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on that one this morning. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Brian Thomas inviting phone calls as I always do. If I went three seven four, nine hundred eight two to three, talk go with Tom five to fifty. If you have an AT and T found Christopher Smithman coming up at seven twenty. Same as the always. They're same as always as the case on a Monday, former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati with a smith event. Monday Monday.

Brian James returns eight oh five. Apparently people have the wit scared out of him, worried about a stock market crash. Fifty one percent fright of a crash Wow, just go back and look at history. After the stock market crash in the end of the twenties, Oh my god, big third of the people in the United States unemployed. Just terrible, terrible situation. So especially at a time when our fiat currency is teetering on the brink of self destruction or

immolation or whatever. Yeah, the thirty six trillion dollars in growing debt, somebody's gonna have to do something about that. And a lot of the young people, really I think, coming around to the more conservative side of the Ledger for that reason alone. They look at it and they say, look what you guys did to us. Government is too damn big. It spends too much money, and it can

live within its means, mean logic and reason. That is a reasonable logical thing to presume and assume and can conclude. So anyway, we'll find out about the stock market potential crash, how tariffs affect the car buying process, futures drop among tariff fears. And finally one more with Brian James. People are adding to their rainy day fund, which I suppose is a good thing to do. Empower you, Iram Melmann's going to empower you Summar we're talking about borders and immigration.

That'll be at eight forty and reminder fifty five care Sea dot com. When you can't listen live, check out the podcast page get the information right there. They got the information about Honor Flight. Hope you made it to the fiftieth anniversary tribute to the Vietnam War veterans over the weekend. It was nice talking about that Heart for Seniors with the Cunningham sisters. Just a couple of lovely

young ladies. Inspirational they are, and I hope you were a had an opportunity to give a few dollars to the Heart for Seniors group. What they're just trying to do is improve people's living conditions in long term care facilities. Got some horrific conditions with seniors laying in their own well filth, just impossible to stay up on top of it. Well,

they've got a solution. It's the simple one. There's electronic device and it lets the people there know exactly when someone is in need of a change, which prevents all kinds of horrific conditions and just quality of life issues for those seniors. So it's a good organization to help out and they were so appreciative of my listeners for donating and contributing that they've been able to expand in multiple facilities and they're hoping to just really take this

thing all over the state. And I wish them all the luck in the world with that. So and if you donate, the beautiful Cunningham sisters will come and sing for a senior in your world, maybe a healthcare professional in your world. And trust me, they are very, very talented singers. So if you don't believe me, just go to the podcast and listen to it, because they did a short number at the end of the end of the interview. Again I heard media app is right there

for you when you head on over there. You can listen to the content wherever you happen to be really nice app So a couple of things here. One of hermind folks that we're gonna be at Barley Korn's Wilder, Kentucky location this Wednesday for listener lunch. And I say that with a certain degree of sadness. It's not because I don't want to go to Barley Corns. It's not

because I don't like listening to lunch. But anybody who's been to listener Lunch, may recall, and she used to call into the morning show my blind friend Barbara Lisniewski, and I found out this morning Johnny Benstein who regularly went to listener to Lunch as well. Anyhow, she passed away. So apparently she was moved from her nursing home into the university hospital, apparently with a bowel instruction. Somehow that

resulted in her death. So sad because we lost Johnny, and I guess his wife still operating his Facebook account. That's quite a few listeners over the years, isn't it, Joe, remember quite a few. It's always a really really sad thing. I remember Patty so well, and wasn't it the Chef? And that was Mark the chef? Joe and of course Bob from Oakley. So it's my nineteenth year in radio. Made a lot of friends and of course made a lot of friends at listening to Lunch and Barb love

coming to listen to Lunch. And I was always impressed with Barb and her ability to get out and about. She would take that bus they have that that the bus that helps disable people get around. She'd arrange for that show up on her own. Some game toward the end there she'd need some assistance, and of course some the van Stein's helped her get around. Other people would pick her up, but she just was always in such

a bubbly happy mood at listener lunch. So I'm just just a little bit sad this morning, obviously to learn of her passing, and I knew her health was deteriorating, but to find out that she is gone kind of hitching that soft spot, if you know what I mean. Anyhow, and other rather tragic news. That Minimar earthquake was just insane. You know, with modern social media and everybody's got a cell phone, everbody's taking video, you really do get it.

Just an amazing sort of firsthand like experience. These giant skyscrapers wobbling back and forth, the video of the buildings collapsing, it's just it what looks like a wasteland. Minimar's military hunter has said at least as of late yesterday, at least twenty twenty eight people have been confirmed at thirty four hundred plus injured. But it gets worse than that. They expected death counts to rise sharply because well, you've got basically what amounts to seventy two hours that you

have to live if you are trapped in rubble. Of course you need water, you need food, and of course you probably need medical attention. So as the hours take away and they're trying to get through all that rubble with very little heavy equipment, they're expecting the death cult

to actually jump to above ten thousand. Early modeling from the US Geological Survey suggests the number of earthquake deaths and minim our heart lends could rise above ten thousand, and that the economic losses might surpass the value of the country's gross domestic product. This is what you call a true Charlie foxtrot. So people are going through the rubble, they say, you know, they don't have any heavy equipment. As I mentioned, They've got flip flops on and light clothes.

They don't have anything by way of protection, you know, breathing protection. Been reports of the stench of death now just everywhere in the air. Teams from Thailand, China, India, Russia and United Nations are there, but because of the damaged infrastructure and hubbled communications, it slow their arrival and of course it makes it difficult to coordinate actions and activities.

AID workers in Mandalay said thousands of residents were sleeping out in the open, lacked everything from water to food and other essentials. The city has been without electricity since the earthquakes hit, which obviously again impacts communications and efforts to coordinate the relief efforts and the search efforts. Of the videos that first came out, it was the swimming

pools on top of these high rises. And while the high rises themselves in clouds, obviously a lot of damage done to them, but the slashing of the water was gushing over the side of these buildings, and I just wow, I just get a really unsettled feeling when I think I've been in the Sears Tower and you can actually feel that building move in high winds, and that just freaks the hell of me. You know, you wonder how

well it is designed. But when he hit a seven point seven magnitude quake and you see those buildings moving, you know, literally feet swaying back and forth, and again many of them just collapsing down on top of it, killing lots of people. That just freaks me out just thinking about it. So Tremer is apparently so forceful that they were felt more than six hundred miles away in the tie capital of Bangkok, where a thirty story office

tower that was still under construction. It collapsed while dozens of workers were inside, they said. Local media said seventeen people were confirmed dead in Bangkok, most of them pulled from the wreckage of that collapsed high rise, and they were still searching for around eighty mission construction workers so far and why the damage was in that one so anyhow, prayers. I can only imagine that, like Matthew twenty five is

going to maybe organize some relief efforts. It's my favorite go to charity if you want to help make sure that money actually gets in the hands or the food that donated to the supply. There's no overhead. If you give a buck, a buck ends up where you want it to go. Matthew twenty five, M two five. I think it's M twenty five m dot org online, but I can see M twenty five m dot or. I want to make sure that's the right. One silence is deafening, yeah,

