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Cory Bowman - His car payments are up to date · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Chris to two point zero.
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Speaker 2: My wife, I mentioned to Joe Strecker during the break,
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Speaker 2: it's a very christ centered show this morning. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I didn't set out to preach, but for the second
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Speaker 2: guests in a row, we have another reverend on, a
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Speaker 2: pastor and a guy that I became really, really fond
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Speaker 2: of after meeting and talking to on the air. And
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Speaker 2: you know, it's weird that we have him on next
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Speaker 2: because we just had Reverend Jim Harden, who's the head
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Speaker 2: of Compasscare USA, which helps women who are pregnant in
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Speaker 2: their pregnancies emergency Christian crisis centers around the country that
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Speaker 2: give women an alternative to abortion.
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Speaker 1: From a Christian way of helping.
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Speaker 2: And this is one of the most pro life people
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Speaker 2: I know. Are there any more on the way Corey Funny?
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Speaker 3: First off, Good mornings, Mary, Chris. Yes, thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for having me on Funny. You mention that I'm
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Speaker 3: actually just getting out of the gym and going to
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Speaker 3: pick up diapers right now. So a lot of people
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Speaker 3: you know that you gained ten pounds with each pregnancy,
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Speaker 3: but they didn't tell you gained twenty pounds with every campaign.
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Speaker 3: So I'm working that off before Christmas hits you.
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Speaker 1: You got a lot of good dinners out of it,
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Speaker 1: did you?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So first and foremost, the man you ran against for
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Speaker 2: mayor Cincinnati, and albeit you're you're here on the radio
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Speaker 2: and he's trying to explain repossess cars. The mayor who
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Speaker 2: wound up winning the re election have to have pure
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Speaker 2: vall has some problems making his bills, and you know
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Speaker 2: how hard it is. You've got a family, you've got
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Speaker 2: a business, you've got a congregation, and you know it's
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Speaker 2: tough out there. So I mean, we all have problems
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Speaker 2: making ends meet. In today's society, things cost a lot
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Speaker 2: more and sometimes we we go over budget. Do you
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Speaker 2: ever ever have a problem with having a hard time
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Speaker 2: making making ends meet?
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Speaker 3: Corey Well, I think like many people you know in
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Speaker 3: our nation and the world, you know, you find times
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Speaker 3: where you're it's harder than normal, or you might have
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Speaker 3: an in sinuating circumstance. I believe, you know, it's crazy.
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Speaker 3: I'm actually following some very good friends of mine this morning.
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Speaker 3: I heard Christopher Smithman on your show and then offstar
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Speaker 3: Ken Kober on your show earlier, and they all had
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Speaker 3: valid points. You know that you know, when it comes
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Speaker 3: to repossession, and when it comes to all this, you
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Speaker 3: get multiple notifications. To be honest with you, in the
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Speaker 3: time that we're in the companies try to make it
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Speaker 3: as easy as they can because they don't want to repossess,
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Speaker 3: so they don't want to foreclose on things. And so yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's an important thing to try to have a hand
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Speaker 3: on your finances, especially if you're over a one point
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Speaker 3: nine billion dollar budget over the next fiscal year. And
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Speaker 3: so I think the biggest thing that I came across though,
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Speaker 3: because no matter what I found out my first campaign,
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Speaker 3: they're always going to come after anything they can find
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Speaker 3: on you, any dirt that they can find. Yeah, but
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Speaker 3: the reports that I'm seeing, which especially with what's gone
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Speaker 3: on recently in our city with the repossessions, or even
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Speaker 3: with the eight point one million dollar settlement that happened
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Speaker 3: with the protesters from or the alleged protesters from twenty twenty.
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Speaker 3: To my knowledge, all of this stuff was known before
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Speaker 3: the election, but somehow it didn't get report on during
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Speaker 3: the election. However, there was a lot of hit pieces
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Speaker 3: on me and a lot of the same publications.
