55KRC Monday Show - Ken Kober, Smitherman, Money Monday, Empower U

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Five o five. Hope he buy k r C the
talk station and to my vacation. Happy Monday, Well a

(00:26):
vacation and that's the way.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
The news going.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes, indeed things back to square. Uh, well, things back
to normal, I guess. I see Joe Strecker and the
executive producer Booth missed having him around when I was here.
I got a nice week off and I spend the
time with my family and getting a lot of chores done.
And you know, kind of said day this morning post
Prance has died, and just heard the top of the
hour news. Not a whole lot of information out other
than obviously I think we all knew he was very,

(00:52):
very sick, but timing mean he made it through another
Easter anyway, Hope you in a nice easter as well.
It was wonderful time at our house and got to
celebrate my daughter's birthday which is today, Happy birthday to Lauren.
But an enjoyable Easter celebration at the Thomas House yesterday.
So thank you to my mom and to my wife
for putting a whole dinner together. Was fantastic And feel

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free to call five on three seven eight hundred and
eight two three taco with Town five fifty. If you
have an AT and T phone and you got a
comment about the pope passing away, I guess jd Vance
got a visit in with him before he passed. If
there's any connection to there, sorry, coming up the fifty
five Cassey Morning Show. If it'd be President Kim Kober

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returned seven o five Saturday protests downtown blocking the streets?
Question did they have a permit? Mare? I have to
have provoll was there apparently riling the crowd up according
to the notes I've got and violence, violence on the banks?
Are you safe downtown at night? Care's a rather interesting

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article here than we believe, is that the inquire of
the interview the mayoral candidates about safety and youthful well
youth crime. It's kind of an amazing summary after purvol
all these different programs that exist out there than just
one after another after another after another. We're gonna do this,

(02:19):
we're gonna do this, we funded this, we've founded this,
we've done and things just seem to get worse. Corey
Bowman rather abbreviated account of what he thinks need to
be done, encouraging the model and importance of the family
amen number one to that. I think the erosion of
the family structure is probably the primary cause of all
the problems we have in society, not all of them,

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but we had caring parents at home who cared about
where their children were and brought them up with some
measure or degree of ethics and morality, perhaps even religion.
I think the world will be a much better place
than it is right now. Anyhow, more on that later,
but we'll talk with Ken Kober maybe a little bit
about that. But the bank's violence, yes, it's a problem.

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Christopher Smith, Ivan seven twenty with the former Vice mayor
of the City of Cincinnati doing the Smith Event. I
always enjoy hearing from Christopher, and I hope you do too.
It is Monday, so nine times out of ten we
get money Monday with Brian James, and today is one
of nine times out of ten. We'll talk to stock
market volatility. We'll talk about should you look at your
four one gay no, is this a good buying opportunity?

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And where are the feder rate's gonna go up or down?
Or sidewise? Plus empower you got bright Bart Francis Martel's
during the Power You seminar We're gonna get a few
of the details at eight forty from Francis Martel. So
there's your line up today tomorrow of course. Daniel Davis
deep dive. There's supposed to be a ceasefire between Ukraine
and Russia, and both sides were accusing each other of

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violating it or something, and Donald Trump looking to pull
the plug in the whole thing. Listen, if you guys
don't sit down and start talking peace, I'm just done
with it. I'm washing my hands of the whole matter.
Leave it to Europe anyway. In sofar as the Pope passing,
the most Reverend Dennis Schner, the Archbishop Ameritas Cincinnati, had

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this to say, please join me in praying for the
repose of the soul of our beloved Pope Francis, who
was the Vicar of Christ, the successor of Saint Peter,
and a faithful shepherd of Jesus or Christ Church longbi
remembered for his great compassion for the elderly, the sick,
the unborn, the persecuted, and all those on the margins
of society. Continuously reminded us that we are the stewards

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of God's creation and not its master, and he was
an unwavering champion of world peace, after a life dedicated
to proclaiming the good news of our Lord's saving love
for us, that Pope Francis now inherit the reward of
eternal rest with God. He was the first pope from
the Southern Hemisphere, the first pope from the Americas, and

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the first non European elected in almost thirteen hundred years.
Also the two hundred and sixty fifth successor of Saint Peter.
So there's a couple of facts about Pope, whether or
not you knew about him or not. And in other
related news, perhaps unrelated, it was Easter yesterday, and the
insanity in the world is never ceases to amaze me.

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You know, it's the It's it's Christianity's big day. I mean,
you got Easter and Christmas, but I think Easter probably
a little bit to higher up in the importance within
the Christian faith. So it was with disgust I read this.
I feel like I'm in the stack of stupid early
this morning, and people's condemnation and mocking of religion just

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for the sake of mocking it, I find horrific and disgusting.
Let people live their own lives, but to mock people
of faith merely, I think, just for the obscene joy
and pleasure that those folks that mock get from mocking Christians.

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So of course we're in San Francisco for this one.
A San Francisco based drag queen group apparently facing some
backlash after its Easter performance Mocking Jesus and Christianity was
actually marketed to children. Described as a controversial show you'd

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say held over the weekend. Future performances, some critics argue
crossed the line making light of sacred Christian symbols and belief.
Group has defended its performance in spite of the outrage
expressed by many Christians and just regular folks who think
it's really insane that you, I mean, you just choose
and to mock something for the sake of mocking it.

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They claim it was meant to be an inclusive celebration
of creativity and self expression. Sisters of Perpetual Will Indulgence
described as a self professed excuse me, order of queer
and trans nuns. That's in quotes, I guess that's at
their website. Host of this year's event called No Easter

(07:17):
Without the Tea event described as meaning to honor transgenderism,
and features children's Easter egg hunt and costume contest, encouraging
people to come dressed in drag as quote Hunky Jesus
and Foxy Mary. Events. Promotional poster featured a tattooed depiction

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of Jesus is in quotes because you know you might
disagree that it's actually depiction of Jesus. I'll let you
decide that anyway. A tattooed depiction of Jesus surrounded by
men in drag. Apparently this the event happens every year.
Photos from past events show men dressed as Jesus wearing
high heels dresses, holding signs reading can I get a

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gay men? And House hau is House of Jesus. The
group encouraged children to attend the event, yet posted a
warning advising parents that quote some may find the latter
portion of the show inappropriate for young children clothes quote
you think. Political director Logan Church from Catholic Vote slam

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the group's description of the event as art, calling it
instead bigotry. Dressed in costume, urging Christians to push back
against the mockery of their own faith, dating while we
live in a country that defends free speech. That doesn't
mean Christians are required to sit silently while our faith
is ridiculed. But you know, you just got to question

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the motivation of these people. What is the point? Why
do you feel compelled to mock something that people hold
near and dear to their heart, that brings them joy
in life, that gives them a hope beyond the nastiness

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and the squalor, the war, pestilence, and famine we face
in this world every day, all the bad news. You
know what, there's great Christians out there who still feel uplifted.
They have something perhaps to look forward to. Their lives
are in Christ's hands and they get joy from it,
and you want to mock them for it. I just

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don't get it. These people are vile and rather disgusting.
I could sum it up in those a couple of words,
vile and disgusting. All in terms of the trans world.
You've got a couple other stories here, and you know
they're actually they're actually crazy. Let me think this this
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Five twenty fIF about Karcity talk station. A very happy
Monday to you all. In a special thanks to Dan
Carroll and Kevin Gordon for covering for me last week.
I'm sure you enjoyed hearing from them. I appreciate when
they do cover for me. Okay, backcrap and sanity continues.
Go ahead and you can make some heads or tails
out of this. Moving away from the leftist celebrating Easter
with a drag queen fiend event mocking Christians, we pivot

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over across the pond to London, where there was an
interesting United Kingdom Supreme Court case. Guess what In the UK?
Men are men, women are women. They only have two
genders and that makes perfect sense according to the court
unanimous decision. Of course, that angers the certain members of

(12:24):
the LGBTQ crowd, notably the t where we had thousands
of LGBTQ plus activists marching in London over the weekend,
chanting and support for both trans rides and go ahead.
Explain this to me Palestine, claiming it's part of the

(12:45):
same struggle. The plight of the Palestinians is the same
as the plight of I guess certain members within the
category of LGBTQ plus. One speaker held in the Palestinian
cause as quote the strongest shining light in a share
fight for liberation. Just because you say it doesn't mean

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it makes sense, and it was Saturday described as radical
demonstrators rallied in Parliament Square in opposition to the aforementioned
British Supreme Court ruling affirming sex as a biologically binary
also barring men who identifies women from accessing women only spaces.
In other words, stay out of the women's restroom. You're
a guy. I don't care what you think you are.

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They vandalize statues outside Parliament, including Suffragette and Millicent Faucet
for reasons unknown to me. Crowds waving signs reading trans
women are real women, not a court of the unit
UK Supreme Court, They're not Biology is not binary. Actually
it is, as the UK Supreme Court Palestinian flags also flying.

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One speaker to claring quote, we need to connect with
the Palestine movement, the strongest shining light in this dark
time that says no to hopelessness, no to cynicism, no
to nihilism, and says yes to justice, freedom and liberation. Okay.

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One protester shouting one struggle, one fight Palestine trans writes
you getting all this. Of course, the slogan drawing ridicule

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given the brutal repression of LGBTQ individuals and by Islamist regimes,
especially Gaza's mas led government. Homosexuality remains criminalized in many
parts of the Middle East. Hamas also enforced strict Sharia
based laws in Gaza, where if you are a member
of the LGBTQ plus a clus, sure you can be

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imprisoned or chucked off of a building. One author and
described as podcaster a viva klompus and I don't know
who that person is, but astutely observed the ignorance is astounding.
Former IDF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said the chant

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reflects wilful ignorance or denial of the lived experiences of
the LGBTQ plus Palestinians who flee to Israel seeking asylum
of protection. Why because you're allowed to live your life
in Israel freedom from prose persecution if you're in that
community demonstration apparently growing your support for several leftist activists,

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including an organization called Flint Front for the Liberation of Intersex,
non Binary and Transgender People splitters as distinct from the
other organizations Transactual and one more trans kids deserve better
initial cap on all those.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
I just.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Let's see here. New Tolerance campaign offered a million dollars
to support the LGBTQ plus Pride parade in Palestinian controlled territories.
How's that going to go?

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Over?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Challenge aim to highlight the differences in the treatment of
LGBTQ plus individuals in Israel and Palestinian territories, noting that
there is a clash of value between Israel and most
of the Arab world. The president former log Cabin Republicans
president Gregory t Angelo described the initiative as a wake
up call to those identifying with the Queers for Palestine
or Gaze for Gazam movements, two other organizations. According to NTC,

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the event could be a crucial step in advancing the
rights there in the Arab world, where homosexuality again remains
criminalized in many countries. In Israel, gay individuals can live openly.
NTC points out many Arab nations where such freedoms are
heavily restricted or outlawed. The group argues that the challenge
could spark greater tolerance in liberalization in the region, potentially

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encouraging broader peace initiatives. However, here's the sailing point, folks,
the feasibility of such a parade in Gaza or the
West Bank, both under Palestinian rule, remains virtually impossible right
because it's criminalized. There go ahead, stage an organization, stage

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of protests. God, these people are just bad crap insane.
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fifty on et and chie phones. So betting on youth
sports is a thing. Uh parallels a CPO counter staff

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in reporting credit where credits due. This is news to me.
During public need between since a City Council and Board
of Education council members, Scottie Johnson said illegal betting is
taking place at youth sports events, claiming it acts as
a catalyst to some of the shootings that the city
has seen in the last year. You said during the

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meeting this past Wednesday, the parents are reportedly placing bets
up to several thousand dollars on the outcomes of youth
football games. Johnson claimed, the reason we've seen some of
the shots fired gun play at these events is the
ridiculous amount of money that's being bet on these youth games. Community,
stop betting on our children, so CPO asked. In Saint Police,

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we have a Lieutenant John Cunningham quoted as saying, well,
betting has been identified that yes, yes, as bad as
it may sound, this has been known to occur. I
don't have a specific shooting incident to tie it back to,
but this has no place a youth sporting event. Focus
needs to be on supporting our youth and as they

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are involved in positive recreational activities, role models and mentors. Well,
that's fine. They're guessing that shootings are related. They don't
have any specific incident. They cite this October twenty fourth,
twenty twenty four shooting. Twenty nine year old Lamont Ragan
arrest in connection with the shooting that wounded two people
at a pee wee football game at Walnut Hills High School,

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now facing two counts of floris to assault and account
of discharging a firearm at or near prohibited premises. But
s CPO points out it's not clear if betting had
anything to do with this incident. I just find the
preposters that people are betting on youth football games. I suppose, Joe,
do you know anything about betting apps? Do the betting

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apps have like the line and not for high school football? Okay,
well that's good. Southwest Ohio Youth Football League's Artemis Palmer

(21:50):
said he believes Johnson's comments a bit exaggerated. The only
betting that happens on the field is uniforms, pizza, food
or something, whatever it may be. And if people want
to bet on kids games, you do that outside the
lines and keep that drama outside the lines. Of course,
everybody at the meeting involved in the meeting agreed that

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insuring safety of young athletes should remain a top priority
with a new season around the corner. And then to that,
which is people are just generally flying off the handle
and the intolerant of other people's behavior. Speaking of that,
we have a man arrested Tuesday after his shooting in
a vehicle during a road rage incident happened on a
nice seventy Ford and Thathiel Nathaniel Enderley arrested for firing

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a gunshot into the panel of a van occupied by
two people, According to the Green Township Police, Emderley claimed
the other driver was cutting him off as he was
merging onto the interstate. Poor of the court records, Enderley
said the driver was staring at him as if he
had done something wrong. Well, that justifies a gunshot, doesn't.

