Smitherman 11-24-25

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Shoy seven twenty fifty have Kercit talk station. Thank God
for this time of day and this time of week.
Christopher Smithlman, former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Every week here at this time to event the Spleen.
The smith event is what we call it. Welcome back,
my dear friend, Christopher Smithman. Thank you for being on
the program.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh, thank you so much, brother, for having me on,
allowing me to have some what I would say, even therapy.
Once a week I can share with you and the
rest of the world what's happening. I call it therapy
for me, and I don't have to burden you know,
my dear friends around me. I can just give it,

(00:41):
give it to you and the rest of the world. Brother.
So you just sit back on the couch and look
at me.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Put my feet up, and let you go hey real quick.
Herefore you dive in what's what's burning in your head
and what's causing your spleen to be invented. You have
some good plans for Thanksgiving. I mean, you have such
a big family, and I can envision the Smithman family
gather around and enjoying each other's fellowship and some great
times on thanks if you have something good plan.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, thirty years, thirty five years or so, we've been
doing the same things brother in thirty five years, and
we get together with my oldest brother. So our whole
family does not get together for Thanksgiving. People are in
different places, and so I won't have all my kids.
They have their significant others or other things that they're doing.
But I'll have some of them. And that's all cool, man,

(01:26):
you know, It's just a part of life and rotating.
But I've always been these thirty five years, I've been
with my oldest brother, and so that's what we'll do.
We'll sit down and have some turkey.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I want to share. I want to share with you brother,
as I wish happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody. What
happened in Chicago when they were putting up a Christmas tree.
And I'm going to tie it to Cincinnati. Okay, we
as a city in Cincinnati are moving towards Chicago if
we're not already there per cap per population, as far

(02:01):
as violence is concerned. But they are just too many
things that are paralleling here that I just want to
raise some attention. You can't even go into the heart
of Chicago with the raising of their Christmas tree and
not deal with a mass shooting. That's when you know
your city is completely off the rails. You have a

(02:25):
democratic mayor, you have a democratic council, you have a
democratic school board, right, and you have criminals in Chicago
that are being cradled by the electeds, and they are
neutering and have been neutering their police department with the reimagination,

(02:47):
with the defund the cops, and what you have is
a city that is completely out of control. And the
saddest thing is that those who are experiencing the violence
are African Americans. Forgot Americans are being murdered or shot
or made We don't hear about those people who are paralyzed, right.

(03:08):
We don't hear about the person who was shot and
had to be put back together like the bonic man.
I used to watch that as a kid. We don't
hear about those people. We just hear about those who
are dead. But we don't understand the horrific life that
people are living in these urban courts, and it is
coming and has arrived at the doorsteps of Cincinnati. I

(03:32):
continue to wake up and hear in our OTR in
the core of our city shootings a mass shooting by
the FBI four or more. We had three shot in OTR.
We were one short from the definition of a mass
shooting in our downtown right by the same bar that

(03:52):
we all know is a problem that city council and
this mayor and this manager refuse to deal with. And
the people that are dying around us are African American
males who are being murdered every single or every other
day or every weekend in our core, in Cincinnati and

(04:13):
places like Chicago. I would guess that six hundred people
have been shot in Chicago in this year as we
close out the year. Imagine that. Think about your high
school graduating class and think about six hundred people being
shot in one year. These are extraordinary blood baths that
are happening in our core. And to have this mayor,

(04:34):
who happens to be African American to stand up, look
people on the eye in Chicago and say everything is cool,
everything is all right. I got it under control. He
has nothing under control. He does not care about African
American life. I am concerned about this mayor and this council.
My voice will continue the weigh in that they don't

(04:55):
care about the violence, because if they cared about it,
they'd be doing something different. They wouldn't be holding and
coddling our cops. They let them do their jobs, they
let them do proactive policing. They wouldn't be talking about, oh,
we cannot do community based policing and proactive policing at
the same time when every time I turn on my
dog on a TV, I'm looking at almost a mass

(05:18):
shooting every single weekend in our downtown. Here's the closure
closing on this one. Guess what that area not everybody
overwhelmingly voted for this council and this mayor in OTR.
So guess what. Elections have consequences. And this is what

(05:38):
you get where you continue to vote for these kind
of mayors, these kind of councils, these kind of school boards.
You have failing schools. You have a city that is
violently being coddled by the criminals. The criminals are running.
They're more worried about the criminals than they are the
law abiding citizens, whether you're black or white. Up Cincinnati

(06:01):
and wake up Chicago. But if you continue to vote
the same way you continue to vote, guess what look
in the mirror, take your turkey out, eat your Thanksgiving
and don't complain. This is what you'll wanted.

