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here needs to be properly running. But I presume Joe will ultimately get reimbursed for something that he was told he was allowed to do. Anyway, fingers crossed on that Joe Strecker. Good to see him, man, I hope you had enjoyed the time off or whatever time you had off, if any, and then you enjoy the peace and quiet of an empty building. Apparently that's pretty much what was going on around here for the past at least a

week or so. Anyway, if you care to call, I would love to hear from you, which is always the case. Five one, three, seven, nine fifty eight hundred and eight two to three talker with tund fight fifty on at and t funds. Go back to the roads. Yeah, my commute is not that long normally, you know, less than fifteen minutes from my driveway to pull in here to eighty forty four Montgomery Road. But it is not a

good place to be on the road today. So many of them look like they've been shoveled once, although the accumulation built up after the first shoveling, so you know, I'm driving through like three four inches of snow. Sometimes, you know, when people are shoveling their respective businesses, they push the snow out into the middle of Montgomery Road. So you got some giant piles and the night to

drive right through those. But fortunately my wife's car is all wheel drive, so I drove that one this morning because I think I'd be in a ditch somewhere if I had to take my car because it's three wheel drive. Anyhow, the best thing to do is just not go out. That's easy for some to say. If you have the option, though, please give them some time to get the roads taken care of, at least better than they are right now.

Not a great place to be anyway. So they got a storm warning remains ineffected until midnight tonight, heavy mixed precipitation, additional snow and sleep accumulation. They're saying between two and four inches ice accumulations up to one tenth of an inch. That'll suck. They're saying it's covering portions of southeast Indiana, northern Kentucky, south central and southwest Ohio. So you know, basically the circle around greater Cincinnati area, and it lasts

until midnight tonight. So plan on the slippery road conditions, has its conditions, and it will certainly impact the commute this morning and as well as evening commutes, so be prepared. And one of the warnings was saying keep an extra flash light. How many flashlights you have in your car, Joe, do you have to? Really? We'll get one more, it says keep an extra flashlight in there. I never even

considered a flashlight. Maybe that's something I should consider. And we also consider putting some food and water in your vehicle just in case of emergency. That of course makes sense. Yes, bread and milk, and it's cold enough out there. As long as your heater's not onto the car'll it'll maintain the freshness of the milk anyway, So you know, and I guess there's probably no schools open. You can get a five ks dot com get the school closure list.

Although with modern technology, I'm sure if you have a school age child, you probably already got a text saying don't come in today, schools closed. At least, you know, in this particular case, I can at least justify the schools being closed, having just experienced pretty terrible road conditions on roads that are pretty much maintained, you know, first order, like Montgomery Road, for example. I did not get on the expressway I normally do. So I have no idea

what seventy one is like. And again, to the extent you can avoid it, don't go out and find out on your own. And as this messive storm inundates most of the Midwest. They're still going to swear in Donald Trump today, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson. Least he said that yesterday. The Electoral count Act requires this on January sixth on on PMS. Whether we're in a blizzard or not, we're going to be in that chamber making sure this is done. So saith speaker, and he's confirmed.

Mike Johnson, do you only hold out Congressman Thomas Massey? What do you think about that? You know? And and to that end, I had a lot of people were asking you about that, and honestly, say what you want about Johnson. It's probably best for the Republicans generally speaking to have accepted Johnson, keep them in position so they can move forward with a smooth transition into actually getting something done on behalf of the American people, like cutting

the size and the scope of government. Again, I'm excited about Doge and you know, Joe Strecker putting out the entire Rand Paul Festivus report, and you know, I think you have every right, every right and I don't know how this this is beyond political perspective. To be frankly, I can say at the five o'clock are pissed off when you read what you have worked for that our elected officials have paid your your labor. And I always expressed it in terms of labor. You went to work,

they taxed your earnings. They literally you're a slave to the federal government to whatever extent they want. And when you read about what they spend your labor on, I'm surprised we haven't had like I mean, I remember the tea party days, and boy, weren't we all excited about that. A new tea party springing from the original one. About taxes, I mean, no, dump a MT into the ocean. A revolt is almost in order on this kind of thing. When you read what they've spent your money on, it

should be in order. I can only pray and hope that this new administration actually can do something about this. We are drowning in debt. Congressional Budget Office predicts we will add an average of two point one trillion dollars in debt annually for the next decade. Now that's a quote from the summary of the Happy Festivus Report from Rand Paul. But think about that. The Congressional Budget Office

predicts only ten years out. That's where they stop This doesn't mean after ten years we're gonna stop spending an additional two point one trillion dollars average. It's going to continue on into the foreseeable future, even the unforseeable future. That's just where the CBO decides to stop looking. But

isn't that bad enough. Acquard to a July House Budget Committee for the United States government will add over get a load of this six point four billion dollars of debt every single day for the next ten years, again stopping at ten years, because they don't look further than that, borrowing two hundred and sixty eight million dollars every hour, which translates to four point five million dollars every minute and seventy four four hundred and one dollars every single second.

When the mic came on at five oh five, it's five thirteen right now. I could do the math on that. That is just an just an amazing amount of money that we have added to our debt. That's beyond what they take from in taxes. This is excess so that we can spend it on what nailing cats spinning dishes to see what happens to them, so that we can promote circuses in city parks so that we can pay the Royal Film Commission almost nine hundred thousand dollars for

movies in Jordan. That's a Department of State expenditure. I mean, it's just when you read it, you're like, no way, there's this, This can't happen. How does someone get a grant for this kind of crap? We spend twenty million. You you went to work or driving in treacherous road conditions a day to get to work so they can take a chunk of your salary out to spend twenty million dollars on Allan Simson, which is a new sesame street in Iraq, Iraq. I mean, I laugh, It's just

it's the absurdity of this. National Science Foundations spend almost three hundred thousand dollars to ensure bird watching groups have safe spaces, i e. Affinity groups. I strongly encourage you to get a copy of the report. I mean, Rand Paul does it every single year, and these many years as he's been doing it, has it changed or has it gotten worse? I think it's gotten worse. And no, this is not affiliated with one party or another, it's both. This is what you get when you get you continuing

resolutions rather than doing appropriations bills. This is what you get when you finish matters up at the eleventh hour, so you can go back and celebrate whatever holiday you're celebrating as an elected official, rather than get the job done that you were hired to do via an election. Which job you knew about when you took an oath of office. Oh yeah, that's right. Look, job number one, twelve appropriations bills. I got a full year to do it.

Now we're just going to shove it on to continued resolution so we can continue to fund I don't know, transgender ice skating events that's actually on here. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a ten thousand dollars grant to support a cabaret show on ice skates that's focused on climate change. Does that not make your head hurt? And does that not make you angry? Oh, it's only ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand dollars. They spill

more than that in five minutes. No, in five minutes, they spill what's the number on that, four point five million every minute? No, that attributed to these seventy four thousand, four hundred and one thousand dollars every second, ten thousand dollars of it went to bearded transvestites on ice singing or dancing or skating while focusing on climate change. Man, I'm telling you what and that's just the tip of the batcrap and saying iceberg we're dealing with this morning

five three seven four fifty eight two three talk. Mark is on the phone. Mark, you'll be first out of the gate, and happy new Year to everybody, first out of the gate calendar year twenty twenty five. I'll be right back after these brief fortestation is five twenty on the Monday. Brian Thomas enjoyed my vacation, but I am glad to be back to work. Always enjoy talking to you.