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Speaker 2: So saying essentially is that the people who were in
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Speaker 2: power before the election, who are still in power now
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Speaker 2: may have had their hands on the levers of the
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Speaker 2: information somehow that as you mentioned, people when you run
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Speaker 2: for office, I mean, Corey, there is a good reason
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Speaker 2: that I've never run for political office outside of the
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Speaker 2: fact I don't need to complicate my life like that.
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Speaker 2: There's a good reason I know where all the skeletons
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Speaker 2: are in my closet, and I don't particularly like airing
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Speaker 2: that out in public. I'll confess my sins, but you know,
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Speaker 2: they find stuff that you were never guilty of that
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Speaker 2: they dig up. And yet this is a matter of
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Speaker 2: public record, and it happened not once, but I understand
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Speaker 2: for mister Puval it's happened a couple of times that
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Speaker 2: he forgot about his auto pay or what some else.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean in this, like I said, in
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Speaker 3: these politics, they're going to come after everything. Now. A
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Speaker 3: lot of people, what I find is on the opposite side.
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Speaker 3: They take it as like, oh, I'm going to take
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Speaker 3: the moral high ground in that, like I've never had
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Speaker 3: any financial challenges. My point would be that the reporting
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Speaker 3: on it didn't come until after the election. However, you know,
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Speaker 3: the investigative reporters that you know had called my business
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Speaker 3: multiple times, that had called my home multiple times, that
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Speaker 3: you know, reached out to our church multiple times. I
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Speaker 3: don't I think that these documents are these types of things.
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Speaker 3: Even with the settlement that we're hearing that this could
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Speaker 3: have been fairly easily found in public records. On the
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Speaker 3: other side, however, that stuff was quietly put under the
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Speaker 3: rug until after November fourth.
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Speaker 2: What have you heard from law enforcement, Corey regarding the
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Speaker 2: new policy guidelines for protests that are in included apparently
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Speaker 2: in this settlement that they're going to rubber stamp tomorrow
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Speaker 2: that they knew about before the election, you know, along
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Speaker 2: with the money obviously, But this just opens the door
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Speaker 2: for any other group of people who want to commit
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Speaker 2: crime in the name of what they call protests. And
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Speaker 2: it not only means they got a green light to
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Speaker 2: commit those kind of crimes, breaking windows, throwing urine bottles
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Speaker 2: at officers in the like, but there might be a
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Speaker 2: payday in case they get arrested later on down the line.
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Speaker 2: But what have you heard from law enforcement on this settlement,
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Speaker 2: if anything, Well, I'll say this that you know you
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Speaker 2: said that this opens the doors.
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Speaker 3: This is giving a green light. Those doors have been
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Speaker 3: opened for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Actually, it keeps them open.
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Speaker 3: That light has been Yeah, that light has been green
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Speaker 3: for a while. That's why we ran our race on
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Speaker 3: public safety. You know, I continue to talk with officers,
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Speaker 3: and I think people people don't realize the importance of
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Speaker 3: morale within the police force. And when the morale is
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Speaker 3: already low and then you have a settlement like this
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Speaker 3: that basically says these officers put their lives on the
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Speaker 3: line during these times where you know, during the day
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Speaker 3: they were simply just maintaining they weren't, you know, trying
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Speaker 3: to cause any problem. And a lot of the protesters,
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Speaker 3: you know, people have the constitutional right to protest and
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Speaker 3: we shouldn't be against that. But when officers are trying
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Speaker 3: to do their job and then they get slapped on
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Speaker 3: the hand because of it, or even worse, they get
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Speaker 3: reprimanded or they basically get told, hey, your job doesn't
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Speaker 3: really mean anything, that morale goes low. We're seeing that
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Speaker 3: with the judges, the progressive judges in Hamilton County are
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Speaker 3: just allowing criminals to be back on the streets. And
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Speaker 3: the one of the biggest things I heard from officers
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Speaker 3: throughout the year was we don't even see the point
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Speaker 3: in arresting many times because these people are just going
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Speaker 3: to be right back out on the street, you know.
