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Congressman Dave Taylor joins the show this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Talk station as promised it being friday very happy friday
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  Speaker 1: everybody but as promised uh he is ready to talk
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  Speaker 1: congressman david sailor about taylor proudly representing ohio's second district
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  Speaker 1: congressman taylor great to have you back on the program
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  Speaker 1: sir happy friday.
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  Speaker 2: Happy friday to you brian thanks for having me back on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and i understand you've been hard at work um
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  Speaker 1: in in your district during the august recess uh what
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  Speaker 1: have you been up to congressman taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's been a great month, Brian. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: Ohio second district is a beautiful place and I've seen
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it in the last month. I've been
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of county fairs and also the state fair,
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  Speaker 2: which is not quite in the district, but close, but
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  Speaker 2: there's so much great stuff going on in the second
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  Speaker 2: district from, uh, you know, businesses and visiting with farmers.
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  Speaker 2: I went up to, uh, look at the Andrell facility
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  Speaker 2: in Pickaway County, which I was there with, uh, Senator
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  Speaker 2: Husted and, uh, Representative Mike Carey. And that's just an
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  Speaker 2: amazing facility. You're the future of, uh, unmanned fighter jet
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  Speaker 2: and drone technology is going to be coming largely from
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  Speaker 2: that location. Recently got to go to the Bigfoot Festival
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  Speaker 2: in Benton County on the other end of the district,
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  Speaker 2: which was a lot of fun. And everybody's favorite man,
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  Speaker 2: the Turtle Man, was there. Got to visit with him
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  Speaker 2: and also got to go out to the Kenworth facility
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  Speaker 2: where they build about 85% of their trucks right in
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  Speaker 2: Ross County. Ohio. That was a great visit with Administrator
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  Speaker 2: Zeldin of the EPA and Senator Husted again. But basically,
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  Speaker 2: we've been, you know, crisscrossing the district, visiting farms and
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  Speaker 2: fire departments and police departments and you name it. It's
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  Speaker 2: been a great, great month.
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  Speaker 1: What are the constituents saying to you? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: just got to ask you with this crazy and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in my lifetime, I cannot believe we're at a point
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  Speaker 1: in this nation's history where people actually taking communism's masked
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  Speaker 1: as Democrat socialists seriously. But their recipe for success is
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  Speaker 1: a recipe for disaster without question, economically, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: freedoms and liberty erosion. But I guess since it seems to,
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  Speaker 1: we are given the impression that this is becoming more
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  Speaker 1: and more wildly popular with the El Sayeds and the
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  Speaker 1: Mamdamis of the world. Do you get a sense from
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  Speaker 1: the regular people you're talking to, the working people, the
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  Speaker 1: people that are showing up at these events, where are
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  Speaker 1: they on this? Are they concerned? Are they embracing it?
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  Speaker 1: What's your sense of the water temperature, congressman?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. I've been encouraged by what appears to be
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  Speaker 2: the response of the folks in the 2nd District, which
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  Speaker 2: is sort of the knee-jerk response was when we see
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  Speaker 2: these lunatics win primaries, we say, oh, boy, we can celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way these people can win a general election. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think people are recognizing the 2nd District and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: everywhere that if they don't take it very seriously, these
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  Speaker 2: lunatics can win in the general election. We've got, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at least a couple generations of young people who've been
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  Speaker 2: basing in this nonsense and their educational opportunities from, you know,
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  Speaker 2: basically from the time they get into school. So there
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  Speaker 2: is more appetite out there than people realize. And if
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  Speaker 2: we don't get out there and exercise our right to vote,
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  Speaker 2: they will win. You know, it's a... It's something you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to mess with. It's an ideology that you
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  Speaker 2: can vote in, but you can't vote out. There's only
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  Speaker 2: one way to get them back out.
