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Brian talks politics with Alex Triantafilou · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven thirty one, fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Friday,
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five Cars Morning show. Head of the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party Alex Cherouta Filo, always great having on the program. Alex,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back in advance. Happy, happy Christmas, Merry Christmas to
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  Speaker 1: you and your family.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Brian, thank you, and merry Christmas and happy Holidays
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  Speaker 2: and everything to you and your listeners. And always good
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  Speaker 2: to be with you two.
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  Speaker 1: Buddy. All Right, I'm gonna get a We're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to do a bit of a year in review
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  Speaker 1: here and then we'll look forward to twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: And insofar as the latter topic and even the former
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  Speaker 1: topic is concerned, I just wanted to get your reaction
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  Speaker 1: to Governor to Wine statements relative to V. V. Ramaswami,
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  Speaker 1: who I understand enjoys the Republican Party endorsement already, he
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  Speaker 1: won't endorse him yet, and he really tried to salvage
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  Speaker 1: a certain degree Doctor Amy Acton, Amy Lockdown acting Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: He appointed to be the medical director during COVID lockdown times.
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  Speaker 1: She's the one that came up with the concepts like
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  Speaker 1: let's not drink after ten pm, but you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to go home in a bar. It didn't make any
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  Speaker 1: sense Lockdown Amy Acton, but he provided her cover, saying
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  Speaker 1: the buck stops with him, which I agree, But I
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  Speaker 1: kind of wonder why he was trying to provide her
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  Speaker 1: some cover and what his problem is with endorsing VI
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  Speaker 1: vike Ramaswamy, who does have the Republican Party endorsement.
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  Speaker 2: Alex weit covered a lot of ground and it's all fair.
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  Speaker 2: So Brian want to say this to you. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: the vike Ramaswami did receive our full endorsement. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I go way back with a Vike. I've known him
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  Speaker 2: a long time. He's an incredible candidate for the Republican Party,
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  Speaker 2: very strong. Look, no matter what the governor says, Amy
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  Speaker 2: Acton is going to have to answer to Ohioan's for
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  Speaker 2: her conduct in the same way that Anthony Fauci answered
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  Speaker 2: for his conduct. It wasn't Joe Biden or Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: who made decisions and advised you know, non scientist, non doctors.
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  Speaker 2: So Amy Acting is going to have to answer for
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  Speaker 2: all of those things. You know, you can, the governor
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  Speaker 2: can can continue to do what he's going to do.
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  Speaker 2: But let me tell you it's not going to us
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  Speaker 2: one bit from pointing out Amy Acting's absolute failures in
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  Speaker 2: her job, and also to talk a lot about the
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  Speaker 2: vake Ramaswami and the incredible gifts and talents that he
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  Speaker 2: brings in this job. So yeah, look, I I do
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately Brian is the party's leader here in Ohio. I
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  Speaker 2: expect the governor will endorse the Republican nominee and that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the vike ramis Swami. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. I think in the meantime, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the governor is going to stand up for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for what he did and say what he did was
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  Speaker 2: what he did, and in one small way you can
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  Speaker 2: respect it. At least you know he's taken them. He's saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: I was the decision maker and that's kind of what
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  Speaker 2: leaders do. But that is not to absolve Amy Act
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  Speaker 2: in one bit for her lockdowns, for masking our children,
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  Speaker 2: for shutting down businesses, and for all the other terrible
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  Speaker 2: and I mean awful decisions that she put upon Ohio
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  Speaker 2: and during COVID disaster. So you know, there's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be any absolution of her, you know, because of
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  Speaker 2: what other politicians might say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's kinda high behind. Well, the information was unfolding.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have it all in front of us. We
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  Speaker 1: were erring on the side of caution. Well, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to shut the kids out of school, one of
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  Speaker 1: the first states to do. So look what Florida did.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't lock down, they didn't have any problems, and
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  Speaker 1: there were multiple directions to go. And of course there
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  Speaker 1: could have been a middle ground somewhere in there, I suppose,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean she went full on shut down and
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  Speaker 1: that ruined so many lives. So yes, I agree, we
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  Speaker 1: will hold her fully accountable as we as we head
