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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Vivek, Zac Haines · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five o five a fifty five KRC, the talk station
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Speaker 1: Monday Happy one.
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Speaker 2: Some say will.
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Speaker 3: Vacation and that's the way the news going.
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Speaker 1: I guess it is. Brian's up is here. Glad to
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Speaker 1: be at least I'm awake above ground. It is Monday,
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Speaker 1: hit another week and we're hitting the ground running this
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Speaker 1: morning on the fifty five RC Morning Show, starting with
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Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram. Yeah, actually Chuck Ingram, mister Traffic himself is
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Speaker 1: going to be coming to the morning show here in
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Speaker 1: about fifteen twenty minutes to talk about the Fourth Street
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Speaker 1: Bridge closer. Yes, my friends in northern Kentucky, the thousands
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Speaker 1: of folks who normally travel across the across the Fourth
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Speaker 1: Street Bridge connecting Newport to Covington are going to be
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Speaker 1: dealing with a commute issue. Start set to close at
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Speaker 1: nine o'clock this morning, completely closed vehicle traffic and pedestrian traffic.
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Speaker 1: What does this mean? And how in the how do
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Speaker 1: you get from point A to point B? That's why
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Speaker 1: we have chocso Chuck will stop on in the studio.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if we can't work ourselves through that perfect
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Speaker 1: day for a Smith event. Every day is a perfect
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Speaker 1: day for a Smith event. But it's considering everything that's
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Speaker 1: going on on the heels of Signal ninety nine being
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Speaker 1: on the program on Friday, Boy, that was a fun
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Speaker 1: conversation and thanks to everybody who listened to it and
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Speaker 1: all the positive comments about the interview. I truly appreciate
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Speaker 1: the words and the kind words they are and all
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Speaker 1: the people who listen to it. Mistrkker told me that
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Speaker 1: in one day we got more people listening and downloaded
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Speaker 1: that podcast then we get in a week here on
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Speaker 1: any of the other segments on the morning show, And
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Speaker 1: may be a reflection of the popularity of Signal ninety nine. Regardless,
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Speaker 1: lots of folks listen to it, and she's got a
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Speaker 1: couple of words or two by way of corrective action
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Speaker 1: moving forward for our young people in the community. Of course,
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Speaker 1: a lot of information about the settlement agreement between the
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Speaker 1: Hinton family and the City of Cincinnati. Obviously, no one
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Speaker 1: knew about it until Signal ninety nine gave the information
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Speaker 1: to FOP President Kenkober, who announced it to the world,
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Speaker 1: resulting in some comical responses from the city manager and
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Speaker 1: the attorney for the Hinton family. Get to that in
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Speaker 1: a minute. If you didn't listen to the segment, I
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Speaker 1: strongly encourage you to head on here fifty five care
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Speaker 1: Sea dot com. And for those who want her on
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Speaker 1: the program every single week as a regular segment. And
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Speaker 1: a lot of people wanted that, and I agree it
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Speaker 1: sounds like a great idea. Signal ninety nine isn't able
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Speaker 1: to do that. She is willing to on an as
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Speaker 1: needed basis when hot topics hit the street, when there's
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Speaker 1: new information out there about shenanigans or police activity or
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Speaker 1: whatever it happens to be related to police, law enforcement,
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Speaker 1: or getting information out to you and I that otherwise
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Speaker 1: we wouldn't get. That's why she's so popular on Facebook.
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Speaker 1: She seems to have the inside info on literally everything,
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Speaker 1: including the idea that there's a settlement agreement going on
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Speaker 1: other having a discussion on that this morning, Yeah, closed
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Speaker 1: executive session discussion. I might underscore on the same day
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Speaker 1: that Alex Chervinsky, the man who was actually a victim
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Speaker 1: but it also identified as a suspect in a downtown brawl,
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Speaker 1: he scheduled to go to trial today on charges of
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Speaker 1: disorderly conduct. You may remember him. He is one of
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Speaker 1: the people that got that crap beat out of him
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Speaker 1: in the beatdown that happened last summer. Yeah, so stayed
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Speaker 1: over twenty eight blows to his head and face, brutally
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Speaker 1: beaten and being charged for disorderly conduct. Huh. Anyway, interesting
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Speaker 1: witnessless that one, and the timing couldn't be more interesting
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Speaker 1: or unusual. Smithman, I have a feeling in his smith
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Speaker 1: event might address some of this. He'll be out at
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Speaker 1: seven to twenty. The former vice mayor of the City
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati follow Uy eight oh five. Only one segment
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Speaker 1: Money Monday's Brian James, because how did you describe it
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Speaker 1: to me in the text? Ten pounds in a five
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Speaker 1: pound bag in the eight o'clock hour, just Jackers beyond
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Speaker 1: your toes, channeling my dad beyond the You better be
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Speaker 1: on your time on Monday, Brian, because we have ten
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Speaker 1: pounds packed into a five pound bag. That means Brian James.
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Speaker 1: One segment. We'll find out how your retirement number has changed.
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Speaker 1: Vivek Ramas swimming Well, there's a reason to keep things
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Speaker 1: tight in the eight o'clock. He'll join us at eight
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Speaker 1: twenty to talk about Rob mccullayus, his running running mate,
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Speaker 1: his wonderful op ed opinion that I read on the
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Speaker 1: morning show regarding him just getting off social media and
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Speaker 1: letting his minions take care of social media matters while
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Speaker 1: he focuses on well doing the right thing for the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. As we move fast forward to November
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Speaker 1: and the big election for governor, he wants to focus
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Speaker 1: on the issues, not the chatter that's going online. Zach Haynes.
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Speaker 1: We heard from Zach for the first time. Americans for
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Speaker 1: Prosperities Donald and Neil announced that they were endorsing and
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Speaker 1: backing Ohio State Senate representative for District seven. Zach Haynes,
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Speaker 1: who phoned in the show, appreciated the endorsement and will
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Speaker 1: join the program this morning at eight thirty to talk
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Speaker 1: about his campaign, who he is, why we should vote
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Speaker 1: for him, and of course his dance on the issues.
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Speaker 1: So there's your lineup this morning. Five one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 1: nine to fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
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Speaker 1: to three Taco with pound five fifty on at and
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Speaker 1: T funds. Yes Again. Councils meeting today in a closed
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Speaker 1: door session to talk about this mysterious settlement agreement. No
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Speaker 1: lawsuits been filed by the Hidden Family against the city
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Speaker 1: for wrongful death. Of course, the eighteen year old Ryan
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Speaker 1: Hinton got killed by a police officer in a justifiable shooting,
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Speaker 1: at least that's what the prosecutor said. Well, when you
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Speaker 1: point a gun at someone, you are in going to
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Speaker 1: be shot, or at least it's justified that the officer
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Speaker 1: shot him. Sadly, dad, then his dad goes and runs
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Speaker 1: over a sheriff's deputy within twenty four hours of that shooting,
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Speaker 1: obviously being prosecuted for that. So why would we be settling,
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Speaker 1: why would we discuss settlement? And the dancing around the
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Speaker 1: issue from Cheryl Long and you know, even the lawyer
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Speaker 1: hitting family lawyer, it's you know, they try to deny
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Speaker 1: that it's even going on, but it is obvious that
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Speaker 1: they have been talking about settlement. And don't get discouraged.
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Speaker 1: Don't distracted by the word massive in connection with ken
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Speaker 1: Kober's comments, because he came out and said out loud
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Speaker 1: that the city is negotiating a massive settlement. Well, the
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Speaker 1: attorney for the Hinton family, Fan and Rucker, I think
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Speaker 1: that's the word he hung his hat on. This is
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Speaker 1: news to me. A massive settlement with millions of dollars
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Speaker 1: My first statement was, well, that's news to me, right,
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Speaker 1: because they probably haven't been discussing settlement along the lines
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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars because it was a justifiable shooting. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: he didn't deny that they were discussing settlement. Cheral Long
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Speaker 1: tried to dodge that bullet to it made it sound
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Speaker 1: like that wasn't going on. But when you read her words,
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Speaker 1: you can tell damn well that they were talking about
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Speaker 1: a settlement. When asked whether his comments meant there is
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Speaker 1: there's no settlement being negotiated or on the table, Rucker quote,
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Speaker 1: I said what I said just to answer the question
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Speaker 1: yes or no, Just to answer the question so we
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Speaker 1: know the answer to that. Otherwise, why would there be
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Speaker 1: an executive session in Cincinni City Council to talk about
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Speaker 1: this issue? Exactly? And thanks again to Signal ninety nine
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Speaker 1: for coming on the program on Friday and giving us
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Speaker 1: all the details behind the scenes on this particular matter. There, Wow,
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Speaker 1: and where's the railway money? I understand Mayor Charlie Loukan
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Speaker 1: is gonna be joining of the Think You I Have
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Speaker 1: Casey Morning Show. At one point he came out not swinging,
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Speaker 1: but talking about the railroad money. He seems to have
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Speaker 1: a very logical and reasonable perception of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: City apparently has spent only four point five million dollars
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Speaker 1: of the eighty five million dollars that got socked away
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Speaker 1: from the railway fund over the last two fiscal years. Look,
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Speaker 1: and said Yester the other day, I would suggest that
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Speaker 1: somebody has got to boldly take charge of the promises
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Speaker 1: that I made and others made when we sold the
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Speaker 1: railroad and figure on how to get this money working
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Speaker 1: for the people. Of course, referring to himself as part
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Speaker 1: of the person pushing for the sale. He was on
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Speaker 1: the railway board. He's no longer there, But remember the
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Speaker 1: board was in favor of this sale. I know the
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Speaker 1: mayor was have to have purvoal And of course you
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Speaker 1: had Christopher Smith Amen coming on the radio telling me,
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Speaker 1: telling us generally all the time on why this was
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Speaker 1: such a bad idea. And that's a position that he
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Speaker 1: sticks due to this day. But it's sold, and where
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Speaker 1: is the money. It's a great question. Look, an express
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Speaker 1: disapployment that only five percent of the railway revenue from
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Speaker 1: this year and last year has been spent, and that
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Speaker 1: apparently is according to the city's own online dashboard, showing
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Speaker 1: four point five million spent out of the eighty five
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Speaker 1: million that was available from the fiscal year and this year. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know there's an argument to be made, and I
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Speaker 1: made the argument that, well, crime is part of the
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Speaker 1: existing infrastructure. Of course, the railway earnings can only go
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Speaker 1: toward existing infrastructure. And I believe that is a term
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Speaker 1: that will be debated forever on the future. Is that
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Speaker 1: existing infrastructure? So regardless of that, yeah, where is the money?
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Speaker 1: And pivoting over to another topic talking about with Signal
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Speaker 1: ninety nine, Ye, we've got all these resources. The state
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Speaker 1: of Ohio is offering the City of Cincinnati for free
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Speaker 1: by way of assistance for law enforcement, and yet there
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be any clear plan for Mayor Aftab
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Speaker 1: Purval on how much he is going to take by
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Speaker 1: way of assistance, while at the same time advocating that
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Speaker 1: the city's income tax needs be increased in order to
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Speaker 1: cover well, first order of business out of his mouth
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Speaker 1: for the city tax increase public safety. Huh. Now, I
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Speaker 1: didn't get a figure on how much money this additional
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Speaker 1: income tax might generate. He didn't even say how much
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Speaker 1: he wants to raise income tax but I think we
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Speaker 1: can collectively agree not exactly a post, a slogan or
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Speaker 1: a banner to get people to move into the city
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. I e. Here I'm raising income taxes. But
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Speaker 1: how much is the value of that if he does
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Speaker 1: raise it at whatever percentage he says, how much money
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Speaker 1: is that going to bring? In question? Mark keep that
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Speaker 1: figure handy. What is the value of the resources that
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Speaker 1: are being offered by the State of Ohio law enforcement
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Speaker 1: help assistance? We are down a whole bunch of police officers.
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Speaker 1: Ken Cober talked about that as well. I thought the
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Speaker 1: most amazing and troubling figure of that discussion was that
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Speaker 1: we keep hearing about lateral hires. It was something there
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Speaker 1: I have to have Purvol talked about last year after
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Speaker 1: the beatdown caused him to realize that public safety was
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Speaker 1: important to the citizens, and yes, we do have a
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Speaker 1: crime problem downtown. Hey, we'll get some lateral hires officers
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Speaker 1: that don't have to go through the whole police academy process.
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Speaker 1: They're already licensed officers elsewhere. What does hire them away?
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Speaker 1: They got thirty available spots open, and ken Cober pointed
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Speaker 1: out that only seven applied, So sounds like a at
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Speaker 1: least in theory and on paper, lateral hires will solve
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Speaker 1: our problem, not if you can't get someone to apply
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Speaker 1: for the job. So what is the value of what
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State, what the governor is offering. How many
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Speaker 1: officers might we receive. We've already had some additional assistance
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Speaker 1: with the helicopter and some drone issues. How about taking
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Speaker 1: it all and see how things go? Why not accept
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Speaker 1: them a couple of months worth of thirty, you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty four hour days, seven day a week, all month
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Speaker 1: long assistance to see if it helps, does it breach?
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Speaker 1: Does it fill in the gap that we currently have?
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Speaker 1: Can we manage to get the walking patrols and some
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Speaker 1: of the other ideas in place with the help of
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State government? Maybe seems to be an idea
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Speaker 1: worth pursuing before we run down the road of increasing
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Speaker 1: income taxes. My thought, your comments, your thoughts are also welcome.
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Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred eight
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Speaker 1: two three takyo with time five fifty on AT and
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Speaker 1: T phones stick around. Chuck Ingram's going to join the
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Speaker 1: program here in a minute. We'll talk about that fourth
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Speaker 1: Street bridge closure and how you're going to get from
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Speaker 1: pointing to point B. That'll be coming up next, so
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Speaker 1: you can stick around. Now that a forty three again
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Speaker 1: the highday right now, it's twenty six degrees the fifty
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Speaker 1: five KRC detalk station. A couple of segments from now,
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Speaker 1: I'll be saying time for first traffic, Chuck Ingram, but no,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get first traffic at five twenty on a Monday,
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Speaker 1: Chuck ingraman studio. Good morning, my brother, and a happy
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Speaker 1: New Year to you. It's great to see you.
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Speaker 2: The same to you, Brian, it's good to see you
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Speaker 2: in person.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get out of get some people out of
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Speaker 1: harm's way this morning by explaining, and I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: that this has been widely discussed I've even mentioned on
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Speaker 1: the Morning Show before, but the closure this morning at
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Speaker 1: nine a m. Of the fourth Street bridge connecting Newport
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Speaker 1: and Covington. It's gonna be a problem, but one that
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Speaker 1: you say, at least you told me in advance of
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Speaker 1: the mic coming on, that won't be a long term problem.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about.
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Speaker 2: This, okay, and that I mean it's until people get
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Speaker 2: used to it. I think this week is gonna be
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Speaker 2: really nasty, maybe even the first two weeks, because it's
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Speaker 2: just gonna take some time. But you're gonna be going
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Speaker 2: up to the eleventh Street or Martin Luther King Junior Drive,
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Speaker 2: and I also call it the Girl Scott Bridge on
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Speaker 2: eleventh Street. That's the one that you're going to have
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Speaker 2: to use as an alternative until twenty to twenty eight summertime.
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Speaker 1: So people ultimately will figure this out and then plan accordingly,
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Speaker 1: and that's when of the problems that you expect today
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Speaker 1: and maybe through next week will subside.
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Speaker 2: Well ease just a little bit. Remember when we had
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Speaker 2: the four seventy one fire. Of course you remember that,
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Speaker 2: of course they do, but that took a while to
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Speaker 2: get people used to it. But it was then it
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Speaker 2: was like, okay, I can't go that anyway. Yes, the
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Speaker 2: jams are going to be I'm not saying that's going
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Speaker 2: to be any better or anything like that, but people
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Speaker 2: will find alternatives and what they're going to do and
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Speaker 2: how much extra time they're going to need for their
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Speaker 2: schedules too.
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Speaker 1: All right, fair enough? I mean, has there been enough?
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Speaker 1: I just mentioned that we've been talking about this for
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Speaker 1: a while. I guess people haven't been paying attention enough
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Speaker 1: to the alternative roots.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be that's going to happen. Yes, I
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Speaker 2: mean the education campaign. That's exactly right. I'll buy fire
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Speaker 2: Watch at nine oh one this morning. Yeah, we'll be
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Speaker 2: listening and see you this morning. So it actually really
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Speaker 2: literally shuts at nine, like right now, if I was
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Speaker 2: over there, could I drive across it? This is the
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Speaker 2: last commute you'll be able to use it. Yep, supposedly
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Speaker 2: they are going to Apparently, and I don't frequent it
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Speaker 2: enough to know this, but a lot of pedestrians use
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Speaker 2: that bridge, and also some bicycles bicyclist along the way. Well,
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Speaker 2: tank is going to set up a free ride around
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Speaker 2: the empty entire thing. Those free rides start at seven
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Speaker 2: this morning. That's how much they're playing in ahead for
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Speaker 2: all of this, and the closer at.
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Speaker 1: Nine because you could get across it this morning, but
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Speaker 1: you couldn't get across it.
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Speaker 2: You're going to go home that way, You're coming back home.
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Speaker 4: Hey, my bike.
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Speaker 1: Parked over there, all right. So at least in terms
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Speaker 1: of the future of this project, you see, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be done by twenty twenty eight summertime.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, summer of twenty twenty eight. First they get the
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Speaker 2: bridge all torn down, completely torn down. They say that'll
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Speaker 2: take until about April of this year, and then the
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Speaker 2: rest is rebuilding time until the summer of twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because knocking it down is a lot more fun
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Speaker 1: and quicker than.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's putting it back together again that I have
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Speaker 2: trouble with.
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Speaker 1: That's part about Homer modeling project, because breaking it doesn't
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Speaker 1: hurt anything. Just get it out and throw it away.
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Speaker 2: Breaking out the sweat just leaking.
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Speaker 1: Now have you seen the proposed new bridge design. It
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Speaker 1: is going to be a higher volume bridge, a.
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Speaker 2: Higher volume bridge, and it's going to allow for those
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Speaker 2: bicycles and things of other sorts. So I don't I
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Speaker 2: haven't seen one recently, but that's what the original drawings
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Speaker 2: I remember them having.
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Speaker 1: All right, So I'm just waiting for hear about it.
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Speaker 1: You know, cost overruns and exceeding budget projections and everything else.
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Speaker 1: It seems to go along with one of these.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, that's pretty much a given anymore,
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Chuck Ingram, we'll look forty first traffic
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Speaker 1: report of five forty, and we'll watch as things slowly presumably,
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Speaker 1: if you're right, deteriorate a little bit over the course
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Speaker 1: of the day and then the coming week until people
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Speaker 1: just figure it out.
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Speaker 2: And by next week we'll say, oh, that's right, it's closed.
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Speaker 2: That's right, let's move on to the other bridge.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I don't recall anyone dying as a consequence of
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Speaker 1: the Big Mac Bridge being shut down quite some time.
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Speaker 1: So go about your daily life, and that's right. Maintain call.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly just remain calm. We must remain.
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Speaker 1: Call panic, remain calm. Chuck Ingram, God bless you man.
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Speaker 1: It's again great scene in a very happy new year.
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Speaker 1: And look forward to your traffic reports throughout the year.
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Speaker 1: And of course I look forward to as he does.
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Speaker 1: And the Politana loves you. You say, we went about
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Speaker 1: Judseph Poulton. He always is just so tickled to death
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Speaker 1: to hear your commentary as we lead into the Wednesday
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Speaker 1: segment every morning. So I just use this as an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to pass it along. He always says to anger that.
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Speaker 2: Hey, that's very kind of him. I find it refreshing too,
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Speaker 2: to start it, to start the report a little bit different,
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Speaker 2: I should say, and the report.
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Speaker 1: My report customizing it for him and of the five
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Speaker 1: Care seeing morning, Joe Chuck Ingram, thanks for what you do.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate the heads up from a listening audience on the
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Speaker 1: fourth Street bridge closure, and we'll look forward to your
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Speaker 1: reports throughout the morning. Happy New Year, Andy, you five
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Right now for five care the talk station,
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Speaker 1: Tom's on the line. Get your call Tom. Maybe some
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Speaker 1: local stories coming out of the gate right when we
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Speaker 1: get back. It will be shortly. This is you have
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Speaker 1: krc DE Talk station by nine on a Monday. Happy
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Speaker 1: Monday to you. We do have money Monday with Brian James.
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Speaker 1: We do have Zach Haynes running for a house State
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Speaker 1: Senate District seven. We do have ev Ramaswami. He is
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Speaker 1: going to be the next cover of the State of Ohio.
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Speaker 1: Get the memo on that one, at least I hope so. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: he'll join the program at eight twenty. I love having
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Speaker 1: him on. Rob McCauley the running mate and Monday Monday,
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Speaker 1: Brian James with one segment considering the traffic in the
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock hour. Christopher's smitheman of course Monday, that's seven
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Speaker 1: twenty for the Smith event and right now. It's Tom's
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Speaker 1: on the phone. Tom, thanks for calling this morning, and
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Speaker 1: a happy Monday to you, sir.
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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning.
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Speaker 6: Uh. I'm listening to all your stories that you started
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Speaker 6: with this morning, and they have a similar topic at
17:50
Speaker 6: the core of them, and it's all money, money, money, money, Yes,
17:53
Speaker 6: and everybody wants to get their hands in the cookie
17:55
Speaker 6: jar and get some for themselves and their families and
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Speaker 6: friends and and all that stuff. And Uh, what I think,
18:05
Speaker 6: what part of the biggest part of the problem is
18:07
Speaker 6: is that we have we have people that as they're
18:09
Speaker 6: growing up and and and becoming adults, they're learning that,
18:13
Speaker 6: uh they're oh, they there's ways to get other people's money.