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Neither person inside the van was hit by the gunshot
was able to quickly locate the suspect vehicle and recover
the handgun. Enderley remains in the Hamlin County Justice Center
on a forty thousand dollars bond, facing charges of felonious
assault and discharging a firearm well he looked at me
sideways and a father now facing charges after a five
year old shot a seven month old and West Price

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nine to thirty pm for reports of the job being shot.
Complaint says Montez Jones left a loaded and fully functional
gun on the windowsill of the bedroom occupied by a
seven month old and a five year old and a
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causing it to fire and hit the younger of the
seven month old, causing serious physical harm to her in
a substantial risk of harm to the other children. Infantaking
us in Sant Children's Hospital. No word on the seven
month old's condition. Criminal complaints as Jones made an admission
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All right, I guess continuing the stack is stupid which

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normally begins at this time. Like I said, I feel
as though I've been involved with it since I started
speaking this morning. This is a rather bizarre One man
facing an aggravated assault charge after a gruesome, unprovoked attack
this in Phoenix court. To court documents, a victim walking
nearest Oaks Shop on Broadway Road April eleven, about one

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o'clock in the morning when he asked thirty eight year
old Daniel Lanx, how are you doing Thori to say.
The man kept walking before Lanx came up from behind,
stuck his fingers into the victim's right eye socket and
pulled the eyeball out do.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
What the hell uh?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
The victim fell, Lanx punched him in the face multiple times,
fracturing his jaw. Police said. The victim later told him
that he felt his eye dangling from its socket. He
then went home and his girlfriend called nine one one.
Three days later, the victim identified Lanx as his attacker,
and a photo lineup. Officers found Lanx at a treatment center.
He was booked in a jail on felony bond set

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at five hundred thousand dollars. Corner of the court documents.
Lanx has not surprisingly a history of mental illness, is homeless,
and has a criminal history that includes attacking police, trespassing,
and stealing. Actually, Phoenix, joh not Hamilton County. It's you know,

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imagine I could actually manage to operate a firearm even
though one eye is dangling out of its socket. Go
to Richland County, South Carolina, where a man there was
arrested for murder after a violent dispute over a lottery ticket.
Thank you, Joe. Richard County Sheriff's Department said Paul Williams,

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seventy years old, charged with murder, possession of a firearm
by a person convicted of a violent offense in possession
of a weapon during a violent crime. Deputies respoted the
eight hundred block of Conagree Church Road eight pm on
a Wednesday after receiving word of a dispute over they
stolen lottery ticket. Deputies reportedly heard a gun shot. When
they got there the scene, they saw Williams leaving a

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backyard with a gun in his hand. Law enforcement found
a man shot up for biding the back taking the
local hospital for treatment, but he died there. Corner identified
the victims, Matthew Fleming sixty seven. Paul Williams arrested take
him to the Alvin sque Glenn Detention Center, where he,
at least as of the reporting, was awaiting his bond.

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Hearing school nutrition administrator has been arrested for committing a
terribly unappetizing act inside a beer cave at a Pennsylvania
convenience store wait for it, courting police. Employee at Royal
Farms location in Hannover last week called police to report

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that an unknown woman had quote come in the previous
day and defecated in the beer cave close quote.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
As describing a probable cause affidat of the beer cave
as a walk in cooler open to the public to
select cooled beverages, like we needed a description to that.
Police review of the store security footage showed the suspect
purchasing a case of alcoholic beverages or pushing rather a
case of alcoholic beverages back on the shelf, pulling our

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pants down and defecating on the shelves, and then leaving
camera record of the woman arriving there in an SUV
vehicles registered owner identified as Crystal Gous forty seven years
old as the individual driving the car when the offense occurred.
Driver's license photo of Gous matched the subject depicted in
this surveillance footage. Arrested for several crimes, including openunous, criminal mischief,

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and disorderly conduct that created quote a hazardous and physically
offensive condition close quote amen to that the smoking gun
always cracks me up. A cord to the complaint, which
does not indicate why Gous allegedly used the beer cab

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a a toilet bet. Eighty dollars of Royal Farms merchandise
was lost in the incident. WHOA, that's a lot of feces. Yeah,
I'd say eighty dollars worth of damage and honestly, in
the next store a story coming up, which you know
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you a heads up worse than that one. What Yeah,

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first though, a very positive word for Gate of Heaven
Cemetery in Montgomery. It's I guess Easter Monday. You might
want a serene and beautifully maintain setting for remembrance and reflection.
Maybe you want to remember and reflect on the pope
who just passed away this morning. Anyway, it's just gorgeous,
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a perfect time of year with spring and the flowers
coming up. Striking monument statues shrine seasonal flowers, the trim lawns,
reflective water features, tranquil atmospheres, say the least perfect location
for prayer and reflection, especially you know during this time
of year. I said, any time of year, it's great.
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fifty five K see the talk station Happy Monday. Not

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to be outdone that last story, It's time to outdo it.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
This.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I don't know. I think it's some junction. We're going
to incur the wrath of God. We have just spiraled
out of control as a society. And with that, I
turn again to the spoken, turned to the smoking gun
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did eighty dollars worth of damage in the beer cave
in a series of the criminal mischief complaints. Faday befourteenth

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Tedford was named in an indictment charging her with felony
criminal mischief for allegedly contaminating items that I'm an on
Doc Food co Op in Keen allegedly targeted the grocery
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excess to fifteen hundred dollars in destroyed merchandise and cleaning costs.

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There's no flag for us.

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Her Kinky Kelly page appears to have been deleted. Explicit
videos of Tedford remain online, including one crib showing her
urinating on brand new garments in a clothing store changing room.
What the hell you know? In fifteen dollars a month

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only fan page so you can watch that kind of
stuff now, I don't know how many people subscribe to it,
but one is too many?

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Now, who can argue with that?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Jeez?

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Please?

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Florida beaches already have lifeguards the safety patrols, but one
part of the state might you might want to consider
summoning Paul Revere. The threats in Valuza County can come
by both land and sea. Two incidents the year in
which vehicles struck beach goers, both cases driving over their heads,
illustrating the risk of well allowing beach driving. Most recent

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incident took place in Ormond Beach. Thirty three year old
Coulson Janney of Ocalla struck by a jeep attempting to
back into a parking spot in April fifth. He was
sunbathing and dozing face down in the sand when he
was as described jostled awake by a car tire running
over his head. He said, I was just screaming, screamed

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my head off, screaming my bloody murder. Of course, suffered
a broken femur and forearm, as well as bruised face.
The sixty one year old woman driving the vehicle was
sighted for Carola's driving. Got back to February seventy one
year old New York woman sitting in a beach chair
and at Daytona Beach hospitalized with non life threatening injuries
after a pickup truck ran over her head. Eighty four

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year old were chased down by a witness, told authorities
she didn't know she had hit anyone beach driving. Let's
see what Joe's got this morning. Joe, thanks for calling
the morning showing a very happy Monday to you.

Speaker 8 (36:14):
Thank you, and welcome back, Brian.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
Thank you didn't miss anything.

Speaker 9 (36:18):
It was a little disturbing this morning to wake up
and hear that the Pope had died. And of course
the first thing it went through my head was the
headline JD killed the Vicar of Christ and and then
I thought the second headline, she'd be Pete head seth
texted about it.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Don't don't give any ideas, Joe, I could actually see that, don't.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I appreciate your comedy, but you know, I'm thinking, you know,
there's somebody out there on the like AOC or somebody's
gonna say jd Vance had something to do with the
pope dying. Oh wow, it's too easy. It is. It's
very yeah, way too easy. So I you know, apologies
to those out there really upset about pro Frances passing away.
I think we all expected this, But Joe appreciate the comedy.

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What were they protesting downtown on Saturday? Ice Sky that, Yeah,
I know, I just I could have sort of said rhetorically,
I don't think they have an comprehension of what they're protesting.

(38:24):
It's like protests for the sake of protesting. Trump Orange man,
Trump doesn't when you're gonna gotten protested, take it to
the streets. Overwhelming majority of Americans want the immigration situation resolve.
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we'll talk about the protests downtown, they blocked the streets
last kencover about that mayor AFTAB down there, Rile on
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violence on the banks. Are you safe downtown at night?
Those are the topics with Ken. Then we get SIP
seven to twenty with Christopher Smithman in the smith Event. Uh,
fast forward a couple hours money money with Brian James
stock market volatility. We'll talk about that question should you
look at your four oh one K? Is that a
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Is it a good buying opportunity going on right now?

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eight to two three talk and let's talk a little
bit about meyl candidates, Aftab Parvoll, so uh inquire Scott

(39:50):
Wartman reporting and I talk with Scott because he took
over for Sharon Coolidge. You know he's doing reporting on
of course since I City Council headlines how will Cincinnati
mayor hopeful tackle youth crime? And I just got it
was an interesting observation because Corey Bowman was asked, but
so is mayor Aftab par Ball and Brian Frank who

(40:12):
is the other guy that's running, and what their perception
is on crime youth crime?

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
I'll give you the quote from AF to have par
Ball and it just as it stands as a stark
contrast to Corey Bauman. Here's a have to have. Youth
violence is one of the most difficult problems to address
and one of the most painful. Too many victims of
violent crimes our children, and far too many perpetrators of
violent crime our children. I'm proud that we've seen a

(40:40):
thirty five percent. I guess he meant drop. There's no
word drop in there, so the consent doesn't really make
any sense as reported, But youth violence over the single
year due to our strategies, but of course we have
so much more work to do. I guess this is
an organization Act for sincy, he said, Act for since

(41:00):
He details all of our violence and intervention programs, including
increasing police personnel through historic investments in recruit classes, relying
on twenty first century police tactics, in partnership with the
FBI and ATF, through the first Crime Gun Intelligence Center
in Ohio, innovating with alternative response to crisis ARC, and

(41:23):
deploying our CDRT, which is Civil Disturbance Response Team and
SWAT officers every weekend throughout our entertainment districts in our
urban core. He goes on. We've also enacted laws to
keep guns out of the hands of kids, and we've
sued the state to reclaim our authority to pass our
own local gun laws, which you don't have. Sorry, sucks

(41:44):
to be you go ahead and spin your wheels pursuing
that one AFTAB. It's a waste of time. You've been
down this road before. There's no home rule one size
fits all in the state of Ohio when it comes
to gun laws. Also, I didn't realize that there weren't
already laws on the books. To keep guns out of
the hands of children anyway, he went on, And because
we know we can't police our way out of this problem,

(42:06):
we created wreck at night programs. Initial cap On that
made sure all of our city pools were open last summer,
invested in additional one million dollars a year in youth employment,
helped finance the roll Hill Boys and Girls Club, voted
to create transformational new rec center in North otr On,
one of the most violent streets in the city. Wiped
out fifty million dollars worth of medical debt for fifty

(42:28):
thousand Cincinnatians. I don't know how that's connected with youth violence,
but he's just pulling things out of his finer here.
Created a trauma informed violence prevention program with CINCINNY Children's Hospital.
While there is no one size fits all strategy, we
are deploying a comprehensive plan and it's working. Since taking off,
his violent crime stats are down by double digits. Again.
There's more work to do, but our strategy has us

(42:49):
in the right track. Okay, well, I'm not quite sure
if he's accurate on the crime stats. Twenty twenty three,
accorded to Scott Wortman's reporting was sixty three juvenile shot.
Maybe that's the most recent year for which we have data.
We've got all these stories about arrests like down at
the bus stop. Police Chief Thres Tresa Tiji made an

(43:15):
unannounced visit in September the CINCINNT Public schools outlining violence
happening at bus transit centers and the thirty arrests of
youth that occurred since the first day of school at
those centers. Then she asked the school district to intervene. Now,
contrast all of that, all this government program this and
throwing money at that, wiping out medical debt for Cincinnatians.

