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dad and giving them. Yesterday was Father's Day, and thank you to my family for a wonderful, wonderful Father's Day. Was enjoyable, spending time with my children and my wife Peach Cobbler.

talking about price of oil. The Iran Israel bombings are really impacting the futures in oil, fed interest rate announcement and a record number of people claim social security shocking no one who understands that all the baby boomers are retiring and going on so's security. And we'll hear from the since Adiva today Case cares at eight forty some updates from the VA and some important information from my

veteran friends out there. God bless you, timber one of you two five and three seven nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two three talk hit pound five point fifty if you have an AT and T phone anyway you the the shooting of these two Minnesota lawmakers. Of course, there's a million things going on in the world, most notably uh the conflict between Israel and Iran got a lot of information on that to pass along this morning.

But this vance balter guy charged with murdering state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and for shooting Senator John Hoffman and his wife. He apparently had a manifesto. We haven't seen that yet, didn't release it. Apparently had a whole long list of other people who are on his hit list. Batcrap and sane. I think we can all agree on that.

There were twenty different SWAT teams over an extremely large area hunting this individual down. So charged with murder, of course they were if she was an elected official. And this is what's got me a lot of people all wigged out. I guess I have to ask, are you wigged out? I know Sarah herringers wigged out given that a guy who should have been arrested kicked in the door and murdered her husband. But let's pivot over to Congress. I saw this axious article summarizing the concerns expressed by

our elected officials on a congressional level. Long simmering fight over congressional security roared back to the surface this weekend following a pair of shootings against Minnesota state legislators at their homes that left two dad and two others hospitalized. The shootings have deeply unnerved members of Congress, who feel that any one of them could be the subject of an unanticipated attack, particularly at home, in their districts and

while in transit. Now, congressional leaders don't enjoy personal security. Joe, do you have personal security at your home? You have your own team of agents that are there to protect you against kick ins and things like that.

Used to be in the old days before the Internet, you had to go down of the Cameron County Courthouse, but you could ask for the information and give it that it would be given to you because it's considered public information. Now, just in an elected capacity, you're going to get greater security than every other American who struggles with perhaps security. How's your neighborhood in terms of safety. I know there's many residents of the City of Cincinnati

certain neighborhoods with a massive increase in crime. Sarah Henderger will tell you all about it, or Herringer other I got a new statement from her, just issued a couple of days ago over the weekend, talking exactly about that. Apparently we've been lied to in terms of statistics on crime in downtown Cincinnati. Something tells me the mayor and city council is interested in well concerns over marketing. You don't want to let the world know the city of

Cincinnati he's got higher crime. Oh my god, we won't be able to get more urban hipsters and move down into the city of Cincinnati. We won't be able to have this walking community that we all law think about and want well, at least from their perspective. Axios right, and the shooting sent shockwaves through Capitol Hill, which Center majority leader Chuck Schumer said he's asking for increase in security for Senators Amy Kloba Sharp Minnesota and Tina Smith Minnesota.

She had this crazy guy in Minnesota killing two Minnesota lawmakers. So Chuckie Schumer is asking for increased security for Minnesota senators as if that's the only state where crime you might be a concern for elected officials. Hakeem Jefferies, House Minority Leader New York said he asked for security officials to ensure the safety of our Minnesota delegation and the operative word in the sentence members of Congress across the country.

Representative Bernie Benny Thompson Mississippi, I call on the Capitol Police to assist in providing real solution for increased security for members. He apparently had a security detail of his own back in twenty twenty two as chairman of the January sixth Committee. So you get security depending on the type of committee that you're chair of.

And is it now out of the system. The folks that showed up with the No Kings rally, I mean, if they feel like they have made a point or I mean it was I guess overall rather well attended hundreds of thousands of people across the entire country, which is made up of three hundred and fifty million people. So I would like to point out you can get a slice of the population to show up at literally anything if you well, we have a well funded campaign to get the message out. A lot of folks angry

out there. But are we going to have now professional details of security for each and every member of Congress? Are we going to pay for that as American taxpayers? And they're supposed to represent us? So I pivot over to Sarah Harringer, who obviously could have used her own security detail at her home and her husband got stabbed

to death. She said independent data analysts that she's working with well showing what's real, pulling data directly from the Cincinnati Police Department records, calling the data staggering referring to members of since a city council and the mayor. They feel safe enough of their jobs, their beds, and their pr teams to lie to you because the optics matter more than outcomes. Let's talk about what the police union

told me, Sarah Harringer departments on hundred eighty officers. Short city failed to hire a new police from eight twenty eight to twenty fourteen, and we're never and have never recovered. Leadership hasn't been able to recruit enough to keep up with retirement. We don't even have a full time swat team because someone's afraid it might look too militant. Officers often don't know when violent offenders are released. She knows first first hand on that one, doesn't She that communication

used to exist. It doesn't now. Morale is low, support is lower, and politics are getting people killed, she says.

twenty five percent spike from twenty twenty four. It's a dangerous world out there. I guess this is my conclusion on all this. And who's entitled to security and protection and safety? Our elected officials are going to get their own already, details appears that we're moving in that direction after the murder of these Minnesota this Minnesota lawmaker and her husband. You can see that coming a mile away,

can't you. Meanwhile, we will live through this whole defund police police are all bunch of evil, racist blah blah blah, and our communities become less safe. And you know, the practical reality is when seconds count, even in a fully funded, fully staffed police department, they're at least minutes away, which of course leads to the broader point. You need to protect your own You need to be in a position

to protect yourself. You need to be less reliant on those in elected capacity to protect your interest in literally any topic. The dysfunction is on full display right now, folks. It's just one of the reasons I call myself a little little libertarian. I do not believe that others can protect me or can make decisions on my behalf that represent the best interests of myself or my family. Only

I have enough information to make those decisions. Five nineteen fifty five cars to the talk station five point three, seven four nine fifty five eight hundred eight two to three Talk pound five fifty on AH and T phones. Feel free to call. Maybe you disagree, maybe you agree, Maybe got something else you want to talk about. I'd love to hear from me. Be right back.

