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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five O five.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
A fifty five k r C the talk station, Happy Monday,
end of war. Maybe hopefully will.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm the dude man.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
And I'm Brian Thomas. Back from the week off and
I appreciate Dan Carroll and Gary Jeff Walker covering for
me while I was off, And hopefully I can get
my thoughts arranged for today and deal with the fifty
five KRC Morning Shore after that hiatus, feel a little rusty,
I always use your help five one three, seven four
nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two three talk
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always remember never forget over. At fifty five KRC dot com.
You can stream the audio directly from the web page,
get your I Heart media app and listen wherever you
happen to be, including gas. The podcasts of Gary Jeff
Walker and Dan Carrol covering for me some good stuff
last week, and I appreciate both of those guys doing that.
And what do we got today? Well, it's Monday, Thankfully Monday.
Christopher Smithiman joins a program every Monday at seven twenty today,

(01:15):
no different from the norm. Maybe we'll get his comments
about this new report, saying police are racist, worsening racial
disparity in police stops. Sadly, there's a lot of well
not sadly. This Campaign Zero described as a non profit
that researches policing practices and proposes policies for reform. Outside
entity wondering what their motivation is. Maybe they're an NGO

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that needs looking for additional funding. Maybe they're trying to
gin up the whole idea that SINCINNT police department's racist.
And of course actually some interesting support, not necessarily for
the conclusions in this Campaign zero report, but at least
some sense of balance from folks you might otherwise think
would just immediately embrace the report, saying since police stop

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a bunch of black people more often than white people,
which the numbers suggest in this report, is true, but
it's the way the numbers were gathered and crimes, the
fact that they didn't involve the City of Cincinnati, they
didn't even bother talking to the police department, and they
did some questionable conclusions from the data. And you have

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folks on council as well as the city manager share
along and have to have Parvall stepping in and at
least saying whoa whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, there's a
little more work that needs to be done before we
start listening to and believing what that reports at. So
I'm guessing this is a guess, Christopher, if you're awake,

(02:42):
guessing he might have something to say about it. I
know our friends Signal ninety nine over at Facebook has
been talking about it, drawing the same points that some
of the others have. We've got the FOP responding to it.
Of course, the FOP would respond to it, defending themselves
and saying, wait a minute, you cannot embrace these conclusions
without look looking at how they were arrived at. That's

(03:03):
what's supposed to be done. And had this this organization
Campaign zero worked with the the police department and the
city manager's office and others, they might have been able
to present a more straightforward conclusion, or at least have
addressed some of the outstanding concerns that are in this report. So, anyhow,
more details on that this morning. Maybe have a comment
on it yourself, feel free to give me a call.

(03:24):
But Christopher, whatever he's going to be talking about, just
I'm guessing again that he may be bringing that up
since it is a dominant topic your conversation of late
here in the city of Cincinnati. It is Monday. What
does that mean? Monday Monday? With Brian James markets cheering
the peace deal with Iran, I think I'd be reluctant
to call it a peace deal. Wait a moment on that. Yeah,

(03:45):
hold on SpaceX Ipo makes Elon Musk a trillionaire freaking
out the likes of Bernie Sanders. I think he said
the other day that Elon must should be the last
trillionaire ever. One of the leftists Alexander or Casio cortn
pick your favorite leftist they're all singing the same tune

(04:05):
and kind of suggesting that Elon Musk hasn't done anything.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Wow. That talk about sticking your head in a damp, dark,
dark dark and rather a differous place and one hundred
percent wine tariff. Donald Trump suggesting that on France and
in all bold in caps, this has to stop. Is
that Brian James opinion? Or is that Joe Strecker opinion? Joetrecker,

(04:33):
executive producer of the fifty five car supporting show. You
think that will be Keegan, although not you would say
Keegan Corkor and he is our resident wine expert. Yeah,
I don't know. He really focuses on non French wines, Joe,
so maybe it aliviar to his benefit. He's big on
California wine, South American wines, Australian wines, that kind of thing.

(04:55):
So maybe one hundred percent tax on French wines might
inure to his financial benefit. Maybe we'll get him the
chime in on that, one way or another. I not
a big listen. Occasionally get a bottle of French wine.
It can be quite tasty. Play Montroche one of my favorites,
like Burgundy. But in a world with no Polini Montroche,
I'll get along just fine. Oh and speaking a real

(05:18):
I just have to interject this because I printed the
article out after reading it, and I just put it
in the stack of stuff to maybe talk with Brian
James about. It's just a sort of an observational article.
Call it an op ed piece if you want. Why
the millionaire next door drives a used car and what
that teaches about real wealth. And he goes on to

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this guy he knows is the wealthiest person that he
knows he's got. He got a couple of million dollars
in investment accounts. He drives a twenty eighteen Toyota camera
and does not have any interest in buying a more
expensive car. He says, it's just a tool to take
you from point eight to point B. The whole article
basically boiling around what we as a society find valuable

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and why we think certain things are valuable when they
do not provide us with anything other than some sort
of signal to the rest of the world that we
can afford something. I made this joke many times with
regard to designer bags. I mean, there are women out
there in the world, I guess guys. Sorry, just throwing
it in there just in case. You know, guys carry
a purse, are willing to spend five thousand, ten thousand,

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and fifteen thousand dollars whatever for a purse? It has
no more functionality than a plastic bag from Kruger, which
they'll let you take as many as you want. Why
do we do that? Well, this article points out if
you aren't that person, if you just you know, stick
to the norms and sock your money away in an
efficient way over time, and don't feel the need to

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go out and go into debt, it's it was one
of the headings of the paragraphs building wealth the boring way.
You know, there's a simple mathematical reality to how you
become wealthier over time. Just stick with the basics and
be content. Be content. Do you need a seventy five

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maybe you soon to be one hundred and fifty dollars
Pliny Montreche, or maybe you can go with another white
from California, little cost you a third or a quarter
of that. And coffee was brought up in the article
as well. You know, you can make a hell of
a lot of coffee for what you spend over at Starbucks.
And why are you spending so much money at Starbucks
when you can make an equally good cup of coffee
at home? I do that every day, and I've brought

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that one up. I did the math on that. Yes,
we belong to Costco, and that membership pays off because
I can get a two pound bag of coffee. It
used to be only like eleven dollars. It's up to
light twenty bucks now, but you can make a hell
of a lot of pots of coffee with that. How
many cups of Starbucks can you get for twenty bucks?
Like three? So anyway, just something to think about. I

(07:55):
just saw that and I had interjected in there since
we are gonna be talking about wine with Brian James
and also Rick Green. Remember Rick Green. He found God
in a moment's time. He had wasted his youth and
was on drugs, was an alcoholic, and he was in
prison and one day God changed his life. And in

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that moment in time, he just reformed himself. He didn't
go through a ten step twelve step program, he didn't
do anything along those lines. He didn't have to, you know,
seek medical help or any kind of assistance from a
psychologist or a psychiatrist. And I'm not saying that it's
bad to do that, but it is truly a life's miracle.

(08:36):
His story calls it a God story. Just looked in
the mirror one day and said I've had enough, and
he transformed his life. And he's been an upstanding citizen
ever since. They made a movie out of it. He's
written books on it, and he's been using his personal
mission to help feed folks. He takes sandwiches to people
on life's margins on the weekend, and it's his way
of giving back. But a transformative life and a really

(08:58):
beautiful story will end the Morning Show about eight to
forty with Rick Green returning to talk about that he
will be in studio and I'm looking forward to see
him again. So it's tomorrow in the Morning Show, Bright
Part Inside Scoop Daniel, Davis, Deep Die and maybe Daniel
have a thing or to to say about this Iran
deal and what do we got on that? Okay, Both
Iran and the United States set out loud yesterday they

(09:19):
have agreed on an interim piece dealing. I think the
word interim is an appropriate thing. They announced yesterday, some
calling it a major breakthrough because we've been going back
and forth with him for about four months since the
bombs started dropping. While they have agreed that Friday is
the day that it will be signed. Whatever it happened
to d b because although both sides came out and

(09:39):
they said we're going to be doing this, neither side
provided a specific list of agreed upon details. Don't you
find that suspicious or weird? Anyway? What are they doing
with the nuclear dust not addressed? Okay? Anyway, Trump said
yesterday the straight ofform Is will be open on Friday.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
He said the time was needed for the purpose of
mind removal, and I can say that sounds like a
justifiable purpose, you know what I mean? Can we remove
the minds over the course of seven or five days left?
I hope Governor Teyran confirm the deal also quote the
text of the memorandum of understanding has been finalized. He

(10:23):
just see if you can find a copy of the
text of the deal online, would you, buddy, No, don't bother.
I don't want to send you out a wild goose
chase because I've seen like twenty twenty five different news sites,
all of which are talking about this deal that's been announced,
none of which have the details of a memorandum. So
don't bother. Ron's deputy Foreign minister cars them your ba

(10:48):
body baye bah bloh booh blah, bye bye bye body
figure it out yourself. Oh got a short time for anyway, said.
The Iranian threats of attacks on Israel put the pressure
on the United States Risha deal as they were threatening
Israel because Israel's been bobbing Hasbala and that's going to
be a sticky wicket in this agreement. Trump called on
Israel yesterday that quit attacking Lebanon, which Iran has said

(11:12):
it is key to the acceptance of the deal. Lebanon
is involved in this. And when you think about that,
who is telling Hasbala what to do? Don't you think
it's the Iranians? H Maybe the agreement believed paved the
way for a sixty day period of negotiations over Tehran's

(11:35):
controversial nuclear program. Note that we have a sixty day window,
and that's also been widely reported. This is going to
be a cease fire. At least the basics of the
memorandum have been released. They're going to stop fighting. The
straight upform is supposed to be open, and we're supposed
to open the Iranian ports and stop the blockade. So
in exchange for curves on the nuclear program, apparently Ironic

(11:58):
expects access to billillions of dollars in cash that have
been blocked, as well as the end of the sanctions
which have well crippled its economy. Those details still swirling
with question marks. See the curves of the billions of
dollars released. That that's akin to the Barack Obama pallets
of cash kind of thing. And I know the Trump
administration is doing everything it can do to recharacterize whatever

(12:21):
money is released as not the same thing as wheeling
in a one point two trillion or how much many
one hundred dollars bills stacked up on pallets. We'll see
if you can navigate around that and what it actually means.
Do we know right now? Apparently not. Trump said yesterday
talking to the Wall Street Journal of the deal includes
an agreement from Iran not to obtain nuclear weapons, but

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actually no mention of that in Trump's social media posts
yesterday talking about how thrilled he is that the agreement
has been reached. Would think that might have been mentioned,
since it's been sort of the biggest problem in the
entire situation. What do we do with the rans pursuit
of a nuclear bomb? What becomes of whatever nuclear material
is left underneath the mountain? Has it really been pulverized

(13:08):
or is just sitting there in a pile. No one
knows yet. I don't think he said we'll get the
nuclear dust later on, when we're ready to go in
and do it. I'd say over the next month or two.
There's no rush, And I think that is a reference
to this sixty day period of negotiations. Over the next

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month or two, we're going to be talking about the
nuclear dust open issue. It sounds like to me, he says,
as far as regime change, I never cared about regime change.
This is the third group we've dealt with, and this
is the most national group yet, I guess because there's
some swirling problem remaining with the Iranians over who can
sign on this deal and who doesn't. And that also

(13:51):
suggests that well, with no regime change, Iran will be
in the hands of the insane theocracy that it is
currently being run by since nineteen seventy nine. At night
air Jack. Trump also said there would be strong inspections
on the Iranians, but also didn't specify how that would work.
Again sixty day period hash that out. He said that

(14:13):
Iran would not be provided cash and the deal, but
sanctions could potentially be lifted. We'll see how they behave
he said, hmm. So we also still have this pesky
a Lebanon thing, and the Iranians are saying that they
must be including the agreement that did Lebanon. The Hisbala

(14:34):
must be left alone in essence, but has Bala backed
by Iran if they're firing rockets into Israel? Israel since
it bombed yesterday obviously as a vested interest in retaliating
against the people who are bombing them. And you can
say it's has Bala independently, I think we all know
that hisbala is being pressed by the Iranians. Maybe keep

(14:56):
the whole swirling pot of of mystery that shrouds this
whole thing going. Anyhow, I love to hear from you
if you got a comment on it. Hey, one bright
spot in all of this that we can hang our
hat on. Brent Crew down four percent to eighty three
bucks a barrel. So there you go, stick arout of
you right back.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
This is fifty five karc an iHeartRadio Station.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Fifty five krc DE Talk station five twenty four on
a Monday, and a happy one to you. Just that
moment here we can sort of a little preview to
the stack of stupid coming up. Although I'd love to
hear from you if I went three seven, four, nine
fifty and two three top pound five fifty on AT
and T phones. Insanity in New York as we know

(15:43):
what New York City's mom Dommy v Comi is doing.
In New York City, there was a front pain magazine,
a front page magazine report. First off, they start, and
by pointing out, I guess statistically it's true. Gonnorrhea rates
in New York City have more than doubled in a decade,
and syphilis is a surging statewide. What is Mondami's Department
of Health doing free supply of lubricant and chocolate favored condoms?

(16:14):
New York City Debuty Mayor of Health and Human Services, Hey, Joe,
do you find out if lubricant can prevent you from
getting the gottrhea? I didn't realize that condoms. I guess
I understand anyway. Providing high qualities sexual and reproductive health
care services is a priority for the Mam Damie administration.
Making safer sex products more accessible to the most affected
and vulnerable communities is a critical public health need. I

(16:37):
don't know who the most effected in vulnerable communities are.
I would think anybody goes out and has unprotected sex.
I think that includes every single human being on the planet.
Is dumb enough to do that, But what do I know?
Chocolate flavored condoms? Are they safer than regular plain old condoms?
The strawberries your preference, Joe? According to the Reporting Councilwoman

(17:04):
Perina Sanchez, she's a mom DOMMI ally apparently explain the
free chocolate flavored condoms were necessary because quote brace yourself
for this. Inequities persist among women, low income households, and
black and Latino New Yorkers.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh okay, I guess this is a social media quote.
Fall back on it. I guess some of them in
Dammie administration will tut the mayor's actions. These delectable prophylactics
will be generously distributed, free of cost to all genders

(17:49):
with a penis and to all those that love them. Mayor,
Mom Damia is hard at work to make your lives better,
and that would be a non jet dating parent Parenthetically,
according to New York Law Now, New York's legislator passed
a bill to get rid of the terms father and
mother in all family core proceedings. Dads coming up on

(18:11):
Father's Day. Dads are now the non gest dating parent.
Mom's the gest dating parent. Uh okay, this is what
you're voting for. This is why the House and the
Senate's going to flip in November. Keep reading about it
every single day. Yet another article talking about how the
Republicans are going to lose. What on the hell are

(18:32):
the Democrats doing that would justify a vote for them?
Do you hate Trump that much that you would do
something like vote for this crap? This kind of thing
has gotten under my skin of late, so much so
that I think I'm losing my mind five twenty seven
right now, local stories or phone calls coming up. Will
be right back. This is fifty five, five thirty one
on a Monday. Glad to be back. Still not firing

(18:58):
in all sinners. Got to be honest with you, but
I'm doing my best and I will muddle through the
fifty five case Morning Show. I appreciate you sticking with
me here as I try to refire my cylinders up.
And I appreciate Tom calling in as always, Tom, Welcome
to the Morning Show. It's good to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Yeah, good to hear you as well. Welcome back, and
hope you were your hiatus was. You took advantage of
it and got plenty of arrest and.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I did, uh, you know what else I got done?