M twenty five, m dot org. So they're still doing real efforts for the tornado, and I don't know if they're going to be They usually do so I'm just throwing it out there and if there's a way you can help out. I don't know how the money ends up getting all the way to Minimar, and of course they've been in a state of absolute political disarray because of that Junta. Twenty twenty one is when that happens. So anyway, tragedy absolutely so thank God for the moment

you have them. Spend them with your loved ones. Appreciate those moments in time, because well, bad things can happen on a moment's notice. It's bout fifteen right now at five KRCD talk station. Feel free to coll ive. Got something you want to talk about? JFK coming for your soft drinks. Got some people angry? I think it's a great idea. Anyway, there's a whole lot going on this morning. I hope you can stick around of it.

greater Cincinnati area. Eric, I appreciate you posting this. He was doing the laundry at the Spotless car Washing laundry manager came in for his daily clean up. He said, well, while we were talking, he pointed out this shadow box that was sitting on top of one of the fixtures in the laundromat, and I noticed it before but hadn't registered with me. He mentioned that it was tossed into one of the trash cans next to one of the

vehicle base. He said, I'm not sure why anyone would throw out one of these out, but if it was a mistake, he wants to get it back in the hands of those who might care. Wasn't able to find this Vietnam veteran, but if you know a veteran named John O. Moser passed away in twenty seventeen. He born in nineteen forty passed away in twenty seventeen, obviously served his country. There's the military flag box, shadow box with the flag in it. It's at that laundry in Addison.

So John O. Moser. Moser passed in twenty seventeen. That's a shame that that thing got thrown away. Anyhow, moving away from that, got a kick out of this. Robert F. Kennedy Junior Make America Healthy Again campaigns over West Virginia. There with Republican Governor Patrick Morrissey, who he told he was going to put on a carnivore diet to make him lose thirty pounds and he could use it, but anyway.

For his part, the Republican governor said he was going to seek permission from the Department of Agriculture to put soda on the list of items that you can't buy with the SNAP program. He said taxpayer dollars should be targeted toward nutritious food. Of course, Kennedy agree with them wholeheartedly. There's one thing we can all agree on. It should be eliminating taxpayer funded soda subsidies for lower income kids. I look forward to inviting every governor who submits a

waiver to come to celebrate with me. At the White House this fall. Huh, Now, why would you be against that those things are chock full of tons of sugar? Look at your labels and then just they tell you what for every teaspoon that's in there, go ahead and put it into a little bowl, and it can be mind blowing how much sugar is in there. Cause of diabetes, it contributes to obesity. Of course, it's just a terrible

em there's no good nutrition in there. Valerie in Bruce, director of the Center for Environmental and Society at Washington College or environment in Society, disagrees with this. Controlling how the poor eat is a paternalistic response to a problem that is not based on snap recipients inability to make good decisions about healthy food. It's a problem of the

price differential in choosing healthy or junk foods. Soda and candy are much cheaper and more calorie dense than one hundred percent fruit juices or prebiotic, non artificially sweetened carbonated beverages. And here's an interesting fun fact. She threw it at the tail end of this argument. Thanks to price supports and subsidies by the federal government to support a US sugar industry. Well, you know what they shouldn't be subsidized

in the US sugar industry, the subsidies corn subsidies. Generally speaking, I don't think we should be forced to burn corn in our gas tanks, and yet there's a subsidy for that too, So let's just stop that. No, we're tariff and everything else. Why not just get rid of the subsidies for sugar. Maybe we'd use less of it, but you know, you can drink water right there, it is the tap. And then we turn over to Meredith Potter, Senior vice president the American Beverage Association. Now where do

you think they come down on this one? The industry's leading lobby group quote, what's unhelpful about this whole conversation is that soda is not driving obesity. We become this easy punching bag. Well, for the reasons I just pointed out. You're an easy punching bag because of zero nutritional value. It's packed full of tons of calories and sugar, which is bad for you. Cancer loves sugar too. By the way, I know I've made that point many times, but I

do the research for yourself. You don't have to trust me. I'm not a doctor. I don't play one on radio. Maybe it isn't driving obesie. It's a variety of factors and conditions driving obesie. But it is a contributing factor. If you're drinking twelve Mountain dews a day, that's going to cause you some health problems. Seth Defestano of the leftist West Virginia Center on Budget and Policies that a ban on Snap paying for soda could force shoppers out

of the state and lead to store closures. Are you telling me the vast majority of profit margins and grocery stores is driven by soft drink purchases, soda purchases, And if so, we need to have a come to Jesus meeting, a wake up that perhaps we're all drinking too much

damn soda. Apparently, as of right now, one of the senior White House advisers said about fifteen or governors are currently talking with RFK Junior about removing Sonda soda from the Snap benefits CALLI means that advisor, we're not seeing anyone can't drink coke. We're saying no government subsidies for coke. Right, I listen, if you take money from the federal government. In regardless of which form, it always comes with strings attached. Held.

The drinking age here in Ohio would still be nineteen for beer if the federal government didn't put twenty one age drinking on the federal funds. Change your drinking laws, or you can't have money. This is what happens all the time. Donald Trump is using the federal funding leverage to change policies and states all over this country on the heels of Joe Biden doing the same damn thing. Sadly, it's how the government works. That's why I always upset.

If they take the money from your pocket and it goes to DC, you're never gonna see it back unless it comes with a whole bunch of strings attached. Set five twenty six. If you five care, see the talk station got local stories coming up. Railroad money. Who's going to be paying that six hundred million dollars as a litigation started a day over that one, that Norfolk SA derailment. I'll be right back after these brief words.

could for twenty twenty three? Who could forget it? Apparently, starting trial today they want to force the railcar owner GATX and the manufacturer oxy vinyls which was the chemical that was released or they manufactured the chemical that was released and poluded the entire town lossuit won't change anything about how much the money the residents received. This is just who's going to pay pay what portion of the share of the six hundred million dollar class action settlement.

So they've been down this road before. They already lost a similar lawsuit when they tried to force GATX and oxy Vina to help pay for the iron mental cleanup, which apparently cost Norfolks so other than one billion dollars. So they're trying to make the same argument that they need help paying for this class action lawsuit. Accord to the statement from the Railroad, Norfolk Southern alone has paid the cost related to the derailment, despite ample evidence that

other parties share the responsibility. The trials about reinforcing the role shippers and railcar owners play in transportation safety and ensuring everyone responsible pays their fast share. They claimed GATX is responsible for the derailment because of the railcar that was filled with plastic pellets that caused the derailment when

it's bearing overheated. Norfolk Southern also says oxy Vinyl should pay because the railroad said the chemical manufacturer provided inconsistent and inaccurate information about the vinyl chloride before the officials decided to release and burn it, which turned out to

be the really stupid thing to do. Both GATX and oxy Vinyl said it will be ridiculous to hold them responsible because Norfolk Southern operated and inspected the train and all the cars and was responsible for delivering everything safely. GATX said it comply with all relevant regulations for taking care of its railcars. They said, even if the car was damaged six years earlier by sitting in a middle of floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey, the railroad should have spotted

the problem and repaired it. NTSB said the crash was caused by the failure that overheating bearing on gatx's railcar. Censor spotted the bearings starting to heat up miles before the derailment, but it didn't reach a critical temperature and trigger an alarm until just before the car derailed, little

time to stop the train. Then, Norfolk Southern is the one that recommended the event and burn operation to let the vinyl chloride be released into the air and pollute the entire environment, based partly on information about the chemical that oxy vinyls had published beforehand, suggesting a chemical reaction

could happen and cause the tank to explode. However, the NTSB confirmed in and it's investigation that was unnecessary to release all that crap into the air because the tanks were starting to cool off, and the railroad failed to listen to the advice from oxy vinals experts or share their opinions with the officials who made the decision, which is probably why they ended up settling the class action lawsuit over to Kentucky. Last Thursday, Kentucky lawmakers overrode Governor

