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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: 7 0 6 55 care cd talk station happy friday
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Speaker 1: e brian thomas always pleased to welcome the 55 care
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Speaker 1: c morning show proudly representing ohio's eighth district it's congressman
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Speaker 1: warren davidson congressman davidson welcome back and you know i
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Speaker 1: i wouldn't know it but you are running for re-election
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Speaker 1: uh uh and early voting begins tuesday correct.
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Speaker 2: Uh i hope a lot of other people know it
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Speaker 2: brian but yeah you know i'm on the ballot this
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Speaker 2: time love to have everyone vote for me and vote
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Speaker 2: for all the good people. They're easier to identify. They
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Speaker 2: get R's by their name.
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Speaker 3: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Go out and vote for the people that are trying
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Speaker 2: to save our country from the people that are working
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Speaker 2: to destroy it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I only bring it up because you've had many
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Speaker 1: occasions to mention your campaign and that you are running
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Speaker 1: for re-election here on the 55KRC Morning Show. I just
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Speaker 1: viewed it as a sign of confidence, although I'm not
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Speaker 1: taking the role for granted, that you're not going to
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Speaker 1: automatically get re-elected. Of course, people need to get out
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Speaker 1: and vote for you, but you've got a solid, solid
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Speaker 1: base of voters that support you in the 8th District,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, and I think there's a reason for that.
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Speaker 3: It's because you're doing such a wonderful job.
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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate your confidence and the support of a
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Speaker 2: lot of folks, but look, there's a lot of new people.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Hamilton County is now the biggest portion of
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Speaker 2: the district, so this map kind of cuts things a
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Speaker 2: little differently where the lines are. So, you know, places
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Speaker 2: like Montgomery, Blue Ash, Amberley Village that weren't, they're currently
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Speaker 2: in the 1st District, represented by Greg Lansman, and But
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Speaker 2: those are drawn now in the 8th District. So I
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Speaker 2: was out knocking doors this past week, and people didn't
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Speaker 2: realize that their district lines had moved. So I think
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people that are going to
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Speaker 2: go out on– whenever they vote, they'll get their ballot
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Speaker 2: by mail or they'll go vote early or they'll go
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Speaker 2: vote on Election Day. And they'll look at the ballot
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Speaker 2: and go, wait, what's this? And so that's the big thing.
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Speaker 2: On the east side of Hamilton County, we have a
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Speaker 2: lot of that area now in the 8th District. So–
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Speaker 2: Big shift, and hopefully people know, and I'd love to
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Speaker 2: have their support.
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Speaker 1: And I've had quite a few listeners who are very
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Speaker 1: disappointed that you're no longer their congressman after the change.
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Speaker 1: So DavidsonForCongress.com. Get over there and help them out. Again,
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Speaker 1: get out and vote on Tuesday and just get it
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Speaker 1: over with and vote Republican, as Congressman Davidson suggested.
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Speaker 3: It's the only way to go.
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Speaker 1: Now, let us start with the Ohio August unemployment rate.
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Speaker 1: On the heels of this great news that I read
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Speaker 1: about the U.S. economy yesterday, Some revised numbers have gone up.
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Speaker 1: Our GDP has gone up. The amount of tax dollars
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Speaker 1: flowing into the federal and state coffers has gone up.
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Speaker 1: Business has increased like 20% compared to last year.
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Speaker 3: There's spending. People are hiring.
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Speaker 1: I mean, with the exception of the price of gasoline,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, everything seems to be going swimmingly, in large
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Speaker 1: part swimmingly. So Trump presidency is paying off, and it's
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Speaker 1: paying off here in Ohio with the lowest unemployment rate
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Speaker 1: in Ohio's history ever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of really good news
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Speaker 2: out there in the economy, and there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: folks working to make sure that doesn't get out. It's
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Speaker 2: like I expect 51 intelligence agencies, former intelligence officers will
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Speaker 2: come out any day now and say, oh, this is
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Speaker 2: all some sort of Russian plot to say the economy
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Speaker 2: is going fine. Look, they're expensive things. They haven't somehow
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Speaker 2: magically gotten cheaper, but the rate of growth and the
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Speaker 2: spending in the economy is looking strong. And the manufacturing
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Speaker 2: sector in particular, I mean, that's been been humming. And
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Speaker 2: a lot of that investment's happening right here in Ohio,
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Speaker 2: southwest Ohio in particular. So there are plenty of signs
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Speaker 2: of good life in the economy. And with the cost
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Speaker 2: of gas, I mean, the Ohio legislature came in yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Vivek Ramaswamy asked for it. They came in early. and
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Speaker 2: they're going to have a tax holiday on gas prices
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Speaker 2: through the end of this year. So that ought to
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Speaker 2: show up on the pump this week, and people will
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Speaker 2: feel it. I mean, $ 0. 40 a gallon, almost $ 30- something, I think,
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Speaker 2: on gas, and plus $ 40 on diesel. So it'll be
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Speaker 2: a big deal for people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure AMIAC is going to take credit
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Speaker 1: for it, because literally every article I read, and I
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Speaker 1: saw four articles on the gas tax relief in Ohio,
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Speaker 1: and every single one of them said, Amy Acton said
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Speaker 1: it first, and Vivek Ramaswamy came out a couple hours
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Speaker 1: later and also joined in the party to get rid
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Speaker 1: of the gas tax for at least some measure of time.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It just seems to me that neither maybe should get
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Speaker 1: credit for it because currently the Republicans in Columbus under
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Speaker 1: Governor Mike DeWine, I hate to give him any credit
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Speaker 1: for it, they accomplished it before the election.
