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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 148 - Violence over the weekend...where is the mayor · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Former Vice Mayor of the City Cincinnati, Christopher Smith, and
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Speaker 1: welcome back to the program, sir. I love having you on,
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Speaker 1: my friend.
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Speaker 2: Brother, thanks for having me on. And you know, I
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Speaker 2: take a deep breath sometimes before I start, you know,
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Speaker 2: my heart, my heart, Brian really goes out to that
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Speaker 2: spectrum worker, Oh yeah, who was shot Thursday morning, five
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Speaker 2: am in Avondale. And there's so many different moving parts
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Speaker 2: to it. Right, we got a person who's at work
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Speaker 2: doing what he's supposed to do. My understanding is that
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Speaker 2: he was there with a partner and the partner had
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Speaker 2: to go back and get some supplies and that's when
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Speaker 2: he was robbed. He totally complied, Brian with the robber
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Speaker 2: who had the gun on him, and gave him and
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Speaker 2: did everything anybody could do, and the person still shot him.
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Speaker 2: And I can't even imagine their weekend meaning this has
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Speaker 2: happened Thursday morning. He's still in the hospital, he's still
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he's had a number of surgeries. I can
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Speaker 2: see his whole family sitting in the waiting area, coffee breaks,
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Speaker 2: everybody around the clock, and nobody understands where their loved
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Speaker 2: one was doing the right thing in the right place
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Speaker 2: and somebody just walks up and pulls a gun on
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Speaker 2: him and shoots them and robs them. And what I'm
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Speaker 2: going to say about this, Brian, I appreciate Spectrum. In
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Speaker 2: my love goes out to the Spectrum family and the
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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand dollars that they put up, and I
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Speaker 2: hope that and I pray that the community cooperates. But
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Speaker 2: I never understand Brian, in these crisis situations, why we
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Speaker 2: don't hear from the mayor. And I think people think
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Speaker 2: sometimes when I'm talking, like I'm picking on him, like
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Speaker 2: this is not a game. These are life and death
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Speaker 2: decisions and things that are happening in our community. And
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Speaker 2: the crime is spreading. Whether it's Mount Adams or whether
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Speaker 2: it's you know, places like Avondale, or whether it's places
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Speaker 2: like Madisonville. The crime is spreading. And I feel like
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Speaker 2: the mayor and members of council are asset and when
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Speaker 2: these things happen, I feel like they just say crime
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Speaker 2: is down, and it's my perception or it's your perception,
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Speaker 2: it's not really our reality. And then over the weekend
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Speaker 2: we have five people shot, two in the Westwood area,
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Speaker 2: three in Cummingsville, and the three shot in Cummingsville. From
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Speaker 2: everything that I'm reading, it was a gun battle, like
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Speaker 2: people are running down the street shooting at people. A
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Speaker 2: real blessing that more people didn't die in cummings Field.
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Speaker 2: But to say three people shot Brian. If it were four,
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Speaker 2: it's my understanding that the FBI would have defined that
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Speaker 2: as a mass shooting. And so I'm trying to figure
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Speaker 2: out what the leadership in our city are doing as
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Speaker 2: I feel like we continue to take steps closer and
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Speaker 2: closer to places like Chicago and Detroit.
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Speaker 1: Well, I guess, you know, in response to your concern
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Speaker 1: about after provol not saying a word about it, when
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Speaker 1: people like the guy got shot in the neck, you
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Speaker 1: think that will be a good opportunity for him to
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Speaker 1: come out and talk about, you know, community safety, what
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Speaker 1: they are doing to deal with the violence in the city,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. But I have a feeling he probably didn't
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Speaker 1: do it because he would be out there all the
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Speaker 1: time having to respond to every single instance when someone
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Speaker 1: gets murdered by some crazy in the city of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: I mean that he always talk about all the time,
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Speaker 1: and if he didn't address, you know, all murders in
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Speaker 1: the city, then he'd be, you know, blamed for picking
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Speaker 1: and choosing. Well, you mentioned that the Spectrum God, but
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Speaker 1: you didn't talk about Phil and the blank, the next
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Speaker 1: guy down the show. He's trying to avoid the whole thing. Plus,
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Speaker 1: it brings the focus on crime. A mayor speaking of
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Speaker 1: a crime, I guess maybe we've got a problem with
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Speaker 1: crime in the city since Nathan Mayor's coming out and
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Speaker 1: talking about it. He doesn't like those optics. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's just basically hiding from it by not saying anything.