18:17
Speaker 6: Uh you know, you get some too, and here's how
18:19
Speaker 6: you can do it, and here's some you know what.
18:21
Speaker 6: Weather It just comes to uh just outright stealing, breaking
18:25
Speaker 6: the law that way, or or or get together with
18:27
Speaker 6: some some people and and get a political office and
18:30
Speaker 6: then you can have some kind of a scheme to
18:33
Speaker 6: to take more money.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
18:34
Speaker 6: It all comes down to stealing. You're taking other people's money.
18:38
Speaker 6: And that's that's kind of the thing that I wanted
18:41
Speaker 6: to key on, is that we need people out there
18:43
Speaker 6: to to teach their children and to let people around
18:48
Speaker 6: them know, this is not your money. This is other
18:51
Speaker 6: people's money. You can't just take it even though it is.
18:54
Speaker 6: You know, it's a big pot of money that's not
18:57
Speaker 6: your money, just to take for whatever you want. You know,
19:00
Speaker 6: you're just gonna hire your friends and families so they
19:02
Speaker 6: can make exorbitant amounts of money selling T shirts or
19:06
Speaker 6: you know, that's just one example.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's that.
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Speaker 6: You know, you have the on the Republican side, of course,
19:10
Speaker 6: you had the whole the Larry Householder thing, and and
19:14
Speaker 6: everybody's out to try to get some money, yep, And
19:17
Speaker 6: it's just it's it's outright fevery. What it comes down to,
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Speaker 6: Uh wow, look at don't look at all that money.
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Speaker 6: Let's get some. And then that's the attitude people go
19:24
Speaker 6: into to go into office with is I want to
19:27
Speaker 6: get rich. I want to make money. And when you
19:30
Speaker 6: see these people come in to office and they don't
19:32
Speaker 6: have a lot of money, and and yet not too
19:34
Speaker 6: long after they're in office, and especial years later, there
19:37
Speaker 6: all of a sudden you're rich. Gee, how does that happen? Yeah,
19:40
Speaker 6: where is that money coming from? It's coming out of
19:42
Speaker 6: your pocket. Listeners, that money is coming out of your pocket.
19:46
Speaker 6: The taxes in this country, the cities, states, counties, and
19:50
Speaker 6: and the country, the taxes are ridiculous. And if you
19:54
Speaker 6: we just got rid of the amount of waste brought
19:56
Speaker 6: and abuse, so it would it would be it would
19:59
Speaker 6: be much more palatable.
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Speaker 4: Taxes.
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Speaker 6: Nobody likes it, which you got to have them, I mean,
20:04
Speaker 6: things got to get paid for. But the I mean
20:06
Speaker 6: we're just seeing millions and millions and millions of dollars
20:10
Speaker 6: being taken. They're fraud I mean easy. People don't have
20:14
Speaker 6: a right to your money. Oh but you know, when
20:16
Speaker 6: it comes down to it, some of you people who
20:18
Speaker 6: are listening, you are electing your people who are doing this.
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Speaker 5: You're voting for them.
20:23
Speaker 4: Let's keep them in office.
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Speaker 6: Well that's your fault then, well, so it's your fault
20:27
Speaker 6: that people are stealing my money.
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Speaker 1: Well, I would argue that built into the PI are
20:32
Speaker 1: built into the equation, is there is no accountability after
20:35
Speaker 1: the money is taken from the taxpayer. There's so much
20:38
Speaker 1: that goes into government, obviously insufficient to satisfy the needs
20:42
Speaker 1: of government, considering we're in debt for so much, but
20:45
Speaker 1: that once it's in the door, they throw it out
20:47
Speaker 1: the door, but don't follow up, and you created an opportunity.
20:51
Speaker 1: It's I go back to the whole idea. If cameras
20:53
Speaker 1: were in the neighborhood, I think most people agree it
20:56
Speaker 1: does have a deterrence of fact because criminals know that
20:59
Speaker 1: they're there and they will Well, I'll tell you what
21:01
Speaker 1: it's like, a house with a dog. I'm not gonna
21:03
Speaker 1: go to the house with a dog. There's a house
21:04
Speaker 1: next door that doesn't have a dog. I'm not taking
21:06
Speaker 1: my chances. You move out of the area with the cameras.
21:08
Speaker 1: If there is no accountability, if that money can easily
21:11
Speaker 1: be taken and stolen in any way, shape or form,
21:15
Speaker 1: then people get the word gets out. There's no sunlight
21:18
Speaker 1: of disinfect and following the money. And if there was,
21:21
Speaker 1: I think there'll be a hell of a lot more
21:22
Speaker 1: accountability with where our money is spent, fewer people who
21:25
Speaker 1: attempted to steal the money. Right, Oh my god, there's
21:29
Speaker 1: a camera there. Oh my god, there's an inspector general
21:31
Speaker 1: like Todd z ins are staring at where the money
21:33
Speaker 1: is going and how it's being used. I guess I
21:36
Speaker 1: can't steal it.
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Speaker 6: Then, yeah, pay attention to the people who are having
21:41
Speaker 6: a problem with the accountability even when it comes to crime.
21:44
Speaker 6: Pay attention to the people who are having a problem
21:47
Speaker 6: with more police in the area. You know, you're gonna
21:51
Speaker 6: find that majority of these people who don't want accountability,
21:54
Speaker 6: who don't want extra police on the streets, you know,
21:57
Speaker 6: who don't want to have to answer for for their behavior.
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Speaker 6: They're they're on one side of the political spectrum, but
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Speaker 6: for more often than not, and that's Democrat. But don't
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Speaker 6: vote Democrat. Have a great day, Bryan.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Tom. Always looking forward to seeing how he dies
22:12
Speaker 1: in any of the conclusion. Let's se what Bob's got. Hey, Bob,
22:14
Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 8: Oh, happy Monday to you there, Brian. Okay, I just
22:19
Speaker 8: wanted to make a comment. I noticed that on these
22:23
Speaker 8: mayors and stuff in this city council and and I
22:26
Speaker 8: noticed it with that with that, uh, Karen, I guess
22:30
Speaker 8: their name is Karen Bass up there in LA. Have
22:32
Speaker 8: you noticed that they have a hollow look or mayor
22:37
Speaker 8: They seem like they don't actually they're almost like it's
22:41
Speaker 8: some type of demonic that they don't really actually know
22:45
Speaker 8: what's going on. It's kind of half half biblical. It
22:51
Speaker 8: scares me because nobody on earth would promote lawlessness like this,
22:57
Speaker 8: and now the criminals are going to see that.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you need to just assume, for the sake of discussion, Bob,
23:06
Speaker 1: step back from the you know, whatever weird thing is
23:09
Speaker 1: going on right in front of our eyes, and look
23:11
Speaker 1: at the broader picture. Why would they want to get
23:14
Speaker 1: rid of police generally speaking, Why would they seem to
23:17
Speaker 1: encourage lawlessness, Why would they want to stop prosecuting people
23:21
Speaker 1: for stealing less than nine hunt and fifty dollars. Maybe
23:24
Speaker 1: ultimately that's exactly what they want, Bob. They want our
23:27
Speaker 1: country destroyed, and the quickest way to have that happen
23:31
Speaker 1: is lawlessness in the streets. And then, oh my god,
23:34
Speaker 1: we'll have a declaration of martial law. And people are
23:36
Speaker 1: suggesting Donald Trump it should have a martial law declaration
23:39
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. Now, probably the wrong way to go,
23:42
Speaker 1: because much like that woman who got killed interfering with ice,
23:46
Speaker 1: they want a martyr, and Marxist philosophy goes down the lines.
23:50
Speaker 1: And if you get a state to overreact and oppress
23:52
Speaker 1: the people and engage in, you know, law enforcement tactics
23:56
Speaker 1: in order to preserve its own longevity, the administration to
24:01
Speaker 1: keep it alive and well, like the concept of the
24:03
Speaker 1: United States, you want that undermined. And once the law
24:07
Speaker 1: enforcement takes to the streets and you have people divided,
24:10
Speaker 1: you have a success for the leftists. That foonments more anger,
24:14
Speaker 1: and then you'll have more illustrations of violence by police
24:17
Speaker 1: or law enforcement against the citizenry and oh my god,
24:20
Speaker 1: I'm outraged, and it feeds on itself, and you get
24:23
Speaker 1: more people into the streets, and then you have a
24:24
Speaker 1: situation like that's unfolding it or on right now, where
24:27
Speaker 1: the administration looks like it may very well be toppled.
24:31
Speaker 1: That's what the left wants. So I'm thinking you just
24:34
Speaker 1: keep it in a broad picture perspective, recognize that this
24:37
Speaker 1: is exactly what they want, and that answers a whole
24:39
Speaker 1: lot of the questions like who in their right mind
24:42
Speaker 1: the right mind point being wanting to maintain what we have,
24:49
Speaker 1: wanting stability, wanting to preserve our constitution. They don't view
24:57
Speaker 1: that as the right mind that's the wrong mindset. We
25:02
Speaker 1: need to undermine it. Five thirty six My thought anyway, Bob,
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Speaker 1: thank you very much for the comment. Fifty five care
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Speaker 1: got this morning. Another Tom, thanks for calling Tom, Happy
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Speaker 9: Happy Monday. So I want you to rehash this thing
26:04
Speaker 9: that I asked you about six months ago. Why can't
26:07
Speaker 9: we get a federal national ID badge which would prevent
26:11
Speaker 9: all this you know, unnecessary rounding up and can't ship
26:15
Speaker 9: back twenty five million people physically.
26:18
Speaker 10: But if they can't get a badge, they would leave voluntarily.
26:21
Speaker 10: You can't use hospitals, schools, you can't get a driver's license,
26:26
Speaker 10: you can't fly anything like that without a national ID badge.
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Speaker 1: Well, our modern technology certainly makes that possible. I guess
26:33
Speaker 1: is that going to be viewed as part of the
26:35
Speaker 1: surveillance state? And we talked about tech Friday with Dave Hatter.
26:39
Speaker 1: He says he will not buy alcohol from Kroker because
26:41
Speaker 1: they scan your state ID that has all kinds of
26:44
Speaker 1: information on it. You got that ID and it has
26:46
Speaker 1: all the information on it. It makes it easy for
26:48
Speaker 1: hackers perhaps and the various types to steal it. I
26:51
Speaker 1: don't know, but I know that that's a number. And
26:53
Speaker 1: then to my very very conservative, evangelical religious types, some
26:56
Speaker 1: people view that as a numbering. You know, if you
26:59
Speaker 1: recall I believe it was revelations about all that. So
27:01
Speaker 1: they're against it from religious reasons. But Would that go
27:04
Speaker 1: a long way to stopping fraud? Would that go a
27:06
Speaker 1: long way to preventing people from voting in elections when
27:08
Speaker 1: they don't have the right to. Yeah, I can't deny it, Tom.
27:11
Speaker 1: The question is is it really a long term good idea?
27:14
Speaker 1: Can bad things happen based upon the idea that we're
27:18
Speaker 1: going to fix a lot of problems doing a national ID?
27:21
Speaker 1: Don't know, man, but it's certainly a possible solution. I
27:25
Speaker 1: just you know, honestly, I think cross referencing all of
27:27
Speaker 1: the various databases we have, I know they can share information.
27:31
Speaker 1: And I do believe there's a bunch of lawsuits being
27:33
Speaker 1: filed because the Trump administration is trying to get some
27:36
Speaker 1: voter or information from some of the states in order
27:38
Speaker 1: to determine if there has been fraud. Isn't it good
27:41
Speaker 1: to get rid of fraud? Going back to the last caller,
27:44
Speaker 1: what is with some of these merits? Why are they
27:46
Speaker 1: in favor of more crime, et cetera. Shouldn't everyone be
27:49
Speaker 1: interested in getting rid of fraud. We've had this message,
27:52
Speaker 1: this argument a million times, like, I'm sorry, you know
27:55
Speaker 1: it's racist to require a photo ID. Who in the hell,
27:59
Speaker 1: what kind of statement is that no, it's not, and
28:04
Speaker 1: it's an insult to anybody of color who someone is
28:06
Speaker 1: advancing on your behalf allegedly an argument that you're incapable
28:09
Speaker 1: of managing getting a photo ID. Why do we want
28:12
Speaker 1: photo IDs? Because we don't want elections to have fraud,
28:15
Speaker 1: waste and abuse, or for it, we don't want elections
28:17
Speaker 1: to have fraud. But pivoting over to the broader realities
28:20
Speaker 1: you could cover, you could deal with a lot of
28:23
Speaker 1: those issues via that kind of identification. Do we want it?
28:27
Speaker 1: I think that's a question and a topic worthy of debate.
28:31
Speaker 1: The sue of Pat's Guy This morning, Pat, welcome to
28:33
Speaker 1: the morning, showing a happy.
28:33
Speaker 4: Monday to you, Same to you, Brian.
28:37
Speaker 7: These commercials about these young people that are buying houses,
28:42
Speaker 7: and I heard that corporations are buying houses.
28:46
Speaker 1: Well they have been once the housing collapsed back in
28:49
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven and eight.
28:52
Speaker 10: Yeah.
28:52
Speaker 7: Well, the thing that I'm wondering is if corporations are
28:56
Speaker 7: buying houses and young these young people that are in
29:00
Speaker 7: advertising they'll buy your house, where do they get the money?
29:03
Speaker 7: Are they getting it from the corporation?
29:05
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not familiar with your statement. These young people
29:09
Speaker 1: buying houses. I'm not quite sure what that refers to,
29:12
Speaker 1: but in so far as corporations buying houses like black
29:15
Speaker 1: Rock again, they've been doing this now for going on,
29:17
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen twelve or so years. They've acquired a
29:20
Speaker 1: bunch of real estate. They rent those houses. Donald Trump
29:23
Speaker 1: with a statement, a very populous one, saying we want
29:25
Speaker 1: to stop that from happening and prevent massive investors from
29:27
Speaker 1: buying homes and getting those homes off the market and
29:31
Speaker 1: driving prices up. Yeah, that's true, but it's also a
29:34
Speaker 1: capitalism kind of thing. They've got money. Well, there's go ahead.
29:38
Speaker 7: There's another thing. I remember, and I heard this years ago,
29:43
Speaker 7: that you will own nothing, and this kind of stuff
29:49
Speaker 7: kind of brings that into my head, and I'm thinking,
29:52
Speaker 7: you're going to be renting. You won't be able to
29:55
Speaker 7: own anything.
29:56
Speaker 1: Right, that's the goal. Oh we're way past that, pas, Yeah,
30:00
Speaker 1: that is this stated goal, the un goals and objectives.
30:03
Speaker 1: Look what's going on with Zorhan Bandami in New York
30:05
Speaker 1: and his housing person. They've come out right and said it.
30:08
Speaker 1: I mean, no, this is no shock pad. I'm sorry
30:10
Speaker 1: you just got the memo recently, but yeah, this has
30:13
Speaker 1: been a phenomenon. I've been raging. That's ultimately what the
30:15
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati is moving toward, this connected communities thing,
30:18
Speaker 1: small dense urban housing. You will not own it, You
30:21
Speaker 1: will rent it. The state will own it. That's why
30:24
Speaker 1: New York has the right of first refusal in real estate.
30:26
Speaker 1: If you're a private home owner and you want to
30:27
Speaker 1: sell your home, you got to give the city the
30:30
Speaker 1: opportunity to buy it first. Why so they can put
30:32
Speaker 1: some non governmental organization in charge of running and operating
30:36
Speaker 1: the rental unit. It will become Yeah, it's going on
30:39
Speaker 1: all over the place, frightening. Yeah, but that's the idea.
30:43
Speaker 1: Leftist Marxists don't believe in the private property ownership. It's crazy.
30:50
Speaker 1: For the average normal, clear thinking, logical, reasonable human being,
30:53
Speaker 1: it's crazy. But for them, this is their belief and
30:56
Speaker 1: their religion. Somehow it's magically going to transfer oversaw the
31:00
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be singing Kumba y'ah because we live
31:04
Speaker 1: in this collective community. No one has private property. That's
31:09
Speaker 1: the dream. It's a moist one for the left, too,
31:12
Speaker 1: very very moist dreaming. Five forty six right now, fifty
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Speaker 1: five KR City Talk station.
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Speaker 3: Stick around.
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Speaker 1: very Happy Monday to you. B bag Ramaswami returns in
31:23
Speaker 1: the eight o'clock er, among other guests in the eight
31:25
Speaker 1: o'clock hour and for Smither vent and Monday Monday's Brian
31:28
Speaker 1: James coming up at the meantime. Let's get Brian. He's
31:30
Speaker 1: got a comment, Brian, thanks for calling this morning. Happy
31:32
Speaker 1: Monday to you.
31:33
Speaker 9: Uh, Brian, Hey, I'm a white man and last I
31:37
Speaker 9: know white as a race as well. So if their
31:41
Speaker 9: logic is it's racist to.
31:43
Speaker 4: To ask them to get an ID, then then that
31:48
Speaker 4: means it's racist for me to have one. So then
31:50
Speaker 4: why do I have to have one?
31:52
Speaker 1: Right? Well, you didn't call it for an argument. Brian
31:55
Speaker 1: always thought the racism argument in as an objection to
31:58
Speaker 1: the requirement to get an idea. He was always preposterous
32:01
Speaker 1: and it is preposterous. And you say, you're you're a
32:04
Speaker 1: white guy, so you're a race. What kind of race?
32:06
Speaker 1: Are you? An Irish American or an English American or
32:10
Speaker 1: a German American. We go down the list of traditionally
32:12
Speaker 1: Caucasian looking white people and they all come from a
32:15
Speaker 1: variety of different countries. Around the world. One of the
32:17
Speaker 1: reasons this whole breaking it down into race is a
32:19
Speaker 1: lot of nonsense too. But yeah, and going back to
32:22
Speaker 1: the arguments that are made against a national idea. Thank you.
32:24
Speaker 1: Brian turned the aclus on web page from the what
32:28
Speaker 1: were You Thinking viiled twenty three year old man from China.
32:33
Speaker 1: He dured what is described as excruciating pain after failing
32:36
Speaker 1: or following rather for a traditional remedy. Don't use that
32:39
Speaker 1: as a literal translation. I'm not sure if it is
32:41
Speaker 1: a traditional remedy anyway. He found it online. Specifically, he
32:46
Speaker 1: inserted a five centimeter long live leech into his bladder.
32:52
Speaker 2: Why are you doing that?
32:53
Speaker 1: Viyeah his urethra, they say. It's unclear how long the
32:58
Speaker 1: young and misguided man came across us the bizarre folk remedy,
33:01
Speaker 1: but he was well in a lot of pain as
33:03
Speaker 1: a consequence of it. It resulted in urethrael obstruction, causing
33:08
Speaker 1: him pain made it impossible for him to urinate. The
33:10
Speaker 1: leech did not remain there, however, it crawled into his bladder,
33:14
Speaker 1: where it attached to the walls and began releasing anti
33:17
Speaker 1: coagulants that resulted in excruciating pain. He then had to
33:22
Speaker 1: go to the emergency room and admit what he had done.
33:25
Speaker 1: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. And for those
33:32
Speaker 1: who aren't in the know, the Eurology Department there performed
33:34
Speaker 1: a transurethral bladder foreign body removal surgery and successfully removed
33:42
Speaker 1: the leech, providing him with at least the ability to
33:45
Speaker 1: urinate again. So big question mark swirling around why anybody
33:49
Speaker 1: would do this? Yeah, Well, like I always say, Abraham
33:53
Speaker 1: Lincoln said it. If you read it on the internet,
33:55
Speaker 1: it's true. Five ifty five fifty five k seit he
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Speaker 1: talks to you. Stick around, We've got lots to talk about
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Speaker 1: this six o'clockation six or six opinion about Gari see
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Speaker 1: the talk station Bryan twas swish and everyone a very
34:07
Speaker 1: happy Monday. I hope you had a great weekend too.
34:09
Speaker 1: Looking forward to a little more than an hour from now.
34:11
Speaker 1: Every Monday at seven twenty we hear from the former
34:13
Speaker 1: Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smitheman. And
34:16
Speaker 1: of course I'm not quite sure. I never do know
34:18
Speaker 1: what he's going to talk about in advance, but maybe,
34:20
Speaker 1: just maybe this executive session is since a city Council
34:23
Speaker 1: to talk about the yes, apparently ongoing settlement discussions with
34:27
Speaker 1: the city and the Hitton family. Of course, the eighteen
34:29
Speaker 1: year old that has gone down because he turned a
34:31
Speaker 1: firearm on police officers, justifiable shooting according to the Hamilton
34:35
Speaker 1: County prosecutor. Why would they settle that? No one knows.
34:38
Speaker 1: And that's why I was so pleased to have Signal
34:40
Speaker 1: ninety nine in the program this past Friday. She was
34:43
Speaker 1: the one that got the inside information about these settlement
34:45
Speaker 1: discussions that no one has claimed aren't happening. They've danced
34:51
Speaker 1: around the idea about the monetary mouth the millions of dollars.
