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the Dow futures dropping, on the tariff issues. Trump has double down on the steel tariffs. That's another time we'll talk about him. Well, price is apparently up a little bit, although the price of the pump's been great and as we are are we just learning to live with higher prices, inflation, et cetera. Job as claims up, GDP contracted. Although I've seen information the inflation is actually steadied, it's actually lower. So I guess depends on where you get your news.

on Saturday. Now I gonna say how old she is. She get mad at me, but had a nice time. Went to Summer Fair. That was a good day, and also to dinner and hello to my friends at the turf Club. I was gonna take her out to his steak dinner at a real nice place, had a reservation and everything. She goes Brian, you know what, I'd rather just go to turf club. So that's what we did, straight from Summer Fair to the turf Club. Really enjoyable day though, and got to spend the day at my

daughter's farm. Yesterday all eleven chickens out running around the yard. Got a dozen fresh farm eggs we took home with us. That is the coolest thing. Those are really good eggs. They are really doing a great job those two. It's so impressive. It's nice to see your children achieve great things. And I think that's exactly what's going on with her and her fiance. So anyway, just getting that personal information

out there because I'm just really proud of what they're doing. Ah, whatever is going on, I'm not quite sure where to start. I thought it was interesting the Russian bombers that were blown up by a Ukraine drone attack. Sure, this is something we'll talk about with Daniel Davis deep dive tomorrow. We talked to Daniel every Tuesday at eight thirty retired

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis on strategy, military strategy. But apparently what they did they snuck the drones in, had them placed rather close to the targets that they blew up. So they transport of these drones to Russia later on

on the territory of the Russian Federation. The drones were hidden under the roofs of mobile wooden cabinets already placed on trucks, and at the right moment, the roofs of the cabints where cabins were opened remotely and the drones flew to hit the Russian bombers and apparently forty or forty one of the bombers were either destroyed or or blown up, at least in part. I'm not quite sure

of the status of any given bomber. These may not numbers, may not mean anything to you, but in terms of the overall cost, it was extraordinarily expensive to the Russians relative to the price of the drones they hit. The A fifty, the Tu ninety five, the Tu twenty two, M three, those are the aircraft that among the ones

that were hit. So the drone operation caused approximately seven billion dollars in damage to the Russian air fleet, disabling thirty four percent of the cruise missile carriers in key Russian air bases. That's a sizable chunk for one drug strike. Ukraine uses long has the real problem hitting interior targets in Russia, and that's is something Daniel Davis and I talk about all the time. You know, how much good

is it to hit some random target within Russia. Russia had kept most of the hardware it was using in Ukraine against the Ukrainians beyond the reach of the drones that they had well have, but also beyond the reach of the military missile apparatus that we in other countries had provided to Ukraine's so far, so they were struggling to actually hit Mili targets in the interior of Russia.

So since Moscow kept them out of the range of the weapons KIV had been developing, they snuck them in and got them closer to the targets, which, you know, it's it's quite an accomplishment when you think about it. Attack likely highly cost effective. It's written these FPV drones that the Ukraine's use. They say it could be bought for just a few hundred dollars each, but going back to the cost of the damage seven billion dollars. The forty one heavy bombers run into the billions of dollars,

so the return on investment was pretty substantial. The A fifty aircraft, they say, provide several critical functions for the ongoing war in Ukraine, detecting air defense systems, guide missiles, and coordinated targets for Russian fighter jets. They possessed fewer than ten of those. The Russians do. A fifty aircraft have an estimated price of three hundred and fifty million dollar each, so not sure how many were blown up.

In the drone attack. But you hit a few of them, that's a sizable chunk if they only own ten of them. Going back to the other aircraft, the U two plev, TU ninety five and TU twenty two, and the TU one sixty, they're described as heavy bombers regularly used to

launch missiles at Ukrainian cities. The t U ninety five the oldest at the Soviet aeroplane they started flying in nineteen fifty two, usually used to carry nuclear weapons, but they've now turned it into something to launch his cruise missiles. Each of those can carry sixteen of the cruise missiles. TU twenty two also carries missiles which pose a particular

problem for Ukraine. The type of missile it carries it's called in KGE twenty two, and I know there's a lot of numbers and figures, but it's a supersonic missile that travels around four thousand kilometers an hour. So getting rid of the aircraft that deploys that particular missile, I

suppose it's a pretty good thing. The only things that can shoot those down to the US made Patriot air defense systems and potentially this Italian French system called sam T and the most modern strategic bomber that was hit at TU one sixty started in nineteen eighty seven. It remains the largest operational bomber in the world. Can carry a total of twelve of those supersonic missiles, so that again quite an operation. And then there are also three

train crashes. Apparently they blew up some bridges just yesterday as well. Seven people dead. A lot of damage though to the railroad infrastructure in Russia. So they're still fighting.

I guess, you know, probably a well. I think the bomber is obviously actually a pretty strategic military accomplishment, but it certainly must have It has to give some you know plus to the morale side of the Ukraine since they get in their butt kicks and more and more Russians are advancing into the Ukraine's territory, so they keep losing territory day by day. I also saw that the Russians had a mass like fifty thousand additional troops along the border there, so that does not spell good news

for Ukraine. And you know, the Russians are going to retaliate against this. One just becomes a question of when and to what degree. So I look very much. Looking forward to hearing from Daniel Davis on this tomorrow, get his thoughts and comments. What else I want to get to the city of Cincinnati's issues speaking of damaged infrastructure, But why not just go down this road to the remaining minute we've got in this segment. Now it is

Corey Booker and Nazi. Joe is Corey Booker and Nazi. Now, yes, that didn't take long. You didn't have to hesitate on

that one. He didn't have to do the Nazi salute to tell you that Democrat Senator Corey Booker being mocked by a lot of folks, mostly conservatives, weren't waiting for the mainstream media to start calling Corey Booker a Nazi because he too delivered an alleged Nazi salute to the California Democrats while equipping that the New Jersey Democrat won't get the same scrutiny as Elon Musk when he raised

his arm to Maggot supporters back in January. I'm sure you've all seen that when you saw the reports, and then it became Elon Musk Nazi, Elon must Nazi, Elon must Nazi, Nazi, Elon Musk cutting this cutting that it's all bad he's a Nazi, And I never did say it was a Nazi salute. Didn't appear to be to me. It was just like you know, when you're in front

of a crowd and you're talking and you're animated. If you capture a photograph of someone at any given time, you can probably turn it into a Nazi salut, if that's what you want to characterize it as. It's just it's a bunch of nonsense. Well, Corey Booker did the same thing. So everybody's out on social media stand waiting

for the waiting for the Elon Musk treatment. One commentator government scientist Matt von Swell on X here's the list of all the news networks who have not covered Corey Booker, New York Times, CNN, Washington Posts, MSNBC and PR, USA Today, Reuter's Axios, ABC News. Every single one of them wrote stories on Elon Musk's Nazi salute? Do you get it yet? Musk, for his part, I think he summed it up quite nicely.

Legacy media is one big psyop amen to that anyway, Concerns arising over house Cincinnati is using money from the railroad line site. That's one we got to get to. And the new Western Hills Viaduct. Much like the roads that are in a dire state of in need of repair in the city of Cincinnati, the new viaduct's got a lot more expensive over time. H Gee, I wonder why that might be stick around. We've got lot's talk about you. Feel free to chime in. I'd love to

hear from you. If you've got a comment, I'll be right back. Fifty the talk station bitchbobcarresee dot com. You Tryhart Media stream the audio you happen to be it, got the information on the blog page, and of course get the podcast if you hadn't didn't get a chance to listen to line podcast like today with Christomer Smith, Smith and Smith Event. Okay, what should these cities since

said to be spending money on? We got allegedly fifty six million dollars in interest from the one point six billion dollars invested railroad money that has to go to infrastructure existing infrastructure. Local twelve reporting that there are critics questioning why more money isn't going toward repairing the Cincinnatis damaged streets, which looked like they were in a war zone. So what is the current Cincinni budget, which has to

be done by the end of the month. The budget proposes nearly thirty five million for road paving and repair out of the fifty six million dollars of cities getting from the railroad investment, and as is reported, it's only going to cover fifty under fifty miles. Thirty five million dollars gets you less than fifty miles of repaving for the whole year. That's all they're planning on doing now, after years of leaving the roads in a state of neglect.

