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actually friends or not. Anyway, coming on the fifty five Carsey Morning Show seven twenty every Monday with the former Vice Mayor of the city since snat Christopher smitheman for the Smith event. As is always the case, don't know what he wants to talk about. Always enjoy the conversation, his thoughts and comments, and I hope you do as well, which is one of the reasons why it gets me out of bed on a Monday. At least I know

I can count on Christopher being on the rundown. Also Money Monday with Brian James every Monday at eight oh five. Today we'll talk about the first quarter GDP growth. We'll talk about food prices and inflation, which segues over to we should expect restaurant bankruptcies and finally four to one K balances seems that they're trending higher. At least that's the notes for Brian James on Monday Monday. Finally, we'll talk with the since Anava for KRC Cares at eight forty.

I love my veteran friends out there. God bless each and every one of you, and I love hearing from you. If you got a thought or comment you want to pass along, maybe stir the pot feel free five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. And as I like to point out, I always remember, never forget fifty five care Sea dot com, get your podcasts, get your books, and get your iHeartMedia app so you

can listen wherever you happen to be. Even if you're in a different state. Love. Hearing from folks in different states just blows my mind every time it happens. I'm stuck in the I think I'm stuck in the decades past Internet reality still hasn't sunk in for me. And that's okay. Anyway, again, stepping back from the reality is what's going on. I know everybody's all upset about this blow up that happened with Ukrainian President Zelensky and President

Trump and JD. Vance this past what was it Friday. It's I think it's a lot of faux anger or reaction. I got a friend in France who you know, it's like, oh, Europe thinks. So it was just kind of an interesting exchange. And my perception, you know, just putting aside that politicians are narcissistic clowns. Generally speaking, I think we need to appreciate the fact that Ukraine on its own can't win that war. Russia's might is tremendous compared to what Ukraine's

got left. I mean, they're going around and rounding up people, and I mean this has been going on for a long time. It's three years in a war, but they're going around rounding up people in bars and sending them front line people who don't necessarily want to fight. You got a lot of regions Ukraine that are ethnically Russian. They believe in align with Russia. And I suppose if you ask them, they'd rather be affiliated or be part of Russia than in independent Ukraine. Ukraine's not an ATO member.

And is it worth going into World War or three over Ukraine? I mean, and recognizing the power and might of Russia relative to Ukraine. You know, negotiating a peace still is going to require some concessions on the part of the Ukraine, of the Ukrainian people. They're going to have to give up something because Russia right now has the upper hand. Looking at NATO alone, they don't have

the military resources. They rely entirely on the United States, Which is really my fundamental point on all my observations. Everything seems to require our engagement and involvement. Why NATO's the one that's got most at stake here, They're the ones most at risk. They believe that Russia is an existential threat to their existence or their own independence, then man up. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday you'repe prepared to take the lead in defense of Ukraine, fine,

including troops and planes. But here's the big giant butt in the room needs the strong backing of the United States. After a summer with eighteen European leaders, Starmar said a coalition of the willing would defend a peace deal in Ukraine and said a number of countries have signaled that they want to be a part of a plan to bring durable peace to the country. Pasterte, what does that mean? A peace deal? That's what Trump was trying to negotiate,

a resolution of the conflict. Now, if you substitute the United States in these negotiations, are they going to be come up with a able to come up with a better deal, then maybe Trump might help negotiate. Don't you think they are going to have to concee that Russia has the upper hand, has already taken over giant, well not giant chunks, but substantial chunks of Ukraine and is now holding them those chunks that really are ethnically Russian people.

That there's gonna have to be some concessions to Russia and giving up pieces of Ukraine. Do you think the European Union can negotiate a quote unquote peace deal that results in Russia completely pulling out and restoring Ukraine's borders to where they were before Russia invaded them. And I'm not defending Russia's invasion. The side chatter on of this who's at fault, Who's at fault? Well, of course Russia

is at fault. They're the ones that invaded. But a welcome invasion at least in so far as the ethnic Russians are concerned, that's the side they want to be on. It's like all those Illinois counties that want to be part of Indiana who are being held hostage here.

should have been doing the heavy lifting. Can you do the heavy lifting though you've depleted your military, you haven't invested in military because we've been funding the whole ooh almost oh, I caught myself from an sec violation. I'm a little heated about this this morning. There wouldn't be a it wouldn't be a NATO if it wasn't for the United States funding it. To be clear, Starmer said, we agree with mister Trump on the urgent need for

a durable peace. There's those words again, peace. What does that specifically mean? Prime Minister Starmer? What do you mean when you want to negotiate peace? What kind of deal are you going to create? You're gonna sit down with Putin? What's Putin gonna demand? Putin's gonna demand some land? Are you willing to negotiate that? And then the aftermath because everbody said, wha, what's gonna keep Putin from reinvading Ukraine?

We need troops and military hardware enter the United States again, That's why they keep pivoting back to the United States. Now this Friday devolvement, the discussion grew so heat to the White House scrapped the signing ceremony for an agreement that would have grown to the United States access to Ukraine's rare earth mentals in exchange for continued support. In exchange for continued support, we finally get something back in return for the billions of dollars that we're throwing at

this pointless war. I don't have a problem with that. Rather than US unilaterally giving up and were broke. By the way, I'm sorry, I have to throw the reality into the room. Thirty six trillion dollars in the whole debt service now at a trillion dollars annually. We're blank and broke man. And yet we're expected to continue to throw billions and billions and billions of dollars in aid to NATO. Generally speaking, and of this specific conflict in Ukraine,

everybody turns to us. Everybody turns to us. Trump said he determined that Zelunsky is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. Well, no kidding, because apparently without our involvement in our military hardware and the billions of dollars of aid, they'd have lost the war already. Starmar said yesterday Prime Prime Minister, nobody wanted to see what happened last Friday, But I do not accept that

the US is an unreliable ally. The US has been a reliable ally of the UK for many many decades and continues to be. There are no two countries as closely along as ours. Our defense AHA, our security HA, and our intelligence is intertwined in a way. No two other countries are. Well, that's probably all accurate. How big is the United Kingdom's military now that we have been sort of the police force of the entire Natal Alliance

since the end of World War two? Starmer, for his part, said he announced a two billion dollar export financing toe of the Ukraine to purchase five thousand air defense missiles manufactured in Belfast. Ah, the military industrial complex exists outside of the United States. You didn't know there were weapon manufacturers in Belfast, did you? He signed a two point seven billion dollar loan for additional military Ukraine. Note that that's alone, not a gift. We haven't been loaning. We've

just been giving away. And Trump was trying to negotiate some measure of protection for the United States and mechanism to maybe benefit us in return for military hardware by way of the minerals deal. That was the point of that. Sorry, no more free lunch man. You better give us something in return for what we are taking from us. You're not entitled to our money, our weapons, and our support.

