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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 131 - A few hours with Dan Carroll, Vivek, and Wenstrup · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Fifty five. Care see the talk station six fifty three
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  Speaker 1: Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas coming up after the news.
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  Speaker 1: At the top of the hour, Chris smitheman gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in studio. In fact, he got here a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, Chrismithaman rolling in early. Chrismithaman, how you doing today? Man,
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  Speaker 1: turn that mic on over there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get to see you in person. All that off.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's exciting. The hug was great, but I
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  Speaker 3: got my beer.
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  Speaker 1: Hug, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How was the weather coming in?
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  Speaker 3: I was listening to you, buddy. It's every bit of
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight degrees man, and the and the wind is
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  Speaker 3: rocking the truck. So people have to very well, have
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  Speaker 3: to be very yes, people have to be very careful
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  Speaker 3: this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean after I mean yesterday it was windy,
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  Speaker 1: but it was nice out. I got the windows in
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  Speaker 1: the house open. Yeah, breeze is coming through like this
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  Speaker 1: is nice exactly. And then my wife, my wife's going
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  Speaker 1: to think she is going to snow tomorrow, Like wait a.
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  Speaker 3: Minute, that's Cincinnati weather. That's why that's why people's allergies
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  Speaker 3: are going so crazy right now. You know, one day
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  Speaker 3: it's seven degrees, next day is twenty.
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  Speaker 1: You know, are you do you have? Do you have allergies?
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  Speaker 3: I do? Yeah? Yeah, they're killing you right now, not
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  Speaker 3: killing me, but the weather change is definitely impact. It's
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  Speaker 3: nice to just get a cruise pick up, pick a
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  Speaker 3: season and stay with it. Yeah, it's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm lucky. I've never really had had allergies
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  Speaker 1: or anything like my wife is. She's got some allergies. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so when it gets to be around this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: that's why we can't. We can't. We can't have a
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  Speaker 1: uh we have an artificial Christmas tree, yes, but she's
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  Speaker 1: allergic to Christmas trees. Oh wow, so we can't have
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  Speaker 1: a real Christmas tree in that we had. We had
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  Speaker 1: them for years and it was like every Christmas. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh I feel terrible, my head stuff. But so we
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  Speaker 1: we gotta have a fake Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: You found out it was the Christmas tree that was
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  Speaker 3: creating the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the the uh you know, the specialist says, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're allergic to grasses. So she she gets out of
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  Speaker 1: cutting grass. She never gets she never has to cut
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  Speaker 1: grass in our house.
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  Speaker 3: She wouldn't be cutting grass. Yeah, she wouldn't be cutting
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  Speaker 3: grass anywayn't care.
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  Speaker 1: That's I do. I do. I do enjoy cutting the grass.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at it yesterday. It's like I got
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and cut the grass. But it
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  Speaker 1: ain't happening today. I can tell you that much.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my heart really goes out. I know we
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  Speaker 3: only have a minute, but my heart goes out to
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  Speaker 3: those airmen that lost their lives. I was listening to
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  Speaker 3: the show coming I was.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about that a little bit earlier, and six of
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  Speaker 1: them from here in Ohio. One went to UC and
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  Speaker 1: that hits I know that hits close to home for you.
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  Speaker 1: So well, we'll touch on all those things. But we
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  Speaker 1: got two hours with you. You agree to be here
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  Speaker 1: till nine this morning. I did you know? You told
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strucker you'd be here till there's no way you
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  Speaker 1: can't back out on it. And I'll be here all right,
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe we'll take a few phone calls people
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  Speaker 1: out there. I got questions for Chris Smithman. Today is
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  Speaker 1: your day.
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  Speaker 3: This is your day.
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  Speaker 1: This is your day. So we'll continue on. But right
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  Speaker 1: now we've got to get to a little news here
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the hour, and then two hours
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  Speaker 1: with Chris Smithman as we roll on till nine This morning,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Carol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV talk station.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening over there?
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  Speaker 3: An American submarine sunk in Iranian warship.
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  Speaker 2: Is happening here at the top of the hour. Epic
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  Speaker 3: Updates on Operation Epic Fury.
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  Speaker 5: Check in for the latest point accuracy intelligence fifty five
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the talk station seven o six on
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  Speaker 1: this Monday morning, Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas, and
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  Speaker 1: I get to be here tomorrow as well. And a
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  Speaker 1: special day today because you know, Monday is always the
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  Speaker 1: Mither Vent, which I thought was a great thing when
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  Speaker 1: that started, And today is special because the Smither event
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  Speaker 1: comes to us live instant. I mean it's always live,
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  Speaker 1: it's always live over the phone, but this is in
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  Speaker 1: studio and I'm looking at the guy right now, and
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  Speaker 1: Chris Smithman, it's great to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: Two hours. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready?
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  Speaker 1: You are always ready. I'm ready, I said earlier, I've
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  Speaker 1: got I've got a couple of topics, because he could
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  Speaker 1: do the whole two hours on a couple of topics,
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  Speaker 1: because you're just that passionate, You're just that good. But
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  Speaker 1: it's it's great to see, it's great to have you in.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that the loss of the Ohio National
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  Speaker 1: guardsman in the sky's over a rock is something that
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  Speaker 1: hits close to home for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my son Caleb is serving in the in the
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  Speaker 3: Air National Guard. He did four years active duty, came
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  Speaker 3: back home, re enlisted in the in the Air National Guard.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, when you wake up and you see
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  Speaker 3: any of our our miller Terry Purcedel dying, it impacts you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for your service. You know, I heard the
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  Speaker 3: the the interview uh previously with the with the gentleman
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  Speaker 3: that called in his father served, he served, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know it's a big sacrifice for families who are
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  Speaker 3: supporting the servicemen and women, whether it's the spouse or
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  Speaker 3: whether it is the parents. But you know what, and
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  Speaker 3: before I just leave this, my heart goes out to
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  Speaker 3: all of them. But you know, listening to the Columbus
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  Speaker 3: young man, I've been listening to his story where he
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  Speaker 3: was an only child, and listening to the listening to
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  Speaker 3: that mom and that grandma talk about their their only
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  Speaker 3: child who passed away, who had not wasn't married, did
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  Speaker 3: not have kids. My heart goes out to his to that,
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  Speaker 3: to that that entire family. But here's here's the part
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  Speaker 3: of the event that really ticks me, and that is
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  Speaker 3: the anti American sentiment behind this. I'm waiting to listen
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  Speaker 3: to my elected officials in Washington be pro American, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get in their seat every day who we
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  Speaker 3: elect them, and say that they're supporting our country. We've
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  Speaker 3: got thirteen servicemen and women that have lost their lives.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of like making that a punchline, you know, why
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  Speaker 3: not extend their love and the support. Why not go
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  Speaker 3: to the to the airport when they're bringing those bodies
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  Speaker 3: off those planes and stand there and be reverent and salute.
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  Speaker 3: That is what is missing right now in our country.
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  Speaker 3: And it just bothers me when I listen to this language.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for far too many in the media and far
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  Speaker 1: too many in politics, it is a bridge too far
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  Speaker 1: to support the United States military. Some will all on
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  Speaker 1: one hand say they support them, they give lip service
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  Speaker 1: to it, and then they'll go ahead and they'll criticize
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  Speaker 1: the commander in chief, and they'll criticize the military and
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  Speaker 1: criticize the whole notion that we needed to end this
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  Speaker 1: scourge of Iran and their state sponsored terrorism that has
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  Speaker 1: been going on since nineteen seventy nine. So to expect
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  Speaker 1: this is as long as they're advancing theft the radical
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  Speaker 1: left agenda, that is all that matters. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you brought that up because I had a clip that
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  Speaker 1: came from ms NOW, which used to be MSNBC, which
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  Speaker 1: is ms now, and this was an anchor who was
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  Speaker 1: on over the weekend. And listen to the way she
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  Speaker 1: describes the way Trump deals with the enemy. Joe, let's
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  Speaker 1: hear cut number.
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  Speaker 6: One really disturbing, and the messaging around the war recently,
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  Speaker 6: and Aim and I really want your thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 6: In particular, is some of the language and the description
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  Speaker 6: of their opponent, so of the way they seem to
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  Speaker 6: create this image of the Iranians and all of their
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  Speaker 6: proxies or allies, the sort of imagery that they conjure up.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that it takes a certain amount of arrogance.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm also going to say it a bit of
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  Speaker 6: racism to constantly talk about people like their savages. That
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  Speaker 6: is a word that we've heard heg seth Ugh's so.