Two five one three seven four fifty two to three talk count five fifty on at and T fun Mark, Thanks for holding over the brake and happy new Year to you. Welcome to the show, Hey Brian, good to have you back, Thank you, sir.

and uh that that stuff has got to stop. One I called for it is bugged me all weekend. I had heard something about ESPN had cut the feed on the Sugar Bowl when they were doing the national anthem and a moment of silence for the victims in New Orleans. Yeah, then when we sat down to watch the Bengals game, as soon as they amnnounced what they were getting ready to do the TV pros and so my wife texted one of our friends and said, hey, did your TV

you know, did your programming stop? And he said, yeah, it's frozen. And as soon as the girl was finishing up the national anthem, it came back on. So ESPN was part of that broadcast and did it again. And I'll tell you, I don't know what their problem is, but I've never liked ESPN from the day they were invented. I don't know, just never really like the station. But I will never turn on ESPN again because I know some radio talk show hosts were talking about it late

last week and maybe Saturday morning. But yeah, if you look into that, or has somebody look into that, you'll see that they did that again during the Bengals game.

they're serving, you know. It's it's like, for example, if a corporation takes a political stand, you sort of scratch your head and you wait, wait a second, why. I mean, you have customers across the political spectrum. Doesn't seem to me and be in your best interest to take a, you know, an out loud political stand, regardless of which side of the ledger you happen to be on. So unless, of course, you just want to serve a particular political

biased audience. But sports sports doesn't have a political stripe, does it? Mark at least it shouldn't. I mean, of all the organizations, ESPN should be least likely to take a political stand about anything like that.

But I did not watch NFL, like I said, it had to be at least seven years.

hear what you have to say. I got local stories as well. But Phil, fe don't mind holding for a moment, take quick break, be right back. This is what's happening.

three degrees. Please tempty about here, CD Talk Station Wednesday listener lunch High Green Breweries, Brentwood brewpob Lope to see you there. It's gonna be a good time. And to the phones we go. Fight Wing three seven four two three talk. Promise Phil he'd be first, Phil, thanks for holding over the break there. Welcome to the program.

is is just and I'll give them credit. Because the road I came down, Montgomery Road, it had obviously been plowed at some point, but with the snow continuing to fall, and it's coming down pretty good, you're gonna get additional a few inches of accumulation virtually no time. So that's what I was experiencing. I was experiencing the three to four inches of snow that had come down after they sent the plow on Montgomery Road. So you know, I and Phil, we all just got a roll with it, right,

And I feel sorry for people have to go. You have to get out and go to work.

don't mind driving in the snow. I mean it can be manageable. You just have to know what you're doing. If you're a decent, good driver, you're accomplished and you understand, then it is possible to get out there. I just don't recommend it if you can avoid it, and it helps to have a vehicle with four wheel or all

wheel drive, and there's no question about it. And as I pointed out when I opened the show this, I'm not quite sure I would be able to make it navigating the roads I had to drive down if I had to drive my car rear wheel drive. So fortunately my wife has an all wheel drive car. Anyhow, hang in there and be real careful. Five point three seven four nine fifty five hundred two three to one pound fact fifty on AT and T phones remember fifty five cars dot com. You're over there to get the podcast.

If you enjoyed hearing Dan Carroll Kevin Gordon, you can check them out more fundamentally, get your iHeart media app. While you're there, see can listen wherever you happen to be, like, for example, if you're in your car stranded somewhere over to local story. Special prosecutor found that allegations made my Democratic Ohio Representative Cecil Thomas before the November election against Hamilton County prosecuting Melissa Powers were entirely quote baseless, close quote shocking.

faith closse quote vote. In a statement from Powers said it was shameful that these allegations were taken seriously by anyone from the start, saying this was nothing more than a politically motivated hit designed to influence the outcome of Novembers election, and it has been dismissed correctly for the sham that it is. Thomas's allegations filed November fourth, four days before the election, Powers ended up losing to Connie Pillage thanks a lot Hamilton County voters, first Democrat the

whole prosecutor's office in nearly a century. She won fifty one point three to forty eight point seven. Notably, until recently, wasn't even licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio. We lost a good one most of Powers losing that election. Powers also said she's evaluating legal options in her words, to remedy the damage this act has caused. Thomas alleged that Power, as a former juvenile court judge back day a court entry in a case in twenty twenty one.

Powers said she simply had corrected a clerical error in order to preserve juvenile's right to appeal one of her decisions to call. His investigation found that Heaven Kind of Juvenile Courts computer system does not allow users to backdate entries. If Powers had wanted information on the doc had change, you have had to first request it in writing. There was no such request in the case, according to the

now closed report. Assistant City Manager and Tasha Hampton came to the job amid questions about her past job performance. She resigned This story from December thirty First, we're dealing with some older news here, said she Announcement Department on social media site linked In, submitted a resignation to city manager share a long quote, I have decided to pursue new professional opportunities in align with my long term career

goals and personal aspirations. Well, in an unrelated article, we have a list of the highest pay jobs in Hamilton County. Maybe she's going to be pursuing an assistant County Corners job, which we find out that the County Corners assistant the deputy Corners the top one, two, three, four, five, six, The top six highest paid Hamilton County salaries for countar year twenty twenty four all our deputy corners. Interestingly enough, the actual corner makes about half what the deputy corners make.

You figure that one out. Doctor Leuximi Somarco makes one hundred and fifty three nine and eighty four dollars a year. Deputy corners make between two hundred and forty one and two hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year. Does that sound right? Five thirty five coming to five thirty six to fifty five KCD talk stations stick around plenty to talk about. Oh look, stack is stupid and a pretty sizeable one at that. I'll be right back, run a business.

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the morning, but I love hearing from you. Going to go straight to the phones right now five one three, seven fifty two three Talk New Hampshire, Gary, Happy New Year to you. Good to hear from you this morning.

cleaning off the roads. I mean, look at the split and they've got it down to a science up here to where you guys just don't get that kind of snow.

the time. I can see certainly the justification for the taxpayer dollars. But if it only happens like once or twice a winter season, obviously you're not going to have as well oiled a machine. And that's I think what we're facing right here this morning. Uh, and we and keeping up with the snow as you point out, man. I mean it's still coming down. We're going to get one to five additional inches today on top of what they've already plowed over. So I just you know, they

get overwhelmed. I think that's where we are right now. I'm not going to go pointing fingers or casting blame on anyone, but uh what what more can you do except just roll with it? Right? So you got a lot of snow in New Hampshire, Gary.

and everything, and then I thought I was done. I was heading my way into the house and then we got another sixteen inches of snow. I literally got a little panic because that's a lot of weight on the roof. Yeah, and you know, we actually.

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Call QC Kinetic five one three eighty four seven zero zero one nine five one three eighty four seven zero zero one nine five one three eight four seven zero zero one nine. Here's your nine first one of well the hor cash. We got a winter storm warning and effect until midnight tonight, expecting an additional one two five inches more snow than what we have out there already. I have twenty eight today down to eleven overnight breezy.

It'll be partly cloudy tomorrow breezy as well, at a high twenty six down to six singular degrees Tuesday night and on Wednesday mostly cloud's in a high twenty four twenty three. Right now, time for traffick from the uc UP Traffic Center.

in northbound seventy five in the cut. The right two lanes are blocked up single file to get by on the left, Chuck Ingram N fifty five KRCV talk station.

don't add to the potential problems. Over to the stack of stupid got A pizza delivery driver allegedly stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times at a Florida motel after a dispute over a tip. Twenty two old Brienna Alvella charge was stabbing the woman in a motel room in the Kissimi City south of Orlando, Florida, corner of the Oskolis County Sheriff's I was attack happened after the victim ordered

a pizza from a local restaurant. Sheriff's respond to the reports of a home invasion and a stabbing at the Riviera Motel. They got to the scene, they discovered a victim with multiple stab wounds. After the investigation, they revealed that Alvello attacked the woman shortly after she delivered the pizza. Quote became upset about the tip that she had received. Close quote that's the cord of the report from the