Andy Basher's veto of House Bill four ninety five. The bill removes Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care, and the gates the governor's prior executive order to ban conversion therapy. There you go, see, well, congratulations on rover ride. The Veto Immigration Customs Enforcement agents arrested two people working at a construction side of the Butler County jail this week,

according to the sheriff's announcement. Butler County Scheff Richard Jones said via social media the two subcontractors were arrested by ICE officials. Workers arrested after deputies reviewed their identification cards, which included driver's license asport social Security guard, before they

entered the jailer's construction site. Sheriff Jones said that because the work site is a secure jail area, everyone who enters much show proper id corn to the press release, upon further review of the documents, it was determined that the two workers were in fact illegal aliens. An ICE age and conducted the interviews with the two individuals, who

admitted that they were in the United States illegally. Construction company that hired the two subcontractors believe their documents were authentic. According to Sheriff Jones, he is warning employers to be cautious. All right, let's see here one more. In response to dun High School closing before the end of the semester, since I Public School said it's holding a special enrollment hours for students affected, they abruptly announced their closure on Friday,

with the final day of operation March thirty. First today comes out. They previously said they would close in June because of financial troubles. Cour to CPS Superintendent Seanna Murphy, since the public schools is an open enrollment district and it's just so happens, open enrollment is the month of April, so starting on Monday, they would have been able to start here with us, even if they are outside our city limits. Done apparently had programs for adult learners and

career and technical education students. CPS Superintendent Murphy said since at Public Schools offers similar programs with flexible schedules and virtual learning, so we're here for our kids. The driver for me today is there are young people six hundred plus who don't know what their options are, and we want to provide clarity about those options. Five point thirty five Here fifty five care c DE talk station, Get to a stack of stupid Got a pretty substantial stack

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a neighbor's garbage bin instead. Van Dune said, I don't know why he's hitting the same location so many times. It doesn't make sense to me and why he's doing it. He has captured surveillance video of the man showing up to his house, getting out of his car, placing the bottles of urine in the recycling bin. Unfortunately, the videos are too grainy to tell who the guy is. He's also shared his ordeal on the next door app where neighbors have flooded the post with theories as to the

reason behind it all, multiple theories floating around. Van Dunn, for his part, doesn't have any ideas filed a police report, is trying to get the man's license plate.

is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Trooper with a canine stopped to give the dog a rest break around four pm Thursday near the Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery off I seventy five near Webster in Sumter County. This according to rest report from the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers spotted a white Nissan parked in front of the cemetery with the windows down, no one in the immediate area.

Troopers who were also president observed a white male and female at the rear of the cemetery engaged in sexual activity a top of an unknown grave. Forty three troopers approached a couple who went back to the vehicle to obtain clothing. Search of the vehicle turned up a purse which belonged to the woman identified as forty six year old Stephanie Wegman of Webster. Purse contained two bottles, one with thirteen alprazolam pills, the other with twenty traditions twenty

oxy cota on pills. She does have a prior criminal's history, and surprising no one, she did not have a prescription for either of the medications. Arrested in metel drug charges, booked out without bond the Sumter kind of detention center. The man who apparently had suffered a leg injury taken a dad hospital support indicated a warrant will be sought for his arrest. There or at least eight veterans and nineteenth century county commissioners buried at the Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery.

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coming unglued as a society. Anyhow, over back to the stack of STUVID, we got a Northern Kentucky defense attorney, Chase Cox, sentenced last year for breaking into his ex girlfriend apartment, pleaded with a judge presiding of his case not to send him to jail. Cox told Campbell County Circuit Court Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward at the time, I will show you that I can be successful in the community,

because I know I can. Eight days after Cox was released from jail last August with his six months sentence suspended in favor of probation, his ex girlfriend reported that her vehicle was vandalized while it was parked in the garage for apartment complex.

Morning of August twenty third, last Cox's ex our friend went to the parking guys to get inside the car. She noticed a racial slur and another profanity scratched into the paint job, and both front tires popped and deflated. Woman testified against Cox in her trial last year, leading to his conviction on misdemeanor criminal trespass and criminal mischief charges, and she told police that Cox was likely behind the damage.

Said she saw a friend of Cox's, thirty eight year old Joshua Baker, entered the apartment complex shortly after she arrived home, but didn't approach him. Investigators say Baker entered the building using access code belonging to another of Cox's friends who lives there. Surveillance video they got that showed Baker was in the apartment complex about ten minutes before he went through the side door and driving away toward Cox's home. When identified Baker in a photo lineup, told

police he'd previously seen him at Cox's apartment. Cox had referred Baker to as his felon friend. Baker, likewise says criminal charges in connection with the vandalism. Baker has an extensive criminal history, according to court records, including prior convictions for drug trafficking, identity theft, and burglary. Also facing charges he is in Kenton County Circuit cor Court related to a home invasion and subsequent high speed chase in which

he allegedly wedged himself underneath the Brent Spence Bridge. Police described it as an effort to escape custody. Now for his part of the attorney Cox represented Baker in a twenty twenty one identity theft case, and the attorney's father, Darryl Cox, currently representing Baker in an ongoing Kenton County case. Cox's ex girlfriend also told police Baker was a former

client of his. They got a search warre for Cox's phone found that he was sent a photo of the woman's parking garl taken by the driver of a vehicle, maxing the description of the vehicle. Baker drove photos sent minutes before Baker was seen entering the building, and the pair also exchanged calls and text messages, with Baker towing Cox in a text to quote call in a sec get money ready. Cox was apparently on home incarceration with

an ankle monitor when the incident occurred. Prosecutor say Cox commissioned Baker to vanalyze the woman's car in retaliation for her testimony in his earlier criminal trial.

Public information officer in the Airbas speaking with Fox News He said he had broken into the Peterson Dodge dealership and an attempted to steal a car, but was unable to get out of the building. He had cuts from breaking a window at the dealership and crawling through it.

the rock to get inside. The only thing he has managed to steal was candy from the desk of a salesperson. He was taken to the hospital, later transport transported to Smith County Jail, where he was arrested for burglary of a building.

scared of a stock market crash. You think about the realities of what would happen in a literal crash like was in the late twenties. It's just it's frightening stuff. And I hope that Brian James offers us a little uh solace and comfort that no, don't be that wik dot, It's not gonna happen. Lord knows what's going to happen these days. How terrifts are affecting the car buying process. Topic number two. Topic number three futures drop among tariff fears.