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  Speaker 1: This and again you cannot find me. I defy you
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  Speaker 1: to find me one clip where Donald Trump or anyone
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  Speaker 1: in the administration has referred to the Iranian people as
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  Speaker 1: savages when it comes to the leadership, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the terrorism, when it comes to that sort of thing, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they describe them in the worst terms possible. But this
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  Speaker 1: is an MS NOW anchor who is suggesting that speaking
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  Speaker 1: ill of the enemy is somehow racist.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, before we went in, that's a new
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  Speaker 3: one on me, it is. But before we went in,
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  Speaker 3: just remember that ten thousand to thirty six thousand Iranian people,
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  Speaker 3: mostly young between the age of seventeen, nineteen and twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: were being shot down in the street. There were body
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  Speaker 3: bags everywhere over in the streets of Iran. So the
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  Speaker 3: people of Iran are saying they love this, they want
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  Speaker 3: to change. They're in the street with their flags. Now
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  Speaker 3: you find these pockets like you saw in New York
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  Speaker 3: over the weekends, very small pockets, but for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: Dan Carroll, the Iranian people are saying, we want our freedom,
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  Speaker 3: very similar to the Venezuelan people who were saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're very excited about this person who's not the president
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  Speaker 3: who was removed. But you heard lots of Democrats saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this was a bad decision. I don't understand the tone death,
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  Speaker 3: the tone deafness of the Democratic Party right now, Dan Carroll,
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  Speaker 3: and how they are depicting what the people are saying
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  Speaker 3: on the ground and what they're saying. It is very,
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  Speaker 3: very very different. Right now. The United States is being
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  Speaker 3: viewed as a liberator in Iran as they were in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 3: and the people are saying, please come, please help me.
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  Speaker 3: We're being murdered, we're being in we're in in jail,
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  Speaker 3: we're political prisoners. I don't know what they're talking about,
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  Speaker 3: but I want to go back and finish this quick point.
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  Speaker 3: The servicemen and women are following orders, Dan Carroll, like
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  Speaker 3: you did. They don't have a choice. And so what
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  Speaker 3: we need to have is this united voice that we're
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  Speaker 3: supporting them as they're putting their lives on the line
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  Speaker 3: for our freedom. And so when you wake up in
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  Speaker 3: six Air National Guard members have lost their lives, three
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  Speaker 3: of them right here in Ohio. Our Governor Mike Dwine says,
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  Speaker 3: bring our flags a half mass. What we're looking for,
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  Speaker 3: and what I'm looking for from our leaders is at
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  Speaker 3: least a united voice behind those military personnel who are
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  Speaker 3: putting their life on the line. And like my family,
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  Speaker 3: my son is not in harm's way this morning, but
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  Speaker 3: he is serving. He actually finishes his training on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: so that makes him now eligible to be deployed. It's
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  Speaker 3: a scary time and I would want I wouldn't want anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I would never want to wake up and hear anybody
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  Speaker 3: on the on the on the TV saying anything like
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  Speaker 3: how you played it? Because we have everything on the
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  Speaker 3: line with our family well, and.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the politicians, I can't. Yeah, I heard,
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  Speaker 1: I heard the despicable Chris Murphy from Connecticut. I heard
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  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff, I've heard some other Dick Durbin was one,
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  Speaker 1: who are talking as if that this has already been
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  Speaker 1: a failure, this has already failed, that it's a this
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be happening, that somehow Congress ought to be in
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  Speaker 1: control of all this. So there is no united front.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing at all to support and and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be again, you don't have to be a
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  Speaker 1: supporter of Donald Trump, but you but you cannot even
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  Speaker 1: tow that line to where it comes to like you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: have a united front on this, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's not going to happen because our kids are
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  Speaker 3: over there following orders. And then there was there were
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  Speaker 3: a group of senators I think six of them who
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  Speaker 3: who I think you would completely disagree, who were saying
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  Speaker 3: that those military person don't have the ability to disregard orders.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have any ability to disregard in order. They
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  Speaker 3: are following the direction of the of the commands. Period.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they do.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you sign up for, that's what you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 3: And so I just i'm i'm, i'm I'm reaching out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this morning saying, hey, one, I lift up
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  Speaker 3: all of the military families who are out there right now,
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  Speaker 3: like mine, like yours, like many in the list your
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  Speaker 3: listening audience, and I'm saying, why not have the united
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  Speaker 3: front right now for those who are serving, move away
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  Speaker 3: from the politics of what's happening in Congress and what's
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  Speaker 3: happening in the Senate, whether it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: filibuster or not, whether they're funding DHS or not. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to discuss any of that. I want to say,
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  Speaker 3: why can't we say the men and women that are serving,
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  Speaker 3: who have their lives on the line for our freedom
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  Speaker 3: right now, we support them? Yeah, I support them. This
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  Speaker 3: is not the time to be burning flags, because this
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  Speaker 3: is not the time to be taking a knee right now.
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  Speaker 3: You've got too many young people that are out there
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  Speaker 3: who have everything on the line, their life, ready to
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  Speaker 3: give it for our freedom. This is when everybody on
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  Speaker 3: social media should have a course in America saying we
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  Speaker 3: support our servicemen and women, and.
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  Speaker 1: We can't even stand united against those who have carried
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  Speaker 1: out what are essentially terrorist attacks in the country, gunning
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  Speaker 1: down innocent people, and especially at Old Dominion University, the
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw, who was I mean, a decorated
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  Speaker 1: Army veteran twenty years, one military honor after another, and
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  Speaker 1: he's at ODU gunned down by a guy who was
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  Speaker 1: a naturalized citizen, who had already been convicted of terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: who was supposed to be locked up, but yet and
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  Speaker 1: then we were talking earlier about Virginia. This was in Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: They let him out early. Odu, this guy's dead, I
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  Speaker 1: mean after surviving you know, uh, a service in Afghanistan
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  Speaker 1: and in other hell holes around the world, that comes
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  Speaker 1: here and he's gonned down a professor, Yeah, professor and
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  Speaker 1: luckily fortunately was his cadets who.
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  Speaker 3: Took him out.
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  Speaker 1: Who took that guy out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and fantastic. And by the way, you don't hear
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  Speaker 3: enough about the story that Dan Carroll just highlighted, like
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to find it, Like you've got to go
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  Speaker 3: and find what you're saying. They're not highlighting the stories
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  Speaker 3: of this r o t c officer, The New York teachers, Yeah, the.
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  Speaker 1: New York Times make its not like, hey, he was
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  Speaker 1: just a guy just you know, maybe lost his way.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: No, not a convicted terrorist. No, who should have who
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  Speaker 1: should have didn't didn't do, didn't do his full stretch
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  Speaker 1: of eleven years when he was convicted in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and then should have been kicked the hell out of
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  Speaker 1: this country when that time was over. We got to
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  Speaker 1: get to a break. We'll continue on with Chris smind
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  Speaker 1: them until nine this morning. So if you have any
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  Speaker 1: questions five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five one
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  Speaker 1: hundred on fifty five krs the talk station talk Station SEVENE.
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  Speaker 1: On this Monday morning, we are in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: a Smither vent and Chris Smitheman I was getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for the show yesterday and I saw this headline in
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  Speaker 1: the Inquirer. I was like, this is like teed up,
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  Speaker 1: just perfect for Chris Smithman. Here's the headline. Fewer people
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: ventured downtown and OTR last year. The data shows, so
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: David Ferrar at the Inquirer, they did an analysis of
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: what's happening downtown and they found economic activity in downtown
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati and over the Rhine appears to have decreased. According
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: to an analysis of eight metrics, traffic data, sales, tax numbers,
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  Speaker 1: public transit usage all suggests fewer people visiting the urban
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  Speaker 1: core in twenty twenty five compared to twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Many residents and business owners believe a negative perception of crime,
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  Speaker 1: particularly amongst people like myself.
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  Speaker 3: Foot traffic foot foot traffic is dropping because of safety
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  Speaker 3: and President King Kobra earlier was specifically saying that, and
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  Speaker 3: so remember you know, people can choose where they want
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  Speaker 3: to go to dinner. They can choose where they want
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  Speaker 3: to watch a movie. They don't have to choose downtown
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  Speaker 3: for their entertainment. And that's what's missing in our leadership,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the mayor's office and in the council's office.