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  Speaker 1: on into November. Also notable, and again which makes me
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  Speaker 1: really puzzled, why Dwine won't just go ahead and give
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  Speaker 1: his endorsement, which you expect and I do too. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: there's no primary challenger. I mean, what's what's the weight
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  Speaker 1: all about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I've asked him, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's just going running through his trap. So
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  Speaker 2: what he has said to me is what do you
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  Speaker 2: have said publicly? And I wouldn't disclose any said to
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  Speaker 2: me privately anyway, as you well know, Brian, but I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you that he has said already publicly that
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  Speaker 2: he intends to endorse. I think Camda Vak are just
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  Speaker 2: having a little bit of a warming up period. Look,
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  Speaker 2: this is all going to come together and Ohio's are
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  Speaker 2: going to have a binary choice. I mean we're still nine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ten months away from the election, so the
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  Speaker 2: answer is going to really be the vake Ramaswami will
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  Speaker 2: be the next governor of this great state. He is
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  Speaker 2: going to have every advantage that the candidate needs. This
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  Speaker 2: is still still very much a red state. The generic polling,
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  Speaker 2: which you know we ask people and polls, Brian, or
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  Speaker 2: you're a Republican or a Democrat, it's still about seven
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  Speaker 2: percentage points in the state. Donald Trump won this state
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  Speaker 2: by eleven percentage points, So you know, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be in very good shape. And what we did, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: what I did here at the Ohio Republican Party is
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  Speaker 2: we endorse the vake. We endorse them early. We have
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  Speaker 2: recognized a generational talent and one of the most thoughtful
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  Speaker 2: conservative leaders in America, and we're lucky to have him
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  Speaker 2: and Brian. I mean, I'm on the ground, was a
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  Speaker 2: vake all around Ohio, and I really I may perhaps
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  Speaker 2: I'm put to hyperbole, but let me just say this
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  Speaker 2: to you about that. The level of support, the excitement
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  Speaker 2: that I've seen on the ground for Vivike Ramaswami is
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  Speaker 2: unlike anything I've ever seen for any politician other than
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump in Ohio and Vivig showed up at Miami
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  Speaker 2: University on a cold winter's night two weeks ago and
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  Speaker 2: their students lined up two blocks in the middle of campus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah to hear from Vivake Ramaswami. My man, that's not
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  Speaker 2: happening for Amy acting. That's not happening for even my
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  Speaker 2: good friends on the Republican side, on the establishment side,
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  Speaker 2: who might show up. So it's an incredible thing. We
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  Speaker 2: have a vake running and no political endorsement or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that is going to Ultimately what gets it done
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  Speaker 2: for him, What gets it done is his his skills,
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  Speaker 2: his acumen. Is a candidate and as a person as
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  Speaker 2: a leader is a completely self made Sincinnati kid. You know,
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  Speaker 2: so it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun campaign, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: It already is.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and he is such an inspirational speaker, sort of
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  Speaker 1: Reagan asking his ability to charge a crowd up and
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  Speaker 1: get them excited and positive thinking, it's wonderful to behold.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring Alex Chanant to Fila back after these brief
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  Speaker 1: Seven fifty five krc DE talk station Happy Friday, Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas with a higher Republican Party Chairman Alex Chairmanta Filo.
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  Speaker 1: Before we look forward, and I know the all important
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections where the party that is not in presidential
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  Speaker 1: power usually ends up scoring some extra seats. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: your analysis of that in the next as we look forward.
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  Speaker 1: But looking back on twenty twenty five, anything you're particularly
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  Speaker 1: proud of that we got to accomplished here in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Ohio. It seems to me, in spite that
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  Speaker 1: we are very red and we have an overwhelming well,
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party has an overwhelming majority in the state House.
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  Speaker 1: They it's like hurting Cats a lot of times, we
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  Speaker 1: expect a lot more because we all think that the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans will play nicely together in the name of benefiting
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  Speaker 1: all Ohioans. And yet it doesn't always seem to work
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  Speaker 1: out that way. But what's your take on twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five before we get to this upcoming year, Alex, Well.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I mean, you know some of this is inside baseball.