Who's been running the city now for the last four decades, Oh that's right, Democrats. This is a failure of priority. Aft have Purval Mayor pointed out the obvious higher costs mean fewer roads can be paved. Okay, that's because you keep kicking the can down the road. Inflation happens every year, so every year you neglect it, the more expensive it's

going to be to pave a road mile dah. He said the following, You know, the component costs for paving roads have gone up, the supply chain issues that we're seeing. Are you ready because of the tariffs and the are you ready uncertainty from the federal government to create more expense for us. Really, huh, Tariff said that much of an impact. Huh do we import asphalt from China or something?

I thought that was kind of a domestically produced item. Anyway, he's probably gonna try to point the finger at the Trump administration for literally everything, even if it doesn't make any sense. Said. Road repairs account for sixty two percent of the total fifty six million dollars from the railroad payment this year. Tom Brakman, remember Ham citizens opposed to

additional spending and taxes. Talking with Channel twelve about this, former state lawmaker advocated more of the funds to be allocated to road repair given the poor condition of many city streets. Quote to me, that to me is infrastructure. That's what they should be spending their time on, and

not on what I would call frills. That if they're needed, they're needed because irresponsible maintenance pur of all, for his part, emphasized the city is adhering to the state's legal definition of infrastructure, which is rec centers, police stations, and other non road items. So yeah, it can have a whole bunch of different things that might constitute under the legal definition of infrastructure. But when our roads are falling apart, don't you think you should prioritize the roads? And I

think that's Brickman's point. Purvall said, this idea that we can just focus on one problem with resources. We have road miles to the detriment of the status of our rec centers, our parks, and our health centers. That's the reason why this whack a mole approach. We're in this problem in the first place. What about the street car? What about all the environmental green projects you're spending city

dollars on. And speaking of police stations, Joe, didn't we have some police stations that were literally dilabidated, falling apart. Police been screaming and yelling about these terrible police stations placed in the wrong. Ah, we could go on for you go back years on that one. They didn't do anything about it in prior years. Retort from Brickman. Infrastructure to me is roads and bridges. Roads and bridges, not fancy bike trails, not signs that say welcome to sird Aamsville.

Those to me are frills and compared to the needs of the roads, I would have to agree with mister Brickman on that one. Also, the Western Hills Viaduct has got a lot more expensive. Three years ago they said it was three hundred ninety eight million dollars to raise the existing ninety three year old viatoc and build a new one. Last year, when they had their hand out to the federal government, they said the price would be

nine hundred million dollars. Now they're saying, well, since the federal money was turned down, the final price isn't going to be that high, but they won't know the new total until they complete their next cost analysis, expected by the end of the summer. We need another cost analysis. We've been talking about replacing the Westerns Violin of Harris since two thousand and seven, and that's when the structure

was declared functionally obsolete. In twenty seventeen. Ten years later, they hired a San Francisco firm to design the replacement for the viaduct, which was unveiled in twenty twenty. Three years later. Fast forward to twenty twenty one, city said taking down the existing viaduct and erecting the new one

would cost three hundred and thirty five million. By twenty twenty two, the price jumped to three hundred and ninety eight million, aiming to build the new span of the Queen's Gate rail next year and take down the old one by twenty thirty two. Anybody have any any belief that those calendar years are going to hold, enquire reporting, the city applied for a five hundred and one million dollars is the Federal Multi Modal Project Discretionary. Last May.

Application showed the dollars would come on top of more than one hundred and fifty seven million promised from federal sources. Put in the funding it again nine hundred million dollars. Total figure reflects six hundred and twenty million dollars to build the new bridge ninety six point nine million to take down the old one. Last October, the city officials learned that, well, you're not getting federal dollars now. They don't believe the project will actually be nine hundred million dollars,

So why did they seek more? Ask the Enquirer, are you ready to absorb anticipated inflation? The rising prices steel, other building materials in labor are among the quote main factors for the cost increases. That's the core of the city's application for federal bucks. Here you go to pay for quote potential future light rail or street cars. And on the new bridge, well that's where your additional costs might show up. Right, They still are longing for additional streetcars.

DC's giving up on that. They went with buses this time around. They wanted to expand the streetcar lines. They use buses or planning on using buses, which can be purchased at a fraction of the costs of the streetcars.

Those street cars in DC were priced at eleven million bucks a pop. I think it was West Side Jim who's on the phone, who's calling going to take after the break here said he learned and knows that the price of a bus is more like a quarter of a million dollars, so you get much more bang for your buck, and it's flexible. Five twenty six fifty five kres to Detalk Station west Side Gym hang on, looking forward to hearing from our talking with you. Got to take a break.

ago and we'd be driving on nice paying streets. There's that seating project up at up there on Go High Pike, and within the year they tore down five houses, cleared the land, and this thing is going to be an incredible sports complex for the seat and girls, and it's going to be open within a year. And it's seventeen million dollars and you should see that. The earth movers

and everything else that goes along with this. The city went through Republican councils and Democrat councils and they, just like you said, push it down the road. And nobody wants to touch this because they don't know what the hell they're doing. And nobody can approve anything down there without seventeen different studies, and they're afraid to, you know, put the pen to the paper on this thing.

people driving around in cars. I mean, just the theory.

can just go right over it, you know whatever. Thirty five forty miles an.

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we turned to San Francisco. I can't believe this is actually a thing. San Francisco's public school system rolling out a what they call Grading for Equity program, which will exclude homework or weekly tests from final grades. It allow students to pass with scores as low as twenty one out of one hundred. Last week, Superintendent Schools Maria Sue rolled out the program, taking effect this fall at fourteen public high schools, affecting more than ten thousand students. This

was reported the Voice of San Francisco. Undergrading for Equity semester grades depend entirely on a single final exam that can be retaken multiple times, even if students skip assignments or failed to attend class. The superintendent didn't seek approval from the San Francisco Board of Education before announcing this overhaul. Court of the Voice or staff has told board members that they have no authority to reject the plan. She

made the announcement the final week of spring semester. His parents were weighing whether to keep their children in San Francisco's public schools this fall and probably not. It's reported the district is facing over one hundred and ten million dollars in budget cuts amid declining student enrollment and mounting

concerns about academic standards, Well they just got increased. District faced backlash last year after then Superintendent Matt Wayne paid a Stanford University professor thirty thousand dollars to create an equity centered formula for deciding which schools to shutter. Parents argue that the formula rewarded poor performing Black and Hispanic schools while targeting low income, high achieving Asian children. That from a report from the Washington Free Beacon that prompted

him to resign in October last year. Superintendent sues grading for equity system will allow students to earn an A with a score of eighty, a C with a score of forty one, and you get a D if you get just twenty one out of one hundred. Under the current grading system, students need at least a ninety for an A and at least a sixty one for a D, which is more in line with the grading system that I had when I was younger. I think you needed

a ninety three for an A when I was in school. Regardless, you get a D for twenty one out of one hundred, that's scary. That's sad too. The dumbing down of America. You create a bunch of useful idiots with no logical or critical thinking skills. Go to Maryland with the police

chief is calling for greater accountability. In the case of a group of teens, ah teens did probably graduated with the twenty one They were accused of breaking into one hundred and twenty one cars one night what Laurel police arrested a sixteen year old boy in connection with the car break ins, which happened in the night of May fifth. He and two other teens smashed car windows to old items from fifty four cars and Laurel and sixty seven

more in Prince George's and Arundel and Howard Counties. According to Laurel Police Chief Russ Hammill speaking with local news, they were just simply going through neighborhoods and targeting for opportunity breaking into cars. If there was something in there, they'd steal. If there was nothing in there, they'd moved to another car. Video from the night shows two suspects walking car to car in a parking lot, using flashlights to look inside. Thirst suspect driving a car close by

in case they needed to escape. A corner to the chief that car was a stolen car. Investigators found the keys of the stolen car in keys to twenty five other cars during a search warrant at the sixteen year old suspects home in Beltsville. They also found several stolen items. Five hour after resting the teen, police had to release him. Chief said, no, this isn't Hamilton County, but it was a good guest. You might lean that direction, Joe said

during a news conference. He was released back into the community, back into the environment that allowed him to be out roaming streets in all of these counties late at night and in the early morning. Why are you doing that? No idea. Maryland Department of Juvenile Services did not i the the request the detectives in the State Attorney's office, saying the team didn't have a prior record and the crimes weren't violent. Whatever admonished by the police chief. We

don't do this lightly. We don't ask for young people to be held on a whim. We do so to help the protect the community and them. I have little hope there will be any further accountability for him due to this broken system, he said. Other Some might consider the car break in's lower level crime and greatly affect the victims who often have to pay hundreds of dollars on their insurance deductibles and miswork because they don't have

