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Empower U - Adam Koehler - Citizen Journalism · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Further Ado, Welcome back to the fifty five Casey Morning Show.
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Speaker 1: Adam Keaylor. My friend. Adam is the man responsible for,
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Speaker 1: among other things, a website. You need to check out
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Exchange dot com and look how quickly that
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Speaker 1: was updated by interview with John Kurzy about Jesse Owens
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Speaker 1: has already posted there. Thanks Adam Keylor, and welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the show, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Yes, I'm glad to be able to stream your
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Speaker 2: show on the website. There's a you know, it's good
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Speaker 2: information on there, and you know we need some we
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Speaker 2: need some news from you know, some conservative voices.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, or little libertarian voices the case maybe
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Speaker 1: he depends on the subject matter. Adam Keaylor. If you're
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Speaker 1: not familiar with Adam's background, he is brilliant. He is
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Speaker 1: a successful entrepreneur. He is a resident of the city
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, so he knows all about things going on
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Speaker 1: in downtown Cincinnati. Graduated from the School of Creative and
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Speaker 1: Forming Arts. Then he went into the marketing marketing industry
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Speaker 1: and quite successfully founded a country company called dot Loop,
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Speaker 1: which netted him one hundred and eight million dollars. Because
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Speaker 1: Zillo came in and bought it from him. Then he
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Speaker 1: also did ventures like Reversed Out Creative, also cove work,
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Speaker 1: supporting local businesses and fostering a vibrant startup ecosystem. To
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Speaker 1: next week, he's going to be talking about specifically the website,
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Exchange and a different idea and concept. You've
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Speaker 1: got here to tell my listeners about not only just
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Exchange, but how my listeners and folks who
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Speaker 1: attend the empower Youth Seminar can become citizen journalists at them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the idea is that it's an exchange, It's
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Speaker 2: an exchange of ideas. And I've got a lot of
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Speaker 2: people like another friend of the show, Todd Zenzer, who
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Speaker 2: writes on the paper every yeah, yeah, are our favorite
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Speaker 2: brilliant dog.
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Speaker 1: That guy's awesome, man. You know you're talking about you
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Speaker 1: think about what you're going to do in retirement. I
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Speaker 1: mean he's crunching numbers and chasing after elusive documents and
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Speaker 1: council members and figuring out where the money's going because
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Speaker 1: apparently counsel doesn't want anybody to know about that. Citizen
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Speaker 1: Watchdog is his podcast, and there it is, upper right
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Speaker 1: hand corner on the Cincinnati Exchange dot Com. So I
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Speaker 1: love that guy. I mean, he's a lot like you
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Speaker 1: in the sense that he dedicates a lot of time,
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Speaker 1: spare time with no pay to do really important work
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Speaker 1: at him.
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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I mean, as we overpay
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Speaker 2: some of our local officials for a lack of effort,
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Speaker 2: here he is putting in full effort during retirement for
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Speaker 2: no pay, just because he loves Cincinnati. He's a price
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Speaker 2: ol guy, west Side best side in my opinion, and
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Speaker 2: you know, he busts his butt and he's you know,
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Speaker 2: he just he just cares about the city. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we could come out of retirement and be the mayor,
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Speaker 2: but he won't do Oh the city the city manager?
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Speaker 1: That would do?
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Speaker 2: You imagine him as a city manager.
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Speaker 1: Brilliant it would be the city will be a well oiled,
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Speaker 1: efficient machine with a prioritization done properly and all the
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Speaker 1: dollars tracked and accounted for. And of course he would
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Speaker 1: also track results like, Hm, we gave the NGO two
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Speaker 1: million dollars over the past two years. Have they done
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Speaker 1: any thing with it? Have they accomplished anything?
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Speaker 2: Did you see in California? And you're in love this
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Speaker 2: with your libertarian mindset. And by the way, our friend
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Speaker 2: mele and Argentina is looking like he's bringing some hope
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Speaker 2: back to the libertarian people. I know he's kicking butt down.