British Ambassador of the United States Peter Mandelssohn called for a reset between the US and Ukraine, encouraging Zelunsi to sign the minerals deal. He said, what helping sure the United States has a stake in Ukraine's future? He said, the United States must have a role in any peace deal. Now, pauls, I'm gonna ask yourself, why is that? Why do we

have to be involved at all? Listen, I understand ice Relationianism isn't a practical foreign policy, to quote Casablanca, But how is it that we are the crutch upon which the world relies in in negotiating peace deals. What if you just sort of, you know, magically took us out of the equation? What the hell would they do without us? Apparently nothing? Mandelssion this British Ambassador of the United States said on ABC's This Week, we would also like to

see the United States giving us cover for this. We want to know the US is covering our backs in what we are putting into Ukraine on the ground that there is some sort of ultimate backstop if things get really nasty. He said, the Russians need to know they are going to answer to the United States as well as to the Europeans on the It sound like world War three to you. It seems to me to be the desire of these leaders. It's like, you know, we're

just gonna go headlong into World War three. You know, maybe for those folks out there that are interested in population control, there's your answer. The Malthusians will love it. Boy will wipe out half the world with nuclear weapons, and we won't have all these cockroaches that the globalists and the Greens call well killers of the planet if we eradicate a whole bunch of them. I don't know. I hate to go down that road and make those things assertions out loud, but what in the hell is

going on here? But it really does give you a sense of perspective, doesn't it. Everyone keeps turning to us, Everyone keeps turning to us. They have been relying upon us now for decades and decades, and I'm sorry, going back to the fundamental point here, we're broke. Five eighteen fifty five kc DE talk station. Feel free to call. I've love to hear what you think about this. I'm baffled. I am completely perplexed. I'll be right back. Surprize of

how cold it is. Didn't seem that way when I walked out to my car this morning, about twenty two on a Monday. Let's go to the Phone's got several callers online and we'll start with Mississippi James, and we'll get to New Hampshire, Gary, my out of state friends, James. Welcome back, my friend. Happy Monday to you.

to the money and the ammunition. Because Ukraine supposed to gave up their capability in the nineties.

thanks for holding over the break there. Welcome to the Morning Show.

one yesterday. But anyway, it seems to me like they might have pumped him up the you know, to go after uh Donald Trump, because Trump is trying to get the peace and the war, and I think uh Lizinsky, with all the billions that he's got, he doesn't even know where half of it is. I just want to know what they said to him that got him to do what he did at the White House. So but anyway, Brian, if there's a person out there that digs into the stuff, I like to know who they.

step a ten thousand foot level. And he's so, wait a second, why does the rest of the world think it needs our approval or that we need to blessed lay our hands upon whatever negotiation they want to enter in to. It's because we keep funding every blanket project in the world. We keep throwing all of our the money that doesn't exist out into the world. They are hooked up with like an umbilical court to the United

States pocketbook. I think that's what needs to stop. Oh yes, that will lower our power and influence in the world. But you know, in the grand scheme of things, So what do you want to be hooked at? That was kind of the point I made to my friend in France. You know, I wouldn't want to be dependent upon us. Well, it's ruining your relationship with the NATO countries. Well well, you know, okay, let's pause some run and let's take again a ten thousand foot look at what NATO has become.

Stiflers of free speech, pursuers of zero carbon and green energy, and they can't even afford to run their own plants because they've put themselves in that position Greta Thunberg dominating their energy policy. We pick and choose in the world who we want relationships with autocracies, you know, help We've got significant trade with China, who's our biggest genuine existential threat in the world. We don't see eye to eye with most of the NATO countries in terms of how

they're run. Again, going back to free speech, for example, they don't allow it. Isn't that a human rights abuse? Stifling individual thought? Yes? We have historic relationship with NATO. How we rebuilt most of those countries in the aftermath of World War Two. We trade with them. If it wasn't for US, I don't think that they would be as economically successful as they are. Same thing with China

are imbalance with China is overwhelming? Why because with the wealthiest country in the world sort of kind of ignoring our massive debt. See what Charlie's got this morning, Charlie, Welcome in the Morning Show. Sorry for my rent there. I wanted to get to your call. Welcome.

practically reals life realize. That's why Puttin is like, hey, screw you guys. You know we're winning, and do we want to risk World War three by putting a whole bunch of troops in there in order to sustain the Russia or the Ukrainian front from further incursions by Russia? Is it worth global devastation for that. I'm of the mind to say, no, it's not. So everybody's talking about peace, what does peace mean? Vladimir Putin's gonna say peace requires

land concessions. We're winning the war. I've got no reason to give up on the advances we've made. Besides, go ahead and do a poll of the people in the areas that we've taken over, and they'll probably say they're okay with being part of Russia. That's I mean, that's kind of where I'm going here. They talk piece piece piece piece piece, but they never articulate out loud they mean the NATO countries who are now I guess, taking

the front on negotiating a piece. They never say out loud what that means.

Stick around, be right back after these brief words.

forget that, let me tell you. So he embarrassed Zelenski. And now, of course Finman is a Democrat congressman, so they rewarded him by testifying to impeach Trump. And now he's a Democratic congressman for using our tax dollars through USAID.

have relationships with and those we are not. You know, there are countries we work with all the time that are terrible with human rights abuses, and there are countries that we refuse to work with because well, you know, they're autocracies, or they're you know, they're communists, or I mean, fill in the blank. You just sort of pick and chew is what sins are going to justify or not justify a relationship with, or you're willing to overlook them. But Ukraine does not have clean hands at all. And

you go back to the Biden administration. You think about you know, Hunter Biden's relationship Barissmal Holdings. You know, there's corruption all day long. So yeah, it just there's so much to take into account here. And this isn't a black and white situation. It is as gray and as obtuse and and foggy as anything could possibly be. Appreciate the call, Dwayne, I really do. This whole thing's got

me really down over to the stack of stupid. But you can feel free to call anyway interrupt the stacker stupid, I don't mind. I thought this was hilarious. City Group accidentally credited a client's account with are you ready eighty one trillion dollars last April? Can you imagine waking up and you got eighty one billion dollars in a year account? Financial Times report of the incident that went unreported until now.

It happened last April. They mistakenly entered an internal transfer of eighty one trillion dollars into a client account when the intended amount was two hundred and eighty dollars. Actually it was April of twenty twenty two, so that it managed to slip through the banks in initial checks and balances.