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stolen good. According to the Youngstown area news station WFMJ Joshua T. Hughey, thirty seven years old, Warren taken him to custody after he allegedly attempted to roll a flatbed cart load of with tools out of the home Depot in Austin Town without paying. Authorities responded to the home depot after receiving a shoplift and complaint lost Prevention employee and formed responding officers that he had seen the suspect

cut open multiple boxes of Dwault tools. He said that hue had entered the business posing as a Duault sales rep. They said Hughey was accused of taking bolt cutters from another aisle and breaking a lock on a gate containing

the power tools, of course damaging the gate. He then loaded up an entire flatbed cart with twenty three pieces of merchandise including Dewault made batteries, grinders, blowers, saws, then try to walk out with that pain total value the gathered merchandise four and ten dollars and forty nine cents. Authorities impounded Huey's jeep, took several items into evidence, including the bold cutters, and he used a tool bag with parts and tools, clipboard with papers, book bag, knife receipts,

a broken lock. He's been charged with theft, which is a felony, possession of criminal tools, and vandalism. The aristocratic pretty much go to Fort Myers, Florida, where the Cape Coral residents have been dealing with what they described as an unwelcome visitor, a muscovie duck. US fish and Wildlife Service to the Muscovy ducks are known for being aggressive and damaging property, as well as transmitting disease not native, though thousands can be found to hold across the entire

state of Flow, Orlando, the largest population. A neighbor who moved there in ninety eight, James Seblvita, interviewed, showed the hand that the duck had been. He guess I set up my porch between seven and seven thirty this time of a year to catch the sunset, you know, some sun I had my eyes closed. All of a sudden, I felt a jab on my hand and it was bleeding. Wildlife Service issue to control order allowing the management of muscovy ducks their nests and eggs in areas outside of

the natural range. Another neighbor also attacked by the duck.

captured duck. Yeah, go to Hawaii. Badcrap and saying they are legislators in Hawaii implementing a hefty tax on tourism that they believe will help the state government take action against climate change, because we all know that little state of Hawaii has a profound impact on the climate, and if they reduce their emissions, they're going to save the entire world, notwithstanding China and all the other countries that don't pay. At witsworth of attention to this courted to

widely released press announcements on multiple outlets. Hawaii Governor Josh Green signed the bill Tuesday, May twenty seventh, increasing the tax on hotel rooms, vacation rentals, and cruise ships to raise money to be used for issues such as eroding shorelines, wildfires, and more. It's called a Green Fee Act ninety six raise the state's current transient accommodation tax zero point seventy five percent, making the taxes on nightly lodging rates eleven percent.

Travelers will have to pay a fee based on the nightly rate of their travel accommodations. For example, if you're staying at a hotel room that's three hundred bucks, you're gonna have to pay a two dollars and twenty five cent fee. Green said in a statement, once again, Hawaii is at the forefront of protecting our natural resources, recognizing their fundamental role in sustaining the ecological, cultural, and economic health of Hawaii as an island chain. Hawaii cannot wait

for the next disaster to hit before taking action. We must build resiliency now, and the Green fee will provide the necessary financing to ensure resources are available for our

future idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. You know what this is just using the so called a climate change agenda for them to exact more money out of well, in this particular case, tourists who visit there because they apparently don't have the finances in line and their state government budgets to deal with any other issues that they might encounter. It's convenient that way, isn't it. Five to five coming up in fifty six ify five K City

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I have forgot some. Let's see here since I mentioned the Hawaii implementing a climate change tax, as if Hawaii could have any impact on global climate change. Again just an excuse and a mechanism do exact more money out of people, but also leading us to a potentially night marriage situation because renewables aren't reliable, so all learned when can't handle it? And I found this off at Peace and I thought it quite remarkable. Puts a big, fat,

giant exclamation point of the point I just made. Gary Abernethy is a commentator headline reliance on renewables makes widespread blackout nightmare more likely, and it is an interesting exclamation point. He puts on this using a real life illustration from Spain and Portugal back in late April. Imagine taking the subway to work, and then the train comes to a

sudden halt halfway between scheduled stops. You pull out your smartphone to go online to see what the problem is, but you have no reception, no cell signal, no Internet. Hours later, rescue workers show up to extract you and your fellow passengers from the stalled train. You make your way to the street in hopes of taking a taxi or an uber. Without your phone apps and with credit card machines inoperable, you are forced to search for an ATM,

only to discover that those aren't working either. You soon realize that everyone else is in the same predicament. Hospitals operating on emergency backup systems, people trapped inside elevators. God, that's a freaky reality, isn't it. Traffic snarl do to inoperable stop lights, gas station pumps not functioning, airport terminals closed, people in darkened homes desperately searching for candles and battery

operated radios to learn what's happening. On April twenty eighth, the residents of Spain, Portugal and parts of France didn't have to try to imagine this nightmare scenario. They found themselves prisoners of it for hours when an unprecedented blackout impacted at least fifty five million people after the Iberian

Peninsula electric goods system failed. The outage, described as one of the worst ever in Europe, disrupted businesses, hospitals, transit systems, Cello networks, another critical infrastructure, according to the well local news there specifically in this case, France twenty four News. Many news agencies, particularly in the United States, insisted for days that it was too early to say what had

caused the massive blackout. Others, though acknowledged the obvious. The Reuters news agency reported early on Redia, which owns Red Electrica, had warned in February in its report that it faced a risk of disconnections due to the high penetration of renewables without the technical capacities necessary for an adequate response in the face of disturbances. While many observers did their best to point fingers at an alternative cause, others were

more straightforward and identifying the culprit. Raoul Bajo Buenstado, a non resident energy scholar Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, got a Fulbright Scholarship graduate student grant for young researchers from Spain's Ministry of Education PhD in economics from Rice, primarily working on generation, investment incentives and capacity markets in the electricity sector. Also conducts research on

gasoline retail markets. That's according to his biography, anyway. After this guy studied the April twenty eighth blackout data, he authored a commentary, including that mere minutes prior to the grid collapse, renewable sources accounted for seventy eight percent of the ELECTRICICYD generation in the Iberian Peninsula grid system, with solar alone contributing to nearly sixty percent. By contrast, conventional technologies like gas fired and nuclear power plants comprised only

fifteen percent of the total generation mix. This configuration is not unusual in Spain or Portugal, where high shares of renewable generation are common, particularly during the sunny and windy days. He added, What sets April twenty eighth apart, however, is that, according to Spain's National Electricity Grid Opera Radar red Electrica, two consecutive generation loss events occurred in southwestern Spain, likely

involving large solar installations. He noted the risk of a large scale blackout in electricity systems with high shares of renewable energy is well established. However, the Iberian blackout of April twenty eighth brings these long recognized vulnerabilities into sharp focus that, unlike conventional power plants, solar and wind installations depend on a stable grid to function correctly and can't autonomously support grid stability during disturbances, which of course demonstrated

by that blackout. Before Donald Trump reversed the previous administration's war on fossil fuels, Biden had committed the United States through reaching one hundred percent clean electricity by twenty thirty five, a goal that seriously imperiled our own infrastructure. Biden's corresponding attacks on affordable and reliable energy sources like natural gas, were unrealistic and unpopular with many consumers, who preferred gas appliances and heating sources over those that would be allowable

under federal mandates. Likewise, Spain is currently aiming to phase out fossil fuel and nuclear generation in favor of renewables, with the goal of renewables comprising seventy four percent of the total output by twenty thirty Under their plan, the insistence of replacing affordable, dependable energy with more expensive and unreliable alternatives is both illogical and impractical. Natural gas remains the most cost effective, reliable, and increasingly clean fuel choice

in the world. It's telling that, despite the Spanish government's anti fossil fuel rhetoric, the US recently became the main supplier of liquefied gas to Spain. Much of Europe, mimicking extremist climate change rhetoric publicly decry as America's continued production and use of the traditional energy while simultaneously gobbling it up. As long as it's the point I've made that before, as long as they're not the ones pulling it out

of the ground, they'll go ahead and use it. It's like they think that somehow virtue signaling that they're not getting their own gas out of their own region and using it for their own purposes. Now, what is buy from the United States and claim that we have clean hands anyway? Author questions will the disaster of April twenty eighth make European leaders think twice about abandoning their most

