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Extended Smithervent -- 4/6/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: And it's seven five at fifty five KERCV talk station
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  Speaker 1: at the Monday. Normally i'd be saying coming up in
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  Speaker 1: the next segment, former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman in the segment we call the Smither Event,
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  Speaker 1: would be coming out. But no, he's in studio right now,
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  Speaker 1: just tracking around vacation. He thought it would be a
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  Speaker 1: great idea to get Christopher in studio for a couple hours.
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  Speaker 1: We can talk about all the craziness going on in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati and elsewhere. So welcome back, my friend. It
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  Speaker 1: is always a pleasure of seeing you and having you
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  Speaker 1: in studio. This is a real delight this morning. But
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  Speaker 1: you get a nice easter, man, I did man, happy
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  Speaker 1: Easter to you. Had a great easter.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The weather's a little cold out there, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but I can handle it.
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  Speaker 3: You can handle it, you know. My thought this morning
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  Speaker 3: is to start with Chief Stiji. It's a little personal
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  Speaker 3: because I worked with Chief DG. This isn't somebody that
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I was the former vice mayor of
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  Speaker 3: the City of Cincinnati. I was Chair of Law and
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  Speaker 3: Public Safety. She was in command staff. So this is
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  Speaker 3: somebody that I know I worked with, and this You know,
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  Speaker 3: when people say, well Chief DG did this or Chief
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  Speaker 3: CGI did that, you know you're not going to always agree, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: with any administrator, of course not. So that's not what
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  Speaker 3: this is about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of that.
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  Speaker 1: Report that came out from the law firm that was
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  Speaker 1: hired to find a reason to justify her being placed
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  Speaker 1: on administrative leave, sure handpicked and picked and chose specific statements,
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  Speaker 1: none of which were positive. And we learned from russ
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  Speaker 1: Neville Police Chief DG's brother that she had talked to
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  Speaker 1: some of the people who were interviewed by the law
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  Speaker 1: firm and they in fact did have some positive things
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  Speaker 1: to say, some negative of course. But why is that
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  Speaker 1: report that came out so filled with just pure negativity.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't a positive word said about DG in there,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of her own words.
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  Speaker 3: The professionals out there, Brian, who are listening, and people
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  Speaker 3: who are blue collar workers who are listening. And the
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  Speaker 3: reality of it is, we know politics on our job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, oh you're on your job, they're politics, right,
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  Speaker 3: So here was a report to bury her. First she
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  Speaker 3: was a scapegoat. Then they hire Frost Brown and Todd
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  Speaker 3: to bury her right, And the reality of it is,
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  Speaker 3: she's still on administrative leave. They're still paying her for
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  Speaker 3: a reason. If they had a reason to separate and terminate,
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  Speaker 3: they wouldn't be paying her full time salary right now.
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  Speaker 1: And they also would have said the reason at the
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  Speaker 1: time they put her on administrative to leave or fired
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  Speaker 1: her if they'd have fired her. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: got to you have to have a reason to fire
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  Speaker 1: otherwise you end up in deployment lawsuits. You know, former
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  Speaker 1: Chief Washington, the Fire department knows all about that.
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  Speaker 3: Not on and so thirty five years of service by
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  Speaker 3: Chief thig Brian, not one written reprimand thirty five years
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  Speaker 3: so there's nothing in her file. Meaning again to those
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  Speaker 3: who are listening, I worked with at that time Colonel Fiji.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a professional.
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  Speaker 3: She has family members that are still serving in the profession,
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  Speaker 3: the Neville family, meaning's she's Chief Fiji. But her maiden
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  Speaker 3: name is Neville. Right, So I don't remember how many years,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty one years.
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  Speaker 1: Last week Russell was on the show and if you
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  Speaker 1: can get a chance to listen to rush to Russ.
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  Speaker 1: He did a great job defending her. He's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the spokesperson for the Fiji family while they go
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  Speaker 1: through this third generation. That's three generations in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't shock me that the collective service from
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  Speaker 1: the Neville family is one hundred and fifty plus years.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: And Brian, what I would say is if I were
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  Speaker 3: the mayor and I wanted to change horses, meaning you
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  Speaker 3: might not have liked that John Cranley made this pick
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  Speaker 3: in their minds. This is maybe somebody the same when
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  Speaker 3: we talk about Chief Washington, the former administration chief Fiji.
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  Speaker 3: Is a professional. So what you do is you sit
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  Speaker 3: down and you say, I'm thinking about hitting in a
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  Speaker 3: different direction. You've got thirty five years you're in drop
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  Speaker 3: your grandma, you got six or seven grandchildren. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like it's not like she's going, hey man, I'd like
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  Speaker 3: to stay around another ten years.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So you sit down and you say, as a professional,
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  Speaker 3: how do we move this along with dignity? Maybe you
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  Speaker 3: need to go get a lawyer, negotiate something that's favorable.
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  Speaker 3: But here's what you don't do You don't just have
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  Speaker 3: her fly into a conference with all the chiefs in
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  Speaker 3: the whole country and then just say you're fired.
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  Speaker 2: Bring your butt back.
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  Speaker 3: And then as she turns and looks at the news
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  Speaker 3: she's watching as she's traveling back, Chief Thigi's been fired.
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  Speaker 3: Chief Thigi's been fired. The reality of it is, what
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  Speaker 3: they've done is they've placed her in a terrible situation
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  Speaker 3: that if she wanted to get a job somewhere else
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  Speaker 3: in the private sector, Let's say she wanted to go
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  Speaker 3: out and work at Lunkin Airport, Let's say she wanted
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  Speaker 3: to work for a CEO of some company.
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  Speaker 2: These types of reports.
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  Speaker 3: In the things that they're doing, and I'm not a lawyer,
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  Speaker 3: they just seem like they're very punitive, and it seems
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  Speaker 3: like she's going to be able to litigate and say,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing in my file. I've never been reprimanded, what
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  Speaker 3: was your reason for termination? And again she has an
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  Speaker 3: employment lawyer. I would expect the city of Cincinnati is
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  Speaker 3: going to settle this case for millions of dollars. And
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  Speaker 3: the last comment I'll make Brian, who pays the bill.
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  Speaker 3: The taxpayers of Cincinnati will pay this bill. It will
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  Speaker 3: not be surel long, it will not be mayor actable
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  Speaker 3: pure vault.
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  Speaker 2: It will be the citizens of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it certainly sounds like you're on the right track.
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  Speaker 1: I can't fire her. They would have to settle the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. I just can't see any other reason around it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the other component of it is and
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  Speaker 1: she was never brought in and even sat down and
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  Speaker 1: talked to about the alleged problems they had, or the
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  Speaker 1: various members of the CINCINNT Police Department contingent apparently were
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  Speaker 1: unhappy with her as chief. Thirty two people in the
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  Speaker 1: report that were interviewed out of almost a thousand total
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  Speaker 1: potential witnesses or people who could have offered their thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and comments on it. It just seems suspiciously small segment.