Accord to the internal account of the event seen by Financial Times as well as two people familiar with the matter, eighty one trillion dollar error missed by both the payment employee responsible for the transaction and a second official task with verifying it before being approved or processing the following business day wasn't until ninety minutes after the payment posted that a third employee caught the discrepancye while reviewing the

bank's account balances. Payment then reversed several hours later. No client funds actually left City Group. The bank was did the disclosure the quote near miss close quote to the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency. The bank has been under regulatory scrutiny since mistakenly wiring nine hundred million dollars to Revlon creditors back in twenty twenty, an era that led to the departure of then CEO

Michael Corbett, as well as hefty fines. Wow, we got to Saint Louis where a forty one year old man's been charged with attacking his parents after an argument about the Internet going down at their home. Just away. Yeah, just unplug the router and then plug it back in again. It's called a reboot. Saint Louis Metropolitan Police arrested Martice Fulton Sunday, charging with two counts a third degree domestic assault.

Forty save Police showed up at the home after multiple calls about a disturbance and met with Fulton's parents, who are seventy four and seventy three years old. Office has learned that after an argument about the Internet being down at the residence, Fulton allegedly attacked both of his parents, striking his father and mother and trying to strangle his father with a power cord. Do what also accused of throwing his mother to the ground. Not in front of

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contemplating these things. And nobody's got clean hands in this, no one except I think we can all agree the biggest beneficiaries of an ongoing conflict the military industrial complex. Uh, let us return to the stack of stupid. We're you go to North Carolina. A woman is wonder for attempted murder after allegedly locking her boyfriend in a storage unit where he was stuck for some several days with no

food or water before finally being rescued. Rob A fifty two year old Robin Deaton of Matthews, North Carolina, being sought on an attempted murder and kidnapping charges of an Roe Police Department said she remains at large. Fifty one year old boyfriend had been locked in the unit on Thursday.

Beating allegedly convened to crawl to the back of the unit to get her something, and that's when she slammed the door shut, saying what the hell, this is what you get just he had no food, water, or power source. There were two locks on the storage unit. He said he was in that unit and his phone was about to die when he asked if he needed emergency services. I need to get out of here. I just can't breathe.

I haven't had anything to drink or eat. Officers respond to the facility about a quarter after one on Monday afternoon. According to the incident report, Man taken to the area

hospital since and has since been released. Into the report lists to the crime as false imprisonment, though the detectives sought higher charges for Deton's arrest want because based on the investigation Saint Louis County, Missouri, Webster Groves woman pointed a firearm at a Duncan Donuts drive through a tendant in spite of get after if she got a re

fund for her order. In Saint Louis A gott County Friday Court investment Amen Joe Court, an investigator with the rock Hill Police Department, Ebony Gaither, thirty five, argued with the attendant about her order and ultimately got a refund. Investigator wrote, quote, defendant, apparently unsatisfied, takes the ceramic tip container from the counter and throws it, causing it to break.

She then throws the food at the victim. The attendant followed Gaither out, began recording video and tried to get a photo of her license plate. Investigator wrote, defendant points a semi automatic pistol of victim. The victim states that law enforcement will get involved. According to court records, that's when Gayther got out of her car and approached the victim before trying to hit them in the face. Do what the hell everything captured on the victim's cell phone.

Of course, Gaither are now facing charge of unlawful use of a weapon fourth degree the assault and property damage for pulling out a weapon during the argument, swinging her fist at the victim's head and breaking the tip jar bond fifty thousand dollars cash only ten percent not authorized obviously again not in front of Hamilton County Judge. Silverstein. Arrested Sunday. Gaylor said to appear in court Monday. The hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday because she wanted her attorney

to be present. Yeah, that might help. Five fifty five five care see the talk station. You know, if the world would just learn your sound bite, Joe, just walk away, we would be in a much, much, much better place. Take a deep breath. Count to ten, and remember someone has a cell phone camera out and is recording your actions. Scary and o'relegan as that may be. You're gonna get caught from doing stupid things. Plenty to talk about in

the six o'clock hour. Man, I got a stack of trainny Joe, you hit like eight articles, got a roll this morning. Prep for the show. Hang on, folks, be back after the news.

If you're just tuning in, you feel free to find the podcast to that hour on fifty five car Ze dot com. Anyhow, just just the ultimate point. It's like the entire world keeps looking to us, keeps looking to us. They want to negotiate a peace. What does that mean? What?

buy anything? I guess in the name of I don't know, some sort of diversity equity inclusions, so sort of left wing ideologically driven concept that no, do not shop at fill in the blank store or do not buy anything on some given day. Let's stop the onomy from functioning and show them the power of the people. And then the next day comes and then you go out and buy the stuff that you didn't buy the prior day. I mean, that's kind of the reality of that. In

my parallel was it's like a snow day. You know, the roads are closed, so you can't make it out to Kroger to buy your milk. You missed the opportunity to get ahead of the storm, so you're stuck at home. You're not out participating in economic activity because well, the roads are closed, or you're afraid of crashing your car because the roads are slick. Then what do you do? As soon as the roads are clear, you get in your car and you go out and you buy something.

There's no overall economic impact. The only way to have an economic economic impact along the lines of what they suggest is going to happen is if you just commit to quit buying period. Done over with. I'm not buying anything anymore. And how would that serve society? Your friends and neighbors who are in the you know, are getting a paycheck related to an economic activity, which we all do.

I don't know. It's just there's some idiots out there, truly, truly, and so I turn to Maine because Joe had a stack of training. Is what I'm calling it this morning. It's all these transgender athletes winning and competing against women and in the name of defending women's rights. It is indeed madness. Madness, Main's transgender madness. According to the editorial board of the Wall Street Journals, pretty much summing up everything I feel about this. Democrats want to know how

so many voters abandoned them in November. They could take a gander at the progressive melt down in Maine, and I honestly am appalled at what they did in Maine. Last Tuesday, Maine House Representative voted to censure Republican representative Laurel Libby for posting photos of a transgender high school athlete on Facebook. The transgender athlete competed in boys track and field, then switched over to competing the girls pole art vault this

year and won the Class B state championship. So Libby, in defensive women out there in the world, said this is outrageous and unfair to the many female athletes who work every day to succeed in the respective sports. So

the progressives have a meltdown. They voted seventy five to seventy to formally reprimand this elected official for speaking her mind and exercising her right to free speech, which is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and I'm willing to bet also embodied in Maine's own constitution, although I don't know that for a fact, I think every state has that. The censor mean. This is what it means.

