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feel for you to steer us in that direction. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk Pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. A very happy Monday to everybody. Thanks for tuning into the program, and stick around because it is Monday, meaning we're gonna hear from Christopher Smith and former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati Every Monday at seven twenty with the Smither vent no idea

what he's going to talk about. I never do, but I always enjoy hearing his thoughts and his comments. A man of logic and reason he is, and someone who as a financial planner probably is interested in the Moodies downgrade, and we're going to talk about that with Brian James. It is Monday. We do Money Monday with Brian James every Monday at eight oh five. We'll talk to the Moody's credit rating down grade and the reasons for it,

which apparently the Republicans have no concept over. I'm so so upset with the Republicans over this so called big beautiful bill. It's kind of running off the rails anyhow, it did come out of committee last night. But we'll talk about the details of that coming up. The homes starter home market in Cincinnati topic number two with Brian James.

And finally, big summer vacations apparently out of style considering the cost of things and not shocking to me, but we'll find out the reasons behind that with Brian James. Eighth five, followed by Tim Hester. He's a Cincinni native and Air Force veteran served in Iraq. Thank you for your service to our country, Tim Hester, he's promoting the PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic tenth anniversary the Field of Memory celebration honoring the brave men and women

who have made the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. Arlington Memorial Gardens obtained the exclusive rights of this premiere. The PBS documentary documentary tells the story this is crazy four man rowing team of Air Force veterans. They called the team Team Fight or Die, or spelled oar with a little but I'm bump. So Team Fighter Die embarked on a perilous three thousand mile ocean rowing race called the

World's Toughest Row. How about signing up for that, Joe. Anyways, back in twenty twenty two, boat had capsized when they were hit by a thirty foot twell ended up spending eighteen hours in a life draft before being miraculously rescued. So that's the backstory behind the documentary. It should be a rather interesting conversation with Tim Hester. So that'll take place at eight forty anyhow, for we move on to other things, like Moody's down, Gray, I see Luke's on

the phone. Let's see what Luce got to say? This morning, Luke, thanks for calling the morning showing a very happy Monday to you, sir.

they botch it. I mean, you can't anticipate when and where a natural disaster will strike, but they seem to be able to find money for everything else on the planet, and yet when it comes to the American citizens and their well being, You're right, priorities seem to be out of whack. I can't deny that. I can't deny it, but I share your frustration generally. But my frustration with federal government goes way beyond FEMA, and it's incompetence. And with that, let me give a plug for Matthew twenty

five ministries. They are doing a great job dealing with the Midwest tornadoes. Respond to the devastating tornadoes across the Midwest. M twenty five M M twenty five M dot org. That's where your dollar is going to go. The farthest I am. I'm not affiliated anyway with that ministry. I just know they do great work and they have practically

no overhead. So a donation Matthew twenty five is going to mean money and resources and supplies getting to the people that actually need it, well oiled machine, unlike FEMA. So we are the most charitable people on the planet when it comes to things like this, And so maybe we can keep that in mind, help fulfill Maybe you have a Christian responsibility to help your fellow men. Maybe not Christian, and maybe it's just sort of general philosophy, ethics, morality,

whatever happens to be, whatever drives it. There are ways to help out that don't involve the federal government. And again this is why I feel so sorry for people who are stuck and hooked up to the milical court of federal government. More and more people every year as we discuss medicaid and curbing the Medicaid dollars spent. One of the reasons Moody's downgraded US is because the growing burden financing the federal government's budget deficit and the rising

costs rolling over existing debt amid higher interest rates. Yeah, one of the reasons we've got a massive budget debt is because they expanded medicaid to a whole bunch of people that can work and should be working. And I can't believe the Republicans fighting against themselves and amongst themselves

someonet to keep the medicaid expansion. There that the work requirement under the prior bill, and I'm not sure if they've ratcheted back, although promises have been made to some of the more conservative Republicans are fighting for sanity, that they will move the work obligation back from previously twenty twenty nine. Why do you have to wait so long to put a work mandate in therefore able bodied people. Anyhow, you set to demonstrate that you're trying. And I keep

pointing out the trades. What a wonderful opportunity for some folks who are hooked up to the Biblical court of government. Dicey proposition that given the finite number of dollars we have in the world and the fact that we keep

blowing through more than they actually take in. According to the statement for Moody's, this one notch downgrade and our twenty one notch rating scale reflects the increase over more than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns HM. They say this lower credit profile will probably have to lift the yield that people demand in order to buy US treasury debt to reduce to reflect more risk, and

could dampen sentiment toward owning US assets, including stocks. Now apparently the other credit rategencies already done this to US. Moody's described as a holdout in keeping our sovereign debt at the highest debt rating possible or credit rating possible, but now brings Moodies in line with its rivals at standard and poor. Downgraded US in August of twenty eleven. Pitch Ratings downgraded US in August of twenty twenty three. It just took Moodies a lot longer, Moody's analysts in

the statements. Successive US administrations in Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs. We do not believe that material multi year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration. The big beautiful bill. I think that's what that is in reference to and no kidding headlines Wall Street Journal this morning, the stark math on the GOP tax plan. It doesn't

cut the deficits. The plan will not reduce federal budget deficits and would make them America's fiscal hole deeper. Current proposal projected buzzet it will increase projected budget deficits by nearly three trillion dollars through twenty thirty four, walking in tax cuts and spending increases that outweigh reductions and spending on medicaid and nutrition assistance. So they're getting some, but

they're not doing enough. Some Republicans are claiming that higher economic growth is the growth is going to fill the gap, but that's not exactly in line with many budget analysts, particularly given the murky landscape dealing with these tariffs that are in place. So I don't I really don't know what to say. There's more details on this, obviously, we can get into them. But I'm so so thoroughly disappointed.

You got so called moderate Republicans clinging to their green energy projects because they happen to be in their state, even though they never would have been there but for that sort of inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to do with reducing inflation but everything to do with with funding these green new projects. You got other Republicans in big medicaid expansion states that don't want to come medicate.

They're afraid of losing their seats. And we could go on and on and on, and of course the farms are protected. I have nothing against the American farmers, matter of fact, I have a profound respect for it. But you know what, you don't need corn subsidies. We don't need to be putting corn in our gas tanks, and yet there they are. Farmers are capable of growing other crops that are in demand. Corn isn't the only one.

