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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Five o five at fifty five k r C the
talk station, Happy Mondays, Happy.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Vacation.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
And that's the way it is. Indeed, nothing you do
about it, just take it in and try to assess
what's going on in this crazy world which we find ourselves.
Happy Monday, Brian Thomas right here, glad to be hope
you had a wonderful weekend, and real quick as to
the weekend. For a dive into what's going on in
the show this morning, and invite you to call shout
out to the American Sign Museum. My wife and I

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went there on Saturday. I'd never been there before. The
Help Squad is having a fundraiser tomorrow evening. Sinko d
Neon is what they called Westside Wonderful charitable organization. Had
Brian Ibold from the Help Squad on the program last week.
I had him on quite a few times over the
years and he's been really just trying to fulfill his
Christian mission by helping people who really need help. So
they're having a fundraiser and it just reminded me I

(01:08):
have always wanted to go there, so that's what we did.
My wife and I went to the American Sign Museum
and we had a great time. Yeah, it was fun.
So something you can do to put a smile on
your face. I'm gonna start doing more of that local,
historic and fun places to go that I haven't been.
That place has been around for a long time. My
mom reminded me my dad did a PM magazine back

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when he was on television. We're going back a long
time from the Sign Museum, so that's how long it's
been around. Anyway, thank you to those folks for putting
a smile on my face on a Saturday, and a
happy Monday to you. Five one three. Here's the invitation
to call me five one three, seven four nine fifty
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or pound five fifty on AT and T phones. What
do we got coming up? Of course, it's Monday. Christopher

(01:50):
Smitheman at seven twenty with a Smith event. Don't know
what he's going to be talking about, but I always
look forward to and I hope you enjoy it as
much as I do. Plus Money Monday, It's Monday. It's
money Day, of course, Money Money with Brian James every
Monday at eight oh five and Gasoline. Yeah, I just
checked looking at four eighty roughly as the regular gallon
of gasoline price in the just generally speaking, you'll find

(02:13):
a little bit lower, and of course you can find
it more depending on where you're buying your gasoline. Just
stay stay away from the marathon on Camargo. Sorry to
those folks, you would have had extra buck. I've just
guessed that it's probably seven dollars a gallon of that place. Anyway,
it's expensive, of course, we're all struggling with that. Got
a story on that here in Ohio. D Wine not

(02:33):
interested in rolling back the UHM gasoline tax to provide
us some temporary relief anyway, How gas prices the biggest
douche of the universe, in all the galaxies, there's no
bigger douche than you. I hope you can appreciate how

(02:56):
much off guard that struck me. Ju Just Tracker, thank
you for the comedy this morning. Wow. Okay, while I
try to recover money money with Brian Jayson. How gas
prices affect inflation. Gas prices go up, transportation costs increase.
That increase has passed along to you, the consumer, in

(03:18):
the form of increased prices. Well, I guess we'd handled
that topic. The fifty million dollars social Security screw up
topic number two with Brian James. Apparently it costs widows
and widowers over fifty million dollars. And finally Trump's new
retirement plan order order. So we'll deal with that, Brian James.

(03:41):
I at he at eight to five, and it is tomorrow.
I can tell by my rundown. Thank you, Joe's director
to remind people vote or die. Remember that campaign that
was back when Obama was running for president, wasn't it.
Tomorrow is primary day and Wednesday is listener lunch day.
One more item of housekeeping. Next Monday and Tuesday, I

(04:02):
will not be here. I'm getting my cancer treatments this
Thursday and Friday, which means I'm going to be a
total train wreck come Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. So who's covering
for me? Said Dan Carroll? Joe Dan Carroll, thank you Dan,
if you're out there in a wake, I appreciate you
covering for me, all right, since he's the award winner.
And it really didn't wasn't really quite sure where I
wanted to start this morning, but several stories seem to align.

(04:26):
What do you think at least one House representative here
in the state of Ohio is interested in rolling back
the gas tax provide us a break because the price
of gasoline has gone through the roof temporary, though it
may be. Our gas tax in the state of Ohio
thirty eight point five cents per gallon forty cents per
gallon of diesel. So apparently House Representative Toy Matthews has

(04:49):
talked to Governor de Wine about rolling back the gas
tax for a temporary relief. Temporary relief which means, I
suppose at four eighty we would be paying four forty.
He expressed hope that the crisis in iron will end quickly,
hopefully soon. He said, this temporary band aid for a
little relief for you and I for the time being.

(05:10):
Dwine in opposition to the plan, netting him the biggest
duche of the universe ward as determined by the sole judge.
Joe Strecker, executiroducer of the fifty five KRSE Morning Show.
Why because the tax money is essential to maintain and
construct roads, Dwine said, quote, we like to have good roads,

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and we like to be able to drive. We also
know that when we have huge holes in our roads,
we can have a real impact. That can have a
real impact rather on your car. Hey, Joe, did this
memo reach the City of Cincinnati limits? I know the
city is within the state of Ohio right now. Governor
Dewain's expressed some major concern over the roads, and clearly

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state funding of roads is generated from the gasoline tax.
Does that gasoling time not make it into the city's
coffers in any way, shape or form. Is the City
of Cincinnati alone in the wilderness when it comes to
repairing roads?

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Hmmm?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Speaking of the sign museum, we're driving over Norwood Lateral.
You know, this is stretch of Norwood looks And my
wife even noticed that. She goes, it's very look at
all that there's no garbage here until you got to
it one point in time where there's all kinds of
garbage all over the place. And she said, oh, I
guess we entered the City of Cincinnati limits here. I
don't know. She was speculating that maybe the city was
responsible for only a portion of the Norwood Lateral. I

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don't know. I just know that the roads themselves a
lot of places in the city here, check me if
I'm wrong. Are in terrible shape. That's a city issue.
Maybe it's city government that's the problem on that one. Obviously,
it's not a question of generating the tax revenue, because
you and I are both paying the roughly forty cents

(06:53):
a gallon in taxes. Anyway, Representative mass you said it. Obviously,
the governor said no, or isn't interested in doing this,
suggesting even if they passed this, he'd probably veto the rollback. Well,
this at least, Matthew said, we'll show the people of
Ohio that we are trying to do something for them.

(07:14):
Pivoting over, how do you feel about this? Amid the
inflation reality we're dealing with the costs of gasoline through
the roof. I understand you can blame Trump if you want.
That's entirely you. It will be temporary. At some point,
the conflict with Iran Iranians will be over straight afoord
moves will open, and only those cities and states that

(07:35):
have adopted these radical left wing agenda green New Deal
types proposals will deal with really expensive energy. Beyond that,
It's okay, you and I here in Hamilton County anyway
are paying for the demolition of the pay Course Stadium. Scoreboard.
Hamilton County Commissioners approved it five point seven million dollars

(07:58):
last Thursdays when we got the green light on this,
the demolition of the scoreboard. It's a stadium, folks. Anybody
check the financial situation of the Brown family are they doing? Okay?
I know the the Bengals family, that is the Brown family.

(08:20):
You can go up to Cleveland where the Browns are
getting six hundred million dollars of the state taxpayers, You're
not going to get any relief in terms of the
gas tax. Not that I'm necessarily advocating for it. I'm
just showing you questions of priority Cleveland. Brown's family multi billionaires.
They are going to get six hundred million dollars and locally,

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the Brown family is going to get a five point
seven million dollars pay for the destruction of the pay
Corp Stadium scoreboard. Oh what's more, don't worry about it.
We're getting a new one too, six point nine million
dollars for the new scoreboard. So they allocate a payment
to destroy the current one five point seven and we'll
soon be approving an additional multi million dollar payment for

(09:04):
the building of the new scoreboard. Joe how many times
you've been to a Bengals game been a long time?
Uh huh yeah, might cut into your budget a little
bit going to that game, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Hm.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Now, I realize we have a contract, a relationship with
the Browns and we have to do this. But these
are decisions made by government. So go to work, pay
for the Browns six hundred million dollars. Go to work,
Pay for the destruction of the paid court stadium sign.
Go to work, pay for the building of a new sign.
Why so really wealthy families can have their teams perform

(09:46):
a sporting event and make even more money pivoting over
one more. We go to New York City, Zorhan Mamdami
the all this guy's backcrap and saying, I'm sorry. This
is a reflection of the deterioration of the American society.
I just and it's the best illustration or example of it.
Where are they with their massive deficit budget five point

(10:08):
four billion dollars? New York City is and that's their deficit.
What's important for Zorhan Mundami same thing it's important to
so many left wing administrations, maybe even some conservative right
wing administrations, call them red Republicans whatever, paying outside entities

(10:28):
with taxpayer dollars to do virtually nothing and support them.
Mandami has allocated it's only five hundred thousand dollars, and
I realize that's a drop in the bucket when you
got a five point four billion dollar deficit. What's he
paying for five hundred thousand dollars to fund community discussions?

(10:51):
The topic reparations, It could be any topic. If something
is important to you, do you need to be paid
to have a discussion? Apparently in New York City you do.
Described as an internal message dated earlier this year, detailed
how more than two dozen groups would be given tens

(11:13):
of thousands of dollars each to participate in quote conversations
to discuss the development of a reparation study. WHOA what? Yes?
You heard that? Correctly, pay outside entities to talk about

(11:34):
the development of a reparation study. This isn't paying for
a study. This is paying to have people discuss a
forthcoming or soon to be Actually, I suppose solidified study
to look at whether or not reparation is a good idea.
Also to gather input on the early development of the

(11:56):
citywide Truth Hearing and Reconciliation plan, don't ask me. It's
an initial cap I have no idea what that means.
According to document the funding in the documents, very words,
because it's a quote allows for each community member to
receive an incentive for their time and also covering the
cost to provide the participants with refreshments. This is where

(12:21):
we have got. If something is so important that you
think there needs to be a discussion on it, If
something is so important like this outlandish reality that black
people are facing the history of slavery, that they have
not been able to overcome the challenges presented by the
evil that was slavery, that this country has not done
enough for black people to overcome that. Don't you think

(12:42):
that's a compelling thing that you might want to talk
about and not get paid to talk about it. Does
the need for a cash infusion to engage in a
discussion perhaps suggest that maybe there aren't a whole lot
of people out there that even want to have a
discussion on it. I don't know. My perception of government
is it should be using your money or my money,
our labor to pay people to sit around and hrumph

(13:07):
over something. Wow. Oh, also to fund sports stadiums I've
reached my boiling point on that one. If you haven't
been able to get that feeling this morning, five eighteen,
feel free to chime in. I'm sorry a little beside myself.
Don't go away, be right back after these brief words.
This was your weekend.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
R J Security Checkpoint Fraudry's in Miniat five twenty two.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
On a Monday. Thank you, Mike. I'm gonna get to
the phones here, got tow Hampshire Garrey on the line.
You can feel free to call to and love to
hear from you. Thank you, Mike. Though I was talking
about the Sign Museum, a wonderful weekend, he said, instead
of demo demolishing the Bengels scoreboard, donated to the American
Sign Museum.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
I think they may have a difficult time squeezing it
in there. Although you know the Frish's Mainliner sign is there.
It is currently being rehabilitated. It's kind of really in
a state of disarray. But if you miss the Mainliner sign,
you're gonna be able to see it. It's all glory
after it's been rehabilitated. At the since a sign are
the American signed New Hampshire, Gary, Thank you, for calling
this morning, and happy Monday to you.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Next time I make it to Cincinnati, I'm gonna have
to make a point because I know they got a
holiday inside. Yes, and that's a child I used to
stay at places like that, very nostalgic.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, you know what, I had a sense of nostalgia
for some of those signs. I remember seeing them. There's
a Howard Johnson sign there. It's full neon from the
like mid nineteen sixties, and I remember driving past signs
like that, and a lot of them precede me. There's
a whole lot of you know, nineteen early nineteen hundred
signs of hand painted kind of signs. It's literally signs
all of all types, so not just neon, although the

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neon ones are most impressive. But yeah, you should stop then.
That's why I'm giving them a big shout out this morning.
I had always wanted to go and it was it
was just really cool, nice thing to do. Go ahead,
New Hampshire, Gary.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Okay. I think one of the things that I'm going
to read this just for batim, but I think one
of the things that you're really targeted on. And I
heard a speech by Michael Walsh for the Daily Wire,
and he was calling this there is a it's a
political system. It's called the Curly effect, and it's named

(15:14):
after James Curley, who was the mayor of Boston twice,
a Senator for Massachusetts, and the governor of the state
in politic for almost fifty years, basically destroying the state
into a left leaning lack. And basically the mechanism is
usually the political incumbence policies that penalize the wealthy tax

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specific regulations in their own favor, driving political opposition to
leave targeted redistribution of benefits to loyal, often poor constituents
who become dependent on the leaders biblical activity. It is
exactly what you're talking about. By the way, it was
the same policy used by Detroit mayor in the early seventies,

(16:05):
all the way from seventies to ninety three. Who is
Detroit mayor Coleman Young who said I will destroy Detroit
and rule over the Ashes, who, by the way, stayed
in power for almost twelve years. And I believe this
is almost verbatim, like your mayor and probably the mayor
of most major cities, that they're destroying their own their city.