34:55
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, million dollars settlement,
34:57
Speaker 1: says their attorney, by the hitting family attorney. But he
35:00
Speaker 1: doesn't deny that the settlement discussions are ongoing. Of course,
35:03
Speaker 1: some council members got win to that. It's widely reported,
35:05
Speaker 1: as Signal ninety nine pointed out here, what wait, what
35:08
Speaker 1: settlement agreement? So consequently they're going to go behind closed
35:11
Speaker 1: doors with no notes and no reporters and talk about
35:14
Speaker 1: it today. Somebody hopefully is speaking with Signal ninety nine
35:19
Speaker 1: as a whistleblower that has access to that discussion, so
35:22
Speaker 1: we can actually find out what's going on, wait for it,
35:27
Speaker 1: given the outlawed expressions by some of the council members,
35:29
Speaker 1: though I I don't know, I hate to say it
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Speaker 1: out loud if I was a betting man, Maybe they
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Speaker 1: won't settle. Maybe they'll force the Hitting family to actually
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Speaker 1: file a lawsuit to justify they're claim that they're entitled
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Speaker 1: to money. And as Signal ninety nine pointed out here
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Speaker 1: on the program, apparently the Hitting family friends with Iris Rowley,
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Speaker 1: who we discovered apparently runs the entire city of Cincinnati. Yes,
35:52
Speaker 1: that's a broad brushway of boiling down an hour's worth
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Speaker 1: of discussion with her. You draw your own conclusions. Check
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Speaker 1: out the podcast and thanks to all the folks who
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Speaker 1: chimed in on it. We're thankful for the discussion and
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Speaker 1: glad to hear the information, and of course asking she
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Speaker 1: joined the program on a regular segment weekly basis, not
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Speaker 1: going down that road. She's got some health issues and
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Speaker 1: would rather just keep this kind of discussion ongoing, but
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Speaker 1: on an as needed basis. So when Signal ninety nine
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Speaker 1: gets more information about that kind of Shenanigan's going on,
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Speaker 1: should me more than please to come back to the
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Speaker 1: morning show and talk about it. So God bless you.
36:24
Speaker 1: Signal ninety nine. We all wish you the best of
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Speaker 1: health and quick recovery for your current issues. Check the
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Speaker 1: podcast out after Smithaman, we're gonna hear from Money Monday
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Speaker 1: one segment, how has your retirement number change? That's what
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Speaker 1: Brian James will be talking about because v vike ramaswam
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Speaker 1: is going to join the program after that at eight twenty,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about Rob McCauley, the selected running mate. The
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Speaker 1: op ed I read from vvike ramaswamming appearing in the
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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. I read that last week early and
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Speaker 1: it's a great one too. His observations about why he's
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Speaker 1: jumped off social media. A bunch of chatter out there,
36:56
Speaker 1: a bunch of influences going on in some really massive
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Speaker 1: of negativity. That is a way of distracting politicians from
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Speaker 1: doing what is right. You've seen it recently with the
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Speaker 1: organized ice protesters. You get one thing that's that divides
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Speaker 1: people who are going to have a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: people chime in on it. That is a way of
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Speaker 1: distracting politicians. What do the constituents actually want or who's
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Speaker 1: the squeakiest wheel out there. He's not going to be
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Speaker 1: listening to the squeakiest wheel anymore. Vivig Ramaswami at A
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Speaker 1: twenty Zach Haynes. Zach Haynes is running for the seventh
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Speaker 1: District Ohio State Senate seat, got the endorsement from Americans
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Speaker 1: for Prosperity Donovan Neil on last week talking about Zach,
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Speaker 1: Zach chimed into the program at the end, and of
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Speaker 1: course I promised him an opportunity to speak with you
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Speaker 1: here on the morning show. Today's the day for that,
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Speaker 1: at least for the first time. Eight thirty with State
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Speaker 1: Senate candidate Zach Haynes five three, seven, four, nine fifty
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Speaker 1: five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk
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Speaker 1: Time five fifty on AT and T phones. Hm hm, Well,
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Speaker 1: not quite sure which direction I want to go. You
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Speaker 1: think the signal ninety nine's planned for dealing with our
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Speaker 1: young people, Joe, or should I dress further Pat's Reality
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Speaker 1: Waking Up Signal ninety nine. Yeah, it's kind of the
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Speaker 1: direction I was going to go. Oh and by the way, Pat,
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Speaker 1: the article I was tempted to dive on into Alyssa
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Speaker 1: Finley January eleventh, op ed piece how Mom, Dommy and
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Speaker 1: ce A Weaver plan to end private housing. Yes, this
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Speaker 1: is by design. Yes, they do want to eliminate the
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Speaker 1: concept of private home ownership and go full on socialism.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to break down how that works
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Speaker 1: and what their motivations are, Lyssa Finley did a great
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Speaker 1: job in that op ed piece. Anyway, Signal ninety nine
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Speaker 1: rights this was just a couple of days ago. Our
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Speaker 1: kids are dying city parks and on corners that have
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Speaker 1: become battlegrounds for gang territory. We all see it, we
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Speaker 1: all feel it. Since Ida has fifty two neighborhoods, she writes,
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Speaker 1: proud working neighborhoods with too many of them, especially where
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Speaker 1: opportunity thins have become places where kids are so bored
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Speaker 1: and unsupervised no my emphasis on that word, so unsupported,
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Speaker 1: so unprotected, that the street becomes the only thing that
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Speaker 1: feels like structure, and gangs are happy to step in
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Speaker 1: and provide the rest. Now, before I pivot over the
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Speaker 1: balance of her op ed piece and her suggestions on
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Speaker 1: how to deal with this, also keep in mind you
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Speaker 1: folks out in lower crime communities that unsupervised, unsupported, and
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Speaker 1: unprotected children are being manipulated in this particular case, beyond gangs,
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Speaker 1: it's by any pervert or crazy person, or perhaps someone
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Speaker 1: with a political chip on their shoulder on social media.
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Speaker 1: Keep that aspect in mind. The entire world has access
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Speaker 1: to your children. Now. She is focusing on neighborhoods that
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Speaker 1: are overwhelmed with gang activity and with unsupervised teens. Clearly
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Speaker 1: that's a pathway to them getting involved with gang activity anyway,
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Speaker 1: she writes, gangs offer what so many kids crave, bonding, belonging,
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Speaker 1: perceived protection, self worth, and an opportunity to earn real money.
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Speaker 1: Keep those parallels with the internet in mind. This is
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Speaker 1: not about skin color, political ideologies, is not about religions.
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Speaker 1: This is about whether we are willing to build a
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Speaker 1: lifeline for kids who are currently have none, or whether
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Speaker 1: we are comfortable watching them get recruited, armed, used, discarded
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Speaker 1: and buried. Because that is exactly what's happening. Since he's
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Speaker 1: dealing with the surgeon and juvenile involvement in serious crimes,
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Speaker 1: teens stealing cars by the hundreds, police report. The large
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Speaker 1: portion of autothest suspects are under eighteen, many as young
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Speaker 1: as ten years old. Groups of kids are breaking into
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Speaker 1: vehicles downtown and across neighborhoods in co ordinated crews. Twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three alone, fifty five teenagers between thirteen and seventeen
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Speaker 1: were shot in this city, six of them killed. Two
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Speaker 1: children under the age of twelve murdered within two years
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Speaker 1: near the same West End park. Violent crime remains elevated.
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Speaker 1: Guns are easy to find, social media beef turns into
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Speaker 1: real funerals, and the ages keep dropping. Kids are recruited
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Speaker 1: into the gang life as young as eight in cities
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Speaker 1: like La. Recruitment has been documented in elementary school age
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Speaker 1: children as young as six years old. Gangs know exactly
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Speaker 1: what they're doing. They know juveniles rarely do real time.
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Speaker 1: They know the system is designed to rehabilitate kids, not
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Speaker 1: warehouse them. They know a fourteen year old carrying a
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Speaker 1: gun or slinging dope is a low risk employee, so
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Speaker 1: they use them. These kids move drugs, stealing cars, carry
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Speaker 1: weapons to commit shootings. Why Because when those kids get caught,
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Speaker 1: adult gang members stay free to keep running their criminal enterprises.
41:34
Speaker 1: Children become the shield. This continues. What comes next is
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Speaker 1: not a mystery, more cars stolen, more armed teenagers, more
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Speaker 1: drive buys, which means more mothers planning funerals, or officers
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Speaker 1: responding to scenes involving children with bullet wounds. We can
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Speaker 1: keep reaching to the aftermath, or we can disrupt the pipeline.
41:52
Speaker 1: And yes, this has been done before. Now here's where
41:55
Speaker 1: she comes with a program, idea, and then you can
41:58
Speaker 1: feel free to chime in on whether you think it's
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Speaker 1: a good idea or not. But remember the root of
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Speaker 1: this problem, and I think she astutely observes, is the
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Speaker 1: unsupervised reality of children. That's why I said you need
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Speaker 1: to view this more broadly. Well, my kid isn't in
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Speaker 1: a neighborhood that's overrun with gangs. Yeah, but your kid
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Speaker 1: is in a neighborhood that's got access for all these
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Speaker 1: criminal types and these evil forces directly into their lifeline,
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Speaker 1: that social media app or the smartphone or the computer anyway.
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Speaker 1: Cities that invest she writes, instructured youth spaces, mentoring and
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Speaker 1: mental health across consistently, I'm sorry, and mental health access
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Speaker 1: consistently reduced file and crime, gang recruitment and repeat victimization.
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Speaker 1: Not with slogans, with infrastructure So here's the proposal. Plainly,
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Speaker 1: she writes, neighborhood bathed use youth safety and development centers,
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Speaker 1: not a charity, not a feel good nonprofit, not pandering
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Speaker 1: for ribbon cutting photo ops, an honest public safety project
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Speaker 1: to save kids most at risk in forgotten communities. She says,
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Speaker 1: we need an early intervention violence prevention system built directly
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Speaker 1: into the neighborhood's most impacted. City Hall doesn't fund nice ideas.
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Speaker 1: City Hall funds crime reduction. So let's call this what
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Speaker 1: it is, a violence prevention and early intervention public safety
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Speaker 1: infrastructure project. If you recharacterize it, you might get people
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Speaker 1: around it.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, same way we fund fire stations, stop fires before
43:21
Speaker 1: buildings collapse, same way we fund bridges before they fail
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Speaker 1: or fall. Invest early or pay dearly later. These centers
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Speaker 1: would operate after school and into the evening year round,
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Speaker 1: expand in summer when violence strikes. She says. They provide
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Speaker 1: real structure, supervised hours between three a three pm and
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Speaker 1: nine pm. I thought of the Wesley Chapel mission and
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Speaker 1: over the rhyme when I thought about this. They've been
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Speaker 1: doing this for years and years for a religious element,
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Speaker 1: providing children with a safe space, free and away from
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Speaker 1: gang activity in the violence in downtown worked there where
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Speaker 1: it works there anyway? That mean that was me interjecting
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Speaker 1: that they would offer sports and fitness, homework help, tutoring,
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Speaker 1: life skills, money management, conflict resolution, job readiness, says on
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Speaker 1: site licensed counselors weekly social workers who can quietly help
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Speaker 1: kids access food, clothing, and transportation, emergency support without shame
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Speaker 1: off didy, police officers who choose to mentor and protect,
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Speaker 1: not just respond after tragedy. Community volunteers who know the kids'
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Speaker 1: names instead of their case numbers. All this sounds wonderful
44:21
Speaker 1: and glorious. Could we get all of these folks to
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Speaker 1: volunteer and commit to doing this from three up at
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Speaker 1: pm to nine pm every day? A number of ideas
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Speaker 1: go along with this. I needn't dive on into all
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Speaker 1: of them. In the interest of times, She claims the
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Speaker 1: budget would only be two hundred and sixty five thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars per center per year, fully staff, fully insured, and
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Speaker 1: fully accountable three centers seven hundred ninety five thousand dollars. Now, again,
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Speaker 1: I don't know where the money came from, but that
44:46
Speaker 1: sounds remarkably low compared to normal government solutions. Hell Iris
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Speaker 1: Rollie's contracts six hundred and forty grand are roughly thereabouts, right.
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Speaker 1: How can you run three centers providing all of this
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Speaker 1: on that little money? She says, They're all all kinds
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Speaker 1: of places the money can come from, DOJ burn, JAG grants, unspend,
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Speaker 1: ARPA funds, Violence Reduction Initiative budgets, Youth service levy money,
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Speaker 1: community development block grants. So take all this money that's
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Speaker 1: being thrown out into the wind all desperately and focus
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Speaker 1: it on these three youth centers. Will that work? Don't know,
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Speaker 1: it hasn't been tried.
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Speaker 2: She said.
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Speaker 1: It's not about inventing money, it's choosing where we spend it.
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Speaker 1: And she concludes, here's the blunt truth. You do not
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Speaker 1: save kids with speeches. You don't save them with hashtags.
45:33
Speaker 1: You don't save them with press conferences and social media rants.
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Speaker 1: We were asked last year to put our money where
45:38
Speaker 1: our mouth is. This is us doing exactly that. If
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Speaker 1: we work together, replace being belonging to gangs with belonging
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Speaker 1: to community, protection from gangs with protection from adults, money
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Speaker 1: from crime with opportunity, identity built on fear with pride
45:54
Speaker 1: built on purpose, chaos with structure. Gangs recruit where nobody
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Speaker 1: is watching, nobody is waiting at home, nobody is investing in,
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Speaker 1: nobody is present. Yeah, there's that family structure breakdown that
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Speaker 1: I see in that sentence. Nobody is watching, nobody is
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Speaker 1: waiting at home. Are you keeping and watch out over
46:18
Speaker 1: your children moving away again from the gangs in any
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Speaker 1: given neighborhood and keeping your eye out for what they
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Speaker 1: are being recruited to do online? Are they being influenced
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Speaker 1: by the anti ice protesters or Antifa or Black Lives
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Speaker 1: Matter or any of the left wing organizations out there
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Speaker 1: that are so well oiled and well organized that they
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Speaker 1: dominate social media. Are you talking to your children about
46:38
Speaker 1: that evil force that's out there? Sorry Signal ninety nine
46:43
Speaker 1: for interjecting my own political and sort of realist observations
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Speaker 1: about how dangerous are the children's lives are these days?
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Speaker 1: But this does transcend gangs, It does transcend broken homes,
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Speaker 1: And these are I think outstanding ideas you've got there.
46:58
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to get the people children out there
47:00
Speaker 1: were broadly interested in what their children are doing every
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Speaker 1: single day, because, as she points out, unsupervised children end
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Speaker 1: up doing bad things. I'll encourage everyone to get Signal
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Speaker 1: ninety nine follower on Facebook. Read the entire statement in
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Speaker 1: her ideas. You may be able to elaborate on them,
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Speaker 1: you maybe be able to improve on them, but it
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Speaker 1: does get the juices flowing in terms of how we
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Speaker 1: need to view our young people in this crazy world
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Speaker 1: we find ourselves.
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Speaker 2: The talk station.
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Speaker 1: At six twenty four if do you have carecy Detalk
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Speaker 1: Station are very happy Monday to you. Try to make
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Speaker 1: it so anyway. I don't know why they call it
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Speaker 1: the girl Scoutbridge. Matter of fact, I think it's the
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Speaker 1: first time I've ever heard that from Chuck. This morning
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Speaker 1: he came in and I said, is this going to
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Speaker 1: be a difficult thing when the fourth Street bridge cuts
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Speaker 1: down because of the is there another way to go?
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Speaker 1: Is basically the straight way I put He goes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the girl Scout Bridge, and I looked at him like, huh,
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Speaker 1: girl Scout Bridge. That it's probably because we had the
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Speaker 1: Dan Beard Bridge, which was he was the founder of
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Speaker 1: the Boy Scouts. So in the interest of fairness, we
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Speaker 1: got to call something the girl Scott Bridge. Let's call
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Speaker 1: that one. I don't know if it's fair to the
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Speaker 1: Girl Scouts since it's apparently a dilapidated bridge they're going
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Speaker 1: to tear down beginning. Oh, I guess at nine pm
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Speaker 1: this or nine am. That's not fair. It's sexist, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: Joe of course.
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Speaker 1: I did misspeak. Apparently the Girl Scout Bridge is not
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Speaker 1: the one that's falling apart. That's the Fourth Street Bridge. Oh.
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Speaker 1: In my confusion and having to react to Joe's comment
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Speaker 1: to me about the Girl Scout Bridge, which was a
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Speaker 1: new thing for me, that I guess is the eleven
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Speaker 1: Street Bridge, which is not falling apart, at least not yet. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: What up? What do I know? Just nine am is
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Speaker 1: the day. It's the first day for the fourth Street
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Speaker 1: Bridge closure. My friends in Newport and Covington and those
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Speaker 1: to that one and chimed in on it. We will
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Speaker 1: get her back at some point. Restore Wellness with George
49:15
Speaker 1: and Keith giving you some great information in the new
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Speaker 1: year about maybe trying to keep your resolutions in so
49:20
Speaker 1: far as health and wellness are concerned. Ken Kober on
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Speaker 1: the city paying off the hint and family breaking here
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Speaker 1: on the fifty five caresee Morning show. Of course that
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Speaker 1: information given to Ken Coober from signal ninety nine, so
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Speaker 1: he was able to bring into even council's attention. We
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Speaker 1: are doing what what settlement agreement? Keep your popcorn out
49:38
Speaker 1: of what happens today in the executive session, which we'll
49:40
Speaker 1: be discussing the settlement agreement that the city manager tried
49:45
Speaker 1: to dodge around. Yeah, it's going on North College Hill.
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Speaker 1: Please searching for a person whocus robbing a gas station
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Speaker 1: happened late Friday. Shell excuse me the Shell station at
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Speaker 1: the Hamilton and Westcalbreth courded to ten. Please hit. A
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Speaker 1: man wear a black sweatshirt and ripped black jeans went
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Speaker 1: into the gas station. Please think the guys in his twenties,
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Speaker 1: he pointed a gun at the store clerks demanded money
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Speaker 1: from the register. Suspect ran away from the scene remains
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Speaker 1: at large. You have any information crime Stoppers the number
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Speaker 1: three five two thirty forty five one three three five
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Speaker 1: two thirty forty If you have any information, your tip
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Speaker 1: reward and you will remain anonymous. Speaking of cash rewards,
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Speaker 1: we have a Bureau of Alcohol tobaccuom in Firearms offering
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Speaker 1: a five thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
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Speaker 1: rest of the suspect accused of carjacking in Blue Ash
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Speaker 1: December eleventh, thirty eight hundred block Bellevue Avenue. Victim told
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Speaker 1: police the suspect pulled out a firearm and stole the vehicle.
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Speaker 1: That's blue Ash Police reporting on that one victims vehicle
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Speaker 1: later found the thirty eight hundred block of Yearling. Since
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Speaker 1: that initial report, Blue Ash Police have been trying to
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Speaker 1: identify and find the suspect now atf partnering with police
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Speaker 1: to find the responsible those responsible for the crime. Anyone
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Speaker 1: who provides information it leads to the identification, arrest and
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Speaker 1: conviction of that suspect, we'll get a five thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: cash reward. The number to call eight eight eight ATF Tips,
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Speaker 1: eight eight eight ATF Tips or just chime into Blue
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Speaker 1: Ash Police Department. As for Police Department Detective Jason Huff,
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Speaker 1: we got to Hamilton. Members of Lynnwood Neighborhood Council met
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Speaker 1: Saturday talk about traffic safety conditions after a deadly crash
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Speaker 1: that killed three people right at Hoover and Avenue River
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Speaker 1: Road December. Crash report from the Hamilton Police Department of
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Speaker 1: the vehicle that struck The car had a sphinometers stuck
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Speaker 1: at eighty miles an hour when the investigation. When they
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Speaker 1: conducted their investigation, which is ongoing. Residents the meeting. At
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Speaker 1: the meeting discussed potential solutions to present the city to
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Speaker 1: enhance safety in the area. One Lindwood resident identified as
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Speaker 1: Tom Schindler lives right there, said ideas and include rumble
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Speaker 1: strips to help people slow down, signage and physical barriers.
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Speaker 1: What other person, Frank Downey Dowie Downey oversees a group
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Speaker 1: called Protocol in Lynnwood or Lindenwald focusing on neighborhood needs
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Speaker 1: that he wants a collaborative safety effort with the city
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Speaker 1: that brings together police, fire and engineering departments. Speeding and
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Speaker 1: generally said, in the violation of all traffic laws, speeding
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Speaker 1: through stop signs. They are a problem not only here
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Speaker 1: in Linden Walld, but citywide. I'm concerned for the whole community,
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Speaker 1: in the whole city as far as that goes. I
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Speaker 1: think we collectively have a problem with people just driving
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Speaker 1: like idiots, not just this neighborhood, but all over the place.
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Speaker 1: Don't be that guy. How many problems would be solved
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Speaker 1: if we all just acted like responsible, decent human beings.
