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Signal 99 - Enquirer op/ed, Reading Police, and Josh Gerth · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The talk station, Hey thirty two at fifty about carc
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  Speaker 1: de talk station, Oh signal ninety nine, It says, satire
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  Speaker 1: parody signal ninety nine. Welcome back to the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: Cassee morning Shure. It's always a pleasure to have you on.
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  Speaker 1: And you're a popular lady online, and you know what,
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  Speaker 1: you have become a valued resource for local media because
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  Speaker 1: you have the inside scoop on stuff. You've got factual information.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, sometimes you will use uh, you will use
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  Speaker 1: that inflat or that that inside information to ridicule public officials,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm of course referring to the words used by
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  Speaker 1: the op end co op ed contributor Brian Liine Weber,
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  Speaker 1: who is critical of who you are and what you do.
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  Speaker 1: But welcome to social media, mister Lenn Weber, Welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: signal ninety nine. It's great having you on today.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, it's good to be here. Brian.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction to the op ed piece, if
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  Speaker 1: I may ask, and folks, if you didn't get a
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  Speaker 1: copy of it, it's in the May twenty six Enquire
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  Speaker 1: Signal ninety nine. Acts more like an attention seeker than
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  Speaker 1: a watchdog. That's, of course a subjective opinion. But go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't refer to him by name. I call
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  Speaker 2: him the butt hurt cry baby. But anyway, so many pineapples, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: so many pineapples. But you know the funny thing is
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  Speaker 2: I live rent free in the Inquirer's head. Yes, they
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  Speaker 2: just can't. They just can't. And here's the thing. I've
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  Speaker 2: never proclaimed to be a watchdog. I've never proclaimed to
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  Speaker 2: be a journalist. You know, we just do our things
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  Speaker 2: and if you don't like it, just move on, scroll on,
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  Speaker 2: scroll by. But you know what happened. The butt hurt
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  Speaker 2: cry baby got nasty on the page. So I blocked him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you, all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: He offered commentary on your Facebook page that yeah, oh
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  Speaker 1: I see, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so and he just, you know, he just
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  Speaker 2: I gave him a shot across the bow and he
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  Speaker 2: doubled down on stupidity. So I blocked him. And then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden there's an op ed in the Inquirer,
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  Speaker 2: which is funny because like eighty seven million people sent
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  Speaker 2: it to me, but I don't subscribe to the Inquirer,
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  Speaker 2: so I couldn't read it. So people actually sent me
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  Speaker 2: screenshots and then someone sent me a link and I
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  Speaker 2: was able to actually go on to their article. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the most hilarious part. Every comment on there
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  Speaker 2: was positive pro Signal ninety nine. It was lovely. Now
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  Speaker 2: it's probably not now, but there was probably I don't
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  Speaker 2: know thirty comments on there. Yeah, and they were all
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  Speaker 2: I trust Signal ninety nine more than I trust blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah. So it was a win for me. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever, free advertising, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Free, it's it's free speech too. And no one has
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  Speaker 1: legal access tobody's Facebook page that is entirely up to
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  Speaker 1: the Facebook page. Well administrator, in this particular case, it's
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  Speaker 1: you but using your page as a vehicle to get
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  Speaker 1: some whistleblower information out. Is it possible that this anger
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  Speaker 1: or iron that's been expressed toward you by the CINCINNTI
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  Speaker 1: Inquirer or at least this bill weinwber guy, is it
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  Speaker 1: because you scoop them? You're providing information that local media
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  Speaker 1: should be able to find out on its own or
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  Speaker 1: go out and interview people to talk about this kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. Or am I wrong on that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not so much that they can't find
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  Speaker 2: the information, it's the Inquirer, won't they don't. They are
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  Speaker 2: very left leaning. They pretty much paint the city as
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  Speaker 2: you know. They softball everything. So the step that they
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  Speaker 2: could be blowing up, they refuse to. And so do
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  Speaker 2: they get out scooped? Absolutely? No, oh you know. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But the funny thing is, especially on X, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people tagged in and my posts and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: where are you? Why aren't you covering this? Why aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: So maybe that's maybe that's part of it. Maybe they're
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  Speaker 2: just pissy about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, I appreciate that. We'll pause, bring
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  Speaker 1: signal ninety nine back. Your name came up when I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to Josh Girth, the new Hamilton County Republican
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  Speaker 1: party chair, who you endorse, and I think maybe that
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  Speaker 1: endorsement had had something to do with it. Perhaps not,
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  Speaker 1: although he did want to enlist your help in trying