She isn't allowed to either speak or vote. She's not allowed to represent her constituents unless she issues an apology, and she said she's not going to do that. Under the main constitution, expelling a member requires two thirds majority, but state lawmakers have used the center as a backdoor to silence Miss Libby by a simple majority vote. Trying to speak in her own defense during the main House resolution to censor her representative, Libby repeatedly interrupted by other

members challenging her remarks. My understanding also is that her microphone was turned off regularly during her efforts to defend herself in her position, so she posted her remarks on Facebook. The progressive left claims she was doxing a minor by posting the photo, stating the obvious, the state champions athlete has no reasonable expectation of privacy after winning a high profile championship. Taking pictures of those victories and distributing them

in the press or internet is routine. Happens all the time, and there is no law prohibiting what Misslibby did, which is free political speech. Her posts did not attack the athlete that simply reposted the champion's picture and noted that the same athlete had placed fifth in the men's competition in a previous year. Those are statements of fact. Go ahead, run through your liberal fact checking site. Is the above true? Absolutely,

the above is true. The legislature's censure of Miss libty also deprives her of the right to vote on legislation, which ultimately disenfranchises her constituents by denying them representation. Good point they make. What's to stop the majority party from centering any problematic lawmaker to make sure legislation passes. Democrats should be considering whether they really want to go down

the road of regulating posts on social media. Now. For his part, Trump's executive order on transgender athletes says schools or education institutions that received Title nine funding cannot deny women an equal opportunity to participate in sports, noting that allowing transgender athletes to compete in women in sports is demeaning, unfair,

and dangerous to women and girls. Most recently, Trump confronted me and Governor Janet Mills at a White House event over the state's refusal to abide by the executive order. On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi warrant officials in California, Maine, and Minnesota in a letter that they're going to face consequences they don't comply with federal law. Notably, I guess the funding is going to be pulled. How about that?

And that happens all the time. And I use as an illustration what happened to Ohio back when I was in college. You know, if you don't raise the drinking age to twenty one, you are not going to get federal highway dollars. And we capitulated federal money always with strings attached. Administrations have a change of plans. They want to they reinterpret Title nine. Title nine protects women, not

transgender men. And if you don't capitulate and follow what we believe Title nine to say and stand for, then you're not going to get your at your dollars. Fine, you can live without them. You can continue your transgender policies. You just don't. It just doesn't come along with federal funding. How firmly do you stand on those policies? Can you

live without the funding? Then, the journal concludes the Republicans prospered politically in twenty twenty four by campaigning on the unfairness of forcing girls to compete against testosterone loaded transgender athletes. Now to dodge a debate over the policy, main Democrats who abuse their power by silencing a duly elected dissenter.

They've learned nothing from the defeat. Amen to that, and this is so overwhelmingly rejected the idea of allowing men to compete against women merely because they say, one day, wake up and say I'm a gal. We need to just concede to that. We need to just say, Okay, you're a girl, and that means you're allowed to compete against these other girls, biological women, even though you're six too and weigh two hundred plus pounds. Is that right? Is it fair? Is it? Is it?

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He's a good man. Monday Monday with Brian James, I were going to talk about first quarter GDP growth, food prices and inflation, expect restaurant bankruptcyes topic number three and then four to one K balances trending higher question mark plus uh since AVA returns for car seacres at eight forty. I always enjoy supporting what they're doing over the VA for my veterans out there, my friends in the veteran community, get your Bourbon Raffle tickets. I don't think we sold

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on this. Thank you, Susan Friccio. Apparently, high energy bills leading customers in underscore the word democratic led states where they are pursuing zero carbon emissions and harming their own economies are now leading the citizenry to question renewable energy policies that have failed to deliver more reliable, less expensive electricity. Price hikes in New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, among other states

of left consumers fuming. She writes, government leaders scrambling to provide relief as voters threatened to turn against them at the polls for implementing policies primarily blamed for the spike. And it is only the policies that are causing this. They've done this to themselves intentionally, Executive director of Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. It feels like all of a sudden people woke up. I think over time, yes, the blame will be squarely on a elected leaders, and who else would it lie?

has nearly doubled over the last year. Six hundred and eighty five dollars bill for February for eleven hundred square feet two hundred and ninety bucks for heat, and get a load of this three hundred and ninety five dollars for what they call delivery charge, which includes a recently raised feed of funded program called Mass Save, which gives rebates to residents who convert to electric powered heat. The cost passed along to rate payers who I guess converted

electric heat. Work the math out on that one. Governor of Mara, Healey, of course Democrat, recently approved a twenty five percent budget increase for the Mass Saved program, prioritizing the elimination of all fossil fuel heating in the state. Electric companies increased the fee to pay for the expanded program, adding that the electricity prices that were already among the

highest in the nation. The state has it rejected installing natural gas pipelines and new fossil fuel or nuclear power plants. Get a load of this, rather than rely on their own pipelines and their own source of fossil fuel, which apparently they have because someone tried to get the power of the pipelines installed that was rejected. It imports most of its energy, including liquefied natural gas, at a much

higher cost, from Canada, Norway and other countries. Massachusetts is buying natural gas from Canada, Norway and other countries, which doesn't make any sense to me from a logic and reason standpoint, because that means they're producing carbon, which they want to be carbon neutral. Go ahead, working out in your mind. They say a third of the state's energy

comes from renewable sources, mostly solar. Major natural gas power plant shuddered in May, and the only state energy projects planned involve renewables, which of course don't produce a lot of electricity and don't work like solar when it's a cloudy outside. Kind of harsh Winners in New England as well, local television news interview the governor. She did not respond to an inquiry parenthetically from the Washington Times, but she did speak with local news that her administration is not

to blame for the higher costs. Really, just because she says it doesn't mean people aren't smart enough to figure it out, is exactly her and the Democrats fault for implementing the policies which will cause their electricity bills to double. So she asked the Department of Public Utilities to take a look at the rates and do anything and everything we can as a state to lower heating bills. That's

a quote from her. Well, look inwardly, get rid of your stupid policies which are directly related to causing the energy prices to go through the roof. She ordered energy companies to cut rates by at least five percent in March, saving consumers and average about fifteen bucks a month. Talk to the guy with the eleven hundred square foot ranch and see if that makes a difference in his world.

Governor and other state officials say eliminating fossil fuel in the electric grid will provide cleaner air and reduce the impact of climate change, which they say is causing adverse weather events. Okay, you're on your own, Massachusetts. What are the surrounding states doing? Don't we all breathe the same air? Isn't the wind blowing from the west across our country, notably coming from China where they're belching out carbon and pollution every single day with their every day going online,

new coal fired plants. That's yes, is the answer rhetorical question. According to Ray Kander, Deputy government affairs officer for the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, we have continuously warned the creating policies that set artificial deadlines for actions and discouraging new generation from sources that include natural gas, nuclear, as well as other renewables will result in much higher

energy prices for New Jersey residents and businesses. That's over in New Jersey where they're bracing for a twenty percent increase this summer based on decarbonization policies that have led to reduce power supply economics, folks, laws of supply and

demand less electricity more expensive. Big increase caused in part by the state's ambitious plans removed fossil fuels from the electric grid by shutting down coal and oiled fire plants, as well as state approved rising charges in utility customers bills to fund Maryland's energy efficient upgrades. They're whittling away you're spending power, folks. It's all artificial and it's all chasing your tail. Again, going back to the fact that we live on a globe where the air is circulated globally.