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  Speaker 1: And it also seems suspicious that I am certain you
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  Speaker 1: could go into the police department and find someone who
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  Speaker 1: couldn't say anything but positive things about Chief Thiji.
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  Speaker 3: So and if you wanted to know, you could have
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  Speaker 3: easily done a evaluation or survey to the entire police department.
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  Speaker 2: And they do that from time hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: They do, Brian, and no way to know where those
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  Speaker 3: comments and feedback are coming from.
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  Speaker 2: So you do this anonymously. Yeah, they picked a specific.
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  Speaker 3: Number of people and why So it looks incredibly suspicious?
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  Speaker 2: Are my part?
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  Speaker 3: Frost, Brown and Todd waste of money? I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how much they ultimately paid for it. It was like fifty
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  Speaker 3: here's fifty thousand dollars to buried chief Diji and come
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  Speaker 3: up with some broad reason of why they terminated her.
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  Speaker 2: I think your point you made was most important.
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  Speaker 3: No one ever sat her down and ever had a
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  Speaker 3: conversation with her about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I asked for us about that ago a normal protocol,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they've got a problem. I said, would
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  Speaker 1: that have triggered at performance review? And he said no,
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  Speaker 1: but at least would have got somebody give me. You
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  Speaker 1: sit down and you're going to talk to the city
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  Speaker 1: manager about this. They're going to sit down and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we've got these these things have been identified to us
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  Speaker 1: as a problem. What's going on? You need an action plan,
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  Speaker 1: you need to do something. It sounds like a performance review,
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  Speaker 1: but at minimum you have a conversation instead of down.
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  Speaker 2: She got nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And again you go back to her thirty five years
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  Speaker 1: of service and she's got a clean employment record.
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  Speaker 3: So and that's from patrol all the way up through
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  Speaker 3: the colonel, all the way as the chief.
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  Speaker 2: She has nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, And going back to the reputational harm, I think
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  Speaker 1: you can put a point an exclamation point on that
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  Speaker 1: based upon what has happened to former fire Chief Washington
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  Speaker 1: since he was I would say wrongfully terminated. Now that
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  Speaker 1: remains to be seen in the court of law, but
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  Speaker 1: by all indications, it sounds like someone's going to be
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  Speaker 1: writing from the city a big fat check the Chief Washington.
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  Speaker 1: But when he's gone out into the world, him being
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  Speaker 1: terminated is a black cloud hanging over his head. It
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  Speaker 1: is an impediment to him getting a job one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: And I can say that Chief Washington was searching for employment,
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  Speaker 3: was a finalist in at least one area in our country,
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  Speaker 3: and this situation cost him the opportunity for that job.
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  Speaker 3: And so the reality you're you're hitting right on this,
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  Speaker 3: Attorney Brian Thomas, this is a big one. I think
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  Speaker 3: that Chief Washington is going to get a bigger check.
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  Speaker 3: I just believe that he had thirty plus years of
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  Speaker 3: service and yet again no reprimands, nothing in his file,
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  Speaker 3: and the way they terminated him out talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we have to go to break, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: talk about how they terminated Chief Washington, which was just
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  Speaker 3: as grotesque as as their termination of Chief Fiji.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed like they should have learned something after that exercise,
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  Speaker 1: and no they didn't. They were in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this big struggle with Chief Washington before they put Thiji
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  Speaker 1: on administrative leaves. Hey, hey, wait a second. You know
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  Speaker 1: we got in trouble with Washington over this. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do this now? Pause will bring Christopher Smithman back. Plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time talk with Christopher. But first, and what an
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  Speaker 1: appropriate time thing if day after Easter and I drove
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  Speaker 1: past Gate to Heaven Cemetery a couple of times yesterday. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: lots of folks there for the Easter services. And you
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  Speaker 1: and inviting place, but it is. It's gorgeous. So if
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  Speaker 1: you want to reflect on life at all of its phases,
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  Speaker 1: at about KRC Detok station, A very happy Monday team
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  Speaker 1: made extra special for me and I hope you as well.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman and studio. Of course, we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: police Chief Fiji and swirling question marks about why she
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  Speaker 1: was even placed on administrative even we don't he and
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  Speaker 1: I both are an agreement that doesn't look real good
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  Speaker 1: for the city leaders having done that to her, and
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  Speaker 1: of course the liability that they're probably going to face
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  Speaker 1: as a consequence of it. So moving over. You said
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to comment about was it Chief Washington? You
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  Speaker 1: wanted to elaborate on a little bit, because again we've
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  Speaker 1: been down this road before.
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  Speaker 3: So I talked to Chief Washington right after the termination.
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  Speaker 3: I consider him a friend. Yet again, John Cranley hired him.
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  Speaker 3: John Cranley was the former mayor, so he had only
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  Speaker 3: been serving as chief for a couple of years at
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  Speaker 3: the time of his termination, but he had served as
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  Speaker 3: a fire fire person for over thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Years, comparable to Fiji's level of experience with the police department.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, one day he gets a call. He gets to
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  Speaker 3: Schryl A. Long the city Manager's office. From this is
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  Speaker 3: his account, did not know that they were going to
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  Speaker 3: terminate him, walked in, there's a lawyer there and the
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  Speaker 3: city manager, the Cydney manager, makes some kind of pronouncement
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to be fired. She leaves the room
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  Speaker 3: and leaves him in there with the attorney. Again this
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  Speaker 3: is Chief Washington's account of it as I remember it.
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  Speaker 3: And they begin to strip him of things like his badge,
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  Speaker 3: his radio, so he had he had traveled there in
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  Speaker 3: his chief you know, wash his chief vehicle, so like
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  Speaker 3: he's in uniform. So they're stripping him of all of
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  Speaker 3: his stuff. They walk him out, Uh take you know,
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  Speaker 3: say we're going to drive you to your house right
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  Speaker 3: now he has no powers or shutting him down from
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  Speaker 3: his computers and all that, drive him to his house
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  Speaker 3: and just let him out like any other day. Like
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  Speaker 3: that was the termination. No clear explanation of the why
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing things. The chief yo, yes, very brutal like,
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  Speaker 3: and the manager is not in the room at the
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  Speaker 3: time like she like like she starts off, then walks out,
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  Speaker 3: left in there with an attorney and so at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, there's nothing in his file. And
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  Speaker 3: so there was this this group that had done some
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  Speaker 3: type of climate assessment about women and Brian what if
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  Speaker 3: you read the news, it made you think it was
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  Speaker 3: sexual misconduct with some subordinate Never, never was it this.
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  Speaker 3: This was about saying that firehouses did not have restrooms
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  Speaker 3: for women. Maybe their uniforms for women. They were wearing
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  Speaker 3: male uniforms because that's something we had been working on.
