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December 9, 2024 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Fifty five K see the talk station. What a day,
What a day, What a day. Brad Winstrip just left
the studio, and great to talk with him for more
than an hour, talking about his committee report looking at
the COVID nineteen and joining us now is the one
time vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Chris Smithaman
And Chris, I don't know if you had a chance
to listen to brad Winstrip at all, but you know,

(00:29):
when you look back at these days of what was
going on during the Wuhan virus, and I mean all
the things that happened that surrounded government, one scandal on
top of another. You know, when you talk about the
way they were trying to suppress free speech, when whether
or not the virus came from a lab, whether it
was you know, came from nature. When you talk about

(00:52):
the billions of dollars that got flushed down the toilet,
I mean, the tentacles of this and the scandals related
to this just really is it is gonna wind up
being I think one of the more shameful chapters in
American history, the way that that all this is shaking out.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, first, Dan, good morning, and yes, I was listening
I consider Congressman brad Winster of a friend. We're you know,
definitely sad to see him go after twelve years of service,
and you know, a person who gave up a very
successful medical practice to do it, and you know it's

(01:30):
time for him to come home and be with his
wife and be with his kids and be a dad
and and make some money. So you know, he is
he has given a lot in the military, he now
has given a lot in Congress. And definitely, Dan, I was,
you know, glad that that Congress from bratt Winster was
there at the Hill investigating what happened during COVID. I

(01:53):
think for me, you know, this most recent pardon by
President that Biden should catch the imagination of all Americans
because of the broadness of the pardon and the reason
I raise it in the context of your interview with
Congress from brad Winstrop is I believe that President Biden

(02:17):
is going to continue some very broad pardons prior to
January twentieth, and some of those pardons might connect with
the interview that you just had. So I think that,
you know, I would not be surprised if he partons
Fauci in a very broad way over a number of years,
and we don't even know what he's being pardoned for. Nothing.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, that's the thing. Isn't it customary to have committed
a crime or have done something wrong before you received
the pardon or actually have been sentence yet for something, yes,
or found guilty of something.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah. Yes, And so I think they're very nervous about
some of the selections that are coming from President elect
tromp at these administrative big moves at the top that
will just release information to the public. Here are the emails,
here are the memos, here are the meetings. And I

(03:13):
think it's going to be incredibly transparent and telling for
all of us over the next two or three months.
I'm talking about January, February, and March as information is
released about what was really happening. And I think it's
connected directly to the interview that you just had with
Congressman brad Winstrop.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. You know, we spend so much time talking about
the swamp that Washington is the genres, the chiselers, that's
the you know, the ne'er do wells that didn't have
at that place. And I was asking him off the
air about what he was going to miss about being
in DC, and I think, you know, there's a lot
of honorable people, and I think brad Winstrop is one

(03:51):
of the honorable people. And you know, going into this
select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, I asked him if
if he had a PreK or what he wanted the
results of this to be, and he said no, he said,
we went in to find facts. We went in to
find out why this happened, how it happened, what was
done right, what was done wrong, and to get to

(04:13):
the truth of the matter and report to the American people.
And so many times, Chris Smithman, when when you have
committees like this, they go in with a preconceived notion
of what they want to find, what they want to report,
what they want the end product to be, and they
go in with blinders on trying to get from you know,
trying to get to that predetermined conclusion. And I think

(04:34):
brad Winstrop is a great example of a real servant
to the American people. And I think he ran this
committee with great integrity, and I first.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I agree with you, and I also think he did
it in a bipartisan way, which is you know, very
unusual in Congress. So it just shows again, you know,
his willingness to reach across the aisle and look for facts.
But let me a bit, Dan Carroll into the pennycase,
which I think we're going to find some type of

(05:07):
determination today. Well I hope.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
So you know what, Chris, can you hang around for
one more segment?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, we got to get to a break right here.
We'll do that on the other side of the break,
and I've got another question for you as it relates
to as it relates to cryptocurrency, and we'll talk about
that as we roll on till nine o'clock this morning,
Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas, and we will continue
with Chris Smithman on the other side of this on
fifty five KRCV talks about twenty nine on this Monday morning,

