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Morning Show. Scott Warman from the Inquiry. He's taking over for Sharon cool and she's now working for the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office in her role as I guess spokes person or whatever. She's not with the inquire anymore anyway. So Scott Warmon's gonna be doing the local reporting. I'll be following since I city council mayor, I have to have Purvaal, I'll be following I suppose the County Commissioners,

which he did do a lot of reporting on. So looking forward to have Scott covering U for local politics. Someone's got to do it. Smither event seven twenty Every Monday at seven twenty, we here from the former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati today no different than norm Christopher Smith, and I feel absolutely horrific. I was supposed to have lunch with Christopher on Friday, and as I've said so many times before, my brain gets the

shut down. When the mic turns off at nine o'clock in the morning on Friday, I don't have to fire my brain up until Sunday morning, when I wake up and start worrying about what I'm going to be talking about in the morning show. Well, my brain shut down on Friday, like it normally did. And I just pretty much slept right through my lunch with Christopher. Felt terrible. Christopher, if you're out there, brother, I told you a million times how sorry I was, and I'm saying it out

loud on the radio. Boy, it's just so embarrassing. Money money with Brian James. I don't even know what we're talking about with Brian this morning eight o five. Didn't get a list of topics. Maybe Sean can call him up earlier so it can do a rundown on that. I'm sure we can do it on the fly. Not a problem with that. Brian James. Monday, Monday, all word financial and Todd Sledgeman since AFA returns. I got some stuff to talk about with him at eight forty. So

helping out the American veteran. Todd's doing it each and every day. So sign up for your VA benefits. And uh we did the care starts now Gallas Saturday night. And props to everybody who was involved in that. What a fantastic event it was. I'm still feeling a little bit sluggish from the festivities. Didn't get home till real late. Maybe had one extra cocktail that shouldn't have firing on

a couple extra a couple less cylinders. This morning, I am five three seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two three talk go with pound five point fifty on eighteen and T phones. If you've got something to say, I would love to hear from you. So there's our lineup this morning. And uh, I thought there was something else I wanted to mention.

And I always giving perspective that you know, it's twelve thousand or twelve hundred rallies cities across the United States and across the world and everything again, well, you know, there are a lot of useful idiots in the world, and you got social media, and you have a well organized campaign with a lot of really big moneyed interests. Speaking of oligarchs and these evil billionaires, who in the

health do you think actually funded all of this. I mean, you know, say what you want about the Trump administration and Elon Munk. I'm sorry, billionaire Elon Musk. You're supposed to put that word in there before you mentioned Elon musk name, So don't forget it's always billionaire Elon Musk, like billionaire George Soros.

of these protests. The funding is drying up. You think about all the money that went through usaight and the paper trail is being established, and they are freaking out over it. They want this work to stop because what's going to happen is the American taxpayer dollars are no longer going to be going out into the world to secuitously come back to Washington, DC to fund lobbying efforts and non governmental organizations and everything else that just props

up all of these left wing causes. And I think that's at the genesis of all of this. Who could be against getting people off of the Social Security ranks who are either taking money illegally or just outright dead. Why is that a bad thing? They're taking away social Security? No, they're not, No, they're not. What they're trying to do is get rid of the opportunity for people to rip you off. Why are there so many dead people with

active Social Security numbers? And how could anybody actually get up off of their butt and want to run out to a rally to stop that kind of work from happening. And I love the interviews of these folks. When you see them, they just like it's like deer in the headlines. When you press them on why they're there and what exactly it is that they say they're angry about.

people all over the place. This after being asked why he believes Trump is a fascist while holding a sign to fascist Trump Magine must go, and his response, he just does everything he wants. He's a convicted felon. You know, that's all I know. There's his explanation. You know what, I've put it out many many times. If you get the definition of fascist, it doesn't fall into the definition

of fascist. They just love that word. One of the things he's trying to control the media, one protester in this video said, when asked for evidence Trump is allegedly a fascist. Quote, one of the things he's is he's trying to control the media. Well, isn't that a comical statement? After all these years of left dominated media, the mainstream media, the legacy media, covering up Biden's infirmities, lying to us, manipulating things, not reporting the truth, over and over and

over again. Trump, You're angry with Trump? In response to why do you think Trump is a fascist because he's trying to control the media. That might be a bit of Sissifian challenge considering you know, he is from the conservative side of the ledger well at least somewhat. He's not a leftist. I think we can all agree on. But he may try all day long to control the media, but I suppose the media itself will have a decision in that regard, and they probably you know, we'll capitulate

what protesters. They try to control their own narrative. But one of the things that Trump has done, for example, is the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and then not allowing the Associated press to come into the White House. All right, Well, you know, the Biden administration didn't ever call on the more conservative media outlets. They were left out in the wilderness. So you know, okay, whatever, their

associated press is still out there, still reporting. Maybe they don't get a chance to ask a question for a change, but after all, you know, under the Biden administration, how many media outlets out there weren't given an opportunity to ask a question. You know, elections have consequences. But Trump fascist because he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Of America, Sean, I know that impacted your world, didn't it. Well, you struggled with that every day.

You lost sleep over that, didn't you. I know you did. Should see the bags under his eyes. Ever since Trump declared it Gulf of America, Poor Sean bro one protester had been given a sign describing Trump as a fascist. They were everywhere, and also a printed one sheeter declaring we are facing fascism. The time to act is now.

This is one of those you know, pre printed. We got truckloads of these, hand them out to everybody, kind of like the mainstream media when they get talking points and you hear the same words uttered over and over and over again. You flip the channels from CNN to ABC, to NBC to CBS, MSNBC, and they all sound like they're reading from the same sheet exactly. Well, here's the sheet. We're facing fascism. The time to act is now. One protester speaking with Fox from a demonstration in New York.

I'm protesting how horrible things have become in our country. I mean, we've been taken over by a bunch of robber barons, who are trying to take away all of our rights, benefits and liberty.

What's happening with this blessed country, the democracy that was advanced democracy now in transition to a dictatorship, and we are almost in a fascist state right now, only because the rule of law is bending right now and it may break. Well, that sounds like something would have come out of Kamala Harris's mouth word salad full of nothing, saying nothing and actually meaning nothing.

Maybe you got a different take on it, or maybe you can explain to me what the hell it is that they were angry about. I'm struggling on that.

any of these tariffs a the time he wants. But apparently, like fifty countries so far have reached out to discuss and negotiate with Donald Trump over the tariffs, which you know, I think that's what the point of the whole thing was. So we're just gonna have to go through a bumpy period.

