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Empower U Spring 2026 Schedule · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven six bouck Aros Decox station. It's Friday. I
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  Speaker 1: always happy on a Friday, and I'm always even happier
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  Speaker 1: when I see Dan Ragnold on the rundown, the man
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  Speaker 1: that who was respons before. Empower You classes, the seminars
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  Speaker 1: they offer every year power Youoamerica dot orgers where you
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  Speaker 1: find the whole rundown. We're going to go through that rundown.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, my dear friend. I'm going to thank you
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom of my heart. These classes are absolutely amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and I love the variety. You know, you could have
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  Speaker 1: done it just all political or you know, all things
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  Speaker 1: like that, but it's just this whole host of different
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  Speaker 1: topics and you enjoy these wonderful classes. People can log
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  Speaker 1: in from home and watch them or show up with
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  Speaker 1: the empower You Seminar Studios. It's just a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: And Dan Reynolds, so thank you at the outset and
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  Speaker 1: let's walk on into a brand new seminar. This is
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  Speaker 1: the thirty first semester.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty first thirty one semesters, while fifteen and a half
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  Speaker 2: years we're just so I'm just so appreciative to you
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  Speaker 2: and Joe for helping us get the word out about
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  Speaker 2: these free classes that we offer on Twoday day and
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  Speaker 2: Thursday nights during our semester. And it's so easy. You
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  Speaker 2: just sign up and empower Youamerica dot org and you
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  Speaker 2: can come and visit us at our studio at Scarlett Oaks,
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  Speaker 2: which is an incredible facility thanks to Harry Snyder there
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  Speaker 2: for letting us put our classes on or if you
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  Speaker 2: don't feel like getting out, you can just watch them
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  Speaker 2: from your computer and it's almost perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the other great thing is I just rediscovered
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  Speaker 1: because it just had gone off on my radar that
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  Speaker 1: the prior classes that you have, the empower You classes,
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  Speaker 1: you can rewatch or watch for the first time on
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  Speaker 1: the website as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean time, let's face to everybody, it's so
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  Speaker 2: time crunch. But you can just if you can't make
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  Speaker 2: an important class, you just rewatch it. You can rewatch
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  Speaker 2: it right on the website, or you can go to
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  Speaker 2: Rumble or YouTube and watch it and everything's free. And
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  Speaker 2: you're right. We have got just a great, a great
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  Speaker 2: series of classes coming up and they start next Thursday night.
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  Speaker 2: You want to go through the scale.
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  Speaker 1: Bryan, absolutely so, next Thursday, February twenty six seven pms
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  Speaker 1: the start time for most all of them unless indicated otherwise. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Moser.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike Moser, who's a prosecutor from Butler County and
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  Speaker 2: he I can't wait to meet him. He's written two
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  Speaker 2: fiction books on crime, and let's say that true crime
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  Speaker 2: is all we hear about in the news right now
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  Speaker 2: with the Nancy Guthrie case and everything. But what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about is what it's like to prosecute
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  Speaker 2: a case and how hard it is, thank you, to
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  Speaker 2: get it through the court system. So he should be great.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I think I just brought that up the
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  Speaker 1: other day in connection with that kidnapping case, which has
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  Speaker 1: kind of troubled me because seemingly every single law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: resource in the world has been committed to that one.
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  Speaker 1: And I think about all the unsolved cases and all
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  Speaker 1: the work police officers have to do day in and
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  Speaker 1: day out, and prosecutors to prosecute someone. It is a
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  Speaker 1: ton of work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine. I can't imagine what it must
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  Speaker 2: be like, all the discovery and all that stuff that
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  Speaker 2: you've got to do to make it right. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then the next class after that just A few
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  Speaker 2: days later, Tuesday, Marched the second, we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: our America two fifty series of a few classes we're doing, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about one of my favorite presidents,
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  Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt, and just what I hope to teach people
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  Speaker 2: if you'll join me that night, is the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: this twenty sixth president. And just like all great presidents,
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  Speaker 2: they have their great things and their flaws, but we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about what he did. He is the president behind
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  Speaker 2: the Panama Canal, and we'll talk about his similarities to Trump.