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Speaker 3: And when we say that, we say repeat criminals, we
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Speaker 3: know that a lot of these are repeat offenders that
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Speaker 3: keep on coming. They're always going to cause trouble and
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Speaker 3: there's no consequences to that. You know, the crime in
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Speaker 3: our city is done by a very small handful of people.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you that right now puts a stain on
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Speaker 3: the entire city. But it can be easily fixed by
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Speaker 3: just allowing the officers to do their jobs, the escalation tactics,
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Speaker 3: approaching properly, en forcing low level crimes to cause the escalation,
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Speaker 3: and then also putting pressure on the judges. And I
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Speaker 3: think the number one, the absolute number one thing that's
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Speaker 3: wrong with our city public safety right now is understaffing.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to preach that over and over and over
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Speaker 3: that any organization that is twenty percent understaffed cannot adequately
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Speaker 3: take care of its job like it should. And that's
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Speaker 3: what's happening with our CPD. They're swimming, they're trying to
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Speaker 3: gasp for air every weekend and trying to take care
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Speaker 3: of this city. They love our city, they want to
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Speaker 3: protect and serve and they don't feel like anybody has
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Speaker 3: their back from city Hall, from the law department, or
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Speaker 3: from any other sector of the city.
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Speaker 2: More with Pastor Corey Bowman and unjust a moment. It's
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Speaker 2: eight fifteen at fifty five KRC, the talk station Bill Cunningham.
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Speaker 2: Here you may wonder how much money should.
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Speaker 1: You have in your emerca? Here see the talk station.
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Speaker 2: We're talking with Corey Bowman. Gone from candidate Bowman to
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Speaker 2: citizen Bowman again a pastor Bowman, Businessman Bowman? What did
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Speaker 2: where's your coffee shopping business in twenty twenty Corey?
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Speaker 1: Had you guys started yet?
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Speaker 3: We had just started our church in twenty twenty and
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Speaker 3: then we start our coffee shop in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: All Right, the protests, which, like I said, we have
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Speaker 2: a constitutional right to protest in this country. It's one
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Speaker 2: of the great things about America. Don't have a constitutional
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Speaker 2: right to prohibit someone else from exercising their constitutional right
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Speaker 2: to move, to do commerce, to go to church and
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Speaker 2: all of that. Twenty twenty was a tough year in
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Speaker 2: many ways to start a business or a church or
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Speaker 2: anything because of some pretty insane restrictions that were put
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Speaker 2: on the population and mandates that were enclosures and all
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Speaker 2: the rest. Anyway, as a citizen of Cincinnati in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: how if it all did the rotest, the protest and
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Speaker 2: the violence that was associated with these riots as ken
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Speaker 2: Kober called them, see writing is not constitutional? But how
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Speaker 2: did they affect you as a citizen?
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Speaker 3: Cory Well, I would say that this is actually what
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Speaker 3: started our church, Gary Jeff, because for us, many people
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Speaker 3: might not know this side of the story for our life,
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Speaker 3: but many people knew me as a coffee shop owner
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Speaker 3: in the West End and a candidate for mayor and
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Speaker 3: obviously vice president Jade Vance's brother. But what got us
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Speaker 3: back to Sincant because I grew up in the area,
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Speaker 3: but I had gone to Tampa, Florida to study ministry,
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Speaker 3: and during that time, I always knew that I was
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Speaker 3: coming back to Cincinnati. And then what happened was that
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Speaker 3: I had a pastor that got arrested for having church.