And finally, people are adding to their rainy day fund, which I think he'll probably say is a really good idea. Fast forward to eight forty, Ira Melman joins a program to talk about borders and immigration. That's the subject of an empower Use seminar that Ira is putting on. We'll get a little insight into what he'll talk about for the empower Use seminar. I remember empower You America dot Org. All kinds of great learning opportunities there and some really terrific,

terrific classes. Phone over here if you like to call. I'd love to hear from you. Five one, three, seven, four nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight to two three talk go town five fifty on AT and T phones. And as I mentioned earlier, we have a listener lunch going to bar Barley Corns Wilder Location, Wilder, Kentucky. And it is with great sadness I know many of

my listeners who have been to listener to lunch. Remember blind Barbara are my blind friend Barbara Liznwski and I did mention this in the last hour, and I just learned this morning that she has passed away. So she was in a nursing home and had to be taking to University Hospital because of a bowel obstruction which ultimately led to her demise. So wonderful lady, truly inspirational and

a woman of faith she was. She's sang in her church choir up till almost that the very end when her health deteriorated, but just loved coming to listener to lunch and she would call in from time to time as well. So it's sad when I look back and think of the listeners that we've lost over the years, and just using that as an excuse to remind folks spend time with your loved ones. You never know. World's

an imperfect place, and it's a dangerous place too. Going back to my review of the facts in that Minimar earthquake, Lord Almighty, more than two thousand dead already, and they're fully expecting more than ten thousand people to perish as a consequence, and just slow going is hand picking through the rubble. They don't have electricity, they don't have resources, and the damages expected to be more than their entire gross national product. So not exactly a wealthy area, but boy,

just toots and prayers. You know, the world's in a perfect place. And YouTube maybe kit with an earthquake or a tornado or wildfires. Anyway, let's see here. I guess I was looking at these Did you feel like you accomplished anything? These these Tesla protests? Did it make you feel better? So over the weekend you had this organized day of protests for against Tesla's, the Tesla Takedown protest. It was kind of a this a group called Action Network.

They published an interactive map online sharing the protest times and locations, and another website. They proclaim Elon Musk is destroying our democracy and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. In what way is he destroying democracy? Lots of signs saying Elon Musk is a Nazi fascist. Elon Musk, I mean, if anything, he's the antithesis of that. Fascism is the control of the means of production. Right, you have a business, the government tells

you how you have to run it. Yes, it's your private business, but you have really literally knows say over how. That's kind of the system of government we live in under democrats and all the rules and regulations they heap down upon us. And it's not just democrats, mind you. Elon Musk is the guy who's trying to pair that back, trying to get rid of some of the stupid things that we pay for and a lot of And I think this is driven in large part these leftist organizations.

They are organizing the useful idiots of the world who apparently are easily duped by a meme online which merely proclaims Elon Musk is a Nazi fascist. Really, and that's enough to convince you to go stand outside of a Tesla dealership or otherwise commit acts of vandalism because someone said it, even though definitionally speaking, it's the most farthest

thing from accuracy you could ever run across. And look at some of the videos when people get interviewed, they you know, why are you here, why are you protesting Tesla? I hey have fact is Well wait a second. I saw one woman was asked about that and they said, what evidence do you have that he's a bad guy. Well, it's on the line, just go google it. And so she was very the woman interviewer was very kindly. You

know kind to her. She wasn't being you know, in her face or yelling at her, just simply asking in a very nice tone of voice. Well, no, you tell me why you have a problem with Elon Musk. I don't have to do that. You can look it up for yourself. Oh well that's persuasive, isn't it. You got a seven year old Christopher Talbot arrested after allegedly striking a counter demonstrator to Tesla takedown protests near a Tesla dealership.

This is a Meridian, Britian Police Department. Talot hit a forty nine year old man after making an obscene gesture toward him. So violence, huh? You know, And as I look over all the reporting on this, you know, mostly peaceful protest. Do you remember hearing that, you know, the fires raging in the back at anti fire, Black Lives Matter, it's more largely peaceful protest. But you know there's acts of violence all across just because Tesla. That's why Elon Musk.

That why, And you can't get your head around why they're there except that these left wing organizations are stirring the pot and telling you you need to be there because well I think it's because they're funding source is going to be dried up. If Elon Must continues to go after things like US eight and all the money that flows out of the United States government into the world and then back into the pockets of these left

wing organizations, they may have a funding problem. And it's been widely reported that it's they're calling this astro turf that many of the people that show up at these protests are getting paid to do it. Surprising coordination of the quit time, it was reported in several of them. You know, they all got up and left right at noon. I guess that's when the clock was over. It was time to punch out. You need to be here between eight and noon and you'll get however much money? Is

that a real grassroots protest? Is they are? They really genuinely there because their belief systems and because they think Elon's doing something bad. And we even moving away from the somewhat conspiratorial sounding thing that these left winging organizations are organizing this, you know what vest interest does someone have to stand outside and protest Tesla the automobile or even protest Elon Musk and his efforts to ferret out fraud, waste,

and abuse. Does that person really think it's a good idea to have hundreds of thousands of people that reportedly are over the age of one hundred and twenty with active Social Security numbers on the Social Security ranks. Aren't you worried that social Security is going to collapse under its own weight because it is, And isn't that something that's done that has step at getting those rolls off or getting those ranks cleared up is something that will

help preserve it to some degree. Anyway, if you leave them open and on there, someone might be able to use them and draw benefits from socials security. And I'm not saying that that's happened widespread. They're still looking into it. But if you're really on the side of wanting to keep Social Security intact, then you've got to appreciate what

Elon Musk has done. Do these people outside the Tesla dealerships and screaming to people that owning Tesla's do they think it's a great idea to spend twenty million dollars for same street in Iran or wherever that was, or all of the other crazy programs that USA funded. Do they have a vested interest in those programs. I find

it impossibly that they do ask him about one specific program. Okay, so you're protesting about do you have any problem with him eradicating like pill in the blank, tester him on that. You know, go down the list of all the crazy stuff that we've learned because one man put pen to paper and got some group of people around him that are good at finding this kind of crap and tried to put an end to it. But overall, when you step back from all this, you see a lot of violence.

And for years under the Biden administration, another the Obama administration, and you know, even all those squeaky wheels in the Trump administration during the first term, where were the big concerns expressed by our government entities, the Department of Justice and others. It was white right wing extremists. It was racist out in the world. They represented the biggest challenge

and problem to American law enforcement. Meanwhile, all around him, it's all these left wing organizations are the ones that are committing act of violence and burning buildings down, the ones that are throwing paint over monuments, the ones that are throwing paint on artwork. Destructive. Yes, property damage, yes, sometimes violence. It's all coming from the left side of the ledger.

And what are they offering you? You have more and more articles coming out about the Democrats just sort of beside themselves and disbelieve because they don't know where to go. They don't know what their brand is. The brand right now is just scream out loud, angry, loud noise, loud noise, loud noise, and then stick the word Trump or musk in there. And that's what you stand for right now, that's it or bizarre stuff that nobody in America wants.

Men aren't women, Women aren't men. And that's a hill the left is gonna die on when poll after poll after poll after poll reflects that the American population is sane and follows medicine and science in the sense that you know it's a chromosomal difference. Are you packed with this type of gear or that type of gear? It seems to be determined above your gender, and just by denying it and saying to the other gender, we are not going to accept it and go along with you

because we know that's not right. That's what the Democrat Party stands for. Not everybody in the Democrat Party believes that the polling reflects it. It's one little segment of the Democrat Party, but yet that segment has taken over completely. Colorado Senator Michael Bennett, He's Democratic Party brand, he called it problematic. It was I meet the press yesterday, really problematic. I guess for his actual words, I agree, the Democratic

brand is really problematic. It's a brand that's associated with New York and California, is associated with the educated elite in this country and not anymore with the working people in this country. Betto was asked me to agree with California Governor Gavin Newsom's assertion the Democratic Party brand is toxic Newsom's word, which he said on Bill Maher's program on Friday. Bet It'd appear to concur with Newsom's conclusion, harshly criticizing the party for losing touch with everyday voters.

