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Eric Conroy for Congress · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Voting and if you haven't done so already it's all
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  Speaker 1: about the numbers everybody's saying it i think it's an
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  Speaker 1: obvious thing doesn't take much to realize our country is
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  Speaker 1: on the brink of maybe going on full socialist and
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  Speaker 1: part of the help will come from greg landsman if
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  Speaker 1: he's uh elected and what we have a better choice
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  Speaker 1: here in eric conroy who is not woke and dsa
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  Speaker 1: member eric conroy for congress's website ericconroy.com welcome back eric
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  Speaker 1: it's really good to have you on Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, good morning. Thanks for having me. And as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow is a huge day. It's Election Day here in
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  Speaker 2: the tri-state. And here in Ohio, we've got several big
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  Speaker 2: races on the ballot. We, of course, have the governor
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  Speaker 2: and the Senate races and my congressional race as well.
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  Speaker 2: So Ohioans and particularly Cincinnatians really have an opportunity here
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  Speaker 2: to put Ohio on the right track for hopefully the
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  Speaker 2: next decade or so.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean, it is Election Day tomorrow, and
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the integrity of the election. I think
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  Speaker 1: Greg Lansman already came out against the SAVE Act. He
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  Speaker 1: also apparently opposed requirements involving proof of citizen for federal elections,
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  Speaker 1: even though that's the law. And I don't believe you
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  Speaker 1: follow that. You're a fan of the SAVE Act. You're
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  Speaker 1: a fan of the integrity of the elections. Getting a
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  Speaker 1: photo ID is not that much of an ask, and
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone agrees with that.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And this is increasingly becoming a bipartisan issue. It's
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  Speaker 2: actually over 80 percent of Americans believe you should show
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  Speaker 2: ID or proof of citizenship to vote. And we need
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that our systems are secure and they're
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  Speaker 2: coming up with the right results based on who should
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  Speaker 2: be voting. And I think this year will be a
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  Speaker 2: big year. And what we've seen really with turnout so
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  Speaker 2: far across at least the first congressional district is this
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  Speaker 2: is a very high turnout rate. from both sides this year.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we get a few more Republican votes, but in general,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very high turnout from both sides that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen so far.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure you probably got the news over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We had a terrific amount of violence in downtown. People shot,
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  Speaker 1: people killed. We had a riot on Short Vine that
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  Speaker 1: spilled out. Police officers were beaten up. It's on video.
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  Speaker 1: It's just hard to believe, although it wasn't reported by
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  Speaker 1: local media. Had Signal 99 on earlier talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: But putting aside, I know Greg Lansman, not really tough
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  Speaker 1: on crime. I know he At least I recall him
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  Speaker 1: supporting efforts to defund the police while he was on
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Council as a member of the Gang of Five,
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  Speaker 1: I'll interject, plus supported ending cash bail. Those are problems
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  Speaker 1: we have in Hamilton County. Your take on that, Eric Conroy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these are huge problems. And look, I'm a proud
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  Speaker 2: downtown resident myself. I live actually right around the corner
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  Speaker 2: from where the brawl happened yesterday. down here last summer.
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  Speaker 2: And we have a crime problem. And I saw the
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  Speaker 2: horrific clip this morning of the police officers assaulted up
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  Speaker 2: on Short Vine. And this is a problem. And we
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  Speaker 2: need to get a handle on this. And as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: my opponent, Greg Lansman, was a part of the defund
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  Speaker 2: the police crowds, crowding his younger days in city council,
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  Speaker 2: and also voted no on DHS funding. And I really
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  Speaker 2: want a Cincinnati where people feel comfortable walking from Finley
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  Speaker 2: Market to Great American Ballpark at 11 o'clock at night.
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  Speaker 2: And until we achieve that, we simply aren't doing it right.
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  Speaker 2: So it's time to get back to the basics. We
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  Speaker 2: need to staff CPD appropriately. We need to get them
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  Speaker 2: the resources and the training they need and make our
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  Speaker 2: city safer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't understand his voting against the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security funding. Was he hoping to completely end ICE?
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  Speaker 1: As an entity, someone has got to enforce federal law. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he can advocate for changing federal law, but these are
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  Speaker 1: the laws on the book, and this administration is at
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  Speaker 1: least working to uphold the laws. So he's no interest
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  Speaker 1: in enforcing the laws, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're seeing a Democratic Party, including Greg Lansman,
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  Speaker 2: who's moving further and further to the left. I saw
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  Speaker 2: a poll. Earlier this summer, that's 60% of Democrats now
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  Speaker 2: view socialism favorably. So even if your quote unquote favorite
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  Speaker 2: Democrat is a moderate or you consider them a moderate,
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  Speaker 2: They're now a vote for the far left because that
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  Speaker 2: whole party is going to vote together. And a vote
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  Speaker 2: for Greg Lansman is a vote for a Hakeem Jeffries-led
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  Speaker 2: House of Representatives. Brian, can you imagine Hakeem Jeffries as
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  Speaker 2: Speaker of the House with now a radical left element
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  Speaker 2: of that party? It would be absolutely insane for the
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  Speaker 2: next two years and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree with you more on that. But then again,
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  Speaker 1: you have my vote, Eric. I sure hope so. All right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of, again, dwelling on Greg, gang of five landsmen,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he did violate the laws when he was
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  Speaker 1: council member. I wish people would keep that in the
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  Speaker 1: forefront of their mind. It's a monster of the man's character,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue. But what about the stock transactions? A
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  Speaker 1: lot of swirling concerns, them engaging in perhaps some questionable
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  Speaker 1: stock trading, maybe unethical. What's your take on that, Eric Conroy?