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  Speaker 3: It was a climate assessment, and they were literally dropping
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  Speaker 3: on him, let's say, two hundred years of how the
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  Speaker 3: fire department might be leaning heavily male culture. So that
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  Speaker 3: was ultimately it, but that's not what was written. The
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  Speaker 3: tone was that he was involved in some sexual misconduct
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  Speaker 3: and none of that is true. So what has happened is,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, he's won every legal battle. It went
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  Speaker 3: to a three panel judge I think two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: and what was on the table there was a lower
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  Speaker 3: court said that Sheryl Long can be sued personally. I've
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  Speaker 3: never seen this before, meaning he has won everything. And
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  Speaker 3: they're saying, not only you said have a problem, but
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  Speaker 3: you city manager personally are on the hook.
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  Speaker 1: Which means Cheryl Long, not the City of Cincinnati taxpayers
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  Speaker 1: would write a check for whatever portion of liability that
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  Speaker 1: jury might find her responsible for.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: That really is a very very very painful thing to face.
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  Speaker 3: Very painful. And so she's waiting, as Chief Washington is waiting.
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  Speaker 3: Are two of the three of these judges going to say,
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  Speaker 3: we uphold what that lower court said and personally, this
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  Speaker 3: man can sue you. Now he's been waiting for a settlement,
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  Speaker 3: meaning I have no idea if I were sure along
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  Speaker 3: and a lower court had said they can take my house,
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  Speaker 3: they can take my pension, they can take everything from me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to act like I have some good common
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  Speaker 3: sense and I'm going to come to the table and say, listen,
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  Speaker 3: negotiate terms and let's be reasonable. But that's not what's
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  Speaker 3: been happening, and what's so crazy about it, Brian. The
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  Speaker 3: context is that prior to the election, they're down in
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  Speaker 3: the bowels of city Hall negotiating the eight point one
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  Speaker 3: million dollar settlement.
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  Speaker 2: With those who were out rioting.
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  Speaker 3: So you have it in your capacity to negotiate terms
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  Speaker 3: right with people, to give them twelve to thirteen thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars per person who didn't give you thirty years of
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  Speaker 3: their life per Fiji, per Washington. So we know they
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  Speaker 3: know how to settle because they dropped eight point one
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  Speaker 3: million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And you know when you mentioned that he put one
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, I was getting ready to say I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking you were going to pivot over to their decision
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  Speaker 1: to allocate that amount of money over to the sort
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  Speaker 1: of the music venue project. But all of this, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of whether you're going to go that direction or talk
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  Speaker 1: about settling with the rioters that were in the street
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  Speaker 1: and giving them each fourteen grand or whatever, we're facing
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  Speaker 1: how many million dollar budget shortfall? They claim thirty million
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  Speaker 1: thirty one million dollars shortfall.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: They can come up with cash when they kind of
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  Speaker 1: want to, can't They They can, And they asked for
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  Speaker 1: a tax increase when they got a thirty one million
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  Speaker 1: dollar budget shortfall that they probably shouldn't have anyway. And
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  Speaker 1: I know you're going to talk a little bit about that,
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  Speaker 1: their allocations and their decision making when it when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to scarce taxpayer dollar resources. And we'll have lots
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  Speaker 1: of time to do that and elaborate more on these
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: other issues, because I know you have a common or
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  Speaker 1: two about Alex Travinsky, you know, no longer facing charges.
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  Speaker 1: He was a victim in that beatdown that we had
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  Speaker 1: to witness when when Holly got punched in the face,
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  Speaker 1: and so that was the impetus behind getting rid of
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  Speaker 1: police Chief Thiji Oddly enough, And here's I'll defend her
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  Speaker 1: all day long. And I always struggle with this one
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  Speaker 1: because you know, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles was
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  Speaker 1: out of town and on vacation when the fires broke out,
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  Speaker 1: and she faced a lot of criticism for that. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: may have to have par Bowl facing some criticism for
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  Speaker 1: going on vacation when opening day parade happens, and of
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  Speaker 1: course the criticism is mounted because of the brawls and
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  Speaker 1: the crazy, roving gangs of youths that took over downtown Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: But neither of them knew ahead of time that those
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  Speaker 1: events we're gonna have outbreaks of violence. So at some
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  Speaker 1: point you've got to be able to leave town and
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  Speaker 1: do something, at least in the case that the chief DJ,
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  Speaker 1: she was doing something related to her job seven twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: It's seven thirty one fifty five kar City Coss Days
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  Speaker 1: and Brian Thomas with in studio Christopher Smillman, former vice
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Sinceag going through the issues
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and behind the scenes on all this. We got to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: move over this being sort of the the police chief
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: DJ placed on administrative leave and so we talked about
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that seems very very suspicious. Clearly no articulated reason at
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the time she was placed on leave for why she
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  Speaker 1: was being placed on leave. Again, enter the law firm
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  Speaker 1: retained to find a reason, returned with a very seemingly
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: very biased report predicated on the testimony of thirty two witnesses,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: some of whom apparently still did say some nice things
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: about Thiji, none of which came into the report. So
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the question swirling around that still don't really have a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: clear cut indication as to why that she was placed
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: on administrative lead. But it happened right after the brawl
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: last summer, involving, among others, Alex Stravinsky and of course
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Holly who's spent on this program several times. And if
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you've seen the video of that, you know she just
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: got cole cocked in the face. Did absolutely nothing to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: deserve it was rendering aid to one of the victims
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: of the beatdown. That was horrific, and she's still struggling
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: with some cognitive and other medical issues because of how
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: severely she was hurt. And so that's it right there again.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Police Chief Thiji out of town at a meeting of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: law enforcement sort of you know, best practices kind of things.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: She's going to bring that back to the city Cincinnati
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: for the purposes of perhaps better policing here in the city.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: So that was part of her job function anyway as
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: opposed to being on vacation. But the strange circumstances around
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: swirling around charging Alex Tchrevinsky. Now you recall Christopher wasn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the two captains on duty at the time would not
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: sign an arrestaff of David for that man. And I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: don't remember how close Police Chief Thiji was involved with
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: whether or not she refused also to sign it or not.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: But the enforcement officers on the street didn't find sufficient
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: information or didn't have sufficient information to charge him. And
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: yet enter former assistant Chief Henny, who did sign it. Yes,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: he had nothing to do with the investigation, but apparently
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: bowing to some pressure, he went ahead and charge him. Well,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Alex has now had all the charges dismissed against him.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: There apparently was no there there, which is what the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: original arresting officers would be arresting officers determined at the time.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So do you think we're ever going to get to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the bottom of how it is the current Chief Henny
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: capitulated and bowed to whatever pressure, and most more specifically,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: who brought pressure on the police department to go after
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Alex Stravinsky in the first place, was that they needed
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a white scalp in this because it was obviously a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: black In some cases, white crime optics didn't look very good,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I'll admit, But do you need a random white guy
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to charge? Is that where you think this leads? And
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: if so, who's the one that insisted he be charged?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Well, remember members of council and the mayor and the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: city manager and community leaders held a press conference more
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: than one at least two, and they demanded that a
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: white person be arrested. I mean that was mob justice. Then,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: That's what it sounded like, That's what it felt like.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: And Alex Travinsky was the scapegoat.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Ye.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: And so now following this case, all charges dropped. Clearly
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the pressure was coming from city hall to arrest a
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: white person. That is their language, Brian Thomas, that's not
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: my language. They said, go and arrest a white person.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: So a white person was arrested. Now a white person
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: has been acquitted, not acquitted, but all charges have been dismissed.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: So if I'm serving as the vice mayor, I'm.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Letting the community know that the person who would sign
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: off on something like this would be the chief. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: cannot believe that the chief wasn't asked to sign off
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: on those charges.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: It had already gotten national attention. The videos were all
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: over the place. I mean, Cincinnati did not look good
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that night. So I would suspect that you're accurate in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that we need the chief to sign the charges. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: she probably wouldn't because she got the information from those
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: on the street and those on the scene that said
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: there's nothing to charge him with.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Correct And the person who would make a call like
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: that would be the city manager, because the chief reports
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to the city manager.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: It most likely wouldn't be the mayor.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: The mayor would go, hey, city manager, I want somebody charged,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: and hey, this is who we're going to charge. This