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  Speaker 2: There are many, and amazingly his clear thoughts on immigration,
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  Speaker 2: and I just hope people will join me that night
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  Speaker 2: on March second. A couple of days after that, well, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: my wife won't even let me go to the grocery
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  Speaker 2: store because the prices are so high, because I'm not
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  Speaker 2: good with coupons. You know, I'm just not very talented.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to have in a rancher who's going
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  Speaker 2: to try to walk us through this mess with BF
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  Speaker 2: prices oh wow, and just why they're so high. And
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  Speaker 2: he's going to talk about what it's like at his
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  Speaker 2: end and just where we're at with that whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: And also we've got somebody new that night, who's Michelle Starr,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to come in and talk about how to
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  Speaker 2: dissect utility bills and how to act on them, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought be useful to people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Duke is going to be real happy
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not. Yeah, And you know energy bills with these
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  Speaker 2: data centers which we're going to talk about, We've got
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  Speaker 2: a few classes on data centers. I mean, they just
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  Speaker 2: become more and more important because things are just getting
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  Speaker 2: out of hands. So on March tenth, I just can't wait, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: this is another America at two fifty class. We're having
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  Speaker 2: Professor Scott Gerber. He's the professor. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you remember this story from Ohio Northern University that one
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  Speaker 2: day the Ohio Northern police walked in removed him from
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  Speaker 2: his class because he hadn't file followed some de initiative,
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  Speaker 2: and he started a lawsuit against the Ohio Northern University
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  Speaker 2: to defend his professorship, and the Alliance for Defending Freedom
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  Speaker 2: came in, took his case and he won. And what
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  Speaker 2: he's going to talk about is just he's going to
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  Speaker 2: explain to people the importance and sometimes it's easy to
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  Speaker 2: kind of confuse the Declaration and the Constitution. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to explain the importance of the Declaration of Independence at
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  Speaker 2: this important time of America at two fifty. It should
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  Speaker 2: be a great class absolutely for all the concealed carry people.
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  Speaker 2: Bob Jewele will be with us March twelfth. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about really conceal carry at twenty years, what's
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  Speaker 2: changed and what you if you're a gun owner, you
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  Speaker 2: might need to be concerned about, you know, if you're
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  Speaker 2: if you're if you're carrying a firearm, and we always
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  Speaker 2: love to have education about firearms and firearm training for
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  Speaker 2: our attendees. On three seventeen, we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: group in Brian. I know you're going to like this,
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  Speaker 2: the Institute for Justice. These people are public interest attorneys
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  Speaker 2: and Brian. In two thousand and three, which seems forever ago,
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  Speaker 2: these people came into Evendale where my business was being
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  Speaker 2: threatened with eminent domain and they helped me kick that
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  Speaker 2: out of Evendale, and then they immediately went down to
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  Speaker 2: Norwood and helped all the owners that were fighting eminent
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  Speaker 2: domain in Rookwood around Rookwood Commons and what they're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about that night is they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking about talking about this proliferation of these flock cameras
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  Speaker 2: that are really just taking pictures of people at every
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  Speaker 2: corner of their lives and really infringing on people's Fourth
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  Speaker 2: Amendment rights.
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  Speaker 1: Or well we are living nineteen eighty four, Dani is
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  Speaker 1: so scary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you can't get away from them. And
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  Speaker 2: the Institute's can talk about a case they've taken up
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  Speaker 2: against the city for all these cameras, and really, I
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  Speaker 2: think they're going to paint a picture for what other
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  Speaker 2: cities can do if they want to fight back. Three nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have the Jesse Owens story. John Kersey will
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  Speaker 2: join us and talk to us about the incredible Jesse
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  Speaker 2: Owens at the nineteen thirty six Olympic Games, the four
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  Speaker 2: gold medals, the fight with Hitler, and yeah, what better,
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  Speaker 2: what better time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a great story. That's a great story.