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  Speaker 3: And so the foot traffic traffic is down for a reason,
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  Speaker 3: and that's because people don't feel safe. And so when
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  Speaker 3: you go to dinner, you park your vehicle. It's practical
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  Speaker 3: you have to go back to your car. It's seven, nine,
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  Speaker 3: ten o'clock at night. People are concerned about are they
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  Speaker 3: going to break into my car? Are they going to
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  Speaker 3: jump me? Are they going to attack my wife as
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  Speaker 3: we go back to the car, or my signing other
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  Speaker 3: all of that is happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna get caught in a crossfire? Are you
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  Speaker 1: between rival gangs shooting it out? I mean that that
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  Speaker 1: that has happened. All that's the exact scenario has played out.
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  Speaker 1: How many times?
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  Speaker 3: Or are you gonna get jump? Are you gonna get jumped?
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  Speaker 3: And have the president pro tim say you deserve to
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  Speaker 3: get what you got. I mean, look at what happened
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  Speaker 3: to Holly right there. I mean, people, are you know
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  Speaker 3: or you've got to go out there and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 1: What was the quote they were begging for that, they.
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  Speaker 3: Were begging for the beatdown. That is why the foot
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: traffic in downtown continues to drop. And if the mayor
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and if council they don't intervene with with with basic
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: common sense, I'll focus on public safety, you're gonna continue
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to see that trend. And what will ultimately happen is
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: those small businesses first will have to close. They can't.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna be able to generate enough money to
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: pay the big overhead that they have down there. But
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: then what's gonna happen is you're gonna see one of
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: our major corporations say, my employees are voting with their feet.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: We're having a difficult time recruiting and retaining talent. They
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: don't want to come downtown, they don't feel safe. We're
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: gonna move over to across the bridge. I'm telling you,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati's gonna keep playing the leadership. They're gonna keep pushing
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the button, and we're gonna lose one of our big
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: corporate partners down there.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not just it's not just the crime
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: or perception of crime. And what I was saying earlier
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: was that in people like me who live in the suburbs,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and I can find there's a lot of reasons I
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: want to come downtown and go to different events and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: see different things, do different things. But it's it's far
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: too easy to find an excuse to not come downtown.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: That's right, because I don't want to deal with the parking.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to deal with
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: everything else that comes along with coming into the city
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and what in the possibilities of what could happen.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And you know, and I see the like the video
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that we have from the Brady Center last weekend. Yes,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and then this weekend we have the street takeover, Yes,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and things like that. Yeah, it's it's unsavory and it's
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: not good.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: And you know, here, I want to say this so
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: that everybody understands that Dan Carroll, Christopher Smitherman, Brian Thomas,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Joe Strecker, I could keep naming. We all love downtown.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: We all believe that our core is incredibly important. But
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: what we're not gonna do is dress this up and
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: say everything is okay. That's not fair. It's not fair
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to the citizens that are out in our suburbs who
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: are talking about coming in. My point to you, Dan Carroll,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: is when we talk about this, those people who are downtown,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: they say, oh, you and I don't support the city.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: We do support the city. What we're saying is put
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the pressure on the mayor and put the pressure on
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the council to make sure that we're safe. You can't
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: have one or two officers cruising around downtown to cover
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the entire downtown of District one and think that the
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: citizens and your visitors are going to be safe. Bottom line,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: that article is correct. People are choosing with their feet.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: They are not coming downtown to spend their money. They're
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: going to other place.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: All right, We got to get to another break and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we'll continue on. We got plenty of time with Chris
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Smithaman this morning and we're just scratching the surface. But
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a long way to go on fifty five KRCD talk
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: stations as they can go. Fifty five KRCD Talk Station
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: seven point thirty. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas hanging out
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: with Chris Smitherman an extended smither vent today. As we
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: roll on till nine o'clock this morning, it's going to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: be here for the whole two hours. Let me get
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: your your thoughts on And when you were in city
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: council when it came time to review the city manager,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I think the structure at City Hall was a little
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: bit different when you were on city council. But there
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: there's always been a city manager form of government here
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. And even when you were in council, the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: city manager served at the pleasure of the mayor and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: city council. And so when it came time to review
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the city manager, did the city manager at that time
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: write their own review and then submit it to a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: council for their for their for their rubbers tamp now,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: much like what happened here in if for for share
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: all long.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've had a rich history, good or bad
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: firing city managers in in Cincinnati, because you know, we
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: are a city manager form of government.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: So we've had some great city managers over the years.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: We've had some great ones and not so great and
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and and what I will say is that when you
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: look at what our crime rates are, city manager, that
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: falls right under their preview. When you look at the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: termination of Fiji, because I heard you talking about that
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: this morning, Chief Fiji and how it was done and
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: the millions of dollars most likely will cost us when
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: you hear about the termination of the fire Chief Chief Washington,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: that litigation is pening's going to cost us millions of dollars.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: The eight point one million in settlements that we just
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: gave out right, just I mean, I could just go
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: through a list. None of that made it to the evaluation.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: None of it made it. Infrastructure potholes, yeah, I've got right,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I've got the right in snow removal, none of that
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: is And you didn't have one member of council out
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: of nine say I have a question about snow removal.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I have a question about potholes or infrastructure or the
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: sale of the railroad dollars and why those dollars aren't
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: reaching the people and the infrastructure. What's happening with this
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty thousand dollars contract that you have
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: with Irish Rowley. Are we getting an ROI on that?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: There were no questions. That's when you know it was
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: a rubber stamp. It was all baked up. And what
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I really believe, Dan Carroll, is this is a pivot
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: for the city manager to leave the city of Cincinnati.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: She's most likely preparing to interview.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: For John the opening act.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I think this is I think that's right because the mayor,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: the mayor is the mayor is turned out. You're going
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: to see a lot of the people in the administration
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: that he's hired now looking for jobs, trying to find
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: places to land. I think that this was her evaluation
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: that she's gonna use use to go and apply for
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: a city manager job somewhere else in the United States
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: of America. It's not about us, it was about her.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And so no one in council raised any objection to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: this to help pave the way for her to have
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a smooth exit.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Isn't that nice?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: And then what we'll do is, isn't that nice?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: We'll have some intim city manager for two years while
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: the mayor finishes up his term and then rides off
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: into the sun.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So does that serve the people of Cincinnati?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: It does it?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So all that's going to do. So you're telling me
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: right now, your sense is is that all these things
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that we have sitting on the table when it comes
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to the police chief, when it comes to cameras in
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the West End neighborhood where the eleven year old girl
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: was shot and killed and we still don't know who
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: killed her, when it comes to the eight hundred and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars debt in the pension fund, when it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: comes to crime, when it comes to the money. I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: saw a very cute video on the city website of
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: how they fill potholes in Cincinnati. Very clever, very cute,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and a lot of quick gut. It's all that kind
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of stuff. So we're busy producing little video, little vignettes
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: like that. But when it comes to actual drive around there,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you drive around the city, I do, I do. Our
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: road should be in awesome shape right now. We should
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: have millions upon millions of dollars to spend on roads
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and infrastructure. But yet the the bureaucracy of city Hall
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and who's ever in that decision making process. It's not
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: that money is not getting out. I mean I have,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I have that money. Is just is it sitting there?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: What's happening with that?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll come to I have about six meetings all
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: over in different parts of our of our of our
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: of our city, in our region today, and as I
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: drive around, what is so interesting is if I go
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: out into the county, you can you can just feel
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: it when you cross the line. Fact the roads just
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: get better, you know, It says leaving the city of Cincinnati,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, my truck just kind
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: of goes smooth as soon as I come in. It says,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: it's nice. I go entering the city of s Ininati,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: it is boo boo.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Boo boo boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: boom boom.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I even saw a cone sitting in a in a
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: pothole over the weekend, like that is a cone that
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I'm now dodging, meaning the reality of it is effect.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: None of this made it into the evaluation, is your
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: point meaning our reality, Dan Carroll, about the job that's
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: happening in the city, whether it's infrastructure, whether it's the
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Western Hills Viaduct, whether it's our police officers, firefighters safety,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: whether we're talking about the CSR system, which I hope
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: we will spend some time on this morning talking about.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: None of that was was discussed with the city manager.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That's what tells me this was about an evaluation to
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: pivot her to her next job. She's leaving, she's starting
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: to apply for other jobs, and she wanted to leave
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: with a great evaluation, no matter what the reality was,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: no matter what the reality is, because they'll never call
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: us and say, what kind of job do you think
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the city manager did? They're gonna call her nine bosses
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: and the mayor and say what kind of job she's
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: here's the evaluation. She did a great job. They're not
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: going to necessarily dig into the articles where they say
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: crime is up, you know, sixty two percent. They're not