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  Speaker 2: But for instance, my organization, we contributed, participated did mail
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  Speaker 2: for one hundred and fifty six races. We won more
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  Speaker 2: than one hundred and twenty of those. So look, I
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  Speaker 2: mean in the suburban communities and the rural communities of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: we do very well. Look if you live here in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 2: not so good. And I look, I still spend about
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  Speaker 2: half my time here, live on the West Side and
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  Speaker 2: love my Hamilton County community. But look, I mean, when
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  Speaker 2: you get outside of the Beltway of the three big
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  Speaker 2: seas Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, you know, the Republican Party
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  Speaker 2: does very well. But listen, Rian, you said it, the
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  Speaker 2: pendulum swings back. I've been at this long enough to
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  Speaker 2: know that the party out of power in fact does
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  Speaker 2: suffer losses in the midterms. So we know you know
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  Speaker 2: what the potential is here, and that is that we
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  Speaker 2: we get a bit of a correction back to the center,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, back to the left. So you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: fighting every single day to keep that from happening. My
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  Speaker 2: further analysis of twenty twenty five is that Republicans cannot
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  Speaker 2: stay home. One of the things that's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: a natural phenomenon in politics is that when the things
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  Speaker 2: that motivated you to go out have been resolved, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you you know, you tend to just say, well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: things are better. For instance, the one issue that we
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  Speaker 2: have repeatedly seen that motivated voters in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: was the problem at the southern border. Well that's that
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  Speaker 2: problem has been solved. So a lot of Republicans, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not the ones day to day like you and me
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  Speaker 2: that are watching, are like, okay, well, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: not as energized anymore because of the problem at the
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  Speaker 2: southern border, but a lot of other problems and we
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  Speaker 2: need to stay fully engaged. Got to make sure they
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  Speaker 2: don't impeach President Trump. So, you know, twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: was a challenge in the sense that Republicans did not
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  Speaker 2: you know, get out and vote in the numbers where
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  Speaker 2: we need them to vote. If Republicans vote Brian in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six in the same way that they did
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four in Ohio, will win everything again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we won everything in twenty twenty four, really
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  Speaker 2: had blowout losses. Really in twenty two twenty four with
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Marino, we won, We ousted two Democrats on the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. You know, we won super majorities in the
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  Speaker 2: House and Senate. So look, from a political perspective, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five left me a little disappointed because our people
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  Speaker 2: need to get out and vote. And that's the simple
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  Speaker 2: message for twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you know, since we move aside from the
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  Speaker 1: whole healthcare debacle, which I think just illustrates the failure
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  Speaker 1: of Obamacare generally speaking, but that is obviously one of
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats' favorite talking points, and we go into November,
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  Speaker 1: the subsidies are gone, the supplet you know, the enhanced
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  Speaker 1: premiums up there. Well, you know, that's just revealing the
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  Speaker 1: reality of the failure of Obamacare. But that's an issue.
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  Speaker 1: But the other issue that very difficult for Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: or any president to get on top of his inflation,
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  Speaker 1: and inflation ticked up less this past month than they
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  Speaker 1: were anticipating, but going up two point eight percent as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to three point three percent. That's still going up
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  Speaker 1: and still beyond the desired rate of inflation. What can
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  Speaker 1: you know? Inflation is so complicated. You know, the price
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  Speaker 1: of eggs went up in large part because of the
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  Speaker 1: bird flew. Who's that wasn't a political decision, that was
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  Speaker 1: just the bird flu The beef herds are way down
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  Speaker 1: tonight below nineteen fifties level, as the lowest they've been
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty. Our populations obviously gone up. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just magically create cows to make the price of beef
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  Speaker 1: go down, so that's kind of out of his hands.
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  Speaker 1: So people want to point to these tariffs as being
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  Speaker 1: an inflationary driver, but so far it hasn't been the
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  Speaker 1: disaster that many of the gloom and dumers had predicted.
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  Speaker 1: So what are we going to do about inflation? If
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  Speaker 1: that's everybody on everybody's hearts and minds as a dominant issue?