(16:31):
But yet they have all these NGOs. They have the
you know what was that that that lines that Mary
go around that big non expensive streetcar since you guys
got going on, you know, you know it just it's
an amusement ride basically that nobody rides and.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
They're making money off.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Fortunately, Gary, we have the freedom of travel in this
country and people are leaving that that's the beauty of it.
And you know, more and more people leave because of course,
after COVID, we all realize that many of us can
work from wherever we want, given we can no longer
need to commute to work. Cities across this land are
experiencing the realities of high taxation.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Is there something that I, as a corporation or individual
can do to flee this outrageous taxation where the money
is actually going into the pockets of multi multi billionaires
sports stadium stupid things like five hundred thousand dollars to
have harumph sessions. Huh, I can leave. Let's see. Is
there a place out there that has a better climate
for me financially? Clearly there are options. That's the reality

(17:39):
of what we're dealing with here.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Unfortunately, there's that problem that they curly effect affects states too.
Oh yeah, souse, that way you're paying for Cleveland Sports
Stadium in Cincinnati. And right and then we also see
the squandering of funds from Mike down Go ahead, play it,
play it, Joe, play it.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well is the biggest shove the Oh my, Gary, I
appreciate it. Man. That's two and two awards of this
morning for the same person that has never happened. Welcome
to a record. It's a banner morning here in the
fifty five Cares Morning here. Gary, have a great day.
Thanks for the call. As always, Corey, you're up next.

(18:25):
Hang on brother, out of time in this segment, it's
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Speaker 2 (18:32):
Some day.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Christopher smith Ham been coming up with seven twenty put
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to be with your smart device. Corey, thanks for holding
over the break there, Welcome back to the program. Good

(18:55):
to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
M Morning Bron sent you a link to an article.
A guy who lives about a mile from me recently
got arrested for not tapping into the new newly installed
city water line that they ran out into the country
to a little town.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
And it just struck me.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Of all the things people get arrested for, I didn't
think that was a crime.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
No muck shot posted.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wait a second, arrested for not taking advantage of the
water line?

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (19:29):
I live out in the country.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
He does, two? We have he wrong?

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Well, we have our own sewer. I live where I
live because I don't want to pay right for the water.
You know, I don't want to pay for the city
sewer right. And anyway, about two years ago they decided
to run this water line out and force everybody to
tap into it, and he refused to tap into it,
so they had him arrested.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Wow, I might my litigation brain's trying to struggle around
that one. Corey. I find that really hard to swallow.
So I somewhere in there, there's got to be something missing.
I need to see an article or some breakdown of
how this guy can get arrested for not taking advantage
of perhaps something that a lot of people would love
to have access to, which is public water. But if

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you've got your own water supply, why would you bother
to do that? Pointing a doubling down on your port, Corey, Corey, man,
forward me the info on that. We don't have to
go independently search on it. Jeez. That okay? Even if
that reminds me of is that Seinfeld episode where Kramer
refused the United States postal system he didn't want to
have mail delivered anymore. Postmaster General had to wood shed

(20:36):
him on that and frighten him into keeping mail service whatever.
That's crazy, man. I wish I could digest that a
little bit better than I can on a Monday morning.
But that's about all I can do is react and say,
I find that really really hard to believe, and we'll
suggest that he probably has a legal defense to that.
Appreciate a brother, Tom, Welcome to the show, and a
very happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, good morning. Joe's just throwing awards out like
me this morning. You know, it's like he's like one
of the guys on the float on Foray, just throwing
beads out there. That's well, the wine deserves it.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Why not.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You?

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm so anytime you mentioned the wine, that song is
gonna play.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
I'm gonna again.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But if if the Wine was ever up for election again,
Joe would not vote for him. I'm just gonna. I'm
just gonna go out on a on a limb.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
And guess that just said he never voted for him anyway,
you know what, I was hitting that button when you
mentioned DWI. It reminds me of a young Frankenstein. For
those can remember the movie from mel Brooks, every time
fraud Blucher's name was mentioned, the horse, the sound of
the horse rearing and winnying in response and revulsion to
her name being mentioned. Yeah, the wine and new song

(21:51):
shows up. That's good.

Speaker 8 (21:53):
And it's like every time that in The Big Lebowski,
at anytime that Dodd went over to his mouth, that
John Goodman character was, yeah, I'm going to have my
yearly complaint about these foreigners that have invaded our country

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and taken over the streets and in the parking lots.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
And and whatever, and and the whole family of them
crossed went like diagonally across Cole Raine Avenue in a
major intercession over in our part of town. Joe knows
that Cole Raid in Springdale, major intersection. And they just
there was a mom and a dad and six or
seven of them just just nonchalantly walking across this intercession.

(22:40):
All traffic had to stop. And uh, it's it's it's outrageous.
We we got to do something about it to get
these Canadian geese out of our out of our country.
Nothing but there's nothing but a menace. And and maybe yeah,
they look cute and they just they have babies here,
so they got like their anchor babies so they can stay.
But it's it's it's ridiculous. The whole is the whole,

(23:05):
the whole racism and and uh, switching over to the
topic you brought up about about Dobby. The Democrats have
to keep racism and reparations in the news in front
of everybody's mind at all times because they don't really
have much else. Really that really isn't anything really to
run on. If people understand that it's it's a farce.

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But they that's that's there, Like golden ticket. They think
to keep people voting for them. If we let people
think that we really care about them, we want them
to get reparations for all the evil that was done
to their ancestors, then you know they'll.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
Keep voting for us.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
That's all this is about. Just keep keep voting for us.
We're going to throw out crap out there and we're
going to make you believe that we care about you
and all that. It's garbage, it's absolute garbage, and anybody,
it doesn't matter what race you are. Right now, if
you really feel that that that black people, as you mentioned,
have not had a lot done for them to help
make up for that and give them the opportunity to

(24:05):
achieve what everybody else has, then you're you're you got
your head stuck in the same you're not paying attention,
So please start paying attention to what's going on. Oh
and yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow's voting day. Make sure you vote
and don't vote Democrats. Have a great, great break.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Thanks Tom. Appreciate the calls always five three seven fifty
two to three pound five fifty on AT and T phone,
and thank you Corey for sending me the link. Actually
I did run across that, and that link, although it
does describe the guy that got arrested for not hooking
up to the water line, doesn't provide any support or
extra detail on the offense itself. It is a minimalist link,

(24:41):
and I understand that's all you got, but that leaves
us all completely in a swirling mystery as to how
someone could get cited for not hooking up to the
public water line five thirty seven. Right now, if you
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stupid right there on top. It's not the Canada geese,
apparently it's Bigfoot. Yes, that's in the stack of stupid. Carl,
Welcome to the program, Thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Good morning, Brian say, as we have been discussing tomorrow's
primary day and a very few group, a very few
group of people are going to be making some important
decisions here in the ninth district.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
UH.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
The Republicans didn't have anybody on the ballot to run
for the Senate seat here in Ohio, but they have
found a write in candidate. The other thing, UH, that
we're going to be voting on that is the Republicans
is a Supreme Court justice. There are four people running
for uh, the Supreme Court here in Ohio, and about

(25:57):
several weeks ago, I called your radio show not knowing
where to find information about these candidates. And after going
on the internet, I found that some of the smaller
newspapers in Ohio had written articles about these candidates. And
also my precinct executive, who happened to be pretty good,

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sent me a letter and notified me about the websites
that these candidates had put out there. They are all
experienced candidates, so there was nothing really to give me
an edge. I finally, after a lot of research, was
able to pick a candidate. But here in Ohio, you know,
the Supreme Court is very important. These candidates are looking

(26:41):
at ousting Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Berner, and that would
mean that the Republicans control the Supreme Court here in Ohio,
and as you know, the big issue with Supreme Court
cases around the country is redistricting jerry mandering. We saw

(27:05):
that in New Jersey and some of the other states.
I would like to commend you and Joe for running
such a great radio show, because, like I said, after
listening to your radio show for the past couple of
weeks and your guests and your callers, I was able
to fill out my absentee ballot and Cuningham had some

(27:26):
good guests on also.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh yeah, I appreciate the kind words, Carl, and to
the extent I've helped anyone over the last several weeks
or even years, I'm honored to be in a position
to make some recommendations along those lines. And I appreciate you, Carl,
going out into the world and doing some research on
your own. Judicial racis is some of the most difficult
races for people to vote in because you know, most

(27:47):
people aren't involved in the court system. People don't run
under under the party affiliation. They're not listed as R
or D on the ballot, and ultimately you have to
rely on here we go with some people out there
that get a little feathers a little rougher Central Committee,
the endorsement of the Republican Party, so that judge shows
up on the pink slip. So, but I applaud your
efforts and looking and investigating. That's what more people need

(28:10):
to do. And if more people were like you, Carl,
I think this whole country would be in a much
better position, much better. Appreciate the call, my friend, and
thank you very much again for the kind words. Hank
is next, Hank, I'm out of time. It's five forty
five with you five care seat the talk station, five
fifty to fifty five KRCD talk station. I'm very happy
Monday to you. Five one three, seven, four nine fifty

(28:31):
five hundred eight day two three talk. Good day for
the call. It's got a lot of folks calling in
which I thoroughly enjoyed. We're going to start in the
order in which they receive, which means Hank is first.
Pall hold on your next, Hank, Welcome to the show Man.
Happy Monday.

Speaker 10 (28:43):
Happy Monday to you too, Brian. So I told Joe
I was gonna call about supporting reparations, but it has
to be under the correct circumstances. First off, look, I'll
be labor a little history. I know your listeners don't
need it, but I'm going to do it quick, just
in case. So, the Democrat Party was the party of slavery.

(29:04):
The Democrat Party was the party of Jim Crow. The
Democrat Party was the party of the klu Klux Klan.
The Democrat Party was the party of Lyndon Johnson, who,
as you have probably heard, there's a story going around
that when he signed the Welfare Act he said, those
N words will be supporting us for the next two
hundred years.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, he's notorious for using the N word, Lennon Johnson was.

Speaker 10 (29:29):
Yeah, well he was notorious for liking to sleep in
with them too, from what I heard too. But anyway,
off of that, so, it seems fair to me that
if we're going to have reparations, the Democrat Party should
be the ones that pay for them, because the Republicans
were the ones that actually lost a lot of lives

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fighting to change that, which is something we'll.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Celebrate on June teenth, Yes, sir. But the other side.

Speaker 10 (29:57):
Of the coin too, is that a lot of people
don't think about what are guys like Barack Obama. He
had a white mom and a black dad. Incidentally, the
black dad was from Africa, so he was never related
to any slaves in the US, so it seems fair
to me that he should have to pay himself.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Fair enough. The retort from those demanding reparations is, though,
that's fine, they didn't have any ancestral history of the
United States and therefore did not himself or his family
lineage struggle with the issue of slavery. But the concept
of slavery is baked into the equation here in the
United States. Therefore, if you are a person of color,

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you are looked down upon. So the argument goes and
that there's this inherent bias against people of color in
this country and they have therefore been denied opportunities because
of this inherent bias, and therefore everyone who is of
color is entitled to a paycheck. I know that's just
their argument, it's not mine, but that's it. Our country
is irreparably sorry. It's born of original sin and therefore

(31:03):
must be brought down. It's just one element of this
whole idea of the United States is just absolutely irredeemable, period,
end of story. Socialists are behind this, Marxist are behind this,
Globalists are behind this. It's not my argument, it's their argument.
I'm just trying to articulate the best I'm capable of
in spite of the fact that it flies in the
face of my logic and reason aed anyway over the phone.
So let's see, let's get one more call. We got

(31:24):
Paul on the line. Paul, thanks for calling this morning.
Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
The same to you.

Speaker 11 (31:29):
Hey, I wanted to call about your recent interview with
Rand Paul. I have a little bit of an affinity
for him, particularly for his father. His father's historical battles
against the Fed, against all the money printing, all the overspending,
and Rand Paul. You know, it reminds me a little
bit of like John the Baptist, a lone voice crying
in the littleness, and I think you've got a little

(31:52):
bit affinity for him as well. Well. The thing is
is that I really am glad to see that he's
pushing the White House ballroom bill. We need to get
that done. One thing I'd like to ask him, if
you happen to think about this your next time you
do have a chance to talk with him, I'd like
to see him take advantage of this opportunity of the

(32:12):
current administration in these precious two years we have, especially
coming up from November elections, to kind of form consensus
and work with Republicans where he can while still reminding
them of budget concerns.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I wish more Republicans would well follow the party platform
and worry about budget concerns. No one seems to be
a fiscal hawk anymore, my friend. And that is the
biggest You can argue about the Chinese Communist Party, the
Russian you can talk about terrorism, you talk about global threats,
and go on and on and on. Oh my god,
we're all going to die. We're gonna die as a
consequence of the printing press running. We have forty trillion

(32:45):
dollars in debt. We got to pay a trillion dollars
a year for the credit card bill interest, and it's
just getting worse and worse every day. Members of both
parties are responsible for it. No one seems to care
as we just basically go over a cliff period. I
I don't know. I'm at a loss about that one,
my friend, I really am. Yeah. More people should listen

(33:07):
to Senator Paul More. People should embrace his concepts of
reversing the train wreck that we are going to invariably
or inevitably feel that light at the end of the
tunnel is not daylight. It's the other train coming our way.
Scary stuff. Man, All right, Happy Monday, cdcalk Station, Happy Monday,

(33:28):
try to make it so anyways, stick around. Brian Thomas
right here inviting you to stick around seven to twenty
with Christopher smitham and every Monday here in the fifty
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City of Cincinnati, chiming in on yeh city related matters
Monday Monday with Brian James Every Monday at eight o five.
Today we're gonna talk about gas prices affecting inflation, fifty
million dollars so security screw up, and plus Trump's new

(33:50):
retirement plan order. That's this morning show. This morning. I
love hearing from you, so you can feel free to call.
Enjoyed the calls from the first hour five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two three pound, five
fifty on eight C and C phones. Vote or Die,
says Jeuge Jreker. Tomorrow's day primary, Get out and vote
your vote will mean a whole lot more tomorrow than
it will in November. Sadly, the number of people actually

(34:10):
going to vote in November won't even be as much
as it should be. Moving over instead of political discourse
pegging in a run anap at PC the other day,
and I was reminded of it yesterday. This de evolution.
My friends. We have a Pennsylvania Democrat Senate candidate, guy
named Raymond Chandler bat crap and saying he is has

(34:32):
been arrested for threatening to kill President Trump. This idiot
left threatening voicemails to members of Congress, including the following quote, Sir,
I'm calling this morning because I want you to imagine
a scenario. I want you to imagine a scenario where
all the twelve hundred billionaires in this country, all their
properties are surrounded simultaneously by a thousand people. So imagine

(34:53):
your house, your daughter's house, everyone you know and love
who is also rich. Imagine every single one of those
homes being surrounded by a thousand people. Then imagine them
all getting a text and then then suddenly taking out
their pocket knives, walking slowly towards your house with ten
You got your ten guards or whatever, against a thousand people.

