55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday

Five o five as dot KRC the talk station. Happy mondays, the song's becoming more and more prophetic every day. What happens showing it up quite nicely, Joe Streker, Executive Reducer. I appreciate that. In soundbites, Brian Thomas here, happy to be here, honestly in spite of the fact that the world seems becoming unhinged. Of course, we've got a lot to talk about today. Your reactions to the intempted assassination at Donald Trump are quite welcome

here. I've won three seven, four, eight hundred and eighty two to three talko with pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Let us see here coming up with the fifty five care see morning show. It's Monday, so we're gonna hear from Christopher Smith and in our Happy Birthday. His birthday is tomorrow at least to have an onl calendar as tomorrow, so presumably he is going to react to or at least have something to say the efforts to

kill Donald Trump. A lot of mystery swirling around that one, A lot of mystery and a whole lot of conspiracy theories coming out of the woodwork from the moment that shot rang out just unbelievable. At least the calls for calm are coming up from both parties and almost uniform message of calm and you know, back it off. Get the political rhetoric has gotten out of hand and obviously at least it appears obvious, although there's really no indication as to who

this would be murderer is. So twenty year old kid stole his dad rifle, ended up on top of a building with Secret Service all over the place, police everywhere, and a real wild development in terms of what we found out about that. Apparently a cop climbed on top of the building. The kid pointed the ar at the the cop, and the cop went down off the ladder back down to the ground. That's when the kids started squeezing off the rounds. What what. I'll give you the details on that momentarily.

But Christopher Smith been at seven thirty this Monday, so we're going to do money Monday. The world goes on. We talked about futures being steadied, billionaires and now endorsing Trump, including Elon Musk coming out swinging worries about outliving retirement savings. That's legitimate concerns on an article about that retires with one million dollars in savings, could run out of money, and depending upon which state you live in, will determine how quickly you're going to run out of the

money. I talk about that in a little bit as well. And Amazon Prime days, are they deals or something else? That's sound advice from Brian James. Money Monday again eighth five for that. Claire Corkoran Claimont County Commissioner. Corkran's in Milwaukee and she's going to be giving us a report from Milwaukee coming up at eight point forty. Looking forward to hearing from her. And

I know Andrew Pappas called the program last week. He's going to be a Milwaukee as well, so we're hoping he will chime in with what's going on there should be a completely different environment. A lot of what happened over the

weekend. UH Tomorrow, of course, we got the Bright Bart Inside Scoop Deep Dive with Daniel Davis now again five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight to two three taco with pound five fifty on AT and T phones and a real quick something positive in the face of all the negative and craziness going on in the world. If you didn't get to hear my conversation with the Peyton's Lemonade Stand, folks, what an amazing charity

that is. A six year old girl decided to do a lemonade stand back in several years ago. And this is the I believe seventh annual Peyton's Lemonade Stand. Uh. She's already raised a couple of hundred thousand dollars just with you buying lemonade, and all the proceeds go to benefit like since our Children's Hospital for the children go there to get them some needed things, the Ronald McDonald House for families that are staying here locally when they don't have any place

to stay while their children get medical care of Children's among other charities. It's just an amazing, amazing opportunity. And I predicted since they made one hundred thousand dollars on a lemonade stand last year, let's see if we can get it to two hundred thousand this year, all for something really, really good and positive in a world that keeps it seems to be spiraling out of control. Speaking of spiraling out of control, explain this one, will you?

And this has been widely reported variety of places. New York Post is where I got most of the information. There was a local police officer that spotted this Thomas Crooks would be assassined just prior to him squeezing off the rounds. I tried to go former President Donald Trump and did successfully kill an innocent bystander in the audience, as well as wounding two others who are now listed in stable condition. By the way, update on the folks, they were in

critical condition. The two others that got shot, they are now listed in stable condition. This police officer didn't stop Thomas Crooks despite him being a clear threat. He turned the rifle toward the police officer checking out what in the hell the kid was doing up on top of the building. Apparently rally goers spotted Crooks on the roof this manufacturing plant that was just one hundred and thirty

yards from the stage where Trump was speaking. And as someone who has shot so called assault rivals, the modern sport rivals, I have shot those. I can't I've lost track of how many times I've shot those. And I shoot at my pistol range and rifle range at two hundred yards all the time. That is not a challenging shot, my friends, even for someone with modest skills on a modern rifle, modern sporting rifle sometimes by the left referred

to as the assault rifle. That's an easy shot. Which really is why everyone's screaming, where in the hell is a secret Service? And how in the hell is it that that roof in that general area was not being watched? And then we find out there was a cop up there before before the rounds got squeezed off, police were notified that one officer had climbed the ladder to investigate. This is after rally govers were pointing at the guy on the

roof. They were waving a Secret Service pointing on top of the roof. Look, there's somebody up there with a kind of rifle. The officer whose department had been enlisted by the Secret Service, who does work with regularly. It's been widely accounted in the papers this morning, in the reports over the weekend. Did they work with local law enforcement? Which makes perfect sense. Secret Service comes in, they coordinate efforts local law enforcement. You guys are

responsible for this. That's the way it's supposed to work. So local law enforcement was there and they weren't engaged by the Secret Service. But when local law enforcement encounters a rifleman on top of a roof one hundred and thirty yards away from the stage where where Donald Trump is speaking and doesn't do anything,

I think we have an epic fail on our hands here, folks. Also reportedly after he encountered crooks, Crooks poured the ar rifle at him, then backed down the ladder, after which Crooks immediately took aim and squeezed off eight shots to the former president. Question swirling around how this could possibly happen. Former House Oversight Chairman chair Jason Chavick quote, this was a catastrophic failure.

It should have never been remotely possible. He led the twenty fifteen investigation in the shooting of Secret Service in twenty fifteen, said we did all these investigations and did an extensive report so this would never happen again. It's as if they paid no attention to the bipartisan recommendation. His report focus on the way the Secret Service had been spread too thin. Secret Service did confirm that they relied heavily on local police to help support the security efforts at the rally.

Six officers from the Butler counting tactical units supporting the counter assault team that covered Trump's EVA evacuation, which included two officers from the Secret Service. So the Secret Service had two officers with the local law enforcement folks, also two Secret Service sniper teams on site, and an additional two staffed with local law enforcement officers. All well and good, they did squeeze off the rounds that ended this miserable so and so's life. But where were they ahead of time?

Pennsylvania State to Lace Lieutenant Colonel George Bivins, speaking with reporters, Hey, Secret Service always has the lead on securing something like this. We work with them to divide whatever is requested by the Secret Service, But they're the lead in that secure Does that mean local law enforcement is not capable of evaluating independently the fact that there is a rooftop right there and that someone could easily squeeze

off around and kill someone from that vantage point. Current House Oversight Committee Chairman hains Comer he announced planned to call the Secret Service Director Kimberle Cheadle for a hearing on the twenty second. Others have claimed Trump's team reportedly requested but was denied, additional Secret Service support long before the shooting. Now, the Secret

Service denies that. Representative Anthony Googliami, writing on action response to the allegation that they were denied additional protection, there is an untrue assertion that a member of former president's team requested additional security resources and that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false. Does that give you a sense of security at all? No, He went on to say, we actually provided more protection that was

originally planned. Really nice job there, buddy. Imagine how badly this could have gone if, in fact they hadn't provided or beefed up. If their allegations are true, they might not even have got the kid. In fact, he said, we added protective resources and technology and capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo. You think they have a drone flying around out

there, something along those lines. Former Secret Service agent speaking with the Washington Post quote, how the f word did he get a gun that close? It's a good question. Secret Service, blaming local police, say it was their job to secure that particular area. Residents in the area who lived close to that factory where the kid was said, no one from the Secret Service talk to any of us. They didn't come nor knocking on the doors.

They didn't post anybody in the area. One woman reportedly said, you know, I kind of expected them to set up a base operation in my yard. We're so close to the to the stage. No one stop by, No One five sixteen fety five Cascy the talk station, Dave, you're first, if you just hang on for a second, because I want to give you a strong recommendation, and I hope to god no one ever told you

you have cancer. But if that happens, there's a group of doctors that I turned to when I got the bad news that I had cancer, strongly reckoned me by my friend Joni OHC. And I'm hoping I make it to November with a ct skin that does not show I have any sign of my lymphoma anymore. That would be great because it'll be four years. Thank you, OHC for the great treatment protocol that you put me through. They like you will. They surrounded me like they will you with great cancer doctors.

They've been doing this more than thirty five years, leading edge treatments and clinical trials where you need to be and they are there engaged in bringing their innovative treatment options to their patients. Simply surround you with everything you need to focus on what matters most, and that's beating cancer. So if you get the

bad news, start with OHC or getting a second opinion. I strongly encourage you eight eight eight six four ninety eight hundred eighty eight sixty eight hundred online learn more ohcare dot Com fifty five KRC our hhard Radio Music, here's you nine first one to wether forecast day, let us see partly cloudy, hot,

humid. They're monitoring storm development and says that in the forecast take comfort that ninety four for the high today down to seventy four overnight, muggy, hot, and even tomorrow afternoon and evening storms high ninety three down to seventy one overnight again muggy storm chance is also possible Tuesday night and on Wednesday, mostly clouding showers and storms are likely after two pm, going up to eighty

five seventy three. Right now, if you above KARCB Talk Station fifty five Parsee can get try her at media Listen wherever you happen to be on your smart device. Get the podcast and feel free to call fivele three two three talk Dave. Thanks for holding over the break there were welcome to the program. Well, thank you very much. Let me do a disclaimer real quick before I say what I'm gonna say. Okay, I'm in no way suicidal,

and I keep my vehicles in excellent condition. I'm guessing context will unfold as you make your comments. But go ahead, Dave, fire away. Indeed, no pun. I want everybody to think JFK and RFK assassinations. The loan gun. Then yeah, my fanny, this was a total setup. That's how that kid gets in there. And by the way, I've seen two different reports on two different people who would have been that particular supposed shooter. Yeah, okay, one spoofing the other, so we don't really

know who that person was on that roof. And that person wasn't the real shooter. Not with an iron sight at four hundred feet. That's the report that I'm looking at. What do you mean wait wait, wait, wait wait wait that last point? What was your point on that one? An iron sight at four hundred feet, Yeah, you might be able to get something close, but that's an easy shot. That's an easy shot day.

I do it all the time. It's easy. I can hit a steel at two hundred yards, even like a five inch round at two hundred yards easily every time back and forth, boomoom, boom boom. What size you're grouping? Well at that at that distance, if you hit it, the the explosive force of a round going at three thousand feet per second is enough to do massive damage. It's one of the reasons Donald Trump is Thank God you're alive. What's probably a four inch probably about a four inch group,

maybe three if I'm lucky. Look at the two stripes on Donald's face, they're a whole lot closer than four inches. Well, those are blood streams. One is his ear and the other rest is blood pouring down from the hole in his ear. Pretty straight line lateral bleeds. That's interesting. But anyway, my point is I've read a report from a fella who said that he was the counter sniper who took this kid out, and his boss told him to hold his fire while he's watching this guy peel off rounds. Well,

first of all, if that's their protocol, I'm ignoring protocol. If I'm that sniper, I'm gonna Swiss Cheese's kid, and then I'm gonna look at my boss and find out what his problem is I might Swiss cheese him too. Yeah, Joe's rightfully asked me, what's the source onto that one that he was holding hold that they were told to hold off. I have not read that. I've read everything from the left wing Politico and the Hill to the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. No one has reported that.

I haven't seen it anywhere. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Yeah, this is a this is an outside the normal scope of regular supposed news. Then then have some measures skepticism on the sources. I've seen a lot of qual from a lot of people. I've got skepticism on the whole thing. This is an inside operation. Well clearly put the help of the Secret Service, and they're all traders. Okay, I listen, I understand your comments, and there are a lot of them from both sides of the political spectrum.

I'm gonna keep my powder dry, no pun intended, and wait till more information comes up before I start drawing conclusions as as clearly as you have drawn yours. Uh. And you know you'd like to think and I'm not you

know, I'm not in your camp on that one. But if this was supposed to be a coordinated effort to actually assassinate Donald Trump, that this was somehow you had more than one shooter a' llah the theories of you know, Robert F. John Kennedy's assassination, they at least pulled that one off. Are you gonna tell me that you know a kid at two hundred yards can't hit Donald Trump and that there was a follow up shooter that wasn't able to

pull off around either. I find that very extraordinarily hard to believe, going back to my points that I don't even consider myself like I'm marksmen or anything like that, but I can hit a target at that route, at that distance. You're saying two people failed. Now listen, if the Secret Service really truly wanted to coordinate that and this is the result you got, we got a lot more to worry about, don't we talk about colossal ineptitude five

twenty five. But you have careacity, detoxidation. Feel free offer your own conspiracy theories and we can all observe them collectively together as we are on social media, and get in touch with Colin Electric see U L. E. N. Colin Electriccincinnati dot COM's where you find them online. Outstanding electricians. Andrew Cullen has assembled an amazing team of licensed professionals to do any electric project

for your home. Twenty five years in business and successfull. They are with an A plus with the Better Business Bureau and an aplus from the Thomas Family for all the work they've done for us over the years. That's how I can strongly recommend them. Well oiled machine and they do it at the right price. So from an outlet installation to all your can lines. We had them do that at our house, change out that knob and tub of the

aluminum wire and rewire your entire house. Big projects, small projects, everything in between. You get a ten year wiring warranty on everything they do for you. So call them with confidence like I have over the years. Five one three, two two seven four one one two five one three two two seven four one one two again online call on Electriccincinnati dot Com, fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station, the exclusive audio home mom NBC's coverage of the twenty

twenty four paras Olympics. Trying to make an appy my name. It's part of the turmoil we're going through right now. Love to hear from you. Got a lot of callers want to chime in, and I'm looking forward to hearing from each and every one of you, starting in the order in which they receive. Eric from Florence, Thanks for calling this morning, Eric, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Brian, haven't called in a while. How you been. I'm okay all things considered. You know I'm here

anyway. I'm not sure how to take that lay of caller, because I'm gonna say you, guys, Yeah, I've been an avid hunter all my life, but I didn't buy my first DAR fifteen until I turned sixty years old. And I'm gonna tell you what, within about five minutes to turn in those iron sights with that spent cartridge, that shot would have been simple. And I'm an old, frail guy that can't shoot with a darn Thanks for backing me up on that, Eric. And you know again, I

am not a marksman, but I shoot ars quite often. And I've joked before about the AAR. Not in a joking way, but you get the idea. Strucker has never squeezed off around from even a handgun or a long gun. I said, Joe, I'll tell you what if I took you out to the range within five ten minutes of you shouldering that rifle for the first time, you'll be able to hit targets at two hundred yards. Yeah, I think people forgive what they were designed for. They were designed to

be a funge, sporting, plinking gun. That's our old whole idea. And they were designed to anybody can take them out, shoot a environment, or just go out just have fun. The other point is I want to bring up is see this talking about the bleeding from the ear. I'm gonna retired firefighter em t let me tell you what and here gets cut or anything.