But I don't think the twelve hundred rallies that were taking place over the weekend had anything to do with the market crash the other day, because this is all planned in advance, so maybe they might want to complain about it. But how does a tumbling market help the evil oligarchs and robber barons of the world. Apparently it doesn't. And let us see here.

We had there was a pool match. A pair of biologically male pool players who identifies females ended up facing off against each other in the championship match in the United Kingdom. And this is like the game of pool, as in, get a pool table and racks and balls and play a game of pool. Now, you know, initially my reaction when I saw this, I was kind of laughing, because you know this, the pool is probably one sport where I would think that women could compete on an

equal playing field as men. I mean, you're good at the game and you're not. It doesn't require strength. But nonetheless, as is report of both trans players tore through their female opponents this season. Lucy Smith and Harriet Haynes, those are the two that ended up on top. Smith won eighty five of his slash her one hundred and thirteen matches, sixty two percent of the eight hundred and forty eight

frames since twenty twenty one. Hayes similar winning record two hundred and forty one matches one sixty one percent of the frames before entering the tournament, beating all of the women that they competed against. So there you go, two logical men, both claiming to be women, advancing in the tournament. Now we got a transgender athlete reportedly having first place during a girl's high school track meet. Happened last Wednesday

in Portland, Oregon. The boy who goes by Leah Rose previously competed under the name Zachary Fox up until a year ago. The outlet City won competing in the high jump at the Portland Interslastic League Varsity Relays, beating the second place finisher by a couple of inches, according Tothathletic

dot Net. While competing against JV boys in May of twenty twenty three, Zachary Rose, before he decided he was a woman, finished eleventh out of eleven, and then once deciding he was a girl, ends up in first place. Just saying five twenty sixty five care City Talk Station, local stories coming up, lots of water into local stories. Nothing else happened over the week again apparently anyway, we'll be right back. Feel free to call five thirty one Happy song Day, trying to make it so. Anyway, you

didn't get a chance to listen. We've got Congressman David Taylor was on the program last week. You showed up in studio, got to talk with him for about a half hour. Youvik Rama swami for Ohio Governor Vivick joined the program the podcast at five Caresey dot com. And I think there's one more day for the Bourbon raffle for the Cure Starts Now, which I mentioned earlier. That's the one where you have the option. They'll get two different options. Option one the Pappy van Winkle collection of

six bottles. And thank you to all the listeners in a very short period of time. And I'm sure more people bought after the show. But I got a text from Keith Estrich from the Cure Starts Now one thousand dollars in just like fifteen minutes for the talking to him. So God bless my listeners for supporting the wealthy effort to cure cancer. And hopefully one of my listeners will win that wonderful one of the.

There is a trucking company located in the sinity, but I'm not sure if there's connection though. Same portion of the road where the cruise responded already submerged underwater and closed the vehicle traffic. Licking River crested at thirty eight point five feet overnight Sunday after severe flooding, and that is going on all over the place. Kentucky's Emergency Operations Center has been alerted and a response team preparing for

efforts this morning. According to Braun, local teams determined there was no action they were able to take safely overnight, so hopefully they get that under control. Go to A man rescued from the floodwaters. Happens yesterday afternoon at the former location of Coney Island, according to Cincinnati Police, who said a man somehow got into the area where Coney Island resided to pass that it's currently flooded due to Ohiohio River levels. He got roughly thirty feet into the

now defunct park before he needed to be rescued. The The CPO, reporting on this thank you, Molly Shram said cruise bringing the man back to dry land on a raft. An suv could also be seen almost fully submerged in the water near Coney Island's front gates. Earlier Sunday, Fire Cruise in downtown Cincinnati had to rescue a woman who had taken shelter at a stage in Sawyer Point, similar to the Rescue your Coney Island. Cruise put a life vest on the woman and inflated a raft retriever from

the stage. Flooding from the Ohio River has impacted several neighborhoods and roadways, closing many streets throughout Cincinnati and other areas. There's a full list of road closures. You can check wcpo's website for that, and I think that's still going on. Great Miami Little Miami Licking Rivers also had flooding in their respective areas. Two cities along the Licking River under

mandatory evacuation owners. Some Covington residents along the Licking River also were encouraged to leave due to the high water level. So hopefully we'll get a reprieve from that with the well it not raining anymore. Three men from Kentucky arrested in charge in connection with the shooting of a man

in Brown County. Corner to the Sheriff's office announcement last week WTCA, they responded to two to fifty seven Hickory Street in Aberdeen after receiving a call from a man stating that he had been shot of State Highway Patrol troopers and county deputies both arrived at the scene, where they said they found fifty one year old Kelly Applegate shot in the chest. Corner of the Sheriff's office. Suspect had fired multiple rounds at Applegate. He was then taken

to the hospital. Last Wednesday, Brown Unty deputies, with the assistants of the Mason County Sheriff's Office and the Mayswelle Police Department arrested fifty six year old Michael Fight and forty seven year old Jerry Cooper, both from Dover in connection with the shooting. Next day, deputies with assistants of the police and MPD arrested sixty two year old George

Kendall from Maysville on additional charges. All three suspects charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder, both first degree felony. He's being held to the Mason Kunty Detention Center awaiting extradition five point thirty five right now fifty five KR seeing the talk station stack.

not allowed to refill his cup. Gusumana then allegedly grabbed the victim by the wrist aggressively while standing in a fighting stance, telling the victim he would beat her up. Kausamana left the residential area on foot, but was quickly apprehended by the police officer. During questioning, Kuzumano reportedly admitted to the entire sequence of events, but claimed to grab the victim due to her talking s word to me, she's a little girl, mister Kuzumano. Forty five. Cops described

him as a transient. He was charged with fellowing me about her and hands count due to his extensive rap sheet, including multiple prior convictions for battery, as well as convictions for trespassing, narcotics possession, disorderly intoxication, assaulted the deadly weapon, theft, and disorderly conduct, locked up in lieu of five thousand dollars bond. He has pleaded not guilty. Oh yes, you are well played, Sean, well played. Let's see what Larry's

God for. We're getting other stupid stories. Larry, thanks for calling this morning. Welcome to the fifty five Carcy Morning Show.

and the importance. I kind of wish they would do the same thing with the Department the Dough's Department of Government Efficiency on the and run a ticker on all these major networks at the top, on where the waste was found, what it was about, and start to hold some of these people accountable. But I think that they would. It would also start to really convince the minds of

even the liberals and so on. But the brad Winstrop, if you're listening, maybe there's something you can do to push that, maybe get Congress to write something to where the start making these networks to make people more aware and take the Department of Government efficiency more serious. Well, maybe the people that don't pay attention to politics at all could start to really see that.