Sheriff's office, what the hell. She returned to the victim's motel room armed with a knife, accompanied by an unknown male suspect who was packing a firearm. They forced their way in a motel room and began attacking the victim corner of the sheriff's department. The victims stabbed multiple times and some items were also taken from the room. Victim taken to local hospital, currently in stable condition at least

as of the reporting on this one. Originally, the victim, along with a boyfriend and her five year old daughter, were at the motel saying there celebrating a birthday. Corner to the court documents, when Alvella delivered the pizza cost thirty three dollars, the victim gave a fifty dollars bill and asked for change. Court document said Alvello told victim that she did not have changed, so the victim searched

her wallet for smaller bills. The victim then allegedly gave Alvello a two dollars tipped, prompting Alvella to roll her eyes and walk away. Then she returned later with the man, both wearing face masks, forcing themselves into the room again with a gun too, told the victim's boyfriend to go into the bathroom before they rummaged through the victim's belongings. So victim tried to shield her daughter from the suspects when Alvello allegedly stabbed her. She was stabbed fourteen times,

later discovered she was pregnant. While receiving treatment from her roounds at the hospital, a Vella arrested. The Sheriff's office said man was ledgedly with her during the attack. Has yet to be identified, at least as a reporting from a week or two ago, facing charge of attempted murder, home invasion with the firearm, kidnapping, aggravated assault. Online inmate records show that she's being held at the Ossicola County Jail on a fifty five thousand dollars bond, does not

have an attorney. That's a premeditated there they left and then came back armed with the intent to perpetrate a crime. Jeez Wheeze Over, a tip man, was arrested for allegedly engaging in what they described as discordly conduct at two churches in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, including pouring whiskey into the holy water. Court to police report, Thomas Campbell Bowling von Getz, fifty six, broke in the Holy Angels Catholic

Church during Christmas Eve mass. Man allegedly reproached the altar and dropped an onion in the aisle as a tradition, which is one of the counts of disturbing the peace. Later, when a citizen followed Van Getz to make sure he left the church, he assaulted him by throwing tangerines.

until the officers arrive. He was taken to MedStar Saint Mary's Hospital for a medical evaluation, finally arrested, now facing charges of second degree assault, obstruction of a religious exercise, and religious offense against a group, among others.

looking for sasquatch. Search launch and vehicle associated with the two men was found on a road near Willard, Washington, a Willard Wash whatever. After a three day search involving more than sixty people, the bodies of both men, thirty seven and fifty nine years old, were found in Grifford Pinshawn National Forest located in the southwestern part of Washington State, described as a heavily wooded area. Cause of death appears to be exposure based on weather conditions and ill preparedness

and general stupidity. Apparently they had a bunch of snow and rain temperatures in the thirties across cascades in days leading up to the men being reported missing. The search of the men also took place in in difficult terrain, harsh weather conditions is cruise face conditions such as freezing temperature, snow, and high water levels. Bigfoot, go ahead, Ron, thank you, Joe. Yeah, once you're out there looking for big Foot, on, don't you search for the lizard people that you think run

society or something. Five fifty five coming up with five fifty six fifty five cares to detalk station plenty to talk about in the six o'clock iur love to hear from you. Remember High Grain Breweries, brent Wood Brewpub. That's what we're going to be for listening to lunch this coming Wednesday, High Green Breweries, brent Wood Brewpup. My understanding

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the hard Rock Cafe our Rock Casino is open. So and you know, doubling down on what Chuck Ingram said. If you don't have to get out today, don't. It is not worth your time. The roads are really, really terrible and they're having a difficult time keeping up on my case side of Montgomery Road as a prime illustration, because that's the one I drove down rather than hitting the Expressway had already been plowed once and there was a good three inches of snow on top of the

road after they had plowed once. And it's only going to accumulate more. They're still saying like one to five additional inches today as we look forward into the afternoon with snow continue. So anyhow, uh face remember to stop by fifty five cares you dot Com get your heart

media app. So, not knowing which direction I want to go, I'll start with this one, which just scares the living hell at I mean, I started on a rant this morning because I was looking at Rando Paul's annual Festivus list and just getting just beside myself with anger over all of the millions in no, sorry trillions of dollars that our federal government blows through, and it's rapacious taxation that doesn't even satisfy the demands of these idiots that

we elect, and all of the things that they pay for with our labor. Again, it is your earnings and just one item after another you can be angry about as opposed to I mean, reminds me of Cincinni City Council chasing shiny objects and stuff and things when they leave roads completely unwell. Today's case, perhaps not plowed or treated, but they let the roads and the infrastructure deteriorate, neighborhoods

falling apart. Whatever the case may be, it's mismanagement of government because they always want to throw something shiny and new at you, which is basically this entire Festivus Report. Although I think our elected officials don't really even want you to know the type of spending they engage in that rand Paul reveals every single year in his Festivus Report,

what of important matters? Going back to the analogy I drew with, since a city council and infrastructure Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor, This was originally report of the Wall Street Journal I found out a Newsmax Doesn't Matter though, made what they describe as stunning admission that Chiny these hackers aka the Chinese Communist Party have the ability to cripple the American power grid and ports, and apparently not just run of the middle intrusions, but via sophisticated actors

with unparalleled skills. Apparently Jake Sullivan, again national Security Advisor, had known about the Chinese hackers' ability to knock out critical infrastructure for more than a year, according to sources speaking with a Wall Street Journal fall of twenty three, he warned telecommunications and technology executives in a secret White House meeting, seeking big Tech's help and protecting the American

lives and infrastructure from hacks. Huh, Considering this has been going on for well probably the last decade plus, ever since the world got hooked up to the Internet, you'd think they might have gotten ahead of this a little bit, considering the number of enemies we have in the world, and considering that we're probably doing the same thing to them. If we're doing it, they're doing it, and vice versa.

But since the fall of twenty twenty three secret White House meeting with the telecommunications technology executives, there have been at least nine US telecom companies hacked. That according to the Wunational Security Advisor for cybersecurity and Nuiberger, who speaking with the journal said, we will never know regarding the scope and scale of this. They were very careful about their techniques, and they say this sort of his morph They initially maybe like a some I don't know, teenager

and abatement basement, they said. Keyboard warriors, described as once seen as the cyber equivalent of noisy, drunken burglars, which are now considered soldiers with again in the Journal's words, astonishing skill level and stealth. FARI sexpert Gordon Chang, speaking with Newsback, said, you know, they're going to take down our grid. They're going to take down everything we have.

We're going to be like an eighteen fifties country with the things that we've been accustomed to that operate our country, like electricity, running water. Former Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity expert Brandon Wales warned that the hacks are the key battlefield in any future conflict. Well, that goes without saying, now, doesn't it. And considering they're engaging this activity twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, I mean, this

is government controlled hacking. They are at it all the time. We are literally at war with these clowns. Corner Jake Sullivan, speaking with Journal, cyberspace is a fiercely contested battlefield. We have made concent s progress, but and you knew that word was in there, serious vulnerabilities remain in sectors where we don't have mandatory cybersecurity requirements. M Is that suggesting that we need to make things mandatory in order for us to get ahead of these problems. This is the

Dave Hatter warns about this stuff every single day. You have it within your power and control to make sure your systems are reasonably secure, and we choose not to do it. Businesses regularly fail to engage in just even

rudimentary security practices. Senator Dan Sullivan from Alaska Republicans said the US vulnerability in his word breath taking, adding its shocking how exposed we are and still are now of all the things our government and pays for and all the things that your taxpayer dollars are used for, including bearded transgender groups preaching climate change in an ice skating event. Yeah, you paid for that. See Senator Ran Paul's Festivus report.

Do you think it'd be a little bit better if they allocated, well, perhaps unlimited resources to dealing with the security of our country the idea that we have We are told upfront national Security advisor letting us know that they literally have the ability to knock out our critical infrastructure right now by simply flipping a switch. In essence, all the billions and billions and billions of dollars we spent on preventing you from exhaling. I see Joe Biden

wants to ban natural gas non condensing water heaters. Now, yeah, you know the flash water heaters, right, They just you know, instantly create a water in your home. Very popular for people who have very little space. They're really hugely, wildly popular in Europe. I spend their time just preventing because of CO two exhalation. Actually it's trillions of dollars on that.

