55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Mandy Gunasekara

You happy with the outcome? Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah. Dave Williamson, the Taxpayer Protection Line is also very Happy's big Eagles fan. He was on a light post in Philly last night. Oh that's good anyway. Now, it's pleased to see the outcome of the game when I woke up this morning, or learn of the outcome of the game when I woke up this morning. So anyway, ah,

what's coming up today? Well, it's Monday, so of course Christopher Smithman joins the program, former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, with his thoughts and comments, which we call the smither Vent every Monday at seven twenty looking forward to Christopher out Christopher, Good morning out there, And if you're tuned into the Morning Show, and quite often he is, I occasionally will get a you know, a text message from him on my phone. It's like chiming

in on some comment or another. It's a pleasure having him as a listener. Dear friend, wonderful human being, and I love his thoughts and comments on a Monday morning. I also enjoy talking to Brian James Monday Monday with Brian James every Monday at eight oh five. Coming up, Trump announcing more tariffs on China steel and aluminum. Shocking, no one insurance rates are going. Oh three ups, up, up up. That's on my rundown. Thank you, jose Chrecker

for the rundown. And how much you spending on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day's Day, I got engaged. Nothing. I haven't even given it any thought. One of the smartest things I ever did was asked my now soon to be thirty three years of marriage wife to marry me. And it didn't work out real well too. I mean I had something planning, going to take her out to dinner, and we ended up getting carry out Thai food, sat down

on the living room floor and eat Thai food. And I knew it was the right thing because one of my favorite movies of all time, Costablanca, was actually on television. And so she accepted my proposal of marriage. So that was it, and we got married the following June. So it worked out really well for me. And don't spend a lot of money on a wedding. I know people are big on spending a lot of money on weddings. We just got married in the lobby of the Ritz

Carlton Hotel. Management was not real happy about that too. I guess we didn't tell him it was going to happen. But we had a judge there, a friend that was a partner of the law firm I was working at, was a judge in Naples, Florida, and he was happy to show up and marry us. His wife acted as a witness and the photographer, which we hired last minute was the other witness. We told everybody we were leaving to get married and ended up having a nice party.

Thank you to my mom and dad for putting that party on. But you know, look, I call that basically a zero dollar expend at your wedding compared to what you can spend on weddings, and no one seemed to suffer. Didn't want to cut and pick and choose who was going to show up. People get pissed off about something like that. How come I wasn't invited? How come you invited that person? Mean, it's like, you know what, We're not going to deal with that, We're just going to

get married, you know. And some people get upset, like, well there wasn't a priest presiding or a minister presiding. He's like, no, my belief in the institution of marriage. You know, you can just you could sit down in a room with someone you love, and if you believe in God and you have faith, you make a pledge to the Almighty that you were going to marry and love and cherish and all that. It's a pledge to God. I mean, what's a pledge to the state worth Seriously?

And I know. The point is he got paperwork in his documented and that means you have an obligation. Then you know child support and all that and division of property. Though all the state involvements brings from people not fulfilling their obligations which are supposed to be obligations to God. Here I am on a tear anyway, Valentine's Day, how about you going to spend on it? We're going to find out with Brian James and Mandy Gunna Sakara the

book y'all fired talk with her back in October. We're going to find out what she thinks about Doge and the well draining of the swamp which is going on full on. So I've got an illustration to that. In in spite of the fact that Elon Musk has been blocked from access to the Treasury Department information, He's got some

good ideas there. Even the folks in the Treasury Department have no idea where the money is going to the tune of fifty to one hundred billion dollars five three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three taco with pound five fifty on at and t phones well here what Mark has to say this morning. Mark, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday, and welcome to the Morning Show.

twelve twelve of them, right, yeah, yeah. So I was driving south on seventy five that day and I see it and I started laughing, and I'm like, okay, so this is going to start, right And then some of the guys at work were talking about it and I said, wait, I said stop, wait a minute. I said, now, think about it. Think about where they're set up. Just you know, they're going to so called protests, and they're carrying all of them, not all of them. I don't know if all

of them did, but they had long guns. They are fifteen. But like, so, we had some of the guys I had a little short conversation about it, and you know, I said, think about it. This is thee it it's the same people that were hired to protest around the country years ago, and so on and so forth.

couldn't tell what color the guy was. He was fully covered up, had a mask on, and you know, I thought, well, maybe you know police are standing out here, But then it was obvious it wasn't at a policeman, and so I couldn't tell what color the guy was. So I went to the office, did what I needed to do, turned around, came back up to Shephard. So I'm still on the phone with my wife and I said, hold on a second. So I pulled over and I rolled my winded down because if it was one of the

little Antifa, I won't say the word. I want to, but I was gonna just ask him, you know, what are you doing? You're Paige, get the hell out of here. But the guy pulls his mask down and he's a black guy, and I said, can I ask you a question? And he starts backing up, and again he's got an AR fifteen and I'm pulled off. I'm in my company truck.

weapon at me. I said, but he was raising it. He had his finger on the trigger guard, and he never pointed it at me, but he.

Saint Louis, it doesn't matter. Any of the predominantly black neighborhoods that there's a reason they picked that overpass to do this, to provoke a reaction the way that they did, and people in these communities, you got to be smart enough to understand that Donald Trump made inroads into the black vote and the Democrats and George Soros don't like it, and they're going to do whatever they can to paint this white supremacy crap. And there's probably not seven true Nazis in the entire country.

as idiots. Their their ideology is stupid. This racism that they expouse is not embraced by anyone who has an ounce of intellect. I mean right, Yeah, but the.

communities have to be smarter than this. Don't fall for it and understand that. I was going if that guy was one of the little hired ANTIFA actors, because I can guarantee you that probably every one of those guys were hired to do that. There were actors, it was theater. But if he was one of those guys, I was going to give him the what for and tell him to get the hell out of there. Nobody wants to see your stupidity here, you know. I was going to

stand up for that community. Yeah, and I'm a white guy, but warning the white guys that are driving through Lincoln Heights, don't be surprised if you get asked if you're a Nazi. I mean, that was one of the dumbest questions I've ever been asked.