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Speaker 1: The problem doesn't exist, right, and that's really the mo
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Speaker 1: o the city and Council has been doing now for
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Speaker 1: a long time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right about that. But I thought
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Speaker 2: the Spectrum shooting on Thursday morning at five am was
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Speaker 2: really out of bounds. And I'm going to say something
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Speaker 2: to take a risk and say it, like, if you've
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Speaker 2: got two drug dealers and they're shooting at each other,
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Speaker 2: that is horrible, fighting over money, drug turf, whatever their
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Speaker 2: language is, And that's horrible to have a worker who
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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with any of that. They're just
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Speaker 2: in a neighborhood doing their job, right, They're trying to
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Speaker 2: restore cable service to a community to have somebody drive
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Speaker 2: up in a mask and pull a gun on and
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Speaker 2: shoot them in the neck. Right like that to me,
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Speaker 2: says okay, mayor this is outside the boundary of all
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Speaker 2: this other stuff we're talking.
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Speaker 1: About plausible motive. Vict there's no plausible justification. I mean,
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Speaker 1: even if if the justification still makes the act criminal,
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Speaker 1: at least you can say, well, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: kind of understand, going back to your point of a
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Speaker 1: gang turf or something, I kind of understand these guys
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Speaker 1: are rival gang members. They have a reason, like members
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Speaker 1: in combat or like people in combat, to shoot at
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Speaker 1: each other or kill each other because they have a
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Speaker 1: turf war on their hands. A guy doing his damn
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Speaker 1: job working for Spectrum has no gripe, he has no
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Speaker 1: beef with society. He's doing society a favor by coming
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Speaker 1: to work and doing his job and fixing people's cable.
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Speaker 1: Why in the hell did he get shot? You can't
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Speaker 1: come up with a justification for that. Was he sleeping
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Speaker 1: with the murderer's wife or something. Then you could say, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I kind of understand that was the conduct still unlawful,
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Speaker 1: illegal and criminal, Yes it was, But you know what
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Speaker 1: if somebody was sleeping with my wife, I might want
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Speaker 1: to shoot him too.
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Speaker 3: That's different, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And I'm saying to you as my friend that
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Speaker 2: if I were the mayor and a worker, because that
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Speaker 2: could be one of your city workers. Now, that could
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Speaker 2: be that could be another person that you know, coming
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Speaker 2: to the community to do something. I'm talking about like
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Speaker 2: a guy getting up every day going to work. He's
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Speaker 2: not supposed to get shot. And that's why I think
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Speaker 2: this is so far out of the out of the
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Speaker 2: out of the out of the stratosphere on crime and
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Speaker 2: out in this segment by saying to you, Brian that
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Speaker 2: this is why I think he didn't want to say
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Speaker 2: anything about it, because it undermines his narrative that crime
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Speaker 2: is down and that everybody is safe. You know, if
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Speaker 2: if if victims now that are being shot who have
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with drugs, that are nothing to do
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Speaker 2: with with crime at any level, are now being shot
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Speaker 2: because they're showing up with the neighbors to do their job,
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Speaker 2: that is a different level of crime. And I just
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Speaker 2: don't think he wanted to highlight it because it undermines
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Speaker 2: his narrative that crime is down in Cincinnati, and it just.
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Speaker 1: Isn't Yeah, and you've taken away the opportunity for choice.
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Speaker 1: Now with a with A with one of my listeners
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Speaker 1: in the audience that I'm never going to go downtown.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to face the potential for violence. I
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Speaker 1: can eat at a restaurant elsewhere. I don't need to
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Speaker 1: go to a ballgame fight. You have that option to
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Speaker 1: knock downtown. If you work for Spectrum, there's going to
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Speaker 1: be a job within the city limits that you're going
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Speaker 1: to have to do. And here's where you run headlong
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Speaker 1: into the problem that you're perceiving, Christopher. People are forced
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Speaker 1: under circumstances to be there. It's out of their hands
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Speaker 1: that they have to go into a violent area.
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Speaker 2: Now and now, Brian, they're going to those areas with
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Speaker 2: a detail, meaning Spectrum has requested details for their workers
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Speaker 2: in specific areas. And so I don't blame Spectrum. How
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Speaker 2: would you feel if you were the CEO and one
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Speaker 2: of your workers just got shot in the net doing
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Speaker 2: their job. You're going to you can't tell the other families, well,
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Speaker 2: let me send another worker in there without having some
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Speaker 2: type of armed guard.