along netline on a regular basis. Sadly you don't. But Doose does report and has posted online through its sight all the work that they are doing. So if you want, you can go look at it yourself, but don't expect the likes of MSNBC or CNN, CBS, NBC, you know, the entire lineup and litany of letters to actually do this and bring this to more people's attention. This is

why it's so funny. When people are interviewed as to why they think Trump is a fascist and why they show up at a rally anti Trump rally, anti Doese rally, they all get the deer in the headlights look and come up with words salid answers. It don't make any damn sense. They paid a little bit closer attention, and they got better educated on the topic. They probably like, no, that's a good thing. No, they're not killing SOCIS security

or Medicaid. They're actually taking steps and efforts that might make it last a little bit longer than it's scheduled to last under the current situation. And it's not gonna last very long. This has been widely reported now for decades. They keep doing a TikTok TikTok countdown. This is when it's all going to hit the fan, and we're getting closer and closer.

savings per taxpayer two thousand, five hundred and seventy seven. However, given the US national debt debt per citizen one hundred and seven thousand dollars, debt per taxpayer three hundred and twenty three thousand dollars, that's heartbreaking.

El Paso port of entry. He claimed to be returning to his from his grandmother's house in Mexico and was on his way to work, and agents discovered that Vargas had two hours earlier entered the US through a different l Passo port of entry. He was subjected to his secondary screening, which included a pat down for weapons. Vargas was clenching his thighs that's in the report during an

inclusive frisk, according to the criminal complaint. At that point, a concealed human narcotics detector dog was called in for a sniff. The animal reportedly alerted to the trained odor of narcot emanating from Vargas's buttocks through his pants. After Vargas was instructed to sit down, agents noticed a bulge protruding from his buttocks through his pants. Subsequently, they removed

two black taped bundles from between his buttocks. The packages contained a total of five point twenty five ounces of meth amphetamine bum being read as rights, Vargus reportedly agreed to speak with agents. He claimed to have been threatened and said he was going to be paid with two ounces of meth when when the remaining three ounces would be picked up by an unknown individual. Vargas told the

agents he needed the money. Charged with drug smuggling, facing more than tenures in prisons, convicted of the fellow account now walked up in the county jail schedule for US district or detentioneering. He does have Spanish word for straight check five fifty five at the five KC Talk station. Uh, feel free to call. I got plenty to talk about

coming up next hour. Love to hear from you though, and we got Scott Wharton from the Inquire taking her for Sharon Koleich will join the program at seven oh five. Christopher Smith minu at seven twenty for the Smith event Monday Monday, Brian James at eight oh five, and then Todd Sledge and the Since Anniva has got some things to talk about to my veteran friends, he'll be out at eight forty. I'll be right back after the news lay six oh five if the five cars Talk station.

going to happen. I got a lot of countries lining up to contact the administration to talk about negotiating the tariffs, and fifty countries. Actually, it's widely reported. I've already done that. So insofar as what's coming up in the Morning Show, before we get into more details on that, fans forward

one hour Scott Wharton from the Cincinnia Enquirer. He's taken over for Sharon Coolidge, so he'll be doing all the reporting for CINCINNY City Council and the mayor and of course the mayoral race and the county commissioners as well. So we'll get forward to hearing from Scott in an hour. Christopher Smith Aman every Monday at seven twenty, former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, are offering what we

call the Smither Vent. Don't know what he's going to be talking about, but you know he's a financial planner, so he may have something to say about the tariffs and the impact there. I think best advice, which we'll get from Money Monday's Brian James at eighth five, don't look at your portfolio. If you've got a four oh one K planet, maybe best to just not take a look at that. Let things settle down, because when the markets go down, history has demonstrated they do go back up.

But I'm sure he'll offer advice about that. He often refers to himself as more of a counselor in managing people's emotions as opposed to picking and choosing which stocks to invest in. Since Ava todd Sledge returns of the Morning Show at eight forty, we got some topics to talk about about what's going on at the VA. Supporting my veteran friends, feel free to call Joe Strecker's out.

Sean McMahon's in always appreciate when Shawn covers for Joe five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three top pound five fifty on at and T phones speaking a cory of Homan running from Mayor. He's got an event tomorrow night five pm. Price still chill. You can help him out. You can get a chance to listen to. Congressman David Taylor joined the Morning show last week and podcast at fifty five KRC dot com. He's the man who was elected to

take over for brad winstrip vek Rama Swami. He was on the program last week as well. He is an enthusiastic guy. I really do support him, and he has lined up I think literally every endorsement. I think probably trying to put the point a primary to rest, like geez, you can't get anybody to endorse you. Vivek's got pretty much all of them. And another opportunity. The opportunity remains. I believe it's still until tomorrow for the Bourbon raffle.

The cure starts now. Fantastic event. Thanks everybody was able to make that on Saturday night. Awesome time and giving me hope that we will come up with a cure for cancer. And that's all what that is about. So maybe win some bourbon and point being you'll cure cancer. And thanks to all my listeners who bought tickets when we did the interview with Keith Keith desertch last week. One thousand dollars worth of tickets sold in a very

short period of time. So back over to the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Futures DAL currently down three point twenty five s and P down three point three eight, NASDAK down three point six nine, so another down day on trading, calling it turmoil. The global market snowballed in one of the worst routes in recent memories after Trump said he would stay the course with the with the tariffs yesterday, Trump Quota is saying, what's going to happen to the markets?

as following a twenty percent plus decline. They have something called the Wall Street Fear Gauge, apparently jump to levels that roll, sort of reminiscent of COVID nineteen and the drop in markets back then, although the drop hasn't been as large as the COVID nineteen drop over in Asia,

also of course, relying on trade, their stocks plunged. Hong Kong's main equity benchmark drop thirteen percent, described as the worst day since the Asian financial crisis, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Those in the CEES fell between seven and ten percent. Over to Europe, these stocks Europe six hundred drop five percent. Bitcoin and oil prices fell sharply. Well, maybe there's a glimmer of hope and oil prices dropping because we have

experience of dropping gasoline prices. So if global oil surprise drop because they expect some sort of recession, I suppose not as much oil being consumed, perhaps we might get some break at the pump. I'm just looking for a glimmer of hope.

or at least the ones that kick in Wednesday. The rest of them aren't as bad as the ones that currently exist and have existed now for a while on US imports into their countries. I mean, if you're looking for fairness in this, that doesn't seem quite fair, does it. I mean, they're depriving their citizens of the opportunity to purchase US goods at a reasonable price. Some countries had like ninety five percent tariffs on US goods coming in. What makes that right?

