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Five o five at thirty five k r C Detalk Station. Happy Monday was a vacation wake me up when September you gotta wait a day. I guess Joe Strecker for that one. Happy Monday folks, Brian Thomas, You're glad to be and I hope you had a wonderful weekend. On a special thanks to the Clarmont Kindy Republican Club for letting me be present and facilitate the Flapjack breakfast on Saturday. Hit a really nice time, but it was kind of funny. Joe, did you lose your power all over the weekend? From

the did you how long was it out? Just a couple of times. We were out for a full twenty four hours. But the Clarmont County Republican Flapjack event took place at the Clarmont County Airport where there was no power, so we were inside the airplane hangar. There's a couple of hundred people in there in the dark. It was hilarious. In order to read our notes, we had some great folks there. We had to use our cell phone flashlights

just to even see our notes at the podium. So I you know, I had a nice time, and you know, a couple of gas, but nobody remembered anything other than the fact that we had that meeting in the dark, so interesting and fun thing that recarded me with the weekends. I hope you had a fun, nice time. Thankfully, our power came on after about twenty four hours, and our whole house generator worked quite nicely. I did to the neighbors a little service. I turned it off overnight because

it sounds like a low, rumbling, idling lawnmower. That's about how loud it is. But in the middle of the night I thought that might be annoying, so off it went overnight, came up, woke up in the morning. Power still out, and I know some of the people still struggling with that. We've got millions of people still. I think I got millions of people without power down in the Florida and Georgia, North Carolina. Lord almighty boy, that

place got whacked anyhow. Pictures and the death hole, just all the posts on Facebook, all the post on social media, but the damage that's been done and a number of people lost their lives. So prayers to those folks, And I always like to give a shout out to Matthew twenty five ministries. I kind of presume that they are. In fact they are. I just pulled up their website

M twenty five m dot org. I know you get a return on your donation when you donate to Matthew twenty five, like zero overhead, So if you give them a buck, most all of that dollar will end up helping those folks impacted by the hurricane. So just one option among many. I just know that many organizations, as charitable as they may come across, one third or more of your dollar goes to maintain overhead, pay salaries and

the like. So I always love to see that the dollars go to the wear to the folks that need them. Coming up on fifty five Case Morning Show, It's Monday, so we get money Monday. Christopher Smithman joins the program at seven thirty every Monday, former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. Never know what he wants to rant about, but I always enjoy it. Money Monday. Brian James Another fed raid cut question mark eight oh five with Brian James,

Could you be reducing your Social Security by mistake? And finally, ways to build a successful retirement Important information from Brian James every Monday, followed by eight forty I've an empower you some of our JT. Townshend on the Lincoln assassination. We'll talk with JT at eight forty. Love talking with you. Someone on your mind five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk down five fifty on your AT and T phone. Just in

time for the holiday season. It looks like the strike is going to take place. In rumblings about a strike along the East Coast ports and they say it's going to kick in tomorrow. Port strike East Coast in Gulf of Mexico will go ahead starting on Tuesday, corning to the International Longs in Sharman's Association. They said yesterday it will cause delays and snarl supply chains, the union said in a statement. In the United States, Maritime Alliance refuses

to address a half century of wage subjugation. Maritime Alliance USMX represents employers of the East and Gulf Coast longshore industry. Union members go off the job. All ports from Maine to Texas will shut down, first coast wide strike since nineteen seventy seven. This would affect ports that handle about half of our nation's ocean shipping. Mmm. So I said no negotiations took place yesterday, none are scheduled for today, So it looks like the strike's gonna kick in tomorrow.

White House didn't immediately comment. Earlier on Sunday, Biden said he did not intend to intervene to stop the walkout if they failed to secure a new contract by the deadline October first quote, Joe Biden, it's collective bargaining. I don't believe in Taft Hartley. Taft Hartley does allow the government national security threat or safety is indicated by the strike. If it threatens national security or safety, they can oppose an eighty day cooling off period under the federal Taft

Hartley Act. Joe Biden says, not going to do that. I have to imagine it would threaten national security or safety. Half half the nation's ocean shipping ports. They say the strikes could stop flull of everything from food to autobiles at major ports. Business Roundtable represent a major US business leaders, said it was deeply concerned about the potential strike at the East and Gulf Coast ports. The group warned labor stoppage could cost the US economy every single day. Found

five billion dollars. That is mind blowing when I saw that, and there words hurting American businesses, workers and consumers across the country. They say we urged both sides of coming agreement before Monday night's deadline. They've been threatening to shut down these ports for months while they've tried to haggle for better wages. Now, what are one of the demands of longshoming union wants? And I thought this, I understand where they're coming from, but you want to remain competitive

on the global stage. Banning completely banning automation at ports, that's one of the demands, along with higher wages. Zero automation. That will be cranes, gates, moving containers, and the loading and unloading of freight. I'd love to get a definition of what they proceed to be automation. You can't have a crane unload a ship. A guy from Benchmark's Capital, Bill Gurley, responded to this on social media. Right in the federal government should step in if the union seeks

a total ban on automation. Quote outlawing the effective use of technology will unquestionably doom our nation. We will become

globally uncompetitive. Not knowing a whole lot about ports or shipping industry, I gotta imagine, Yeah, if you can more efficiently load, unload someplace else and get it to its final destination without having to go through the massive numbers of union members that you have to maintain on staff to to do the manual work automation could do quickly and efficiently, then you got a problem with competition on

your hands. Anyway, again, JP Morgan included among those analysts who expect the strike will cost our economy five billion dollars per year and what does this mean for you and me? Fox Business reporting that experts are warning that if this shut down takes place, you can expect higher prices and empty shelves. Some experts in say are saying the prices could rise before the end of the year, impacting goods during yes, the all critical important to our

economy holiday season. Retail Industry Leaders Association are ILA issued a statement saying retailers deal to strike as an imminent disruption as a self inflicted wound of the US economy. Several experts who have spoken with Fox News about this that the type of disruption and shipping and supply chains

often leads to product shortages, which laws of supply demand. Folks, that's right, we'll have inflationary pressures, less supply, higher price corner Cody Moore, partner with UH and Wealth Advisor with the firm Wealth Enhancement and Prevention some expert. These strikes cause a rise in prices that could push inflation higher, potentially delaying the Federal Reserves from reserve from cutting rates further. So this delay could ultimately impact consumer costs for things

like home mortgages, car loans, and credit cards. That's the ripple effect of the Fed keeping the rate of the same place. But they also say that you should brace for higher prices and goods by the first quarter of next year. Even sooner, importers are actively implementing strategies to manage these risks. Get the solutions often come with their

own high expenses, inevitably impacting consumer prices. In other words, if you can put it on a ship and take it to a port and do it for X, finding a solution in a workaround to the ship or the port is going to be X plus something, and that plus will of course impact you and what you pay at the grocery store or whatever good is being delayed.

They say it's discretionary products for the most part, I identifying luxury items recreational goods, which are expected to be most impacted by the shutdown of the ports due to their high price elasticity. Anyway, for all effects remain unclear, but they're expecting significant repercussions such as retail stockouts and plant slowdowns as we approach the busy holiday season. I

wasn't sure what retail stockouts means. Bottom line, it's an industry turned for well out of stock event when the product you want to buy isn't there anymore stuck in a port or on a ship not unloaded. So timing couldn't be better, right, Oh, look, wars breaking out in the Middle East, among other things. They say they will still allow military shipments and cruise ships to operate. Now. I found the former comforting that they would still load

and unload. I guess military ships with military hardware, but cruise ships they get a carve out five sixteen fifty five cashitetalk stations stick around plenty more to talk about. I love to hear from you two five three seven, eight hundred eighty two three Talk FOI five fifty on AT and T phones. Feel free to call otherwise, dive into other topics and get to the bottom of the ron news.

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Greg McCowan on energy policy, Global Energy Policy, host of Charge Conversations. You should check out that podcast. Find out about a sane energy policy versus what's being shoved down our throat? And John Kerrey thinks that free speech is a problem in America along those lines, get to that a little bit later. Tim Rivers book The American ghoulag Chronicles, Volume two. Sadly we need a volume two on that one,

and it's frightening stuff on that. I usually don't talk about celebrities, but Bill Maher occasionally really cracks me up with his astute commentary. And I thought it was kind of an interesting it was a springboard. I'm more interested in the follow up to the springboard he was going after. There's a wrapper out in the world, apparently a Grammy

Award winning winning rapper named Macklemore. Anyway, this fill in the blank with your favorite FCC non compliant word was appearing at a Palestine Will Live Forever festival in Seattle, which proportally was raising money for a lot of different groups, including the United Nations Relief Workers Agency, which was filled with people who actually were involved in the October seventh terrorist attacks against Israel Israel even Israel and declare that

organization strongly tied to Hamas Hamas Hamas, and those staffers at the un r W A would be fire were fired due to their involvement in October seventh. Anyway, Macimore, appearing from a bunch of people, embraced the crowd who was screaming f America, of course the full word, and he said, yeah, f America, sparking cheers from the audience.

Tell Bill Market's on television. I love this. I'm sure it was a big hit with the Queers for Gaza crowd, literally advocating for a government that would imprison you or kill you for being queer from the safety and security of a country that doesn't do that. Yes, America the only place in the world where a white guy from the suburbs become a millionaire rapper because here, every person, regardless of age or I'm sorry, regardless of race, class,

or gender, has the right to be talent free. This Macamore idiot backpedaled a little bit and said he was caught up in the moan and basically whatever Mars said, the protests that started off as justice for Palestine and morphed into a broader kind of America is the problem. You know, we ft up the whole world thing. Guess what document allows you to chant hey ho ho ho, followed by something really stupid, the Constitution of the United

States of America. It incide a study about that four out of ten gen Zers believe the founding fathers are quote better described as ll close quote. Then he noted how some how young, some of them more including an eighteen year old, How about James Monroe eighteen years old, twenty one year old Alexander Hamilton, twenty five year old James Madison quote for Bill Maher. If they were the gen Z of their day and when they were your age, they started a country, what the f have you done?

That's a great point. Anyway, here's what he had to say to conclude, history is complicated. Gen Z reasoning is not. They think they're pure, but they're really just simplistic. They know two things. White people did some very bad things, and no, that's it. That's all They know the citizens of gods that cannot assemble in protest of their own government. Amas cannot do so, or say what they want, or practice whatever religion they want, or have a free press,

all rights guaranteed in just our first Amendment. The irony know all this is that the world, the Founder's birth, flawed through though it may be, provides the bedrock for everything that makes life good and the very people who hate them so much and so easy to take for granted. Individual liberty, a bill of rights, the rule of law, checks and balances, getting a trial by jury, the peaceful

transfer of power, protecting minority rights, and democracy itself. But those are the things that make our pampered, privileged Braddy lives so relatively cushy. No one starves here, even our people are even our poor people are fat. Why do millions of people every year risk their lives to come here because they want what we've got. The Founders were flawed, but they did build a place the whole world wants to break into. No one is paying a coyote to

smuggle them into India or Russia. Immigrants don't see us as the problem. They see us as a solution. And there's a reason that they kill themselves to get here close. Quote Bill Maher. Don't always see eye to eye with Bill, but when something really stupid from a left wing nutcase flies in his face, he at least has the stones to stand up and call it out for what it is, outright stupidity. Five twenty five fifty five kr CEDE Talk Station, got some local stories, got your comments if you care

to call it. Love to hear from you, so feel free to do that, and remember why you're over at fifty five car Sea dot com. Get your iHeartMedia app. It's free and you can stream the audio where we happen to be as long as you got one of those smart devices, or you can just stream it right there from the website fifty five kr sea dot com. I'll be right back.

