Brian Thomas with George Brunemann -- 4/10/25

It's always a pleasure of seeing you in person and talking with you. Nice. See again Brian, Well, since it came up and you're the one that I'd forgotten all about issue too. It's maybe a stealth issue that is exactly nobody's talking about it, and I'm like, what the hell is issued too? And I feel embarrassed because of course it's an issue that's on the ballot. Early voting has already started. It's not just City of Cincinnati, which I've been focused on because you know, Corey Bowen's been

on the program. You know, like what we're freshing alternative to the current you know, Democrat runs city with all the problems and all the issues, and so issue too flew completely under my radar, to my embarrassment. But I'm happy to admit that, Yeah, even I don't know everything that's going on, but a statewide issue, and it's a two point five billion dollar general obligation bond basically for infrastructure, including fifty six point seven percent of it apparently directed

to roads. Well, they do the infrastructure stuff because they know it's easy to pass that. It's like doing a library levee or a child's you know, health levee or something. It's one of those things that they know will pass. But in this case they're actually putting it into the Ohio Constitution. Again, like you know, it seems anymore they can't get the legislature to do what they want, so they stick it in the constitution. But it's basically like you say, billions of dollars in a slush fund. So

it's a bond. It's saying we're going to have this bar out there that they can use whenever they want for whatever projects they want, as long as it fits in that you know, infrastructure category. But bonds are basically future taxes. So if you're gonna have this two point five billion dollar bond. It means at some point we're going to pay ten x that because it's a loan and you got interest rates and they're sky high now.

So I mean, not only is it the wrong time to be taken a loan because of their interest rates, it's just learn how to spend within your budget money well, and if if you need money for the roads, you know, again going back to inaction within the legislative branch. And of course we can see that in Washington, d C. Literally every day of the week over the past how many decades, right, But I think a more appropriate response

to that would be a gasoline tax. I'm sorry, they just passed what two years ago, Brabby Billy Sites got us that one. It was like another thirty cents or something, and people got upset about that. And I understand being upset about that. But if you're driving a car, you're using the roads, except if you're driving a Tesla Evil test was, you're not paying a gasoline tax. Maybe there should be an EV tax since they weigh so much more than other automobiles. They actually did that too, I forgot,

did they. Yeah, So my hybrids, my cars are both hybrids, and so I got an extra I think it's like seventy five fifty bucks or something like that that I have to pay for my license plates because I don't use enough gas. Okay, Well to me, that's fair. You use the roads, you pay for the wear and tear on the roads. Okay. But I live on the West Side, so like Corey likes to say this speech is, we don't need speed bumps, we got potholes. I know. Oh God, sunset here, I can bring that up right out of

the gate. It's like it's like bringing up the street car when with five friends from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance are on the program anyhow. But so, yeah, there's issue too on the ballot. It's the only thing on the ballot. I think your color was from coal Rain, So that's the only thing on the coal Rain ballot. Okay, I think it's the only thing on most of them. But as Jim Keifer pointed out, as of yesterday, I suppose at the end of the day only one hundred and

fifty six people had early voted. So was this about initiative that got Issue to on the ballot. I don't think so, Okay, I do not think so. So the slush fund is a desire from our elected officials in Columbus or some lobbyist firm that God had put on there. All right, that's the way Columbus tends to work. Well, I would go no cause again, infrastructure more money. It's just a lot of extra money and it could go literally anywhere, and probably we'll be directed to well connected

developers and contractors. Absolutely absolutely, All right, Well, we had Donovan and Neil for Americans for Prosperity. Who's teaming up with you for the Sunday event? Yes, the Restorer Liberty US Sunday Event at Double Tree suits Blue Ash sixty three hundred East Kemper Road. Doors open at four point thirty. A complimentary good word for that, because it's a dinner buffet, complementary dinner buffet at five pm with speakers starting out at six. Again, remind my listeners what the point of

this Sunday event. So it started out as a tax Day rally. You remember in the good old tea party days, we used to have this all the time. Yeah, the last one was actually in twenty twelve when I was president. Since a tea party Dan Reagan Old and I did we demand a balanced budget amendment on Fountain Square in twenty twelve. We haven't had anything like that since, and

so that's kind of where it started. But then the more we thought about it, the idea is we're living in a really unique time now where we have an actual chance to cut spending. We got Doze out there finding all of this ridiculous amounts of spending. You know, computer systems that don't talk to each other, and therefore we got millions of migrants on our social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It's like, this is ridiculous. So the focus is going to be on the on the spending side