Speaker 7 (19:24):
Have?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I had a whole bunch of items on a honeydew
list that was written for me by my wife. Of course,
several weeks ago. Everything's got to get done before my
daughter gets married. So we're using the marriage as an
excuse to literally take care of every single damn thing
that my wife perceives as a problem. In our house.
We had the whole all the walls painting. You've done
this and that and the other thing I have. I
am almost I think I got twenty minutes to an

(19:47):
hour left of work to finish the entire project, and
that is putting up the handrailing goes down into the
basement because we had the walls painted and we had
to take those down. So there you have it, brand
new shop finish, stained and two coats of poly on
them so they look really good.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
So anyhow, so, Paul, that's a really good project manager.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
She's the best. And having said this out loud and
remind her of the other day, this is the last
item on the list. I will come home today and
there will probably be a brand new list.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
Oh sure, that's what happens when you open your mouth
like that.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
I know, but see, I am on record. It won't
get done unless it's been written down. For the vast
majority of things. You know why, because men don't see problems.
Tom I've just come to that realization. You know why
we're happy. We don't look for bad things. We just
want to go home and be smiling and content, crack
up in a beer, have a Samwi.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
Yeah, I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I have a couch to sit on, I have a
lovely home that I'm very happy with. I have a
beautiful wife. I'll be married thirty four years in Jude.
You know, why would I look for things that need
to be done?

Speaker 6 (20:58):
And it drives women nothing that we think that we see.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
My retort, though, is if it's written down and I
at least know it's right there, I've got a reminder.
I don't have to be told over That's the problems.
When you have to be told over and over again,
you get sick of hearing the message. And I know
you're supposed to act on it when you hear it,
but we immediately I'm guessing goat like me, go right
back into that I'm comfortable mode. And that didn't sound

(21:24):
like it was that urgent of project. I'll get around
to it someday. You know that goes.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
Male philosophy.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yet this is all I got, brother, This is all
I got. At least I've done with the list.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
Right right, as long as she's aware of what to
expect out of you, that's hey man.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
That's the way we've been together, I think thirty eight
years or what we started dating in December of eighty seven,
so married, coming up on thirty four.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
And for those for those of you kids out there,
that's called back in the day.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
In the day.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Yes, I met I met my wife in high school
in nineteen eighty three, I believe when we first met
something like that. So we've known each other for quite
some time.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, absolutely, absolutely, this is it.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
This is it. I'm having I'm having way too much
fun with this one to do another.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's a great way to look at it, right.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
You take that however you want to take real real quick.
The uh, the gas prices. I my wife went home,
she's out here with me in indian Indianapolis, and she
went back like I think Thursday for something and took
a picture of the of a screen. Yeah thanks, job,
took a picture of a of a of a gas

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sign and it was like three ninety something. I don't
know what your prices are now right now, this weekend
or whatever. If you bought gas in the last day
or two, but out here they've been down around three
now under three bucks a gallon for at least a
week or two. So and to me it tells me. Look,
if gas companies, oil companies had any excuse whatsoever the

(23:12):
jack prices up, they would do it. And the fact
that they've been steadily coming down tells me that there's
a lot more oil flowing through the strait of horror moves.
Then some people want to give it credit for it.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, there's not a lot of articles that China as
a country itself has significantly paired down its consumption. So
in terms of one of the largest purchases of crude
on the planet, they're backing off has really helped. I
know that we have been providing more and more oil
out there in the world to countries like India for example, Hey, drill, baby, drill.
Everything above strategies working out to our advantage and others.

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Of course, we've got to release the Venezuelan oil, which
I know is not the greatest oil in the world.
It's not like Brent crude, but it's still out there
in the world. There are other sources of oil. So
and listen, just the point of the gasoline going down,
Will that, in and of itself give people a better
feeling about November such that they wouldn't go kill themselves
metaphorically speaking, cut their own metaphorical throats from economic policies

(24:11):
that the Democrats will unleash on America and the next
nine gajillion impeachment investigations. I mean, you know, are we
going to fight for chocolate flavored condoms and vote Democrat?
Does that really makes sense to anybody? I don't get it.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Well, well, you know you're talking about people that vote,
think about the people that get elected by Democrat voters,
and you can't really use common sense in that same paragraph.
So yeah, you and I have a way of thinking.
In most most, if not all, of the listening audience
use common sense, I think a certain way. But these

(24:45):
people out there that vote for Democrats, I mean, it's
the most common sense thing I can think that's involved
in their in their way of thinking is they're selfish.
They're just looking out for what they think is best
for them, and what they think is going to let
them get away with whatever they want to do and
have all the fun and frivolity in their life and
not have to have face any consequences for it. I

(25:06):
get that it's stupid, it's it's reckless, it hurts you
and everybody around you, but at least that it is
something that I can wrap my head around and go, Okay, well,
I understand that you're being selfish, but you're hurting yourself
and you're hurting everybody around you. So please, for the
sake of yourself and your neighbors and friends and family,
help vote Democrat. I'll talk to you tomorrow haven at good.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Thanks Tom good to hear from me. You feel better
to being back hearing from Tom. I also feel better
being back hearing from you, too. Feel free to give
me a call. Do have a stack of stupid in
lieu of that, don't go away?

Speaker 4 (25:37):
This is fifty five KRC and I heart.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Rate five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
It is five forty two fifty five k C chalk station.
Brian Thomas right here write it you back sort of
and glad to hear from you. If you feel free
to give me a call. You can feel free to
give me a call. As I meant more properly, stay
five and three seven for I'm fifty five hundred eight
hundred eighty two three talk pound five fifty on eight
and T phones, And as I was preparing for the

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morning show yesterday, I ran across this, watched the video
and said to myself, do I bother printing the article out?
And I thought to myself, Nope, Strekker is going to
have this one right there on top of the stack
of stupid and lo and behold there it was the
late Maria Eduarda Rodriguez de Friijas. She was twenty one

(26:29):
years old. She's late because she's dead. Right before her death,
she wrote on her social media post Instagram, specifically, who
is the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?

Speaker 7 (26:45):
What?

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yep, happened Saturday? She was getting ready to jump off
a bridge in what she thought would be a thrilling
bungee jumping adventure in some place called Lamira Salpaolo. What happened, Well,
the bungee company didn't hook up a bungee cord to
her and chucked her off the side of the bridge

(27:08):
while people standing around are going what about the rope?
It's horrific to watch. Video, of course, posted on social media,
captured her being thrown off the edge of what they
called skeleton bridge, perhaps aptly name without the bungee cord attached,
just as right after she made this post too. Witnesses

(27:29):
filming could be heard saying, guys, the rope and pointing
to the rope which is literally laying curled up on
the ground. There is nothing attached to her legs. This
is me. You just wonder, how in the hell could
this possibly happen? Pronounced dead at the scene, her fiance
standing right there as she plummeted to her death. Can

(27:49):
you imagine that playing and rewinding your head over and
over again for the rest of your life. Six people
have been arrested after the incident, including three people at
the scene of the jump. Of the suspects tried to
flee the scene, ultimately track John by a helicopter in
a wooded area, according to the military police. Jasel Weaves, Dude,

(28:12):
I know, I know, and you know I got I
don't know. I have a lot of faith in engineers
and God bless the engineers of the world. What are
the amazing accomplishment engineers have accomplished men's over the history,
Bridges and roads, all the kinds of crazy stuff that
like sometimes literally gravity to find and you have roller coasters,
talk about this amusement. Right, it's a bungee jump. It's
supposed to be fun. Do you have enough confidence in

(28:34):
bungee cords holding up? I personally don't. This is not something.
I'm not much of a thrill seekert along those lines either.

Speaker 9 (28:41):
I know.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Thanks, Dad might hut have be in the same way.
My daughter's fiance soon to be husband. He's one of
this crazy rock climber guys. You know, no ropes and
just goes up. Let me come on seriously, but of
all things, they didn't even hook the rope up or
the bunges up. Well, that's why it's in the stack.

(29:04):
It's stupid, and that's something you might want to check.
Do you think state you want to do something like that?
Look down, pay attention to your surroundings. Hey, guys, you're
getting ready to chuck me off the bridge. You might
want to hook the bungee cort up because I don't
see anything attached to my legs or feet. Anyway, had
she survived, she might have had pain as a consequence
of injuries, and injuries and pain could have been lifelong

(29:27):
because injuries can result in some lifelong pain. And you
know what arthritis will do. The same things to talk
station five fifty one I fifty five KRCD talk station
back to the stack, Oh stupid. Plenty of time in
a six o'clock hour to talk about anything, really and
anything you want to talk about. You can feel free
to give me a call in the meantime. You know
you're not talking with Liam Neeson. I'm saying that you're not. Sadly,

(29:53):
an elderly Florida woman who had been sending all of
her money to someone claiming to be Liam Neeson has
been arrested because she struck a family member who seized
her phone in an attempt to keep her from well
continuing to exchange Texas with the texts with this guy
who claimed to be Liam Neeson. The Actor cops sent

(30:16):
Wednesday evening to report a domestic disturbance at Port Saint
luci hom at Judith Barantes Tradition. Amen, It's Florida Joe.
Officer's question broad is her daughter and a male relative
about the alleged battery which resulted from the quote unquote
Nissan contacts Louise Levagni. The fifty four year old victim

(30:36):
said that her mother is not right of mind and
was being defrauded by this male who was not Liam Neeson.
After Bronte has handed over her phone, Leviangi said she
and began texting the person posing as the seventy three
year old actor. Fun fact Liam Neeson's seventy three anyway.
Barntes then took the phone back, cops claim, and struck

(30:59):
the victim in the head an arm. Fifty year old
Julio Brantes told police that quote Judith has been sending
all of her money to someone claiming to be Liam Neeson.
He also added that the septagenarian took her phone back
from the victim and started hitting her on the head
and arm, be a confirming witness right there. Arrested on

(31:19):
a misdemeanter charges, she was booked into the County Jail,
from which she was released on a tutor to fifty
dollars bond. Man Judge Silverstein Court mean you got to
murder someone to get a tutor to fifty dollars bond,
don't you? Joe rest Affadavid offers no details on how
she quote unquote met the actor or how much money
was taken from her. Also unknown a police are investigating

(31:43):
the front. You know, Joe that's a good point. Why
is she giving money to Liam Neeson? I imagine the residuals
on his film work are probably quite substantial. Rob Ryder,
if you're out there to get your twenty eight cent
check for what is that movie? Joe Shawshank redemption Ee

(32:05):
Banana chip bandit, that's what they're naming her. She's been apprehended.
Crime spree ended with the arrest of fifty nine year
old oh Florida woman Shocking for the theft of roughly
three hundred dollars worth of banana chips from a supermarket.
Cops don't know if we'll find out. Cops charged in
Annette Nichols been repeatedly swiping banana chip from the publics

(32:28):
near her Vero Beach residence. Over the past few weeks.
She has been been coming into the store and stealing
the same one piece of merchandise off the shelves. The
item a sixty nine cent bag of banana chips. Public
deli manager interview told cops that Nichols had stole the
bana chips on the sixth separate occasion. Quote. It should
be important to note that due to this ongoing theft

(32:50):
of banana chips. Lorenzo's limited the amount of banana chip
stocks he's put on the shelf that in the report
from the Sheriff's Deputy's office, and that continues to take
all of the bags that she can. While she has
paid for some chips at the self checkout, she's failed
to scan other bags before walking out of the publics.

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When confronted, Nichols reportedly confessed to the chip theft and
she did not know why she steals them, something so stupid,
adding it's not worth going to jail over and losing
your job. Sorry sucks to be you. You got caught,
you probably will. They searched her car turned top thirteen
bags of banana chips, some of which were apparently stolen
from the Vero Beach store in that incident where she

(33:33):
got arrested, as well as the second publix in the neighborhood.
According to the Sheriff's deputies, this pattern of behavior of
banana chip theft from an net is a common occurrence.
After being charged with theft, she was freed from custody
after posting one hundred and fifty dollars bond on misdemeanor charges.
She was convicted in twenty twenty four retail theft for
skip scanning items at a Walmart and Vero Beach items

(33:55):
not indicated in that particular charge. Okay, moving on in
the six o'clock hour, talk station six or six here
if you bought Parris he talks station. My name is
Brian Thomas. I am back thankfully last chemo treatment. Uh

(34:16):
you know, to speak two weeks ago this coming Thursday Friday. Anyway,
that's reason I took the week off, and I'm feeling better,
at least better. I don't feel like one hundred percent,
but I feel a lot better. And I appreciate uh
Dan Carroll and Garret Jeff Walker covering for me. Will
I you know, got myself right back in order and
good morning to Rob Ryder heard me comment about it.
The woman who was sending what she thought was well
sending money to a guy she was thought was Liam Neeson,

(34:39):
the very successful Hollywood film actor. He said something about royalty,
but he was like, you gotta send money to somebody. Uh,
don't think Liam Neeson needs the jack. And I brought
up Rob Ryder, who was in shawsh Anker Redemption one
line and he still gets royalty checks from it because
that movie is still really popular. And I said something
about the twenty seven cents eight fifty You got eight
for the entire calendar year. You get eight or fifty

(35:01):
bucks for one line in one Hollywood movie. That's what
a speaking part will net you. That's what you get
for being Remember the Screen Actors Guild. I guess anyway,
he is awake. He didn't hear the context for the comedy.
He has heard his name being mentioned. So good morning,
Film Actors Guild. That's right, Joe. I had the organization wrong,

(35:23):
Rober You remember the Film Actors Guild anyhow? Five on
three seven four fifty eight hundred and eight two three
talk pound five fifty on at and T Fund's got
this good, Victor, David Hanson. To that point I want
to make Before I get to that, I want to
remind you Christopher Smith Aman coming up in one hour
and some change seven to twenty every Monday with Christopher Smitheman,
who also is out. Thank you very much, Christopher. He

(35:46):
gave me a welcome back message. I appreciate that. I
am very much looking forward to having you on and
to the extent you want to talk about it. This
this allegation from this outside entity that was looking at
police records and saying that the police will arrest or
rather pull over otherwise stop black people in a much
much larger number than white people in the city of Cincinnati.
But even the mayor and the city manager Cheryl Long

(36:08):
and counselman Jeffreys all saying, who whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,
don't listen to it yet. There's a whole lot of
problems we've been finding with it. We want someone outside
to review it. They didn't involve the police, that didn't
involve the city. They did this unilaterally, and they did
take some liberties with the data, and I hope he
wants to chime in on that. So with that's being said,
that'll be the seven to twenty money money with Brian James.