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  Speaker 2: There's more than a few, Brian. As you mentioned, not
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  Speaker 2: only did he have the Gang of Five incident during
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  Speaker 2: his time on city council, but those unethical ways have
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  Speaker 2: followed him to D.C. He broke the Stock Act in 2025,
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  Speaker 2: which is a federal law against insider trading, and then
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  Speaker 2: went back and tried to cover it up. He went
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  Speaker 2: back and rewrote three years' worth of financial disclosures. covering
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  Speaker 2: up dozens of trades, totaling over a million dollars. His
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  Speaker 2: net worth has literally tripled, tripled in less than four
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  Speaker 2: years in DC. And now I saw last week, there's
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  Speaker 2: even another report out there that some of that money
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  Speaker 2: that he earned in the markets was through Chinese military companies.
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  Speaker 2: So this is simply a guy who doesn't only not
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  Speaker 2: share our values here in Southwest Ohio, but is there
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  Speaker 2: for the wrong reasons. And we need to get people
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  Speaker 2: there for the right reasons who actually want to serve
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  Speaker 2: this community.
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  Speaker 1: Well, another issue that is bizarre from my perspective, that
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  Speaker 1: we even have a conversation in this nation, but I
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  Speaker 1: know you and Greg Lansman are on different sides of
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  Speaker 1: the equation of protecting women's sports. Um, there's quite a few, uh,
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  Speaker 1: States voting on transgender questions. I know Washington state, Colorado, Arizona, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: all are, have all have ballot initiatives on to prevent
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  Speaker 1: this type of mutilation, transgender surgeries, et cetera. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: guess Greg Lansman's on the left side of that argument
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  Speaker 1: as well, Eric Conroy.
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  Speaker 2: He is, and he's voted in favor of those initiatives
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  Speaker 2: as well. And we need to get back to common
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  Speaker 2: sense values, common sense conservative values here in Southwest Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: And Greg Lansman is a guy who supports men and
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  Speaker 2: women's sports and sex changes for kids. And this is
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  Speaker 2: just not what we need right now. We need to
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  Speaker 2: get back to the basics of focusing on people's pocketbooks
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  Speaker 2: and what matters to them on a day-to-day basis. and
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  Speaker 2: not focusing on some of these issues that affect less
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  Speaker 2: than one half of 1% of the population. And I
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  Speaker 2: really want to focus on some of these bigger picture
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  Speaker 2: issues like the economy, like crime, and like education. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats keep pushing these other agenda issues because they
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  Speaker 2: have no real ideas of their own on the real issues.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned education, one of my favorite topics to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I can't let it go by without doubling down on it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in the idea of choice in education. Seems
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the few things that Democrats don't like.
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  Speaker 1: They like choice when it comes to whether your baby
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  Speaker 1: dies or not. But in terms of whether your own
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  Speaker 1: live children go to a school that you want them
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  Speaker 1: to go to versus the one they want to force
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  Speaker 1: you to go to, there's no choice in that. They're
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  Speaker 1: wed to the teachers' union, which are entities that are
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  Speaker 1: designed to protect the teachers, not the children. So you
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  Speaker 1: on education.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of things. One, I think the Department of
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  Speaker 2: Education is too big and we need to consider downsizing it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a sad day. when we have a
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  Speaker 2: large federal bureaucracy and bureaucrats in D.C. who are making $ 160,
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  Speaker 2: $ 170 a year, and our teachers back here in the
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  Speaker 2: tri-state are making $ 30, 000 and $ 40, 000 a year. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: a big fan of putting a lot of these resources
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  Speaker 2: back at the local level in the hands of parents
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  Speaker 2: and teachers who, frankly, know how to use it a
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  Speaker 2: lot more efficiently than the federal government. And then secondly,
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  Speaker 2: I've I've talked quite a bit about trade schools here
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  Speaker 2: on the campaign trail and advocating to them to high schoolers.