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Corey Bowman, we experienced this issue firsthand with our church
and business in the West End. There's not a quick solution.
It takes investment and a mindset change. This can be
done by number one, encouraging the model and importance of

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the family. Well, amen to that, Joe, What would have
happened to you if you had gotten engaged in a
brawl at a bus stop? We have met your dad,
take him to that, Okay, we'd have been patting you
on the back saying, hey, it's all right, Joe, you
go ahead and get involved in that kind of activity.
If you were out in the middle of the night
breaking things, committing acts of violence, I don't know, burning

(44:24):
the tesla or something like that. With that, a sat
well with your dad, No right. Number two, improve education
outcomes and options. Yep, the building blocks for a future
and freedom and the ability to feed oneself, not relying
upon the state. Is based on education, invest in entry

(44:50):
level jobs, he says. Number four, hold parents accountable. Oh
and finally cpding he needs a no loitering ordinance and
a youth curfew to enforce. Well, you know what, if
you had parents at home that insisted on you being
home at a certain hour like mine did, then you

(45:10):
wouldn't need an ordinance on the books. You got your
own curfew. Mom and Dad, you're home by midnight. If
you don't hear from you and you're not in the
door by midnight, you are in trouble. I always had
a calling, a good permission. If I was going to
be outpack, I'd go, oh my god, yes, And I
had a respect and fear for my father. I love

(45:31):
my dad, but at some level he scared the living
hell out of me. You know, you didn't want to
get out of line with dad. You didn't you didn't
want to violate the house rules, and you certainly didn't
want to make mom upset, because then you did incur
the wrath of Dad. It really worked great that way.
And while I was not perfect in any way, shape

(45:52):
or form, the concern over parental you know, my parents
and what might happen to me, I would be grounded
that something would. There'll be repercussions, is the bottom line.
I didn't want my freedoms and liberty is taken away,
so I try to toe the line. That's the key.
At least Corey Bowman said it out a loud even

(46:14):
calling for an extra program or six or eight or whatever.
There is no substitute for the nuclear family and caring
and loving parents, and since that has been virtually eliminated
in certain segments of society, I don't know if we
can solve our way out of this problem. Can you
program your way out of this problem? I don't know.

(46:35):
Maybe you've got a better ideas. It's generational, but getting
back to the fundamentals, getting back to, as Corey points out,
encouraging the model and importance of family. What a great
first step that might be, maybe we can start incorporating

(46:58):
these fundamental, proven strategies for success back into society as
opposed to just sort of wiping them mat as if
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five hundred, eight hundred eighty two three tap pound five
fifty on at and T phones. I saw this article
from it was a New York Times article and sort
of uh gateway pundit grab ahold of it and speaking
of education, and uh, you know, went back to Corey Bowman,
you know, the the nuclear family, improved education outcomes and
options options of course is a great thing. Way to

(48:45):
get yourself, get your kids out of this you know,
woke environment where basically they're in Doctrine eighty in your children,
and perhaps send them to a private school, perhaps a
school that teaches you know, classical learning, you know phonics,
you know, the old school, tried and true, proven method,
recent new York Times article basically admits what conservative education

(49:07):
reformers and frustrated parents have long been warning. Academic standards
in America are collapsing, and sadly, it's the poor, working
class and disadvantaged kids who are being hurt the most.
Name of the article, the pandemic is not the only
reason US students are losing ground, where they point out
the nation's lowest performing students began falling behind years before COVID,

(49:29):
right around twenty thirteen, coinciding with the decline of the
Bush era and No Child Left Behind legislation and the
rise of radical progressive dogma in public education, what critics
called the Great Awokening. Anyway, the NAEP the National Assessment

(49:51):
of Educational Progress data shows between two thousand and three
to twenty thirteen, even the bottom ten percent of TI
test takers, those most in need of education support, were
slowly gaining ground, but around twenty thirteen at reversed. Since then,
the lowest scores on math and reading tests in both
fourth and eighth grade have steadily declined, with the drop

(50:13):
apparently accelerating after twenty twenty. American Enterprise Institute calls it
the five alarm fire about America's education process of progress.
The bottom quartile disproportionately made up of students with disabilities,
English language learners, and children from low income families who

(50:35):
are bearing the brunt of the educational collapse. And this
is where that progressive walk ideology kicks in and does
absolutely no service to these poor children. Every year they
lose ground, it becomes harder and harder to make up.

(50:55):
And yet every year these walk educators will advance students
even though they are ill equals to move on to
the next grade. How can that possibly serve that child
or society at large? What you have done is created
a person who is going to be completely, in one
hundred percent dependent upon some handout because they don't know
how to read, they don't know how to perform basic
mathematical skills. What are they going to do? We need

(51:20):
to get back to the fundamentals. I mean that seems
to me to an obvious solution to the problems. Since
twenty thirteen, they write, public schools have been rapidly re
engineered to prioritize equity over excellence, activism over academics, and
lived experience over logic and literacy. Standardized testing, discipline, gifted programs.

(51:45):
They're all gone. Why well, they're racist. That's why phonics
and factual history have been replaced by feelings, narratives and
DEI training sessions. Yeah, and don't you think think your
children deserve better than that? And I go back to
the whodea of that nuclear family. You know, I've said

(52:08):
it a million times. The greatest gift my parents gave
me after the gift of life, was a gift of education.
They insisted on it. I guess they didn't want me
laying around thirty five years old in the basement of
the house, you know, living on mom and Dad's a
large ess. The critical importance of an education, the ability

(52:30):
to go out into the world and care and take
care of yourself and at some point perhaps a family.
But we stand by idly and allow this corruption in
schools to continue. And think about the educators out there
that don't want you to have a choice. How nefarious

(52:51):
is that the teachers' unions do not want you to
have a say in your children's education. I mean, just
look at for what it actually is. They want your
children in this environment where they have absolute control over

(53:11):
the subject matter and what's being taught or as the score,
the scores reflect not being taught. They got rid of
everything that works in favor of whatever whatever's demonstrably not working.
We need to demand more. And I think the biggest

(53:32):
component of this is that family teachers can't do it all.
You got an unruly kid, a kid who has no discipline,
who has no ethics, no morals, no connection with with
with love or anything like that, and you throw them
into a classroom with a whole bunch of other kids
that are like that. How can anyone learn, even if
they're doing phonics and you know the classical education methods.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
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and little phone calls. This is so sad, you know.
Let me don't leave loaded firearms around when you've got

(55:45):
little children in the house. Can we all learn that lesson?
It's a simple lesson, or it's a simple practice to
lock your firearms up when there's children in the house.
Such a sad, sad state. Here got a father now
facing charges after a five year old shot a seven
month old happened to West Probably so on Saturday night,
officers got to call in the area of Sunset Avenue

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in Gurley Road nine to thirty in the evening for
the reports of a child's shot complaints. Says Montes. Joan
left a loaded and fully functional gun on the windows
sill of his bedroom occupied by a seven month old,
a five year old and a four year old. He
left the room to use the bathroom. One of the
older children handled the weapon, causing it to fire and
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her and a substantial risk of harm to the other
children infantaking the since at children's hospital. No word on
the current condition. Criminal Complaints says Jones made an omission
to the police. They say another adult was home at
the time of the shooting, but Jones is the only
one facing charges right now. He appears in court today.
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south and Sharonville. Happened Saturday morning, Corney troopers with the
Highot State Highway Patrol. They said around eight o'clock in
the morning, a twenty year old driver of a Nissan
ultimust going south on seventy five when the vehicle traveled
off the left side of the road and hit a pole.
Driver and the twenty eight year old passenger, both pronounced

(57:13):
dead of the scene, according to troopers. Not clear what
yet if drugs, alcohol, or excessive speed played a factor
in the crash, still under investigation at the time. Fox
nineteen reported on that at road rage get over Yourself
man arrested Tuesday after shooting a shooting at a vehicle
during a road rage incident on seventy four Nathaniel Enderley

(57:37):
arrested for firing a gunshot into the panel of a
van occupied by two people. Green Township Police reported on
that this one underly claimed the other driver was cutting
him off as he was merging onto the interstate, and
according to court documents, underly said the driver was staring
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here that justifies putting a bullet in the car. Thankfully,
neither person inside the van was hit by the gunshot.
Police set officers were able to quickly locate the suspect,
the vehicle and recover the handgun. He remains in the
Hamilton County Justice and on a forty thousand dollars bond
underly facing charges of flow he's assault and discharging a firearm.

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Let's see what New Hampshire Gary's got this morning, New
Hampshire Gary, Happy Monday to you. Thanks for calling today.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
Well happy welcome back from vacation. Brian. You've got the
batteries charge. It's probably good to just bail off some seam.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Huh uh, yeah, you know it's a part of me
is happy to be back. The part of me says,
you know I could use another week.

Speaker 8 (58:51):
Well, I just wanted to say. I know for sure
I missed both of you, Joe, and.

Speaker 7 (58:58):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (59:00):
I hope you have a bet. I hope you have
a good week.

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Hey, Gary, thank you very much. It's very kind of
you to call and wish me well. It's nice to
be well wanted back. Honestly, sometimes I always kind of
wonder about that. You take a week of vacation off
and it's like, hey, you lose listeners and nobody tunes
back in. It's one of the problems associated with being
on radio.

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Anyway.

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Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Good morning, Brian, and welcome back. I hope you had
a blessed Easter.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I did. It was an awesome, awesome day. Had some
great food. Mom and my wife both stepped up to
the plate, got ourselves a honey baked ham, which I
always love. That's kind of an Easter tradition in our house.
But it was. It was great, nice spending time with family,
and we celebrated my daughter's birthday on top of it.
I can't believe I have a twenty nine year old daughter.
Oh my god, Wow, you are getting old.

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I am all right.

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Thanks for powing on. That's just dating the obvious. Yeah, well,
welcome to Dingus Day.

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Oh yes, but well we'll be missing that today. Unfortunately.
The reason I'm calling is that you got UH to
go on vacation, just as the circus in New York
UH started last week with our friend Letitia James. Just
want to hear what your thoughts are about the irony

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of her being accused of what she prosecuted our president for.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
I think it's hilarious. You know, if they've got the
goods on her, which it sounds like they do, then
you know she's going to suffer the consequences of lying.
What was she listed? Her primary residence is what Connecticut
or something like that?

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Actually Virginia, Virginia?

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Okay, see I wasn't has.

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Too proper produced there, and she has family members living there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Okay. Well yeah, and I suppose turnabout's fair play. I mean,
I'm sure everybody's going to accuse the Trump administration of
engaging in lawfair blah blah blah blah blah. But you
know what, if they've got the evidence and they can
prove it in court beyond a reasonable doubt, she's going
to suffer the consequences. My popcorn is out. We just justice,
will be sir.

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I'm curious as to whether your friend, Cribbage Mike, your
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his time as a submariner.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Wow, and I have never heard the term torpedo juice before.
And yeah, that was appropriately timed, Joe Strecker, do you
want to offer my Do you want to offer me
and my listeners a brief explanation? Is that what the
hell torpedo juice is? Unless you can't say because.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
I'm going to go uh uh cribbaged Mike into calling
to uh describe it himself. I'm sure he has some
pretty colorful, colorful stories.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Okay, I think I'm gonna have to look it up
because I don't know if Cribbage Mike is tuned in
right now to either defend his own honor in the
honor of his fellow submariners or we're just gonna have
to It has.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
Nothing with what uh you know, Joe seems to think
it is. And but yeah, I think it would be
uh the whof Mike to call in.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Well, I think it would too, Mike. If you're out there,
you better answer the question, because I'm now wildly curious.
Did you have do you have a submarine or friends?
Al'e that where you came up with this term? Or
you just hear it from somebody else actually reading?