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Speaker 1: And how many businesses are there that operate in the
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Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati, who also, given that they're in the
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Speaker 1: same circumstances, could also request a special detail to go
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Speaker 1: with them. How many cops do you got, Christopher? Don't
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Speaker 1: go away more with Christopher smith After I mentioned you've
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Speaker 1: got plenty of time, I'm giving your heads up notice.
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Speaker 3: Shine care and see the talk station seven if you
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Speaker 3: have ker City talk station. It's Monday.
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Speaker 1: We're in the middle of the conversation with the phone
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Speaker 1: a vice mayor of the city. Since say Christopher Smithman
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Speaker 1: at vote Smithmen's where you find them on X Christopher Smithman,
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Speaker 1: let's continue.
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Speaker 3: What else is on your mind?
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Speaker 2: I think what's interesting and then I'm going to pivot
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Speaker 2: to another subject Brian Thomas, is that the details that
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Speaker 2: the city will be providing Spectrum, but they that they
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Speaker 2: haven't even really you know, announced that they're doing at
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Speaker 2: any level. It'll be interesting do they provide that protection
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Speaker 2: for the worker if they're in Hyde Park. Someone just
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Speaker 2: just communicated that to me on social media, meaning if
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Speaker 2: they go to Hyde Park from Outlookout to do work,
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Speaker 2: do they have do they feel they need to have
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Speaker 2: a detail there? So it'll be interesting where Spectrum is
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Speaker 2: believing they need to detail and in that in that conversation,
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Speaker 2: which I don't believe it's reality, but some would say
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Speaker 2: that's racist, meaning the notion that they're going to follow
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Speaker 2: the crime pattern and go, I think my workers at
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Speaker 2: four o'clock in the morning in this location are unsafe
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Speaker 2: in this location, I don't think they. I think they
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Speaker 2: are safe. What does that mean?
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Speaker 1: How is relying on statistics racism? Christopher? If you are
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Speaker 1: statistically more likely to be a victim of a crime
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Speaker 1: in certain neighborhoods in the city of Cincinnati and less
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Speaker 1: likely to be a victim in other neighborhoods, I would
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Speaker 1: think that the statistical realities would suggest you need maybe
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Speaker 1: a police presence where you're more likely to be a
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Speaker 1: victim of a crime. That's not racism. It's just working
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Speaker 1: the data into the logical analysis you have to do
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Speaker 1: because of the finite amount of police resources we have
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Speaker 1: to go around.
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Speaker 2: Correct and Brian. On top of that, if you're very wealthy,
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Speaker 2: you and I know that they roll using slang with
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Speaker 2: armed guards everywhere. They have big fences, they have big guards,
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Speaker 2: they have arm guards around them. And it's always interesting
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Speaker 2: to hear the West Coast, you know, Superstars or the
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Speaker 2: East Coast superstars, you know, telling everybody about how we
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Speaker 2: should be dealing with guns, and then you see them
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Speaker 2: walking and they're surrounded by five or seven people. You
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Speaker 2: can't even get to them, and everybody has a gun
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Speaker 2: around them. So they're living in this fantasy world. But
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Speaker 2: the reality of it is the Spectrum worker on Thursday
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Speaker 2: morning could not was not afforded with that, and I
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Speaker 2: believe that they will be down. As I switched topics, man,
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Speaker 2: I saw some of the Fauci hearings, and there's so
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Speaker 2: many moving parts to it where you had entire businesses,
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Speaker 2: not just in Ohio, but across our fifty states that
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Speaker 2: lost everything, meaning those businesses don't exist anymore because of
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Speaker 2: the decisions Foults made and what he's saying and how
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Speaker 2: he was advising. If you're the public policymaker, meaning I'm
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Speaker 2: not a doctor, let's just say I am a mayor,
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Speaker 2: and I'm listening to what my expert physician is telling me.