That's an unhinged leftist reaction. People who have the Trumps arrangements under him, with Donald Trump living rent free in their head and he's responsible for every evil in the world. Appreciate it, Mark, appreciate it very much. Good hearing from you. Five nine teen fifty five KR SIT Talk Station five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two three talk. Feel free to call a comment

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let's see here? Pivoting over to nothing in particular except the fact I saw a couple of articles about how outrageously expensive it was for stuff and things to buy at the Super Bowl one hundred dollars for a salad, seventeen dollars for a beer like okay, And I was thinking about the problem we're having with the Brown family and the negotiations over the stadium improvements, and they're sort of veiled threat to take the team and leave, okay, And how much it costs to buy a beer over

at the stadium, And I keep thinking, well, wait a second, isn't the future of football people like watching it on their jumbo trons at home and drinking in relatively early, comparatively inexpensive beer of your own choice. And a clean bathroom, assuming you keep your bathroom clean at least it's not a public bathroom. Food's probably better at home when you prepared it home, so you know. And the literally insanity the money that public money that is spent on these

privately owned football teams. Pivot over to Utah. This is pretty funny Utah taxpayers, maybe, and much of the chagrin of Riverton, Utah mayor trans Stags spending more than a billion dollars to build a gondola project that'll ferry skiers up to some elite ski resorts. Mayor tran Stags says unfair subsidy and waste and abuse of taxpayer money. Criticize the use of public funds for this massive skila project. Quote.

Government's job is not to pit winners. And losers spending over one billion dollars in taxpayer funds that transport skiers the two resorts does just that. In no stretch of the imagination. Is that the role of taxpayers to foot the bill to help two ski resorts? Good? Well stated Amen. Apparently the Utah Department of Transportation recently approved this project will build the world's largest gondola to take steers skiers up to snow Bird and Alta resorts in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Total cost one point four billion dollars in taxpayer money. Does that make any sense? Does that sound justifiable? According to Breitbart reporting, while some have defended the plan, sighting traffic, congestion and environmental concerns in the canyon, the project just face growing pushback from local businesses and residents who argue it's a misuse of taxpayer funds and primarily benefits private resorts,

which it does. How does something like this even happen? Meanwhile, Trump is going to be looking into that California railroad boondoggle project, another multi, multi, multi, multi billion dollar project you and I'll be paying for so they can have a QW two train that takes people from point A to point B, and really the first line of that particular segment we can talk about it later, is between places that no one really wants to go back and forth. Roses on the phone, take your call as soon as

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You know my take because I talked with a friend of mine at length yesterday about this, and he and I are both very strong supporters of President Trump now and going all the way back to twenty sixteen, so

he had not a ray. But I know that this incident is having an effect on black people that I know, and I can appreciate that, and I'm very sensitive to that because among my family and friends there are people who have been victimized, not in recent years, but decades back and having to flee the South because of the threat of the clan. Now, my idea is that there needs to be an investigation of these incidents because they are proliferating, and I believe that it's incumbent on our

local authorities. You know, I kept thinking yesterday if Countie Pillage was an office as our county prosecutor, there probably already would be some kind of statement or Joe did, or some kind of statement about an investigation, or maybe a contact with BCI and our Attorney General in Ohio, or even all the way up the line to the FBI. And I remember during Cash Betel's hearings that you know, he said that he wanted to get people out in the field to do their job. And I think that

an investigation would serve two valuable purposes. One if it is authentic. These two organizations have records of being deadly terrorist organizations, and I find it very, very difficult to dismiss what they have done because they've been strategic in doing their demonstrations, first near Lincoln Heights, which is the largest predominantly African American municipality north of the Mason Dixon line. And then they have been strategic in terms of the

Shepherd Avenue location that Mark was talking about. There is a prominent African American church in the city of Cincinnati, and also one in Lincoln Heights. And I don't know what end of shepherds that Mark was talking about, but all of this is very chilling to me. If it is fraud, and if it is pantomime, then it's not good for the president or the country. And where we at the being so divided right now, Well, I ask.

I don't know what the limits are. But there needs to be a contact by our elected officials to say this, and I think that that I don't know that the sheriff has said anything about the security of our citizens, our fellow citizens in Hamilton County who live in Lincoln Heights or who live in predominantly African American areas like Woodlawn.

But something needs to be done, because you know, if we can be outraged about terror across the ocean called hamas as I have been since October seventh, and even before then October seventh of twenty twenty three. We need to be outraged about real or play acting terrorists, and actually Antifa and BLM, as far as I'm concerned, they are terrorists organizations because they've burned down Minneapolis and they have protested violently. So we need an investigation to find

out who these people really are. If they are bona fide members of the Klan and the Neo Nazi Party, they need to be investigated. And you know, if you can send hundreds of innocent people to jail for months on end at the Capitol, then I think that this is something that needs to be investigated to expose whether they're real or authentic. And I think the benefits would be great for the President and for the conservative movement and the Republican Party, and I think it's really past

time for our leadership to really speak out. I think that Mayor Purevolve was contacted by CNN and got a statement, but I'd like to know what the mayor of Lincoln Heights and Woodland have to say and what our law enforcement people have to say county wide, and our new prosecutor what she has to say, and go right up the line to the Bureau of BCI at the state level and the FBI, because I remember as a child the FBI going down South after the murders of civil

rights workers to investigate these organizations.

behavior which can be investigated and prosecuted. Now, as to the Azis, if they are if they weren't Nazis and they were fake actors, didn't they invite themselves to perhaps have an entire community of black people attack them and give them the beatdown that they might deserve because they embraced Nazism, But then backing away from that just because you expouse Nazism. I mean, it's we live in a

country with free speech. If you want to be an idiot and voice your opinion in support of racism, you're going to reveal yourself to be the idiot that you are. That's what the that's what the exact point of free speech is. Free speech you can expouse the dumbest things ever, and the public will judge you accordingly, and you're not going to get a whole lot of people supporting your

stupidity when you talk out loud. It's one of the reasons they probably covered their face, assuming they were real Nazis, they didn't want to reveal to the world who they actually are. They may have jobs and they would lose them if they're out expousing racism. I mean, the whole

thing is it's just you know. I got to also point out one of the most profound support of the free speech was in fact a free speech opinion in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, which upheld the rights of Nazis to go out and say the stuff that they say. I mean, that's the good thing about free speech. You know where the idiots are. So I don't know what's to investigate. I don't know, and I haven't heard anything about them engaging in criminal behavior.