reliable energy sources. Hardly following the devastating blackout, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government would not quote deviate a single millimeter close quote from its plans of transition to so called renewables. That's unfortunate. In the meantime, it is worth noting that one of the primary sources of energy used to restore electricity to tens of millions in Spain, Portugal and parts of France who lost power was the

one that officials claimed to abhor, natural gas. The point being how did they get their lights back on, how did the subways start running? How do people trapped in elevators ultimately get out of the elevators when the power came on. Is because they did have access to natural

gas power plants, just not in sufficient quantities. This is, you know, and I don't have to go into the details of it, but I've always suspected, you know, because the Chinese don't give a damn about the environment, at least in terms of belching out you know, coal fired production of electricity. But they'll sell us all the green stuff that we can gobble up. Based upon edicts and mandates from the federal governmor refer you back to Joe Biden's you know, limiting the type of stove you can

have in your house. Good ideas don't require force. But there's a nonprofit funded by Chinese government that was written up. Where did I find this? A Daily caller wrote it up. Chinese American Planning Council, and they advocate for this green crap, and specifically New York's super Fun Climates, super Fun requiring energy companies, the energy producers of the world, the gas and the oil companies, to cough up seventy five billion

dollars to fund YEP green initiatives. And all this money flowed into this from various Chinese Communist Party affiliated entities. They're pushing for the money. That money will go for more green projects, it will go to creating a situation like they experienced that I just mentioned from in Spain, in France and Portugal, and they tell you this bill of goods, like well, this isn't going to cost the consumer,

this is going to cost the energy companies. They're going to want to pay the billions of dollars into this program so we can get green stuff. But don't you think that that's a cost that would be passed on to those of us And the vast majority of us are still use gasoline and natural gas, etc. Of course it will be. So I just keep viewing this as

there's this nefarious component behind it. Chinese Communist Party dominates the Internet, They're on TikTok, they're on Facebook, They're everywhere, and they can propel and perpetuate this nonsensical thing that carbon diete side is bad for us, it's bad for the globe when it happens to be plant food and then we bend over backwards to avoid producing carbon dioxide in our energy production and everything else, taking away our fertilizers for food, all the things that help us live efficient,

comfortable and cozy lives and also create more instability in our grid when we pursue them. And we recently find out that Chinese Communist Party has installed remote listening and connection devices operated through the grid the solar panels themselves that we buy from them. Flip a switch and they're off. You don't have to wait for some nightmares situation like happen in Portugal and Spain where the grid got overwhelmed

and two separate events happened at the same time. And have they gotten to the bottom of those two separate events? Could it possibly be since we know now the Chinese Communist Party has a way of communicating and connecting with and otherwise disturbing the solar panels that maybe, just maybe that they're behind that. It's certainly a possibility, given that that technology exists. I've always said it, now say it again.

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died after the California wildfires that they endure. This is prior to the Los Angeles wirefire. But same kind of thing that the amount of carbon and pollutants belched out by those fires negated all of the carbon capture efforts that we had engaged in to date. Mother nature plays an interesting role in that, doesn't she anyway? Speaking to revolt,

this is sort of a tied end to it. If you speak up loudly and tell you're elected officials you're not going to have it, sometimes they'll actually listen to you. France wanted sixty six percent new car sales to be electric by twenty thirty, and earlier this year they expanded their low emission zone scheme to restrict older gas power vehicles from driving in any city with more than one hundred and fifty thousand residents, with violators facing hefty fines.

So you can't drive your old car in the city. Period. Editorial board of the Journal q the public backlash. Not everyone in France can afford a shiny new low emission car, and most still have to get around town. National Assembly got the message and last Wednesday voted ninety eight to

fifty one to scrap the low emission zones. A victory for the regular guy and for common sense, not the only thing that they're trying to do in France, driving restrictions among the many coercive components of France's brought a climate agenda. Tell me if these don't sound familiar. They want the French to carpool more, take fewer trips abroad, eat more vegetables and less meat, use less air conditioning

in the summer. And they conclude with expect more political reversals as the public discovers the real life consequences of their leader's climate control ambitions. Yes. Amen, you fight back hard enough against this nonsense, you may get your elected officials concerned about their future enough that they turn their back on it. Plus it is nonsense. Feel free to call. I got local stories coming up, lots and lots and lots and lots of shootings, not good news in local news.

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I please say they're investigating five overnight shootings. Jennifer Edwards Baker of The Fox nineteen reporting victim being treated for non life threatening injuries at UC Medical Center uh Avondale, Thursday, eight forty six pm. Twenty five year old man shot in the back eight hundred four Ka Hutchins over the Rhine. Twelve twenty six a m Friday, forty year old man shot in the left high sixteen hundred block a Walnut

over the West End. Thirty five year old man gun shot wind was left knee, had to walk to Christ Hospital twelve forty five am. Police determined he was shot in the fourteen hundred block of Lynn Street. Taken to UC Hospital after that. Winton Hills twenty eight year old man shot in the upper Torso, forty eight hundred block of Winnest Avenue about one am. Mount Airy, thirty four year old man shot in his right leg in the fifty four hundred block of Bahama Terrace, won sixteen am.

They don't know if those shootings are connected. Joe Strekker throwing the barber streisand flag on the reporting that shootings have been down in the city of Cincinnati. Although what is up a what is described as a concerning rise and stolen firearms, particularly from vehicles. Between May and August last year, stolen guns shot up fifty four percent, and there's a five percent increase in car thefts by juveniles compared to the prior year. You might want to consider

locking your firearm up. Let's see what Tom's got this morning. Tom, thanks for calling the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.

Clearly the roads need it. Let's see what New Hampshire Gary's got. New Hampshire, Gary. Happy Monday to you, my friend. Always good to hear from you.

with swarm technology on the thrones. Yeah, and they didn't have a chance. No, they didn't have a chance.

significantly apart, it makes it easy to hit. And the idea that they were able to sneak all these inexpensive drones in and get them very close to the airfields they attacked. I don't know how they operated that, but that was amazing.

country or even domestic people who hate our country. You know, it doesn't take much for an attack like that to the wide scale. While you're too busy over here putting out the fires, and they're going to attack over here. And you know, this changes the word in my mind, this changes the world.

They haven't been deported yet. Now, if they have nefarious intents, they get their hands on one of these inexpensive drones, which you can buy on Amazon. I'm sure they figured out how to rig them with an explosive. They can keep those drones anywhere near any really critical target, like, for example, our electrical grid, targets, maybe an oil refinery or factory. Like you say, get close by, launch it from a van, and next thing you know, we've got

a massive problem on our hands. I'm equally worried, my friend, equally worried. You got to get I'll tell you what though. What surprised me the most about this, This was four thousand kilometers one of the airbase that got hit by these drones, four thousand kilometers into Russia from at least Ukraine's border, and they hadn't been able to reach distances like that with any of the technology they had, so by getting them very close to the target, they were

assured of hitting the target. But isn't it amazing that they were able to pull this off. You think the Russians would be more aware of what's going on. But you know, if Russia can't catch this, and they're able to put all these you know, these buildings that they had, the roofs that popped off, and the drones were here to be launched from them right there, really close to

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hundred dollars each. The forty one heavy bombers that were either damaged or destroyed went up to like seven billion dollars. So there's your return on investment. And I guess you have to factor in considering the points that New Hampshire Gary made and the follow up comments and the observations about you know, these drones could literally be anywhere and are literally anywhere. Whether they're ones that are capable of doing damage and carrying explosives, I guess it depends on

the intent of the actor. But you know me, I'm a huge fan of these modular nuclear reactors. Donald Trump is as well, In fact that he just made an announcement the other day I think it was on Friday about changing moving away from Biden's batcrap insane climate agenda to

putting more energy and effort into nuclear power. White House wants to deploy three hundred gigawatts of new nuclear capacity by twenty fifty and have ten large reactors under construction here by twenty thirty, while expanding domestic nuclear fuel supplies. That's s according the executive or to resigned, so along with accelerating the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews and getting rid

of some of the regulatory hurdles. Now as much as I embrace that, think it's the answer to everyone's problems. An abundant supply of electricity built on and produced by a very small footprint, easy to build compared to the old ways. Do we worry about that? Do our construction methods have to? Now? Consider that we have nefarious actors literally everywhere in the world that could have a drone with an explosive on it that could blow up a

nuclear act reactor. Is this something we're going to have to factor into the design. That problem certainly didn't exist that long ago. It's not something I think you had to really care or concern yourself about. Your only concern was maybe some foreign power China, Russia launching a missile that somehow decided to target our nuclear power plant as opposed to a city or a manufacturing facility, that kind of thing. The nature of war has changed overnight. Am

Scary made a great point on that. So I really worry about the future along those lines, because hell, if you only need a few hundred dollars and somehow to a rigged drone, anything that currently exists that hasn't been modified, fortified, or otherwise upgraded to with stand in attack is of course quite vulnerable. Mississippi James on the phone, looking forward to having a conversation with you. We're gonna have to pause.

