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Smitherman 11-24-25 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Shoy seven twenty fifty have Kercit talk station. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: for this time of day and this time of week.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithlman, former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Every week here at this time to event the Spleen.
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  Speaker 1: The smith event is what we call it. Welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend, Christopher Smithman. Thank you for being on
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  Speaker 1: the program.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, brother, for having me on,
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  Speaker 2: allowing me to have some what I would say, even therapy.
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  Speaker 2: Once a week I can share with you and the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the world what's happening. I call it therapy
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  Speaker 2: for me, and I don't have to burden you know,
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  Speaker 2: my dear friends around me. I can just give it,
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  Speaker 2: give it to you and the rest of the world. Brother.
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  Speaker 2: So you just sit back on the couch and look
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  Speaker 2: at me.
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  Speaker 1: Put my feet up, and let you go hey real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Herefore you dive in what's what's burning in your head
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  Speaker 1: and what's causing your spleen to be invented. You have
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  Speaker 1: some good plans for Thanksgiving. I mean, you have such
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  Speaker 1: a big family, and I can envision the Smithman family
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  Speaker 1: gather around and enjoying each other's fellowship and some great
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  Speaker 1: times on thanks if you have something good plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty years, thirty five years or so, we've been
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  Speaker 2: doing the same things brother in thirty five years, and
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  Speaker 2: we get together with my oldest brother. So our whole
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  Speaker 2: family does not get together for Thanksgiving. People are in
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  Speaker 2: different places, and so I won't have all my kids.
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  Speaker 2: They have their significant others or other things that they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll have some of them. And that's all cool, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know, It's just a part of life and rotating.
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  Speaker 2: But I've always been these thirty five years, I've been
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  Speaker 2: with my oldest brother, and so that's what we'll do.
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  Speaker 2: We'll sit down and have some turkey.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: I want to share. I want to share with you brother,
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  Speaker 2: as I wish happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody. What
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  Speaker 2: happened in Chicago when they were putting up a Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to tie it to Cincinnati. Okay, we
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  Speaker 2: as a city in Cincinnati are moving towards Chicago if
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  Speaker 2: we're not already there per cap per population, as far
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  Speaker 2: as violence is concerned. But they are just too many
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  Speaker 2: things that are paralleling here that I just want to
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  Speaker 2: raise some attention. You can't even go into the heart
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago with the raising of their Christmas tree and
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  Speaker 2: not deal with a mass shooting. That's when you know
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  Speaker 2: your city is completely off the rails. You have a
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  Speaker 2: democratic mayor, you have a democratic council, you have a
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  Speaker 2: democratic school board, right, and you have criminals in Chicago
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  Speaker 2: that are being cradled by the electeds, and they are
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  Speaker 2: neutering and have been neutering their police department with the reimagination,
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  Speaker 2: with the defund the cops, and what you have is
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  Speaker 2: a city that is completely out of control. And the
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  Speaker 2: saddest thing is that those who are experiencing the violence
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  Speaker 2: are African Americans. Forgot Americans are being murdered or shot
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  Speaker 2: or made We don't hear about those people who are paralyzed, right.
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  Speaker 2: We don't hear about the person who was shot and
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  Speaker 2: had to be put back together like the bonic man.
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  Speaker 2: I used to watch that as a kid. We don't
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  Speaker 2: hear about those people. We just hear about those who
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  Speaker 2: are dead. But we don't understand the horrific life that
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  Speaker 2: people are living in these urban courts, and it is
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  Speaker 2: coming and has arrived at the doorsteps of Cincinnati. I
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  Speaker 2: continue to wake up and hear in our OTR in
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  Speaker 2: the core of our city shootings a mass shooting by
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  Speaker 2: the FBI four or more. We had three shot in OTR.
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  Speaker 2: We were one short from the definition of a mass
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  Speaker 2: shooting in our downtown right by the same bar that
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  Speaker 2: we all know is a problem that city council and
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  Speaker 2: this mayor and this manager refuse to deal with. And
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  Speaker 2: the people that are dying around us are African American
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  Speaker 2: males who are being murdered every single or every other
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  Speaker 2: day or every weekend in our core, in Cincinnati and
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  Speaker 2: places like Chicago. I would guess that six hundred people
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  Speaker 2: have been shot in Chicago in this year as we
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  Speaker 2: close out the year. Imagine that. Think about your high
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  Speaker 2: school graduating class and think about six hundred people being
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  Speaker 2: shot in one year. These are extraordinary blood baths that
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  Speaker 2: are happening in our core. And to have this mayor,
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  Speaker 2: who happens to be African American to stand up, look
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  Speaker 2: people on the eye in Chicago and say everything is cool,
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  Speaker 2: everything is all right. I got it under control. He
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  Speaker 2: has nothing under control. He does not care about African
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  Speaker 2: American life. I am concerned about this mayor and this council.