(36:29):
Markets are very happy by the peace deal with Iran
and sort of a peace deal. I'm a little given
the back and forth that we've been dealing with for
the past four months. It's on, it's off. We have
ceasefire and no ceasefire, a ceasefire that never was because
both sides kept exchanging missile fire e and then this
sixty day period to hammer out the details, and we
really don't have any details at all about what's in

(36:52):
this memorandum, in spite of the fact that both Trump
and the Iranians and the you know, the mediators in
Pakistan have all said, but we've reached the deal for
a signature coming Friday, all right. Nothing said about the
nuclear dust or whatever nuclear it's. It's something that has
to be ironed out. Will the Iranians continue to exact
tolls or extract fees from ships going through the trade

(37:13):
of Hormuz apparently not yet worked out. Will the Iranians
get billions of dollars in held and withheld funds? Some
say yes, some say no, no idea. So lot's still
going on here anyway. So the market's are really happy
at least, and they don't they get happy every time
Donald Trump comes out and says we've made progress. Well,
oil's down eighty three bucks a barrel for West Texas

(37:37):
Brent crude, the benchmark standards, that's down four percent. So
we'll let's talk about the Elon trust being Elon must
being a trillionaire, and the tariff coming for French wines
coming in at one. I don't know who that benefits
but I won't miss it anyhow. Rick Green and Versuy
of the day that changed his life. A God's story.

(37:57):
Rick transformed his life in a moment's time with help
of God, a true divine intervention. Over to Victor David Hanson, Bobby,
You're gonna have to hang on a second. I gotta
get this out of my system because perhaps he's being
overly optimistic, as I lamented in the last hour, as
I have been. Why would you vote for the Democrats

(38:21):
in November? Every place you read, uh, history has said
that the party in power is going to lose power
in the midterm elections. Donald Trump, evil orange man, blah
blah blah blah blah. And I understand inflation is a reality,
and I understand Donald Trump promised to lower inflation. But
you know, if you believe a campaign pledge like that,
some guy can magically wave a wand or sign a
piece of paper and inflation will go away. I got

(38:44):
a bridge I want to sell you. But maybe he overpledged.
But are you gonna hold him accountable for this? Well,
he started the war with I Ron. Are you going
to give him the benefit of credit if this does
get resolved positively? Well, price is already coming down. Tom
called in about the price of gas running in about
three bucks. That's a benefit. Does that give you the
relief you're looking for? So you won't commit suicide by

(39:04):
voting for the Democrats And that's a metaphorical suicide. Victor
David Hanson has this their David Hanson has this to say.
Published over the weekend, The grotesque sexual misconduct involving Democratic
politicians from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to California Representative
Eric Swalwell has finally put hashtag mee to to rest.

(39:25):
We were reminded of its demise when it was revealed
that Maine senatorial candidate and socialist heartthrob Graham Platner have
been discovered to possess a long social media history of
crude and pornographic putdowns of women. The demise of Black
Lives Matter offers another example of recurring left wing phenomenon
movements that begin as moral crusades and end as self parodies.

(39:50):
Almost every bom coust saliver has proven fraudulent, following a
long tradition that stretches from Al Sharpton's Tawana Brawley myth
to the Duke Lacrosse scandal. The aftermath of the death
of George Floyd did lasting damage to the country that
still reverberates. Just try to remember how he died, I
drug over those heart problems and all that. Anyway, the

(40:11):
current leftist habit of urban intersection takeovers, statue toppling, name changing,
and violent demonstrations is a legacy of that summer of lawlessness.
Thousands of police officers nationwide were laid off in defund
the police madness fatish, critical race and critical legal theories

(40:31):
led to no cash ball on the near immediate release
of hundreds of thousands of arrested violent criminals. Our supposedly
best universities, in Pavlovian fashion, dropped the SAT admission requirements
and upped race based admissions. Administrators and bureaucrats soon created
thousands of dei positions across the universities and corporations, and

(40:52):
the result was certainly not better race relations. The episodes
of existential psychodramas that come in go after doing enormous
damage to the nation are nearly endless. Number of US
and international agencies and quote unquote experts have now most
quietly sighed that global warming was never really an existential

(41:15):
danger that the left swoar would put the Earth in
the balance in a mere decade. Nonetheless, once again, the
toll has been enormous. The left wing postmodern globalist notion
of a borderless utopian world that would fuel endless diversity
has done so much damage to Western nations that even

(41:36):
the European left now fears its own political suicide from
the vast influxes of often hostile, illegal aliens. Millions of
unlawful and unvetted entrance crashed the borders with no desire
to integrate, assimilate, or acculture a to Western hosts. They've
spiked crime, fueled anti semitism, and ensured unsustainable social welfare costs.

(41:58):
The transgender frenzy was to be the left's next civil
rights crusade, as it constructed a new victimized class with
repertory claims against the guilty traditionalist minority or majority. Rather,
soon an epidemic of teens began wondering whether they were
in fact trans and pondering whether to undergo a battery

(42:20):
of dangerous hormonal and chemical drug regimens. What accounts for
these bouts of periodic, collective and suicidal madness. First, the
craziness is almost always birthed in the contemporary affluent and
leisured West, which alone has the capital and resources to

(42:41):
afford such freakish side shows. Second, the frenzies are usually
the creation of the left, predictably birthed in universities, the media,
and the bureaucracies. They appear with familiar symptoms, the irredeemable, deplorable,
and garbage hoy PELOI are supposedly too dense to be
properly schooled, and thus must be frightened to death in

(43:04):
order to adopt agendas that otherwise appear to them as
utterly insane. Throw me among that group of stupid people.
I guess, pardon me, I handed interject back to it.
Junk your natural gas, dryer and grill, or face massive
floods on your coasts. Drop the SAT and defund the police,
or face endless race riots, higher thousands of race and

(43:26):
gender commissars, or be forever tagged as racist, sexist, homophobes
and transphobes. Open the border, let illegal aliens enter by
the millions, and thus pay a partial penance for whiteness.
Left is crracked that few Western voters will openly embrace
the unpopular elite agenda of racial fixations, globalism, laxity on crime,

(43:48):
and degrowth environmentalism. So their long term solutions have four
predictable aspects. One open the borders to create a more diverse,
impoverished and knee underscore for me constituency create number two
fate create fake working class pseudo populist candidates like the

(44:10):
pampered Graham Platner, the god is non binary New Christian
James Tallarico, and of course the wax and effigy of
good old Joe Biden from Scranton. Three destroy destroyed time
tested systems by seeking to demolish the electoral College, the
fifty State Union, the Senate filibuster in the nine justice
Supreme Court. Four gin up these end of day's pseudo

(44:33):
existential crises, whose solutions require massive new taxes, bigger government,
and more dictatorial elite managers. One good sign of growing
antidotes is that increasingly Americans and indeed all Westerners, are
saying no to green harangars, gender and sex demagogues in

(44:53):
the race baiting industry, the open borders conglomerate, and ungrateful immigrants.
The pushback might be summed up as quote, we are
no longer going to allow you to destroy ancient traditions
that ensure our prosperity, security, security, and liberty, and which
we're handed down to us by generations far better than

(45:15):
your own. Close Quote Amen, Victor David Hanson. This kind
of thing I'm talking about, I mean, he's observing the
pushback on the nonsense, the insane stuff that no normal,
rational human being we've ever embraced in the first place,
and yet they were able to creep into it and
make inroads into our society and get elected doing it.
Is that what you're gonna vote for? Just because you

(45:38):
hate evil Orange Man six eighteen, but you five KRC
Detalk station, A couple of colors online, including Rob Ryder
in addition to Bopy one to you, Christopher Smidman a
little less than one hour, reminding you to sign the petition.
We'll tell given an opportunity to talk about that multiple locations.
I give you that information an a minute. By First,
let's go to the phones. We'll start with Rob. Right, Rob,

(45:58):
welcome back man. You heard your name mentioned without context
and why I was being mentioned? But yes, royalty checks,
I don't imagine Liam Neeson has a problem financially given
all the movies he's no.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
I agree with that.

Speaker 10 (46:10):
And I did hear that the guy who played the
warden in Shawshank Redemption, Bob Gunton, said in the twentieth
anniversary of the film. He was interviewed by I believe
the New York Times magazine and he said that that
film has allowed him to make a comfortable living.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
That's amazing that one film.

Speaker 10 (46:31):
So, and I was on set for five days for
that movie, and that's why I got a little more.
I've got friends from Cincinnati who were on the set
for one day who didn't make as much. But I
was there for five days for one freaking line.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
One freaking line. But see, wasn't it the one line
that gave you higher royalties or at least a bigger slice,
Because I've heard that's that's the really get the foot
in the door where the money comes from. Not a
whole lot, necessarily for smaller parts.

Speaker 10 (46:53):
But still, well, when you get a line, you get
a credit.

Speaker 8 (46:57):
So that's that was helpful.

Speaker 10 (46:58):
So I got that for five days made a difference anyway.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
It was.

Speaker 10 (47:02):
It was a wonderful experience. I was up there and
saw the prison while back. I love the victor David Hanson. Peace,
you just read that. I go back fifty plus years
when Time magazine said we're going into an ice age.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
We're gonna die.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
I know, I remember like it was yesterday. My My
favorite reminder is the Leonard Nimoy in Search of episode,
which you can find on YouTube, that was we were
all going to freeze the death and die. Oh my god,
it's climate change. Yeah I know, I know. And then
when it didn't happen, they change it or to global warming.
And then when that really didn't change, and it's now
climate change. So literally every weather event can now be

(47:39):
blamed on your and my exhelation. We all need to die.
It's crazy. Rob always great here today, mans, Miss Glad
you're feeling better, partner. Thanks brother, good to hear from you. Man.
Take care of yourself and enjoy those royalty checks. Bobby,
Welcome back to the Morning Show, and a happy Monday
to you.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
A happy Monday, brother, Glad, you're back. Faith flagged family,
and watch out where you drive in Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Well there's always that once you throw into firearms. Because
my next commercial is going to be for twenty two three.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Hey, that's always a nice place to go. Good people,
good clean range. Anybody goes out there, they'll always go back.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Thank you, ma'am. They're going to get two spots out
of this little Nett mentioned, well, what about.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
The piece out of Columbus, Ohio. They usually use the
word Cincinnati enquire but you know it's a Columbus rag anyway,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Well they've kind of melded into one big sort of
regurgitation of whatever shows up in the USA today. For
my estimate, that's what.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
I would say. Also, and I tell you what, I
think that hit piece was the best thing in the
world for the FOP. All it does is all it
does is show the bias of getting the police apartment
when you go to certain areas like Bombhill or if
you go to Clifton, or you go to areas that
are eight per black. Who in the world do you

(49:03):
think you're pulling over well belong blue whide devil or
something out riding around two thirty in the morning. That
doesn't happen. And that'd be realistic about why.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
And that was mentioned by at least one of the
council members, Like you got to look at this data
with a big giant grain of salt on you know.
So yeah, and I have a feeling Christopher spinham In
might address that. I'm least I'm hoping he's listening right now.
So strong suggestion, Christopher, don't let me down. Bobby always
good to hear from you, which allows me to segue too. Yeah,
add firearms to the list, and you know, I am happy.

(49:33):
Monday five on three, seven hundred eighty two three dog
pound by fifty on eighteen and t phone. Yeah, I
go to twenty two three and get one of those
P three sixty fives. I own a couple of those,
at least I did a couple. I gave one to
my son. I think my daughter's got one of those two.
They are outstanding concealed carry weapons. Anyway, another commercial. Sorry.

(49:54):
Over the local stories. Twenty five year old man shot
and killed happen on Saturday night. The village is a rollhill.
According to sin Say Police Department, they showed up in
the twenty four in the block of Nottingham Road nine
pm for reports of a person shot. They found Mikael Smith,
twenty five, suffering from a gunshot wound. First responded began
life saving measures, but sadly, Smith was pronounced dead at
the scene. Police have not identified any suspects in the

(50:16):
shooting or said if they have any persons of interest.
Shooting investigation described as ongoing. Police's hot Police Homicide Unit
has that anyone with information about the shooting please call
the homicide Unit three five two thirty five forty two
or I'm guessing crime stoppers the number, if you've got
it memorized, that's a handy one to just rely on.
Three five two thirty forty. I'm sure they'll take your call.