And here's why. Cleveland Cliff is a Cleveland based, highly successful steel producer that made an offer on US Steel back in August and gave them a offered forty five percent premium over their existing stock price current stock price, and it was turned down by US Steel, and it was called unreasonable by US Steel. So the Japanese steel

producers came in. And now the federal government is stepping in under a quote conservative which I think there's an argument there to say, is a Trump really a conservative? And now the US taxpayer maybe getting drug into subsidies for a steel producer that could have sold to a different steel producer. And now we've got the federal government starting to control the means.

going to get involved in. When I read this morning, he's talking about he'll have he Trump will have the control to say where this is going to be produced, what the name of it's going to be. He's going to point board holders or board members and appoint three of them that it can out rank the two that are there. Uh. Hey, if this is good for steel production, why stop there. Let's get involved in control healthcare, We'll

control auto production. Um, we'll control everything. If if this is good for one thing, then I guess it's good for all things. And we are no different and we're gonna we're gonna quickly get to where Beijing is.

compromise principles in order to help particular industries. And I note you know kind of a parallel that that Trump is deciding that maybe ICE shouldn't be going after certain industries like farms and meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants to ferret out illegal immigrants. Why, well, he's concerned the industry would collapse without the employment of illegal immigrants in those particular industries. So pick and shoes, Pick and shoes, and

in any case, it's all wrong. Excellent point, Jay, I'm glad you called and raised it. I don't think he necessarily still Tom's thunder. He may go in a different direction if he calls this morning, but it's an excellent point. Five twenty seven fifty five cares B Talk station. Feel free to chime in on the topic or others five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty eight two to three talk otherwise Local stories coming up next.

furta city talk station. All right, Joe Off, I'll scratch the line out which them acknowledges that they have no idea about the weather. All right, unsettled weather throughout the week has now been stricken from the weather forecast. Three eight, two to three talk before I get to Tom, who has called in this morning. A hilarious post from one of the protests rallies over the weekend. Thank you former

Anderson Township trustee Drew Pappus for posting this one. We have a wife beat her T shirt clad woman holding up a sign that says Trump, no one paid us to be here, We hate you for free. Three strides back a man with a sign that says hate has never made any nation. Great, I feel like I'm getting mixed messages over to the phones. We go, Tom, Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you.

as reality. And it's it's just a shame that too many people trying to get rid of some of these things. And it's intentional. They're they're trying to bring about their own kind of society and they want certain things to go a certain way so they can have power and control. And the American way is it's very strong, but at the same time, it's it's very fragile and you know Reagan was right. It's only you know, it's only one generation away from being gone, and so we've got to

do what we can to protect it. And I appreciate the words of Jay, although I will concern him if I'm your hero, you've got some serious problems. But I am quite certain that Jay would agree with me when I tell everybody you want to protect this country, don't vote Democrat.

this the ceremony itself. It's nice being a part of it fifteen years in a row. Thanks to the Vietnam Veterans Association for sponsoring that, and the shout out to Steve Tam who started the whole idea about properly retiring flags. Take a look at your flag. I hope you display one, but when it looks tattered, it looks faded, it looks worn. If it's ripped, it needs to be taken down and replaced with one that is new and suitable for flying. There is an appropriate way to take it down. It's

an appropriate way of retiring it. And that's what we learned all about over the weekend. So an enjoyable celebration, one filled with patriotism and respect.

called her a name, please say. Gotch grabbed the boy by the hair, pulled his head back and forth into the side and back and forth, yelling at him. Court paperwork said that she then grabbed a sharp stick from her truck and ran after another boy, yelling, I Am going to kill you and run you over. Just a man, Joe the should say. Gotch and her kids got into the truck while the second boy stood behind and mocked her. Gotch then backed out of the parking space, revved her

engine and drove toward the boy and his sister. Boy jumped out of the way, but his sister's legs were run over. Gotch continued to drive the truck through the park, which had over a dozen children there. At the time, some of whom had to get out of the way. Part of the incident, of course, caught in a sad hell phone camera. Police said they attracked her down to

her home and arrested her. During an interview with detective, she said it allegedly started because she saw preteens which I think is an operat word here considering their little children, throwing wood chips at three of her children, and believed one of them punched her ten year old daughter, Joe. Your reaction would be to run him over. It's just like a natural reaction. But to children throwing and having disagreement, hey,

let's get in the car run them over. She told police she confronted the group and they called her a slur, so she grabbed one of the boy and told him not to call her that that would be the grabbing him by the head and yanking his head back and forth.

She claimed her children being bullied by the group of kids and had reported it to the school and police, but she claimed no action was taken. Charge of three counts of evaggravated assault. According to the attorney, this could have been much more trades of situation. Thankfully, the worst injury in this was a sprain ankle and some bad scrapes and bruises. Even when angry or frustrated, it's up to adults to act like adults. It's never okay to take a rage out on a kid.

be there right. Nine one month call said the woman, sixty five year old Julia Calfoff, was chasing the teenager on the e bike and the Pine Lake path used for bicycles and pedestrians. Nine one one caller said that they'd cut off her vehicle in order to prevent her from continuing to chase the teen Deputies responded to the scene, where the caller said that he noticed the teenager attempt to flag down passing motorists as her SUV was six

to ten feet behind him. Fourteen year old said, I swerved over and onto the road and I waved someone down, but they later kept driving and another witness has stayed and helped me out. That was the witness to cut her off and let me go. Teenager's parents found out about the incident of the next day, reported law enforcement. Victim's mom. I'm furious as the mother and as an adult. There's no way on God's green Earth that that's okay.

without intent to kill, and reckless driving. Also received a uniform traffic citation for driving on the multi use path, taken to the sheriff Perry Hall inmate detention facility, later

released on a three thousand dollars bond. Flagner County Sheriff Ricky Staley, in his statement, said she caused a dangerous situation with a reckless aggressive behavior and could have seriously hurt or killed not just the child that she was chasing, but anyone who happened to be on the walking or biking and walking or biking on the path five forty six five care see de talk station. There's a refreshing word for a very peaceful place. It's time to reflect

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law enforcement. A corn to the press. Relief officers and deputies with Bowie County Sheriff's Office responded to the home for a medic assist call that day, found medical responders performing CPR on the baby. Upon their arrival. Clements allegedly staying with a relative Justice of Peace J. Warman, ordered that Courtland's body be sent to the Southwest Institute of Forensics for an autopsy, which listed his cause of death as thermal injuries i e.

of which are calling it offensive and ridiculous. Baby Shower, Join us to celebrate the upcoming arrival of a little bundle of joy in honor of Chernyobyl Hope, Wait to celebrate together, according to the online invitation, and according to the article, it appeared as if the parents were unaware of the nineteen eighty six nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Whatever, thank you, Liam. That's enough of that one. And finally

we get local news. Brood fourteen out at about a Mason, Ohio bringing some uninvited guests in one of the tri States' biggest attractions, King's Island. Yes, they have cicadas in King's Island. They're everywhere, and they're actually kind of dying off now, Brood fourteen. Doctor Gene Kritsky from Mount Saint Joe University said this brood BREWD fourteen first seen by the Pilgrims in sixteen thirty four. There's a little bit of American history involved with this particular Brood.

and they have eleven chickens. She went around the yard collecting cicadas in a plastic bag to take home to feed the chickens, because they don't have cicadas ever in our neighborhood.