That you might fear the Nazis if they are because of their ideology. I understand the fear and the concern someone of the black community might have for them. But twelve or thirteen, I think you outnumber them like a gazillion to one, and you know what, you'd have the support of the vast majority of every citizen in the United States of America in your efforts to well tell them they're morons and their ideology is stupid. But I personally have political opinions. Everybody knows in Ro's I can't

thank you for listening to the show. I'm a little ill libertarian and I expouse small government and the right for you to decide where you want to spend your money and who you want to sleep with. Should I be investigated, I haven't committed any acts of crime. Just think, you know, think about it. Five thirty eight, call into it. We can further discuss this. I know it's a real hot topic this week because of the idiots that gathered

on the bridge in Lincoln Heights. Stick around, be right back after these brief words.

truly truly believe in something. Aren't you able to just go out into the world unmasked and voice your opinion. We got bad actors on all sides of the ledger. They have to cover themselves up completely all my god, facial recognition software is literally everywhere. Cameras are literally everywhere. Anyhow, I'd just like to observe that. You know, if you want to walk into a neighborhood like Lincoln Heights waving a Nazi flag and talking about white supremacy, I think

you might invite a beat down. And honestly, I think I mean and Joe Strecker did say they were engaged in criminal activity. Said the following day apparently they tore down some signs that people had placed up talking about damage cars. That was it. I did not see that in the news. Thank you Joe Strecker for paying closer attention to what's going on locally than I have been. But damaging cars equal arrest. Standing around screaming nonsense about

your political ideology is part of free speech. Read your First Amendment and look at the case law supporting it. Not to say their message is welcome, but opinions are like sphincters. Everybody's got one. Let's see here real quick, here I get to the one of the stackers. Stupid. You can call in and chime in. I love to hear from you. Left winging, vampire obsessed after school program teacher accused of sexually abusing two young girls for years at a Harlem school in New York and filming the

child sexual abuse material. According to the new lawsuit report of the New York Post, Amen, twenty six year old Miles McNeil, after school program teacher whose online alter ego pushed communist propaganda and fetishized vampires if that's not enough, allegedly touched and photographed young students naked bodies, had them assume sexual position, and showed them pictures of the genitalia of other kids while threatening them to stay silent, according

to victims and core papers. Lawsuit further alleged the staff and supervisors at Public School one eighty five in this after school program failed to follow rules requiring staff to never be alone with children for empty classrooms to remain locked. They alleged these failures enabled McNeil to abuse the young

girls for three years. Complaint also alleges the administrators didn't properly punish McNeil after he was discovered by another staffer alone in an empty classroom with a second grader straddling his lap. McNeil reportedly suspended for a one day. Child's father was told that his child was at fault. I can't believe I just read those words. The child was at fault. Arrested February first, last year. Charge was sexual abusing an eight year old girl. Court document's alleged police

found fifty two electronic devices in his possession. He pleaded not go to the criminal charges posted. Bail. Case is still pending. One of the girls reportedly suicidal. Both nine year olds are traumatized, according to their families. They said they're deeply concerned the child sexual abuse materia could follow all of the girls for the rest of their lives. Okay, we're just gonna go ahead and give them the biggest douche.

of child porn. Probe that this guy began last year after an employee of the Rush Funplex called police to report that a suspicious guy was stealing socks at this children's complex. Court a probable cause avida of police investigation revealed that Brown stole multiple children's socks and the Rush Funplex in West Jordan Salt Lake City suburb. Additionally, Roland seen sniffing the stolen snocks, socks and taking multiple pictures

of children playing. Obviously alarmed by the concerning behavior, cops secure to warrant to raid his home. During the search of his electronic devices, who was found they had multiple files of child sexual abuse material. They also discovered several images of children around the area trying on shoes or just the children in his feet. Brown arrested charge with ten counts each of aativated sexual exploitation of a minor

sexual exploitation of a minor. He also is accused of tampering with a witness of felony after it was found that Roland attempted to have a witness lie to the court. Ruling that there was quote substantial evidence close quotes against him. The judge ordered to be held without bail, noting that if released, he would constitute a substantial danger to any other individual order the community who is likely to flee the jurisdiction. What is with people? There's no flag for us,

you know, and you're right, there shouldn't be. Let's go to Forsyth, Georgia, where a man allegedly barked like a dog in an autopart store for over an hour. Why are you doing that? Police made a well what they say is a not so shocking discovery and searching his vehicle. Court to the incident of report. Police responded to a call from the owner of Advanced Autoparts location regard a man who had been at the store for over an hour and was barking like a dog. That's actually in

the report. Officers showed up found twenty nine year old Jonathan Navis. One question, said he had no idea that he was causing any issues, please, said, They asked him for his identification, he told it was in his car. Okay.

Officers said that when they've approached the car, they found quote a clear baggie containing syringes close quote the passenger seat, which prompted a search of the vehicle, during which they found a bag of clear crystal subjects, which the officers ultimately confirmed was drum roll meth amphetamine as this tradition. Uh for his part, and Vos allegedly told police the syringes were full of blood. All right, we'll end with this one. Two married police officers who had sex in

front of their children were arrested. New Jersey police landed in what they say, hot water after allegedly shared naked images of themselves with their children of the background. According to authorities, Officer Brian Dibiasse fired from the Hamilton Police Department January thirty first, following allegation he used a messaging app to distribute quote image and video files of suspected

child sexual exploitation and EVA, why you're doing that? No idea thirty nine year old Obasi and his wife, Mercer County Sheriff's Office officer Elizabeth Debassi forty two arrested. Both arrested January twenty ninth. Investigation of the pair began a week following the report from the National Center for Missing Your Exploited Children about the images. Authorities claimed Debossi shared thirty six media files containing explicit photos and videos of

his wife with children in close proximity. Also access chat logs in which the Bossi has claimed to have quote mentioned children being present while he and his wife had

sex clothes quote. Faces charges including allowing a child to partake in a sexual act for photograph filming filming purposes, engaging in sexual conduct harmful to child's morals, possessing less than a thousand items of child's sexual abuse material, distributing sexual abusement to imagery, and possessing such materials with intent to distribute. His wife charged with engaging in sexual conduct

that would corr up the morals of a child. Wow, just just wow, five fifty six fifty five carse the talk stations stick around, plenty to talk about in the seventh and the six o'clock I love hearing from you. Maybe got some further comments, feel free to call. I'll be right back. Covering Trump's first one hundred days every.