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Speaker 2: You're listening and taking that advice. That's what foult she
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Speaker 2: was doing, and that solo advice really stopped the entire
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Speaker 2: economy and businesses lost everything. There were loved ones who
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Speaker 2: died alone grandparents and family members who were married sixty
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Speaker 2: five seventy years and their loved one died in a
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Speaker 2: hospital room all by themselves. Really for nothing, because now
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Speaker 2: we know that a lot of the information, not all
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Speaker 2: of it, Brian Thomas, but a lot of the information
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Speaker 2: that fault she put out wasn't accurate. And that is
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Speaker 2: what is so scary. We saw an overreach of our
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Speaker 2: government in such a way. This scares libertarians to death
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Speaker 2: right because they're saying, this is what bothers me about
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Speaker 2: the strong arming of a government that we put one
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Speaker 2: person in charge who says he was a medical doctor,
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Speaker 2: who says he was following the science, and now we
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Speaker 2: know that there were terrible decisions that impacted our children.
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Speaker 2: Our children in Ohio still are not getting over schools
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Speaker 2: being closed for a couple of years. Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 1: That's correct. Let's pause. We're out of time in the segment.
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Speaker 1: We'll ring Christopher back for more words maybe on that
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Speaker 1: topic or more stick around. I want to mention Zimmer
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Speaker 1: heating and cooling, but insuring Cincinnati homes safe, efficient and comfortable.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations the talk station seven here fifty five karsee the
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Speaker 1: talk station. Brian Thomas, with Christopher Smitheman. Do any smither
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Speaker 1: Van at vote Smitheman win where you find Christopher on acts?
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Speaker 3: Christopher? What else are we gonna talk about this morning?
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Speaker 2: Look? Look, look, Brian, I'm going to address this again
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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be a little more serious and maybe
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Speaker 2: have some fun with it too. But everybody, I feel like,
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Speaker 2: runs to the corner and calls everybody now a racist.
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Speaker 2: If you don't agree with me, if you have a
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Speaker 2: different perspective than I have, you're just fundamentally a racist
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Speaker 2: or you're an uncle tom. So people say, Smitherman, this
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Speaker 2: is what you are right because I say things and
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Speaker 2: I speak out with which I think are common sense
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Speaker 2: things like I support cops, or you know, I support
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Speaker 2: the flag, or you know, I don't think that this
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Speaker 2: this most recent data, every that the city is arguing
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Speaker 2: about it depicts every police officer in Cincinnati as a
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Speaker 2: racist because they're stopping a car and the and the
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Speaker 2: person that they're stopping happens to be a black American.
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Speaker 2: Somebody has to get get out of your man and
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Speaker 2: speak truth to this power because it is getting so
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Speaker 2: out of control. So it's like like every that we're racist,
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Speaker 2: Racism is real. Sexism is real, right, and so this
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Speaker 2: notion that if I disagree with you about a position,
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Speaker 2: that that fundamentally now means I'm racist is insane. And
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Speaker 2: I just think that the word is being tossed around
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Speaker 2: so much right now, Brian, that it's being watered down.
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Speaker 2: People don't believe it. Nobody, It makes no sense. It's
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Speaker 2: like a person says there's firefirefire, and nobody believes anymore
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Speaker 2: there's a fire because there's no common sense around it anymore,
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. And I'm trying to warn people that this
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Speaker 2: overuse of this word is really undermining our American culture
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Speaker 2: in a big way. It's the and you hear the
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Speaker 2: socialists who are running tomorrow in the primaries, whether it's
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Speaker 2: Michigan or whether it's Wisconsin, they're really calling the entire
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Speaker 2: country racist. You listen to what they're saying. They're saying
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Speaker 2: a lot of things. They want to debunk the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 2: they don't want any police, they want to abolish the police.
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Speaker 2: Listen to me, to your listening audience, and somebody who
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Speaker 2: might be tuning in for the first time, what I'm
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Speaker 2: saying is true. Those socialists are saying they want to
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Speaker 2: abolish the police departments across the country and so, but
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Speaker 2: they're also saying that our country fundamentally that they're racist,
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Speaker 2: and these people are being elected. Brian tarkins, it is
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Speaker 2: really scary to me.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I think the problem with this claim of
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Speaker 1: racism illustrated by something. I've been in a tearun since
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Speaker 1: we found out there was fraud in Minnesota. Although there
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Speaker 1: have been millions of illustrations the same thing over time.
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Speaker 1: You know, it isn't racism just because someone says it is.
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Speaker 1: I don't want my taxpayers stolen by fraudsters. I don't
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Speaker 1: care what color, religion, race. I don't care if they
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Speaker 1: came from blank and remulac the planet from Star Trek.