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you know I do this. I stand on the sholder of giants from time to time, and with good reason and some really well thought out comments. She has in her column how progressive government set the stage for the la riots. Now go back to the Saturday night before Memorial Day and she writes, more than a thousand revelers took over an abandoned warehouse just south of downtown Los Angeles.

When police tried to break up the illegal party, the troublemakers spilled into the streets and spray painted graffiti on businesses, police cars, and light rail trains. As police attempted to restore order, the delinquents turned violent. Police and riot gear eventually moved in and fired rubber bullets to disperse the mob, though no arrests were made. Court to Americ Karen Bass, it was just pandemodium. Everybody just you know, went bisark. We cannot do this in our city and it has

to be stopped, Karen Bass, pro law and order. Two weeks later, pandemonium broke out again as agitators used the cover of protest against ICE and the raids to create mayhem. Mayor Baths tweeted we will not stand for this. This was the afternoon of June sixth, this time referring to the ICE raids as opposed to the pandemonium. Ruffians then grew more aggressive, vandalizing federal buildings and assaulting ICE officers. Local police took nearly an hour that evening to respond

to a call for help by officers under attack. That will be Ice, saying local law enforcement. Please come help us. We're being attacked as demonstrations spread on Saturday, I'll be less violently than the day before. President Trump federalized the California National Guard to protect federal property and personnel, not enforced local law, but to protect the ice agents and

federal property. You can understand why Governor Gavin Newsom would be picked by the President's assertion that the state and city couldn't be trusted to protect peace. It's human nature to take more offense at slights grounded in truth than those that aren't. Mister Newsom accused Trump of inflaming a combustible situation. Why was the city prone to ignite a lessa asks because progressive government policies, which ironically harm immigrants

most of all, created a tinderbox. If mister Newsom and his bast cared for about the welfare of the immigrants, they'd clean up Los Angeles lawless streets, fix its atrocious public schools, and stop their assistance or assault rather on businesses. Start with public safety. Los Angeles Police Department has about thirteen hundred fewer officers than a decade ago, at about half as many per capita and nearly ninety percent fewer

per square mile than New York City. You know, as I read that, initially, I was thinking about the city of Cincinnati. We're down on officers in terms of members of officers on patrol as opposed to those in administrative capacities or doing work behind the scenes. There are hardly any officers in any given neighborhood welcome to defund the police, she writes. An overstretched police force almost certainly explains why I took officers so long to respond to the call

from Ice. Officers blame city leaders. The mayor of this spring proposed eliminating another four hundred police positions to close the city's eight hundred million dollar budget hole caused by ballooning pension costs and lawsuit payouts. The LAPD has struggled with low morale and recruitment owing to lax enforcement policy to let lawbreakers run free. That sounds a little bit like the City of Cincinnati to you. Crimes such as shoplifting, vandalism,

disorderly conduct, and trespassing are rarely prosecuted. How many of the rioters have a history of looting businesses and vandalizing buildings With impunity, the police recruiting pool has also shrunk alongside LA's working class, as blue collar families leave for

locales with better schools and lower cost of living. Los Angeles County HA has lost some one point four million people due to domestic out migration since twenty ten, which parenthetically has been offset in part by an influx of five hundred and thirty thousand presumably illegal immigrants, but many of those immigrants lack the qualifications high school diploma and legal authorization to work to serve in the city's police force.

Many immigrants find work as day laborers, bus boys, or stockhands, but high minimum wages are pricing unskilled workers out of jobs, to the detriment of immigrants, young people, and public safety. Minimum wage in LA seventeen dollars and twenty eight cents. The state requires fast food restaurants to pay twenty dollars

an hour. The Employment Policies Institute's Michael Saltzman calculates the California's unemployment rate for teens with twenty one point two percent in April, double the nationwide figure, and nine point seven percent for adults twenty to twenty four versus only seven point two on average for the rest of the country. How many of the rioters were unemployed or underemployed. Young people have been failed by the city's union controlled public schools.

Nearly a third of students in this is insanity. Nearly a third of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District last year last school year were chronically absent, which is missing one in ten school days or more, from ten percent in twenty eighteen. A third worse, Only twenty one percent of the city's eighth graders scored proficient or higher in reading last year in the nation's report Card, only nineteen percent in math.

five hundred thousand, according to the Census Bureau data. Population flight presents a problem for LA's profligate politicians because federal funding for schools and sundry programs is based on population. I wonder why they're protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants. I mean, you know, she she sort of presents the obvious here, doesn't she? Oh my god, everyone's fleeing California. We need to replace our population. How the hell are

we going to do with that? Open the borders up, and then protest deporting illegal immigrants, many of whom are island criminals. We need the numbers. We can't keep our own people here, the nation, citizenry, the legal people, people born here in the United States, people who are validly in our country. Don't want to live in California anymore. Let's give them all free stuff and things in order

to lure them here and take over our communities. And then we'll scream and yelling riot in the streets when Immigrations and Customs Enforcement seeks to enforce the law. That would be me interjecting over Elisa Finley's interesting and wonderful comments here, she concludes, a cynic might wonder if the underlying goal of LA's sanctuary policy, which prohibits local law enforcement from cooperating with federal federal immigration enforcement is to

boost population in federal funding. Huh, a cynic might wonder, No matter that immigrants are often victims of the criminal aliens, the cities shields from deportation, and there'll be the criminals of Donald Trump seeking to prioritize in terms of removing from our country, the vile, evil criminals, the rapists, the murderers, those that shouldn't have stepped foot in our country in

the first instance. She concludes, mister Trump's raids may be unduly harsh, but democratic policies are cruel to immigrants in many other ways. Amen six sixteen fifty five care se Detalk station feel free to call. And they also need the illigrant illegal immigrant population to keep their number of House of Representative seats based on population, not citizens. Got pain, Get QC Kinetics on your side. Is it right for you? Well, I don't know. The folks at QC Kinetics medical professionals.