I'm sure it's far more complicated than that. But really the subsidy is there, and the support for corn growing is there because of the ethanol mandates. Let's just get rid of those, shall we. The demand for ethanol will go down. We won't have to put in our gas tank anymore. It's not like we're short on oil. Five sixteenth and five kr s talk station. I got New Hampshire, Gary and Jay on the line. You both are next in the order in which they receee, which means Gary's

first Jay. Hang on, be right back after these brief words, fifty good Monday, Happy Monday to you. Try to make it so anyway, I gotta go over to the bones, says Promise. I got two callers on the line five one three seven two three talk in the order in which they're received, New Hampshire, Gary, welcome back to the Morning show.

give to their teacher unions. They got the police and fire they've got, and I just can go on and on with the environmental groups, the farmers and every and even doge is plainly showing and it's only a fraction, only a fraction. What's going on is all the waste and the stealing, all out just flat out stealing and the political hackery of these judges. They're political acts didn't surprise me. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants came in, not US citizens, came in over the last four years.

Now we're going to have to give each one due process. They're not US citizens. They're not titled to all the rights that we are entiled to as civilians. Or you're going to start handed all the illegal immigrants Second Amendment rights and let them take up arms as much as they want, you know, And then I see and no Napolitano, God bless his soul, but you know he's standing up for NS thirteen people that have it symbolized on their knuckles.

And you know, you've got people like this that they're all, no, we've got to give them due process. We everything, mark my word, everything that's being done is going to be undone just as fast in four years, if not faster. Because you can see this thing coming to a wind own as we're going broke, you know you can. I can see it. Sorry, I'm.

The court didn't articulate specifically how much. But it's not a full it's not they're not entitled to a full hearing with you know, judge and jury and all that. And so there's there's it's some sort.

a check coming in because well, we've wrecked the FIA currency. Yeah, that's I mean, the writing's been on the wall for a long time. It's one of the reasons. Moodies was very gentle, but did point out that we have a massive spending problem, your credit ratings being downgraded. As scoch we're still one of the best in the entire world, and nonetheless here we find ourselves. It's a frightening position to be in. Get Jay. Let's get Jay in here.

He's been kind enough the way, Jay, Welcome to the Morning Show.

medicaid fraud. We're just going to lower the bar and let everybody in. And hey, I know you Red states, because let's just say there's thirteen Blue states and thirty seven Red states. Ish he told them, I understand you don't want to pay for it. We'll pay for it for the first three years, and then after that. Your guest said, they make nine dollars. I think it was like, for every ten dollars spent to get a healthy person on Medicaid, the state gets to keep ninety or something

like that. Or the state makes nine dollars for every healthy person. So huge incentive to get healthy.

we fix that, nothing's going to change. Because I understand the Red States are saying, Look, if we don't take this deal, these other states are going to take the deal. So we might as well line up what good subservient horrors and get at least our share, because if we don't, it doesn't help us at all. So to build on New Hampshire, Gary, would I would I go back to it? It can be a bloodlesh revolution. Let's do the national divorce.

Can we not agree that the biggest national security threat to this country are the Blue States and the Democrat Party. And until we see that and we tell them, we'll be as close to you as we are to Canada and Mexico. But your bad ideas are wrecking this country. And we got to get where this makes states great again. Put a federal government back in its box if you can, and make it only for defense and trade as it

was in the Constitution. Anything short of that is we are going to just bet and hope that people that have all the power and all of the control Washington, DC is no different in Beijing, and this country is no different in China, where there's a thousand people that have ninety nine percent of the power and control. That's what has to change. And until that changes it's just lip service. We're just asking humanity to do something humanity has never done or only done once, maybe at the

beginning of this country. But we've got to get rid of the We have to do this amicable separation. There is no compromise between life and abortion. There is no compromise between huge government and small government, between freedom and tranny.

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got a see they ranked at thirty seven. Cleveland got a B, coming in at number five. Gordon the Porta calculated the taxpayer burden for each Cincinnati taxpayer thirteen thousand, four hundred dollars per taxpayer, again sixty seventh, worst of the seventy five ranked accord to truth in accounting that burden,

that tax burn a thirteen thousand, four hundred dollars. That's how much each Cincinnaia taxpayer would have to pay to eliminate Cincinnati's non capital debt, which would be on top of the taxes they've already paid this to the city. So how long has the city been run by Democrats? Too long answer from Joe Streker. You're right, Joe. You get a gold star for the right answer. H What started out as a normal traffic stop and Sharonville ended

with a massive police chase happened Saturday evening. Routine stop for a fictitious license plate violation about five point thirty in the evening. According to Scharonville Police Department. Things got shaken up when the driver fled the scene, striking the officer's cruiser, and they ignored multiple orders to stop. Police pursued the suspect nearly thirty minutes before using stop sticks.

Suspect identified as Alicia Joyce Bryan, who's fifty four from Hamilton, Ohio, charged with attempted to sell a police officer, felony, fer to comply with a police officer, drug paraphernalia, driving under suspension, and a fictitious license plate. Also had an standing warren from Butler County forty five year old Kevin Gabbard in the vehicle. He's been charged with tampering with evidence. Gabbart also had an open warrant through a high open parole authority.

No injuries, thankfully, and it's all v vake Ramaswami. Attorney General David Josh spended his campaign for governor. Made the announcement Friday afternoon. This is one week after the High

Republican Party overwhelmingly endorsed the vake Ramaswami. Yos wrote an email to his supporters, this is time to protect Ohio, not a time for family squabble I've spoken at length with many people whose advice and wisdom I respect, and having come to this decision quickly or easily, launched his campaign in January, describing himself as a principled conservative, and his campaign suspension announcements reported that Yos said the fight to become a house next governor was more than an

uphill climb. Said is also apparent that a steep cli to the nomination for governor has become a vertical cliff. I do not wish to divide my political party in my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences between my vision and that of my opponent. I am simply not that important, wells, because his vision is his platform was really pretty much identical to be vag Ramaswami. And Ramaswami a widely popular guy, of course Cincinnati native.

So I'm not quite sure if that's going to benefit the city of Cincinnati if he becomes elected governor, which appears likely at this juncture, but I think it's a

step in the right direction. I do believe that David Yos made the right decision in backing out, basically seeing the writing on the wall five one, three, seven fifty eight hundred eight two three talk go with pound five fifty on at and T funds only have a few stack of stupid stories this morning, So welcome the opportunity to hear from a listener if you've got something you want to talk about. And we strongly recommend Gate of Heaven Cemetery for quiet reflection. And how about Memorial Day?