The Democrats need to present a compelling vision for the future of the country, and the faire to do so was responsible for President Donald Trump's now too non executive wins quote. The Democratic Party has lost touch with working people in our country at a time when fifty years of trickle down economics has meant that most Americans feel like, no matter how hard they work, their kids aren't going

to live a life better than the life they led. Well, if you hadn't a Douglas in a twenty thirty six trillion dollar hole, maybe they would have a future that they might, you know, be positive about. They're going to be left to pay down that they're killed children. If they haven't, You're going to be left to pay that down, or the system will collapse on under the weight of itself because of the interest payments we're making on that and so Security, Medicaid, medicare in a state of disarray

and leading to their ultimate demise. Of those programs too, because they've been mismanaged all these years. I mean, come on, you got a lot of problems on your hands. But screaming and just name calling that is not an argument. It is not an advancement of a specific set of proposals and principles that are an alternative to what Americans pretty much won. Donald Trump's approval rating is pretty damn good right now. New CBS poll He's got fifty percent approve,

which was higher than any point during his last term. Now, some people have a problem with how he's dealing with the inflation and somebody the economy, but only by a couple of extra digits. They love what he's doing with immigration, very great numbers in terms of how he's handling immigration. So, in spite of all the yelling, yell, yell, yell, yeo yell, people still seem to be genuinely appreciative of what Donald

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to your favor. Well, and at some point you realize that you're now thirty six trillion dollars in debt, you got to trillion dollars annual interest payment on it, and your own systems and your own social safety welfare net has not been tended to end minded to the point where all the people in your country who have relied on your promises to keep them in retirement and take

care of their medicine, etc. Can't rely on that anymore. So, you know, you would think that your idea would really work, Tony, I gotta admit, but that's just not how it's turned out for us. Too many politicians not paying attention to what's going on and keeping their own personal interest in mind.

You got a lot of rhinos out there. They see their pet project in their state and they're not going to give up a single dime worth of that money, which of course prompts the Democrats to do the same thing. They're the big spenders, they're the big government types. They are the fascists of the world. Let's get our definition straight. Appreciate it, Tony Jim hang on, if you don't mind for a moment, I promise to take your call right out of the gate. At six twenty six fifty five

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There's a group chann lines and reporting on a group of knuckleheads that were initially they're all worried about the department that they had being removed and how that's going to impact the schools, which is for the better, I would think, But they were the ones out leading this Tesla thing the other day. It's like, I got no clue what that's got to do with schools.

turn it into a political symbol. And the Left is just doing this to manipulate useful idiots that don't even know why they're there screaming about Elon musk Olive ark. What does that mean? He's a man doing a job for free that is trying to save us from ourselves. He's pointing out all the fraud, wasted abuse, and government giving us great illustrations and pointing out that we do a terrible job minding the money that they take from our paychecks. Is that what's got them angry? Are you

angry about that. I mean, I don't understand why you can be. I'm looking at a mean right now. Don't be afraid to call things what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, they said that on this really in what way, shape or form. ICE is a secret police force conducting ethnic cleansing. It went on to say, no, citizenship is not based on ethnicity. Now, many of the folks coming across the border have a certain ethnicity. I happen to have an Irish and English ethnicity. That's where

my ancestors are coming from. But I'm a white guy, so apparently it's anybody who's not white. This is ethnic cleansing. Although we have a country that is a melting pot fill of people with all different races, creeds, and colors of skin. If you're here illegally, it has nothing to do with your race. It's a question of the legal status and you're here and if you're a criminal. For God's sake, I think we can uniformly agree, as the

polling suggests we do in large numbers. You need to be kicked out of the country because you're a threat to our society. Doesn't matter whether you're white or yellow or brown or any other color. Let's look at the box here. Are you here legally? Or did you break the law entering the country? Okay? You did break our immigration laws. Have you committed crimes? Okay, there's a check mark boom in that check sheet of deciding whether someone's allowed to stay in our country or kick them out.

Is there anything about the color of their skin? No, but there they are making the charge. It's like people critical of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Oh, you're just racist against Chinese people. No, we're not. It just happened to be the Chinese people ran the Wuhan Institute of Virology and it's Chinese Communist Party. More fundamentally, nothing wrong with the Chinese people as a racist people. I just disagree with their former government. I mean, these statements don't

make any sense. New Hampshire, Gary, Welcome to the program. I'm always good to hear from you, my friend.

over the years that you've been here. I don't think you're as naive or I know, definitely I'm not the same way I was twenty years ago when I started listening to you eighteen years ago, actually listening to your dad.

common and trade with them. If you end the United States, you end all of that from happening, and the world spirals into misery. That apparently is what they're after and what they want. It's frightening, though, but that's that's the end result of bringing down America one stock market, one company publicly traded company at a time. Yeah, four to one. K's vanished, people's investments vantaged, people are out of work and on the streets, and it further devolves into extra chaos. Yeah,

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what could have been a tragic, deadly attack. That from a statement from Amy Barrella, the chairwoman of the Republican Party in New Mexico, she said, those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable, and our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that

these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated. So we're looking forward to looking to work with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on Firearms, local law enforcement, federal investigators committed to providing every piece of evidence necessary to bring those responsible to justice and ensure that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of a law. Well yeah, well let's hope they are too. And you know, as wet as I

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an education that's available to you. It's right there, making responsible choices, or not suffering the consequences of poor choices, and hopefully learning from them and then not going down that road again. It's called life experience. Choosing who you want to sleep with knock yourself out. I don't have any control over that. The minute I come after you, that's the day that I decide that I have fixed everything and every imperfection of my life that's never going

to happen. Live your life, libertarian. Trust you with your wallet and your zipper. I can live in this world comfortably with gay stray people. Even bisexual people. Don't tell me though a man can be a woman. That's different. I don't have to abide by that, but I'm happy to live in a society that has people to believe their women or men when they're biologically not. That's what freedom's all about. But that freedom also includes my right

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the Republicans, so I'm going to burn him down. I hate the fact that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is finally doing their job and getting a hold on our borders, because that represents a security interest to our country. We have dangerous people coming across the border, maybe members of terrorist selves, maybe terrorists themselves, maybe the Chinese communist parties

sending people over. We've got tens of thousands of Chinese military age men that have come across the open borders during the Biden administration that might represent a challenge to us, and of course organize chaos in the streets. When you start taking steps to ensure the safety and economic stability of our country, making sure our children can get an education.

We're not sitting in a room with a bunch of kids who don't speak English and need remedial liverate literally everything holding our students back, and then moving away from that component of illegal immigration. Look at how bad our schools are performing anyway. Maybe we need reform. Huh. Maybe we need a return to decision making to a local level, so different regions can deal with the problems differently, because there are of course different problems that each region is

dealing with that don't necessarily carry over someplace else. The one size fits all solution is not something that works. So let's get rid of the Department of Education and the strings attached to the dollars that impact what we teach our children in school and just give block grants.