(35:16):
And then they come and they pull you out of
your house, and they slit your throat, and they slit
your daughter's throat, and they slit everyone's throat. That you know, sir,
that is the future. And according to the affidavit his
arrest affidavit, he left another voicemail message to what is
described as an unidentified member of Congress. Quote, I want

(35:38):
you to put that firearm to the President's head, and
I want you to pull the trigger, and I want
you to kill him. Pluse quote welcome to the state
of political discourse. Pivoting over to Beggy Noonan how not
to respond to political violence, and she writes, I don't
think we fully appreciate how much the country is descending
into political violence. We aren't seeing the speed and pitch

(36:01):
of the dissent. It's an amazing and little noted fact
that at least four cabinet secretaries in the second Trump administration,
including the heads of the State and Defense part departments,
have reportedly had to live on military basis because the
number and severity of the threats against them. One top
stafford the president is known to be so situated, as
is the army secretary and one unnamed official. This is

(36:25):
all unprecedented in scale. People who work for presidents have
always lived in houses in northern Virginia, the District of Columbia.
They haven't had to live surrounded by US troops. None
of this is normal. But then the appearance at the
home of a Supreme Court justice of a man with
a gun is abnormal, Member Brett Kavanaugh on June at

(36:46):
twenty twenty two, as is the campus assassination of a
prominent conservative activist, Ie Charlie Kirk September of last year,
or the three known attempts on the life of President Trump.
We've entered a new dark time, and we have to
think more about how we publicly handle assassinations and attempted assassinations.
There's no reason to believe we're going to see fewer

(37:07):
of them. We are a country with a long history
of political violence, a country with three hundred and thirty
million people and more than that many guns, and mental
health crisis, and thinking very much of what we show
on our screens as we act out our roles in
the drama. In terrible moments, we should keep in our

(37:27):
minds these thoughts don't inflame things don't make them hotter
and more dramatic. This gets us the last Saturday Night
and the would be assassin at the White House correspondence dinner.
The security failures surrounding that evening have been covered elsewhere.
Those immediately guarding the presidents seem to be hardy and quick,
but the peripheries of such events are a continuing problem.

(37:49):
My Beggy Newton, my concern is how we react publicly
what's on the screens. Granted that everyone was at least
a little shaken and such circumstances, people often suffer from
what Tom Wolfe called information compulsion. You can't stop talking. Still,
the president should have held his news should not have

(38:10):
held the news conference after almost being shot, because he
never knows what he's going to say, and members of
the media never know what they're going to ask. Also,
there are lots of young reporters covering the White House,
and they have energy and ambition, but lack deep judgment
and wisdom, and they don't know history in a way
that prompts them to see its healthier templates. Questions were

(38:31):
asking the news conference in the roughly twenty four hours
after it did no good to ask, quote, why do
you think this keeps happening to you. I'm no longer
willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and trader to coat
my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction to that? Guys,
you can't immediately after the evan ask an American president

(38:52):
to praise and consider the or parse rather and consider
the rants of his would be killer to chatter about
why someone would want to shoot him. Part of the
reason is any future would be shoot or watching will
be thinking like this. I can try to kill a
president and then my thoughts can fill his minds, and

(39:12):
everyone considers my historically important opinions. Everyone talks about me
and my genius, and I am a somebody. I move mountains,
I shoot presidents, and this is worth it. I am
finally understood as a world historic figure. That's an interesting paragraph,

(39:35):
isn't it. Assassin Assassins are delusional. Delusional people think they're
extremely significant and should be item one in the national consciousness.
We are losing our judgment about what should be said
and can't be said. We need to go back to
a little terseness. Imagine it like this, late evening April fifteenth,

(39:59):
eighteen sixty five, and Abraham Lincoln has survived an assassination attempt,
the bullet aimed by John Wilkes Booth having merely nicked
his now banded skullp Lincoln meets with the press in
the Red Room. Horace Greeley, the old war Horse, the
New York Tribune bores in, Mister President, this is the
second known time that someone has tried to shoot you.
Why do people keep trying to kill you? Booth is

(40:21):
reported to have screened six semper tyrannus as he jumped
from the balcony. Mister President, why do people think you're
a tyrant? The unflappable Lincoln might have been a little
non pulse plus. Rather some questions would have constituted a
serious breach in human decorum. But then again, really wouldn't
have asked them, and Lincoln wouldn't have called a news

(40:43):
conference because he'd have known. Sometimes reporters asked the kind
of questions that scene inane, but are an excitement to
the unstable. All that is needed in such circumstances. Does
a leader to a four minute taped or live statement
saying He's fine, everyone's fine. Law enforcement apprehended the shooter.

(41:04):
The Secret Service, we're brave life continues apace after such
a terrible moment. The congressional leadership of both parties should
appear on screen together in a simple terms, reject violence.
Make one thing clear. Political assassination is a particularly grave
crime because it is an attempt to kill democracy itself.
The people elect their representatives, but the assassin says, no,

(41:27):
only my vote counts. I annul your collective choice. That
is an assault on the constitutional order. We will not
have it. Something like the correspondence dinner happens. Everyone goes
into his corner and points a finger outward. The violence
is coming from the left. No, it's coming from the right.
It isn't a pointless argument. But those engage that it

(41:48):
tend to be on one side or another and getting
hate mail and threats from the opposite side, and that
tells them it's the other side that is the devil.
Sense is that in recent years both sides threatened violence,
but the left is now more likely to act on it.
And truly, all now should be aware of a rising

(42:09):
spirit of Luigi Mangioniism, of the belief that the system
is so vicious and corrupt that violence is justifiable, and
those who rise to the top in spheres such as
business and politics. Well, they have it coming just about
every major CEO in America now as private security. They
didn't used to. Even ten years ago, they didn't. It

(42:32):
is sick and terrible that they do now. I end
with this thought. Since at least the turn of the century,
our young people have been told endlessly in school and
in media that they will never have a nice life.
The rising seas will drown them, a racist, misogynistic culture
will abuse them. The economy can no longer make a

(42:52):
place for them. If it is relentlessly drilled into you
that you'll never have a satisfying and constructive life. When
you're twenty two years old, your brain isn't even fully
developed yet, you just might think it holy legitimate that
you indulge your fury and strike at those who have
thwarted you. Maybe you want to change the emphasis to

(43:15):
there are reasons to live, and you are not doomed,
and you have a place here. Amen. Peggy noonan Well stated,
I can only pray that maybe people suggest or follow
her suggestions. I'm not holding my breath sadly six sixteen

(43:36):
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Marion Thomas inviting phone calls if you'd like to call
Chime in love, hear from you five one, three, seven
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it is Primary election eve, strongly encouraging to get out
and vote tomorrow. You have choices, and elections do have

(43:59):
serious cons on. This is a big one in November
with Shared Brown trying to well become a senator again.
And get to that in a second, but real quick
invitation to lunch on Wednesday. The venue snows Lakeside Tavern,
which if you want to check out the menu and
information about it, it's Snowslikeside Tavern dot net. Anyway. Real
it's easy to get to if you know where the

(44:19):
Coleraine Avenue exit is off two seventy five. You're like
five hundred feet from the place dry Ridge Road, but
Colraine Avenue North and you take a while, you turn
onto dry Ridge and just jog a little bit near there.
So simple to get from two seventy five I look
forward to seeing you. I love the fellowship at listener lunch,
and looking forward to seeing my buddy cribbage Mike and

(44:39):
probably losing to him anyway. Christopher Smithman at seven to
twenty money Monday, with Brian James coming up at eight
oh five. All right, who said this quote, I support
closing the border to people so they can't cross the
border at will, but I also say, we, of course

(45:02):
should be deporting people that have committed a crime. Surely
close quote. Stop calling me Shirley who said that I
bet Shared Brown wasn't on your short list. See, with
short attention spans, people forget that Shared Brown was an
open borders guy. So, when you're contemplating who you want

(45:23):
to be your next senator, if you think that the
nefarious reality of Biden's open border policy was something beyond
just having to deal with our immigration reform efforts here
in the country, I got a bridge I want to
sell you.

Speaker 8 (45:40):
You.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
See, you got to contemplate Joe Biden's open border policies
and the literal millions of people that came into our
country without vetting was not because we don't have a
pathway to citizenship or something whatever. Argument that they were
making during the time. We just need immigration reform to
stop this flow of humanity. No, you need a new administration,

(46:00):
new sheriff in town. The border immediately shuts. Look at
the statistics. It is undeniable that the open border under
the Bide administration was an intentional act by the Biden
administration to flood our country with a whole bunch of
people from around the four corners of the globe. Bah
Now Brown shared Brown back to his quote, He's a
strong on border security kind of guy. I guess no,

(46:21):
not really. His voting record negates every single word that
came out of his mouth last month when he had
the nerve to say that in an interview. Twenty seven
to twenty twenty five, he was a senator nearly two
full decades. He lost to Senator Bernie Morino. Remember him.
Brown has been on the side of well doing anything

(46:41):
he can against Donald Trump's border security enforcement. While he
was a senator, he voted at least ten times to
protect federal funding for sanctuary cities.

Speaker 9 (46:51):
Hmmmm.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
From his time in the House in two thousand and
one through his third Senate term in twenty twenty four.
Thank you, Fox News for summon it all up, co
sponsor of the twenty nineteen and Mass Deportation Act that
sought to rescind Trump's executive order to prioritize deporting criminal
illegals who he now says need to be deported from
our country. What's with the vote? Brown voted against ensuring

(47:14):
ICE has sufficient resources to detain a deport higher number
of illegal aliens who have been convicted of a crime.
Voted against funding to stop criminal aliens from securing amnesty.
Voted to stop funding for deportation for criminal aliens back
in two thousand and one. Hmmm, he opposed the board
of the wall construction, which I will point out Trump

(47:36):
administration has been able to stop the flow of humanity
on the southern border without much additional wall creation, so
big advocates for one big, beautiful wall from coast to coast,
or from the Gulf all the way to the Pacific
didn't really seem to be necessary when you look back
on Trump's ability to just slam the door shut without
any additional building. But he did vote to cancel Trump's

(47:57):
border wall projects in twenty twenty one against restarted the
wall construction in twenty twenty three. He was against three
hundred million dollars for US Customs and Border protection for
opioid and narcotic detection at the southern border, and against
funding relocating illevo aliens to Democrat sanctuary cities and states, which,
upon hindsight, I will acknowledge maybe that's something they wanted.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Why might Democrats cities and states have wanted to have
the illegal immigrants rerouted to their communities see Minneapolis, Minnesota.
More illegal aliens, more programs, more non governmental organizations. We
need these NGOs to help us deal with the massive
humanity and the disappearance of the whole concept from the

(48:41):
left of separation of church and state. If you like,
many Catholic organizations were in the business and industry of
helping resettle or otherwise acclimate illegal immigrants in any given
community you were the recipient of government funding. Where was
the left outrage on that? I could go on and
on and on. Anyway, just reminding you what reality, what
is versus what shared Brown's trying to sell you today?

(49:03):
Six twenty six. Politicians never do that, do they? Thankfully
we have a record talk station six point thirty I
fifty five KRCD talk station Happy Unday. Anybody disturbed by
the Iranians using dolphins to plant mines on boats. When
I was eight years old, the movie Day of the

(49:25):
Dolphin came out. Some older people remember that one. It
was a political assassination to try to kill the President
of the United States of America. The premise of the
movie using a magnetic limpet mind that was attached to
the boat that the president was on, attached by a
dolphin with a limpitt mine on its back. So this
has been going on for years and years and years.
I think we were behind the original use of animals.

(49:46):
That could be wrong, could have been the Soviet Union.
But this is not anything new. It's new for a
new generation of folks, though not new. Started out the
morning show talking about this. One discussed I was now
I'm not necessarily advocating for the suspension of the gas tax.
Governor Wine said, hell, no, house Uppers, listen to five

(50:10):
o'clock hour podcast. If you don't know what I was
still laughter is it was a comical, comical thing going
on at five o'clock. Anyway, Thank you, Jos Trecker. Representative
Toy Matthews proposing rolling back the roughly thirty nine cent
per gallon tax we have in Ohio for gasoline forty
seven cents on diesel, pointing out that we're all feeling it.