The whole Green New Deal thing, the Inflation Reduction Act that had nothing to do with inflation reduction actually increase inflation, all about stopping exhalation. And according to the reports on these tankless water heaters, the ones that he wants to ban are more energy efficient and produce less carbon dioxide than your standard tank water heater which are not banned. It's going to push people back into the tank water heater.

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It is money Monday. Brian James returns talk about Trump's tax cuts and tariffs. It's a new year with new opportunities for contributions to four oh one k and iras and Wow you can contribute a lot. Numbers increase substantially plus todd Slishman since NIVA, he's going to be joined us for cars Cares segment at eight p. Forty with some helpful information for my veteran friends and listening audience. And I may, obviously we live in a crazy world to mention that a moment ago you can find nine

thousand gajillion illustrations of it today. Is anyone as offended as me? Or do you share my offense that Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to, among other people, George Soros. George Soros, I just I'm beside myself in disbelief on this. According to the statement from the White House, the nation's highest civilian honor is given to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, value, use, or

security of the United States. Now, if you put a period there, you couldn't call up with a single reason why George Soros would be even worthy of consideration for this. But it's also it's not just the United States, it's world peace or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. George Soros, he has done more to undermine capitalism and our freedoms and liberties. I think they're a human being with money is woke society whatever the hell they call

that Open Society Foundation. So far, Sourus has given thirty two billion dollars to Open Society Foundation since nineteen eighty four, spending his capitalist earned dollars to undermine capitalism and also make your city a terrible crime filled cesspool of humanity, funding all of these left wing das who refused to

prosecute crime. In fact, Elon must pointed that out, also noting that Elon Musk's position on George Soros is that he fundamentally hates humanity his words, saying he also said he's doing things that erode the fabric of civilization and pointing out what I just pointed out, you know, getting DA's elected who refused to prosecute crime. True, I'm sure Joe Biden didn't even realize whose neck he was hanging that medal around. That's the world we live in, folks.

George Soros has given the nation's highest civilian honor, Hillary Clinton as well. But you know what, I could almost even make a plausible argument for Hillary Clinton. Almost not really, though, considering all the crimes she's been involved with and all of the well, you know, the bleach bidding her server, using private email server for government business. Even James Comey, FBI director said publicly that she had handled classified information.

But they'll take Donald Trump and run him through the ringer for something like that, won't they Not Hillary Clinton? She got a free pass, you know. And those are the things that we know about Hillary Clinton. But of all the people in the entire plane at George Soros six twenty five five KRCE, the talk station can touch with Zimmer twenty four hours a day, seventy a week emergency service. Today is not a day you want your heating system to go out, but you can experience Zimmer

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They mentioned cribbage Mike and I misidentified him. He was telling everybody that there's free coffee at the hard Rock Cafe where he works Hard Rock Casino, that is, I actually mentioned that. He I said he was a dealer. He's not. He's in surveillance. He's the one that's looking at you through all the cameras. I suppose. Anyhow, their record corrected. Mike love you brother, and do stay off

the road to the extent it's humanly possible. There's no reason to be out there unless you absolutely have to. Let us see here. Going over to local stories, I thought this was a rather I I vacillated on how I felt about this one. My initial reaction was no way, and then I kind of thought, well, there are some good arguments for it regardless. Last week how Governor Mike DeWine signed into law House Bill three point fifteen that is now legal for police departments to charge for certain

public records requests. That bill contains a provision giving the police authority to charge a person or an entity for video requests. Fox nineteen reported on these this. They mentioned themselves on this, like those that Fox nineteen now into the media audience agencies. Using reporting, Fox nineteen interviewed a legal analyst named Mark Crumbine. He says that this provision applies to police video like dash camera or body camera footage.

Quote that Governor's saying that police municipality can charge up to seventy five dollars an hour from ten hours worth of work. Max on providing videotapes to the public. Now Ken covert the FOP president chimed in on this. He was interviewed by Fox nineteen. He said it was necessary because public records requests for videos continue to increase, and of course it takes manpower or people power to keep

up with these requests. He goes, you get records requests for hundreds and hundreds of hours of video from some YouTuber in California, it's going to turn you around your district, and it's going to turn around, dissect it and make money. According to him, police records contain a lot of sensitive information that needs to be protected, including like victim's name and faces. Victims do have rights that must be protected, he pointed out. He says bodycam footage often shows private

databases from other computers. That redacting or blurring out all of this is a huge undertaking. That's where your expense comes in. He said, that takes time, it takes money to do it. It also costs money to do it. It's just a way instead of having taxpayers do it, it's a way to make the person who's requesting it pay

for it. According to Governor Wine, in a statement, no law enforcement agencies should ever have to choose between diverting resource for officers on the street to move them to administrative tasks like lengthy video redaction reviews, for which agencies receive no compensation. And this is especially so for when the requester of the video is a private company seeking

to make money off these videos. Dwine says he supports the publics and the news media's right to access public records, and he says it doesn't the bill doesn't change that right. It just shifts over the burden on who's got to pay for it, So it's now a long the state like it or not. Special prosecutor has found that allegations made by of Democrat Ohio Representative Cecil Thomas against Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Power days before the election were entirely baseless.

Tim My County Prosecutor Mark to Call he filed the thirteen page report last week. He was appointed to be special prosecutor to look into this. To Call he found Thomas's sworn affidavit and support of his claims was filed

in bad faith. That's a quote from the report. And for her part, Melissa Powers said it was shameful that these allegations were taken seriously by anyone from the start, because this was nothing more than a politically motivated hit design to influence the outcome of November's election, and it's been dismissed correctly for the sham that it is. Thomas filed the allegations November first, and we all know what happened to Melissa Powers, the far superior candidate. She lost

to college Connie Pillage by a few points. Powers also said she's evaluating her legal options to remedy the damage that this act has caused. Now, for his part, Thomas alleges the Powers, who was a former juvenile court judge, backdated a court entry in a case back in twenty twenty one. Powers said she had simply corrected a clerical error in order to preserve a juvenile's right to appeal one of her decisions. Now a special prosecutor to cull.

They found that Hamilton County Juvenile Court computer system does not allow users to backdate entries, and the Powers that wanted information on the DACA change, she would have had to first put at the request in writing, and there was no such request in the case, so period, end of story. Surprised you didn't give him out the award This morning, Joe it just kind of goes without saying, yeah, I suppose you're right on that. Just shy six thirty five Peer fifty five K see the talk stations loved

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orange man, rapist, pedophile, whatever, they called him everything. All of the mainstream media ganged up on him and Republicans, and they have been for years and years. What happened, Donald Trump won. He won the popular vote to the extent there was any shenanigans going on in terms of tinkering or interfering with ballots or people casting ballots, etc. Guess what, it wasn't enough We collectively beat them. I

guess we're smarter than they took us for that. We could see through this much in the same way you're

seeing through it. As well their policies. The Democrat policies have literally ruined cities financially and otherwise, Sanctuary cities with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants soaking and using up every available dollar and then creating massive deficits, so much so that the actual citizenry and population of those cities aren't even getting the services that they think they're entitled to. It ruined America what they have done, and the American

people woke up. Donald Trump won the popular vote, for God's sake, and that of course took the wind out of the left sails, because you know, damn well, if he hadn't won the popular vote, we'd be listening to unending, never ending, perpetual screams about how the electoral colleges, Oh, I don't know, racist or something. So maybe we're smarter than they take us for it, and I think collectively we are. It doesn't take a rocket science to realize.