understand that they bear a lot of the tariff. Hassi didn't say which countries have started talks with the administration. Trump wrote on truth social media a couple of days ago that Vietnam's top leaders said that the country is going to reduce its tariffs on the United States to zero. Well,

you'll call that one to win. So we got last week announcing ten percent tariffs on all trading partners, as well as higher level on about sixty nations, and those are the ones that really have some outrageous tariffs on US goods. The balance of these tariffs the higher ones kicking in on the ninth so Wednesday. Exempt from the latest tariffs Canada and Mexico because Trump had already slapped the twenty five percent tariff on them because he wanted

the trafficking, infentinal and illegal immigration to stop. Looking for greater support and trying to apply pressure on Mexico and

Canada for that. You know, certainly those could disappear, Prime Minister or Thai Prime Minister Shinwarta so that Thailand is also willing to enter into talks to the United States on tariff, saying Thailand is signaling it's according to him, Thailand has signaling that's readiness to discuss with the United States government at the first opportunity to adjust the trade balance to be fair to both parties. Little signal of

optimism on that one. UK Prime Minister Keres Starmer told reporters last week his country would respond in a cool and calm manner, pointing out the United States only placed a ten percent levy, put in the United Kingdom, in his words, in a better position than a lot of other countries from what was announced. Well fair enough. Taiwan's

president on Sunday offered zero tariffs. How about that, pledging to remove trade barriers rather than imposing reciprocal measures and saying Taiwan, these companies will raise their US investments if I recall correctly, Taiwan had like a sixty five percent tariff on US uh Further, in that Sunday interview with Hassid, he said, the US economic data has showed that we just had one of the strongest jobs reports we've seen

in a long time. It was like the addition of two hundred and fifty five thousand jobs, And he suggested, and you have to wait and find out that tariffs could be leading to more American job because if there is more investment in the United States and the build more factories here, of course that's going to lead to more jobs. But see, this isn't going to be instantaneous. And I think that's the frustrating thing that we all

feel out here. We see our stocks job we see our four to one k shrink, and we think the world's going to come to an end. But if this does result in some additional investing in the United States, then it'd be good for all of us over the long haul. That just does not happen in a moment's time. It's not like flipping a light switch. They said. The jobs did it was about fifty percent better than the

markets expected. In the second one in a row, Hassett said, we've created like ten thousand auto jobs when trust just since Trump took office, more automobiles being manufactured in this country. And I thought it was rather interesting. I think it was Jaguar and land Rover. They said they're going to stop exports into the United States for a period of time,

and I don't know how this ultimately helps them. Reported over the weekend, as we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we're talking taking some short term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid to longer term plans again. Manufacturer of Jaguar and land Rower, the United States is the second biggest importer of British made cars after the EU.

Jaguar land Rover, one of Britain's biggest products by volume, set in its statement that the US was an important market for its luxury band because it sells four hundred thousand range Rovers and other models annually and exports the United States account for almost a quarter of their sales. So I don't understand the connection you pause exports to your second biggest consumer of your automobiles. Oh well, someone

can we can explain that to me? Feel free? Five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred eight at eight two to three talk. Maybe they'll pause them because they'll come to the negotiating table and negotiate in eradication of the tariffs, and we'll all be better off for it, which I think is the point of the exercise.

and our economy and our basic rights. Website goes on to say President Trump, Elon Musk and others want to strip Americas for parts, shuttering social Security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections, gotting medicaid, all to bankroll their billionaire tax scam. They're handing over our tax dollars, our public services, and our democracy to the ultra rich. Their words at

the website, not mine. You're right that's brilliant. Let's look at two of the programs that these leftists claim are being decimated by Trump and Doge Socials Security and Medicaid. How many times have we heard Democrats talk about how Republicans want to take away Social Security benefits from older Americans?

So there was such a tired trobe that stories of evil Republicans wanted to swipe Grandma's Social Security tracks seem to be like as much of a staple of campaign season as robo calls, campaign radio commercials and vote for

me signs. Go back to twenty twelve presidential campaign, Democrats even depicted then Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan pushing an old woman in a wheelchair of a clique of a cliff, and you had Democrats that are crying Elon Musk and his Doge team front covering massive fraud in the Social Security system, which is seeing billions of dollars scam from the system by millions of foreigners ineligible for

benefits yet taking them. They exposed massive theft of socials security numbers as well as foreign citizens being assigned to Social Security numbers who then I legally vote in American elections. There's a short interview Fox News Steve Doocey of a DOGE volunteer guy named Antonio Grassius. He calls it a much watch by every sane American video. Grassia's very wealthy businessman who's a founder and CEO of a company called Valor Equity Partners, which has apparently sixteen billion dollars in

assets under management. He points out mister Garcia's, like all DOGE teams, starting with Elon Musk himself, had too much to lose and nothing to gain personally by agreeing to audit the federal government in Trump's effort to restore it to sound footing and continuing financial viability, Unlike the arguments,

they want to crash it anyway. During this this this this Doocey segment, Grassi has seen given a presentation on STAVE showing a graph that in twenty twenty four a loan two point one million illegal aliens receive Social Security numbers, as opposed to the twenty twenty one figure of only two hundred and seventy thousand, which is twound seventy thousand too many. Total number of people came to the United States illegally, but possessed Social Security numbers now exceeds five million.

He explains, data obtained through an automatic system. He also discloses that a Socias Security employee sent himself via email over four hundred thousand SOSIAS security numbers and that's being investigated. He called it clearly nefarious. Also pointed out illegals. We're tapping into virtually all the federal benefit programs. One point three million of these illegal aliens with socia's security numbers are now on Medicaid.

Security and who's trying to save it? That's the people over the weekend. This is going to extend the life of the program. Grosse's is playing the findings to his team, refuting arguments that these illegal aliens are paying into the system through taxes and noting that many are on unemployment, many are criminals in summer, even in the on the US terror watch list. And yet you think over the weekend that Trump was undermining social security, that did the

Elon mussel, and I wanted to destroy it. All of these efforts are to better this system, stop the fraud. You wouldn't know it talking to the protests over the protesters over the weekend, and most of whom had no idea why they were there. The concept of useful idiot on full display.

And he's also claiming that that the NGOs were paid not to have black protesters show up at the T dealerships, which I thought was interesting because now that I look back, I didn't see any black protesters, even though Washington, DC is made up of at least fifty percent black, And I was like, wow, that's interesting.

doesn't matter. That's crazy anyway, But I appreciate the call gear I always do six point thirty five. If you five kar City Talk Station, maybe you have an answer to that question. Five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five eighty two to three talk won't get rid of the stench of politics, but it will or Jerry Neddler apparently, although it might work on Jerry Needdler. I have an interesting article about Jerry Nadler is the Capital's worst smelling man.