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Speaker 1: If they stole from us, the collective American taxpayer, then
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Speaker 1: they deserve to be held accountable, prosecuted, and put in jail.
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Speaker 1: Now is it racism because the fraudsters in Minneapolis, for example,
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Speaker 1: happen to be members of the Somali community, not completely,
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Speaker 1: but most of which that's what the left was saying,
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Speaker 1: it's it's racism to look into the fraud that's going
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Speaker 1: on because well, there's Somali community fraud. Well, if it
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Speaker 1: was the Irish, or the Italians, or the German or anybody,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter anybody. If it's just American citizens engaging
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Speaker 1: in organized crime, then we go after. I mean, no
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Speaker 1: one would scream racism, but oh well, just because it
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Speaker 1: happened to be members of the Samali community, that turns
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Speaker 1: a criminal investigation into an act of racism.
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Speaker 3: Bull crap, says Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 2: It is, Brian Thomas. It is really just deflection. But
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Speaker 2: they're using racism as deflection and very serious situations because
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Speaker 2: what you're saying here here is that I'm going after crime.
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Speaker 2: I'm following the crime. I'm not following the race or
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Speaker 2: the gender of the person. I'm just following the crime exactly.
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Speaker 2: So you took a billion dollars, I'm going to put
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Speaker 2: you in jail. Oh no, I can't do that. You're
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Speaker 2: Somalian and you're just targeting me. No, you stole a billion.
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Speaker 2: You stole a billion dollars, and that is a problem.
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Speaker 2: That's what's so fundamentally wrong with this argument and why
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Speaker 2: I raised it. And the last point Brian Thomas is
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Speaker 2: this young lady, Sophie. I think it's Cunningham. I don't
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Speaker 2: follow sports, but she's decided to weigh in on this
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Speaker 2: transgender conversation. Every time I talk about it. I support
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Speaker 2: the transgender community. I support the LGBTQ plus community. I
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Speaker 2: have a son who is gay. I don't have to
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Speaker 2: put my record down. I went to the school for
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Speaker 2: Creative and Performing arts. That is not the discussion. This
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Speaker 2: is the extreme parts of the left. People eighty to
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Speaker 2: ninety percent of Americans say that men should not compete
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Speaker 2: against girls or women in sports. It's unfair. Title nine
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Speaker 2: is real to hear democrats out here undermining Title nine,
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Speaker 2: meaning they fall on the forward on Title nine and
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Speaker 2: now here they are saying, I want to create an
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Speaker 2: environment for girls in our country and women in our
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Speaker 2: country that are unfair. This young lady, Sophie Cunningham, I
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Speaker 2: don't know her. I don't follow sports, but I'm glad
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Speaker 2: that she's weighing in on it. And I would tell
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Speaker 2: men in sports they should be weighing in on it.
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Speaker 2: They should be looking out for their moms, their aunties,
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Speaker 2: their cousins, their nieces, their family members. They should be
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Speaker 2: out here. Men should be lending a voice to saying
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Speaker 2: this is not about transgender We support transgender people. What
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Speaker 2: we are saying here is it is unfair to have
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Speaker 2: them competing against girls and women in sports, and that's
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Speaker 2: just common sense. Why do I have to be anti
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Speaker 2: gay to say I don't support this part.
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Speaker 3: It's not well.
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Speaker 1: And you know I'm gonna quickly defend, you know, the
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Speaker 1: defend the gay lesbian community who got sucked into the
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Speaker 1: whole component of transgenderism. Transgenders does not identify a person's
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Speaker 1: sexual preferences gay lesbian does Christopher, If you could be
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Speaker 1: a trand if you're a transgender, if you're a guy
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Speaker 1: who claims to be a woman, I am a woman.
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Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean you want to sleep with men.
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Speaker 1: It just means that you declare yourself to be a
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Speaker 1: member of the opposite sex. That's why we've seen transgender
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Speaker 1: women who are men who are claiming to be women
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Speaker 1: in women's facilities, molesting women. We've heard of transgender prisoners
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Speaker 1: who end up in female prisons raping the women in
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Speaker 1: the cells with them. Apparently they have a desire for
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Speaker 1: the opposite sex, or in their mind, the same sex.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: If you're a transgender woman, which means you're a genetically male,
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Speaker 1: a genetically male human being. Does that mean you're a
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Speaker 1: lesbian if you still like having sex with women? Work
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Speaker 1: that one out for me, Christopher. I'm confused. But I
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Speaker 1: can live in a world like you. You say you
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Speaker 1: support the LGBTQ plus AAA whatever community.