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Speaker 3: So bully for us. They finally did something that helps Ohioans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, this is the controlled media. They'll go
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Speaker 2: out there and run out the narrative. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: had a town hall with, I don't know, 250, 300
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Speaker 2: people up in Dark County, a rural part of the district.
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Speaker 2: And they were concerned about not just data centers, but
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Speaker 2: high-powered lines. They have an eminent domain issue where high-powered
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Speaker 2: power lines are coming through. And no one likes eminent domain,
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Speaker 2: even the people that are using it. Certainly, people don't
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Speaker 2: want something sort of force-fed to their backyard. And so
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Speaker 2: people were concerned about it. They're concerned about the health
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Speaker 2: effects of high frequency or high power power lines. So
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Speaker 2: we introduced a bill following that to get a study.
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Speaker 2: The last federal study of it was 99. And so
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Speaker 2: we went on, did the research, said, hey, we'll share
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Speaker 2: with you. Well, there's not a lot. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of private sector research on it. So let's get a
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Speaker 2: federal study of it. And as I introduced the bill,
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Speaker 2: the local press interviewed my opponent about the bill. They
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Speaker 2: never even called me about the bill. So this is
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Speaker 2: par for the course. It's called the CHARGE Act. So
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Speaker 2: we're trying to make sure that we trust the science.
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Speaker 2: Let's get the science out there published. But fair enough,
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Speaker 2: when the federal government puts it out, you ought to
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Speaker 2: rightly look at it with a little bit of skepticism
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Speaker 2: and say, okay, what part of this is true?
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe AI will answer that question for us, Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 2: People are turning to it in big measure, right? So
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Speaker 2: the capabilities are amazing, but, you know, you're still the
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Speaker 2: human fact. You look at things and, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: that's not correct. This is not correct. So it's still
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Speaker 2: got a little ways to go. I will say when
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Speaker 2: you look at Siri and just say talk to text,
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Speaker 2: it makes a lot of errors. But when you look
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Speaker 2: at some of these models like Clotter, you know, chat, GTP,
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Speaker 2: X is Grok, it spits out some pretty impressive answers.
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Speaker 2: So the capabilities dynamic, I mean, I think everybody that
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Speaker 2: I know is working to you. How do I integrate
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Speaker 2: this with what I already do to kind of keep
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Speaker 2: up with, you know, the capabilities, the productivity is amazing.
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Speaker 2: I did a financial model with a chat to you
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Speaker 2: or a plod and, and, been 20 hours of working
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Speaker 2: with this on financial modeling. I mean, it probably did
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Speaker 2: the work that had a former staffer do about four
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Speaker 2: months worth of work, and it spit out this multi-tab spreadsheet,
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Speaker 2: and it's pretty accurate. I mean, we're fact-checking it against
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Speaker 2: prior work, and I mean, it's an impressive tool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had a friend who did the exact
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Speaker 1: same thing, Congressman Davidson, and it really was mind-blowing to
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Speaker 1: hear him go through the process. You know, I just
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Speaker 1: went over the to AI and I gave him all
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Speaker 1: of the information about my small business. He's been, he
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Speaker 1: opened his doors about a year and a half or
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Speaker 1: two years ago and he was trying to do a
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Speaker 1: business strategy. And I guess there are consultants, or at
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Speaker 1: least I should probably use the word were consultants that
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Speaker 1: you would pay to do this kind of analysis. And
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Speaker 1: it probably would have cost a lot. He had this
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Speaker 1: whole thing. It was like 20 plus pages churned out.
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Speaker 1: He said it was absolutely amazing. Great suggestions, great ideas,
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Speaker 1: all with the real numbers that came from his business.
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Speaker 1: So the more information you give these programs to do
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Speaker 1: this type of thing, the more accurate they are.