See what India's doing, See what Turkey's doing, see what Rush is doing, see what China's doing, and look at us acting like idiots thinking that one action by one single state is going to have an impact on the climate. If you believe that carbon plant food is a bad thing. Six twenty eight, Brian, if you don't mind holding I will be happy to take your call right out of the gate. But first get in touch with Bud Herber Motors. It's springtime coming and you're going to have to cut

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What about the millions and millions of birds and bats that are slaughtered every year by the windmills? Aren't the power companies responsible for that. We've got a bad enough problem with bird flew out there killing millions and millions of wild birds. We don't need the help of windmills slaughtering more of them. You think the environmentalists would actually

have a concern about that. And isn't it interesting the environmentalists steping up to the plate when it comes to whales because the offshore wind developments apparently impact the whales. Save the whales. The green and movement was kind of built in part on that. Oh no, we don't care about the whales because as we're generating electricity with offshore windmills, it's the humming and the noise that's created by the

windmills offshore that drives the whales apparently crazy. So yeah, you can't reconcile the two positions at all at all. Appreciate the college, George, and see what New Hampshire Gary's got. We'll give it another shot, New Hampshire Garry. Let's try again.

The more things change, the more they remained. The Europe's that war. They're going to start World War three. We're going to have to bear them out, you know, same old, same old stuff. As far as the Green Agenda, I can tell you. Did you see that story up here about Vermont where actually Vance in his family had to go into hiding.

And everybody had the Ukrainian flag, the gay Pride flag and the Green Agenda, and I can't help. But the thing, none of these people would be willing to go fight for Ukraine, but they want to throw them. No. No, same thing with the Green Agenda. They're making just as much money off the Green Agenda with their loans and allocations through their buddies and all the grants, just like that twelve billion dollar grant for the solar farm down in Texas.

By now, We're to run over the entire country. So the only thing that's keeping them alive is dollars from the United States, and that's why I was ranting this morning, what in the hell do we have to do with it? I love this post by Ken Blackwell. It's a picture of Zelensky with the caption, Remember when I'd come to the US and remind the president of all the dirt I had on his son and leave with a bundle of money. I missed those days. That seems to be

the chickens that have come home to rust. Trump was saying, you know, we need to negotiate a piece here, and that's going to have to involve concessions by Ukraine and when and it pisses everybody off. This this this con or, this this this problem that developed on Friday with the Russian president and JD. Vance and Donald Trump and all by screaming and whaling and national teeth. Oh my god,

how undiplomatic and blah blah blah blah blah. So what does he do is Selunski gets on a plane, goes to the UK, where the French President Marcone and the UK's Prime minister now say they're going to take over the discussion of peace. What does that mean in their mind? What does a peace resolution involve? Does it mean concessions to Russia. Russia's got the upper hand on this for the reasons that Hannity pointed out and I pointed out

as well, superior resources, superior army. Ukraine's running out of live human bodies that are capable of defending whatever territory they've got, and without the help of Western countries they would have been dealt a fatal blow by now. And you got the green industrial complex was the further point to that it's just a fake economy that's been created under this green crap, a fake economy without government dollars, that entire system does not exist. There isn't a windmill manufacturer,

notably China. There aren't solar panel manufacturers unless there's a demand formed by society a product that can compete and provides some measure of efficiency or reliability. For individuals to decide on their own if they want to go down that road, that's okay. Thomas Massey did it. He chose to use an old Tesla battery and solar panels and maybe even some wind I can't recall if he's got a windmill on his farm, but on his farm, he

chose to go down that road. Individual choice it worked for him, and it works for him, it doesn't work for everybody, especially on a mass scale. When you've got millions of people living in a city, they can't afford to have their own solar panel up. So it's got to be done on a huge industrial level, funded by government. And when the power goes out, well, you have unhappy people. Going back to the backlash on green energy that was revealed by the Washington Times that I spoke of earlier

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So love helping out the American veteran anyway I can, as most of my listening audience knows, and I was talking about the you know, the backlash to the green agenda is well becoming very significant New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts the subject of the Washington Times article that you know, this is just It is legislatively created. It is a high cost of energy brought about by efforts to get rid of carbon and ultimately with unreliable energy sources and

the odd goofy reality. I believe Massachusetts just like European Union countries, they don't want to drill in their own backyard. They don't want to build their own nuclear plants. To what do they do They buy gas from someplace else, as if that makes it clean or green. This is

just backcrap, insanity. Absolutely, electricity bills doubling, especially when these inflationary pressures were all under grocery prices going through the roof, you don't have enough money to spend, and much like your real estate taxes, your energy bill goes through the roof. This is doing some significant damages to people's financial stability.

If we didn't pursue this nonsense, then your energy bill wouldn't go through the roof, and you'd have a more reliable form of energy in the form of natural gas or maybe even nuclear power. And I embrace that, and thank god we have a president Now that's an all the above strategy kind of guy. Before I get on to something else here, let's see what CJ's got this morning. CJ, thanks for calling the Morning Show and a happy Monday to you.

out of production of food. Then you have in California all these solar farms that have literally destroyed the cattle industry out there because there's no room for the grazing, and these ranchers are being given loads and loads of money to basically stop producing food.

consume less. That would fit into the socialist agenda reduced consumption, more heartache and pain less stuff and things for us to consume, you know. I mean, there's whole bit, and there's environmental reasons for that as well. We apparently have a garbage problem in the planet, too many plastics in the in the globe, We got plastics float around the ocean,

particulates in everybody's bodies. You know, there's a multitude of layers on this you could point to, and it all seems to sort of lend itself to maybe, well, maybe this is a broader conspiracy theory looming behind the scenes here. Lower abundant energy means less consumption, less production. Look at Germany, they're not producing as much as they used to because it can't afford the electricity. It's four times higher than here in the United States. That's a recipe for business reduction.