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Station five twenty nine and a happy Monday to you. Christopher Smithman coming up at about two hours for the Smith Event Mondy Monday. Brian James adaytoh five and we have an empower Use summitar by JT. Townsend on Lee Lincoln Assassination. We'll talk with JTV forty. Talking with you anytime you want to call them five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight to two three Taco with five fifty on AT and T phones over the local story. He's let's see an update from

one that we read about last week. Eighteen year old man is now under arrest in a fatal crash that killed his passenger. This is the incident from West Price Hill last week. The guy alber Dardo albal Dardo Mendez struggling with the pronunciation. This morning, folks trying to get away, lost control of the twenty sixteen Chevy Equinox he was driving at a very high rate of speed on West Eighth That's the one that ran into the parked dump truck. Passenger had to be extracted from the vehicle by the

Cincinni Fire Department, Pronounced dead at the scene. Impairment excessive speed were being investigated. According to the release. The collision was captured by a nearby home surveillance camera, which showed Menendez traveling to get a high rate of speed and the impact vehicle. He also didn't have a valid driver's license at the time of the conviction or the collision.

Menendez seriously heard taking the ec Medical Center. He was booked into the Hammond County Justice Center yesterday charged with aggravated vehicular homicide. Mendez held without bond. Going to make us first the court appearance this morning if you want to show up. Hamilon County Corner's office. Still working to identify the passionate who was pronounced dead of the scene, So a little update on that tragedy. One person dead after a shooting in a vehicle crash near Cincinnati's border

with Springfield Township. Corner of Cincinnati Police ten pm Sunday yesterday went and Road to North Bend. Someone inside a vehicle was shot and then crashed into another vehicle in the intersection. The vehicle continued before crashing again, this time in front of a beauty shops supply store. Person inside the vehicle pronounced dead of the scene. Went Rod was shut down at North Bend Road until further note. It's not sure if there's been an update on this one,

so mind your p's and q's up there. A police from both the cinc Ania Springfield Township responded to this incident. Homicide unit is investigating. After eleven thirty pm Sunday yesterday, an Old County broadcast went out over police radio asking law enforcement to be on the lookout for a white four x foor involved in the shooting OJ. Vehicle you think it was a low speed pursuit Joe. Two people hospitalized from a four vehicle crash shut down all lanes

of the eastbound Norwood Lateral last night. Called to the Norwood Police. Crash reported shortly four eight pm, half them between the Montgomery Road exsit and the off ramp at southbound Ice seventy one. One of the four vehicles that were allowed and were involved rolled over. According to Norwood Police Sergeant Ken Dever speaking with Fox nineteen, two people hospitalized non life threatening injuries. Highway reopened about an hour later. One man dad after a shooting took place in Mount

Healthy happened early Saturday morning. Kyle Woods with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office speaking with reporters set around three am. Chief Jerome and Deedensheimer of the Mount Healthy Police Department requested assistance from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office for the port of a shooting near the Speedway gas station in

the seventy three hundred block a Hamilton Avenue. Deputies arrived discovered a forty two year old Reginald Simpson, sitting in his vehicle during the shooting, hit by a bullet and died at the scene. Deputies haven't stated if they have a suspect or if anybody else was hit. But if you do have any information, the number to call crime Stoppers three five two thirty forty. You don't have to leave your real name, you get an identification number. You

remain anonymous. If your tip leads to an arrest, of course you'd be doing the community a huge favor. You'd be eligible for a cash reward. Should always recommend leave it with crime Stoppers if you don't need the money, but drop a dime three five two thirty forty and one more here. The Ohiodemocratic Party and two affected voters sued Ohio's Republican Elections Chief Friday over his recent directive preventing the use of dropboxes by people helping voters with

disabilities fout at the Supreme Court level. Lawsuit says Secretary of State Frank Rose order violates protections for voters with disabilities that exist in state and federal law under the Voting Rights Act. According to the party chair list, while Walter's in a statement, Franklerose's illegal attempt to deprive the Highlands of their right to return their ballot out of dropbox with assistance is in violation of both the High

and federal law. The High Democratic Party, alongside Ohioan's impacted by this illegal directive or taking every action necessary to protect the constitutional right of every Ohioan to participate in our democracy. Anyway. As to the directive of the Rose, issued it after a federal judge struck down portions of

a House sweeping twenty twenty three election law. Affected provisions had prohibited anyone but a few qualifying family members from helping people with disabilities deliver the ballots, excluding potential helpers such as caregivers, roommates, in laws, grandchildren, you name it. The order allows those individuals to help voters of disabilities deliver their valot, but it requires them to sign an attestation inside the Board of Elections office and during operating hours.

Loss It says those conditions subject absentee voters and their assistance to new hurdles to voting, and also meant that, in their words, all voters will be subjected to longer lines and wait times at their Board of Election Offices. In the director of the ROE said that he was imposing the attestation rule to prevent ballot harvesting. That's when people attempt to collect and return somebody else's absentee ballot without accountability. And that's what he said, or that's why

he said. The only person who can use the dropbox is the actual voter. In this lawsuit, the Democratic argue. The Democratic Party argues that federal law allows voters with disabilities to have someone of their choice aid them in returning to ballots. Ohio law broadly allows voters to have certain delineated family members do the same. Lawsuit says neither imposes special as at test station burdens to do so.

The wheels of justice as slowly as they turn. You think that thing's going to be a resolved before the election date. Five point thirty five fifty five care CEV Talk station. Oh look, stack is stupid. I always enjoy trying to wake up on a five o'clock hour on Monday, especially with a stack of stupid. But you can feel free to call if you prefer I'll be right back.

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It's the marketer's report. Always invite calls. We're going to take a couple of calls right now. Five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk found five fifty on AT and T phones. Who's first, Joseph? Alright, Larry Kevin, hang on your second, Larry, Welcome to the show. Thanks for calling this morning.

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Good morning.

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I happen to agree with Frank Wrose. I don't know if everybody else does, but I believe in personal responsibility and accountability and voting shouldn't be taken lightly, especially this day and age. I feel that I understand there are situations. I had a grandfather that was in a nursing home and couldn't get to the polls, and I'm sure he probably did at one point in time before he passed. He did probably send in a ballot by you know, by mail. Yeah, we still have a mail system, yes, sir.

And if there's no return address on it and your ballot can't go where it needs to go, or it shouldn't be count shouldn't be counted. Be responsible people follow the letter of the law. If you have to do a mail in return ballot fill it out properly. I honestly feel that there was. I've been voting for a long time, almost fifty now, and at no point in time do I ever really remember ballot drop off boxes.

I might be wrong, maybe there was just that Board of Elections, But there's nothing wrong with if I have to have an ID for everything, you should be able to I have to show an.

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ID at my polls.

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Yeah, but I go to vote.

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But I keep hearing all the time on the news about the Democrats crying that people that it's voter suppression if you have to have an ID. So I don't know what states there don't got ahead.

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I was just gonna say, they make a victimhood out of literally everybody. They don't give anybody credit for measure of competence. They claim everything is an impossible challenge. If it makes it more difficult to vote because you need identification, you have to do it yourself in person, you can't pick up ballots and ballot harvest, that's all racist, it's

all oppression, it's all disenfranchisement. And you and I both know that those arguments are a bunch of crap, and they are insulting to the vast majority of people that they are purporting to represent with their arguments, most notably when they say people of color are not capable of, say, for example, obtaining a photo ID or voting in person.

I mean, we've been listening to these arguments now for years and years, and fortunately twenty twenty, with the COVID crap and the Shenanigans and the lawless nature in which the laws were changed, modified otherwise extended, resulted in some significant reforms being passed properly and through the appropriate legislative channels. Now, of course, you get litigation as a consequence of that.

So Frank LeRose endeavoring to deal with one of the prior lawsuits, implements this obligation that hey, just go in and prove that you are an appropriate person to cast the ballot on behalf of this disabled individual. No big deal, we've got accountability. The accountability you're talking about, No, we'll have none of that. That's disenfranchisement because I don't know

it takes more time. They if I guarantee to get in and out of the Board of Elections in any given amount of time, anyway, not that much of a challenge. Kevin welcome to the show. In a happy Monday to you, sir, Come on Brian Day.

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How long before demoncrats fiut lolls to allow cats.

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Dogs, parrots, squirrels and other service animals to vote with dropboxes?

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Get my dog Liam to drop my ballot off of the box.

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I thought i'd start your week off as it last.

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I don't mind a little levity any day of the week, my friend, most notably, I like it a lot more on Mondays. And my engine started. Thanks Kevin, over to the stack of stupid there and nice segue to that. Surveillance didy appears to show a man accused of crawling under several women's vehicles while they were at a car wash.

This happening last month in Arizona. Gilbert police officers called August twenty nine to investigate three instances where a man now identified as twenty eight year old Jesse Johnson was allegedly spotted crawling under vehicles while women were vacuuming at a car wash near Velvis to drive why are you

doing that? Several witnesses and surveillance cameras reportedly saw Johnson calling it the vehicles, according to the court documents, While the women were vacuuming, Johnson did hid under the cars several minutes before climbing out from underneath. Camera video show Johnson parking next to a woman's white SUV despite several empty parking spaces. Exits the car moves toward the front

of the woman's vehicle while she's vacuuming. One vacuums for several minutes until Johnson unexpectedly pops out from underneath her vehicle. He then moves back toward his car and appears to be cleaning his rear tire. Is that where they're calling it, Joe? We see? Since the woman didn't know what Johnson had done at first, they went back to the vehicles inspected for possible damage to see if he had placed the

tracking device there. Court paper stated the woman described the incidents as very unsettling, with one saying she experienced nightmares. Authority search criminal Johnson's criminal history learned that he had interested several times in Nebraska forty similar crime. They said. Johnson admitted law enforcement in the Midwest that he is sexually attracted to women's feet times can't control his sexual desires.

Arizona police st Johnson hath taking it into custody last Tuesday, booked on three counts of voyeurism, three counts of disorderly conduct. That's Dave Chappelle. Ain't no flag for us on that one. What some really sick twisted people out there. I mean looking okay, you in pain, tired of living with chronic pain, You got knee pain, joint pain. I gotta, I gotta, I got an answer for you. Get the relief you deserve without going under the ninth. The point is, you

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Fifty five KRC one to fifty five.

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KRCD talks station and a very happy Monday to you. It's a bizarre story, that's why it's in the Staggers Stupid. Before I get to the phones, Bobby hang On got a German woman dowed. She died taking a vacation of Valencia aboard a moving motor home eighty four year old retiree traveling with her daughter, who was driving the motorhome. Lady felled her death around five point thirty in the

morning local time. It is determined that the retiree opened the vehicle's exit door by accident, thinking it was the motor home's toilet door.

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What wrong with German people.

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One witness told local news there they saw the right hand side door of the motor home open before the woman fell. She was then struck by another vehicle and died instantly. As for her daughter driving the motor home, she continues until she reached the service station eight and a half kilometers later. That's when she realized her mother in law was no longer in the RV. They've ruled out a possibility of third passenger and believe the death

was an unfortunate accident. Wow, that's sir, Bobby. Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you.

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Welcome, Happy Monday, my brother, and Happy October Eve.

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Yeah it is, isn't it? Wake me up when September ends?

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Well, the main thing is I appreciate you holding that flag of freedom up every day, my brother.

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We need it. I do everything I can. Bobby as long as to let me do that, I am happy to keep coming back to work Monday through Friday.

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Butler County Paragrounds was an active place with the gun show this weekend. Oh yeah, for patriots and immigrants.

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Patriots and immigrants.

Speaker 6

Yes, sir, both sides of the spectrum.