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: is just me speculating. You're a train of command. And
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: the city manager would call the chief and say, hey,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: we've got these charges and we need somebody from the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: police department to sign off on it. I don't know
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: if these facts are true, and the chief would say, no,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: you're leading a professional police department. I cannot believe that
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: the chief of police was not approached. So then they
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: had to find somebody who in the department will sign
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: off on these charges. And they found somebody who would
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: sign off, and that person now has become the chief,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the introim chief. So what's going to happen here is
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: expect community that Alex Travinsky's lawyer is going to turn.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: He's probably working day and night to file a lawsuit,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: most likely in federal court, right because there's going to
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: be some discrimination here because they were saying, go arrest
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: a white person. So if if there were a group
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: of white people holding a press conference and they said
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: to arrest a black person, God.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That would make national news in a heartbeat.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: And so you're going to see a case that probably
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: will have national attention because the question is do white
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: people have the same protections as every other human being
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: on the planet, And the answer to that is going
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: to be yes. So I guarantee you that his lawyer
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: is going We're going to federal court. We're going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: make federal law, no question, and you're going to have
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: not only putative damages, because where does Alex Travinsky go
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: today to get a job to operate in the United
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: States of America having been having been arrested and called
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: a total racist and now all charges have been dismissed sort.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Of flies in the face of the Black Lives Matter
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: narrative that police departments are all systemically racist, at least
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to their treatment of black people. So
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  Speaker 1: In politics, it's seven forty two. Here fifty about KCD
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  Speaker 1: talk station. Brian tell us the Christopher's Smith and kind
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  Speaker 1: of think we're calling it an Extendedsmith event this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher's agreed to spend a couple hours here in the
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  Speaker 1: morning show. At the ending it's seven oh five, all
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  Speaker 1: the way through the tail end of the show. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm enjoying this conversation. I hope you are walking through
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  Speaker 1: the issues because of course Christopher smithm and having been
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  Speaker 1: a Cincinnati council member and vice mayor of the city
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  Speaker 1: since then, knows how the operations work. And I'm just
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: really left on that last note. So we have the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Alex Stravinsky issue with charges being dropped and what cause
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of action he might have. But the idea that I'm
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: still reeling over the fact that no one wanted to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: charge him, and that there was someone behind the scenes,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And I guess since the chief sort of reports to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the city manager, I think we're left to conclude it
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: was the city manager who demanded the head of a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: white guy, that a white man be charged, which, as
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you said, was stated unequivocally in these press conferences.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Now, remember the Vice Mayor Jay Michelle was there for
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: those press conferences, Chair of Law and Public Safety Council
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Member Scotti Johnson was there for those, for those conversations
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: and these pronouncements. The city manager was there, the mayor
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: was there, meaning they all were standing there. I cannot
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  Speaker 3: believe that his lawyer would not show that in court,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: that they're standing in front of the entire city. I mean,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: you've got the power in the weight of your government
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: saying you must arrest a white person.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And maybe their defense, which I think is stupid, but
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it sounds like it's all they've got. Their defense in
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: coming out and saying that right out of the gate
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is because at that time, the only video that I
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: think that was circulating was the one where Alex Stravinsky
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: kind of soft slaps that other guy in the face.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But that was they didn't have all of the video
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: leading up to that moment in time, which is the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: reason the charges were all dropped.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: We need to stay on this, Brian, because there was
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: so much attention on the slap. Yeah, and that people
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: are listening to us right now, Black Americans, White Americans
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: are listening to us right now, and many do not
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: know that the complete video was released, and that video
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: showed that the fight and the altercation started before the slap,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: meaning the paunch behind the head of somebody who did that,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: whoever did it, was before that and that was not
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: the beginning. And so many people, Brian, when you talk
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: to them right now, they still because because the media,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: the mayor, the manager. I'm not letting them off the hook.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: And this is why we are trained at city Hall
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: after the collabortive agreement, Okay, that we are not supposed
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: to discuss cases until the investigation is complete.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, that is on record.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of wrapping up this whole Fiji placed on administrative
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: leave springing from the beatdown that was issued on Holly
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and most notably Alex Stravinsky, who was in fact chared
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a charge, and of course that was none at the
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  Speaker 1: behest of someone presumably maybe City Manager Cheryl Long and
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  Speaker 1: you were talking about in the wake of the collaborative
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  Speaker 1: agreement talking about going back a while that the collaborative
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: agreement requires that CINCINNTI council members and the mayor and
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  Speaker 1: I guess the city manager not comment on matters still
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  Speaker 1: under investigation. Now, I speculated that maybe they went off
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: sort of half cocked because all they had was that
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: one slice of video where Alex slaps the other guy
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: in the face, but it was preceded by a whole
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: bunch of other videos showing that this was more an
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: active self defense, if I can call it that, than
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: him unilaterally just going out and hitting somebody, which would
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: be a battery. I guess if you wanted to charge
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: was something anyway, those charges drop. Corey said, well, the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: entire video was in fact out that they refused to
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  Speaker 1: show it. I don't know who they is. If somebody's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: got video, they're going to put it out there. Your
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: understanding was not that way. But we do know that
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they did go off half baked and they did ask
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: for this white guy to be charged.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: And I want to just follow up as we go
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: into break Brian and say, you know, as the former
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: chair of Law and Public Safety, right my position is
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: chair at that time, and Kevin Flynn being the vice chair,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: we have oversight of the entire police department. I can
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: walk into any district anywhere nine to one one call
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: center and get just about anything that I want. So
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: if there was a video out there, right and you're
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: the Chair of Law and Public Safety, there's no way
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: that you don't know or shouldn't know that it exists.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Number one. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: And if you're the mayor, right you can walk and
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: get it of this information, and if you're the city manager,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: you can go get it into this information. So it's
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: not for me as I watched it going they didn't know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: they didn't want to know. They were turning a blind eye.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: They were feeding into the narrative going into an election
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: in November in order to hype up the Black American
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: community here to vote for them, saying you're a victim
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: that they're trying to overcharge you. This is really white racism.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: These are clan members, these are Nazi members that are
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: in downtown. They were ginning all of this up going
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: into the November election to beat Corey Bowman to win
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: their nine seats.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Back on council. That's what this was all about.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: And this lawyer is going to pin their ears back
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas, because this was a political motivated hit job
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: on this man, and they never believed that. They never
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: believed that he'd have a lawyer that all charged would
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: be dropped. And the boomerang is now coming right back
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: in city Hall.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: That certainly is.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And again it's just if I was in that position,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: regardless of how I felt, you know politically, that you
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: would go out and demand and arrest when you know
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you don't have all the information, you can't definitively state it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And yet they went out and definitively stated that he was,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: It was justifiable, and it was proper to charge him.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, that just puts you in a just a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: ridiculous position where you're you're gonna be played the fool
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: down the road when all the information ultimately comes out.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Brian, I've been in a nine to one to one
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: call center. The number of cameras that we have downtown
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: could read your wrist, read the time on your wrist,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Meaning there's so many cameras. Now, my understanding is that
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: there weren't. There are a lot of cameras in this section,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: but there are a lot of businesses that have cameras
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: on there on their businesses, and that's where this footage
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: came from. And so three seeds down there, for example,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: would easily Steve Leeper. You could call him on the
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: phone and say, Hey, what restaurant, what business has cameras?