I kid you not. That's the headline from the Washington Free Beacon. How embarrassing is that?

is there it is the headline. Members of Congress agree Jerry Nadler is the Capital's worst smelling man, and at some level I kind of feel sorry for the guy, but maybe not. They say, long time you are. Congressman Jerry Neddler has become famous as the champion of progressive policies in the House of Representatives, but among his colleagues in the chamber also earned what they describe as the

dubious distinction of being its smelliest member. Anthony di Esposito, former GP Congressman from Long Island, who was just recently named Inspector General of the Apartment of Labor, had this say, and I will quote him. He Jerry Nadlers the kind of guy who when he makes his way onto the floor, he barrels through everyone, and sometimes he doesn't really need to barrow through because his stench kind of clears the way, and it equates to his personality, which is nasty and

most people want to keep away from close quote. Half a dozen of Natler's current and former colleagues, apparently from both sides of the aisle, were well. They again Freebeacon reportedly more savage behind the scenes. One House Democrats said he wasn't just rancid, but also frequently out of it.

That is the top Democrats on the Judiciary Committee back in December because of concerns that he was no longer.

they say of dog Nadler for his entire career. They say in twenty nineteen, he nearly collaps during a Manhattan press conference, had to be rushed to the hospital, underwent gastric bypass surgery in two thousand and two to remedy his morbid obesity, and he was at one point so enormous he could not ride a subway. That account on his own website. Another New York congress member said, he reeks, it's not just like a guy didn't take a shower. I don't know if it's surgery or a colosity bag.

We were lied to. You were the ones perpetuating the lie.

I just and it doesn't take much effort or energy at all when you look at what Elon Musk and the folks that doge are doing to realize that, no, they're not dismantling Social Security or Medicaid, which is part of the thing that was repeated over and over and over again the issue talking sheets to have people say exactly that, repeatingly parroting something that doesn't make a witsworth of sense, and it's so troubling to me that many people can be duped, if they are even being duped.

And I think more of this really boils down to it's you know, they're talking about oligarchs and robber barons, you knowing, oh my god, you know, evil billionaire Elon Musk. This is about the efforts that the Trump administration and others like the European Union for example, taking a more populous move thinking about protecting their own country's interests, re establishing border control, obviously going away from globalism, from this new world order or sort of one appearance of what

they want. They the evil veys out in the world, the manipulators and puppet masters of all these useful idiots out in the world. They don't want borders. They want control over everything, one uniform, size fits all. And we know how poorly that works out here in the United States when they try to throw one size fits all rules at us from Washington, d C. And it ultimately

harms us locally on some level. But I think that's the fear, and that's why they're out in the streets, and that's why all these money, the interests are out there funding these protesters, like oh, my god, somebody's caught on. Conservative parties are making inroads into our leftist agenda. People are electing conservative people, people with an interest in their own turf, in their own countries. People interested in lowering taxes and giving us a little bit more freedom of movement.

People getting away from this whole cult of climate. And as I said many times over the years, you know that right there has set everybody up for this globalism, that climate change argument. It used to be global warming, and then whoops, that didn't happen. Sea levels whoops, haven't risen. Al Gore was way wrong. We'd all be underwater now if his predictions back in the day had come true.

It just didn't happen. And we've spent trillions of dollars globally throwing all of our energy in our efforts at this non existent problem, drying up our reliable energy supplies, which of course is designed. I have concluded, and I have no I'm not wavering at all on this. It's to reduce consumption. It's to reduce America's might. And we are the most consumptive and bostht productive and monetary generating country on earth. We're the bad people in the hearts

and minds of the globalists. We're the outlier. We're the one that needs to be dealt with. So, yeah, the markets are down. Trump's trying to level that playing field so we can all trade together fairly and we can well afford each other's products. Bad for their desires, their globalist desires to minimize well not just the population, but minimize consumption. It's insane that people buy into it. Those what's problematic, and I always just kind of questioned why

they buy into it. Coming up, Scott Wharton from the since ANI acquired joints the program at the top of the our News. He's covered now for taking over for Sharon Coolidge doing local reporting. Christopher Smith Aman at seven twenty with a Smith Amen, Brian James and Monday Monday at eight oh five and Todd Sledgeman of Cincinnta, VA with some information he wants to pass along to my veteran friends. He'll join the program at eight forty. I hope you can stick around. His friend Thomas happy to

welcome to the pick About Tasty Morning showing congratulations. So the CINNI inquires Scott Whartman taking over the rad Your big shoes of Sharon Coolidge and Scott. That's not to suggest Sharon has big feet, but she's been around covering since a local politics council and the Shenanigans that goes on with the county commissioners for a lot of time, and she's been on the morning show, you know, passing along what she's learned and what she stayed on top of.

So it's an important position and one that we all value very much, Scott, because we really truly need to know what's going on with city and county politics, and there's so very little reporting on it. So Cincinnati dot Com ishere, youre going to read what Scott writes about local politics. So you're excited about the job, Scott.

tell a lot of the neighborhood stories. A city has a great, interesting history, and I'm really excited about, you know, taking on this beat. But it is it's going to be a challenge.

overwhelming for me. But moving back, this is an exciting year to be playing this role, Scott Warman, because we've got a mayoral race and Corey Bowman looks like he may get some traction in a city that's voted all Democrats for such a long time, a lot of people a little dissatisfied with the direction of the city's going, and connected community's got the folks in Hyde Park rubbing the wrong way. Corey Bowman may end up getting some

support from some otherwise pretty die hard Blue voters. You're looking forward to covering that race and what's your perception of it?

So there is a lot of pushback from elected officials on what they want from this lease.

listeners and me. And you have an open invitation here in the fifty five KRC Morning Show to give us an update on the exciting stuff that you're covering.

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doing out there. There's a lot of water on our highways. Hydro Planing is real. And that's kind of the message that I sent out there to to to my family, just be careful and take your time, and this water is not going to receive probably all week, we're going to get more rain, so we just have to be careful and and and waited out. But my heart goes out to all the people across the Midwest and across the country down in the south who who've lost a lot, you know, by the rainfall that we've had.

possibility of the engine stalling out. I mean, there's not a whole lot of cars out there in the world that have snorkels on them to allow the intake to continue to consume air. So you know, don't don't be stupid about the water on the roads.

meeting his wife who is expecting their fourth child. And I would encourage other people who who you know, when when candidate Bowman is out there running, that they take the time, no matter what their political persuasion is, to take the time to get to know them. So I just want to share with you there's a primary coming up, obviously there's a general election. I was very excited, enjoyed my conversation with him, and I'm going to endorse him. So I'm asking other people to look at him very

very closely, you know. You know, we're as an independent and as a person who's been out in politics. I don't tell anybody how to vote. I can just tell them this is what I'm thinking as I look at what's happening in the city of Cincinnati as it relates to infrastructure, crime. Our CRS pension obviously is getting banged up real bad, you know, over the past a week. But that matters when you're sending out ten million dollars

a month to retirees. So we've got to make sure that we are electing people that are very interested in dealing with the financial situation that the city is under. So I want to publicly say a great conversation with him, and I definitely will endorse him in the primary and in the general election against against our.