Joe that you said you watch the whole thing. If I was over twenty five, I probably hated it, Okay, that I didn't miss anything. Your kids did like it? Okay, fair enough, Joe quote. I did not understand it, although his children enjoyed it. Anyhow. If you feel like Colin got something to talk about, feel free to call five one, three, seven four nine, Fife five eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk Pound FI fifty on eight and T

founds and uh. Joe provided me with an update, and I guess at Local twelve hit a little more information than I was aware of. After that neo Nazi group or alleged neo Nazi group was up in Lincoln Heights on the bridge. You know, idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. Of course, a lot of people don't believe they really were Neo Nazis. You do have an open carry law in Ohio, and it doesn't matter what political affiliation you are, You're allowed to carry open And I

know some people don't like that. And personally, as a huge Second Amendment fan and someone who gets great thrills out of going to the gun range and shooting paper or steel targets or clay pigeons, I don't like open carry. I don't, but you can have it. Of course, Supreme Courts on record saying even if you are a Nazi, you can go out and spew Nazi crap to the world, which is I always loved the point out. That's the

good thing about free speech. You know who the idiots are. Anyway, some local guy apparently the following day, was trying to spread the message of love, countering the message of hate obviously promoted by the neo Nazis, if they were Last Name's bone cutter, which I thought was rather interesting. So you can only fight hate with love. So I felt like it was important of the message out in place where Lincoln Heights, where I know is feeling scared, putting

up love signs, promoting love, promoting unity. Concerned citizen boarded into the group that their cars were being damaged. Now here's where crime comes in. You can't arrest people for their idiot's speech, but you sure can arrest them if they're committing damage to automobiles. He said, he was warned. He said, Hey, they're damaging you guys cars. They're smashing windows, he said. He continued to hang the signs. He discovered that his SUV and another couple vehicles that had their

cars smashed by rocks. Apparently this neat so called neo Nazi group arrived in a U haul on Friday, and apparently a U haul was seen near the vehicles where the vandalism occurs. Was it the same one? Somebody got a license plate down, that'd be a helpful piece of information for law enforcement, the license plate of the obviously rented vehicle to be able to track it down figure out who rented it. That would answer a lot of

questions that are spiraling around out there. So they got back to the parking lot, he found dozens of Lincoln Heights residents and thank God for them giving their support. He said, they were taping up my windows, vacuuming out my car where the glass was broken, giving me hugs. I just couldn't say enough about that community. He said,

that's family. And apparently, during the initial Neo Nazi rally on Friday, and this was something I wasn't aware of, the Lincoln Heights residence demanded the group leave and broke through law enforcement barricades and set fire to one of the Neo Nazis flag, forcing the Neo Nazis to depart, which is the kind of reaction I would expect from the residents of Lincoln Heights if they're invaded by a bunch of not well, it was even a bunch of Nazis with twelve or thirteen of them, which, as I

mentioned in the last hour, was probably every single one if they were Nazis, every single one that actually exists. They're idiots. Their philosophy is batcrap insane. I have an entire stack of failure in front of me, and it all relates to green projects. Let's start with the ev buses.

Biden administration awarded some Canadian electric bus company called Lion Electric one hundred and sixty million dollars of your hard earned taxpayer money to manufacture hundreds of battery powered buses for school districts across this great Lion of Bars part of its climate agenda. Sorry, Lion initiated bankruptcy, proceeding laid off almost all of its employees, the ones that at

least were building the buses, and stopped its manufacturing operations. Hmmm, leaving dozens of school districts questioning whether they're going to receive the buses that the Biden administration promised them. I think the answers pretty much know. Lyon has yet to deliver ninety five million dollars worth of electric buses to fifty five districts that were promised it across the country. Don Wallace, superintendent of Ohio Valley School District in Adams County.

At this time, we were working through the proper channels and keeping our attorneys abreast of the situation. They ordered buses from Lyon, and they said, no buses have been delivered to our district. Were on hold, and you're going

to stay on hold. Too, because the company went belly up sort of points out, raising questions about whether the recipients of literally billions and billions of dollars of your money on green spending were vetted properly hmm, or whether federal officials looked the other way when doing out funds to Lion, which had been apparently struggling financially for years.

And of course, green energy companies like Line dependent on government funding and fail even after winning lucrative government contracts. Remember Soleindra. Yeah, there's a great illustration of it. Between October twenty two and May twenty four, the Biden administration awarded Lion a total of one hundred and five one hundred nine fifty nine million dollars, which was supposed to

manufacture four hundred and thirty five bus buses. This under the EPA's five billion with a Big Clean School Bus program. Lyon the third largest beneficiary of the program created by Democrats twenty twenty one Infrastructure Bill. Do you remember that one? Don't you? Lyon got the funding became Biden administration's favorite while struggling to turn a profit. You had took in millions of dollars of loans less than two weeks before the EPA gave Yan eighty two point seven million dollars.