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Speaker 1 (08:47):
Seven thirty here, fifty fifth KRCD talk station. I always
enjoy my conversation with Christopher Smith, and this smither vent
is what we call the segment every Monday, beginning at
seven to twenty. Begame for a few and Christopher, whatever
else is on your mind. I got a couple of
quies this three shot outside the over the Rhine Bar
of the weekend, and of course this has been a
real problem. The name of the establishment Privy on Elm Street.

(09:08):
It's been identified as having noise complaints and prior shootings
outside the establishment. I guess have to ask, you know,
I'm a little reluctant personally to blame the establishment because
you know, I'm guessing it's operating during lawful business hours.
It is not doing something illegal by way of providing
you know, unlawful substances or you know, a criminal. I

(09:30):
don't know what's going on in there, But is it
the bar that's the problem. Seems to me it's the
people that either hang out in the bar and then
go out and commit crimes after they leave it, or
the people hanging outside the bar and maybe not even
going in that are causing the problems. But I mean,
are we right in looking at the bar as the
source of the problem or is it really and I
think it more fundamentally boils down to it's people that

(09:51):
are the problem.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
We are right to look at the bar as the problem.
They have a responsibility to hire off duty details outside
of that bar at eighty five or one hundred dollars
an hour, whatever they need to do to make sure
if they are attracting that population with whatever they're doing.
They have a responsibility to make sure everybody around there

(10:13):
is safe. So whatever you're doing right. The problem is
if you've got to hire three or four officers out there.
But no, they're not going to do that because they
don't want their margins. They don't want to pay two
or three thousand dollars whatever it takes in order to
make sure that people are saying so, yes, I think
they are respired. I don't think they say, well, they
left my bar, and whatever they were doing in the bar,
they go out of the bar is no longer my responsibility.

(10:33):
I want to see heavy off duty details. I would
have already had a plan in place with the establishment.
I would have voted for it on the floor of council.
So we sat, we met, We put together a community
plan and action plan, which at the top of it
would be hiring off duty details. Wouldn't matter to me
whether they were Cincinnati police or sheriffs to make sure

(10:56):
that as their bar let out. I would say, there's
so many people that have invested so much money around there,
they're living there, those are their homes. That is what
the city council wanted. So the people are pouring out
and then shots are fired. You're in your bedroom or
you're hosting somebody in your living room, you're watching and
bullets are flying through your dog on window. So yes,

(11:17):
I think that that owner, whoever it is, I don't
know who it is. I'm not connected. I'm not even
trying to find out at this point. I'm just sharing
with you. City council and this mayor continue to have
the same problem over and over again. And I bet you,
if you and I look into this establishment, in some
way they're connected to this council. Oh really, I don't

(11:40):
know that. I bet you in some way they are
connected through some type of relationship financially making contributions to
the campaign. I don't know this for sure. I'm just
saying I've been around a long time. Guy. You don't
have an establishment like this where you constantly have the
same problem every single weekend and then all of a sudden,

(12:02):
city council and the mayor are saying nothing about it.
There's something going on politically between these Democrats and whoever
owns this establishment. They're all connected. It's one big, happy family,
is my speculation. And they care more about the criminals,
the owner, and not the people that are living down there.
Brian Thomas, that's the ugly truth.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, it just seems strange that. You know, how is
it that this particular establishment is the one that draws
the criminal element?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
You know, I don't know, brother, It's not my bars,
not my establishment. But guess what. All the people in OTR,
not all of them, voted for this council, but it's
very blue. And we go back and say, elections have consequences.
They were complaining about this before the election. They went
in overwhelmingly as a community and voted for this mayor,

(12:52):
this council and this manager and this administration. And you
get what you vote for. It's not that I'm upset
or frustrated. It's your life. Yeah, And so if you
want to go down and continue to vote for the
same people, guess what, you're to get the same results.
All right. But since, man, here's what I want to
talk about, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Now, I'm just gonna say, since we don't have an
upcoming election, we got to wait a little bit for
that next one to show up and give people an alternative.
Whether or not they choose a different path remains to
be seen because we've been down this road before. But
there is something that the citizenry can do in spite
of who they voted for, is organize and do like
a Hyde Park Uprising City council does one thing. The

(13:30):
residents of Hyde Park say, damn it, there is no
way we're going to abide by the zoning thing. We're
going to get a petition on the ballot. We're going
to go after them. That seemed to have worked. So
you know, if you're really worried and angry about crime,
elevating that to that kind of level, maybe the way
to go and force the administration to do something the
otherwise might not do. That seems to be the only
recourse right now. Christopher Well, I.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Would say that after the election, that's all they have left.
They had an election, right yeah, and that is where
the that's where you actually do that work. What they
did was they affirmed the direction of the mayor and
the council and said we like the direction. You don't
get eighty five ninety percent of the vote in an
area and walk away going I'm doing a bad job.