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
I'm reading World War two history. I'm a history buff
and this came up in one of the books that
I'm currently reading, and it's very interesting. Okay, has nothing
to do with nefarious or sexual undertones.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Believe me, I'm glad to know that. All Right, you
certainly piated my curiosity. Thanks for calling, al appreciate that.
Oh looking it up American slang for an alcoholic beverages

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Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
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Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Nine fifty five Parisite talk station. Yeah, apparently they used
one hundred and eighty proof grain. Alcoholis fuel for the
torpedoes and World War two, so I guess the military,
recognizing that the sailors probably would drink it, added poisonous
additives including methanol and something called pink Lady. And they
say the UH submariners would attempt to filter out that

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poisonous additives and then mix it with juice, but it
was still dangerous, be that desperate for drinking. Going back
to the schools and the decline of the education system
is an interesting op ed piece in The Wall Street
Turn because there is an important case being arguing in
front of the Supreme Court tomorrow and they're right. Does
the First Amendment give parents a right to opt out

(01:08:08):
of gender ideology at the local public elementary school? Why
are they teaching this stuff to elementary school kids? And
rather than focusing on the important things like reading, writing,
and arithmetic and reading that don't doesn't have such a
sensitive subject matter, they might interfere with people's own personal
feelings at home, religion or otherwise. Anyway, Supreme Court is

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gonna consider the case tomorrow Mahamad versus Taylor, and they're right.
Consider two of the story books of the parents of
Montgomery County, Maryland, say the district added to its reading
curriculum and Why My Rainbow story about an autistic child
named Trinity who said, quote I need long hair, close
quote because quote I may transgender girl. It ends with

(01:08:52):
a surprise gift from Trinity's mom, a teal pink and
purple wig. Other book, Born Ready, about Penelope, who tells
her mother, I don't feel like a boy, I am
a boy. After this single discussion, the mother answers with
unquestioning affirmation, Yes, we will make a plan to tell
everyone we love. Teachers Montgomery County were also given guidance

(01:09:15):
to on replying to classroom questions and comments. One idea
was to disrupt that's in quote, students from either or
thinking about the sexes. If a child suggested it's weird
to say a girl can be a boy, then the
proposed response was to explain how this comment is hurtful
and that when each of us is born quote, people

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make a guess about our gender close quote, we underwire
children are so dumb. Many families objected, including a Muslim, Catholic,
and Ukrainian Orthodox plaintiffs, and their telling of the facts.
They initially were offered a chance to opt out of
the story books, but the school district quickly reversed and
then said it wouldn't inform parents when the books were

(01:09:57):
going to be read in doctrination. Montgomery County replies that
it sought to supplement its reading program with LGBTQ characters
to quote reflect the diversity of its families. At first,
it tried to accommodate parent requests to opt the children
out of class, until that became unworkably disruptive because of

(01:10:20):
unsustainably high numbers of absent students. Maybe that's an indication
you shouldn't be teaching this crap in school because parents
don't want to talk there. They say, for the record,
my rainbow has since been removed, though the county doesn't
explain exactly why parents rely on the precedent Wisconsin versus
Yoder Fro nineteen seventy two, in which the court said
Amish families couldn't be made to send their children to

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school past eighth grade. If the First Amendment protects dropping out,
how can it not cover the much narrower request by
parents wanting to merely skip discrete instruction that deliberately seeks
to confound their religious values. Montgomery County argues that if
families choose to attend public schools, they are quote not

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cognizably coerced by virtue of their children's exposure there to
religiously objectionable ideas close quote. If the First Amendment gives
parents the right to pick and choose from the curriculum,
the county says that there's no discernible woman, and would
it would work the same in science or history classes.
No public schools simply cannot accommodate such expectations, as the

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Montgomery County argument.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
They can't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Public schools accommodate a lot, including students who are disabled
or learning English as a second language. Part of living
in a pluralistic society is that some families might reject, say,
ideas on evolution, their children can still benefit from learning
algebra on Romeo and Juliet. How hard it will be
for Montgomery County schools to announce that Born Ready will

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be read in three weeks and students can be excused,
or more fundamentally, why don't they just choose not to
read that book? This gets to the parent's second argument,
which is that the district's policy isn't neutral and that
ending of opt outs was targeted. Their brief sites a
member of the school board saying it would be an

(01:12:17):
impossible disruption if the teachers had to send out notices
so that white supremacists could opt out of civil rights content.
The implicit comparison is between religious families and racists. Now,
who needs a tolerance lesson amen editorial board, see this

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is the problem. They will indoctrinate your kids. They will
not allow you to have your own religious objections or
even just logical and reasonable science based objections to pointing out.
Like the United Kingdom Court in an unanimous opinion pointed
out there are two genders period. End of story six

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fifty five fifty five KRCD Talk Station FLP President Ken
Cober on the protest downtown over the street and violence
on the banks. Are you safe downtown at night? We'll
ask Ken about that coming up after top of the hour,
follow by Christopher Smith Oman at seven twenty. I sure
hope you can stick around.

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Seven six fifty five are See talk station byan Talis
Fish and everybody. A very happy Monday, and welcome back
to the fifty five carse Morning Show. FLP President Chapter
sixty nine. Since I Police Departments Union, it's Ken Cober,
Welcome back, Can It's always great having you on the program.

Speaker 7 (01:13:57):
Hey, good morning, Brian, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
So uh this protest they had downtown, I understand it's
that fifty fifty one protest just basically expressing out loud
anger against the Trump administration, screaming fascism and all that
kind of stuff. And these are happening more and more often.
I guess, mayor I have toab pervol was down there
joining in the crowd? Were there any you know, police

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involved incidents or incidents where the police had to be involved?
Was it violent? What did they cause any property destruction?
And did they have a permit?

Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
And one?

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
What was one necessary? I guess a lot of questions
to throw out you once can but sum it up
for my listeners of me, would you please.

Speaker 10 (01:14:37):
Yeah, well sure, there were about forty policemen there that
were either on canceled off days.

Speaker 7 (01:14:43):
So instead of being in the communities.

Speaker 10 (01:14:45):
That they normally serve, they're down there, and they were
down there primarily because there was a large group of
people that were blocking streets and know they didn't have
a permit.

Speaker 7 (01:14:53):
And that's that's the biggest exception that I take with this.

Speaker 10 (01:14:56):
I support their First Amendment right to go protest and
be mad at the things that want to be mad at. However,
it costs the city roughly fifteen thousand dollars for police
protection that the city paid for when they're supposedly in
a crisis now where they're asking city departments to cut
five percent of their.

Speaker 7 (01:15:14):
Budget and we're just giving them free service.

Speaker 10 (01:15:17):
You know, Flying Pig doesn't get that, you know, Taste
the Cincinnati Octoberfest, all those events have to get permits
to close streets, and I just don't understand why this
group is any different.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Well, and I understand why the mayor of the City
of Cincinnati was there egging people on and participating in
street closures when he, more than anyone, should know that
a pertmit is required to do that, and he more
than anyone should know about the budget issues that we
are facing, and the idea that well, the taxpayer is
going to be paying for all this extra law enforcement.
It's absurd.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
Yeah, completely agree.

Speaker 10 (01:15:50):
I mean it's said I support their right to protest,
but they need to do it at their expense, not
the cities, not the taxpayers. So I'm sure there were
taxpayers that were paying for some of this that probably
didn't have.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
The same views as them. And that's the biggest exception
I take to this, And then to have the mayor
there on top of it, where they're engaging in.

Speaker 10 (01:16:08):
An unlawful activity by closing the streets without a permit
is unlawful.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
Well, given that it is unlawful, seeing to me, it
might have been a nice thing to do, just to
arrest the mayor. I mean, if you're going to arrest
somebody and make an illustration of the unlawful reality of
what they're doing, why not just make it the figurehead
of the City of Cincinnatian government.

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
That would certainly make some headlines, wouldn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Yeah, I thin'd be great, and they'd have to go
on and defend himself that. I mean, did anybody with
the police department reach out like Teresa Thiji or maybe
you know, just hey, listen, have to have what you're
doing here isn't lawful and you might want to address
that and do something about it.

Speaker 7 (01:16:46):
Not that I'm aware of now. No, I don't suspect
that they're going to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Well, then I suppose this type of thing is going
to continue, then, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:16:57):
Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, they're going to continue
to have these protests.

Speaker 10 (01:16:59):
There going to continue not to get permits, and they're
gonna have the police will be there to continue to
protect them at the taxpayer's expense.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Well, protecting them and engaging in activity. Is it criminal
activity to shut down the street without a permit?

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
I mean, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Does it?

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Rise to a level of a misdemeanor or a sitable offense.

Speaker 10 (01:17:19):
One would argue, yes, it is absolutely illegal, especially if
you're the one that's trying to get around to this,
you know, through the city in a vehicle, and you
can't because there's large groups of people that are blocking traffic. Yes,
one would say that that is probably an arrestable offense.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Well, were the police officers instructed not to issue citations?

Speaker 7 (01:17:41):
I would suspect that answer is also yes.

Speaker 10 (01:17:43):
Absolutely, they were there to make sure that these folks
are safe, and that's exactly what occurred.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Safe in their unlawful conduct. Hmm.

Speaker 7 (01:17:52):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
I'm having a difficult time reconciling those two positions there, Ken.

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
Yeah. Yeah, it's no different than they had a event Sunday.

Speaker 10 (01:18:05):
Of course, yesterday was four twenty where there was encourage
to smoke marijuana in public. There are some officers that
raise the question as to how can we do this,
and the city law department has told the police department
that there is no expectation to enforce this law. So
that's where we're at with city government right now in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
So basically encouraging lawlessness.

Speaker 10 (01:18:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's I've got the email that there
is no expectation to enforce this law.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Well that's a sorry state of affairs.

Speaker 8 (01:18:40):
Ken.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
I know you're just telling us the facts, but that really,
I mean, I can't feel anything but sort of almost
despair over that situation, especially noting that the mayor was
actively engaged in blocking the streets and protesting. I'm shocked,
I honestly can I'm shocked. It's the general consensus among

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the police officers you talked to. I got to imagine
they're a little disappointed at themselves.

Speaker 10 (01:19:06):
Well that's how I ended up, you know, finding out
about this is you know, I had some officers that
were there working that were kind of complaining that that
this just isn't right.

Speaker 7 (01:19:15):
Why why is this?

Speaker 10 (01:19:17):
Why are they allowed to do this? But if some
people have to get permits, some people don't. You know,
they're there to do a job, which is to protect
his people, which is what they did, and they did
it with the utmost professionalism. But the fact that that
they're allowed to do these things without a permit, that's
so that's the biggest issue that I just don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Well selective law enforcement. And I suppose one may argue
that if it wasn't this fifty one fifty group and
it was a bunch of you know, uh, picket fill
in the blank with any other type of activity organization.
I mean, pick an offensive one like, uh, you know,
maybe a clan member rally or something. I imagine a
whole lot of people will be rounded up and issued

(01:19:58):
citations for breaking the law. But because it's these leftists
that are backed by the mayor, then they get a
free pass. I know, I just it's it's disturbing, Kencobra,
it's just disturbing, also disturbing and pivoting over violence on
the Bank's question, should we stay the hell away from
the banks downtown at night, because I know it's kind
of it's obviously widely reported there's been a lot of

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crime there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
Ken.

Speaker 10 (01:20:22):
Yeah, it's getting harder and harder to tell people that
it's safe that they should go down there when you know,
these shootings are seem to be occurring every weekend there,
and it's a shame because it's such a neat area,
you know, and the reds are in town, you know,
But it gets to a certain point in the night.

Speaker 7 (01:20:39):
And it's just it's overrun with criminals. That's that's the
shame because it is a really really neat place down there. Yeah,
it is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
And you know, the more the word gets out about violence,
the fewer fewer people are gonna want to go downtown
and all these efforts to remake Cincinnati and try to
encourage people to want to invest in and live in
the city of Cincinnati that they can't go anywhere unless
you get a hand on crime and make it appear
at least that the city is a safe place to be.

Speaker 10 (01:21:06):
Yeah, it's a shame because the people that are causing
these you know, violent encounters, they're not down there patronizing
these businesses anyway.

Speaker 7 (01:21:15):
They're down there to try to start trouble and it
ruins it for.

Speaker 10 (01:21:20):
The good people of Cincinnati that are that are there
to patronize these businesses to you know, go have a drink,
have dinner, and you know, they're end up getting caught
in the middle of a shooting.

Speaker 7 (01:21:31):
And it's just it's it's ridiculous that it goes on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
Is this young people like youth violence maybe like miners
that are running around firearms or are these adults down
there running around with firearms? Is it a mixed bag
of everything.

Speaker 7 (01:21:44):
Yeah, it's a mixed bag. There's no rhyme or reason.

Speaker 10 (01:21:47):
They'll have thirty forty fifty kids running around there, You'll
creating chaos, and then you'll have people in their early
twenties shooting each other.

Speaker 7 (01:21:56):
There's no real rhyme or reason. It's just for whatever reason,
people want to go down there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
He said.