That was in October. At twenty two, the company reported it to investors that had lost seventeen point two million dollars in the prior three months alone. Since twenty twenty lions losses three hundred and one point six million dollars get a load of its stock price. Since January twenty twenty one, the stock price went from thirty three dollars

and forty eight cents per share to eight cents. Apparently, the company stopped reporting at share price on its website back in December, and they said, I think the free beacon on this one. Give credit where credits due. Lion got a slap on the risk from the Securities Exchange

Commission last year after misreporting several key figures. March twenty twenty four, group of investors hit Line with a class action lawsuit, ledging the company withheld the truth about supply chain problems and misled investors using grossly unrealistic financial projections. Amid the struggles, though the company assured investors during a November earnings call, I love this statement. It remained quote

well positioned to benefit from continued strong regulatories tailwinds. Close quote referencing the clean school bus program in the EPA's three billion dollar Clean Port Program regulatory tail ones. You know what that means. We're in good financial shape because the government is dolling out moneys to our failed company thanks to regulations which if regulations did not exist, this company wouldn't have in a dime, would never have made

any money in the first place. We're supporting failed entities, failed institutions, and propping up businesses that produced products that know every one wants to buy in a real world. A month after that November earnings call, that's when Line filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada. They started a bankruptcy proceedings in an Illinois federal court weeks after. It laid off all of its employees, with the exception of one hundred and fifty of them who were tasked with customer

service and maintenance duties. They halted production at their nine hundred thousand square foot manufacturing facility in Joliet, Illinois, opened only eighteen months earlier, amid a huge ceremony including Governor JB. Prinzker's Senator Dick Durban and Tammy Duckworth, at which Pritzker said of the ceremony, the future of Illinois relies on dependable clean energy jobs. Local officials said that plant would

bring fourteen hundred jobs to the reason and not. That's just one of about ten articles I have on failed green energy products projects rather failed billions. And you know, all of this is unrelated to the work that this DOGE department is doing. And if I hear another person complain about Elon Musk not elected in not explaining doctor Fauci wasn't elected or wasn't elected, this is the government is filled with unelected officials and maybe therein lies the problem.

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whether they're really Nazis or not. I mean, I don't know. You know, the only time I've ever heard of a black Nazi is that Dave Chappelle comedy routine, the blind guy who's black who hates Black people. I mean, it was just it was side splittingly funny. He got a little controversy over it, but he made some pretty comedic points about it. But beyond that, they typically, at least I've understood him, a bunch of stupid, racist white people. So why would you cover yourself up if you don't

really truly embrace them believe in your message. How come you're not out in public talking about it more often? Because no one embraces your message or or their plants designed to stir the pot of division. And somehow Donald Trump gets blamed for that little demonstration. I mean, what the hell is that all about?

your neighborhood. And how I mean, maybe you can say, yes, they had to be Nazis, because first off, only Nazis would embrace that stupid concept of a philosophy. It will be dumb enough to go into the most predominantly black neighborhood that exists in the greater Cincinnati area. Thirteen of them or twelve of them outnumbered much potential beat down perhaps, And you know, juries don't have to convict you, like if you beat down a Nazi and you were tried

for beating down a Nazi. I mean, the jury doesn't have to convict you. They can just say, you know what, no, how about not guilty, Mississippi James. Good to hear from you, man, Welcome back to the Morning Show. Hey, good morning, brother Brian.

the whole nine yards. I have worked with extraordinary, competent people of color. I never looked down on them, thought anything about it. Everything seemed to be working on Fine. I've worked. I have lived in states that were you know, had senators that were black and Asian, and we've had governors and Ken Blackwell was the mayor of the city of Cincinnati in nineteen eighty. I mean, I haven't I just know, I don't think DEI mean the problem with

DII is the equity part diversity cool inclusion. Fine, yeah, I don't care what sexuality somebody is. I want the best and brightest. I want merit to rule the day. Equity is the antithesis of merit. It's when you hire people based upon some racial checkbox or some sexual checkbox, not because they're the best in the group of people applying for the job, but only because they fit some social expectation created by a bunch of I don't know sociologists in college. I have no idea your your comments.

and other amendments the United States Constitution. I mean time changes hearts and minds, and I appreciate and embrace the efforts of folks like doctor Martin Luther King Junior. But even he was against equity, content of character, not color of skin. So over time change hearts and minds, and I'm part of that group of people whose hearts and minds were changed over time. I didn't grow up in

a racist environment. I didn't grow up in a family that said black people were somehow inferior to anybody else. I grew up in a household that said, get your butt into school and study and learn something so you can eat and pay for yourself. Thankfully it worked out, I've always said many times, and here it comes yet again. The greatest gift my parents gave me after the existence my existence life was their insistence that I get an education.

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but he didn't understand it. I've also seen regular cost several comments online and I don't know whether this is true or not that one of the acts actually used the N word in singing a song. Oh there was only one act, Okay, well, see Joe. I don't know. I know there's more than one person involved in the production of the halftime thing. I anyway, draw your own conclusions.

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to the US Department of Treasuries documents. He said, officials that Treasury are working to make the government books more simple to audit, bring more accountability. Changes also require treasure employees to more frequently update the congressional quote do not pay close quote list highlighting fraudsters and legal fronts must said.

Nobody in treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years but have been stopped by prior management. Everything a Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization. People who receive money don't complain, but people who don't receive money, especially fraudsters, complain very loudly, so

the fraud was allowed to continue. He said. The above above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, longtime career government employees, not anyone from DOGE. DOGE has no ability. It only is a light shiner, the sanitation of light shining on things the disinfectant that is much needed in government given all the fraud, waste, and abuse they've uncovered in a short period of time time, he said,

it's ridiculous that these changes didn't exist already. Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over one hundred billion dollars a year of entitlement payments to individuals with no SOCIS security number or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious. Stating it lightly. When I asked anyone if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half. So fifty

billion dollars a year or one billion dollars weekly. This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately. Amen. No criticism came just after a federal judge blocked him and the Doge group from the access to the Treasury Department systems. It's an interesting timing on that, isn't it. I mean, he's only been around a couple of weeks, and here's one hundred billion dollars, maybe fifty billion. But I'll take either one fraud wasted abuse identified almost in a moment's time,

one area of government. And this is all independent of all the fraud wasted abuse we've discovered over at USAID. And he's creeping into every area of government, coming next and coming soon and welcome by the Trump administration and Pete hegsat a thorough deep dive into military spending, something I've been advocating for years since they failed seven or eight audits. They can't even audit their own books. And you know me, I love the American military, and I

love those veterans who proudly served their country. And I support all those young people who enlisted. What will we do without him? But do I support eight hundred and ninety billion dollars going to America's military when we have so much massive fraud, wasted abuse, or presumably so given that they can't even get audited. Bring it on, Bring the accounts in ring Alon Muskin. Bring a nineteen year old that is smarter than everyone in the room. But

