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Adam Koehler - Cincinnati Exchange · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: back to the fifty five Carsey Morning Show. The man
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Speaker 1: responsible for the Cincinnati Exchange dot Com, Adam Kahler. It's
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Speaker 1: great having you on the program. Good welcome back, Hey.
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Speaker 2: Brian, thanks a lot. Normally I'm in there, you know,
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: I know, Actually I kind of expec I was getting
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Speaker 1: ready to ask Joe about is Adam coming to the studio,
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Speaker 1: But he usually writes in studio when you are coming in,
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Speaker 1: so I knew the answer to that question. So sorry
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Speaker 1: you're not here, but we're of course able to talk.
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Speaker 1: And how's the CINCINNTI Exchange going. I'll recommend my listener's
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Speaker 1: bookmark the site again, the Cincinnati Exchange dot com. But
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Speaker 1: it's a whole bunch of news. It really isn't exclusively
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Speaker 1: confined to local news though you got to It's a
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Speaker 1: mixed bag of stuff and it's really a great sight
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Speaker 1: at them. So how's it working out?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's going really good. Last month we actually saw
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Speaker 2: about one hundred and twenty percent growth in readership.
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Speaker 1: Oh good.
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Speaker 2: So if we can continue that trend, we'll be getting
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Speaker 2: up there with some of the more known local local
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Speaker 2: news stations. And that would be really, really, really cool
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Speaker 2: to be able to spread some more truthful news out
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Speaker 2: into the world of Cincinnati and report on things maybe
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Speaker 2: some of these other local media are not reporting on
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Speaker 2: and the way maybe you're your listeners would expect.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, from a well, at least a neutral perspective, but
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Speaker 1: maybe something with a little more conservatives dare I say
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Speaker 1: a libertarian perspective? Reporting Signal ninety nine is going to
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Speaker 1: be on the port on the program tomorrow. She has
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Speaker 1: gained local fame in prominence because she does report on
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Speaker 1: a lot of the things that nobody's reporting on local news.
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Speaker 1: And isn't it a sad commentary when you have to
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Speaker 1: get all the all the crazy shenanigans revealed by someone
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Speaker 1: who's not even part of the formal traditional media, Adam,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of where you're going. Todd Zinzer does the
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Speaker 1: same thing our Citizen Watch job. He crunches numbers former
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Speaker 1: inspector general. He looks in and gets the math, and
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Speaker 1: he gets the documents and he provides them to us.
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Speaker 1: He regularly attends Cincinnati council meetings, kind of like a
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Speaker 1: reporter should do. Isn't it odd that we just we
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Speaker 1: don't have a whole lot of reporters, you know, going
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Speaker 1: in and asking our elected officials questions, asking the mayor
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Speaker 1: and holding the mayor's feet to the fire to get
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Speaker 1: answers to the questions we all have. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: I understand the Internet has eroded local reporting. It's sad,
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Speaker 1: it's a fact, but it still can be done. And
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Speaker 1: you're part of the solution, Adam. With the Cincinnati Exchange.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one hundred percent true. And both of those
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Speaker 2: people write for us. So we have a we have
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Speaker 2: a group of local people who care about the city.
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Speaker 2: And I think one of the big problems is is
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Speaker 2: we just feel beat down. I mean, I'm sure your listeners,
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Speaker 2: you know, they they agree with this. I mean, we
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Speaker 2: live in a city where, you know, we have a
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Speaker 2: one progressive monopoly on city council, the mayor's office, and
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Speaker 2: on County Commission. Yeah, and you've got you've got people
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Speaker 2: who uh, you know, in the in the suburbs, in
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Speaker 2: the outskirts and and even further out who are dependent,
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Speaker 2: reliant on local news coming out of downtown Cincinnati. And
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Speaker 2: you have a lot of activists working in some of
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Speaker 2: these organizations. As a matter of fact, only three and
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Speaker 2: a half percent this is a Syracuse University study, only
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Speaker 2: three and a half percent of journalists consider themselves conservative.