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: going to say that. They're going to say, this was
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: a great evaluation. She's in the pool.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Let's hire her well though, the just send a link
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to the story in the Inquirer. Council gives a city
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: manager share along a glowing job review. There's the headline, right,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that's the headline. That's how valuable was that? That is fantastic?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Seven thirty five. We got to get to a break.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: We'll continue on Chris Smitheman on fifty five kr CV
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Talk Station Experience, Comfort and Reliability was Zimmer HVAC for
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: over six seven on this Monday, My special Monday Morning
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas, and we are spending
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: time in studio with Chris Smithaman this morning talking about
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: just about everything under the sun. And yeah, and you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: heard it here first, Chris Smith is of the opinion
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that chair along is uh cutting down the weeds. She
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: got a machete out there, hacking down the weeds and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: looking for an exit, and her exits executing her exit
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: strategy from the city manager's office. So we will see.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna we'll see if that comes. I think you're
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you know, you are very perceptive on these issues. Yes,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: so I'm thinking you're probably right.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I've been I've been down there. I mean it's
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: not it's not you know, you're when you've been down
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: there enough in the bows, you see that this professional
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: is starting to look for her new gig. And you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: as we talk about issues, you're talking about infrastructure issues.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: You know, you we touched off the air you mentioned
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati retirement set.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Well, and the thing is, and I was gonna I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: was going to talk Yeah, that is the next thing
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about. This is something we talked
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: about Michael Washington, Teresa Thigi, Uh, the West end cameras,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the a spike in violence, people don't want to go downtown.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: This predates all of that. This and this is how
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: long that we've had not just a city manager, but
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a city council that is not interested in dealing with
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: serious issues in a meaningful way. And that, to me,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Chris Smitheman, is one of the most long term frustrations
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: when it comes to what's going on at city Hall.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, let me give John Cranley, mayor former mayor
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: John Cranley and that administration a big shout out here
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: because one of the big steps they took, Dan Carroll,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: was to make it mandatory that sixteen point two five
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: percent of our payroll had to be paid into the
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati retirement system. And that was a very big step
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: in the right direction. Now, what I want to be
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: clear is prior to that, mayors would balance the budget
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: by underfunding the pension. I'm just trying to make it simple,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: so you know, if the stock market is up like
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: it is now, the city council would say, we're not
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: going to make that contribution, or we're going to make
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: a lot less of a contribution. And these are are
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: as workers, these are our code workers. They are mostly
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Democrats who live in the city and in the region.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: This has nothing to do with police and it has
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: nothing to do with fire because they have their own
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: retirement systems. We are the only city in the state
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: of Ohio that has a retirement system local like this.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So these are the people who drove around on trucks
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: filling the potholes. That's These are the people who metropolitan
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: sewer districts.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Yes that they're in here.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeahbody who retired as d MSD in here. All
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: those city services, city.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Water, absolutely sanitation workers, which is absolutely.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Thousands upon thousands of people who did honest day's work
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: for honest day's pay, working diligently for twenty thirty forty
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: years for the citizens.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: And the way you described that is so critical because
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: when your friend retired, he made or she made a
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: decision that was revocable. I am signing off, I'm leaving.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I've given you my thirty or my thirty five years.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Now I'm going to receive a payment for the rest
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: of my life, which includes a promise around healthcare. What
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: is happening is because there's been so much mismanagement with
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: this money that now they continue to go back to
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: those employees where they made those promises and they're reducing
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: benefits for those retirees.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And who speaks for them? Are they all on their own?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I mean they do. They have a representation that speaks
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: It's outside of code, which is a great great union
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: there outside of asks me who they're obviously fighting for
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: this every single day.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: The answer is no, bet are they? Are they speaking
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: for the current employees or both the past employees and curtenty.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: That's correct, that's correct. And so think about the widow
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: or widower out there, meaning that person is now passed,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: you're receiving half of the benefit that the employee was receiving,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: and city council says, we're going to reduce your benefit
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: even more. Here the bottom line to everybody listening, the
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati Retirement System is an obligation that is required. When
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: the CRS system goes, so does the City of Cincinnati.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: It is not an exaggeration. The unfunded liability is probably
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: eight hundred and fifty million, meaning we need about three
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: point one or three point two billion dollars in assets.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: We probably have about two point one billion. We're sending
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: out ten million. The last time, I was down there
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: per month in benefits or one hundred and twenty million
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: dollars per year. The reality of it is is this
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: is what is holding up the CRS system right now
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: is the stock market. Meaning we're getting a great performance.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: When the stock market goes through a natural cyclical retract removal,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I mean a pullback where we drop ten fifteen thirty percent,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: you're gonna you're gonna hear a lot of screaming about
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Retirement system. Is what is keeping it together
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: is the the It's like their four oh one k
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: is the performance of the overall Dow SMP Russell. All
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: of that is keeping things together. Look here, here's the reality.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati Retirement System and the mayor are trying to pivot
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: this to the state. They want the state to take
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: over the CRS system. The state is saying, why would
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I assume an eight hundred and fifty million dollar unfunded
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: liability number one? And if I would, you know that
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: we're gonna We're gonna cut the benefits of those who
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: are retired immediately. So understand, those of you who are
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: voting for these councils and these mayors, you've got to
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: start voting your pocabook. You've got to put a mayor
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: in a council together that prioritize the CRS system. The
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: taxpayers have to understand that if the CRS system goes under,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: they are going to dramatically raise taxes in order for
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: us to bail out the Cincinnati Retirement System. Every CEO
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: in the City of Cincinnati, every CFO in the City
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: of Cincinnati, knows that what I'm saying is absolutely true.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Do you think our current members of council have a
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: good understanding of this, working knowledge of this right They
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: do not. There does none of this ever makes it
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: into the campaign.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: No, it never makes it into the news. It never
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: makes it into the evaluation of the city manager.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: It's not sexy, it's not sexy, but it's serious.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: It is the most serious thing that the city is
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: facing because we are the only city in the city
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: of since in the in the in the state that
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: has our own self directed retirement plan. And you don't
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: hear police and fire talking about it. Ken Kober is
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: looking at this and saying, for the most part, this
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: is none of my business because sure, because my retirement
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: is separate, separate issue here and let me.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Tell you what.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you what the FOP did, and the
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: and the and the fire department did. They sued the
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: heck out of the city, and the city had to
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: put about forty four million dollars into their pension present value.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: They sued successfully. They say, you can't keep underfunding our pension.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Guess what, asks me and Code and all of those
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: other unions are gonna have to do the same. We
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: can't just continue to carry an eight hundred million dollar
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: unfunded liability and not think it's not gonna impact. And
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: the second thing you're gonna see is our rating agencies
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: are gonna wake up one day and they're gonna say,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: we're taking us. We're gonna start bringing down our our
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: our ratings for the bond ratings, the bond ratings. That's right,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: they're gonna start bringing that thing down because they're gonna say, guys,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: you've got to deal with the CRS system.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: All right, quick break, will be right back with Chris
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Smithman on fifty five KRCV talk station.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Got a hot take read the room, don't let it die.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: All right, We are back with Chris Smitheman. Just a
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: few minutes in this segment, and then we'll continue on one.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: A whole nother hour of Chris smithment ahead, and if
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you have ever wanted to speak with Chris Smitheman, ask
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: him a question. The next hour we'll have the phone
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: lines open five one, three, five hundred if you want
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to get on board with Chris Smitheman, because I'm asking
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: all the questions here. But but it's great to have
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: you here. What is it going to take to And
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: we were talking off the air about you, all these
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: employees all the and look, you've got to give credit
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: to the Democrat Party here in Cincinnati because they are dedicated.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: They get people who are dedicated to their agenda. And
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you get so many people who go down and go
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and they go to vote, and they vote straight the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: straight Democrat ticket. That's all they look for is a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: D next to that person's name. And you tried this
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: last election cycle to get through to those people. How
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: do you do it? I mean, it's it's it's got
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to be. You got to be standing there thinking, man,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I am looking at a huge mountain in front of me.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see Cincinnati. Unfortunately, we're taking
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: steps towards Detroit and it starts with the crime piece,
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: and people are going to get fed up with their
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: cars being broken into petty crimes, which we don't even
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: talk about. Usually we're talking about the violent stuff, the
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: guns and stuff, but there's a lot of petty crime
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: that's happening down here that's not being addressed.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Well, We've got the folks in the West End who
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: have been trying to have their voices heard, but it
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: seems that they're getting their backs turned to them at
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: city Hall.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: They are on that, but in this last election, eighty
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: five percent of them voted for those who are elected.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Elections have consequences. That's the tough part. And your question
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: to me is when are they going to wake up?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: When are they going to say I want something different?