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for these so called green energy projects. It's fake. Six fifty five stick around, I got more to talk about off top of the hour news, Your calls are quite welcome, and then we'll hear from Christopher Smith and at seven twenty.

and I've seen the reaction. I heard reaction from a lot of my listeners this morning questioning whether those were really Nazis or not. So you can't tell when someone's completely covered up head to toe. And we have been made aware of prior events which included people who really weren't advocating what was being advocated in the protest. So

were they plants designed to well elicit a response. They certainly got the community Lincoln Heights up, and aren't They had a big counter protests, and good for them and I and I've been saying all morning, you know they're there if you truly believe in that ideology, I can with a straight face and firm in my convictions call you an idiot. Obviously not a widely embraced concept Nazism. You'd have clubs and chapters all over the place. They

would advertise and they wouldn't be afraid to show their face. No, it's an unpopular message. It's a message widely well discouraged. If i'll just be light light put that lightly, and I just got to observe if you're a real Nazi and you want to go carrying around, uh, you know, a white guy's rule kind of message in Lincoln heights, be prepared to get a beat down at minimum, and for the general public to applaud those they've given you

the beatdown. Anyhow, I'll leave it to Christopher address that if he chooses to. I never know what he wants to talk about. So Christopher, if you're out there, you go in any direction you want five one, three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three talk top

five fifty on AT and T phone. Senator John Kennedy, Republican, I Love of Louisiana, responding to DOGE the Department of Government Efficiencies revelation of what usaid was spent on pointing out something that I agree with him, wholeheartedly on Musku is doing what the American people have wanted for years, he said, But in Washington, common sense is illegal, and I just see the Democrats screaming and yelling about taking

this money away, like seriously. Courrty's Senator John Kennedy found that the USA, it has ten thousand people, ten thousand employees. Every year they give away forty billion dollars, sprinkling it all over the grobe. Usaid gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Vietnam, that's your earnings. He found that the USA gave money to a transgender clinic in India. Quote I didn't know that, that is, Senator John Kennedy. I didn't know that. I bet you the American people

didn't know that. Now he's in a position to at least have access to this information. How in the hell did that money get awarded to a transgender clinic in India? USA gave one point five million dollars to a Serbian LGBTQ group, he said, anyway, they got one point five million to quote advanced diversity, equity inclusion in Serbian workplaces and business communities. I just scratched my head over this.

They Doge found the USA ustate spent one hundred and sixty four million dollars to support radical organizations around the world. He so we're not talking about cub Scout troops, We're talking about radical organizations. They gave one hundred and twenty two million dollars to group aligned with foreign terrorist organizations, our taxpayer money. According to the report from the Dodge Group, USA had given millions of dollars to organizations in Gaza

controlled by Hamas. Why, senator asked, why aren't my colleagues talking about those recipients of money? Good question. Senator Cynthia Lumins also a gassed at finding out where our taxpayer dollars have been going. And you gotta wonder where how come these people won't be more proactive about this For the past how many decades? John F. Kennedy signed USAID into by executive order created at whole cloth back in what early nineteen sixties, and for whatever purpose it was

it was put to, it been funded ever since. Didn't anyone ever take a little moment in time to look at this. We had to wait for Donald Trump to be re elected president of the United States of America to tap the brilliance of Elon musk Oh. I know, not everybody really loves or embraces the Guy's a bit of an oddball, I'll grant you that, but he's a proven genius. I got into my son the other day about this. Who's read most come? It's like government is

filled with advisors. People are tapped for their expertise, knowledge and experience. He has run successful companies. He's gotten rid of a bunch of employees in various companies he's owned because they didn't provide any value to the company. That's what he's doing to government. That's a target rich environment. Apparently hasn't taken him any moment in time to discover all of this. How many weeks has Donald Trump be president? How many how many hours has Elon musk be at

work on this? And look at what we find? Twenty million dollars for a sesame street show rack, twenty five million dollars to promote green transportation in the country of Georgia, eight million dollars to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gender language. Senator Cynthia Lomas, binary gendered language in Sri Lanka, You've got to be kidding me. She's quoted as saying right. And of course, in the money that went to EcoHealth Alliance so we could create bat

coronaviruses that infected every one on the planet. Thank you very much for that contribution, Carl, Welcome to the Morning Show.

There's nothing more scary to me than to becoming across the bridge at night and finding a disabled vehicle in my lane due to an accident, and have drivers driving seventy miles an hour on either side of me, not allowing me to make any emergency maneuvers. Now, a question of jurisdiction comes up. If you do see an accident on the bridge, call it in. Don't assume that anybody's called it in. Here are the rules. If the accident occurs over the water, then it's Kentucky yeah to the accident.

If the accident occurs over land, then it's Cincinnati's duty to respond to an accident. As you can see in this situation that we had where the bridge caught on fire, there was a fire underneath the Bride Bridge. It's Ohio that is having to foot the bill on the expenses because that part of the bridge. Yes, Now, when you call nine one one and you get nine one one in Cincinnati and you tell them I'm heading northbound on the bridge and there's been an accident, don't be surprised

that they will tell you that No. I four seventy one does not run north and south. It runs east and west. Boy, what a surprise. Yes, Now, I did some research on this, and actually, if you look at the map, it does run kind of east and west. However, if you listen to the traffic reports, which I do, SORWLW and Schuck Ingram does a wonderful job. The whole team does a wonderful job. They always announced that it runs north and South. Yesterday I spent some time on

the computer and looking at Wikipedia. Wikipedia does say that it is a north south connector. So and as you're calling nine one one in Cincinnati, you're going to have dificulty talking to the nine to one one call taker because you're going to be going under overpasses on I seventy one North.

for responding to the accident. And I guess they have to go all the way over to Kentucky and then come northbound on the bridge.