that the makeup of council is going to change. I mean, individuals may be different, but it's still gonna be a bunch of Democrats. Knowing how blue the city is.

impact the High Park Square area. Yeah, and I'm sharing with you High Park residents are waking up, and I think as they organize, they're going to be looking at people like a Corey Bowman, or they're going to be looking at different council members. And what I will share with you is their moments in Cincinnati history where there are things that happen that change elections. This could be one of those based on what's happening in Highe Park because right now they don't feel like people at city

Hall are listening at the fifty one neighborhoods. Yes, right, the other fifty one neighborhoods are waking up, going hold on city Council and the mayor aren't listening to us. We're saying we don't we're not against development. We just don't want this thing that's too big, too tall. We wanted to fit in with our square. And they just are not getting the kind of support that they thought

they should get. So look for Hide Park and places like Mount Lookout to be waking up and that could be a big opening for Corey Bowman.

I mean, he has expressed just a profound love for the city of Cincinnati, and it comes through loud and clear, not just in his you know, his positive attitude about the city, but I think in what his platform is. You can go to Corey Bowman dot com and check that out. We'll pauseible bring Christopher back more topics to talk about with him.

You know you're a dad, or you're a mom and you have a daughter and you think it's okay for a dude to compete against your daughter in any sport. I mean, it's we're just we're swinging so far to the left on some of these common sense discussions. But to have this woman be so courageous to say I'm taking a knee. I am not going to fence a man.

I'm not and I guarantee you as a fencer, she has been practicing and competing her whole life, and for her to take a knee like that right probably disqualified her and put her in a very bad position as she's trying to advance in her sport. And I'm just saying I want to commend her for having the courage, but again, it it gives me another moment to say she's right, and I am tired of the Democratic Party

continuing to push this agenda. You know that men should be competing against women and boys should be competing against girls in their sports. Brian Thomas, I think it's outrageous and I think that we have to continue to be outspoken about it so girls and women understand that there are men that are standing in solidarity with them, saying that this is a safe place. And I'm a person that supports the LGBTQ plus community. I'm not this anti gay person. I'm saying this is too far. It has

nothing to do with LGBTQ plus issues. Keep men out of women's face.

But when it comes to actual fairness in competition, just because you say you're a woman, you shouldn't be allowed to compete against women because of that unfair natural physical advantage you have done.

I'm not going to do that. I'll let you live your life that way. Fine, I'll you know you. I'm brace I could be friends with you, but don't expect me to change my mindset when mine is based on scientific reality.

This is this is unsafe, Brian Thomas, and I'm gonna continue to stand with them. And again, Stephanie Turner had a lot of courage to take a knee because she's gonna pay a price. He's not like, oh, she's not gonna pay a price. To anybody that's listening. This is a woman who took who took a knee and said I'm not doing this, and and the and the bottom line is we need more women out there saying this is too far, and I just want to verbally stand

in solidarity with her. I had the opportunity to speak at Oak Hills last week. Uh there's a there's a great coach out there, Coach Price, their superintendent, Jeff Brandt, and Pastor Kirk, who actually is the pastor for the Reds. He's there, he's there, he's their pastor for the for the Cincinnati Reads. And a friend of mine, Eric Keaton,

got me out there to talk to them. And again this was to their athletes, right and so when in that room, right as I'm sitting there thinking I would not want men competing against our boys, competing against the girls that I was speaking to, and I wouldn't want a man competing against a woman. And so they are all in agreement and the cord that we've got to keep these safe places. But it was a great time.

I enjoyed meeting all of the staff and faculty out at Oak Hills, and I look forward to going back and talking to them again. Brian Thomas, I want to share with you Corey Bowman sent me a text message. Early voting starts tomorrow for the mayor's race for the primary. So at the end of the day, you know, people I don't even know, probably that that primary kicks off tomorrow. This is the last day to register the voter to update your address, and so yet again I want to

encourage he can't run. He can't run for mayor if he doesn't win the primary. So this is the first step. So people shouldn't sit it out, they should show up and vote for Corey Bowman.

the Republican parts of my politics. You know, the reality of it is we have a separation of power for a reason, and so it's really important for citizens to understand, no matter what their politics are, that separation is there for a reason. And these courts are going crazy. It is so unacceptable, and I am shocked that the Supreme Court, we may have had the opportunity, haven't clarified the power

of these courts. So the reality of it is, I pray that these deportations of gang members, of who are called MS thirteen gang members, no matter what the gang they're involved in. And my understanding is they're arresting some of these people Brian Thomas, right out of suburban homes. You know, they've got their kids out there. I'm a dad, whatever, boom boom bam. But they're living next to somebody who's a gang member, and maybe the people in the community

didn't even know it. But you're living here illegally. You came illegally, you're living here illegally. And these courts are trying to intervene and give people who have jumped the fence, broken the prompt the process. Other people that came here legally and followed the process. They're trying to reward them in some kind of way. So this is a very interesting fight that I'm watching very closely, and I really hope the executive branch wins here for all of us.

I don't want to see courts undermining elections when you have a person who was elected, no matter who they are, by the United States of America, to have a court trying to tell them what they can and can'tnot do with their executive power.

And meanwhile these people just sort of disappear into the ether because the process is so slow, and they don't bother showing up to the hearings when the hearing date actually comes around.

and they may very well be. But you know, if someone showed up at your door and said you're a gang member, we're kicking you out of the country, you might want to argue that, no, I'm not a member of a gang, and you better you got to prove it in the court of law than I'm actually a member of a gang if I'm going to fall into some you know, process that allows you to throw me out of the country. So I'm torn and mixed in my emotions being a you know, a constitutionally based person.