It pleas there are so many catillaries out there. It bleeds like crazy skulls, and everything in your head bleed like you're right, everything everything from your shoulders up is just pumped full of blood. But you know, I I just I'm gonna pray for that guy because I think he's kind of lost in the world of in the world of doubt and anger. I mean, this was terrible, and I don't care if it would have if it had been President Biden, President Clinton, President Obama, anyone someone had taken a

shot at us president, whether they're seated or not. It's terrible. And you know that you know, there there was, there was, there was a father who died there a fire a retired firefighter who was a father who died there. I mean, let's let's think about that. So let's not blow us up to some conspiracy and let's not diminish that life lost by by this foolery. You know, well, Scott, you know, thank God that that that sniper and not really took him out before he did more damage

you saw. I can say amen to that, Eric and well stated points this morning as we try to keep cooler heads and not go over the cliff on our determinations because we are still fresh off the event and still have a whole lot to learn about even who this kid was. Silence is deafening over it. He doesn't really even have much of it. I mean, there was very little social media presence. They didn't find anything by way of conspiracy

yet yet yet? Can I underscore that yet again? Kent, welcome to the program, and a happy Monday to you, Surf and Colin Kent. Yeah, you're on Kent with a Monday morning quarterback. Conspiracy Flime kind of figured they would have about it. If you want, Kent, what's on your mind today? No, no, So that's all I have to say. All right, I appreciate I appreciate your observation. They're everywhere certainly going

to show up on the five Have Kuriosy Morning Show. You can feel free to raise them if you want, but let us try to analyze each and every one of them thoughtfully and purposefully in the absence of any true concrete information. Yet. I'm not saying we're gonna ultimately get it, but I'm willing to at least wait a few days for it. Five point thirty three, let's go to Mississippi. James. James, Welcome to the show, sir. It's always good to hear from you. Good morning, doctor Brian.

Yeah, I told Joe Us I wanted to chime in with my two cents, but I got to think about it. With inflation, it's probably only one sin. All right now, I'm gonna come from a spiritual standpoint. This is my spirituality, and I got two schools of thoughts here. One of them, you know, God blessed Trump to take him away from the evil Left. They tried to take him out as one school of thought. The other school of thought that was a warning to Trump he better stop doing

what he's doing and change his ways. And those are my two conflicts and thoughts in my head, Like you say, with that in information yet you know it's just all all were pulling stuff out. Well, let's focus on the latter your two points, change his ways in what way should he be changing his ways? His loyalty to and and and love for his wife in the face of the fact that he has had affairs his private life, his

public life, his political life, his position on any given issue. I mean, there's a multitude, perhaps millions of ways one could interpret that statement. What are you thinking along the lines of James uh ramping up the rhetorics and negative radic up, I've got as as you are. I got volumes, I got volumes of negative rhetoric, almost all of it from the left, from the you know them depicting you. Well, no, you're right, absolutely, it's been ratcheted up to the point where we are not hospitable

to each other in any form ever at all. But I don't recall asking anybody saying like, well, let's see slug Joe Biden's face, decapitate Joe Biden, stab him. These are all things that famous people have asked to do to Trump shooting him. Snoop dogg Ass that Anthony Bourdain suggested poisoning Trump, George Lopez suggest a bounty killing Pearl Jams suggested Carrion's eating his corpse. Suffocation came from Larry. I've never heard anything along these lines toward Joe Biden.

Now, am I saying that the Republicans should tone down their rhetoric as well? Absolutely? I believe in civility and discourse. Name calling is a sign of a win. Column. If you are engaged in a debate with someone and they go down to the level of calling you names or asking for your assassination or other harm to come to you, then you've won the debate. I like to stick on the debate level and then shake hans and walk away to our neutral corners. It's the right way to engage in politics.

Five thirty five. Thank you, James. Always good to hear from you. Rick, Hang on, brother, I'll get your call right out of the gate of is already time for a break though, And I must do that because I want to mention affordable imaging services. Because your doctor has just told you you need a CT scan, an MRI echo cardigram ultrasound lung screening,

cardiac scoring. I rarely mention the price of the lung screening and cardiac scoring, but I guarantee you at the hospital imaging department where your doctor sends you, those are gonna cost more than ninety nine dollars. That's all. A cardiac scoring, lung screening costs ninety nine bucks and that comes with the

radiologist report. Radiologists report included in all of the images from Affordable Imaging Services MRICT scans, echo cardiograms a mere fraction of the literally thousands of dollars that you will pay at the hospital imaging department. Can you go to affordable Absolutely if a choice when it comes to your medical care, So tell your doctor no, I'm not going to support the profit center at the hospital. I'm gonna keep the money in my pocket. Learn more online go to Affordable Medimaging

dot com. Affordable Medimaging dot com five to one three seven five three eight thousand, seven five three eight thousand fifty five. Summer is here? Is your home ready for the heat and humidity? Cor grind already think about KARCD talk station meteorologist Jess Record says the storms are in Indiana. Maybe that's what they're monitoring. Anyway, we'll scratch that off the the weather report. To satisfied Joe, who screams in my ears in frustration, over to the phones

we go. We're going to start with Rick. Rick, thanks for calling this morning, Welcome to the program. Good morning. The thing that kind of annoys me is that all all the information we get is comes from the media. I mean, you get the usual, okay, the police interview that where you're going to cooperate with all the other authorities. Of course, you know they have no facts, and so most of the news is kind

of opinion. But you know, it is a tragedy. I just want to shout out to the Secret Service, who put their lives in the can immediately shield them, shield the people with their with their own lives. And mister has always said, look for the good things, look for the helpers,

he said, But there's always some good in there. There is, I am, except for the last caller who says the Secret Service was in on this and responsible for it. And if you believe we've gone that far down the road, then I guess we're in an irredeemable place in our country, perhaps closing the door on yet one more person who the left has convinced that our society in our country is in fact irredeemable and needs to be you know, something needs to arise like phoenix from the ashes on what was the

former great United States of America, since we have lost all faith in all of our collective institutions. Yeah, there is a theme behind all of that bashing of our country, and it does work and in yours to the left and the socialist benefit, that's part of the playbook, attack all the institutions that hold our country together. I'm not going to play that game. I will call out and criticize. Criticism and calling out is due, but it's

been solidified in facts. I'm not going to speculate. I mean, there's room for speculation always, but to conclude definitively as that last car, as that caller did, that the Secret Service and other gunmen were involved in this so shortly after the event. I mean, how the Warren Commission and laugh at that one all day long? How long did it take them to come out with that conclusion. Yeah, a little bit of effort went into that

one. Whether you believe it or not, Fine, there's your faith in institutions or not still talking about that decades later, Charlie, welcome to the program. In a happy Monday to you, or try to make it happy anyway in spite of things. Yeah, Hi, Brian, good morning. I had two points. Since there's a lot of violent extremists out there, I think Trump should be speaking behind bulletproof glass on all three sides and even on the top because there could be a drone a mile up in the sky.

And coint I don't think we've learned anything from from the jfk assassination. The big lesson is we shouldn't take any chances because there's so many people out there in the crown and you don't know who has a gun or what true, but you know that that flies in the face, See that flies in that that's a capitulation that violence reigns. The vast, vast, vast majority of the population of the world are not violent people. It's a small sliver

of it. And while that's small sliver in a world full of billions of people, is still a substantial number. Are we going to walk around in an isolated popemobile our whole lives are elected officials going to do that while we are well left to our own devices, while they are busily, you know, getting rid of the police department and condemning the police as the worst possible institution around because they're inherently racist. Now we're left to our own devices generally

speak. And a politician, an elected official, should not cower behind bullet hoof glass twenty four to seven. That is, the person who definitively needs to walk among the crowd and shake hands and go on with their life and recognize that, yeah, bad things do happen, and it may happen to you because you are the one who's the politician. You ran for office, and you make decisions on behalf of people that well, quite frankly, usually

piss off half the population. But to capitulate and to hide twenty four to seven merely because there's a possibility. I wouldn't want to live my life that way. I'd rather take the risk, and I think any good politician would do the same thing in the name of giving us a greater sense of comfort five forty five fifty five K see talk station. Feel free to call you feel free to disagree as well. I'm sure my last caller does. I

got Larry on the phone, Larry that you're going to be next. First though, I've got Peter Sbia Kellorwilliam seven Hills Dimension because he's a great guy. Real estate team at Peter Sharbierakla Williams Seven Hills Team, it is a five star experience. Guaranteed you're gonna have great treatment. They're outstanding real estatements offering programs that nobody else is offering to help you get through this process as

quickly and painlessly and successfully as possible. I mean success too, because you know, if you need a deadline, you got to have your house sold by a certain deadline. You work with the guaranteed sale program with Peter Shabrie. You agree to a price in a deadline. I gotta have X by X date. They do that and effect state passes and you don't have it, then they write you check and buy your house from you. That's basically

how that one works. You don't have to do even go through that, and you do an instant offer with Peter Shabria Coloriam seven Hills, call them up within forty eight hours of them seeing their property. They will make you a cash offer and you can close as little as fourteen days thereafter get out of Dodge without having a stage or show your house a couple of the many

programs they offer at Peter Shabria, Coloriam seven Hills. So get in touch with them online seven zero eight three thousand dot com seven zero eight three thousand dot com. Call them up today five one three seven zero eight three thousand, fifty five krs in this week's me CD talk station good for to call five one three seven nine hundred eight two three talk Time five fifty on eighteen t phones, of course, reeling from the events of the weekend, and

got Larry on the phone. Larry, thanks for holding over the brake there, welcome to the program. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Uh I uh was wondering what where all this heavy traffic's coming from this morning. I believe it's probably what happened over the weekend that they're in. People are in a hurry to get out there in their cars and listen to your program, to get the fact and to get your your vend and everythank of I enjoyed. I tried to get out about five o five every morning. I got

to be at work at six thirty. But anyway, that's that's for you. But the uh what the police officer that was up on the ladder that saw the sniper? Ye saw the shooter? Uh it was it's me. Of course you had to be there, you know, you had one of those think where you had to be there unless he thought that was a police slider up there for protection lived far some rounds for painting, shooting the air to let somebody not there was a guy up there on the roof with a

with a rifle. And and I hadn't heard the guy's name. Get the police service. I guess it's all gonna come out. But who was that

police solficer and why did he do something? Well? Great questions, and see those are the kind of questions I'm gonna wait to see if we can get an answer to, Like the name of this of the police officer who allegedly went up on top of the roof confronted this kid, and the reason you he should have realized at least as the facts have been reported in New York Post, for example, has got this and it's reporting this morning. Can read it for yourself. The guy climbs up on the building because the

people in the crowd had alerted the law enforcement somebody was up there. They were trying to alert the Secret Service. The cop climbs the ladder and the kid turns around and points a rifle at him, and that's when he shimmied back down the ladder. I guess fearing for his own life. I don't know, but that is not the way a Secret Service agent would have reacted. Had someone gone up, I doubt they would have pointed their sniper rifle

at a law and fellow law enforcement officer. He would have said, I'm Secret Service, or would have been properly uniformed as a Secret Service agent, or more fundamentally, since Secret Service coordinates their efforts with local law enforcement, there would have been no doubt in either side's mind that that was either a properly stationed sniper or some kid getting ready to shoot at the former president of

the United States of America. So you see, these things sort of evaporate once you put them under the lens of some common sense, logic and reason. But wait for it. We'll find out, man, We'll find out eventually. And I'm I'm looking to tell you that I appreciate you taking my call, Larry. I appreciate your kind words man, and I hope you're right that everybody's out listening to the fifty five kres morning shows. They could have worked this morning. Westside Jim. Always my pleasure to have you on

the program. Welcome back, Good morning, Brian. I'm listening to you under my foil half this morning. So somebody emailed me, or if an instant messaged me said there's not enough foil to deal with all the conspiracies that are floating around on this one. They're going to run out. Yeah.

I did that with the fact about that Kroger's not having enough yesterday. But anyway, okay, my two cents is, if this was a conspiracy by you know, the CIA, FBI, the PTA, or whoever, I would have used or hit him provided one with a scope two it would have been like a thirty odd six or a three oh eight or something like that. I mean, using an AR fifteen shirt. I mean you you can possibly get that shot. I know you're you're very good at it, and

you could have done it, you know, religiously. But everything said, I would have used a sniper rifle if you'd be honestly want to take somebody out, even from that short of a distance. Yeah, I would have used, definitely used a rifle that's considered a sniper three definitely, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Plus you know you could have taken in one shot with a with a nice scope and we'd be talking something different today. Well,

I agree with you. And maybe because the kid's dad didn't buy a sniper rifle with an optic Correctly, it wasn't in the among the various weapons that the kid was able to choose from, assuming there was even more than one there in his quote unquote potential arsenal. See that that goes again to this whole idea that it was a conspiracy theory. You know, there was there's a way to actually do something, and then there's a way to completely drop

the ball and screw up. So if this was some concerted actor by by our conservative act by you know, elite members within our government, then again I'll point to the fact that it is probably the most epic fail of any conspiracy theory in the world. Correct. And you know, Brian, I don't know what the Pennsylvania laws are, but like in Ohio, I believe it's eighteen to buy a hunting rifle. Well that's immaterial because this is his father's. It was by all reported accounts, it was his dad's rifle.