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  Speaker 1: That is a wonderful way of boiling it down. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's outstanding. And my worry is, and we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this a lot on the morning show, and I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it with a lot of people I've interacted
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  Speaker 1: with out in the public, in terms of what seems
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  Speaker 1: to be this lack of enthusiasm. I notably here in Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: I keep going back to The Ramaswamy act in race
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  Speaker 1: and polls are polls and they can be manipulated. And
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  Speaker 1: my listening audience doesn't have a whole lot of faith
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  Speaker 1: in them. But the idea that in regular polls, time
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  Speaker 1: after time, they're neck and neck. I just that concern
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  Speaker 1: that you obviously have for the direction of the nation,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that you can't unring the commie bell once
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  Speaker 1: it's installed. If you sit down and you don't go vote,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're getting into. A lack of a vote,
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  Speaker 1: that enthusiasm translated into not going into vote or not
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  Speaker 1: voting in any particular race. just because the person isn't
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  Speaker 1: perfect in your mind is going to let the other
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  Speaker 1: guy or gal win, and that's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I say that. Honestly, I see more enthusiasm
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  Speaker 2: than those kind of polls would reflect, but it's important
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  Speaker 2: that people realize that there is a real threat here,
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  Speaker 2: and if they don't go out and exercise their vote,
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to end up in a situation that
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  Speaker 2: says that, They didn't anticipate, and it's extremely negative. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't concern myself too much with polls, like you said, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe they're meaningful. I think we saw a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that in the primaries where the polling was
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  Speaker 2: so wildly off. So I don't worry myself too much
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  Speaker 2: with that, but I do think the enthusiasm is there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the messaging of the Democrats should be
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  Speaker 2: driving more enthusiasm for us, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just simply voting out of fear and concern for
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  Speaker 1: the future of America. I mean, that's enough to drive
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  Speaker 1: my butt to the polls. But then again, I regularly
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  Speaker 1: vote because I think it's an important civic duty, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed to have the ability to steer the direction
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  Speaker 1: of this country to the extent I have an impact
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  Speaker 1: on it. I guess, can I ask you, have you
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  Speaker 1: encountered the data center conversation, which seems to be divisive,
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  Speaker 1: although not necessarily party line divisive? It looks like both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the political ledger are joining on the bandwagon
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  Speaker 1: of like, whoa, we need to pause. We need to
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  Speaker 1: put the brakes on this. But as I regularly point out,
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  Speaker 1: I presume you'll agree with me, Congressman, the genie of
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  Speaker 1: AI is out of the bottle. We must be able
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  Speaker 1: to control it here in the United States and not
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  Speaker 1: capitulate to the Chinese Communist Party. Data centers are a
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  Speaker 1: key element to that, but they're also a key element
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  Speaker 1: to the Internet working, generally speaking.
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  Speaker 2: I'm 100% for military applications and medical applications to, as
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  Speaker 2: you say, just general technology growth in general. I'm for
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  Speaker 2: local control. One of my big concerns with the federal
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  Speaker 2: government and my role in it is I think it's
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  Speaker 2: way too big. I think the federal government exercises authority
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't have in many areas. So I'm not looking
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  Speaker 2: to impose the federal government's will on where these data
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  Speaker 2: centers go. Local people have every right to say no,
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  Speaker 2: but I do want local people to make sure they
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  Speaker 2: know what they're saying no to. There's a lot of upsides.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of propaganda that's been proven to come
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  Speaker 2: from China, where China's building as fast as they can,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd like us to stop building them. Because that
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  Speaker 2: would be a huge advantage for them. All those things
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  Speaker 2: being said, you do not have to have one in
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  Speaker 2: your backyard if that is the will of the people
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  Speaker 2: in your yard. But I do think we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great places like the Pike County facility around
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  Speaker 2: the old, not old, it's new again, the Centris facility
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  Speaker 2: out there is an ideal place for the data centers
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  Speaker 2: that are coming there. But not every place is ideal
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  Speaker 2: for it. But as you said, we do have to
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  Speaker 2: have them. We have to be extremely careful and thoughtful
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  Speaker 2: about where we put them and make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: transparent with the people about the impact in their area.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I am of the mind that the out loud
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  Speaker 1: concerns voiced by any local community relate to noise, relates
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  Speaker 1: to water use and power consumption. And I know, for example,
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  Speaker 1: like many candidates are talking about, no, we can address
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  Speaker 1: those up front. We can deal with the noise up
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  Speaker 1: front and insist on noise reduction and regulations. We can
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  Speaker 1: deal with the water issues up front, like insisting on
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a closed-loop cooling system, which doesn't use vast quantities
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  Speaker 1: of water, while pointing out that the next-door golf course
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  Speaker 1: uses 300,000 gallons a day. Just an aside on that.