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: And I think that it's going to be a crime issue,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: and I also think it's going to be a financial issue,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: meaning we cannot continue to spend the money we are
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: spending and keep our cities taxes low are reasonable, which
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: people are getting priced out of their homes right now
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: with taxes and all that, But we just can't continue
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: down this track. And eventually, I think the citizens of
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati are going to say I can't take it. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: can't afford to vote for these people. It's going to
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: take probably another election cycle or two. I think the
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: person who will come back and be the man who
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: will save us is going to be a blue dog Democrat.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: It will be that person that's a throwback. That's right,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: that's right, It's.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Back to the Tom Luken and Charlie Lucan days.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Those are the people that is it is going to
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: be a candidate like that that is ultimately going to
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: turn our city around. Somebody that says, I support our cops,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I support our our retirement system. We're gonna we're gonna
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: invest in our infrastructure, fix our potholes, make sure our
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: sanitation workers. Keep a clean city. Cincinnati is very dirty.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Clean the clean the city up. You're gonna know when
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: that turn happens because the mayor will be a blue
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: dog Democrat.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: All right. We got to get to a break news
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: coming up top of the hour, and then one more
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: hour as we roll on till nine this morning with
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Chris Smithment in studio. So pick up the phone five
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: P one three hundred, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas on
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: fifty five KRC, the talk station.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: What's happening over there every day. What's the purpose completely
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: destroy their military.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: Causing pain at the pump shut down of the Department
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: of Homeland Security.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Fleet for hit them so hard? Where things happen?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Fifty five krs the talk station fifty five krs. The
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: talk says Chris Smithvan getting into the little van Halen
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: thanks to Joe Streckerd this morning Dan Carrolyn for Brian
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Thomas and a special morning in fifty five KRC because
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: we are graced by the presence of Chris Smith Aman
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in studio. And this is I mean, this is I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: was a little bit surprised when Joe told me you
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: were to be able to do two hours today because
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: this is a busy time of year for you, is
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it not? As a financial planner? I mean this is
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: people are looking about, you know, what to do with
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: their money and all that kind of stuff.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: So as you are in demand right now, in demand
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: as we go into the tax season.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: It is a crazy time r n ds that are
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: people are requesting to I need all my tax information.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: So this is a very busy time. But glad to
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: be here with you, you know, in person, and you
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: know one of the things we talked about, and I'm
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: gonna let you let you drive the conversation off air,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: is we have a big gubernatorial race coming up. I
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: mean state of Ohio. Vivek Ramaswami is up running for
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: governor on the Republican side, and you know, I'd love
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: to hear your insights on what you see happening with
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: that state race.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I talked to our good friend Alex Trantefilu a
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I said, are people going
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: to be reminded of what Amy Acton did during the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Wuhan situation? And I summed it up by saying that
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: she was drunk on power when that whole thing was
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: rolling out. I think Mike de Wine was in a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: situation where he didn't really know what to do. Amy
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Acton was the chief medical Officer. I forget the exact
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: title of her position, but she was the main medical
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: officer for the state Ohio. So he was essentially just
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: following her lead. And I remember her one time and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: they did. They were at that time, they were doing
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: the daily news conferences and so every day, and we
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: took them live over on seven hundred when I was
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: over there, and every day Mike would come on and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: he'd speak for a couple of minutes, and he turned
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: it over to Amy Acting. And she was asked a
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: question one time at one of these events, and she
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: was almost giddy or giggling, because she says, you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: We've never had this kind of power before. I'd never
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: been in a position where I'm able to say I've
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: always told people that they should do X, Y and Z,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: but they never listened to me. But now I have
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: this power where I'm able to not only tell people
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: what to do, but tell the governor we need to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z and it gets done. So
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: she she had that little taste of power right there,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and she and she took it to extremes, and so
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I think if she becomes governor, I think we're going
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to see the same kind of extremes. She she wants
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: to present herself as a moderate, much like Abigail Spamberger
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: did in Virginia Woo. But as you and I both know,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: she is no moderate. And I think Amy Acton, I
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: think she is cut from the same cloth as in
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: a political sense as spam me. Their their backgrounds are
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: they're because Spamberger was in the in the military and
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the f beyond all that. But from a political sense,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I think they're cut from the same cloth where they
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: will present themselves as moderates. But it should they get
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: into power. We've seen what Spamburger has done with a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: list of fifty new taxes and fees. Have you seen
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: that list? Oh yeah, I mean dry cleaning, new tax,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: want to walk your dog? New tax? You want to
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: you want to buy a birthday cake? And new tax
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: for that. I mean, it's it's ridiculous. So the same
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: thing will happen here in Ohio should she find her
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: way to the governor's office.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: You know, impacted me personally because my daughter was at
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Saint Clement for her for grade school during this period
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: of time. And I just want to continue to note
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: that the school never closed down. They took precautions, but
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: the school never closed down.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: And so well Mohler and Elder and I don't think
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Saint x ever shut down, did not shut down the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: parochial schools, the private schools, they.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Knew better, they knew better. And what was interesting is
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: and this is the truth, that there was tremendous pressure
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: for them to close down, meaning the public school system
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: was closed, saying, shame on you, shame on you. You're
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: putting the lives of these kids on the line. Blah
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah. Here's the payback. Right now, as
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: my daughter graduates from seton, she's prepared for college. Think
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: about those kids that were out of school for two years.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: We right now don't know what happened, where they are,
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: how their education was impacted. So I could not afford
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: for my daughter to be off school for two years,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: not getting her education, not being prepared. And that is
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: a story that is very rarely discussed, and I hope
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: it makes it into the gubernatorial discussion well.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: And and there was a portion of that that blew
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: up in the faces of some of these education advocates
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: who were and Randy Weingarten, the National Federation a Teachers president,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: tried to she's trying to rewrite history now, saying that
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: she was never in favor of closing down the school.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: But it was all about the teachers union. The teachers
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: union when a time off for getting paid, yeah, we're
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: all about that, correct, But when when parents were looking
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: over the shoulder of their kids who were doing work
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: at home and they're looking at the computers. They're saying,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: my kid is being taught this. And that's what gave
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: rise to like Moms for Liberty and organizations like that
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: that went into the schools and said, hey, this woke nonsense.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: It has got to stop. But by that time it's
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: still I mean, they're still trying to root it out,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: but a lot of that is so deeply ingrained. That
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: has been a very tough slog. But thank god that
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: some of these organizations are onto it, because we might
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: still be in a position where all this is happening
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: in the schools and we really don't have very much
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: awareness of them.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: That's exactly right. I mean, think about those kids, and
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: I say this with very deep respect and reverence, who
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: don't have the same structures as other families have, and
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: their kids weren't sitting on the computer at home doing
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: their work. Yeah for two years, right, they were tardy
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: from that and SINCINNTY Public in my opinion, they don't
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: do the self reporting to tell us the ramifications of
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: all of that. Well, I'm just sharing with you that
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: my kidle.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: In the in the in the administration and teachers at
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: public schools who were telling me privately back then that
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: even though these kids were not showing up in a
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: virtual sense still in the work on their computers, yep,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: that they were not doing the assign They just said
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: they were vanished, they were not there. But the schools
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: could not fail them because of the lawsuits that were
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: going to come if they if they dared to fail them.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: So even though those kids might have passed with d's
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be, Cincinnati Public couldn't fail
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: they had they had no choice even though these kids
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and didn't put in the time, didn't put in the work,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: didn't do any of what was required, So that there's
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that whole cross section of students who were affected at
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: that time. That I mean, I don't know if we
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have any idea, just like you said, of how bad it,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: but all the studies that have been done, everyone who's
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: looked at this has said, these consequences are very, very
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: bad and.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: As a result of it, and they're playing out right now,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Dan Carroll, we have a choice right now to elect
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: a business minded, pragmatist, home got homeboy from Cincinnati versus
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: someone who is who has who villainized the success or,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: has zero policy vision for the state that's our choice.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: As we go into the gubernatorial race, I look forward
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: to the debates that will happen. I just hope that
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: they get down in the weeds, like you and I
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: are talking about how were our children impacted in this
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: period of time. And I can tell you that I
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: was so blessed. I'm Catholic, my family is Catholic. My daughter,
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: you know, had access to Saint Clement. Anybody listening at
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Saint Clement. I love you, guys, I appreciate you. And
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: then she pivoted over to Seton Setan never closed. Seton
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: was always there. The same thing as you said with
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Elder and Saint X. Why were they able to do it,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: get it done, keep our kids safe, keep their education
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: on track, and the public school system couldn't do it?