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to lock anything down. So yeah, there's a lot of reasons to be upset with the Wine and maybe we'll have some herding of cats under a new administration with the Vega Ramaswami. Because lord knows, Columbus is a real mystery. If you're a Republican or Republican leaning, you just wonder why they can't seem to get their act together and why they do some of the things that they do, like six hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns. Anyway, let's go to the stack of stupid and go to

Los Angeles. Something's got to give. So we have a Los Angeles business owner found what they describe as a novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building, playing an annoying children's song called baby Shark on a Loop. Now, I'm not sure if you've heard baby Shark, but once that gets in your head, it's an earworm that has a difficult time going away. It is annoying as hell. I even asked Joe Strecker if you had it around he could access it. He just looking. He goes, I'm

not playing baby Shark. Court to one of the women who lives in the encampment next door to the building playing Baby Shark on a Loop. Sad this they played baby Shark all night long. They're doing everything they can to make us move or drive us crazy, but it's doing the last. It's driving people crazy. Well maybe that is the point. It drives you crazy and then you move. They started playing the song through a loudspeaker that was

pointed directly directly at this encampment. I see a photograph of it, and I can't imagine a business staying open with this type of encampment right in the front, basically in the front door. She said it kept her and others up all night. She also called it ridiculous. We can't get any sleep, we can't get any housing, we can't eat, and now they're trying to drive us crazy with children's music. A guy down the street owns a

barber shop called Styles Barber Lounge Shalom. Styles, interviewed by local news there, told the outlet that they aren't trying to be mean or insensitive to the homeless, but have businesses to run and are just trying to survive. Said it's not always it's not always about being kind, because when people are taking away from business and all the stores are going out of business, we're still here surviving,

trying to put up for our family. Well, and those businesses what pay the tax dollars that are supposed to well provide you know, means and resources to get these people out of the homeless encampments. Who wins in this right when you think about Medicaid expansion, This whole, this

whole system that we have is collapsing on itself. The ones who make money, the ones who create businesses, provide job opportunities, are shouldering the burden for the ever growing number of people who refuse to participate, who refuse to get jobs. I don't know what the solution is with the homeless crisis, but wow, the weight of it is becoming just an insurmountable challenge, and the businesses go out of business and the people flee and go to other states.

It's a downward spiral out in California among other cities that are going down the same path. Forty five fifty five KRC The talk station More to talk about Stick around and be right.

don't get with teachers having sex with students anyway. This one Desota County, Mississippi high school teacher they're accused of making out with a student Gordon affidavit from the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office. Thirty one year old in Natalia Wright, another female teacher, former teacher Lewisburg High School, committed acts of licentious sexual desires with a child under the age

of eighteen. She was a special education teacher at Louisbourg during the twenty twenty four to twenty five school year. While these happened or this happened, she was also the student's tutor in addition to being the student's teacher. Wright's husband allegedly obtained footage and audio recording of her admitting to kissing the student on multiple occasions while tutoring the child.

Additional witnesses observed her kissing and making out with the student on multiple locations, which included the parking lot of a Taco Bell and the Longview Point Baptist Church. She resigned from the school beginning of April due to inappropriate contact with a victim, which included physical touching, communication, and driving the child to school in her personal vehicle multiple times.

Arrested May twelfth at a two hundred thousand dollars bond, charged with fondling by person of position or trust.

all kinds of face tattoos. She looks like she's got straight lines for eyebrows that have been tattooed on there and a giant nineteen ninety two tattoo on her neck among other neck tattoos. Okay, authority say the Pardo's middle school age son had expressed a desire to carry out, in their words, in the arrest rey board, acts of mass violence at his school. Officials alleged this woman bought the items knowing that they would be used for a crime.

Please say the student, I know what. He arrived the Roads Middle School in San Antonio Monday outfit with a mass camouflage jacket and tactical plants or pants, but he soon left school swept for potential threats, and the student was later found off campus. Now facing terrorism charges, Pardo posted a thirty five dollar bonds release from jail. Boy was suspended last month after he allegedly researched the twenty nineteen christ Church mosque shooting on a school issued computer.

Part of his son returned to school last week, which point officials implemented a safety plan for fear of potential violence. Apparently, she bought ammunition, magazines and the tactical gear the kid was wearing. We'll just go ahead and include her in the prior given awarded. Joe investigation underway after a Pennsylvania school district said a kindergarten student gave jello shots to classmates.

Greater Johns School district said that a kindergarten student in the elementary school gave out quote alcohol in the form of small jello cups close quote to three hundreds other students. Superintendent said. One staff learn about the situation, immediate action was taken. Students taken to the nurse's office for evaluation, and out of an abundance of caution, EMS called to take the kids to a local hospital. Parents were notified

and met first responders there at the hospital. Not clear how the student got the alcoholic jello cops, but the district said it's looking into it and cooperating with authorities I know. Stated said, we are currently a possession of the jello cups in the matter is under investigation. We are cooperating fully with local authorities to determine how the students came into possession of these items and to ensure

the continued safety of our students and staff. Joe, you think the jello shots now up over in the faculty lounge not anymore. It really is kind of puzzling. How old is a kindergartener, Joe, isn't that like five years old? I bet mom and dad had a party over the weekend and the kid grabbed him up and threw him in his back. Went to school with us. Now you

skeptical about that anyhow? Coming up off top of the air news play, more to talk about it, including the actual reality of what the hell's going on with the GOP tax plan. Oh, they've promised, they've promised, they aren't delivering. Also, Joe Biden's health at issue here, and I have a good friend of mine SYOP, former military SIOP, and so anything coming out like this, he always has something to

say about it. This was a meme media cover up revealed, which is all what's going on about Biden and his failing and deteriorating cognitive state, which was well documented by folks like you and me because we could see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears that he was deteriorating. At the media lied and lied and lied. Everyone surrounding Biden lied and lied and lied. So that's

really a story that's got some legs right now. So with that in mind, his comment was q the cancer announcement, in other words, operating as a distraction from the broadly reported information about the Biden cognitive cover up. Anyways, stick around more to talk about in six o'clock hour. You can feel free to call it love to hear from you. I'll be right back at the top of the hour.