That doesn't give you the right to stay in this country. So when people argue and they say, well, this person has their freedom of speech, they're not being thrown out because of what they said. They're being thrown out because of what they did their actions. So they're things that you cannot do. And the other thing is you can't go into any other country and act like this and not find yourself in a prison and then they might

not let you out for five or ten years. Right, We're very gracious in the United States about allowing some of the things that we have seen happen over the last four years. Look, brother, I want to close by saying our markets are going crazy. You know what I do for a living as a financial planner, and I'm going to be very cautious about what I can and cannot say. But I want to explain to your listening

audience that margin calls are real. That people have gone out, they borrowed money for security that they own in their brokerage accounts, and some of this selling that we're seeing are what are called margin calls, where people are being called up being in said you've got to make your accounts hold. I've never done it. I don't buy things on margin. I don't buy things with loans when I'm buying securities. But you're going to see some of that most likely that action and you don't know why that

person next to you is having to sell. But some of this has to be because of some margin calls, because people were not anticipating this kind of a decline, and so as we go lower, those bargin calls accelerate. Yeah, client had to either put the money in or they have to or the broker's firm will have to sell that security. So it looks it's still orderly, is what I'm seeing. I'm seeing something that's orderly, and I'm not

in this kind of panic mode. Listen to your financial advisors and those financial professionals who are working with you. Do not get emotionally charged by some of the things that you're happening in the market action. I still see an orderly market out here. And some of this I think is absolutely based on people who have taken loans out and are getting margin calls.

are very thin. A lot of people don't participate in primaries. So people should know that the election for mayor has started. It starts tomorrow, and people should get out there and vote for for Corey Bowman. I want to see a change in city Hall. You know. The pothole situation is steel ridiculous. The snow removal when we had it was ridiculous. Our Cincinnati retirement system is still in trouble. This the market action that we're seeing right now is not making

that any better brain. And so we need to elect furious people right who are interested in solving some of the bigger problems that Cincinnati has before it's too late. I don't want somebody playing this radio interview that you and I are having saying Smitherman's been talking about the Cincinnati retirement system. We're the only city in the state of Ohio that has a retirement system. And when the retirement system goes under, so does the city of Cincinnati.

Every taxpayer in the City of Cincinnati is responsible for bailing out the Cincinnati retirement system. And when I left, it still had an eight hundred million dollar unfunded liability. That liability is going to continue to expand over time. There was about two point one billion two point two billion in assets, and we needed to have three billion.

And so as long as we continue to elect people that take their eye off the ball and they're down there talking about what's happening in Israel and Hamak, I'm talking about on the floor of city councils passing resolutions about what's going on in Israel and Hamas though they are not serious about solving the big problems that Cincinnati has. And I just say sometimes the smaller things are the things that they should be focused on that are most

important to the citizens, like potholes. I'm tired of driving over them my tires and I know they're citizens that are listening that their tires were blown out. And then you don't get a response. The city won't reimburse the citizens. They tell you that there's a process, but when you try to get into the process, you can't get in the process. And so please go out there again. Vote for Corey Bowman for mayor in this primary, and vote

for him in the general election. Brian Thomas, I appreciate you so much giving me the time and the voice on your show on Mondays from seven to twenty until about a quarter tail of ten minutes to eight. I appreciate you, thank you.

sink of the markets and everything else. We have Brian James, and let's talk about since at VA's todd Sledge returns at eight forty with some valuable information for my veteran friends. We've got time for a quick call. Here, got Bobby on the phone. Bobby, welcome on the program.

When you free start calling Donald Trump with fascists, why don't you look at what the reality is of what DOGE has done to help save Social Security and Medicare by getting rid of or medicaid, by really getting rid of the fraud, waste and abuse that's going on in there, rather than accusing them of getting rid of it and cutting people off. It's insanity, absolute insanity. Anyway, we will deal with the markets.

that because they're stuck with twenty five percent. But the big thing that happened was China came back and said this is kind of the first response. China came back and just said, okay, we're going to put thirty four percent on products coming from the United States into China. So basically it's a bit of a tennis match now as as we fire shots, you know, kind of back

and forth. But I think the market may have been sort of hoping, and I'm sure President Trump was definitely hoping that we're going to levy these big, scary tariffs, but we're going to swing such a big stick that everybody's just gonna buckle and it'll all go away over the weekend. Maybe a little naive, that's definitely not happening. But China's response is what triggered the massive sell off on Friday, and it's going to continue today.

is just to reduce the deficit. We want to make it more profitable for the United States to be in these situations in the first place, to be trading, and we have given up a lot. Of course, as President Trump says, that's very true. What has driven the stock market a lot, even American companies, is the idea that other countries are willing to trade with our country, but over decades we've allowed them to grab a little more here, grab a little more there by levying tariffs against us.

be a hit to their economies. They can't afford to simply let it all go away. Uh, you know, no country can can is going to be able to simply reduce the revenue they've got coming in and still get all of their bills paid. So that's why they're they're trying to fight back and just make sure that they retained some some level of that income they had coming in because they just can't afford it.

you know, of the concessions from our customers. Basically that's the goal. I think this is a negotiation tactic. The man is a He wrote The Art of the Deal was his big book back in the eighties. That's what he's all about. So this is simply a way to say, hey, this is what America is willing to do and what

it is no longer willing to do. Some of it is going to be a little bit of a sleight of hand, smoking mirrors, because I don't think anybody believes we're truly going to maintain fifty percent tariffs on some of these countries forever and ever, because they'll simply never buy from US again.

get pharmaceuticals. So this may bring back some of those some of those manufacturing facilities here in the United States, which would provide some measure of security. I think that'd be a positive benefit from.

relative to American exports? Was it the same? Were there other countries tariff American imports or or was the landscape I mean, in other words, is it a comparable comparison?

the rest. But in general, generally speaking, things that slam on the brakes in the economy are generally not good. For any publicly traded company, and CEOs are starting to pipe up about it.

correction that was expected? Is this the beginning of the recession that you joked about last week, Brian, that's been coming now what for three and a half four years? Oh my god. Recessions right around the corner. Recessions right around the corner. So put this in perspective and maybe try to spend this positively, because as you know, and I know, and you and I both lived through a

lot of these market downward trajectories. They always end up popping back up and ended up end up making more money over the long haul.

A bull market, on the other hand, last five years and the average return over that time period cumulatively is two hundred and seventy percent, so we grow a lot further. We go think of the long term chart of a market. They go up, not down, and a lot of people get panicked. We are at when we're at a market peak, which we were in mid February. The market was at an all time high. As recently as mid February, news came out, headlines came out the market didn't like, and

it's taken back some of that value. But people get worried when they hear we're at an all time high. Well, the next step is down, right, it has to be down. We're at an all time high. The market is usually at an all time high. That's what it does. It goes up, not down. Therefore, we're almost always at a long time high. So the thing to share about this And I actually just got an email a little bit from a little bit ago from a client saying, am

I looking at this right? Am I only down seven percent? When I know the market's down fifteen or twenty percent based on whatever index you're looking at? And answers, yeah, all work is good at what we do. But this is the whole point of diversification for this gentleman. He's got a diversified portfolio. He's also got international stocks he's got fixed income in there. These are two things that nobody has cared about for a couple of decades, but those are propping up the market. If you have a

diversified portfolio, then that's kind of holding you up. You might actually be making money in some of those positions, believe it or not. And again, that is the point of a diversified portfolio. That's why we don't go all in on the S and P five hundred just because it seems like you don't need to own anything else.

a recession this morning. It's going to be Yeah, the recession started a few months ago. If this happens, and the same way on the way out as we exit a recession. And we've been through this before, don't forget we had a recession. We had a COVID related recession that was over and done with pretty quickly. But it won't be announced that. Everybody back in the pool, you

know this morning, everything's wonderful, It'll be okay. A couple months ago things turned positive and we've confirmed that the numbers are and we're now out of a recessionary environment.

right now. We chose to put these tarifs in place, countries chose to react the way they have, and the market is reacting accordingly versus a two thousand and eight where the underlying structures were at risk.