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Well, I look, I always have to ask this because the first thing that comes to my mind when you're standing in a group of people, how can you determine the patriots from the immigrants? And are the immigrants patriots.

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When they don't know the difference between an automatic and revolvers, and they can't speak English and mumbling and got interpreters with them. I tell you that's pretty well sums it up for me.

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Enough evidence for Bobby, Yes, sir, were they buying firearms?

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Oh?

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Yes, it was active. It was pouring down rain Saturday. And I mean to tell you there wasn't a parking place hardly anywhere. You had to park out in the fields with all the utility trucks going to North Carolina.

Speaker 1

So these tell you what it was wild. Were these private sale vendors or were they actually have to pass the FFL background check vendors?

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Private sale primarily, and.

Speaker 1

You're feeding the flames of people who want to prevent private sales Bobby by bringing that up.

Speaker 6

Well, I'm just telling the truth, my brother. If you tell the truth, you never have to worry about what you say.

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Well, I agree with you on that. Try to be on radio four hours a day, five days a week. You cannot lie. You cannot not be yourself. Someone's going to catch you in it someday down the road. So yeah, this is me on and off air, and that same thing for Bobby when he calls in. God bless you, Bobby. Keep waving the flag of freedom, my friend. I know I can always hand on you. I think I can

get one more stack and stupid in here. Despite many years of driving experience, Arlene Brandham apparently never been to a car wash. Her late husband used to do that for me. For her, she said, he took care of the cars. That's what he did. Even at seventy six, he did that and then so then I had not ever taken a car to a car wash. He died last year. She had to learn how to go through

a car wash. She says, I was looking at all the signs, but obviously I missed the one that was really important, the sign that told her to put her car in neutral as she rolled into the car wash in Arvada, Colorado. She said, when you've not done anything like that and you just kind of apprehensive, then all of a sudden, just a short distance in the car stop, Well, yeah, it's not because I hit the guy in front of me,

who happened to be a state trooper. What nobody was hurt, she said, I mean, we weren't even probably going half a mile an hour, and so I just thought it was just wrong. I didn't know where else to call to find out if it was legal for them to do that or not. In other words, get it, get a ticket, which you apparently got. Colorado State Patrol Sergeant Patrick Rice was asked if a ticket could be issued

for an accident like that on private property. Is responsible Just because you're on private property doesn't mean you're without responsibility for controlling your vehicle, making sure that you're not

damaging other people's property or hurting other people. Apparently, there are a few instances of Colorado State Patrol that have done this and can issue tickets when violations care on private property like DUI, reckless driving, unsafe backing or caroless driving like this poor woman's situation one hundred and sixty nine dollars ticket, those pesky difficult, challenging car washes five fifty six stick around plenty coming up at the six o'clock hour, including John Carey having to go at the

First Amendment and democracies generally speaking, among other stories including oh yeah, World War three breaking out. I'll be back after the news. The twenty twenty four election.

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Vice President Kamala Harris.

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I'm clapping. You don't have to go on fifty five krs Union You're twenty twenty four election headquarters.

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Wows.

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She's got a lot of accents. Fifty five krs the talk station just shy six or six here fifty five kr C the talk station. Brian Thomas wishing each and every one of you a very happy Monday, and I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Inviting you to call in as well if you got a topic you want to talk about, always enjoy the back and forth with

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Charged Conversation Policy podcast. Brigham was on the program last week for a full hour talking about global energy policy and the backcrap insanity of the myth that your exhalation is causing the planet to die. Got a related cut point on that, and here in a moment Money Monday's Brian James coming to eighty oh five, we're talking about another Federal FED rate cut. Question mark maybe not if this strike kicks in, I said, the accomomy is really

going to be devastated. These East coast ports all the way through the Gulf, all of them will shut down. And that's basically half of our entire countries shipping goods would come to a screeching halt. That's going to have inflationary consequences, empty shelf consequences, and again it inflation may then prevent the Fed from cutting the rate again. So we'll see if Brian has anything to say about that. It'll also be talking about could you be reducing your

social security by a mistake? And finally ways to build a successful retirement. That'll be an eight oh five and eight forty with an empower You seminar taking place. It's J. T. Townshend doing a seminar on the Lincoln assassination. So stick around at eight forty for that again podcast when you can't listen live, let us see here part of the global warming thing, it's resulted in a bunch of anxiety

among our young people. We know baked into the curriculum these days is the one percent we you and I are killing the planet that's boiled down what our children are being taught, and they don't have any logic or reason. They don't question it. They're not allowed to question it

and be labeled a heretic if they do question it. It's the newest religion that has swept the world over the past couple of decades, and I argue that it is religion because there's a lot of science out there which suggest that no, we have nothing to do with it. And of course, global events outside of the ability of mankind to deal with them like forest fires, volcano volcanic eruptions, et cetera, negate anything we do to stop carbon from

being from being produced and in entering the atmosphere. And of course then there's that pesky reality about the Chinese, the Indians and other large countries ignoring the whole idea of trying to curb their carbon emissions. But you know, but this this psychological phenomena that's hapening among our young people, this idea that if we bring children into the world, that we are part of the problem. And Russia has been fighting this. Russia does not have a First Amendment.

This is the critical point in this discussion here and where in law and Russia lawmakers have now proposed a ban on quote propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children, latest effort by Russian authorities to come back well following birth rates, which, of course the war between Ukraine and Russia has caused a precipitous increase in the reduction in

Russia's population. Of course, most notably fighting age men, which are the type of manuitifically go home and start families and they have children, and they say the lack of childbearing could threaten the country's long term outlook. Back in July, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said Russia's declining birth rate is

catastrophic for the future of the nation anyway. This banning of propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children the latest in a step Kremlin campaign to promote what it casts as traditional values. These used to be our traditional values, but they're fighting back against the woke ideology of the West, which is really like a disease invaded all Western nations, and they'll be damned if they're going to go down

that road. This bill tackles what Bolden said was the promotion of the ideology of childlessness and the child freeing movement on the internet, in the media, movies and advertisements, deciding when, he said, were frequent online displays of disrespect for motherhood and fatherhood, aggression toward pregnant women and children, and members of large families. Finds associated with this forty three hundred dollars for individuals in more than five fifty

three thousand dollars for legal entities. A close knit and large family is the basis of a strong state. Spokesman Boldin added, now, for her part, Daryana Grayazanova, a Russian lawyer, was quoted on this and asked about her feelings about it. She does live abroad, so I guess she's safe in making statements like quote. Bills like these are essentially directed at curbing the freedom of speech, women's reproductive rights, and their freedom of choice. Russia also previously banned the so

called international LGBTQ plus movement. In late twenty twenty three, They's court did so there's a risk of arrest and prosecution for the LGBTQ plus community. I guess for utterances in support of their causes. Again in Russia, where there is no First Amendment, Kremlin said, in contrast to the decadent West, it's a bolding so called family value. So they want to have children. They don't want anybody talking

about not having children. So you now have a threat of a major, major fine if you make an utterance against what the government there wants. Pivoting over to another authoritarian state, North Korea, they recently expanded the list of offenses warranting the death penalty, now going from eleven to sixteen. Death penalty warranted when you have anti state propaganda, acts of agitation, for you, college campus protesters, illegal manufacturing, and the illicit use of weapons, all in the new code.

Back in twenty twenty law pass making the consumption and distribution of South Korean media punishable by death because of its reactionary and counter revolutionary associations. I guess Kim Jong un would call it disinformation, and you'll get none of that. It's now criminal to consume that information. Other so called reactionary behavior that will result in punishment in North Korea. Wearing of outside fashions such as white wedding dresses, blue jeans,

or even sunglasses. Outside slang terms from South Korea also allegedly banned in written communications. So beyond the death penalty, you could also end up well in a prison camp or in force re education. Again no First Amendment pivoting over and the point I wanted to make among all this, John Carry, John, we're all gonna die here. Let me get back on my private jet and fly someplace. Ells Carry.

Former Secretary of State John Carrey taking part of the World Economic Forum panel on Green Energy last Wednesday, one of the members of the audience asked what could be done to push back against disinformation regarding climate change online quote from John Carrey, who I think at one point, since he was Secretary of State, probably held up his hand and swore an oath to the Constitution which included the First Amendment while he was an elected official. I

know he had to do that. Quote. You know, there's a lot of discussion about how you can curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have some accountability on facts, etc. But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just you know, hammer it

out of existence. Oh so if you listen to the Charged Conversations podcast with Brigham account from the Hudson Institute, I guess he would call that sick. He probably thinks he has an agenda because well, he points out facts in the face of the propaganda we've been given by

the Green group that pesky First Amendment. John Kerry went on, so, what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change, and on the heels of the comment about our pesky First Amendment being a major block to well, taking away your freedom of information and freedom to speak. Change must mean, i guess, eradication of the First Amendment or at least a major

pairing down of it. So the only source of information that will be justified in the eyes of the government would be their independent message. So going back to the echo chamber that he claims is wrong, you're only going to get one message, the message that the government approves. He also pointed out, apparently this is an issue unique to democracies, which is why I pointed out what Russia was doing and what North Korea is doing, obviously not

democracies or countries with First Amendment quote. The dislike and anguish over social media is just growing and growing. It's part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. Building consensus. Consensus is not science. Consensus is not fact. Consensus is a majority of people in any room on any given topic agreeing on one viewpoint of it. That viewpoint maybe batcrap, insane and fundamentally in the face of science and facts, but it could

be a consensus. Nonetheless, right, He went on, it's really hard to govern today. The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn't a fact have kind of been eviscerated to a certain degree, and people go and self select where they go for their news, for their information, and then you get into a vicious cycle. He said. Democracies around the world are struggling with the absence of a sort of truth arbiter, and then there's no one who defines what facts really are.

If we could strip away some of the fear mongering that's taking place and get down to the realities of what's here for people, this is the biggest economic opportunity. Who's fear mongering whom? Why are children afraid to go out and have families these days? Well, I'm afraid my exelation and that child that bring in the world is gonna kill us. All. That's where the fear mongering comes from. He emphasized throughout the panel the importance of electing the

right people in November. I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges they are facing. Into me, that is part of what this election is about. Will we break the fever in the United States? Is he not advocating for the removal of the checks and balances in the Constitution. Yeah, Republicans and

Democrats are fighting. They aren't getting anything done. That's because we have two different sides of the perspective, or multifaceted sides to the perspective, and we're not supposed to have one size shoved down our collective throats. That's the beautiful thing of living in a republic, John Kerry. And think

about also what he's saying. He's lamenting the fact that basically we have an Internet with unlimited outlets to get information, particularly democracies, right the referees, We used to have to determine what is a fact in what is an effective kind of been eviscerated. And when I read that, I think about, like Walter Crimekit, I'm old enough to remember you had five, nine and twelve and nineteen as the

auxiliary channel in public broadcasting. That was it. You had one news anchor, editor of the news who provided the news to you and was independently responsible for selecting what content was read on the evening news. As I was pointing out every single week, I got about a remsworth of paper with news stories that I didn't even get a chance to talk about on the morning show. I decide in my wisdom which articles are most important to talk about, or you call me up and steer me

in a different direction. But somebody's always got to make the choice. But at least we have the freedom to pick and choose and select what we consume. He wants a guy or a person or a committee behind the scenes to do that and tell you what's real and what isn't. Think doctor Fauci, think six feet social distancing, Think vaccines that will prevent you from getting COVID nineteen and oh yeah, that's right. They really don't think about

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The Claremont County Republican Party Flapjack breakfast on Saturday, I mentioned that earlier. I appreciate them inviting me to facilitate. One thing came through loud and clear. Everyone, Bernie Morendo, Frank LeRose, Attorney General Yost All, the speakers, No on Issue one. This establishes the Citizens Redistricting Committee. It's big fat, out of state liberal leftist money. This is an amendment to the Ohio Constitution. And I know everybody hates jerrymandering,

but jerrymandering is not eliminated under Issue one. It merely provides in the hands of the Citizen Redistricting Committee, which has got all kinds of crazy restrictions on who can even be on that committee. It gives them the ability to gerrymander. That's what's going to happen. And you know you've got solid Republican blocks in this in the in the state of Ohio, those are going to be washed away.