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of taxpayer dollars for ice agents. I'm concerned about the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on like a multitude of things, but on X she posted just an absolute shameful use of taxpayer dollars that could be used to actually help people. Despicable. That's the post help people. I guess you left to fill in the blanks on that one. It's like my puzzling over the No Kings rally over the weekend. What were you there protesting? We're protesting the enforcement of immigration law.

You're protesting Donald Trump as a concept, as a human being, Trump arrangement, so syndrome, Trump living rent free in your head, prompting you to go out on a beautiful Saturday to protest for what reason. For his part, Governor Gavitussm with his own post on X one hundred and thirty four

million dollars. Are you ready for this? That should be going to Los Angeles' fire recovery, ah, because of your incompetence and the mayor's incompetence, and your refusal to clean up brush and otherwise take care of the various forests around the region, allowing your infrastructure to collapse, allowing the electric transmission lines to spark fires. All of that we're supposed to pay for it, And the money allocated for ice and customs and immigration enforcement should go to you.

immigrants scheme? Real money, real dollars. Recent studies reviewed by Fox News Digital show that California spends at least tens of billions on illegal immigrants every year. Far more than the one hundred and thirty four million dollar costs sending in troops to respond to the rioting. Now that was really what the point was a National guard sent in because the local law enforce it wouldn't protect ice from

criminal actions, it wouldn't protect federal property. So somebody's got to spend some money to bring about law and order, at least in so far as protecting federal assets are concerned. Meanwhile, the predicate for all this, the illegal immigrants and notably the criminal element among them, are the purpose and reason

that all this kind of came unglued. Federation of Army Immigration Reform fare cost analysis promoted by the House Budget Committee back in twenty twenty three in a press release, found that benefits and services provided illegal alliens in California alone in calendar year twenty twenty two more than twenty two billion dollars, and a more recent cost analysis fair calculated the services for illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers thirty

one billion dollars annually, incarceration costs for illegal immigrants going through the court process and being housed in jail two billion dollars annually. That's a twenty nineteen study. You can

only imagine that's gone through the roof. Governor k Newsom earlier this year asked for an additional two point eight billion dollars in loans to address the state's deficit in the medicaid program, which has blown through budget expectations, largely due to you know what's coming, coverage for illegal immigrants, and the figures just continue. All these expanding programs obviously

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of Jim Crow Laws if it wasn't for Republic. Yeah, exactly, we should all be celebrating.

to protest someone else's mayor purval. You were elected to govern Cincinnati, not to campaign on national stages, not to chase headlines. Well, you gave speeches about protecting us from the federal government. My husband was murdered in our home by a man who was supposed to be under state supervision, a man who absconded from post release control, a man who should have been found and stopped. That is not a federal issue. That is your lane, and you weren't

in it. I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican. I care whether you are present, I care whether you're competent. I care whether the families in this city can trust you to do more than perform grief after the fact, because the truth is, you can't protest authoritarianism while ignoring dysfunction in your own backyard. You can't call yourself a protector of democracy while communities in your

care are being left unprotected. You were given a city, start acting like it, because while you're focused on Washington, some of us are burying our loved ones and we

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is echoing that concern. Trump administration has directed immigration officers to pause arrest at farms, restaurants, and hotels, this following President Trump expressing alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, at least according to officials speaking with the News hmmm.

economic calamity that result from the mass deportations. If you go after every illegal immigrant or unauthorized immigrant, I guess it's easier to get free stuff than work for Americans because Americans won't do these labor intensive jobs. American Immigration Council estimated unauthorized immigrants make up about four point six

of the nation's total employed labor force. Ready for this one, though, according to the Department of Agriculture, a recent study that they put out estimated that about forty two percent of America's farm workers were undocumented. That's county years twenty twenty to twenty twenty two.

with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. Many cases, the criminals allowed in our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs.

that we are dealing with here in the country. We've raised a whole generation or five generations, how many how long has this been going on of young people who are here and are lawfully here, Because there are kids that won't do work and We got people coming from countries that their country suck so much that they're happy to do that kind of work. I mean, talk to the kid down in your basement, play an Xbox, so I get a job?

We have all these really really really rich people that have all of these folks that are here illegally doing the work for them for very little wage at all. Why because well, you'd have to pay an American citizen young person a whole hell of a lot more than you would pay any illegal to do the work.

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they're an illegal, illegal immigrant. And if you did that, you would get rid of the bad element that Donald Trump is trying to focus on, which would not then thereby prevent ICE or eliminate or alleviate the need for ICE to go into. Yeah, the farming industry or other businesses, meat packers and things. That's part of the problem is because you know, as the article pointed out another's note, some of the criminal element will in fact go and

do these jobs. So you got a bad guy in working as a meatpacker person or a fruit picker, let out of the criminal justice system to go back out on the streets because of the sanctuary policies, and then ICE says, well, we know where that guy is. They go in there and then find out there's a whole bunch of illegal immigrants and end up rounding all of them up. So while Trump and I am going to pair back, I guess that happening. I presume that that means that I, well, I s will have to pick

them up elsewhere as a post on the job. Then if you know someone's on the street illegal alien who's a criminal, then they'll try to find them someplace else. It's obviously a very complicating factor that goes on.

we're gonna increase work side enforcement operation. We're gonna flood the zone. And then Trump ends up having a backpack on that concept because of course, apparently none of us will have any food to eat if we go ahead and get all the illegal immigrants off the farms. This is an extremely complicated situation, is it not, And if you're opposing ICE agents, you run the risk. I'm moving over it to more comical element, although it's not comical

for the victim. Here man protesting against ice raids in downtown Los Angeles with Los Angeles KTLA after an officer's close range rubber bullet shot hit him in the groin, dear, what the hell, severely bruising one of his testicles and shattering the other. Thirty three year old so called demonstrator Martin Santoyo quote it sucks to sit down close quote.

a few things we can talk about. In the initial segment of the seven o'clock hour, followed by the former vice man of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smith Avan with the Smith Event, I hope you can stick around.