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Speaker 3: But it didn't take any time at all. And he's like,
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Speaker 3: I've been using it. It's great. So all I see
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Speaker 3: with that, though, is it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Obviously very beneficial. But who used to do
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Speaker 1: that work before AI came along? And what are those
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Speaker 1: people doing now for jobs? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the concern. But, you know, productivity, maybe one
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Speaker 2: of the best stories about productivity I heard is they
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Speaker 2: went to the Panama Canal when they were building it.
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Speaker 2: And they're like, you know, hey, why is everybody using shovels? Well,
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Speaker 2: it's a jobs program and it's going to help everybody
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Speaker 2: have more work. And why not use spoons?
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Speaker 3: You know, right. And it's a great point.
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Speaker 2: You use the technology that's available and you become better
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Speaker 2: at that. And on balance, it does help. tend to grow.
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Speaker 2: You remember, you know, all through history, there's like, oh,
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Speaker 2: we're doomed. Well, not really. We keep getting higher quality
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Speaker 2: of life. I mean, the Malthusians thought everyone was going
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Speaker 2: to starve. And now look at ag. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: more productive than ever.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to bring Congressman Davidson back after the
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Speaker 1: break to talk about the three bills that all Americans
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Speaker 1: want that the Senate Democrats just blocked. They do not
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Speaker 1: want to give anything by way of relief to us
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Speaker 1: in the name of, well, not giving Donald Trump something
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Speaker 1: he can grow about. More with Congressman Davidson at 715
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Speaker 1: right now, 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 3: I get to make... KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 1: 718, 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson.
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Speaker 1: Vote Davidson. Get out and vote. Tuesday, you can start
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Speaker 1: early voting and why even bother waiting and vote Republican, please,
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Speaker 1: dear God. Eric Conroy is going to join the program
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Speaker 1: after 8 o'clock hour, 8.05. He, of course, is running
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Speaker 1: against Greg Lansman. And good morning, Steve. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: serving my country or our country militarily. And he is
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Speaker 1: reminding folks, my friend Steve, who is angry or upset
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Speaker 1: that you are no longer his congressman, but pointing out
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Speaker 1: that Hamilton County is the west side anyway, half of
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Speaker 1: which is now Eric Conroy potential territory. So you have
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Speaker 1: a choice between Lansman and Conroy in Hamilton County. So
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Speaker 1: vote appropriately. Senate Democrats, what is with Chuckie Schumer? There
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Speaker 1: was a poll out. And I suppose if you just
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Speaker 1: asked any random person who's not familiar with the issue
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Speaker 1: and said, what do you think? Should lawmakers in Congress
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Speaker 1: be banned from trading stocks on insider trading? I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine a single human being say, well, they can do that.
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Speaker 3: No, they shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Be banned because they have access to all the inside
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Speaker 1: information and you and I would be criminally charged if
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Speaker 1: we traded on insider information.
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Speaker 3: So yeah.
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Speaker 1: And according to a poll back from 2023, and I
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Speaker 1: know how we feel about polls, 86% of Americans, both
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Speaker 1: sides of the political spectrum said, right, they should be
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Speaker 1: banned from trading stocks. So Had an opportunity to do
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Speaker 1: that in the Senate yesterday, but Chuckie Schumer said no. Also,
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Speaker 1: saying no to the SAVE Act. And there was one
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Speaker 1: other issue I believe you wanted to chime in on.
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Speaker 1: The data center issue about the power bill that Bernie
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Speaker 1: Moreno was behind. What is the deal here? This is
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Speaker 1: all about denying Trump what he could argue is a victory,
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Speaker 1: but it would be a victory for all Americans?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, the Senate Democrats have put partisan advantage–
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Speaker 2: over the interest of Americans, over the interest of Ohioans.
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Speaker 2: They're doing that. Look, there are party line bills like
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Speaker 2: the Save America Act, which is 80% polling with public
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Speaker 2: on voter ID and only citizens vote. And look, they say, oh,
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Speaker 2: that doesn't happen. Well, they're in the process of removing
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Speaker 2: 50,000 non-citizens from the voter rolls in Arizona. And they're
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Speaker 2: having to do that county by county because the state
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Speaker 2: controlled by Democrats is isn't helping. So they're finding illegals
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Speaker 2: on the ballot. And part of the reason is they
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Speaker 2: don't have a good tool to detect it. So Save
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Speaker 2: America does that. But when you call the votes, despite
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Speaker 2: it being 80% with the public, it breaks on party
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Speaker 2: lines in the House and Senate. So not all the bills.