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: You would never go out in front of a camera
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: without pulling all of the video.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Why would you want to do that. You're gonna end
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: up maybe being played the fool. But you know, unless
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  Speaker 2: What year were those riots? Oh, I'm that positive man.
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  Speaker 1: We go way back on that. Wait, wait, it's been
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, she's gained a position of power and
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  Speaker 1: doing work with youths at Government Square or something. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of we'll get that later. I know you
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's important that you chime in on this.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: How impressive are American military? And you can say all
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: you want about whether or not we should be in
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the situation in Iraq. We are waging a war right now,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: of course, against the Iranians, but to see the American
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: military a plane gets down and we literally entered that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: country and got the pilots back, now impressive, absolutely. But
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's not only a reflection of how much
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: we have made by way of progress in undermining the Iranians'
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: ability to defend themselves, but also I think it speaks
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: volumes to the skill of those special forces team who
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: went in.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And got them out.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, every human being in Iran, by all accounts,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: was looking for those two pilots, which means when you
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: send a four set of two hundred or so troops
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to go rescue them, then they are targets quite clearly
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: for all of the Iranians who are in a position
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: to shoot at one of them. So I know you
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: wanted a comment about that, corw so Brian.
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  Speaker 3: You know, for me, I think as an American all
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: of us can appreciate in awe as you've just described
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  Speaker 3: the success of the mission, you know, And I'm going
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: to talk about the politics because as I watch you know,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: social media or I watch the news, my sense is
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: that people cannot separate our military, the might of our military,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: the pride in our military.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: And the White House, and so they they bring all
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: this together and they shouldn't.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: We can I boil it down as I understand that statement,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: it's we have Americans who want us to fail in
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: RAN because Donald Trump is responsible for the decision making.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I agree, period of I mean, it looked like that
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: where I'm sitting there with a son who's in the military,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: who did four years active duty in the Air Force,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: now is back in the Air National Guard, so he's
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: still serving, and my hat goes off and Brian's I know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: his hat goes off because I hear all of the
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: flights that go out. We support the military, our veterans,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: and we extend our great love and support for all
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: of those military families that are out there right now.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: But as I watched and listened to think about the
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: coordination of the CIA of the pilot himself, mean meaning,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I learned a lot that they have so much training
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: going into the situation of how to survive and what
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: they're supposed to do forty eight hours, probably very little contact,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: you know. I think they said he went seven thou
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: mountainous terrain all the way to the top and wounded.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Right he sets up some beacon something that's beeping that says, dude,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: I'm here and come get me.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: But might not know that they see it. Are they
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: hear it?
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: You're kind of out there all by yourself with one pistol,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: you know, one clip magazine magazinze yourself. Excuse me, you're
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: a firearms you know that.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: You know that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: But I think I would have needed several extra changes
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: of shorts being in that position.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: You don't know where you are is night, you can't
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: see you're You're in some crevice somewhere. So this was
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: It's an amazing rescue. There's probably going to be a
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: movie about this.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: At some point we mentioned that before we got on
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the air, like these the Maduro capture and this rescue
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: would make two fantastic movies. And again I always got
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to think about the people out there that well, we
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: had no legal justification of going to grab a Duro,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: and I might agree with that. I mean, and I'm
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the same way on initiating a war against Iran without
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: some sort of war powers resolution or declaration of war.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I'm still on that, and I'm not alone. There's some
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: other congressmen and some elected officials were all so still
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: raising that. But here we are. I can't avoid the
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: fact that here we are. So I can comment on
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the simple awesomeness of those two particular missions.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: And to think about the president right.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Notice I'm not saying who the president is, the president
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: of the United States making the decision to not leave
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: him behind. That is a risk for a politician because
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: everything could go wrong, and now you have more soldiers
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: behind enemy lines who are now who are now hostages, and.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: So many of who might say, well, those are boots
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: on the ground. You had to go into the country
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: of Iran with soldiers to get the guys out. So
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I can hear that argument being made as well. But
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: you know, the downside political risk is, you know, if
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: you could let him, just let that person die, or
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: just not risk these special forces going in and getting
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: them because of all the risks associated with the parallel
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: risk is the Iranians find that pilot and drag him
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: through the streets and subject him to brutal torture and
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: use him as a political pun to elevate their case
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: and bring international attention down and bring a lot more
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: people who are already angry about evil Orange Man and
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: not happy about the war, giving them an exclamation point
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to put on their arguments that we shouldn't be there
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: in the first place. So, yeah, that was a risk,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and I don't think the Trump administration, any administration, could
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: take Yeah.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, this is about
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: our military, ore might the training that they have to
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: pull something off like this. They're probably not a lot
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: of countries, if not any, who could do what we
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: accomplished this weekend.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: We certainly of our fellow NATO members.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: No, all, that's a whole that's a whole nother, that's
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: a whole other conversation. So I'm a person who roots
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: for our country, right, I root for the flag, I
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: root for the success of our country. And it's disappointing
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: for me to hear people out there rooting a against us.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's tough.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: And so at the end of the day, if you're
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: listening to Brian and I think about if that was
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: your husband or your uncle or your brother, and he
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: has been serving the country.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: He's a colonel, he's behind enemy lines.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Do you want a president or a politician in there
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: that has a mindset of I'm not gonna leave him behind.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do what it takes to get him out.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Because we saw what happened in Afghanistan, and obviously there
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: are differences of how different elected officials think. This one
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: said I'm going in to get them at all costs. Well,
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: and I mentioned this earlier in the program The Five
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: o'clock Our Christopher. I think it's worthy bringing it back
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: up again. You know, well, Jimmy Carter apparently had some
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: measure of resolve in trying to get the hostages out
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: of Iran after the revolution. That was an epic failure.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Those helicopters all crashed in the middle of a sandstorm
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: in the desert. So that was a real, true embarrassment
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: to the United States of America. And I think it
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: suggested to a lot of people our American military forces
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: were not up to snuff. Clearly, they've been honing their
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: skill set since then, you know what I'm saying. Clearly,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: these are some bad dudes who went in there with
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: no mercy.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Clearly there was a gun battle at some level because
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: they had to be to clear it, to clear the
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: area out to get to them, because you know, the
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: country is looking for this man. There's a sixteen thousand
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: dollars bounty on his head, which is probably could be
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: worth a million dollars for them on whatever the currency is.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: But at the end, but at the end.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Of this they spent that billion and a half in
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: cash that Obama gave him, nearly fifteen grand left over
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: to give us the reward.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, people don't realize that that that was. I think
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: it was one point seven one point four billion dollars.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Palla the cash man. That's that is that is actually
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: that is very true.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I just want
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: to salute our military, salute the success of the mission.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: And it was important enough for me Brian to bring
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: it up because I think young people who are on
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: spring break right now, young people who might be listening
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: to us, need to understand that there's a time that
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: you back your country, you back your flag. You say
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: this is my team and I want them to win. Right,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: It's not about always like, is every detail of this right?