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illegal immigration. We have a TikTok user posting what is I agree with the description a disturbing video calling on people to, in his words, shoot at ICE agents, shoot them on site. Blaldonk it's this guy that poasted it. He actually had the nerve and the stupidity to post a video of himself, the guy actually telling people to shoot ICE agents. Quote shoot at ICE agents on site. That's right. If ICE agents are trying to take you or a loved one, shoot them on site. Well, from

a legal perspective, I think he's got it wrong. Not allowed to use deadly force unless you are confronted with deadly force. And this is merely law enforcement doing the job that they are told to do based upon the law and the way it reads. So this guy apparently has since taken down the message you can get in trouble with authorities. Took down the message on Sunday evening after Fox News Digital reached out to him on TikTok. Whoops. Wow, it went viral and apparently for all the wrong or

right reasons, depending on your perspective. That's what's going on out in the world. Yes, one guy with an opinion. We all know what opinions are, like, everybody's got one sphincter's. But in this particular case, I think it's reflective of the just outrageous attitude that some people have when without borders and without some sort of border stability, without a managed immigration system, the whole place just comes falling down

in on itself. More to talk about off top of the ar News plus Christopher Smithmen coming up at seven to twenty, and I hope you can stick around. Be interesting. Conversation with Christopher usually is I'll be right back for.

burst the bubble of that kind of thought happening. And uh Ira Melman is going to do a power you someonear on borders and immigration. Ira joins a program at eight forty five three, seven nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two to three, talking to jump over to the phones of former Anderson Township trustee Drew Pappus on the line, Drew, good to hear from me, as it always is.

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just during interviews she's been using profanity. She's been dancing in the hallway on Instagram, I believe one of the platforms with her tongue hanging out and even kind of holding her crops as she's doing this dance in the hallway, which I thought was ridiculous for a member of Congress. But what she did this weekend when she went after a congressman Byron Donald's by literally saying that he wasn't black because he was married to a white woman, really

hit another loaf for her. And so I'm going to spend a little time talking about Representative Crockett, who spent the majority of her life living a privilege life. This is a woman who comes from a two family home, which is wonderful, a pastor first lady, who sent her to private schools her entire life, her college education two thousand students, seventy one thousand a year. She went to

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up being nine months. And the politics surrounding it is clear that they understand that's the that's the past administration left in there, and the current administration put a plan together to get them.

of that. So, you know, God bless them, and the idea that they were able to keep their their cool and maintain themselves and and uh and continue to get the job done while they're up there, in and of itself is an amazing thing because I'm I don't think I'm alone in the world that says I probably would have broken down psychologically over that.

just it's just an amazing story. I'm sure they're going to write a book about it, but you you know, scientists tend to be very guarded about what they're saying, and I believe that what they're trying to communicate is a broader message of thankfulness to the administration, but also a commitment to space travel and Elon Musk. And this kind of pushes me into what I saw this weekend, Ryan Thomas, with all of these protests at Tesla's locations.

People were having cars being keyed, damaged, fires, whatever was going on. And I'm talking about across the United States of America. Obviously there were peaceful protests that we saw in front of a lot of dealerships. But this notion that you're mad at Elon Musk and this Doge organization because they are correctly identifying waste and fraud, it just blows me away. Why are they protesting?

which makes absolutely no sense. Definitionally speaking, It's like I wish they all got a copy of Mirriam Webster's out of Read The Definition of Fascism, because Elon Musk is cutting and hopes to cut more of the size and scopal government. The Trump administration is endeavoring to get rid of regulations. Regulations are a mechanism fascists you to control

the means of production. That's exactly what fascists do. Government tells you how you can run your business or can't run your business in a free market, You run your own business any damn way you feel like it. Well, Elon Musk is much closer to a free market fundamentalist than he is a fascist? Just to scream out fascist

and Nazis just doesn't make any sense. And when these people have been interviewed, you look at the interviews, the YouTube videos and the posts, and someone you know, kindly and and and and and in a gentle manner, approaches one of these protesters and gently and kindly merely ask them what their problem is. They can't even answer it. They don't know it is fascist, Like, okay, upon what information are you drawing your conclusion that this guy's somehow

a fascist? And they can't answer it. They just scream and yell.

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immigration policies that make sense are so important. Here's a person from another country who killed an American citizen, a mother, a wife, a mother of five children, and I just think it's absolutely insane, and I just want to lift her up, even though I don't know this family obviously, you know, I just I've been following the story, and I think her murder as she's out, this guy comes out of a drain and kills her on a walk

or a run is just absolutely crazy. Brian Thomas, and I just can't get my head wrapped around anybody who believes that having open borders where people can just come into our country, or district judges that can say turn planes around with gang members on it, we have got to make sure that all of our communities are safe. And Americans who are out here every day going to work like this morning, headed to their first meetings, getting their cups of coffee, they deserve to be safe. Man.

you know, a version of his message. And I just was appalled that someone would actually advocate for something like that, and I hope no one takes his advice. But you know where the Internet allows people to interject all kinds of awful, awful concepts in the world, and we need to think rationally and reasonably about them and reject them out loud, and more politicians should come out and reject

those things out loud and speak against them. Going back to your points earlier, I mean, this is not political. This isn't a Republican Democrat thing. I mean, just because you can disagree on immigration policy, but the idea that you would murder an ICE agent who is merely doing the job of upholding the law is preposterous.

is that they're not in custody. I mean, I think that person should be arrested, absolutely, and and and knowing that when you put something out there like that, there's somebody crazy enough to listen or see it and go do it. That's what that's what's so real and powerful about social media. You can't control it once you put out once you put it out.

the final four. Meaning I'm just saying, you've got Republicans and Democrats that are fighting it out down in Florida. If they lose this battle, right, it's not a good sign as they march into the mid elections, mid term elections next year. Particularly, we're talking about the state of Florida,

which is typically a red state. So I'll be watching that race very closely, trying to see And I think this is why Democrats are ginning up all this fake anger, having people go out in March and find a foil, meaning their foil is Elon Musk.

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on car You know, concrete facts and information. But I'm a little frightened by fifty one percent of Americans worrying about a stock market crash, you know, as opposed to like a correction or a downturn or something. But I mean a crash is a significant, like massive life changing ruining phenomenon. Yeah, it all depends on how you react to these things too.

are expecting a market crash. I also would remind everyone that the same percentage of people were expecting the second leg down from the recession, the brief recession that occurred during the COVID period that was five years ago, and they spent probablyably two or three years waiting for that to kick in, and it never did, thank you. We just talk about things until they happen or don't happen. That way, see, because you know, there always is going

to be some kind of downturn at some point. So if you keep the conversation going on for enough years, then at some point you can say, see, I told you so exactly. I've been talking about rain for the better part of a week, Brian, and look, lo and behold, I was right last night.

your short list of talk about today. Maybe ten thousand dollars more, depending But it's you know, when you looked at the breakdown of what's in an American car, you know, American car made in Detroit, you're like, actually, oh, it's not it's like forty to sixty percent imported. Stop.

about twenty percent for four. So even in US made cars, about thirty five percent of parts are not compliant with the US Mexico Canada agreement from a few years ago that Trump put in place but doesn't seem to like anymore. So the estimates rise from you know, anywhere around twenty seven hundred to five thousand dollars maybe in some extreme scenarios, like you mentioned, ten thousand dollars in the added costs of paying.

they're fair or not, I mean reciprocal. I understand the fairness argument because we're having our things subject to tariffs over on their side of the ledger of whatever country is receiving them and slapping the tariffs on why they're doing that. I don't know the genesis or basis behind any of it, but you know, if this isn't trying to create an even playing field, that argument at least passes Mustard. But you can't get around the practical effect

that they're going to make things more expensive. So and that's we don't need that right now, Brian.

for other places. So therefore, as we're sitting here right now, the S and P five hundred is down about five percent for the year. The Nasdaq is an official correction territory, down ten percent a year.

world gets along with each other. Nineteen forty one, the S and P five hundred was down somewhere between ten and fifteen percent. That was when we first stepped into that fray, and the unknown became the talk of the day.