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Speaker 2: We have 700 bills that have passed the House that
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Speaker 2: are laying in inventory over there in the Senate. Some
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Speaker 2: of them are really important, like Save America. And we've
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Speaker 2: got a recent one that passed 417-3. You think in
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Speaker 2: the House, well, this isn't partisan. Even the Democrats are like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is a common-sense bill. It's called the Ratepayer Protection
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Speaker 2: Plan so that if you're putting in a high-demand thing
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Speaker 2: like a data center that you take into account, is
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Speaker 2: this going to raise the rates of other ratepayers? So
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Speaker 2: average households, are their rates going to get jacked up
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Speaker 2: because we put all this extra demand on the power
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Speaker 2: without adding capacity? And pass 417 to 3 in the House.
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Speaker 2: And it can't get past the 60-vote rule in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: I think it had 57 votes because John Husted is
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Speaker 2: the lead sponsor in the Senate. They wouldn't give John
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Speaker 2: Husted a win because they want to help Sherry Brown.
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Speaker 2: So it's all politics all the time, and Democrats, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: aren't getting hit for their obstruction. I mean there is
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Speaker 2: a 60-vote rule in the Senate. There's been a lot
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Speaker 2: of pressure on Senate Republicans to change it. I will
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Speaker 2: say when Democrats have had the majority in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: we've used it to block things that we thought were
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Speaker 2: bad ideas. So they have their rules, but it's obstruction
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Speaker 2: by Democrats. And again, these things sometimes in the House,
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Speaker 2: like this Ratepayer Protection Act, it would make a difference
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Speaker 2: for households. It isn't partisan in the least, but they
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Speaker 2: still want to obstruct because they feel like, well, we
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Speaker 2: want to keep the pressure on John Husted. We don't
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Speaker 2: want We don't want to see them get a win
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Speaker 2: in the homestretch.
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Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Anything they can do, that's what
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Speaker 1: they're going to do. And, of course, the media is
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Speaker 1: not going to do the conservative side of the ledger
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Speaker 1: any favors in accurately reporting on this. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: the Senate denied you what you want in overwhelming numbers.
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Speaker 3: Crazy. Well, here's something that, well, honestly, I.
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Speaker 1: Keep trying to point people out what the realities of
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Speaker 1: the Democrats are with this obvious DSA takeover. The gender
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Speaker 1: mutilation thing is driving me crazy. It always had, but
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Speaker 1: also the idea that men can play against women in sports.
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Speaker 1: Biden just rescinded the Title IX rules under the Biden administration,
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Speaker 1: and this is so important. And again, I go back
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Speaker 1: to this. Does this have a political stripe, Congressman Davidson?
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Speaker 1: I know it does for the Democrats, but what sane
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Speaker 1: human being with a daughter would want them to have
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Speaker 1: to face competing with a larger, stronger, in most all cases, man?
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Speaker 1: That is insane from a position. I don't get why
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Speaker 1: this is traction for some Democrats or why they, you know,
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Speaker 1: are angry about the rescission of the Biden era Title
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Speaker 1: IX rules.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, they are trying to keep the emphasis off
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Speaker 2: of that in the election cycle when the votes are called.
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Speaker 2: when the votes are called, it becomes partisan. Now in
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Speaker 2: Southwest Ohio, it's not that partisan. We pulled it a
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Speaker 2: couple of years ago. And I think 86% agree that
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Speaker 2: men shouldn't compete against women in sports. There's a whole
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Speaker 2: reason we created women's sports, you know? So this is
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Speaker 2: just the reality.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that the point of title nine?
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Speaker 2: That look track, track and field sports, cross country. And
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Speaker 2: my daughter was a runner. She ran in college. My
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Speaker 2: son was on varsity and, but he wasn't as, you know,
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Speaker 2: so he's technically slightly faster than her, but you know,
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Speaker 2: he was a kind of an average high school runner.
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Speaker 2: She went to state, you know, I mean, there's a
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Speaker 2: difference physiologically. You have categories for a reason. And so,
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Speaker 2: you know, women aren't going to get a fair shake, uh,
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Speaker 2: if men are blended into the sports and okay, this
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Speaker 2: is a little different. They're doing hormones or doing other things.
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Speaker 2: People are like, look, sort that out outside of the arena. And, uh,
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Speaker 2: This is the law in Ohio, and it's the practice
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Speaker 2: right now in the country because of executive orders from
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Speaker 2: the administration. I mean, Cincinnati Children's Gender Clinic is now
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Speaker 2: kind of closed, sort of. I think it's embedded in
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Speaker 2: everything else, but it's a different issue. So fundamentally, why
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Speaker 2: do people keep talking about this? Because they see it
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Speaker 2: as a basic fairness thing. It is. But when the
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Speaker 2: politics come in, Democrats consistently vote on this. And The
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Speaker 2: agenda on that, look, when MASH was on, I mean,
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Speaker 2: they were pointing this out to say, look, this guy
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Speaker 2: has a mental disorder, right? So he was trying to
15:50
Speaker 2: get kicked out of the army so he wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: to be in the Korean War.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, Klinger. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Klinger, right? So this is a lot of people
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Speaker 2: too young to remember this. story, but this is a
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Speaker 2: mainstream TV because they know, yeah, everybody knows that's a
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Speaker 2: guy wearing a dress. And the whole point was something's off.
