WEBVTT - Eddie & Rocky -- 1/7/26 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.160 That's our motto here on the Eddie and Rocky Show. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.640 Keep your feet on the ground, rock and keep reaching 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:06.960 for those stars, my friend. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:08.640 That's it. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:13.040 Every single day, that's what we do. And we don't 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.520 even get out of the atmosphere, but we try. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.959 We could be reaching for more taxes. Reach wallet, yeah, reaching. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.639 Into your wallet and get ready to pay the man. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.960 So look, I mean violence in downtown has been a 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:32.400 big issue, you know, certainly last year and then most 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.240 recently on New Year's Day, that eleven year old girl 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.080 was shot at that playground on the West End. So 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.120 of course people want to know what's what's going to 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.360 be done. The mayor, by the way, was elected, and 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.880 I think the same day he was elected, came out 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.720 and said that they're gonna have to raise the income 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.160 tax in the city. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.479 Now that I don't believe was. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.160 Anywhere mentioned in his uh in the lead up to 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.560 the election, right, wasn't a part of his platform, But 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.480 day one it gets announced. Now, currently folks who live 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.360 in the city of Cincinnati are taxed to the tune 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.240 of one point eight percent, and it sounds like that 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:08.240 is rising. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.440 Well, let's talk to a fellow who can speak to it. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.199 Arguing friend Steve Good and Steve welcome back to the program. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.720 Hey, good afternoon, guys. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:17.600 How are you good? 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:17.920 Good? 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.319 So Steve, now look it, and you're being a former 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.399 council person, would more boots on the ground as far 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.679 as cobs being downtown help with all this? What do 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.920 they do? And where does this money? Where would this 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.280 money be appropriated? I guess is the first question. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.920 Well, yeah, that's the big question. So I mean, look, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.959 we have a relatively decent earning tax compared to you know, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.160 we're at one point eight percent of all income and 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.800 not just for city resident, anyone that works in the 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.680 city pays it. So that's one of the things that's 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.919 really tough here. So if you live in Green Township, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.360 or if you live in Madeira but you work downtown, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.040 have an office downtown, you're paying that one point eight percent. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.480 And for years people have been saying at city Hall, look, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.440 Columbus and Cleveland, you know they charged two point five 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.160 They get away with it, So we quote have some space. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.280 I think that gives up a real competitive advantage that 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.880 we have here. But what the mayor seemed to be 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.760 saying that there's an inauguration yesterday was he was linking 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.720 this increase to public safety spending, and we absolutely need 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.480 more boots on the ground. We need more police officers. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.040 We're short of a compliment that was set back in 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.280 two thousand and five. It's an entirely different city now, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.080 it's a bigger city. We have more attractions, we have 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.440 a different neighborhoods, including over the Rhine in downtown, function 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.160 in a completely different way than they did then. So 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.720 we have to rethink policing and that's going to require 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.840 more officers. But I was also troubled by something he 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.720 said during his speech. He said public safety and poverty 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:58.520 reduction efforts that get at crime. So it felt like 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.920 we were getting into mayor Montdami territory very quickly in 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.360 terms of additional spending boondoggles which we've seen already from 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.800 this administration, like medical debt relief and other things that 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.880 are sort of designed to get at poverty in some way, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.960 but seem to have had no impact whatsoever on the 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.600 shootings downtown and over the Rhine and in the West End, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.600 where we've seen some of the most just horrific shootings, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.600 particularly shooting involving very young people, both as shooters and 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.600 as victims. So look, if they were talking about raising 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:35.280 taxes really to actually really redo and rethink how we 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.920 do policing in this city, that's a conversation a lot 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.160 of us, as city residents, would be willing to have. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.400 But I don't really think that's what's being discussed here. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.800 I think talking about public safety and policing is sort 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.000 of a fig leaf for what looks to be just 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.680 more programs spending, and we've already got too much of that. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:54.240 Now. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.440 See, let me ask you this, because I've heard both, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.240 But is it the fact that like we don't have 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.000 the money to hire more officers or from cops that 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.080 that I've talked to, there's a reluctant to one of 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.440 our reluctance to want to be a cop because you 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.960 know you're not supported, right, you know that from a 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.560 crime prevention justice standpoint, you're not supported. You're not supported 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.839 with the judges that are in place, you're not supported 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.479 by the mayor. So is it purely a lack of 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.600 funding and if we get more money, then all of 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.760 a sudden there's gonna be all these officers and that's 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:27.800 going to bring crime down? 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.880 Or is it even going to have the effect. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.440 We wanted to well, it's it's complicated. I think the 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.800 answer is both. I mean, I know that a lot 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.279 of bigger cities have had issues with recruitment post kind 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.359 of the George Floyd period. I mean, there was a 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.479 period where a lot of politicians, including our mayor when 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.640 he first ran for mayor, you know, he ran an 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.440 ad or put out a piece of mail, but I 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.200 still have here where he was openly critical of police 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.040 officers and basically saying I'm going to stop racial profiling 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.720 and things of that nature. And nobody appears a racial 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.920 pro filing. I think that it is in the right mind. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.040 But that's something that you know that Cincinnati has been 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.479 very aggressive about dealing with for almost thirty years now, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.240 and there haven't been any serious allegations about that in 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.720 some time. So you know, there was an effort kind 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.960 of post George Floyd, I think, both in the justice 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.200 system and at city hall to really kind of blame 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.559 police officers for what happened. That narrative is still very 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.880 very much alive at the courthouse and at city Hall, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.800 and it is a morale killer. But that said, I mean, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:35.640 we also know that we our population has grown significantly 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.760 the number of non city residents who are downtown on 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.359 the weekends, particularly for concerts and baseball games, you know, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.080 the soccer stadium, et cetera. We know there were times 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.360 when we have upwards of four to five hundred thousand 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.520 people downtown on any given Friday or Saturday night, and 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.920 between there over the Rhine and in the West End 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.080 where the soccer stadium is. We need more officers to 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.960 meaningfully police that. So it's a culture problem, and it's 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.600 money problem, and it's an administrative problem too. We also 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.080 have talk about a morale killer. We sort of have 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.479 two police chiefs right now. I mean Chief TG is 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:15.160 still technically the chief, even though she's been suspended since August. Well, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:21.160 they continue this, you know, orwellian investigation to find out 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.480 what she did wrong after she was suspended. So you know, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.640 these are all morale killers. There is still just this this. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.760 You know, there's too much politics in the belizing. At 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.560 some point or another, all the political rhetoric should be 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.520 put aside and we should just be looking at what 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.080 we need to do to maintain decent morale and what 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.400 we need to do to maintain enough people there in 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.400 the pipeline but you're right, recruitment's a problem. I'm told 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.279 it has picked up a bit. We have kind of 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.000 reduced some of the barriers to recruitment by being more 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.960 open in the city to taking lateral hires from other departments. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.960 That was something that had long been kind of resisted 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.160 by the city and I think they've gotten over that, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.560 and that's to the good. But it's it's both. It's 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.960 both a morale issue, policy issue, and a money issue. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.920 Steve good as our guests, and see, let's get to 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.960 the second part that you mentioned in the open there. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.560 Uh when when the major headline is Okay, there's there's 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.200 a problem with crime, we need to raise taxes to 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.520 get that under control. But then slipped into that is 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.640 we need the revenue, yeah, for public safety, but also 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:30.240 affordable housing and poverty disruption efforts, which that could mean 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.520 a lot of things, right, And it just seems like 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:38.520 a government, bureaucratic organization that that's going to be created 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.960 with a bunch of people that are paid a lot 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.720 of money to look at this and look at that 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.160 with no real result. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.000 Am I wrong on that? 