Seven to twenty with Christopher Smithman every Monday at seven twenty with the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. And the Smither vent eight oh five with Brian James Monday Monday on Moody's atitg grating, which I referenced in the last hour It dropped and the reason is we

are on a terrible physical trajectory. Deficits keep getting bigger, and Republicans, even hammering out this big, beautiful bill can't find more than one and a half trillion dollars over ten years, while we rack up two trillion dollars in debt each and every year additional debt. It's just it's a downward spiral. There's nothing more that you can say

about it. We'll talk about the starter home market in Cincinnati and big summer vacations apparently out of style, says Brian James, and then go to eight forty with Tim Hester. He's a Cincinni native and Air Force veteran. Thank you for your service, Tim. He's going to be promoting any PBS documentary defying death on the Atlantic, so we'll hear from Tim at eight forty CJ thanks for calling this morning. Happy Monday to you.

connection with the Hillary Clinton shenanigans. He put to the FBI's handing a Hillary Couldn't Email investigation as example of political bias and institutional failure, claiming senior officials within the Justice Department hijack their constitutional responsibilities, selectively declining which cases are deciding which cases to pursue. Said, apparently he's got a whole although the statute of limitations expired, he's got a whole room full of documents, and he's gonna let

them out. So the good news, the good thing here is we're now to clean it up, meaning the FBI's reputation. You're about to see a wave of transparency. Just give us about two weeks. Hum he said, he referring to the crossfire hurricane cover up Donald Trump's ties to Russia and working with Congress to put out information surrounding it. He said, this is how vindictive and vicious the former

leadership structure here was FBI. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and led to the American people, they withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren't supposed to look.

of the time. And more and more informations coming out with these books that have been published than the most latest one, Original Sin President Biden's decline, its cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again, by none other

than CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios. I guess they're trying to cover their tracks since they were some of the apologists for Biden during the period of time that we are own eyes and the journalists in Americans could see with their own eyes for years that Biden was going downhill, fast, stumbling, he following, He couldn't remember names, looked lost in public appearances, had to be let off stage. Remember the bunny rabbit. He'd wander off

to one side. Your exit is on the other side, mister Biden. Here let's step this way. We all saw it, and of course that leads us to the whole idea of Joe Biden running for reelection. And it wasn't until that debate that the jig was up and they had to pull the plug on Biden metaphorically giving Democrats no opportunity to select who the nominee might be. Let's coronate Kamala Harris. That's what the cover up led to. That's

what got done. Ronald Trump elected well, plus he ran on policies that a lot of the American people were hoping, like closing the border anyway. But focusing on the media, and it's worth reading the Bidens finility cover up is also a media reckoning. Whenever someone dared to point out that mister Biden wasn't up to the jobs, the praetorian media guard assembled to deny it. We could quote chapter in verse from many media sources, but one example worth

signing is none of them. Mister Jake Tapper Grabian the TV clip service, has compiled a montage of Jake Tapper casting doubt on those who cast a doubt on mister Biden's mental fitness. Wall Street Jeneral reported in a detailed piece June fourth last year, that those who observed Biden

in person were concerned about his decline. Mister Tapper quoted a White House dismissal of the story, including a sneer that the journal is owned by News Corp, which is run by the Murdochs, as if that rebutt of the story. He then interviewed a Democrat who dismissed it. A Democrat dismissed the journal's reporting. A more curious journalists would have explored it, explored rather if it were true, and maybe even done some of his own reporting. Only now does

he tacitly admit that the journal was right. The cover up of mister Biden's mental decline will go down as one of the greatest scandals of modern politics. By refusing to admit what voters could so clearly see, Democrats denied their party in open primary once Biden imploded. They handed Kamala Harris the nomination without debate that mister Biden bowed out in twenty twenty three. Republicans might also have been

more open to nominees other than mister Trump. Instead, Democrats turned into a turn to lawfair in attempt to disqualify Trump, which solidified his hold on the GOP voters. Democrats in the press are now appalled by mister Trump's second term. They would do better to think upon and seek contrition

for their own role in making it possible. And I guess I have to ask out loud, does anybody, I mean, can you really legitimately trust the mainstream media after all of the lies I mean, in this is just one area of the lies. We regularly joke about the talking points. I went through a little montage on my own last week about the new talking points. We're looking forward. We're just looking forward. We're not going to talk about the past.

Oh in the context of this, Well, that's what the mainstream media is parroting, and the Democrats are parroting it as well. But you know, you can get back to the Hunter Biden laptop story. New York Post broke that

and they were ridiculed for breaking it. Out comes the fifty one you know, former intelligence agents signing onto the letter suggesting it looked like Russian collusion or Russian interference or Russian propaganda, whatever the words were they used, yes, in advance of the election, and that was parroted all over the media. They wouldn't even acknowledge that it was a possibility the Biden laptop was or the hunterapp was real.

And yet we now find out later the FBI knew it was real, and they had known about it for a long time, meaning that letter was legitimately outright fabrication lie, a lie perpetuated by the mainstream media. So your government lies to you again. The Biden administration and the prior administration lied to you and perpetuating this fabrication. They wanted Trump out. They wanted Trump to lose. Every lettered agency in DC wanted Trump to lose. And now you got

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of blindness. So you know, it's not something that's impossible to cure or solve, but you got to know you've got a problem ahead of time to deal with it. So we'll pro tip there.

within the next month it traveled to the bones. So this must be a notoriously bad thing that happens. And that's what my doctor told me. To the one from OHC. There's the plug that it came in and then travels out. So the prostate right now is in basically remission. It's not progressing, but the bones. That's this one thing because of all the bones in your body. If not, you're a jellyfish. And it's not a fun thing to go through. And I really feel sympathy for Biden getting well, getting

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According to Captain Stephen Bauer at the police He's expected to recover, which is good. Victim told police he didn't know why they targeted him and could not provide a description of the shooter, according to the captain. Let us see human ring remains found in Claremont County last month identified as a Felicity man who was reported missing more than three years ago. Coroner's Office at remains were found in fifteen hundred block of Barger Road in Washington Township

April nineteenth. DNA testing results confirmed the identity of the remains Roger Schantz. Bruce family reported him missing in January of twenty twenty two. During an investigation to Bruce's death, Clama County Sheriff's Office said Washington Township resident Zachary Scott called nine one one a couple of days before Bruce was reported missing, claiming he had overdosed on drugs. And

was unresponsive in a vehicle. Scott said he administered narcan than disconnected the call on a callback, Scott told dispatches Bruce drove away after regaining consciousness. Detective searched the area tried to find the vehicle Scott describe it never located Scott or Bruce. When detectives interviewed Scott one day later,

they said he changed his story. Clarimont County Grand Jury indicted him on one kind of involuntary manslaughtered, gross abuse of a corpse, corrupting another with drugs, and tampering with evidence in Bruce's death. Now his remains have been recovered. According to Claimont County corner Brian Treon, this identification brings a measure of closure to a tragic and prolonged period of uncertain Their thoughts are again with Bruce's family and

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for that community. So we'll keep our fingers crossed it they don't screw it up down here. Al all right, you have a good well, thanks for the call man enlightening. It was all right, okay. And here I got a thought question for you, Donald Trump on his exec or his truth media account. Walmart should stop trying to blame tariffs is the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than

expected between Walmart and China. They should eat the tariffs all in caps and not charge the valued customers all in caps anything. I'll be watching, and so will your customers.