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You know, I got a realm plus beyond a ream of paper of stories that I couldn't even talk about I get in here in the morning, I bring fifteen twenty maybe more stories that I print off from the day before as I'm doing research for the show, and then I show up in the morning about an hour and a half before the show begins to find out what happened after I went to bed last night, and then ended up printing like fifteen or twenty more articles

during that period of time. It seems like it just keeps building and building, and I never get it all in anyway, so it goes Well.

we'll follow what the executive order said. Well, if you cared about girls, if you thought about fairness, you could have responded first and had the courage to stand on your conviction and not wait for the President to walk in with common sense that say, hey, boys can't compete against girl in sports. What an amazing week to have the president sitting there surrounded by girls who are dancers, gymnasts, swimmers, probably in some sport of karate wrestling, whatever the sport was.

They're surrounding him looking adorable. He has a pen, He's giving the pins out to all the little girls, saying, I just protected you. So if you go in the boxing ring, you're not going to get knocked out by a dude.

elected anything at all? I mean gone, the open borders and the national debt, everything else you can throw in any of the equation, just the mere concept that people refused the scientific fact that there's a chromosomal and of course genital difference between men and women, and that men have a biologically built in advantage from a physical standpoint over women. Like we didn't all know that going in.

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we could deal, how what we thought about Trump. But the reality was is they got in these worlds with their soccer balls, and all of a sudden, they've got boys out.

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high school, I was captain of the swim team. The year I graduated, I hung my suit up and I just looked at it and thought, there is no blanking way I'm putting in another ten thousand yards swim practice day. I'm done. So anyway, parted company was swimming.

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our public school system. What are we going to do about it? I was baffled, even ashamed to see congressional members marching and acting like they were having some civil rights movement against the Department of Education. And we need to fix the system so that our children are getting a good education.

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I remember I had to go to Canada, for a swim meet once jeez, you sit around and sit around and stew in your own juices until hey, you're up for your fifty meter freestyle. You swim, you know, you're in the water for like twenty eight seconds, and then waiting around for another three hours for your next event. Vietnam like flashbacks for me, Christopher.

and they're screaming. They're screaming the N word at him.

you crazy things. Anything could have happened this weekend, and I just want to be that one of those voices, like you've already went your voice to say, listen, this is not the best of America, and it doesn't matter what our race is. We can just call that out as craziness and keep it moving.

right to the free exercise. We have the right to free speech, even protect even Nazi speech is protected with there's a Supreme Court, huge Supreme Court case on that. So they're allowed to say what they want. But I embrace the idea of these idiots come out of their holes and say it out loud so we know who the idiots are. The only problem is they were too afraid to show their faces. They're all covered eyes.

to you. To have the President of the United States, which I didn't know was the first time a president had ever attended a Super Bowl was phenomenal. And to feel that American drum beat going through what most would say the most important game are sport of the of the year was just a wonderful, wonderful thing of bringing us together and uniting us. And my heart went out to all of those young people and older people who

lost their lives in that terroist attack. The story about the brothers, because you know, you don't hear a lot about those who lost their lives, So when you start hearing about these stories about two brothers, both of them were athletes. The older brother was there, lost his life, the other brothers up for the draft. Asked his mom and dad there, Lady God, that did a beautiful job singing. What a beautiful voice she has. I don't anybody who

hasn't heard Lady Gaga that she really can sing. There's some artists out here who can't sing. She's not one of them. She really can sing. But to bring everybody together with that kind of tone with our military was really a wonderful thing. I was more into that piece of it than what was happening on the field. Quite frankly, we need more unification around our flag, around patriotism, which has this notion that if you love our flagging, you love our country. You and I can't say that our

country is imperfect, and we're still working on it. It's still an experiment, but I can still stand for the national anthem. I could take my hat off for the national anthem. I can do the pledge of allegiance, and I can bring honor to the greatest country in the world, and that I'm so honored to be here, to be able to participate in and do well in with all of its shortcomings, it's still the greatest place in the world to be And that's what I felt with the

President being there. And I love hearing the players say I am honored to play in front of the President of the United States of America because they are honoring the position. Has get out of the personality and get into respecting the position. The President of the United States is here.

all support. So maybe there's a little positive that came out of the negativity of those filling the blank people hanging out on the bridge, the big, strong, massive contrast showing of support the following day against the message that they were allegedly spewing.

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ten percent tariff on Canadian energy products. That was there was an announcement there that Canada was going to come back and slap some tariffs back.

This is a trade war. It's what it looks like, it is what it feels like.

that's why pausive tariffs. This don't isn't connected with any specific announcement that I saw in Caes like, we are doing this because fill in the blank. It's just because we're importing the steel and aluminum from other countries, is it. Do you think has it been expressed somewhere that has Trump's hope that this will bring back the manufacturing of steel and aluminum in our country.

and regulations we have. Some are good and should be there, some are a little probably a little overdone and maybe need to be reviewed. But currently all we're trying to do because it's going to be harder to get all the all the regulation and all that stuff out. It's going to take more time, a lot more time to reduce the impact of that. But we're simply making it

more expensive form for other countries to compete with US. Uh, And that to me, that's a band aid, right, that's simply saying, in the short run, we can just make it more expensive for other countries to push their goods into the United States while in the background we're trying to reduce That's why you're hearing about this department's gone and this one's under review. Whether this stuff is constitutional. Who knows, uh, not a constant constitutional law expert here.

But the goal there would be to reduce the long term cost of producing these goods in the United States. In the short run, we're going to increase our competitiveness by just making it more expensive for other countries to compete here.

We've got you know, union mandates in terms of contracts they negotiated for, you know, really expensive hourly wages and mandatory work conditions and everything just makes it more expensive. Of course, if you can use slave labor like in China to manufacturer steel, of course it's going to be a lot cheaper. I mean, you know, we have kind of done it to ourselves in many respects. Not to negate your legitimate point that some of these rules and

regulations are important. It's just there's too many of them.