And I want to thank my wife and my children for making the day extra special for me, had a wonderful meal, enjoyed their company, and I got two really nice cards.

fast forward to one hour. We'll talk futures. We'll talk to the price of oil, giving the Iran Israel bombing campaign that's currently in progress, federal interest rate and out will the interest rates drop? And Donald Trump's been pushing for that record number of people claiming Social Security again pointing out the obvious A lot of baby boomers are in retirement age.

air defenses. I've seen a number of reports hypersonic missiles and I was not aware that Iran had those, not even sure if we've got them anyway. As an indication of how far Israel was prepared to go amid fears of all out war, US official told the Associated Press that Donald Trump that President Trump in recent days vetoed and Israeli planned to kill Iran's supreme leader, Ayatola al Khameni. Now, meanwhile, Trump was sing over the weekend, just yesterday, we had

nothing to do with this, this this war campaign. US had nothing to do with the attack on Iran. But he pointed out, a if we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the US armed forces will come down on you at levels never seen before. However, we can easily get a deal gun between Iran and Israel and end the bloody conflict. So here he is attempting, and you know, Iran kept walking away from the table. I mean, it's

almost like the situation with Russian and Ukraine. Russia says, listen, we are not going to negotiate peace unless you agree to completely disarm and denazify, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean, as well as give away the certain you know, areas of Ukraine.

We are going to take them out in a wildly successful campaign. Hell, it even surprised the Israelis that they were able to kill so many of the top commanders in that meeting, which apparently got orchestrated by the Israeli

government itself. And isn't an amazing thing to realize that Israel has infiltrated the Iranian government specifically red flags for us here in the United States of America during protest weekend and on this long term discussion we've been having about the illegal immigrant population, all the known godaways think about it. Ukraine was able to sneak in drones into Russia to hit Russian targets deep within Russia that were

out of the reach of the Ukrainian military. Obviously that took place over a long period of time, but that they were successful in doing that. Israel able to get Hamas to pick up a bunch of cell phones and walkie talkies and communication devices and carry them around for like, I guess that's in a campaign that went over a multi year or more, and then activated the blow up switch, eliminating a whole bunch of the Hamas members blow them up.

And then did the same thing in Iran. Infiltrated the government, snuck in Dernes and we're able to hit a whole bunch of targets from within Iran itself. Anybody notice a trend coming here? Meanwhile, across the United States of America, the Chinese Communist Party busy buying up vast quantities of land near military bases. Hmm, anything to see there. I mean, we live in a world where it is literally impossible

to protect yourself from every single threat. As I joked this morning about members of Congress now demanding more security, personal security for them because this nutcase dvance bolter killed State Representative Melissa Hartman and her husband while posing as a police officer. Yeah, we live in a violent world, whether it's just on this local, individual state basis with I have no idea what his political motivations are, but

they caught him. But you know, the broader point is, I mean, there's no way to protect yourself from all forms of violence out there in the world. Some are posed a greater threat than others. It's a question of where you focus your resources, which is kind of the joking point about congressional members. Four hundred and fifty plus members of Congress. Are we gonna pay for each and every one of them to have twenty four hour day, seven day week security because that's what was being suggested.

Oh my god. Elected officials in the state of Minnesota got murdered. Yeah, talked to a whole bunch of people down and over the Rhine or elsewhere in the city Sincinnati to get murdered almost every single day. Yeah, well, we can't provide personal protection for them either. Dangerous world we live in, isn't it. So I'm a fan of the Second Amendment, Bobby, someone else is a fan of the Second Amendment. Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.

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I've kind of let them down. And my wife like, Brian, come on, man, you know it's like I look back and I focus on things and maybe I should have done or should have done better, or could have done And overall, apparently at least they think they think that I've done a good job.

makes being a parent an enjoyable experience. I can't imagine being a single parent and have to take on the job of you know, the disciplinarian, the person providing love and food and shelter and all that, without the benefit of a spouse who's there with you and dealing with the challenges itself. I mean, that's the joy of having two parent families, you.

You know, you don't don't you don't get that break that you normally got, Like you know, it's like that that wrestling on TV. You go in and somebody tagged in and you're like, hey, come in, I need a break. When you're a single parent, you don't get that. It's real time all the time, and it's and it's really

really tough. But I but my hat goes out for all the dads out there, and I think it's one of those public policies, uh that you know, police officers and teachers and uh firefighters whoever, those those professions are what we're seeing happening across our country and our cities. You know, they can't take the place of parenting and fathers in households. They just can't. And until we get that together, I mean I'm talking about as a culture,

not something some legislator can do as a country. Until we get our arms around fatherhood and what that means for our country and how we hold dads. We're talking about Father's Day because we can hold moms accountable too, but today we're talking about dad. How we hold these dads accountable for their involvement or lack of involvement in these kids' life. It's going to be difficult to make progress, indeed.

You're coming home to them, And that alone is an important lesson and illustration of the importance of fatherhood in and of itself.

Monday beginning at seven to twenty. Christopher, what else is on your mind? Since we got our Father's Day well wishes out of the way.

real fast. He's probably going door to door here because they saw the hit list in the car and responded, found them shot, and gave them life saving help that got them into surgery. But the point is, is all of this rhetoric that we see going on, cars burning, Brian Thomas, Rocks being thrown at police officers, bottles being thrown at police officers. They're they're doing their jobs and to see the mass media fall right back in the trap.

Right they're on TV. Cars are on fire, bricks are being thrown, cops are being hit and punched, and they say there's no violence. These are just peaceful protests, like don't believe your eyes, don't believe what you're hearing, don't believe what you're seeing. However you want to dress that pig up. I am amazed at the mainstream media right. They don't understand how they are playing a major part

in what just happened in Minnesota. Even the governor there and his behavior, the things that he has said, his own rhetoric. Yeah, I think, and this is speculation, Brian Thomas. I think we're going to find out that this person did not like a recent vote of the House speaker there and decided to take things into his own hands. I think we're going to find out what his motivations were, and they were about votes that these Democrats taking with Republicans.

And this notion of compromise has left the public space meaning to say, I'm trying to compromise with my colleague and I'm trying to move some type of public policy forward. In today's world, it's viewed as you are some person that has gone against us. You know, you're now a trader, and I'm going to announce try to take you out. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to take you out. And I just my hearts go out to those families. Bryan Times. I just wanted to say that I'm watching that.