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  Speaker 1: to get people to get out and vote in November.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if you'll do that. We'll also talk about
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  Speaker 1: the win and what about the Redding police chief Signal
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine on those topics, and maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more stick around, say thirty six or fifty five kr
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  Speaker 1: CD talk station at fifty five KERCD talk stations. By
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  Speaker 1: the time I swift signal ninety nine. It's the web
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  Speaker 1: page anyway, And of course it says right there and
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  Speaker 1: follow her on Facebook or them, because she is a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle to get inside whistleblowers from the police department, in
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  Speaker 1: the fire department and dispatches, et cetera, and get the
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  Speaker 1: information out to the general public. But it says single
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine a spy see meme page for cop firefighters,
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  Speaker 1: medics and dispatcher, but also a page where we throw
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  Speaker 1: light on the shady pineapple and my listeners knowing you
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what that word stands for. Your your critic
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  Speaker 1: in the enquire the op ed column this it's anonymous
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  Speaker 1: administrators use inflammatory imagery, ridicule public officials and cultivate audience
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  Speaker 1: engagement through pure spectacle. Isn't that the point? I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Is he not familiar with chat GPT? You say right
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  Speaker 1: up front, it's a meme page. That's exactly what inflammatory
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  Speaker 1: imagery quite often is. Everybody uses it, including my executive producer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and he's excellent atic he is, isn't he? Joe
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  Speaker 2: is around?
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  Speaker 1: I know next week listen, I could not do this
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  Speaker 1: show that, Joe, and I mean that from the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of my heart with one hundred per cent sincerity. So
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  Speaker 1: inflammatory imagery, you do the you do a great job
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  Speaker 1: with the memes. But you know, the ridicule public officials.
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  Speaker 1: The point of that is the information upon which you
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  Speaker 1: predicate your ridicule. That's that's the factual part that this
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  Speaker 1: guy apparently is overlooking. You're bringing forth, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: bring the folks that whistle blow to you, provide documents, information, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, records, et cetera. So it's not like you're
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  Speaker 1: just going out there and making random accusations for the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of ridiculing public officials. The ridicule springs from the
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  Speaker 1: outrageous behavior that led to the comments.
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  Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, we have the tea and the receipts. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what these people are talking about. I think,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I think they're just butt her cry babies.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, they could just move on. They don't
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  Speaker 2: have to read the page. They they gripe if my
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  Speaker 2: articles are too long. They gripe if you know, if
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  Speaker 2: I disagree with something or I endorse the person. They
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  Speaker 2: don't want. Oh my god, it brought out the mudslingers
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  Speaker 2: this last week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's great. This is one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons I don't engage in social media, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I say things in ridicule people and bring up problems
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  Speaker 1: that I find with the world on the morning show.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's a million and a half credit
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  Speaker 1: out there. If that many people even would bother to
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  Speaker 1: care what I'm saying. I don't participate, So I salute
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  Speaker 1: you for your participation. Although you get the benefit of
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  Speaker 1: some measure of anonymity, I don't. But then again, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to read the outrageous quotes from people who
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  Speaker 1: might comment on it, So salute you on that one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pivot over here. What is going on with the
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  Speaker 1: Reading Police chief? Speaking of shenanigans, You've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: this one on your page.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the city of Reading is, you know, sitting there
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  Speaker 2: chewing their fingernails waiting to see what Kannie Pillas is
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  Speaker 2: going to do. So if I were Connie Pillage, I
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  Speaker 2: would send it to the grand jury and expect a
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  Speaker 2: no bill on it and that would be the end
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  Speaker 2: of it. It would be transparent. I don't expect them
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  Speaker 2: to actually charge him criminally.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well hold on, pause, pauseus so to put some
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  Speaker 1: context in it, to the extent someone of my listening
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  Speaker 1: audience is going, what the hell is it that she's
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  Speaker 1: talking about? What is this indictment necessarily about?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So, the cheap of reading made a clerk run
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  Speaker 2: his brother through protective databases that are for law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: use only to get his address so he could make
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  Speaker 2: a doctor's appointment. That's for felony. So you know, we
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  Speaker 2: reached out to Leeds, they found it, We reached out
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  Speaker 2: to OSP They found it and ended up in BCI's hands.