His dad bought it, and I'm guessing his dad is over the age of twenty one. Well, what I mean is, if he really wanted to do this properly, he could have went out and bought his own rifle and not used as dad's. That's why I think it was a quick little moment thought his head insteads of going to buy a three toh eight and doing something away. I don't want to say properly, but this thing could have been

planned out. He would just went and bought a three eight, even at a gun show or something like that, and probably taken some shots at at a practice in sight. Maybe maybe his dad thought he was at the range because his dad knew that he had taken the rifle. After they lost track of him for a while, he tried to find out where he was. Read that, But I'll just go back to sort of the realities of what

we're dealing with here. A twenty year old kid that works as a cook in a nursing home is like the boiled down version of where I heard. I don't know that he necessarily has the probably close to one thousand dollars, maybe five hundred plus dollars it would cost to go out and buy one of those, So you know, it's just eat You know, you gotta temper

these things with sort of you know, backing up. But I think it was just merely that his dad had that particular one, And you know, you can certainly consistently hit targets in it with deadly force, with massive deadly force. There's nothing to be trifled about it. I know. It's a two two three, five five six caliber weapon. It looks like a twenty two bullet on the end of that case, but that case is packed with man tons and tons of powder, allowing the thing to shoot it like three

thousand feet per second. So your wound cavity impacted by that very tiny projectile is massive and quite deadly. Appreciate the call, Jim five fifty seven, fifty five krs the talk station five one, three, seven four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three tak up right back after the news. It's what motivates your vote. The Democrat racis now and they were the racist back then,

fifty five krs the talk station. Everybody's reeling from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend, as am I trying to keep cooler heads though from you know, gantanetic trying to keep cooler heads prevailing, as amid the swirling conspiracy theories that are coming from both sides, and I do mean both sides. I so this interesting, well preposterous notion, and there was a lot of them along these lines from the left. There was a couple of

places that actually compiled. And you know, opinions are like sphincters. We've all got one, and everybody's got an x account or a truth account or some social media account to post nonsensical ratings like the ones on Saturday night on social media anti Trump posters saying that the shooting was staged to help his campaign. Seriously, I mean, of all the conspiracy theories that I've read along

these lines, that is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. First off, are you willing to put your life on the line and get shot in the ear knowing that one quarter of an inch to the right would end your life. I don't think the presidency's worth that. Honestly, I wouldn't put myself in that position. You want to go a circus sideshow act and have somebody throw knives at you while you're, you know, pinned to a wooden wall, knock yourself out. That's not me. We don't know much about

this kid. He didn't really have a social media presence by all accounts of thus far, didn't seem to be very political. They have him registered as a Republican but having made a fifteen dollars contribution to a far left wing group. Okay, what does that prove? I don't know. Waiting to find out if there's any connection with him, they're going to they're searching through his records and in effects and all that right now as we speak. I'm pretty

certain. But the flip side of this ridiculous argument that Trump's stage this to somehow help his campaign is that, I mean, if you're sitting down around a table talking about ways you could move yourself ahead in the polls or otherwise secure your victory, and some idiot presented that as a possibility, what would your reaction be, Well, yeah, you're fired. That's a good one, Joe, So you got that. But also, how do you know

it's gonna work to your benefit? Literally putting your life on the line for a so called stunt that may but then again may very well not aid you as you move forward to November. Yeah, we're gonna put that in the back burner there, buddy. But the other component is the flip side. What are we talking about this morning? What have we been talking about ever since this horrific thing happened? Right, the horrific thing rumor speculation? We're

wondering where that when the facts come in? How it is that you know, this local law enforcement officer actually confront of this kid on top of the roof before you started squeezing rounds off, only to back off and climb back down the ladder. I mean, that's been widely reported. The local police there said that happened. Okay, But what are we talking about We're not talking about, is really the point I'm making. We're not talking about Joe

Biden and his declining cognitive ability. So for whatever period of time that we're swirling and talking and you know, throwing out conspiracy theories and trying to reach conclusions in advance of having the evidence to even help us draw proper conclusions, we're not talking about Joe Biden's brain. So if it's helping anyone along the political lines. It's got to be inuring to Joe Biden's benefit of not Donald

Trump's. Although I'll acknowledge as everyone must, he looked pretty damn heroic after being shot. He wasn't cowering and crying and you know, asking for his mommy or something like that. He stood up to a fist pump. And that's what some of the left says was stage. Oh, it was staged. It was staged. Okay, whatever, you go ahead and run with that one. Oh, we poked massive holes in a five one three eight hundred and eighty two three. Talk tooun five fifty on AT ANDT film to

see what Jerry's got this morning. Jerry, thanks so much for calling today in a very trying to make it a happy Monday. Anyway, Good morning, Brian. Go ahead, Jerry, you have some thoughts or comments you want to pass along there, Brian, I am talking to you, Jerry, all right. So one of my questions is they're talking about turning down to rhetoric, and they're talking about everybody calming down. I remember back when Maxine Water said, confront him, get a crowd in front of them,

pushing him out, nobody belongs here, none of that. But today Jen Pasky was talking about how the Republicans need to change the narrative and turn it down. I mean, if you were forgotten about the past. No, it just drives me nuts. With with with with Pally or I even said back then, now there's going to be there's going to be something bad happen because now you've got politicians saying to confront people, get a crowd, push

them out of restaurants, push them out of stores. They don't belong here, they don't belong anywhere. Yeah, yeah, this happens there. And Jim Plaski is going to get on the TV and say the Republican National Committee needs to turn down a rhetoric and change the narrative and the programming. I mean programming like we're programming our people. I mean, come on, this is it's just ridiculous, the entire thing is. But it is. I mean, yeah, I'm a combat veteran. I've seen veterans and people get

shot and get them fist, pump and flip off the enemy. It's exactly what Trump did. And that's not stage you know at all. So it's people saying that they have no clue. They've never been there, never never lived it, and it's just it's just it's sadly, it's sadly funny not so on so many levels. I agree with you wholeheartedly on that last DayMen,

Jerry, I really do. It is comical on so many levels, and yet tragic that the tragic nature of it cast to Paul over our otherwise out loud laughter at some of the things that are coming out of the left's mouths, no question about it. And the other one on that Jerry and others is who I mean, they've been calling him a Nazi now for how long? The embodiment of Adolf Hitler, And you know, I even recall I think there was this it was a Twilight Zone episode, But there have

been many Hollywood movies and depictions of the sort of what if scenarios. What if you could go back and kill Adolf Hitler before he exterminated eight million Jews, what if you well, you know, some of them said, those kind of things fester in the back people's mind, and like their think, they really believe that Donald Trump, after hearing this over and over and over and over again, is in fact the embodiment or recreation or incarnation of Adolf

Hitler, then wouldn't it be justifiable to go after that guy? I mean, it's insanity. I would love to see the Republican National Committee or Republicans, however Donald Trump's campaign go through the last eight years of them just bashing him and threatening, threatening republic look and sell them to call them out, push them out they don't belong here, and make an entire video about who's really caused an inciting violence? Well, it's really you remember ever hearing it.

I don't remember ever hearing the rights say anything like that. The Conservatives. Now that's a point I made earlier to Mississippi James. We're very peaceful. Yeah. And then one last question, how many weapons? How many weapons does one person have to have to be declared an arsenal. That's a subjective question, Jerry, Absolutely subjective, because you know, I have several weapons. I'm not going to say how many I have, but you know,

and someone would say, well, you have an arsenal. And then I look at a lot of my friends who think I'm some kind of piker in terms of the number of firearms I am compared to the size of their firearms collection. So I'll let that I'll leave that to the subjective conclusions of any given individual, depending on whether they enjoy the ownership of firearms or not. That's how you end up with the definition of arsenal that could maybe include

like two anyhow, But let me help you out with that. Jerry, that request on some and I'll rely on Victor David Hanson's ex post from yesterday on the brief summary of leftists celebrities and entertainers basically asking for the events over

the weekend to happen. Hmmm, you're right. So since at least twenty sixteen, there have been a parlor game among the leftist celebrities and entertainers, joking, one hopes, dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump Colon quote and I'm reading the quote anyway, by slugging his face, Robert de Niro, by decapitation Kathy Griffin, and Marilyn Manson by stabbing Shakespeare in the Park play did

that one by clubbing Mickey Rourke suggested that by shooting that was Snoop Dogg by poisoning Anthony Boordain by bounty killing George Lopez by carrying carrion eating his corpse pearl jam I do like the band, but I hate their politics. By bounty killing George Lopez, h by suffocating Larry Whitmore by blowing him up, Madonna and Moby who by throwing him over a cliff. Rosie O'Donnell just by generic quote killing close quote him, that'd be Johnny Depp, big Sean whoever the

hell they are here? Where at least big Sean don't know that guy by martyring him Reid Hoffman quote, Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr close quote. Even Joe Biden in a widely reported called one hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, quote, I have one job, and that's to beat Donald Trump. I'm absolutely certain I'm the best person to be able to do that. So we're done talking about the debate. It's

time to put Trump in a bullseye close quote. Sarah Panalin got in trouble for that used bullseye in spots during an election map of the opposition congressional districts, and the left claimed that using that imagery incited the mast shooting by Jared Lee Loughner. How you draw a connection between those two Well, the left did, and many in the calls for well toning down the rhetoric from both the left and right, many are arguing for the softening of the rhetoric.

Now, Okay, I don't know where the massive problem lies. I can draw some conclusions based upon the list briefly put together by Victor Davis Hanson sixty sixteen. Come up at six seventeen fifty five KRCD talk station five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk and another number I'll give you as the number four Cover SINCEY because a few minutes of your time could get you better medical insurance and at

a cheaper price. And I'm talking substantial savings. How can you get dollar one coverage for things like you know your annual physical and like that and pay less for it? Not no mass of ninety five hundred dollars out of pocket liability. That's why you need to talk to John Roman and the team at Covers. SINCEY. They work with not four, they work with hundreds of insurance companies have access to thousands of healthcare plans that allows them to customize the

plan that best fits your individual needs. Say you're trying to get family coverage. They look at each member of the family because each of you could have a different package of insurance policies to cover your medical needs. That's the deep dive they do. They are working for you, saving couples under sixty five five hundred to one thousand dollars a month, including my neighbors who took my advice and called John Roman and the team and now saving seven hundred dollars a

month with better coverage. It can be done. John on the team do this every single day. Give them a call. Costs nothing but your time. Five one three eight hundred two two five five five one three eight hundred call. Fill out a form online to get the process going. Go to cover sincy dot com fifty five car twenty two to fifty about Kercity talk station. Feel free to call. I've got some thoughts are observations you want to

pass along on this whole as the events are unfolding. Reality of what happened over the weekend with attempted assassination of Donald Trump, A lucky man I think we can all boil down an agree cross political lines. That man he missed death by just a fraction of an inch. But speaking of this, what

actually a great op ed piece by Jonathan Turley yesterday. It's on the Hill if you want to go to the left leaningth hill dot com site to read it, and he just they can just read some up what he writes about this, This this ret rage rhetoric that he writes about, So the assassination

attempt of former President Donald Trump, if the nation's done. But the most shocking aspect what was not nearly as surprising as it should have been fromon's politicians, the press, opponents of escalated reckless rhetoric in this campaign President Biden.

Going back to Biden's quote just from a few days ago that I just reads Biden has stoked this rage redic In twenty twenty two, he held a controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced Trump supporters as enemies of the people. Biden recently referenced the speech and has embraced the claims that this could be our last democratic election. And if you believe that I got a bridge, I want to sell you anyway, He points out he discusses this rage rhetoric in

his new book, The Indispense Will Right. So we're living through an age of rage. It's not our first, but it maybe our most dangerous such period in our history. And here we go, Soul has been saying for years as rage rhetoric is a dangerous political pitch for the nation. While most people reject the hyperbolic claims, others take them as true. Now I read this, and John Turley writes this, within the factual vacuum, we don't

know what motivated this kid. Draw your own conclusions before they come out, if you choose to do se. But I wouldn't hang your hat on him until we got more flesh on the bones of who this punk was. Anyway, while most people reject the hyperbolic claims, others take them as true. They believe that homosexuals are going to be disappeared, as claimed on ABC's The View, or that Trump's death squads are now greenlighted by conservative Supreme Court,

has claimed by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Rage is addictive and contagious. It's also liberating. Allows people a sense of license to take actions that would ordinarily be viewed as repulsive. As soon as Trump was elected, unhinged rage became the new norm, with Kathy Griffins teaching yourself holding the bloody severed head of Trump. Just recently, another celebrity, actress Lee Delia begged Biden to quote blow

Trump up close quote after recent presidential immunity decision. Glaria explained that this is a blanking war. This is a war. Now we are fighting for our blanking country and these a holes, I will summer it up, are going to take it away. They're going to take it away. Close quote. Really, for a months, people have heard politicians in press called Trump Hitler and the GOP a Nazi movement, some comparing stopping Trump to stopping Hitler.

In nineteen thirty three, Representative Dan Goldman, Democrat from New York declared Trump is quote not only unfit, he's destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated close quote. He did later apologize does that unring the bell? Others say that Trump will quote destroy the world close quote unless he stopped.

He's got citations and links for those statements. If you want to go back to the original, says, I do not believe that the politicians are puttings engaging what I call rage rhetoric, want actual violence, but they have knowingly created conditions for extremist views and yes, extremist actions. Meat has been quick to announce reckless rhetoric from the right, while largely ignoring the same language on

the left, including threats against conservative Supreme Court justices. Before the assassination plot against Brad Kavanaugh, remember that one, don't you? Son of Majority Leader Chuck Schimmer went to the steps the Supreme Court called out Kavanaugh by name. Quote. I want to tell you, Gorsich. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you've released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You

won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. Close quote Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Turtley points out, I don't believe this. Schumer wanted Nicholas Rosky to go to the home of Justice Kavanaugh to kill him. However, these politicians must know that some citizens will hear this rhetoric as a justification for violent conduct. We still do not know about the shooter and this assassination attempt. We all know too well how unhinged people can find

justification and the incendiary rhetoric of our politics. This moment did not occur in a vacuum, occurred at a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage. Just a small slice again Jonathan Turley. Find it at the Hill dot com, complete with links to the reference points in the article six twenty seven fifty five KCD talk station. Do have local stories, but I'd rather hear from you. Maybe you got a theory or thought on what's going on.