(50:39):
One man seriously injured after a drive by shooting happened
in mill Vale on Sunday, not Millville. Shooting happened near
the three thousand block of Beakman Street Sunday afternoon since
a Police Department sergeant Back said one male victim sustained
life threatening injuries in the drive by and was taken
the UC Medical Center for treatment. Currently no suspects, Sergeant

(50:59):
Pack does the shooting was targeted shooting currently under investigation
as well. Two people dad and three people injured in
a head on crash happened at US fifty two near
State Route or State Road forty six in northern Dearborn County.
According to starting Stephen whe Wheelers with the Indiana State Police,
he said the crash involved a passenger vehicle and a

(51:21):
commercial vehicle in US fifty two. Two people in the
passenger vehicle died in the collision, to others were taken
to area hospitals with life threatening injuries. According to the sergeant,
victims identified as Kemora Emmanuel twenty one, Lamria Homes twenty two,
both from Cincinnati. Commercial vehicle drivers sustained minor injuries. Indiana
State Police are still investigating. This happened two days after

(51:43):
another federal crash occurred in the county Friday evening, a
couple killed in a head on collision driving on State
Route three fifty. Route three fifty and their children sustained
minor injuries. That crash also still under investigation. Careful out there,
the roads are can can be crazy crazy, ah, since

(52:07):
I please say, summer remains the most critical time of
year in fighting against youth gun violence. One local neighborhood
trying to reverse the trend, The Winton Terrorist Community organize
in March and Human Change promote peace and stopping violence,
urging kids to have a Saved Summer. Organizers told dozens
of young people and parents, each and every one of
you guys got a part to play in this. Mitch Morris,

(52:29):
founder of Save Our Youth Kings and Queen's, organized the
event he calls win on Winneste. Overall, shootings have declined
citywide in recent years. Juvenile shootings, however, remained steady, with
more than forty teen shot in both twenty twenty four
and twenty twenty five. Council member Analbi said safety is

(52:50):
the administration's top priority. Take her to word. Wittenhill's his
neighborhood that has been hit by pretty hard by gun
violence in the past handful of months. Here all you said,
I know for my perch as a city official, perch, Joe,
She's sitting on a perch.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
We're working really hard to make sure that the kids
and the families here feel safe. That means improvements the lighting,
making sure we have patrols out here, and giving kids
those fun safe places at night. Well, I gotta applaud
the community for stepping up and say we need to
do something about it. I mean ending gun violence. It
starts right at home and write in your own community
some plan from sin say, City council is not going

(53:27):
to change the dynamic hiring a non governmental organization with
community organizers or whatever. I don't know how much good
that does. How is it that youth violence remains pretty
static and on the upswing when we had all this
money thrown in, all these programs that are designed for
the purposes of stopping youth gun violence and violence generally speaking,
it starts at home. Teach your children well. Six thirty

(53:51):
six fifty five care see the talk station and get
thee the talks station. It is six forty one here
fifty five care CV Talks Today jan Happy Monday five
one three, seven two three Talk four pound five fifty
on eighteen and p pounds. You can't listen to Christopher
Smithan coming up at seven twenty. Make sure you pull
up the podcast page fifty five KC dot com and

(54:14):
see what he's got in his mind today. And I
hope he does address this crime report that came out.
Also in the petition he would like you to sign.
Anybody who's a registered voter in the City of Cincinnati
really should consider very strongly signing the petition in the
circulating to require council's involvement in the hiring and firing
of the police chief and the fire chief. You know,
we see what happens when city Manager Cheryl Long has

(54:36):
left to her own devices. I mean, we go through
all these problems and find out that people are terminated
without cause, no specific reason cited. It's happened twice. Chief Washington,
former fire chiefs got his litigation all queued up. We
expect him to get a big fat paycheck. And we
think the same thing is going to happen with Police Chiefdiji.
In the final analysis, they had no reason whatsoever to
fire her. When they fired her, it's just the optics

(54:57):
are terrible. So if you had counsel's involvement right, you
would have people raising their hands in asking questions, engaging
in what we would hope to be a constructive debate,
and at least letting the public generally know why someone
has been hired or more fundamentally, when they get fired.
Do you think that the city council would just let
the comments of Cheryl Long go like, now I fired

(55:17):
him because well he deserved to be fired, or she oh, okay,
here I approve that with no explanation, though it couldn't
happen well anyway to sign the petition. Dell High Barber's
on Greenwell Avenue next to Maloney's Pub. Christopher told me
that this morning, Jim and Jackson the River, Yes, there's
a petition there, and Dave Backer Auto on Glenway. So

(55:40):
all three locations you can sign the petition and please
please do that, and thank you to Aaron. Talking about
this global the global warming nonsense, Victor David Hanson brought
that up as one of the most self destructive pillars
of leftist lunacy in the op ed I read earlier. No,
it's no longer you're killing the planet. They've kind of
backed off that, and they had to because well, since

(56:02):
al Gore came out with his movie almost twenty years ago,
none of it has happened. More fundamentally, going back in
time to the mid seventies and a little bit earlier,
that's when we were all going to die because of
the next Ice Age coming Ice Age. They literally called
it that. I believe that was that in search of
episode that I regularly refer to, and you can find
that on YouTube. So he sends me four Time magazines

(56:24):
cover and thanks again. Aaron. Nineteen seventy three, Time magazine
headlined the Big Freeze with the cartoon caricature of his
blue guy with ice all over im, you know, looking
at the temperature forecast on his on his newspaper in
front of him, with a drop in temperatures. Nineteen seventy seven,
The Big Freeze. You may recall that locally because we
had the blizzard and the Ohio River quit flowing. It

(56:48):
was frozen over. I know a lot of people who
walked over it in had happened before, and it hasn't
happened since. Why because global warming showed up right Time
magazine cover It's a frying pan with an egg frying
it global Warming, And then to two thousand and six headline,
tire front page Time magazine special report global Warming. Be worried,

(57:10):
be very in red worried. Okay, sea levels haven't risen?
Is Martha's Vineyard or New York City underwater? Joe? I
haven't been to either of those places. I've never been
to Martha's Vineyard, but I know Barack Obama bought a
house there. No is it happening? I mean, after the

(57:31):
morning show is over? Might it have happened? Then no, yeah,
you check on that. It's insane and we've spent trillions folks. Again,
my off sited long list of once in demands from government.

(57:54):
What might have happened to the literally trillions and trillions
of dollars that have flown into the global warming scam
or the now climate change scam? Since anything now is
your fault, just countless trillions of dollars. Imagine the world
will be a much better place. Hell, it would be

(58:15):
a much better place we didn't spend it in the
first place. Wouldn't have this national death that's going to
end up being it's which is really the truest existential
threat to our country at two hundred and fifty years. Right,
we spend too much and a lot of money we
spend on things that are stupid and fall into the
category as Victor David Hanson identified it as op ed
piece that I read a moment ago. Right, why do

(58:36):
we fall for stuff like this? Six forty five? If
you five KRC the talk station bod Herbert motorization, it
is six point fifty here. If you have KRCD talk
station trying to make it a happy Monday, if you
can find something to be happy about that. Saw those
new polls those Americans we no longer feel proud of

(58:57):
the Americans just really really said, we see news poll
Democratic posters Jeff horwitten Heart Research Associates as well as
Republican polster Bill McInturff polled like twenty five hundred people
at the turn of the century. They've just summarized three
quarters of Americans were extremely or very proud of America.
Generally speaking, that is now only fifty six percent. And

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when you look at the demographics on of the breakdown
among age groups, you know, our children have been thoroughly
brainwashed and believing this great land of ours, which does
have wartz, is irredeemable. That's my word for it. Just
no sense of perspective. I think every human being should
be forced to go out into the world and live,

(59:39):
at least spend a week or two in some foreign land,
come back with nude respect for where we are and
what country you live in. Over the felt Let's see
what Mat Scott this morning. Matt, welcome to the morning,
showing a very happy Monday to you morning.

Speaker 8 (59:54):
Viron.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (59:55):
I was listening to your article there on the transgender
saying and all that.

Speaker 9 (01:00:01):
Yeah, you know how.

Speaker 11 (01:00:04):
Long it's probably going to be a couple of decades
before the Demo rat rights knew that transgenderism, how many
genders there are, and say, oh, the Republicans. Look, you know,
the Republicans are pushing back then, and then they'll use
it and turn that against the Republicans even though they're
the ones that started it and they've done it in

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the past. Slavery and all that racism that all started
with the Democrats kkk. They owned all the slaves and
you know, yeah that book. It's like in that book
nineteen eighty four Big Brother. One minute their war with
East Asia and then the next minute the war worth
there war with.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Your age your agent. Right, Yeah, no, we've always been
at war. Yeah, I know, Matt, You're exactly right, very
very astute observation. Now I can't see it, but I
suppose back in the UH in the Jim Crow South,
thanks to the Democrats and the ku Klux Klan who
supported the Democrats, who were creating the Democrats were pushing
for this, and one day I guess they woke up
and like, oh, wow, that was a really really bad idea. Wow,

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we had the Civil War and a whole bunch of
white people fought for the freedom of the slaves, and
here we were trying to cling to an old, outdated
and disgusting notion that black people were something lesser. We
need to transform our party. Now they're blaming the Republicans
for everything that's good. So down the road you paid
an interesting perspective. Jeez, be really screwed up with this

(01:01:28):
whole thing men can just claim to be women and
then getting them at women's restrooms. That was a really
bad idea. Let's figure a way of blaming the Republicans
for it. And you know what, people who are not
students of history, like apparently most everyone in America who
thinks that the Republicans are responsible for slavery, will buy
into it. Maybe that's how we end up with that
whole list, that freak show list of Victor David Hanson

(01:01:50):
pointed out that people bought into and now reject thoroughly
because well, it's just and always was bat crap insane.
Thank you, my friend, appreciate that. James. Welcome to the
Shaw and a happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:02:06):
Hey, good morning, Brian. I hope you're feeling better.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Today a little bit James, I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (01:02:11):
I have a question concerning Smith, and I did call
him twice and one at a time was I was
gonna ask him why the number seven? How did he
come up we need seven on here?

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Why not three or five supermajority? I think just to
make sure it's at least a super majority. You can't
get counsel in spite of the political makeup of James.
I'm sure you can't get counseled one hundred percent on anything,
but at least if it's seven, maybe that'll require more
thorough debate. I can sure ask him about it. James,
no problem with that.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
And also so many black peoples are concerned that this
would nagate the collaborative agreement, so he need to speak
on that. Whether it affected collaborative agreement or not.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
I'm not sure in what way, James, do you perceive
it would impact collaborative agreement because all I know is
you know this is solely involving the hiring and firing
of the chiefs of the police and Fire Department. It
wouldn't change the underlying terms and obligations police have. The
reform moves and measures that were put into place after
the collaborative agreement, and it certainly wouldn't stop any oversight

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of the police or fire departments, as the case may be.
It's just who gets to run the show.

Speaker 8 (01:03:24):
Now, you say it that on your station, but Smithman
needs to get that out on black stations, a black environment,
so they can explain. Like I say, so many people
saying sure, they're not gonna touch that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
So collaborative agreement. I got it written down, James, number one?
Why seven number two? Will it impact collaborative agreement? Christopher's
going to be on at seven to twenty. I've got
no problem asking both of those questions. I'm happy to
do with my friend. Appreciate you chiming in out of
time in the hour, James, good to hear from you.
Six to fifty five, come up in sixty station.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
Guaranteed Human fifty five krc D Talk station Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
It's seven oh six fifty about care seed, he talked station.
Try to make it out of you Monday if you can.
My name's Brian Thomas. I host a fifty five Casey
Morning show, and thank god I have Joe Strekker's executive
producer of the morning show. Without him, the show certainly
wouldn't go, and I appreciate him being at his post
all last week. And thanks again to Dan, Carolyn Carry
Jeff Walker covering for me. Well, I took my break
to recover from the chymo and hopefully that'll be it.

(01:04:40):
I'll take the five years I got last time, but
if I get five more years at this time, I'll
be okay with it. Don't expect it to be cured,
but I am. I'm very happy I've got good medical care.
Something else we need to be happy about in the
United States of America is as unfortunate as our medical
system is. It's still the best in the planet. Anyhow,
coming up Christopher smitham and at seven twenty and I
will ask him about the the signature the campaign, and please,

(01:05:02):
I'm encouraging you again because Christopher's going to do it
as well. Get into Jim and Jackson's some of the
other locations where you can sign the petition, which will
require at least seven council members to comment on or
at least chime in on hiring and firing of the
police and fire chiefs. I can't imagine that is a
bad development. It sounds like a great one to me.
Considering what we've been through thus far with Chief Washington
and Chief Thiji. Coming up money Monday, Brian James one

(01:05:22):
r from now markets are really happy about this peace
deal with Iran, but is it really one? Sorry, put
me in the column of skeptical. We'll talk about Elon
Trust being a trillionaire. I don't find that to be
a problem. And finally, apparently people want the products he's making.
Plus one hundred percent wine tariffs. At least it's wine
from just France. You'll still have a multitude of other

(01:05:44):
options if it does go up. Then Rick Green, what amazing,
amazing miracle will happened to? Rick Green? Drug addict, convicted criminal,
did time in prison, had serious alcohol problem and addiction problems,
and just woke up one day and said, I'm not
doing it with God's health. He believes God touched his
shoulder and laid hands on him metaphorically speaking, and he's

(01:06:05):
never been the same since transformed his life. It's the
anniversary of the day that that happened. He'll be in
studio at eight forty five one three seven nine fifty
eight hundred and eight two to three top pound five
fifty on h G and g fon Jieh. I'm cynical
and kind of worried about this. We have reached an
initial agreement both the Iranians and the United States pursued
with Trump announcing it, have got at least a framework

(01:06:27):
of a deal. Although, as I mentioned earlier in the show,
if you can find the written verbiage the details of
the agreement that they allegedly are going to sign on Friday,
please forward to belong to me, because apparently no one
from the Wall Street Journal over to Politico and every
left and right wing and everything in the middle news
reporting have just said something along the lines of details

(01:06:47):
of the deal were not immediately released. Allegedly, it's going
to open the straight of horror moves as well as
end our blockade of the Iranian ports. On Friday Friday,
Pakistani media said that would that is what would happen. However,
what remains is all the swirling details that are apparently

(01:07:08):
not worked out. The deal apparently gives about sixty days
to resolve well a multitude of problems outstanding issues like
Iran's nuclear program that's going to have to be resolved
within the next sixty days. They say, though the timeline

(01:07:29):
could be extended if they don't reach a deal within
the sixty day period, so then that might be a
little more waiting, but at least you wouldn't have bombs
being thrown at each other in the meantime. Another swirling
question is what they're going to do about Israel and Lebanon,
because the Iranians have come out and pretty much repeatedly
stayed stated that Lebanon must be a part of the deal.
Israel can no longer hit Lebanon. But you know what

(01:07:50):
that means. The Iranians have to tell has Bald to
quit fire rockets in Israel. I know the Israelis were
involved in the initial attack, this epic fury thing, and
I know they want to get rid of your Iranians too,
because the Iranians literally want to blow Israel off the map.
That's why they want to bomb. So I understand that,
but are anyway They don't seem to be part of
the negotiation process. In fact, Israel didn't say anything yesterday

(01:08:16):
with this announcement that there was going to be a
signature on Friday. No immediate comment from Israel, although they
were shooting at each other over the weekend, So swirling
swirling questions around that. Do you think it can happen?
I suppose, I sure hope. So bottom line is, you know,
like every positive development in the negotiations that's been reported

(01:08:38):
in the media, there have been a positive impact on
the stock markets. And futures are up this morning, and
smile because you know the price of gasoline has already
started to come down, and the benchmark C bent crude
is trading four percent, maybe a little bit more down
in early trading, so it's down to eighty three bucks
a barrel. That spells good news for you, least in

(01:09:00):
terms of filling your gas tankup. And is that going
to be enough? I know people are upset about inflation,
and I commented about this early within the context of
the craziness Victor David Hanson's op ed piece, you know,
the most self destructive pillars of lefty lunacy finally begin
to fall talking about all these crazy policies that we
chased our tale around trying to prevent or stop or
otherwise alter that really were nothing like the whole transition.