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Speaker 2: There isn't he I know, I know this economy turned around.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there's some great things going on in the world
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Speaker 1: at them.
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Speaker 2: No, there is, there is. But in California, did you
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Speaker 2: see that the homeless, they give more money to the homeless.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, In New York they get more money to
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Speaker 2: the homeless than than than people actually make. The actually makes.
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Speaker 1: Eighty one thousand per homeless person. And people think, well, well, no,
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't be homeless if you gave eighty one grant. No,
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Speaker 1: that's all the NGOs that are an industry supporting theme.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to solve the homeless problem. They want
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Speaker 1: to keep drawing fat paychecks with their alleged NGO work
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Speaker 1: to help the homeless.
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Speaker 2: Well, these are the worst people. These are the people
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Speaker 2: that you know they claim to be the most compassionate
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Speaker 2: and the most empathetic that you know their whole grift
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Speaker 2: is stealing from these poor people who are you know,
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Speaker 2: in some of the lowest points of their lives.
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Speaker 1: Kind of like people they might want to take advantage
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Speaker 1: of the Leering Center up in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the old Leering Center. Yeah, you're you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know why you're even doing radio anymore when
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Speaker 2: you can make all this money doing laying center.
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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people figure that out, man, And
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Speaker 1: I think that's really the reality of a lot of
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Speaker 1: people on the social welfare safety net. Adam that wait
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Speaker 1: a second. If I take all that's out there and
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Speaker 1: available to me from the social welfare safety net, both
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Speaker 1: state and federal, I effectively would have to go out
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Speaker 1: into the world and make close to forty thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: a year. Huh. Maybe I'll just hook myself up to
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Speaker 1: the Biblical court of government and call it a day.
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Speaker 1: That's a scam in and of itself.
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Speaker 2: That's right, And it's really sad that people have such
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Speaker 2: low self esteem that they'd rather trust Big Brother with
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Speaker 2: their lives then you know, their own abilities that God
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Speaker 2: gave them. And you know, that's one of the things
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Speaker 2: that we're trying to do with papers. Put good information
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Speaker 2: out there, put economic information out there, put you know
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Speaker 2: what's happening in the world. I mean, AIS kind of
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Speaker 2: take it over so many things. I mean, we've got
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Speaker 2: an automated news room kind of tool that we're building
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Speaker 2: now to help our journalists to speed up the process
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Speaker 2: of them putting in SEO items. You know, they don't
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Speaker 2: have to be technicians, they don't have to be SEO
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Speaker 2: experts all that stuff. You know, they write their stories
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Speaker 2: and it kind of does all the the extra work
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Speaker 2: for them. And we're you know, we're building all kinds
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Speaker 2: of tools to automate things right now. And in the
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Speaker 2: world is automating. I mean you've got I mean, look
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Speaker 2: at the Washington Post a few weeks ago. I mean
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Speaker 2: they let what a third of their staff go, and
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Speaker 2: now all their people are up in arms and can't
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Speaker 2: figure out what to do with themselves. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's everything's being disrupted right now. People need
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Speaker 2: to understand what's going on out here so you know
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Speaker 2: they can keep their jobs or start a business or
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Speaker 2: you know, move and adapt with the with technology. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I know, you you have some technology shows
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Speaker 2: on and some experts on your show to keep people
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Speaker 2: up with what's what's happening out here in the world.
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Speaker 2: But I mean you have to adapt. I mean, things
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Speaker 2: are things are changing so fast nowadays, and there needs
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Speaker 2: to be people out here, you know, keeping their ear
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Speaker 2: to the ground and letting people know what's going on,
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Speaker 2: so you know, they can do just that. And that's
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Speaker 2: one of the things we want to do with the
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Speaker 2: paper and some of the experts we want to bring on.