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Speaker 3: That's fine.
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Speaker 1: I'm a libertarian, which means I can live in a
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Speaker 1: world with whatever you want to be. Just don't tell
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Speaker 1: me that I've got a b into your philosophy. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't make me transgender or transphobic. I'm rather transphobic. It
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Speaker 1: just makes me believe in X and Y chromosomes, period,
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Speaker 1: scientific reality.
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Speaker 2: And why I'm discussing it for a lot of reasons.
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Speaker 2: I'm watching these national protests which I'm sure will eventually
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Speaker 2: come to our state of you know, protesting this young athlete,
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Speaker 2: female athlete who took a position on it. But it
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Speaker 2: will also be a part of the governor's race, meaning
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Speaker 2: here we've got Vivek running for governor. I don't want
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Speaker 2: a governor who will undermine Title nine. I don't want
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Speaker 2: a governor that will say I'm going to create more
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Speaker 2: unsafe environments or unfair athletic situations for girls and for
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Speaker 2: women in sports in Ohio. That doesn't mean that I'm
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Speaker 2: anti trans No. I keep saying that because if somebody
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Speaker 2: is tuning in, I don't want them to say, oh man,
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Speaker 2: I'm listening to this person. And you know, I went
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Speaker 2: to the School for Creative and Performing Arts and I've
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Speaker 2: been fighting for gay rights before most people were even alive.
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Speaker 2: Who might be listening to this. The point that we're
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Speaker 2: making is Title nine is real and that this country
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Speaker 2: fought for Title nine, and so why would we undermine
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Speaker 2: safe places for girls and women to compete. I don't
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Speaker 2: get this discussion. It's a common sense thing. I think
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Speaker 2: eighty or ninety percent of Americans agree with it. But
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Speaker 2: it is on the ballot in Ohio, and the vech Ramaswami,
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Speaker 2: who is running right, would not undermine Title nine, and
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Speaker 2: I believe the other candidate would. That is a serious
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Speaker 2: discussion that we have to have as we go into
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Speaker 2: this gubernatorial rance because I do believe Brian Thomas. It
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Speaker 2: is on the governor's ballot, and that's one of the
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Speaker 2: reasons I continue to support the vek Rama Swami because
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Speaker 2: I want common sense. I don't want to wake up
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Speaker 2: and see the governor saying I'm undermining Title nine.
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Speaker 1: And how well of your daughter have done since she
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Speaker 1: was a female swimmer, a girl swimmer on the girls
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Speaker 1: swim team, if she to compete against guys, right, I
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Speaker 1: mean it.
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Speaker 2: Would be it would have been very detrimental and she
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Speaker 2: would not have She would not have been in position
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Speaker 2: to most likely, because it's all about timing. You are
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Speaker 2: a swimmer, a great swimmer, you understand it. But the
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Speaker 2: scholarships and those things, those conversations most likely would not
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Speaker 2: have happened. It creates an unfair advantage, Brian, and I
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Speaker 2: think that we've got to have men who are willing
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Speaker 2: to speak truth to power here on this issue, and
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Speaker 2: those who are on the other side of this, Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: their position will not age will why because men will
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Speaker 2: be men and women will be women for the next
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Speaker 2: two thousand, five thousand years. That's not excuse me, that
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Speaker 2: is not going to change. So the issue here is
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Speaker 2: that are we going to protect girls and women or not.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand the protests that are happening right now,
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Speaker 2: and I wanted to take the risk to lend my
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Speaker 2: voice and be clear here. Girls deserve safe places Brian
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Speaker 2: Thomas to play sports. You're not a racist, I'm not
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Speaker 2: an Uncle Tom. And at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: we just want common sense policies coming from our elected officials,
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Speaker 2: that's all. We're looking for safe environments where people like
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Speaker 2: Spectrum workers are not being shot and being robbed in
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Speaker 2: our neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: Don't sweater a Christopher. This is someone always going to
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Speaker 1: criticize your point of view, but remember you are on
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Speaker 1: the right side of this one, at least in terms
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Speaker 1: of the vast majority of people in this country. They're
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Speaker 1: with you one hundred percent.