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  Speaker 2: My voice will continue the weigh in that they don't
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  Speaker 2: care about the violence, because if they cared about it,
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  Speaker 2: they'd be doing something different. They wouldn't be holding and
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  Speaker 2: coddling our cops. They let them do their jobs, they
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  Speaker 2: let them do proactive policing. They wouldn't be talking about, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we cannot do community based policing and proactive policing at
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  Speaker 2: the same time when every time I turn on my
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  Speaker 2: dog on a TV, I'm looking at almost a mass
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  Speaker 2: shooting every single weekend in our downtown. Here's the closure
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  Speaker 2: closing on this one. Guess what that area not everybody
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmingly voted for this council and this mayor in OTR.
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  Speaker 2: So guess what. Elections have consequences. And this is what
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  Speaker 2: you get where you continue to vote for these kind
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  Speaker 2: of mayors, these kind of councils, these kind of school boards.
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  Speaker 2: You have failing schools. You have a city that is
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  Speaker 2: violently being coddled by the criminals. The criminals are running.
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  Speaker 2: They're more worried about the criminals than they are the
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  Speaker 2: law abiding citizens, whether you're black or white. Up Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: and wake up Chicago. But if you continue to vote
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  Speaker 2: the same way you continue to vote, guess what look
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror, take your turkey out, eat your Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 2: and don't complain. This is what you'll wanted.
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  Speaker 1: seven to twenty. Begame for a few and Christopher, whatever
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  Speaker 1: else is on your mind. I got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: quies this three shot outside the over the Rhine Bar
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend, and of course this has been a
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  Speaker 1: real problem. The name of the establishment Privy on Elm Street.
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  Speaker 1: It's been identified as having noise complaints and prior shootings
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  Speaker 1: outside the establishment. I guess have to ask, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little reluctant personally to blame the establishment because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm guessing it's operating during lawful business hours.
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  Speaker 1: It is not doing something illegal by way of providing
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  Speaker 1: you know, unlawful substances or you know, a criminal. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in there, But is it
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  Speaker 1: the bar that's the problem. Seems to me it's the
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  Speaker 1: people that either hang out in the bar and then
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  Speaker 1: go out and commit crimes after they leave it, or
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  Speaker 1: the people hanging outside the bar and maybe not even
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  Speaker 1: going in that are causing the problems. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are we right in looking at the bar as the
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  Speaker 1: source of the problem or is it really and I
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  Speaker 1: think it more fundamentally boils down to it's people that
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  Speaker 1: are the problem.
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  Speaker 2: We are right to look at the bar as the problem.
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  Speaker 2: They have a responsibility to hire off duty details outside
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  Speaker 2: of that bar at eighty five or one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 2: an hour, whatever they need to do to make sure
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  Speaker 2: if they are attracting that population with whatever they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They have a responsibility to make sure everybody around there
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  Speaker 2: is safe. So whatever you're doing right. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: if you've got to hire three or four officers out there.
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  Speaker 2: But no, they're not going to do that because they
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  Speaker 2: don't want their margins. They don't want to pay two
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  Speaker 2: or three thousand dollars whatever it takes in order to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that people are saying so, yes, I think
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  Speaker 2: they are respired. I don't think they say, well, they
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  Speaker 2: left my bar, and whatever they were doing in the bar,
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  Speaker 2: they go out of the bar is no longer my responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see heavy off duty details. I would
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  Speaker 2: have already had a plan in place with the establishment.
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  Speaker 2: I would have voted for it on the floor of council.