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Speaker 2: And you know, when you go to our about section,
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Speaker 2: you can see some of the writers on there, and
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Speaker 2: we have some technology experts. We got some former politicians
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Speaker 2: because a lot of this stuff also is tied to politics.
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Speaker 2: You know, what happens in the world, and I mean,
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Speaker 2: look at oil prices right now. You know, now all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, we're in another war. Oil prices go
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Speaker 2: up to four dollars a gallon, if not unless you're
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Speaker 2: in California, then it's what like six seven dollars.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 2: But you know, these kind of things start happening and
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Speaker 2: you don't know their common and you get you kind
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Speaker 2: of get you know, you get surprised by it. So
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Speaker 2: you know, you need somebody who's who's out here telling
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Speaker 2: them the truth and and people in the community that
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Speaker 2: want to tell their story and their perspective. Guys like
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Speaker 2: Todd Christina Holbrook, who writes for us. I mean, these
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Speaker 2: are the type of people in the community that are
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Speaker 2: you going to city council meetings. They're going and into
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Speaker 2: their community council meetings and they're trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: what's going on. Corey Bowman, you know, Corey run for
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Speaker 2: Me works and over the Rhine has a business there,
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Speaker 2: has a church there, somebody who really has embedded himself
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Speaker 2: into the community. I want to hear what Corey has
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Speaker 2: to say. So this is an opportunity for people to
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Speaker 2: get out there and to have their voice heard in
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Speaker 2: a long format style.
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Speaker 1: Wonderful opportunity for folks that since in the Exchange dot
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Speaker 1: com Empoweroamerica dot org. The seminar next week March twenty fifth,
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Speaker 1: you can show up live and see Corey there three
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Speaker 1: hundred Great Oaks, drive side Annex entrance or log in
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Speaker 1: from home. It's really easy to do it. Empower you
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Speaker 1: America dot org. Just make sure you register ahead of time.
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Speaker 1: Get inspired to do a little citizen journalism. I know
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Speaker 1: you're going to go in depth on this next week, Corey,
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Speaker 1: or rather Adam, pardon me, but oh yeah.
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Speaker 2: We're we're definitely gonna yeah, we're definitely gonna be digging in. Uh.
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Speaker 2: You know, Dan's Reginald there to empower you is nice
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Speaker 2: enough to reach out and I remember speaking there when
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Speaker 2: I was running for I believe when I ran for
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Speaker 2: State rep Us spoke there and really good people, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, with the goal of just educating folks on
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Speaker 2: what's going on out here on civics a lot of times. Uh.
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Speaker 2: And they have a nice connection to other groups, larger groups,
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Speaker 2: national groups. And yeah, all their videos are out there
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Speaker 2: on their website, empower You America dot com. And this
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Speaker 2: is gonna be a really good partnership. And it's not
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Speaker 2: just you know, empower You, it's other groups too that
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Speaker 2: we're working on relationships with. We got some national newspapers
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Speaker 2: that were partnered up with as well. We're going to conferences,
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Speaker 2: we're spreading the word, and we want to take this thing.
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Speaker 2: If it works in Cincinnati, and we've got this this
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Speaker 2: whole Cincinnati Exchange happening here, why not do a Columbus exchange.
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Speaker 2: Why not do a exchange. I spoke to some guys
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Speaker 2: at Breitbart and they said, the reason there's no conservative
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Speaker 2: papers in these local markets is that there's these big
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Speaker 2: media companies out there that want to keep the narrative
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Speaker 2: the way it is in the city, and anytime a
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Speaker 2: paper starts emerging in one of the cities, they just
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Speaker 2: come in and buy it and change the narrative.
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Speaker 1: I understand that, But you know, maybe that's why Adam
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Speaker 1: nobody's subscribing to local papers anymore. You don't get much
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Speaker 1: by way of local content. How does any reporters show
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Speaker 1: up at council meetings anymore? And you know, going back
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Speaker 1: to Todd's ins or, he spends more time looking behind
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Speaker 1: the veneer of whatever's going on downtown than anybody in
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Speaker 1: local news. It's kind of embarrassing. But that's not a
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Speaker 1: phenomenon limited city of Cincinnati. It's going on all over.