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all over the place. I've been there in front of an audience and done crazy things, and I'm sure at some point someone could have taken a picture where my hand was outstretched like that as I was waving to the room, for example, Was I saluting in a Nazi fashion? Did I intend anything political by it? No, just waving. So I don't think Corey Booker's a Nazi, and I

don't think he was doing a Nazi salute. He was just the fun and games that's going on over Corey's in the fact that they had a photo cap of him looking like he's doing a Nazi salute. It's just an illustration of comparison of the mainstream media's treatment of Elon Musk versus Corey Booker, and they're all either defending him or they're not even reporting on it, So it stands out just as one of those illustrations of disparate treatment.

they don't have anything. I guess, I say as an initial comment before I mentioned what Tim Walltz is saying the other day, and may you may have heard it. What are the Democrats going to do in Trump's gone? They they haven't come up with a platform to run on their their business, just scrambling to find an issue that resonates with America. Their position on you know, men playing in women's sports and gender transition surgeries and all

the other batcrap and saying stuff open borders. I mean, we could go on and on and on all the reasons Donald Trump got elected. They haven't given up on those issues. They're still advocating for them, not as loudly because they know they're not winning solutions, but they haven't rejected them. They haven't come out with a new platform

saying no, no, no, we were wrong about that. And we think, you know whatever, they're just running around about evil Orange man and Governor Tim Waltz is still at it. Maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner, he said, speaking in a rally Columbia, South Carolina. Maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner. We need to be a bit more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this without elaborating necessarily what this is. And he was a teacher, so that's the

context of the following statement. The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully. And when it's a child, you talk to them and you tell them why bullying is wrong. But when it's adult, like Donald Trump, you bully the S word out of him back. This is a cruel man. Donald Trump is the existential threat we knew we knew was coming. It's going to be a challenging few years here. We've got the guts and we need to have to push back on the bullies and the greed. Not a whole lot

of substance built into that. But considering Donald Trump was well attempted assassinations at him twice, the victim of all of the crap that they threw out him during his first administration, unrelenting use of the government resources to go after a politician that they disfavored because I guess, you know, draining the swamp kind of attitude. But where's your policy, mister Waltz. What are you going to use to push back on Trump other than bullying him? Silence on that

one's deafening. But this world which becomes angry or and angry every single day, and people resorting to violence more and more often these days, this is not helpful in any way, shape or form. I legitimately truly believe that the folks liked Waltz and others within the Democratic Party want harm, and I mean significant harm to befall the President of the United States of America. And that is not something I have ever ever hoped for in any administration.

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anything good going on out in the world anyway? With all the bad news? How should this affect how we invest? Ultimately getting some investment advice from the financial planner himself. Let's see here, I was talking about the violence and air in the system, and it keeps me getting more and more violent. You got Walt urging democrats, the bully,

the S word out of Trump. You know, feeding adding fuel to the fire, although not coming up with any you know, articulable reason why people should be in favor of democrats. We had this most recent attack by the Egyptian national came into our country a couple of years ago, overstaying his visa and attacking proan. This Run for Their Lives grassroots groups organizes run and walk events calling for the release of Israeli hostages held since October seventh by Hamas.

That's all they do. They're advocating to free hostages, and what's wrong with that? They do it in a peaceful way anyway. Mohammed Sabre Solomon forty five, the guy that overstated his visa, attacked people with a flamethrower and molotov cocktails. Injured quite a few folks, one of them is in I believe, reporting critical condition. Victims range in the age from between fifty two and eighty eight and moving over.

Of course, always controversial Israel Palestine. Obviously, we've heard a lot about Harvard not protecting their Israeli students, or rather they're Jewish students, and sort of coddling the Palestinian testers who are entitled to protests, but not engage in taking over campus facilities, otherwise interfering with others who are working on getting the value of their hourly credits, learning something, getting an education, and violence in connection with the trans

athletes men competing against women. Ady Hernandez, described as the transgender shooting student athlete for Jurupa Valley High School in California, got first place in the high jump over the weekend and triple jump at the state championships on Saturday at Veterans Memorial Statement or Stadium. Also finished second place in the high jump at a place called Woodrow Wilson High Schools. Lauren Webster was the only female to finish ahead of

the transgender Hernandez in any competition over the weekend. Hernandez he I Guess, previously took first place in all three events at the preliminary round on Friday. Female competitors who finished behind Hernandez in the weekend's events get a load of this. We're all bumped up one spot and receive the medal they would have earned had the transathlete not competed.

This is the solution from the California Interscholastic Federation. So Donald Trump sent a warning to California saying, hey, look, you're gonna lose your funding if you allow men to compete against women. This is an ongoing battle, you know about that Title nine and whether or not it protects

men to and allows them to play against women. So they made a series of rule changes recently the California Interscholastic Federation to ensure that any females who be finished behind a biological male will be appropriately rewarded a medal based upon where they placed among just the female competitors.

Does that make any sense? So the transgender female, the guy can go around saying I got a first place medal, and then the person he beat out right behind him, the female gets a first place medal as well, and goes and I said, well I actually won. Who gets more credibility with their first place metal? I mean it just I mean, why go down this road? Fox News reporting Conflicting protests plagued these championships, starting on Friday, with

pro elg this is where your violence comes in. Pro LGBTQ protesters and pro female protesters wielding signs, flags, clothing expressing their respective messaging. The conflict between the protesters at one point became violent of course it did. Who became violent? If you haven't seen the reporting on this, who do you think became violent? The pro women's side of the argument of the pro LGBTQ side well. In this particular case, the LGBTQ protesters struck a local conservative actis named Josh

Fulfer with a flagpole. Footage obtained by Fox News shows the LGBTQ protester Ethan Kroll attacked Fulfer through a car window and ultimately got arrested. Kroll mail arrested for assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, obstructing public officer in vandalism. Police Chief there Chris Hutchison, speaking with Fox News said no other criminal acts occurred at the track meet Friday. Our stance is always to allow people to exercise their constitutional right to free speech and protest.

They have the right to do it in a matter that isn't enticing, inciting violence, or causing other problems. We don't have room for violence or property damage or anything like that. No kidding, however, California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lori, this is the following day taken out a Veterans Memorial Stadium Stadium by these CIF officials, the California Interscholastic Federation, the ones that made the rule change because

she was passing out save girls Sports wristband. HM, that's speech. That's not violent. That's not hitting someone with a flagpole, is it here? Would you like a risk band?

was thrown out of the venue. Laurie and other conservatives there that unlike previous events, a man on a megaphone at this event where she was thrown out repeatedly ordered spectators not to make disparaging comments about any competitors, officials, or other spectators on Saturday. So you can't even speak. In the country with free speech, you can't speak. I suppose it just depends on whose ox is getting gord. But going back to the rule, change. I mean, can

can someone explain that to me? Why that is you get the first place metal even though you came in second. Under their rules and in their hearts and minds, this person that got the first is a girl. This is what they firmly believe they should be treated like a girl. They are considered a girl. They're in all ways shapes and forms of a girl because they say they are.

Er Go, Why if that's your belief system, and that's what the law of the state of California currently holds, why would you give the second place metal a recipient a first place medal? You're obviously recognizing the biological distinction, defeating the whole notion that what that person says they are by way of sexual identification is actually truth, which to me, to me is just at the heart of the backcrap insanity of all this anyway. Christopher smithmty on

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laying on the ground burning to death. I'm trying to figure out how to make kids and tales of the Democratic Party that just won't stand with this administration on one issue. If you've committed a crime, you've killed somebody, you've raped them, you've robbed somebody, you say, whatever the crime is, and you're in the country illegally, we can deport you. I don't understand Brian Thomas what they're fighting. They're not talking about dreamers. I'm not on board with that.