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Speaker 1: Is that too much of an ask? You talk to
52:55
Speaker 1: folks like Western Jim Kieffer and others where they've installed
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Speaker 1: these speed humps everything, Apparently people just can just continues
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Speaker 1: speeding right over them. Not good for your car. But
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Speaker 1: I guess if you're more interested in getting to point
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Speaker 1: A to point B fast as you possibly can, disregarding
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Speaker 1: the laws, generally speaking, you'll disregard what might be happening
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Speaker 1: trackers that could producer. Talking about some anniversaries over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned it was been ten years since David Bowie
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Speaker 1: passed away, hence that bumper music right there, and it
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Speaker 1: was one of those wow, my god, has it been
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Speaker 1: that long kind of things. Hate those revelations. God, I
53:47
Speaker 1: feel like I'm getting old anyway. Also apparently the forty
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Speaker 1: fourth anniversary of the Freezer Bowl. I always like to
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Speaker 1: make fun of myself. Yes, I was at the Freezer Ball,
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Speaker 1: but unlike Wood, I didn't stay for the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: not being able to feel any of my arms or
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Speaker 1: legs and certainly feet and hands. By halftime, we all
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Speaker 1: got up and walked out. So I do not regret
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Speaker 1: that moment in time. Yes, I missed a historic game,
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Speaker 1: but you know what, watch the balance of it would
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Speaker 1: have got home. It's only you were seven. Thanks Joe,
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Speaker 1: appreciate that seventeen for me anyhow. Interesting geopolitical reality is
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Speaker 1: kind of going on here, and I'm on record as
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Speaker 1: having some big swirling question marks over the extent to
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Speaker 1: which Donald Trump can wage war without the well inclusion
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Speaker 1: of congressional discussion. At least congressional approval would be I
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Speaker 1: think beneficial, would end the swirling question marks and at
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Speaker 1: least providing with the stated authority. But what we argue
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes about that. Let's just move over away
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Speaker 1: from legality in the constitutional implications of this and just
55:05
Speaker 1: look at the practical results. You start with Venezuela. Yeah,
55:14
Speaker 1: it was a rather successful elimination of Nicholas Manduro. Right,
55:21
Speaker 1: the oil is no longer flowing, and it's certainly not
55:24
Speaker 1: going to Cuba. Already struggling Cuba was we apparently have
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Speaker 1: now shut off because the Venezuelan leader, currently Delsi Rodriguez,
55:32
Speaker 1: has agreed to redirect oil deliveries to the United States, ie,
55:35
Speaker 1: not going to Cuba, which relies almost exclusively on well
55:40
Speaker 1: relied past tense, almost exclusively on Venezuela and oil. Apparently
55:43
Speaker 1: they're one source of oil now is Russia. Between January
55:49
Speaker 1: last year and November last year, Caracas said about twenty
55:51
Speaker 1: seven thousand barrels per day to Cuba about fifty percent
55:55
Speaker 1: of the island's oil deficit, a quarter of Cuba's total
55:59
Speaker 1: energy demand. Where are they replacing that? They can't, So
56:04
Speaker 1: we're seeing an already perilous economy perhaps spiral out of control,
56:08
Speaker 1: much in the way Iran is spiraling out of control.
56:10
Speaker 1: That's the other reality you have to factor in. Of course,
56:15
Speaker 1: some people upset that we joined with the Israelis and
56:18
Speaker 1: blew the hell out of the Iranian nuclear ambitions. A
56:23
Speaker 1: thorn in our side they've been I mean, remember Barack
56:25
Speaker 1: Obama sitting down with the Iranian government negotiating terms and conditions,
56:30
Speaker 1: no uranium richment beyond this, and know that we'll need
56:33
Speaker 1: inspectors and no, you can't have inspectors in they admittedly
56:36
Speaker 1: wanted to build a bomb. We know that you don't
56:38
Speaker 1: have to enrich uranium beyond a very small level in
56:41
Speaker 1: order to create energy with it. You don't need the
56:44
Speaker 1: high levels of uranium enrichment that they were doing with
56:46
Speaker 1: their centrifugas. Why are they a problem because they hate
56:50
Speaker 1: us on record wanting to eliminate us in most notably Israel,
56:54
Speaker 1: and they were working toward a bomb. H wonder of fact,
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Speaker 1: what happened if there was a if there was regime change. Well,
57:00
Speaker 1: given the global sanctions have been in place against Iran,
57:03
Speaker 1: that having a profound effect on their economy, the limits
57:08
Speaker 1: of their ability to sell their oil on the global market,
57:13
Speaker 1: then you have US literally evaporating the nuclear aspirations US.
57:17
Speaker 1: That would be the israels in the United States. Yeah,
57:20
Speaker 1: unilateral military action. It worked. Again, moving aside from the
57:24
Speaker 1: legality of it, Now they're scrambling and their economy is
57:29
Speaker 1: in such peril that they are literally rioting in the street,
57:32
Speaker 1: something you don't expect from Iran unless you're overthrowing the
57:35
Speaker 1: Shah and to install the Ayatola. I'm old enough to
57:39
Speaker 1: remember that. You may remember the hostage situation. They've been
57:43
Speaker 1: a thrown on our side for a long time. Look,
57:45
Speaker 1: in a short period of time, Donald Trump's been sworn in.
57:47
Speaker 1: Now it looks like Iran is on the brink of
57:49
Speaker 1: absolute and total collapse. And Donald's made threats. He said, well,
57:54
Speaker 1: Iranas starting to cross US red lines. The civilian deaths
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Speaker 1: widely reported for one hundred and ninety six protesters have
58:01
Speaker 1: been killed. At least as of the most recent reporting yesterday,
58:04
Speaker 1: thousands arrested. Ten six hundred people arrested as they try
58:10
Speaker 1: to crack down on the ever growing anti administration Iranian
58:17
Speaker 1: ruthless dictatorship. So the Ietola may pull out and leave
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Speaker 1: so effectively. I don't think Cuba represented much of an
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Speaker 1: existential threat to the United States, but that one looks
58:33
Speaker 1: like it's in a state of collapse. Venezuela is already there. Iran,
58:40
Speaker 1: what three down and two to go? I would say
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Speaker 1: that you know you can boil all this down and
58:47
Speaker 1: make a good argument that Trump's foreign policy is bearing
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Speaker 1: fruit six forty five. Feel free to chime in and
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Speaker 1: Smithman joined the program in seven to twenty. Probably get
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Speaker 1: the Morning show this past Friday. Again, I think more
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Speaker 1: hits on that one from a podcast than any other
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Speaker 1: before it. Joe struck her overwhelmed by the number of
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Speaker 1: responses he received while I was talking with her in
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Speaker 1: the studio, and of course more podcasts downloaded on that
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Speaker 1: So thanks to her for joining the program and welcome
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59:44
Speaker 1: to tune into this show as a consequence of her
59:46
Speaker 1: being on the show. She will be back again, but
59:48
Speaker 1: not on a regular basis. We had that car Joe
59:51
Speaker 1: had that conversation with her. She's not going to be
59:53
Speaker 1: capable given her current situation, health and otherwise, but certainly
59:59
Speaker 1: expressed a willingness to join the show and the things
1:00:01
Speaker 1: that she revealed on Friday, that type of issue, the
1:00:04
Speaker 1: behind the scenes settlement negotiation. Yeah, she'll come back on
1:00:07
Speaker 1: to talk about things like that, and an open invitation
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Speaker 1: for you to give her a call if you're involved
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Speaker 1: in city government or government generally, if you have the
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1:00:16
Speaker 1: want to be a sort of a whistleblower along the
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Speaker 1: lines of Signal ninety nine. She needs her information from somebody,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: She'll take your call. She said it here on the
1:00:25
Speaker 1: Morning Show. Anyhow, what else is going on?
1:00:28
Speaker 7: You know?
1:00:28
Speaker 1: It really irks me. We've got a lot of Republicans
1:00:31
Speaker 1: have defied Trump's goal and joined with Democrats. Remember the
1:00:34
Speaker 1: reason we had the government shut down? Right, the extension
1:00:36
Speaker 1: of the Affordable Care Act subsidies red flag. Guess what
1:00:43
Speaker 1: the subsidies will expire in December of twenty five. We've
1:00:46
Speaker 1: known this for several years, the subsidies put in place
1:00:50
Speaker 1: because of COVID nineteen. How did the world operate under
1:00:53
Speaker 1: Obamacare prior to the subsidies going in place. I don't remember.
1:00:56
Speaker 1: What were you doing before they showed up? All gonna die? No,
1:01:01
Speaker 1: But once you put subsidies in place, even for people
1:01:03
Speaker 1: who make some really handsome salaries, they get used to
1:01:07
Speaker 1: that and they forgot about what life was like before
1:01:09
Speaker 1: the big government program and the handout showed up. The
1:01:12
Speaker 1: handouts which masks the true cost of medical care, which
1:01:15
Speaker 1: is the problem. The premium reflects the cost of the
1:01:19
Speaker 1: medical care, and if the cost of medical care goes up,
1:01:22
Speaker 1: the premiums are gonna go up. Do I need to
1:01:24
Speaker 1: go over an economic lesson?
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Speaker 2: Again? How simple?
1:01:26
Speaker 1: This is insurance companies pay claims. You got a high
1:01:29
Speaker 1: claims exposure, either because a whole bunch of people should
1:01:32
Speaker 1: you know, make their file claims, or for medical coverage
1:01:35
Speaker 1: or and or the cost of the medical care goes up. Hey,
1:01:40
Speaker 1: we're running out of dollars. We don't have enough cash
1:01:43
Speaker 1: on hand to cover the claims. I guess we're gonna
1:01:45
Speaker 1: have to raise premiums. Right, So the root cause of
1:01:50
Speaker 1: this is the underlying medical claims themselves. How come they
1:01:54
Speaker 1: haven't come up with a solution. Well, you know, going
1:01:56
Speaker 1: back to political divisions in the reality, Democrats, being the
1:01:59
Speaker 1: social they are, want everyone to have quote unquote free
1:02:03
Speaker 1: medical care in like a Medicaid program for everyone. There
1:02:06
Speaker 1: will be going back to the getting rid of the
1:02:10
Speaker 1: idea of private home ownership. There will be no private insurance.
1:02:13
Speaker 1: You'll get what we hand you. That's what their goal is.
1:02:17
Speaker 1: That's why they don't want to fix the medical health
1:02:19
Speaker 1: care problem. What's a cost which is a well, it's
1:02:25
Speaker 1: a reality of the cost of the medical care underlying it.
1:02:27
Speaker 1: Why is it so expensive? What does it cost you
1:02:30
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of dollars a show? An emergency room
1:02:32
Speaker 1: at a hospital can we fix that underlying problem. How
1:02:36
Speaker 1: about just getting rid of pharmacy benefit magic managers. Now,
1:02:39
Speaker 1: if you know how those work, you know it's a
1:02:41
Speaker 1: stupid middleman that is costing you and I a ton
1:02:44
Speaker 1: of money in terms of our pharmaceutical expenses. There's an
1:02:46
Speaker 1: easy fix. They won't do that. I don't know why,
1:02:49
Speaker 1: but you've got at least three Republicans from the Ohio
1:02:51
Speaker 1: here in Ohio among these seventeen Republicans that bucked the
1:02:54
Speaker 1: trend about extending and decided they were voting to extend
1:02:57
Speaker 1: these healthcare subsidies. Why would that be? Republican US Representative
1:03:05
Speaker 1: Dave Joyce from Ohio's fourteenth All we're doing is kicking
1:03:08
Speaker 1: a failed system down the road for a little bit longer.
1:03:11
Speaker 1: But we can't punish the people at home just because
1:03:14
Speaker 1: the people in DC can't come up with a decision
1:03:16
Speaker 1: to fix the problem. So reward your own failures. I
1:03:22
Speaker 1: go back to the fact that we've known these things
1:03:23
Speaker 1: we're going to expire for years now. You didn't do
1:03:25
Speaker 1: anything to fix the system for several years. Hey, what
1:03:29
Speaker 1: are we gonna do when the Obamacare subsidies expire? People
1:03:32
Speaker 1: get used to those they're gonna be angry. They're gonna
1:03:34
Speaker 1: feel like they've got something taken away from them when
1:03:36
Speaker 1: it was only supposed to be a temporary measure to
1:03:38
Speaker 1: get them through COVID nineteen oh we forgot about that.
1:03:41
Speaker 1: Like every government program, once it's in place, you can't
1:03:44
Speaker 1: take it away from Ohio Republican US Representative Max Miller
1:03:48
Speaker 1: from the seventh and Mike Carey from the fifteenth also
1:03:51
Speaker 1: broke ranks. Carrie quote, the partisan Obamacare system as it
1:03:55
Speaker 1: exists has raised costs for everyone. But I want to
1:04:02
Speaker 1: give a hiouans certainty as we can work to unravel
1:04:05
Speaker 1: the higher cost Americans face from the failed policies of
1:04:08
Speaker 1: the past, failed policies that have been going on since
1:04:11
Speaker 1: these subsidies went in place, Sir, failed policies that nobody's
1:04:15
Speaker 1: acted out of the past several years, in spite of
1:04:17
Speaker 1: the time that was bought to cover up the failure
1:04:19
Speaker 1: of Obamacare via subsidies. Maybe we should get ahead of
1:04:24
Speaker 1: that now, Max Miller, Obamacare has failed, but pulling the
1:04:34
Speaker 1: rug out from under Ohio families without an alternative would
1:04:37
Speaker 1: be irresponsible. Where's that alternative that you had so long
1:04:41
Speaker 1: to put in place. I'm just asking for a friend.
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Speaker 1: Sixty six. Jay's on the phone is the biggest wow.
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Speaker 2: In all the galaxy.
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Speaker 1: You're giving the award to All three of those are
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Speaker 1: high for Republicans, Huh? Or is this for all sets
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Speaker 1: venteen that voted to for all the Rhinos? Joe says,
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Speaker 1: good going.
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Speaker 2: Do your dreams have co true?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 1: It's an insightful and great exchange between Jay and myself. Jay,
1:05:14
Speaker 1: hang on, May We'll take your call after the top
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Speaker 1: of their and it is if you choose, so choose
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Speaker 1: And Christopher Smithman Smitherman of course at seven twenty with
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Speaker 1: the smither Van. It'll be right back. Today's top headlines
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Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, the New
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Speaker 1: with the Pitty five Case Morren Show. Before we get
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Speaker 1: to Jay's call, we got Christopher Smithen coming up. Smitherman
1:05:57
Speaker 1: coming up at seven twenty. Uh, gonna be talking about
1:06:00
Speaker 1: I don't know what, because Christopher has his own agenda.
1:06:02
Speaker 1: But Alex Dravinsky, he goes on trial today charges a
1:06:06
Speaker 1: disorderly conduct. He's that poor man and got beaten twenty
1:06:09
Speaker 1: five or six times in the quote unquote brawl in
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Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati, that one that Holly got punched in the
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Speaker 1: face on. She's the one that stopped the punch with
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Speaker 1: her face. But he's going on TRU for disorderly conduct today,
1:06:21
Speaker 1: and I thought a rather interesting that chief, any the
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Speaker 1: interim police chief is going to be called by both
1:06:25
Speaker 1: the plan or the prosecution and defense. He's the one
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Speaker 1: that was ordered to issue the citation to Alex Dravinski
1:06:33
Speaker 1: since the officers that were there didn't think there was
1:06:36
Speaker 1: anything to charge him with. Did politics creep into that equation?
1:06:42
Speaker 1: One might think so. After Signal ninety nine's revelations on
1:06:45
Speaker 1: the program this past Friday, Yeah, that may have happened.
1:06:48
Speaker 1: Maybe Christopher knows something about that. Anyway, a lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about with Christopher coming up. Thank you Jay for
1:06:52
Speaker 1: holding over the breake there. Welcome to the morning showing
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Speaker 1: a Happy Monday to you, my friend.
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Speaker 12: Hey, happy Monday, Brian. To let me start off, as
1:06:59
Speaker 12: we used to say on your Rushling Boss show, Mega
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Speaker 12: Dittos on the Signal ninety nine interview, that was fantastic man,
1:07:05
Speaker 12: I was blown away.
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Speaker 1: I really was. I mean, people could tell how excited
1:07:09
Speaker 1: it was to talk with her, but just what she revealed,
1:07:12
Speaker 1: I just I was beside myself almost with disbelief that
1:07:15
Speaker 1: we are talking about since a council generally speaking. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's uh, those claims, you know, sort of didn't surprise me.
1:07:23
Speaker 1: And that's sad.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: Well, and and a quick reminded me of the listeners.
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Speaker 12: I heard it on the on the on your broadcast,
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Speaker 12: And that's that's maybe a campaign we could start, as
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Speaker 12: you know, five bucks three bucks every if every one
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Speaker 12: people that need help. And I would encourage all the
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought it up. She did not want
1:08:04
Speaker 1: to talk about her own personal trials and tribulations, some
1:08:07
Speaker 1: of which were a consequence of her reporting on the
1:08:10
Speaker 1: signal ninety nine page. In other words, she lost her
1:08:13
Speaker 1: job because it had nothing to do with her her
1:08:16
Speaker 1: ability to do and perform her job, but she did
1:08:18
Speaker 1: lose it as a consequence of her being such a
1:08:20
Speaker 1: predominant figure or a prominent figure on social media. But
1:08:23
Speaker 1: she also has some significant health issues, and I think
1:08:27
Speaker 1: that's generally or at least exacerbates her financial issues. So
1:08:31
Speaker 1: she did not want to go into that, but I
1:08:33
Speaker 1: knew about it, and of course you know about the
1:08:35
Speaker 1: site where people can help her, So if you choose
1:08:38
Speaker 1: to do that, it would be a very nice thing.
1:08:40
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jake, you have another comment, Yeah, well, in.
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Speaker 12: The power of prayer for her and you before I
1:08:45
Speaker 12: get in my final comment. But the reason I'm calling
1:08:49
Speaker 12: is I was shocked and disappointed to see on Breitbart
1:08:52
Speaker 12: that our Senator Bernie Marino, Rock rib Conservative is teamed
1:08:57
Speaker 12: up with Olympia Snow from Maine Rhino, and he's leading
1:09:02
Speaker 12: the charge on trying to figure out a bipartisan agreement
1:09:04
Speaker 12: now for extending the Obamacare subsidies for two more years. Yep,
1:09:10
Speaker 12: and with really strict I mean they're saying year one
1:09:13
Speaker 12: we're going to cap this thing at two hundred thousand
1:09:15
Speaker 12: dollars a year. Two hundred and grand a year is
1:09:17
Speaker 12: their cap, and that's conservative. And then and then it
1:09:21
Speaker 12: was also you got to pay a twenty five dollars
1:09:23
Speaker 12: a month minimum. Yeah, for a premium. Yeah, this is nothing.
1:09:27
Speaker 1: No, I guess real quick. I'm not I know where
1:09:30
Speaker 1: you're going on this, And that's fine. The original subsidies
1:09:32
Speaker 1: were capped at what sixty two thousand dollars roughly. That
1:09:36
Speaker 1: was before the COVID era subsidies kicked in, which a
1:09:38
Speaker 1: lot of people making several hundred thousand dollars a year
1:09:42
Speaker 1: to get some substies, I mean significant six figure incomes. Now,
1:09:45
Speaker 1: Bernie's point is, well, we can cap that. It's going
1:09:48
Speaker 1: to be more than the sixty one or sixty two thousand,
1:09:50
Speaker 1: but we'll cap it at two hundred. So people making
1:09:52
Speaker 1: two hundred and one thousand dollars a year can't cut one.
1:09:54
Speaker 2: So fine.
1:09:55
Speaker 1: I don't know where that cap comes from. It sounds
1:09:57
Speaker 1: rather arbitrary, and it does sound like a pretty darn
1:09:59
Speaker 1: good salary to make a year to get a government
1:10:01
Speaker 1: subsidy designed primarily to help those that are truly struggling financially.
1:10:05
Speaker 1: But moving away from that, the point of mandating that
1:10:08
Speaker 1: everyone makes some nominal payment is an effort to deal
1:10:11
Speaker 1: with fraud because it requires you to have a connection
1:10:15
Speaker 1: with the program. So if you're having to pay a premium,
1:10:19
Speaker 1: as nominal as it may be, apparently that is one
1:10:21
Speaker 1: mechanism to get rid of some of the fraud that
1:10:23
Speaker 1: exists in Obamacare, and like all the government programs, apparently
1:10:26
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of fraud. That does not solve
1:10:29
Speaker 1: the underlying problem though, does it? Jay, which is outrageous
1:10:32
Speaker 1: expensive medical care.
1:10:33
Speaker 13: I think capital is also you know well, and also
1:10:37
Speaker 13: twenty thirteen, when Obamacare came out, the federal government told
1:10:41
Speaker 13: the states that you lower the bar and take this
1:10:44
Speaker 13: medicaid extension.
1:10:45
Speaker 12: We'll pay for it for three years. My mask says
1:10:48
Speaker 12: that should have ended in twenty sixteen. This is twenty
1:10:51
Speaker 12: twenty six Burni Marino, And again, are the Republicans the
1:10:54
Speaker 12: supermajority or not? How common always feels like when Democrats
1:10:57
Speaker 12: are in power, they get everything they want. When Republicans
1:11:00
Speaker 12: are in power, they get seventy five percent of what
1:11:02
Speaker 12: they want. Well, government like the Republicans are in power
1:11:06
Speaker 12: Bernie Marino, you don't need to partner up with the
1:11:08
Speaker 12: Democrats or Olympia snow kill this thing.
1:11:12
Speaker 8: Right.
1:11:12
Speaker 12: However, I don't want it reformed. I don't want to
1:11:14
Speaker 12: replace kill it.
1:11:16
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. Like all big government programs,
1:11:18
Speaker 1: I feel the same way beyond Obamacare. But here's the
1:11:21
Speaker 1: political reality, which I know you know, as we approach November,
1:11:25
Speaker 1: everybody's worried about the Democrats taken back over the House
1:11:28
Speaker 1: and maybe Senate. They need arguments to Democrats do to
1:11:30
Speaker 1: get people to vote for them. This is their number
1:11:33
Speaker 1: one thing. This along with protesting ice agents and are
1:11:36
Speaker 1: protesting the deportation of illegal immigrants. How that gives them
1:11:40
Speaker 1: any traction, I don't know. But this one's going to impact,
1:11:43
Speaker 1: you know, a decent number of people. They're not going
1:11:45
Speaker 1: to get their subsidy anymore, and it's going to be
1:11:47
Speaker 1: a great political fodder for them, the Democrats, to use
1:11:50
Speaker 1: against Republicans. So the idea is, well, let's just kick
1:11:54
Speaker 1: the can yet again down the road, and we'll come
1:11:56
Speaker 1: up with some measures to stick in there as well
1:11:58
Speaker 1: as a lower cap or maybe a mandated premium or
1:12:01
Speaker 1: something else. We'll get a little bit in return for
1:12:04
Speaker 1: extending them, but we'll knock the wind out of their
1:12:06
Speaker 1: sales before November, so they can't make the argument that
1:12:08
Speaker 1: the evil Republicans wouldn't extend the tax credits. Sounds like
1:12:11
Speaker 1: a win for the Democrats to me, Jay.