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  Speaker 2: Did you happen to see the women's any of the
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  Speaker 2: women's hockey match yesterday? Brian?
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  Speaker 1: Only the highlights after the match. Amazing victory. Last minute
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  Speaker 1: apparently they scored a goal.
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  Speaker 2: It was a thriller. Breitbark joins us on three twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to discuss technology and AI. Yeah, it should be
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  Speaker 2: should be, should be great and uh, let's face it,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta we got to talk more about AI. And
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  Speaker 2: on three twenty five, Tom Hagitdorn, we'll talk about socialism,
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  Speaker 2: de Ei E s g and and kind of what's changed.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, we'll also have one of your frequent guests,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, Adam Kohler, who will discuss his work with
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  Speaker 2: his new work with the news outlet the Cincinnati Exchange,
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  Speaker 2: which is which is really interesting what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: March thirty was a brilliant man. He really doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what what a what a great guy. And on
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  Speaker 2: March thirty first, we'll have a fun class. This is
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  Speaker 2: something I don't it's not my sweet spot. Brian, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about Johann Sebastian Bach and his great music.
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  Speaker 2: Well how about that, And we're gonna hear, we're gonna hear.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna hear some stuff that will kind of help
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  Speaker 2: you if you if you're not a classical fan, maybe
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  Speaker 2: get into it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: That's sort of cross between Mozart and Bach. It's a
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  Speaker 1: mock piece. Anyhow, stop right now, we'll bring Dan. We
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  Speaker 1: got halfway through. We've got some other classes to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty first semester empower You America Dot orgers where you
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  Speaker 1: get all the information registered about KIRCD talk station. After
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  Speaker 1: the top of their news Corey Bowman and Signal ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine together in studio. The meantime, Dan Reagan all on
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  Speaker 1: the phone talking about the empower You American New Seminar,
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  Speaker 1: thirty first seminar, or rather a semester with great classes,
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  Speaker 1: and we're rolling through them, Dan Regnold, this next one
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  Speaker 1: sounds really really interesting, a white soldier's experience of the
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  Speaker 1: World War two segregated army.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Dan Hurley, he's kind of a Cincinnati treasure.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, people remember him from his you know,
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  Speaker 2: his Sunday morning TV show he had. But yeah, he'll
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  Speaker 2: be in talking about his book, Crossing Borders and Expanding Boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a really interesting class.
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  Speaker 2: And of course history classes people love them and empower
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  Speaker 2: you and oh yeah, and there's so much fun to do. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have an interesting candidate, Judge Andrew King,
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  Speaker 2: who's running for Ohio Supreme Court. That night on April seventh,
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  Speaker 2: a fine class. Bright Bart's gonna be discussing Hollywood pop
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  Speaker 2: culture and just giving us kind of a different look
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  Speaker 2: on Tinseltown, which should be a little different different for
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  Speaker 2: bright Bart, but that should be fun now. You know.
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  Speaker 1: They're one of the sites that regularly post the antics
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  Speaker 1: of celebrities, and I hate following celebrity antics because I
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  Speaker 1: ignore them less like I ignore the vast majority of
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  Speaker 1: the world. They're just a person with a sphincter and
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  Speaker 1: they haven't added an opinion. But I just get kind
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  Speaker 1: of a chuckle because you're talking about AI and you've
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  Speaker 1: got the next courses involving AI, AI churning out complete
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  Speaker 1: movies that look genuine and real. Thinking of Tech Friday
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  Speaker 1: with Dave Hatter, I think Hollywood's going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the way of the Dodo Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and after listening to Dave, who's been
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  Speaker 2: so good to share time with us, to that secret
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  Speaker 2: word that's on my list for today, I just keep
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  Speaker 2: forgetting to do that, but it's so important. Yeah. On
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  Speaker 2: April ninth, Tom Deweeze, a friend of Empower, you will
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  Speaker 2: join us. He's going to talk talk about data centers
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  Speaker 2: and what they mean to where we live, and what
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  Speaker 2: they mean to utility rates and just what they mean.