Scientists to realize that this, for example, spending that I've been talking about this morning, with the Festivus Report among other topics, cannot continue. People who are looking forward to relying on a Social Security check, you can't. That's a promise. Ok, into the American people who funded that program, that our elected officials over the years do anything, directify the situation,

otherwise make it solvent. No, nothing. We spent money on bearded trans men ice skating events for God's sake, So we're smarter than that. As so far as the Democrat Party's concerned, well, elections have consequences, and we don't need to label them as a terrorist organization or otherwise consider outlawing them or deporting them. They did it to themselves.

Their policies did not work. See George Soros. Yeah, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, George Soros, who's one of the people responsible for the failure of all these Democrat cities and for getting elected prosecutors who don't want to do their job and put people in jail who are deserving of jail time, Judges getting judges elected who don't think that sentencing people is fair or right. Oh, I don't know.

Because little Johnny had a tough upbringing or something, maybe part of his upbringing or something, and the reason he committed crimes is because he no one brought into the into his life the concept of discipline, the concept of working with each other, as opposed to doing harm to another human being. I don't know. I just know that George Soros funds people who don't want to do their job to the detriment of our entire country. And look,

it's a wake up call. All these Democrat cities are just undoing, trying to unring the bell that they themselves chose to ring, getting rid of the prosecutors that don't do their job recriminalizing drugs, for example. And I used to be an all in on you know, I don't believe in criminalizing self abuse. But the one thing that decriminalizing drugs has done is taking that element out where you can get someone hooked up to the concept of treatment.

If they're not going to be held accountable for using illegal substance or well formerly illegal substances, then they're going to be a well a leech on society. Form homeless camps, let's have open drug use. Look look look at look how much good it did all these cities getting decriminalizing shoplifting. How'd that work out for you in California?

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roads please do. I know that's kind of goes without saying, and I've been mentioned it all morning, but having made the perilous trip at a quarter to three this morning down Montgomery Road and it was just a it really was bad. So thankfully I have experienced driving in the snow, and my wife has a four wheel drive car, so I was able to drive her car. Thank you, honey, appreciate it. Three hundred two three talk. Let's dumb down children even more than they're already dumb down. And this

is not the first time this has happened. But when now teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a Bay Basic reading, writing, and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools. I just find this so hard to believe. It was signed in a law by Governor Phil Murphy, Democrat. Of course, it's called Act

sixteen sixty nine went to effect last Wednesday. Court of Fox News report of the law aims to tackle teachers' shortages in the state by removing what the New Jersey Department of Education and Teachers' Union called a barrier to certification reading, writing, and arithmetic. Yes, that's a barrier to certification, Joe.

We can't have that, Court of the text of the law, the State Board of Education shall not require a candidate seeking a certificate of eligibility, a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing, a provisional certificate, or standard instructional certificate to

complete a Commissioner of Education approved test of basic. Notice the emphasis I put on that word basic, reading, writing, and mathematic skills, including but not limited to, the practice Core Academic Skills for Educators tests in order to obtain a certificate of eligibility. So you can be an idiot and yet still teach a class that practices Core Academic Skills for Educators tests, which I didn't wasn't necessarily familiar with, but it's used in over forty states and territories in

the United States. Includes questions on English and mathematics, as well as basic questions on specific subjects. According to Democratic State Senator Jim b To, who are his point? Obviously he is in favor of this. We need more teachers. This is the best way to get them. So not only are we advancing children who do not have the requisite skills in testing for reading, writing, and arithmetic, yet

we'll move them on to the next grade. Now we're dumbing down the teachers, so probably less education going on in the room. H I'm sorry, that's just that's just is that an admission of defeat. Let's go to the phone, sit Wes Saie, Jim west Side, Jim, good to hear from your happy New year, My friend.

We get a little bit to talk about at the top of the our news, followed by Christopher Smitheman and the Smith Event at seven to twenty. Stick around your voice, refreshing your.

with my family. Just such a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to sleep in and spent time with my family. I hope he had a wonderful Christmas or whatever holiday year is celebrating. I certainly did, and got to go over to the rifle range a few times with my new forty five seventy Marlin lover Action rifle and that thing is a blast to shoot. No pun intended anyhow, speaking of guns, and I wanted to because I got a big kick

out of this article from the New York Post. It was New York Post, New York, Yeah, New York Post, and it serves it starts to prove my point over and over again that I've made many times. I know there's that more guns Less crime book that was written so long ago, still proves to be true. And if you personally feel threatened in some way, you believe that your life is in peril, or maybe in peril, it may be a good thing for you. On a firearm

and jumping on board. The traditionally left leaning folks of America are now waking up to this reality as well, including gay and transgender liberals. Huh headline from Chris NSI LGBTQ liberals start arming themselves over baseless fear and it is baseless of being placed in concentration camps. Now, I don't know if you are so dumb you believe you might be placed in a concentration camp. Fine, We've been down that road before in this country, so I suppose

history is a precedent for it. Apologies to the Japanese who are rounded up in spite of the fact that the American citizen placed in internment camps of World War two. That will be fd R and you can blame that leftist ignoring the conclusions of the two or three people that they interviewed for This was the Philadelphia Inquirer, as

re reported by the New York Post. So the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday profiled several members of the emerging gun toting left who belonged to groups with names like Liberal Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association, and Pink Pistols. They point out the obvious precise figures regarding LGBTQ gun ownership are tough to ascertain given the small number of people they represent in terms of the collective population in society.

The Liberal Gun Club, that's one of the organizations that spoke with the Philly Inquirer, said that it's received thousands of firearms training requests since the election, more than all of last year. Oh well, sorry, twenty twenty three combined two years ago, and about a quarter of them were from those in the lgbt community, So thousands reduced down to one quarter of the so called thousands. So you do the math on that and try to figure out

how many people that actually means. But the reason I bring this up they spoke with a twenty four year old what they describe as trans woman who recently decided to purchase a gun, identified by the news outlet only as the letter A. This twenty four year old trans woman said three months before the election, that's when the alarm bells started to ring. Minorities that are armed are more difficult to legally oppress, expressing relief that she will be ready to fight back in her words, in the

event of hate crimes or terrorist attacks. Well, isn't that the point? If you live in a terrible neighborhood, if it's crime late and then you should be more likely to own a farm than someone who lives in a more stable environment. If you're part of a group that might be under legitimate hate crime or terrorist attack, it could be that that firearm could save your life. If you're in a situation where you're under grievous threat, under threat of grievous bodily harm or death, you have the

right to use deadly force to defend yourself. Doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight, or member of minority community or member of a majority community. If you believe you are facing that threat, then yes, it's maybe the appropriate thing to do is arm yourself. The Philadelphia chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association told the Philly Inquirer that it's seen a surge of paid membership and its gun safety class has been filling up so fast it had to

add more fine. The Delaware Valley chapter of gay gun group Pink Pistols, which goes by the slow Hogan Armed Gays Don't get bashed, made a similar comment to the paper. They've been inundated with inquiries from people seeking firearms training. Group founded in the year two thousand after an article was published in Salon by someone named Jonathan Rausch in which he said homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely, and

carry them. Well amen to that. Wake Forest University sociology professor David Yamain, quoted in the article author of Gun Curious, told the Filly Inquired that a cultural shift in gun ownership is underway in America and that minority groups, including gay people, have led the way among the neophied gun owners since twenty twenty. Quote. It was a period of tremendous social unrest and social uncertainty, and a large number of people in the United States, under those conditions took

to firearms to re established some sense of safety and security. Well, welcome to the club. That's the point of it for anyone. We live in a very diverse country. We have freedoms and liberties, and nobody else enjoys, so you're gonna have a very diverse community. We've got one any member that any part of society that is under greater threat than another has a much greater argument for getting out and learning how to use a firearm and getting the skill

sets necessary to operate a confidently and accurately. Some guy named Matthew Thompson from Oakland told the Philly inquire he was inspired by his first gun after the twenty sixteen mass shooting at Pulse, which is a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. You remember that one forty nine people killed, the worst mass shooting in US history, carried out by a homegrown