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Well. We know that you have been an advocate for
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: vivik Ramaswami in the strongest You've done, You've done events
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: with him. I imagine you'll probably do some between now
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: and the election. Absolutely, yeah, uh, and I think Viveca
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: is the right guy. But I heard some and we
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: got to get to a break here. But before we
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: get to that, I wanted to just set up this
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: next question for you. I was listening to some political
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: analysis yesterday and they were talking about how the vake
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: is is facing some difficulty. Now that is somehow Amy
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Acton is picking up steam and her campaign is getting
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: things together and Leveke is in trouble right now. That
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: that was the analysis I heard. So I'm going to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: ask you when we come back from this break, do
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: you think that is true or not? You got it,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So we'll get the Chris Smithman analysis.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: You got it, and we will.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Counter what I heard last night. So we'll see what
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: happens there. Five one, three, seven, fifty five hundred, if
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: you yourself have a question of the one and only
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Chris Smithman. As we roll on till nine this morning
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: on fifty five KRC, the talk station, this was your
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: week terror he talk station eight nineteen days Carolyn for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas and Chris Mithman. As we went to break
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: last time, we were talking about argubernatorial candidate with vike
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Ramaswami and guess who's on the phone, the vacant. It's
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: great to have you on fifty five KRC this morning.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: How are you, Good morning, Good morning. I had a
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: few minutes. I'll call him and say hello, and you
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: know I was in my hometown of Cincinnati over the weekend.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: We had a great time and good to talk to
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: you guys.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate you listening to fifty five KRC. I
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: was talking about some political analysis that I heard over
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: the weekend, and I'm looking at Newsweek right now and
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: they're saying that you're trailing Amy acton by ten points
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: right now. How can that possibly how can that possibly
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: be true?
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: Well, I think what you saw is that we came
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: out with a massive, massive push on our message, including
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: from all of the great fundraising we had last year,
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: and within hours of that coming out, I think the
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: Democrats were in a tizzy and they put out we
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: view as a real.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: Fake piece of old, dated literature that they manufactured a
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: while ago. But they were caught flat footed. It's a
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: good sign for us in the end. I'm not a
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: horse race guy. I'm not in this to run against
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: any particular one candidate Amy Act that I think will
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: be a disaster for our state on many levels. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: more importantly, I'm in this toled Ohio to greater heights
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: than we've ever seen because we have a historic opportunity
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: to step on the gas for our economy, right we have.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: We're doing great as a state in many ways. But
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: the way I'm looking at this is I'm a businessman.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: I know how to do this. Let's bring high paying
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: jobs back to our state. Let's take our income tax
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: rate eventually down to zero. Let's bring that property tax
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: burden down. And in a lot of our sectors, the
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: regulatory burden is too high. We have too many layers
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: of government. Even as a red state, we can fix that.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: That's ultimately how you address this rising challenge of affordability
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: is put more money back in your pockets and increase wealth.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Many people in the Democrat camp, including my opponent, who
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: liked to villainize success, who like to villainize financial success.
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: I want financial success for every Ohio and I've achieved that.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: I was born and raised in Cincinnati, went to public
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: schools through eighth grade, went to Stax for high school.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I was so grateful to this state, into this country,
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: for giving me the opportunities that I've had in my life.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: We're raising our kids now in Ohio and circumstances that, frankly,
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: my parents would have never imagined when I grew up
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: in Westchester and when we grew up in Evendale. But
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: the reality is we have a chance to give every
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: kid in this state that opportunity and much more. Let
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: me someone who really knows what they're doing.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you about education, because I
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: know this is something that is very, very important to you.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: And Chris and I were talking a few minutes ago
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: about the manifestations of these kids who were affected during
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: the Wuhan, who missed out on serious amounts of schooling,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: and we're seeing those effects taking place right now. How
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: do you address that in a meaningful way if you
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: were to become governor?
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: So, look, we had to bring standards back to our
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: public schools. That's something that's been missing for a long time.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: We got to be willing to say. We used to
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: have the third grade reading guarantee in Ohio. We got
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: rid of it. I think we got to bring that
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: back to say that if you can't read by the
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: end of third grade, then you shouldn't go to fourth
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: grade in general until you can. Is that asking.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Level for crying out loud? Is it if we asking
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: too much there? I don't think so.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: Just to be clear on this one, it's not even
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: I'm not even talking about reading out a third grade level,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: which is what we actually need. I'm saying that at minimum,
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: you have to be able to read it at the
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: end of third grade. Right, many students are able to
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: read by kindergarten or first grade, but it should at
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: least be by the end of third grade. That's what
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: sets up a student for success in their life. And
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: you brought up the virus, right, This is important to understand.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: The person that I'm running against is the person who
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: led the crusade as director to shut down our public schools.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: Ohio was the first state in the country to shut
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: down our public schools. As I told you, I grew
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: up in Cincinnati. I went to public schools myself through
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: eighth grade before going to Saint X. Saint X was
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: closed for five days during the pandemic. Cincinnati public schools
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: were closed for nearly two years. Those kids in those
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: public schools will never get those two years of their
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: education back. And this is a crucial point because the
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: very people, including my opponent who I'm running against, who
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: will preach about inequality, advance the policies that create that inequality,
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: so chances are next time it won't be a pandemic
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: or a virus, it'll be some other question that we
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: don't know about today. But the question is how does
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: the leader make decisions? And to me, I make decisions
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: that advance the learning of our kids, not the bureaucracy
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: that really runs our public schools today. Certain leaders bend
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: the knee and cater to that bureaucracy. I'm a leader
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: when it comes to education who stands for our students,
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: and the same goes with respect our economy. You have
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: many leaders, including on the other side, including my opponent,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: who bend the knee to the bureaucracy that regulates our economy.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: I actually focus on empowering the small business owners and
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: the entrepreneurs who create economic growth. That's the choice we
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: face right. It comes down to very simple choices. You
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: want your property taxes to go down, I'm your man.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: If you want them to go up, vote for Amy
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: Afton and the Democratic camp. Same thing with respect to
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: income in the state. That's what I know how to bring.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: But if you put somebody who is a far left
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: in some cases even socialist leaning leader, like they have
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: in New York City, your business is fleeing our state
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: in droves. And it would be a shame to set
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: back all the progress if you've had in Ohio.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: One more to bring to the table.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: One more question before I let you go. We're getting
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: up against the clock here. Early on in your campaign
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: you talked about how as governor you could help cities
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: like Cincinnati deal with crime issues, and that's something that
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Chris and I were talking about earlier today. As governor,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: how can you reach down into cities like Cincinnati and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: other cities in Ohio and help them deal with the
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: crime issues that they're plagued with a great daily basis.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: It's a great question. It's the same way we're dealing
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: with our public schools. Bring standards back to law enforcement,
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: expectations for local governments, and they're not getting state funding
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: automatically unless they're really meeting those standards. And as somebody
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: who grew up in Cincinnati, right, you look at the
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: journey of a place like over the Rhine, where it
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: was when I was growing up, right, it was a
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: place where we were warned not to go to having
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: a renaissance, but then now parts of the city receding
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: back into being places where older citizens aren't even comfortable
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: walking around. I was talking to two people over the
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: weekend in Hamilton County who are an older couple say
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: they're now scared to walk around now that they live
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: in an apartment in the city. That's unacceptable, But we
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: can fix this. Empowered our great police officers. I do
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: back the blue. I do back our men women in uniform.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: Empower them to be able to do their jobs without
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: fear of looking over their shoulder for being sued. Fix
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: some of the judicial system issues, the judicial reforms that
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: say that you are not going to just send a
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: violent repeat offender back on the street with forty dollars
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: of bail or no bail, as it's happening regularly. And
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: then let's also bring back some of the mental health care,
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: including mental health institutions where necessary, because our jails are
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: not the right form of mental health care for the
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: psychiatrically ill. In some corners, those are controversial things to say,
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: but for most Ohiglands, for most Cincinnatians, this is just
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: common sense. It's not black versus white, it's not red
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: versus blue. This is about common sense and standing for
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: the people of Cincinnati. My hometown have really unnecessarily suffered
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: one of the great cities in the United States of
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: America is not reaching its full potential because of that
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: fear of crime. And when i'm government, the buck stops
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: with me. All Right. We're not going to pass the
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: hot potato to say well, the local government didn't do this,
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: or that there's a lot of funding that comes from
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: the state. It's not going to be automatic. We're going
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: to apply standards. We're going to do it in a
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: sensible way. And I think a lot of people, many
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: including many of them have historically voted Democrat in the
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: urban court in the inner city, are going to be
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: better off and understand they're going to be better off,
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: and I really invite them to join our coalition. You
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: don't have to agree with me on one hundred percent
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: of issues to know that I'm going to crush crime,
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: including in cities like Cincinnati. I'm going to improve the
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: performance of our public schools, including Cincinnati public schools. And
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: we're going to bring high paying jobs to Cincinnatians, to
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: southwest Ohio and to every part of Ohio. And that
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: isn't about right versus left. That is about up versus down,
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: and I stand for up for Ohio. So a lot
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: of Democrats who feel like they've been left behind by
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: their party. You know what, there is a better way
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: with a pragmatic business leader a lot of independence who
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: may feel politically homeless. You've got a place in our coalition.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: You have a home right here in this movement for
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: Ohio Io and for me, standing up for my hometown
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: of Cincinnati is top of the list. And we will
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: make sure that we're successful and seeing this through. And
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: appreciate it, appreciate you having me man.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Vivig, thanks for coming on. This is Christopher
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: and I just want to say that the two commercials
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: that your team released this weekend, they're awesome. I really
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: like the introduction of the soon to be first lady,
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: your wife, your children, really just introducing you and your
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: family to the state of Ohio. But I also like
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: the other commercial that outlines hey affordability, talking about supporting
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: law and order our police. We need a leader like
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: that at the state level to deal with the serious
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: issues that are facing the state of Ohio. So I
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: just want to thank you for those very excellent commercials
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: that I saw released this weekend.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: I appreciate that, Christopher, and look, I'm a family man
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: at the end of it. And that's why I'm motivated
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: to do this is we just welcomed our third kid,
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: our first daughter, into the world, a little over a
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: month ago. And you know, sometimes you look yourself in
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: the mirror and ask yourself, why am I doing all
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: of this? And I'm doing it because I want our
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: kids and their generation to have the same opportunities that
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: I have. And I'm not in this for the money.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: Thankfully we've been blessed. I'm not in this for fame.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: There's other ways to get that than running in a
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: state specific election, and I've come from that.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I'm in this because I.