So again, constitutional amendment establishing this. So talk to your friends no on one and you will see any place you see a Harris walls sign or a shared brown sign right next to it's going to be a yes on one, and recognizing that the money comes from leftist organizations from outside the state of Ohio. I hope that's enough to convince you how nefarious this is. It's crazy comprehensive, it's crazy complex. It's like a couple of hundred pages

if I recall correctly. But again, it's a constitutional amendment. So vote no on Issue one. That came through loud and clear on Saturday, for sure, local stories of your phone calls five one, three, seven, four fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk. I'll give you another number, and i'd read this morning. And tomorrow's the day when the port you're supposed to shut down all across the East coast, all the way into the golf That's going to result in all kinds of supply

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Six fifty five Kercity talk station power outage over the weekend, we had it. A lot of folks struggled with it, and going to local stories here, we still have roughly three thousand Duke Energy customers without power this morning, obviously because of the storms have swept through over the weekend say outages. Most outages still in Hamilton and Claremont County's website shows, like I said, roughly three thousand. It just dispersed all over the place, but they're all over the

southeast area here. Utility workers, of course, been working twenty four hours days since the power outages started. They restored power to more than one hundred thousand customers who were affected by the winds. It caused more than one hundred and forty power outages, so initially it caused outages in seventeen counties. Winds up to fifty to seventy miles per hour.

We heard trees splitting in our neighborhood and we actually had a utility pole come down over on East Kemper Road, and not sure if that was the one that took our power out, but we had about twenty four hours without power. So anyhow, good luck to those still effected, and God bless the Duke Energy workers for the hard work they're doing. There's only so much you can get accomplished given the widespread damage. Let us see here got a person dead after shooting in a vehicle crash between

the Cincinnati's border with Springfield Township. Since they police said it happened after ten pm yesterday on Wenton Road at North Bend. Someone inside the vehicle was shot, then crashed into another vehicle in the intersection, and then continued crashing again in front of a beauty supply store. A person inside the vehicle pronounced dead at the scene. Winton Road was shut down in North Bend. I don't know if

it's open again. I presume it is by now. Police from both Cincinnati and spring Field Township responded to this. Police Department Homicide Unit is currently investigating. They sent out an all county wide broadcast eleven thirty yesterday evening over police radio asking law enforcement to be on the lookout for a white Ford explorer involved in the shooting. Sopposed to have any information on that, give crime stoppers a call.

It three five, two thirty forty two people hospitalized after a four vehicle crash that shut down all lanes east of the eastbound side of Norwood Lateral last night, just before eight pm, between Montgomery Road and off ramp at southbount I seventy five or seventy one rather of the crash was reported. One of the four vehicles that were involved rolled over. Two people hospitalized non life threatening injuries. Highway reopened about an hour later. One man dad after

a shooting took place Mount Healthy early Saturday morning. Kyle Woods at the Hamlin County Sheriff's Office released issue to release saying that about three am, Chief Jerome Day Deedensheimer of the Mount Healthy Police Department requested assistance from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office after a shooting was reported near the Speedway gas station in the seventy three hundred block

of Hamilton Avenue. Once deputies arrived, they found forty two year old Reginald Simpson sitting in his vehicle during the shooting, hit by a bullet. He died at the scene. Deputies haven't said if they have a suspect, if anybody else was hit, keep that number handy Crime Stoppers three five two thirty forty if you have any information about this shooting that could lead to an arrest or any other information.

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moving toward World War three? Okay? Great? Yesterday? Yesterday, US military said it is increasing its air support capabilities in the Middle East and ominously putting troops on heightened readiness for deployment in the region. US Military warning Iran against expanding the ongoing conflict, with which, as I observe, it

seems Iran is ignoring anyway. That announcement came two days after Biden directed the Pentagon to adjust US force posture in the Middle East tom Ad, intensifying concern that Israel's killing of a leader of Iran back Hsballa could prompt Tehran to retaliate. Pentagon spokesperson Major General Patrick Ryder, in a statement, said the United States is determined to prevent Iran and Iranian back partners and proxies from exploiting the

situation or expanding the conflict. Also cautioned that Iran or underscore groups. Tehran backs use this moment to target American personnel or interest in the region, the United States will take every necessary measure to defend our people. Keep that in mind. Very few clues as the size of scope of this new air deployment. Pentagon said only that we will further reinforce our defensive air support capabilities in the

coming days. US depart is not issued in order to evacuate Lebanon, but last week US official said the Pentagon was sending a few dozen additional troops to Cyprus to help military prepare for scenarios including an evacuation of Americans for Lebanon. Pentagon has also said US forces were being made ready to deploy if necessary. All right, I told

you to hold keep that statement in mind. If Tehran uses this moment to target American personnel or interest in the region, we will take every necessary measure to defend our people. How much measure or how much of a measure will that be? Because on Friday we had the Huthi terrorists launching drones at our ships, our military ships. Deputy Press securated the Department Offense, Sabrina Singh. We did see a complex attached attack launched from the Houthis that

ranged from cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. Now, the Huthis were claiming that the act actually damaged three US Navy warships in this concentrated bombardment. US denies that. According to the statement from the spokesperson, Sabrina's saying, my understanding is that those who were those were either engaged and shot down, meaning the missiles weren't either engaged or shot

down or failed, referring to the Hoothy missiles. No US military ships were struck and there were no injuries to US service members, she said in the statement. Currently, USS Abraham Lincoln and it's carry a strike group are in the region that includes three destroyers Friday. They decline to say whether the destroyers were intended targets of the Hoothy missiles, but I think you and I can probably guess they were.

Spokesman said, well, we did what we had to do to protect our forces, and at the end of the day, no ship was hit, no damage, no injuries to our personnel. But they've also been targeting the cargo ships in the Red Seas, slowing down traffic there and of course increasing the shipping problems that we have around the globe, exacerbated tomorrow by the shutdown of all of our parts on the eastern seaboard all the way through the Gulf of Mexico.

But Iran backed Uthis, we all know who they're supported by, so these strikes would fall in And I know he issued this statement after these missile strikes, but they've been doing these missile strikes now for months, ever since October seventh. If they were to hit one of our vessels, would that mean We're going to send troops into the area. Are we going to go head on, full on with

the Iranians? Are we going to go after the Hisbala groups or maybe the Huthis or pick another organization there that is funded and ordered and acts at the will and the bidding of the Iranian government. This is a proxy war Iran is waging. If everybody loves that Ukrainian situation, that's a proxy war. The Western forces, of course, providing weapons and supplies to the Irani or the the Ukrainian people,

they're left to fight the war against the Russians. The Russians recently rejiggered their nuclear use of force policy to well go after those who support anyone who actually is attacking Russians, that would be US. So we got the flip side of that going on here with the Iranians supporting all of these terrorist organizations. Do red lines mean anything anymore? Do these types of threats issued to the Iranians?

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nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred two three talk. We got issues going on globally, and of course issues going on here in the United States, most notably the security risk posed by the Chinese Communist Party and this odd reality that's going on in Fairfax County, Virginia, right there next to Washington, DC, also home to government leaders and a bunch of national security installations Fairfax County, where police and emergency service agencies are using drones made by a

sanctioned Chinese company, thereby allowing well the Chinese Communist Party to spy on these sensitive sites sites. Now this is a bypart as an effort by a pair of lawmakers in Virginia, State of Virginia are trying to stop this from happening. Fairfax authorities, including the police and fire departments, using drones manufactured by a company called Dji, which is a Chinese firm that controls cheese about eighty percent of our United States commercial drone market. Eighty US government has

DEEMEDDJ a spy risk. After an investigation by the House Select Committee on China, we sanctioned Dji back in twenty twenty one for surveillance partnership of the Chinese Communist Party CCP produced unmanned aerial systems and sensors used by Fairfax County which collect high resolution imagery of facilities. According to the Committee's findings, they said, the country of the county's reliance on these drones leave the sensitive data at risk

of being collected by the CCP. Last week letter to Jeffrey McKay, chair of the Fairfax Supervisory Board, Representatives Mullinar and Christian Christian A. Morphy. This is a like, I said, a bipartisan effort. Christian Morphy, a Democrat, and Representative Julian Mullinar, Republican from Illinois and Michigan, respectively. They pressed SMOCAI a decommission the fleet of Dji drones, citing the large amount of sensitive national security sites and interest in Fairfax County.

The federal government sought to eliminate Dji and other Chinese firms from its supply chain. Cities across the nation, however, still use these. Again, going back to that fun figure, eighty percent of the US commercial drone market is Dji controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. At least seven states

have grounded these Chinese produced drones. Why hasn't yours? Now, you have to know that Chinese companies are required under Chinese Communist Party national security laws to provide mandatory this is their words, mandatory access to devices and programs through backdoors also known as embedded and reversed interfaces, meaning the Chicoms can access the data being streamed through the drones

across the United States of America. In seeing Fairfax, Virginia right there next to Washington, DC and home to all of these sensitive sites and information, Bill and Are and Christian Morthy saying immediate action is necessary to stop China from spying on them any national security sites, military installations,

government homes that are all located throughout Fairfax. That's noted that they have been looking at this Fairfax Board of Supervisors first to prove the county's drone program in twenty nineteen. Since then they have been made aware of the problems and the national security risks associated with using them, and so they're only now starting to look into it. That's why they're saying, no, we need immediate action. We don't

need harum Fan, we need this fixed other problem. It's cheaper to buy the Chinese drones because they're heavily subsidized. If you look at the ones that are made in the United States of America, often a lot more expensive than the Chinese counterpart. So looking out for your bottom line and saving a few dollars is aiding and betting the Chinese Communist Party. They just soak up gobs of information. Dave Hatter tells us this every single week on Tech

Friday with Dave Hatter. They said, Dji, the company making the drones, is also looking for ways to sidestep regulatory and competitive pressures through a strategy known as white labeling, which I think the terrorist organizations in the Middle East are well aware of. Remember the pagers that blew up, Yeah, they were labeled by a company that doesn't even make those anymore, manufactured someplace else to look like the real

McCoy well. White labeling allows Dji, the Chinese Communist Party drones to be re labeled to look like a licensed product here in the United States of America, making it harder to trace. You think similar in an elected capacity would be on this like white on Rice six fifty six fifty five K city talk station. Stick around more to talk about off top of the internew John, if you don't mind holding, we'll take your call right out of the gate and we get back. But it got

to run him ount of time every day. The most important day is election day. You're gonna hear every single bit of information when you we like to listen ED fifty electric fifty five krs this report. It's seven oh six here at you five garc DE Talk station. Brian Thomas wish you a very happy Monday. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Cheers and thanks again to the Climont County Republican Club for the event they flapjack event on Saturday morning. Had a great time, an enthusieda group

Climont County Republicans. You can always count on them, so it it feels so great being in Claremont County. I'll bring the flag out of Hamilton if I ever have to leave and head directly to the very solid red group of folks in Clamont County. They are excited and the message that came across John with me one moment vote no on Issue one strong No. Every speaker there at the event, everybody's in favor of Bernie Marinare everyodone's

Donald Trump to get elected? You see, we had Supreme Court candidates there among others, but the file analysis, every single person in the room was speaking about Issue one and how unbelievably terrible it will be in Ohio that is basically offloading the concept of jerrymandering to this independent, so called independent panel that has just got loads and loads of restrictions on who can even be on the panel. This independent entity which is going to be deciding the

redistricting can't even have American veterans on it. Someone told me that I didn't look into it, but I took him at his word. So veterans can't serve. What the hell anyway, Let's see what John's got to say. John, thank you so much for holding over the brake there, sir, welcome to the program.