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  Speaker 1: And we can deal with the energy uses. And going
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  Speaker 1: back to small modular reactors, grease the skids from a
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  Speaker 1: federal regulation standpoint to allow these off-the-shelf, comparatively inexpensive reactors
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  Speaker 1: to generate enough power for the facility, but also maybe
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  Speaker 1: provide the local community with additional extra power reducing our bills.
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  Speaker 1: Those can be addressed up front. I think those are
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  Speaker 1: a distraction from people's broader concerns about the technology itself,
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  Speaker 1: the jobs that will disappear, and the nefarious things AI
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  Speaker 1: can be used for, but you can't make that go away,
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  Speaker 1: can you?
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  Speaker 2: No, and every time those technologies have come along in
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  Speaker 2: the past, advances and this or that that sometimes eliminate
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  Speaker 2: Some jobs end up creating other ones. And as you said,
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  Speaker 2: the power question, the water question, and the noise question,
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  Speaker 2: those have been largely dealt with in most areas. We're
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  Speaker 2: seeing these companies very willing to pay for and provide
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  Speaker 2: their own power. And just like you said, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to see them maybe propose you're required to produce 20%
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  Speaker 2: more energy then you're going to consume, and that goes
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  Speaker 2: to the grid to sort of keep down the prices
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  Speaker 2: of the ratepayers in the area, especially in a very
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  Speaker 2: poor part of the country like the 2nd District of Ohio. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you 100%.
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  Speaker 1: All right, getting back to Congressman Taylor's local issues for
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  Speaker 1: his district, we're going to talk about what happened at
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  Speaker 1: the Claremont County Chamber meeting he had the other day,
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  Speaker 1: what was discussed more with Congressman David Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around.
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  Speaker 1: It's 815 right now, 55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: 55KRC.
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  Speaker 1: Talk Station. Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network joining
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  Speaker 1: the program in the next segment. In the meantime, we
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  Speaker 1: had the benefit of Congressman David Taylor talking about the issues.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll go back to local issues, sir. Claremont County Chamber,
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  Speaker 1: you had a meeting with them the other day. What
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  Speaker 1: did you guys talk about?
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  Speaker 2: It was focused on transportation and infrastructure. They wanted to
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  Speaker 2: talk more about the new surface reauthorization package that we
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  Speaker 2: passed out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Commission. which was
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  Speaker 2: a very bipartisan bill out of committee with 62 to 2.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a good bill. It's been $ 580 billion over
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  Speaker 2: the next five years. And honestly, I think the The
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  Speaker 2: consensus in the room was that as big a number
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  Speaker 2: as that is in something like transportation infrastructure, we'd like
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  Speaker 2: to see it a little bit bigger. But it's still
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  Speaker 2: a great step. It's the biggest bridge investment in history,
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  Speaker 2: the Rail Safety Act included. Finally, it adds at least
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  Speaker 2: one more piece of funding to the Highway Trust Fund,
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  Speaker 2: making electric vehicles pay a registration fee. It moves back
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  Speaker 2: to a real focus on traditional infrastructure, focused on roads
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  Speaker 2: and bridges. For the 2nd District, my big ask, and
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely a big one, was to get support from
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  Speaker 2: the federal government for the I-73 project, which would sort
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  Speaker 2: of go right up through the middle of the 2nd District,
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  Speaker 2: in through Ohio and into Michigan, and in on the
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  Speaker 2: Southern and in South Carolina. It's been on the books
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, but there's sort of some traction
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  Speaker 2: for it now. Ohio Department of Transportation is doing a
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  Speaker 2: feasibility study that is due out in December, and we're
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  Speaker 2: hoping to get a positive report there. I've spoken to
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  Speaker 2: Secretary Duffy a couple times on that, and he's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of interest in it. It's not something that
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  Speaker 2: you or I may drive on, but we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get started on some point.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a new interstate is what you're saying, I-73?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it runs up the State Route 23, sort of
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  Speaker 2: that area. It will run right past the big nuclear
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  Speaker 2: and the pipes and facility will run right past Andrew
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  Speaker 2: that we talked about earlier and also help our farmers
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  Speaker 2: get their crops to the Ohio River, which is their
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  Speaker 2: main conduit to the market at large. Also, it will
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  Speaker 2: sort of unload I-71 and I-75 through Cincinnati, which even
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  Speaker 2: when the new bridge is completed, it's still going to
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  Speaker 2: be a bottleneck. So it's got a lot of benefits.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, a project like that comes with a million
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  Speaker 2: headaches to boot.