(01:09:21):
Where did that come from? That guys can declare themselves
to be women and we're supposed to accept that they
are actually women, not just saying they are. And I'm
not transphobic. I can live in a world where someone
says they're a woman. I don't have to agree with that.
That's the only point of contention I've got with the
whole topic. But in New York now referring to a
man as nonjes dating parent in the law. You can't

(01:09:44):
even call a man a man and a woman a
woman anymore because of this, Where did that issue come from? Fabricated?
Brought up? Who knows? But pivoting over a couple other
fun facts. I saw this other piece which kind of
dovetails quite nicely into Victor David Hanson. So you've got
this problem out in California they are, Well, if you

(01:10:04):
don't sense there's a problem with the California voting, then
I don't think you've been paying attention to it. They
have kept conservative Spencer Pratt off of the November ballot. See,
you now have either a socialist or an uber socialist
to choose from because of their crazy voting system. And

(01:10:26):
it's they've been finding out that they had massive, massive
ballots coming in from like homeless camps and really concentrated
populations of people who you would otherwise expect not to vote,
people gathering signatures, and several articles referring to people being
paid to sive off on the ballots that they were issued.

(01:10:47):
Because every man, woman, and not child, but every person
in California gets a ballot. It's a registered You are
registered to vote when you go get your driver's license.
For example, whether or not you're an ill immigrant or not.
Federal losses illegal immigrants can't vote. We've been trying, the
Justice Department has been trying to get the records from
California to make sure that the federal laws have been followed,

(01:11:09):
California being obstructionist and of course not handing that in.
So you've got a lot of problems over there. But
look what your choices are. As a consequence of this
ridiculous voting system. They have only the top two candidates
get to run, So you have a choice between a
socialist and an uber socialist. What's going on in La
Something Pratt has been pointing out Spencer Pratt, and he
is on fire on social media, pointing out all the

(01:11:31):
warts and problems brought about by well electing idiots with
stupid policies. Los Angeles has the largest homeless population in
the nation. It grew by ten percent in twenty twenty three.
Now spending an estimated one point three billion dollars every
year to really pretty effectively make the homeless more comfortable

(01:11:54):
and keep them on the streets. You had the whole
problem with the Palisades fire. Fire hoses didn't work where
firs were empty. The mayor was out of the country.
People lost their homes burned to the ground. When's the permit. Yeah,
they won't even issue permits out in California. That's the administration.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Vass. More than fifty four thousand

(01:12:16):
residents of Los Angeles County left in the last twelve
month period, walked out. They've had it up to their eyeballs.
The best, the smartest, the most, the people generating taxes
have left the building. Same thing happened in New York.
Zorhan Mam Dami Kami, you voted for a communist there.

(01:12:36):
Their budget, this is hard to believe. They got eight
point five million people in New York. Their budget is
more than the budget for the entire state of Florida,
where twenty three point five million people reside. And yet
it's still not enough to pay for everything that mom
Dami has on his socialist wish list. While every one

(01:13:00):
flees hundreds and hundreds of businesses, you can got your
millionaires in, your billionaires packing up and heading on too. Yeah,
places like Florida and Texas. Same thing happened on the
California side of the equation. Do you get the picture
that something is wrong?

Speaker 7 (01:13:15):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Margaret Thatcher said, you have the biggest promise socialism. You
run out of other people's money. They are putting this.
This is real time. This isn't a student of history.
I'm sorry you forgot to study what happened every other
time this happened. You can watch it unfold before your
very eyes. And I'll go back to the point I've
been making. We got November fast approaching. Yes, inflation is up.

(01:13:36):
But if you're mad at evil Orange man, do you
really think that you want exactly what I've just mentioned,
just small snippets of the reality you get in commie land,
in socialist land? Is that what you want? I'll pivot
over to brief comment about my favorite professor or teacher

(01:13:57):
of all time, Chuck. I'm sorry, man, you bomb me
out the other day. He can't find anything apparently redeeming
in Vivek Ramaswami, and he doesn't like Amy acting either,
so he's not gonna vote. I'm sorry to pick on you, man,
but you want to post it on social media. Listen,
you know you're gonna throw out the good for the
sake of the perfect. You're gonna have a problem with

(01:14:18):
Ramaswamy because of bitcoin or something like that. He's a proven, successful,
brilliant businessman. He's sharp on his feet, he's got great
ideas for the state of Ohio. Maybe I don't even
agree with him one hundred percent of the time. Find
me a human being that I agree with one hundred
percent of the time, right. I hear it from my
listeners all the time, Brian, I listen to you all
the time. But you know what, I only agree with

(01:14:39):
you about eighty percent, and I get ninety percent. Occasionally
I say smile and say, you know what, that's great.
I say, okay with me, and maybe we can talk
about those disagreements together in a you know, a reasonable fashion,
like adults do and we do. You're gonna try to
find the perfect. Good luck with that, go ahead, sit
it out and Amy Acting. I've also very disturbed, and

(01:15:03):
we talk about allegations of racism, people actually coming out
and saying they don't like VvE Ramaswami because of the
color of his skin to the fact that he's Hindu.
We don't live in a theocracy, and I thought we
were living in a post racial world. You would not
vote for a man who would be demonstrably better as
a governor in the state than Amy Acting, who We've
got a record to show what she has done to us.

(01:15:23):
Amy lockdown acting because he's got a different skin color
than you. That is so so damn disappointing. Christopher Smithman
up next seven sim' Smidman, welcome back to the program,
my friend. Love having you on the show.

Speaker 7 (01:15:38):
Oh thanks for having me on, Brian. I really appreciate
it and I'm excited to come on. Let me just
you know, chime in on all the people who continue
to pray for you and pray for you, know as
you go through the chemo treatment, you know, full complete healing.
Thanks what we're praying for, right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Thank you man.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
I'll take you back.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
I'll just take a break in the growth of it.
You know, I got five years out of the last one.
I appreciate the prayers the last time around, and I'll
take all I can get this time. And it just
it's really a glorious and grand thing for me, just
to have to know that there are actually people in
this world who care enough about me to send a
prayer my way. Man, that's truly a life's miracle, and
it does get me by Thank you very much, Christopher.

(01:16:19):
It's also great having you as a friend. There's another
one in life's little miracles.

Speaker 7 (01:16:24):
Oh well, I agree, man, is that is a shared
feeling between us. So we just gotta we just got
to keep pushing through life because it is very complicated
and not easy for anyone. Yeah, period, not easy for anyone. Yeah,
I heard you had some questions this morning about our petition.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Oh yeah, real quick, missim James called. It's the petition
to get at least seven council members to thumbs up
or thumbs down on hiring and firing of the chief
of police and the fire chief. I get it all
day long. With what happened to Chief Washington, what happened
to Chief fij fired for no reason, with swirling question
behind the scene. City Manager Long apparently has the sole

(01:17:02):
authority to do that, So why not get council involved?
First off, he wants to know why seven as opposed
to simple majority And the other thing, will it impact
the collaborative Agreement at all by putting this in place,
assuming people sign a petition and vote for it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:18):
Boy, The second one is a layup. Although this has
nothing to do with the Collaborative Agreement, and this notion
that it does right is being placed and put out
there by missus Irish Rollie. So she's suggesting that us
bringing more transparency to the hiring and firing of police

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and fire chiefs in the future has anything to do
with the collaborative Agreement. Let me make a quick point
here two points. Number one, why would we want one
sole person making the decision about who's hired and who's
fired in the City of cincinaty related to two positions.
Number two, the city manager herself cannot be terminated without

(01:18:08):
seven members of council saying yes. So it is the
exact same process that she affords herself right now in
her current position. And so the question, the second question
is they're nine members of council and why you say
seven out of nine is because to get to seven,
it tells you there's something egregious going on. If it

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were five or four, five to four, like in the
Senate they say we want sixty votes instead of fifty. Here,
it just says, it's a heavier lift here to say,
you've got to get those two extra members of council
out of nine to say whatever is happening related to
that fire chief or police chief's employment, it's serious, serious
enough for seven to say, hey, you're going to lose

(01:18:52):
your job, or not lose your job. In this case.

Speaker 8 (01:18:55):
If you can.

Speaker 7 (01:18:55):
Imagine, the city manager comes before council is saying it,
I want to fire the fire chief, and I want you.
I don't think i've ever said this. The reason, my speculation,
not a fact, of why I believe the fire chief
was terminated is this simple. The mayor wanted his own
fire chief. Remember this fire chief was hired by John Cranley.

(01:19:18):
And politicians get a little you know, they're like, I
want my own people, I want my own administration around me.
So they instead of going to Chief Washington and saying, hey,
Chief Washington, we want to change horses here, right, they
just went to him and just violently fired him without cause.
Now that's speculation, but I don't think the public appreciates

(01:19:41):
that fire Chief Washington was hired by the previous administration.
He was left over. He had only served two years.
And I think this mayor wanted him out. It's that simple.
And because the mayor has the power to recommend termination
of the city manager. Yeah, he or she holds tremendous

(01:20:03):
power over the executive and so he says, I want
this person out, and that city manager goes and does
the bidding, the bidding of the mayor. I think that's
how it ultimately played out.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Well, let's boss concernt the time in this segment. I
just have to observe. You know, question mark, was Chief
Washington doing a poor job. If it was a poor job,
then there was a reason to fire him. So what's
wrong with leaving him in place if he's doing a
good job. And I would say, it's really damn childish
to just do it, because I want my guy Lord
talk station seven thirty two. If you have a k

(01:20:35):
City talk station and Brian Thomas with Christopher Smith and
doing that smither and anything, Christopher, you got the floor,
my brother? What else is going on?

Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Well, let's just stay with this just for a quick
certain because citizens can sign the petition. You know, sometimes
we say what can we do? You know, how can
I put it together and help? And right now we
need citizens in Cincinnati to come and sign the petition.
And so there there are three locations. One is Dale

(01:21:06):
High Barber's four roh to Greenwell Avenue. The owner there
is Victor Fabreau. He lives in Price Hill, but he's
the barber there. You can he has the petition, you
can sign it. Dave Backer Auto, he has the petition.
There's there are city people that work there. They have
the petition. And then Jim and Jack on River Road

(01:21:28):
people can come in and sign the sign the petition.
And so the question is, and we have a lot
of other people that have petitions in their hands and
they're they're running around and they're collecting signatures. I want
to just explain that signing the petition doesn't even say
whether you support the issue. It means you believe in
democracy and you believe in November that citizens have the

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right to say yes or no. You know, sometimes what
happens here is what democrats tend to do in our
city is say don't sign, don't sign, don't sign. Some
of them are common, right. The reality of it is
is signing the petition doesn't say yes, I support the issue.
This is the beginning of citizens engaging in their process

(01:22:09):
to petition their government saying we'd like to see this
issue on the ballot. So it's not even about sorting
out whether you like it or not. Do you agree
that we have the right to petition our government to
place the issue on the ballot? And the issue is
simply as saying we don't want this power vested in
the city manager. Why do we want a consultant? And

(01:22:30):
I'll end with this part of it having the power
to influence the city manager on who to hire and
fire in the police department without us knowing about it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
You're talking about irawling, so correct.

Speaker 7 (01:22:43):
I'm saying we have somebody working very closely, we have
the mayor who can put influence on the city manager,
and none of the other people that we've elected have
any insight to say yes or no to it. I
think we have a problem here, and this has nothing
to do with the collaborative agreement. And the only reason
someone would assert that is they're attempting to assert race

(01:23:08):
into this discussion. Let me remind the public that Chief Washington,
Michael Washington, who was terminated, is a black American. A
lot of people don't even know that Chief Washington is
a black American. So when people say, well, this has
everything to do with the collaborative agreement and Chief Fiji
is a white female, right there, reality, we don't care

(01:23:32):
about you and I and you're listening artists. We don't
care about what the gender is with the race of
the version. We're talking about the process, and we're saying
we don't want any city manager in the future to
solely have the power to make this decision and us
the taxpayers. When Chief Washington settles this lawsuit Brian Thomas

(01:23:53):
by the end of the year, prior to this even
being voted on, he's going to get at a minimum,
in my estimation, five minutes million, and he probably will
get north of ten million if they go to trial
because the lower court has already said you had no
cause to fire him. Chief Fiji is going through the
administrative process, so she hasn't started her litigation, so her

(01:24:15):
litigation might go on for three years, but Chief Washington's
will be settled this year. He's already three years in
Brian Thomas and it's going to be a massive settlement
for a decision a city manager made without the Board
of Trustees, the nine members of council. Thank you for
allowing me to stretch out on that a citizen called
in and after that when we come back, brother, I

(01:24:37):
do have some very hot topics with a lot of
energy and out.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
Part of it is the traffic stops study that was
just dropped like a grenade in the middle of our community.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
Yeah, that will be from campaign zero, a project of
we the protesters ink wid started in the talks station
seven they think about Kerosite talk station continuing the Smitherman
pivoting over to the topic, Christopher Smithvan again you have
the floor. Let's talk about this survey that was done

(01:25:10):
suggesting the Cincinni Police Department or I guess races because
of the breakdown of traffic stops. Go ahead and have
at it, my friend.

Speaker 7 (01:25:17):
First, let me be clear straight out of the gate,
our Cincinnati Police Department is one of the best run,
the best diverse, the most diverse by race and gender
in the city of Cincinnati. There is no department right
in the city that has the level of diversity Black Americans,

(01:25:40):
White Americans, Latino Americans, women, men, Asian, you name it,
We've got it. Yeah right, There is no department. So
the reality of it is there are black American police
officers who are also out there doing stops.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
Yea.