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Speaker 2: And people just blew past it because they know, look,
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Speaker 2: this is all a shtick for this guy. But the
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Speaker 2: reality is a lot of people do start to believe
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Speaker 2: for whatever reason, all right, I should be a man
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Speaker 2: or I should be a woman and cross it all up. Great.
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Speaker 2: Sort that out outside of the arena. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's broadly public, you know, public mindset until you vote.
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Speaker 2: But that's the tip of the iceberg on the Democrat
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Speaker 2: socialist agenda. I mean, look, the open border isn't open
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Speaker 2: anymore because we have a president that is securing it,
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Speaker 2: and we have a Congress that has funded a secure border.
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Speaker 2: The minute Democrats had a chance to obstruct in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: they blocked funding for ICE and Border Patrol. And the
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Speaker 2: only way that we were able to contain the problem
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Speaker 2: is because in 2025, we had passed a big, beautiful
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Speaker 2: bill that provided a surge of funding to Homeland Security
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Speaker 2: so they could do an increased level of activity. So
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Speaker 2: they were draining that cash. We didn't provide the funding
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Speaker 2: so you could maintain current operations. We provided it for
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Speaker 2: the surge. And they were draining that. It took nine
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Speaker 2: months to fix this issue because Democrats, particularly in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: were obstructing on funding ICE and Border Patrol. So they
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Speaker 2: want to do this to all layers. I mean, Democrat
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Speaker 2: socialists literally want to get rid of the Senate because
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Speaker 2: of their agenda. They want to pack the Supreme Court. Mondami,
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Speaker 2: the mayor of New York, is saying, hey, I got
17:37
Speaker 2: elected on a Democrat socialist platform. I will govern with
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Speaker 2: a Democrat socialist platform. So this is who is increasingly
17:46
Speaker 2: controlling the Democrat Party. So no matter how disappointed you
17:49
Speaker 2: are in things that haven't gotten done yet, You can't
17:52
Speaker 2: turn the country over to people that are actively working
17:55
Speaker 2: to undermine our country. And look, ground you won't defend,
18:00
Speaker 2: you can't hold. So you got to go out there
18:02
Speaker 2: and hold ground and then at least pick it back up.
18:04
Speaker 2: I think we're going to have a chance if we
18:06
Speaker 2: can hold our majorities to really build momentum here. And
18:09
Speaker 2: you're going to see the economy continue to grow. You're
18:12
Speaker 2: going to see an increased focus on America first on
18:15
Speaker 2: a lot of levels. And I'm excited about it.
18:18
Speaker 1: Well, and the Trump administration and Congressman Davidson, part of
18:21
Speaker 1: it's trying to find fraud, waste, and abuse and cut
18:24
Speaker 1: funding for things like, oh, illegals, foreign nationals, and DEI programs.
18:29
Speaker 1: We're going to bring Congressman Davidson back to talk about
18:31
Speaker 1: $ 810 million in Office of Management budget rescissions thanks to
18:36
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, at least looking out for our bottom
18:38
Speaker 1: line to some degree.
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Speaker 3: 728-55-KRC.
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Speaker 1: The Talk Station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate
18:43
Speaker 1: his willingness to talk with my listening audience and me.
18:47
Speaker 1: About these important issues. And real quick, Congressman Davidson, one
18:49
Speaker 1: of the listeners just chimed in to me via instant message.
18:53
Speaker 1: I want to know if you would just say a
18:55
Speaker 1: word in favor of Eric Conroy, who's running against Greg Lansman.
18:59
Speaker 1: That race is a lot more challenging than your race currently.
19:02
Speaker 1: So do you have some thoughts or comments from our
19:04
Speaker 1: listening audience about the importance of that race?
19:07
Speaker 2: Well, look, this is the thing. You know, we need reinforcements.
19:10
Speaker 2: Why are we not going to get certain things done
19:13
Speaker 2: that could get done? Well, a big part's the Senate.