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  Speaker 2: They did their investigation and then they sent it off
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  Speaker 2: to the county prosecutor for consideration of charges. So, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, he is a city in chief. He knew
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  Speaker 2: what he was doing was wrong, which is why he
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  Speaker 2: didn't run his brother himself. He could have run him himself,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't because it would have automatically flagged it. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, he had a clerk to it. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: the poor clerk whomever it is, with the way he
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  Speaker 2: is lashing out at people and being retaliatory, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: the clerk felt if they didn't do it, they'd probably
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  Speaker 2: lose their job. So that's what it is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he illegally access databases that are for professional department use
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  Speaker 2: only for personal reasons. And that's a big, fat no no.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't remember the last time a city in
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  Speaker 2: chief got in trouble for that. I actually don't remember
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  Speaker 2: that happening in my time here. But it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a little thing. And if you compound that
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  Speaker 2: with the fact that the Croston report came out last
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  Speaker 2: year and gave all these red flags about his leadership
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  Speaker 2: failures and his retaliatory behavior, and then I think it
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  Speaker 2: was nineteen officers left under his command, was fourteen or
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  Speaker 2: nineteen something like that, and he just lost the lieutenant
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  Speaker 2: last week. I think his last day is this week.
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  Speaker 2: But my point is, you don't have that kind of
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  Speaker 2: a turnover in a decent department with good leadership. You don't.
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  Speaker 2: And I know there's some very capable lieutenants there. I
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  Speaker 2: just think that they weren't really allowed to be the
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  Speaker 2: leaders they want to be under Edens either. So why
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  Speaker 2: counsel and the mayor and the Safety Service director have
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  Speaker 2: all circled their wagons around Eton, I have no idea,
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  Speaker 2: because they should have cut him lose last year when
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  Speaker 2: the Croston report came out, they didn't. And now look
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  Speaker 2: so our cise did get kind of honked off and
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  Speaker 2: they went in and revoked his access. So he has
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  Speaker 2: zero access to any of those databases. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: he could still order somebody else to do it again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know why they haven't told him
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  Speaker 2: Cyinari yet. We need to buy and Narra Brian, how
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that could be interpreted as ridiculing public officials. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: one more segment with signal ninety nine. Don't go way.
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  Speaker 1: It's eight forty six right now if you have KRCD
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  Speaker 1: talk station fifty five KARC the talk station station and
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  Speaker 1: Happy Friday. E Brian Thomas was signal ninety nine, and I
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  Speaker 1: encourage you to follow her like so many thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people do over at Facebook popular meme page. Yeah, she's
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  Speaker 1: spicy with her commentary, but it is accurate and it's
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  Speaker 1: fun to read and excellent with the with the graphics there.
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  Speaker 1: Signal ninety nine. And I appreciate your reporting because I
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  Speaker 1: did not know and I'm glad you're out there. Are
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  Speaker 1: they in jail dot com signal ninety nine. I saw
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  Speaker 1: you latched onto that and passed along the information to
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  Speaker 1: all of your followers. What a great thing that was created,
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  Speaker 1: because apparently records are being manipulated, and we are being
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  Speaker 1: manipulated via the clerk accord and the sheriff's records and
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  Speaker 1: the jail bookings and all that. We have a workaround
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  Speaker 1: around that now, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I can how you the the guy that created that,
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  Speaker 2: he is a mad genius. He's also, you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the people behind the City of Cincinnati government satire page.
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  Speaker 2: So if you don't follow them, you should. City of
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati Satire Page.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of material there.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Yeah, yesterday, the servers craft because so many people
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  Speaker 2: accessed it at once. Oh wow, So it took them
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  Speaker 2: all day working on it to fix that. But it's
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  Speaker 2: it's up, it's running, and it's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: And what this site does, if I can read your
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  Speaker 1: own words, it puts the It pulls the same public
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  Speaker 1: booking information published by the Hamilton published by Hamilton County,
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  Speaker 1: and puts it into a format that you and I
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  Speaker 1: can easily use and see. You can search by name, charges,
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  Speaker 1: bond information, booking details excellent. This allows us to keep
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  Speaker 1: accountability of the judges as well as what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the jail and the level of crime and who's
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  Speaker 1: committing it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it phenomenal?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's. It's a great resource for local news reporting too.
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  Speaker 2: It is. I can tell you I've already.