(05:39):
Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, we are talking with Chris
Smitheman the smither Vent, a late version of the smith
event on this Monday morning, and you were talking about
the Penny trial in New York City and to my
way of thinking, a terrible miscarriage of justice, a trial
that should never have been brought. You've got to al
everyone talks about Alvin Bragg. But the process comuter that's

(06:00):
actually running the case in the courtroom did an interview
some time ago talking about another case she had where
she felt bad for the defendant because the defendant didn't
have an easy life growing up, and so therefore she
led him off. The murder charge that this individual had committed.
Is that the standard that we should have for justice

(06:21):
in this country.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
It absolutely is not. And what was so telling about
the testimony are the number of African Americans, people of color,
men and women, white, black, other who testified and said,
I thought my life was on the line, and so
you have this good samaritan, And some people might be

(06:46):
listening to our interview and they don't even know what
we're talking about. Where last week the judge said, hey,
you no longer have to consider manslaughter. Look at the
second charge. It's a lesser charge where he could get
four years. But the implications around race, because I believe
that if Penny, who is a veteran white male who

(07:07):
intervened for the black people who were on the train,
the white people who were on the train, the men
and women, see, they don't tell that part of the story.
They don't talk about the diversity of people that were
looking at him going, oh my god, we're on this train.
There are no cops down here. And this man just
got on the train and said he feels like he's
going to kill somebody and doesn't worry about what happens

(07:27):
to him if he does it. And so the notion
of the ripple effect across the United States of America.
They convict this good samaritan. What do we do when
we're in those situations? If you have a prosecutor that
will say, you know what, I'll put you in jail
if you intervene, What does that good samaritan have to do?
Dan Carroll, Wait for him to stabb somebody, wait for

(07:48):
him to start shooting in the in the train. Tell
me what that standard looks like. And so the reason
those New Yorkers are grappling with this is that because
of the crime written that they live in and they're
sitting there going, well, what if my daughter was in
that situation, What if I was in that situation, What
if my spouse was in that situation? What do we

(08:08):
want Penny to stand up and do something about it?
And so the problem with this brother is you being
my white brother and us having these conversations. If these
are the kinds of things that try to divide us
in a country, we've got to be able to look
at the fact pattern and say, this has nothing to
do with race. This has to do with people on
a train where they felt that their lives were on

(08:29):
the line, and there was a veteran there who said,
as a good Samaritan, listen, I'm going to try to
intervene and I'm going to try to save lives. And
by the way, I heard a great interview. They said,
if this man had done it on the battlefield, they
would have been giving him a purple heart. Because he
did it in New York on a subway. We're going
to give him four years or we're going to give
him fifteen years in prison.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, I think we're going to just have to hope
that this jury comes to their senses and finds him
not guilty on all these counts. Let me, let make me,
let me pivot now, Chris Smithman, And one of the
more less talked about aspects of Donald Trump is that
he has become an advocate for cryptocurrency. In your role

(09:12):
as a financial planner, I would imagine that you're asked
about this all the time, or you talk about it
from time to time with the people that you deal with.
Where do you stand on the issue of cryptocurrency? And
you know, you look at bitcoin these days and I
think it was Thursday or Friday last week it went
up over one hundred thousand dollars for a single bitcoin.

(09:33):
Absolutely amazing. I wish I would have bought it back
when I had the chance to buy it when it
was you know, when you could buy you know, buy
it for less than a penny apiece. But well, you know,
how important is is the fact that that Donald Trump
has become an advocate for cryptocurrency? How important is that
going to be? You think when we talk about these

(09:54):
issues going forward.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, I think when he walked into that restaurant with
those young people and bought that burger with bitcoin during
the campaign trail, he was sending a message that, hey,
this is something that I think is real. You know,
I have to tell you it's something that I don't understand.
I'm more like a warm buffet here where you know,

(10:17):
I'm a wait and see. But there hasn't been a
person in the White House, you know, me serving as
a financial planner where someone is saying, hey, through the
public policy of the United States of America, we're we're
going to legitimize this currency. So I think that this
is going to be a very interesting time about what
this regulation look around that. I think it's going to

(10:39):
be very interesting about what this regulation look in general,
whether it's banking, whether it's the oil industry, whether it's
the aviation industry. You know, what is what is this?
What is this Trump administration going to look like? What
mergers does he allow to go through? I'm not naming any,
but think of some right here in Cincinnati, Ohio. What