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  Speaker 2: So we sat, we met, We put together a community
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  Speaker 2: plan and action plan, which at the top of it
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  Speaker 2: would be hiring off duty details. Wouldn't matter to me
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  Speaker 2: whether they were Cincinnati police or sheriffs to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that as their bar let out. I would say, there's
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  Speaker 2: so many people that have invested so much money around there,
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  Speaker 2: they're living there, those are their homes. That is what
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  Speaker 2: the city council wanted. So the people are pouring out
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  Speaker 2: and then shots are fired. You're in your bedroom or
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  Speaker 2: you're hosting somebody in your living room, you're watching and
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  Speaker 2: bullets are flying through your dog on window. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that owner, whoever it is, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know who it is. I'm not connected. I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: trying to find out at this point. I'm just sharing
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  Speaker 2: with you. City council and this mayor continue to have
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  Speaker 2: the same problem over and over again. And I bet you,
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  Speaker 2: if you and I look into this establishment, in some
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  Speaker 2: way they're connected to this council. Oh really, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that. I bet you in some way they are
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  Speaker 2: connected through some type of relationship financially making contributions to
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  Speaker 2: the campaign. I don't know this for sure. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: saying I've been around a long time. Guy. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have an establishment like this where you constantly have the
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  Speaker 2: same problem every single weekend and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: city council and the mayor are saying nothing about it.
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  Speaker 2: There's something going on politically between these Democrats and whoever
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  Speaker 2: owns this establishment. They're all connected. It's one big, happy family,
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  Speaker 2: is my speculation. And they care more about the criminals,
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  Speaker 2: the owner, and not the people that are living down there.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, that's the ugly truth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it just seems strange that. You know, how is
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  Speaker 1: it that this particular establishment is the one that draws
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  Speaker 1: the criminal element?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, brother, It's not my bars,
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  Speaker 2: not my establishment. But guess what. All the people in OTR,
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  Speaker 2: not all of them, voted for this council, but it's
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  Speaker 2: very blue. And we go back and say, elections have consequences.
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  Speaker 2: They were complaining about this before the election. They went
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  Speaker 2: in overwhelmingly as a community and voted for this mayor,
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  Speaker 2: this council and this manager and this administration. And you
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  Speaker 2: get what you vote for. It's not that I'm upset
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  Speaker 2: or frustrated. It's your life. Yeah, And so if you
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  Speaker 2: want to go down and continue to vote for the
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  Speaker 2: same people, guess what, you're to get the same results.
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  Speaker 2: All right. But since, man, here's what I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about, go ahead, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm just gonna say, since we don't have an
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  Speaker 1: upcoming election, we got to wait a little bit for
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  Speaker 1: that next one to show up and give people an alternative.
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  Speaker 1: Whether or not they choose a different path remains to
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  Speaker 1: be seen because we've been down this road before. But
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  Speaker 1: there is something that the citizenry can do in spite
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  Speaker 1: of who they voted for, is organize and do like
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  Speaker 1: a Hyde Park Uprising City council does one thing. The
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  Speaker 1: residents of Hyde Park say, damn it, there is no
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  Speaker 1: way we're going to abide by the zoning thing. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get a petition on the ballot. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to go after them. That seemed to have worked. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're really worried and angry about crime,
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  Speaker 1: elevating that to that kind of level, maybe the way
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  Speaker 1: to go and force the administration to do something the
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  Speaker 1: otherwise might not do. That seems to be the only
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  Speaker 1: recourse right now. Christopher Well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Would say that after the election, that's all they have left.
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  Speaker 2: They had an election, right yeah, and that is where
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  Speaker 2: the that's where you actually do that work. What they
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  Speaker 2: did was they affirmed the direction of the mayor and
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  Speaker 2: the council and said we like the direction. You don't
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  Speaker 2: get eighty five ninety percent of the vote in an
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  Speaker 2: area and walk away going I'm doing a bad job.
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  Speaker 2: The mayor like raising your children. If you continue, you say,
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  Speaker 2: hey man, I'm going to reward the bad behavior, which
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  Speaker 2: is what they did. The child continues to do exactly
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  Speaker 2: what they were doing, and so there's no motivation. This
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  Speaker 2: mayor is what we call in the college world, a
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  Speaker 2: tenured member of the institution. He's never going to run
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  Speaker 2: for mayor again. He got four years. He is termed out.
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  Speaker 2: He can do whatever the heck he wants. It makes
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  Speaker 2: him even more dangerous because he's not even thinking about
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  Speaker 2: the city. He wasn't thinking about it four years ago
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  Speaker 2: and he's not really not thinking about it now. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say this to you, brother, these Epstein files nationally
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  Speaker 2: that are coming out. I'm a person as an independent.
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  Speaker 1: You're changing topics. So let's just pause because we're out
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  Speaker 1: of you. Pass the break. We'll let you start on
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  Speaker 1: that one. We come back more with Christopher Smithman on Fire.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with Christopher Smithman. I mean interrupt you as
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  Speaker 1: you're getting ready to go on another train of thought,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought since the subject was moving over to
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein file, so I did just go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: take that much need to break Christopher, So you have
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  Speaker 1: the floor back, have at it, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Look, man, anybody who's out having sex with minor children,
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  Speaker 2: you're a pedophile, yep. And I want to know who
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  Speaker 2: you are. I don't care what your political affiliation is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how old you were when you did it.