(50:32):
Governor de Win though, says no, no, no roads. We
have to worry about roads, opposing the plan because the
tax money is essential to maintain and construct roads. According
to the Wine in his statement, we like to have
good roads, we like to be able to drive, and
we also know that when we have huge holes in
our roads that can have a real impact on your car.
I just read it again because maybe Cincinnai City council
members and the mayor, maybe the city managers responsible for

(50:53):
the sorry state of affairs on Cincinnati city roads. I
guess the money hasn't quite made it back into Cincinnati anyway,
just saying oh, and then here's this other one while
we all struggle to fill the gas tank up. Rest
assured your taxpayer dollars are doing some real good here
in Hamilton County. Yes, I know, it's a consequence of

(51:15):
a contract we entered into many years ago. Bad contract
it was, But the county commissioners just to prove you
here in Hamilton County paying for five point seven million
dollars to demolish pay Course Stadium's scoreboard. It costs five
point seven million dollars to demolish it. Next step phase two,
Phase three is profit parenthetically an additional sum about the

(51:40):
same six point nine million dollars to build a new scoreboard,
which commissioners apparently are set to approve in phase two.
Commissioner Dreehouse, It's part of the project is improvement to
the technologies and the scoreboard, and so it's going to
be a larger and improve the fan experience. Basically, grammatically

(52:01):
incorrect as that statement may have been. It's all about
the fan experience inside pay Course Stadium. How many times
have you been there? I don't know how scoreboard's gonna
improve the fan experience, Joe, I don't know how the
locker improvements additional upgrades. Thank you to wlwt's Brian Hammrick
for reporting or reminding us that we already have improvements

(52:23):
to the visitor's locker room that were approved as well. Joe,
the visitors locker room that can enhance the fan experience.
At what's the average salary of a football player NFL
football player? I know too much, but you don't have

(52:43):
that figure on the top of your head, neither do I.
Do you think they're going to get a disco ball
in the locker room, because you know every NFL team
needs a disco ball. The Steelers need to be warm
when they kick our butts. Thank you, Joe. That's a great,
great observation right there. A semi driver died in a

(53:04):
single vehicle crash and closed multiple roads downtown Cincinnati. Happened
at ten till seven last night. Officers showed up at
Fort Washington Away in East Second Street report of a
crash involving a semi. Since I fired, Apartment Assistant Chief
Matt Flagler announced in press conference that the driver the
semi died after being trapped in the semi. He said

(53:26):
the semi and the tractor trailer both heavily involved in
the fire. Firefighters were able to remove the driver from
the semi, but again died from the injuries. Expected northbound
seventy one to be closed for several hours, but apparently
I think it has reopened. Thankfully, not interrupting your morning commute.
And finally, go to Covington. Sadly, thirteen year old dead
after his shooting occurred on Friday, Court to Captain Justin

(53:48):
Bradbury spokes more of the Coming In Police Department said
the boy died Sunday after being at UC Medical Center
for just over a week. Happened on April twenty fourth.
Officers called an apartment one in a block of East
eleventh about eleven thirty after a report of his shooting.
They got there found thirteen year old suffering from a
gunshot wound. Officer said the teenager was taking a UC
Medical Center where the person was listed in critical condition. Again,

(54:11):
just announced on Friday they passed away sad. According to
Captain Bradbury, Eighteen year old Ryan Cup of Independence turned
himself into the police after a warrant was issued, now
facing charges of assault in the shooting of the thirteen
year old. If you have any information, though, you need
to get in touch with the Coming To Police Department.
They would love to hear from you, or just go
straight to Crime Stoppers, which also handles Northern Kentucky five one, three, three, five,

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two thirty forty six point thirty six or fifty five
ker CD talk station don't go away planning to talk
about it coming up and.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I see the talk station.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Six forty on a Monday five three seven nine fifty
five hundred, eight hundred eighty two three taco a ton
five fifty. If you have an AT and T, punk
kind of feel like I need to jump into the
stack is stupid. We had a bunch of callers in
the five o'clock yard didn't even do one stack of stupid.
I know there's a lot going on in the world, still,
it's Monday, so let me just start with this one.

(55:06):
It's not a stack of stupid, but uh I no
fan of cruises, am I? I know a lot people
love cruises. I am. I just psychologically just feel trapped
in one because one of the one cruise that I
went on and it was beautiful, did the inside passage
to alask And my feeling the whole time I was
on the boat is I want to go over there,

(55:27):
and it's out of your control. You can't get off
the boat. It's a weird feeling. Especially it's weird if
there's some sort of horrific outbreak. It's a giant Petrie
dish and the boats just keep getting bigger and bigger
and bigger. It's like a floating city out there, and

(55:47):
you have hantavirus to have to concern yourself with. Now
three people are dead, multiple others have apparently come down
with this hantovirus a court to the World Health Organization,
they said one case of Hannah virus infection has been
laboratory confirmed, five initial suspected cases pending. Of the six
people affected, three again dead, others in intensive care in

(56:08):
South Africa. It's a cruise ship floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
Huh how did that happen? This hanavirus infection is typically
linked to the exposure to infected rodent urine or feces.
I just leave you with that. Can I get off

(56:35):
the boat? Please? Uh?

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Here in Ohio, I guess people are bat crapping staying
up in the Greater Toledo area. Does anybody in the
listening audience believe in Bigfoot? I didn't get a hand
from Jus Tracker, so the we don't have any votes
in favor of Bigfoot. Are you a member of the
Ohio Nightstalkers Bigfoot Research Group? That's a thing. I'm just

(57:02):
wondering whether the Ohio Nightstalker's Bigfoot Research Group got a
handout from the government to haramth like Zorhan Mom, Doabby
handing out five hundred thousand dollars amid a multi billion
dollar budget crisis in New York so people can get
together and are encouraged to sit down and begin a
discussion on reparations. Now you heard that, right, incentive to

(57:25):
get people to talk about it, and also providing refreshments.
So does a bigfoot organization get handed the cookie jarm?
Just leave that as a side note. But there are
actually people believe in Bigfoot. Now. We live in a
society where we have literally phones everywhere. If you haven't
got the memo on that everything is recorded by somebody
with a cell phone. We got photograph, not like the

(57:47):
old days where you get a grainy image of bigfoot.
You think, well, that's kind of normal. Who walks around
with cameras and and well there was no video. Who
walks around with movie camera and takes random videos out
in the wilderness. Nobody. That's why video as a hoax,
the original one, you know, the one I'm talking about. Well,
the Ohio nightstalk or Bigfoot Research Group says, well, there's
a bunch of new evidence now, and you know why,

(58:08):
It's because we had a bad winter. According to the
New York Post, reporting on this, Yes, because we had
a bad winter, and they roll back the clock to
nineteen seventy eight when we had the worst winter on record,
and apparently the number of sightings of Bigfoot jumped after
that very cold winter. So the folks over to Hio
nightstalkers will saying that's what it is. But what evidence
do you have? Literally nothing but random people who are

(58:31):
taking pictures of footprints. Do you think the footprints are
real or do you think someone manufactured them? I bet
you don't even have to fake a footprint, you know,
like pushing snow down or drawing one on the ground
to take a picture of it. You probably Joe chat
GPT have it, create a Bigfoot footprint and then post
it online so folks up in the Portage County can

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look at it and say, look, more evidence of Bigfoot.
One guy captured recordings of apparent howls, which he says
didn't match any known animal in North America, apparently an
expert on all things animals in North America, saying some
of those screams pegged higher than a bad moon on
the spectrograph, and that is evidence shaky at best, And

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as the post points out, no one. Not a single
human being, not even the diehard Bigfoot spotters, have managed
to take a photograph or video or anything that suggests
the existence of Bigfoot. I think they live in a
colony right over there, next to the chupacabra and the
lizard people. Six forty five ifty five krsit the talk station.

(59:46):
It's a Monday, give me a break. Galaxy concrete coatings,
six fifty fifty five karsite talk stations. Okay, I'm convinced.
Try to have a little fun on the Monday morning.
We're going back to that sasquatch story. Hey, just guess what,
Joe Jrekker went to chat GPT and created footprints in

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the snow. Those are sasquatch footprints. I can see it.
There's no there's no animal in North America, Joe that
could make a footprint like that. That must be a sasquatch.
Put that up on the blog page if you have
Casey dot com, Joe, so you can convince every every
other non believer out in the world that they're well,
there exists sasquatches. Let's see what Todd's got. Todd, thanks

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for calling an adultomy there for a moment. Welcome to
the Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Good morning, Brian. I think I can end this old
swatchquatch sasquatch thing. I'm from south to the River and
have worked with and hang around with a lot of
blue collar I don't want to use the redneck term,
so I'll just call them good old boys. Do you
know any Do you know any self respecting good old

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boy that would not want a bigfoothead our sasquatch had
mounted on his wall?

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Absolutely not everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
If they, if they were out there, they would have
got one, right all I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Saying, right, you can charge ten you know, it's like
fifty cents to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Hey, look it's a scotsquatch head.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
If you had one, you'd make millions and billions of
dollars because people around the globe would pay you to
take a look at it. You good, good point, thought Todd.
Let me ask you, where do sasquatch go to die?
How come there have been no found dead sasquatches in
the wilderness.

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
That's been my question to any sasquatch hunter. I mean,
if they're that good, they would have found.

Speaker 9 (01:01:37):
Some remains somewhere, somewhere, and.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
On and on a slightly more serious note, I've neglected
to say this the last few times I called in.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
It's an answer to a lot of most of our local, statewide,
and even national problems. Very serious here, So pay attention.
Oh vote Democrats, Thank you very much, Thank.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
You, Todd. Question, did Noah gather two of the sasquatch
and put them on the arc asking for my religious friends?

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
You noticed having a bit of a time here on
the Monday morning. All right, I do want to go
back to this stack is stupid, springing from a loosely
related springing from the reality that, given the ubiquitous nature
of photographs and video these days, somebody would have had
a picture of it. The sad reality is the ubiquitous

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nature of well recording devices these days. We go to
the stack is stupid, and we go to a DoorDash
driver from New York, Olivia Henderson. She's twenty three now
facing charges of unlawful surveillance in the second degree as
well as dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the
first degree. Those are both felonies in New York. Led

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not guilty this past Friday morning, each count carrying a
maximum of four years in prison. We rewind to Octoe
October twelfth of last year, when Henderson made a doorn
ash food delivery to a person in Oswego. Oswego Police
Department said she recorded this guy who was passed out
on his couch. The door was slightly ajar. Apparently the

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guy got drunk and passed out. Sadly for him and
ultimately for her, his pants and underwear were pulled down
around his ankles as he was passed out on the couch.
So I'm sure you can come up with a mental
image of that. So she opens the door a little
bit and decided to take film of him, recording taken
without his consent. Henderson later posted on the video on

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TikTok quickly quickly amassed millions of views. Of course it did.
Henderson accusing court documents of degrading the victim by filming
intimate parts of his person in a place in time
where he he had reasonable expectation of his privacy without
that person's knowledge or consent. Now, her initial response was
her that her TikTok post that she actually got sexually

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harassed during the delivery. Well, the Oswego Police Department looked
into that and decided sorry honey, sucks to be you.
There's no evidence to support that claim, and the customer
cooperated with authorities and was determined that he simply passed
out from alcohol consumption in the privacy of his own home.
Her door Dash account was in fact deactivated and she

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scheduled to be back in court in jim Also, yet
another report of a physician recording people in the bathroom.
Kind of makes you wonder when you go to some
private place where the eyes are and if eyes are
upon you, doesn't it six fifty five ifty five kc
de talxation don't go away.

Speaker 12 (01:04:51):
We'll figure.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Seven oh six at fifty five KR. See the talk station.
Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be Glad to have
Joe Strectory belongs in the executive reducer boost the lining
up guests, including saving Me from Myself as like to
point out love guests on the morning show Smithervan It's
smither Event Monday, coming up at seven to twenty Christopher
Smithman from Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati with

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stuff and things to talk about. Maybe he'll chime in.
I don't know, maybe he'll chime in on you and
I paying for a new teardown and creation of a
brand new scoreboard at pay Corpse Stadium twelve million dollars.
For that, just I find it particularly insulting to have
to deal with this concept that you and I work

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so that we can provide upgrades for the Brown family.
How many times have you personally set foot in pay
Course Stadium and thank you for a cribbage Mike, my
submariner friend who I hopefully will be playing cribbage with
on a listener to lunch this coming Wednesday, snows Lakeside Tavern,
real close to the two seventy five corad Avenue exit.