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
And to assert that those Black Americans, I'm gonna get
to the white too, but get to assert that the
Black Americans are racist because they're pulling a car over
is insane. Meaning our officers are out there doing their job.
Number two, our white officers who are stopping cars, which

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is what we want them to do. It's called proactive policeing.
Somebody is rolling through, they don't have a license plate,
or they're driving fifty or sixty or sixty five miles
an hour bond Hill right down Reading Road into Roslon,
jumping in and out a car. If you want a
safe place, a safe zone where our children are crossing

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the crosswalk going across deal over on the other side,
or California who are catching the bus on either side,
you gotta slow traffic down. And the bond Hill Community
Council has been requesting that the police come and do
that kind of traffic control in their business district. Roseline

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has been requesting that the police come places like Price
Hill On Warsaw full of prostitution, full of drug trafficking,
the McDonald's, and the Kroger's at the top right over
by seating an elder. They've been requesting that the police comes.
This methodology. You and I don't know anything about what
this group is, who they are, who pay for it,

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how they came up with their numbers. It is insane
to just drop a report like this and say, hey man,
the Cincinnati Police Department are racist. But here's the motivation.
Here's the motivation. The motivation is to secure more contracts
with the city. The motivation is to push the agenda
that the Collaborative Agreement and all these other things that

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we've been through we are on the other side of.
We've got to make sure we bring it back in
order to justify spending war more and more and more
money on things like that. That's where we are.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Well, that's where these NGOs come from. You know, where
you don't have a genuine problem, you create one. We
learned from the Southern Property Law Center they were paying
KKK members to gin up and to talk about you know,
racist acts and violent acts and to be warned about them.
They were paid to do that. Those I mean, they

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wouldn't have allegations if it wasn't for a paycheck coming
from one of these outside entities. Was once you know,
oh my god, they are the you know, the gold
standard for identifying hate groups. Well it turns out there
wasn't really a whole lot of hate there, so they
had to pay to make some up.

Speaker 7 (01:28:42):
I really played that the sentinels who are organization connected
will speak out very publicly about their brothers and sisters
who are in law enforcement and literally hold a press conference.
It's been my dream that the sentinels get a voice
here and say this is absolutely unacceptable and wrong. Okay,

(01:29:05):
but I'm sharing with you. The motivation is money, the
motivation is power, the motivation is politics. Right, we want
to move into the November election in Cincinnati and gin
up black Americans who are by the way, Brian Thomas
requesting that the police come into their neighborhoods. This suggestion

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that the small percentage of criminals that are in our city,
black or white, Right, that's the super majority of us
black and white, Latino Asian male or female aren't getting
up every day, right, now driving into work. They're listening
to us as they drive into work every single day.
They are law abiding citizens, and those law abiding citizens

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are calling the police and wanting them to come in.
I bet that wasn't a part of any of it.
Meaning it's not just about traffic stops. It's about the
community coming together. Brian Thomas, I served as the vice
mayor for a long time, and they the community council
say we would like the police to come in and
aggressively police this area. I guarantee you there was no

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connection between the stops and those resolutions that are coming
from our community councils, meaning they were requested to come
in and do those stops to slow down traffic so
our children are being run down in the middle of
the street. Or there's gun violence like we saw in
Millsville ride through boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom boom this weekend. Or the

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twenty five year old Yale Right who was killed right
in villages of roll Hill, Michael Smith guide aged twenty five,
boom boom boom boom boom shot down. Guess what the
community did. The community rally together. We want stay streets,
get the gun down. They did that this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
They did.

Speaker 7 (01:30:47):
They're requesting that the police come into roll Hill, right,
So if they're doing the study, why don't they say
community requested increased presence of police. That then justify why
they're there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Yes, it does do that, It justifies it.

Speaker 7 (01:31:04):
I was the chair of Law and Public Safety. Dude,
I'm telling you the community councils are texting, emailing and
requesting the police. So now the police come. They do
a study like this that the police officers are doing
what the community wants. And then they say, hey, man,
this is racist. It's not the community is requesting that

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they be there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Yes, but possible. But I see he's got a lot
pent up. Let's bring Christopher back for a little bit more.
We have one more segment seven forty seven right now,
if they five KERCIT talk station get in touch with hey,
fifty five KARSD Talk station by telling us that Christopher
Smithman doing the last segment in the Smith event before
we get the money. Monday's Brian James up the top
of the air and it is Christopher more on this, Uh,
this alleged bias and police pullover reports we received. I

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know you mentioned the Sentinel president and Central Police Association
Stuart Isaac, who is the president. He said, I've been
told about the information. There's some questions to it being inaccurate.
The numbers might be skewed, he acknowledged. Apparently, City manager
Long said, well, we got it, and we're going to
have to hire an external expert who can do their
own independent review because the city wasn't involved, nor was
the police department involved apparently even excluded Iris Rowley believe

(01:32:10):
it or not, in doing this report. So she says,
you know that doesn't we need to provide a thoroughfare
in full picture and ask all the naysayers and those
most critical of us. Isaac said, you know, those most
critical of us, just allow the process, like any investigation,
to come to fruition before we start taking a diving
leap off the cliff and accuse us of doing some
things that maybe we have not done at all. So

(01:32:31):
sounds to me like he's like, no way, don't take
it at face value. Let's have someone legitimately review this
because it was apparently a biased outside campaign. Zero NGO.
I guess, go ahead, Chris.

Speaker 7 (01:32:43):
I'm glad to hear that the President is making a comment.
We need real clarity here. And the point is the
only reason you and I are talking about it is
that the Cincinnati inquire get a hit piece on it.
Oh yeah, right, So we wouldn't be discussing it right
now if it wasn't in the public domain. Go to
the Inquirer and ask their editorial board stop writing about

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things before you have all of the information. The problem
is they drop the grenade and then walk away. They
don't put all the disclaimers that you just put out
there about the study. There's going to be an investigation.
We don't really know who's behind it. Do they do
a follow up report and tell us all of that information.
It's just an unfair report. And the police department, in

(01:33:24):
law enforcement all across the country, they're under political power,
like political shooting at them saying not literally but sometimes
literally that I'm saying politically figuratively, and being a police
officer is the toughest job right now. They're being asked
to do so much, so many different ways that their
heads are spinning on a swivel out there. I'm just saying,

(01:33:46):
this was the wrong time for us to be pushing
back right now, I'm looking at fifty two neighborhoods right
and we've got it. We had a dead body on
Yarmouth Yarn morth Over in bond Hill last weekend. And
that's in a playground, kind of basketball area, kind of
tucked off of Reading Road. Dead body. We got a
dead body that I just talked about over on Villages

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of Roe Hill McKiel smith by to Day's twenty five.
Here's the most Here's the most troubling part about the report,
and then I'll close my mouth about it, is that
if we ask ourselves in Cincinnati, we'll say Cincinnati is
forty eight or forty nine percent African Americans. Okay, So
then if we ask ourselves, where's the crime happening? Where
is it? That's the big question? Is the crime happening

(01:34:30):
in Mouth Adams? Hey, Mount Adams, welcome to the party.
Fifty of your cars were broken into. But you guys
voted for this administration. This is who you voted for.
That's a nice little commercial for them, right it is
now heading into Mount Adams. Fifty of your cars were
hit all at the same time. My point to you
is that we have to understand that the crime levels

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in Row Hill or crime levels that are happening in
Warsaw and Price Hill, those I'm giving those two examples
that we want our He's going to those hot spots,
so we expect them to be deterring crime. And it
might be that disproportionately in Cincinnati they are detaining or
arresting black Americans or white Americans in those two neighborhoods

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as an example, if that's where the crime needs I'm
frustrated that it's almost like, hey man, you're doing something
that's really bad, when the reality of it is, like
I said, the neighborhoods are requesting the police to come there,
and they're really just following the crime. That's what we
want cops to do. Leave all this other stuff alone
so that at the end of the day you and
I are safe. I mean, that's that's the bottom line.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Period period and officer presence an officer in arrests decrease crime.
It's no the word gets out if you commit something,
don't commit a traffic violation, make sure your car's got
license plates on it, you know, all the normal things.
You know what. I've joked about this before. You know,
I hear about you know, driving while black, and I
appreciate that might be a phenomenon from time to time,

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and I know was much more pervasive back in the day.
You know what, I get pulled over in the middle
of the night. Why because I'm going to work at
three o'clock in the morning. If you're out of the
street at three o'clock in the morning, they're going to
figure out a way to pull you over. And oh, look,
Thomas white guy got pulled over because he didn't have
a front license plate on. That was when you had
to display one. Was that trip really necessary? Well, you
know what, you let me go because it wasn't drunk.

(01:36:19):
I think that's what he guy expected. You know, that's policing,
active policing. The word gets out, don't commit crimes and
don't be an idiot, and especially don't engage in gun
violence in any neighborhood period, or you will get arrested.
It's about time arrest because that's the most important leg
of the criminal justice system.

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Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
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talking about money matters. Welcome back, Brian, and happy Monday
to you, sir. Right back at you.

Speaker 9 (01:37:10):
Too many Mondays, too many Brian's this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
I think that's okay. We have some interesting developments to
talk about. You know the market. Hey, the market's all
fired up. Looks like got a deal. We're going to
sign it on Friday. I don't know what the deal says.
I've scoured the Internet far and wide for every news site,
from conservative to ultraliberal Brian, and I can't find any
details of the agreement we're allegedly entering into the Iranians,
and everywhere it's posted talking about this deal, it says

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neither side provided a specific list of agreed upon details.
And I think what we do know is we will
have to negotiate over the next sixty days what it
will mean for the nuclear dust or nuclear fuel there,
whether or not Iran's going to negotiate a well, going
to be able to acquire a weapon at some point,
the opening of the Straight of Horror moves and the
release of the ports of the Iranians can get chips

(01:37:57):
in and out, whether or not we'll be paying money,
and what we're going to do with Israel and Lebanon,
because that seems to be part of the agreement, and
so far as the Iranians are reporting, but I'm not
sure the Israelis and Hesbala have any interest in what
the hell anybody does anyway, Market's happy about it, right.

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
Well, you know, as Nancy Pelosi famously once said, we
got to sign it so that we can.

Speaker 9 (01:38:19):
See what's in it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
That's it, so that yeah, exactly right.

Speaker 9 (01:38:23):
What could go wrong? Now? And we've been through this before.

Speaker 5 (01:38:26):
This is of course a new headlines by tweet, and
that's what the market's reacting to.

Speaker 9 (01:38:30):
This has not been signed. Let's start with that point.

Speaker 5 (01:38:32):
There is there is apparently some kind of tentative agreement,
but as you just said, nobody really knows what the
agreement is.

Speaker 9 (01:38:38):
Those are unimportant details. We don't need to get to
that yet.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
The signing ceremony is supposed to be this Friday of
the nineteenth. There are some things out there that have
yet to be ironed out, and now a lot of
that to to for the for you and I and
the rest of the listening public. We're not going to
be privy to the bullets for probably quite a while yet.
There are some details supposedly that aren't out there yet,
and so that's going to be ironed out there this week.

Speaker 9 (01:39:00):
Hopefully this holds what we've been through this before.

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
You know, President Trump does tend to like to move
the market and there's no consequences apparently when he does.
And so that's the announcement that was made on Friday.
And of course, as you might suspect, everything's through the roof.
Oil futures are down five percent.

Speaker 8 (01:39:15):
We like that.

Speaker 5 (01:39:15):
Yeah, the markets are up one to two percent, depending
on the flavor you're looking at.

Speaker 9 (01:39:19):
So, you know, so far a.

Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
Positive reaction, which is fairly predictable, right, But the market
absolutely hates uncertainty. It can take conflict, it can handle chaos,
but it's when we don't know what's going to happen
and when it's going to happen, that's what the market
hates and that's why it drifts sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
Well, you know, I have to make an observation, but
you know, the market, I guess Trump loves to manipulate
the market, and the market listens to what he says.
I guess considering the collective of many, not all intellectual
at least so far as financial markets are concerned. Giants
people who are in the know. Are they that's stupid
that they would listen to something he says and just

(01:39:55):
act on it or not act on it, Or is
there something really behind the market's actual following those positive comments?
I guess you know, if somebody told me something I
didn't believe it, I certainly wouldn't listen to it. So
how is it that Donald Trump has any sway on
the markets? Or are the markets actually believing what he
has to say? Because I mean, this is four months

(01:40:16):
We've been at this, Brian James, and I've heard these
types of comments before. You know, it's going to be
settled this week, We'll have it done in a couple
of weeks. Right, we were sitting down at the table
with them, Neilroddians really wanted togotiate. Then we find out
the hardliners and around. I'm like, what the hell you
talking about? Bomb here? Bomb there. I can't make heads
or tails out of it. Brian, So that the markets,
all of them, all these folks at these big brokerage houses,

(01:40:39):
and it could equate that to a real positive influence
on a market that so many people trade in. That
just says something, doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
Well, I think what it says is that everything is
treated speculatively anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:40:52):
Right, That's all we care about is what's the market
going to do? Right now?

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
Gone are the days of Peter Lynch by what you know,
remember that book he wrote that said with the big
story in that, well, my wife was buying yeah, pe ratios,
my wife was buying pantyhose in these plastic eggs, and
therefore I decided that was a good investment. Well, we
don't think that way anymore. We simply look for what
the initial what's the immediate reaction going to be. I

(01:41:16):
only really want to benefit from that immediate reaction because
I want to make a bazillion dollars. Look at SpaceX, right,
you're not going to talk about a little later this morning.
But SpaceX, of course came out and it made Eland
Musk a trillionaire. It didn't make any of the initial
buyers a trillionaire because it only really went up ten
percent from about the time that you could officially buy
it as an individual online. But that's enough for that

(01:41:37):
many people to go throw money at it because that's
what we want.

Speaker 9 (01:41:41):
We want that instant hit ten.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Percent year over year over that's better than you normally
get in a long term you know, financial planning kind
of eight percent on average historical record. So I'd say
a ten percent hits pretty damn good. And if you
had enough money to throw at it and you got
ten percent return, I can imagine you could at least
emulate millions of dollars. Who among us has that kind

(01:42:02):
of jack to throw it at stock though, And.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
The point I would make to that is that if
that's how you run your money, then you probably don't
have that much money.

Speaker 9 (01:42:09):
If you're trying to swing to the fences with every
last move.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
You know, I look at you even the right now,
the place to have been all year long, you could
have gotten to your point. You could have gotten double
that plus more since the beginning of the year just
investing in emerging markets indexes. Right, I'm not poop pooing
SpaceX that's in and I'm dragging us into that segment
before we're there. But my only point is that the
reason the market reacts so quickly to this is because

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that's what we're after. Everything is speculative. What's it going
to do before breakfast? What's it going to do right
around lunch? What's it going to do by the end
of the day. Not are these goods and products and
services that they sell? Is this something that can be
productive over the long haul? That's what the market looks
for now. So everything speculations.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
So am I to understand after all this and my
sort of comedic reference of price earnings ratios, which apparently
nobody looks at anymore. It used to be a guiding
principle investing in stuck.

Speaker 9 (01:42:58):
We now evaluation shmelle you right, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
So we now essentially lived in an immediate gratification meme
stock thing where you take a quick hit and then
dump real quick and move on with our lives.