Speaker 10 (01:22:02):
These people aren't pitronizing these businesses, they're just waiting.

Speaker 7 (01:22:06):
To find a victim.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
Well, and without a substantial police presence and police officers
who have been instructed to issue citations otherwise round people
up and arrest them, I can only imagine it's going
to get worse Ken.

Speaker 10 (01:22:21):
Yeah, and that's part of the problem is they're being
told they don't do anything, just stand there. I mean
we had somebody shot in front of a policeman last summer.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Oh my god.

Speaker 7 (01:22:31):
So I mean having a.

Speaker 10 (01:22:32):
Police presence there isn't necessarily going to deter it. When
you have people that are just held bent on being criminals.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Well and also noting full well that the justice system
is not going to hold them accountable even if they
are arrested. We've got a real problem with that. And
I think the word has gotten out It's like the
open border situation. When the whole world found out that
we weren't enforcing our own borders. The whole world showed
up and came into the United States. It's like, well,
if they aren't going to prosecute people to the fullest
extent of the law and make examples out of violent people,

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then we may as well just go ahead and engage
in violence. Nobody's going to hold us accountable.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs right now in
Hamilton County, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
Ken.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
I wish you had more positive information for my listeners
than me, but it is what it is, and you've
obviously illustrated a problem we've got on our hands. And
let's start with the mayor. Next time, arrest the mayor.
We'll see what happens. How's that.

Speaker 7 (01:23:25):
I think, like you said, that would make fantastic headlines.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
I'll keep my fingers crossed that that happens. Ken, Thanks
to spend the time by listening to me today, and
God bless you and each and every one of this
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It's seven twenty. If you've got a Carcite talk station.
Thank god it's Monday for the following reason. It's that
time of week that you could hear from the former
Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smith them
in what we call the East Mither Vent. Christopher, welcome
back to the program, my friend. I hope you had
a wonderful Easter holiday.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
I did. I had a wonderful Easter, and I enjoyed
hearing you know, your celebration with your mom and your
family and your daughter turning twenty nine and Cam and
all of that. Guys, I could, I could. I can
see your house, you know, the Thomas House is moving
in a beautiful way. Yeah, happy Easter to you and

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Paul that and your whole family.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Well, thanks very much of that. Today's official day, she
turns twenty nine, but we did celebrate yesterday, and I'm
happy to report, Christopher, they have she and her fiance
have settled on a wedding date and that'll be next June.
I believe the eighth, but I probably have that one wrong.
But next June, so we finally he's got something on
the calendar, and we're really excited about that.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
We're gonna have They're gonna have to bring the tissues
for Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
You got that right, man. I know I'm gonna be
struggling with an allergy outbreak on that day. But she's
she's a lucky lady, and he is absolutely alone.

Speaker 8 (01:26:00):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
They make a great couple together. So we're just thrilled
about them and their engagement.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
Oh, that is so wonderful. Brian. I went to first
to start off, which which I think at the top
of the news is just acknowledging that Pope France has
died at the age of eighty eight. I know, you
know that I'm I'm Catholic, My family is Catholic. Uh,
you know, our our home parish, you know, has been

(01:26:27):
Bellaman Chapel at David University, which is a Jesuit community,
and so he was the first Jesuit pope that they've
ever had. And uh, you know, even at my points
of disagreement with him, you know, I and and and
all of the wonderful things that he did for the world.
There were so many good things that that he did,

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the way he led his life of poverty, and I
think that so many pastors no matter what their faith is,
should take note of how he lived his life. But
at the end of the day, you know, I definitely
extend my condolences to the Catholic community because this is
going to be this is a very big deal, a

(01:27:10):
very big story, and the cardinals will be coming together
to lay him the rest, and then they will then
make the decision on the selection of a new pope.
And there's so many young people who've never been a
part of that process, never seen it. They don't know
what it's like. Yeah, because they were they were too
young when this pope was was elected twelve I think

(01:27:32):
it was twelve years ago. But at the end of
the day, they're going to get a chance to see
that entire process.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
And I get the impression it's a very political process
inside the Vatican. I mean, yeah, it's you know, Peteing
fighting for turf and and you know, people have their
their favorites, and people have you know, people that they
don't like, and I just get the impression that it's
it isn't always a smooth process coming up with the
election of the next place.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
I think if we were behind the doors, it would
make Congress look like puppies. I think it's a very
tough political process, and that's why everybody gets in there,
they lock the doors and they don't come out until
they have a new pope. But what I will say
about it as a Catholic is that I'm looking for

(01:28:24):
the selection of a more traditional of pope because we're
right now in a time where it seems like culture
across the world is going anywhere, any place. Anybody can
do anything, and there has to be an anchor, and
that anchor tends to be our faith. It tends to
be our religion and our faith. And so I'm hoping

(01:28:47):
here that there's a pivot to a pope that really
sticks to the doctrine of Catholicism rooted in it, and
that doesn't mean at the exclusion of others, but it
talks about Christmas, the importance of Christmas, for example, and
that you would not expect the pope to say, for example,

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if they decided to weigh into secular politics, that they
wouldn't say it's okay for men to play against women
in sports. I want to make sure that we are
advancing faith, and I think young people right now Brian Thomas,
are seeking this in great numbers, and so I think
this is a great opportunity for the Catholic Church. And

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if there's any kind of things that are going on
related to corruption at any level, that we have a
church that responds in a very appropriate way.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, And I'll be honest with you as
we know. Move on to the break here, Christopher. I
have a lot of friends that are Catholic. I grew
up in a very very Catholic neighborhood, even though I'm
not Catholic, but honestly I don't to I mean, across
the board, they were not thrilled with this the late Pope.
He was far too liberal for the Catholics that I know.

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And that's why I'm glad to hear you say you're
looking for a more traditional pope, someone who's more, you know,
sticking with the doctor and the dogma of the faith,
sock Catholicism. I think that's really important. So that'll satisfy
a lot of my friends if they do go in
that direction.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
I agree. I look forward to talking to you after
the break, my brother.

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the smith Van Christopher. What else is on your mind?
Moving away from the passing of the Pope?

Speaker 4 (01:32:40):
Listen, brother, I have so many topics that I can't
get through them all, but let me just say that.
You know the woman who was murdered in Maryland, Rachel Morin,
and she was thirty seven years old with five children,
and she was out on a jog on August six,

(01:33:00):
twenty twenty three, and she was horrifically murdered. And her
mother was at the White House this week and went
through the details of that horrific murder of her daughter.
I don't know if I could have done it, and
my heart goes out to that entire family in a
big way. You know, having buried me, having buried a spouse,

(01:33:24):
for ant Thomas, is totally different than burying a child.
And so people who go through that just in the
normal circumstance of a car wreck or cancer or something
like that, it's horrible, but to say that you as
somebody illegally in the country, that's something that could have
been avoided, that the White House didn't protect you, and

(01:33:47):
then that person killed your daughter, an American woman on
a job is insane. And to have her senator, this
van Holland flying over saying that he's advocating for somebody
who within our country illegally and using the language I'm
going to bring them back home. What is he talking about? Like,

(01:34:08):
I don't even understand what these Democrats are talking about
when they're out there advocating for people that clearly are
gang members, clearly are wife beaters, clearly is involved in
human trafficking. It's all been documented for any rational person
to see what is going on with our politics where
we think a Democratic senator there are only one hundred

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of them to anybody who doesn't know that senators are
very powerful. And for him to fly over there and
engage in this while his constituent, meaning he's from Maryland
and Rachel Morin was his constituent, and he had not
even reached out to the mother, he had not extended
those condolences and really comforted her. He's over in another

(01:34:54):
country advocating, let's bring back a gang member to the
United States of America Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
Yeah, and they're so far on the wrong side of
that issue that it just really it boggles my mind
that a politician, you know, politicians like love look looking
at polls and figure out which way the wind is
blowing so they know what they should say to benefit
the most people or at least get the most votes.
This isn't I mean, this is like an eighty twenty issue.
You know, they're on the wrong side of this in

(01:35:23):
a huge way, and I can't imagine it benefiting them
and iota, I mean, it's inexcusable and inexplicable to start with.
But the fact that most people, Republicans and Democrats are
in favor of kicking out illegal criminal illegal immigrants, most notably,
I mean, just put them on the wrong side of
the ledger. I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:43):
I don't get it. I mean, I want to emphasize
that the guy that he's advocating for as a criminal
record would stop in a vehicle, human trafficking, clearly tattooed
up for a gang member. MS thirteen clearly clearly beat
his wife up on two occasions. In an interview she

(01:36:04):
could not even say on mainstream media that she was
not fearful for her life, which is what she put
on the restraining order on two separate occasions. Why would
a senator be somewhere in another country. But I'm gonna
pivot away from that and talk locally about our mayor
pure vault. Look, I was the outgoing vice mayor of

(01:36:25):
the City of Cincinnati, but I'm also a Christian and
I have no problems leading with my faith. Brian Thomas.
This weekend was one of the most sacred weekends for
any Christian Resurrection weekend. We're coming from Good Friday, as

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you talked about, Eastern Sunday, Resurrection Day. Sunday, this is
the day where we know that Jesus rose from the ditch,
the meaning God said his only begotten son here he
rows on the third day. And it's our relationship. It's
how our sins are forgiven and how we can have

(01:37:06):
a relationship directly with God. Who in the world would
be doing a protest downtown if you're a mayor. I'm
starting with I heard your caller call in about the
issue with having a permit or not. Reality of it
is what mayor with being downtown Cincinnati engaging in a
protest when guests, our guests, our family, my family, they're

(01:37:29):
all coming in town. They're coming in town to celebrate,
like your family. Why would you greet them downtown with
protests as they're trying to go to restaurants, as they're
trying to host their families. Why would you do that
on the most sacred Christian holiday ever. I haven't even

(01:37:49):
gotten to the notion of breaking the law and not
having a permit. It's like, God, what is this mayor
thinking about?

Speaker 8 (01:37:57):
See?

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
This is this woke liberalist that we all must reject.
It's like, not even the etiquette. Why not do it
this upcoming weekend? Why choose Resurrection weekend when Christians are
celebrating their most important holiday.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
That's great question.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
I don't get this mayor. And it's why I'm supporting
Corey Bowman for mayor because I keep seeing this craziness
coming out of City Hall and there's not one member
of council that will call this mayor on the carpet
and say, let me tell you, I shouldn't have to
call as a former vice mayor, they're nine members of council.

(01:38:37):
They should be writing a dissent, saying, look, Mayor, why
were you down there engaging in an illegal protest? No
permitting blocking off streets, But why would you be doing
that on the most sacred Christian holiday weekend? I don't
understand it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Brian Thomas not to mention the apparently significant expense they
had to pay overtime hours for the police department to
have a present there, and the police officers, I get
the impression from FOP President Ken Kober, were instructed that
they shouldn't engage in ticketing folks for violating the law
because they didn't have a permit. I mean, it just
defeats the whole point of the permit process. If you

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Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
Seven forty one if it's five care ceed talk station.
Very Happy Monday to you. Monday Monday, Brian James off
the top of the UR News. Quite a few topics
talked about with Brian in the meantime. Christopher Smitheman, H yeah,
Chris on the protest, you know, and Ken Kober pointed
out that they didn't have a permit. It was unlawful
for them to block the traffic, and I guess they
were instructed not to a to anybody or issuing any citations.

(01:42:01):
Seeing to me, I said, next time, once you arrest
the mayor, you know you want a headlines grabber. The
mayor arrested for violating the city ordinances, city law and
participating in a protest without that license. That excuse me,
that would speak volumes.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
I think it's a great taxpayer lawsuit. You know, there
was a time where a lawyer by the name of
Chris Finny would take these, uh, this type of litigation
up saying that the taxpayers aren't responsible for any of
that and that the organizers are responsible and have them
pay the bills.

Speaker 8 (01:42:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
I like that, and so yeah, I think I think
I think you could. You know there's somebody out there listening.
You know, you just need one person and a good
lawyer to follow a taxpayer lawsuit and start deposing people
about was this a lawful a lawful event where if
you tell everybody else they have to have a permit
and they didn't have a permit, you've got a problem

(01:42:56):
as a city. And because your mayor was there, it
probably we would give them the opportunity to depose him directly.
Very interesting lawsuits.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
One can only hope that someone out there here's that
and says that's a great idea. I'm going to take
Christmas Men's advice.