I love it Fast and Pro Roofing. You're going to be very, very happy you took my advice and got in touch with Fast and Pro Roofing for your residential or commercial roofing needs. It starts with honesty and it springs from honesty. Ray and Amanda, the owners of Fast and Pro. You got a woman owned business and a veteran owned business. So if you're looking to check the virtue signaling boxes, there you go. Ray and Amanda. They're

outstanding. The point with Ray and Amanda is they have an outstanding crew of professionals, true craftsmanship. This work that they do for you is whether it's you know, the siding work, hardyboard, I recommend strongly. Gutter's got

a guard's custom copper and metal work. They do it all. They do every kind of roof you can throw at them, including shingle roofs, of course, And if you need a new shingle roof because your roof's gone belly up, a free upgrade to the Certainty Landmark Pro fifty years shingle is what's going to go your way. But for all residential roofing, a residential or

commercial roofing needs, you're in the right hands with Rain and Man. They have had a plus with a better business bro and the quote and the inspection are free, so don't delay. Give them a call today. Five one three seven seven four ninety four ninety five seven seven four ninety four ninety five online Fasten fast E n Fastenproroofing dot com, fifty five krc dot com turn it out to be on six thirty two fifty five KRCB talks Nation. Very

happy Monday too, in spite of the facts. Five one three seven fifty two three talk Pound five fifty on AT and T phones. I us really quick forget that I'm gonna do local stories here. I just got a few that can get into the segment. But I was thinking about this whole the left who's been calling him Hitler for so long? Now? Were they lying when they said that going back to the whole the old Hollywood scenario of being able to go back in time and take out evil people like Adolf Hitler before

they have a chance to do their harm. I mean, it only works in the movies because they don't have time travel. But if they're running around screaming that he is the embodiment of Hitler, which they have been doing for so long, how is it that they're all going around wishing in the best of health today and thanking and you know, praising God that he wasn't shot and killed. I mean, I know some people on social media are really upset that the shot went a little bit left or whatever, which is just

a horrific thing to say out loud. Although we have social media to deal with here, and people Willy will say some terrible, terrible things. But so the evil rhetoric continues anyway. Police cruiser was in a crash in Norwood, happen on Friday after a robbery led to a pursuit. Chase began after four suspects stole five grand in closed from the Lulu Lemon in Hyde Park crash

Curtain thirty nine hundred block of Montgomery Road in Norwood. Cruiser's suspect, a cruiser of suspect vehicle and a car driven by a resident were involved in this crash. Two suspects arrested while officers search for the other. Two go over the rhine and sadly, we have a homicide of it stigation underway after a

double shooting occurred there on Saturday mornings. Since Saint Police Lieutenant John Jonathan Cunningham said the shooting happened at three point thirty six in the morning seventeen hint of block of Ein Street, District one received reports of multiple people shot in the area. When they got there, they found two people with gunshot wounds. Lloyd Baker, thirty, pronounced dead at the scene. The other victim was taken a UC Medical Center. Court of the press release, that person listed

his stable. Police didn't mention anything about a suspect box nineteen reporting on this one Andy had with information regarding the shooting. No please call the Homicide Unit. Sin Sint Police Homicide Unit five one three three five two thirty five forty two three five two thirty five forty two and take an alternative route, they're

saying. The more Bridge construction coming to the Greater Cincinnati area. According the Cincinnati Inquirer, Dan Carter Beard Bridge aka the Big mac Berridge under construction for the next six months. According to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinets, District six, project concludes two phases requiring multiple lane closures in one direction at a time. Majority of traffic impact will take place overnight to limit disruptions during the day.

However, the office advised motorists to take an alternative route to avoid potential delays. Crew is going to start today working on the northbound portion of the bridge, which carries four to seventy one between Cyincinni and Newport. Of course, that work, they say, is expected to take ninety days. Double and or triple lane closures expected Sunday through Thursday during the overnight hours ten pm to five am. Cruisill be working on the southbound portion of the bridge. Then

the work is also expected to take ninety days. No lane closures will occur on the Big Mack Bridge during the Labor Day holiday from six am Sunday to September first, six am Friday September sixth, More traffic lates, Hank, I'm going to take your call in a minute. Here. I got to take a break here. It is six thirty five, and I want to

mention Emory Federal Credit Union. Eight folks, Emory Federal Credit Union are and every year they do the charity golf outing benefiting Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and I'm there to MC do a little facilitation send the golfers on their way every year and I've been doing it, I think almost every year they've been doing. This is the eighteenth annual Charity Golf Scramble taking place Monday, August twelfth at four Bridges Country Club. Great thing for Emory had the funds from this golf

at and go towards Cincinnati Children's Charitable Care Fund. So join the crew for a fun filled day with golf and the opportunity to support this worthy cause in our community. To do that, visit Emory FCU for all the information so support the great cause. Register online today head on over to the website that's Emory FCU dot org. Fifty five krc the Medal of Honor is the highest

military the shy six forty fifty five RCV talk station. Feel free to call five on three seven four nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk. Yeah, some people are losing their jobs of the rhetorical comments. Hank on one second field director from Mississippi, Congressman Benny Thompson got fired after suggesting that this would be murderer punk crooks should have gotten some shooting lessons. I don't condone violence, but I but please get some shooting lessons

so you don't miss next time. Oops, that wasn't me talking close quote great cost her a job anyway. At least there is some accountability within the NAACP in Natchez, Mississippi. Hank, thanks for calling this morning. Thanks for holding over the Breg. Welcome to the program sir, Thank you. I was watching the news. I actually heard about this from a guy at work that was paying attention. I was out doing something else, and at first I found it kind of unbelievable. Seems like, you know, they'd

have better security. But to get onto that, I saw some news articles. One of them was an aerial view of the place where he was shot from. Yeah. Yeah, And the other thing that came up that was interesting was that it was unusual for a presidential campaign to have counter snipers traveling with the campaign, and the whole point of having counter snipers is to preempt

such an attack, not respond to it after it's too late. So from what I could see in the aerial view, I'm kind of wondering if they why they didn't spot this guy beforehand, especially since there was a law enforcement officer that had already come acrossing And the reason that the law enforcement officer came across him was because somebody else pointed it out to him. Yeah, so this all smells a mite fishy to me. Well, they see that is

I mean, you're right, it smells awfully fishy. Was it gross incompetence on the part of the Secret Service? We certainly could reach that conclusion. One of my callers earlier this morning, on the conspiracy theory level, believes the Secret Service coordinated this and that there was more than one shooter. Where that information or conclusion come from, I'll let him decide for himself, not going down that road personally. And besides, if that was the case,

how terribly was it was botched like nobody's business. I mean, you've actually had two people with that were trained in shooting aiming at Donald Trump, and you wanted to pull this off, and you're a coordinated Secret Service effort to do it. I think you're gonna hit your mark, Lord Almighty. But in any event, you got a great point on why something. I mean, everybody's asking the question, why wasn't somebody either on top of that already

as a shooting position. Why was it outside of the security perimeter that was the Secret Service was responsible for? Legitimate question. Local law enforcement was responsible for the areas outside of it. There was a local law enforcement agency apparently according to the local law enforcement officers there, that did, in fact climbing ladder after people in the crowd saw the kid go up on top of the building with a rifle. They were pointing them out. There's people that were

been interviewed. I mean, it's all over media right now. Yeah, we were pointing out right there. You know, you can see the footage from the real time footage from what it was happening. This law enforcement officer climbs up the ladder and the kid turns around and aims the ar at him, and then he shimmis back down the ladder what and immediately begins to open fire on Donald Trump. This is a failure, epic, epic failure.

And literally everyone who is paying any attention to this is asking, how does a gunman in plain view of some spectators manage to open fire on a former president of campaign rally protected by both federal and local law enforcement. Naturally, people are going to start swirling the you know, the down the drain of conspiracy theories. Of course they are, are we this bad the United States of America? And say what you want about the United States of America.

I still insist it's the greatest country on the war on the world. One could argue the most competent, but then something like this happens. I've seing articles some are blaming diversity, equity and inclusion within the Secret Service for the failures of the Secret Service during this one another road I'm not going to go down, but clearly there is a significant measure of incompetence. Now many people are saying, hmm, I wonder if it was intentional this incompetence. You

can ask that question. You're not going to get an answer. At least yet, you still haven't gotten an answer to how January sixth happened. The pipe bombs out January sixth, and a whole bunch of other investigations that they well, the people who are responsible for investigating this are I think still investigating. Hell, people haven't even put a final stake in the Warrant Commission report

about the assassination at John F. Kennedy. Here we are, decades later, with hundreds of books written on that topic, and many people believe there's been no definitive conclusion to how exactly it was John F. Kennedy was assassinated. So we'll be talking about this one, presumably for years. I just thank god the man is saved. Donald Trump did not die. And just some are calling it a miracle of God, and you can call it that if you like. You can call it to make the biggest stroke of luck

ever. He was in less less than one inch of death, less than and if you watch when the shooting happened, it appears as though Donald Trump just turned his head immediately before the shot rang out. And we can all speculate if Donald hadn't turned his head to the right there what might have ultimately happened. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on ATNT

phones. I don't subscribe to the Divine intervention because, let's face it, if God regularly intervened in matters along these lines, there probably wouldn't have been a Holocaust. Maybe there wouldn't be a war raging between Israel and Hamas. We could go on and on and on and on. ODO exit r XIT won't get rid of the stench of politics, no way, but it will get rid of all the other odors you're dealing with, smoke, mold, mildew, food oders, pet oders, human odors. You got an odor,

you want it gone. You get an OTO exit products, which all come with a one hundred percent satisfaction guarantee. Go to otor exit dot com. There's no E, it's O D O r XIT. Go there. It's easy to figure out which are the products you need. If you have any questions about your particular odor or maybe what it's on, like well, I got this couch that stings, or you know, the basement walls, or just call up and ask them about it. They'll help you with which

product to select and how to properly use it. But when used as directed, if it doesn't work and eliminate your owder. You get all your money back, plus shipping chipping that comes from ordering it directly online from odo exit dot com. Order before three today, you'll have it by tomorrow. I want to buy it locally two day. Use the search engine on the website odor exit dot com fifty five KRC. The talk station the Medal of Honor

is the rec DE talk station coming up in eighty forty. Claire Corcoran, Learmont County Commissioner. She's gonna be calling in from the convention in Milwaukee. Just got a message from her husband, Jeff's sent a video of the fireworks last night. Everyone's very excited to see. President's security is very tight. He says. They brought in ten thousand more cops yesterday. Mike DeWine and

John Houstad host the reception in Fireworks Yost. David Yost hosted an after party card tournament after driving all day, said he passed on that very long day for Claire. But she'll be on the program at day forty. She's gonna be on the convention floor between one pm until about ten pm, depending on how long the Each year for Trump goes on, So lots and lots going on. We're gonna hear from Claire again at eight forty on an update on that. Let's go to see what Andrew Pappus has to say. Welcome to

the program, Andrew. Good to hear from you morning, Bryant. Are you in Milwaukee yourself right now? I'm on my way to Milwaukee. I could not change some scheduling, so I am on my way this morning to Milwaukee and I'll I'll be there later on this afternoon. Great safe travels to you make that trip on a very safe way. You're not taking your private jet, are you. My dog thinks that's funny. He's like, no,

no, no, listen. I wish you know, regarding what you've been discussing this morning, and you've been right on point and echoing, you know, everything you've said. I felt like I'm speaking to myself because you're the voice of common sense and that that that's been missing, uh sadly in this country for far too long. But I'll say this, the the memo that Joe Biden was was trying to pass along apparently didn't get to his strategists.

Because you know, it's easy for Joe Biden just to get on TV and just like you said, oh you decided to I don't Drew you are breaking up. I didn't hear. I only heard a garbled a couple of mumbles. And it's easy for Joe to get on TV. And then you kind of dropped off the map there. So repeat your comment. I apologize

the gotta love self service. The point is is that yeah, he can get on the rate, he can get on and talk from his memo, but it didn't get to the Democrat strategists because not not only do you have you know, uh, Victor David Hanson setting all the celebrities that have called for violence, you your call a reference Maxine Waters and other Democrat can't Democrat

officials calling for confrontation and violence meet? Yet, just yesterday Democrats strategists were floating the idea to the press saying this was probably or don't forget, this could have been staged. That's irresponsible. These are Democrat strategists, these are just people on the internet. These are people intimately tied to the Democrat Party. So you can't have it both ways. And that's not Tony down the

rhetoric at all. As a matter of fact, that seems to me is actually toning it up a little bit, Yeah, and doubling down on the rhetoric. Well, because it's so blank and stupid. I mean, I pointed out earlier. I mean, if you're President Trump, you're gonna put your life in jeopardy for stunt that may or may not in your to your benefit. And then the Democrats joined the benefit of this, because we're not

talking about Joe Biden's declining cognitive state right now, are we. So he gets a pass for some period of time just because of the horrific antivy events. Yeah, Brian, you're a shooter. Yeak, you put an apple on your head, you go stand one hundred and was about one hundred and thirty yards from from a kid twenty years old that obviously has some eyesight correction issues. Using that, you're gonna stand there and you're gonna, I mean,

you're gonna you know, you're gonna put your bet on that. No, that's the first point I made the presidency. You're gonna, right, if you're going to stage this, it's gonna be with somebody a little bit more at least at least apparently from appearances competent then this kid, and you know, you bring up so many great points about law enforcement. And I'm

a huge supporter of law enforcement, you and I both are. But somewhere, somehow, I don't know the rules of engagement that were established for the snipers. All this will come out and investigation, but indeed, you know, to be confronted and to be seen. How you know they shot him just seconds after he pulled the trigger? Why did they not shoot beforehand? I mean, I just there's so many things. Why did the policeman come down the ladder and not just take his revolver and shoot in the air to

alert the entire facility that there was a shooter? There any so many things that need to be discussed. Everything needs to be discussed. And that's why I keep saying, keep your powder dry weight till the facts come out, and then we can draw legitimate conclusions about whether or not the ball was dropped, whether or not there was some sort of conspiracy going on, whether or not maybe law enforcement did fail Donald Trump in this particular case. I'm waiting

to find out. But you're all of these things, all of this, this this reality is staring us in the face and it just raises a multitude of questions and most notably about the competence of law enforcement at this event. I mean, he announced this thing ten days in advance, that target, that that elevated shooting point. I don't know how there wasn't a sniper from the Secret Service, a local law enforcement on that point. It's easy to

hit a target from that world. I don't know how in today's world there wasn't drones surveiling every inch of the place, you know, while it was going on something else. Yep, many people brought that up as well, because the Secret Service does in fact deploy and use drones when they are surveilling and keeping well the president safe from harm. So yep, keep asking the questions and hopefully at some point we're gonna get answers, and I hope that

point is sooner rather than later. Always a safe travels man, look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to call on the program while you're up there this week, because I'm anxious to know what's going on. I'll give you updates, good Man, Drew Pappas Save Travels six fifty six, Bobby. If you hang on, we'll take your call out of the gate coming

off the top of the our news. Remember Christopher Smithman at seven thirty and Monday Monday's Brian James at eight oh five, plus Claire Corcoran, uh Clairemont County Commissioner will be calling us live from Milwaukee. She's there already. We'll be right back. I don't care about anybody else. It's what motivates your vote. There's evil for Verden and they're trying to destroy or fifty five KRC

the talk station. This report is. It's seven oh six here fifty five KRC DE talk station, Brian Thomas, trying to wish you a happy Monday. In spite of what we're dealing with here, lots and lots and lots and lots of questions swirling around. It's been fun talking with folks and getting their opinions. As crazy as some of them are, I must acknowledge.