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  Speaker 2: Please join us that night. Similarly, April fourteenth, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about something that's off my radar, the waste
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  Speaker 2: water problem created by Ohio fracking. What's happening to the water,
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  Speaker 2: where it's going, why we should be concerned about it.
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  Speaker 2: On four sixteen, April sixteenth, we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: local police chief even Dale's Tim Holloway. He chairs this group, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've discussed him or not. The
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton County Association for Police Chiefs and what they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do to put a check on really the crime
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  Speaker 2: problems that are happening in Hamilton County.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the one the police chief DG went to
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  Speaker 1: that she got an earful for actually attending.
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  Speaker 2: Could be could could could could well be. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to hearing the chief that night. Should be good.
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  Speaker 2: And then on on on April twenty. First, this is
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  Speaker 2: a super interesting one small modular nuclear yeay yeah, right
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  Speaker 2: up your right up your alley and learn about him.
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  Speaker 2: This could be really our future for clean energy On
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  Speaker 2: April twenty third, we're going to get our own in
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  Speaker 2: person Smither event. Christopher's going to be joining us at
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  Speaker 2: Empower You. It's been a couple of years since he's come.
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  Speaker 2: And for those of you who haven't gotten the listener
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  Speaker 2: and launch but want to meet Christopher, this is your
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  Speaker 2: chance to meet him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and Greg Lawston is going to be doing it
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  Speaker 1: on Higo property taxes and you seminar too. I know
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be really, really a draw for folks.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Lawston on the state of Ohio. There's no one
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  Speaker 2: knows it better than him, and I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: seeing him and hearing his take on what happens at
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  Speaker 2: the Constitutional Amendment on Property Taxes passes. And then April thirty, if,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Peter Bronson's Empower You favorite joins us. We're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to having Peter back. We're going to tour
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  Speaker 2: the American Sime Museum in Camp Washington on May seventh.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fascinating tour. Those of you please join us.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be fine. I think there's a limited
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  Speaker 2: number of people, maybe forty or so that can join
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  Speaker 2: us on May seventh. And finally, kind of America two fifty.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be doing kind of my study for this semester
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  Speaker 2: on George Washington. You know, Franklin, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton,
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  Speaker 2: John Adams, Jefferson Madison. They referred to Washington as the one,
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  Speaker 2: as the indispensable one. And I'm going to put you
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  Speaker 2: right in the story of what happened with all those
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  Speaker 2: founding fathers and Washington and how they created our incredible
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  Speaker 2: country on June second. So yeah, we got a lot
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going on, a lot of classes
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  Speaker 2: and Brian. One other thing I just will kind of
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  Speaker 2: point out to all the listeners is if you've got
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  Speaker 2: a high school at home, please have them come to
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  Speaker 2: our Turning Point Club for high schoolers in Sharonville every
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  Speaker 2: other Wednesday. And you can learn about it on the website.
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  Speaker 2: Just go to the website and there's a link TP USA.
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  Speaker 2: It's if you want to get your high schooler involved. Hey, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'd love to We'd love to see them.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't thank Empower Your America enough for you know,
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  Speaker 1: teaming up with the Turning Port USA chapter. There so
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for young people to get involved, get engaged
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  Speaker 1: and steering in the right direction. Make it really easy, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: you always have empower you America dot or get all
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  Speaker 1: the information details, and of course check out the older classes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm intrigued. I did not see the original class when
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  Speaker 1: it aired on the thirteenth of last year, but there's
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  Speaker 1: one right there at the top DEI at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, so I think I might be checking that
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  Speaker 1: one out when I get home this morning. So appreciate
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  Speaker 1: all that you do, Dan Regnold, and thank you for
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  Speaker 1: doing it for more than fifteen years. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: you know ten years down the road we're still talking
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  Speaker 1: about this and you're still doing more of these seminars
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  Speaker 1: I do too.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. Thanks Brian, God love you brother.
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  Speaker 1: I have a great weekend seven twenty five. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: if you have CARC