of it. So why are we spending so much? How do we make these permanent? And how do we push it down to the local level. You know, the state budget increased twenty percent? What the heck are they thinking? Other then I've heard part of that is the cask thank you of expanded Medicare, and now the Federals aren't kicking in everything, so we have to pay that in Medicare, Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicaid, medicary, Medicare,

you pay for Medicaid, you get exactly. But it was all funded by the federal government, so that made it a okay, like ninety percent covered by the federal government. But I remember arguing against that, saying that this day was coming, they were going to take that funding away. And now it's our problem to foot that bill right

and no work obligation. We have people who are able bodied, young people who are taking from you know, those who really qualify for assistance under medicaid, so draining the resources and dollars from that. When there are job opportunities out there, I mean the trades alone you can earn while you learn, have gainful employment and a career that will pay you quite quite well. Yes, I mean, you know, embrace the trades, you know, being an electrician, become a plumber or contrart

a construction work. There are literally thousands of jobs available out there, and it's an interesting skill. I mean, there's a difference between you know, sitting in a dusk using your brain all day and sitting at a job site using your hands and arms. I find both of them fulfilling. I don't know why they treat one differently than the other either. Of course. I grew up with a dad that you know, was a handyman did everything I didn't.

I suggest black electrical tape or WD forty. If they either those didn't fix it, Dad, that would hire somebody out. And you know, necessity is the mother of invention. So when my wife and I bought our first house, we lived in oak Park, just outside of Chicago. While I was practicing up there, the house was one hundred and twenty five years old and it had been mostly updated by the prior owner of that twenty percent that still

need to work. That was before the internet. I would go to the library and I'd get a book on electriciana. You know, really, yeah, I ran wire. I did hardwood floor work either. I even did plaster and lathe work, all kinds of woodworking projects. And you know, I learned a lot because you know, I didn't have a lot of extra money to hire somebody out to do it.

And it's expensive to hire a contractor in Chicago. You think it's bad now here, Lord Almighty, you know, it's just was like, well, honey, we're either going to put that one off or I'm gonna have to learn how to do it. How to do it, and it was fun. Well, YouTube nowadays is the easiest I wish I had YouTube back then. It really would have streamlined the process. Oh golly. Yeah. So, I mean, so it's getting back to the event that the idea was. We really wanted to emphasize what can

happen now because it's such a unique time. Yeah. So we've got Corey Bowmen's gonna be there talking about what his plans are for City of Cincinnati to get the budget under control. We got Adam Matthews Rodney Creech coming in from Columbus. Uh, Columbus is a big deal right now. His income tax getting rid of the income tax. Yeah, promised he wants to do that, and I had a conversation with him here. He's going to be at the Warren Kenny Lincoln Reagan dinner tonight and I'm speaking there

and oh you can be there as well. I'll see you there. Oh good, good, good. Yeah. They changed the shuffle, we shuffled who's doing what, And apparently I get to introduce VVK, which is a real honor and privilege because I've had a tremendous matter respect from that guy since I interviewed when he about his Woke Incorporated book. Same here. So I did a podcast with him real early on in that process, and I was just amazed that guy is one of the smartest people I've ever met ever,

and he's so enthusiastic and excited. I mean you can hear it in his voice. Oh yeah, about the future for all time, and his brain goes into overdrive. We started off the podcast with the joke that he's the valedictorian Saint X. I'm a valedictorian from Elder High School. I had to get my little digs in there. But but no, every time we talk it, I'm he outranks you. No offense to my west side further out or that

was a joke. But we actually got news yesterday that Vivek is going to be sending us a video message for the for the Thing tomorrow, as is Bernie Marino today I mean Sunday Sunday, sorry, Sunday Sundays. So if you come to the if you come to the Double Tree, you'll hear from Bernie Marino, you'll hear from Viveke. We're still trying to get Warren Davidson to send us something, but we'll give him a shout out when he's on here. Coming up on the program at seven forty this morning. Cool.