I mean, the reality of it is, if you come to this country illegally, you've jumped the fence, you've jumped the process. Because there's so many people that are listening to this radio show who came here legally and they're not tolerating somebody here setting eight people on fire.

Terror is the actions of the week. Those with few numbers try to commit horrific, horrific acts in the name of trying to make themselves look more powerful than they are and an effort to prevent people from peaceably exercising a message that runs contrary to what these terrorists want. So people are then afraid. If you're a Jewish person, you were planning on tending a run for their lives rally in support of getting the terrorists or getting the

hostages out of the hands of Hamas. Now you're thinking to yourself, geez am, I going to be the victim of a firebomb attack by one of these looney tunes. Maybe I shouldn't show up at the event.

their lives. Meaning why don't we set him on fire today? If that was the reason we don't is we're a civilized country. We have rules, we have laws, we follow them. But the reality of it is what makes sense to me this morning. If that was my mother, who I have a mother that age, I would want to set this person on fire today. You've come into our country illegally and then set my mother on fire and walked away. And you know as a concealed carry that if I

was in that situation, I the shot that guy. There's no way you're standing there with I don't even understand how he's getting away with it with his shirt off, walking around with the canister like he's about to fire bomb somebody else and nobody shoots him.

about it. And they continue meaning every time the president says I'm going to take a criminal who has rape somebody's child, who's murdered somebody who's robbed them, you have Democrats and people who are following this might not know that this is happening, traveling to other countries saying, hey man, I want this MS thirteen gang member back into the United States of America. All of these things are connected,

they're not disconnected. What's happening at Harvard is this is connected to this in Columbia, what's happening at Northwestern, what's happening at MIT? That big speech that was given a last week by the MIT at the commencement speech, what the President said at the Harvard graduation. All of these things are stoking what we're seeing happening around the country,

and they are responsible. Your language at times are weapons, and they're giving people the power to say it's okay to go out and set eight people on fire, who are Americans who are assembled their First Amendment. Right. They're saying Harmas has these hostages and I want them back. And by the way, as I can clude, because I know you're about to go to break, let me say that Israel isn't attacking quote the Palestinian people. They're attacking Hamas,

which is a terrorist organization. This notion that Hamas isn't using the Palestinian people as shields, which is what they're doing. They're using their people and putting their missiles or their tanks or whatever. They're doing their rockets in hospitals, in schools, on playgrounds, around the general population. This is their goal as a terrorist organization. So no one is out here trying to kill Palestinian people. We love the Palestinian people, right,

we support the Palestinian people. We're talking about Harmas. And so when you get on these college campuses and you're saying I support Harmas and you're supporting a terrorist organization. You should be deported to your country.

So you're listening audience should know that. You know, as an elected official, as a member of council, the vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, I served with him, so I have a good understanding of how he operated, what he said as a member of council, how he conducted himself. And he was a person first of all, that I never wanted to associate with. Let me just

be clear about it. And it was just his aggressiveness, his his way of talking about mansplaining, or the way he treated Children's hospital, calling them racist because they were expanding their four hundred million dollar facility, and that was that was for his political, uh political expedient in his mind, but for the for the real heart reason was the text messages from the Gang of five related to my dying right. And so I'm not this, I'm not this

neutral person about him. I don't wish bad upon anybody, including him because because that's that's against where I am, Morley. But let me address just one or two things about this. It's really clear clear as it will. So first of all, I want to thank the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They're right there by your by the radio station. They did a great job. They went out and did their jobs,

and they rooted out corruption at city Hall first. So those FBI agents, I'm sure feel a certain way this morning seeing that he was exonerated or pardoned by the present in the United States of America. But having said that, they caught him dead right, meaning he was not found

guilty on a variety of charges Brian Thomas. But the one he was found guilty guilty on is when he was in that hotel room and he literally said, not verbatim, because I don't have the text in front of me, I am taking this money from you, and I will deliver votes. I will deliver not even my vote, other votes on whatever your issue was. Whatever those developers were saying that they were doing. That is illegal, and that is what he was found guilty on. So the reality

of it is is it's not like PG. Sitting Field is innocent. If we allowed every elected official out here to exchange money for votes, we'd have a major problem. Right. People say that corruption is too high now in local government. I'm hoping that something like this doesn't embolden people to do things to get away with them. But the reality of it was, I'm not questioning the president and his desire to pardon him. I know that PG. Sittenfeld hired

one of Trump's lawyers. I found that very interesting, and you have right. And at the same time, he's on the floor of Council when I'm serving with him, dogging out President Trump in his four year first four year term, so he's verbally trashing him, using him as a rod going after Amy Murray, who at that time left City Council and then started working for President Trump, meaning working for the administration. But he made her a pariah for doing that. Now here where he's his life is on

the line. He pursues and successfully gets a pardon by hiring one of Trump's lawyers, and ultimately successfully lobby and getting a pardon from the White House from President Trump. As a Democrat, the hypocrisy of it all politically catches my eye in a very, very big way. So at the end of the day, I believe that you sit and feel will run for office again. I don't know when he'll run, where he'll want, what he'll run for,

but I believe he will. He's gotten a full parton which gives him a full green light to put his name on the ballot and run for office. But I would tell you that when he runs, particularly in a head to hit race, I'm not talking about a field race like city council a head to hit race, those audio tapes of him discussing taking money directly for votes will be on your TV screen every single day, and I think it's going to be very difficult for him

to get reelected under that kind of fire. And the FBI right now, I just want to salute them for doing a very good job of investigating City Hall and rooting out corruption.

to be the governor. He's out saying using language like I'm man spleening you, or you're a racist like he did Children's Hospital for the expansion, but he would do that to a lot of different people. My point is that he used all of his privilege to get off the hook using loose language. But Jeffrey Pastor and Tamaya, who do not have the connections, they do not have the trust fun they don't have Trump's warrior on retainer

to lobby the White House. They're going to serve their complete time and most likely remain a convicted felon and there is just something that rubs me wrong about it. And to listen to the mainstream media try to parse that Jeffrey Pastor and Tamaya are some way different than

what PG. Sittenfeld did is absolutely insane to me. Meaning we have three people and the only difference I see is a white guy who's privileged with money, who's a Democrat, who sits back and uses African Americans, and when it was for his benefit, he got off the hook and left Jeffrey Pastor and Tomya Donnard to their own demand. And African Americans should be looking at this case through

that lens. It is not Republicans who did it. Is this Democrat who went to the Republican meaning the person that they say is their greatest pariah, which is President Donald Trump. He went there and kissed his ring to get his butt off the hook, leaving Tamaya Donard and leaving Jeffrey Pastor in prison with a felony where they can't ever run for office ever again. And I want

to make sure that everybody understands it. So when Democrats are coming to you saying, oh, I'm just gonna look past it, and I'm going to vote for him anyway. This is why so many African Americans are leaving the Democratic Party because they're saying the Democratic Party left me, like they're not saying I left the Democratic Party, saying the Democratic Party left me. And why so many African American men went out and voted for Donald Trump in

the last election because they see crap like this. You see a privileged white guy with millions of dollars who hires a lawyer from Trump's air from his from his arena lobby. Successfully, the White House gets off and leaves the two African Americans out there on their own. There's nothing he's saying about Somaya and nothing he's saying about Jeffrey Pass I'm talking about the PG sittingfield case. They

just left them out there, Brian Thomas. And this is the kind of stuff as an African American man, right who runs as an independent, that really burns me because so many African America's outre said I'm voting Democrat, I'm just voting for them, I'm just voting blindly. It doesn't matter, And I go, wow, look at what this guy just

successfully did. He got off the hook and left his own colleagues who are both African American who, by the way, Tamia Dennard was his campaign manager, was his chief of staff, worked very closely with PG SimPEL. This is about somebody that he doesn't know. I want to understand why he didn't lobby to get them off the hook first. It's because he focused on himself. That's it.