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  Speaker 1: Been all over it well considering the level of I'm
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  Speaker 1: not it's not control. You're not manipulating anybody. But the
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  Speaker 1: information you have is valuable and people obviously are gravitating
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  Speaker 1: to read what you're writing about. You have the ability
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  Speaker 1: to reach out to a whole bunch of people through
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  Speaker 1: your followers. Going back to Josh Girth, I know you
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  Speaker 1: endorsed him. Is he the first candidate that you endorsed
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  Speaker 1: going into the Hamilton County GOP election?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and and it was it was a hard thing
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  Speaker 2: to do. We did a lot of squabbling over it
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  Speaker 2: at taking on ninety nine because there's several of us,
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  Speaker 2: but we thought, you know, we shouldn't endorse anybody, We
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  Speaker 2: should stay out of it. We should, we shouldn't, we should,
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  Speaker 2: we shouldn't. So you know, we finally came down on
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  Speaker 2: you know what we really should because and don't get
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  Speaker 2: me wrong. We respect jud Roulman, we like it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but we just felt like Josh could bring the energy
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  Speaker 2: to bring the party back together and get people off
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  Speaker 2: of their pineapples and out there to vote in November.
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  Speaker 2: And that seems to be the biggest problem right is
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  Speaker 2: you know, Republicans just aren't voting in awful election years,
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's so critical. I mean, look what happened
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  Speaker 2: last year. We could have had a new mayor a
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  Speaker 2: new city council. I mean we could be a completely
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  Speaker 2: different city right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty five percent of registered voters. That is so heartbreaking. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where where you pivot over. And I honestly
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  Speaker 1: was really impressed by Josh's enthusiasm. He's optimistic. He says, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't bring the flag out yet. We're going to turn
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  Speaker 1: things around, and we need people to get out and vote.
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  Speaker 1: Point you made the point I made talking with him.
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  Speaker 1: Cast Can we list you and count on you to
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  Speaker 1: regularly remind people as we get closer to November that
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  Speaker 1: it isn't too late and we do definitely need to
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  Speaker 1: get off our butts and change direction of Hamilton County.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like an easy ask and I have a
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  Speaker 1: feeling you'll say yes, but I want you on the record.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh absolutely. I did it all last year, and
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty disheartened that so many people just weren't
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  Speaker 2: weren't larent, they didn't vote, But now they want to
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  Speaker 2: grape about it. So if you don't vote, shut up.
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  Speaker 2: You got no voice. Your voice is your vote. And
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  Speaker 2: if you don't vote, don't whine and moan about things
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  Speaker 2: that are going on because you chose to stay home.
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  Speaker 2: I will absolutely be hammering that home.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, and again, please for my listeners, the
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  Speaker 1: follower on Facebook or them the nom diplume, going back
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  Speaker 1: to the ending on this this op ed piece, and
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  Speaker 1: a point again the non diplume signal ninety nine. You
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  Speaker 1: are you're a collective back there, the insiders that you
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  Speaker 1: have connections with that are incorporated and part of the
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  Speaker 1: police and fire and ems and and dispatch and all.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a collective. So you gott to sum it
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  Speaker 1: up in signal ninety nine. That e the moniker that
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  Speaker 1: you chose. So it's not you specifically, it's a collective
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  Speaker 1: of informed people. Have I got that right?
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  Speaker 2: It isn't. That includes the criminal justice system, executors, judges, clerks,
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  Speaker 2: probation am you. Oh yeah, they're all in it.
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  Speaker 1: David's yeah, well Signal ninety nine and everybody who is.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up the spicy memes, keep up the accountability, keep
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  Speaker 1: up the pressure, and keep doing it in a comedic
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  Speaker 1: and fun to read fashion because we all get a
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  Speaker 1: kick out of it and it generates clicks, which means
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  Speaker 1: more people find out about it. Right. Yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 1: point of the spicy memes. Brian, You're always welcome. I
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  Speaker 1: knock yourself out. I know, Facebook's like the only place
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  Speaker 1: that go Why because I'm an old man. You keep
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  Speaker 1: up the work, keep up the great work, and it
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  Speaker 1: hats off in a salute to everybody involved in your
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  Speaker 1: absolutely wonderful efforts. We've got to get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: Shenanigan in this stupidity and find better people to represent
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  Speaker 1: us in the greater Cincinnati and Hamilton County area. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk again real soon. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk bye bye. By eight fifty five. Early in
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  Speaker 1: the program, Peter Bronson