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: It's not you and I saying like you just pointed
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: out whether you fully agree with the decision to go in.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: We're in, and if we're in, we want to win
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: and we want to support that as an American And
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: you know when.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: You step back from moving aside from the whole, should
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: we even be there? Is it legal for Trump to
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: do this? Did he just go it alone?
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: With that?
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I get all that, I trust me. I do.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: But if we do prevail, we will have benefited the
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: entire world. We will have brought a greater sense of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: stability for all of those Arab nations that are right
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: there next to a run. If they don't, I know
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: they know it. They're leaning toward our side of the equation.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Iran is bombing, it's fellow Arab nations, Saudi Arabia, United
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Arab Emdment, it's Kakuwait, they're all on the receiving in
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: now of Iran's random missiles. Do you think they want that?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Of course they don't. So we solve that problem. We
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: keep the straight of horror moves open for the entire globe,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: because apparently the entire globe is dependent upon that narrow
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: strait right there, and we bring about some measure of
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: stability into the future for a long time, getting rid
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: of the proxy wars being fought by the terrorists because
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: we've dried up their funding source. Now, trust me, I
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: hear somebody yelling at they're ready. Yeah, but what about
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Russia and what about China. Yeah, they're still there. But
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: a world without Iran will definitely be a much much
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: better place, and most notably for the people in that
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: specific region of the world.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Well, let me just say, forty five thousand Iranians lost
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: their life to this government. They were shooting them down,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: you know, Venezuela. Venezuelans were saying they were excited about
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: this change. Let's not forget that people now. The only
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: reason I'm raising that is that the Democratic Party, right,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: their brand would tell you that they would be for
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: this right. They would say, there's no way we're going
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: to see forty five thousand Iranians shot down in the
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: streets fighting for freedom and them not lend a voice
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: to it. I'm questioning why so many Democrats aren't lending
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: a voice, and I think that's what Iranians are saying.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: If you go out on social media. That's what the
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Venezuela and people are saying. What is going on with
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party that they are saying they're against the
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: humanity of this, because that's all about their brand. I
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: get Republicans saying, I'm questioning, you know, we're not the
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: police for the world. But that has not been the
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: position of the Democratic Party. There's something going on here.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: When Barack Obama starts bombing Libya, for example, it was
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: all great, it was the right thing to do. They
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: represented a three I guess under those circumstances, which you
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: can't find now in this particular circumstance. Also note that
• 49:05
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• 49:07
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  Speaker 1: With Christopher Smid and an extended Smith event to the
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  Speaker 1: end of this hour, and Christopher, I wanted to get
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: into budget issues. Thirty one million dollar budget shortfall, roads, bridges,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: infrastructures seem to be not even on the radar elected officials.
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  Speaker 1: I listen, we can complain all day long, but do
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  Speaker 1: they really need to raise our income tax? Christopher? They
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: find money seemingly anytime they needed the money for the
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: music venue where you know down by riverbend. Where did
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: that come from? I mean, all of a sudden next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know that since an orchestra, whoever's in charge, has
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  Speaker 1: their handout to the city saying, hey, we could use
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: some money, and they come up with what was that
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: eight million bucks like that, no questions asked, And then
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: now they're talking about cutting the police department money.
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  Speaker 3: Use are these are the bait and switch moves that
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: I see politicians.
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  Speaker 1: Issue twenty two that was on the ballot, which was
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: to sell of the rail railroad sale that was supposed
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: to be the solve all our problems. Railroad sale, that
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  Speaker 1: one that one. So listen to this, this is great.
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  Speaker 3: We have an opportunity, this is right from Issue twenty
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  Speaker 3: two that was put in all of our mailboxes to
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  Speaker 3: vote yes on twenty two. We have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: fix our broken infrastructure in every neighborhood. Voting yes on
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: twenty two to sell the city's old freight railroad will
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  Speaker 3: generate funding we.
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  Speaker 1: Need without raising taxes. Here that out raising taxes, that's right. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. The Issue twenty two went through. We sold
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  Speaker 1: the railroad. Well, why are they saying we're going to
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  Speaker 1: raise taxes?
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  Speaker 3: No, Christopher, here's where the bait and switch goes from
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: the politicians. Brian, we all seen it. You were here
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  Speaker 3: saying Issue twenty two vote no. You had the railroad
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  Speaker 3: spending five million dollars on this kind of advertising that
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: was going out to everybody to vote for this thing.
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  Speaker 3: We lost three hundred miles of rail all the way
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  Speaker 3: to Tennessee, where we were generating about thirty six million
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  Speaker 3: dollars a year. The biggest issue with Issue twenty two
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  Speaker 3: is that, in a nutshell, construction inflation is nine percent,
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  Speaker 3: but the tenets of how they can invest the money
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: I'm a financial planner is five percent, meaning they can't
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: swing for the fences and do an acid allocation for
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: regular growth like in somebody's four oh one k. They
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: have to manage it in a more conservative way. So
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  Speaker 3: if over the next twenty years construction is going up
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  Speaker 3: by nine percent, they can only invest to get a
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  Speaker 3: five percent return. Our infrastructure is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: disaster over the next ten or twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: It's already bad now. Disaster.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't they paid attention to it for the last
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: forty years. Basically, how many road miles are we behind
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: in terms of filling potholes and repaving.
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  Speaker 2: It is massive. It is massive.
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  Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is that when we were dealing
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  Speaker 3: with a railroad and we were negotiating their contracts. We
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: could negotiate those type of inflation numbers, meaning we're going
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  Speaker 3: to go up by nine percent in order to keep
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  Speaker 3: up with the payments that are coming from the railroad.