It's just like, wait a second, money and the Democrats are running around screaming about oligarchs. Well, you know, PG may not be an oligarch, but he's sure one well connected presumably very wealthy guy uh or at least has access to money. Because jones Day doesn't call it come at an inexpensive hourly rate. Man, you're talking four figures an hour at a at a DC law firm like that of that caliber.

the way. He kind of really didn't put on nice suits and draw this American made kind of escort car that he wasn't this multi multi multi millionaire well connected, that he would hire somebody from the Trump team in order to lobby for him successfully to get off the hook. And I'm saying they're not going to do that for Tomy Dinar. They're not going to do that for Jeffrey Pastor. And all I'm suggesting is to the Democratic Party, I see you, I know what you do, I know how

you roll. And guess what, Jeffrey Passer, who's a Republican and to my dinar, will most likely be listed as felon for the rest of their life, while PG sitt and Field goes free. Well, that is absolutely insane to me.

pretend like it didn't happen. But it did. That's why you pointed out during any campaign, ads are going to be hearing the language of PG Sittenfeld asking for money in return for political favors. You can't unwring that bell.

have to disclose it. And I'm saying to you, this is why when I was on council, right, we had ten thousand people the Democrats put forth when I was a member of Council this draconian law around low amounts of marijuana. That had ten thousand people with these low amount convictions of marijuana. I'm talking about small amounts. I'm not talking about they had marijuana in a gun, they had marijuana and rob somebody. These were people that just

had very low amounts of marijuana. Ten thousand of them who couldn't get a job at Subway, couldn't go get a job at FedEx, can't get a job at Amazon because they have these low level convictions. Why in the world does PG sitting fell get off with a pardon and those low convictions those people that are out there every day working trying to get a job, those convictions continue to stay and they have to continue to disclose it to those employers. I'm saying, that's the hypocrisy for me,

Brian comes it is and why I'm highlighting it. I'm highlighting it to your listening audience. This is the stuff where I see Democrats doing it and they're so quiet about it. It's not what politicians say, it's what they don't say.

reality of it is when they're engaging our officers. Our officers are not dads, they're not uncles, right, They're not somebody's aunt. They're out there trying to do their job. It's incredibly dangerous. We should be enforcing the curfew. We should be holding these young people and their parents accountable this summer, right, which I support. We need a mayor with a voice that will lend his voice to support our law enforcement as they hold these young people accountable.

As this weather starts to warm up, so as we go through Juneteenth, or we go through the Black Family Reunion, or we go through the July fourth weekend, I'm letting everybody know, listen, there's going to be a hot summer. We're going to have problems out here. And I don't

want the Monday morning quarterbacking. When you've got a young person, whether they're right or black or Latino, with a gun pointing at one of our Cincinnati police officers are law enforcement person anywhere in the country, expect that officer to return fire. That's what they're trained to do. They get to go home to their families. Brian Thomas and I just want to highlight that and when we come back

next week. I'm going to talk about this Dawn school that closed down, a charter school run by African Americans. You probably probably hasn't even hit your radar, but it's something that's worthy of discussion because so many young people were impacted by it.

find out. Thanks to all with Financial for loading you out again. Brian James, goold you have you back on the program.

industry quote unquote. So this kind of revives trade war anxieties that's reminiscent of his first term despite all this global economic interdependence, and so that is driving futures down right now.

or ninety days or whatever. I mean, He's all over the board on this, So god knows if he's using this just as sort of a and negotiating table threat, and then as the other component is these trumps, these tariffs are being challenged in court as beyond the executive branch's authority, and it could be that the court ultimately concludes that no, this is Congress and the power of the purse. There isn't a true emergency that would even authorize them to do this. So it's in a state of flux.

maybe the sole reason for it? So, I mean, because you know, if you wait long enough and these these do have an impact, the impact would likely inure to US steel manufacturers benefit. But that takes time. It's like trying to get others to invest in the United States and moving away from China. You know, you can say it and they might make announcements like yeah, we're going to invest fifty billion dollars in a new factory, but the new factory is going to be built for a while.

It's going to take a long time for those jobs to hit home.

Do you remember Phase one, Brian Thomas? I don't, because there wasn't a Phase two, phase three. So I think the point is that I don't know that we're in a world anymore where we're gonna come up with a quote unquote global trade deal and then the dust is

gonna settle on this. I think everybody's gonna be holding their cards and deciding precisely which which individual cards to play at precisely that moment, rather than agreeing that we have an agreement and everybody just playing in the sandbox nicely.

his control. But every one of those countries can also make you know, look at the observation I just made, which is, you know, it's possible the Supreme Court and say Donald Trump can't unilaterally do this or go the tariffs won't be in place anymore, which would mean it would require congressional action. And since you can't get Congress to do anything, that means the likelihood of tariff's remaining in effect become well, they disappear.

I don't think that's that's too shattering or shattering to hear, but at the sometime it's big reminder of it right now because if the United States is going to take the steps that it's going to, the options that another country has is well, I can either play the game and negotiated with the United States, or I may be able to find some of these resources elsewhere. And you're starting to see that among some of these smaller countries

that are finding themselves with China and or Russia. Yes, you know, we would look at that and kind of go, whoa, what are you thinking, But they're looking at it in the very short term. What benefits me now, not ten fifteen years from now.

and Russia. And we're just creating this this larger collective of folks who we could quote, you know, I'm using the quote fingers where quote signs on my fingers, you know, enemies, we're driving them into a more consolidated relationship.

this kind of stuff. So these are little signs that the rest of the world is perceiving the United States a bit differently than it has in the.

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I knew what price of the pump has come down, Brian James, and I also saw, at least I thought I saw an article about Saudi Arabia increasing oil production in spite of the fact that the barrel of crude was down, So what's the story on oil price is claiming to be jumping here?

the mousketeers for the United States are biggest fan club. Anyway, OPEC plus agreed that they're gonna phase out. Now this is a little bit labored the way the article phrases, but they're going to phase out. There two point two million barrels per day of voluntary cuts. That's a lot of words to say they're going to start producing more oil that started in October twenty four and they're gonna be unwinding these cuts again, meaning producing more oil by

unwinding fully by June twenty fifth. So Saudi Arabia, for example, is going to increase their output from nine million to ten million barrels per day per day over the next nine months. So this is, of course, you know, supply and demand working op direction. So oil prices fell modestly after the announcement, and the Brent crew dropped to just below eighty one bucks a barrel. This is interesting because

it comes at travel time. Normally, this is the time of year where we're all talking about how expensive gas is because you know, they move to the summer mix and all, we're all driving a Disney World and all that.

So maybe this will be a summer where we don't talk about oil prices a whole lot.

oil a day, the price would necessarily go up. And I mean, I just find it. It seems fundamentally unfair that they even exist as an organization although they're outside of the United States laws relating to anti trust.

And the reason was because at that point we had I don't know, two percent unemployed or something like that. Things were just going great guns. So we don't really want to get to that, that's not a goal. But most recently, initial jobless claims rose by about twenty two thousand, up to two hundred and thirty four thousand. That's the highest level since August of twenty three, and that that is a sign of a bit of a softening labor market.

So what that means is that economists feel that the job growth is cooling off, meaning that all the stuff we've been talking about forever, high interest rates and slow

in consumer demand might finally be taking hold. No, remember, we had a little bit of a spike in imports in the first quarter because of everybody anticipating tariffs and kind of getting ahead of that game a little bit so that could be a bit of a distraction, but now we might be getting to the point where we're actually seeing the impact of this.

have an impact on our investments. Brian James is going to offer some thoughts on that topic as well. Eight twenty six and fifty five care so the toxationan be right back fifty five car the talk station. The medal of honor is.

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to day world. We can all manage two percent, but there was some there was a period of time where it was going through the roof. And I mean, obviously we mentioned the price of eggs earlier now free for me, but that's a real that's still kind of a sticker shot, because I think people will still remember what eggs used to be before bird flu showed up and some of

the other issues showed up. But what about overall, where consumers relative to their views of inflation relative to where inflation actually is right now.

didn't have inflation at all. Industrates were really really low and that was fun. But this is reality now. So so the interesting thing is, as you mentioned, the numbers aren't that bad right now. If you're just looking at year over year inflation, uh, it's about three point four percent as of May of twenty five.

to mention the years around it. So people are still suffering from that, and that's what's in our heads. But at this point, people are just really just kind of making the assumption that we are now in what's called a disinflationary environment, not deflation. Every time we have inflation, we have to invent a new word for it. Disinflation means it's still going up, just not as quickly as it was before.

but the prices haven't come down since then. They've just gone up by much less. So we're all still struggling with the fairly dramatic increase in prices of a few years ago.

your employees wage increases just to keep them. You've got fixed costs now that are basically permanently higher for you as the business. That means you have no choice but to pass throughs through to the ultimate consumer. Maybe there's a little flexibility, but there's not going to be a lot. So those out there who might be rooting for price declines, careful what you wish for.

position have absolutely no idea what they're actually spending. They just know they're not running up debts and they're not piling up cash. Therefore they must be equilibrium. Well, make sure you've built in some higher prices into your overall financial plan so that you can handle what's coming over the next one, two, three, four, five years. Even if it is just moderate increases, it's still an increase you need to be able to handle fair enough.