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
But let me say this to you, Brian Thomas. You
know I'm listening to these universities like Harvard and Columbia
University Princeton, Harvard being in Columbia being the most, but
there are lots of these liberal institutions that take federal money. First,
I didn't realize how much money they were giving.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
I know, I was just gonna say that this is insane.

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
By that I didn't realize we're giving Harvard over two
billion dollars per year and they have a fifty three
billion dollar endowment. Why are we giving these universities any money.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
And they're lined up around the block to get in there.
It's not like they don't charge tuition. Hell, it's insane, man.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
Hundred one hundred thousand dollars a year or eighty thousand,
whatever the number is. And then you see their privilege, right,
They actually they've been getting this money every single year
that they absolutely absolutely believe that our tax dollars, our
federal tax dollars could go to them because of their right,

(01:44:20):
their right to have it. They don't view it as hey, man,
there are people out there that work who will never
step foot on Harvard University. They're working construction jobs out here.
They're working nine to five jobs as waitresses and waiters
out here, right, they're making twenty dollars fifteen dollars, twelve
dollars an hour. All that federal money that goes in

(01:44:41):
as we come out of April of fifteen, why are
we giving Harvard any money? The second point that I
want to make about this for people to consider is
that the university could just say I'm not gonna take
the money and I'm gonna live, I'm gonna work as
a private institution. They'll see that they I feel like
they can get the money, but then they don't have

(01:45:03):
to listen to the federal government. Right, These are some
arrogant people, man, they are arrogant at all. Get out that.
They say, taxpayers, I get your two billion dollars, but
I don't have to listen to your government at all.
I can do whatever I wanted to. What world are
they living?

Speaker 1 (01:45:23):
Yeah, it's just every time I hear about that, you know,
they get upset that the federal government is now requiring
them to crack down on anti Semitism or whatever the
federal gument is asking to do as a condition of
accepting the money. It's okay when left wingers they tell you, well,
you've got to teach DEEI, and you've got to you know,
do this, that and the other thing. If it's some
left wing proposal, they're not objecting against it. But as

(01:45:45):
soon as the conservative administration comes in it says, no,
we're going to be cracking down and trying to protect
our Jewish students' friends, and you're going to help out
or we're cutting you off. They get all bet out
of shape over it. Like you said, be you like
Hillsdale College. If you don't accept federal money. You don't
have to accept federal strings. That's regardless of which political
stripe they come in, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:46:04):
And by the way, most Americans don't get a college education.
You know, this notion that these up any students that
are there, by the way, and I heard a commentator say,
the majority of them will own homes in their life,
but the people who are putting money in the pot won't.
And so this notion that they can just go out

(01:46:27):
say all this stuff about Hama, hate America, burn flags there,
and then sit back and say, hey, I still get
your two point three billion dollars while we have a
fifty three billion dollar endowment. I mean, if they were
saying they would just say, you know what, We'll forego
this for the next eight years and we're going to
use our endowment and we're gonna let our students do

(01:46:48):
whatever they want to do. I think that's terrible for
the Jewish community that you have students there that are
anti Semitic. Mean, let me be clear. I support people's
right to speak their First Amendment right, Brian Thomas, and
I know you do too. People listening to us will go, well,
they're against someone's First Amendment. Right, that's not what we're
talking about. We're talking about their actions, their behavior. Them's

(01:47:12):
blocking doors, knocking out windows, setting flags on fire, harassing
other students that go to Harvard. That is what the
White House is talking about. They're not talking about their
right to go and have free speech. We're saying, listen,
your free speech is in you're engaging in an action.

(01:47:33):
Your behavior is what we're talking about. And they're asking
Harvard and Princeton and Columbia to get it together, get
their students together so that their actions and their behaviors
reflect the United States of America. And it's citizens who
are giving them these billions of dollars. I say, cut
them all off, period, give them, not give them a dime,

(01:47:55):
and not give them a dime for the next four years,
and let them sue us, and let's go all the
way to the Supreme Court with these privileged institutions that
believe that we owe them to give them the billions
of dollars and we don't.

Speaker 1 (01:48:08):
Brian Thomas, Yeah, it's a great idea, Christopher, And you know,
it's just I'm happy all this is going on because
it is I think, as you point out, there are
a lot of hardworking people out there of different political
stripes that just their mouths drop open in awe and
disbelief that, oh, my god, how many years we've been
given these institutions billions and billions of dollars that it

(01:48:30):
took all this anti semitism and these shutdowns of college
campuses to shed light on this. I mean, you know,
listen to what advantage of all this is that people
finally see it for what it is and get as
angry as you are about it, because you know, the
hell with those people. I just I don't know, man.
It's not like about extra money laying around. Christopher, you know,

(01:48:51):
and you're a financial planner, I bet you could figure
out probably pretty quickly how much money they earn in
investments on that fifty two to three billion dollars in
dollar that they have. It's not like it's a static,
finite amount of money that isn't going to that's gonna
shrink up and disappear.

Speaker 4 (01:49:06):
And what's so crazy about it? To your listening audience
who knows this, They are layered on top of it,
they get a tax e zip status. Yeah, they're not
even paying taxes, brother, we're giving them two billion dollars
or over that of money right out of our checks
to them. They have a fifty three billion dollar endowment

(01:49:28):
and they're paying zero in taxes. Now, I will tell
you that. Right now, my daughter and I are traveling
around the state of Ohio visiting colleges and universities, places
like the Ohio State University, Miami of Ohio, Mount Saint Joe.

(01:49:48):
We'll be checking out BGSU Finley, might go up to AKROM,
but we're doing this right now. Sure, I want to
be open with you.

Speaker 5 (01:49:56):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:49:56):
Look, I don't want my daughter to go to one
of these institutions that thinks it's okay to break windows out,
harass any student, a Jewish student, an African American student,
an Italian student, and international student. It's unacceptable behavior. These
eighteen and nineteen and twenty one year olds and twenty

(01:50:17):
two year olds that are going to these institutions, who
are coming from privileged households, privileged households are out of
control when they think they can walk up and block
my daughter from walking into a library. I mean this notion.
So I'm looking at institutions and I'm trying to figure
out as I talk to my daughter to say, look,
I want to make sure that we're picking the best

(01:50:39):
institution for you, and I don't want her around this
kind of wokeness. I don't like it at all. I
think it's incredibly disrespectful. And I don't like students that
think it's okay to harass other students to bully them.
What's going on with the Democratic Party that they would
think this behavior is okay? Brian Thomas, I thought this

(01:50:59):
was a party of inclusion. I thought it was a
party of acceptance. It doesn't feel that way to me.
It feels like I'm gonna shove my values down your
throat and if you don't like it, screw you. I
have a problem with that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
Yeah, I do too. And you know the party that's
running around calling you know, Donald Trump and and all
the Republicans and Nazis. Trump is the one trying to
help the Jewish students get an education. Nazis are the
ones that wanted to kill the Jews? Am I misremembering history? Christopher?
It just seems to me to be a little bit odd.

Speaker 4 (01:51:33):
Ryan Thomas, you are absolutely right on point, and the
hypocrisy is just amazing. You've got Democratic senators flying out
of the out of our country, trying to bring back
people that came into our country illegally, right, who who
are raping and maiming our American citizens. Right. And at

(01:51:55):
the same time they're saying, university it's okay to harass
Jewish students. I hope Jewish leadership, I hope they're watching
this very very closely. And because just like African Americans,
the Jewish community often votes democratics to the Democratic Party, right,
and so I'm hoping they're waking up saying, at least

(01:52:15):
move to being an independent, hold your vote and why again,
I can't say enough. I'm voting for Corey Bowman, and
I'm encouraging other people to vote for him for mayor.
Let's not just surrender our values to think that it's
okay for a mayor to go in our downtown Cincinnati
on our most sacred Christian holiday without a permit, right,

(01:52:37):
without a permit, using our taxpayer dollars to protect illegal behavior.
It's not the First Amendment speech you and I are
talking about. So nobody emailed me, nobody texts me I
support the First Amendment, right, I'm talking about not having
a permit. Your caller who your guest caller that called
in is right on point. That was illegal. And our

(01:53:00):
mayor went down there and hobnobbed and got on the
got on his big mic and went down there with
him where he was engaging in something that was illegal.
It just I'm just insulted that he would do it
on Resurrection weekend. And if you're a Christian out there
like me on fire for God, I'm hoping that you
are as offended hearing my voice that our mayor, I

(01:53:22):
don't care whether you're a Democrat or Republican or independent
with downtown when our families are coming in engaging in
an unlawful protest without apartment on our resurrection weekend. Well
stayed on him.

Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
Well stated Christopher, you are on fire today, Well stated
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(01:55:07):
Brian James. It's always a pleasure to having you on
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Yes it was off. There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Sure, yeah, and I was. I was ready to roll,
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another Monday, another discussion of volatility and craziness and audio problems.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
Coming off a week of vacation, I feel as though
I'm not firing on all cylinders. I like vacation. It's
like you need a vacation after your vacation, so you know. Anyway,
struggling to scooch myself this morning, but MIC's are on.
It's time to talk money matters. Let's talk about stock
market volatility. I no market genius, am I, Brian. That's
why I have someone managing my you know, my my

(01:55:56):
certified financial planner managing my affairs. I don't want to
have have to pay attention to it. But I have
some general understandings and things like that. But I get
the impression that the volatility in the market, and it
has been kind of up and down with all these
talks about tariffs. I just I just get the impression
no one really knows what they're gonna do these tariffs

(01:56:19):
and how we're going to be dealing with it, or
what is going to emerge as a consequence of them.
Will they stay around? Will Donald Trump pull the plug
on them? Is he going to negotiate better deals with
different countries? Is China going to hold out? I mean,
it's just seems to me a whole lot of question
mark swirling around it, and that uncertainty of its in
and of itself brings around volatility. I suppose, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
Yeah, it does. And I'm looking at what happened last week.
My first comment was going to be it was relatively
quiet week, but then I realized, no, it wasn't. Hasn't
been quiet week all year long. It's been nothing but
chaos because we're simply finding our way. You know, a
quiet week simply means the market bounced up and down violently,
but then kind of ended where we're it started, So
there was no you know, kind of week over week impacts.

(01:57:03):
But yeah, we have reached the stage. We know we're
in chaos right now. We know there's a there's change
coming and we're we're under We're under a lot of
it right now. The market absolutely hates that. It's not that,
you know, we're gonna go over the cliff and hit
the bottom and that's going to be the end and
we're all gonna, you know, live in caves and buy
ammunition and grow corn for the rest of our lives.
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(01:57:23):
market is behaving the way it is because it simply
can't see. We're flailing around in the fog. The market
absolutely hates when it can't predict what's coming. So therefore,
with what the market always wants to know. You know,
there are a number of earnings reports, for example, coming
this week from big companies like Verizon, AT and T,
P and G and some of the big names. We
are going to be listening. What we're going to focus

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on this week is what are those companies saying in
terms of visibility. Doesn't really matter what they did in
the last core. We't care about that anymore. That's that's
that's over and done with. What are they what what
position are they going to take over the next several
months with regard to tariffs. So, for example, if Proctor
and Gamble manufactured stuff overseas and wants to move country
to country. What's the tariff going to be on the
day that that package of stuff arrives in whatever country

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it's it's destined for. And we don't know that right
now because that literally changes that you as you just said,
that changes almost day to day anymore. The market absolutely
hates that because it cannot calculate what a successful transaction
should result in in terms of profit. Therefore we have
these violence wings back and forth.

Speaker 7 (01:58:22):
For this world.

Speaker 1 (01:58:22):
The planning is, I mean the markets. If there's if
you can count on something happening, even if like taxes
are going to increase, you know it's going to happen.
It's going to be x. They can factor that in
and deal with it because there's some certainty into what's
coming in the future. It may not be as good.
Financial projections may not be as good, but at least
they can have some you know, sound ground upon which

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to make these predictions and and sort of plan their future.
And right now we're kind of like a ship without
a rudder, it seems.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Yeah, pretty much. And that is there's so much history
between when we can say okay, We know that P
and G, Google, Apple, whatever, sold x number of units,
and they normally have this kind of a profit profit
margin when they do those kinds of things. So therefore
the stocks should move like this and we can kind
of anticipate, and that's what analysts basically get paid to do.
But right now that profit margin is in question because

(01:59:15):
because of all the tariffs and all those kinds of things,
what is the dream going to be? And so what
we're seeing is it's an interesting divergence. I'm looking at
a chart right now just where everything is so prior
to this week, even the European Far Eastern Asian stocks,
you know, which is basically the S and P five
hundred of the rest of the world, last week they

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were down about three four percent for the year. As
we're sitting here right now, Brian Thomas, they're up about
seven percent for the year. Now, compare that with the Nasdaq,
which still sits down about sixteen percent, the S and
P five hundreds down ten and even the dall is
down eight percent. So the point of all that is
there is volatility, but that also means there's upside to it.
The companies that are doing the best are the ones

(01:59:58):
that potentially have an opportunity here. And we've talked about
this before, but there are probably some funds, hopefully some
funds in your portfolio that you haven't been paying attention
to in years. I'm speaking of the international stocks in
the emerging markets, which is which are more like the Brazil, India, China,
those kinds of things. We haven't talked about those countries
in a long long time, but they're all lining up

(02:00:19):
looking at this opportunity, watching the United States choose to
fight with its customers, and they're looking for opportunities to
create new markets where for those countries there wasn't one before.
And so that's why the market is sensing that, hey,
these companies that maybe weren't as big as players as
they were in the past may now have a great opportunity.
That's why they're up seven percent. So if you have

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a properly diversified portfolio, you really shouldn't be getting killed.
If you're down fifteen to twenty percent, then my guess
has been you've been chasing technology for the last fifteen
years and it's coming around to bite you in the
rear end.