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  Speaker 3: We can no longer do that, Brian Thomas, that one
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: point six billion dollars in sitting there. We can say
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: every day we get a five percent, five percent, five percent,
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  Speaker 3: we are still four percent in the hole because of
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  Speaker 3: the cost of construction going up by nine percent.
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  Speaker 1: And there seems to be a big, a deafening silence
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  Speaker 1: about projects that are approved and projects that can actually start.
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  Speaker 1: Does the board have any say over the proposed expenditure
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  Speaker 1: of money from the interest generated? They don't seem to.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the city manager came out with some
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: list of approved projects that had used up some of
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: that money in that allocation, but they haven't started, and
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  Speaker 1: there's no details known to the general public about what
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  Speaker 1: those projects are and who's going to be doing them,
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  Speaker 1: and have they done you know RFPs, have they submitted
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  Speaker 1: to open bidding silence?
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  Speaker 2: No, we don't have any information. Correct.
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  Speaker 3: But this is an important point because we talked about
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  Speaker 3: this before Issue twenty two passed. Yeah, we said, look,
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  Speaker 3: we have full visibility on the railroad dollars because it's public.
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  Speaker 3: Now you've taken the money to a board that might
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: meet down at the Queens City Club making decisions about
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: the money that you and I have no visibility on
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  Speaker 3: anymore that we used to because the money landed at
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  Speaker 3: City Hall, nine members of council and the mayor and
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  Speaker 3: the allocation. We have none of that aga to the
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  Speaker 3: general fund. Right well, it was capital dollars that went
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: into it, yes, but the big pile of money at
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: least right there, he was right there. None the money
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: came in, every member, every council tax dollars. Correct, it
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: came in and we would then discuss it in the public.
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  Speaker 3: Now we have no discussion. But I cannot emphasize Brian
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  Speaker 3: constructions going up nine percent. If somebody tried to build
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: a home ten years from now, ten years ago and
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: they're trying to build the same home today, the cost
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: of construction is higher.
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  Speaker 2: It always is going higher.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm letting you know that this mayor pure Vaal,
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  Speaker 3: who had his car reposed twice, right, who cannot manage
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: his own personal budget, sold us on a one point
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  Speaker 3: six billion dollar transaction that our forefathers had for almost
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty years in the city of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 3: Is one of the worst transactions ever. And by the way,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: elections have consequences because he was overwhelmingly voted in again
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: after that terrible transaction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I figured that phrase would be coming up again
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  Speaker 1: on this show Between You with talking to you this morning, Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: went long in that last segment with Christopher Smith, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you got two points you wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: in this segment, But real quick, Christopher, I know you
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  Speaker 1: want to do a reminder. It's an action plan for
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  Speaker 1: those who may not be registered to vote. Christopher, hold
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  Speaker 3: Today is the last day to register to vote to
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  Speaker 3: participate in the May primary. It's also the last day
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  Speaker 3: to update your address in Hamilton County if your address
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  Speaker 3: doesn't match your registration, so you could be a registered
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  Speaker 3: voter and not be able to participate, meaning you cast
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: a provisional ballot. So if you've moved in the last
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  Speaker 3: six months, you've moved in the last year, absolutely go
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  Speaker 3: to the Board of Elections today. It takes thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Fill out a card, update your address, submit it. You'll
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  Speaker 3: be ready to participate in the May primary. The May
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  Speaker 3: primary this year critical, there are big races on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Good point.
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  Speaker 3: And I would just say, look, my daughter right is
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  Speaker 3: now a registered voter. She's ready, so I got she's
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  Speaker 3: eighteen old and she'll be voting in her first primary.
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  Speaker 3: And so all of my kids that are here local,
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  Speaker 3: they're all ready to participate, already to vote, they'll vote
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  Speaker 3: in the primary. And all I'm saying is that if
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  Speaker 3: you have an eighteen year old right now who's in
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  Speaker 3: high school, like I do, you might not have thought
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  Speaker 3: I should register them before four o'clock. You don't want
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  Speaker 3: your child to register when they go away to college.
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  Speaker 3: You want your child to be registered where they live.
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  Speaker 3: Because what happens is professors, administrators, different social groups try
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  Speaker 3: to grab our children, register them to vote where they
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  Speaker 3: are in college, and then direct those votes to the polls.
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  Speaker 3: It's another thing I always tell and always Pam and
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  Speaker 3: I always told our kids register here and come home,
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  Speaker 3: or do an absentee ballot, whatever you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: I like to come home. Fark.
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  Speaker 1: That gives you one more opportunity before they go and vote,
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  Speaker 1: to convince them which direction they should vote.
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  Speaker 2: That's what a good parrot does. Now, they don't have
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  Speaker 2: to listen to you. They don't.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have to listen. But I also look at
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: them in their face and I say, understand how you eat.
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  Speaker 3: Understand that my taxes being low affords me the ability
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  Speaker 3: to pay your bills.
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  Speaker 2: So think about that before you go into cass. I
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  Speaker 2: love you, Chris. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: Eight thirty six will continue with Chris Throer got a
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  Speaker 1: couple more and some more points you wanted to get to,
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  Speaker 1: midway through the very first time I used it. I
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  Speaker 1: of course had to bring it home and pack it
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  Speaker 1: back up and bring it back and Jim Jim Keefer
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  Speaker 1: hurt me the westside. Jim Keifer, my friend Hermi, lamenting
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  Speaker 1: It's like really, yes, oh, and what a great move
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  Speaker 1: that was for me. I got Jim Herbert on the
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  Speaker 1: phone working with me, and he knew what I kind
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  Speaker 1: of what I wanted, because I explained I ended up
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  Speaker 1: It's designed to be used literally every single day, multiple
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  Speaker 1: said it's a last mower I will ever have to buy.
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  Speaker 1: They service everything that they sell. So I had my
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  Speaker 1: lawns lawn more service by Bud Herbert. That's happened before.
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  Speaker 1: They'll deliver it to you. They delivered mine. I was
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  Speaker 1: cutting my grass before the truck had even left the street.
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  Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. They've been locally owned, a
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  Speaker 1: fifth generation Herbert family running the thing for more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years. You will work with a Herbert family member.
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  Speaker 1: Trustworthy service, right price, great and customer service fantastic. So
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  Speaker 1: Hey forty one here if you have Kercity Talk station,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you've been joined the last you know, last
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  Speaker 1: hour in this current hour with Christopher Smith, and I
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  Speaker 1: certainly have going through all the issues and moving beyond
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  Speaker 1: since any politics a certain degree. I know you slew
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  Speaker 1: to the American troops and God bless the American military.
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  Speaker 1: Tough job they've got, but they are truly performing in
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: amid so much global criticism. But moving back to matters local, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you have something else you want.
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  Speaker 3: To bring up here, Christopher, Well, I think you touched
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  Speaker 3: on it, which we are this discussion about raising our
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  Speaker 3: taxes and you constantly hear the mayor floating this, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to raise our income tax and it's because of
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  Speaker 3: police want to I'm connecting issue twenty two meaning railroad money,
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  Speaker 3: the railroad money and the promises made and the bait
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  Speaker 3: and switch that we're seeing right now in front of us.