It's just a catalyst the market will pivot to wherever the profits can be made. We saw the same thing when COVID kicked in and everybody had to go out by a second set of computers to take home so we can all work from home. We all never heard of zoom before. Now zoom is pretty much uiquitous I'm looking at you on it right now. These are just that create an opportunity for somebody to make money.

bear fruit. I guess the question is when you look at the component parts of these American autobiles, as we just talked about, can we get those component parts to return or be manufactured here, and if so, how long would something like that take and how long will it or how much will it cost?

under them. But if we're going to manufacture parts here, and this is all about making the United States more profitable, he's got to look at the cost of good soul. What does it cost to produce this stuff? If just bringing the jobs back on shore isn't the only step that's true.

They have inexpensive labor and they're welcoming. They're happy to open manufacturing facilities and get that the skids greazed for that, and then next thing you know, we find that we're not making anything here when it all hits a fan, like during the pandemic that was a frightened wi cold

water does to reality. I think I'd rather pay more for something if knowing that it was made here and that we have a steady supply of it, you know, then I have to rely on what might very well be our arch enemy in a conflict to make it.

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Brian was he not there anymore? I don't see his little photograph in the pickup or the box there. Joe, Okay, he's not there. He disappeared. Brian James went running and hiding. I don't know what happened to him anyway. Apparently, US Savings Rates wrote in Rose in February, for the second straight month, Americans rebuilding their rainy day funds after the holiday shopping season. It's the article that he provided me

for my insight in your edification. Savings rates up to four point six percent last month from four point three in January and only three point three in December. They say a low savings right usually means consumers would have to reduce spending at some point to rebuild their savings, which slows the economy. So the current savings rate below normal but not accessively so arranged from about five to

six percent in a decade before the pandemic. So and I've always heard that, you know, from a financial standing plan point, you know, try to sock away some money to cover you for the rainy day. You never know when it's going to hit the fan. I had a friend of mine just lost his job the other day. I think it was unanticipated, but it does happen. So making sure you have some money socked away. And I'm

not sure the amount. One of the things I wanted to ask Brian was how many months worth of daily savings or our money you should have socked away in that savings account. Anyhow? Is that him back again, Joe? You're trying to get a hold of him, all right, Well, you kind of got me off guard. I know it's not your fault, Joe, because he just kind of disappeared but left me without a topic. So I thought we'd be filling up this half of an hour anyway, one thing.

I did what I get to since we were talking about Democrats and their policies and not seem to be able to articulate any strategy to deal with Republicans other than scream and yell and pull their hair out over really things that don't make any sense. Kind of a theme this morning out on the heels of that ridiculous Tesla protest. Elon Musk isn't a fascist, it's definitionally he's the polar opposite of it. Brian was talking about that

reducing rules and regulations. That's what stagnates an economy, it slows it down, and those rules and regulations are telling you how to run your business. That's what fascists do. So when you've got an administration that's in there that's doing its best to get rid of the burden of ridiculous regulations, you are dealing with an administration that is the polar opposite of fascism. So get your definition straight and try to make some sense of why going after

Elon Musk and Tesla's makes any sense whatsoever. I Brian there, I was.

you know, futures are down. The worst down right now is NASDAC at one and a half, but the rest of them are down about a point, maybe a little bit under dal Jones Industrials this point seventy three.

because it is a negotiation tactic. Remember what Donald Trump thinks, he's the best in the world at that's making a deal. So a lot of this is I'm going to do something terrible to you in a month unless you act the way that I want you to act. And in some cases he's getting some concessions there. Remember our first very first discussion about this, probably a month and a half ago, where the tariffs that they were they were going to levy against Canada that went away overnight, became

something else as the negotiation continued. But the way he stated it at the very outset of the discussion is very different from what's happening now. So some of this is saber rattling by both sides. No country on the face of the Earth can afford to completely seclude itself.

you know, replenishing their savings accounts. As a financial planner, is there a certain and I don't mean a dollar figure, but based upon one's earnings and one's living expenses, is there a certain number of months worth of money that is recommended to sock away just in case.

I would throw out there. I believe personally the ideal savings rate is zero percent.

I hope you have a wonderful week, my friend, have a good week talking next Monday, eight twenty seven, fifty five care see de talk station, don't go away, local stories, Maybe kick a couple of phone calls before we get too Ira Melman, who's going to do a Borders in Immigration Empower Youth seminar. He's joining the program at eight forty. Looking forward to him and him on the show.

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twenty twenty three trained arralment. So the railroad fial motion to that sets the goats trial today to try and force the railcar owner, a company called GATX, and then also the chemical manufacturer on Oxyvinyls to share the cost of the settlement. Norfolk Southern believes those two companies are partly responsible. U This does not impact any and in any way the amount of money the residents were received.

Simply a question of where the money's going to come from, So this only impacts which company has to write a check to pay for the class action settlement. Norfolk Southern lost a similar lawsuit for the environmental cleanup that they had to pay a billion dollars. Norfolk Southern was on the hook for a billion dollars, so they tried to force GATX and oxy Vinyls to help pony up for that and they lost, so it's probably riding on the

wall for them. Norfolk Southern argues that GATX bears some responsibility for the derailment because it owned the railcar that was filled with plastic pellets that caused the derailment. That's the one that had the bearing that caught on fire.

And they believe oxy Vinyl should pay because the railroad says chemical manufacturer provided inconsistent and inaccurate information about its vinyl chloride before officials decided to release and burn it, which is obviously what led to the billion dollars worth of cleanup that had to happen. Both GATX and oxy vinyls so it will be ridiculous to hold them responsible for the derailment because Norfolk Southern operated and inspected the train and all the cars, as well as was responsible

for delivering their cargoes safely. GATX said it complied with all relevant regulations for taking care of its cars. They said, even if the car had been damaged years earlier, because it sat in the middle of floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey, the railroad should have spotted the problem and repaired it. NTSB said the crash was caused by the failure of

an overheating bearing. Now, the railroad sensor spotted the overheating, but it didn't reach a critical temperature and trigger and alarm until just before the derailment, so they had very little time to stop the train and we all know what happened after that. Norfolk Southern is the one that recommended the vent and burn operation that released the vinyl chloride into everybody's homes and neighborhoods. But the claim the claim is that they had had beforehand suggested that chemical

reaction could happen and caused the tank cars to to explode. However, National Transportation and Safety Board confirmed in its investigation that it was unnecessary to release all that stuff into the air because the tank cars were starting to cool off, and the railroad failed to listen to advice from oxyvinals experts or share their opinions with officials who made the decision. So trial again kicks off the day it's expected to

last a couple of weeks. Immigrations and Custom agents arrested two people working at a construction site at the Butler County Jail this week. Sheriff Richard Jones announced via social media the two subcontractors work on a construction project at the jail arrested by ICE officials. They were arrested after deputies reviewed their identification, which included a driver's license, passport, and social security guard before entering the jail's construction site.

According to the press release in the Sheriff's office, upon further review of the documents, it was determined that the two workers were in fact illegal aliens. An ICE agent conducted the interviews with the two individuals, who admitted that they were in the United States illegally. Constructions company that hired the two subcontractors believed their documents were authentic, according to Sheriff Jones, but he is warning employers to be cautious.