I'm keeping my powder drying up intended. Just received another one from my friend Maureen, and she just is in touch with all the crazy things that are going out there. This is not something she necessarily subscribes to, but there is a photograph that's swirling around there. This twenty year old kid was somehow

employed by Black Rock for a commercial. I don't know, but it looks like a photograph that even I, not computer savvy, could easily put together in about ten seconds time on AI and post and claimed that there was some connection. So this kind of stuff is going around all morning, all weekend. And you know, the one thing that they before I get to Bobby, question did the inflammatory rhetoric inspire the shooter to do what he did?

And yes, there is a ton of inflammatory rhetoric. I've read a whole bunch of it this morning, thanks to folks like John Turley and Victor David Hanson going back to the records and pulling up all of the horrific things that so many people on the left set about what they wanted to have happened to Donald Trump, from blowing him up to throttle him, to shooting him to killing him by multiple different means. There's a million different quotes out there.

Kathy Griffin, you know, having him his decapitated head in her hand. It's been going on since he walked down the steps in twenty fifteen. Did that have anything to do with it? You can't answer that question, No one can. We hardly know anything about this punk would be murderer other than he's probably out of his mind. Registered as a Republican but gave fifteen dollars financial contribution to a left wing group that was dedicated and committed to getting more

Democrats elected. Well, that's inconsistent. You can't draw any conclusions from that, now, can You can't conclude anything? So, you know, I'd like to think cooler heads prevailed on the fifty five KC Morning Show. I'm trying to do a thoughtful analysis of, you know, what could and what might have happened in the face of what we actually know happened and what we do know happened. I think we can all generally agree across the board that

this was a security failure on some level. Blame will be cast, and there should be an intense investigation, one of which has already been announced July twenty second, they're going to haul in the head of the Secret Service that we'll depose her and ask her and shake her down for information about how this

could possibly have happened. But you know, the one thing that I keep observing and everyone who knows anything about shooting a modern sport rifle that at one hundred and thirty yards to one hundred and fifty yards over far away he was. That is an easy shot. And thankfully he was probably not a very experienced shooter, because at that distance, if you are an experienced shooter,

it is not something that is difficult. And you can go ahead and say, oh, that's one of the reasons why no one should be able to own these types of weapons. Okay, whatever, But practically speaking, one must acknowledge. Anybody who's ever fired him on an sporting rifle knows. And I shoot him at tw hundred yards all the time on my gun range.

It's not a difficult shot. So why warrant agents there? Why didn't they investigate that particular building, the elevated shooting vantage point that that place provided for this punk? Why didn't people respond? I mean there were you got video and then interviews with people who were standing there, going, yeah, we saw him up there. We told law enforcement about it. We alerted them. There's actually video with the kid creeping around up there. Now we've got

to report. This morning, a local police officer actually went up a ladder and confronted this punk. The kid turned around and pointed the rifle at him, so the cop went down back down the ladder. Why didn't he do

something? Drew Pappus brought that. I mean, he could have fired his gun in there, He could have screamed, he could have picked up a radio, I guess and contacted I suppose everybody else with whom any law enforcement officer should have been able to communicate with secret Service or fellow law enforcement officers to report the fact there's a kid with a rifle on top of an elevated shooting pointment direct line in sight to the former president. Good question, Bobby,

Let's get your call. Sorry to make you wait so long, Bobby. Welcome to the fifty five Cars Morning Show. Hey, my brother, A simple thank you can't express our true feelings of appreciation. You carrying that torture, freedom, hire and bright every day, my brother. I appreciate it. I appreciate you. Bobby and everybody else who listens to the fifty five carse Morning Show means a world to me. Well, we've all. I don't want to use the word I'm an experienced shooter, but I'm telling

you that he was right on target. The only thing was it was divine intervention with he barely moved his head. Yeah, he did move his head, right, I have observe that as well, Bobby, if he just seems to right at the moment that that round was squeezed off, he had just turned his head to the right. And Trump even addressed that. He said, I turned to look at the teleprompter or something, And he said, I normally don't do that. I normally try to stare and engage directly

at the crowd, he said. But for whatever reason, and I think Donald Trump gave God credit for it, he did turn his head at that moment, and otherwise God knows what would have happened, Bobby. We can only speculate, but he may have with that one moment in time, saved his life. Divine intervention, my friend. And when we talk about the rhetoric, it won't stop. These people's ideology will not change. It may slow down a little bit for the next five days, but I'm telling you

it'll be perpetual motion with these people. They will not stop the rhetoric. No, I agree with you, And the rhetic has filtered over to the right wing side of the equation. I brought this up earlier in the Morning Show when somebody suggested this was actually a secret serve as coordinated effort to assassinate Trump, which I found laughable because of how epically it failed. He even

suggested there was a second gunman there. And I don't know where people pull this kind of thing from their sphincters, most likely, but whatever, those kinds of things are swirling around the internet. So I mean, but the point being that he at least has concluded that we are so corrupt as a society, as a government that our own government would would endeavor to assassinate a presidential candidate. That feeds into the left's desire, which is to undermine our

belief and our faith in all of the institutions of government. Now you're talking to me someone who is jaded in cynicals today is long about the effectiveness of government. But I really do firmly believe that the vast majority of people do want our country to succeed. They don't want to lose their job as a consequence of well destruction of America as an entity. Waiting for phoenix to arise from the ashes of us finally concluding that we have no faith whatsoever in our

government and it's time for it to go. I'm not going to assist in that effort. I want competency and i want efficiency from government. But if you know, I'm not about to believe that they're going to go around and assassinating citizens of the United States of America. Call me naive if you want. But and I'm also I'm also a little bit cynical to believe that God had anything to do with it. Bobby, I hear you, and I know you're a man of faith, But you know, God didn't prevent the

murder of twelve hundred Israelis. God did not prevent nine to eleven from happening. God did not prevent wars, pestilence, and famine over the millennia. He didn't stop the Jews from being slaughtered by the Nazis. We could go on and on, and on and on. It would use up ten months worth a fifty five Kose Morning show going through the annals of history and looking at all the tragedies that have the fallen mankind that God did not step in

and stop. So maybe you are firm believer that God did have a President Trump's back. Fine, I have no problem with your belief in it higher power. But I do too. I believe in a higher power. I just don't believe one that is actively engaged in stopping horrific things from happening. We've got too many illustrations of that. Bobby, God bless you. Sure, Okay, fair enough, my brother, I take care, my friend. Always enjoy hearing from you, coming up with some fifteen fifty five cares

of the tox station. Enjoy hearing from everybody. Five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two three talk get yourself Zeros. Carpet cleaning get insanely clean with Zeros Carbon Clean. But it's not just carpet cleaning. It's air duct cleaning as well, and area rugs and upholstery. Their patented zero water does not leave any residue. That's

the great thing about the patented ZR water. That residue which the other cleaners will leave because they have chemicals and detergents and things of a harsh nature that collects dust because not all of it's eliminated from the carpet when they try to suck it out. With the patent of ZR water, your carpets are unbelievably clean and with no residue. And right now, take advantage of the Summer Sale zero as Sincy with an eye dot com is how you take advantage of

it. Just use promo code Summer Sale when you schedule online at zero res Carpet upholstery area, rug and air duck cleaning, and you get fifteen percent off all of those services. If you call them, just mention my name Brian Thomas and you get that fifteen percent discount. Great at carpet Cleaning, they do a wonderful job. Zero ressinci dot Com fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station, the exclusive audio home of NBC's coverage of the twenty twenty four Paris

Olympics. Our iheard radio music for KASHI seven twenty fifty by KIRCD Talk station Fast Approaching eight theeven thirty with Christopher Smithman and an early Happy Birthday to Christopher from a Vice mayor of the City of CINCINNTI does a Monday morning Spleen event like my dad used to do every Monday at seven thirty. So the smither vent that's coming up next meantimes go to the phone five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight two three You

talk Dennis. Thanks for calling. This morning. Welcome to the program. Pleasure, thanks for taking a call. Say, I don't quite share your faith in our government, you know, the story being that my country right or wrong, but my government when it deserves it, my faith anyway. But about Trump and his situation, if he continues to depend upon the Secret Service and government agencies for his safety, he's not going to make it.

At mar Largo, the infiltration by some intruders was not caught by the Secret Service when he was there, but it was actually caught by his own privately managed security services. That's where the talent's going to be to have the experience and the I suppose you call it versatility of thinking, to be able to

counter the types of threats that he's going to continue to experience. So I would encourage the campaign and Trump himself and his wife to get on his case to take advantage more of his experience in the commercial motel, hotel and a venue business and not depend upon the bureaucrat style of management of his own security and safety. Yeah. Well, I mean this is not the first illustration

of secret service and competence, is it. I mean, we can go back and have a whole bunch of failures on the part of the Secret Service and each one of them. It's It kind of reminds me of Jay Ratler's conversation about Boeing. You know, the FA goes in and accuses Boeing of having all this crap going on. They're negligent there their supply. It's just all he's about profit. You're not paying attention to quality. You better start building the planes, right, And then it happens again. They go in

again, and it happens again. Nothing ever gets done in the name of profit over Boeing. They just keep sacrificing safety for the name of profit. Well, you got how many illustrations of Secret Service failure going on, and they supposedly go in, they look a hearing on it, and they do an analysis and they figure out ways to improve it. And then you know, here we are left with this nothing but what looks like absolute epic failure. So yeah, maybe Trump should hire his own security team. Maybe,

just maybe the Secret Service should get its damn hack together. I cannot wait to get the answers with all the questions that are swirling around. I mean, they're trying to do a mea culpa saying hey, listen, that area was local law enforcement, but you're supposed to coordinate with local law enforcement. And who leaves an elevated target like that within shooting easy shooting distance. I

might underscore of the podium where the former president is speaking unattended. And how is it that so many people saw that kid crawling around on the roof up there and we're screaming at law enforcement trying to point him out and nothing was done. Well, you know, call it a conspiracy. They didn't want to protect Trump. They let it happen because they were hoping he'd die, or they were just failures at their job that day. Either one is equally

conceivable. And I'm not going down the road that they wanted him dead, at least not yet. I'll wait until we get the answers to some of these questions, because it does look like and you can't move away from it. At least. The facts as we have them today reflect a failure on the part of the team that was supposed to protect Donald Trump that day, a failure, and we have one person dead and two people injured as a consequence of well, three people injured if you include the ear of Donald Trump

injured as a consequence of it. So I don't know. I have my popcorn out, and I will hold my opinions at least in so far as reaching ultimate conclusions until more information is confirmed. But we all know that we all know where government has let us down in terms of the information confirmation part, though, don't we Dennis? Can't you recognize a failure in pretty much

every measure of what government service is supposed to be doing. Yeah? I talk about that all the time too, And that's not designed to say that our United States is a failure, but many in government service, many government services are epic failures. I mean, you know, it's one of the reasons why we're thirty five in the hall. Man. Oh yes, so well, IRIS is the worst government except for all the rest. See there you go, dnnis. So take some comfort and stocking that you can't find

better. My old point about government is not that we need Our country is irredeemably wrong and needs to something needs to come from it. As opposed to fixing what we've got. We do need to fix what we got, and fixing what we got requires the pairing back of government intrusion and involvement in our lives. Generally speaking, thanks to the call, Dennis, you have a great week seven to twenty five. Christopher Smitheman, he'll be on next with

the Smith event. I have a feeling he may be saying something about what happened over the weekend. The meantime, save money. Gets your car fixed properly with a full warranty on parts and service by taking it to Foreign Exchange. Don't go to the dealer, you'll spend more money. Austin the t of a s certified Master technicians at the Westchester location of Foreign Exchange will service your car to your satisfaction, and even more satisfied you'll be that you won't

pay as much money. You got to keep the money in your pocket. Lord knows that that is an important thing every period of time. But when you have an inflationary economy and the dollars are scarce, you want to save them. So it's Kinglin Drive. That's Tylersville exit off of seventy five head east, just two short streets hanging right on kinglind And you were there at the Westchester location, full warranty as I mentioned in parts and service, and