1:12:14
Speaker 12: And then and we continue to slide to the left.
1:12:16
Speaker 12: And this is the same argument that we've heard. I'm
1:12:18
Speaker 12: about your age, maybe a little younger. This is what
1:12:21
Speaker 12: we've heard all of our life. Is well, we can't
1:12:23
Speaker 12: really push it.
1:12:24
Speaker 5: Back to their rest right.
1:12:25
Speaker 12: We just have to slow down to slide to the left.
1:12:28
Speaker 12: That way we can stay in power and win. You're
1:12:30
Speaker 12: not winning if you can't kill Obamacare after all these years.
1:12:33
Speaker 12: Barack Obama is clinking champagne glasses somewhere. It's saying, I
1:12:37
Speaker 12: can't believe it's still around after you know, all this time,
1:12:43
Speaker 12: and he's all the time that Republicans have been in power.
1:12:45
Speaker 12: They still can't get rid of it because they don't
1:12:47
Speaker 12: have the managerial courage. Bernie Marino and Republican Party central
1:12:52
Speaker 12: planning is there, all the shadow people, this is yours,
1:12:57
Speaker 12: well in your time to either stand up and fight
1:13:00
Speaker 12: or go away, and we'll go get better candidates to
1:13:02
Speaker 12: know how to get stuff done and really don't care
1:13:05
Speaker 12: about having to have be a reelection.
1:13:06
Speaker 1: Okay, going back to my criticism. You knew the tax
1:13:09
Speaker 1: credits were going to expire for years after they were
1:13:11
Speaker 1: first put in. Then they had the deadline date. The
1:13:13
Speaker 1: Democrats knew about it. We all knew about it. Nothing
1:13:15
Speaker 1: was done between the moment the extension was made and
1:13:18
Speaker 1: this moment in time. And I know I was critical
1:13:20
Speaker 1: about Republicans. Where were the strategies to deal with this?
1:13:22
Speaker 1: How come you didn't get ahead of it? How come
1:13:24
Speaker 1: you didn't fix the system before we had to deal
1:13:26
Speaker 1: with this highly charged political issue. Well, Biden was president,
1:13:30
Speaker 1: Democrats had a very sizable chunk of the House. You
1:13:33
Speaker 1: can't pass anything, and that situation exists today. Bernie Mourno
1:13:36
Speaker 1: in or out, you got the same Charlie Foxtrot reality.
1:13:40
Speaker 1: The Democrats won't agree with anything the Republicans want to
1:13:42
Speaker 1: do by way of reform because anything moving toward reform
1:13:45
Speaker 1: ends their pipe dream of Medicaid for all, which is
1:13:48
Speaker 1: ultimately what Obamacare was supposed to be. So they're not
1:13:51
Speaker 1: going to budge on that. They liked the fact that
1:13:52
Speaker 1: it's collapsing and it's a real issue for Americans.
1:13:56
Speaker 12: They could have planned Brian I had all those years
1:13:58
Speaker 12: of Biden. Didn't it think that they were going to
1:13:59
Speaker 12: be able to Biden? They had four years to put
1:14:03
Speaker 12: together a plan.
1:14:04
Speaker 1: They did beat him. Donald Trump won a twenty twenty
1:14:06
Speaker 1: four We got the House, and we got it.
1:14:07
Speaker 12: They and they walk into the plane.
1:14:10
Speaker 1: Hey day. The numbers still don't add up. They could
1:14:14
Speaker 1: do they could every single Republican could uniformly embrace just
1:14:18
Speaker 1: make up one set of goals that would fix the problem.
1:14:21
Speaker 1: Or theoretically they came up with a set of goals
1:14:23
Speaker 1: that would fix the problem. They passed it in the House,
1:14:25
Speaker 1: they passed it into the Senate if they could. They
1:14:26
Speaker 1: don't have sixty votes in the Senate, right, how can
1:14:29
Speaker 1: you get it passed in the Senate?
1:14:30
Speaker 2: You can't?
1:14:32
Speaker 1: So you know, I I is it an exercise worth
1:14:35
Speaker 1: going through? Absolutely? Can we use some ideas on how
1:14:37
Speaker 1: to fix the real problem, which is the expensive of
1:14:40
Speaker 1: medical bills? Yes, I guess we could come up with something.
1:14:43
Speaker 1: But if the Democrats are locked up against it, you
1:14:45
Speaker 1: get a sixty vote threshold on the Senate, you're screwed.
1:14:48
Speaker 1: Should you go down the road and do it. Yeah,
1:14:50
Speaker 1: but you do it just to serve as an illustration
1:14:53
Speaker 1: of why the Democrats are obstructionists and won't let their
1:14:56
Speaker 1: pet project Obamacare get fixed. In other words, its repealed.
1:15:02
Speaker 12: Augreed, and we smoke out the Rhinos when we do
1:15:04
Speaker 12: that too.
1:15:05
Speaker 5: And that's my point.
1:15:06
Speaker 12: Is it least step up to the beach, to the
1:15:07
Speaker 12: plate and swing Burnie Marino instead of capitulating, its surrendering.
1:15:11
Speaker 12: This is yet another Republican victory, which is a Democrat win.
1:15:15
Speaker 12: They don't get everything. We're in control of everything, but
1:15:18
Speaker 12: they only got seventy five percent of what they wanted.
1:15:20
Speaker 14: Re elect me.
1:15:21
Speaker 8: I think not.
1:15:22
Speaker 6: I'm tired of saying that.
1:15:23
Speaker 12: I'm sure you are too over our lifetimes.
1:15:26
Speaker 1: I get where you're coming from, and it is frustrated.
1:15:28
Speaker 12: Don't vote, don't vote Rhino, don't vote Democrat.
1:15:30
Speaker 5: Have a good one, brother, Appreciate what you do.
1:15:32
Speaker 1: Thanks Jay, You take care man. Christopher Smitheman up next.
1:15:35
Speaker 1: How about you're looking for a really truly world class
1:15:38
Speaker 1: smiles just in his offices past Friday.
1:15:40
Speaker 2: Fifty five K the talk station on Monday.
1:15:48
Speaker 1: Always look forward at this moment in time, get to
1:15:50
Speaker 1: hear from the former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
1:15:53
Speaker 1: Christopher Smitheman, who's still has still heavily active and engaged
1:15:57
Speaker 1: in matters political, especially with downtown Cincinnati. Wow, Christopher Smithman,
1:16:01
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Morning show, my friend. What a
1:16:03
Speaker 1: real eye opener on Friday with the information from Signal
1:16:05
Speaker 1: ninety nine and FOP President Ken kober.
1:16:09
Speaker 4: Well. I listened to the whole show. It was very powerful,
1:16:12
Speaker 4: and I thank people like her. You know, she doesn't
1:16:16
Speaker 4: have to do that, she doesn't have to spend her
1:16:19
Speaker 4: time doing it, and she's giving accurate information out and
1:16:23
Speaker 4: it's why the inquirer outed her. You know, you know
1:16:27
Speaker 4: who is this writing this? We demand to know. They
1:16:29
Speaker 4: don't do that for anybody. It's because of the fear
1:16:33
Speaker 4: of the factual information that she was putting out. So yes,
1:16:36
Speaker 4: I enjoyed her immensely. Of course, I always enjoy the
1:16:40
Speaker 4: president of the FOP, and I hope that she will
1:16:44
Speaker 4: continue to come on and continue to provide, you know,
1:16:47
Speaker 4: the information that she has. You know, I want to
1:16:51
Speaker 4: piggyback off that interview on Friday to talk about today,
1:16:57
Speaker 4: and so as counsel goes, it makes the decision of
1:17:01
Speaker 4: whether they're going to go into executive session. Every member
1:17:05
Speaker 4: of council should vote. Know, Brian Thomas, this is going
1:17:09
Speaker 4: to have me fired up next Monday.
1:17:11
Speaker 1: Okay, now hold on that roll call, vote yes real quick.
1:17:16
Speaker 2: Now.
1:17:16
Speaker 1: One of the big burning questions in my mind in
1:17:20
Speaker 1: Sign ninety nine and can cover certainly didn't know the
1:17:22
Speaker 1: answer to this, and I'm wondering whether you know. Does
1:17:25
Speaker 1: the city manager, Cheryl Long have the authority to enter
1:17:28
Speaker 1: into settlement negotiations? Does she have the authority to bind
1:17:32
Speaker 1: the city into a settlement agreement to the extent she
1:17:36
Speaker 1: comes up with?
1:17:36
Speaker 2: One?
1:17:37
Speaker 1: City council have any say in matters that involve money
1:17:40
Speaker 1: in the city taxpayers, the allocation of city taxpayers dollars? Christopher,
1:17:44
Speaker 1: Can she even do this?
1:17:45
Speaker 4: Law? The law department can, And because the law department
1:17:50
Speaker 4: is its own entity, right, the legal team can. Now,
1:17:55
Speaker 4: there are situations, and this is one of them where
1:18:00
Speaker 4: council should intervene and say yes or no. But I'm
1:18:03
Speaker 4: letting you know the law the law departments in most cities,
1:18:07
Speaker 4: but the law a department here has a lot of
1:18:09
Speaker 4: power to negotiate things and say yes or no to them.
1:18:15
Speaker 4: And she's the city manager and the city solicitor reports
1:18:19
Speaker 4: to the city manager. Now having said all that, Brian, look,
1:18:24
Speaker 4: they don't have to go into executive session. So that's
1:18:28
Speaker 4: a role called votes. And so all the accolades to
1:18:31
Speaker 4: any council member about how they feel about this, will
1:18:35
Speaker 4: know it today if they say, we're going to hide
1:18:38
Speaker 4: this discussion from Brian Thomas, from Signal ninety nine, from
1:18:42
Speaker 4: Christopher samite Men and others.
1:18:45
Speaker 1: And that's what executive session means. I've heard no reporters
1:18:48
Speaker 1: know that that council members can't even take notes during
1:18:51
Speaker 1: those executive sessions.
1:18:53
Speaker 4: Does that make sense to you?
1:18:55
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't make any sense to me. And why
1:18:58
Speaker 1: would they put such a highly charge thing behind closed
1:19:01
Speaker 1: doors when we just it was only revealed because of
1:19:03
Speaker 1: whistleblowers like Signal ninety nine and whoever talked with her,
1:19:06
Speaker 1: that there was even a settlement discussion going on. It
1:19:08
Speaker 1: sounds to me like counsel wouldn't even have known about
1:19:11
Speaker 1: it but for the whistleblowers.
1:19:14
Speaker 4: That is absolutely true. And remember the city manager came
1:19:18
Speaker 4: out and said, what this wasn't true?
1:19:22
Speaker 2: Well, they refuted.
1:19:23
Speaker 4: What Signal ninety nine would say, and I think they're
1:19:26
Speaker 4: going to have to back away from that, because if
1:19:29
Speaker 4: they go into executive session, it means that what Signal
1:19:32
Speaker 4: ninety nine communicated to the public was actually true and
1:19:36
Speaker 4: the city manager wasn't being truthful.
1:19:38
Speaker 1: They did not deny when you read the words from
1:19:42
Speaker 1: the city manager, when you read the words from the
1:19:44
Speaker 1: Hinton attorney, none of them denied that discussions were ongoing.
1:19:50
Speaker 1: They just describe it differently, this massive settlement, you know,
1:19:54
Speaker 1: the hinting lawyers. So I don't know anything about any massive,
1:19:56
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar settlement, Yes, sir, but do you admit to
1:20:00
Speaker 1: engaging in settlement discussions with the city manager. My statement
1:20:04
Speaker 1: just stands as it is. I mean, so that's obviously
1:20:06
Speaker 1: a dodge dip, duck dive and dodge five d's a
1:20:09
Speaker 1: dodgeball kind of thing. The same thing from the city manager.
1:20:11
Speaker 1: Long she didn't deny that there were settlement discussions.
1:20:14
Speaker 2: She didn't.
1:20:15
Speaker 1: She has denied the characterization of them, which is a
1:20:18
Speaker 1: nonsensical way of trying to dodge the bullet and deny
1:20:21
Speaker 1: when you're really not denying.
1:20:22
Speaker 4: So well then we'll at least call it a white lie.
1:20:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
1:20:27
Speaker 4: The But the bottom line here is a Signal ninety
1:20:31
Speaker 4: nine exposed something that was happening. And this is on
1:20:35
Speaker 4: the back of the eight point one million dollars settlement, right,
1:20:38
Speaker 4: This is on the back of that. So the city
1:20:40
Speaker 4: is saying we're going to raise your taxes, but they're
1:20:43
Speaker 4: engaging in giving money. Now, let's just rewind for the public. Now,
1:20:47
Speaker 4: this is the young man who had a gun in
1:20:51
Speaker 4: a stolen car running for by law enforcement. My absolute
1:20:56
Speaker 4: heart goes out to this family. But that is a
1:20:59
Speaker 4: recipe for an officer, unfortunately, to use deadly force. The
1:21:05
Speaker 4: father then turned around the next day identify the sheriff
1:21:10
Speaker 4: over at UC doing traffic control for their graduation, and
1:21:15
Speaker 4: ran him over with a vehicle. That's the discussion we're
1:21:18
Speaker 4: talking about, right, because my heart goes out to that
1:21:21
Speaker 4: family today. For this council to go into executive session
1:21:27
Speaker 4: is a smack in the face of all law enforcement
1:21:31
Speaker 4: across the United States of America period. We deserve to
1:21:36
Speaker 4: know what they're talking about, because we have a sheriff
1:21:40
Speaker 4: and a family still grieving because his father ran him over.
1:21:45
Speaker 4: He had nothing to do with it. Brian Thoms, and
1:21:48
Speaker 4: that is what is so frustrating to me.
1:21:50
Speaker 1: Well, another component of the frustration, you know, moving aside
1:21:52
Speaker 1: from the tragedy that befell the sheriff's family, the sheriff's
1:21:55
Speaker 1: deputy family, it's the city taxpayer who's going to be
1:21:58
Speaker 1: on the hook for an increase in their earnings tax
1:22:02
Speaker 1: why in an interest of public safety? This seems to
1:22:06
Speaker 1: be you know, steeped in public safety related issues. And uh,
1:22:11
Speaker 1: maybe one more place that the city tax dollars are
1:22:13
Speaker 1: going to be spent settling a lawsuit that never he
1:22:15
Speaker 1: has even been filed for an action that didn't even
1:22:17
Speaker 1: justify prosecution. See Connie Pilach about that one. We'll bring
1:22:20
Speaker 1: Christopher Smitheman back at seven twenty seven right now fifty
1:22:23
Speaker 1: five Kercity Talk station. Let me speaking of shooting. I mean,
1:22:28
Speaker 1: that's seven thirty on a Monday, and a happy one
1:22:30
Speaker 1: to you. Brian Thomas with Christopher smith Aman we do
1:22:32
Speaker 1: every Monday that Smither events what I like to call it,
1:22:34
Speaker 1: former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, just giving
1:22:36
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to get out of your system here
1:22:38
Speaker 1: in the morning show. Christopher and I love it.
1:22:41
Speaker 10: Well.
1:22:41
Speaker 4: Listen, brother, we have a culture of no accountability, a
1:22:45
Speaker 4: culture of no common sense in America, and I'm going
1:22:50
Speaker 4: to tie. First of all, I love all the local
1:22:53
Speaker 4: news you're covering. I turn on your show and I
1:22:55
Speaker 4: encourage anybody listening. You know, Brian comes on at five am,
1:22:59
Speaker 4: and he goes off at nine am, and we get
1:23:01
Speaker 4: a breath of information about what is going on in
1:23:04
Speaker 4: our city. But let me let me say this to you, brother,
1:23:07
Speaker 4: that what I'm seeing nationally like ice and I stem
1:23:11
Speaker 4: my condolences to Renee Good, that's the woman who is
1:23:14
Speaker 4: shot in the head at Minneapolis. But here again, it's
1:23:18
Speaker 4: a recipe, just like I spoke about the recipe for
1:23:22
Speaker 4: the young man, mister Hinton, the recipe of trying to
1:23:27
Speaker 4: run down an ice officer with your vehicle. Okay, And
1:23:32
Speaker 4: the context of this is it's been happening all over
1:23:35
Speaker 4: the country. Ice officers don't know anymore. You're boxing them in.
1:23:39
Speaker 4: You boxing a federal agent, a police officer, an FBI agent,
1:23:44
Speaker 4: a DEA agent. Expect that agent to assume that you
1:23:50
Speaker 4: are there to harm them. Brian Thomas, I don't know
1:23:53
Speaker 4: what in the world is going on all these videos
1:23:55
Speaker 4: that I'm seeing out here on x with with these
1:23:58
Speaker 4: with these people across off the country who think they
1:24:01
Speaker 4: can follow an agent. They can block the agent in,
1:24:04
Speaker 4: They can get in front of their vehicle and stop them.
1:24:08
Speaker 4: They can in the middle of an arrest, they can
1:24:10
Speaker 4: pull the officer. You can't arrest them. You can't do
1:24:14
Speaker 4: what you're doing. Look this, you, You and I knew
1:24:17
Speaker 4: and anybody listening with any common sense knew that one
1:24:21
Speaker 4: day this was going to end up in a deadly
1:24:23
Speaker 4: forced situation. Right. The reality of it is is that
1:24:27
Speaker 4: person I'm talking about, Renee Good, was blocking the road
1:24:31
Speaker 4: with her car. They don't even talk about that. She
1:24:33
Speaker 4: pulled out in the road and was blocking the federal
1:24:36
Speaker 4: officer in their vehicle. They got out of their car
1:24:39
Speaker 4: and said move your car, kady, you can't block the road.
1:24:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, interference with an officer performing his duties and enforcing
1:24:46
Speaker 1: the law. Interfering with that is in and of itself
1:24:48
Speaker 1: criminal activity. You can be cited for that. I mean,
1:24:52
Speaker 1: that's probably why they were screaming on her to get
1:24:54
Speaker 1: out of the car, because she had already committed the
1:24:55
Speaker 1: crime of interfering with lawful law enforcement officers. So period
1:24:58
Speaker 1: end of the story, you don't listen of the police officers,
1:25:01
Speaker 1: he might get shot. I mean, And to the fact
1:25:04
Speaker 1: that she got shot the left was waiting for that Christopher,
1:25:08
Speaker 1: you know, damn well, they wanted a martyr out of
1:25:10
Speaker 1: all this, and much like George Floyd, maybe he got
1:25:12
Speaker 1: the wrong one, considering there's so much video evidence of
1:25:15
Speaker 1: her literally hitting the police officer. Whether you think deadly
1:25:19
Speaker 1: force was justified, it was legitimate under the circumstances, because
1:25:24
Speaker 1: the man reasonably felt for his or thought his life
1:25:27
Speaker 1: was in peril. He'd already been through this once someone
1:25:30
Speaker 1: drugg him theim three hundred feet or so down the
1:25:32
Speaker 1: road in a car previously while he was trying to
1:25:34
Speaker 1: enforce the law. So you know he's on high alert
1:25:37
Speaker 1: for his life being in peril, and that may have
1:25:39
Speaker 1: prompted him to use a firearm. But it's interference with
1:25:42
Speaker 1: law enforcement. They just believe they can get away with
1:25:45
Speaker 1: whatever they want. They've got this high moral authority, and
1:25:47
Speaker 1: then you're belief that it's some high moral authority does
1:25:51
Speaker 1: not trump the law.
1:25:54
Speaker 4: Why do I have to, as a peace officer, be
1:25:57
Speaker 4: drugged down the street before I use deadly force? I mean,
1:26:02
Speaker 4: is what are we thinking? You You bring your car
1:26:05
Speaker 4: to a gunfight, right, expect to be shot. That is
1:26:11
Speaker 4: a weapon. You cannot run me down in the roads
1:26:15
Speaker 4: and the The other part of it is what is
1:26:17
Speaker 4: going on in our mindset in American culture that all
1:26:21
Speaker 4: of us have been watching on TV. If you're watching
1:26:25
Speaker 4: independent news stations, you're watching these protesters constantly do this.
1:26:31
Speaker 4: And the reason I'm bringing it up is is directly
1:26:33
Speaker 4: tied to the culture of the settlement that city council
1:26:37
Speaker 4: is talking about on today, meaning meaning meaning there's no
1:26:41
Speaker 4: accountability here again. They're about to literally trash all law
1:26:47
Speaker 4: enforcement by saying that in some way we owe Hinton
1:26:50
Speaker 4: some money. We didn't give a point one million dollars
1:26:53
Speaker 4: away to protesters in downtown, for these are taxpayer, not
1:26:58
Speaker 4: their money, our money. We're gonna go away. We're gonna
1:27:01
Speaker 4: give that eight We're gonna give eight point one million
1:27:03
Speaker 4: dollars away with them. And on the same time, we
1:27:06
Speaker 4: see this national stuff happening with no accountability. Brian Thomas,
1:27:09
Speaker 4: guess what our mayor says, We're gonna We're gonna increase taxes.
1:27:13
Speaker 4: I don't want to pay for this crap. I don't
1:27:16
Speaker 4: want any money. I work incredibly hard as a small
1:27:20
Speaker 4: business owner to do what I do. I don't want
1:27:23
Speaker 4: to give the city any more of my money. I
1:27:26
Speaker 4: am tired of them, and that is what is happening.
1:27:28
Speaker 4: People are deciding I want to leave the city of Cincinnati.
1:27:33
Speaker 4: I'm gonna move my business, I'm gonna move my house.