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That just made it. That just made it worse. Man, You're you're just completely garbled. You can call back and I apologize for that. Over the immigration, of course, Kamala Harris went to the border m blaming the Republicans on the massive influx of humanity coming across the southern border. Obviously not with a straight face. A lot of people are poking fun of Kamala Harris for wearing what is described as a sixty two thousand dollars Tiffany necklace. There's

a necklace that costs sixty two thousand dollars. Uh, Okay, no confirmation that's exactly the necklace she was wearing, although it does look remarkably similar to the one that's offered at Tiffany's. On what kind of optics are you presenting?

When we were in the middle of a US significant problem with the American economy, inflationary pressures, and a border problem that has exacerbated the problems that many communities are feeling here in the United States of America, has show up wearing something like that, a necklace worth more money than most Americans make a year in salary. Okay, not the first time she's made that for Paul Anyway, some

fun numbers you're gonna love these. According to the most recent release of information from the Biden administration, they have allowed six hundred and fifty thousand criminal migrants and suspects, including while the statistics under are crazy accord of the data. Letter from Immigration Customs Enforcement to Representative Tony Gonzalez. The letter responds to a request from Representative Tony Gonzalez from Texas. Your letter requests a number of non citizen on ICE's

dock had convicted or charged with the crime. As of July twenty first, twenty twenty four, there were six hundred and sixty two thousand, five hundred and sixty six non citizens with criminal histories on ICE's national docket, which includes those detained by ICE and on the agency's non detained docket.

Of those, four hundred and thirty five thousand, seven hundred and nineteen are convicted criminals, including thirteen thousand, ninety nine murderers, with twenty two thousand, two hundred twenty six thousand, eight hundred and forty seven having pending criminal charges. That report again from the Immigrations and Customs officials. This isn't Republicans making numbers up, as I know many leftists want to

accuse them of. The report says an additional two hundred and twenty two thousand, one hundred and forty one undetained migrants facing criminal charges that include eighteen hundred and forty five homicide charges. Data also shows fifteen thousand migrant criminals in jail. Huh, we've got limited resources. Jail space is at a premium if we pay attention to what's going on even in here in Hamilton County, jail population includes two hundred and seventy seven migrant murderers and fifty one

migrants who are facing murdered charges. Date also shows seventeen thousand migrants found guilty or charged with sexual offenses that one steeps over into a broader category or a smaller category, or rather, using your ven diagram, a smaller subset of the criminals which are involved in exploiting children for prostitution purposes.

Non citizens in terms of the data that was handed over in response to the request by Tony Gonzalez, refers to illegal migrants, overstay migrants, and green card holders, all of whom can be deported. Criminals are not in detention because they have served their time or have not been deported.

It was stated so far, my orcus has also overall brought in at least ten million legal, illegal and quasi legal migrants, roughly one migrant for every American birth going back to that edict from the Russian government that you're not even allowed to talk about not having children because well they're struggling with population replacement. But pivoting over to that other subset borders are Kamala Harris of course at the southern border mentioned the six hundred and fifty thousand

migrants with criminal records. It says, according to I believe this was Reuters. Try to give credit where credit due. Anyway, there's a new report out of regarding an explosion of

migrant prostitution networks of migrant prostitution across America. This newly leaked law enforcement document, thanks to the New York Post journalists for grabbing a hold of copy of it and exposing it for the rest of us to view, shows that Venezuela and Prison gang, this trendy Aragua gang that has been in the news a lot of late, has exploited desperate migrant women into sex trafficking networks across eight states.

Court to the release, the eight states have seen an explosion in migrant population since the gang laid down routes in the US. This is that trade de Aragua gang with authorities in Texas Nevada, Illinois, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York now fighting to curtail the sex trade. A cord to the memo review by The New York Post, coming to a city near you, I can assure you

of that. New York City police sources told the New York Posts that trend Aragua gangsters are recruiting their members and victims straight out of city run migrant shelters quote in the big Apple train and Daragua is trying to recruit foot soldiers to force women into sex trafficking in the hopes that it will become the main source of income for the gang. According to that memo, the New York Post obtained memos circulated a federal and law enforcement

agencies nationwide. It said, quote for some women, the debt is almost impossible to pay off due to the penalty fees added by the trade de Aragua gang members as punishment, we helped you across the border. We help you make the trip all the way from filling the Black Country into the southern border the United States of America to where you sit today in a migrant shelter. You owe us and you will work for us, and you will you give your body to us to exploit and sell.

They have the memo posts that you can read on the New York Post itself. It's frightening stuff, folks. And you know who's the blame for this, right Biden Harris and Harris says the audacity to say, oh, just let me president, I'm gonna fix everything. They brought this problem. You don't need to do with any anything other than look at the numbers under the Trump administration versus the numbers and the explosion of humanity across the southern and

northern borders more frequently under the Biden Harrison administration. It's like, look at the chart. They telegraphed that the border was open to the rest of the world. They made it easier for people to fly directly into our country from their home countries. I know they had that Republican legislator that legislation bipartisan was going to fix everything. She hung her hat on that when she was at the southern

border Statey. It was Donald Trump and the Republicans fault for this problem because they didn't pass a piece of legislation that would have well solidified at least five thousand illegal immigrants coming across our border every single week. Now there has been a market decrease in the number of illegal border crossers since they've done something. But that's something was what Donald Trump had in place when he was president that Joe Biden undid the moment he became president.

And that's, of course when the spike occurred, and that spike went directly straight up, and it's only recently come down over the past several months because well, they reinstituted something Donald Trump had in place. And Kamala Harris as yet pulling neck and neck with Trump in a lot of places, ahead of Trump, of course in Blue states. I don't understand it, folks, I really truly don't. Seven sixteen, John's back on the phone. We'll give you another shot. John.

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If you missed our twenty twenty seven twenty two. If you have KCV talk station, you're going to head over to the phones fair communicate with the last John. We have a different job on the phone right now. John, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday to you.

Speaker 4

Well, I have to be Monday.

Speaker 7

Brian. Hey, I've got a peace takes to just rip off the point I get to my point of courts of Bob.

Speaker 10

Russian peace. Christophson, thank you for the music. And I called about Ukraine. I'm kind of mixed emotions on Ukraine. Wood's a bad guy, we know.

Speaker 7

But Ukraine has never been a real friend of the United States until now when they need us. They want her money, they want their weapons, and that's sort of thinking as bad as Putin is. From what I understand or have read that the leader of Ukraine has not really a nice guy himself.

Speaker 10

And if Trump becomes president and he decides.

Speaker 1

We don't need to and.

Speaker 11

Star money and time and weapons and things from Ukraine, which has never been a friend, then it will look like he's taken sides to a Russia.

Speaker 1

But what do you think, Well, of course the left is going to say that. I mean, there are conflicts raging usually all the time, all year long around the globe. We sort of pick and choose the ones we want to fight and the ones we don't. I mean, you ask Bill Clinton what his biggest disaster on his watch when he was president was the genocide in Rwanda, where literally hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered. Did we go in and do anything there? Did the UN go in and do anything there?

Speaker 9

No?

Speaker 1

Absolutely not. It just happened. Happened to be on his watch. Pick and choose your winners and losers. I guess there wasn't enough interest in Rwanda and to benefit the United States for US to intervene in that challenge. I think this was driven largely because of the global perception of Vladimir Putin. Is this evil guy who wants to rebuild the Soviet Union in the former image of threats to all the NATO countries that are butting up against Ukraine

and butting up against Russia. There are allies, there are friends, and they view Russia as probably a bigger threat than perhaps we should or do. But that's how you get roped into one of these I don't know what the game plan is. I mean, if we had an actual strategy on this, it'd be nice to know what it is, and I think Trump wants to negotiate some sort of

resolution which will require some concessions to Russia. What other purposes are they going to have spent the last three years there unless they get something to show to their citizens they got a victory out of the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people that have been killed in this conflict. Hey, listen, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I just know that we're a country of limited resources. We've got genuine global threats to our best interest in the form of China and other

evil actors like Iran. We're busy selling all of our weapons or giving all of our weapons to different countries around the world so they can deal with their challenges while we while depleting our own military. We can't even maintain enough servicemen and women to fight wars. If we end up in one, we've got major problems on our hands.

And I don't think necessarily the resource of the United States of America, exhausted as they are, should continue to flow into a war that there is no apparent exit or victory strategy. Russia's army is much bigger. It's it's nuclear. They've got weapons they haven't even brought out yet that they could unleash on the Ukrainian people. I think the only reason they haven't done it is for fear of global condemnation. But I wish I had a better answer.

But we've got more smarter people elected and smarter people running the show than me. John. At least that's what they tell us. They can't come up and they can't figure it out. It's said sorry, State of Affairs, seven twenty six, fifty five kr CD Talk station. Wish I could navigate that question better. If you can, you can feel free to call. We'll have a little more time

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Seven thirty one, fifty five KRCD talk station on a Monday. That means one thing for sure. Always look forward to it. Former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman doing this smither Vent. Welcome back, Christopher. Always enjoy having you on the program. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 9

I did.

Speaker 4

Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be with you. By Vent. This morning is going to be title Blackout, Blackout. And what I mean by that, Brian, is that ICE released numbers this weekend, maybe it was Friday, saying that over thirteen illegal immigrants entered our country that they defined as having committed.

Speaker 1

A murder thirteen thousand.

Speaker 4

Or thirteen thousand, thirteen thousand.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I was just talking about these I was just talking about these criminal statistics ICE released earlier in the program. It's insane, my friend, and.

Speaker 4

Sixteen thousand rapists, almost sixteen thousand rapists. Now, let's just stop there.

Speaker 1

Okay.

Speaker 4

Now, let's just say that ICE's numbers are wrong, okay, and it's half of that. I mean, we should be shocked that this many criminals are rolling around, walking around our country and we don't know who they are. And when I say blackout, meaning the local, the mainstream media, whatever you want to say, Brian Thomas really did not

report ICE's information. It wasn't discussed. You could go to a different network like Right Network and they were discussing it, but if you went on ABC or MSNBC or CNN, they just weren't discussing this. And it's scary. It's not just what I try to share with you know, citizens, I know you're listening audience understands this very sophisticated audience that is not just what people report on, is what they don't report on. And that's why I started my

commentary with you blackout. How could you not inform American citizens of this kind of data. Whether the data is over five years, ten years, forty years, whatever you want to debate, the reality of it is that this many people are walking around our country who came in illegally. And whether it's thirteen thousand, our six thousand or seven thousand, or it's eight thousand rapists, not fifteen thousand rapists. That should make all of us terrify.

Speaker 1

No question about it, Christopher. I mean, I've got a daughter and she's little older than yours. But you got a young daughter, and I'm sure this is the kind of thing that runs through your mind.

Speaker 4

One hundred percent, Bryan Thomas, you and I'm just sitting here going where. That's why it's the number one issue that voters are talking about going into the election, right that they're concerned about their safety, any crime, safety, whatever words you want to use, is number one of what people And then when you go into states like Georgia and you see Lake and Riley murdered, a nursing student going out and going on a run what lots of

college students kids, college students do. But she's dead, and she and her family and the Georgians, george Indians or whatever. I'm ready to fines us, those residents of Georgia understand that Lake and Riley would be alive if public policy and Washington was different. And then they see these numbers like this coming out of Ice. It has to blow

them away. Meaning I understand what you said, about my daughter, and I understand what you and I believe that about your daughter, But think about those daughters that have already been raped and murdered by people that are on this list.