But then we also have Mark Pakita. If you ever interviewed Mark, he's with the Grassroots Freedom Initiative. He's going to give us sort of the facts on what's going on fiscal wise in Ohio. So he's going to talk a little bit about issue too. He's going to talk about the new budget, what they're doing with property taxes versus income taxes. So it should be a you know, a fairly eclectic presentation. And I saw the they just passed the budget in Columbus. Yeah, fourth thousand pages, sixty

sixty to thirty something with only five Republicans went against it. Yeah. Oh, you're so happy to see six hundred million dollars going to the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, And that's kind of what the problem is locally. I don't trust any of our current commissioners to negotiate with the Bengals. It's just going to get out of control. You know, back in the days when they negotiated the original and that's now in

the textbooks as the example of the worst public private ever. Well, it's because both people negotiating were sitting on the same side of the table and well, at least a week later right, Yeah, anyhow, let's pause, we being George running from Restore Liberty dot Us back to talk about some more issues after I mentioned your credit seven two. If you have KRC detalk station, check it all out. Restore

Liberty dot Us. George Renman's on the job, you know, looking out for our money and government fraud waysed abused in action and things we can do about it. And of course show up at the event this weekend on Saturday, that's Sunday, Sunday rather Palm Sunday. Was just getting ready to say that it's why I can't be their mom's having a radio for dinner. Looking forward to that. Double tree suites, blue ash doors open at four thirty, complimentary

buffet dinner, five o'clock speakers at six. So nice opportunity to hear all the folks that he already went through. And yeah, and the reservations are are highly recommended. There's only like twenty five seats left. Oh, so go to Restoreliberty dot us and just click on the reserve or just go to restore Liberty dot Us slash reserve your point important point. So spaces are limited. I just want

to get your reaction. You probably saw the survey out that you know, like fifty five percent of the Democrats left leaners at least embrace on some level the concept of assassinating Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and I just use that as sort of a springboard for this. The tolerance for an advocacy for violence coming from the left, it seems it's a profound problem. And I've never experienced

this kind of thing in my lifetime. Although I guess I live through the late sixties without being aware of the politically, I wasn't old enough to understand what was going on. So it's not violence isn't a new phenomenon, but all of this, you know, attacking people's cars. I mean, these the Teslas were like the darling of the green folks, the zero missions, unbelievably efficient and amazing electronic wonders. They

are you own, use some hybrids. And I got a friend of mine who owns one of those Tesla plaids. It's a rocket ship, it is. I loves it so good. Make the choice and buy one. But now that he's got that, which he bought way in advance of Elon Musk and doge in his affiliation with the Trump administration what it's a legitimate target. Now, I don't understand it. It's like they're they're allowed to become unglued over the fact that this guy is getting rid of waste. It's

a mental illness. That's the only way to think about it, if you think of it as some kind of they're making a conscious decision to do it. Why would anybody get so violent over a vehicle that, like you say, I mean, the reason he's the largest car company in the world now is because he makes the best version of that product. Right in my engineering world, my last gig was actually modeling every electric car made in the world,

and nobody can touch the efficiency of a Tesla. The guy is just so far out there, and you watch what his team is doing. He's brought in these whiz kids and the nerds have just been let loose, and they're finding all these you know, just crazy connections and lack of connections, all of this, you know, fraud, waste and abuse, and suddenly he is ground zero four. He's a Nazi. He's stealing your money. It's like, I don't understand it. And my main concern is, you know, especially Schumer,

they're going out there lying about everything. Hey, he literally lying, you know, I mean literally lying. He's telling him that Elon Musk wants to take away your your Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid. That's an outright lie. It's specifically

not being touched. And so if the only thing that's being touched is saving money for people who are qualified to receive benefits under these programs, because they're getting rid of people who are ripping them off, so now they can afford to actually give the check for Social Security and Medicare and anticipated. Yeah, but what happens when even the lies aren't working, Because they aren't people are seeing what's going on and saying, wait a minute, he's talking

about social Security. I haven't heard a word about that. He's got to be lying. So if the lies don't work, are they really going to keep going down this route of we need to kill Trump, we need to kill Musk, we need to go after and attack his business so he's banker. I think that's a horrible path. And if you think back to the summer of twenty twenty and all of the violence that happened then compared to January sixth, which is always the you know what about that January

sixth was a was a show. I mean, they had so many plants in there that this was just a show. And even beyond that conspiracy component of it, you know that it was coordinated, egged on by and leftists or the FBI or whoever evil forces want to make the Republicans look bad and at worked I we're screaming at the top. I've said it many times. I'm watching it all on Fuld on my laptop screaming that I'm going no. But that's your reaction, that's the whole point. Republicans looked