I think that's actually part of it. I hate to say it out loud for fear being labeled some kind of kook, But we're living the reality of this, and again, all in the name of reducing carbon dioxide, which is plant food. It's such a small fraction of the Earth's atmosphere too. And the climate does change, it always has changed. I mean, how do you separate, you know, pre industrial

revolution climate change from what's going on now. You know, the talking heads and networks and the left wing green agenda folks want to blame every single climate event on us. We're the cockroaches, We're the problem. The wildfires, Oh, that's climate change. Oh really, Like, there weren't wildfires pre industrial Revolution. I mean we know there are or were. I mean, trees reflected. You cut a tree down that's more than several hundred years old, you can see when a wildfire

went through. It's shown in the rings of the tree. Oh, but that wasn't us back then. No, that was just a naturally occurring event. The glacier that once covered the state of Ohio ten thousand or so years ago, that's gone. Thank god, right, thank god it's gone, so we can pay farmers to grow corn. Well, not allowed me the last remaining moments of this segment to pivot over to this pretty much relatable modern feminism makes women miserable? How

does that connect? Institute for Family Studies recently analyzed findings from the annual American Family Survey, finding thirty seven percent of conservative women between the age of eighteen and forty say they were completely satisfied with life. Get only twelve

percent of liberal women feel that way. Backed up by prior studies, twenty twenty one, Columby University professors put out us study on depression among twelfth graders, taking a look at data between twenty five and twenty eighteen, finding female liberals reported worse internalizing symptoms scores over the study period than all other groups. Penn State University study from twenty seventeen noted politically conservative participants were significantly more optimistic and

satisfied with life than their liberal counterparts counterparts. A study in Psychological Science two thousand and eight quote, why are conservatives happier than liberals? Citing a two thousand and six Pew Research survey showing forty seven percent of conservative Republicans called themselves very happy, while only twenty eight percent of liberal Democrats did the same, Researchers from Columbia speculated the political events might have contributed to liberal depression. Republicans made

political gains in the twenty tens, including Trump' selection. The researchers claimed issues like here you are, global warming, structural racism, and pervasive sexism quote became unavoidable features of political discourse. Implication is that liberals are depressed because they care so much about the world problems. Article points out, Well, that may sound noble, stressing out about something you can't control isn't a virtue. It can lead to quote learned helplessness

close quote. If people believe their choices won't improve things, they often give up or make worse choices. Little one to Researchers off and connect learned helplessness to depression. While this is a factor, they say it's a deeper explanation. Feminists originally argued for equal opportunity in voting, education, in the workplace that happened. Second wave feminists went further. They

disparaged marriage and religion as tools of the patriarchy. They didn't view children as a source of deep, meaningful fulfillment, but rather as an obstacle to career success. Third and fourth wave feminists went beyond that. Many contend to different outcomes between men and women are solely the result of societal expectations. These ideas have gone so far that leftists now claim men can become women. Why some men would willingly give up the power of the patriarchy has never

quite explained. These ideas of gain tremendous cultural power, especially on the left. As a result, liberals are less likely to be married, go to church, or have kids. These haven't brought joyous liberation, but rather the opposite. In a book called Get Married, author Brad wilcox's married men and women are around twice as likely to be very happy as their single counterparts. An obvious factor is that loneliness. Single childless adults more than twice as likely as married

individuals to say there always are almost always lonely. He noted, Historically, single individuals found community and connection in a church or synagogue, but liberals are less likely to attend religious services. If women want to be happy, they should embrace what modern feminists falsely claim is the patriarchy. Victor jokes writing, Yep, thankfully, I'm a happily married man. Fifty five krcit DE talk station calling Zimmer Heating Electric will make you happy because

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I don't like the gay community. That's crazy, right. There's notion that you know if I'm saying, well, I want reforms in public education, knowing that, Let's say where I live, which is true. Let's say they're thirty seven thousand kids and seventy percent of them are African American, all of a sudden, I'm against African American kids. I happen to

be African American. So we've got to get ourselves. We've gone into the gooney crazy world where people can't have honest conversations about important subject matters without being called a racist or saying that they're homophobic, or saying they have some other kind of issue, and it makes it difficult to have very tough conversations. I think sometimes the Democratic Party knows that, and they're pushing these agendas in order for people not to tackle the major issues that are

facing our country. For the last point I'll give you is just because someone says, as a parent, listen, I want to make this decisions about what's happening in my house. I don't want my child to be able to change their gender without me the parent, having something to say about that. That doesn't make me homophobic, No, No, that makes me somebody that wants to be involved in my

child's life. And what's happening right now they push so far that it to the left that they're having these conversations that basic Americans out here who are getting up every day trying to raise a family are being called all kinds of crazy dangs. And the reality of it

is they're just wanting common sense. If you're a mom and you're a dad, and you're in your house and you're raising your family, you want to be able to make decisions about your child and their life, not the institution, not the educational system, me the parent.

you're transgender doesn't mean you're a particular sexuality. It means that suddenly you can change your chromosomal biological reality and call yourself something that you are not. There is no connection with the to the T to the LGB part. There are guys walking around in dresses that say they're women, but they might be attracted to men, they might be attracted to women, they might be attracted to both men and women. That is their sexuality, it's not their gender.

Gender has nothing to do with sexuality. I mean, it's insane. And that's that was the point of Dave Chappelle's comedy routine that got him so, you know, in so much trouble is because he made the point that I'm making right now. It's like, fine, you're gay, find your lesbian,

Fine you're bisexual. But then the transit it was like it was be set up as they're all driving in the car together and then the trans transgender person gets in the car and kind of ruined it for everybody because it complicates an otherwise straightforward discussion about one sexuality.

dudes in the locker room with my daughter. That doesn't mean it doesn't mean that I don't support the gay community. That's the point. And we've got to be able to have these conversations without all the name calling. And that's what's been frustrating for me. If these people that are so far on the left, who don't love our country, who believe that if I put an American flag on my house on July fourth, that means I'm a racist, that is absolutely true. There are people out there that

confront people because they have the flag. They're holding the flag and all of a sudden, okay, I see the flag, that person's a racist. But you're holding a Ukrainian flag or you're holding a Hamas flag, and you say that there's something wrong with me because I'm in my country with an American flag on my house. I'm saying we have gone so far, the left has gone so far that it's so difficult to have these basic common sense conversations. And this is why Democrats are saying, the Democratic Party

didn't leave me. Mean I didn't leave the Democratic Party. Excuse me, the Democratic Party left me.

and strong. When we look at the polling across America on this very issue, this transgender issue, the vast overwhelming majority reject the idea that you can change your gender.