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Speaker 1: So maybe varied content would bring more people, because I know,
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Speaker 1: sites like the Cincinnati Exchange are very popular. Breitbart extraordinarily popular.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the popularity to Fox News in
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Speaker 1: the face of all the mainstream media outlets. While some
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Speaker 1: criticized Fox all lot little bit, of course, it's conservative
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Speaker 1: mindset has given it a tremendous amount of success. So
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Speaker 1: obviously there is a huge demand at them for this
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Speaker 1: kind of content.
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Speaker 2: Well, think about it. I mean, you've got everything is
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Speaker 2: run out of the cities. Syracuse University did a study
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Speaker 2: about five percent of journalists consider themselves conservative. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm chronically online and I'm on x a lot, and
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Speaker 2: the people who argue with me the most, I feel like,
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Speaker 2: are journalists and from the city, from the various papers
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Speaker 2: around the city, and they're kind of radicalized. And when
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Speaker 2: you live in that kind of a bubble, it obviously
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Speaker 2: affects what you write, and it affects the news you cover.
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Speaker 2: And I don't want our paper to get affected by
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Speaker 2: an insular bubble because everyone who who works at our
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Speaker 2: paper is thinks one way right and wants the one
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Speaker 2: up each other in this like woke culture that we have,
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Speaker 2: or even the culture of the right. I mean it
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Speaker 2: get you can get woke, right, yes, So so I
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Speaker 2: mean if we have citizen journalists, we have people that
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Speaker 2: are out here in the world, guys like Todd who
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Speaker 2: are going to city council meetings. You know, you don't
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Speaker 2: get that bubble right. They're out here in their own world.
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Speaker 2: They're in the real world doing things. And then when
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Speaker 2: they come back and they say, hey, I got an
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Speaker 2: idea for a story. I was out here in the
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Speaker 2: world doing this or that, and I noticed that this
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Speaker 2: is changing, or I noticed that here. You know, I've
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Speaker 2: got a problem with this. I was running over bunch
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Speaker 2: of potholes on and finally they fixed Sunset Avenue like
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Speaker 2: that took how long? Yeah? But you want people out
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Speaker 2: in the real world, people like you, That's who you
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Speaker 2: want to hear from. This is what I got a
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Speaker 2: problem with. This is what I found out when I
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Speaker 2: investigated it, And that's what our paper's really about. And
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Speaker 2: if we could get it really going in Cincinnati, we
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Speaker 2: could then take that model and go to some of
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Speaker 2: these other cities and and and put it out there.
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Speaker 2: And then those communities also have citizen journalists. And next thing,
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Speaker 2: you know, the people in the excerpts, like the people
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Speaker 2: out in the suburbs, the people in northern Kentucky, the
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Speaker 2: people in Boom County, Butler County, they don't want to
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Speaker 2: be served by a radicalized left newspaper, right and they're
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Speaker 2: subject to that right now.
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Speaker 1: I and I get that all day long. And the
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Speaker 1: great thing about what you're doing put an exclamation port.
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Speaker 1: At least I think I am Adam Kaylor responsible for
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Speaker 1: the citizen. The Cincinnati Exchange dot com is you have
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Speaker 1: made You've provided a wonderful, readily accessible, and popular vehicle
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Speaker 1: for people who have opinions and comments and want to
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Speaker 1: go someplace other than just Facebook. They want to get
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Speaker 1: it out there. You know, I'm not friends with I've
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Speaker 1: never read that, you know, but you can get it
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Speaker 1: out there, get your content out there. But you don't
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Speaker 1: have to create the foundation for it. The vehicle is there.