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  Speaker 2: When you're having sex with twelve and thirteen and fourteen
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  Speaker 2: year old girls and boys, you're set on an island.
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  Speaker 2: You're sick, right, And we've got to own this as
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  Speaker 2: a community, and we want to out anybody and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how much money they have, or what
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  Speaker 2: their power is, or what they're doing. And so what
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  Speaker 2: you see on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are out there trying to protect the elites. That
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  Speaker 2: is what I believe is happening. And so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: speculating who's on the list, but I can tell you,
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  Speaker 2: as the Democrats were saying, all we've got to have
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  Speaker 2: this released, I want to say a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: about it. So we're real clear. President Biden and his
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  Speaker 2: administration could have released this information during his term yep period,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't. He didn't do it for a reason.
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  Speaker 2: So this outcry by the Democrats is all fake, right,
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  Speaker 2: But guess what I think the Trump administration did the
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  Speaker 2: rope dope on on the Democrats saying, Okay, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: this for sure. But Epstein was a Democrat. Epstein was
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  Speaker 2: a financer of the Democratic machine. That's where he spent
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  Speaker 2: his money public. Right, So you're gonna find disproportionately most
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  Speaker 2: likely his friends are what democrats. The first person when
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  Speaker 2: the Epstein vote happened in Congress was Larry Summers. Who
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  Speaker 2: is Larry Summers. Larry Summers is the former treasurer under
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  Speaker 2: Clinton and Obama, very powerful person, former president of Harvard University,
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  Speaker 2: and current faculty member at Harvard University, and he sat
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  Speaker 2: on some AI board on some publicly traded company. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as that vote happened, Larry Summers resigned a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: Notice how the major news outlets, whether CNN or MSNBC,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: really didn't deal with it. Right, We're no different than Russia.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Our media isn't telling this truth. They hide. Information in
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: politics is not just what you say, it's what you
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: don't say. So there are a lot of people right
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: now who are listening to you and I talk or
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: who is Larry Sommers? Larry Summers resigned related to the
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Epstein files. Yes he did. Harvard has launched an investigation
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: to try to figure out what his involvement was with
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Epstein and why he said I'm gonna sell didn't It
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: wasn't like his information came out as soon as the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: vote happened that I'm out. Now. This is a guy
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: who's been very vocal on CNN, on MSNBC. He's been
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: going after the Trump administration for a year, for the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: last ten years, he's the first person to resign. I'm
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: sharing with everybody, hold your power. Let's wait and see
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: as a public no matter whether you're a Democrat or Republican,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Please don't make this partisan. We have got to know
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: what happened with these pedophiles who are out having sex
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: with twelve and thirteen and fourteen year old girls. This
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: is something that we deserve to know. I want to know.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I agree completely and look what the discharge petition is.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: It almost was completely unanimous across both the House and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the Senate when it finally pushed came to show everybody,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: with the exception of one representative voted to release the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: damned documents. Interesting question for you, Christopher Smith Aman, what
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the hell's with Trump changing his mind? You're right, Democrats
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: had four years to release these documents. They obviously didn't
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: want to do it. We all kind of wondered, I wonder,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: what's in them that the Democrats are afraid to release them?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Pivot over to Trump campaigning on releasing them, only to say, nah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: there's nothing there. The OJ looked at it. There's nothing there,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: there's no list, there's nothing to see, there's nothing to release.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Where did that come from?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: And of course I think that he I think he
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: has friends that are on that I'm on that list.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: He's a New Yorker. Wouldn't he have known?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you have known that when he was saying he
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: wanted to release him I mean, his buddy's calling him up, saying,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: quit campaigning on releasing these documents. You know, damn well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: my name's in there. You're gonna get me and in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a controversy. And I never touched the fourteen year old
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: or whatever.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the reality of it is they didn't know whether
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: he was going to be elected, and so many people
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: didn't even see the landslide that was coming in the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: last election. So he's out there saying I'm gonna do this,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, and then
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: he got elected and so I don't know all of
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the details around it, but my speculation is that some
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of his allies are on this list and they're Democrats,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: are Republicans, and both Biden and Trump were trying to
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: protect the list. What I want to also say, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go into this with Trump and just say,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know who this representative Marjorie Taylor Green is,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and the woman who was saying, hey, I want these
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Epstein files to come out, I just know that she
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: was an ally of his. It was something she was saying.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And I don't understand why President Trump then turns and