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Speaker 3: You know, pastors these days get arrested for many things,
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Speaker 3: and you're always wondering, oh, Dear God, what they have
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Speaker 3: their hands into. But my pastor. We were our church
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Speaker 3: that we were a part of. We fed a thousand
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Speaker 3: families a week, we were doing outreach, we were helping people,
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Speaker 3: and the local government, through the city council and through
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Speaker 3: the mayor and the county sheriff. We're trying to shut
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Speaker 3: down churches in Tampa, Florida at that time. Well, my pastor,
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Speaker 3: you know, politely respectfully refused because we couldn't shut the
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Speaker 3: doors down to helping people. And then to make an
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Speaker 3: example out of them, they arrested them at his home,
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Speaker 3: sent a helicopter to his house and arrested them. Now
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Speaker 3: the charges were dropped because of the Constitution, and also
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Speaker 3: the governor Desantus came up and said churches are essential.
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Speaker 3: No pastors are going to be arrested. During that time,
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Speaker 3: that started something in us because my hometown, Cincinnati was
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Speaker 3: going through many things where they were trying to shut
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Speaker 3: down businesses. All the riots were happening. And when that happened,
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Speaker 3: you know, your heartbreaks for people. I looked at my
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Speaker 3: wife and I said, we have to start our church now.
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Speaker 3: So we start our church November of twenty twenty, in
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Speaker 3: the middle of all those mandates, and within the first
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Speaker 3: week of our church. We were going out to the
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Speaker 3: arts apartments in the West End and other areas and
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Speaker 3: distributing meals and groceries and clothes and toy giveaways. And
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Speaker 3: we've been going. We actually just celebrate our five year
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Speaker 3: anniversary and I tell people thank you, and I tell
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Speaker 3: people we started in rebellion. Know, we started by basically saying, no,
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Speaker 3: churches are essential. We've got to help people no matter what,
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Speaker 3: and we can't bow our knees to a tyrannical government,
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Speaker 3: whether it's local or any other level.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, render under Caesar? What is Caesar's? Render? Under God?
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Speaker 1: What is God's?
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Speaker 3: And you guys absolutely.
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Speaker 2: You know, demonstrated that through faith and through action both.
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Speaker 2: How do we how do we address the continued violence
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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati. I hate to call it gun violence because
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Speaker 2: you know what, I've talked to people before that our
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Speaker 2: Second Amendment enthusiast. In other words, they appreciate the fact
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Speaker 2: that we have a god given right to carry and
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Speaker 2: to own firearms cory as citizens, as as law abiding citizens.
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Speaker 2: How do we get a handle in this violence? And
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Speaker 2: you talked about the recidivism rate of people who continue
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Speaker 2: to commit crimes because of the revolving door in the
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Speaker 2: justice system. I think the recidivism rate on violent crime
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Speaker 2: is about eighty seven percent of the last figures I saw.
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Speaker 2: So how do more shootings to? You know, more shootings
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Speaker 2: this week and over the weekend, somebody died because of
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Speaker 2: this violence. It's really it's a cultural thing that we
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Speaker 2: need to get a hold of. And can we stop
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Speaker 2: calling it gun violence because it's simply violence that if
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Speaker 2: they committed with a gun, it's fine. They outlawed guns
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Speaker 2: in Great Britain and there are stabbings in what they
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Speaker 2: call the Tube almost every week in London.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, Gary Jeff. Over the last year,
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Speaker 3: not only were we campaigning for our local race, but
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Speaker 3: we got a chance to go to a lot of
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Speaker 3: dinners and events of whether it be state or national things.
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Speaker 3: Years running for political offices as well. And at many
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Speaker 3: of these dinners and fundraisers or rallies, whatever you want
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Speaker 3: to call them, there's always a question and answer session.
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Speaker 3: And I found it funny because I'm I'm a you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm a Christian. I'm a father and a husband first
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Speaker 3: and a pastor, and then everything that we do in
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Speaker 3: our lives is dictated by that vision for our life
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Speaker 3: of just helping people through the power of God. And
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Speaker 3: as I was at these events, I found it kind
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Speaker 3: of interesting that every question was always related to, you know,
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Speaker 3: very key things that we're dealing with in our country
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Speaker 3: with UH, with violence, with public safety, and also with affordability,
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Speaker 3: with jobs, with a lot of things that people are
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Speaker 3: suffering with right now. And you're a lot of people.
