wants to settle something,
apparently they can do that without the approval of sin say,
city council. So legal department reports too, who city solicitor anyone?

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Right the city manager? So Christopher answering that question which
has had me puzzled since Friday in my conversation not
only with FOP President Ken Kober, but also Signal ninety nine.
Thanks to everybody who chimed in on that one, probably
the most listened to podcasts so far in the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. This is my twentieth year in radios.
That was really cool. And to be the first person

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to interview Signal ninety nine. What a distinct honor that was.
But eye opening. Hell yes, check it out a fifty
five cars dot Com along with today's guest including Smith
Aman Brian James segment consider your retirement number as we
go into this new calendar year. Joe Streker, executive producer,
Thank you for what you do tomorrow, Bright Bart inside
Scoop eight oh five, The Daniel Davis Deep Dive eight

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thirty and former Mayor Charlie Lucan and former board member
of the Railroad So since a Southern Railway board who
argued for the sale of the railway, He's asking questions
like how come they haven't been spending the railroad money
that's coming in. Yeah, since they inquire reporting on that one.
We'll have Charlie Lucan on the program tomorrow talk about
that as well. Hope you can tune in then, and
I hope you can stick around. Gun Beck is coming up.

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