19:17
Speaker 2: So we've got to hold that and make sure Sherrod
19:19
Speaker 2: Brown stays fired and elect John Husted. But part of
19:24
Speaker 2: the reason my district's far more competitive is to make
19:26
Speaker 2: sure that Greg Lansman's district's more competitive. And we have
19:30
Speaker 2: a chance to elect a great American, Eric Conroy, you know,
19:34
Speaker 2: Grew up on the West Side, went to Elder High School,
19:37
Speaker 2: went to the Air Force Academy, did well in the
19:39
Speaker 2: Air Force, got out, worked for the CIA for a while,
19:42
Speaker 2: got into the private sector, had success there. Wants to
19:45
Speaker 2: come back home and serve his country in a different way.
19:48
Speaker 2: I think he'll be a great guy to serve with.
19:51
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of support, and I hope everyone
19:54
Speaker 2: will join the momentum and get Eric Conroy over the
19:58
Speaker 2: finish line. Send me one more ally there so we
20:01
Speaker 2: can get more things done.
20:02
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: In spite of the fact that Democrats hate finding fraud, waste,
20:06
Speaker 1: and abuse because I think somehow, in some way, I
20:08
Speaker 1: think every nongovernmental organization gets a handout on the taxpayer dollars,
20:11
Speaker 1: ends up funneling some of that money back to the
20:13
Speaker 1: people who handed it to them, the Democrats. But nonetheless,
20:17
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the administration continues to forge ahead and, well,
20:21
Speaker 1: cut where cuts can be made, including rescissions from the
20:24
Speaker 1: Office of Management and Budget under the Impoundment Control Act.
20:27
Speaker 1: Let my listeners know about this one.
20:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Impoundment Control Act creates consequences if you
20:33
Speaker 2: misuse federal money. If you spend money that you're not
20:36
Speaker 2: supposed to, you're supposed to get in trouble. So I
20:40
Speaker 2: was hoping that we could use that to kind of
20:42
Speaker 2: pull back the $ 2 billion they gave to a nonprofit
20:45
Speaker 2: Stacey Abrams created, and they were trying to shovel gold
20:49
Speaker 2: bars off the Titanic. In their own words, in the
20:53
Speaker 2: wake of the 2024 election, they were trying to get
20:55
Speaker 2: the cash out. One of the people they got to
20:57
Speaker 2: cash out to was Stacey Abrams, $ 2 billion. Talk about fraud, waste,
21:02
Speaker 2: and abuse. I mean, this is a nonprofit that hadn't
21:04
Speaker 2: done a dime worth of business until they got $ 2
21:07
Speaker 2: billion shoved at them. So what does the Impoundment Control
21:12
Speaker 2: Act do? Well, it lets the government not cut the check.
21:16
Speaker 2: So the Office of Management and Budget, that's the wonky
21:19
Speaker 2: office that cuts the checks, disperses the money to the
21:22
Speaker 2: other agencies. They've looked at it and said, look, we
21:25
Speaker 2: are We're looking at a situation where some of these
21:28
Speaker 2: grants are just going to illegal immigration. They're funding something
21:33
Speaker 2: that we're trying to shut down. It's working at cross purposes.
21:37
Speaker 2: We're not going to make the grants that we're going
21:39
Speaker 2: to facilitate illegal immigration. We're not going to make the
21:43
Speaker 2: grants that are funding transgender activities that we are shutting
21:48
Speaker 2: down with our health care. We are not going to
21:50
Speaker 2: make the grants that are funding DEI initiatives that we
21:53
Speaker 2: just shut down. And all that together adds up to,
21:56
Speaker 2: I think, $ 810 million. But it's a start, right? So
22:03
Speaker 2: it's not going to balance the budget right away, but
22:06
Speaker 2: it is directionally the right way. It's authorized by the
22:08
Speaker 2: Amendment Control Act. And Democrats and, frankly, some Republicans are like, wait,
22:13
Speaker 2: you can't do that. You can't not spend the money.
22:15
Speaker 2: You have to spend all the money. And so that's
22:17
Speaker 2: what they're trying to do is rein it in, and
22:19
Speaker 2: not just on willy-nilly things, but things that are clearly
22:22
Speaker 2: not in the American interest.
22:24
Speaker 1: Now, in the American interest, like so many of the
22:25
Speaker 1: things that Doge revealed right when it started doing an
22:28
Speaker 1: analysis under the USAID program, which the Democrats pulled their
22:30
Speaker 1: hair out and screamed and wailed and gnashed teeth because
22:33
Speaker 1: all these crazy projects that we found out were being funded,
22:37
Speaker 1: not to the interest of the American people, you know,
22:39
Speaker 1: shrimp on treadmill or transgender prostitutes in China. I mean,
22:43
Speaker 1: the list is just absolutely mind boggling. And when that's
22:45
Speaker 1: brought to the attention of the American public, I mean,
22:47
Speaker 1: sane people react and say... First off, I can't believe
22:50
Speaker 1: we were funding that in the first place. What idiot
22:52
Speaker 1: approved my taxpayer labor going to any of those given projects?