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  Speaker 2: And we all have a lot of friends who maybe
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  Speaker 2: we went to high school with. I know I did
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  Speaker 2: on the West side. Instead of going through the typical
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  Speaker 2: four-year college program, they went into the trades and they
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  Speaker 2: got educated in the trades. They learned a skill set.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they started their own practice. And by the time
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  Speaker 2: they were 30, they were millionaires because they've took the
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  Speaker 2: electrician's trade or the plumbing trade and just ran with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I even got to tour a defense company here
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  Speaker 2: on the east side this week, and they make specialized
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  Speaker 2: gears for Navy ships. And I was talking to some
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  Speaker 2: of their workers and their leadership, and they can't get
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  Speaker 2: enough qualified machinists to make these very specialized gears for
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  Speaker 2: Navy ships. I'm thinking, wow, this is a great opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for young people to have a skill, to have a trade,
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  Speaker 2: and have very successful careers and happy lives. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of these trade positions are not going to get automated
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  Speaker 2: by AI anytime soon, like some of these entry-level white-collar
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  Speaker 2: jobs as well. I'm a huge advocate for trade schools
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  Speaker 2: in the region.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy, we'll take a quick break. Bringing back is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most prominent issues swirling around right now, AI.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it will be regulated on a federal level.
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  Speaker 1: The question is to what degree, but that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of where these trade jobs are coming from. We'll let
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  Speaker 1: you comment on AI as we... KRC, the talk station. K52, KRC,
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  Speaker 1: the talk station. I'm Thomas with Eric Conroy. You got
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  Speaker 1: a choice, Conroy or Lansman. And you mentioned the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Education salaries. You mentioned $ 175, 000.
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  Speaker 2: Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Eric, I got to tell you, Joe just reminded me,
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  Speaker 1: I have an entire list here. Sensei Public Schools is
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  Speaker 1: looking for a levy. They have 12 employees, 12, that
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  Speaker 1: make more than $ 175, 000, one of which actually makes $ 272, 000,
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  Speaker 1: almost $ 273, 000. So I had to get that out just
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  Speaker 1: so my listeners know. But over to artificial intelligence, I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone can agree there's going to be some sort
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  Speaker 1: of federal regulation, probably if for no other reason than
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  Speaker 1: to rein in the disparate state regulations that are going in.
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  Speaker 1: I think by you know federalizing and claiming commerce clause
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  Speaker 1: uh they'll be able to you know trump whatever state
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  Speaker 1: laws exist if you are a part of ai regulation
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  Speaker 1: process eric conroy where are you on this are you
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  Speaker 1: a stop dead in its tracks bernie sanders position or
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  Speaker 1: are you a let a complete market force kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing go out there and what do you think eric.
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  Speaker 2: Well, firstly, I think a lot of folks will agree
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  Speaker 2: that AI in itself is extremely impressive. And to me,
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  Speaker 2: this debate kind of reminds me of the debate for
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  Speaker 2: the Internet and regulation for the Internet 20 and 30
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  Speaker 2: years ago. If you're going to have regulations for a
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  Speaker 2: technology that clearly goes across state lines, then you're probably
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  Speaker 2: going to need some kind of federal guidance. When we
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  Speaker 2: have the Internet, there's nothing stopping it from going from
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  Speaker 2: Ohio to California. So AI, I think it would be
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  Speaker 2: a similar concept if we're talking about regulation. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like to use the term regulation. What I like to
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  Speaker 2: use is the term guardrails, because I think what we
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  Speaker 2: have is terrific. And the amount of opportunities for advances
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  Speaker 2: in things like medicine is terrific. At the same time, though,
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  Speaker 2: we need to make sure we're protecting people's privacy, protecting
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  Speaker 2: our kids. and hopefully limiting the disruption in jobs and
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  Speaker 2: the economy in the near term as well. So I
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  Speaker 2: am a fan of looking at industry by industry and
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  Speaker 2: just seeing in general if there's some guardrails that might
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  Speaker 2: be appropriate as we adapt this new technology.
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  Speaker 1: EricConroy.com. Check out where he is on all the issues.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm certainly satisfied myself, Eric, and demonstrably better candidate
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  Speaker 1: for a multitude of reasons than Greg Lansman. I really,
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  Speaker 1: truly hope you win tomorrow. We'll keep our fingers crossed
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  Speaker 1: and prayers going your direction and Remind my listeners, get
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  Speaker 1: out and vote.
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  Speaker 2: Eric? Yeah, Brian, thank you again for having me. This
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  Speaker 2: race is going to come down to the wire tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: probably late into the night. We're in a margin of
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  Speaker 2: error race in the polls, and we need everyone to
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  Speaker 2: get out there and vote. The early vote has been
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  Speaker 2: looking pretty good. for Republicans in this district, but we
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  Speaker 2: need to push it through the finish line tomorrow. So everyone,
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  Speaker 2: please get out there and vote. We had the Speaker
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  Speaker 2: of the House in town last week promoting the race
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  Speaker 2: as well. So this is still a top 10 race
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  Speaker 2: in the country this year, but it's your decision. So
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  Speaker 2: everyone get out and vote. Take your friends, take five
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  Speaker 2: of their friends, and let's get this thing done.