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Speaker 1: Adams made it really easy to contribute content. And I
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Speaker 1: know you've got this initiative called content credits, which is
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Speaker 1: an innovative sort of a payment platform that I don't understand,
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Speaker 1: but you're going to be addressing that next week as well.
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Speaker 2: That's right. So if you're sick of paying for subscription
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Speaker 2: and you don't want to pay thirty dollars for the
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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal of the New York Times and all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden think the concept is is that when
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Speaker 2: you hit that paywall, instead of just leaving, you pay
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Speaker 2: a quarter to read just that page. So we essentially
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Speaker 2: sell bundles of credits. For ten dollars, you get forty credits,
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Speaker 2: and any partner site, especially in our own network, that
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Speaker 2: is paywalled, if there is a paywall, on a page
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Speaker 2: instead you just leaving and not buying a subscription. With
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Speaker 2: ninety nine point three percent of people leave those pop
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Speaker 2: ups when they happen, you click the button, you get
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Speaker 2: past the paywall.
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Speaker 1: How about that. Well, that's technology at work for you.
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Speaker 1: And Adam Keller knows all about that. He's made a
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Speaker 1: nice living being a guy who FETs familiar with tex
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Speaker 1: So the Cincinnat Exchange dot com generally speaking, book market
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Speaker 1: dedicates some content, and of course we got to give
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Speaker 1: credit to the most important element of the Cincinni Exchange,
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Speaker 1: Adam is. Joe Strecker is your I guess designated producer
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Speaker 1: of podcasts. I see his name all over the places
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Speaker 1: right off the podcast that's.
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Speaker 2: Right, If Joe Strucker produces it, I know it's quality works. Hey,
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Speaker 2: I put it on the website.
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Speaker 1: That's real bad to the buck right there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, he works, he works at fifty
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Speaker 2: five KRC. He's doing a great job there. He's been
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Speaker 2: doing it for years. The guys, the guy's a fixture
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Speaker 2: in the office there, so I mean he's he knows
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Speaker 2: his way around the studio and knows his way around audio.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, anything Joe does, I'm proud to get behind it,
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Speaker 2: and anybody he works with, I know they're a patriot
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Speaker 2: and they want the best for this country, and they
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Speaker 2: want best for the city of Cincinnati, and and I'm
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Speaker 2: happy to put their infro up there. So but yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're actually going to be moving the because we have
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Speaker 2: so many podcasts, because Joe uh does does so much
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Speaker 2: work with all the all this talent around the city.
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Speaker 2: We're actually going to create our own special podcast page
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Speaker 2: to start featuring these things, because now the homepage is
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Speaker 2: starting to get a little bit with all this podcasts. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're actually going to create a dedicated media page.
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Speaker 1: That is an all these great thing your success.
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Speaker 2: You're see.
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Speaker 1: You've outgrown your space. Adam kel Or the man behind
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Exchange the Men that We'll be doing on
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Speaker 1: March twenty fifth, a seminar on all of this and
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Speaker 1: so much more. Make sure you go topower you America
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Speaker 1: dot org and register and check out the seminar live
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Speaker 1: or from the comfort of your own home. Adam, my friend,
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Speaker 1: You're always welcome here in the morning show, and I
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Speaker 1: appreciate the work that you're doing and the convenience you
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Speaker 1: provided for all my listeners. Maybe you will inspire them
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Speaker 1: to contribute some content and I sure hope they do.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, well I appreciate it, Brian, and
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Speaker 2: tell Joe thank you and yeah, guys, come on out
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Speaker 2: March twenty fifth, seven o'clock and we'll be educating some
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Speaker 2: people on what we're doing and what's coming out here.
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Speaker 1: Adam Cayle, keep up the great work. They'll be there.
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Speaker 1: It's eight twenty two right now. Don't go away. I
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Speaker 1: heard media bas next for Jay Ratliff waiting in the wings,
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Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to the topics he's going to
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Speaker 1: go over. I'll be right back