1:27:36
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a part of this because
1:27:38
Speaker 4: they continue to do craziness like this. This, the hint
1:27:42
Speaker 4: In's craziness is absolutely crazy. What we saw was Renee
1:27:46
Speaker 4: Good and guess what there will be a lawsuit related
1:27:49
Speaker 4: to Renee Good. Yeah, somebody's gonna sue the federal government
1:27:53
Speaker 4: and you and I. There are a lot of different
1:27:55
Speaker 4: camera angles on this. Those who want to know, there's
1:27:58
Speaker 4: a camera camera ankle that clearly shows the officer in
1:28:03
Speaker 4: the front of the vehicle being struck. Now, you can
1:28:07
Speaker 4: make up and show whatever video you want out there, right,
1:28:10
Speaker 4: but the reality of it is there was an officer
1:28:13
Speaker 4: in the front who was struck, who had his weapon
1:28:16
Speaker 4: and discharged it, and that officer, that ice officer is
1:28:19
Speaker 4: going to absolutely be cleared, period. But you're still going
1:28:23
Speaker 4: to see the family turn around and sue the federal government,
1:28:26
Speaker 4: just like the Hintons, just like the eight point one
1:28:29
Speaker 4: million dollars settlement, We're going to continue to see this
1:28:32
Speaker 4: lack of accountability and common sense in our culture.
1:28:36
Speaker 1: Brand Thomas, Yes, we will well, at least under the
1:28:38
Speaker 1: Trump administration Justice Apartment, probably unlikely to settle or enter
1:28:43
Speaker 1: into a quick settlement agreement with the family with a
1:28:47
Speaker 1: good family. Let's bring Christopher back for one more seven
1:28:49
Speaker 1: thirty seven right now. If you have krsee the talk
1:28:51
Speaker 1: station we mentioned plumb tye plumbing, which is plumbing done right.
1:28:53
Speaker 1: They know you deserve better a plumb tight A plus
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Speaker 1: the BBB like forty one to fifty five cars city
1:28:58
Speaker 1: talk stations. Rye Thomas with Christopher Smith and doing the
1:29:00
Speaker 1: Smith events at Christopher. I know it was baked into
1:29:04
Speaker 1: the cake of what you were saying with regard to
1:29:06
Speaker 1: the local issues we have in the city of Cincinnati
1:29:09
Speaker 1: on crime, this whole hint and settlement thing that's going
1:29:11
Speaker 1: to be talked about today, as well as the overlapping
1:29:13
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota issues and the shooting of that is
1:29:16
Speaker 1: goodwoman who was interfering with officers doing their their proper
1:29:21
Speaker 1: appropriate law enforcement role. A lot of people are taking
1:29:24
Speaker 1: the cues from elected officials. What do the mayor up
1:29:26
Speaker 1: there say, get the hell he used a different word
1:29:29
Speaker 1: than hell out of my city Ice. They think they
1:29:31
Speaker 1: have the moral high ground, thinking that saying Ice are
1:29:34
Speaker 1: the modern day Gestapo and their jack boot thugs, and
1:29:38
Speaker 1: oh my god, you know, really they're only trying to
1:29:40
Speaker 1: get the worst of the worst out of our country.
1:29:42
Speaker 1: But when you've got elected officials and prominent political figures
1:29:46
Speaker 1: egging people on pivoting back over to local Iris Rolli's
1:29:49
Speaker 1: on video interfering with police officers doing their business, And
1:29:52
Speaker 1: according to Signal ninety nine, she was actually at the
1:29:55
Speaker 1: remember when the sheriff's dead, but he got ran over
1:29:57
Speaker 1: the other day. You just mentioned that. The day after
1:30:00
Speaker 1: the hinting kid was shot, his father ran over and
1:30:03
Speaker 1: killed a SHARE's deputy. Civil ninety nine said she was
1:30:06
Speaker 1: on the scenes there telling people witnesses to it not
1:30:09
Speaker 1: to cooperate with police, and ended up being put in
1:30:11
Speaker 1: the back of a police car herself. Wasn't cited. The
1:30:14
Speaker 1: video camera evidence from that incident's apparently locked in a
1:30:18
Speaker 1: safe to be seen by us down the road, she says.
1:30:21
Speaker 1: But there she is prominent local figure Iris Rowley, very
1:30:24
Speaker 1: politically connected and very prominent in impacting election out comes,
1:30:28
Speaker 1: doing exactly what you and I believe is the wrong thing.
1:30:31
Speaker 1: Putting officers lives in jeopardy as well as their own life.
1:30:35
Speaker 4: First, I agree with you and the judge in the
1:30:38
Speaker 4: case should release the video definitely in light of this
1:30:43
Speaker 4: discussion about a settlement. But of course we won't have
1:30:46
Speaker 4: that transparency, just like we didn't have the transparency and
1:30:50
Speaker 4: the beatdown that happened in the middle of the city
1:30:52
Speaker 4: where the gentleman clearly was punched first, and most Americans
1:30:57
Speaker 4: don't know that. They still are looking at the old video.
1:31:00
Speaker 4: So this city has a problem with transparency. I e.
1:31:04
Speaker 4: With Signal ninety nine was sharing with us is executive
1:31:07
Speaker 4: session today. I want to share two quick points with
1:31:11
Speaker 4: you before we get off. I was at my daughter's
1:31:13
Speaker 4: swim meeting. I know you were a swimmer, and it
1:31:16
Speaker 4: was at Princeton High School. Thanked them for hosting. Seaton
1:31:19
Speaker 4: has a phenomenal team, and my hat goes out to
1:31:22
Speaker 4: coach Jody Schaeffer. But I was sitting there watching the
1:31:25
Speaker 4: five hundred being swim by all of the different girls.
1:31:29
Speaker 4: The difference between first and second place was less than
1:31:32
Speaker 4: a second most of the time. Oh yeah, right, very
1:31:35
Speaker 4: very close. Look did you hear Brian Thomas here? Listen?
1:31:38
Speaker 4: Hoddie this is a swimmer. I couldn't imagine a dude
1:31:43
Speaker 4: in that pool swimming against my daughter. This again goes
1:31:48
Speaker 4: back to the lack of accountability and common sense that's
1:31:51
Speaker 4: coming from the Democratic Party. And that's why so many
1:31:53
Speaker 4: Democrats are saying, I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The
1:31:57
Speaker 4: Democratic Party left me. I couldn't I agin a dude
1:32:01
Speaker 4: swimming in that pool a seat and swim meet against
1:32:04
Speaker 4: any of those girls as where they're cheering and they're
1:32:07
Speaker 4: trying to get scholarships to go to college. It doesn't
1:32:10
Speaker 4: make any sense, Brian Thomas, and this is what is
1:32:13
Speaker 4: wrong right now in the Democratic Party. And I'm trying
1:32:17
Speaker 4: this directly to the governor's race, where we see David
1:32:21
Speaker 4: Pepper now is the running mate for Amy Acting. Look,
1:32:25
Speaker 4: let me share it be really clear. I'm on the
1:32:28
Speaker 4: other side of that. I support the Vekswami and I
1:32:31
Speaker 4: have supported him almost from day one. That gubernatorial race
1:32:36
Speaker 4: is critical because it's the check and balance to all
1:32:39
Speaker 4: these local municipalities around us. If we lose the governor's
1:32:43
Speaker 4: office this year, we in Ohio we are in serious trouble. People.
1:32:49
Speaker 4: You cannot stay home from that election like you just
1:32:52
Speaker 4: did in this local election. We need every single body,
1:32:56
Speaker 4: every eighteen year old register to vote, making sure you're
1:33:00
Speaker 4: address matches the Board of Elections, and we need everybody
1:33:04
Speaker 4: at the polls rocking it because the other side, when
1:33:07
Speaker 4: you're watching these videos Brian Thomas of people obstructing ice officers,
1:33:12
Speaker 4: obstructing police officers, right, all of these settlements that you're
1:33:16
Speaker 4: seeing coming out of these liberal cities. If we don't
1:33:19
Speaker 4: have a check and balance in that governor's office, shame
1:33:23
Speaker 4: on us. This is a very important race. And I
1:33:26
Speaker 4: have been shocked by mister Pepper and all of his
1:33:29
Speaker 4: tweets over the weekend trying to shame Vivek Ramaswami for
1:33:34
Speaker 4: being financially successful. He's a billionaire. I get it, I
1:33:38
Speaker 4: understand it. He's self made. But David Pepper got his
1:33:42
Speaker 4: money from his family. He's a trust fund baby. And
1:33:45
Speaker 4: I'm sitting there going would I want to trust fund
1:33:47
Speaker 4: baby in the governor Gubernatorio or the Governor's office? Or
1:33:51
Speaker 4: do I want a self made billionaire who knows how
1:33:55
Speaker 4: to make money run budgets? Pull this dog on Ohio,
1:33:59
Speaker 4: this great state into the twenty first century. Whether it's education,
1:34:03
Speaker 4: whether it's economics, whether it's jobs, whether it's housing, you
1:34:07
Speaker 4: name it. We need a fresh set of eyes on Ohio.
1:34:11
Speaker 4: And Brian, I am really worried about this race, that
1:34:14
Speaker 4: people are getting lost in the sawce. There is no
1:34:16
Speaker 4: way when she picked the two of them together, to me,
1:34:19
Speaker 4: are like, I got one who locked us all down right,
1:34:22
Speaker 4: and I've got the other one here who doesn't know
1:34:25
Speaker 4: anything about business, that's just been handed with a silver spoof,
1:34:28
Speaker 4: and we want to turn over the entire state of
1:34:30
Speaker 4: Ohisle to them. This makes absolutely no sense, Brian Thomas.
1:34:34
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you, whether it's Leah Dinkin Locker who's
1:34:37
Speaker 4: running for the judgeship, we're always talking about the judges
1:34:41
Speaker 4: and we're worried about people being let out where you
1:34:45
Speaker 4: better vote for Leah Dinkin Locker. You're worried about Winkler.
1:34:48
Speaker 4: Winkler's running here locally, we better elect him. My point,
1:34:52
Speaker 4: Brian is the penicilin you know it. Elections have consequences.
1:34:58
Speaker 4: We'll see it today with the Executive session and who
1:35:00
Speaker 4: will vote to say no. Executive Session, I'm going to
1:35:05
Speaker 4: shine a light on hinting and whether we settle the
1:35:09
Speaker 4: case or not. I'm going to have the courage to
1:35:11
Speaker 4: tell the public who will pay the bill, Brian Thomas,
1:35:14
Speaker 4: We're the ones paying the bill, not them, that they
1:35:16
Speaker 4: get a chance to listen to the dialogue around whether
1:35:19
Speaker 4: we should give this family any money at all. I
1:35:23
Speaker 4: extend my deepest condolences to this young man and his family,
1:35:27
Speaker 4: but we do not in this city should not be
1:35:30
Speaker 4: giving them any money for a young man who had
1:35:33
Speaker 4: a gun and a stolen car running from an officer
1:35:35
Speaker 4: and turning that weapon towards that officer, or that officer
1:35:39
Speaker 4: to take the unfortunate decision to take his life. Brian Thomas,
1:35:42
Speaker 4: we are moving in a world here, brother, where it
1:35:45
Speaker 4: is complete insanity. It's not black, it's not white, it's
1:35:49
Speaker 4: not Latino. Brother, it's values and my values to saying
1:35:54
Speaker 4: what is right and wrong. We've got to go back
1:35:57
Speaker 4: to common sense. I love you, Brian Thomas, and said
1:35:59
Speaker 4: you who allowed me to have a voice on your show.
1:36:02
Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure. I appreciate your common sense words.
1:36:05
Speaker 1: And I'll look forward to another segment on this on Monday,
1:36:07
Speaker 1: and maybe even another one before then. We find out
1:36:10
Speaker 1: they do an executive session, or we find out what
1:36:12
Speaker 1: goes on behind the scenes. In one we get some
1:36:14
Speaker 1: details on that. Maybe you have a chime in during
1:36:16
Speaker 1: the week on that. So however, it's like.
1:36:18
Speaker 4: At boat Smiman at please followed me there, please follow me?
1:36:22
Speaker 4: All right?
1:36:22
Speaker 1: Take care brother, Take care seven forty eight right now
1:36:24
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1:36:27
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1:36:30
Speaker 1: one segment, followed by v bay Ramaswami and Zach Kynes,
1:36:35
Speaker 1: who's running for Ohio State Senate seventh District, got the
1:36:37
Speaker 1: AFP Americans Prosperity endorsement. Donovan and Neil talking about that
1:36:41
Speaker 1: earlier in the week. And of course we know about
1:36:43
Speaker 1: the mayor's proposal to raise income taxes in the city
1:36:45
Speaker 1: of Cincinnat to help deal with, among other things, job
1:36:48
Speaker 1: number one public safety, and had comment about this earlier
1:36:51
Speaker 1: in the program in the five o'clock hour. I would
1:36:54
Speaker 1: love to know, and it's still a moving target, how
1:36:56
Speaker 1: much of the Ohio state resources he is willing to
1:36:59
Speaker 1: accept resources along the lines of law enforcement that were
1:37:03
Speaker 1: offered to the mayor and the city for free from
1:37:07
Speaker 1: Governor to wine big array a sohole slate of services.
1:37:11
Speaker 1: So what is the what would be the cost of
1:37:13
Speaker 1: those If we had to pay for what we are
1:37:14
Speaker 1: being offered and the city took everything, which we don't
1:37:17
Speaker 1: even know what they're willing to take, what would that
1:37:20
Speaker 1: translate into in terms of the value of the state resources?
1:37:23
Speaker 1: Imagine it's probably a pretty much. And while we don't
1:37:25
Speaker 1: know what the income tax kick or increase is planning
1:37:29
Speaker 1: is planned to be, we know that he wants to
1:37:31
Speaker 1: raise it, and that's not a great marketing tool for
1:37:34
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. If you want people to move in,
1:37:36
Speaker 1: you got a crime problem, then you're going to raise
1:37:38
Speaker 1: income tax. Oh great, No, I didn't want to move
1:37:41
Speaker 1: there first, but now you've made it even less likely
1:37:43
Speaker 1: than I'm going to move there. Well, Todd Zinzer brilliant.
1:37:46
Speaker 1: He is former Inspector General, and boy, couldn't we use
1:37:49
Speaker 1: a lot more inspectors general out there in the world
1:37:51
Speaker 1: to find out what's being done with the taxpayer dollars.
1:37:53
Speaker 1: He's got to do podcasts out it's the proposed income
1:37:57
Speaker 1: tax increase. It's episode forty two of the Citizen Watchdog podcast,
1:38:02
Speaker 1: produced by executive producer j Just Tracker. Todd's on the
1:38:05
Speaker 1: program regularly here on the fifty five Casey Morning showd
1:38:07
Speaker 1: doing a wonderful job. He is, and he's not paid
1:38:09
Speaker 1: for the work that he does, but brilliant it is.
1:38:12
Speaker 1: And trust me, he can follow the dollars. So check
1:38:14
Speaker 1: it out. Where you get your podcasts. I heard media podcasts.
1:38:17
Speaker 1: Just search for Citizen Watchdog and get the latest episode
1:38:21
Speaker 1: of that man speaking truth to power. But speaking of
1:38:26
Speaker 1: money matters of course. Brian James coming up your retirement number,
1:38:30
Speaker 1: just change and have you adjusted it? What is the
1:38:32
Speaker 1: retirement number? Brian James on that five ak Ramaswami after
1:38:36
Speaker 1: Brian James. And we're gonna hear from Zachkynes again in
1:38:38
Speaker 1: Ohio State Senate District seven campaign tomorrow in the fifty
1:38:41
Speaker 1: five Casey Morning Show'll be airing the interview I'll be
1:38:43
Speaker 1: having with former mayor Charlie Luken, who was talking about
1:38:47
Speaker 1: where the hell the railroad money is. How come they're
1:38:49
Speaker 1: not spending it? He says, the city's not spending it
1:38:51
Speaker 1: fast enough. There's another source of revenue. Apparently they're sitting
1:38:55
Speaker 1: on the vast majority of the money that's been earned
1:38:57
Speaker 1: in that investment account. He used to be on the
1:38:59
Speaker 1: board for the rail road board, so informed he is
1:39:02
Speaker 1: on that hoping we were gonna be. I'm gonna be
1:39:04
Speaker 1: interviewing him after the show this morning for replay tomorrow,
1:39:07
Speaker 1: so we'll have the answers to those questions tomorrow morning
1:39:09
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1:39:49
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1:39:52
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1:40:01
Speaker 1: the meantime, Brian James, Smallworth Financial give it us some information.
1:40:04
Speaker 1: I guess our retirement number change. Welcome back, Brian James.
1:40:07
Speaker 1: It's always great talking with you on the morning show.
1:40:09
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll do a minuscule money Monday this morning to
1:40:12
Speaker 3: make room for some other voices as well. But yeah,
1:40:15
Speaker 3: happy new year to you and everybody out there in
1:40:17
Speaker 3: the listening world. Here, we kind of thought it would
1:40:19
Speaker 3: be a good year to or a good time at
1:40:20
Speaker 3: the beginning of the year here to just kind of
1:40:23
Speaker 3: layout what does it look like nowadays with inflation for
1:40:27
Speaker 3: people who are thinking big picture around retirement.
1:40:29
Speaker 1: All right, well, we did see reduced inflation. We're no
1:40:32
Speaker 1: longer at eight percent I guess last year, as you
1:40:34
Speaker 1: point out in your notes, three percent. Not so bad.
1:40:37
Speaker 1: A little bit higher than I guess the two percent,
1:40:39
Speaker 1: which is the ideal figure, but not so bad.
1:40:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tolerable, right, So so with the Federal Reserve
1:40:46
Speaker 3: would very very much prefer we want to be around
1:40:48
Speaker 3: two percent. That's the goal to get to get the
1:40:51
Speaker 3: interest rates down and inflation down to a level that
1:40:54
Speaker 3: is sustainable over time. We've been stuck at three percent
1:40:57
Speaker 3: for a long time. But as you point out, we're
1:40:58
Speaker 3: not at nine percent. I do not have people anymore
1:41:02
Speaker 3: talking about, oh my gosh, we have to change our
1:41:04
Speaker 3: portfolio drastically because this nine percent inflation rate is going
1:41:07
Speaker 3: to hang around forever. That was transitory. The overall inflation
1:41:12
Speaker 3: was not, as we learned different different from what the
1:41:15
Speaker 3: Biden administration told us for a very long time. Inflation
1:41:18
Speaker 3: did hang around, but not at those ridiculous levels.
1:41:20
Speaker 1: Well, as we've had many conversations before, and what you
1:41:23
Speaker 1: can expect on average over the life of your long
1:41:25
Speaker 1: term investments, isn't it like eight percent is really kind
1:41:28
Speaker 1: of where you end up over time.
1:41:30
Speaker 3: Of course, it all depends on how aggressive you're going
1:41:33
Speaker 3: to be with your investments. I mean, realistically, if you
1:41:35
Speaker 3: look at the stock market, it's averaged ten percent over
1:41:37
Speaker 3: thirty years, and these are real numbers they do take
1:41:40
Speaker 3: into account. Of course, you know, the last thirty years
1:41:43
Speaker 3: include some of the scariest years we've ever had, three
1:41:45
Speaker 3: of them in fact, thousand and two, two thousand and eight,
1:41:49
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty two, and as well as some of
1:41:52
Speaker 3: the best years we've ever had. But if you smush
1:41:54
Speaker 3: it all together. The stock market itself has average in
1:41:57
Speaker 3: the neighborhood of ten percent. That doesn't mean you should
1:41:59
Speaker 3: throw all your money in the stock market. That said,
1:42:01
Speaker 3: you know, if you have a long term time frame,
1:42:03
Speaker 3: sure that's an okay thing to do, as long as
1:42:05
Speaker 3: you understand the roller coaster. Now, on the other hand,
1:42:08
Speaker 3: what we're really talking about today, if you are in
1:42:09
Speaker 3: a situation where it's time to start drawing on that
1:42:12
Speaker 3: nest egg and hopefully you'll all be there someday, then
1:42:15
Speaker 3: you don't want to ride that roller coaster as much
1:42:17
Speaker 3: because you'll be sitting in a situation where the market
1:42:20
Speaker 3: may have taken taken ten percent from your portfolio. Plus
1:42:23
Speaker 3: you need to withdraw four maybe five percent to pay
1:42:26
Speaker 3: the bills, and that can dig us into a hole
1:42:28
Speaker 3: that sometimes we can't get out of, frank.
1:42:29
Speaker 1: So, how does one assess that withdraw raid? I note
1:42:33
Speaker 1: that you mentioned four percent That apparently was the rule
1:42:35
Speaker 1: of thumb. So how do you reassess or currently assess
1:42:40
Speaker 1: that if you're at this place right, So let's go.
1:42:42
Speaker 3: Let's do a little history on that four percent rule
1:42:44
Speaker 3: that came from a study that went from the studied
1:42:48
Speaker 3: thirty year periods, assuming that's kind of the average retirement
1:42:51
Speaker 3: length of time before end of life expectancy, thirty year
1:42:55
Speaker 3: periods starting from the nineteen thirties, so nineteen thirty to
1:42:58
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty, thirty one to sixty one one, thirty two
1:43:00
Speaker 3: to sixty two, and on and on and on all
1:43:02
Speaker 3: through that time period. And the conclusion was, if you
1:43:05
Speaker 3: withdrew four percent of your portfolio and the market did
1:43:09
Speaker 3: what it did over those thirty year periods, that's historical information.
1:43:12
Speaker 3: The four percent would never There are no thirty year
1:43:15
Speaker 3: periods where that four percent would have bankrupted you, even
1:43:18
Speaker 3: in all with all the crazy stuff that happened in
1:43:20
Speaker 3: those thirty year time periods. So that's where that comes from.
1:43:23
Speaker 3: A lot of people have been hanging their hats on that.