Islamic terrorist sympathizer named Omar a Teen. Interestingly enough, at the time, then President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Donald Trump denounced the horrific slaughters a direct attack on the LGBT community. However, you wait till the evidence comes out, you find out things aren't necessarily as they see. Apparently, evidence unearthed in the years after the murders indicate that this Omar Mateen guy had no idea that Paulse was even a gay nightclub when he went in and started

opening fire. Joe, can you help me out on this one? That Thompson guy that I mentioned, Matthew Thompson of Oakland, he told the Philly Choir that he writes, he writes, travels and writes, and travels around the country to attend quote leather and bear events close quote you no idea what I'm talking about, man, darn it. I was really hoping he might be able to help me out on

that one. And he said, the people I've been seeing on the left and the gay people who are out purchasing guns for the first time, it's all about self defense and fear. We're not looking to arm up and storm the capitol. We just don't want to be put in concentration camps. That's where that one random musing from this leather and bear event following guy came from. So he's the one guy that was quoted in the article

that I actually believed that might happen. But it's nice to see the left wake up to the reality it is for your own personal defense and safety in situations that might justify your using it. They're not out forming militias, they're not planning on attacking the capitol. Fine, I wouldn't expect it anyway. They're not planning on doing anything other than getting the skill sets and the hardware necessary to defend themselves in the event their fears legitimate or not

manifest themselves in real life. So welcome to the club.

and comfort. That's why I'm an advocate for firearms ownership, even though the main reason the Second Amendment is there is because our founding fathers had to defend themselves and against an oppressive government that was well a bit rapacious with taxation and did not allow any representation in return for stealing from the colonies. And look how that turned out. Christopher Smithman is up next with the smith vent allqueued up looking forward to having him back on every Monday

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they're trying to, you know, get home safe. They've been out there working all night, and you just want to make sure that you you heed those warnings and be very respectful as the men and women across this county, across our state, across our jurisdiction, whether it's Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio. You get the picture that you know, we are respecting those warnings so that you don't get stranded out there and then you become now a part of the problem and not a part of the solution.

snow fall. I mean, they're took another one to five inches during the day. So roads that they went over, which Montgomery Road as I came in this morning, had already been plowed once, but a good three plus more inches had fallen on it since the first time they plowed it. Now I don't know how often they're going to go up and down that road, but there's only so much you can do. When the snow continues to fall, there's no way they can keep up with everything that quickly.

So you know, I got a couple a little slack it was. Did you ever deal with that when you were vice mayor did you ever have to deal specifically with snow plowing issues. Was that something you're even involved with at all, Christopher, because I know people are lack familiarity with the logistics behind it.

meaning the number of trucks out there. But what happens here is we kind of send out a request for you know, MSD workers, anybody out there who can operate a truck to get them out there, paying a lot of overtime to get those roads salted and get them plowed. It is a difficult dance because of the inconsistent city. We're not like Buffalo, where you know, Buffalo City there with an army of trucks of salt, you know what,

they know it's coming. That's not true for Cincinnati. Where where I think it's fair to be very critical of the City of Cincinnati are the potholes in the condition of our roads and making sure that those things are fixed. Right, So it's not you know, you can't say we're throwing salt in and tearing up the roads when we didn't have a snow. But then we have potholes and roads that have and streets that have not been fixed, you know,

for fifty years while we're building street cars. Right, we're just distracted on kind of the basics of what the city is there to do, or debating on the floor of council what you know, the merits of Israel and Hamas, right. I mean, city councils sometimes get so distracted. And I think that's what frustrates the caller when you look at city Hall, they said, what are they talking about? Whether it doesn't sound like they were talking about the preparedness

of the snow that was coming in. And that really ties me into and I know, we'll go to break what happened in Louisiana with this terracet attack, And the question is our city needs to be prepared for these kinds of things, and what are they doing? What are they talking about? You know, because this is the time to get ready. We've got doras all over the city. People are going to be out, going to be drinking beers in very public places. Are we going to be

ready for what we just saw there? And I think these are important conversations. They're not sexy, but they're critically important. Are we going to have barricades up that are still that are concrete, making sure that the citizens of Cincinnati when they come downtown and participate, or they're in some of our neighborhoods that have doors, that those aren't soft targets. Brion Thomas, That's what worries me more about what's happening

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Strike strikes that this judge continues to try to inject himself in the federal presidential election. We talked about law fair. This is another example of that, and I want the public to understand that this is just a sham and the goal of the judge is to embarrass the president by defining him as a felon as he goes into

his inauguration on the twentieth. And so what you'll see the liberal papers doing, Brian Thomas hit signs are Trump is a felon because he now has been sentenced, and they won't discuss about the merits of the case or

whether he absolutely will win this case on appill. The objective here is at the time of his swearing in on the twentieth, for the liberal media to have the talking point that this Manhattan DA prosecutor brags who then worked with this judge in New York in Manhattan, with this very liberal jury, has convicted Trump on things that

most people said should never have been brought. But now on this coming Friday, he's going to sentence him by video conference, and he's going to say, no sentence, no jail time, public It has nothing to do with that. This is a judge that is injecting himself in a presidential election, attempting to embarrass the president those who voted for him, seventy six million people, winning the popular vote,

the electoral vote. And now they want to say, for the first time in the history of the United States of America, on January twentieth, we are now swearing in for president someone who is a convicted feller. Yes, mat is the objective of what that judge is doing on Friday.

This was an arms length real estate transaction. Trump wants to borrow money, he uses his real estate as collateral. Made this point so many times it makes me blue in the face. I mean, come on, how much is your houseworth. It's worth what someone is willing to buy it for at the moment of sale, nothing more, nothing less. That's an arms length transaction negotiated between the seller of

the home and whoever bought it. This was using real estate as collateral to secure loans from professional lenders, namely very large banks who have their own real estate departments that are capable of determining the accuracy of the value that Trump said. Trump could say, oh, my real estate's worth two trillion dollars in the bank would have laughed and said, oh no, it's not how much money you looking to borrow? And well, I want to borrow eight

hundred and fifty million dollars. All right, let me check out your profile, let me look at your real estate portfolio. No, no, we value it closer to I don't know whatever, and they give him the loan and he paid it off. The banks testified at trial they were not harmed by anything. They were not out money. Donald Trump didn't builk them out of anything. They're capable, sophisticated lenders. It's a sham.

It's the worst possible illustration of the lawfare that was waged against Donald Trump is that specific set of cases and the trumped up number of charges. I mean it. I'll just stop right now. Hold on, I'll bring it back and you can get more off your out of your system.

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Donald Trump. Anyway, Appreciate again Marcia clearing up the record. Sometimes I'm wrong.

is mainstream media. We now are swearing in a president for the first time who's a convicted felon, when we know that on appeal, this entire case will be thrown out.

And what's so bizarre about it is the crime in New York is so out of control where you have them going after Penny three or four weeks ago, who now is free but was facing fifteen years, and then two weeks later you have a twenty three year old nurse on the train set on fire by an a legal immigrant, fanning the woman while she's on fire Brian Thomas.

And you would think that this city would have enough to deal with, but now what they want to continue to do with crime raging out of control, they want to do this kind of craziness on Friday, where they're going to say, we're going to zoom in the president and we're going to sentence him so that he can be officially a fellow. It's so outrageous, Brian, to see what's happening in New York. It's not a city that I even want to visit because of the crime, because

of the outrageous behavior of the politicians there. They have so many other things to work on, and this is where they're spending their time.