It's okay to rent for a little bit longer. Make darn sure that you are where you want to be, that you're in the town you want to be, the part of that town that you want to.

ain't nothing wrong with renting. It gives you flexibility too, because you get tired of a place, you can easily pack up and move on to some place else.

Cincinnati Police department. I certainly have their backs and do everything I can to at least outwardly support them and say positive things on their behalf. My sister, of course, was a life you know, worked her entire life for the police department twenty five years before retirement. I've heard terrible stories, but things have gotten worse for the Cincinni police.

She had to, you know, defund the police movement. The police are all races taken to the streets and not all are you know, have clean hands, but the vast majority of them do. But as we were talking about that, uget Reker had pointed out, it's okay, we're not going to have any violent in the streets this summer because Sawyer point we'll be offering free roller skating for teens every Friday this summer, right, Joe. He even wrote on the news article from this morning, this will stop this

shooting anyway. Not to make light of the shootings, because I mean, get a load of this reporting from Monday, over a five day period. Over a two day period, there were five shootings Ammonel over the Rhine West End, wentin Hills Mount Airy, and you pivot over to a more recent reporting, a two year old was shot a two year old and the villages of roll Hill. Happened

Saturday Nottingham Road around noontime. Unclear how the child was shot local police since the police sport Lieutenant cunning In so the child was taken to since Saint Children's is currently stable, so we can at least thank God for that. In Norwood, we had two people taken to the hospital after shooting outside an Norwood home on Saturday afternoon five thousand block of Road Island Avenue, taking a UC Medical

Center in serious condition. And we had a man fatally shot crashing into a house in Forest Park on Saturday. According to Sargant Jackie Dryer with the Forest Park Police Department, twenty six year old man suffered a gunshot wound Edmund identified pronounced dead at the scene. So oh, he should have been skating, Joe. That may be a little harsh.

But then I saw this article out of New York which really kind of as an exclamation point some of Christopher's points since I put New York City Police Department officers have reported a sixty three percent rise in assaults

over the past six years. This is assault on police officers, nine hundred and seventy assaults on uniform police officers in the city so far this year and as at this time last year, five hundred and ninety five, so there was five hundred ninety five is way too many, but nine hundred and seventy number of assaulted cops, which includes all city law enforcement officers, is up fifty seven pair

to data in the same period last year. They have reports of the trained are Aragua gang teenagers, young people fighting with police officers in Times Square after robbing two people, one off duty police officer. They've identified a person of interest that police officer beaten, held at nine point and

robbed in the Bronx. And to Christopher's point, they had a retired New York Police dessarge and adjunct professor at Penn State University, Joseph Giacalone, speaking with The New York Post, and he said, you have DA's like Alvin Bragg who don't even want to prosecute felony assaults against cops. So where is the deterrence. You have a criminal justice system that's a revolving door, and people are getting arrested forty

fifty sixty times. Cops are dealing with people out on the streets who are really bad and therein lies the challenge. This is, you know, the cry for our elected officials and our prosecutors and our judges to hold these violent people accountable. Word gets out. It's like the open border. You announce to the world you got an open border, and that you're not holding people, you're not keeping them out of the country. You're gonna off from all kinds

of free social services. Guess what, it's a blank and magnet. When you got a revolving door. In the criminal justice system, you can get arrested this many times and there's never going to be a moment or measure of accountability. You're going to be out on the streets and no consequences whatsoever. In many cases no prosecution, so not even an arrest record. This is aminal justice system just falling apart. One of the key legs of the criminal justice system is prosecution punishment.

As a warning to others who might engage in similar conduct, don't do it. We need to write the ship in this country, and who among us would want a career in law enforcement with statistics like that, most notably in a place like New York City. Just heartbreaking from my standpoint, But we can do something about it. We can be more out loud about our support for the police. We can be better about electing judges, as notably here in Hamilton County and well, I guess we'll give Connie Pillach

a little time on the job. But we can be better at electing prosecutors. I think we really missed out in a golden opportunity to keep Melissa Powers in that position. At least she demonstrably went after bad guys and tried

to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. In spite of the fact that she these criminals quite often would end up in front of a very liberal judge with a different view of the criminal justice system, who would not prosecute them to the full or would not hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. A forty six right now, fifty five k see the talk stations. Stick around. You feel free to comment if you'd like.

evening over into Thursday, there'll be showers and storms. I have eighty eight on Wednesday, closing out of fifty five right now times the final traffic Chuck Ingram.

they called f p V drones. They apparently can be brought for just a few hundred bucks a pop, but did seven billion dollars reportedly in damaged disabling thirty four percent of the cruise missiles cruise missile carriers at a key Russian air base. See, they got all these hundreds and hundreds of thousands, if not million dollar aircraft, million plus dollar aircraft, and a handful of very inexpensive drones blew them up and that'll curb brushes ability to launch

some of these missiles that these airplanes carry. So what impact they'll have on the war? I think the one impact we can all count on it having. That's why I'm looking forward to having Daniel Davison to discuss this is you're probably going to see a pretty profound retaliation

for this. But since they were planning on this for apparently well over a year, the Ukrainians were they were able to sneak these drones in and set up these little what they referred to as houses with roofs that popped up roofs, popped up drones were launched in in a matter of a few minutes. They landed on their targets quite successfully, it appears, so anyhow, Daniel Dave was always giving us a Ukraine Russia update, So keep your popcorn out on that, if I can say it, uh

trying to think, well why not? Why not end on a little lighter note. I actually chuckled out loud on this one. I'm not a fan of a fan of driverless cars. Like you know, if I ordered an Uber, I'd want a driver behind the wheel of the car. I don't want to buy a Tesla for its driverless features. I'm just not comfortable with that, and I don't think I ever will be. I enjoy the active driving. I

enjoy the engagement of driving. I like paying attention to the road, and I really do have a fond appreciation for the well the chess game. That's driving a lot of crazy people out there. So if you stay engaged as a driver, it can make you drive a little bit more interesting when you're trying to well keep yourself alive. So that's part of the pleasure of driving for me. If you don't have your hands on the way. You have to pay attention. It's just I don't know, I

get wigged out by that anyway. Moving aside from my personal opinions about it, there's a driverless ride hill in company out there. You may have heard of it, called way Mo, apparently now operating in multiple states. They have a rotating sensor on the top of the vehicle. Pretty goofy look and think, But residents out in Santa Monica, California have headed up to their eyeballs with these driverless

Waymos because they are equipped with a backup noise. The beep beep, beep beep you get from large truck large trucks and the charging lots where these Waimo driverless cars go. I guess there's some sort of automated recharging systems. You got all these residents around it and are now hearing constant beeping sounds. LA Times reported to hear it from residents. The beeping never seems to stop, largely due to the

state regulation requiring vehicles to audibly reverse. Likedri delivery trucks, they beep as they back out of charging spots, they beep as they reversed to navigate around each other. They beat in the morning as they head out to pick up early passengers. They beat late at night as they returned to charge up. Yeah, that would try to drive

you backcrap insane, wouldn't it. Times reported city officials and a judge and even police have been forced to intercede after residents who say the self driving cars are a nuisance have banded together against the fifty six vehicle feet that's locally anyway reached out to the city. They've called weimo. Now some are trying unconventional tactics, which is what happens

using cones, cars and sometimes themselves. Residents have taken to blocking the weimos from entering the company funded parking lot, so much so that the company has then had to call the cops. I said at least a half a dozen times. They say WEMO is trying to make some efforts to reduce the noise, including quote limiting hours that staff members work at the lots, purchasing quiets or vacuums to clean the cars, and installing fast growing bamboo stands

to try to absorb some of the noise. One local resident said, come on, it's lipstick on a pig baby. The issue here, according to the Mayor pro tem Carolyn Truris, is speaking with the La Times. Hey, the issue here is they are sounds that the vehicles are required to make. I'm totally sympathetic the quiet enjoyment of property. So we're trying to get this under control. Yeah, well, repeal the law that says the damn things have to beat. Seems to me that that's the actual source of the problem.

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