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a process. People who have come here legally, who are working every day, who are listening to this show, do not want people jumping the line and coming into our country illegally. And so this notion that you know, people are trying to say, well, man, you're a racist or or you don't like immigrants, and da da da dah,

that's not the conversation we're having. The conversation we're having is we want you to come to our country with a process, not jumping across a fence and running somewhere and we don't know where you are in our country, and no other country in the world allows people to just run in jump ups and and say hey man, I'm here, have a baby, and now the baby says, I'm an American. No other country does this people, and so we've got to get back so we can have

some sensible conversation. And this is what is tied in to the apes that people have with the Ukrainian president and the conversation that took place in the White House. People are tired of Americans walking around with Ukrainian flag. You live in the United States of America. I feel really bad for Ukraine. I don't think Putin should have invaded Ukraine. But I live in the United States of America and I see veterans that don't have a place to live. Think billions of dollars to people who have

jumped the line. You put them in a hotel, you feed them, you give them health care. But the veteran is sitting out there in a tent and has nothing. That's the problem. And so what these left people don't understand is that basically Americans are saying, I want to take care of us, I want to take care of our community.

for their own electorate. You know, resources are going over to illegal immigrants that shouldn't have been in the country. If we had a legal, orderly process that was followed, the cities wouldn't be overwhelmed. New York City spent billions of dollars on the illegal immigrant population they have. Where do you think that money might have gone had they not been overwhelmed through their sanctuary policies with illegal immigrants shown over the doorstep. I mean, it's just a recipe

for disaster. It's the point of having a legal orderly system. And anybody say says this, you're racist, that's just that is the dumbest argument. This is so dumb because people from the four corners of the globe have come across the border they're of all different races, ethnicities, creeds. There's

no one size fits all. I mean, if it was a bunch of white people showing up from some white country invading our country and causing the same problem, and you and I were complaining about it, will we be called racist? I guess you'd have to take that one out of the equation. I'm sorry, you're a black man, Christopher. I mean, like, God, go back to your earlier part about racism.

wrong with that paragraph. And I'm saying, as we're dealing with these issues with the Ukrainian president, what a lot of people don't understand is that Americans who are getting up every day are connecting the dot and they're saying, I'm tired of taking care of everybody else. And at the same time, I'm driving through potholes, My infrastructure is falling apart. You can't even take care of the people that are here every day. That's what they don't get.

It's not that America isn't generous, It's not that we don't care about what's happening in Ukraine, but we wanted somebody to come here and have a conversation with us with respect. Make sure that you understand the sacrifices that the tax payers are making. And we don't want any boots on the ground. We don't want I don't want my son who's in the military, to be on the front lines in Ukraine and die for that. That's not

what I want for my son. And so what you're hearing is a country that is saying it's okay to put us first. That doesn't make us racist. It says, listen, we're gonna look out for ourselves. And I want people that are driving to work today and going in and saying, listen, man, I got to get up every day and I have

to go to work. Guess what, Federal workers, You're gonna have to get up and go to work like everybody else has to get up and go to work, whether you're an immigrant who came here legally through the process or not. All we're saying is we want you to get paid for doing eight hours of work. And there's nothing wrong with that. And it doesn't make anybody your racist, It doesn't make anybody anti anything.

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in Cincinnati are just horrible. But the election will happen and people will elect the same nine people and the same mayor, and they really don't want change, right. This is about leadership, right. The lack of snow removal on our side. Streets in our communities were horrible in this this past winter. I meaning, even if they got some of the main streets, there were schools that could not operate because they just weren't dug out. They didn't have

a plan and it was a mess. And they really just don't have a plan for our infrastructure in our region. And this is what's happening all across the country. And that's one of the points that Americans are saying, you gotta take care of us. We live here, we're paying taxes. And so when you wake up and you say, man, you spent fifty million here, you threw eighty million here, you spent thirty five million here, and then Americans are

driving around dodging potholes in their community. It absolutely makes no sense. Brian Thomas, That's what's going on right now, and people are pushing back. I am tired. Even me as an African American, people will say, well, smitheman, you're an uncle Tom. What makes me an Uncle Tom? Because I love my country? What makes me an Uncle Tom? Because I want to make sure that my children speak proper English. They pull their pants up, feel respectful. Yes, sir, no, ma'am.

I mean people have lost their minds when they say excellence has anything to do with race. I want the best for my five kids. I work hard for that every single day. I don't ask anybody for anything, right, But the reality of it is, if you're standing up for your country, if you say you love the flag, if you say you want better for your kids, whether you're black or white, you're something other than just wanting to be a great American.

way ticket out of the United States of America. I don't know if they saw what happened in Congo, but there were about seventy Christians that were beheaded about a month ago and found their bodies. So if they want to go somewhere I'm watching people in the LGBTQ plus community carrying home my flag news alert. They will cut your head off if you go into guys and tell them.

my daughter. I don't want a dude competing against my daughter or anybody's daughter in any sport. That's my spling vent Today. We're gonna stand up for our country, don't I think that we should support what's happening over in Ukraine in the way that we should. But guy, if you think it's okay for you to come dressed like that to the White House, you've lost your mind. I have very important meetings this week. I guarantee you I'm not going to any of those meetings in my pajamas period.

I'm gonna go dress respectfully, and also I'm gonna make sure that I know my audience and I have and I'm sorry, I have very high level meetings over the next five days. I'm spending time preparing for those meetings. I promise you I will not go to any of those meetings look like looking like the President of Ukraine, guarantee. And if I do, I expect that person to throw me out of their office.

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God bless the American veteran anyways. Springing from the local story which I just couldn't believe, the city apparently has fixed six three and twenty four count them since Friday, February twenty first. There are thousands left over, they say Fox nineteen reporting on this one. They got over one and ninety seven requests to repair potholes since Monday, and you can report potholes by calling three one one or go to Sincy with y three one one dot com.

Apparently I'm encouraging people to do that. I'm sorry. Three to one one Cincy, I got that backward three one one sincey with ay dot com. But on the break after I reported there, I just read about this story. Just clearly we have a pothole problem. Of course, winter weather does exacerbate it, but I keep going back to all the roads out there that have been crumbling for

years and not repaired. Generally speaking, Joe called three one one, and what did you learn when you called three one other than the fact that you can't dial three to one one from our phone system here in the office. You have to use your cell phone. He got a little concern in case, like we needed nine to one one. So there's that looming concern in the back of our minds. But Joe, what what what did you hear when you called it?

you to report the potholes. I think it even came along with a promise to fix your car if your car has been damaged by a pothole. And I was joking about that last week, like, yeah, right, I'm sure that the burden of proof for you to prove that whatever damage to your car that came from the pothole actually came from the pothole and not something else is pretty high that they're not going to go around randomly issuing checks to pay for your automobile repairs because of

the pothole. You hit. Sorry, bit jaded and cynical and skeptical about that, but that they tell you to call three one one to report the potholes, and that is the voice message that you get at least as of this morning. Okay, okay, I wish people would remember this kind of thing when they ended they can go to the voting polls in whenever the elections are, you get the government you vote for, not the government you deserve. Seven fifty five care see talk station, They'll go away.