this is Marxist, this is fascist. So how can you reconcile those two points? And the profit margin at Walmart? You know, say what you want about Walmart. They are not centers of fat profit margins. Wall Street Journal reporting it's three percent, actually below three percent, pointing out there's not a whole lot of resumed room to absorb higher

costs in the tariffs. And then they point to the competition, because of course Walmart's got competition, and one of the things that made it so successful is that it's well comparatively lower prices over the years. That's what built the empire quantit large quantity of small profit margins. So now Donald Trump's telling Walmart how to run its business, and in a pretty bold statement too, I will be watching,

and so you're, yeah, let the customers decide. I just found it impossible to reconcile that, and it doesn't sound like a very conservative thing to do. I just think, you know, it's the reality is is what everyone who pointed out tariffs will do. It ends up raising the prices on things. Now, whether we have a good outcome in the final analysis from the tariffs or a bad outcome, I'm willing to wait around and find out, because there

they are. Nobody consulted Brian tom before the tariffs went on, and he did promise them campaign pledge he was going to put impose tariffs. So we're getting what we voted for in that regard. And he's already made some headway with various countries negotiating deals to eliminate the tariffs or otherwise come up with something that's palatable to both countries China for one. He's negotiating with China with the with

the tariff pause. So it's playing out and I've seen other articles talking about, well, the Trump tariffs aren't bearing fruit in the form of additional investments in business, and how quickly do you think you can build a giant factory? You know, the decision to build the factory is one thing, but it actually starting and starting to employ construction workers and ultimately workers who will be working at that any given facility. That does take some time. So people looking

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I'm off tomorrow, Gary Jeff Walker's covering former. I'm getting my glaucoma laser blast this afternoon. So last time I did that, he had a difficult time reading with the eye that got blasted. So since I do read for a living, I'm gonna take tomorrow if out an abundance of cautions. So Gary Jeff, thank you for covering for me tomorrow morning. I thought this was a joke, but apparently it's not. And I got a tremendous amount of respect for High Republican Warren Davidson. He's a good man,

but I did get a chuckle out of this. He introduced legislation to direct the National Institutes of Help to investigate the psychological and social roots of Trump Derangement syndrome, presented the Trump Derangent Syndrome Research Act of twenty twenty five, which it's reported, is intended to shed a light on what has been a serious cultural affliction, described as an intense, irrational hysteria triggered by the mention of Donald Trump's name.

The mere mentioned TDS become a catch all for unhinged reactions of his critics, whether it comes from a form of spittle flecked blue hair rants, protest effigies, or social media meltdowns. Props to Stephen Watson overt Modernity News for that verbage, but it is a real thing. Apparently co sponsored by Alabama Representative Barrymore, Apparently, this research will look to explain why leftists lose their collective minds over Donald Trump.

Legislation identifies teds as quote the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons reacting to Trump's policies, presidency, or even very existence, manifesting in quote verbal expressions of intense hostility close quote and even quote overt acts of aggression and violence close quote against his supporters. Let's explain here the evil points the real world consequences. For example, the two assassination attempts on Trump. Davidson in a statement, this

isn't just about hurt feelings. TDS has divided families, fueled nationwide violence, and turned dinner parties into screaming matches. The NIH needs to study this so we can find solutions. Well, I think the problem is primarily one of the Internet and social media and the echo chamber that people find

themselves in. I mean, if you got one crazy person screaming about Donald Trump's going to end the world, there are an other crazy, crazy people out there in the world who might share that, and then they run into each other and they hang out together and feed this

this this, well, we'll call it TDS. And how many and you know, this is a reflection of how many years that evil orange man has been ingrained into the hearts and minds of so many people via the mainstream media, who we find out has been lying to us over and over and over and over again about a variety of topics. But do we really need to pay for the NIH to study this. Apparently they tried this in Minnesota.

March of this year, five Minnesota state Republicans pushed the build to classify TDS as a mental illness in the state, defining it as quote Trump induced general hysteria close quote. The effort didn't work. Democrat has called it possibly the worst bill in Minnesota history and an affront to speech.

Now Warren Davidson bill apparently that takes a different look at it, framing TDS as a public health issue and worthy of scrutiny by the NIH, and exists calling for reallocating existing NIH funds i e. Note, New taxpayer dollars away from what Davison described as ludicrous studies like giving meth to cats, towards something relevant to everyday Americans. It also tasked the NIH wood probing the media's role in amplifying this syndrome, analyzing its impact on political polarization, and

hunting for patient zero of the phenomenon. I'd like to have Congress and Davidson on to see if this is he's if he's really serious about this, or this is just one of those legislations to illustrate something and make a point rather than actually getting it passed, and since it's not part of the reconciliation process, he's going to have to get a sizeable number of Democrats that go along with it. Symbolic probably six poin fifty five fifty

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States with good reason. Starter home market in the Cincinnati we'll talk about that with Brian and apparently big summer vacations are out of style. It can only imagine why that might be the case. Then we go to eight forty Tim Hester, who's a Cincinni native and Air Force veteran served in a rock. Thank you, Tim for your service to our country. There's a PBS documentary that's coming to town, Defying Death on the Atlantic, which is a

really kind of wild story. If you asked me to sign up for a three thousand mile ocean rowing race, I would be a definite no on that. But the documentary is the story of a four man rowing team that participated in that event. The World's Toughest row is what that race is called. Air Force veteran the team they call themselves Team Fight or Oar Die. Twenty twenty two race got hit by a thirty foot swell, a boat capsize and they were left stranded eight hundred miles

from the nearest land. So that's it tells the story of that. So we'll hear about the details on that from Tim at eight forty back over to you know, the first story we're going to be talking about with Monday mondays Brian James. The fact that Moody's downgraded our credit rating. The reason we are spending ourselves into oblivion. It's our debt. It keeps growing and growing and growing.

And sadly, the GOP big beautiful bill it passed out of the House Budget Committee apparently does little to do that does not cut the deficit at really at all. In fact, it makes it bigger. Current proposal will increase projected budget deficits by nearly three trillion dollars through twenty thirty four, locking in tax cuts and spending increases that outweigh reductions and spending on Medicaid nutrition assistance. Now there's a bunch of stumbling blocks going on, and they remain.