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: Know I can make a difference. I know we can
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: lead Ohio to be the top state in the country
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: for our kids, for our families, for their generation. Be Christopher,
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: You're a living example of that American dream yourself, right.
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: I love your story. I love your success both as
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: a businessman but also as an advocate, somebody who.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Believed in public service.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: And you know, unlike me, you're not a Republican, right,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: You're an independent. But it doesn't matter because the issues
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: we're talking about are common sense issues that are going
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: to lift up the lives of Ohioans, protect them in
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: our cities, bring back law and order, bring back accelerating
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: economic growth, Increase those wages, bring down those electric bills
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: and other costs that we know we can bring down,
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: and most importantly, over the long run, improve the quality
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: of education for our kids. I don't know anybody who
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: disagrees with that, all right, So I think that's why
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: I'm running for governor, and we'll be able to win
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: this decisively with the support of your listeners, which I
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: immensely appreciate.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: All Right, but thek we'll have to leave it there.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you for picking up the phone, Thanks for listening
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: to fifty five KRC. Glad to know you're there, and
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: we'll hopefully we'll get a chance to talk to you
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: again before too long.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Love it.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, there you go. The vike Ramaswami
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: running for governor. Outstanding. We got to get to a
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: break on fifty five k Talk Station fifty five KRC.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Dan Carroll from Brian and Thomas hanging out with Chris
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Smytheman and the vike Ramaswami took up a little bit
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: of time there, so this will be a short segment.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: You okay with that can you do a short segment.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: I can do it.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: I can do it short man.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, look is that possible for you?
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah? If he had even more time and we would
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: just sit, I can continue.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Fantastic stretch out. He's fantastic. I think we would be
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: extremely fortunate to have a guy like that in uh
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: in the Governor's mansion and UH and running things here
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: in Ohio. I just think, I mean, he he's he's bold,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: he's unafraid. UH, he supports Trump and and and the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: one part of his campaign that I like is talking
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: about how the vision that he has for Ohio ties
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: in with what Trump has done. And he's got intimate
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: knowledge of Trump and his agenda and what he wants
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: to do because he was working, and I would I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: really wish he would have been on the Doge team. Yes,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: I really think that would have been an important thing.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: But he, you know, he's he had his own way
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: to go, which I appreciate that, and I'm perfectly fine
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: with that. But tying that in and making that work
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: seamlessly with what what with Trump is trying to do,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: I think can only be good for Ohio in in
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of different there you know, politically. I know
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that don't want to have anything
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: to do with Trump, but I think in the law
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: long run, I think it'd be great for the state.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: Look, I love hearing him talk about common sense issues.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: I love hearing him. I love hearing him talk about accountability.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: These are things that are lost in our government. I mean,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: we're watching states involved with like in Minnesota, with all
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: of this corruption that's happening, and so having somebody acutely
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: in the state House, in the mansion who understands business
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: is going to be critical for the next eight years
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, for the state of Ohio. So what
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: a great interview. I hope all of your listening audiences
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: heard that we should be registering our eighteen year olds
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: to vote, like I did. My daughter turned eighteen. I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: registered her to vote so that she can vote in
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: the primary, she can vote in the general election. There
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: are a lot of people around this state who have
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: families whose children, Dan Carroll, are turning eighteen, and they're
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: going to make the mistake to allow their colleges to
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: register them to vote. Do not allow your child to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: go away to college without registering the vote.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I said, this has got to be a short segment.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: You know, you know who else was listening, brad Winstrops.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Now he's on the hotway. Here we go, So we'll
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: do this break and we'll get to the congressman Winstrip
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: right after this on fifty five k r CV talk stations.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: It's like nothing to it, right. Chris Smitheman is with
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: us in studio this morning, and when Chris Smitheman is here,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the celebrity hotline just blows up. So we just got
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: done talking with a Vike Ramaswami. Now we turned to
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: the former congressman. Well, I guess they'm never really a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: former congressman, but you know, it's all. It's my pleasure
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to welcome in brad Winstrip to the show today and Congressman,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: how are you today?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: I'm doing fine.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: It's been a pleasure to listen to two of my friends,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: top common Sense, actually three with the Vike coming on there.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: He's terrific. You know, we were talking about a little
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: bit about Amy acting and what was going on during
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: the Wuhan and I was telling Chris, it was several
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: months ago when your committee came out with the report
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: on what happened during the COVID nineteen and just how
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: eye opening and how revealing that report was. And I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: still remember that day. You sat right across from me
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: and we had an hour in the studio to talk
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: about that and really only scratch the surface of what
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: was revealed during that time. But the educational aspect of
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: this is something that I think gets overlooked a lot.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: And the damage that was in thek talked about that,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the damage that was done to these kids by the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: way they were handled during the Wuhan and really how
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: they were poorly served. The Teachers' Union was probably served
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: just fine, but when it came to actually dealing with
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: the kids, they got the short end of the stick.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: It was interesting. We had Randy Weingarten and for an
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: opening and the day before her people came in, counted
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: how many seats in the hearing room. They made sure
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: that they brought in all their people and took up
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 7: every seat in the hearing room to be there to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 7: support her. But you know, we conducted the entire two
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 7: year pandemic review in a way that you don't see
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 7: very often in two years on the Republican side, we
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: didn't mention Republican or Democrat. One time. We didn't talk
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 7: about political party, but you know, when she was in there,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 7: she was getting kudos from the Democrats. But as we
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 7: went through things and we were able to go through
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: their emails during this time and what they were talking about.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: One of the things that stood out with the conversations
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 7: amongst the teachers' union leadership was that they said we
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: need a trigger to close. Not once did I find
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 7: anything that said we need to get the kids back
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 7: in the classroom. It's important that we get them caught up.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 7: They're never going to be able to succeed if we
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 7: don't get them in the classroom and teaching them one
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: way or another.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't I don't want to interrupt you. But
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: was that the hearing where she was trying to rewrite
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: history where she was saying I never advocated for schools
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: to be closed. We were the ones who were trying
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: to get them reopen. Was that was that the hearing
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: where she was trying to do that.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: She she did have statements like that, and then I
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 7: think there was some group they worked with, maybe in
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 7: Massachusetts later to talk about school reopenings, but that was
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 7: way late in the whole situation, and what you guys
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 7: were talking about is fair. You know, there was a
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 7: There were the schools, and I would tell you my
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 7: rural schools were open too, and the district that I
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 7: represented went all the way to West Virginia and the
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 7: rural schools they went to class, They went to class.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 7: It was more city based than anywhere else, but it
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 7: was it was a problem for sure, and they'd done
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 7: nothing and they still that I know, have not addressed
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 7: how we're going to get our kids up up to speed.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: And we're falling terribly behind other countries.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: As we know.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 7: I saw recently one that said a seventh grader in
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 7: America on average, is at the level of a third
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 7: grader in China.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: How about that. Let me let me ask you another
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: question about something that has come up recently, and Scott Assent,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the Secretary of the Treasury, said it was probably three
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: or four weeks ago that he was looking at putting
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: a number on the amount of fraud that goes on
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: with various government programs, and he put that number at
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: six hundred billion dollars every year. Brad winstrip that gets
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: wasted and is just flushed down the drain as it
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: relates to fraud in this country. The number is probably
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: actually bigger than that. But when you hear a number
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: like that every single year that we are losing six
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars, it's a fraud in this country, does
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: that shock you? Surprise you at all? The number is
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: that big?