Speaker 1

Yeah, betrayal is a word that jumps into my mind. And you've been betrayed by your government for its failure to, uh well, prevent the threats from abroad as well as domestic threats. And one of the easiest ways to prevent us from in having an invasion and then have domestic threats is to prevent the invasion and the criminal element from coming into our country from abroad, and they have

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Seven here forty five KRSITE talk station. Always look forward to this time of weekend, specific time period because we're talking to Christopher Smith and when a Smither event, former Vice Many of the City since Sant joins the program every Monday to do that. Let's continue the rant Christopher. We took a little break there and now have at it.

Speaker 4

Brian, thanks her again for allowing me to come on and have this segment with you each Monday from seven thirty to eight. I started off saying, you know, my commentary brother was was called Blackout. You know that I'm not a sports fan, right, so that's just where I am. I follow politics like people follow sports. And so former President Trump went to the big football game Georgia against

Alabama and seemed to be received very well. And I don't know if you saw any of that over the weekend, but what was so alarming is the lack of coverage on the other stations. So it's like it's like avoiding that he's there, commenting that he's there, and then basically say, oh, we found some people that didn't like that he was there. There are one hundred thousand people in the stadium. Everybody is not going to support the former president, and you

can find people, but overwhelmingly it looked like he was received. Well, did you see any of that over the weekend?

Speaker 1

Yes, yes, and I show I saw the game that Tim Wall showed up that where he was being booed while he was out on the street. Yeah. Again, doesn't represent all the people's opinions or attitude, but a really striking difference between the two receptions on what you're looking at exactly.

Speaker 4

And then the news networks, the mainstream news networks didn't cover that. They didn't cover the booing, but they also did not cover the handclapping of the other candidate. And so it's so obvious that the mainstream media, if you're Stevie Wonder, you can see that they're in the tank. This is not me talking about whether I support one

candidate or the other. I'm saying I've never witnessed in my lifetime since I've been following politics a mainstream media so in the tank for one candidate over the other candidate.

Speaker 1

Or one party. I mean, if you go back to the border thing that you pointed out earlier, there's been a media blackout on reporting on the Southern Bard in the mainstream media. I mean for years now Fox News and conservative outlets were the only ones that were reporting on it. That stream and influx of people has been well documented. It's been happening for years, video evidence of it. The numbers that have come in documented by ice in

federal government, they're all horrific. The mainstream media will not report on anything that reflects poorly on the Democrats or its policies or its individual politicians. They just won't do it.

Speaker 4

They just will not do it. And I again, I think raising this issue, and I know you're listening, audience knows it. It's why they are attacking Elon Musk as hard as they're attacking him. Because there's a platform that was in the tank four years ago that's no longer in the tank, and so what happens is things that aren't being reported are being reported on this other platform

called x are formally known as Twitter. It's very interesting how the guy who's out here putting electric cars, who Democrats say they love because he's changing the world with electric cars, is now seems like he's being depicted as enemy number one because he's saying I'm allowing people to express free speech on this platform. It's an amazing turn of events if people are watching all of this play out in this election.

Speaker 1

Well, and something I was really a Paul John Kerry was talking about that being a problem. He has a problem with the First Amendment. He was at a economic Form World Economic Form of the Green Energy on Wednesday last week. He says, quote, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're not going to have some

accountability on facts. But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just you know, hammer it out of existence. He's referring to opposition to their messaging on climate change. He says, so what we need to do is win the ground, win the right to govern. He's talking about Democrats, by hopefully waving enough votes that you're free to be

able to implement change. His change, of course, is to intrude on our First Amendment rights to speak freely on any given subject. It's scary, and he also pointed out democracies. Democracies are the problem.

Speaker 4

I mean I heard it. I absolutely heard what you heard, and it was just shocked by it all.

Speaker 1

Absolutely shocked, absolutely shocked.

Speaker 4

I mean meaning, free speech to all who are listening is on the ballot. Your ability to express yourself without penalty is on the ballot. You know, I think the exploration of oil right is on the ballot. People say, oh, these other things are on the ballot. I say, these are things my a free economic society, meaning moving away from socialism. When people say they want to tax unrealized

gains that's on property, that's on stock, scary stuff. It is meaning I have a property that's worth X, you say you have to pay taxes on it, whether it drops from three hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand. You've got to find a way to pay your long term capital gain on something you have and soul very

scary stuff. Blackout My last comment before we go. Benjamin Nitt and Yahoo win and gave a speech at the UN on Friday, I believe it was, and during that speech he clearly had made the decision to assassinate the head of or the man Hassan Nassarala. I think that's how you pronounce his name. But he said we're going to assassinate him. What was so amazing by all of that is you have the Iranian delegation in front of him as he's delivering the speech. He doesn't communicate with

the White House that he's going to do it. He doesn't tell the President, he doesn't tell any of the leadership in the United States of America that he's made this decision to do it. What does that tell us about how the nation of Israel thinks about the White House think about that. They say they are our greatest ally.

We say they are our greatest ally in the Middle East, and they are, but they didn't trust us to tell us that they had made the decision to take out the leader of Hesbelah as he's giving the speech, finishes this speech and travels back. Because I don't know this to be true, I just heard it reported that the Jewish leadership are as Jews don't travel on that Friday to Saturday, but he did. He flew, He did this

speech and went right back to Israel. Explain to me why he doesn't trust the White House to tell them this is what we're about to do. Total blackout, and the White House didn't know what happened until after it happened.

Speaker 1

Well, because the White House is busy walking that tightrope of trying to appease the core left wing element of its party, which hates Israel, well at the same time trying to maintain relations with our greatest part in the Middle East, Israel. It's an impossible tightrope to walk, and the Biden administration is demonstrated. I think it's more willing and in appeasing the anti Israel crew and it's party than it is in supporting our longtime ally. That's the only conclusion I can draw.

Speaker 4

Brother, I think you laid it out perfectly. It's why I'm voting early. Those that are traditionalists who set traditional voters that say they're voting on the day, I'm voting early. And one of the reasons I'm going to vote early is that it helps the campaigns that I'm supporting, because what it does is understand public that the candidates know that you voted, and they can then stop trying to get you out to vote. They can move on to

somebody else. They can move to your neighbor. So the more you vote, the cheaper it is for the candidate and those those campaigns that you support, because they already know that your vote has been counted.

Speaker 1

Yeah, you might not vocus their attention on those who have not if for any reason vote early. Seed see you get less junk mail from politicians in your mailbox.

Speaker 9

That is no true.

Speaker 4

Brian the Man, thank you, thank you so much for having me on. I appreciate it. People can follow me on the social media platform called x. The last time I was on on Monday, I got a lot of new followers. Please follow me there. I will continue my commentary between now and next Monday, when I come on with my good friend Brian Tommas at Vote Smithman.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 12

Good morning, and who day we finally get to say finally laboratory manner for once, Lison Boy.

Speaker 1

They actually played like it really meant something to them, didn't they.

Speaker 12

Well, yeah, Brian, the preseason is over right, this is the regular I don't know why the league insists that football starts in early September.

Speaker 1

It doesn't. It is late September, it is, But they knew they needed that win. Oh and three is virtually impossible to make it to the playoffs, but oh and four, I think I don't know if anybody's ever done it before. Anyway, Yes, it was nice to see the victory and they did play well anyhow, Moving over to well, question mark another FED rate cut, and I know that's the first topic

of conversation since inflation cooled last month. But that seems to be tempered by what seems to be an inevitable East Coast port strike, which I heard might have a profound impact and inflationary pressures on us because the goods that we normally buy coming from all the East Coast ports won't be around. Yeah, this is a concern, right, So we've been through this before.

Speaker 12

Wasn't that long ago that you and I were talking about how many boats were stranded off the offshore out in Los Angeles and on the East Coast as well.

Speaker 1

Well.

Speaker 12

The COVID responsible for that was, Yeah, we couldn't get the dock workers in. Nobody was allowed to go to work in close quarters, so we couldn't get dock workers in that that this is all.

Speaker 1

This goes back to the supply chain issues that we had, but similar impact.

Speaker 12

You can't get this stuff off the boats, then then the supply chain is impacted and that means there's less stuff on the shelves and so forth. So but let's start off with some good news here. At least the inflationary headlines are actually pretty good. So right now, the overall a PCEE inflation, that's that's kind of the big one. We look at rose by two point two percent year

over year. We're getting back to what we know as normal, the FED two percent goal, that's that's what we throw out there all the time, but it's been a long time since we've actually made it down to two percent. We spend most of the time slightly above it. But the poortant thing is we're definitely not at nine like we were a couple of summers ago, and so we're kind of getting back in that normal range. But the

core PCE that that's kind of more reality. That's still up two point seven percent from about a year ago. These are all good news, but but.

Speaker 1

Core is the one that does not include food and energy. That's correct, That's the one. I always like to make fun of that because literally every American person, anybody living, needs food and probably needs energy as well, So you can cut out and ignore everything else. But the bottom line is everybody's family's bottom line, and there's that bottom line always includes food and energy.

Speaker 12

Yes, yeah, you know, and you're right, obviously, it seems it's it seems stupid to say, well, if we don't think about these two.

Speaker 1

Well then the numbers are great, right. The losses the reds were undefeated this year.

Speaker 12

So but no, the reason they and I understand the reason that they do it because it would be chaos, and we have to look at both of them. Food and energy can be very, very volatile, and it can it can change the change the conclusions you can draw from this information. So it's not about looking at one or the other, it's about looking at both. Yeah, So if we focus on the super violatile stuff, then we'll be in panic mode all the time.

Speaker 1

We got to look at the other things as well. So I get it, But yeah, it does. It does seem a little bit chaotic. Well, if we didn't have the impending strike on the docks or the ports. So is it expected that the Fed is going to cut interest rates again or are we just going to ride out this most recent rate cut and see where things take us. Yeah, and that's kind of the bigger headline.

Speaker 12

So this report that we're looking at supports of the Federal Reserve's recent decisions and suggesting that that's having the desired effect. But we're not we where we want to be. Remember, the goal is still two percent. And the good thing is it does not seem to have caused that. We've got a rate cut that's in the headlines. We got one a couple of weeks ago, and the good news is it does not seem to have caused inflation here in the very short run.

Speaker 1

That's the big concern.

Speaker 12

We could cut interest rates to zero, and if that caused a huge rush of investment, a huge rush of buying stuff, well then we're right back where we started because as we get inflation as a result, that's why we baby step a little bit. I did find it interesting, of course, that the first rate cut we got was fifty basis points, not twenty five, because the FED does like to tap the brakes and tap the gas, so we got kind of a two for one here a

couple of weeks ago. But at this point, yes, it looks like we're going to continue in a rate cutting mode, which again that's good. We want to get back to lower rates. I would love for everybody who has a six or seven percent mortgage because they had to move during this timeframe. I would love for those people to get an opportunity to refinance. We're not there yet, Mortgage rates aren't down to what we want them to be yet.

I would not pull the trigger on a refed just yet, but I would be paying attention.

Speaker 1

Okay, and then you anticipated where I wanted to go on that one. So interest rates for home loans, we expect them to go down with the FED cutting rates. How long does that usually take to have an impact. It's a lagging indicator, of course.