I don't care where your car is from. Are how exotic or run of the mill it is. If it's from a traditional European or Asian manufacturer, you're in great hands. Call them up five one three, six, four four twenty six, twenty six, six four four twenty six, twenty six. More information online go to foreign X four in the letter X dot com fifty five KRC. The medal of honor is the height Jujun nine first oney fourcass hot in Yume to pretty much all day and the next several days,

so we got partly clinnie, skys hot and une conditions today. Ninety four for the high spotty storms every night possible anyway, muggy with a lot of seventy four hot and even tomorrow afternoon and evening storms showing up. Ninety three for the high chance of storms overnight, very muggy and seventy one with a mostly cloudy Wednesday, storms and showers after two pm. High of eighty five

right now at seventy five degrees. Time for traffic update from the uc out Traffic Center from everyday eights in the most complex conditions that you see, Health Backneck and Spine Center may defines the possibilities of every patient. Learn more at Ucehealth dot Com. Highway traffic continues to look pretty good this morning. No major time to legs to deal with as of yet, including was spend two seventy five that's under ten minutes Milford to Montgomery inbound seventy four is in good

shape past col ring Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the talk station. It is seven twenty nine fast poaching seven thirty fifty five KERRCD talk station. It being Monday, Yes, it's Monday, Monday. After the top of the RON news, we get to hear from former Vice mayor of the City of SINCINNT, Christopher Smitheman, a friend of the show, of course, and good friend of mine. And happy birthday early tomorrow your birthday, is it

not, Christopher? It is, brother, Thank you very much for that that early birthday wish Brian Thomas, and I'm honored to be here with you. And uh, there is only one subject matter for you and I to discuss, and that was that is the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Pennsylvania. Kind of figured that's the direction you'd want to go this morning. How could it not be? Christopher? Oh? I mean here we are

in the middle of history. First, let me start with extending my deep condolences to the UH citizen who lost his life and those who are in critical

conditions still fighting for their life. And let me let me start with saying that I am so happy that former President Donald Trump was not a fascinated and that his family they have their father, they have their grandfather, they have their uncle, you know, people that support him, they they have their candidate there there there was there's something quite eerie about just moving your head slightly and a bullet going through your ear that was probably going through your forehead,

and you and I would be having a totally different conversation this morning, Brian Thomas, than if we were saying he was assassinated. So this this, you know, the results. You know, there's gonna be a lot of discussion about the Secret Service, which I'll talk a little bit about this morning. But at the end of the day, I just am very happy that we did not have a former president of the United States assas amen a men all day long, Christopher. And it's like I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

I mean, I wouldn't want to see Joe Biden assass in. It as much as I disagree with him and disregard him as a functional human being, disagree with his policies, you know who in the I mean, what kind of person could even harbor those types of desires? And you see it

on full display again. I mean, as I've pointed out all morning, some of the summaries of the of the of the literal you know, hopeful wishes of so many famous quote unquote famous people like Robert Denier and others wishing him dead and asking for that in different ways, whether strangulation, suffocation,

murder, stabbing, slugging him in the face. I mean, what goes on and on and on and on that they said these things out loud in social media, two cameras, two reporters, and then here it finally, something like that happens. Their desires apparently fulfilled at least almost, and now they're all walking around saying, oh my god, how glad they are that Donald Trump is okay and they feel for him and they're you know, prayers

for his quick recovery, et cetera, et cetera. It's the hypocrisy is pretty pretty amazing, it is, And the disappointment in the news media outlets as things were developing, he failed down, he was taken out. I mean, now understand being cautious, but this was at a level of complete uh uh stupidity. I mean, you have the former president standing up, pumping his fist blood over his face. You know, a rational person would say, you hear pops prior to that, right that that there is somebody

with a gun that has injured him. But the but if you look at the the national media uh TV news stations, they were really really, really cautious, and it took them forever to use the words attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump. Yeah, it was. It was just amazing to me. Well, a guy died right then and there when it was going on. That was known to the media media am as immediately Trump obviously had been

injured, is bleeding from his ears. He hear the pop up, Papa pa pop. You got two wounded people of one dead person standing around Donald Trump right there. That was known. So clearly we have an assassination attempt. I don't know why they felt it necessary to sort of keep their powder drys. I've been endeavoring to do in terms of trying to figure out, you know what happened and what didn't happen here this morning amid the swirling conspiracy

theories, and of course they're gonna be swirling conspiracy theories. Considering that this even happened in the first place, knowing that there's Secret Service protection and local law enforcement there and that clear line aside from the building, you're like, wait, what, but we don't know yet. You don't really have any

information about who this murder would be what or a punk is either. And to have congressional members, just in the most recent which citizens might not know, try to introduce legislation to take Secret Service protection away from former President Donald Trump was also insane. And to not have that same protection for candidate Kennedy out there is insane. We live in a world unfortunately that's very different, and we have got to understand that protecting our leaders is critical no matter your

political position. How do you wake up this morning and think that this is a part of you know, discourse that a candidate is running and by the way, you know, this is just piling on to the words for the last call it seven and a half years that people have been saying in a public dehumanizing comparing this man to Hitler saying that he is a threat to democracy, that he's a dictator, meaning all of that language, and then all

of the things that you said at the beginning of your show, meaning basically wishing death upon him. But this kind of language has been building for the last seven and a half years, and the reality of it is for President Biden to come out soft on it, meaning he spoke earlier, he spoke now from the White House, he's stills soft on it, meaning this must be condemned by every political figure in the United States of America, no matter

where you stand. And by the way, some of the rhetoric that I've been reading about a congressional congressional members here in Ohio, meaning there are things that they are saying that just didn't make sense. Greg Landsman, for example, you know, I'll talk a little bit about that, things that he was saying about former President Trump made no sense. He's piling on and adding

to this kind of behavior, and I'm just completely disappointed, disappointed. We'll bring it back and talking a little more detail about Greg Landsman's comments because I'm wildly curious to hear what he said, because those are ones I did not run across yet this morning flurry of information I'm trying to deal with this morning more with Christopher Smithman and the Smither vent up some forty two Brian Thomas with

Christopher Smithman doing the smith e Van Christopher. He had a comment with Greg Landsman. You want to elaborate on what he said because I didn't catch that. Yeah, here are some some quotes that he put out on X Authoritarism is on the rise and Trump attends to be a dictator. The state of our democracy rests on the outcome of this election. A different post. The only thing more dangerous than Trump winning is Trump controlling all three branches of government.

Another quote. When he says he wants to undermine our democracy, he means it. Another quote. Trump is unfit to be president. The chaos of Trump continues. Of what he's doing to this country, the extremism and danger he and his allies present, has to end. Think about all of this language, These are just This is just what he's putting out on on social media posts from a congressional member, right, And none of it is true. None of it is true. It's all lies. There's nothing here

that he's that is actually true. This man is not a dictator. He's not going to take over all three branches of government, So what the hell

is he talking about? And by the, by the, by the, by the, let me remind the public that here's a member that I served with who was a member of the Gang of Five, which absolutely in local government was undermining our government because they were going they were literally trying to have conversations about development deals, about about anything that they didn't want you, meaning Brian Thomas in the media to see. So here's this is hypocrisy at his

best, even though they don't talk about it. This was a member of the Gang of Five who absolutely was trying to undermine our our local government at the time. And anybody can google that his name and Gang of five and all of that stuff will come out. And I believe Judd Ruman said all of them should resign, meaning from the bench. He said everybody and all of you should resign holding the public office. Again, I believe it was

close to his words. And here's a guy putting out tweets as a congressional member calling the former president a dictator and that he's going to take over all three branches of government. Now that's just not true. It's just why, so, why the hell would you say something like that. It's just completely irresponsible. It's self un laughable. Who believes that? And then under what circumstances could that be accomplished? I mean, do we not have Congress how?

I mean? The executive branch only has specific powers. They're delineated and they can't exceed that. You know, who knows that, Joe Biden who tried to forgive it billions of dollars with the student loans and the court said, whoa dude, power of the purse. That's congress Man, you can't do that. Who's trying to be the dictator? Who's trying to take over the government? And Brian, all I'm saying is, this is the language

that citizens are saying, right, played into what happened this weekend. And we're not only saying stop it, we're saying what you said played into the outcome of it. Well man, okay, let me let me just interject just a little bit though, because we yet don't know that this kid acted with a political bent a bias. If you he was influenced by any person he was on the right side or the left side of the political Ledger.

We got about nothing on the guy except that he was a member of the Republican Party, apparently accorded all the press accounts, and that he contributed fifteen dollars to the Democrat left wing campaign. Now, I don't know how you reconcile those two positions beyond that apparently didn't have much of his social media presidence at all. He was on some gamer website and they said he was barely visible there, didn't have any political posts. So I'm gonna wait and see

what they find. I'm gonna wait till they search through his records. I want to see what's on his computer. I want to see that who he's involved with, and who he's talking to. Then we can reach a conclusion as to whether he had a bias, a bent, influenced or not by any outside rhetoric. But this does not negate what you're saying, Christopher, that the outside rhetoric has been absolutely unparalleled, horrific, most notably from the

left. They don't hold and monopoly on this rhetoric, but it's sure and so far as Donald Trump is concern, is hateful and evil And in terms of what you quoted from Landsman bat crap insane. It's so toxic. And here's the sad part about it, right, the rest of the world is watching all of this, meaning it makes us look so weak right around the world. You mean the Manhattan case, right, is like then on the back of the biggest bull you can find. Meaning of this attempted assassination shows

us operating like a third world country. We disagree with who we are, who we are are supporting. So what we're going to do instead of fighting it out or discussing it at a ballot box, We're going to start picking up bullets. That's what third world countries do. And at the end of the day, there RNC convention, which I believe is starting today, will

end on Thursday. The reality of this is that this is going to make that convention, right, the most watched convention in the history of you and the States of America, right, because you're going to have a former president of the United States walk off, walk on that stage, who now we all know there was an attempted assassination of his life in less than seven days, and so when he walks out there, everybody will be watching and listening to what he has to say to the rest of the world, not just

the country, but the world. And I will say Biden, President Biden needs to be and continues to be stronger with his language of condemning what happened. Reality of it is, someone lost their life. We've got two other citizens who are fighting for their life, and we almost had a former president lose his life just by a hair. Imagine Brian Thomas, if he had just not moved it a hair. We all saw it, just a hair, and the bullet would have gone right through them. Unbelievable moment in history.

You and I are in the middle of history and watching it. And I'm not going to say what's going to happen on November the fifth, but I can tell you people who were supporting president former President Donald Trump are dug in more today and those who are on the sidelines are now coming over because they're saying enough is enough. You know, if you go out and you're reading what people are saying, you're seeing people say, listen, I'm tired

of this left movement. I'm tired of all these things that people are saying when they can't even embrace humanity and say the attempted assassination of a former president is wrong. There's still people out there on social media who are mocking this Brian Thomas this morning, who are happy about it, who are saying why did somebody miss? This is outrageous and those people should be called out. And my last comment about it is is Congressman Greg Lansman, anybody in his

team that are listening to you and I discussed this, stop it. It's irresponsible. Stop it. You have a campaign to run, focus on that. Stop tweeting and saying these crazy, outrageous things about a former president, which, by the way, are all lies. Everything I read to you is a lie that there is no president that's going to take over all three branches of government. He's calling this man the dictator, and he's empowering the crazy to believe that what he's writing is true. Well, you got to

be crazy to believe a statement like that, chrispher That's my point. It's insulting to his constituents. And he would say that because it's impossible, It couldn't happen. I mean, you would have to have a coupe destas, the military would have to take over the entire government. It would look January

sixth would look like a you know a circus carnival. I mean that in order to bring about the kind of screaming alarmism that they're trying to raise right now about And look the other component of this, Greg Landsman is running for what a representative seat he's gotten a he's got an opponent in great and in Orlando Sonza. He's talking about Trump. Really huh. Maybe he's got a problem in his own campaign and his own issues in his own voting record or

something. Christopher might want to focus on that one while Orlando Sanza talks about what Orlando Sanza is going to do when Orlando's Sonza gets elected. Christopher Smith Aman Thomas right there. Happy birthday, brother, You have a wonderful day tomorrow, man, celebrate for all of us what happens. There's no place in America in this kind of violence. It's sick fifty five krc D talk station six So five I fIF five KRCD talk station. It being Monday,

and then obviously h'm camefully ware of the events of the week. We were over the weekend to talk about him all morning. But it is still important to keep financial issues from the forefront of your mind. Got to retire to look out for, and of course having a financial planner in your corner is a great idea. One of those guys is Monday Monday's Brian James Malworth Financial. Welcome back, Brian. It's good to have you on in spite of

the craziness going on in the world that we have to deal with. Good morning, mister Thomas. Yeah, and I didn't, as it was joking with Joe just before we got on here. It didn't have to look too far for headlines to discuss this week. Oh my, oh my, not at all. And she's having any bible to scratch the surface of everything that's in front of me this morning, but that's to be expected, and of

course a lot of people chiming in on this situation. I think it's a little premature to reach any conclusions other than it looks to be like we had a massive secret service failure. But I'm keeping my powder dry and reaching any conclusions about how or why this could have unfolded and happened. I'm just thinking, thank God that Donald Trump is not dead and that he did survive, and really, really it's heartbreaking that an innocent bystander would be gunned down at

an event like that. It's just anyhow reeling over that one, and of course it's going to have political implications. Clearly, some people think it's even stage Donald Trump did this to himself to get help, and I just find that to be the most ridiculous assertion ever. But we do have Elon Musk coming out, for example, and fully endorsing Donald Trump, and presumably that'll come along with some dollars. But he's not the only one in the billionaire

category to endorse Trump. That was your first story this morning, the futures steady and billionaires endorsing Trump. Yeah. So Bill Ackman, this is a name that surfaces every now and then with regard to He's an investment professional. He's a hedge fund manager ultimately, but obviously a pretty big talking head as well. So he came out and formally endorsed Trump as well. He has

been This is not a new None of this is surprising. Frankly, I'm not sure we're seeing any of these big names switching sides over this, but they're getting louder. And so Bill Ackman actually was calling for Joe Biden to step down back way back in January. So this is pre debate this is

pre a whole bunch of things that have happened since. So him coming out and formally endorsing President Trump isn't a major shock other than the the political rhetoric is, as you said, starting to increase, and certainly not surprising at all given obviously the terrifying headlines over the weekend, So a low surprise.

We haven't seen any poll numbers. I'm sure those will be along shortly when you'll have to have to kind of look at the sources to make sure, you know, to make sure everybody can be comfortable with those results as well.