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 7: Not at this boot. It might have surprised me when
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: I first started the in Congress, but it didn't when
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 7: I got towards the end, because I could see exactly
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: why this was happening in so many fronts. Part of
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: it is that the agencies don't really have the capabilities
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 7: to catch fraud. And then the other thing is when
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 7: we went through the COVID era, for example, on Ways
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 7: and Means Committee, when they were talking about unemployment and
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 7: taking care of those benefits and getting all that out,
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  Speaker 7: the Democrats insisted on self attestation. In other words, you
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  Speaker 7: didn't have to prove in any way, shape and shape
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  Speaker 7: or form really who you were and are you really unemployed?
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  Speaker 7: And we thought that and they insisted on you don't
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  Speaker 7: have to attest and improve in any way. It's kind
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  Speaker 7: of goes with the voting thing. You don't have to
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  Speaker 7: prove really who you are and I don't get this,
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  Speaker 7: but it's created a lot of mayhem and certainly has
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  Speaker 7: ripped off the taxpayers. So everyone who goes to work
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  Speaker 7: and pay taxes need to know that it's these types
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  Speaker 7: of policies and deficiencies within the agencies that is throwing
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  Speaker 7: their hard on dollars out the window to people not
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  Speaker 7: only in this country that are committing fraud but overseas.
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  Speaker 1: As you look at why it has become impossible to
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  Speaker 1: pass legislation that would deal with voter identification, Why has
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  Speaker 1: this debate gone the way it's.
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  Speaker 7: Gone, Well, I think that they have their reasons. They'll
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  Speaker 7: try and throw out everything is is Jim Crow and
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  Speaker 7: this and that, but they know that they can go
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  Speaker 7: around and rally people to vote in California, you know,
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  Speaker 7: going door to door. The policies are somewhat crazy, and
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  Speaker 7: requiring an ID would make it more difficult for them
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  Speaker 7: to be able to do that, I guess is their reason.
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  Speaker 7: But there really is no good reason. Everything requires an
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  Speaker 7: ID today and they know it. And I think that
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  Speaker 7: real American citizens, people that care about this country, people
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  Speaker 7: that value their citizenship, will be the ones to say, yes,
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  Speaker 7: you should value your citizenship the same way I do
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  Speaker 7: and prove that you are a US citizen and you.
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  Speaker 4: Are who you are.
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  Speaker 7: And I think the majority of people, as we know,
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  Speaker 7: this is a common sense issue that has high value,
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  Speaker 7: and I don't understand why they want to keep pursuing
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  Speaker 7: just the opposite. It doesn't even make.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty plus percent of Republicans agree with this. Seventy six
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven percent of Democrats want this. You've got Hispanics
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  Speaker 1: and other minorities in the seventy percent range that want this,
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  Speaker 1: And the notion that we can't get the Save America
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  Speaker 1: Act through and have common sense legislation that says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want American citizens to vote in our elections and
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  Speaker 1: we don't want illegal aliens voting in our elections. It
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  Speaker 1: just if you would have told me ten years ago
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  Speaker 1: that we'd be having a problem getting legislation like this approved,
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  Speaker 1: especially when Republicans have control of the White House, the House,
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  Speaker 1: and the Senate, I would have said that you're crazy
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, of course, the problem predominantly lives in the Senate.
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  Speaker 7: And let's just face it, there are just too many
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  Speaker 7: people in the Democrat Party that if Donald Trump says
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  Speaker 7: he's in favor of something, they will be against it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, just you watch it visibly during the State
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  Speaker 7: of the Union. I mean, the wonderful things that he
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  Speaker 7: was pointing out. Any times they couldn't even applaud because
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  Speaker 7: he said it. And when you let your hatred dominate
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  Speaker 7: your common sense and overrule your common sense, it's really
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  Speaker 7: a problem for us as a country, especially if you're
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  Speaker 7: in a position of leadership serving in the House of
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  Speaker 7: the Senate. That is a problem for America today. And
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  Speaker 7: I'm ashamed that some people can't get over it. And
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  Speaker 7: it's been interesting to hear the comments from John Fetterman,
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  Speaker 7: the Democrat senator who seems to be going in the
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  Speaker 7: other direction from many of his Democrat colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a He's turned out to be a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a surprise, and it turned out to be actually
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  Speaker 1: courageous in the fact that and he's not doing anything
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  Speaker 1: that's all that radical. He's simply looking at the facts
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  Speaker 1: and the truth of the situation and speaking truth to
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  Speaker 1: what's actually going on. But brad Winstrip, we're up against
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  Speaker 1: the clock. We got to run. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for checking in this morning. And Chris Smitheman has something
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  Speaker 1: for you real quick.
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  Speaker 3: Congressman, thank you so much for coming on. Great and
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  Speaker 3: I and both both Dan Carroll and I and I
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  Speaker 3: think I thanked him for his service. And we thank
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  Speaker 3: you for your service, your military service to our country.
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  Speaker 7: Well same of you, fellas.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. God bless you all right.
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  Speaker 1: Brad Winstrop, thank you very much. Take care of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: have a great day. Eight forty nine, we got to
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  Speaker 1: get to a break on fifty five KRC de talk station.
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  Speaker 1: ready to wrap things up with Chris smitheman in studio
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  Speaker 1: for the last couple of hours. So, uh seven and
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  Speaker 1: nine this morning, it has flown right by. And not
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  Speaker 1: only did we have a Vike Ramas Swami check in,
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  Speaker 1: we had brad Winstrip checking in as well. So you'll,
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  Speaker 1: Joe will people be able to listen to that on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast a little bit later. So you can check
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  Speaker 1: that out on the podcast a little bit later on
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  Speaker 1: this morning. But Chris, we've got about a minute and
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  Speaker 1: a half here.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the final word.
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  Speaker 3: No, thanks for having me on. People can follow me
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  Speaker 3: at vote Smitherman. I like that because I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: create a community on X where I can continue to
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  Speaker 3: communicate in between the week in between the Monday. So
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  Speaker 3: I thank you Dan Carroll for having me on and
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  Speaker 3: I've enjoyed my time with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I appreciate you being here, especially during your
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: busy time, and appreciate the vake Ramis said, it's so
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  Speaker 1: cool to know that the vike Ramas Swami and brad
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  Speaker 1: Winstrip and many others are listening to us, listening to
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. Yeah, I really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: Itty, It's pretty awesome. And I and I said in
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  Speaker 3: the break, it would be nice to have the other
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  Speaker 3: candidates coming and calling in and giving you an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I like about it, that's just it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Strecker, if if if I'm look, I'm
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: not here every day, But if Amy Acton called in
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to come on and show, I'd be more
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  Speaker 1: than happy. And I mean Brian Thomas would be more
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  Speaker 1: than happy to have her on. And he has on
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  Speaker 1: candidates from from any any political strike. He has them
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  Speaker 1: on all the time. So it's the phones are you know,
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  Speaker 1: our Misa, it's right. I don't know how to say
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  Speaker 1: radio in Spanish me radio radio.
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  Speaker 3: But that's one of the things that I like about
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  Speaker 3: vive A, and and and and and many in many
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  Speaker 3: of his peers. They go on all the shows. They
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: don't mind. They make themselves available to the American people.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see the same from the other side.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we got to run, Thanks Chris, Thank you man.
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  Speaker 1: Great great time, really great time to go to work now, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: gotta go to work. Be careful. I know you're driving
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  Speaker 1: around the city, so be careful out there, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you next time. Glenn Beck is coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strekker, thank you for everything. I get to see
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  Speaker 1: you again tomorrow morning, so I'm looking forward to that.
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