(14:14):
The mayor like raising your children. If you continue, you say,
hey man, I'm going to reward the bad behavior, which
is what they did. The child continues to do exactly
what they were doing, and so there's no motivation. This
mayor is what we call in the college world, a
tenured member of the institution. He's never going to run

(14:34):
for mayor again. He got four years. He is termed out.
He can do whatever the heck he wants. It makes
him even more dangerous because he's not even thinking about
the city. He wasn't thinking about it four years ago
and he's not really not thinking about it now. Let
me say this to you, brother, these Epstein files nationally
that are coming out. I'm a person as an independent.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
You're changing topics. So let's just pause because we're out
of you. Pass the break. We'll let you start on
that one. We come back more with Christopher Smithman on Fire.
He is at seven thirty six right now. If you
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
Seven thirty nine. Here can about kerr CD talk station.
Brian Thomas with Christopher Smithman. I mean interrupt you as
you're getting ready to go on another train of thought,
but I thought since the subject was moving over to
the Epstein file, so I did just go ahead and
take that much need to break Christopher, So you have
the floor back, have at it, my friend.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Look, man, anybody who's out having sex with minor children,
you're a pedophile, yep. And I want to know who
you are. I don't care what your political affiliation is.
I don't care how old you were when you did it.
When you're having sex with twelve and thirteen and fourteen
year old girls and boys, you're set on an island.

(15:57):
You're sick, right, And we've got to own this as
a community, and we want to out anybody and everybody.
It doesn't matter how much money they have, or what
their power is, or what they're doing. And so what
you see on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and
Democrats are out there trying to protect the elites. That

(16:20):
is what I believe is happening. And so I'm not
speculating who's on the list, but I can tell you,
as the Democrats were saying, all we've got to have
this released, I want to say a couple of things
about it. So we're real clear. President Biden and his
administration could have released this information during his term yep period,

(16:43):
and he didn't. He didn't do it for a reason.
So this outcry by the Democrats is all fake, right,
But guess what I think the Trump administration did the
rope dope on on the Democrats saying, Okay, you guys,
I don't know if I want to, I don't know
this for sure. But Epstein was a Democrat. Epstein was

(17:07):
a financer of the Democratic machine. That's where he spent
his money public. Right, So you're gonna find disproportionately most
likely his friends are what democrats. The first person when
the Epstein vote happened in Congress was Larry Summers. Who
is Larry Summers. Larry Summers is the former treasurer under

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Clinton and Obama, very powerful person, former president of Harvard University,
and current faculty member at Harvard University, and he sat
on some AI board on some publicly traded company. As
soon as that vote happened, Larry Summers resigned a Democrat.
Notice how the major news outlets, whether CNN or MSNBC,

(17:54):
really didn't deal with it. Right, We're no different than Russia.
Our media isn't telling this truth. They hide. Information in
politics is not just what you say, it's what you
don't say. So there are a lot of people right
now who are listening to you and I talk or
who is Larry Sommers? Larry Summers resigned related to the
Epstein files. Yes he did. Harvard has launched an investigation

(18:17):
to try to figure out what his involvement was with
Epstein and why he said I'm gonna sell didn't It
wasn't like his information came out as soon as the
vote happened that I'm out. Now. This is a guy
who's been very vocal on CNN, on MSNBC. He's been
going after the Trump administration for a year, for the
last ten years, he's the first person to resign. I'm

(18:39):
sharing with everybody, hold your power. Let's wait and see
as a public no matter whether you're a Democrat or Republican,
Please don't make this partisan. We have got to know
what happened with these pedophiles who are out having sex
with twelve and thirteen and fourteen year old girls. This
is something that we deserve to know. I want to know.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I agree completely and look what the discharge petition is.
It almost was completely unanimous across both the House and
the Senate when it finally pushed came to show everybody,
with the exception of one representative voted to release the
damned documents. Interesting question for you, Christopher Smith Aman, what
the hell's with Trump changing his mind? You're right, Democrats
had four years to release these documents. They obviously didn't

(19:25):
want to do it. We all kind of wondered, I wonder,
what's in them that the Democrats are afraid to release them?
Pivot over to Trump campaigning on releasing them, only to say, nah,
there's nothing there. The OJ looked at it. There's nothing there,
there's no list, there's nothing to see, there's nothing to release.
Where did that come from?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
And of course I think that he I think he
has friends that are on that I'm on that list.
He's a New Yorker. Wouldn't he have known?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Wouldn't you have known that when he was saying he
wanted to release him I mean, his buddy's calling him up, saying,
quit campaigning on releasing these documents. You know, damn well,
my name's in there. You're gonna get me and in
a controversy. And I never touched the fourteen year old
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, the reality of it is they didn't know whether
he was going to be elected, and so many people
didn't even see the landslide that was coming in the
last election. So he's out there saying I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, and then
he got elected and so I don't know all of
the details around it, but my speculation is that some
of his allies are on this list and they're Democrats,

(20:24):
are Republicans, and both Biden and Trump were trying to
protect the list. What I want to also say, and
I'm gonna go into this with Trump and just say,
I don't know who this representative Marjorie Taylor Green is,
and the woman who was saying, hey, I want these
Epstein files to come out, I just know that she
was an ally of his. It was something she was saying.