Now this did get advanced out of committee. The four Republican holdouts, the fiscally responsible for just voted present, so that it was seventeen to sixteen speakers. That he expects they have productions reductive discussions with various factions of the House, because there are moderate factions, so called moderate Republicans, who are all in favor of the big spending that has been implemented for a long time. They wanted to continue us, notably in the areas of Medicaid and the Green New

Deal crap from the so called Inflation Reduction Act. It's in my state. My state's going to benefit from it, so I want that project to remain. Anyway, the four people that I mentioned, the fiscal hawks, cratered the whole thing on Friday because of the twenty twenty nine kick in date for work requirement for Medicaid. That was one of them. Why is it so far down the road? Of course, they're all worried about the work requirement would be removed sometime between now and then with follow up

legislation or action. Green energy subsidies also a subject matter of their concern because again these so called moderate Republicans that keep pushing to keep those green energy subsidies in place. So they say, lawmakers have signal that some of the changes that are being pressed on by these conservatives will be introduced as amendments in the House Rules Committee, so they're not in this current framework that was voted on last night. Chip Roy among the fiscal Hawks, along with

Ralph Norman Roy from Texas Norman from South Carolina. They're also in the Rules Committee where these amendments will be introduced. Now, just because you're going to introduce some amendment the same, you know, numerical realities exist. If you've got a bunch of moderate Republicans going along with the Democrats, they might vote noah any given amendment to help write the ship of fiscal disaster that this bill continues, they say it

on the bill will now move. Apparently they did get somerect some concessions, at least I get this impression from Roy's statement. He said tonight, after a great deal of work and engagement over the weekend, the Budget Committee advanced a reconciliation bill that lays the foundation for much needed

tax really border secured, important spending reductions and reforms. Importantly, the bill will now move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduces the availability of future subsidies under the Green New Scan.

That's all the details that were provided. But since some of these I guess, Fox News reporting that they got assurances about these I guess amendments being introduced in the Rules Committee in writing, but that doesn't mean that they're going to be included in the ultimate Big beautiful bill. House Committee passed the framework earlier this year with instructions to these various committees to get Trump's agenda in line

and legislated. Then the House committees began crafting their policies, which is how you end up with them being packed in together into this massive bill that they have to pass by reconciliation. So reconciliation requires the subject matter to be limited to federal spending, tax and the national debt. A golden opportunity to pairback are spending. It seems to me though it's being squandered. Now what stick? What are the sticking points? Most notably, the salt cap is one

of them. You got blue states and you have Republicans in blue states where the taxation rate is off the charts now back in twenty seventeen or the Trump tax cuts, they capped that deducting interest and local taxes at ten

thousand dollars. So naturally in a state the taxes the hell out of people New York, New Jersey, California, and the Republicans are there they want the salt tax cap to be increased, and substantially feeding the fire of the Democrats argument that these are all about protecting the wealthy. Members of the Salt Caucus have floated a sixty two thousand dollars cap for single filers and one hundred and twenty four thousand cap for joint filers as it's currently drafted,

I have read that hasn't been confirmed. They raised it to thirty thousand dollars for individe jewels making four hundred thousand or less, and then decreasing the cab for those who exceed the income ceiling. Now who among us has sixty two to one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars worth of deductions to tack on in your federal filing? And most notably, the Salt cabs primarily benefit wealthier filers and does nothing more than subsidized Blue states, removing any

incentive for them to lower their own tax burdens. That's the solution to it, Blue States, Quit taxing the hell out of your citizenry. Lower those taxes. They don't have to worry about. Where the salt tax are cut is And why should we hear no hire anybody else out in the United States be subsidizing these folks, giving them

a write off for their state taxes. Of course, the fiscally responsible and conservatives of pushing GOP leaders to speed up the start date for the work requirement for Medicaid as written, or at least up until yes yesterday, may have changed based upon what chip Roy had to say. The work requirement kicks in in twenty twenty nine, a forty year delay. That provision requires childless adults age nineteen to sixty four years old to prove that they work,

go to school, or volunteer eighty hours a month. It's a pretty small ass considering the typical work week for the regular Joe out in the world or Jane as the case may be forty hours a week, So eighty hours for an entire month, and you can go to school, trade school. That's part of the equation, and you'll have a career opportunity after that. And then, of course, the green energy tax credit is a subject of disputes between

again I'm infighting between the Republicans. Document passed by the Ways and Means Committee phases out tax credits for solar, winter and nuclear projects that come online between twenty twenty nine and twenty thirty two. Products that start producing energy in twenty twenty nine can get an eighty percent of the credit of those that join the grid in twenty

thirty one forty percent. But all this is brought about by the Inflation Reduction Act, and are just bothered because these cuts, these terroriffs, these incentives all mean that the business model itself, this whole concept of green and green energy would not be something anybody would embrace because of course, well the math just doesn't work out. But of course those reds are those those red state Republicans, even in red states, are beneficiaries of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives.

So they're willing to turn their back on the typical Republican platform in mantra, which is, no, we shouldn't be funding these green boon doggles. But if the boon doggles in my backyard, oh, I'm gonna fight tooth and nail over it. Publican party can't get its act together. I feel like I'm watching something that would go on in Columbus as I watch these arguments unfold. Stick around Christopher Smithman and coming up next. First word for QC kinetics.

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a sitting president. And what is mind blowing for me, Brian Thomas, is the media's cooperation with it. So you have a vice president, you have congressional members, you have senators, and then you have the media. And when you have those White House briefings, no one is asking why the president is falling down. There's nothing there. He just falls down. Why can't he keep his sentence structures or his thoughts together?

His mumbling, you know, the bunny rabbit thing that we all saw, you know, him falling down the steps coming out of Air Force One. It was like the media continued to say, your eyes, don't believe them, don't believe your ears. He's absolutely healthy. And Brian Thomas, you talked about this for years and for years, Brian Thomas, you talked about it. It wasn't like, oh, one off, You're like, here's something serious going on. And in the middle of all of this, I remember you talking like, hey man,

I'm caring. I'm caring for my own dad. It's not like you personally only weren't in it yourself. And I remember one morning you were like, listen, I'm telling everybody I know what's going on with President Biden, and so to hear you know, these different media people write books, talk about them, act as if they're revisionists on their history. For me, at the beginning of my event, I just want to say that is hypocrisy at a level that I've never ever spoken or seen before in my life.

And I really think that there should be congressional hearings, you know, because the vice president had to know period staffers, chief of staff, they had a responsibility to our constitution to whistle blow read alert there's something not right here, and it is that serious to me, we can never

let it happen again. It was a conspiracy to cover up the health status of a sitting president, who have launched codes, who has launched codes well, who was running the United States of America for the last four years exactly the fair question.