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thought was kind of a brilliant thing. I don't know how I ended up working out, but I wanted to know along those same lines, is there a Military industrial complex index, like where you got all the defense contractors put in one single fund, because it seems to me those guys are probably doing pretty well.

it either. Maybe they don't pay attention as much anymore now that they're retired. Yes, I do recall the idea behind let's go follow who gets money thrown at them and invest in those different areas. And yeah, of course, anytime there is spending, there's going to be an equal and opposite reaction in the investment underlying value.

in the quarter. But still, this is just kind of a warning of what shouldn't be too shocking. Even the President himself came out and said there could be some pain here on the front end as they implement the things that they want to do.

including all the taxes. No different than if your property taxes go up and you're renting an apartment, you won't think that, hey, I got to pay a bigger.

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at the price of beef quite often. I'll just pick up a package just to see where it is in terms of how much price per pound, and then put it back down to the beat section, just because it's just like it's mind blowing. And eggs, of course we can blame bird flu for that. I mean there's no I don't think there's a relationship with the price of eggs and inflation more so than they've just been slaughtering all the chickens because of bird flu. But what's the story from Walmart's CEO on food prices.

to avoid the discussion about egg prices. But Doug, who is paying attention of course to how much money his company is making, as that is his job, is seeing he's a good predictor of what people are doing.

But rather than buying mountain dew, maybe you just drink a glass of water. Is your life going to be really impacted to the negative for that, No, I would say it's going to be a positive result. I don't know if that's baked into this cake, if that's by design or intention, but you know, maybe it'll force people to make more responsible choices because your dollar is not going as far at the grocery store.

These are again not designed results, but it's it's just simply what's happening.

blowing to me. But that's the direction that's gone. But more and more are going bankrupt too.

of this morning. Their food sucked though exactly. You know the only thing that I ever liked about Hooters their mild sauce with it was a jar of death, but it was really good. Oh, I think you're got a good buffalo sauce with butter in it, which is, you know, good in the long run, but not so much of.

products going back to Hooters. If you can go someplace down the street that has superior chicken wings, then you're gonna go there, right, And that's what.

decades at most. That's a huge success story, but eventually people's taste change some if things feel dated, TGI Fridays and Applebee's, which doesn't exist anymore, I don't think. But anyway, they've all kind of run the course and become the butt of jokes after ten years. It's very easy for consumers to change their minds and go somewhere else.

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the economy is going okay. There's a lot of scary headlines out there, but underneath that are a lot of people who are doing okay and making it through. And actually contributions are up too, so we've seen a we've seen large amount of people putting more and more for one K dollars in and that's represented in the fact that we're seeing these balances go up. So when the economy is doing okay, people will put more money in.

When people start to slow down on their contributions, that can be an indicator as well, because they're needing to kind of pinch pennies a little bit.

But if you're somebody who's got the ability to put away more money than you spend every month, then you've been in a great environment really for the last several years, and I would say even prior to that, we had twenty twenty two, which was one of the five worst

years we've ever had in the stock market. But there's been a lot of years where it's been a lot better than that, And so that's why we're seeing these balances, the highest average balances we've ever seen, meaning people are putting it in and.

balloon mortgage we had to get. But we bought a comparatively modest home compared to what my peers at the law firm were buying. And I was just sort of just in amazement at you know, they felt the need to buy this huge monstrosity of a home, and I just like, I'm thinking to myself, why all the resources you got are going into your home. You become house poor, and that to me is the ultimate, you know, a financial sin from my perspective. Anyway, Yeah, I've got.

So I'm just uncomfortable with debt, knowing people money, and so that's that's kind of driven my financial planning throughout my entire life.

in your face. But it's understanding the situation that you're in, figuring out the resources you have with which to address, and then implementing a plan.

for privacy reasons, but uh got one. Got this last week gentleman sent me an email and he said, I would just like to self report that the folks at the Hamilton Community based out patient Clinic, which is out there in Butler County, said he went in for treatment of depression and suicide ideation, and through the process of that and his coordination folks and the annual physicals, he began immediately receiving glasses and seeing twice a year to

ensure that his cataracts are not getting any worse. So he's very happy to be able with that. Also went to audiology, received new here in age two. Things you and I both talk about all the time. Oh yeah, with our veterans. Then he goes on to say, my wife and I attended marriage counseling recently successfully completed counseling, and while won a difference. He goes, I routinely meet with my whole health coach at this clinic. I'm an

active participant. I've been in the sixteen week Move program, which is a weight loss program, and he goes, I've lost forty five pounds.

that alone has improved my mood. I can't imagine that guy. He he's got hearing problems, he's overweight, he doesn't exercise, and just correcting those three things that would dramatically impact, you know, something like depression and perhaps suicidal ideation, I'd imagine. I'm not a psychiatrist a psychologist, and don't play one on radio, but I mean, given my personal experience with diet and its relationship to mood boy, that that that has to help tremendously.

health and welfare type support systems with things. I just thought I diduld share that this morning because it's just an outstanding really a snapshot of all the different things.

to Cincinnati VA. As I think I might have mentioned on our last show together last year in twenty twenty four, we set an all time record for the number of veterans we served in that given year, and we continue to keep growing with veterans looking at the healthcare options, and we continue to maintain a ninety two percent or above trust score with our veterans when when they're asked and surveyed about the services and customer service and care that they receive.

dad's a va. Why are we having to take care of this stuff? And so never enrolled. So you know the encouragement of just getting enrolled and making sure that you're in our system, finding out the type of different things, the portfolio of care that we can provide you that can go along with private health insurance or if you lose your health coverage because of a spouse retires, or

different costs of stuff. You know, that portfolio I talk about as eyeglasses and hearing aids and mental health services, but it's just more than that too, the long term care benefits, you know, the the oncology stuff, the different things that we have where you know, as someone who served their country, they're not having their personal assets attacked through private health care costs that we all face as being a veteran because as you've said many times this

is one of the things that you get when you signed up to serve the country.

injury program. However, we can send you to v any Va in our area to do that or in the private sector.

that's not just for one condition. It could be a combination of different percentages that add to seventy, then their long term care is free. So there's all kinds of these different advantages of different things, and which is why I encourage every veteran to come and talk to a expert about all the benefits that are able well in terms of long term care facility.

the Lausburg community. You go north, as I mentioned our Hamilton community based out patient clinic which is in Butler. Then you go out east you have the Claremont Seaboch out there as well, and then also out in Georgetown, we also have a full eye center down here on Highland Avenue, and also in Norwood we have our Health and Behavior Wellness Center for that. So you know those where all of our facilities are. And I know we're getting close to the end of time. I do want

to mention Brian as we talk about communication. My office is now started a podcast. Oh cool, Yes, now out on Spotify and the different platforms. We're doing these about once every four to five weeks, and I love the.

and the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, among other topics. Thanks as always Joe Strekker for your wonderful job producing the show. Folks have a wonderful day. Don't go wegg. Come on Beck's next.