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Speaker 2: So where they all go, they felt uncomfortable in the newsroom.
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Speaker 2: They've been you know, mocked and kicked out, uh of
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Speaker 2: the newsroom by these by these activists overwhelming them. So
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Speaker 2: now we're reliant on you know, Signal ninety nine, Toddsen's
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Speaker 2: or Christina Holbrook, some of these people that write for us,
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Speaker 2: and you know, get on Facebook and get on Twitter
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Speaker 2: and report on what they're seeing. But it's sad that
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Speaker 2: we have to do that because the agenda isn't to
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Speaker 2: tell us the truth. The agenda, as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: to hide a lot of the stuff from us. Otherwise
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Speaker 2: we'd get upset. And I mean you could see the trend.
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Speaker 2: Conservatives are leaving the city. They've been moving out to
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Speaker 2: the suburbs for decades, and now a lot of people
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Speaker 2: are just considering leaving the area altogether because of what's
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Speaker 2: been going on. I mean, look at the crime, Look
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Speaker 2: at the situation that's happened in downtown. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: getting worse and worse, you know, and they keep claiming
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Speaker 2: that crime in the in the overall area is down,
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Speaker 2: but crime in downtown Cincinnati in the West End are up.
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Speaker 2: That's where the investment money they've been telling people for years,
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Speaker 2: invest downtown, invest on Vine Street, you know, bring more
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Speaker 2: people back to the city corps. And then they do
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Speaker 2: things like week on crime policies, which then lead to
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Speaker 2: what people leaving investment money, leaving people going to different
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Speaker 2: different places to invest their money and to build things.
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Speaker 2: And you know, Cincinnati suffers for that.
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Speaker 1: Yes it does. But you know, this has happened on
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Speaker 1: a national scale as well, and people are running away
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Speaker 1: from California due to the regulatory environment at high taxes
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Speaker 1: and outrageous energy prices. Happened in New York, New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: They're fleeing, heading to places like Florida where they're getting
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Speaker 1: ready to eliminate the property tax. Uh huh wait, can't
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Speaker 1: we cut and paste what Florida is doing and apply
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Speaker 1: here in Ohio anyway? But yeah, that's what's the reality.
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Speaker 1: And going back to the part about the dissenting or
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Speaker 1: the idea that there should be a dissenting voice. You know,
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Speaker 1: even if we had Republicans dominating council, the idea of
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Speaker 1: someone who's bucking the trend, that is willing to point
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Speaker 1: out that whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Have you looked at
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Speaker 1: it from this way? I don't think that's a good
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Speaker 1: idea because but their lockstep uniform, which is one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons they don't feel like they even have to
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Speaker 1: answer a question from a reporter. They've all got each
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Speaker 1: other's backs. It's a union lockstep vision forward, and that
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Speaker 1: vision doesn't really mirror what a lot of us want
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Speaker 1: where is at least one voice, you know, one single
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Speaker 1: person a Liz Keening he or maybe like an normal
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Speaker 1: Amy Murray or somebody used to be on council to
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Speaker 1: at least bring up this set, which might force local
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Speaker 1: reporters to actually address it and ask about the differences
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Speaker 1: between the opinions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you saw it last night with the State
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Speaker 2: of the Union. You know, all the Democrats are sitting
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Speaker 2: down basic things like you know, do you support Americans
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Speaker 2: over illegal aliens? I know none of the Democrats would
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Speaker 2: stand up. It wouldn't even the same thing with city council,
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Speaker 2: except instead of there being half, you know, half Republicans
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Speaker 2: and half Democrats on city council, it's one Democrats. So,
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Speaker 2: like you said, they're lockstep with the party and they're
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Speaker 2: going to do with the party once and when there's
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Speaker 2: a monopoly of them. It's not good for our city
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Speaker 2: and people just keep voting these saying people.