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But he chimed in on this topic, and so it's
a total of like twelve million dollars. They're going to
tear down the pay Corpse Stadium sign the scoreboard at
a cost of five point seven million dollars, which is
approved by the County commissioners the other day, and then
an additional sum roughly six million dollars to put a
new one in oh and also upgrade the visitor's locker room,

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which at least according to count commissioners, will enhance the
fan experience. So Mike did some quick math. Twelve million
dollars the county's going to spend on the scoreboard rip
out an install divided by the nine Bengals games that
comes in at a price tag of one point three
three million dollars per game. Now, if you want to say, well,
if they play fifteen games, okay, that is a clues

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away game. So he did the numbers for fifteen, eight
hundred thousand dollars per game. Will you be enjoying a
greater fan experience? I don't think that I need one,
because I have a better fan experience than it would
if I went to the Bengals game because I can
watch it on TV. I got my own beer, it
doesn't cost twelve dollars. I have better food, and I
have better bathroom accommodations. And I have to pay a
whole bunch of money for parking.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
I did pay six dollars a gallon for premium the
other day. And I know that has nothing to do
with this, but you know, it's when all these other
financial pressures show up and then you realize as I do,
and I hope you take this into account. Like I
regularly point out, I worked for that. There are elected
officials that decided in their infinite wisdom that you and
I are supposed to pay for this stuff, and I

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think it's insulting and going back to guvernor to Wine,
I don't necessarily think that we need to get rid
of the gasoline tax because gasoline's gone through the roof.
He rejected it out of hand. It was proposed by
one of our elected officials here in OHI well, just
roll back the gas tank. That'll say a gas tax,
say forty cents a gown for people who are being
harmed and are feeling the pain of the gasoline increase,
you know. And that was that article was underneath the

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article about Hamilton County approving basically twelve million dollars to
tear out a sign and put in a new one
to enhance the fan experience. Governor of Wine rejected giving
you and I some relief at the pomp. Fine. There
are arguments to be made for why that shouldn't have
It shouldn't happen, and he's not gonna let it happen.
He says the roads will fall apart if we don't
have the gas tax. I wonder if since they got
the memo on that, because the roads are falling apart,

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in the city of Cincinnati, again elected officials deciding that
there are other priorities for you and I. But this
is the same governor apparently said it was aoka to
give the Cleveland Browns family six hundred million dollars for
their stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
And then there's the whole concept of the death spiral. Fortunately,
people can leave if you're not happy with the taxation system.
Thank God for the freedom of travel we enjoy in
this country. I mentioned Zorhan Mandabia proving five hundred thousand
dollars in it's paltry sum, but for the purpose of
taking taxpayer dollars to get people to sit down and
talk about reparations. And it's as simple as that. Yes,

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here's money to get to see the concept of people
getting together to create a reparation's plan. So it's like
two steps removed from even a proposal coming out, so
they don't have one. So he's paying people who are
involved in the concept of reparations to sit down together

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on some fashion and discuss discuss putting together a proposal.
They need incentive for that. I guess there aren't enough
people out there that are willing to engage in a
debate because it's something they truly want and are willing
to spend some time to get it accomplished. Fortunately, people
can leave New York City And isn't Zorhamandami a reflection

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of how unbelievably crazy our country has become that a
socialist slash communist could get elect did this should be?
It's a canary in the coal mine, folks, And it's
way beyond that. Someone running as a socialist and getting
a sizeable percentage of people interested in voting for him

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is just a frightening concept. But this guy won and
he is now running the largest one of the largest
cities in the world, and his concepts and his ideas
for the taxpayer dollars are bat crap, insane, and obviously
cost the New York City a tremendous amount of money
because people are leaving. They've lost about a quarter of
a million residents since twenty twenty one. Reportedly six thousand

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businesses have closed or relocated out of New York in
the past couple of years. Wealth decline is escalating, and
of course, when you can't pay for what you've promised already,
you got to tax people more. And that's the proposal
coming from Mondami. We're just going to tax people more,
not fully appreciating that more people will leave. This happens

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everywhere it's been tried. Seattle is another great illustration. Net
loss of thirteen thousand jobs last year downtown area alone.
People have left, corporations have left. Starbucks of all places,
moved over into operations into Nashville, Tennessee, out of Seattle.
Why well, in a city that has one of the

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highest business failure rates in the entire nation. Apparently taxation
is a problem. And I think of the global tax
that the UN proposes. You know, there shall be nothing
less than at least a fifteen percent tax on all
corporations in the globe. Why is that? Well, they know
you can leave. See, this is the problem for the

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United States. When you enter our country, the reason you
come here is probably because your country sucks on some level.
We are a country that has a social welfare safety
net that literally any human being in the world that
actually gets into our country can hook themselves up to
how long is that going to last? But they fled

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the misery that whatever form of government brought them and
come here because obviously we have it a lot better here.
No one in the planet lives on a higher standard
than Americans generally speaking, that is, people of all socioeconomic
incomes right across the spectrum. And what's happening in those
other countries? Collapse? Financial collapse. What's happening in the cities

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where they have adopted socialism slash communism? Economic collapse? New
York City? What five point four billion dollar deficit city?
Cincinnati also struggling with his own deficit? Where's the money going?
Have they prioritized things properly? Are they using your tax
payer dollars in a way that benefits everyone equally? Or

(01:12:47):
are they well handing out money to their friends? Right?
You know the answer to that question, it's a rhetortal one.
So a little bit myffed about this this morning, folks,
and I go back to the funding of stadiums, question
of priorities, in a question of our taxpayer dollars, our
labor being used in ways that I truly do not
personally believe, and I'd like to think the vast majority

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of people don't believe, are benefiting the taxpayers equally across
the board in ways that we well again could all
benefit like roads. Going back to governor to one. I'm
not rolling back the gas tax. You're gonna you're stuck
with the pain. Go ahead and blame Donald Trump or
whoever you want to blame for it. But we need
our roads taken care of. That's a good argument. We

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can all benefit from good roads.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
City.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Since he hasn't gotten that memo either. Five on three
seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight
two three talk seven nineteen coming up a seven twenty
fifty by pair see the talk station. Thank God, it's
Monday and God Christopher smitheman's on the phone. I'm a
vice mayor of the city of Cincenia and a little
thing we call Monday Morning smither Vent in honor of
my father and the spleen vent he used to do

(01:13:55):
before he passed. Welcome back, Christopher. I hope you had
a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
It's good to have you on the show as always.

Speaker 6 (01:14:00):
Man, Thank you man. Nobody fills the shoes of your father.
Nobody I listened to nobody, nobody did we just we
just sent hump we just we just sit humbly at
his feet. Yeah, as he watches.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
You say that, man, I just go right back to
the dinner table growing up, man, Dad. That's right, Dad
was the king of the dinner table. We had so
many awesome conversations about politics growing up. Man. I just
have such fond memories of my father and those dinners
and those family dinners.

Speaker 12 (01:14:33):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
I know you have great fond memories of family dinners
as well, Christopher.

Speaker 6 (01:14:37):
I do. But you know, again, we're in your we're
in your father's zone, and as your mother listens to this,
we just hope that we're doing him any little service
as she watches and listens to her own son do
the show and me trying to fill his shoes. So
it's just that's just reality, buddy. It is as we
as we approach Mother's Day, Happy Mother's Day, Early Mother's

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Day to your your mom, and happy early Mother's Day
to your wife.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
So thank you for that.

Speaker 6 (01:15:05):
Yeah, let me say thank you, brother. Let me say this.
You know this administrative hearing, so again staying on what's
going on with Chief Fiji, our police chief who was
wrongfully fired without cause? The reason I can say that,
so the public is listening, say how can smitham and
just say that because there's nothing in her file. There's

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no written reprimands, and there are two law firms that
couldn't come up with a reason. So not only could
the city manager not come up with something, but the
law firms hired didn't come back with anything.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Yeah, going back to me feeling insulted about how they
spend taxpayer dollars. Fortunately, I don't spend taxpayer dollars in
the City of Cincinnati. But there's another insult right there.
One hundred thousand dollars or a couple of law firms
to try to find a reason to justify post a
Hawk her being placed on administrative leaving and fired. Man,
that's insulting to the tax if they took a moment

(01:16:01):
in time to even contemplate it. But go ahead, Christopher,
I'm sorry to interject.

Speaker 6 (01:16:04):
No, but but no, no, no, but no, no. I
like it when you interject because I know that you're
listening audience. As they're listening, they're wanting to interject, right,
because so here's the reality of it is. On the
backstop of what you just said is they know that
we have a thirty million dollar deficity, right, and so
they're spending money in one hand, and on the other hand,

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they're telling us we're about to raise your income tax
because we need more money and we can't figure it out.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
And going back to my point about New York City
and Seattle, that that means more people are going to
leave the city of Cincinnati, Right, Christopher, can't you anticipate.

Speaker 6 (01:16:41):
That one hundred percent? You're going to see businesses saying
I'm out of here because they're going to say it's
just cheaper and safer. Those two things. Maybe not in
that order. They might say safer and cheaper. Listen, let
me remind everybody that Procter Gamble has a Mason campus
that is massive. I guarantee you they're thinking about moving

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employees who are downtown that will say, listen, I don't
want to walk outside at six o'clock or seven o'clock
in the middle of the winter when they change the
time and it's dark. I'm not comfortable. Okay, we don't
want to lose you. You're going to Mason. Matter of fact,
it's closer to where you live. The reality of it is,
it's already happening. It's just slowly and quietly because companies

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like Procer Gambo don't like to rock the boat. But
going back to Chief Fiji. Here's what's happening. Their lawyer said,
we are going to do it administrative hearing, the one
we had with Kangaroo Court. We want a real one.
And what I see politically the lawyer's doing you're a lawyer,
your wife's a lawyer. Is they want to go to

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the judge and say, we did everything, we followed the
city's process. We've bent over backwards to try to get
the city to do the right thing, meaning we went there,
we had an administrative hearing, and they still said with
no cause, you're fired and you cannot have your job
at Yes. So now they go to the judge and say, listen, hey,

(01:18:06):
we fired her. The judge is, why did you fire this?

Speaker 8 (01:18:09):
Pull a file out.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
There's nothing any here, It's a blank piece of paper.
You just can't go into the courtroom like that. My
point is that watching Fiji's lawyer go to work, they
are just following the process and they're asking the city listen,
I want a real hearing. I want my client to
come in. I want you to tell her what all
the charges are. I want you to tell her to

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her face and give her an opportunity in front of
a neutral arbitrator say yes or no to what the
city is saying. The city doesn't want that hearing, because
if that happens in the and the officer, the hearing
officer says she gets her job back, what does the
city then do?

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
Good point, there we are she's exhausted that she can
walk in the straight face after having to file suit
because presumably that administrative hearing to the extendate happens is
going to end up the same way. Then she goes
into court and files a wrongful termination lawsuit. Can say
with a straight phrase, we have exhausted all non judicial remedies.
We tried. We went through the entire process, even though
we knew it was a waste of time. But there

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you have it. Now it's time to have a day
in court. It's good point, Christopher, I understand exactly what
her lawyer's doing.

Speaker 6 (01:19:17):
Twelve in the box, and everybody should continue to watch
this because on the other side of this, she mean
while I can and hearing, meaning he had a three
panel hearing, that decision is probably going to come back
in June, and most likely there's going to be a
trial this summer. With twelve in the box, they have
nothing of why they fire Chief Washington, and they most

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likely are going to pay something massive at the end
of this lawsuit period for the fire chief. So I
want everybody to realize, we've got two things going on
at the same time. We've got a fire chief wrongfully fired.
We've got a police chief wrongfully fired, and we have
a city manager that seems like she doesn't know what
she's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
And what's the whole that we've got here for the
City of sin saying budget Christopher thirty million, Well, you
can add a little bit more of that after a
five six million dollars payout in each of those lawsuits.
If you just want to pull a random figure from
your sphincter, why not. There's a large, sizeable chunk of
the deficit. It's going to increase by that much. And

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that's just the only two of the lawsuits.

Speaker 6 (01:20:22):
And it's really hard to tell the judge you don't
have that kind of money when you just gave a
point one million to people who were downtown rioting, and
you gave them a point one million in a smoky
room away from the public, you settled the case instead
of saying, why don't we take this to trial? We
should have put twelve in the box and see if
you could find a jury that would say we agree

(01:20:44):
with this. No, you settled it. You gave eight point
one million. So the police chief and fire chief lawyer
are going to say, and the judge Hey says, you've
got eight point one million for this. You've got eight
million over here for the music that you Why don't
you have eight million for her? Why don't you have
eight million for him? Does you have the money?

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
Let's keep it rolling.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Yeah, they're not smart.

Speaker 6 (01:21:06):
They're just not smart.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
No, they're not. Let's bring Christopher back. Got a couple
more segments with Christopher Smitheman and the smither Vent. Now
that spring gets you a roof and your gutters and
your sighting and your soft it's inspected by my friends
at Fasten Pro Roof into the best. Fatially thirty one
on a Monday, talking with Christopher Smitheman for the smither Vent.
Christopher Smitheman, more on your mind. I'm certain good to
have you on the show this morning. What else?

Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
Look, brother, we have an election tomorrow. Lots of voters
are casting votes, and very appreciate, appreciative of people who
go out and engage the political process. Vek Ramaswami is
running for a governor for the state of Ohio and

(01:21:53):
he is the candidate that I'm endorsing as that money
must thank you. We must have this candidate, common sense
businessman in the chair in November. Too many of our
cities are breaking in the wrong direction. Okay, we lose

(01:22:19):
the governorship, and I the state of Ohio is in
trouble based on what I see with crime, education, budget,
all of those things. So this is a consequential race.
And what is so frustrating is to watch the Democrats
listen to this pivot attempt to paint the veak Ramaswami

(01:22:45):
as an outsider. Let me just let them know. I
know that President Lincoln figned in an executive order called
the Emancipation Proclamation, and I know clearly who voted for
every amendment that free plays. He said, smithman, why are
you talking about that? Because the Republican Party is the

(01:23:06):
party of freedom. The Republican Party is that party. It's
the Dixiecrats that we're worried about. And they're the ones
taking the VEC and putting him in a cowboy hat
and sending him out on the internet. By the way,
David Pepper, the Democrat who wants to try to paint

(01:23:29):
him like he's some outsider, here's what he doesn't get.
We understand and are much smarter than that. We're operating
at a big and higher level. Our connection with the
VEC is his values. We want a governor in there
that will look issues in the face like crime and

(01:23:52):
say we've got to solve this, no matter who's committing
the crime. Right, We've got to deal with education in
our state. We cannot have third graders not being able
to read and think it's okay. We have a culture
right now. Brian Thomason says it's okay everything. No child
left behind. Children are being left behind, and the super

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majority of those children that are being left behind are
black and brown kids and Appalachian children across this great state.
And we have a man that's coming in saying I
don't want to do the status quo because I understand
that getting a good education is one of the top
ways for someone to get into the middle class. We

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just cannot continue to turn out students that cannot read
and do arithmetic and think this state is going to
compete because when the jobs come here, we need people
to feel those jobs, who are ready to feel those jobs.
And the last thing I'll say about it is, I
like when the ve talks a lot of space for

(01:24:56):
vocational work, he understands, Look, dude, that the future of
our country is vocational, meaning those men and women out
there who are iron workers, who are out there who
are carpenters, those workers that are electricians and plumbers and
pipe fitters, and they make a lot of money. That
is what he's focused on. And so this notion that

(01:25:20):
the administrative administration of a lot of these school districts
are saying we want to protect what we have, and
we've got a governor that's coming in and saying, listen,
we got to change things. I want some results. I
want to pay you for results. He doesn't know exactly
every single detail, because when you become the governor, you're
going to be faced with a lot of different challenges.