(20:47):
And I don't understand why President Trump then turns and
starts attacking her. I think that's where you're getting to.
That was a part of the narrative, right, and so
you try to destroy her, you say all these horrible
things about her. She's been loyal to you. So if
somebody stands up and they're loyal to Trump, and Trump
can just turn on a dime and just say no,

(21:09):
you've lost your way. I'm going to try to destroy you.
I don't know what that is about his emotional intelligence,
but I can tell you it is incredibly frustrating for
me for any president. Look, whoever gets elected, whether it's Obama,
whether it's Clinton, you know, whether it's a Trump, whether
it's Bush, I'm voting for America. I'm voting for our
executive to be successful in this world. Right. This world

(21:33):
is very ugly. We've got some bad characters out here,
and I'm rooting for America, whether it's a Democrat or
Republican in that office. I don't understand this president at times,
with his emotional intelligence so low, that he's so emotionally
charged that whatever comes to that brain of is, he
just starts opening up his mouth. And whether you're a
supporter of Trump or not, be willing to call this

(21:56):
president out when he lacks discipline with that mouth.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I agree. You went after Congressman Massey again too, the
same thing, beloved congress from Massey folks in northern Kentucky.
I mean, they keep voting him in regardless of what
Trump says. I mean he Donald Trump spends and these
other millionaires, billionaires spending all kinds of money trying to
primary Thomas Massey. Why because Thomas Massey was behind the
discharge petition, among others. I mean, he's at least on
solid constitutional ground with what he says. Is there uniformity

(22:23):
in the Republican Party, of course not? Is there uniformity
in the Democrat Party, of course not. They didn't even
know which direction they want to go. There's a lot
of different stripes within each party. And you know, I
would argue that Marjorie Taylor Green, I think had some
sound points she was making. I'm a little upset about
him focusing on foreign policy. I'd like for him to
be here and focus on domestic issues. I was behind

(22:45):
releasing the Epstein files, and that apparently is what set
Trump off, and he had some outrages and outlandish statements
about her. And I agree with the points you're making
on that. But does he expect one hundred percent fidelity
among the Republicans for the Trump specific agenda? And I
think that's what he is demonstrating by going after tailor

(23:05):
Marjorie Taylor Green, going after Congress from asking others, promising
the primary them if they get out of line. YO,
this feeds into that whole dictatorial narrative. The Democrats are peddling.
I don't think it's a good look. Honestly, I don't.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
And I'm a girl dad. You know, four boys, rum girl.
If this was one of my babies, right, I want
to get to the bottom of it. I want people
to go to jail. And I think sometimes as men, right,
we missed the point of Marjorie Taylor Green is a woman.
She's saying, I want to get to the bottom of it.
She understands this innately as a woman. This is what

(23:41):
I believe. I'm obviously not a woman. Trump needs to
learn to take advice from everybody around him. He campaigned
on it. He said, this is what I'm gonna do.
She took him literally on his face and did not
understand why he was going in about face about these
Epstein foules. But ultimately, guess what happened. I have to
admit to the power of the people who probably inundated

(24:04):
his office saying what in the heck is going on? Right?
So now he's shutting his mouth about it. But the
woman has already been harmed because she's been saying, I'm
gonna primary you. He's been saying all these outlandish themes
about her, and I'm saying, if you're a Trump supporter,
you cannot support blindly any leader. You've got to be
able to call him out when they're wrong and they're

(24:26):
off step. And I say, right here, he was wrong,
he was off step. And I'm just so frustrated with
why his emotional intelligence is so low. Why can't he
just preside as the president. You're the president of the
free world, act.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Like it, Christopher Smithman. Always enjoy your thoughts and comments.
Agree with you on this one completely. I'm a little embarrassed,
but let us see if we can't find, uh, well,
a little greater sanity.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Those people can follow me. People can follow me, brother
on at vote Smitherman right. I want to stay Connec.
People who are listening, they can follow me there. I'm
going to continue to put my voice out there so
people can hear. And obviously, Brian, happy Thanksgiving to you
and your family, and thanks for giving me a voice.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Brother, love hearing from you. I'm happy to provide the
voice for you, and I look forward to next Monday
in another edition of this particular segment. Enjoy your Thanksgiving.
Much love to you and your family. It's coming up
at seven forty nine right now. Fifty five KERCIT Talk
Station Monday Monday with Brian James. Got some interesting topics
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