Well. One of the things, and one of the reasons the assertion that Trump actually stages himself that's freaking laughable, is the idea that now attention has been deflected away from Joe Biden's cognitive ability and the massive problems that Democrats are facing as they approach their convention, and in terms of donating, I see the New York Times report of the largest Democratic superpack has frozen ninety million

dollars in already pledge donations as long as Joe Biden remains a nominee. That's a pretty amazing news right there. On the other side, of the political ledger. Yeah, and that's been you know, even before these these headlines from this weekend, when when the rumblings were starting about maybe Joe Biden should step down. Well, who in the world. There isn't a single name

out there that has been at all visible. I remember, you know, back when prior to the two thousand and eight election, when Barack Obama kind of came out of nowhere in terms of he made a few great speeches and then all of a sudden there was buzz about him. Who is that person? Now there's really nobody there. So they're going to have if they're going to replace him, they're going to have to pluck somebody and force them into

the spotlight who clearly didn't want it. Are they either raise their hands a little bit earlier? So well, I'm really really thinking that there's no good solution for the Democrats here. Well, I think they've compounded the problems because the virtue signaling and the appropriate checkboxes. When they selected Kamala Harris to be the vice president. She's a woman, she's black, ergo she gets the

job. I guess they weren't thinking of, you know, phase two, which is what happens when Biden can't do it anymore or something happens to him in office, And who's going to run after Joe Biden either drops out or dies or otherwise can't do it anymore? And it's going to be Kamala Harris the logical successor, having been selected as vice president, and yet her polling numbers are worse than Biden's in spite of his cognitive decline. And where has

she been for the last four years? Yeah, I feel like I can name most of the first ladies. They come on and they have their own platform. There's been a bullying platform, there's been anti drugs, going back to Nancy Reagan. I feel like I can name the platforms that the first Ladies have taken on. Yeah, I can't say kamalas I don't know what she's done for the past four years. So, yeah, that is a really great question. But that's my point. So who is it? Who

is the big name they could rely on prior to Joe Biden. I suspect if there truly was a big name, maybe that's the person who would be looking at at the Democratic nomination right now. Well, And the other component of all this in spite of it. I mean, if you had four people you could name backbenchers that would adequately and do a great job in lieu of Biden. They're going to run into problems if they waigh around to the

convention because there are deadlines in the state. Ohio's one of them. I mean, you got to declare and have your nominee locked in place by the sixth of August, which is in advance of their convention. Otherwise you're not going to make it to the ballot. And we're not the only date that has those rules. That was already a problem long before this weekend. It was so yeah, And I'm not going to claim to be any kind of expert on electoral rules or anything like that. I'm baffled that we didn't that

this was never a problem in the past. That's the part that really confuses me. But that doesn't seem to be easily solvable either. So that was an issue before we had a question of whether there's any nominee at all. Well, and then it comes to what is the platform going to be. Americans are hurting right now. They're not doing real well. Inflation is a real problem, Grocery bills are a problem, and thanks to the listener, just forward to me the link. Nearly half of small businesses say they won't

survive a second Biden term. That was reported the New York Post headline. There, eighty thousand small business surveyed said that they will not survive the current economic climate ongoing inflation for another four years. That's a real problem out there. Yeah, it really is. And these are things. These aren't new, right, We've been going through this for four years, so these are things that people are saying, you know, we can stretch a little bit.

We've been able to cover this and kind of assume the added expenses for now, not without impact. But at the same time, the economy is still is still going strong, and the stock market is actually, you know, at an all time high. So somebody has been able to make profits

regardless of all of this, of all of the inflationary issues. But small businesses, like you said, will have less room to cover these things in the future, as opposed to a larger business who can simply say, well, that was a bad quarter, we didn't make as much as we want. Moving on, we'll crumble that up and throw it away and will be okay. So yeah, we are kind of hitting a breaking point there well. And of course the very small businesses are not traded on the stock exchange.

They're on their own. They don't have money in the form of shareholders, you know, investing in those companies with the hope they're going to be profitable. And you know, I speaking of that, I guess I'm kind of curious as I did not look yet this morning, although I just pulled up the Wall Street Journal, which has futures. Looks like, with the exception of the stocks six hundred index, all of the indexes, including like Shanghai and others are post hosting, are are up this morning, or at

least anticipated if the futures are up. Yeah, and it's it's almost a sign of the times, Brian, Right, So terrible, terrifying news gets winked at anymore because does it really have an impact on profit margin? No, things are going okay, So let's let's not panic over now. On one hand, you know, I want to breathe a sigh relief that that we we don't panic at least. But at the other hand, how callous are we anymore? That nobody's worried at all? When major historical events like

this take place anymore. How how how stone cold are we to these impacts anymore? Well, isn't it a good thing? Though? I mean, business is separate from politics. And as long as you know, we're not talking between the difference between you know, changing our system of government, which is you know, sort of quasi capitalist socialist hybrid, uh, and you know, changing over to fascism or you know, in the nod to the

left who thinks Donald Trump's a fascist, or to communism. We're just talking about basically business as usual, regardless of who ultimately is president of the United States of America. Right, Yes, And you're correct, you're calling me out because I've made those very claims on these radio waves that business and politics

are very, very separate. I'm just pointing out the fact that we ignore this is about as clear of evidence as you can possibly get of the system chewing people up and spinning them out, and it just doesn't seem to have the emotional impact that it seems like it should. So numbers are numbers, but people are people, and I wish we could do a better job of not completely separating the two. Yeah, it's almost violence has become the norm

and we're all numb to it at this point. Frightening sad de evolutions society. Let's pause. We'll bring Brian James back and talk about well legitimate concerns outliving retirement savings to the extent you even have one, which is yet another component of our discussion here this morning. Maybe Brian can convince those that are not saving and thinking about their future to start doing that. AT's eight fifteen fifty five K see the talk station plum tight plumbing, awesome plumbers. It's

always plumbing done right and they live by that motto. Plumbing done right in the form of great customer service. Superior customer service is what you're gonna get from plumb type plumbing, letting you know ahead of time when they're on their way, taking out that big question mark that most other plumbers leave you like, oh, i'll be there between uh, let's say noon and four. How about I'm coming. I'll be there in fifteen minutes. I'm on my

way. I love that phone call. It just takes a guest work out of it. That starts. Then you get to meet the plumber in person. They never say you anything they don't need. They're gonna give you a fair and ethical quote for whatever work you have done, no matter how big

or small. It's a residential plumbing project in the greater Cincinnati area including Kentucky and Dayton, you get plumb type plumbing call with confidence big, like I said from Boss, it's to toilets, leaky pipes, water heaters, some pumps, basement backups. Literally they do it all. Plumbtight dot com t I t E plumtight dot com five one three seven two seven eighty four eighty

three five one three seven two seven tight fifty five KRE. Here's your nine first warning on the forecast partly clotty, hot and humid today and ninety four will be our high, then a seventy four or night it will be muggy. They have a chance of some spotty storms Tomorrow ninety three for the high, afternoon and evening storms expected to be hot and humid. Storm chance overnight muggy seventy one. And on Wednesday showers and storms are likely, but after

two pm it'll be mostly clouded the whole day. And I have eighty five seventy eight degrees right now. Let's get a traffic update from the U. See up Tramphit Center from EMBE day eights to the most complex conditions. So

you see Health Backneck and Spine Center redefines some possibilities for every patient. Learn more at you seehealth dot Com. SAP Bend seventy five continues to build through lock run close to a ten minute delay out of Evendale Little Lateral now northbound four seventy one slows right side of the bridge, backing up towards Memorial.

There's a wreck on Montana at Boudino and cleaning up on Queen City and Ferguson Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR. See the talk station Hey nineteen thirty five car CD talk station I Thy Monday, doing Money Monday with Brian James. Of course, Brian James a financial planner h and his job is to be more of a marriage consultant than a financial planner or investment council unlicensed, of course license. I know, I love those comments you've made the past.

Well, part of it is, you know, talking people off a ledge or convincing them that they need to do more by way of preparing for the retirement. And I saw the article the Blackrock Survey that you provided by way

of materials Americans are worried about outliving the retirement savings. There was a corollary article published over in Fox Business regarding go banking, which is a personal finance sites Go banking rates dot Com. I guess they did a breakdown of how long one million dollars would last you in any given state, like, for

example, California. If you have a million dollars in your account, which we're gonna hear from you on maybe maybe most people don't, twelve years, eight months, and five days that would last you based upon the regular expenses they calculated groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, and medical coming up to about eighty grand per year. You're going to get twelve years and some change

in California. The best state to be in was West Virginia. Of all places, they said that you'd take one million dollars would last you twenty years and change in West Virginia. But you know, cost of living differences, et cetera. So but the point being, even a million dollars in your retirement savings account is got a finite life to it. Yep. So now let me throw out some thoughts here as to why that's a clickbait garbage article.

Okay, that's got a million dollars. If you have a million dollars in your four oh one k, well, how'd you get it there? You were working, you put money in if you have it doesn't If you have a four to one k at all, right, two hundred and fifty seve hundred thousand whatever, that means you were working and therefore you were paying into most likely social Security or some kind of a pension system if your state employees like that. So what that is entirely ignoring is that there's another pension

out there to support you. Yes, social security is its own question, of course, but even the worst projections don't don't have it going to zero. That itself is a clickbait headline SoC Security's not going to zero. Worst case scenario might need to be reduced by twenty five to thirty percent, which

stinks, but it's also not zero. So my point is, if you're saying a million dollars will only last twelve years in certain places versus twenty in West Virginia, I don't argue with that, But why are we ignoring the fact that that would be that that would not be the only resource for somebody in that situation, Well, I guess the flip to that is, if your annual expenses in retirement are roughly and it could be less, it could

be more eighty thousand dollars a year, that is not the amount you're going to ever get from Social Security. True, but if you but again, where did it come from? It's also not zero. So on the other hand, if you've got a married couple who both of them were working and built up a million dollar portfolio, then I think it's fair to say that

a minimum of forty thousand dollars coming from Social Security. So therefore your million dollars in your four oh one k only needs to generate about four percent, which historically that's been a pretty reliable rate distribution rate to rely on with out running out of money over a lifetime. So I'm not saying that that's not a problem. People shouldn't pay attention to this, but a lot of times these are just headlines to grab eyeballs. This article that we're discussing right here

itself is a perfect example of it. In the bold font at the top, Americans are worried about outliving their retirement savings. What's the subtitle Americans are more confident about retirement except no. But but the article of the line I there's Vanguard data shows the average balance and an employer sponsored retire retirement contribution plan rows to one hundred and thirty four thousand plus last year, which the nineteen

percent increase from the previous year. The median account balance was thirty five and eighty six bucks, which is not a whole lot of money. I mean compared to you know, a million dollars is still going to run out at some point if you look at the other clickbait article. So people may be more confident they're saving more. Sixty eight percent of Americans may feel like they're on the right track. But that's not enough of a nest egg to have socked away, is it. No, not really. But at the same

time, it might be for some people. You know a lot of these people who have these lower balances. You know, again maybe in a situation where they've got a different pension agreement. I've got a lot of a lot of clients who you know, if they're both teachers, for example, you work twenty thirty years as a teacher. First of all, God bless you. That is a tough tough, tough career, but you've built up a

solid pension if you put that much time. And I have married couples for whom this is the situation, and they're bringing home the seven eight nine thousand dollars per month in terms of their pension because that's the kind of benefit program that that industry has. They look at their couple hundred thousand dollars in iras and four h three b's and things, and they lament that they weren't able

to save as much. What I do with them, Brian is I explained to them that they're they're friends and relatives who are in the private sector with four to one case. They may have a much bigger pile of money, but their stream of income benefit is a lot lower. Right, a nine thousand dollars benefit a monthly check, which again for lifelong careers and the teaching side of things, that's not crazy, but that's equivalent to roughly a two

million dollars four oh one k spitting out distributions. So it doesn't matter whether you have a pile of cash benefit or a stream of income benefit. It matters that you understand how you're going to spend it, which which starts with what are your monthly bills? And a lot of times it's not nearly as scary as people have convinced themselves it is. Then they just simply haven't sat down and looked at it. That's why I have a job. That's why

I have a job. And it's a good idea. Sit down and consider your monthly expenses and then try to kind of, you know, sort of analyze and anticipate are those expensive going to go up or go down in retirement? You know, like I look like, for example, to our house. We've got it paid off, and we just got our bathroom done. We're pretty much finished for our house. I don't see any major massive home

improvements necessary. So I if I retired tomorrow, with the exception of general maintenance and upkeep and annual taxes, know what my housing expense is going to be, you know what I mean? Right again? And another kind of rule of thumb there that gets in the way sometimes is people will hear that, well, I need approximately eighty percent of my pre retirement income, and they'll say, well, if my pre retirement income is one hundred thousand dollars,

well, then that means I need eighty. No, that's your gross salary. You've never seen your gross salary because taxes come out of it. Fight that comes out of a four. When K contributions come out of it, you probably are looking at sixty percent. You're actually receiving sixty percent or so in take on pay. Start your expense analysis there. Start your analysis period period. That's an advice from Funny mondays Brian James. Amazon Prime Days

coming up. Brian's gonna give us advice about that. Is it a scam? Is it real? Are there really values to be had? One more with Money Monday's Brian James and speaking of mortgages and things. Thankfully I don't have one anymore, so I can calculate that into my retirement. But if you're buying a house, you're refinancing your current mortgage. You want to get some equity out of your home. Your first time buyer, you want sus

Lows a camp with Cross Mortgage on your side. She's just outstanding, first off, in terms of experience. I don't think anybody in the mortgage business has more than thirty five years she does. There may be others out there, but you're not going to be working with someone who's as great with customer services Susette. She is a terrific person. You'll actually enjoy working with her.

So you got that one covered most of the fundamentally. How about the rates, no junk fees, no application fees, great rates at a low cost, and she can help you regardless of which state you're in, even Puerto Rico. She's got your cover being with Cross Country Mortgage Veterans. How about one hundred percent of your home value with no monthly mortgage insurance. I

love that program, Thank God for the American veterans. She can tell you all about the details on that and all the other programs that are out there. So talk to number one in customer service with the best rates, Suzette Low's Camp. Give her a call, She'll get right back with it. You can call her right now, she'll get right back with you. Five to one three three one three fifty one seventy six three one three fifty one seventy six center an email, same thing, she'll get right back. Sou's

that dot Low's Camp that's spelled ls kamp dot com. Low's Camp at CCM dot com fifty five KRC. You want to learn how to cook Hartley Clotty hot humid UH ninety four for the Heiniday is seventy four. Overnight it'd be muggy and chances body storm. Hot and humid with afternoon storms and evening storms. Tomorrow ninety three for the high down to seventy one. It'll be muggy

still and another chance of storms. Overnight Wednesday coming in mostly cloudy. Showers and storms are likely after two pm, but a bit cooler with a high of eighty five. Let's see here current tempature seventy three. Time for traffic fortly. You see how traffic center from every day as to the most complex conditions. The UC help back decans fine center predefines some possibilities of every patient. Learn more at U see help dot com. Seven seventy five continues to

be the heaviest. Other highway traffic good for an extra five through Blackmunk. There's an accident on Alband Road at Civic Center Boulevard on Montana at Budno and cleaning up Queen sitting and Ferguson Chuck ing ramon fifty five KRC DE Talk State Hey thirty fifth about fair CD talk station doing that money Monday thing with Brian James Coming up next, we're gonna hear from Clara Corkoran, Paramut County Commissioner, who's at the convention in Milwaukee. The RNC going on right now.