(11:03):
kind of mergers will this administration be friendly to that
others won't. I think things like you know what our
social media platforms are doing or not doing is going
to hit his radar two just because of his experiences. Now,
Dan Carroll, let me say this, because I know I
don't have a lot of time. All right, let me
say this to you, brother. Let me say this to
you brother. Look, people keep saying that this administration is

(11:27):
going to be about retribution, and I don't see that,
Dan Carroll. I don't see an administration coming in saying
I'm coming in here to hurt somebody. What I do
see is an administration coming in saying I'm willing to
be transparent and tell the American people what is actually
going on with their government. And I love the fact
that they're talking about cutting, meaning you have from Eli

(11:50):
Musk and the VIC saying hey, listen, I'm going to
look at our budgets, see what we've been buying in
the Pentagon, or what kind of studies like monkey studies
I've heard about on TV that we've been funding with
our government, and look at those things and say, are
those those are those priorities for the United States of America,
And if they're not, we've got to cut them. And

(12:12):
I loved your show at the beginning when you said, hey,
this is about groceries. This election was I just laughed.
We'd just say, hey, this is about groceries, and it
was so simple and it was so true. He didn't
say inflation, he said groceries. And that's what this election
was about. And if he can bring those prices down,
if he can if he can bring peace around the

(12:34):
United States of America, this is going to be a
great administration for you.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, it's it's going to be great to see and
when you know, when you talk about and going back
that this even ties in to what we were talking
to brad Winstrop about, because it's the it's the bloat,
it's the inefficiency, it's the waste of this government and
the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy that we
have that got us into this Wuhan situation to begin with,

(12:59):
because all this money was going to the Wuhan Lab
in China to pay for all this research that they
were not supposed to be paying for. And Fanci said,
you know what I signed off on, you know, a
few billion here and a few billion there. Don't I
don't know what it's for. They put it in front
of me. I signed it. The money goes out the
door is someone else. It is someone else's job to
account for all that, not me, you know, the guy

(13:20):
that's spending all that money. And the way it's set
up that kind of I don't know if it's ever
going to change, but at least the way of thinking
about it might have to change. And I think that's
what this the Doge Committee is probably going to do
the best at.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
And I think this notion where we see pictures of
federal employees taking bubble baths and and and saying they're
working from home. There's one thing that there's one thing
that people might even know what you and I talk about,
but they go back to the ouse there. God yeah, yeah,
that are literally in a bubble bath. I mean, if
that's what you're doing, you know, with our federal doubts,
there are people that work from home every day. It

(13:58):
makes all this sense in the world, but there are
people that need to come back in. That would be
one of them who's taking images of himself nude in
a bathtub. And by the way, when I look at
this case that's breaking right now with p Diddy, right,
Beyonce and jay Z, I want everybody to hear what

(14:18):
I'm saying. Listen, don't defend it. This is an Epstein
situation on fire. It's a mess out here. This is
gonna get really messy. And with Beyonce out trying to
endorse Vice President Harris, all of these things at the
end could have all been connected. Right. People could have

(14:38):
been trying to cover their hindsight, just like I see
President Biden when he says he's gonna he might partner
his brother. We have no idea here but to rake
up and see these headlines where these two men are
being accused of raping a thirteen year old child, where
one rate the other watched, one rate the other watched,
and there were other people there in the room. If

(15:00):
any version of this is true, these people should be
under the jail, never to see the light ever again.
And that's how that has to be our position, Dad Carroll.
Now I believe that people are innocent and tell proving guilty.
But I'm letting you know there's enough out there with
P Diddy, with these videos, and you go out there
and you see sympathy for this man, there should be

(15:21):
no sympathy. We should be trying to find out the
number of children that this man has probably destroyed their
lives terrible.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
There's always people out there that want to prevent us
from seeing the truth. And as our friend Bill Cunningham
likes to say, the truth self seving free.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Chris Smith so much, Dan Carroll, appreciate you man. People
can follow me on x at vote Smitherman and I
tweeted you all the time. I hope you watch it, baby,
I do take care, have a great a brother.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
You're the best. Chris Smithervan, thank you very much. I'm
with that we will get to a break. We're a
little bit late for Dan Carroll, for Brian Thomas on
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