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Speaker 1: In well, and to your point on not standing up
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Speaker 1: for Americans and legal citizens and the citizen ry generally speaking,
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't even stand up for the hockey team, Adam.
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Speaker 1: I was really quite frankly, the more I thought about
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Speaker 1: the more disturbed. I became about that because I wasn't
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Speaker 1: watching it last night, so I had to wake up
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Speaker 1: to find out that when he just spoke about the
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Speaker 1: wonderful victory for America, that hockey team didn't win for Republicans,
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Speaker 1: it didn't rint for Democrats. It just won for the
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Speaker 1: country on a global stage. Why is what is there
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Speaker 1: not to celebrate that about that? Why wouldn't you stand
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Speaker 1: in appreciation for that wonderful victory, nonpartisan sort of non
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Speaker 1: political victory. I don't know. I just say this hate America, Adam.
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Speaker 1: I mean, is that what it comes down to? Is
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Speaker 1: it because we're so successful and we are the outlier
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Speaker 1: economically and in terms of prosperity that we have funded
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Speaker 1: literally everything around the planet. We've protected Europe with our
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Speaker 1: military and our American taxpayer. I was paying for that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just the amount of money and love
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Speaker 1: that has flown out of our country, the number of
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Speaker 1: things that we have achieved because of American greatness, All
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Speaker 1: of this should be celebrated. It's what Donald Trump kind
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Speaker 1: of concluded the back end of the speech, with all
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Speaker 1: this wonderful progress over two hundred and fifty years, They're
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Speaker 1: not proud of America at all, Adam, that's the only
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Speaker 1: thing I can read. Maybe because America proves that's true.
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Speaker 1: Their political philosophy isn't utter failure.
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Speaker 2: Well, look at some of the headlines this morning. It's
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Speaker 2: all PDS related. And again that's going back to the
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Speaker 2: fact that these journalists are not conservatives. These journalists, they're
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Speaker 2: not even moderates. The vast majority of them are progressive liberals.
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Speaker 2: And I think I mentioned on your show last time
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Speaker 2: there's a working agreement between the Journalist Union and the DSA.
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Speaker 2: The Democrat Socialists of America and the Democrat Socialists of
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Speaker 2: America are some of those far left, tight mumdani folks
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Speaker 2: who you know, can't even clean up their own streets.
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Speaker 2: In the city of New York, They've got people out
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Speaker 2: there with shovels saying them thirty dollars an hour that
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Speaker 2: aren't even shoveling. They're just going in and saying they
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Speaker 2: did work, and then they're collecting a check. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's absolutely insane.
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Speaker 1: Better have a SOCIS security guard to do that in
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Speaker 1: New York City though, Adam, you know you you need
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Speaker 1: to two pictures of yourself and a social security card
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Speaker 1: to approve you're an American citizen and therefore lawfully allowed
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Speaker 1: to work. Pause will bring Adam Kaylor back and again
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Speaker 1: check them out online the Cincinnati Exchange dot Com and
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Speaker 1: Joe chimed in and notably pointed out that you had
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Speaker 1: the podcast from Todd Zenzer Signal ninety nine and others
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Speaker 1: also featured on your on your Sininni Exchange website as well.
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Speaker 1: So great one stop shopping for things going on in
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Speaker 1: our area with Adam Kaylor. Stick around. We're gonna do
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Speaker 1: a little bit more with Adam. Then we're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: from Judge of Paulaitano and Cheryl Pop in the last
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Speaker 1: half of the hour. I'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: This is fifty Station.
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Speaker 1: Eight nineteen fifty five KARSD talk station, Happy Wednesday, Adam
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Speaker 1: Kaylor on the phone, man respon before the Cincinnati Exchange
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Speaker 1: dot Com. Maybe remember he did run for office at
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Speaker 1: one point, Maybe we'll see him run for office again.