But he did that interview over the his Biden's retention of classified documents, keeping him in his garage and all over the place. Found enough information to prosecute him for that, but decided not to because he said he was obviously struggling cognitively had some mental issues. That interview took place in October of twenty twenty three. I mean, you think about that if you had any question up until that point in time about whether or not he was having problems.

They decided not to prosecute him because he'd be viewed as a feeble old man with a bad memory that speaks volumes. And yet they still ran him to for re election as president. And then it took that terrible debate with Donald Trump to finally haven't pulled the plog on him. And what was.

the shots? If Biden's sitting over in a corner, drooling on himself, not aware of what's going on, and he kind of gave us an indication that's pretty much what he was doing. Who made the decision to pen his name there? And isn't that really kind of forgery if that directive didn't come directly from the United States President?

It can't be just like let's sweep fit under the rub. If you heard Democratic leaders Brian Thomas over the weekend, they all have the talking point, let's just move forward, let's just move forward. How can I move forward? And I'm not exaggerating that. Even in my own family, when I would raise the issue about the health status of President Biden, I had family members that wanted to cancel

me just because I would. I mean, you were taking a big risk, Brian Thomas, at the time when you were saying, hey, there's something wrong with the president, let's not forget that the world was not on board. And remember the g seventh trip when the President just wandered off and the French president had to go over and pull him back, like where you going? People were like, oh that really, that really didn't happen. He was really

over trying to see the person who parachuted. In My point to you is that families were destroyed because there was someone in the family that had the gall to question the health status of Biden, and they viewed it as a political attack, not people who were saying, I'm concerned about the presidency, not the person. I'm concerned about

the constitution. And I think it's fair for any of us to go back and review all those four years to figure out when and where was the president impaired and who exactly was running the United States of America, because we know it was in President Biden.

familiar relationships right there. That's just how shaky a ground they are that you were going to just ignore and otherwise ast your size a family member because of a random political statement you're gonna let Donald Trump get under your skin that much, or a statement that maybe suggestive of your support of Trump by making a comment about Joe Biden's frailty, that's going to cause you to alienate someone that's sad, that is really sad.

what destroyed Vice President Harrick. There were people out there that said, one, she lounched her campaign way too late because the Biden family, led by probably Jill Biden, the first lady, kept her husband in the race too long, and the Vice president didn't stand up like she was in a very tough spot. I want to say that from a politician, like it's like saying John Cranley is really sick. I'm the vice mayor and for some reason, and he's the person that has given.

this and try to run. I believe that the tension between the Hearents camp and the Biden camp was centered around this conspiracy that President Biden really wasn't running the country and she knew it.

that there was something wrong with him, and I'm just I just prayed that Congress has the courage. I don't want them to be distracted on the big things that they're doing, but as soon as they passes this tax bill, they should pivot and give the transparency. I mean, that take that we're talking about is so revealing, and I hope everyone will take the time this week to listen to some of it or listen to all of it. It's out there for anybody to see that interview between

the Special prosecutor and President Biden. It'll give you great insight. As Brian Thomas said years before. I mean, Brian Thomas, you had never heard the audio and you were talking about who's running the United States of America. It didn't take the audio for you to go, aha, there's a problem in the White House and there is a conspiracy.

low to hold they were all right. So you know, the other thing about this is you mentioned Nancy Pelosi, but also a guy like Chucky Schumer, the press, the various press secretaries, all of the cabinet members that had to interact with the president over and over and over again. You know, Pete budda judge and others would come out and tell you that everything is just aoka and they're

all now held out to be liars. And my question to you, Christopher Smithman, from a political standpoint, I guess I'm just kind of wondering how the Democrats, how Democrats in the Democratic Party feel about what their party and their party officials did to them in perpetuating this lie. So they first off back when Bernie Sanders one of the nomination, they pulled a plug on Bernie Sanders, who looked like he was going to win it in favor

of the quote unquote moderate Joe Biden. That wasn't exactly a democratic process, and they pulled the same shenanigans, telling Biden he's going to run again, and then realize, in spite of everything that they were aware of, continue to run him until the debate, at which time they deprived the Democratic Party of a choice on who they wanted to be the nominee, just dubbing and coordinating Kamala Harris, which didn't sit well with many people. And then you

got the mainstream media complicit in all this. I mean, if I I'm critical of the Republicans in Columbus and what they've done in the past, like with Larry Householder and Governor de Wine, and I'm you know, I can be critical of him and think we hit a changing of the guard. Thank god for VV. Ramaswami getting the nomination, But you know, I just wonder how the Democrats feel. Do they they really believe they have been betrayed? And don't you think they should.

or a liberal. It had to do with caring about the country. And if they're willing to cover up something like this, what else are they covering up? And so that's what frustrated me that the Democrats were using this constitutional crisis campaign destroying American family, right, because there were family members that were saying there's a problem with the president, and all of a sudden, it made you a pariah. Those people need to be rehabilitated in the family, they

need to be rehabilitated in the mets. They need to be rehabilitated as local and national and statewide politicians. Because they all were right, and that's why we have to take time to discuss it. And why the Democrats who were saying let's just move forward, is just not going to work with me. I want to know what the heck was going on over the last four years with President Biden. Who knew what, when, and why didn't they, under the constitution of the United States share that information

with the American public. We deserve to know what happened in our government so it never happened again. Even the doctors who were saying he was help me, Hey, the doctors are supposed to go and give the health check. The doctors were coming out saying, under their responsibilities of being a physician, how were you passing President Biden for four years saying nothing was wrong? The candidate his name was President Trump. If you remember saying, hey, I'm going

to go have my doctor check me. Here's what he said. What was going on with the White House physician? That person failled Americans by not coming clean about the president self. That's why he's in the position, That's why she's in the position to tell us the health status of the president.

For God's sake, they have the latch codes. This is a person who's making huge decisions about the about the removal or the pull out of Afghanistan to the basic Germaine decisions they're making on a daily basis about Ukraine and what's happening with Russia or what's going on with Israel and what's going on with Harman. This was a great conspiracy of great magnitude, with the media absolutely being involved in it, and we need to know what happened.

Bryan Thomas, that's my spleet vent for the for the week.

to the far left extremes of the political spectrum. Obiden, Yeah, Biden not paying attention. So anyhow we could have to speculate at this point.