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  Speaker 1: Right, like land acquisition costs, because you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to acquire the land from private ownership, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: In a lot of cases, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that comes with a huge price tag.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess we'll see down the road on that one. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the federal highway system has demonstrated, if
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  Speaker 1: you build a road like that, it comes with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of on and off ramps, which are ideal spots
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  Speaker 1: for the creation of new business and industry, which, of course,
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  Speaker 1: leads to greater tax dollars and employment.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. You know, and there are... so much business coming
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  Speaker 2: to the second district. I don't think you're going to
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  Speaker 2: recognize the second district from an economic standpoint five or
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  Speaker 2: seven years from now. But if we had that interstate,
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  Speaker 2: it goes through several existing towns, and you can sort
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  Speaker 2: of shepherd that kind of growth you're talking about into
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  Speaker 2: places that already developed and maintain the rural and agriculture
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  Speaker 2: character of the district that We know and love a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are there for that very reason because
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  Speaker 2: that's the lifestyle they love. You can have both if
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  Speaker 2: you're playing ahead. We've got seven, eight generation farms out
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  Speaker 2: there that we don't want to ever lose. And that
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  Speaker 2: can be done with enough foresight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the half a trillion dollars roughly that you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: it goes along with this infrastructure work. Does the federal
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  Speaker 1: government in allocating these dollars get some say into what
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  Speaker 1: can be funded with that money, or is that up
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  Speaker 1: to the states? Because, you know, here I am hearing
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  Speaker 1: you talk about infrastructure and seeing exactly what happened with
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  Speaker 1: California's so-called high-speed rail project, which has already gone through
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars and yet has not laid a single
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  Speaker 1: mile of track. Is part of my taxpayer federal dollars
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  Speaker 1: going to go to that project, or is there going
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  Speaker 1: to be some oversight?
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  Speaker 2: There is oversight, Brian, for sure. But also there is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a double-edged sword. They lean into the
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  Speaker 2: formula funding, which I think is good in states like Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: where the closer you are to the problem, the better
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  Speaker 2: you are at solving it, the more responsible you are
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  Speaker 2: with the dollars, typically. In states like Ohio, it's not
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  Speaker 2: always the case. But we're leaning more into the dollars
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  Speaker 2: being allocated to the states and the states having more
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  Speaker 2: control over where they go. That doesn't necessarily mean they're
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  Speaker 2: going to get a bunch more money because of one
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  Speaker 2: particular project, which is the case with the high-speed rail,
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  Speaker 2: which is a terrible boondoggle in California. But in general,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always for keeping the dollars as close to the
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  Speaker 2: problem as possible because the people that are impacted the
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  Speaker 2: most by it want to get the most bang out
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  Speaker 2: of their buck fixing it typically. Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, I certainly appreciate the time you spent with
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  Speaker 1: my listeners and me this morning, and I ask you
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  Speaker 1: to keep up the good work looking out for Ohio
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  Speaker 1: as well as the American taxpayer, and we need more
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  Speaker 1: of that. I look forward to talking with you again
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  Speaker 1: real soon, Congressman, and I hope you will have a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful week and time between now and the next opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for us to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, buddy. Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You do the same. Enjoy the weather. Congressman David Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: You can find this discussion on the podcast page, 55KRC. iheart. com.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, along with my conversation with Brad Wenstrup, full
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  Speaker 1: hour in the studio. Really, we focused on.