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Speaker 1: But still keeping tabs on what's going in the greater
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati area and facilitating the opportunity for us out here
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Speaker 1: in the world who were paying attention to these things
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Speaker 1: to also do so. Just reach out to Adam through
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Exchange. Adam pivoting over to your thoughts and
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Speaker 1: comments on the state of the Union address anything particular
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Speaker 1: standout that you want to comment on with regard to that,
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Speaker 1: what I thought was a really good speech last night.
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Speaker 2: Well, the speech was outstanding. It might have been one
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Speaker 2: of the best I've ever seen. And look at Trump's energy, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know Democrats have been trying to say, oh,
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Speaker 2: Trump's he doesn't have it anymore, and the same stuff,
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Speaker 2: you know, the same arguments we had with Biden, you know,
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Speaker 2: falling up the stairs or whatever. But I mean Trump
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Speaker 2: looked energetic, He looked excited, he was smiling. It felt
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Speaker 2: like we were winning. It didn't look manufactured. You know,
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Speaker 2: all the numbers did he did he put out there,
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Speaker 2: You can fact check them. Those numbers are true. Inflation
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Speaker 2: down under three percent, you know, closer to two percent
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Speaker 2: at this point. Mortgage rates are coming down. I just saw,
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Speaker 2: you know, we're getting ready to write under six percent.
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Speaker 2: We're getting ready to write an article about that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: every key measure that you need to happen is starting
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Speaker 2: to happen. His teriffs didn't raise inflation. Uh, they're bringing
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Speaker 2: jobs back, they're bringing investment money into this country from
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Speaker 2: places like Japan. You know, people believe around the world,
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Speaker 2: believe in America. Again, Europe is a failed continent at
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Speaker 2: this point without US, without US taxpayers subsidizing places like
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Speaker 2: Canada and the whole of Europe with our military. You know,
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Speaker 2: bye by free healthcare, bye by free universities. You know,
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Speaker 2: they're going to have to start, you know, paying their
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Speaker 2: own bills at some point instead of instead of you
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Speaker 2: and I and all your listeners, you know, paying all
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Speaker 2: this money to defend their countries. So they're going to
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Speaker 2: have to start straightening up. And that's one of the
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Speaker 2: things Trump's doing it. You know, he gets called mean
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Speaker 2: for it. Oh we're you know, are are the global
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Speaker 2: community hates us? Now, you know, those are the narratives.
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Speaker 2: But he's the only president I can remember that's ever
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Speaker 2: pushed back on any of these policies.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know, going back to American greatness,
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Speaker 1: my comment about how unbelievably wealthy are compared to all
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Speaker 1: the rest of the countries in the world. I mean, historically,
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Speaker 1: even if there were no American greatness, you know, he
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Speaker 1: summarized last night, there wouldn't be all these vast sums
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Speaker 1: of cash, we wouldn't have been able to act as the
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Speaker 1: police department for all of NATO since World War Two.
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Speaker 1: That's us. All the bases over there, all of the
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Speaker 1: military over there, we pay for that, We own it.
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Speaker 1: They don't have their own militaries necessarily, at least in
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Speaker 1: terms of numbers, very few troops and hardly any military hardware.
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Speaker 1: What point is it to belong to NATO? We have
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Speaker 1: mutual defense agreements and they can't help defend us, Adam, that's.
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Speaker 2: Right, that's right. And now we have it. Now we
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Speaker 2: have a healing trade deficit because of things like tariffs,
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Speaker 2: and it's waking up the globe community that they need
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Speaker 2: to start taking care of themselves instead of expecting, you know,
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Speaker 2: America to act as their welfare state. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: it's absolutely insane what's been going on. And every president
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Speaker 2: prior to this has you know, either been complicit in
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Speaker 2: it or they've just been downright afraid to make a
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Speaker 2: political move the way Trump does. And as you guys
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Speaker 2: can see, I mean, as everybody can see, you know,
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Speaker 2: Trump does what's necessary. He's not doing things to necessarily
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Speaker 2: be political. He's doing them because it's what's right for
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Speaker 2: the United States in my opinion, and i've this is
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Speaker 2: what people voted for, and this is what we're getting,
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Speaker 2: and we're getting. We're getting closed borders. You heard it
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Speaker 2: last night. You know, zero illegal entries into the country.