(01:25:41):
The fact that he's willing to take it on is
absolutely a great reason to cast a vote for our children,
for a future for the state of Ohio. And that
is why I'm supporting the vak Aramaswami for the next
governor of the state of Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Yeah, and you got to remember, whoever we vote to
run as the Republican side of the Ledger in primary
tomorrow is the one that's going to be battling against
Amy Lockdown Actin. Ask yourself a question, who is a
better person to argue in a debate with Amy Acton?
And I could take out Amy Acting and to put
who's a better person arguing a debate with literally any
human being? And I think vivig romiswa I'm going to
be right up on top of most people's list if

(01:26:17):
you learn, if you listen to them, and you appreciate
his unbelievable intellect and his ability to talk on the
fly about all the issues that we find so important.
One more with Christopher Smitheman. It's seven thirty six right now,
fifty five KRSD talk station seven forty at fifty five
CARSD talk station Bright the time with Christopher Smitheman, and
a shout out to you, Christopher, from Jeff and me

(01:26:39):
to Jeff and the crew at Mark Contol. They're doing
work that you're talking about. That's uh, you know, trade work.
They make stuff, it's machine tool stuff. They listen every
morning and he always chimes in. He accuses you of
making too much sense this morning as usual, Christopher Smitheman,
So good morning to the crew at mark Con and Jeff,
my dear friend who listens to my recommendations. I think

(01:27:00):
these are a lot of my recordations. Almost every sponsor
that I recommend always chiming in when I speak of them.
So good morning to those guys, and welcome back, Christopher.
What else is on your mind?

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
I usually don't talk about national issues, but this one
plays in to local. Okay, we have a president that
has decided to do something about Iran, and all of
us have been watching this unfold. Every president, Democrat or

(01:27:33):
Republican prior to this president President Trump say they wanted
to do something about Iran. We had a president that's
sent a flab of cash. We've had presidents that have
sent money. We've had presidents that have negotiated terms while
they continue to build a nuclear weapon and literally telling

(01:27:56):
us when we get one, we're going to blow blow
up Israel, We're gonna blow up Europe, and we're gonna
blow up the United States States of America. So we
elect a president that actually believes that what they're saying
is true. I'm sure if satellites out over there are
showing these guys are over here trying to really get

(01:28:18):
this nuclear bomb. And every single president, Democrat or Republican,
every senator like a shoot like Schumer, Senator Schumer, we
can see their speeches where they said Iran cannot get
a weapon, a nuclear weapon. What is it about us
that we our memories are so short as voters that

(01:28:41):
we can't see the hypocrisy of what these people are
talking about. President Trump isn't doing anything different than what
every single president and United States senator and congressional members
said they wanted to do the something about it. He's
not actual need a lion in the Wizard of Allz

(01:29:02):
with no courage. He actually has courage, and he's saying
I'm gonna do something about it. I'm gonna be the
president that says we're gonna stop Iran in their tracks.
We as voters have to be willing to feel the
pain at our pumps in order for us to get
this right. We've got to be willing to march for

(01:29:23):
the next couple of weeks Americans and pay a little
hire and fuel and not allow the Democrats to connect
it to our voting When you've got a president who's
thinking about long term. See tomorrow, when people are voting,
they're going, oh, man, looking the guests, right, go.

Speaker 5 (01:29:39):
See five dollars, I see four fifty.

Speaker 6 (01:29:41):
I'm mad at somebody. No, You've got a president in
the White House, no matter what you think about him,
is saying I'm not gonna let a country get a
nuclear bomb that says they want to destroy us, and
I'm not gonna let it happen on my watch. I'm
gonna deal with it now, unlike the other presidents who

(01:30:02):
kept kicking it down the road. Oh let me just
give them money, Let me just try to negotiate with him.
You cannot negotiate with them. We're clearly seeing it. Every
single document that comes from I ran right now says
I want a bomb. I want a bomb, I want
a bomb, And the president is saying, listen, this is
a no stopper here. So to every voter out there,

(01:30:25):
do not allow them to confuse you on the short term.
Right me, As a financial printer, you've got to think
long term here, and you've got to be willing to
do something. This is why the Great, the Great Age
of World War two and all of those veterans who
you've been supporting ever since, ever since the beginning of

(01:30:46):
your show, that that generation is dying off. We have
to have Americans that are willing to sacrifice, have deferred gratification.
We understand that this president is trying to do something
that no other president, congressional member, or senator, no matter
how many speeches they gave, no matter how many times

(01:31:06):
they said they didn't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon,
they did nothing. We should be celebrating what this president
is doing and saying, hey, guess what, Iran, You're not
gonna get a weapon, not on my watch. And I
just wanted to highlight that as we go into this election,
can we not get confused about fuel prices and why
those prices are high, because guess what, the last administration

(01:31:30):
had the prices higher than this. Yeah, but it was
about windmills, it was about electric cars, it was about
taking away our rights about what we want to drive.
This is about our national security. It's about the future
of our great great great great great great great great grandchildren.
To say, we're not going to allow a country that

(01:31:51):
is saying death to America get a nuclear bomb. Brian Thomas,
you have to say that he did directly connected to
the election.

Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
You did, and you know, I love that you made
the point about Biden administration, the prices were higher than
they are now, or at least roughly about the same,
even that was because of green energy policies. If you're
angry about the current price of gasoline, you're gonna vote
for someone on the Democratic side of the Ledger who
is actively campaigning on exactly doing that again and shrining

(01:32:20):
it in legislation that it will forever drive up the
cost of your gallon of gas. You're gonna turn your
eyes to the reality of that. And because you're angry
right now that you had to pay five bucks a
gallon and that's a temporary thing. And if you don't
believe it's temporary, come on the straight. H Hoorn moves.
Ultimately will open. It's not going to remain closed forever.
The world will ultimately have to say, you know what,

(01:32:40):
enough's enough, and how they respond and ultimately do that
remains to be seen. But you know, once the strait
is open, this is gonna go away. It is a
temporary pain, and it is a pain. But someone would
turn their back on that and then also be voting
for no school choice lgbt QI A plus agenda. DEEI
woke all of it, all these eighty twenty issues where

(01:33:02):
you and I are on the eighty side of the
ledger with the American voter. You're going to turn your
back on that and vote for all of those twenty
percent issues that the Democrat has the Democrats have embraced.
That's socialism, Christopher.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
I is.

Speaker 6 (01:33:16):
And I've been watching the news, you know, this morning,
and all you hear them talking about are fuel prices.
I've never seen it, like, oh, let me tell you
where in this part of because of what fuel prices are,
they are literally trying to confuse voters. And you said
it just right. There's a difference between a geopolitical transaction

(01:33:37):
that's happening that is not permanent, and what they're talking about,
which is permanent, meaning these prices I paid. I drive
a diesel. I paid over six dollars a gallon for
diesel under Biden. Okay, I'm sharing with you as an
American when I understand what is happening, which I do.

(01:33:59):
I do mind sacrificing for our military, for our country
that has been so beneficial to me. It is un
American to root for Iran. So when I'm watching the
news this morning and I see people on TV rooting
for Iran, you know, basically saying, man, they're gonna hit
a boat. They're gonna do so, it's like these news

(01:34:20):
people have lost their minds. We live in America and
our team is USA. That's the team we're on, right.
I'm not saying we do everything perfectly every time. That's
not my point. USA is my team. Iran is not
my team, and they are saying they win a nuclear
bomb to blow us up. No matter whether you're Black Americans,

(01:34:44):
whether you're white Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans,
whatever you call yourself straight or not straight, when that
nuclear bomb hits you, you're gonna burn up, like everybody's
gonna burn up. This is a united front. Where are
Democrats and Republicans and independence. This is why I'm an
Independent because sometimes these parties drive me completely nuts. I

(01:35:07):
do not understand how Senator Schumer can look in the
camera and act like he's been saying for the last
three to four to five decades, Iran cannot get a
nuclear weapon, and now he's totally done a switch on
us when he finally has a president that happens to
be Republican that he doesn't like. He acts as if

(01:35:28):
something bad is happening. It's not. He's trying to weaponize
fuel prices and tell voters don't vote for this person
because of short term pain. We need to tell all
of our children, all of our family members, be Americans,
support our country, and let's have a long game on
this one and say I don't mind suffering as Americans

(01:35:50):
for this president, this White House, for our military who
are over there doing a job so that future generations
never have to deal with Iran again. And I just
wanted to connect.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
I'm glad you did to the election prior to people voting,
and let's just put an exclamation point on as we part.
Coming to this morning, Christopher Smitheman smither Schumer is being
critical of Trump. He is attempting to say gas price
is high because evil Orange man. What is he offering
by way of alternative solution. The silence on that one

(01:36:21):
is deafening. Christopher Smithvan going back to the other points
that you made. God bless you, sir. I love you.
Coming on the program every week.

Speaker 6 (01:36:27):
People can focus people can find me in between these
shows on X or on Twitter whatever they call it,
formerly all of those things at vote smither Man. Thank
you so much, Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
We'll talk next Monday. Have a great week, my friend
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(01:37:01):
Can I see you're still with all Worth or you
now have a name change, Brian, Just get that little
item out of the way up front.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Now thing has changed, No name change. We just have
a new investment partner. We apparently are doing some things right,
and some other organizations want to get in on the action.
I guess. But my job is still my job and
the name is still the name. No big changes there.

Speaker 1 (01:37:19):
All right, and no shock here. The gas prices, obviously,
I have an inflationary effect, the ripple effect. It comes
logically and reasonably since everything in this country moves based
on diesel or gasoline. We have inflation jumping, and now
it's it as fast as patients May twenty twenty three.
And I think the information that CNN reported in the

(01:37:40):
article we're talking about here suggest over and over again
we have just we're just on a continuing trend of
inflation which has been going on for a long time
at a rapid pace. And this is one more exacerbating factor,
this most recent spike because of the straight of horror moves.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
You remember the campaign promised that inflation was going to
go away on day one.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
Yeah, I never believe that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
Yeah, I really really will super wanted that to happen
if we're going to go this route.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
But do you remember when politicians actually were on the
campaign trail telling us things that we just couldn't believe,
and yet they said it anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
That I do remember, Yeah, that's been that's been around
for decades.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:17):
So now the reason we're whining about this still again
today inflation is heating back up again uh PC inflation
up three and a half percent year over year. And
as we all hopefully you know by now that the
Fed really wants us to be at two percent. We're
all much happier when we're around two percent. But again,
the pesky inflation is hanging around three and a half percent.
Core PCE, which people both love and hate.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
This excludes food and energy. I get it, the stuff
that we have to have. Yeah, period, Well do you
take that out make it look better? Yep, it doesn't
look that much better. It's so three point two percent.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
And again the reason that is done and I understand
I'm not an economist either, but Andy Stout has beaten
me over the head with why this is important. Food
and energy are really, really, really volatile. So true, either
of them can have a huge spike or a huge decline,
and that will not tell the story of all the
other stuff that we have to So we got to
look at it two different ways. Anyway, core PCE without
food and energy is up three point two percent. Whatever,

(01:39:11):
moral of the story is, everything is up a good
chunk over three. We did have a monthly spike in
March of a point seven percent. That's the biggest jump, Brian,
we've had since twenty twenty two. And where's this coming from?
Will go figure? Gas and energy spending surge dramatically and
that drove much of the increase. Want the spending as
well as the actual price itself due to what's going
on around the world. Of course, a lot of geopolitical tension,

(01:39:33):
oil disruption coming out of the Iran conflict. Now, this
has not affected spending so much. Spending rows one point
nine percent in March, almost one percent. A large chunk
of that that is in people going, hey, let's go
treat ourselves to steak dinners tonight because we're feeling good.
It's simply inflation. So when you look dollars to dollars,
what were we spending versus what are we spending, we're

(01:39:54):
up close to one percent. That's coming from inflation mostly.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Yeah, And one of the economists in the article that says,
even if you take out the effects of the war
and Iran, price growth is climbing, which is a cause
for concern. And I guess since we're still spending. Although
your point is well taken on, you know, if you
adjust for inflation, maybe not. But is the next step
people belt tightening, which sounds to me in an inflationary
environment that we stagflation wouldn't if we stop buying a