I'm glad they called him. I hope they hold him accountable. But it's unbelievable and these are the things I have to be honest with you, I worry about, Brian Thomas, your friend me personally. I worry about this. You know, I'm on I'm on red alert most days, and I encourage people, and I've said it on your show that you've got to be prepared to defend yourself. Yeah, and you have these same liberal bodies like City Hall in Cincinnati, you know, passing resolutions and saying you want to get

rid of all legal guns and illegal guns. Like it makes absolutely no sense. If you're not gonna protect me, why can't I take it under my own to protect my family and my house. I just don't understand it. Brian Thomas.

I guess taxpayer funded private security. I mean, you and I don't get that, Christopher, And we live in a far more dangerous world than they live in.

You know, that's the point of having a firearm. You could be a slight of build, elderly woman of ninety pounds and you can still defend yourself against a six foot four to four hundred pound guy. And if you don't, if you don't take it upon yourself to be in a position to be able to do that, not that in all circumstances you are going to be able to do it. I'm just I'm not saying that owning a

firearm alone is going to avoid all situations. World's in a perfect place, but having access to one certainly should provide you a measure of comfort and at least the ability to stop something like that from happening to you or especially coming up. He was a father's day. More fundamentally, your family. Let's bring Christopher back seven thirty six. If you have care, see the talks dam seven forty one

almost and went I think about Kresy Talk Station. Enjoying my conversation with Christopher Smith and always enjoy hearing from every Monday. We're gonna hear from Brian James Monday, Monday, after the top of the arn is Christopher?

state and said, hey, I'm now free. This case went all the way to the Supreme Court and seven to two, which were seven Dixiecrats, seven activists, Supreme Court justices said, Dred Scott, you are a slave. You will always be a slave. It doesn't matter where you live, where you travel. You are not an American and you will never be an American. Pred Scott, you are property. This was the United States Supreme Court. These were seven Dixiecrats. Look it up,

who are Supreme Court justices. This case, many historians will say, was the beginning of the Civil War. This was the beginning of the war which ultimately elected Lincoln as President of the United States of America. And through all of

that you had the birth of Juneteenth. On June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, where major which is this is an officer, a major General, Gordon Granger, ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, which was the end of the Civil War, which African Americans in this country say that was the day of our freedom sold the birth of Juneteenth. But Dred Scott and Juneteenth are absolutely linked together.

And in all of that were the Dixiecrats, were the Democrats who were oppressing African Americans, enslaved people in this country. And it was the Republicans who were fighting for those freedoms, who were voting like overwhelmingly for the civil rights legislation to come through the Civil Rights Act. So many Republicans and Conservatives do not know the role they played in the freedom of African Americans, colors, the negro whatever you want to call us, through the history of the United

States of America. If it were up to the Dixiecrats, we would still be slaves today. If it were up to the Dixiecrats, we would not be Americans. Why is this important? Right now? The dread Scott case is being used by liberals in the Supreme Court right now for birth rights for those who have come to our country illegally who are giving birth and saying those citizens are

now Americans. And they're now using the dread Scott case right now with seven to two, with a Supreme Court that said dread Scott wasn't a citizen, you will never be an American. Now you see the President of the United States who say, hey, listen, you can't just come to this country illegally. That's the key. We didn't say legally, you come to the country illegally, give birth to a child, and that child be a citizen of the United States.

African Americans who are listening to me, do not understand that when this is being argued in front of the Supreme Court, they're gonna say dread Scott, dread Scott, dread Scott,

dread Scott constantly because it's the foundation of it. And so it's amazing the hypocrisy where the Supreme Court got it wrong in eighteen fifty seven dred Scott versus Sanford in eighteen fifty seven, and now the liberals are now using on the back of an enslaved people, a man who fought for his freedoms, saying, now we're gonna use this case for those who came here illegally, who have

a baby, We're gonna call them Americans. But we didn't want to call you one, dad and put it in your pipe and smoking.

from you, perhaps in error. And there have been a whole bunch of cases where people have been convicted of murder and sense of the to the to the to death. I want to find out that, oh, I'm sorry, we got it wrong, that they could take a life, so that the power of the justice is just absolutely amazing.

This is an important point I'm trying to make. So as the Supreme Court has been making all these decisions based on what these local federal judges have been doing, meaning you got Democrats who are shopping judges across the United States trying to control the White House. It doesn't matter to me who's in the White House by Democrat or Republican and independent. It's wrong to shop these cases to liberal federal judges and them make rulings across the

entire United States. But then when it gets to the Supreme Court, Please don't ever tell me that the Supreme Court gets it right all the time. All you have to do is look at the dread Scott case and see where the Supreme Court rules seven to two that dread Scott, an American who was a slave, is never

ever going to have the rights of an American. You will always be property seventy two, which actually started the Civil War and the birth of a man called Abraham Lincoln who became the President of the United States, which ultimately ended with the Emancipation Proclamation June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, which was the birth right of Juneteenth. Every Republican should understand Juneteenth. You should embrace juet You should say I

love Juneteenth. You should go to the Juneteenth celebrations. You should put your money behind Junetee. June tenth is your day. It's your day that you stood up against Dixiecrats who are trying to keep Africans Negroes enslaved as properties forever in the United States of America. If the only reason we don't understand this is that our school systems, which are liberal, do not teach this history to the children.

They don't want the children to know because they're trying to continue to indoctrinate them so that they come out as Democrat, not charged with the information to understand. Hey, man, Republicans do a lot of great things for African Americans. All these things are true.

very big deal. Anybody who goes to an HBCU understands what I'm saying. But the point that I make it you is, yes, we celebrated Juneteenth, and what's happening right now is people. I want people to understand that Juneteenth and July fourth are not in conflict. These two things are not in conflict. And conservatives need to understand Juneteenth, the dred Scott case, and they have to understand the

Tuskegee Syphlis study. And these things should be books and all of their homes that they all read to all of their children. So they understand those three things, it will it will change their life if they understand those three those three pieces of history. Forgiving these things, you know what I mean, you know, I know this this this, yeah, this vent might be a little bit, you know, not not as like other things. But we have to build

on these historical things. So people understand when I say, hey, dred Scott is being discussed right now for birthright for people who came to the country illegally gave birth to a child. And now on the backs of ways they're trying to say that child is free. When the Supreme Court said, no, dred Scott, you'll always be a slave. We're never And by the way, he died like like they made him a citizen, but he almost died essentially in that in that fight, and didn't that struggle. And

by the way, dred Scott's lawyer was a Republican. I'm gonna say that again. Dred Scott's lawyer who fought for him was an open.

certainly don't want wars period, end of story. But at the end of the day, the world does keep on turning in the face of war, even if you if you look at and I don't want to go down this path at all, but just to give a little bit of historical contact, and again not implying that this is happening, but even World War two, most of the years of World War two.

but then settled back down to about seventy two. You know, headlines do fuel this volatility, but history shows us that these disruptions for these smaller conflicts are typically pretty short lived. Markets pretty have been pretty resilient, so let's not rush to any conclusions.