Brian James moving over to Amazon Prime Days. Always have a measured jaundice, DIY, a suspicion, But then again, that's my default mode for literally everything. My mom, for example, held off. She's in the market for a new TV, she's got it already picked out, she knows which one she is going to buy, and she was waiting to check out the price on Amazon Prime Day. It's not obviously an emergency thing she needs right away, so she was willing to wait an extra few days to find out

if it went on sale on Amazon Prime Days. Of course, if it doesn't, she's still going to buy the TV. But there is that sort of suggestion that Amazon Prime Day is the best day to ever get a deal. Is that true? Is there some truth to that or has it been slightly exaggerated? Well, can be, But just like anything else, buy

or beware. So the quick story here, when I first learned about how these games kind of work, I was right afresh out of college and there was an electronic store up in Dayton where I was working at the time, that had a clearance and they was going out of business sale and they had

put these this really cool set of bowse speakers. And this is when home theater was a new thing and everybody had to have it and whatever they put these those little cube speakers that were those a couple decades ago, Well they had those, and it had a it had a bright green sign written with permanent marker as to what the price was, and it's an inventory clearance.

And I bought it and convinced myself that was the best deal ever. Uh. And then I looked up on the the what was the internet back then, which was this is the very very beginning, and I realized that was actually higher than the going market price. All they had done was put a green sign on it. And I got sucked in because it was a permanent marker sign. Well, this means it's like a garage sale, right. So fortunately the tools are better nowadays. So yeah, cant are there good

deals available on Prime Day? Absolutely, but you got to be a buyer beware. So the thing I would suggest, and we've talked about this before, there's a tool out there a website called Camelcamelcamel dot com. Stupid name, great website, But it's just like you might think the animal camelcamelcamel dot com. And you can type in or copy in the link of something you found on Amazon and it will give you the price history of what Amazon has

has charged for that particular item for the last couple of years. So you can get a good idea, and you could do it now knowing. You know, tell your mom if she's looking at a specific TV, here's what the price has been over time, and she can probably spot it from last Prime Day what did it look like? So when the new price comes out, she'll know whether she's getting a good deal or not. Oh, don't sign on to that first price whatever that is and not necessarily the best deal.

Where in the hell do they come up with a name like camelcamelcamel dot com. Stupid websit. They should be their slogan stupid website, great tool that is, that's actually sound information. I know my listeners appreciate learning about that one. Now. I guess nobody's gonna let Amazon have a monopoly on Amazon on Prime Day. And I understand that this year, Walmart, Target

Coals, as well as something called TikTok Shop. TikTok shop, like we need any more reason to go to TikTok, just just get rid of TikTok completely. But they're vuying for the same segment of the market. They're all launching their own sort of versions of Prime Days. Yeah, Amazon is the bell is the basically the bell cow for the retail industry. Whatever Amazon wants to do and turns into a marginal success is going to get quickly copied.

So we're in year ten now of Amazon Prime Day. First one was in twenty fifteen, and I remember it being laughed at when it first came out, But at that time the discounts were really crazy good. I remember that being a topic on our radio show back then because it was a little surprising how big of a deal that they had made of it, and it was they treated it like a lost leader. They just wanted the attention, they wanted the activity, and that certainly worked. So if you give somebody a

great price, you're going to see a huge in rush of shoppers. Of course everyone else has followed suit. Or maybe it's a time to reflect on markup that I doubt that anybody is selling something at an absolute loss air go. If they're knocking fifteen, twenty percent whatever off the price, they're still maintaining some profitability. So you know how much you're overpaying during the rest of the year. Yeah, that's a great way to think about it. Remember,

they're not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They're trying to drive activity, and just like any other store, they're hoping that it's just like Black Friday. They're just hoping that that one crazy deal on Furbi's or xboxes or whatever is going to bring you in to go by nineteen other things you didn't need that aren't marked down windows shopping. I'm in the store,

may as well grab it while I'm here. Nah, resist that and take everything that you didn't spend on an impulse buy and put it in your retirement program. An excellent ten. Wonder where you heard that? Oh from you? But then again, I've been living that reality my entire life. Brian James, thanks to all Worth Financial for loaning you out every Monday here for a few segments on the Morning show, I look forward to x Monday.

In another segment, keep up the great work and best of health and you to everybody at all Worth, have a good week, stay cool. Thanks brother E thirty five fifty five krs to Detox Station Clairemont County Commissioner who is at the convention in Milwaukee, Claire corkans and to join the program. Give us an update. What's going on live right now? After a quick word here for my friends at USA Insulation. Speaking of money matters, that's

what USA Insallation is all about. Saving you money. A little bit of it of you invested upfront can save you money for years and years and also offered immediate comfort. You get immediate gratification from USA's premium phone in the exterior walls of your either uninsulated or under insulated homes. And there are thousands and thousands of those laying around out there that haven't ever had the phone put in the exterior walls. Go with USA's phone. First, has the highest R

value on the market. Second, USA will four free insulate your attic when you pay for the phone in the exterior walls. That will leave you with a far more comfortable home and you will enjoy money savings every single month, whether you're using your air conditioning unit, or of course you're heating the word inner time comfort plus savings. And then the federal government wants you to insulate

your home too. They're gonna give you twelve hundred dollars in form of an energy tax credit that'll be when you do your taxes next year for doing the right thing this year. Foam your home with USA's Premium phone five one three three eight one three six twenty six. Listen. Just call. It's a free quote and free inspection. If you think you may be under insulated, get a handle on that. That's what we do with my daughter. Three eight one three six two six three eight one foam online. Learn more at

the website USA Insulation dot net. Fifty five KRC men over forty five. Here's a nine first one to weatherfor cast. It is hot and humid. That's the way it's going to be today. It's ninety four for the high, muggy overnight with chance of storms, seventy four for the low, hot human again tomorrow the afternoon at evening storm ninety three, chance of storms overnight muggy and seventy one. And Wednesday mostly clouds with storms and showers likely after

two pm. Wednesday's high eighty five. Right now it's seventy eight. Let's hear about traffic conditions from chuck Ingram, from the ucl Amphic Center, from every day HS to the most complex conditions. So you see Health Backneck and Spine Center redefines some possibilities for every patient. Learn more at you see health dot com. SATH Pound seventy five continues to run close to an extra five minutes in and out of Ackland. Otherwise, interstate traffick in pretty good shape.

Cruiser working to clear wrex on Allen Road at Civic Center Boulevard and on Montana at Boutno chuck ingramon fifty five KRC. The talk station actually pronounced Melie Walk, which is el Gothlin for the good Land. Thank you, Joe Strecker. Every time I see the RNC is in Milwaukee, that is exactly the line that I think of. Well, someone who's there from Clairemont County, you know, or she's a Claremont County commissioner. She is Claire Corkoran.

We've been friends for years and years, and thank you for berthing Keegan Corcoran, our resident Wine Stewart, because Arsamier, because he's an awesome, awesome guy, obviously reflective of his parental upbringing. Welcome Claire Corcoran live from the RNC. Well, Brian, thank you so much and thank you for all that little plug in there for Kegan Corkoran, and I've got some good news for you. The Trump Wine has been delivered from the folds of Honor.

We're all trailing up here delivering that wine and making sure that it got air for one Trump rive. There's Trump Why there's Trump wine? Trump Wine. Mike Speakman, Yes, the Honor. I know, I know what kind? What kind is it? Is it? It's not like mad Dog or Ripple or anything like. I can't tell you. It's top secret, top secret this point. Will you tell tell Kegan to hold on to a bottle of that for me, because that's something I got a sample. Hey,

what's the mood like up there? Obviously over the the events of the over the weekend are just incomprehensible. We're still reeling from them. More questions remain than I think we could even we can come up with even more than we've already got right now. But obviously it had to have some impact on the mood of the of the folk there. What's going on right now? The mood is so thankful. We are so blessed that our president made it out, and we're so glad that he's up here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

And we had an extremely joyful evening last night. It was hosted by our Governor Dwine and Lieutenant Governor Houston. It was a huge reception outside. Everybody was just at the top of their game. And we had the greatest fireworks too, And then we had a wonderful thunderstorm that blew in right after the fireworks, so it washed all the bad feelings away and got us ready for

this convention this morning. Were you sure sound upbeat? And I'm glad to hear that because there's an event like over the week and could cast a Paul as we know, over the convention. So Trump is there, and do you know what day he's gonna announce it? One of the things that people are on the edge of their seats for his announcement of his vice presidential pick.

Do you know what it's worn to secrecy? I have no idea, No thank you's telling us, no, no, no, I just I just kind of wanted to know if you knew and he was going to make that announcement. I have no idea. I have no idea, honest, Like, well, we're all going around saying, well, you think it'd be tonight? Do you think it's supposed to be Wednesday night? We really don't know, but as soon as I find out, I will certainly let

you know. We're headed this morning now to a breakfast which is going to be hosted by Attorney General David Yos this morning, and a lot of the Supreme Court candidates will be here. This place is packed with people. It's absolute fabulous. What else is on the agenda for the week in terms of

timing? What are we supposed to expect? Well, we go to breakfast every single morning at eight thirty, and those will go all the way through Thursday, and then actually all of the alternates and the delegates go to at eleven o'clock board buses to go to the Fights of Forum where all the events are going to be, and from five thirty to ten o'clock tonight we will

be there all every single night. Tomorrow is just going to be bad, billis because tomorrow is again breakfast at eight thirty and then Lake Geneva day where we're doing a vote tour and all kinds of things at the Abby Resort. And then eleven to two again we're back in Shulling getting ready to go to

Advisor again. People are raring for this convention, get have all their credentials, and it's just really neat to watch all the ohiowing, So the lens are all up there at that Lake Geneva resort and I can't tell you. We're just flooded with all the red, white and blue, and it's just such a great spirit for America. We have to get this country back on its feet again. Well, I can understand where the excitement's coming from because

this isn't a contested primary. Donald Trump's got the votes. He's going to be the nominee for president. And I guess, oh, shoot, lost, I lost track. I had an important thing I wanted to follow up with you on, Claire, and I just lost my train of thought.

How about the police presidence is in a noticeable police presence. I'm glad you just told me that or asked me that question, because if they brought an additional ten thousand police officers and it is the most securest place you could be in America right now, you can't even turn your head without two to three police officers standing there and thank them for their service during this time and for what they did for President Trump. But I'll tell you something, everyone yesterday

was expressing prayers for the family and the members of those who've lost people in that terrific assassination attempt, and for those who are seriously injured. You can't stay enough about praying for them and hoping that they have a wonderful recovery and a good healthy life of theirs to go forward. I have to tell you one other thing, though, I am just very impressed with a lot of the young kids who are up here too. My entire family, we have

ten of us up here. I had rent two houses because of course all the dogs they had to come to you know how that goes anyway and anyway. So we're we're just waiting anxiously to see who the VP choice is going to be. But there's a lot of good of high Republicans up here that are out there supporting our favorite son JD. Ban So we're I guess we're on is edge as much as you are. Yep, I was. I was waiting for that name to pop up Claire And how about on the flip

side. So you have a massive police presence, You obviously are very comfort about that, as are every as is everyone. But what of the protesters. We all heard about all the protesters that might be showing up there.

We know they're coming to the DNC, But do you see any there is there much of a presence of protester they're going to Evidently there's one line that they're allowed to go down one street that they're allowed to be down, and they're actually keeping them their sparricades and everything to keep them on that one street

all the way going down near the forum. And one other thing I will tell you also is our host going to the big one thing you're like, is a metorcycle thing that we're going to that will be on Wednesday, and that's going to be at the museum and Marino will be there. He's one of the hosts that everybody in Ohio's here. What are you doing on the radio? You should be up with us. I'm not. You should have

hosted up here. You actually have a ball. The excitement, it's just tremendous, all the good good that's even the best you know what I mean, everything plus good. I got that we have an extra bedroom. Come on up, you and Joe Patrick Gear and get up here. Can I bring my dog? Everybody else is Claire Corker, and she is, of course Climate County. Climate County Commissioner Jeff gave me a heads up. He's

talking about how unbelievably busy and hectic your schedule is, Claire. But it sure sounds to me like you're going to be enjoying every single moment of it. Who needs sleep. We got one week in this and then we're out, you know. Then we're going on and we're going to let that man, Donald J. Trump as President of the United States again, and we

need him so much. I can't say in that for how much I am so appreciative of him as I know everyone else so everything he's drug to this country, and you know, nobody can love America more than that man does. Glad to hear you say that, Claire Corcoran. I look forward to hearing from you anytime you want throughout the week. You got to report,

you want to let us know what's going on. Maybe you get a little inside baseball on who the VP choices you got a shot here on the fifty five Cassy Morning Show to let my listeners know God bless you, Claire, keep up the great work, enjoy the week to see you later. All right, take eight forty eight fifty five cars de talk station Trump Wine. How about that twenty two three row forty two between Mason and eleven and get

yourself a firearm coming off the weekend. And as some people might think that's a bad idea, I consider the alternative. They have a fabulous selection of firearms. They will train you how to properly use a firearm if you've never had a held one in your life before, you think these times require the ownership of one as the great equalizer. They'll train you in the pistol first

Shots class. You know everything, there is no about you want to hone those skills a little bit more about taking one of the more advanced classes they offer, plus everything in between. Great selection of firearms, long guns, handguns, ammunition accessories, you name it, they've got it and they are the best possible people. The owners are just absolutely wonderful, Wendy and Jeff and the staff at twenty two to three, so they got events going on

throughout the weekend like date night for example, and everything else. So I recommend going to the website. That's twenty two three dot com. The number twenty two followed by the word three spelled out twenty two three dot com online and physically located on Route forty two between Mason and Lebanon. Fifty five KRC introducing Loomy for men