Speaker 12

Normally, what you want to look at if you want to monitor, you know, how interest rates move. It's the ten year treasury that normally banks are paying attention to when they're calculating their mortgage rates. So it can be three to six months, sometimes longer. Obviously every time we go through this is different, but that's the thing you want to look at if you're interested in monitoring this.

Pay attention to the yield on the tenure treasury and then you know, kind of take mental stock of it every couple of weeks and see what direction it's going. That when you start to see it sliding downhill and gaining momentum downhill, that's when you're going to want.

Speaker 1

To start to research interest rates. All right, fair enough, if somebody already has a home, might it might be a great time to refinance, particularly if they bought within the last couple of years under high industrates. However, let's assume the trajectory goes downward and we get interest rates more aligned with what we've been used to of late four percent, four and a half or something along those lines. Sounds optimistic, but until you have more housing supply, that's

not going to do anything. Housing is going to get more expensive with more people believing they're in the realm of monthly payment affordability with that lower interest rate. Yeah, that's absolutely true.

Speaker 12

The thing that's interesting to me is I'm curious as to why there isn't more construction, because we know the demand is there. And I'm not saying there isn't construction. You know, I'm up in here in the Northern Urbs and there's there's plenty of neighborhoods going up, not like it was ten years ago, but yeah, there does seem to be a decent amount of activity. However, we are not yet tracking the you know, the demand for it.

So I part of me thinks that might be because the demand is there anyway, and people are apparently still willing and able to pay, albeit grumpy about it, nobody's smiling, but people are still writing the checks because otherwise we'd

have had a housing collapse. So I kind of wonder if we're not at or at least in the opinion of home construction construction companies, are we at equilibrium, We're at the right place where we can create just enough and it will all get consumed and we make a bunch of money off of it.

Speaker 1

I don't know, yeah, I mean, we just seemed that the disappearance of what used to be deemed an affordable home. I don't know what that number is. Maybe it was one hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand or two hundred and fifty, but you know, throughout the pandemic with people buying up real estate, all those turned into two

hundred and fifty to four hundred thousand dollars homes. And and you know, if you're building a new home, a new home these days, and you're hoping to have been in that you know, quarter of a million dollar price range home, the market's going to force that upward anyway, simply because there's not a lot of that stock available.

Speaker 12

Right And now that that's been the reality for a few years, Brian, maybe that is the definition of an affordable home because we've squeezed out other things that we would we would be doing otherwise to declare that an affordable home.

Speaker 1

We don't get to control that so much.

Speaker 12

And I think a lot of people are willing to adjust their lifestyles rather than going for a less expensive home that's going to put them in a less desirable neighborhood or a house that just needs a lot more work.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, yeah, just such a complex thing. It's just no simple solution. And you know, I don't I mean, I say what you want, abou Kamala Harris lover hate or whatever. I just don't see how giving someone twenty five thousand dollars for the down payment is going to make things easier to acquire a home when that's I think it seems to me economically speaking, like automatically causing the price of a home to jump by twenty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 12

Yeah, it doesn't get at the root cause that. Frankly, the root cause is the demand. And I can't help but think about this big movement we're seeing where these where large corporations are buying up houses and to rent them out.

Speaker 1

We buy anything that is that is.

Speaker 12

Securitizable now gets securitized if I can turn it into investment I'm going to and that has created a whole new class of buyer that didn't exist before, and it reduces the available stock for everybody else.

Speaker 1

So I agree with you.

Speaker 12

Yeah, giving everybody twenty five thousand dollars in a round about Wait, isn't going to get at that root cause you know.

Speaker 1

I'm not the one that's going to advocate for marker for legislative solutions to deal with market forces. But that that really bothers me. I just I don't like having to compete with a multi billion dollar company that can acquire property that isn't really bothered by a one hundred or two hundred thousand dollars you know, change in price.

Speaker 12

Right, and it's not these things that come out from the government to support it just kind of for the we just can kind of continue down that path of not actually getting at the root cause and really getting what's going to truly help you.

Speaker 1

But but I don't hear anything on the other side either.

Speaker 12

Nobody has an answer to this because it would cry or poking the in the eye the largest donut donors of both sides.

Speaker 1

Oh well, we got to the root of the problem on that one. Brian James let's pause. Well, you and I would just get get together fix these problems. If they'd listened, we'd be good.

Speaker 4

Oh.

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Just real quick observation I've been getting a conversation back and forth with a friend of mine in Florida, and she's showing me all these just the pictures and the damage absolutely horrific. But then again, all the way up, I mean a place like Ashville, North Carolina underwater. I mean that's inland. You know, it's a mountain region. I've been to Asheville a bunch of times. And I say all this to lead to I guess we can all

expect our property insurance premiums that go through the roof. Brian, any quick comment on that.

Speaker 12

Yeah, what I'll say to that is is there's a lot of people obviously in this area who are snowbirds and have property you know, most common elsewhere as well.

Speaker 1

People Yes, oh yeah, you better believe it.

Speaker 12

And and like you said, these these yeah, these these the water line keeps moving in right. Every time we have a big storm, insurance company will figure out where they where, they decide that you are close to water versus not, and therefore you pay a little more. But one thing I've started to do, Brian, when we have financial plans for somebody who either already owns or intends to purchase property down there as kind of a vacation home or whatever we have. We we mined to two

line items. We're going to have whatever the mortgage is for that property if they didn't pay cash. And then a second line item we're going to start to plan for is what is the cost of owning that place? And to begin with, because that'll never go away, the HOA costs, the property taxes if there are any, and most importantly, the insurance. So yeah, we are starting to plan around that from a budgetary purpose.

Speaker 1

Good as well, everyone should. All right, moving over to Social Security? How can we be reducing our ultimate Social Security check? Yeah, So a couple things sneaking up.

Speaker 12

If you're looking at retirement, you're thinking about filing for SoC security at some point in the near future, that decision is not only impacted by when you turn on your Social Security spigot, It can be impacted by the stuff that you're doing now before you look at ever filing. So one of the big things that people kind of trip over sometimes is how is this calculated in the

first place. So the root cause, the root math behind your social security calculation is based off your highest thirty five years worth of earnings, right, And I said highest. So this has good components, has bad components. If first of all, if you only work for thirty years, then you're gonna have five years that are listed as zero.

Speaker 1

That's a bad thing. It's gonna drag that number down. On the other hand, and a lot of people get confused by this as well.

Speaker 12

Some people say, you know, I really liked it. I don't want to retire, not ready yet, but I do want to back off a little bit. I want to take an easier job or just just kind of baby step into retirement. But I'm worried that's gonna hurt my Social Security. And the answer to that is it probably won't, right because remember it's all about your thirty five highest years of history.

Speaker 1

If your last few years are.

Speaker 12

Lower than your first thirty five, then it's not going to impact anything at all. But if they're also, if there's something there more than zero that's actually going to help you, if just to get you to that thirty five. So just to understand how that works.

Speaker 1

All right, Well, anything else we're doing to screw up the we get while we're running Social Security, yeah, some other things to trip over.

Speaker 12

So if you are if you plan on receiving social Security before you actually retire, right this is this is while you're working. Then you're gonna run something called the earnings test in twenty twenty four. If you earn more than twenty one, two hundred and forty dollars and you turn on your Social Securities bigot, your benefits are going to be reduced by a dollar for every two dollars

you earn above the limit. Full retirement age is going to be somewhere between age sixty six and sixty seven, depending on when.

Speaker 1

You were born.

Speaker 12

So just remember a lot of people want to convince themselves that social Security is going to go poof overnight, because that's the drum beat out there. That's not true, by the way, but that's a different discussion. So they'll turn that's bigot on right away just to make sure they get something. And then they realize that they're giving a chunk of it back because they are still working prior to full retirement age.

Speaker 1

So be careful how you do that. A lot of people considering working at least part time during the retirement age. So that figure is that so you can earn up to that number you gave is twenty and forty before has any impact. It's the dollars earned over that that result in that ratio you mentioned. That's correct, and that's all before four retirement age. You can work as much

as you want. Warren Buffett gets his full social Security check. No, okay, after four retirement is oh betting up a potential new discussion on how you could reform social Security anyway? Moving to a state that taxes benefits, Yeah.

Speaker 12

There are a few out there, and unfortunately we don't the sound of our voices right now unless you're listening to the podcast somewhere is not impacted. Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky are not on these lists. There are thirteen states that do tax social Security. That's Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.

If you're planning on retiring to any of those dates, just be mindful your che social curity check is going to drop a little bit.

Speaker 1

All right, Well, six ways to build a successful retirement, plus a bunch of ugly truths about retirement, but a figure that I want Brian to address when we come back. Just what would two hundred mere dollars per month. Do if you just start investing when you're twenty five years old, two hundred dollars a month towards your retirement is an amazing figure. Eight twenty five fifty five kc DE Talk Station one more with Brian James. In a few moments, it'll be.

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A twenty nine fifty five KERRCD Talk Station. One more here with Monday Monday's Brian James, as we dive into ways to build a successful retirement that would be a part of your social security, but something you do independently. And I love this fact that you provided in the materials the go Banking rates dot Com twenty seven ugly trews about retirement. But I two hundred dollars a month at age twenty five, Brian, how much could you have by age sixty five with just two hundred a month?

So let's cut to the chase. The answer, the too long, didn't read answer, is just do it. It's a good idea. Yeah, Buch in the stock market for forty years.

Speaker 12

So but let's look at the math underneath it, because because I think it makes a lot of sense, Brian, for everybody to exhale and just look at history to understand what we're signing up for. So if I start, if I'm twenty five, and I start investing two hundred dollars a month at age twenty five, and I grow it until full retirement age ish around my mid sixties, that assuming the long term average of the stock market with reinvested dividends, believe it or not, is ten percent.

I know that sounds like bolooney, but that is literally what it is. So assuming we get that rate of return, than that two hundred bucks a month over forty years compounds to about one and a quarter million dollars, right, which is that that's a real sum of money. And somebody out there is screaming, Bologney, we can't calculate ten percent rates of return, and I understand that. I know it can be over a forty year time period. That's that's reliable because it has been for a long time.

That's what we've gotten the last twenty years. So let's do it again, Brian, and let's assume six percent rate of return more conservative right now, we're talking four hundred thousand dollars. The answer is do it long term investing. The stock market is where it's all at. Don't get sucked into the short term swings and the flashy things on the side. Those are okay for you know, side investments. Take take a flyer on something, But the core of

everybody's portfolio needs to be the US stock market. There's just nothing else out there.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and there are people out there that say, well, it's crazy and you know, the world's going to come in and the fiad currency's going to end, you know, gloom and doom, it's all gonna end, blah blah blah. Well, you know, if that's your attitude, then there's nothing anybody can say to convince you otherwise. But for the sane, rational folks who at least believe in some longevity for our country, it's only two hundred bucks a month that it could really do a wall, really really well serve

you for your retirement. Absolutely.

Speaker 12

And for those out there who kind of lean that way, who kind of lean a little pessimistic, I have a way for you to think about it too. Remember who pulls the strings in our society? Where do the largest dollars come from that go to the politicians who make all of our decisions for us. It comes from the publicly traded companies. They don't care. We've talked about this many many times. They do not care who's in office.

Blue red, doesn't make any difference. All they care about is knowing what kind of administration is democratic or Republican, so they know which playbook to pull out. They're gonna throw a bunch of money, Adam, no matter what, which means publicly traded companies are going to get the lion's share of the benefits of the decisions that we make. The good thing about it is you get to invest in them. But you've got to learn your history and be prepared for the ups and downs well.

Speaker 1

And of course you have to take advantage of the four oh one K or other retirement programs that are be able to do this. But quite often, you know, if you're working for an employer with a four oh one K, that comes along with a you know, a small measure of employee match but or employer match, but it's something, and you're walking away from free money if you don't take advantage of that.