The end of the day, there's still money moving around. There are still consumers who become the government and the military, and there are still producers, so the money still flows. So that's what keeps economies afloat. And I would even throw out, you know, not that long ago with COVID in early twenty twenty. COVID made us all think the world was going to end. And if you look at what the stock market did between February and March of

twenty twenty, it went off a cliff. But we don't remember that because we were all learning that we needed to go live in our houses and not come out for a while, and that was scarier than looking at financial statements. So by the time the dust settled on the market panic, then it had become a catalyst. That's where Zoom came from. Nobody had really heard of zoom much before. We all had to go home and learn how to use it. But now it's part of our lives and I know that, and I've said this on

these airwaves before. You know, we all Worth itself had to make sure that all of our advisors were able to communicate with clients we needed similar desks setups at home. That means I have you know, I have a couple extra monitors, and you know, all of our employees are able to do that. And we're obviously not the only company that did that. I know, iHeart had to do the same thing as well. So anything that that that

causes a curveball usually becomes a catalyst for somebody. Somebody's going to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money. And that's kind of what we're seeing right now.

But we tend to adapt, right, I mean, isn't that the point We tend to adapt regardless of circumstances.

for what the opportunity is going to create. Where is it going to drive industry? And you can look at any period in the last couple decades and figure out what the catalyst was. Goes back, you know, going, I'm just going back to you know, twenty five years to when the Internet first became a thing and Yahoo and America Online were the big things. Well, that changed everything that we did. Then it became for a while it was real estate, and then that ran us to two

thousand and eight. We ran that into the ground, and then it became mobility, mobile devices, so on and so forth. Everything is a catalyst. It creates an opportunity. Don't always look at everything the end of something. Look at it as the beginning of something as well.

So we've had some recent soft inflation prints. That's a good thing we want that, meaning that, you know, a soft inflation print simply means that we were not looking at inflation. We're looking at it in a relatively benign manner. That has not, however, fundamentally altered what the Fed thinks. And there are there are actually a couple Fed governors out there who are advocating for no rate cuts at all this year. But overall the stance from the Fed

seems to be we really want to cut rates. It's not happening this week, but we do want to drop rates a little bit by the end of the year.

crazy in the world. I mean, look at what we just got done talking about there's conflict in the world that we'll directly impact oil prices, and it is a little bit, you know, not to the point where we have to be alarmed yet, but at the same time,

that's something that obviously will drive inflation. If we have this conflict spreads and we wind up with inflation in oil prices, that's going to trickle through to everything else and compound what has already been going on for five years as a result of the of the COVID pandemic. So yes, the Federal Reserve is super, super super cautious. When they say they want two percent, they want two. They don't want two point three, they don't want two

in a quarter, they want two percent inflation. If we're not there, then their concern is anything we do to possibly trigger it to go the wrong direction is dangerous.

money to ship things. That suggests more consumption. I mean, the prices are lower, aren't people engaged in more economic activity? I mean, I don't know. I'm just trying to walk through this. How this impacts in the inflation rate?

out there. But I think you can figure out right away, you know, that they haven't found a way to suddenly produce everything they do, you know, cheaper. They just perhaps have found an opportunity here and there to lower some prices, and they're going to shine a bright light on that. Maybe they do that all the time, but they don't

hang banners on the building. The banners, to me are a different approach, right, So that just tells me that they that they're they're they're looking at their customer base, which is all of us, and they're saying that, you know what, these people are really really super hypersensitive to inflation right now. So any positive step we can take,

let's shine a very bright light on it. They've probably cut prices like this in the past, but haven't hung the banners or done the commercials because it wasn't a focus of the buying public.

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So even if you took Iran completely offline, would that have an impact on supplies globally?

that's right in your face. At least once a week, you have to look at it, You are required to look at it. Versus if I grab a loaf of bread off the shelf. I'm not necessarily going to look at the price tag there, but we all see gas prices immediately. That has been pretty benign, and frankly it's the last couple of years. This wasn't an issue last year. This is usually the time of year where politicians point across the aisle from whichever side and blame the opposite

side for whatever's going on at the gas pump. Right now, there's nothing going on at the gas pump, so nobody's really talking about it. And I think there our past history of looking at the Middle East as the only area that can swing oil prices in one way or another. It doesn't have the same impact that it used to,

and I'm not diminishing it. It's certainly the biggest, you know, the biggest organization and in the world, with Opak and all those countries out there, But with the progress that has been made in fracking in the United States, yeah, US is one of the largest producers of oil now, so we're able to moderate that as now that we are a bigger participating producer in that oil market, so those smaller regional conflicts don't have the huge impact that they used to still big, but not as big.

cracks a little more efficiently. And if you read the stories of how fracking came to be, there's one guy behind all of it who didn't make an extra nickel for coming up with this idea. But in any case, the originally had to pump chemicals down into the ground to flush this stuff out. Then they had to process it and get those chemicals back out, and then they tried to decided to try, well, let's just do this with water because it's cheaper, and so that was a

cheaper process and a better process. Then they found a way to do it without any extra anything. So progress and technology always are moving us forward, and that has literally changed what we know as the.

understand more people are claiming social security. Getting back over to your role in helping folks plan for retirement, we'll talk about that coming up one more with Brian James and Money Monday. First, some pleasant words for Gate of Heaven Cemetery, and you know, it is a beautiful place. I think we all need an opportunity to unwind. And it's more than a cemetery. It's a sacred space where the dignity of every person's respected life is honored from

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boomers are all reaching retirement age. But the key point I think in this whole article is now people are claiming it earlier than the retirement age, because you and I both have talked about this many times, and anybody who's paid attention interestingly enough, Brian, I got my you know, the Social Security note you get which tells you what you should anticipate at retirement age, and you know if you wait longer, the amount of money you can get

if you delay it till like seventy two, increases pretty substantially. But notwithstanding that, more people are taking it earlier.

retirement age of sixty seven. So full retirement age is sixty six to sixty seven, depending.