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  Speaker 3: This is the exact same kind of thing. So we've
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  Speaker 3: got to wake up. This is not about cops, meaning
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  Speaker 3: raising our taxes is not about cops. This is a
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  Speaker 3: This is a council that has clearly sent the message
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  Speaker 3: that they want to defund the police department. Reimagine the
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  Speaker 3: police department. They've just asked the Police Department for a
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  Speaker 3: five percent reduction. My point to you is that this
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  Speaker 3: is about, in my opinion, right laziness not wanting to
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  Speaker 3: cut their pet projects. Number one, meaning they're operating a
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  Speaker 3: streetcar at five million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: I sound like a broken record, but it's real.
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  Speaker 3: Those operating dollars are competing directly against the police, fire
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  Speaker 3: and sanitation, the operation of the city. Every time you
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  Speaker 3: and I discussed about this this is a streetcar. We
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  Speaker 3: never said we were against rail or light rends. We
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  Speaker 3: talked about the Capitol project. If you build it, they
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  Speaker 3: will come. Now the operation of the streetcar. People are
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  Speaker 3: not riding it. They're saying we're going to pay two
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  Speaker 3: sixty five to ride it. Then it was a dollar
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  Speaker 3: sixty five. Now they say it's free. Nothing is free.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing's free. So we're spending five million dollars at least
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  Speaker 3: a year to operate the streetcar. We're probably spending another
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  Speaker 3: five million a year to service the debt, meaning the
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  Speaker 3: debt that was issued the ninety four million, So we're
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  Speaker 3: ten million dollars in every single year.
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  Speaker 1: My point forgot about that because when I think of
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  Speaker 1: the five million figure that you normally reference that is
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  Speaker 1: just what we have to pay to keep it running. Yes, maintenance, upkey,
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  Speaker 1: electricity personnel. Yes, that does not touch upon a debt
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  Speaker 1: service the interest we owe. So that's an extra five million.
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  Speaker 1: So that's upset. Okay, And here I'm glad you broke
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  Speaker 1: it down that way because you did remind me of
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  Speaker 1: that because Washington, DC just pulled the plug on their
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  Speaker 1: street car. It's gone. Now that sounds like a plausible idea.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're going to say five million a year,
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  Speaker 1: which basically would prevent the police department from being cut
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  Speaker 1: five million bucks a year, you still have a long
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  Speaker 1: term obligation to pay off the money you borrow to
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  Speaker 1: build the damn thing.
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  Speaker 3: You do, but you still free up money. But here's
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  Speaker 3: the reality, Brian Thomas. They're wanting to raise taxes so
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  Speaker 3: they can expand the street car. They want to go
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  Speaker 3: up Vine to UC They want to go really bad.
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  Speaker 3: They want to connect UC to downtown.
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  Speaker 2: And they keep.
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  Speaker 3: Floating this idea very very quietly. They don't have enough
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  Speaker 3: money to do all the things that they want to do.
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  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, the community must
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: understand that the city is in the business to keep
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  Speaker 3: us safe. To make sure that they fix our infrastructure,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: our roads, and make sure they remove our snow when
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: it snows. To make sure they fix our roads and
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: our bridges. That's what we're down there to do. All
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: this other nonsense that you're hearing them talk about, it's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: just craziness. Solar farm, I mean, that's not part of
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: the core services of the city. Since I s fists
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  Speaker 3: involved with building solar panel farm. Ryan is so much
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  Speaker 3: more he said core services. I could have said all
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  Speaker 3: that and just said core services. No, solar farm is
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  Speaker 3: not on that list and is not going to change
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  Speaker 3: the planet's temperature. Nor anyway, Shaver for or is some
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  Speaker 3: type of entertainment location, nor is nor is restaurants that
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  Speaker 3: they keep trying to shine that they keep failing. You
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  Speaker 3: saw what happened in Clifton with the Clifton grocery store
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  Speaker 3: that now looks like it's going under.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you could just name.
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  Speaker 3: The project that they decided to pick winners and losers.
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  Speaker 1: But you know the argument, I gotta go back to
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  Speaker 1: this damn music venue, and I didn't think we had
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  Speaker 1: the city since they had anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Long comes to cso Or Whoever's running it, says we
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  Speaker 1: need some additional money, I guess, and the city says, fine,
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  Speaker 1: here's eight million dollars or whatever the figure was. And
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  Speaker 1: the argument that was made at the time, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a great return on investment. This money will translate
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  Speaker 1: into X number of dollars because the new music venue
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  Speaker 1: is going to bring in all kinds of people. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought to myself, that's gonna happen anyway. If the
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  Speaker 1: city doesn't pony up any money, they're still building it,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore they will get the foot traffic revenue that
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  Speaker 1: they claim is gonna come in, except they connected it
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  Speaker 1: to an additional sum of money thrown at it by
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  Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, which was not unnecessary and I
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  Speaker 1: think pointless and also just really really blows a hole
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  Speaker 1: in this. Oh my god, we got to raise income
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  Speaker 1: tax and the city and since a police department needs
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  Speaker 1: to cut its budget by five percent, no, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: you can't make this right.
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  Speaker 3: Last point, Brian, is that anybody driving around Cincinnati, right,
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  Speaker 3: we are a dirty city. Right when you drive around,
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  Speaker 3: you see trash everywhere. That's what I feel like when
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  Speaker 3: I'm driving around. It's getting worse. It's getting worse. It's
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  Speaker 3: getting worse. And I'm saying, look, if the mayor and
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  Speaker 3: his staff are listening right now, clean up our city,
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  Speaker 3: get people out there on the road and get this trash.
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  Speaker 2: Do what you're what you're down there to do.
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  Speaker 3: My point is when I travel to other cities, when
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  Speaker 3: I even travel just out of Cincinnati, if I go
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  Speaker 3: to just just you know, just go up the road
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, all of a sudden, the roads look
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  Speaker 3: a lot cleaner. What is it about Cincinnati that we
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  Speaker 3: can't keep our city roads, our highways right off. Whether
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  Speaker 3: it's the Norwood Lateral, whether it's parts of seventy five
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  Speaker 3: that are in the city, or whether it's forty two
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  Speaker 3: Renting Road, whether it's paddocked Hills, whether it's Route fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Why do they have to be so dll gone dirty?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm saying the city has their eye off the ball,
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  Speaker 3: and they're talking about things like this music venues, and
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  Speaker 3: they're not handling the basic core services of the city.
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  Speaker 1: a second. They closed the police department, had District five
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  Speaker 1: shut down over their objections, and they packed everybody over
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that supposed to save a whole bunch of money?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty million, twenty million dollars? How did that work out?
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  Speaker 3: Not well apparently, And they're still they're still in that
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  Speaker 3: that strip mall. They've putting The owner of the Strip
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  Speaker 3: Mall is loving it. They're putting millions two three four
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  Speaker 3: million dollars into the Strip Mall, plus.
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  Speaker 1: Giving them all free law enforcement support. You never you
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