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All the books that are being written about it by people who used to deny it, Jake Tapper most notably, you know, profiting on what they're now saying we all knew about and document it with all these quotes and interviews. But you had this media complicity, So you had the people lying about his health and immedia that would parrot it and not look into the veracity of what they were being told. In spite of people like me who could see with their own eyes and hear with their

own ears. An obvious cognitive decline going on. But now Trump's bringing back up the whole idea of the stolen election. And you know we heard that before. That's been discredit The election wasn't stolen, but that's what the mainstream media kept saying, right, So if you're going to be objective about it and realize the mainstream media obviously in the bag for Democrats and all things democratic, and particularly Joe Biden, you got to have a John Deciah of skepticism about

what they told you about that, don't you. They're the ones responsible for fact checking and looking into matters and investigating, and there wasn't a whole lot of that done. And Trump just over the weekend on Saturday put a truth Truth social media post up so that the presidential election of twenty twenty was rigged and stolen. He mentioned the auto pen, He mentioned a larger scandal going on here, and the campaign of inoculation and innocence of Democrats wage.

None like that had ever been waged before. So he's now going back to the well on the election being stolen in twenty twenty, Maybe some fact checking will be done, maybe there will be a true investigation on that. There's been a lot of evidence and a lot of investigations and a lot of you know, voting voting irregularities have been and pointed out since the mainstream media and the Democrats concluded that no, there is nothing to see here.

Fifty five k SE Detalk Station Money Money with Brian James. First topic Moody's credit rating looking good and the motivations behind it are seemingly obvious. Yes, we spend too much and our deficit is too big. Don't go away, be right back. Confuse happens fast, stay up to date at the top of the hour, not can it be complicated?

to pay people to invest in your well. In this particular case country, I mean, and they spelled it out in black and white, Moody's pointed it out. It's the growing burden of the financial and federal government's budget deficit and the rising cost of debt service on it.

two percent depending on what you're looking at. This is But again, this can't be too much of a shock. We've consciously decided to do things differently. We talk all the time about how we can't afford ourselves, we're living beyond our means, and it is starting to surface here just a little bit in terms of the rest of the world's perception of the United States as a credit worth the facility.

because well, the taxes of my state are outrages. I mean, we just subsidized the high tax states, high taxation, and the people that should be paying that by cutting their federal income tax. I mean, you know, the point of capping the salt tax at ten thousand dollars would so we wouldn't be subsidizing those outrageous states.

even happening now. We just have a situation in eituation where the Republicans obviously dominate both both parts of Congress, and that's the closest we're going to get to putting all this in place to make the fixes.

You can't just ignore that. You're not going to have money left over for expanding this or funding that. Whether it's military or one of the social welfare safety nets, they're all going to be deprived extra dollars.

a default look like? How would that play out? If we couldn't make the debt service on our national debt?

it goes rapidly down from there. So if all of a sudden, the rest of the planet basically being the entire universe, loses faith in the faith in the United States ability to pay its debt, then all of a sudden, all those countries and the rest of the world is going to lose a substantial customer base from which to sell, and that's going to have a domino effect. So nobody, even those who would prefer that we get knocked off our pedestal, will not benefit from that.

perfect credit rating. Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore or in Luxembourg all have better credit ratings in the United.

you'll be paying thirty percent. The rest of the world is saying the United States needs to pay four and a half percent, while these other countries need to pay about two to borrow money.

score the other day. I get a notice from LifeLock saying, hey, your credit score is changed, or I check it out. You know, I still have excellent credit, And at one point I actually had a perfect credit store. It didn't last very long, so it dropped two points. And the reason is because I have excellent in every single category except one. They say I don't have enough accounts that I should have more available credit. I'm thinking, how bast awkward is that? That doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm dutifully and timefully paying off what credit cards I have. I don't need any additional credit. Why in the hell would I want to go out and get more. It doesn't make any sense.

really care about the credit, don't really need that. But all of a sudden A month later, my credit score spikes because I have an extra line in place, off of which I'm not paying anybody any interest.

Starter homes Are there any around Cincinnati? I saw the article from Randy Tucker and from the Enquirer, and apparently they're in very short.

one or two, maybe three bedrooms at the most. But obviously to allow a young family to kind of get started, really struggling for buyers to find a home for under three hundred thousand that doesn't require major work or isn't a neighborhood that's not quite ideal.

their rooms. It seems to be stupid to have that much space, most notably if you don't have a really big family, and with an aging population, the demand for smaller homes is probably increased because you don't want as much place to have to clean. Maybe you don't want to go up and downstairs, and you're looking for ranchumps.

That just sounds to me like an ideal opportunity for a smart dev to build small err homes compared to what they've been building, but make them at higher quality to increase that profit margin.

why are we doing this? It's all almost like it's become ingrained that I just have to live in a house. That's just all there is out there. So I'm going to have a couple empty rooms just the way.

that kind of money to go someplace like that? And I was never a big guy when it came to travel, certainly not global travel. I've always enjoyed spending time here in the United States of America, where there seems to be an endless supply of destinations. But I understand that the big summer vacation plans are being put on ice this summer.

my folks who don't bring up travel. For the ones who say, yes, we've always wanted to travel, we can't wait to do it. Now we're putting in ten to twelve thousand at an absolute minimum. For the ones who want to hit it hard, we're budgeting twenty thousand dollars per year, and so there's stories in here about of course, if you're going to budget out a trip to Europe, that's going to be in the twenty thousand dollars range to go make it worth your while.

reasonable as you can possibly get. But yeah, so we're hearing stories about forty one percent of people this year plan trips of three nights or fewer, meaning you know, we're taking long weekends. That's up from thirty seven percent. So we've seen a ten percent increase year over year in the people who are saying we're not going to take as big of a vacation as we've as we've done in the past. Americans who are planning vacations period it dropped below forty percent this year.

about that part. People know the reality that the average person wandering around the streets, you know, from the United States doesn't have control over this and may may not agree with Oh that's I'm not too worried about that. That's the practical bottom line is. Listen, I'm not Trump. I didn't do it, for sure. I hurried him to the extent it's going to even do anything anyhow. Has tourism dropped off from foreigners coming into the United States?

I know Canada had a fairly sizable double digit drop in Canadians interested in visiting the United States because of tariff'sligiously generally speaking, but how about generally the US tourism industry.

in the first quarter of twenty twenty five. So we're now estimating that visitors spending is going to fall by about eleven percent, and that's going to cost US about eighteen billion dollars in money that is no longer coming over from overseas in the handbook or in the purchase of travelers.

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out to the North Atlantic. Well, that storm generated thirty forty foot swells, sustained thirty nine winds, and on the morning of the twenty eighth our boat that was supposed to self right in the event of a capsize, our boat capsized on top of a wave.

a veteran That's the twenty fifth of May. Right, Yes, I am very excited for that, I guess, and you know, I thank god you're alive and able to talk about this. Just amazing story.