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Speaker 3: What I say is that you're looking to when you
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Speaker 3: have a spiritual crisis going on in the country. A
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Speaker 3: lot of people, you know, try to figure out whether
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Speaker 3: they should worship government or not. And when I say
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Speaker 3: worship government, it's like they look to the government for everything,
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Speaker 3: for their source of supply, look at that for to
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Speaker 3: fix everything. There's administrative things that every government needs to fix,
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Speaker 3: and just focus on their jobs. Stop trying to play
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Speaker 3: national politics or trying to use it as a platform
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Speaker 3: for bigger aspirations. Just do your job and keep the
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Speaker 3: streets clean and safe, prosperous. You know, when it comes
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Speaker 3: to the violence in our savity, administrative capability is make
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Speaker 3: sure your cops are properly staffed, make sure that they
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Speaker 3: can enforce in a way to where there's de escalation.
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Speaker 3: Make sure the judges are held to accountability, and then
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Speaker 3: make sure that the officers have a role in the
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Speaker 3: community that they're not just seen as the worst case scenario,
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Speaker 3: bad guys, but they're there to protect and serve the community.
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Speaker 3: But ultimately, all these questions that I've heard over dinners
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Speaker 3: and fundraisers, all these questions that we're asking ourselves right now,
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Speaker 3: whether people want to realize they or not, it all
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Speaker 3: comes down to a spiritual crisis, and we need a
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Speaker 3: spiritual revival in this country. We need people to turn
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Speaker 3: back to God. We need to establish the family unit,
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Speaker 3: fathers in the home, allowing people to work for a living,
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Speaker 3: providing jobs when necessary, to be able to give people
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Speaker 3: a helping hand up, not just a handout, but a
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Speaker 3: hand up, and all that in my mind, because I've
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Speaker 3: been at some of the lowest points, you know, throughout
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Speaker 3: my life at times, and the thing that always brought
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Speaker 3: me up, and the thing that's always brought everybody else
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Speaker 3: up that I talk to that has worth anything, all
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Speaker 3: comes back to turning your life over to Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 3: And my job isn't to force Jesus on everybody. My
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Speaker 3: job is to tell people, hey, this is something that
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Speaker 3: has changed my life. I would encourage anybody that's listening
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Speaker 3: right now. Maybe you've never given your life to Jesus,
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Speaker 3: or maybe you've never actually taken that step to step
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Speaker 3: into a church because you think, hey, I don't I'm
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Speaker 3: not right, or I'm not ready for Jesus yet, I'm
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Speaker 3: not clean enough for Jesus. That's like me taking my
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Speaker 3: car to a car wash and saying, oh, it's too
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Speaker 3: dirty to take it to the car wash. I got
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Speaker 3: to clean it up first. You know, coming to Christ.
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Speaker 3: Coming to Christ is coming as you are and then
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Speaker 3: allowing him to be able to make your life better
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Speaker 3: in every way. And that's what He's done for me
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Speaker 3: and my family. And I would encourage everybody I think about.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think it was the night before the election,
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Speaker 3: Gary Jeffsen, you gave me a call and me and
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Speaker 3: you just prayed over the election, and there was so
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Speaker 3: much peace in my home at that time. And I'm
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Speaker 3: so thankful for brothers like you that are encouraging in
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Speaker 3: every way. And I think people need more of that
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Speaker 3: more than anything.
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Speaker 2: Pastor Bowman, you know what, that may be more important
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Speaker 2: than saying, mayor bowmen. Pastor Bowman Merry Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas to you, sir.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much. Jim Ornacy will join
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Speaker 2: us next. I'm sure it'll be a totally different conversation.
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Speaker 2: Eight twenty eight