So there are fake documents out there, and you know Elon Musk getting rid of this live so security numbers. We got time for that one, Jeff, No no way, Sorry, Jay apologize. We got Ira Melman coming up waiting in the wings Power Youth Seminar on borders and immigrations. We'll hear a little bit about that coming up next.

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administrations from opening our borders. So he's the media director for Federation of American Immigration Reform FARE and he's going to be discussing the impact of the open borders during the Biden administration, reviewed policy changes that Trump has made in the first over months or first months of his administration, how they've substantially curb mass illegal immigration, which clearly they have.

And he'll also talk about legislation that has to be passed to prevent future administration from implementing an open borders policy. You know, this is something that the Republicans and Democrats are going to get together on, and you'd think they would given that, you know, they're talking about Democrats not having really a vision for their party. Maybe they should embrace something the vast majority of American people want, which

is secure borders. You know, briefs bring some sense of logic and reason of the borders process, you know, make it easier to deny people access to our country since our social welfare state is collapsing under its own weight, let alone the weight of additional twenty million or so people coming in. So empower you America dot org can register and watch from the it's a virtual only it apparently, so register to attend virtually empower you America dot org

for that one. So it should be a fascinating discussion. And I just the Democrats keep going back to Donald Trump stopped the legislation that would have solved the problem. The legislation that had been proposed at the time did not stop the problem. It just enshrined it. The sort of open borders reality So anyhow five one three, seven, nine fifty five eight hundred eight two three talk, there's Jay, Jay, Thanks for calling back, my friend. Welcome to the morning show.

So the EPA. So as a result, for the listeners, what this means is, if you're Ford and you're making pickup trucks and SUVs that maybe get seventeen twenty twenty five miles to the gallon, the federal government says none, no, no, no, your average fuel efficiency for the fleet that you make for your product needs to be pick a number thirty five. So that forces them to make evs whether anybody wants

to buy them or not. And then it also requires them to purchase carbon offset credits from Tesla or other EV manufacturers, so they'll have to give their profit to EV manufacturers to allow them to stay in business, which is a really bad idea. So maybe Trump ought to say,

cafe standards are no more. We're going to let the free market decide what you want to buy, and therefore on shackle the hands of Ford and GM and whoever that you don't have to make these these EV's that are stacking up that nobody wants to buy, just to stay in business.

something wrong and to be as critical. Could you imagine if Joe Biden did that, our side would be on fire. And sometimes I think our side can be just as slanted as the left whenever they refuse to call it out for.

level of profitability. So him to tell him to do that runs counter to the business reality that they're going to be facing because they're going to have to pay twenty let's say, twenty five percent more for wiring, harnesses or whatever other foreign manufactured part that's going into the car.

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of how stupid and insane all of this is. He's a founding part of a nonprofit consulting from Crane and

Gray and an editor of the daily energy newsletter Grid Brief. Anyway, he points out in twenty twenty forty US imported twenty seven thousand, two hundred gigawatt hours of electricity from Canada, which is enough to cover twenty percent of New York supplier fifteen percent of New England's total winter load because we made building new power plants here nearly impossible and incentivized imported power through regulatory loopholes that allow us to

ignore any emissions that happened outside the US. They don't count export emissions import virtue. Meanwhile, domestic energy projects in the Northeast stalls butter or collapse. We're sitting on four hundred and sixty nine billion tons of coal, two point nine trillion cubic feet of gas, and centuries of nuclear fuel. But in the US, building power plants now requires a legal team. In decades of hearings, we've turned power generation

into a theater of guilt. We're producing energy in the United States is too sinful to permit, but importing it from somewhere else lets us feel purer. It's not policy, it's penance. In twenty one, New York shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Plant, one of its last sources of zero emissions base load power. Same year, the state began ramping up electricity imports from Canada to fill the gap

seven thousand, six hundred gigawatt hours. Specifically, hydro electric power couldn't alone handle the demand, so Ontario's gas plants fired up to meet the demand, releasing an estimated one million tons of carbon dioxide, which is plant food. Because as emission occurred outside of the northern border, New York claimed to drop in its own energy sector emissions, and that's the game. When Canada's hydro facilities Canada Gas hydro faulters. Canada Gas steps in, but the emissions vanish on US

climate ledgers. Vermont, importing over eighty percent of its electricity, Massachusetts and much of the rest of New England operate from the same playbook. The great operators they belong to imports around fifteen percent of its winter peak from Canada. When hydro output dropped eighteen percent due to drought, gas

peaker plants and fossil fuels save the day. In twenty twenty three, alone, utilities in Quebec, Ontario New Brunswick generated an estimated thirteen point four million metric tons of carbon dioxide planted, none of which appear on the emissions ledgers of states Massachusetts and Vermont, despite their heavy reliance on

imported power from those provinces. Meanwhile, the twelve hundred megawat Commonwealth wind project was canceled outright after the developer paid a fifty million dollars penalty to walk away due to well the financial infeasibility and permitting delays. This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. I

love this. A nineteen ninety nine rule made up and pulls out of someone's finer by the Environmental Protection Agency allows state to treat imported electricity as emissions free, regardless of how it's generated. It's a convenient accounting trick that lets politicians hit climate targets without reducing actual emissions. The

same time. Domestic energy projects face a labyrinth of legal, regulatory, and activist roadblocks thanks to laws like Title VIV of the Clean Air Act and permitting system, and a permitting system that treats any new infrastructure as a threat until proven otherwise. We build a political culture that worships the optics of clean energy while punishing the act of actually producing it. Across the Northeast, domestic energy projects don't you

just struggle. They're buried Offshore wind collapses under lawsuits over fishing rights and ocean views. Small modular reactors gather dust in regulatory limbo pipelines are killed over and wetlands nuclear plants drowning litigation. In twenty sixteen, New York vetoed the Constitution pipeline, leaving the Marcellus Shale untapped. Two years later, during a brutal colt snap, Massachusetts imported liquefied natural gas

from Russia rather than lay pipe from Pennsylvania. A proposed forty two megawat biomass plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, was blocked on a technicality in twenty twenty one, after years of permit delays and concerns over environmental justice. Clean local energy was too controversial. Imported emission no comment. Altogether, the region has canceled enough projects to generate forty two thousand gigawat hours annually, more than fifty percent above the power that

we imported from Canada in twenty twenty four. We're not out of energy. We've just outlawed reality. We pretend it's progress, We pretend the air is cleaner. We pretend that exporting emissions is environmentalism. It's not. It's theater for climate lobbies, campaigns, soundbites, and activists who measure success in press releases, not power output, the emissions remain, only the guilt is outsourced. So No, Ford's teriff threat isn't the story. It's just a headline.

The real story is what made that threat possible. Our addiction to imported virtue, our refusal to build in a regulatory culture that punishes the very act of producing energy. We're not short on power, which is too sanctimonious to generate it amen exclamation point. And that's just Canada generating

power view with their gas plants. Meanwhile, China and their coal plants providing us with all the parts and component parts that go into domestic automobiles as well as electric vehicles, which the climate left would love you to drive, unless, of course, it's a tessela, in which case you're an EZ. Does this all makeing sense to you? No, it doesn't. Eight fifty five fifty five cars the talk station Christopher Smith and Smith havent right there on the podcast page

fifty five kre se dot com. Of course, also Tomorrow Breitbart and Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Thank you Joe Strecker for helping me out on a Monday. Got a couple of stumbles, but we got through it fine because you always appreciate what you do. Folks have a wonderful day. Stick around glenmbex up next.