(01:40:18):
lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:40:19):
That's literally the definition of stagflation. That's a that's a
term that brings back the seven bell bottoms and disco
balls and all that. That's a seventies term right when
prices are going up, but the economy is not growing.
So maybe the FED kind of is stuck in a
bind right now. Inflation is too high to justify cutting rates.
That wouldn't make any sense. I'll make everything worse. And
the economy is not weak yet. I don't know that

(01:40:42):
I would say that, but it's not strong enough to
aggressively hike. So that's where we have this weight and
see policy, which which there's kind of nothing we can
do anyway. There is division growing internally within the FED,
so some of those governors want hikes, others want cuts,
some are undecided. And plus we have a leadership change
coming anyway soon here with Powell exiting, so who knows

(01:41:02):
how that's going to change policy. But I think in
the short run, I don't really expect much much verbiage
at all out of the FED. The economy underneath this
is it's kind of okay. The GDP is running around
two percent, Yeah, that's below where it potentially could be,
and we are starting to see some consumer fatigue. It's
just starting to pop up a little bit, not quite

(01:41:22):
in the numbers, but just kind of in the rhetoric.
And I'm hearing that from my clients as well, just
about people starting to think just a bit differently, that hey,
maybe this is going to hang around longer than we
were promised.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
Well, I suppose, since it points out the economy grew
to a two percent annualized rate, if the economy was
much hotter, like let's say it was, pick a random
figure five percent, doesn't the Fed intervene when the economy
is running too hot as well and raises interest rates
to deal with that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
Yeah, that's stepping on the brakes, right, So when the
economy is running too hot and it's triggering inflation, then
the Fed will lower rates to slow things down a bit.
Because the problem there is when you get when everybody
gets this sounds wonderful, right until you really kind of
under standard the relationships between all these things. Don't we
want a raging economy. Don't we want you know, things
gowing by you know, seven, eight, ten percent, fifteen percent

(01:42:07):
or whatever. Think about the country as a matter of fact,
if you go google the term economy grew by fifteen percent,
you're gonna get some podunk country in the middle of
nowhere that's about to go through a ridiculous inflation spiral.
That's why we don't want growth to be going that fast.
We simply can't keep up with it. A healthy developed
economy cannot operate that way because so think of it
this way. If you if you are at a place

(01:42:28):
where you've got a fifteen percent expansion, then you're going
to see a fifteen percent recession at some point. That's
not where we need to be, so we don't hope
for it. But yeah, that is that is what would
happen if we did have the economy running that fast.
The FED would step in to slow things down before
we have runaway inflation.

Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
Well, going back to your earlier point about you know
things that might temporarily impact the economy, and I view
the straight upoor moves closure as a temporary phenomenon. How
long it lasts is one thing, but certainly will open ultimately.
I can't imagine the globe would allow it to close permanently,
so that too will pass. But back to food. You know,
we had the egg the price of eggs going through
the roof, and people were screaming and yelling about that well,

(01:43:05):
you know when you got bird flu rolling through killing
off tens of millions of chickens, that is a necessary
consequence of that. And I use I say that just
because I'm wondering have we yet felt the impact? And
I've seen some gloom and doom articles about it, about
the fertilizer shortage because straight up horror moves apparently deals
with a whole lot of the globes fertilizer and it's

(01:43:25):
crop planning season if the farmers can't afford the fertilizer
or there's a limit unfertilizer. Are we seeing the impact
of that now because they have to pay more for it?
Or is this something we're going to see in inflationary reality
because the supply of food in a post in a
non fertilized crop is going to be a lot lower
down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
Well, yeah, we are seeing this appear in food prices,
not directly, right, of course. I'm tired of hearing about eggs, right,
eggs or what they are right?

Speaker 6 (01:43:50):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:43:50):
But yeah, we are seeing it a little bit, not
quite as fast as energy, of course, because energy is
the thing that gets right, gets hit right now, right away,
as soon as there's a headline at all affecting oil,
we're going to see a spike. It takes a little
longer for it to trickle through for people realize that
that does affect things like fertilizer as well. So the
reason this is because nitrogen fertilizers are made using natural gas.

(01:44:12):
So when energy prices spike, obviously that affects that trickles
through to fertilizer. The current. Of course, we have upward
pressure on that because it's the same stuff going on
in the Middle East that's also affecting natural gas markets,
so and that is a pretty quick reaction. Russia and
Belarus are major exporters of potash. We hear about that
every now and then. That's related to fertilizers. China is

(01:44:33):
involved in phosphates and they can play that game when
they need to. And we also saw fertilizer prices more
than double when the Ukraine War erupted because that that
whole region is there's a lot of fertilizer components that
come out of there. But it usually takes about a
three to nine month period before we start seeing this level.
Right they price at the pump that's tomorrow, more like

(01:44:54):
three to nine months before it trickles through, you know,
the cost of things like fertilizer showing up in the grocery.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
I can't allow your comment, your very logical and factually
accurate comment that fertilizer comes from natural gas, go without
pointing out like plastics and like nine gajillion other products
that we rely on and need, you need that evil
fossil fuel to make it so for all those global
warming and climate change folks out there, Brian, these are
my comments, not yours. Then go ahead stop the flow

(01:45:23):
of all of this and have fewer crops among everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
You know, I wish everybody could come back to the
middle just a little bit, because you're exactly right. This
isn't just about what you're putting into your car, and
you're not going to solve it by buying an EV immediately,
because there is way more than just goes what goes
into your gas tank. This is a much bigger issue there.
So it's not going to go away overnight.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
Thank you. Brian James will continue with Brian, so so
is security screwed up? He's going to elaborate on that
apparently cost widows and widowers in this particular case more
with Money Monday's Brian James stick around fifty five here
fifty five KERRCD Talk Station Bron Thomas wishing here moree
a very happy Monday and appreciating Money Monday's Brian James
for joining the show for a few segments talk about

(01:46:03):
these important money matters and for folks out there who
are widows and widowers getting social Security. Hey, look, our
government screwed up making calculations, Brian. I can't believe our
government would make a mistake. Go figure believable.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
I know, you know, you wake up sometimes you just
can't believe the headlines, and then sometimes you know, yeah,
well it's Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
They just put a little bug in here. As you
start to talk about this, maybe this type of thing,
which you'll elaborate here in a moment, is the reason
why some people don't want the irs to do their
taxes for them.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
You know I'm gonna push back on I know you are.
That's why I know, I know you already have it.
I pay taxes to send this crap to you, and
you're gonna do the math anyway. I know you're gonna
nitch te me after I return it. So you got me.

Speaker 1 (01:46:46):
Started go ahead. I know that's why I did it.
I know how to push your button. Brian Davis, That's okay,
But no, we really do have a kind of a
it's a pretty substantial screw up for the people that
this would impact it. And fifty bucks basically per person.

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
Yeah, that's the average happen here. Social Security basically forgot
to carry the one for a few decades and underpaid
widows and widowers by about fifty point four million dollars
total at the very least prime. We're talking millions and
not billions, So this is couch cushion change. Fortunately for
tax sures. Although everything apparently is that the root of
this is very boring. It was failure to properly apply

(01:47:20):
a complex formula called wind decks. And we are not
going into that.

Speaker 4 (01:47:24):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:47:24):
I read it, and I'm like, there's no way Bride's
going to explain this.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
And I'm just giving this article for my name wind Decks.

Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
That's the thing that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
Reminds me of got to clean the windows tonight. So
even more alarming, you know, fifty three hundred survivors may
have missed another one hundred and thirteen million dollars due
to bad or missing advice on win to claim. That's
another issue too, But the average missed opportunity is about
twenty one thousand per person. So of course these errors
tend to hit lower income seniors, right if these are
widows and widowers in a lot of cases, these are

(01:47:51):
the people who really this is it. There's only they
only have Social Security for that source of income. There's
a lot of people who are only in that timeframe.
And this is efects claims that were processed between two
thousand and one and twenty twenty three, and it came
up the armies. We're even talking about is because there
was an Inspector General audit that was released through twenty
four and twenty five that looked at these past cases.

(01:48:12):
So this went on for decades. In a lot of cases,
this happened for the entire duration of some people's benefit payments.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Wow, I know, right, it's a substantial amount. Well, and yeah,
I guess I'm reminded. You know, going back to the
other article, one of the ripple effects of this inflationary
reality we're dealing with is that people are not saving
as much. And when I think about SO security, I
mean you emphasize as a financial plan of the importance
of saving. Obviously, investments help you beat inflation. If you

(01:48:41):
leave a dollar sitting on your counter, it's going to
be worth whatever a dollar's worth down the road if
you invest it, hopefully your investments return something greater than
the two to three four percent inflation we have to
deal with. That's a point of saving, but just the
idea that people aren't doing that, which means more and
more people are going to be completely reliant, like so
many of these widows and widowers completely reliant on the
sole Social Security payment that lands in their lap. So

(01:49:04):
Security's got financial problems of its own independent of these
independent screw ups.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Brian right, Oh yeah, and twenty two million people rely
entirely on Social Security. It's our only source of income.
So that's one in three retirees. Depending on the study
you're looking at in some census style estimates suggests that
it's closer to fourteen to twenty eight percent, depending on
how the income is measured. There, So you know, lots
of people are simply living paycheck to paycheck from the government,

(01:49:29):
though these aren't working employment paychecks. This is just here's
my Social Security check. My budget better fit into it.
And you're right, a lot of people out there, not
only the ones run on the receiving end, but there
are a lot of people out there on the path
to not having anything but social Security. And that's that's
one of the other topics we're gonna talk about today.
New opportunities to put those dollars away if they exist.
So moral of the story is this isn't much of

(01:49:49):
a moral. There's a lot of people out there who
are already stretched pretty thin. And it didn't help that
Social Security forgot to carry the one well.

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
And it doesn't help that we've been let down by
our political class year after year after year with this
growing phenomenon of Social Security running quote unquote running out
of money. I just I feel so let down, and
I guess I'm kind of wildly curious. And it's more and
more people, I imagine, are going to be reliant completely
on Social Security and this alleged promise that people have

(01:50:17):
that were made to people that they were going to
get something, they can't stand behind that promise anymore. What's
it going to take to fix the system? Brian James,
if I could ask you to sort of look into
the future people.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
On the street. Oh and yet other outcome is there. Right,
So the reason we won't fix this is because we
do not as a society want to elect anyone who
talks to us like we're adults. We want people to
tell us they're going to give us free things. And
this is not a this is a bipartisan comment because
both sides do it. But we simply cannot afford ourselves
and the benefits packages we have put together. However, right

(01:50:51):
now as we're sitting here, there there is no there
is no social security deficit that we're heading that way.
So the gap is widening between what we need and
what we actually have every single year. The current calculations
say that there will be a problem that will it
will visibly impact benefits in around twenty thirty one thirty two. So,
as we've said a number of times, we are now

(01:51:12):
starting to elect the people who will be in office
who will vote on whatever that solution is. The next
senator we elect will have a six year term that
puts us square in the middle of that range. So
we are starting to look into the eyes and faces
of the people who have to solve this problem and
cannot kick that can.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
Well, maybe we just confiscate the assets of the twelve
hundred billionaires.

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
Okay, that sounds very very left wing for you. Brian Thomas,
did you wake up feeling okay today?

Speaker 8 (01:51:37):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:51:37):
I just saw the rants of some communists in front
of a university the other day saying exactly that, and
also a politician who's threatened the life of other politicians,
and Donald Trump saying exactly that. I mean, the problem
is math doesn't work out for that kind of phenomena,
that kind of taxation strategy.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
You know, theyuld that wouldn't even fix the problem, that
would that would ress. But we still have an issue
going forward to these are these these items Social Secure
and Medicare are not to budget. We don't even budget
for him. It's the largest thing hanging out there, but
we just will not talk about him.

Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
Well, Brian James is going to elaborate on something that
Donald Trump's has now. It's a new retirement plan executive order.
Not quite sure what's in it, but apparently Brian James knows
about it. We're going to learn about that coming up next.
So I hope you stick around fifty five KRC. The
Simply Money Minute is fun. They talk station a twenty
eight to fifty five KRCD Talk Station, Very Happy Monday

(01:52:25):
to your Money. Money Brian James talk a little about
so's security in the last segment, obviously in anticipation of retirement,
which is what Money Monday's Brian James does for people,
get them ready for retirement, offers them advice and solutions
and suggestions like maybe saving some money. Now, this sounds
like perhaps a solution in search of a problem, because
anyone in America can save and open an IRA on

(01:52:49):
their own, right, Brian James.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
Yeah, this is another one of those that I don't
think has a lot of meat to it. Unfortunately, it
does have President Trump's name attached to it. And let's
be honest, of course the goal so Trump IRA dot
gov is where you can find information about this. But
all it really is is a government's sort of kind
of sponsored platform on ramp to put money into iras.

(01:53:13):
And so I'm really starting there is a match, right,
Let's just start with what's different than what people can
already do. Where's the real benefit? There is a match
if you are a single filer, and you'll get a
full match up to twenty thousand dollars. Right, if your
income is up to twenty thousand dollars five hundred, then
you'll get the full match up to one thousand bucks.
Partial match that phases out up to thirty five thousand

(01:53:34):
dollars and change. That's for single filers. For married people,
it's forty one thousand and seventy one.

Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold it. So
let's say I'm in the financial category where I'm going
to get the full match.

Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
I put it about your rent first.