22:57
Speaker 1: But there's so much fraud, waste, and abuse and so
22:59
Speaker 1: much failure of oversight. So you can say all day
23:03
Speaker 1: long and make a great argument for one of these programs,
23:05
Speaker 1: but if no one like an inspector general is looking
23:07
Speaker 1: where the money is spent and who got their hands
23:10
Speaker 1: on it and whether they even accomplished the goal that
23:13
Speaker 1: they were given the money to accomplish... That isn't being done.
23:16
Speaker 1: So all of this is just ripe for fraud, waste
23:18
Speaker 1: and abuse, which it's being confirmed. There was a lot
23:21
Speaker 1: of fraud, waste and abuse out in these programs. That's good.
23:25
Speaker 1: We get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse. But
23:27
Speaker 1: why are the Democrats so upset about that, Congressman Davidson?
23:30
Speaker 1: Can I ask that question sort of in a direct way?
23:32
Speaker 1: What's the problem with that?
23:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's why they were so mad about Doge is
23:38
Speaker 2: Doge was saying, wait, wait, let's follow the money. We
23:41
Speaker 2: don't have a good enough accounting system to follow the money.
23:44
Speaker 2: So Doge came in and followed your money, tax dollars,
23:48
Speaker 2: who we're paying what, right? And they're mad that you're
23:52
Speaker 2: finding it because, wait, we're paying how much to who?
23:56
Speaker 2: And your leering centers were funding leering centers. Last week,
23:59
Speaker 2: we talked about people that were fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare.
24:03
Speaker 2: Why would states not crack down on people fraudulently enrolled
24:07
Speaker 2: in Obamacare? Well, they get nine federal dollars for every
24:12
Speaker 2: dollar they spend. So in California, why would they want
24:15
Speaker 2: to stop people from fraudulently enrolling in Obamacare when for
24:20
Speaker 2: every state dollar they put in, they get nine federal dollars?
24:24
Speaker 2: So as much as 50 percent of the Obamacare dollars
24:27
Speaker 2: that we're putting out there, no wonder health care spending
24:30
Speaker 2: is going through the roof because you've got more dollars
24:34
Speaker 2: flowing into it everywhere. So when you have more dollars
24:36
Speaker 2: going at the same amount of stuff, what happens? The
24:39
Speaker 2: price goes up. And this is exactly what Obamacare has done.
24:43
Speaker 2: And they say the remedy is, well, let the government
24:45
Speaker 2: take over the whole thing. Well, no. They would still
24:49
Speaker 2: have federal dollars paying for all of it and private
24:53
Speaker 2: people benefiting from it. And this is exactly why the
24:55
Speaker 2: Democrats want their non-government organizations are fully funded by the
25:01
Speaker 2: government in a lot of cases. And it redistributes the
25:04
Speaker 2: wealth to these organizations. And then they spend the money
25:07
Speaker 2: throwing it back into their campaign money. We found this
25:10
Speaker 2: with ActBlue where they're getting– Money, and they're falsely attributing
25:14
Speaker 2: it to sweet little old ladies, and they go out
25:17
Speaker 2: and interview them, and they're like, well, good heavens, no,
25:20
Speaker 2: I don't have $ 60, 000 to give to anybody, let alone
25:23
Speaker 2: political candidates. Well, it says right here on the Federal
25:26
Speaker 2: Election Commission report that you gave $ 61, 000 over the past
25:30
Speaker 2: X years. No, I didn't do that.
25:33
Speaker 3: Exactly.
25:34
Speaker 2: Okay, how is that happening? They're laundering the money through
25:37
Speaker 2: all these things that they're doing, and Doge was finding
25:40
Speaker 2: all that. So they are still putting this to use today.
25:45
Speaker 2: Doge is still in operation. We're not doing as much
25:47
Speaker 2: with the productivity side of that as I would like
25:50
Speaker 2: to see, but this rescissions is one component. of doing
25:53
Speaker 2: the same kinds of things of shutting down fraud, waste,
25:56
Speaker 2: and abuse. The vice president's leading a task force on this.
25:59
Speaker 2: We treated an extra office in the Department of Justice
26:02
Speaker 2: just to find and prosecute the people committing these fraudulent activities.
26:07
Speaker 2: Including in Ohio, you have a bunch of Medicaid fraud,
26:10
Speaker 2: in Columbus in particular, shutting those kinds of things down
26:15
Speaker 2: and prosecuting people. When is somebody going to jail? Soon.
26:19
Speaker 2: They've made arrests in a lot of these fraud cases.