1:43:25
Speaker 3: It gets attacked every now and then because of inflation
1:43:28
Speaker 3: concerns or concerns that the stock market is running too hot.
1:43:31
Speaker 3: We're relying too much on history. But it still seems
1:43:34
Speaker 3: to be holding true. You know, some people want to
1:43:36
Speaker 3: come back and say, well, maybe I need to back
1:43:38
Speaker 3: off to three percent just to be on the safe side. There's,
1:43:40
Speaker 3: of course nothing wrong with that, bearing in mind that
1:43:43
Speaker 3: lifestyle is lifestyle, and that really does mean true sacrifices
1:43:47
Speaker 3: that you will see, touch and feel in how you
1:43:49
Speaker 3: live your lives. But at the same time, the whole
1:43:51
Speaker 3: point is, let's sit down, most people haven't even figured
1:43:54
Speaker 3: out what the lifestyle is let alone, but the withdrawal
1:43:57
Speaker 3: rate does to it well.
1:43:58
Speaker 1: And how long is any given person gonna live too,
1:44:02
Speaker 1: because the idea, of course, you want this money to
1:44:04
Speaker 1: last you through your retirement, and retirement quite often is
1:44:07
Speaker 1: the time when people get hit with, you know, the
1:44:09
Speaker 1: biggest medical bills, the biggest complications, the problems. You don't
1:44:12
Speaker 1: have any money coming in the door, and how many
1:44:14
Speaker 1: years am I going to be around on this planet
1:44:15
Speaker 1: to need to be able to tap into my savings.
1:44:19
Speaker 1: So it's the levels of difficulty and coming up with
1:44:22
Speaker 1: the accurate numbers seen to be almost insurmountable. Bride, Yeah,
1:44:26
Speaker 1: it really does. And that's why I have a job, frankly.
1:44:28
Speaker 3: Because we have to simulate an awful lot of different
1:44:31
Speaker 3: you know, I always walk people through that here's the
1:44:33
Speaker 3: hunky dory outcome, here's everything you ever wanted to do,
1:44:36
Speaker 3: and nothing bad ever happens. Again, that's our baseline, and
1:44:39
Speaker 3: then next to that, we can put in Okay, well,
1:44:41
Speaker 3: let's pretend we have instead of three percent inflation, let's
1:44:43
Speaker 3: pretend it's four percent or five percent something like that.
1:44:46
Speaker 3: What happens there, and all we're doing is we're playing
1:44:48
Speaker 3: with spending and time. Any financial plan is only looking
1:44:51
Speaker 3: at those two things. When you truly boil it down,
1:44:53
Speaker 3: there's a million different buttons to push and levers to
1:44:55
Speaker 3: pull to illustrate that. But again, it's only spending and time.
1:44:59
Speaker 3: That's all we're dealing with. So then right next to it,
1:45:01
Speaker 3: we'll do a stress test, which could be maybe we
1:45:04
Speaker 3: have four or five percent inflation, or it could be
1:45:06
Speaker 3: let's pretend the market punches us in the face right now,
1:45:08
Speaker 3: that happened to anybody who retired in twenty twenty one.
1:45:11
Speaker 3: They thought things were hunky dory, but then twenty twenty
1:45:14
Speaker 3: two came along and took away, possibly up to a
1:45:16
Speaker 3: twenty percent of their portfolio for a brief period of time. Now,
1:45:20
Speaker 3: for those who panic and sell out when that happens, yeah,
1:45:22
Speaker 3: that's a permanent hit. You're not getting it back. On
1:45:24
Speaker 3: the other hand, if you keep your head and you
1:45:27
Speaker 3: understand market history, then you can ride those things out.
1:45:30
Speaker 3: And still stay retired. You might not like it, that's
1:45:33
Speaker 3: a different scenario, but it doesn't mean you can't afford
1:45:35
Speaker 3: to take that hit. But the important thing is to
1:45:37
Speaker 3: know what kind of hit you can take in the
1:45:39
Speaker 3: first place. And most people don't well.
1:45:40
Speaker 1: And one of the other choices people have to consider is,
1:45:42
Speaker 1: you know, delaying retirement rather than when taking socis security
1:45:46
Speaker 1: on the earlier side, you do end up with a
1:45:49
Speaker 1: lot more by way of monthly pain. And if you
1:45:51
Speaker 1: can kick it off to say seventy.
1:45:53
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely you do. And yeah, so financial planning is
1:45:56
Speaker 3: easy if your only goal is to poke the government
1:45:58
Speaker 3: in the eye. Right. Some people come in this hey,
1:46:00
Speaker 3: by god, my plan revolves around me not taking social
1:46:03
Speaker 3: security until seventy because I want as much money as
1:46:05
Speaker 3: that government is ever going to give me. That's great.
1:46:07
Speaker 3: I will say that in my thirty years of doing this,
1:46:10
Speaker 3: I have a lot more fifty five year olds who
1:46:11
Speaker 3: say that versus sixty five year olds. Our thoughts tend
1:46:14
Speaker 3: to change over time, and I just I want my
1:46:17
Speaker 3: life back. It's less about punching the government in my face,
1:46:19
Speaker 3: and I just want my life. I was laughing about
1:46:21
Speaker 3: that so hard because it seems.
1:46:23
Speaker 1: To me a moment in time ago, I wouldn't even
1:46:25
Speaker 1: entertain the idea of discussing retirement, Like what the hell
1:46:28
Speaker 1: am I going to do? And no, I'm probably gonna
1:46:30
Speaker 1: die behind whatever job I'm gonna do, is always my
1:46:32
Speaker 1: philosophy at this particular point, die behind the microphone. But no,
1:46:35
Speaker 1: I think about retirement all the time now, bro It so.
1:46:37
Speaker 3: Look a little different, you know, the more we age,
1:46:39
Speaker 3: the more we think about it.
1:46:40
Speaker 1: It looks kind of cool, really is. And then real
1:46:42
Speaker 1: estate and liquidity I understand, and that makes perfect sense.
1:46:45
Speaker 1: A lot of your clients have a significant amount of
1:46:48
Speaker 1: money tied up in real estate, but can you actually
1:46:52
Speaker 1: access it? And is it something that you should factor
1:46:54
Speaker 1: in terms of your overall investments, Like you've got a
1:46:57
Speaker 1: million dollars invested in the markets and distributed them mutual
1:47:00
Speaker 1: funds and bonds and all that. And if you've got
1:47:01
Speaker 1: a million dollars in house, you really don't have two
1:47:04
Speaker 1: million to play with, do you?
1:47:06
Speaker 7: No?
1:47:06
Speaker 3: Exactly, because that's hard to get to. You got to
1:47:08
Speaker 3: keep the rain off your stuff, so you have to
1:47:10
Speaker 3: have a roof over your head. There are ways to
1:47:13
Speaker 3: do it. I mean, you can there are ways to
1:47:15
Speaker 3: access that via home equity lines of credit. By the way,
1:47:18
Speaker 3: I think those are a good idea, even if it's
1:47:20
Speaker 3: a just in case, because debt against your home is
1:47:23
Speaker 3: probably going to be the best debt you can ever get.
1:47:26
Speaker 3: Most people aren't comfortable with this, but when it comes
1:47:28
Speaker 3: down to you, I'll give an example. So let's say
1:47:31
Speaker 3: you figure out you need to buy a car, you know,
1:47:33
Speaker 3: sooner than you thought you would, or something like that,
1:47:35
Speaker 3: and you don't have the cash or what more happens.
1:47:38
Speaker 3: More commonly happens is you know what, I don't want
1:47:40
Speaker 3: to take any more Let's say youre at the end
1:47:41
Speaker 3: of the year. I don't want to take any more
1:47:43
Speaker 3: tax heets. I don't want to cause any more taxation.
1:47:45
Speaker 3: I really want to push this into the next year. Right,
1:47:48
Speaker 3: you could borrow fifty thousand dollars against your home. Let's
1:47:51
Speaker 3: pretend that that's you're getting charged maybe six or seven
1:47:54
Speaker 3: percent on that borrow fifty thousand dollars against the home
1:47:57
Speaker 3: in you know, the November December timeframe to get this
1:47:59
Speaker 3: situation fixed, and then in January February, when we're in
1:48:03
Speaker 3: a new tax here, that's when you take the distribution
1:48:05
Speaker 3: and cause the taxation. You know, we don't want that.
1:48:08
Speaker 3: But at the same time, all you will have done
1:48:10
Speaker 3: in that case is borrowed fifty thousand dollars and you
1:48:12
Speaker 3: pay again currently six to seven percent interest on that,
1:48:15
Speaker 3: but only for a few months. So you're really talking
1:48:17
Speaker 3: less than one or two percent true hard dollars worth
1:48:20
Speaker 3: of interest. And that beats the heck out of needing
1:48:23
Speaker 3: to finance things, you know, with a credit card or
1:48:25
Speaker 3: you know, or borrowing from the dealership for a fixed
1:48:29
Speaker 3: amount of time. So there are ways to tap into that.
1:48:31
Speaker 3: I think it's a good idea to have a home
1:48:32
Speaker 3: equity line of credit in your back pocket, even if
1:48:34
Speaker 3: you never draw on it.
1:48:35
Speaker 1: Well, isn't that how the uber rich manage their money
1:48:38
Speaker 1: and avoid paying income taxes?
1:48:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't sell your assets, borrow against them, right, If
1:48:42
Speaker 3: you want to play that game, then don't sell anything.
1:48:45
Speaker 3: Figure out how you can borrow against them. If you
1:48:47
Speaker 3: have a portfolio of securities outside of an IRA, you
1:48:50
Speaker 3: can do margin loans, you can do portfolio loans, you
1:48:52
Speaker 3: can borrow against those. Yes, there have to be payments made.
1:48:55
Speaker 3: You are jumping through financial hoops to do this, of course,
1:48:58
Speaker 3: but there's a reason that rich people get.
1:48:59
Speaker 1: Rich, Brian James. Very interesting and informative discussion we've had here.
1:49:03
Speaker 1: As we end of the new year, consider that. And
1:49:05
Speaker 1: of course, as I always point out, it's great to
1:49:07
Speaker 1: hang think half a financial planner sitting on your side
1:49:09
Speaker 1: of the table, one that knows you a produciary obligation.
1:49:12
Speaker 1: That way you don't have to fret and worry about
1:49:14
Speaker 1: these issues day to day. You let somebody like Brian
1:49:16
Speaker 1: do it. Brian James, appreciate all worth loading you out
1:49:19
Speaker 1: every Monday. We'll do this again next Monday. I hope
1:49:21
Speaker 1: you have a fantastic week, my.
1:49:22
Speaker 2: Friend, you bet have a good week.
1:49:23
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you Monday eight fifteen. Right now fifty
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1:49:27
Speaker 1: friends at zimmer A twenty one and fifty five Carse
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1:49:34
Speaker 1: extra special. Welcome back to the fifty five Carse Morning Show.
1:49:37
Speaker 1: A very happy New Year to the next Governor of
1:49:39
Speaker 1: the State of Ohio. V. V Ramaswami vvike Rama saw me.
1:49:42
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you back on the show, sir. Welcome.
1:49:45
Speaker 1: Good to talk you. Brian.
1:49:46
Speaker 2: Heany you do it.
1:49:47
Speaker 1: Mom, doing great, Lisa, as great as I can be.
1:49:49
Speaker 1: I thought we might have, you know, hit the ground running.
1:49:50
Speaker 1: It a little bit slower encountered your twenty twenty six.
1:49:53
Speaker 1: But I keep joking. I've got like six months of
1:49:56
Speaker 1: flood of breaking news stories that you know normally would
1:49:59
Speaker 1: take place over a long, long period of time, all
1:50:01
Speaker 1: crunched into a tiny little amount of space. There's a
1:50:03
Speaker 1: whole lot to unpackage. I hope the whole year isn't
1:50:05
Speaker 1: this complicated. But I'm looking forward to November because I'm
1:50:08
Speaker 1: looking forward to you being elected as Ohio as next governor,
1:50:11
Speaker 1: way ahead and all the polling for everything I can tell,
1:50:13
Speaker 1: and you've kind of solidified that the team. You've selected
1:50:16
Speaker 1: Rob McCauley as you're running mate. What led you to
1:50:20
Speaker 1: choose Rob over the others who were under consideration, Vivek, Well.
1:50:25
Speaker 14: Look, there was, first of all, a lot of great
1:50:26
Speaker 14: people in office and running for office and even not
1:50:29
Speaker 14: running for office who I considered. But it's going to
1:50:32
Speaker 14: be a team effort. But the reason I selected Rob
1:50:34
Speaker 14: as lieutenant governor is think about it, Brian, is I'm
1:50:37
Speaker 14: an entrepreneur, I'm a businessman. I'm not a politician and
1:50:41
Speaker 14: I come from the outside, and we're going to shake
1:50:43
Speaker 14: things up where necessary. Right, I'm going to tax reform,
1:50:46
Speaker 14: regulatory reform, you name it. But in order to actually
1:50:50
Speaker 14: turn that vision into reality, I wanted a governing partner
1:50:54
Speaker 14: who does have the experience of passing laws, understanding the
1:50:58
Speaker 14: effectiveness of working with the led and in that department,
1:51:02
Speaker 14: I think there's nobody better than Rob who, by the
1:51:05
Speaker 14: age of forty, got to be Senate President in Ohio.
1:51:08
Speaker 14: He had served in both the House and the Senate.
1:51:11
Speaker 14: But at the same time, he isn't somebody who's off
1:51:13
Speaker 14: his peak, and you know, in the Rocker, I should
1:51:15
Speaker 14: say he's a young man still, he's about the same
1:51:18
Speaker 14: age as me. He's of the next generation, and so
1:51:21
Speaker 14: I think he brings that youthful perspective and energy while
1:51:24
Speaker 14: still actually having legislative experience that I don't have. But
1:51:29
Speaker 14: I do bring the outsider experience to the business executive
1:51:32
Speaker 14: and an entrepreneur, and I think that's going to be
1:51:34
Speaker 14: a powerful one two punch combination. Not just to talk
1:51:38
Speaker 14: about policy changes, not just to make noise on social
1:51:42
Speaker 14: media right, which the too many politicians focus on these days, but.
1:51:45
Speaker 1: To actually deliver meaningful change.
1:51:48
Speaker 14: That lifts up the lives of allolands, that puts more
1:51:52
Speaker 14: money in your pockets, and also equally importantly improves the
1:51:56
Speaker 14: quality of our schools.
1:51:57
Speaker 1: That's what I'm focused on, fair enough, And I guess
1:52:00
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing is you are demonstrably successful as a businessman.
1:52:04
Speaker 1: You know how business works, and you work that to
1:52:06
Speaker 1: your own personal success. You plan on bringing that to
1:52:08
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Having that keen understanding McCauley, I
1:52:12
Speaker 1: guess understands the sausage making process. Can I put it
1:52:15
Speaker 1: that way, sir?
1:52:17
Speaker 14: Absolutely, that's exactly right. And you know there's a famous
1:52:20
Speaker 14: man born in Ohio by the name of Thomas Edison
1:52:22
Speaker 14: who famously said a vision without execution is a hallucination.
1:52:27
Speaker 14: All right, So I'm bringing the vision and I'm also
1:52:29
Speaker 14: going to be able to execute, but I want a
1:52:31
Speaker 14: governing partner who helps me execute with the legislature because
1:52:36
Speaker 14: a lot of what I want to do, some of
1:52:37
Speaker 14: it we can do through executive power, but a lot
1:52:40
Speaker 14: of what I'm going to want to do is going
1:52:41
Speaker 14: to require legislation. That's going to be Rob helping me
1:52:45
Speaker 14: work with our legislature, which he knows in and out
1:52:48
Speaker 14: that's the sausage making that's required, and he's able to
1:52:51
Speaker 14: do it while still being young and energetic. And I
1:52:54
Speaker 14: like that about him. And look, let's talk about the goals,
1:52:56
Speaker 14: not just talk about sausage making. Let's talk about why
1:52:59
Speaker 14: we're in this, which is, not only do we want
1:53:02
Speaker 14: to bring costs down, and this is the focus across
1:53:04
Speaker 14: the board in the country, but I want to also
1:53:07
Speaker 14: be the state that actually makes you wealthier, increases your
1:53:11
Speaker 14: after tax take home pay by rolling back property taxes.
1:53:15
Speaker 14: I want to deliver the biggest property tax rollback we
1:53:18
Speaker 14: have seen in the United States of America. And I
1:53:20
Speaker 14: want to make Ohio zero income tax state while we're
1:53:23
Speaker 14: at it, and you able to roll back both income taxation,
1:53:26
Speaker 14: property taxation, and even regulatory taxation. Yes, and the reason
1:53:31
Speaker 14: your electric bills are seventy eighty percent hiring some parts
1:53:33
Speaker 14: of the state is because of the regulations that inhibit
1:53:37
Speaker 14: energy production.
1:53:38
Speaker 1: With a tax off his platform, he's promising a reform
1:53:42
Speaker 1: and energy And I'm laughing out loud because I'm still
1:53:45
Speaker 1: walking funny since the last Duke Bill I got. I
1:53:47
Speaker 1: couldn't believe my eyes. We need to do something about
1:53:50
Speaker 1: that control. Yeah, lowering the price of energy, money in
1:53:54
Speaker 1: our pockets.
1:53:55
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I've been talking about this is the day I
1:53:57
Speaker 14: launched the campaign. Now, I launched the campaig in Fibruary
1:54:01
Speaker 14: of twenty twenty five, now right, and so I already
1:54:05
Speaker 14: twenty second Fember of twenty twenty five. I said that
1:54:08
Speaker 14: our electric bills are going to continue to go up
1:54:11
Speaker 14: because of the supply demand imbalance, and a lot of
1:54:14
Speaker 14: people told me that, I don't think people believe you
1:54:16
Speaker 14: on that. Well, then summer last year rolled around, and
1:54:19
Speaker 14: then fall last year rolled around, and what do we see.
1:54:21
Speaker 14: We saw that spike. And so I do think we
1:54:24
Speaker 14: need a governor who is an entrepreneur, who's a businessman,
1:54:27
Speaker 14: who's able to see where the puck is going, even economically,
1:54:31
Speaker 14: and make those decisions in a calculated, thoughtful way for islands.
1:54:37
Speaker 14: I've built successful companies. I'm proud to say it because
1:54:40
Speaker 14: of the opportunities I've been given in this state. The
1:54:43
Speaker 14: education that I gained in Cincinnati, went to public school's
1:54:45
Speaker 14: three eighth grade, went to Saint X for high school.
1:54:48
Speaker 14: So I'm so grateful for the opportunities I've been given.
1:54:50
Speaker 14: But to be one of the most successful businessmen probably
1:54:54
Speaker 14: in the last several decades coming out of this state.
1:54:56
Speaker 14: I know how to solve the problems that this state
1:54:59
Speaker 14: faces too. And with Rob at my side, working with
1:55:02
Speaker 14: the legislature, we're just gonna get things done, not just
1:55:05
Speaker 14: talk about it, but actually act. And I'm looking forward
1:55:08
Speaker 14: to starting next January so it can actually deliver on
1:55:11
Speaker 14: bringing down those electric bills, bringing down those property taxes,
1:55:14
Speaker 14: and eventually bringing the income tax down to zero.
1:55:17
Speaker 1: Check out the platform, help him out. His vision for
1:55:19
Speaker 1: Ohio is an outstanding one, and that is a confident
1:55:22
Speaker 1: man I've got on the phone today. Vvig Ramaswami. You
1:55:24
Speaker 1: can help him online, learn about the campaign strategy and
1:55:27
Speaker 1: maybe donate some money. V vague vi v e k
1:55:30
Speaker 1: v V four Ohio dot com. That's the word for
1:55:33
Speaker 1: not the number VIVG for Ohio dot com. Get over there,
1:55:36
Speaker 1: help them out and help him out with a campaign trail.
1:55:39
Speaker 1: Knock some doors. Mister Ramaswami. Thank you so much for
1:55:41
Speaker 1: joining my program. It's always a pleasure to hear from
1:55:43
Speaker 1: you of an open venue right here to talk anytime
1:55:45
Speaker 1: you want about the issues as we move fast toward November.
1:55:50
Speaker 4: Thank you.
1:55:50
Speaker 14: Brian Good talking to you.
1:55:51
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a pleasure. Height twenty seven right now, stick around.
1:55:53
Speaker 1: Zach Haynes, speaking of elections in November, got Ohio State
1:55:56
Speaker 1: Senate candidate for District seven, Zach Haynes, wildly successful businessman
1:56:00
Speaker 1: and da Romaso, I mean, running for governor of the
1:56:01
Speaker 1: state of Ohio. We have some options here in the
1:56:03
Speaker 1: state of Ohio as we fast approach November in terms
1:56:06
Speaker 1: of state Senate races. One of those receiving the Americans
1:56:09
Speaker 1: for Prosperity endorsement just last Tuesday with Donald O'Neil joining
1:56:13
Speaker 1: the program, Ohio State Senate District candidate for numbers District seven.
1:56:17
Speaker 1: Welcome to the program, Zach Haynes. It's a real pleasure
1:56:19
Speaker 1: to you. Have you, I should say back on because
1:56:21
Speaker 1: you did chime in on the subject of your endorsement
1:56:23
Speaker 1: last week. Good to hear from you, Zach.
1:56:25
Speaker 5: Happy Monday, Brian, Happy New Year. I got to tell
1:56:28
Speaker 5: you and your listeners last night was rough. I woke
1:56:31
Speaker 5: up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.
1:56:35
Speaker 5: It's just like the worst nightmare I have ever had.