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:46.680 Uh? 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.440 No, it's it's the asterisks, you know to the statement 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.160 that you know that kills the whole deal. You know, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.120 it's the footnote that takes back the the mean statement. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.800 And I would notice note that the mayor didn't know 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.640 almost didn't ever use the word policing. He kept talking 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.160 about public safety, which is this kind of much more 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.480 generic term, and really what they're yeah, what they're talking 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.560 about with public and then with these public safety and 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.480 poverty disruption designed to get at the crime. So so 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.080 it really does look like a lot of people are 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.920 going to be thinking that they might be voting for 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.600 supporting a tax increase to put more boots on the 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.520 ground in terms of policing, but what they're really probably 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.280 getting are more social programs and more kind of social 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.280 welfare front of kind of concepts that are that are 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.360 in theory designed to disrupt poverty. And we've seen that already. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.640 You know, we saw this huge thing that happened to 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.719 Government Square, you know, where they were sending people in 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.160 you know, with through nonprofits with city funds to give 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.320 out sandwiches at the bus stop and hopes that that 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.960 would make people less angry and less likely to hurt 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.400 each other. But they still had to reroute the bus 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.440 lines and they just had a shooting already here in 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.200 twenty twenty six at Government Square. So these we know 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.520 that a lot of these poverty disruption efforts just end 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.400 up going to nonprofits for pilot programs that really don't 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.640 change anything. I mean, public safety and policing go hand 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.959 at hand. I know it's sort of out of fashion 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.920 right now, and it's certainly out of fashion and the 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.400 more progressive circles that seem to be running city Hall 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.920 at the moment, which you can't have a city without 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.640 good law enforcement, and in these programs, at the end 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.000 of the day, absolutely poverty plays a role in crime, 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.040 there's no question. But economic development and jobs are the 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.520 only proven mover they are rather than just giving money 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:29.680 away through these programs. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.760 And Stee you make a great point. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.760 And if he had come out and said, look, here's 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.319 what our force is right now, here's what it costs, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.640 here's the amount of funds we raise our x and 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.559 that to do that, that's going to increase our police 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.520 presence and get more boots on the ground, more officers 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.920 out there. By twofold is going to go to increasing 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.680 technology that they use, equipment, all that. But he did 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.920 and he said public safety, which is just the broadest, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.200 you know, most utopian term out there. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:01.880 And and you're right, I think. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.200 People would if you if you approach it like that 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.160 and said, look, we're gonna get more cops, We're gonna 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.760 increase it by this amount, boom and boom boom, I 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.800 think you might well go all right, I might, I 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:11.720 might consider that. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.800 But when it's this kind of language, it doesn't make 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:15.319 much sense. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:17.640 Well it was. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.880 It was kind of gaslighting, you know. I mean, I mean, look, 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.160 it could mean any number of things. And I think 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.679 you know a lot of people that you know that 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.600 were there. I didn't go, but I watched a fair 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.080 amount of it on live stream, you know, at the 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.000 address yesterday, you know, left there thinking God, big, you know, 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.559 he's actually making a giant concession here, because recall, we 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.600 didn't have a crime problem. That was what they were 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.680 arguing throughout the campaign last year. And so it sounded 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.440 like a pretty significant concession on his part. But when 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.000 you really get at what was said, when you look 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.160 at you know, if you print it out and read it, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.800 you know, there really isn't a direct promise there to 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.400 to really invest more significantly in law enforcement. I didn't 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.680 see it anyway, then it really does leave the door 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.680 open for them to spend the money however they want. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:03.840 Now. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.360 Note also, you know, we have this thing called the 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.560 Cincinnati Futures Commission, which is a bunch of business leaders 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.680 that issued a report about two years ago at the 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.920 Mayor's request, and they also recommended raising the earnings tax, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.199 but they wanted to dedicate that money for economic development, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.800 job growth, and new housing, and they wanted to put 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:25.000 it in a very kind of dedicated and confined special fund. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.360 This version of the tax increase that the Mayor seems 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.400 to be a pushing here does not have any strings 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.240 on it. It's just like, hey, trust us, we're going 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.280 to use this to get at public safety, and public 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.440 safety includes poverty reduction, and poverty reduction means whatever the 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.040 hell we say it means. And that's what I took 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:41.679 away from it. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.079 All right, Well, that's Steve Gooden. We will let you go, 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.480 Thanks so much. We'll see how this shakes out, because 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.240 what's the Mayor's put what a sixty day kind of 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.160 timeframe on this thing. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.839 That's my understanding of got to council, and I'm very 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.679 curious what they make of it. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:57.760 All right, Thanks so much. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.600 Take care, thank you. Thanks. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.240 Yeah. So you go in there, they say, right now, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.000 it's one point eight percent here in town Columbus Cleveland 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.360 two point five. To go in there and say let's 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.360 make it two point twenty five, we still look like heroes. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.880 I mean, that's that's the art of government right there. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.760 Still may still make the case for much less, which 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.000 again I mean the fact that we are less than 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.440 than Columbus and Cleveland, that that's a good thing. That's 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.760 you're more attractive to folks. But we'll see with that. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.000 We check in with traffic and weather, what is going 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.319 on from the UC Health Traffic Center, the UC Health 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.800 Weight Loss Center, off a searcher going back to obesity 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.200 care and expertise, call five one three nine three nine 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.400 twenty two sixty three nine three nine twenty two sixty 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:46.440 three seventy five. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.439 So in southbound Ronald Reagan Highway and Norwood laddle through 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.720 the road to work with so downs back to Lachland 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.960 Split right now about a five minute delay. We do 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.199 have a crash that we've just got reported on seventy 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:01.079 five southbound near Fort Washington Way and clean up is underway. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.360 Central Parkway at Finley as an accident and seventy five 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.360 northbound between Normern Lateral and Paddock is about a five 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.040 minute drive right now. And the work on two seventy 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.880 five southbound at the Indiana Kentucky state line the Carrol 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.640 Cropper Bridge has that single lane work continuing now through 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.199 March for that project. And watch four slowdowns in the area. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.679 I'm Rich Rum producer Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.520 The forecast for seven hundred WLW Weather Center for tonight 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.360 portly cloudy sky is a low of thirty five for 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.120 tomorrow partly cloudy and the high of sixty two. It 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.440 is fifty two. Now News Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.840 I'm going to show you some images and you tell 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:42.760 me what do you see? 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.400 Looks like a butterfly listening to the Scott's Loan show. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:46.640 In this one, I. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.720 See a rocket ship. A rocket ship, yeah, blasting out 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:50.800 for the planet Sloan. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.480 I see into this one that looks. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.720 Like a fish swimming. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.360 In a mountain pond. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.080 They'd be good, yeah, but the fish is angry because 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.560 he's not listening to Scott Sloan. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.400 Scott's Loan, please listen responsibly join me. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:07.120 Scott Sloan tomorrow morning at nine o'clock on seven hundred WLW. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.320 Might be best for us to discuss some strong medications. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.960 This report is sponsored by Miami Valley Gaming. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.760 Get ready to get lucky at Miami Vallot Gaming with 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.680 over twenty two hundred gaming machines. We got you covered. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:23.040 We'll park your car. It was forty dollars. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:23.320 Yeah. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.640 Then if you want to, Valet was like seventy. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.560 But there's a lot of places, and we went to 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.320 one in Florida a couple years ago. They don't even 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.320 allow you to self park your car. You must valet. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:34.560 Wow. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.320 Yeah, and then yeah, then you're paying for that, and 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.200 then you you got tipped the guy and you gotta 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.160 wait fifteen minutes to get your car. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:41.880 I hate it. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.520 So I get both sides of it, but I certainly 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.360 understand that the people that don't want those Airbnb homes 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:50.479 in their own neighborhood. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.120 Let's talk to Brett and Mason about it. Hey, Brett, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.360 thanks for calling, buddy. What do you have? 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.080 Yeah, a couple of days. One, you guys are right 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.800 about what Blackstone also does. For Blackstone, for example, is 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.560 they'll buy multiple homes in an area and then they 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:10.640 will price those homes out super high to continue to 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.920 drive the prices up in that neighborhood because you know 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.800 how like you do comps, you know how they do 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:16.800 two or three cops. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.000 Yeah, so. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.160 Yeah, they manipulate the comps too, So it's really bad. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:28.520 And then I found out that they're actually contracting with 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:34.320 builders and building entire neighborhoods and owning the whole thing. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.320 So instead of buying individual single family homes, they're making 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.440 deals with tons with builders and building an entire neighborhood 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.760 and buying every single single family home in that neighborhood 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:52.160 because that builder just built the Trump's doing it is great. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.440 He saw this happening, see, and he saw how they 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.080 were destroying the market, like you said, Rocky for those 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.800 first time home buyers and making him impossible. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.360 So I'm really surprised he. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.120 Even did this. To be honest with you, I didn't 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.560 even know that he knew this was going on. So yeah, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.240 I agree, it's it's a great move. 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:09.760 Yeah, it's really yeah. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.200 Because these companies they have billions of dollars, so they 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.920 can kind of wait things out a little bit and 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.880 just drive that price up. They don't need their rent 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.840 money or whatever right now. So, yeah, they drive it up. 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.640 And as anyone who's bought a house knows, it goes 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.120 by the comps. And if every comp around is all 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.680 of a sudden, you know, an exorbitant price, guess what 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:30.640 yours is going to be too. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.160 Yeah. Well that's. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:33.960 Look. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.280 When we was right on the money, having just sold 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:41.160 our house a couple of years ago, our goofy next 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.520 door neighbor got mad at us because we'd lived in 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.040 a house for twenty years. Guess what, we sold it 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.360 for a lot more money than we bought it for. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.600 He's like, well, what you're doing is jogging up the 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.960 Texas around here, Like, what do you want me to 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.960 do here? Dude, live here the rest of my life 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.480 and I don't want to be here. Yeah, but it's 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.920 also driving the price of his house too, That's what 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:02.440 I told That's what I told him. I was like, 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.560 you don't get the equation. Huh. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.720 Well yeah, well look I understand being upset, but people 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.280 got to live their life, you know what I mean. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:11.800 You don't. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.119 You're not gonna expect you to stay in your house. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:14.919 You don't want to. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.159 Just to help that guy, it's me and my wife 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.040 and a one acre lot in a five bedroom house. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.560 Sure we'll stick around just for old times sake. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.560 You gonna now let me ask you this. Do you 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.400 miss the house and the privacy and the own driveway 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:30.679 and the own garage and stuff. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:30.880 Oh? 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.560 Absolutely, I hadn't lived in because we live in a condo. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.960 Now if you didn't know that, and and I hadn't 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.080 lived in an apartment since I was early single. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.240 Right well, I mean you got that top floor of 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.440 the whole building, and you know, got the east wing 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.359 in the west and all that, so it's not. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.159 Too bad you got to ride the uh uh, my 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.600 private elevator is on the fritz right now. I do 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.800 have to take the elevator with the other people. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:58.360 That's why. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.840 That's why I asked you a little rock slumming around 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.520 with the rural folks now, and you could be sitting 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.400 in your own house. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.960 To get in there, you know, the private elevator whisk 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:07.840 me right down. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.720 Right there, the car waiting right there. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.840 And the shared elevator smells like fart. You shouldn't have 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.600 to deal with that, I know. Right with that, we 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.800 check in with traffic and whie what's going on? 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.639 And the struggles of life. 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