26:21
Speaker 2: And the trials are starting to get underway.
26:24
Speaker 1: It does take time. That's why I've always told my
26:26
Speaker 1: listening audience, you know, they're going to find it. You
26:27
Speaker 1: just got to wait for it. It's evidence gathering. It's enough,
26:30
Speaker 1: you know, gathering of evidence. If you're going to do
26:32
Speaker 1: a criminal prosecution to prove guilty on a reasonable doubt,
26:35
Speaker 1: putting it all together, filing the charges, maybe doing indictments.
26:38
Speaker 1: It's a long process, but at least this administration is
26:41
Speaker 1: doing it. Because if you look backward, I don't think
26:43
Speaker 1: any administration at any time in our country's history has
26:46
Speaker 1: done a good enough job to monitor where our taxpayer
26:48
Speaker 1: dollars are being spent.
26:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean that's something that should be unifying.
26:55
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of the public it is.
26:58
Speaker 2: And the good thing is that the illicit finance, when
27:00
Speaker 2: you're ripping off the regular public, and this is the
27:03
Speaker 2: committee I chair, the subcommittee for national security and illicit finance,
27:07
Speaker 2: if you're going after little old ladies, scamming them in
27:09
Speaker 2: scam centers, there's no partisanship there. So it's great to
27:13
Speaker 2: have something that we can work on, that we agree on.
27:15
Speaker 2: We've had bipartisan legislation that's passed this Congress that's helping–
27:21
Speaker 2: bolster the scam detection operations. They just recently shut down
27:25
Speaker 2: one with $ 17 billion. They're scamming people out at $ 10, 000, $ 15, 000,
27:29
Speaker 2: $ 25, 000 at a time, but it's adding up to billions
27:33
Speaker 2: of dollars. A lot of what's behind it are basically cartels. Sadly,
27:38
Speaker 2: some of it is also they're trafficking people, sex trafficking,
27:43
Speaker 2: labor trafficking, and other ways. They're earning their freedom by
27:47
Speaker 2: scamming enough people. And then they'll say it gives them
27:49
Speaker 2: at least some level of hope to get out of
27:51
Speaker 2: the bad circumstance they're in. Sick stuff. So at least
27:55
Speaker 2: the level of depravity isn't to where they're willing to
27:57
Speaker 2: let you be formally ripped off by others, but they're
28:00
Speaker 2: all in when it comes to letting the government conspire
28:03
Speaker 2: to rip you off with your tax dollars. So it's
28:07
Speaker 2: a little bit inconsistent there by my Democrat colleagues.
28:09
Speaker 1: Well, if you just have a question mark puzzling over
28:11
Speaker 1: how they could be against this, somebody's getting the money.
28:14
Speaker 1: And I think that's a clear indicator that, you know what? Well,
28:17
Speaker 1: it's a funding source for us. We won't admit it
28:19
Speaker 1: out loud, but what other possible reason could they be
28:22
Speaker 1: for against finding fraud and abuse in American taxpayer dollar expenses.
28:26
Speaker 3: We all work for it.
28:27
Speaker 1: We all pay regardless of political stripe into the pot,
28:30
Speaker 1: and they have an obligation to mind it. Unless, of course,
28:32
Speaker 1: it's taking away something that is extraordinarily valuable to their lifeline,
28:36
Speaker 1: and I think that's exactly where we land on this,
28:37
Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson.
28:39
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
28:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I keep going back to Act Blue.
28:41
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the conduit for a lot of this. But,
28:44
Speaker 2: you know, Stacey Abrams is one of the tells. Like, seriously,
28:47
Speaker 2: why would you give This nonprofit of all the things,
28:50
Speaker 2: $ 2 billion. They've done nothing. Well, because Stacey Abrams was
28:54
Speaker 2: carrying a lot of water for the Democrat team. And
28:57
Speaker 2: it's all going to go back out into community organizers.
29:01
Speaker 2: I guess this is what people wonder when Barack Obama
29:04
Speaker 2: was first running. What is a community organizer? What does
29:06
Speaker 2: that qualify you to do? Well, you're seeing it. That's
29:08
Speaker 2: what it qualifies you to do.
29:10
Speaker 1: Those worthless college degrees have to turn into something, Congressman Davidson.
29:14
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the program.
29:16
Speaker 3: Get out and vote.
29:17
Speaker 1: You can start on Tuesday. Vote, of course, for Congressman Davidson. And,
29:19
Speaker 1: of course, also vote for Eric Conroy, who's going to
29:22
Speaker 1: join the program after the top of the hour news.
29:24
Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, thanks again. I appreciate this. And I look
29:26
Speaker 1: forward to having you back on the show real soon
29:28
Speaker 1: and wish you the best of luck.