Speaker 5 (01:43:09):
Yeah, I mean, I really think over the long haul,
there's these are real companies behind this. But Elon Musk
is obviously not stupid. He knows how the market's going
to react. He knew very well that he could push
it to do what it did and push him over
that trillionaire mark.

Speaker 9 (01:43:22):
So now he gets to have that notch in his
in his in his belt.

Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
But but yeah, I mean, this is we we are
a we don't deal well with delayed gratification anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:43:32):
We want our bazilions and we want them right now.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
And again that's why the I p o went went
off the way it did, because we just have this
endless drive to make a bazillion dollars tomorrow. So now
I didn't hear a whole lot of buzz, you know, truthfully,
I mean my phone was not ringing off the hook
with people finding out that they really it's not that
easy to get into these I pos and you're going
to have to jump through some hoops and you might
not get exactly what you what you wanted to and

(01:43:55):
that kind of thing. So it doesn't it seems a
little different this time around. Then it was when the
first Internet boom about twenty five thirty years ago, when
I started in this industry, that was everybody learned what
an IPO was and how it worked, and that it's
not something that you just walk to your corner store
and get a hold of this one was a little
bit more available than those in the past, but well,
I didn't hear the same buzz about it from clients.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
As you mentioned. We can bring that down a little
bit more. The next segment, I guess the bright spot.
And this has been happening in advance of the announcement
over the weekend that they had reached this tentative, you know,
memorandum of agreement. Let's assume all that goes forward and
they will sit down at the table for the next
couple of months and try to hammer everything out. Great,
but the price of oils you pointed out, the outsets

(01:44:37):
drop five percent, traded about what eighty two bucks a
barrel for Brent. And that's good, But we have already
been enjoying a lowering of gas prices, I mean, the drip,
the dropping gas has preceded this announcement by some weeks.
Not dramatic drops, but at least we've got the advantage
of a cheaper gasoline. Is there something behind that independent

(01:44:58):
of whatever problem risk we're making with Iranians?

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
Again, pure speculation, the market felt like, and give you're right,
the market has been pricing this in for a while,
and it kind of makes logical sense. Right, We're not
going to stay in this war forever. There is a
midterm election, so there's just no reason that any administration
is going to continue dragging a country through an unpopular
war within a while facing an election. So at some
point the market knows that this was going to unwind,

(01:45:23):
and so it began to speculate. Now we've had some
bounces and oil prices over the past several months since
the war began. That's the market giving us headfakes. It
always wants to try to anticipate what's coming next. It's
not always right. Eventually it will be now, just because
we're talking about this here on Monday the fifteenth, four
days before this thing supposedly gets signed. Who knows, Brian,
we can see that same bounce again if something goes

(01:45:44):
sideways and we decide we're going to back away from
the table.

Speaker 9 (01:45:46):
This is not done yet, but right now we're in
a good mood of that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
And if I was a betting man, Brian James, I'm
sorry to be a little jaded and cynical about this
actually hammer it working out, but I feel like we've
been down this road many many times of the last
four month. I'm praying that it does. That's not me
thinking I want a war to continue, but we just
seem to have been miles and miles and miles apart
up until now, and I just don't see it going now.
That being said, real quick before we take the break,

(01:46:12):
if it does get resolved, considering you said, this has
been baked into the cake, people expect it to end
at some point. We shouldn't see a dramatic drop post resolution, then,
should we. If they've already factored a resolution and an
opening of a straight of horror moves into the K
into the equation with I mean, that won't be a
result in another dramatic drop. If we got pent on paper,

(01:46:34):
I wouldn't say dramatic, but I could see a slight
pullback off of the news because remember, remember how this
stuff works.

Speaker 9 (01:46:39):
We buy on the rumor and sell on the news.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
That doesn't affect a long term financial plan because you
should be behaving that way anyway. But like I said,
everything is about speculation, so it wouldn't surprise me at
all to see things pull back just a bit, not
enough to get your attention, just an exhale, which will
be the short term trades from those super short term
speculators unwinding their positions. That would shock me in the least,
but it doesn't change what somebody should be doing with

(01:47:02):
their long term plans.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Fair enough, we'll dive into the SpaceX IPO one. Maybe
Brian can better explain a little from mypos and why
they're happy to be challenging to get involved in. But
I'm I'm really a kind of curious what SpaceX does
and going back to a price earnings ratio, they sell
profitable product. Is this going to be a long term
good investment?

Speaker 8 (01:47:19):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
Brian James can maybe shed some light on that. Plus
also coming ahead, one hundred percent tariffs on French wine. Hmm,
where'd that come from? Eight sixteen? Right now, don't go
away and be.

Speaker 4 (01:47:29):
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away you are going to get a return on your
investment in the markets and pivoting over back to SpaceX.

(01:47:54):
I guess I seem to be a bit of it,
a traditionalist. I know there's meme stocks and markets and
things like that that we were just talking about it.
But if I was interested in participating in an independent
public offering, which you can mention down the road here,
I would look and see what does SpaceX do? What
are the products, where's the demand coming from? Is this
something that's going to generate profit and income long term?

(01:48:16):
And apparently if Elon Musk is behind it, probably is.
He's got a pretty damn good track record for making money,
So evil trillionaire, is this a good company if you'd
looked at it from a traditional standpoint? Brian James and
I seem to have lost Joe Strecker as well. It's
a part of the room. While I was supposed to
be talking with Brian James. I apologize, folks, So I'll

(01:48:37):
see when Joe comes back we might be able to
get him back on the horn, because it's very interesting
knowing about that. So anyhow, apologies. Now I've got to
regroup here and figure out what the hell I'm going
to talk? Oh, I can talk about this. Yeah, something
I wanted to bring up with Brian James. I saw
this article authored by Peter Daisy Me no idea, but

(01:48:57):
it was an interesting thing. And this is where I
think long term investment strategy can really work for you,
as long as you just say no to maybe the frivolous,
and notably, Peter starts out with, you know, I know
a person that drives a twenty eighteen camera that happens
to be the wealthiest person I know. You know it's
three properties, has two million dollars in investment accounts, and

(01:49:21):
could buy any car on any lot without even blinking.
He chooses not to, and his explanation is both simple
and profound. Quote. A car is a tool that takes
you from one place to another. Everything beyond that is
a payment for other people's perception of you now being
a car guy. I may take some issue with that,

(01:49:41):
but that's because I happen to be a car guy.
One little category in my life that I'm willing to
spend more on because of what I get out of it.
Driving performance and cornering and handling an acceleration are all
really important things to me because I really don't have
any other hobbyes. So we'll call that my little extravagance
in my life. But for the most part, you're gonna
find me buying, you know, designer label clothes. And I've

(01:50:04):
used this illustration so many times. Some one was sick
that I do it like women who's paying maybe even
men who buy ten thousand dollars five thousand dollars purses.
It has no more functionality than a plastic bag from Kroger.
And I know you don't.

Speaker 9 (01:50:17):
What can hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
Now I can? Brian James, sorry about that.

Speaker 9 (01:50:21):
You didn't. I didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
All of a sudden I was talking and just just
unleashing some fascinating nuggets about spacextion.

Speaker 9 (01:50:28):
Suddenly you weren't there dead air.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
I did, sure whatever, none my listening audience didn't hear
a word you said, Brian. I apologize for that. I
don't know where Joe is, but we got you back
on there. I mean, you can just real quick here.
I was talking about people's priorities and where they spend money,
because this is like a financial planner's dream. This article
I read and I wanted to bring it up to you.
Since I already started about it, we can clump everything
else in the next segment. But you know why spend

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heap loads of money on things that don't do anything
but impress other people? Bringing up you, a person leasing
a seventy thousand SUV might have a negative net worth,
you know. Meanwhile, there's a person with one point five
million in the bank, wearing jeans he bought from Target,
driving a paid off Honda, and eating dinner at home
these day to day choices. Expensive coffee came up, and

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I've used that illustration a million times. I've done the
math my two pound bag at Costco. I've calculated out.
I know how many pots of coffee I can make,
I know how many cups make in each pot, and
I know that I multiply that times the five bucks
i'd pay at Starbucks if I went there. I'm getting
a hell of a deal with the twenty bucks I
spend for two pounds of coffee, and I don't feel
that I'm suffering at all. There's so many areas of

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our lives where we will overspend, almost with the idea
we're just doing it to impress someone else, and that apparently,
is a major major pitfall and hurdle for people to
be on the right financial path for retirement. Brian, I
hate to put you on the spot on that, but
I did want to bring it up.

Speaker 9 (01:51:51):
Oh no, that's not the spot at all. That's my job, right,
You just described my day to day. So yeah, I
would say there's a lot of people out there who
you know.

Speaker 5 (01:51:59):
Just as much as there are people who can't lift
the hood of a car and name a single component,
there are people who cannot do that with money. Those
people have extraordinary strong skills in other areas, but they
simply don't put two and two together when it comes.
I'll give you an example. So sometimes people will come in,
we'll do a financial plan and they'll say, we'll go through,
what are all your expenses? And they'll say, well, here,
the mortgage is this, or the rent is that, but

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that's covered by this income over there, so I don't
count that as an expense. And my answer to that,
and this might be like a three four thousand dollars payment,
sometimes my answer to that is, why are we not
counting it?

Speaker 9 (01:52:29):
It's an expense.

Speaker 5 (01:52:29):
I know it's covered by some kind of income, but
we're talking about all of your spending. People have a
way of compartmentalizing. This expense doesn't count because it's nothing
I can do about it. I can't adjust it anyway,
and it's covered by this ex payment that I get,
So therefore we're going to ignore that. And so yeah,
you kind of have to tear the band aid off
and pull it back. And I would also say this
goes back a little bit too. You know what we
like to refer to as the American dream. Everybody you

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know the American dream, of course is having a house
and a stable life and all that kind of stuff.
Well what if your neighbor moves in and all of
a sudden they have a nicer house, right then? Am
I of being the same American dreamers? It a different
American dream. It's just a human reaction. And we live
in a country where it is possible, it's easier to
better your standing in this country than anywhere else. And
that that sounds great, but it does have its negatives,

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which is keeping up with the Joneses.

Speaker 9 (01:53:15):
That's what you're really referring to.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
But see, they really don't like we let someone else's
perception defind what our dream should be you know, the
the greatest dream I ever had in my life was
just to be content and comfortable and not have to
worry about my retirement, you know, and running around and
chasing after things that are you know, out of your reach.
Or we always bought houses that were affordable, maybe a

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little bit smaller, maybe not as nice a neighborhood, but
it was fine enough for my wife and me. This
seemed like logical choices to me, you know, think, I
don't live my life for someone else, and I guess
I struggle with the concept that that's what a lot
of us do. And I know this is a criticism
of capitalism sort of kind of, but capitalism is designed
to build the best products for the best price. There's
competition out in the world. That way, you can acquire

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what you actually might need, what might fulfill your version
of the dream. But if you're buying it just because
somebody else is going to be envious of you, at
least believe that, then you're making a bad decision. You're
living their life for them and probably suffering from it mightily.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
Now, yeah, I read a book about this long time
ago that actually this goes back to the when human
beings learned how to farm stuff, because before that we
were hunter gatherers, and if you ran across a nasty bunch,
you just wandered somewhere else. But once we've learned how
to farm stuff, we had to have land. You can't
move off that land, and if somebody else comes in
and wants a chunk of that land, well now you
have to fight them for it. I think that was

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the very very beginning of making sure I have carved
out my place and making sure I'm keeping up with,
you know, the joneses of whatever band is about to
wander on to my farmland.

Speaker 9 (01:54:46):
Because that also gave us the ability to have free time.

Speaker 5 (01:54:50):
Right when you're doing nothing but wandering around the woods
looking for food, you don't have a lot of free time.
But when you build a system to provide food in
an ongoing manner, then all of a sudden, you have
free time. And that's where we get art and all
these other things. But over thousands of years, I think
that has morphed into the idea that I have to
have something better than somebody else or I can't be comfortable.
That's not everybody, that's not you, that's not a lot

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of the people listening out here. But oh my gosh,
does capitalism want to take advantage of.

Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
Five KRC the talk station?

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Hey thirty one if you have kercd talk station Brian
James Monday Monday doing that name and real quick, since
we had that communication breakdown, I was asking, you know,
what does SpaceX do like? If I was looking at
it from an old school practical do I really want
to invest in it as opposed to a mean perception?
The products? Are they generally in demand kind of thing?
Is it going to be a very profitable company? Because

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usually what Elon Musk touches it turns to gold.

Speaker 5 (01:55:42):
Brian, my old school profitability, I don't even know what
those words mean anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
Brian Tomma.

Speaker 5 (01:55:48):
Yes, SpaceX is a real company, of course, And what
I mean by that, I'm juxtaposing it with the AMC
theater and game Stop and all those kinds of things
also real companies doing real things.

Speaker 9 (01:55:59):
But this is a little bit different.

Speaker 5 (01:56:01):
The herd is still chasing SpaceX as much as it
chased those memes stocks, for sure, and that's going to
run for a while.

Speaker 9 (01:56:06):
But let's look at some details behind it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:08):
So before the IPO, remember IPO stands for initial public
offering before it's publicly offered.

Speaker 9 (01:56:13):
It is, of course private, which means you don't get
to know a ton about it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:16):
But the Espenates where revenues were about thirty five to
forty billion dollars annually, IBIDA about fifteen to eighteen billion,
net income eight to twelve, These are all good things starlink, right,
those things that you see running across the sky in
a line that look really cool and people think they're
alien invasion because they haven't seen one yet. That is
believed to account for more than half their total profits.

(01:56:36):
Launch services, that's what they're most famous for. That's what
we think of. Launch services are high growth, but Starlink
has become the primary profit engine there. So that makes
SpaceX kind of unusual because it came public as the
company was already generating significant cash flow. Cash Flow does
not equal profitability, of course, So where we are right now,
so at a two point one trillion dollar valuation, investors

(01:56:59):
are paying roughly fifty to sixty times earnings or twelve
to fifteen times revenue. Those are extremely aggressive multiples, you know,
even for a mature company. So that's what we're getting.

Speaker 2 (01:57:09):
At well, fair enough, Brian, we'll see how it goes.
And you know, why is it so hard to get
your foot in the door on an ipo? Generally speaking? Anyway,
the commonclave are never invited or rarely invited.

Speaker 9 (01:57:21):
Supply and demand.