Speaker 12

If it's offer, absolutely so that would that would compound that two hundred bucks a month for forty years. Well, let's let's make it two hundred and I didn't do this math, but make it two hundred and fifty. Make it three hundred, because somebody else is throwing more money in on top in the form of a four to h one k match or profit sharing, and now there's there's just exponentially more dollars for you. But again, learn

the history, learn how the machine works. If you figure out how it works, it doesn't take a lot of maintenance over time. Everybody's financial plan for the first thirty years is three things. Invest in the stock market, don't panic when it wobbles, and don't make a mess of your credit. Do that for thirty years you'll have something to worry about before retiring, which is.

Speaker 1

A good thing, right well, And the other component is, and sadly many of us, and I'll throw myself right on in there, don't take as good care of our health as we should. And that could really truly impact your retirement and your comfort level.

Speaker 12

Absolutely. So there's two components to this. We talk about health care and retirement, there's two flavors. Right, we all got to go to the doctor and get our meds and all those ongoing things, and that just increases, unfortunately in frequency as we age. So the estimate is somewhere in the three and ten three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars range is what it will cost someone from retirement age to the end of life just to keep going

to the doctor and just for normal health maintenance. That is not and I want to stress this, that does not include people who find themselves in a situation where they need long term care. That if that happens, which is about seventy percent of people are going to need some long term care stint in their lives, that's another three hundred thousand dollars depending on where you live. So these are things that we don't really pay attention to.

These are expenses we don't really think about because they will pile up and they'll increase compared to what we're used to it when we're younger and healthier. So it's something that makes basically make sure you have on your radar.

Speaker 1

Well, something that has always concerned me that is overspending on housing. And I know after on the heels of our discussion about housing costs and the availability of housing. It's a difficult thing to factor into the equation, but you know, being house poor is very bad for your financial future.

Speaker 12

The people that I have worked with where we sit down and do a retirement plan and it looks like they're fine on paper, but it kind of scares me is the ones that go out and buy a really big house because they've convinced they've themselves.

Speaker 1

They deserve it right when they retire.

Speaker 12

All of a sudden, they've moved to this big, fancy neighborhood and they've got a five bedroom house for really no reason they could. They've convinced themselves that the kids are going to come home and they're going to bring their grandkids and everybody will have a place to stay.

Speaker 1

That never happens, by the way. People don't want to do that, but those are the ones.

Speaker 12

They wind up with a thirty year mortgage for the rest of their lives and it winds up being an anchor around their necks, and they truthfully, they wind up selling in sort of a distress manner, not necessary financially, but mad at themselves if they did it in the first place, and that will cause them to take lower than what they would other ones.

Speaker 1

Yeah, just laughing at the idea of a single car just a couple living at a five bedroom home. Hey, we all have choices to make. If that's within your financial ability, knock yourself out. It just doesn't make sense. I don't care if I'm sitting on twenty million dollars. The idea of living in a monster his house with just my wife and he just seems counterintuitive. You got those rooms clean? I mean the furniture alone, anyway, Brian.

Speaker 12

Those rooms get awful dusty waiting for every fifth Christmas when somebody sleeps in.

Speaker 1

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Welcome back, JT. Townsend. You're going to be doing an empower youth seminar this Thursday, beginning at seven pm on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 13

Could you have it back on the show, Brian, Always a pleasure to be on with you. Yes, I will be doing the Lincoln assassination Thursday at seven o'clock.

Speaker 1

All right, I know he was killed by John Wilkes booth Ford Theater. We all know the jokes that have come out over the here other than the play. You know, how was the play? But I've I never looked into this. It isn't I mean, I've never viewed it, the same as the Kennedy assassination. We help all these conspiracy theorists. I just figured this is some disgruntled, like terrorist fanatic who's angry that the slavery was over in the North won of the Civil War. But it's more than that. I understand.

Speaker 13

It's not a it's not a bad description of it, Brian. A lot of similarities to the Kennedy assassination, but the characters in the Lincoln assassination are fascinating. You've got John Wilkes. Booth stands alone among presidential assassins or attempters.

Speaker 9

He was not some.

Speaker 13

Pathetic loser like Lee Harvey Oswald and all the rest of them. This guy was an alpha male.

Speaker 1

A list actor, well a lot of questions.

Speaker 13

Yeah, the most handsome man in America.

Speaker 1

He was called really yes.

Speaker 13

And here is a case where we actually had a conspiracy. Booth not unlike Lee Harvey Oswald was killed before he could go to trial, but eight people were convicted in the Trial of the Century. It was a military tribunal before those people were executed, including Mary Sarat the first woman ever executed by the federal government. And four of them have served long prison terms. So we had an actual conspiracy here, just not a very good one.

Speaker 1

Now have you reviewed the evidence that led to their convictions, because you know, in the aftermath is something as profound as the assassination of a president, you know, looking to find those guilty and quick to bring around judgment to satisfy people because they want justice served. Was the evidence solid against those that were convicted and executed?

Speaker 13

That is an excellent question, Brian. They arrested two hundred people, but they only tried eight, and three of these people weren't even involved in the assassination. It was more like a kidnapped plot that never came about. People have debated for centuries. Now was Mary Sarat guilty of helping Booth? And doctor Samuel Mudd from your name is mud Fame? You know, did he actually help Booth? So there's a lot of controversy about just how guilty these people were.

I suspect in a civil trial, not a military tribunal, some of these people would have been acquitted, and I don't believe it would have had any executions.

Speaker 1

Kind of figured that was what you were going to tell me. You know, it's the lawyer in my head a sort of a wheel spinning there, j T. What was the I guess the motivation just simply revenge or was there something they were hoping to accomplish, you know, like people claimed January sixth was going to overthrow the government.

I might disagree with him on that, but that's what the suggestion is, that these folks think that they were going to bring about something more than just getting revenge on the man who was ultimately responsible.

Speaker 13

Right, well, the Civil War had just ended. It's good Friday. The whole of Washington, d c.

Speaker 1

And the North is celebrating.

Speaker 13

It just drove Booth crazy.

Speaker 9

You know.

Speaker 13

He was a ham actor. Wasn't really a very good actor, but he was really good and he, you know, jumping around and sword fighting kind of way, that kind of actor. And I think he just, you know, he was so eaten up by the fact that he himself did not fight for the South, even though he believed in their cause,

and he got an opportunity. He was picking up his mail at Ford Theater on that Friday, and the clerk let slip to him that Lincoln and his wife were going to be there that night, and the whole thing came together that day. Really not a lot of advance planning at all, and I think he thought that the South would welcome him with open arms if he kills Lincoln. And it was nothing that was nothing like what happened.

The South was appalled that he did this. Really and yes, and unlike the Kennedy assassination, though tragic, we got Lyndon Johnson and the same policies went on. Lincoln's murder changed the course of post Civil War history through the reconstruction. Instead of getting Lincoln's kind and gentle with malice toward none charity for all, we've got Andrew Johnson's draconian measures against the South. And I think some of those problems

are still reverberating today. In fact, you know, people think our political situation, you know, our discourse were more divided than ever before. Those people really haven't looked at the history of this crime. We just came out of a civil war over the most divisive issue in history, slavery, and nothing going on today can compare to what was going on in eighteen sixty five.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I try to take comfort in that in these crazy interesting times we live in, ours we find ourselves living in because you know, like looking back at the Vietnam era protests, the bombings, the terrorist organizations both domestic and worldwide. I mean, it was a precarious, precarious time. Then this also an unbelievably divided time for our country, and yet we manage to persevere.

Speaker 13

Oh, the scope of this, I mean, it was so long ago. I don't know if you can compare it to really what's going on today in terms of the in terms of the ramifications, in terms of it being the first great news story in history. And then you have the execution of the Lincoln Conspirators, which was photographed with ten different photos. It was the first major news, first news event ever to be recorded in sequential photographs. And yeah, we executed a woman. Yeah that led to

Andrew Johnson's impeachment. Oh really, Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1

Well I've learned a lot of this morning and just stretching the surface what you're going to be talking about. It's Thursday night. You begin at seven pm and got an hour and a half worth of this breakdown from JT.

Who's remarkable and how he explains things. Are you going to do any Q and A. I know this is we can We can tune in from the comfort of our own home by just simply registering the Poweroamerica dot org, or we can show up in person at two twenty five North and Boulevard at the Empower Youth Studios.

Speaker 13

Exactly. Oh, definitely, we'll do a Q and A. I think that talks about an hour, certainly hoping they get some discussion and the conspiracy theorists will will probably be there. Brian, you should see when I do the JFK assassination.

Speaker 10

I'm doing that.

Speaker 13

I'm doing that Wednesday night at the dal Hie Township Library and it gets very contentious.

Speaker 1

Oh no, kidding to library. What time on Wednesday?

Speaker 13

That's seven pm at the dal High Township Library. Oh yeah, my JFK talks. I'm a former conspiracy guy and I'm a booth did it alone guy, and when you look at the evidence, you know it pretty much was a was a crazy loaner situation. There was no conspiracy in my opinion. But boy, I appear to be in the minority of that opinion.

Speaker 1

Well, well, would you cast yourself in the minority or majority when it comes to the Kennedy assassination.

Speaker 13

Oh, seventy percent of the people never accepted the warrant commission. Yeah, I used to be one of those conspiracy guys. And then you start looking at the evidence, and it was Lee Harvey Oswald all by himself. If this was just an ordinary homicide, he would have been quickly convicted. But the fact that you throw JFK in and imbuse it with all these lofty conspiracy things, but it was a pretty simple crime.

Speaker 1

Really well, Ruby didn't help anything by killing Lee Harpy because that just added fuel to the conspiracy fire he did.

Speaker 13

And in Lincoln we had the sergeant Boston Corbett, a I'll say this, a self castrated religious eunuch who shot Booth when they were trying to arrest him in that barn. So we've had Ruby and Boston Corbett, two just crazy avengers who who killed the assassin and spawned a thousand conspiracy theories.

Speaker 1

He's self castrated. Okay, that speaks volumes. There's a DSM five diagnosis in that one. JT.

Speaker 13

Indeed.

Speaker 1

Indeed, Well, it's great hearing from you today thanks to spending time my listeners.

Speaker 13

Hey ahead, Ryan, if I could get in a shameless plug, I think a lot of your please, a lot of your listeners know I'm constantly working the Brick and Murders of nineteen sixty six, my third book Summer's Almost Gone is now in its fourth printing. And if you haven't read this book, you should. And on my website www dot JT. Townsend dot com. If you order this book and put WKRC in the coupon code.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 13

I'd love to see your audience get this book. I am working diligently to try to get the DNA retested in Cincinnati's most notorious cold case, and I'm still working on it. You know, DNA is so advanced now you can you can solve cold cases long after all the suspects are dead.

Speaker 1

So it's truly amazing. And anytime you get updated on that, when you've got a spot here in the Morning Show, JT.

Speaker 13

Trust you on, I'm going to take you up on that. This fall at some point.

Speaker 1

Perfect I enjoyed I listen's fascinating conversations. I appreciate what you're doing. I wish you the best on getting that DNA evidence.

Speaker 13

Well. I would love to talk about the breaker case with you at some point on the air.

Speaker 1

Joe Strecker's made a note of it, so we will definitely do that. JT. Townsend, It's Thursday night at Poweroamerica dot org or two twenty five North and Boulevard. Make sure you register ahead of time. Either way, you slice it great having you on JT and enjoy the conversation on Thursday.

Speaker 13

Great Thanks Brian, Thank you.

Speaker 1

Eight fifty one fifty five KRC The

Speaker 2

Talk station be right back fifty five KRC

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