Speaker 1 (02:00:50):
Well, there's I mean, there's opportunity built in a lot
of this, And I mean, depending on where you look.
If you read the Wall Street Journal, we're all going
to die because tariff suck. And that's just the general
impression that they have. But there's been a lot of
sort of bright spots in this that major companies, multi
billion dollar companies are planning on building here and moving

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production here. Like for example, there's a terrible situation going
if you haven't read about it, between China and Taiwan,
and it looks like, you know, China's gonna invade any moment,
at least it's always seen that way for the past
couple of years. But all the major chip production is
being done in Taiwan. Sounds me like going to start
bringing chip production here to the United States. So ultimately
we can benefit by this. It's not going to be immediate.

(02:01:33):
We're gonna have to wait for it because you just
don't create a chip factory overnight. But if we ultimately,
you know, have some domestic supply for some things that
we haven't had for a long time, isn't that ultimately
good for us over the long term.

Speaker 2 (02:01:46):
Yeah, that is the hope, And we had some of
that was rolling forward. There are two chip factories southeast
of Columbus that are that are under construction. Unfortunately that
hit there recently, that hit the news hit not too
long ago. That Intel, who was behind that, is coming
on some hard times, partially because of the technology that
they provide. That another chip company, AMDs, maybe has some

(02:02:09):
better ideas in that space, and that news hit at
an unfortunate time a couple of maybe a year year
and a half ago where that started to come to light.
And so those two plants are sometimes in question. I
cannot imagine they're going to walk away from them in mothballum,
but they're not as moving forward with as much gusto
as they originally were. But that all came from the
original idea. It originally started with national security. We can't

(02:02:31):
keep buying chips from overseas not knowing exactly what our enemies,
speaking specifically of China are putting into those chips, the
influence that they have, and if they managed to take
over Taiwan, like you were just hinting, well, that's where
most of the chips come from anyway, from Taiwan's semiconductor
although some of the plants are here in the United
States as well. But yes, that is definitely one of
the goals. It's not going to happen overnight. And when

(02:02:54):
we've got interest rates bouncing around, inflation and tariffs and
all that kind of stuff, companies are going to be
hesitant to make such a massive, massive investment to bring
one of these huge plants online in the United States,
if they were turning the first shovel full of dirt
over today, it would probably be three years before they
could start producing something with any kind of regularity. So
we need some clarity here.

Speaker 1 (02:03:15):
Well, definitely need some clarity, and it doesn't look like
it's going to be coming any times soon. We demand
instant answers and instant gratification and even in the markets,
and quite awful, we don't get that. We're going to
find out if we should be looking at our four
oh one cas is this a good buying opportunity notwithstanding volatility?
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Eight nineteen If if you got kc DE Talk Station
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loaning them out for a few segments here every Monday
and pivoting over. We talked about market volatility. I understand
why it's there, but obviously market volatility impacts our four
to oh one K. And something I never do is
jack where my four to oh one K is at
least you know, with the exception of my twice annual

(02:05:23):
visits with my financial planner. I mean, I lived through
the COVID nineteen downturn. I saw at one point how
much I lost and lo and behold, if you wait
around long enough, it all comes back and then you
end up having more, which is exactly what happened with me.
So I like to avoid the headache and the heartburn
and everything might go along with it, because you know,
until you sell, you haven't really made or lost, right Brian,

(02:05:46):
So should we be looking at our four to one
K balances?

Speaker 5 (02:05:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
Well, hopefully you're looking at it and seeing that it's
not as bad as you thought it was going to be.
And the reason I say that is because hopefully this
isn't the first time you've looked at it. So you're
doing things the right way, and you have looked at
what your ultimate goals are and you understand some market history.
Then hopefully that decision resulted in a diversified portfolio that

(02:06:10):
owns just a little bit of everything. Every four roh
and K out there has enough where you can build
a set it and forget it type of a portfolio
and do just what Brian Thomas is doing, which is
look at it a couple times a year. It's not
money that you're gonna need tomorrow. If that is the case,
then you already screwed up before four oh and K
is your only source of wealth. That's a problem. That
means you have no cash, you got no oil in
the engine, and that kind of thing. This should be

(02:06:31):
the money that's out there for at least five, ten,
even fifteen years to help you fight off inflation. And
if you look at any chart, any chart of the
stock market over the last thirty years, then you will
notice it goes one direction. That direction is up. However,
we have our our little head fakes every now and then.
I remember when I first started in this industry, was
nineteen ninety seven, and the Russian ruble collapsed in ninety eight,

(02:06:54):
and then we had something called Long Term Capital's a
hedge fund that collapsed. I remember thinking, in my youthful stupidity,
oh my gosh, this time it's different. I'm special, I'm
scared now, So now this one counts and in the
end and the end, it doesn't matter. It's just a
reshuffling of the deck and different leaders will to take
the move to the forefront. Shortly after that we had
the huge technology boom. All of it became a catalyst.

(02:07:16):
Whenever there's some kind of panic in the market, somebody
takes advantage of the opportunity to drive things further. As
we hinted out in the earlier segment, right now, it
appears to be the international stocks are going to take
the lead for a while. So far, that's been the case.
If you don't own any it's not helping you, and
you will feel targeted by the market. Market doesn't care
about you. It only cares about about what it can

(02:07:36):
see forward. And right now, that's not very much. So
make sure that your portfolio is at least spread out
across these different things so that as things have been flow,
you'll benefit from it, but you don't take it on
the chin if something completely falls apart.

Speaker 1 (02:07:48):
Well, and there's you know, conservative investing, and then there's
you know, riskier investing. You know, obviously with risk you're investing.
The idea of getting a bigger return is always there.
You know, every time I meet with financial and there's
always that one fund like twenty five percent return, and
you're like, damn it, I wish I had put more
in there in that one because look this one over
here only got me four percent return. How often should

(02:08:11):
we be adjusting the different funds that we're in or
is that something that we shouldn't be doing very often?
Does depend on where we are in our life close
to retirement. What's the story on that? Ran?

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
Yeah, great question. So how often if I shouldn't be
in there every day goof around with it, well, then
should I never look at it?

Speaker 12 (02:08:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
The answer the answer to that is I'd say maybe
maybe once a year to really get under the hood
and make sure that you have what you need. Generally speaking,
once properly diversified, A four oh one K will usually
pretty much stay in balance. A boy the way four
oh one K, four oh three B. You might have
a step I, RA whatever, which we're referring to your
employer retirement plan that you were probably putting money into

(02:08:51):
every week, every two weeks, every month, or however often
you get paid. That inflow, that constant inflow of cash
tends to keep it in balance. If you balance that once,
you know, a year ago, and you put a bunch
of money and left it all alone, it's probably still
reasonably in bounced. I'm not talking about the you know,
the dollar amounts. The dollar amount could actually be down,
of course because of where the market is, But I'm
talking about the different sizes of the various positions you

(02:09:13):
hold in that retirement plan. That constant inflow from payroll
tends to keep the whole thing in balance. Because if
something's taking a beating, then it meaning it's down more
than everything else in the portfolio. Well, you've just bought
more shares of it because you have put the same
fixed dollar amount in every pay period as you've been
doing for years, So that tends to again keep it

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in bounced. So it shouldn't be too far out of whack.

Speaker 5 (02:09:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:09:36):
On the other hand, if you notice that it is
way out of balance, I would really be looking under
the hood for how did that happen? And it's not
so much about what do I have to fix right now.
It's more about, Okay, let's the next time we go
through a crazy cycle like this, and granted we're in
the middle of this one, but the next time it
comes around, how should I make some changes now so
that I don't hit that roller coaster later. And it's
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(02:09:56):
want to give everybody, you know, as a financial planner,
with some I guarantee my clients Occasionally, you're gonna lose money.
We're gonna lose your money. It's the reality of it.
My job is to help you navigate through that and
not avoid it, because there's no such thing. So be
prepared for that, learn your history, and then understand the
levers you need to pull inside your flour one k
to make sure it doesn't sink your ship.

Speaker 1 (02:10:14):
All right, well, let's pause. We'll bring Brian James back
for one more. We'll talk about fed raids and whether
or not this represents a buying opportunity right now. I
also want to address the subject matter of you know,
having money in bonds was always like the conservative, really
safe place to keep your money, not as high an
interest return as that in stocks. But you know, I'm
wondering where we are relative to the bond market considering

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Speaker 1 (02:13:15):
It's a thirty fifty five air Ceed talk station. Very
happy Monday to you one more with Brian James doing
that money Monday thing. In terms of buying opportunity, I
would think, you know, if you're investing for the long term,
it's always a buying opportunity where the market's up or
down as long as you get your money invested. So
what's the story now with this volatility? And and I

(02:13:35):
guess leading us to a conversation about which direction the
Fed is going to go with rates? And then my
question about bonds always the safest investment, but is that
always going to be the case? We got all these
international trade disputes going on in China owns a lot
of our debt in the form of bonds, and what
if they quit, you know, buying them.

Speaker 2 (02:13:52):
Yeah, there are lots of concerns out there, and we
are kind of shuffling the decks in terms of what
we what we view as risky versus not. To address
your first question, yeah, I'm not a believer at all,
Brian in market timing. And so when we say is
this a buying opportunity, should I put some of my
cash to work? My first question to that person is
going to be, well, what has your cash been doing?
Have you been sitting on a pile of cash waiting

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for this?

Speaker 7 (02:14:15):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:14:16):
If so, then yeah, absolutely put it to work. But
I'd have told you that in December two before we
kind of hit the skids, because again I don't believe
in market timing at all. You can be right nine
times in a row and be wrong the tenth time
you go right back to the beginning. So what I
will throw out there Brian, though, is this can be
just to kind of think a little differently about this
a buying opportunity, yes, but also for some people in

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the right situation, it could be a conversion opportunity. And
what I'm getting at there is if you have a
huge pile of money on your pre tax side, your
four oh and K, your iras, the traditional side of
things that has never been taxed before, but is going
to get the daylights kicked out of it by the
time you reach age seventy three to seventy five, depending
on how old you are now, then this while the
market is down, can be a great time to go

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ahead and take some of that cash and tay time
with it. Convert your traditional IRA to WROTH and from
then on, as we recover, from then on, those games
are going to be tax free. You're going to reduce
your require minimum distributions, You're going to reduce the tax
hit down the road. So on one hand, yeah, when
the market's down, is it a buying opportunity. Yeah, that's
pretty much always the case because eventually it turns around

(02:15:17):
goes back up. But I think what people need to
be looking at more is not only you know, for
buying opportunities, but can I rearrange my tax situation? How
what's in this opportunity for me to kind of benefit
and again never pay taxes again. There's a lot of
moving parts to that, but I think that's something that
this generation of retirees ought to start to learn more about.

Speaker 1 (02:15:36):
Is there any limitation to converting to ROTH, I mean,
like financial limitations or earnings or anything like that, or
is just something that anybody can do?

Speaker 2 (02:15:45):
Yeah, that's the great thing about it. So what we
tend to think about roth irais as being somewhat limited
because I can only make so much money to contribute, right. However,
that is not the case when it comes to converting
a conversion is not a contribution conversion. I'm taking money
that is already inside of an IRA and I'm converting
it from the pretax side to the ross side. There

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is no income limit. The only thing you got to
deal with is what are the taxes that you'll pay.
You have to take that conversion amount, add it to
your your other sources income. You also want to be careful.
You know, if you're close to Medicare age, then it
could factor into driving your Medicare premiums a little higher.
But a married couple can get up to two hundred
and ten thousand dollars of income before that's an issue.