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: starts attacking her. I think that's where you're getting to.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That was a part of the narrative, right, and so
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: you try to destroy her, you say all these horrible
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: things about her. She's been loyal to you. So if
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: somebody stands up and they're loyal to Trump, and Trump
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: can just turn on a dime and just say no,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: you've lost your way. I'm going to try to destroy you.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that is about his emotional intelligence,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: but I can tell you it is incredibly frustrating for
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: me for any president. Look, whoever gets elected, whether it's Obama,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: whether it's Clinton, you know, whether it's a Trump, whether
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: it's Bush, I'm voting for America. I'm voting for our
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: executive to be successful in this world. Right. This world
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: is very ugly. We've got some bad characters out here,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm rooting for America, whether it's a Democrat or
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Republican in that office. I don't understand this president at times,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: with his emotional intelligence so low, that he's so emotionally
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: charged that whatever comes to that brain of is, he
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: just starts opening up his mouth. And whether you're a
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: supporter of Trump or not, be willing to call this
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: president out when he lacks discipline with that mouth.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I agree. You went after Congressman Massey again too, the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: same thing, beloved congress from Massey folks in northern Kentucky.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, they keep voting him in regardless of what
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Trump says. I mean he Donald Trump spends and these
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: other millionaires, billionaires spending all kinds of money trying to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: primary Thomas Massey. Why because Thomas Massey was behind the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: discharge petition, among others. I mean, he's at least on
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: solid constitutional ground with what he says. Is there uniformity
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in the Republican Party, of course not? Is there uniformity
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in the Democrat Party, of course not. They didn't even
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: know which direction they want to go. There's a lot
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of different stripes within each party. And you know, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: would argue that Marjorie Taylor Green, I think had some
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: sound points she was making. I'm a little upset about
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: him focusing on foreign policy. I'd like for him to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: be here and focus on domestic issues. I was behind
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: releasing the Epstein files, and that apparently is what set
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Trump off, and he had some outrages and outlandish statements
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: about her. And I agree with the points you're making
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: on that. But does he expect one hundred percent fidelity
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: among the Republicans for the Trump specific agenda? And I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: think that's what he is demonstrating by going after tailor
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, going after Congress from asking others, promising
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the primary them if they get out of line. YO,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: this feeds into that whole dictatorial narrative. The Democrats are peddling.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a good look. Honestly, I don't.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm a girl dad. You know, four boys, rum girl.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: If this was one of my babies, right, I want
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: to get to the bottom of it. I want people
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to go to jail. And I think sometimes as men, right,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: we missed the point of Marjorie Taylor Green is a woman.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: She's saying, I want to get to the bottom of it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: She understands this innately as a woman. This is what
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I believe. I'm obviously not a woman. Trump needs to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: learn to take advice from everybody around him. He campaigned
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: on it. He said, this is what I'm gonna do.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: She took him literally on his face and did not
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: understand why he was going in about face about these
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Epstein foules. But ultimately, guess what happened. I have to
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: admit to the power of the people who probably inundated
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: his office saying what in the heck is going on? Right?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So now he's shutting his mouth about it. But the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: woman has already been harmed because she's been saying, I'm
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: gonna primary you. He's been saying all these outlandish themes
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: about her, and I'm saying, if you're a Trump supporter,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: you cannot support blindly any leader. You've got to be
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: able to call him out when they're wrong and they're
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: off step. And I say, right here, he was wrong,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: he was off step. And I'm just so frustrated with
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: why his emotional intelligence is so low. Why can't he
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: just preside as the president. You're the president of the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: free world, act.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Like it, Christopher Smithman. Always enjoy your thoughts and comments.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Agree with you on this one completely. I'm a little embarrassed,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: but let us see if we can't find, uh, well,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a little greater sanity.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Those people can follow me. People can follow me, brother
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: on at vote Smitherman right. I want to stay Connec.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: People who are listening, they can follow me there. I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: going to continue to put my voice out there so
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: people can hear. And obviously, Brian, happy Thanksgiving to you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and your family, and thanks for giving me a voice.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Brother, love hearing from you. I'm happy to provide the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: voice for you, and I look forward to next Monday
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: in another edition of this particular segment. Enjoy your Thanksgiving.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Much love to you and your family. It's coming up
• 25:21
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• 25:23
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• 25:30
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