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  Speaker 2: Alex I think, I think a couple of things are
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. First of all, and again I'm not
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  Speaker 2: this is no spin For me, I feel like my
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  Speaker 2: costs are down, maybe because Brian I spend so much
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  Speaker 2: time driving around the great state of Ohio. Yay, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my two dollars and thirty four cents. I know gallon
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  Speaker 2: and gas is a significant safeties. I went from you know,
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  Speaker 2: close to seventy dollars to film my tank now sometimes
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  Speaker 2: as low as you know, under fifty dollars to film
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  Speaker 2: my tank. So I certainly have seen it. I see
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the month on the credit card
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  Speaker 2: statement that I, you know, perused pretty carefully just to
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  Speaker 2: kind of track our expenses. And you know it's so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I personally have seen this change on
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  Speaker 2: gas prices. Others perhaps have not. The polling tells us
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  Speaker 2: we have not. You said it that inflation is a
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  Speaker 2: complex problem. But when I think we're going to see what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm confident we're going to see. Actually in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: is it going to see more take home paid? Because
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  Speaker 2: the tax cuts you are going to see, the tax
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  Speaker 2: cuts that we're already in place, continue to kind of
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  Speaker 2: drive higher incomes for Americans. You're going to see a
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  Speaker 2: bigger tax return. If you're a person who receives a
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  Speaker 2: tax return, and I think you're going to see this
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  Speaker 2: cost of energy Brian, that we just talked about, that
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  Speaker 2: lower cost of energy should begin to continue to bring
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  Speaker 2: down inflation. I mean, inflation is at the lowest point
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  Speaker 2: that it's been at since COVID. The policies of President
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  Speaker 2: Trump are working. But again, as the President has said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Rome wasn't built overnight. Joe Biden did, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: and us a crisis on inflation and on the economy.
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  Speaker 2: The laws that he passed when he entered office. That's
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  Speaker 2: blooded our economy with a lot of dollars and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sort of free printed government money created the
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  Speaker 2: sinflationary crisis. And it's just going to take a while
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  Speaker 2: to make it, you know, to fix it. It's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be fixed overnight. The American people must understand
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  Speaker 2: that this is a problem that is complex and it's
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  Speaker 2: going to take some time to fix. But look, I
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  Speaker 2: think people are going to see relief and already seeing relief,
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  Speaker 2: but are going to see even more relief first quarter,
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  Speaker 2: if not completely, in the first quarter, first half of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it'd be nice to get a relief from our
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  Speaker 1: Duke Energy bill because of course that keeps going up
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  Speaker 1: and up. Thankfully, we're not living in the Northeast region
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  Speaker 1: of the country where they've gone so far Green New
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  Speaker 1: Deal that they're having rolling power outages and they have
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  Speaker 1: an insufficient supply of electricity to fund the evert growing
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  Speaker 1: demand on the grid. Artificial intelligence being one of the drivers,
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  Speaker 1: at least under the Trump administration, we're backing off that
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  Speaker 1: nonsense and we're going in a saner direction, which will
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  Speaker 1: provide us relief, you know, cheaper energy prices. That's just
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  Speaker 1: one of the drivers of people's inability to even own
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  Speaker 1: a home because you got to deal with that energy bill.
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  Speaker 1: That's an easily accomplishable goal, but it does take time.
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  Speaker 2: Alex, no question about it. And I'll tell you this
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  Speaker 2: is to talk for a minute about the vake ramaswamming
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  Speaker 2: again of a Vek is just absolutely eloquent on what
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  Speaker 2: we need to do in this state to make this
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  Speaker 2: an energy producing state and just free up the market.
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  Speaker 2: The market will drive this, Brian, we're both free market capitalists.
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  Speaker 2: If we allow the free market to operate to produce
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  Speaker 2: energy in the state, we'll be able to not only
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  Speaker 2: keep up with the demands which are growing but also
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  Speaker 2: exceed those demands and make us a net exporter of energy.
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  Speaker 2: But again you have to be a free market capitalist,
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  Speaker 2: remove regulation, walk away from this this green New deal
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  Speaker 2: scam that we all know as a scam. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully all those things come together to drive down as
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  Speaker 2: energy prices and bring down the prices of everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Jean Defilo, you are always welcome on the fifty
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  Speaker 1: five Carecy Morning Show. I appreciate you willingness to speak
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  Speaker 1: with my listeners and me and on behalf of my
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  Speaker 1: listeners if I may take the liberty to do so,
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Strecker myself again, a really heartfelt Merry Christmas
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  Speaker 1: to you and your family and if you're driving anywhere
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere, safe travels to you and your family. Alex,
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  Speaker 1: thanks again for coming on and we'll do it again
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  Speaker 1: next year for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of seven forty nine fifty five care see
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