Speaker 5 (01:57:22):
I mean, it's literally just what is the availability and
the fact that people could get to this one at all?
There I saw the online quotes from people talking about
how they went through Save Fidelity and they asked for
you know, whatever they asked for, you know, one hundred
percent of their shares they maybe got eight percent. It
was a small fraction of what they truly wanted to buy.
And it's just got to do with everybody once in

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therefore that drives the price up, which you know, that's
why we're talking about it today. That's why it's such
a big headline. But because so many people want it,
not everybody can get it. And this is we've seen this,
of course with a lot of these other big IPOs.
That's not a new part of all of this that
has always had but it's tough to get in on
these things. Who was really in it, of course, it's
the institutional companies and frankly the biggest of the big

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we're in it before, right, So it went public at
you know the price, it went public at one hundred
and thirty five, but it was first available right, so
as soon as it was available to trade, it was
one hundred and fifty. So if you were not on
the ends at the one thirty five, then the soonest
you could have got it was one hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
Fair enough. And I suppose if you are in one
of those big mutual funds and traded multi stock traded
funds like you're investors using, you probably got a chunk
of it in your portfolio somewhere, at least I speculate that. Anyhow,
Brian James, real quick, maybe going back to the point
I made earlier about what do you really need it?
Is it worth the extra money? And I got one
of my good friends is one of the top tier

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saumiers in the world, and I'm sure there's a lot
of French wines he likes. But you know what, I
know a lot of really good California wines that I
don't have to worry about. If we tax we tear
a French wines at one hundred percent, what's the motivation
behind that? And I guess is, are we really going
to be hurt by this at all?

Speaker 5 (01:59:02):
Well, this is less about wine and more about digital businesses.
So this is about who gets to tax the profits
of digital businesses. So the headline part is wine because
that does hit people, you know where they might live,
and they'll pay attention to that. Yeah, So the threat
is one hundred percent tariffs on French wine champagne unless
France repeals. It's digital services tax that is hitting big

(01:59:22):
companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and so forth. So
you know, the traditionally tax systems were built around factories, stores,
physical presence, that kind of thing. Tech companies can generate
billions in revenue without setting foot in a country. We
can stuck a lot of money out and not have
to pay any taxes. So European governments argue that that
tax code has not kept up with a digital.

Speaker 9 (01:59:43):
Economy and how it all works.

Speaker 5 (01:59:45):
The US says, yeah, but no big deal, because it's
kind of cool we can make all this money. So
there are They're arguing that taxes disproportionately target American firms
and amount to a disguised tariff, which, eh, I can
kind of see what they're saying. Because of course these
companies do happen to have been started in the United States.
But I can also see if I'm a country who
is seeing a lot of revenue and dollars exiting my borders,

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I might want.

Speaker 2 (02:00:07):
To react to that.

Speaker 9 (02:00:08):
So therefore I guess they've put some new taxes in place.

Speaker 2 (02:00:11):
Yeah, Brian, why do you think they started here as
opposed to France in the first place. I think we
have a better economic environment for businesses generally speaking, anyway,
maybe that's the reason.

Speaker 9 (02:00:21):
We absolutely do.

Speaker 5 (02:00:22):
And you know, again, like we were talking about earlier,
there's pros and constant capitalism, but that's one of the
big pros. This is the place where you can get
an awful lot of favors and tax deductions, you get
you get rules around how debt works, all that kind
of stuff is different whenever you hear you know that
of why you know why companies want to come to
the United States, why people want of the comme to
the United States. You've got the most leverage, the most

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ability to take advantage of a system that is built
around build something and make it bigger.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
Well, and you also have an administration that's willing to
step up to the plate Levey taxes on foreign companies
or foreign countries that might levy taxes on your American
based business. That helps. That's worth a lot of money
in and of itself. Brian James, thank you so much.
If you just put your well faith in God. Rick
Green from Spiritu Works Ministry, Rick Man twenty Is it
the twenty eighth year since the Lord just sort of

(02:01:11):
slapped you in the face and woke you up?

Speaker 1 (02:01:13):
Yeah, today is twenty eight years now. I'm so grateful
because I prayed to God. I meant that prayer. I
know I'm in in it, and I never looked back.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
All right. For those who haven't heard the story, and
for those who are very interested in hearing again, because
I never get tired of hearing this story, because it
really is an amazing thing that happened in your world.
You didn't have a real good childhood. No, you were
surrounded by drugs and alcohol, Yes, bad elements you hung out.

Speaker 1 (02:01:41):
With, yes, Lona cuss and a lot of fighting.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
And as a child growing up in that environment, I
can imagine, like with you, it was easy to rub
off on you.

Speaker 8 (02:01:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:01:53):
I didn't think it was, And boy was I wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
You were wrong. Okay, criminal activity, drug abewscl all all
that stuff. I know you were in prison at one point.

Speaker 1 (02:02:02):
Well, you know it wasn't really I'm gonna say chriminal.
It's just when I became an alcoholic and had it,
I didn't realize you can't be an alcoholic and addict
and be a current on town support. So I went
to printer for child support. Oh, I was the first
time still planning and row along. If you're more than

(02:02:23):
five thousand dollars behind the townsport was a founding. I'm
not blaming Bill because it was me. I did that
to myself. Sure when I went over a five thousand
dollars in back town support, it became a founding.

Speaker 2 (02:02:36):
Well, you know, there is an argument to be made
there that you're the one that brought them into this world.
You have an obligation to help deal with the cost
of raising children. We all know how expensive that can be,
at least those who have had children or looked into
the cost of raising children. But that's what happens. And
you were you were obligated to go out and look
for job and present the court with information about the
jobs you applied for and all that kind of thing. Yeah,

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we used to do that, and guys who didn't ended
up going to the lock up for twelve days. Was
kind of slapping the face. Look, if you don't pay
the child support again, you gotta come back in.

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
Yeah. Yeah, the mine was too polluted and too poisoned,
too gone. Doing anything right. Wasn't even in the thought process,
all right, just trying to get.

Speaker 2 (02:03:15):
High, getting high. Yeah, he paid the price.

Speaker 1 (02:03:17):
Reading I walk up in the morning at that period
in my life, So.

Speaker 2 (02:03:21):
Twenty eight years ago today you woke up and your
life was immediately transformed and you never turned around. Explaining
to again listeners who haven't heard the story and the others, please,
it's just such beautiful, beautiful thing.

Speaker 1 (02:03:32):
That morning, I was in the bathroom. I was looking
in the mirror, and I was about to go to court,
and I was talking to God in the mirror. Only
got me in the bathroom, and for whatever reason, a
thought came in my head. I didn't want to die
a narcoholic and an addict. I didn't want my kids
to hear about that. I didn't want my wife to

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hear about that. At the time, Now my ex wife
and I thought about it. There are two days pretty much.
I believe we can't control that's alcoholism and drug addiction.
They're not too many deaths we have authority over well, correct,
I think those are self induced? Yeah, I honestly do.
I could be wrong. I just think they can happen

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without our participation.

Speaker 7 (02:04:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
Now that's not to say that some people don't have
a genetic predisposition to getting addicted to alcohol. I know
certain genetic types, you know, they're prone to being alcoholics,
And maybe the same thing stands the reason for drugs.
But maybe if you realize you've got an issue. First off,
I know alcohol is difficult thing to get away from.
It's societally acceptable, and I'm happy to see the trends

(02:04:38):
with young people going down. But listen, nobody forcing anybody
to go out and use illegal drugs, so that might happen.
But you're right, I firmly believe that we have a
choice on whether to say yes or no at the outset.
And then if you realize you have a problem and
can't get a hold of it, then you really need
to seek treatment or maybe experience God's miracle like you did.
At least you were staring at yourself asking the question

(02:05:00):
or pointing out that you were introspective. So I'm going
to die and I don't want to die for a
whole variety of reasons.

Speaker 1 (02:05:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:05:10):
Can you give God credit for that conversation?

Speaker 1 (02:05:12):
Yeah, because I know all things good of the Lord,
and that was a good conversation. It was a positive conversation.
It was a conversation that just pushed me into where
I needed to go. It was time to leave the
old rick right there in the bathroom. He's still there
after twenty eight years. He didn't need to come out

(02:05:33):
the bathroom. But a new man came out. That was
the third day. I poured all my coke down the toilet,
I pulled my beer down the tallet. I broke my cigarettes.
I had gone to cleanse my tongue, and I'm accustomed.
June fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight. Nobody can tell me God
isn't real because I don't have authority over the time.
I just don't.

Speaker 2 (02:05:52):
Well, you're looking at a guy across the board here.
He might have an argument with you about that. But
I will be willing to give the Lord at least
control over the on and off switch when it comes
to cursewords. Pause for him. But We're going to bring
Rick back, talk about what this miracle has meant to
him and how he's taken this miracle and really use
it to his personal advantage, but also to the advantage

(02:06:13):
of so many other people, not just by spreading the
word about it and it can be you, but how
he helps out other people in our community. Don't go
away my way to Montgomery Road on that Exelcon fifty
five krc DE talk station. Ifif you have carec he
talk stage and Ryan Thomas an experience enjoying rather the

(02:06:34):
miracle that is Rick Green's life and how he transformed
it and turned it around drugs, alcohol and had an
introspective moment in time looking in the mirror and just
saying I have had enough through his cocaine down the drain,
threw away his cigarettes, poured out his alcohol, and since
that point in time, including shutting off the curse words,
that's an amazing feat from my perspective there, Rick Green,

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never since twenty eight years today. So I want to
congratulate you. And and I heard you say, you know
all the good, with all the things good with the Lord.
You knew that in that moment you experienced the epiphany
and I have to ask the question. You already painted
the picture. You didn't grow up in a real solid

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environment in your childhood. Did you have anyone guiding you
or taking you to church or teaching you whether you're
Christian or Muslim. I don't even know what your religion is,
but you obviously have a connection with God, Rick, So
did anybody bring you up with the concept of God
and that there was some sort of measure of salvation
or hope in belief in a higher power, because clearly

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you got the benefit of it.

Speaker 1 (02:07:39):
Oh yeah, my dad. The greatest gift he ever gave me.
He took me to church every Sunday in May. Sure,
I learned about a man named Jesus, and that's house
you had to go to church. Of course I didn't
pay attention younger. I didn't realize I was listening. I'm
playing with race cars.

Speaker 2 (02:07:57):
Oh yeah, well, it's like every We'll let you our
kids all day long, and they're twelve years old, they're
looking at your glassy light. Is any of this getting through?
And then you later find out, well, you know what, Yeah,
they were listening.

Speaker 1 (02:08:09):
And I always knew God loved me, even in that environment.
Always knew the God and man connection. Whenever I was
about to do something that I wasn't supposed to do,
always had a warmth welling up and tigning me, warning me.
Wherever I went against that warmth, I wind up in
the justice center. I wind up whenever I went against that,

(02:08:32):
And now I don't go against it no more. Well,
if like a warning it, well you.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
Minister, I mean you're out in the on the streets
handing out meals every do you still do that on
the weekend and helping out folks on life's margins? And
when if some were to ask you, because we all
have all these non government organizations and other groups running
around talking about we would to prevent, you know, like
youth crime and gun violence. And it just seems to
me to be boiled down to and summed up in
probably one of the most easy solutions, which is a

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good a good family life, and good morals being taught
and that you know, there should be that internal reaction
like you had even when you were doing and engaging
in this behavior, that you knew it was wrong when
you were doing it. Does that come naturally or is
it a taught thing that you know something's wrong? When
you're doing it.

Speaker 1 (02:09:19):
That's something God places in us. We know right, no
wrong at birth. We might be to articulate it, but
we know it. You know, when I'm out there feeding
the homeless, I used to do it every weekend, but
I retire last November. Not I can only do it
once a month. People always say Rick wants you to
a fine, won't once. See, I don't really need a

(02:09:40):
government involved with something I'm gonna do anyway, I'm still
gonna do it. I don't see the point. I'm still
gonna do it. Yeah, yeah, and stop me.

Speaker 2 (02:09:52):
Yeah. That that's the spirit flowing through you right there,
my friend.

Speaker 1 (02:09:56):
I don't think nobody should go to bed hungry on Earth.
I just don't. There's enough money on Earth. I don't
think nobody sleep on the sidewalk on Earth. There's enough
money on Earth.

Speaker 2 (02:10:08):
But if people applied themselves and didn't take the easy
root out and say it's not my fault, I cannot
rise above because the systems designed against me, or the
man's got a sumb of oppression on me, or however
you want to phrase it. We've made it so easy
in this world to offload personal responsibility and put the

(02:10:29):
blame for any given failure we experience on someone else.
Looking at your life, you failed time after time after time.
You woke up on your own. Nobody wrote you a check.
No governmental agency came in and grabbed Rick Green by
the throat and pulled him out and said, Rick, you're
going to turn your life around. You did it on
your own initiative. I think that's the most beautiful part
of the story.

Speaker 1 (02:10:49):
It's just one thing. I totally agree when people say
I'm not a fan of lazy. My uncle's want lady,
my grandpa won lady, my dad won lay lazy. It's
just a horrible way to be. We always been in
blue collar, working proud people. I'm talking about maybe mentally
challenged or physically challenged. That is different and infants. I

(02:11:12):
think we all should look out for them. Now, if
you're just lazy, I'm probably gonna keep walking. That's a
you thing. That's not me thing. I can't afford to
be lazy. I gotta said, Charlotta homewait not mean she's
gonna eat. I need to eat.

Speaker 2 (02:11:30):
Yeah. Well, One of the things I always say is,
I think if there's one obligation we had to our
fellow brothers and sisters on this planet is at least
earn and take care of enough that you can cover yourself.
If you bring more people into the world, like you
learn during paying child support, you better damn will take
care of them until they are capable of taking care

(02:11:51):
of themselves. And then they'll take that responsibility out into
the world and take care of themselves. And if we
all did that, if we are capable of doing it,
the world will be a much better place. And those
people truly on life's margins, my friend, those are the
ones that would get the attention they truly truly need.

Speaker 1 (02:12:06):
Yeah, that is absolutely I wish we could all just
wake up and see, that's enough of us to wear.
The elderly and the young and the mentally and physically
challenged shouldn't have to be without. There's enough for us
that don't Okay, yeah, there's a lot of doing better now.

Speaker 2 (02:12:23):
Okay, yeah, well until you turn it into.

Speaker 1 (02:12:26):
And a lazy man or woman. I don't know what
to say that now, I really don't, because that's the
personal choice.

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
They need to be introspective and have a look in
the mirror like you did twenty eight years ago. Maybe
the hand of God will touch them too. It's about
time for me to take care of myself. Dependence is
a dangerous, dangerous thing. Spirit Works Ministries Final online, spirit
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