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Single person one hundred thousand dollars. But if you've got
the ability to do that, it can't even be worth
taking that hit when you look at the fifteen to
twenty year impact of a decision like.

Speaker 1 (02:16:36):
This, all right now, pivoting over before we part company
to day Brian James fed interest rates, which were you
sensing the direction you're going to go? They're going to
remain the same go up, go down. Where are we
on that?

Speaker 3 (02:16:48):
So?

Speaker 2 (02:16:48):
Yeah, as of right now, So to fetch our Powell
talk last week and said the federal reserve is going
to stand down in any rate moves for the time being. Again,
waiting for greater clarity was the quote that he used.
So we've been talking about that all morning. He's got
the same problem that we do. We simply can't see
that far into the future.

Speaker 1 (02:17:05):
Well, are there any reports coming out and that might
shed some light on which direction they're going to go,
because I think a lot of people are looking for
a little relief in terms of like home mortgage interest rates.

Speaker 2 (02:17:16):
Right so that that's where we would want to see it.
But unfortunately consumers are still spending. We really haven't, you know,
we're still in the same mode that we were before.
And so right now the chair Powell is not seeing
a reason to put another cut in place because because
of the clarity, he can't see in the future any
further than we can. And the idea that I believe

(02:17:38):
underlying all this is his concern that inflation is going
to come back quickly if we drop interest rates, because
we simply seem to have that ability still to run
the economy a little faster than it should be whenever
there's an opportunity such as lower interest rates, and he
does not want inflation to come roaring back. You know,
despite what the President says. President doesn't like him a
whole lot. But it's not going to be very easy

(02:17:59):
for for Trump to do anything directly with Powell. But
at this point we're kind of in a holding pattern unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (02:18:05):
Well, and going back to our initial conversation about tariffs,
that they may very well have an inflationary impact just
in and of themselves, regardless of you know, simple laws
of supplying demand. If you're going to tear iff something,
it's going to go up in price. Yeah, that's we're
simply layering more cost onto something.

Speaker 2 (02:18:21):
And you know we can't view this. We're going to
make these other countries pay these arffs. Well, that's just
not how it works. That's like saying, you know, a
landlord is or a landlord is simply going to eat
the increase in property taxes. No they're not. They're going
to increase the rents on their renters. It all gets
passed down to the consumer. That's the difference between a
consumer and a producer. Consumer is at the bottom of

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the pile and has to eat whatever the changes are. Ultimately,
now those companies can be hurt one way or another.
Because they you know, maybe consumers look the other way,
look for different opportunities. And that goes back to what
we were saying before about international stocks outperforming. There are
countries out there who aren't going through this and have
the capability to produce some of the goods and certaviss
that in the United States are current for United States

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consumers are currently going to be affected by the tariffs.
So those companies have a great opportunity in front of
them because they don't have those hurdles.

Speaker 1 (02:19:10):
Fair enough, Brian James, always enjoy our conversations. Very important
and uh interesting information and h I think solid advice
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Brian James, We'll look forward to next Monday in an
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Speaker 2 (02:19:29):
All right, have a good week. We'll talk to you Monday.

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Francis Martel, Breitbart's international editor and she's been with breit
Bart since twenty thirteen. I always recommend when I talk

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is writing. Francis, welcome back to the fifty five KC
Morning Show. It's great to have you on.

Speaker 12 (02:21:28):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (02:21:29):
Not all is Rosie in China. I get the impression,
I mean, we get this. I mean I worry about China. Obviously,
they you know, cracked into all our computer systems. They've
you know, interrupted it. They've got, you know, chips that
are have nefarious built in components to them. They're building
up their military in a very rapid pace. They always
are threatening to take over Taiwan. I mean, it just

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seems like they're on a roll. And yet it's not
that Rosie in China, I understand, tell my listeners a
little about what you're gonna be talking about tomorrow night
at seven pm.

Speaker 12 (02:22:03):
Absolutely, so you know, it doesn't feel like they're on
a role. When you look at just the general sentiment,
especially around young Chinese millennials and gen z, they are
very despondent about the future of the country. One of
the terms that they've been using on social media is
the phrase garbage time of history, which is garbage time

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is a basketball term. It just means the end of
the basketball game where it's obvious one team is going
to win and nothing matters. They see the current time
period as that. But it's obvious America is going to
win and there's no point to the competition. So that's
the attitude from young Chinese, and a lot of that
is unemployment. A lot of that is the feeling that

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they will never be able to own a house that
they won't have the money to get married or have kids.
The nine to nine six culture, which is the nine
nine six is a jack Ma term for ali baba,
and it basically needs nine am to nine pm, six
days a week. The idea that you're you don't have
a life outside of work, that attitude has really crushed

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the idea that you can start a family in China,
and so there's all this frustration and kind of despondence
from from normal Chinese people, especially to Chinese youth. A
lot of them have moved back in with their parents.
They're young Chinese people pretending to have a job online
just so that their relatives don't bother them. But it's fake.
You know, they take a picture at a desk and
they pretend they're at work and they're unemployed. So it's

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not it's not a great sentiment over there. And I
think with the with the incoming tariffs and all of that,
you know a lot of people here are feeling that,
you know, we're going to be affected so badly, And
the attitude of the Chinese government is that, you know,
they're they've survived three thousand years, their culture is so old,
we'll get through the tariffs. But the general sentiment among

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young Chinese is that you know, they're they've.

Speaker 1 (02:23:53):
Already lost you know, I I sound it sounds to
me like you can draw quite a few parallels with
happened with young people here in the United States.

Speaker 12 (02:24:02):
Francis absolutely to an extreme extent, because at least we
can complain about it, right, and everyone knows. Everyone knows
how millennials feel about home ownership and health insurance and
building families and all that, because we're on you know, Instagram,
complaining all the time on Twitter. You can't do that
in China. If you say the wrong thing on Levo,

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you're getting banned. Your social credit score goes down, and
if it goes down too low, you can't even take
a train. So they are also silent, and that repression
adds to the general feeling of hopelessness that that doesn't
really serve the.

Speaker 1 (02:24:38):
Government well, and that seems to be a natural human reaction.
If everything you say is scrutinized by your lords and
masters within the Chinese Communist Party and you do have
a social credit score, that concept in and of itself
has got to be disheartening. And I would imagine induces
perhaps some rebellion or anger within the Chinese people, absolutely,

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and we.

Speaker 12 (02:25:02):
Saw a lot of that in twenty twenty two, in
late twenty twenty two where we saw these protests, and
that was partly because of the COVID lockdowns where you know,
we had it pretty bad here in twenty twenty We
had some lockdowns in the Northeast and you know in
the Blue States, but in China it was you know,
they were welding people shut in their homes. They the

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police did not let you out. If you didn't have food,
you just starved in parts of China in your house.
So it was very, very repressive, and that triggered a
wave of protests, and the most impressive ones to me
were the white paper protests, where young Chinese people would
go out and they would hold up protest signs, but
they were completely blank because they knew if they said anything,

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it doesn't matter what was on the sign, they would
be arrested for it. So they were daring police to
arrest them for holding up a blank protest signs, and
the police did arrest them. A lot of those people
were disappeared into the justice system.

Speaker 2 (02:25:55):
We don't know what happened to them.

Speaker 12 (02:25:57):
There was a young Chinese, I think a college student
who was arrested for reciting Shakespeare. How I compare each
to a Summer's Day, which is inherently a political but
you know, if you're celebrating Western literature in China, that's
already an active rebellion. So there was a lot of
that and that was crushed very violently. And so we

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haven't seen a massive wave of protests like that. But
just last week in Changdu, someone posted a huge banner
across a bridge that said, you know, democracy is the
only answer. So people are still protesting. People are still
very actively protesting. It's just heavily repressed and a lot
of the bravest people have already been shepherded into prisons.

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So you know that leadership vacuum is going to hurt
a protest movement.

Speaker 1 (02:26:44):
So because of the you know, everything's electronic social media.
Of course, if you communicate on it, you're going to
be tracked and monitored. There's going to be a permanent
record of it. The Chinese Communist Party is looking at
everything that you're doing. This this I'm reminding you of
ten Square because I remember that, like it was yesterday,
there was this sort of hope built up that that
was going to lead them to some freedom and some democracy.

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Obviously it was crushed, but that was pre social media.
That was an organic, organized thing, and there is there
a potential for that type of thing to crop up again.
But I mean, you know, an underground movement like people
actually you know, communicating just by voice as opposed to electronically,
that they can foment some sort of wider rebellion against

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this repression.

Speaker 12 (02:27:30):
I think that is happening to a certain extent. But
from a religious perspective, I think the Christian underground in
China's massive people who go to house churches because in
China Christianity is legal. There are two Christian churches that
are legal, the Chinese Catholic Church, which is severed from
the Vatican, and then the three self Patriotic Church, which
is basically Communist Party Protestantism. And if you go into

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those churches, they don't even talk about Jesus. So the
actual Christians don't go to those churches. They pray at home,
which would be legal, and a lot of those people
have had their home bulldoze have been again disappeared into
the justice system. But that Christian underground that is very
you know, whispered. The meetings are quiet, they pray together
in silence. That has been growing significantly. There are estimates

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that there are as many as one hundred million Christians
in China. So I think that is definitely a big
part of it. The protest movement, that was the secular
anti lockdown movement that still exists, but that has been
crushed by hopelessness. And there's this also this trend among
millennials and gen z called lying flat, which essentially means,

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you know, don't have any career ambition, don't get married,
don't have kids, do nothing because anything you do serves
the party.

Speaker 4 (02:28:44):
And that.

Speaker 12 (02:28:46):
That definitely hurts the protest attitude, right. That feeds into
this idea that there's no hope in doing anything. America
is going to win the Cold War, and there's no
point in trying to fix our government. So that's that's
a big hurdle to getting people into an active organization
to protest and try to get changed.

Speaker 1 (02:29:06):
But I'm reminded of Atlas Shrug. You know, if you
just don't participate and refuse to, you know, provide your
labor and your brilliance to the Chinese Communist Party and
people just sort of quit. If that movement were to
get large enough that kind have a profound.

Speaker 12 (02:29:20):
Impact, Yes, and it has. You know, if you look
at the population trends in China, the birth rate is collapsing. Yeah,
no one wants to have kids. And not only does
does no one want to have kids, there aren't enough
women of child bearing age because of the one child's
pop So it's thirty five million more men than women.
So even if they wanted to, they can't. But they

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don't want to, and so a generation from now, that
workforce is going to look very weak unless they start
mass you know, importing migrants, and China is not going
to do that, so that is going to have a
tremendous negative effect on the economy. And the economy is
basically the only thing holding up party right now.

Speaker 5 (02:30:01):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
And part of this makes me think of the Malethusians
and the globalists of the world. Who thinks the world's
population is too big anyway, So this is all playing
into it. You know, Japan's shrinking rapidly every day, China's
population isn't replacing itself, and the same thing here in
the United States and in Europe, it's almost like ultimately,
you know, we're leading ourselves down the path of well

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not keeping the population up.

Speaker 12 (02:30:26):
Yeah, and I think, you know, we're in a better position.
And I think a country, for example, like South Korea,
which has the world's lowest birth rate, because we are
spiritually open, because you can have a religion in these countries,
I think that fuels the desire to start families, especially
larger families. In China, the trend that you have is

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that basically the only people who want to have families
are the weaker Muslims in East Cirkustan, and they are
undergoing genocide. Chinese communists are going village by village, serializing
the entire female population of leaguer villages, so the only
people that want to have kids are being sterilized. And
then the Han population, which is despondent after seventy years

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of communism, seventy five years, they don't want kids, and
you know, if they have because this communist government is
also Han supremacists, the ethnic con group which is the
majority population of China, it doesn't really serve them that
There's also a trend of Chinese men looking for Indian
or Pakistani wives because that doesn't really first the idea

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of their supremacy right, so it is a huge problem.
They've been trying to pressure women into having babies the
Communist Party now called women and asks them about their
cycles and asks them if their plan and have families,
which is incredibly intrusive and having the opposite effect of
what they want. So the desperations kicking in and it's

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going to be interesting to see how they.

Speaker 1 (02:31:54):
Deal with this fascinating conversation, fascinating topic. Francis Martel International
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It's been fascinating talking with your Francis. As always, I

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know my listener is going to enjoy the seminar tomorrow night,
and I look forward to talking with you again real soon.

Speaker 12 (02:32:22):
Thank you so much for having me on my pleasure.

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