Go back in time and see what the market has done there. Have been five years that are attention getters where we're down more than that's including your great depression the seventies, the tech bubble bursting nine to eleven, two thousand and eight, and so forth. Each and every one of those five years, Brian Thomas, was followed by a year that had a huge upswing.

River at Lockport, Kentucky. Forecast is to crest tomorrow at fifty six feet, which apparently is near the all time record at fifty six point nine feet that was set back in January of nineteen thirty seven. Then you go over to the Licking River in Falmouth, Kentucky, cities of a Butler and Falmouth. I've been ordered to a mandatory evacuations

due to flooding. I presume that's still the case. This is according to reporting really late yesterday afternoon by WXIX at the Licking River at Falmouth is exposed to crest well at nine pm yesterday height thirty eight point six, so several roads have been closed. My friend Eric sent me a text this morning saying Route fifty was closed. So please, as Christopher Smithan said, please be careful if you're in your car crossing some flooded roads. You gotta

be really careful about that. See here speaking of being careful with A man rescued from floodwaters happened Sunday afternoon at the former location of Coney Island since I police said a man somehow got into the area where Cony used to be, currently flooded because of the Ohio River levels. Man got roughly thirty feet into the now defunct park before well needing to be rescued. Local news WCPO saw a cruise bringing the man back to dry land on

our raft. They also reported an suv was seen almost fully submerged in the water near Coney Island's front gates. Early on Sunday, fire crews in downtown Cincinnati had a rescue a woman who had taken shelter at the stage in Sawyer Port. Sawyer points similar to the rescue your Coney cruise, put a life vest on the woman and then inflated a raft a retriever from the stage. So obviously many neighborhoods have been impacted by this. Ready roads have been closed, and we can only hope and pray

that things dry out quickly. And finally you got three men from Kentucky had been arrested in charge of connections with the shooting of a man having a Brown County corner of the sheriffs announcement. This past week, deputies responded to two fifty seven Hickory Street in Aberdeen almost seven o'clock in the morning after receiving a call about a man stating that he had been shot. High State Highway with Patrol troopers and Brown County deputies both arrived at

the scene. They found fifty one year old Kelly Applegate shot in the chest corner of the Sheriff's office. The suspect had fired multiple rounds at Applegate and he was then taken to the hospital. Wednesday, April second, Brown County Deputies, with help from Mason County Sheriff's Office in the Mayswell Police Department, arrested fifty six year old Michael Fight and forty seven year old Jerry Cooper, both from Dover in

connection with the shooting. Next day, deputies with help from some other agencies, arrested sixty ten year old George Kendall from Maysville on what they call additional charges. All three suspects charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder, which our first degree felon. He's being held with the Mason County Detention Center Center and awaiting extradition to Brown County.

the Morning Show. Thanks for making the trip in. Yeah, it's great to see in person for a change instead of over the phone.

see what's happening with with their VA healthcare system. But before we do that, I have a I have something I like to do personally with you. I have a challenge coin. Oh yeah, from the VA.

the topics that we have to talk about today. If you get care from the VA, and I'm pretty confident you're gonna get really good care. But someone had complained to me a couple of weeks ago about something and I said to him, I go, did you say something to the folks that have since any VA about it?

Did you put you know, I don't know if there's a form to fill out, but I said, they're really good at, you know, addressing concerns because they want to make the process as smooth and painless and as effective as efficient as possible. So don't you know, speak your mind. You don't have to be a jerk about it, but be sure and go ahead and let them know about your concerns.

grandfather told me many many years ago. He said, Todd, if you have a problem, it's like having a rock in your shoe. If you don't take the rock out of the shoe and keep walking on it, you can't say anything because it's your fault for not taking the rock out of the.

we have going on locally. There's also something on our website called gov Delivery where you actually can subscribe to receive information we pushed directly out, okay from that mechic newsletter kind of thing. Yeah, it's like a kind of like an online newsletter like email mechanism and lets you know, like, hey, here's this announcement. Whether it's about the parking issues that you know keep going on at the hospital, or medication recalls, different changes with clinics.

lot of veterans you're listening to it. So I just wanted to emphasize that because if a veteran's out there, I didn't even know there's a podcast, we'll apparently join in the fun.

we can specifically reach out to that group. They get a robo call that tells them that this town hall is going to happen the day before. Then they get another call about two minutes before the actual town hall happens. Then they're brought on into you know, like a teleconferencing system where my boss, the director, other subject matter experts

are their. Plus, there are screeners on the back end that allows veterans to ask questions that we can scroll and go through and see, you know, if there's a general question we can we can take live to the entire group. We do that, but we don't take personal health information, and we average out of that twenty thousand, we average over about three thousand that state on for that twenty five minute town hall.

and it's no detriment or negativity to them. This what have we got to do to get you where you need to get to exactly.

need to to get that exposer. She you don't have to come to the VA and do that. We have a lot of veterans that like to Brian. They like to come down there and they like to get the hospitality that goes on and the camaraderie.

screen and you know, talk with your therapist. You mentioned dermatology telehealth, like you just show a picture of your own pretty much arm with the with the whatever is going on there? Can you tell me what this is?

bless you and thanks again for the challenge. Coin Man, I certainly will cherish it. Scott Warman from The Enquirre was on earlier seven oh five. He took over for Sharon Coolidge, talked about what he's going to be reporting on in some of the more significant topics that are going on right here in the city Sincinnati. Christopher Smithman with a smith Event Money Monday with Brian James, and of course this conversation all on the podcast page A fifty five care se dot Com. Thank you Sean McMahon

for covering four. Joe Strecker, I'll see you tomorrow, folks. Tune in tomorrow the Bright Bart Insight Scoop, the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, among other things. Got some great guests lined up, so that'll be tomorrow, folks. I hope you have a wonderful day. Stick around because Glenn Beck is coming right up.