1:56:37
Speaker 5: That Amy Acton and Juvid Pepper were in the Governor's office. Yeah,
1:56:41
Speaker 5: I mean, my gosh, it was terrible. The whole place
1:56:44
Speaker 5: was shut down. Everybody was wearing masks again, So I mean,
1:56:48
Speaker 5: let's not do that. I hoy support BVEC and my god,
1:56:51
Speaker 5: is refreshing to have an entrepreneur and an outsider running
1:56:54
Speaker 5: for governor in Ohio at this pivotal crossroads in our state.
1:56:58
Speaker 1: Well, and an entrepreneur also running for district's seven Senate set.
1:57:01
Speaker 1: Apparently you have quite a business and very successful business background.
1:57:04
Speaker 1: That's such an important thing for an elected official. I
1:57:07
Speaker 1: get so frustrated, Zach Haynes, when we have elected officials
1:57:10
Speaker 1: who literally have had no connection with independent business, private business.
1:57:14
Speaker 1: They don't understand how it works, and yet they get
1:57:16
Speaker 1: elected to higher office and then are expected to come
1:57:18
Speaker 1: up with brilliant ideas about how we can better run
1:57:21
Speaker 1: and manage the state. I think it's only people who've
1:57:23
Speaker 1: had direct experience with business and leadership and industry that
1:57:26
Speaker 1: really have any concept on how to fix problem because
1:57:28
Speaker 1: they've had to deal with those problems.
1:57:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, one hundred percent, Brian. Look, I'm a father two boys,
1:57:35
Speaker 5: a CEO, lifelong conservative from Southwest Ohiom, not a career politician.
1:57:40
Speaker 5: I grew up in a family owned business. So I
1:57:42
Speaker 5: know what it means that work hard me to pay roll,
1:57:45
Speaker 5: balance a budget. And Brian, when you overspend in business, newsflash,
1:57:49
Speaker 5: you don't get a bailout. All right, you fail, all right.
1:57:52
Speaker 5: Government needs to start working like a business. I'm not
1:57:55
Speaker 5: running for office for the state Senate to join the
1:57:57
Speaker 5: club and Columbus, we've got to shake things up. I mean,
1:58:00
Speaker 5: I've seen government from the inside. We've seen it from
1:58:02
Speaker 5: the outside. It wastes money, it grows too big, and
1:58:06
Speaker 5: it loses sight of the people who it's supposed to serve.
1:58:09
Speaker 5: So my vision, and I think it's probably very similar
1:58:12
Speaker 5: to Eves, is I want to Ohio to be the
1:58:15
Speaker 5: most competitive and prosperous state in the country for the
1:58:19
Speaker 5: average family and worker. And we're doing some good things,
1:58:23
Speaker 5: but at the same time, families are getting crushed by
1:58:26
Speaker 5: property taxes. Spending keeps going up. These budgets have gone
1:58:30
Speaker 5: up by billions of dollars over the last couple of years,
1:58:32
Speaker 5: very little accountability. Parents are losing control of children's education.
1:58:36
Speaker 5: Small business. As you mentioned, small businesses are buried under
1:58:40
Speaker 5: regulations written by people who've never owned a business, and
1:58:44
Speaker 5: Columbus is more focused at times a grown government than
1:58:47
Speaker 5: protecting tax payers. And you know, as a father, that
1:58:50
Speaker 5: hits home for me, and probably like a lot of
1:58:52
Speaker 5: your listeners, you know, I want my kids to have
1:58:55
Speaker 5: more opportunity than I had, not less. I want them
1:58:58
Speaker 5: to be able to actually afford a home, to raise
1:58:59
Speaker 5: a family, to start a business if they want to,
1:59:03
Speaker 5: and to stay right here in Ohio. But what we're
1:59:05
Speaker 5: seeing is people in the state are moving away to
1:59:07
Speaker 5: get ahead. So that's why I'm running for the Ohio
1:59:10
Speaker 5: State Senate District seven. I want to keep that American
1:59:12
Speaker 5: dream alive attainable for the next generation here in Ohio,
1:59:16
Speaker 5: and I think the voters are responding to that message. Brian.
1:59:19
Speaker 5: I'm going to file with over four hundred thousand dollars
1:59:22
Speaker 5: cash on hand. I've got more than eighty endorsements from
1:59:26
Speaker 5: conservatives at every level, from Congressman Warren Davidson, Congressman Dave Taylor,
1:59:31
Speaker 5: Steve Shabbtt, brad Winstrip, Jim or Nacy, Bob McEwan, county
1:59:34
Speaker 5: wide local elected officials, grassroots activists, groups like Ohio Value Voters,
1:59:39
Speaker 5: which is a pro life, pro family organization, and as
1:59:41
Speaker 5: you mentioned, Americans for Prosperity so I'm ready to shake
1:59:45
Speaker 5: things up and we need more business people in office.
1:59:49
Speaker 1: We're going to continue. We'll bring Zach Haynes back and
1:59:51
Speaker 1: just so by way of assistance for Zach's campaign. And
1:59:53
Speaker 1: what an amazing crew of endorsements you've got there. You're
1:59:56
Speaker 1: in good company. My friend that speaks volumes Haynes Ai
2:00:00
Speaker 1: n e s the number of the word for Haynes
2:00:03
Speaker 1: for Ohio dot com. It's all right there. It can
2:00:06
Speaker 1: help him out, learn about him in the campaign. Let's
2:00:08
Speaker 1: bring Zach back and find out about maybe why is
2:00:12
Speaker 1: it that we don't have an appealing state right now?
2:00:14
Speaker 1: We've got Republicans in leadership, we have Republican governor. Let
2:00:17
Speaker 1: me remind people of the obvious. We run the herb
2:00:19
Speaker 1: Republicans around the House and the Senate in Ohio, and
2:00:21
Speaker 1: yet seems to be like herding cats. Where's that property
2:00:24
Speaker 1: tax relief that we've been promised? Where's the energy relief?
2:00:27
Speaker 1: More with Zach Kines stick around. It's eight thirty five
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Speaker 2: Man, it's the new year and for many of KRS
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Speaker 1: A thirty eight thirty five krs the talk station bron
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Speaker 1: Thomas with state Senate candidate his named Zach Haynes. He's
2:00:47
Speaker 1: already seen AFP's endorsement. If you listen to the number
2:00:49
Speaker 1: of folks endorsing Zach Kynes for the seventh district seat
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Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio. He's got all the
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Speaker 1: right people on his side. When you say Warren Davidson
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Speaker 1: out of the gate there, I know you're in good company.
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Speaker 5: That's strong.
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Speaker 1: That's like the good housekeeping stamp of political approval right there,
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Speaker 1: so real quick here a regular topic of conversation, most
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Speaker 1: notably dominated by the state of Minnesota. All the fraud,
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Speaker 1: wasted abuse in various government programs that we've been hearing
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Speaker 1: this for a long time. We have it in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio as well, perhaps on that not on
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Speaker 1: that epic level, but areas where we could ferret out
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Speaker 1: what sounds like billions of dollars of potential potential fraud, waste,
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Speaker 1: and abuse. Notably like the Medicaid program. Well it's okay,
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Speaker 1: we're getting federal dollars reimburses. Well, that's our taxpayer dollars too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, at least as a concept, Zach, Are you
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Speaker 1: desirous of making a priority getting rid of fraud, wasted abuse,
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Speaker 1: and these modern times we have with computer technology. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's a big ask these days.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Brian, it is absolutely absurd the amount of waste,
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Speaker 5: the amount of fraud, and frankly, the sheer level of
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Speaker 5: bureaucracy we have at every level of the government government
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Speaker 5: with respect to boards, agencies, commissions. So we need more
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Speaker 5: stringent auditing, we need more meats testing, We need to
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Speaker 5: qualify everybody who's receiving a single dollar of our taxpayer money.
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Speaker 5: And that's my number one job if I get in
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Speaker 5: the state Senate, is to protect our taxpayer money. This
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Speaker 5: is your money, this is not the government's money. Just
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Speaker 5: on the topic, I don't know if people realize this,
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Speaker 5: but there's over one hundred and ninety government agencies, boards
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Speaker 5: and commissions in Ohio. If I'm elected, the first thing
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Speaker 5: I would do is push for a review of every
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Speaker 5: single state agency to make sure it's actually serving a
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Speaker 5: clear purpose that is providing real value to Ohio taxpayers.
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Speaker 5: Governments should not continue funding offices simply because they've all
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Speaker 5: always existed, and when agencies overlap or they drift beyond
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Speaker 5: their original mission. They should be consolidated, eliminated, sunset it.
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Speaker 5: Budget decisions should be based on results and outcomes, not
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Speaker 5: automatic increases year per year. There's so much fraud in medicaid.
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Speaker 5: When Governor Kaiseik expanded medicaid under his term, you know,
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Speaker 5: one of the things no one was talking about. And
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Speaker 5: as a business guy, I'm just kind of throwing my
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Speaker 5: hand up in there, like, wait a second. Okay, so
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Speaker 5: the federal we're gonna get money from the Feds, but
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Speaker 5: that money is not federally guaranteed. Okay, so what they
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Speaker 5: What if it dries up, what if they stop stop
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Speaker 5: sending that money, then guess what, We're on the hook
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Speaker 5: for it. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
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Speaker 5: So it is absolutely ridiculous. I was talking to a
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Speaker 5: doctor the other day who has a neighbor who lives
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Speaker 5: across the street in a in a huge kind of mansion,
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Speaker 5: and uh, he was talking about nursing homes. Every nursing
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Speaker 5: home has to have a like a registered physician on
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Speaker 5: the books. And this guy's never even seen anybody in
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Speaker 5: the nursing home, never steps in, and just collects his
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Speaker 5: checks okay, and and and gives lends's name, so there's
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Speaker 5: a you know, an official license physicians associated with that
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Speaker 5: so they can receive their handouts. I mean, it's absolutely
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Speaker 5: absurd what's going on. And you know what, it starts with.
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Speaker 5: It starts with caring. We got to have people who care,
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Speaker 5: and we have to have people who are competent, you know.
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Speaker 5: And an other thing, Brian, and people don't talk about
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Speaker 5: this enough. I'm a big believer in the dignity of work.
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Speaker 5: I think every o'hiland should have a chance to earn
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Speaker 5: a living, support their family, contribute to society with their
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Speaker 5: God given talents. But with that being said, the first
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Speaker 5: rule of a leader, in my mind is do no harm.
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Speaker 5: And we have policies on the books right now that
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Speaker 5: discourage marriage, family information, and work ethic. Too often our
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Speaker 5: laws create perverse incentives that penalize people for doing the
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Speaker 5: right thing. I talked to a supporter of mine and
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Speaker 5: he wanted to give one of his employees a raise,
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Speaker 5: and she declined because if she makes over a certain amounts,
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Speaker 5: she would lose her her government handouts and subsidies. We're
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Speaker 5: talking about people who are cohabitating instead of getting married.
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Speaker 5: I will fight to ensure that no government program undermines
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Speaker 5: the role of family, faith, personal responsibility. We have an
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Speaker 5: identity crisis in this country, and if we're going to
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Speaker 5: solve it, we need strong families, strong churches, strong communities,
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Speaker 5: not as strong a bureaucracy. So you know, I'm not
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Speaker 5: just about passing legislation. I want to start repealing legislation.
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Speaker 5: I think government has way stepped outside the lines.
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Speaker 1: Well, and you know, honestly, sir, I don't need to
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Speaker 1: boil down what you've just got done saying is you know,
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Speaker 1: traditional Republican platform kind of concepts. And this goes back
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Speaker 1: to my frustration that I commented on as we went
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Speaker 1: into the break. You know, the Republicans control Columbus, and
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Speaker 1: you would think that some of these brilliant ideas you have, Gee,
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Speaker 1: we have one hundred and ninety independent agencies. Why aren't
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Speaker 1: we looking at them to see, you know, if we
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Speaker 1: can get rid of them. It sounds like a bunch
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Speaker 1: of extra fat in government overlapping areas. There's no need
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Speaker 1: for the overlap. That's a sound, simple, easily sellable concept
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Speaker 1: that hasn't been advanced yet. But why haven't these types
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Speaker 1: of policies as great as they are been advanced by
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Speaker 1: Republicans in Columbus. I'm ah frustrated by this.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Brian. I wish I could tell you,
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Speaker 5: or else I wouldn't be running for the state Senate.
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Speaker 5: I mean we I think the one answer is we've
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Speaker 5: got to have more business people, because I think business
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Speaker 5: people are problem solvers. And you know what, We've got
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Speaker 5: a lot of attorneys. We've got a lot of career politicians.
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Speaker 5: But I'm not running I say this with all humility.
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Speaker 5: I'm not running for a paycheck and to get a pension.
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Speaker 5: I believe. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but you have to
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Speaker 5: earn a living in the private sector, and you provide
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Speaker 5: for your family. You get back to your community locally,
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Speaker 5: and then you take the skills and take the lessons
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Speaker 5: that you've learned, and then you run for office to
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Speaker 5: give back, to serve to help your state. And Ohio
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Speaker 5: is the heart of this country. We are blessed with
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Speaker 5: so many resources, but we're strangling ourselves. I mean, you
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Speaker 5: mentioned it. With energy, we could just open up lines
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Speaker 5: and empower the free market. We empower the consumer, and
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Speaker 5: increasing supply will drive down costs and make things more affordable.
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Speaker 5: But you know, I don't know this is unique to
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Speaker 5: people who have owned or run a business. It seems
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Speaker 5: like common sense to me. You know, It's just I think,
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Speaker 5: like anything, you've got a certain number of people that
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Speaker 5: are willing to do the work, and you've got a
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Speaker 5: certain number of people that are just kind of, you know,
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Speaker 5: kind of there. But I won't know that until I
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Speaker 5: get there. You've got to have enough votes to pass things,
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Speaker 5: and you know that's kind of that sausage making process.
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Speaker 5: But you know, I've got a lot of ideas. A
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Speaker 5: lot of these seem like common sense, and I just
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Speaker 5: think it takes conviction. And as I said, I'm not
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Speaker 5: running to join the club in Columbus. I'm running to
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Speaker 5: shake things up. And I think with someone like Vivek
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Speaker 5: as our next governor, he's going to need folks in
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Speaker 5: the state legislature that will help him get his agenda
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Speaker 5: across the line.
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Speaker 1: Well, he mentioned the idea of ultimately eliminating income tax,
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Speaker 1: great idea. Other states have done it and we're able
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Speaker 1: to survive. How about property tax relief? Another frustrating element.
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Speaker 1: We had the budget that was presented to the governor
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Speaker 1: for his signature. Oh no out comes the line at
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Speaker 1: in veto vetoing or vetoing the property tax reform that
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Speaker 1: the legislative brand should put in there. I'm not I
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Speaker 1: mean some miners toward fixing the property tax Well, that's
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest thing that vexes the Ohio tax fairers.
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Speaker 1: You know, you don't really ever own your home, and
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Speaker 1: the bill keeps going up, and sometimes by huge amounts
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Speaker 1: most seniors can't manage.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So look, I've called hundreds and hundreds of voters in
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Speaker 5: my district and I asked them, at this point point,
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Speaker 5: what are your top priorities, what are you most passionate about?
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Speaker 5: Get a magic wand what issues would you solve and fix?
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Speaker 5: Property taxes was always among the top three. And I
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Speaker 5: think it's absolutely disheartening that someone who's worked their whole life,
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Speaker 5: owns their home outright, can be forced out of their
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Speaker 5: home because of rising property valuations and taxes. It's not right.
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Speaker 5: And so I am one hundred percent for reform, one
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Speaker 5: percent for caps and frankly, if we get to a
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Speaker 5: place where we can do more, I want to do more.
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Speaker 5: The thing nobody wants to talk about, and this is
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Speaker 5: where you really get into untangling the Christmas lights and
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Speaker 5: fixing the problem is that K through twelve school funding
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Speaker 5: is primarily based on property taxes and that is unconstitutional.
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Speaker 1: Bro the last year.
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Speaker 5: And every time someone does a lawsuit, the new year happens,
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Speaker 5: things changes get thrown out of the courts. Nobody wants
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Speaker 5: to touch it, nobody wants to take it up. So
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Speaker 5: if you really want to talk about solving this thing,
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Speaker 5: you have to decouple property taxes with K through twelve funding.
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Speaker 5: It's unconstitutional. So what do you do instead? That means
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Speaker 5: the state allocates money per student, per pupil, and it
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Speaker 5: creates parity. Actually, so the schools up in Cleveland aren't
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Speaker 5: getting more money than the schools in Warren County, Ohio.
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Speaker 5: But that's that's the nasty thing nobody wants to talk about.
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Speaker 5: We have a funding model that is based on property
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Speaker 5: taxes and it's unconstitutional. And by the way, you know,
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Speaker 5: I'm a I'm an advocate. I'm a strong believer in
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Speaker 5: improving our public schools. But I'm also a strong believer
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Speaker 5: in choice. I think that children need to learn in
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Speaker 5: an environment that is best for them. I support parochial schools,
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Speaker 5: I support private schools, charter schools, and parents right to homeschool.
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Speaker 5: But I also support improving public schools. And you know,
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Speaker 5: I'm sick and tired and voters are sick and tired
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Speaker 5: of these levees on the ballot all the darn time.
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Speaker 5: And right now, how we fund K through twelve funding
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Speaker 5: is unconstitutional has been ruled that, but nobody wants to
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Speaker 5: step up and try to discuss how we fix it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you would have thought the declaration by the High
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional twenty or so years
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Speaker 1: ago would have been what puts us over the edge.
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Speaker 1: But no, no, we'll just ignore that. I do not
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Speaker 1: get how that's sweeping under the rug Zach, And I
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Speaker 1: guess finally, well again, I'll give you the website again
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Speaker 1: attains h A I N E. S. Hanesfo Ohio dot com.
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Speaker 5: Well let me and let me just say this, Brian,
2:10:46
Speaker 5: as a business guy, you can spell Hanes anyway you want,
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Speaker 5: with an I, with a Y, whatever, I put a
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Speaker 5: redirector so you'll find me. Okay, that's called entrepreneurial out
2:10:54
Speaker 5: of the box thing right. Our government needs more of that.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, amen, amen to that, And I guess what
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing. You know, market forces really truly work, and
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Speaker 1: we are and governments typically don't treat the world that way.
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Speaker 1: They have you know, your tax paya money, don't have
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Speaker 1: to be responsible or accountable for it. But we are
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Speaker 1: in a market force against other states. We are not
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Speaker 1: as competitive as we could be. That's that capitalistic entrepreneurial
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Speaker 1: element that I hear in your voice and in your proposal.
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Speaker 2: Sir.
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Speaker 1: We need to run the state like we are in
2:11:23
Speaker 1: active competition with Kentucky and Indiana and New York and California,
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Speaker 1: at Texas and Florida, which seems to be the magnet
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Speaker 1: for everybody. So run it like an operation. You need
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Speaker 1: to watch your pennies and your dollars and well bring
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Speaker 1: some prosperity to the citizens to pay the taxes. Zach
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Speaker 1: Haynes Hanes for Ohio dot Com. It's been great having
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Speaker 1: you on. Congratulations on those great endorsements you've got. That's
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Speaker 1: wonderful hitting you hitting the ground running, and I'll look
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Speaker 1: forward to having you on the program a lot between
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Speaker 1: now and November.
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Speaker 4: Thanks.
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Speaker 5: Brian in the district is all of Warren County from
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Speaker 5: Springboro and Franklin of Carlisle, Lebanon, all the way down
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Speaker 5: to Mason, Deerfield, Taut and then northeast Hamlin County. So
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Speaker 5: if you live in sim Sycamore, Blue Ass, Montgomery, Sharonville, Evendale,
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Speaker 5: Deer Park, that's District seven. So have an election on
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Speaker 5: May fifth. Would appreciate everybody's support. And yeah, Brian, other states,
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Speaker 5: you know what, I'm a big believer and federalism at themendment.
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Speaker 5: There's things that we can learn from other states. But
2:12:18
Speaker 5: I also agree with the VVEK that we need to
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Speaker 5: look at our own ingenuity and come up with ideas
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Speaker 5: and solutions. And I think between the two there's a
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Speaker 5: lot of things we need we need to implement that
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Speaker 5: we can fix in Ohio. So look forward to serving.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to calling you my senator. Since I'm
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Speaker 1: in the geographic territory you just described District seven. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk again, Zach. Have a great week, my friend eight
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Speaker 1: just what a distinct pleasure was to have Signal ninety
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Speaker 1: nine on revealing this behind the scenes negotiations to settle
2:12:57
Speaker 1: the hitting matter, and that's going to take place today.
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Speaker 1: Talk with Christopher Smith about that earlier during the during
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Speaker 1: the Smith event and executive session. If they do vote
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Speaker 1: to go into executive session to talk about this, it
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Speaker 1: means you and I and reporters and anybody else that's
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Speaker 1: interested in this will not be able to listen and
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Speaker 1: hear what they have to say, and they don't even
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Speaker 1: keep notes, So Christopher's calling them out ahead of times.
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Speaker 1: Council members should not vote to go into executive session.
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Speaker 1: This needs the sunlight of disinfect in particularly since council
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Speaker 1: members were apparently unaware that the city manager was discussing
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Speaker 1: settlement with the Hidden family. And upon what basis are
2:13:32
Speaker 1: they talking about settlement a lawsuit hasn't even been filed.
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Speaker 1: Asking the question right out of the gate, does the
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Speaker 1: city manager have the authority to settle this will? Apparently,
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Speaker 1: according to Smith, aman yeah, it's all driven by the
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Speaker 1: legal department. And if the legal department wants to settle something,
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Speaker 1: apparently they can do that without the approval of sin say,
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Speaker 1: city council. So legal department reports too, who city solicitor anyone?
2:13:58
Speaker 1: Right the city manager? So Christopher answering that question which
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Speaker 1: like how come they haven't been spending the railroad money
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