at that and said that's wrong. Democrats, look at what happened in twenty twenty and what's happening now with the cars that are saying no. That's that's an actual reaction to the current problem. We should be destroying Tesla's right. And you also notice that January sixth was one day, one day, in a couple hours. This is an ongoing day after day phenomenon. The rallies over the week and the attack of Tesla showrooms, the organized protest against Elon

musk And and the Trump administration. People spray painting private property, these Tesla vehicles that were once great and now are somehow Nazi mobiles. It's absolutely in mostly by Democrats. You got one more segment with George Breunhman before we get to Congressman Warren Davidson. First though, I think you have KRCD talk station Restore Liberty dot Us George Brennman in studio.

Remember to show up with the event on Sunday again beginning at four thirty when the doors open, and enjoy that complimentary buffan hear from some wonderful speakers and some common sense solutions to our problems we face. And one of the problems we face, and I know you wanted to put a plug in for your other online and health related effort, George So, and they're remaining a couple of minutes, why not shift over to health so Restore Wellness down to org. We hit our first meeting a

couple of weeks ago. Went fantastic. Actually, Keith did a speech on motivation, went over really well. We did a podcast on COVID five years later. What we learned that thing is fantastic. Highly recommend go to Restore Wellness dot org and let's give that a listen at the rally on Sunday we're going to have a table there for Restore Wellness. We're going to be having a raffle for a set of the books where you've got the lies I taught in medical school, Lies your doctor tells you,

and the Casey means book Good Energy. Those are a fantastic trio book, so we'll be you can get them for a dollar instead of the fifty five or whatever costs for the set. Yeah, we had a lot of people ask about the books you recommend, and there is a link. There is a link on the web page, and we're going to have all of those books on at least the sheets for all of them on display

so you can read through it. We'll give you the key R code, so it's real simple to just point your phone at it and you can order it off Amazon. But yeah, Restore Wellness has been going great. Going to try and you know, get that rolling out as well to throughout the area. But I just wanted to make sure people were aware it's still going on, it's it's gaining strength. Yeah. Well, and so I got to ask,

how's it going with the working out while you're watching television? Well, thanks you for kicking me in the butt and I had other people who have over the years suggested making similar that I got a little heat from him, like, well, I told you about the I got the same. But you know it all it all came down to, you know, there's sort of the cancer diagnosis and my wife and my family suggesting that I had put on a few

too many pounds over the past couple of years. And so the stars all align to the point where when you guys were in studio talking about, you know, these health benefits, all I do is sit and watch Netflix after the show. So I want to because I want to clear my mind of the colossal craft that we deal with every day. So I did get a set of adjustable weights, and so now I pull them out and I do wraps and I feel there and I'll

wait a half hour and I'll do another set. And so you know, I'm obviously not ripped, and you can see through my sweater here, but it's I'm doing something well, and every the whole point of all that it helps, Every little bit helps, and it's amazing how little steps make a difference. So you know, get rid of the high frucitos corn serup that's been done for a month now and that that's why how I lost weight. So

and then the others. You know, we'll all get rid of all of the processed stuff and then and if you really want to take the big step, try and get rid of the carbs, because it's just evil stuff. There are more and more studies coming out talking about the benefits of that. I think it's really starting to

catch on. It is, and that's why, you know, I keep expressing some measure of excitement for at least RFK Junior, with his name recognition and the fact that he you know, he's just pretty much long time left, this guy who I thought alone a lot. I'm glad he's part of the Trump administration in this particular role. You know, he doesn't have any control over environmental policy, has control over information about our health, getting the message out about help.

Looking for two things from him. Get the floor eight out of the water, Yeah, working on that, And get the soft drinks out of snap. They're working on that too, and there's been some progress in some of the states going down this road. I don't have any idea why we Coca Cola's going nuts because they paid a fortune to get it put into the program in the first place. How about that surprise, money connections, money talks, and health walks. That's apparently the case. Yeah, it's just crazy, but hey,

last plug. Go to restore liberty dot us. Click on the link, make sure you register. We're looking to pack the house. And a big shout out to Americans for Prosperity for co sponsoring the event and helping us with all the costs. George Brenman, thanks for coming in studio, Good luck with the event, and again thanks to AFP folks. Congressman Warren Davids is online. He's ready to talk. We'll bring him on right after these