Security has a hole in the bucket. It doesn't work anyway. They I'm sure they're going to be changing it at some point. So people decided have decided to turn on this bigot a little earlier. Again, I can verify that with conversations with my clients themselves.

independent of Social Security. That's where your job comes in. But I mean, I talk about panic in the streets. If social Security went away, how many people would be rioting?

going to get out there and vote. Because they're paying attention, you can probably do more damage to the younger generations. Unfortunately, that's not a good thing. But I think that if we have to sacrifice something, it's probably going to lean that direction. However, realistically, I think we're going to eventually we're going to realize that, hey, this just doesn't work.

We can get away with it a few more years. Right, We're not in dire straits yet, but if nothing else is done, then the only change that needs to be made is benefits need to be reduced by about thirty percent, which is a chunk, don't get me wrong. However, it's not one hundred percent. That's the tweet you see. That's the headline. Social Security is going bankrupt. No, that's not the case. There is simply in about seven or eight years, there will be less coming in than is going out.

That's the issue. But that doesn't mean there'll be nothing coming in. I guarantee you your paycheck will still have a fight a line on it in twenty thirty three. You'll still be paying payroll taxes.

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I don't want to catch you off guard, Todd, welcome back, but do you know the answer to that question?

to go through some of the shafts several weeks ago. Yeah, still we're maintaining the other We got other elevators that folks can use, but they're not as uh, they're not as convenient for our veterans as they need to be. But yeah, we're aggressively working on that issue.

from us, you know, when it's needed. And so the Compact Act was a major legislative change, one of the two that we're going to talk about today, that occurred roughly about over a little over a year ago, where at any time when a veteran is in distress, suicidal ideation, having to do some mental health issues that are just you know, disrupting their life, instead of needing to get directly to a VA for care in that immediate time and urgency, they can go anywhere in the community to

get that care and get stabilized to where they are more comfortable, they're out of the situations that they're in, and then that community hospital, that private hospital, or that health agency will work with us to get the veterans transferred over to the right VA care. All of that is at no cost. So that's the big that's the biggest change. So the two biggest changes under the Compact Act are the convenience of getting the kindly care that

you needed no cost to the veteran. And to date, since this legislation went in, we've helped closely over eleven hundred veterans in doing that. So that's that's been a big, big boat bonus for us and also our veterans in the community when they need to care at the right time.

stress environment. So he had to kind of work through his problems and figure out why he was what he was. But self destructive behavior, your substance abuse, issues with you know, relationships, and so he really told a great story about exactly what so many veterans are experiencing, so you've got the help there at the VA with the Compact Act. You of course have the Veterans Crisis Line which is ninety eight eight and then press one when you get connected.

That's an instant opportunity. But you know, understanding the Compact Act and knowing that the good people at the VA are there for your mental health is just a great thing. And I'm glad you're able to bring that up and can get a copy of Forged in Chaos by Tyler Gray on my website. All right, let's pivot over to the Packed Act. Something completely different.

wanted to focus on. You know, you're talking not beyond the big ones, the burn pits, the oil fires and agent orange. There's pesticides, diesel fuel, jet fuel, the different cleaning solutions things on Navy ships. So all these things you know, could have a result into some future medical condition that you know. There's no family history too, it's not tied to anything other than your exposure in the military.

So that healthcare piece of it getting a toxic exposure screen which is a simple questionnaire type screening that goes through your primary care physician at the VA, and then the other side of that is sitting down and talking with a certified veteran service officer. I focus a lot about going to the county offices Hamilton County, Claremont County, and Butler County as well to talk to those folks about filing for any type of level of disability compensation

that could be related to that toxic exposure. And for some veterans who are who unfortunately don't become eligible because of various things, a PACKDACK submission, a new rating of some sort can get that veteran the care in the VA that they get the result to. So again it's a little complex. This is why I wanted to focus

on these things. But come and talk to our experts about those, particularly a pack deck, because I have seen major, major influences, major changes happen with veterans changing their life, not also you know, monetarily with their compensation and disability, but the healthcare that's related to that's very important. And two of the big major ones a lot of veterans I've learned as a result of toxic toxic exposure is ryaniis and cyanidis. Oh, you know, just totally out of

the blue. You know, it's like, never had these problems before I went in. There's no family history to it, and it's a lot of that's related to the toxic exposures.

But a lot of these things could be related to that veteran's military experience based upon the territory they were in, the chemicals that they were possibly exposed to, relate it to their military service or their daily mos job that they.

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absolutely me too. So for the last two years, this is nothing new to the to the new to the marketing world, but for the last two years, I've been trying to find a company that specifically could give me data on households of veterans here in the Tri State area through a through a customer resource management system, which is every business uses, and we finally found one and they were able to identify veteran households here in the Tri State area, which we serve fifteen counties Brian that

you know, through three different states, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. And with this program, with that veteran data, we're able to now and text messages directly to veterans that are not enrolled in VA and ask them if they would like to be contacted about their benefits, and if they press one, we get that data back and then we will be reaching out to them and scheduling them appointments to see in eligibility specialists at the closest community based

out patient clinic that we have. This is a game changer. I didn't really realize how much possible data was out there, but our first round of this pilot, that was close to thirty thousand pieces of data of veteran households that we could reach and there's about fifteen thousand, or almost half of that data of veterans who are not enrolled that are interested. So you know, our current marker of

treating forty three thousand veterans. We have the potential of finding those veterans that are not using us, engaging them and getting them into the healthcare system for various kinds of things that they can use us for. Because I'm always talking about how the VA can fit into that personal healthcare portfolio. Benefit non insurance has a benefit to them,

and we're really excited about this. So if veterans, if you're received a text message it seems suspicious, we all get those, Brian, we all get these.

click the one on the link. I mean, that's just putting them in contact with you directly.

I don't know if they're real or not exactly, So we wanted to take the take the extra step the valid data to say, yes, we are reaching out to do we want to hear film med you, and.

always a pleasure talking with you. Thanks again for what you're doing for the veteran community.

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