Speaker 1 (01:53:46):
Well yeah, well of course, but ignoring that, you know,
the day to day reality of just putting any money away,
The United States taxpayer is going to fund the match
for people who do this. Yep, that's okay, voted for
k that's here, right, I'm telling people from folks, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
And let's let's bear in mind you can already do
an IRA. This isn't something new. You're not you're not
able to put away more money because just because of
this that these people can already do an IRA right now. Again,
the important thing here in the elephant in the room
is the is there leftover money to even do this stuff?
In the past, Brian, we have we've had things called
the savers credit there has been free money out there
if you put money, if you were below a certain

(01:54:21):
income level, and you put money into a retirement account,
then you can claim a Savers credit and really just
get dollars back on your taxes. But only about five
percent of people use it, and even less than half
of the eligible taxpayers are even aware that those types
of programs exist. So we tend to throw these out there,
make a big This happens on both sides of the aisle.

(01:54:41):
We make a big celebration out of the signing ceremony
in the Oval office, and we never talk about it again.
So basically, we can our politicians can check a box
that said, hey, we did something for low income people.
But look at the Trump iras, look at the Savers credit,
look all these wonderful things that we've done that you
can't afford, but still we did them.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
Yeah, I guess I'm well. This is also isn't this
a form of a mandate that that that businesses have
to provide or offer at least some sort of savings
plan like an IRA program through the business.

Speaker 3 (01:55:13):
Not really, this is obviously it's the opposite. This is
this is putting something in place for people who don't
have that situation. There's a lot of companies out there
that don't offer a four oh one K and are
still able to employ people. Some employees are just fine
with the idea that, you know, I've got a job,
that's all I'm worried about. No, it doesn't give me
any benefits, but it's good, honest work, and so then
they'll they'll kind of stay in that position. So this,

(01:55:34):
this does give those folks sort of a new opportunity.
They could do it anyway. I mean, it does give
them one centralized federal platform. Trump I RA dot g
o V will be up and running by twenty twenty seven.
That's one place behind. It is still the big mutual
fun companies. Vanguard is involved, you know, so you're not
really really nothing different here other than that little bit
of a match if you can afford to put that
money in the first place. But otherwise it's just supposedly

(01:55:59):
an easier path. But Brian, I suspect we won't hear
about this after it's launched, and we won't talk about
it anymore because we're just checking boxes to say we've
done things well.

Speaker 1 (01:56:08):
It's launching to the extent it launches and it goes
along with that that government incentive the match. Isn't that
power of the perse stuff? Since tax dollars are going
to be spent on it, isn't this something that would
require legislation and not go through through an executive order
but before it required yet?

Speaker 3 (01:56:26):
Yes, all that stuff, Yes, you're exactly right, But if
we're not going to market it, we're not going to
promote it. Right, how many people raise your hand out there?
If you know what the savers credit is? That's been
around absolutely forever, and five percent of the eligible taxpayers
actually use it. So again, if when where are the ads,
where are the campaigns marketing that stuff, you know, around
tax time or whatever, saying that, hey, these opportunities exist,

(01:56:47):
please go take advantage of them. I don't hear any
of that stuff, and I don't buy it's gonna happen
this time either.

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
I would think that just the idea that federal that
that American taxpayer dollars could be used for a program
that was not established through an active Congress signed in
law by the President, would on its face be void because.

Speaker 3 (01:57:02):
It hasn't been a thing this entire administration.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
Right, Well, I do with that I'm just pointing it out.
I've got to give me an opportunity to make comments
along those lines. Bran James. Now, but in terms of incentive,
you and you talk about it all the time, and
I think it's one of the most prudent things that
anybody can do. If you work for a company that
does offer a four to one k match, you got
to at least put in the percentage of the match.
I mean you're walking away from free money. I mean

(01:57:25):
that that that that does work for some to get
the at least start investing, doesn't it. Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
Absolutely, And that's one of the there are few financial
planning decisions that are clearly black and white. This is
the this is this is one of them, right, there's
not saving when you have a match is on you.
That is your fault, and you are making a stupid
decision leaving money on the table. Some people do this
because they'll say, well, I'm twenty in my twenties, I
don't want to think about what happens when I'm sixty,
because I'm young and i want to live now, and

(01:57:51):
I've got expensive bills. Well, guess what, there's a biose
bills are never going away and this is the opportunity
you have for someone to give you free money that
you can put into a savings here. You will not
have a free money opportunity when you are in your sixties,
So this is the time to do it. That's a
black and white decision.

Speaker 1 (01:58:05):
Well, and you know lesson easily learned if you're if
you can and I can't speak to people who find
it impossible to put anything away, but if it's gone
out of your paycheck before it's in your pocket, it's
almost like you never made the money. But there it is,
earning interest and compounding over times. Let it sit there,
and it's just you know, do see if you can
tighten the belt to do without, because it's going to

(01:58:26):
benefit you immeasurably over the long run.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
Oh absolutely, And you're raising a fair point. Despite my
grumpy snarkness this morning because I haven't had enough coffee.
This is free money if you're in this situation, if
you if you can hit those income limitations, if you're blowing,
and you can find those dollars on top of your
other bills. And I know that's hard, and that's when
most people, Yeah, frankly, Brian aren't going to be able
to do this because because they have to live paycheck
to paycheck right now, so there just isn't money to match.

(01:58:50):
But if you're in this situation and you can pull
it off, please take advantage of it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:54):
Wall A last, Yeah, got the Starbucks out. Although I'd
love to think that people who are that close to
life smart would not be indulging in things like Starbucks coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
I think this is targeted the people who are, you know,
indulging in Starbucks and have nothing left. But there's a
lot of people that's not going to help because that's
just that's not where where the lever.

Speaker 1 (01:59:11):
Is valid, valid point as always, Brian James and I
love your snarkiness. That's a okay with me. Brian keeps
things lively here in the fifty five car Se Morning Show.
We'll do this again next Monday. Thanks to all Worth
for loading you out as they do every week, and
get back to work, my friend, Yeah, sir' talking in
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(01:59:32):
see the talk station. Try to have a happy Monday
tomorrow Daniel Davis. Yes, the Daniel Davis deep dive. No
fan of the situation going over Iran war and the
straight up horror moves being closed in a very negative nancy.
When it comes to the ability to get the straight
open back up, things a little bit more complicated as

(01:59:52):
the war continues, and there was a fourteen brand new
fourteen point plan from the Iranians. Recently made a proposal
to Donald Trump. Uh, what is it lifting these sanctions?
Lifting the blockade? I remember we have the blockade on
the Iranian ports, obviously causing a real problem for Ron's economy.

(02:00:13):
A question is who's going to last? This out price
of gasoline going to result in US pulling out of
the Middle East. Again, going back to the comments about
Chucky Schimber, what's his strategy? Yes, evil orange Man caused
the kaist of gas to go up. Yes, but you
know Smithman was talking about this. This has been an
ongoing issue for decades. Night seventy nine, wasn't it overthrow
the Shah of Iran hostage situation? They'd been a thorn

(02:00:35):
on everybody's side now since then, they won a nuclear
weapon and they won it for the purposes of eradicating
and blowing up ISRAELI say it for the record, we've
made all we tried to buy them off. Cash didn't
even work. Here's the terms of the agreement, brock Obama
sent him over a couple billion dollars in a pallet.

(02:00:56):
They get cash money, and there were supposed to stop
enriching uranium. Did they do it? No, they breached the agreement.
It's been one breach after another. They don't listen to anyone.
They do whatever the hell they want. And of course
now they're asking for the strait to be opened up
and for them to get their tolls, and for us
to declare an end to the hostilities, but not a

(02:01:17):
single word about the nuclear program, which, unless I'm wrong,
wasn't that the predicate for launching the attack on Iran anyway?
So I struggle with this. In response, Donald Trump says, well,

(02:01:38):
we're gonna start helping boats through the Strait of horn Moves,
and I kind of when I saw that, I thought
to myself, well, why haven't we been able to do
that before? And I think of the comments of Daniel Davis,
the mines, what's left of the Iran military, which is
all these little mosquito boats going around. They're capable of
blowing up giant vessels. They've been attacking a couple of

(02:01:59):
them of late. So can we or can't we? Now,
if it's been possible for us to use American military
to ferry these boats through the Strait of Horror Moves,
why haven't we been doing that all along? He asked,
without any information or knowledge as to why. So hopefully
it'll work. But of course Iran had a response to

(02:02:21):
Donald Trump's proposal to bring these neutral boats through the
Straight of Horror Moves. They said any interference in Tehran's
maritime rule in the Strait of Horror Moves, in other words,
charging tolls allowing people through, would be considered a violation
of the current senior currency's fire head of Iran's Parliament's
National Security and Foreign Policy Committee. If you tee even
track of names, that would be Ibraham Azizi. So any

(02:02:46):
American interference with the new maritime regime of the Strait
of Horror Moves, and I think that's him telegraphing that
Iran's own it and control it. And it sucks to
be you. If you want to go through it, you're
going to have to play by Iran's rules, another reason
to ensure victory against the Iranians. Does anybody think that
this isn't gonna happen again, assuming the Iranian regime remains

(02:03:07):
in place and is still run by the crazy just
religious fundamentals that run it, the death to Israel, death
to America types, that this isn't gonna get shut down again.
We reach some agreement allah Obama's agreement to stop the
nuclear program. The Iranians didn't bother to stick with that one.
They breached it and continue to a rich uranium. Does

(02:03:28):
anybody think that the Iranians will honor a commitment to
keep the straight of horror moves open? Uh hmm, it
was really easy to close it down. Let's tinker and
screw with the global economy again in me I see
that as a distinct possibility. Will the world be a
better place if Iran is incapable of doing it because
they no longer run that country the current regime? Huh, well,

(02:03:51):
that's a positive to down the road then. Of course,
the whole concept of an embracing peace in the Middle
East generally speaking, when the Iranians are the ones that
are sponsoring the terrorists that prevent peace from happening. I
don't know. The straight of Horrormus in the Persian Gulf
would not be managed by Trump's delusional posts. The Iranians said,

(02:04:15):
straight of hormuves in the Persian Golf are not a
place for rhetoric. He said that after Donald Trump announced
this so called Project Freedom, where the United States military
will be guiding ships safely out of the straight or
of Hormuz starting today, now, I guess I have to
go back to, well, if we can do it now,

(02:04:36):
when we know the Iranians have put all kinds of minds,
at least that's what we've been told in the strait
of horror moves, how can it be accomplished? And no
one wants one of the American warships to get blown up,
and I am very concerned that that is certainly going
to happen. Multi billion dollar aircraft carrier. Oh, we got

(02:04:57):
dolphins with limpant mines on their backs, channeling the nineteen
seventy three movie Day of the Dolphin. Yeah, that's a
thing now. So anyway, it's obviously very complicated, obviously has
a profound inflationary effect. Going back to the idea. We've
got to vote tomorrow. It's a primary election. I know
we're going headlong into November. Huge choices to be made tomorrow.

(02:05:18):
And the November election is you know, one might want
to characterize as an existential threat. Because the Democrats take over,
you know what you're going to get, and you know
they're going to be campaigning on lowering the price of gas.
Remember Donald Trump was going to stop inflation day one. Well,
we voted for him. It didn't happen. I acknowledge at

(02:05:38):
the time he made that statement, and I just did
it again this morning. Well what one man can just
stop inflation in his tracks one day? And yeah, you
want to go ahead and blame Donald Trump for the
situation that's going on with the bombing of the Iranians
and the resulting straight up horror moves closure, What are
the Democrats going to do to lower the price of gas?

(02:06:01):
Now they can complain and campaign on the price going
up and they'll be accurate on that. Yeah it did,
But what policies are they going to offer to lower it?
And I'm talking about something beyond releasing oil from the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Joe Biden, whose party campaign on raising
the price of gasoline. They told you they want it higher.

(02:06:24):
Are they saying they're no longer to be chasing this
dream of a carbon neutral world if they become if
they get in elected, if they take over Congress, do
you see them passing legislation to release energy to go
down this all of the above strategy. Are they going
to go back to their old playbook about oh my god,
climate change. We can't use this. I'm waiting, Chuck Humer,

(02:06:50):
what are you gonna do to stop it? Okay, the
answer has to be, doesn't it. Well, we'll just pull
the troops out of the straightup hoorm moves. We'll just
leave the area. We'll pack up our things and go home,
with the Iranians still in place, and then probably pursuing,
even at a greater accelerated rate, the building of an

(02:07:10):
atomic bomb. I don't see that as being a better
future for you and me, So don't lose sight of
the bigger picture while you're waiting for the price of
gas to go down. A forty six chime in, feel
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(02:07:32):
Joe Strecker is right. Over the break. You reminded me
that primary day for Ohio and Indiana to mar get
out and vote in Kentucky. You got two more weeks
of the Thomas Massey is AOC in disguise ads. I
am so sick of those things. You know, it really
irks me about those ads and going back to well,
only politically ignorant people could fall for them. Yeah, Thomas

(02:07:52):
Messy did vote against certain things that Donald Trump's agenda wanted,
but you know what, when you pack a line item
into a thousand page plus bill, you're going to have
things well that he votes against, the bloat and the
government spending. Generally speaking, he is one person actually cares
about this hole we've dug ourselves in which literally will
end our country yet more so than the Iranians, more

(02:08:13):
so than the Chinese Communist Party. Our inability to stop
spending has dug us into a hole that we can't
climb out of. That's why Thomas Massey quite often votes
no for things that you think, well, why would he
vote no against that? Because the bill that he voted
no on was like a multi trillion dollar deficit enhancing project.
Two more weeks of that. Thank you to my Northern

(02:08:35):
Kentucky friends who regularly continue to vote Massy