If people don't want to ride it already, go Lee.

right now with these partons. And it's quite scary because it's that example of who is running the country, who's making these decisions. They just aren't making any sense to me, Brian Thomas, I understand trying to figure out what this president is doing as he says, he's issuing executive orders making it more difficult for the incoming president, which he knows is agenda is drill, meaning he's wanting to explore oil, and Biden right now is issuing executive orders to make

it more difficult for the incoming president. I just don't understand what they're doing. Why they think that the average man and woman American in this country can't see what they're doing. And my last point is this reading and writing stuff in New Jersey and the school teachers and lowering the standards. Let me tell you, Brian Thomas, we need more teachers we need higher level teachers, we need

better teachers, whatever the word is. Lowering the standards of reading and writing as a standard for a teacher is so over the top and so absurd for me to read that, having been married to a school teacher, having my mother being a retired school teacher, I don't get this one at all.

a rather critical Wall Street Journal op ed piece. But don't be so quick to endorse Donald Trump pardoning these January six ers. And there were some you know, vile

actions done by some people. I don't abide by beating a police officer over the head with a poll for example, but there are a lot of you know, rather innocuous behavior that's still been prosecuted But hasn't Joe Biden, in pardoning or commuting these death sentences for all these vile, I mean horrifically vile people, didn't he kind of clear the path for Donald Trump to get away with it to the extent you want to put a pejorative term

on it. If Donald Trump's you know, partnering from Jay sixers. Last time I checked, the only person who got murdered there was Ashley Babbitt when she was gunned down by a Capitol official with a firearm, even though she didn't represent any threat to the man or anybody in the room. Now beyond that, you know, when you compare some of these the worst of the Jay sixers that they've gotten incarcerated, they pale in comparison to vast majority of the people Joe Biden led off the hook.

Look for him to partn maybe Nancy Pelosi. There are going to be other partons as he leaves, going onto the twentieth his last kiss to.

what he gave to his son Hunter. But doesn't that suggest that Fauci is then guilty of crimes? Why would you parton someone nobody. No charges have been brought against Fauci yet, so why would you what possible reason would you have to pardon them? Doesn't that sound guilty?

you and I are not privy to. At this point, it's pretty scary to have an outgoing president issue these kinds of broad partners if he does this for crimes that you and I don't even know about.

love with people who have suffered from dementia are Alzheimer's. Clearly, this president is impaired by some type of mental condition and we will find out about this in the years to come. It is the greatest cover up of a president's office. I'm talking about Schumer, I'm talking about Vice President Harris. Anybody that has been interacting with this president has been telling the American people, don't believe your eyes,

don't believe your ears. The best microphones in the world are in front of President Biden, and no one can understand what he's saying.

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And there was an article on the Wall Street Journal, I believe it was from yesterday, one man's attempt to get a perfect eight to fifty credit score and rather interesting article. And I not bragging or anything, but there was a period of time where I did enjoy a perfect credit score for a while and lo and behold. I launched the app to find my credit score, and it dropped down by like, I don't know, twelve points

or something. Nothing in my life had changed, nothing. All my bills are paid, you know, I got all these per everything's perfect, everything's perfect. Then they suggestion on the I don't know if his equifacts or whatever it was,

I don't have enough credit card accounts. In other words, they want me to have more available credit in spite of the fact that all my bills are paid and I've got enough available credit to cover my family's basic needs and probably another family down the streets basic needs. What the hell is with credit scores? And why don't they let people know? And they don't, as the article points out, they keep all this quiet. It's they said, the algorithms they assign people are proprietary, so you don't

even know. And so the article goes over all these different you know, you know, the contortions this one guy went through in an effort to get an eight to fifty credit score, and it's just it was out. It was insane what he went through to try to do it, and he ultimately was able to do it just by maintaining a certain like teeny weeny percentage of some kind of balance on his various credit cards. Does it really matter once you get over and you're in that higher level?

Does it matter? Should concern anybody? And do you know anything about credit scores and how they come up with them? Brian, I hate to put you on the spot, but this kind of irks me.

that's probably what you would need. And that algorithm that you're asking to tell you to give you advice on what else do I need is really reaching to the bottom of the barrel for the ideas, And that last bit is the number of accounts.

of several cards. You know, it was some other small retailer that we don't ever use, but I mean your thirty percent interest rate, Brian, that's insane.

time you've got to get that paid off. What they're after, they're after the small percentage of people who are going to forget to make that payment and pay that statement off. Most people do. Most people get their rewards and run away. And I know you and I both play that game. Yeah, but there are a handful of people out there who will not make that payment, and they'll go, I'll get

it next year. And if you annualize the interest that you're paying those on those accounts, you are simply paying an enormous amount of money for the privilege to owe a bank money.

the beginning of the calendar year. I don't know what the rules are that apply to these credit card comp are credit cards, But man't pay close attention because I mean, let's face it, if you could find a credit card that only charges twenty percent versus one that charges thirty, you know which one you should be using if you're not if you're going to carry a balance. But it's still it's like the word usery comes to mind.

But if you've got a significant balance, I would say that twenty percent is truly no better than thirty percent.

do it. So let's pause it We'll bring Brian James back to talk a super size limit for four to one ks and Trump's proposed tariffs could cost some US companies. Those two subjects next. It's eight thirteen right now. If if you I have care, see the talk station. I'll be right back. Fifty five the talk station. Jud just said it's bad. Don't get on the roads. You can avoid it. Brian James. Money. Money is Brian James from Allworth Finantre. We're talking well finances, and I want to

do the second one first. This I am more confused having read the new four oh one K rules after the USA Today article I just finished reading than I was when I started reading. It is the average human being supposed to understand how much money they can contribute to a four to one K given all the different breakdowns and subcategories and categories we have here in terms of you know, annual four oh one K savings and

catch up contributions. I mean, this is baffling. But the number I'm reading here, can someone in any of these age groups that apply save up to thirty four thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars for retirement next year in a four oh one K think what that would be this year. The answer is yes, yes.

in twenty three thousand dollars. Whether that's wroth or traditional four oh one K didn't matter. It didn't matter what your age is. The limit for everybody was twenty three thousand. If you were over fifty, we've had something called the ketchup, but that's been around for a long time.

Those over sixty but under sixty three are under sixty four rather are allowed an additional eleven two point fifty. That's a total of thirty four to seven fifty. If you're sixty four or turning sixty four this year, you don't get it.

say two hundred thousand dollars something like that. But the fun thing there is that you can do what's called a backdoor WROTH conversion because there are no income limitations on converting traditional or pre tax assets from a pretax IRA to a WROTH. So the trick there is you make a non deductible traditional IRA contribution.

that and get the exact same outcome. And what's really crazy about this, Brian, this was this started off as a loophole, but eventually the IRS said, yeah, you know what, you guys, this is fine, go ahead and keep doing it. So rather than just removing the income limitation on a ROTH contribution, they've simply said that if you file a couple more pieces of paper on your IRA, you can get the same end result.

terms of global affairs. I know the Mexico's president now plans on working with the Trump administration in terms of taking back some of the illegal immigrants he wants to send over, certainly in part because of threats of tariffs. And I see Trudeau's getting ready to resign in Canada, and one of the concerns they have in Canada is tariffs on Canadian goods. But this transcends that, and we're talking Chinese goods primarily. China is obviously a difficult competitor globally.