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Speaker 2: I mean the borders right now. I just got back
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Speaker 2: from California a couple of days ago. You know, we
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Speaker 2: were close to the beach. Border patrol was driving up
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Speaker 2: and down the beach the entire time at night, lights on.
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Speaker 2: You know, beach is closed. They're watching for people coming in.
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Speaker 2: You know, was that happening under Biden. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: but you know it's definitely happening under Trump.
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Speaker 1: Yes it is. And pivoting back to local stories, I
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Speaker 1: guess yesterday they took a vote on well preventing the
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Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati from sharing any information regarding a status
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Speaker 1: of residence immigration status here to protect our residents from
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Speaker 1: the threat of immigrations and customs enforcement surveillance. That's the
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Speaker 1: name of the motion, introduced by I guess Ryan James.
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Speaker 1: They don't want any information provided to ICE about citizens
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Speaker 1: reticent status and we're gonna they're not going to collect
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Speaker 1: it anymore. I'm not quite sure that's what the residents
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Speaker 1: of the city of Cincinnati want. I don't think they
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Speaker 1: want criminals or child molesters or rapists or murderers living
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Speaker 1: in their neighborhood. Personally think that way, but I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You've got a loud, loud, squeaky wheel in this anti
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Speaker 1: ice situation going on in our country right now, Adam twelve.
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Speaker 2: Once again, you get what you vote for, right, I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is what the citizens of Cincinnati voted for. I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of people are just low information voters.
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Speaker 2: They people probably need to read our paper and watch
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Speaker 2: her and listen to your show, uh, maybe tuned into
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Speaker 2: the Brian Thomas podcast and uh, and learn what's going
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Speaker 2: on in the city, because you know, we've got we
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Speaker 2: got some activists running our city right now and running
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Speaker 2: in our county. And you know, what they want to
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Speaker 2: do is what they want to do, and and the
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Speaker 2: narrative that comes down from DC is is what they're
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Speaker 2: gonna follow. And you see the results of that in
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Speaker 2: places like Minnesota, right. I mean, these activists, democrats, they
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Speaker 2: want uh, they want people injured, they want because now
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Speaker 2: they've got a story, they've got their next January sixth
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Speaker 2: with these people that are throwing themselves in front of
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Speaker 2: law enforcement and and getting injured or unfortunately, you know,
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Speaker 2: worse than that in some cases. So you know, these
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Speaker 2: are the stories that they're looking for, and they get
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Speaker 2: they they don't work with ICE because it forces ICE
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Speaker 2: instead of just going to the prisons and picking these
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Speaker 2: people up, or going to the local jails and picking
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Speaker 2: these people up, they have to go into the neighborhoods.
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Speaker 2: They have to go knock on doors and and and
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Speaker 2: these actives this end up following them around the city.
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Speaker 2: I saw an accident the other day on a highway
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Speaker 2: some activists trying to follow ICE, and these types of
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Speaker 2: situations happen, and then they point at Trump and say,
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Speaker 2: isn't Trump a bad guy? Look what his ICE people
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Speaker 2: were doing. He sent out the Gestapo to arrest these people,
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Speaker 2: when in fact, none of this would be happening if
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Speaker 2: Biden hadn't let eleven million people into the country.
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Speaker 1: Adam kal Or find him online again thus cincinnatiexchange dot com.
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Speaker 1: Great stuff, Adam. I appreciate what you're doing out there.
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Speaker 1: You got to welcome spot here on the fifty five
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Speaker 1: KC Morning Show to talk about issues, and I'll look
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Speaker 1: forward to having you back on real soon. Man, next
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Speaker 1: time in studio. Okay, brother,