Whether they're good moves bad moves, somebody is going to stand up and say, hey, this does not go go with the words that are in our constitution that we all agreed was a pretty good idea a few hundred years ago.

that apparently wasn't necessary in the first place. A lot of that comes from Elon Musk. That that is Elon Musk to way. If you read his biography, if you see how he built those businesses, he would he had very strict rules about same as you just mentioned. If we're going to put one rule in place, we're going to get rid of five others. Every rule he creates must have somebody's name attached to it, so that ten years from now we can go back to that person.

on spending on Valentine's Day. One more segment with Brian James this morning, be right back fifty five KARC the talk station eight eighteen fifty five KRCD Talk Station Brian Thomas with Brian James from Aulworth Mancher doing Money Monday, Wow, Insurance r. I know insurance rates are going through the roof, Brian, and one might think immediately that it's because of the

natural disasters. You got wildfires in California, you got hurricanes hitting the Florida and you know, running through in the flooding in North Carolina, and all this obviously has to be paid for by insurance companies, assuming insurance companies are

actually insuring these these these dwellings. But as I understand, it's large part the growing insurance rates are because of litigation lawsuits, at least the corner of this article from Fox Business, I have Brian there you are, yeah, go ahead.

of know this, but it's gotten worse and worse. Just like anything else anywhere, it is recognized that a profit can be made, a profit will be made, and it will be maximized and optimized. So there are companies out there who solely exist to take on lawsuits for people. For example, if you're if you're involved in some kind of a medical malpractice suit, there are plenty of law firms out there that have investors behind them who are

investing in the research of that lawsuit. The person who was wronged by it will financially benefit, of course if there's a win, but obviously getting a much smaller percentage. These are literally like they're starting to look like little startup companies. Right, something happens to somebody and there's and there's a somewhat clear you know, medical malpractice type of a suit. Well, let's not just sue the medical provider behind it. Let's get as much as we possibly can,

regardless of the impact. This is just skyrocketing, and it's literally raising your and my insurance premiums because the insurance companies have to react to that as well as of course they have their own profit motivations as well. So there's a lot going on out there that is going to continue to raise these costs.

their product did. But this idea that that attorneys are are expanding the expectations of the basically the jury pool by advertising My client got twenty million dollars from this auto accident and then going into court making wailed outlandish claims for damages because you know, you got to start someplace. It's like a negotiation. It's like Trump start now. You know, I'm gonna buy Greenland. Maybe you just get this. The conversation started about how we can improve relations with it

or whatever you got to start somewhere. But they start these crazy amounts and juries get it in their mind that, well, that's kind of normal. But it's not. There's no connection with these wild claims of damages to the reality of the injury that that person allegedly suffered.

as a potential juror might react. So, in other words, when you finally do land in that jury box, as all of us will probably once in our lives, you won't blink at the idea of a ten million dollar verdict that itself has a has a nickname. Nuclear verdicts is what they're calling jury verdicts of ten million dollars or more. The top one hundred of these have increased by about three hundred and fifty percent in the last

six years. Overall personal injury verdicts since twenty ten are up three hundred and nineteen percent, so we're seeing a huge increase. Again, it's just a place, it's just a new business. There are literally investors here, yeah, supporting law firms, just like you would you would raise funds for a technology company or something like that. They're supporting law firms who will go chase and prosecute these quote unquote opportunities.

investors who finance these lawsuits. I mean the idea of some outside person financing and then glombing onto some chunk of the award which should have either gone to the planefs lawyers who did the legal work, or or to their client who they represent, but that they have to shell out a chunk of this jury or you can give to some third party investor. That just seems to be just completely unethical. But who am I but a priortigation.

answer for me is nothing. I may buy a card to celebrate the day of our engagement, but you know, Valentine's Day is just like any other day of the week from my perspective, and it's just an excuse for people to feel like they've got to go out and spend a lot of money, and apparently they do.

Happy Monday too. You made you an extra special happy because the return of Mandy Gunnas Sakara, author of Y'all Fired, A Southern Bell's Guide to Restoring Federalism and Draining the Swamp. We had he around in October when the book first came out. She's spent at the center of the US energy and environmental policy for a full decade from the Senate cloak room of the Oval Office of veteran environmental attorney, energy strategist, and communicator, served during President Trump's first term.

Is Chief of Staff at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Currently a visiting fellow the Heritage Foundation, and welcome back. It is a real pleasure to have you back on the show, Mandy.

of waste, fraud or abuse or redundancies and efficiencies. You could pinpoint those sorts of things, but it really is a beautiful thing where you have someone like Elon and his really talented team of software engineers going and looking at the data and then painting a big picture in ways that all of us can understand and all of us can see. Is an absolute misuse of taxpayer resources. So yeah, it's an answer to a lot of prayers.

even a temporary ID number. And see, you know, he pulls the room and Treasury he says, what percentage of that is unequivocal obvious fraud? And the consensus in the room was at least fifty billion dollars of it. That's something that's simple to fix. Look, no social Security number, no ID, you don't get any money. How hard is that?

one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Yeah, somehow, Well, she has a mass a multi million dollar fortune, and it just leaves you scratching your head, huh, where did that money come from? And it's most likely because it was funneled to nonprofits of what she or her family was sitting on the board and they get to reap the benefits of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds going into their back pocket, and they cover it up by saying, well, we're helping the poor in the world, We're giving people

in Africa access to water and food. But really they are just patting their own personal coffers.

to approve the project. But ultimately, you know, twenty million dollars goes to a sesame street show in a rock And then how much of that twenty million dollars really went to the sesame street show in a rock fort. Actually it didn't land in some corrupt officials pocket. They don't follow the trail of the money, and so it just stops once the aid's been allocated to the general collective us AID fund.

siphon money off to the side to their benefit. And they use stories of people that most people would say like, yeah, they could use some help, or of course we would want to take care of these vulnerable populations.

some reason. Just there's there's no denial here. There's no that didn't happen. That's a lie. Elon Musk is making that up.

They can't even pass an audit seven or eight times in a row. Mandy.

ferreted out. Mandy. I got your book up on my blog page, but if I have cares dot com so people can get a copy of it to the extent they haven't done it already, and I'll encourage them to do so. It's been great here talking with you. Keep up the great work and looking forward to another volume maybe uh something like along the aftermath lines.