They don't have any OSHA rules, they have slave labor, they don't have minimum wage, so it's a lot more difficult to compete with the Chinese companies. So, at least conceptually, I understand wanting to perhaps teariff Chinese products, which we've all gotten used to because they are so inexpensive compared to anything that we make here. What's your take on this, because some people are all in favor of this for some of the reasons I mentioned, and some people think

it's going to ruin the economy. Do you have any personal thoughts on this or anything.

what's the most important thing to you? And what I mean by that is, if you are someone who says, you know what, the United States has just got to get more competitive because twenty thirty years from now we're not going to be able to be at the same level that we currently are, then you might say that it's worth laying tariffs against especially China, for the reasons you just mentioned. It's a lot easier for China to produce goods more cheaply than it is here because of

all the rules we have. However, if you're somebody who says, you know what, inflation is the thing that's the thing we've got to focus on, not going to be in favor of these things, because there's no way to have our cake and eat it too.

end of story. Yeah. I re read this article this morning, our national security advisor telling us that China couldased just flip the switch and shut down our entire electric grid, given how much it's infected our our infrastructure with software and things like that, that is an enemy of ours. So if we just quit trading with them, period, And I understand the practical effect of just shutting off that light swhich is impossibility, but I mean, we have to

contend with them on some way. But we've just gotten I think, fat and happy on cheap Chinese made stuff. I think you're.

I'm just saying that's the decision that we've made. That's why it was not hard at all to cut off Russia because they were never a huge trading partner, and Russia never made the moves that China has to become a major player on the on the kind of overall world economics. They don't make plastic garbage that they can sell for nothing and undercut everybody else China does.

the United States, and we're addicted to it. You know, if you've been bringing in cheap products and cheap components for whatever it is that you build, then it's going to be real hard to give that up.

confused by the whole thing. But did you apolitical? The realities of the world have changed dramatically since Nixon normalized trade relations with China. They weren't a sworn enemy back then. They were you know, a second world at best country. And clearly they've moved ahead in advance significantly and seek to compete with America on a globe on you know, directly on a global scale, and pretty successful at doing it because they don't have any regulations.

we're going to sacrifice these other things. Well, we always care about morality and how how how people are treated and you know, suffering and of course the Chinese people suffer mightily for lack of a lot of the regulatory struct infrastructure we have here, so maybe there's a moral argument that can be made for us paying more for Chinese products.

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So just twice I screwed up this morning. For those I'm keeping track, I myself am keeping track this morning. I may have screwed up more than that. Feel free to call me and let me know if I've screwed up. Five went three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on AT and T funds. Beyond that, we've got local stories here and westside. Jim pointed out the Democratic High Representative Cecil Thomas was on the on a program over

the weekend. Didn't come up his allegations or the complaint he fought against Hamilton County prosecuted Melissa Powers days before the November election, obviously in an effort to well sabotage or campaign. Whether it had any impact on the outcome, we know Connie Pillach won first Democrat to hold the prosecutor's office in nearly a century. Sad day for Hamilton County,

but you the voters decided anyway. Special prosecutor assigned to the allegations file by Cecil Thomas, determined that they are entirely baseless. Thirteen page report filed last week by Claremont County Prosecutor Mark Deculvey, appointed last month as special prosecutor in this issue, also found Thomas's sworn affidavit in support of his claims was filed in bad faith. Powers released

the statement after this report came out. She said, it was shameful that these allegations were taken seriously by anyone from the start. This was nothing more than a politically motivated hit designed to influence the outcome this November's elections, and it has been dismissed correctly for the sham that it is.

Special Prosecutor to Coffee's investigation found that the Hamilton County Juvenile Courts computer system does not allow users to backdate entries, and if Powers had wanted information on the docket change, she would have had to first request it in writing, and there was no such request in the case, according to the conclusions in the report, So she didn't do anything wrong. I guess Cecil Thomas made it up. Another fun fact I've done. To go to all the details.

Scott Wortman from the Inquire listed all the salaries the twenty highest paid county employee salaries one through six. Numbers one through six deputy corners. They make between two hundred and eighty plus grand down to two hundred and forty one plus grand, followed by the president's last CEO of Mental Health and Recovery Services, Leonora Godfrey, who makes two to twenty five. They go down from there, but I thought was really interesting the actual corner doctor, Lakite Lakshimi Somarco.

She's making about one hundred grand less than the deputy corner sharing's one hundred and fifty three nine and eighty four dollars a year. Apparently because she's an elected official, her salary is set by state law and is based on the county's population side. So just a little fun fact. I kind of feel sorry for her on some level, or maybe the deputy corners are making too much. I'll let you draw your own conclusions and conclusions we will

draw on the Cincinntiva. Todd Sledge returns to talk about some information we had to impart to our veteran friends out in the audience. Hope you can stick around for that. That'll be next.

are in my opinion, every these other three boxes. The healthcare, the possible compensation and benefits that are not only for the veteran but also for their family as well. And then the burial benefits. These are things that just go look on that all veterans should be inquiring about at least see where do I get, what do I get?

How do I use them? And then particularly for those veterans that are you know, fifty years of age or younger, don't wait till later on, you know, get enrolled, have access to the care that you need when you need it, because you never know when your circumstances change. And what we see more and more is our veterans that are in their mid to mid seventies to late seventies even eighties never needed VA healthcare for other reasons, life changes.

We're the only healthcare option that they have. They could have been using US for a very long time.

A lot of extra perks that you know, kind of fly under the radar for some folks, like you know, when you're in employment aids, like you pointed out, you know, don't wait till you know when veterans under fifty you should go ahead and enroll because you know, there's all these little perks out there, like hearing aids, for example, you can get those paid for compliments of the VA and not have to dip into your pocket under your health insurance plan.

of things there. These are very costly areas of things that you know, veterans shouldn't be spending a lot of money on I've ran into numerous veterans who have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on eyeglasses and prescriptions and hearing aids when we can make these things available to them at either no cost or a very minimum cost to the private sector.

private sector. We can help them save some money in that. So there's there's a lot of ancillary benefits.

And Todd Sledge from the SINCINNIVA helping out veterans every single day making sure they understand that they are have they have VA benefits available to them, regularly reminding the veterans out there with the DD two to fourteen honorable Discharge to sign up for those benefits and take advantage of them. And Todd, I've gotten in trouble many times before by saying come on, as it was part of

your salary. You know there's a lot of Obviously financially, it's going to take the edge off of so many things you mentioned. The hearing aids, the eyeglasses, the prosthetics, prescriptions, all of those are available to you. They're just you don't need to break it down specifically, and I'm gonna put you on the spot, Todd, but there are some financial cutoffs, like for wealthy veterans out there, that they

don't necessarily get the benefits. I always want to clear the record up on that because I've said that so many times.

important about that? And I'm glad you bring that up. This is where we want veterans to be able to be filing for any type of service connected related compensation opportunities that are available to them. And when I said about us changing so much in the last twelve to eighteen months, this is where the Packed Act really came in.

The toxic exposure requirements of things I've seen veterans who were not eligible before for VA healthcare become eligible because of the long list of different toxins in those presumptive editions that were not recognized previously. Is now made veterans become eligible. And then on top of that, veterans that are service connected at a lower level, let's say they were maybe initially service connected for ten or twenty percent related to their service. The Pact Act has significantly increased

some of those percentages for veterans. One of the many examples that I've seen as veterans went from a lower percentage to a higher percentage above seventy percent. And what that then does is it now provides long term care at no cost for life. And then veterans also receive educational benefits for their children or for example, like eighty percent of in state tuition is covered.

four seven, five six, four nine nine. But many of those other benefits that I mentioned, looking at service connection possibilities, looking at non service connection possibilities, the educational benefits, the burial benefits. You know here particularly Hamilton County, Claremont County, and Butler County are the offices that we work with.

They do phenomenal jobs. They've got great officers. I know a lot of times, you know, veterans and families come to those offices looking for immediate assistance, which again, if you're looking at claim stuff, that stuff's going to.

and I'd rather I'm still old school, Brian. I want to pick up the phone and I want to talk to someone on the other end and be able to ask the questions.

remind me of all my appointments? I get a letter, I get a postcard, I get a text message, I get a phone call. So there's multiple ways that we do want to see you. But that's how you stay and remain active with us well.

you earned. Thank you all for your service to our country. And Todd, keep up the great work at the Cincinni VA. I know you're doing your best to help my veteran friends in the audience.